Analytical Skills Job Trends

Analytical Skills
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 9 13
Rank change year-on-year -16 +4 +7
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 5,821 6,129 7,960
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.41% 12.29% 9.57%
As % of the General category 11.67% 17.91% 16.79%
Number of salaries quoted 3,561 2,611 3,609
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year +1.06% -4.08% -2.00%

All General Skills
UK

Analytical Skills falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring general skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 49,890 34,218 47,422
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.35% 68.61% 57.02%
Number of salaries quoted 30,548 17,919 27,647
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,441 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.03% -1.02% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,250 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Analytical Skills relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Analytical Skills job vacancy trend in the UK

Analytical Skills
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Analytical Skills.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Analytical Skills

Analytical Skills
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills over the 6 months to 21 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Analytical Skills within the UK over the 6 months to 21 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -15 5,210 £52,500 - 2,763
UK excluding London -17 3,755 £47,500 +1.06% 2,169
Work from Home -10 1,881 £55,000 +10.00% 1,126
London -10 1,789 £67,500 +3.85% 980
North of England -19 1,041 £47,500 +5.56% 550
South East -9 896 £50,000 -4.76% 713
Midlands -8 646 £47,500 +5.56% 332
North West -16 641 £46,500 +3.33% 299
South West -8 521 £47,500 +5.56% 311
West Midlands -17 333 £50,000 +11.11% 198
East Midlands -3 311 £45,483 +1.07% 134
Yorkshire -12 281 £47,000 +17.50% 191
East of England -20 258 £47,500 +5.56% 187
Wales -14 147 £51,709 +2.61% 47
Scotland -22 134 £45,000 +5.88% 73
Northern Ireland -10 120 £42,500 -22.73% 25
North East -17 119 £55,000 +34.15% 67

Analytical Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 180 (3.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 169 (2.90%) SharePoint
3 92 (1.58%) Confluence
4 67 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
4 67 (1.15%) Apache Spark
5 47 (0.81%) Apache
6 46 (0.79%) CMS
7 33 (0.57%) IIS
8 26 (0.45%) SAS
9 11 (0.19%) WordPress
10 10 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 10 (0.17%) Jupyter
10 10 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
11 9 (0.15%) Headless CMS
11 9 (0.15%) WebLogic
11 9 (0.15%) WebSphere
12 8 (0.14%) OpenStack
13 3 (0.052%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.052%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.052%) Tomcat
Applications
1 608 (10.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 252 (4.33%) Microsoft Office
3 121 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 83 (1.43%) MS Visio
5 44 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
6 26 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.17%) Adobe XD
8 8 (0.14%) Simulink
9 7 (0.12%) AutoCAD
10 5 (0.086%) Acrobat
10 5 (0.086%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.086%) EPLAN
11 4 (0.069%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.069%) CATIA
11 4 (0.069%) Maya
11 4 (0.069%) Trello
12 3 (0.052%) LaTeX
12 3 (0.052%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.052%) Revit
12 3 (0.052%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 102 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 68 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 40 (0.69%) NetSuite
4 34 (0.58%) Dynamics GP
5 21 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
6 20 (0.34%) SAP PM
7 17 (0.29%) Shopify
8 15 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
9 14 (0.24%) SAP ERP
10 13 (0.22%) SAP CO
10 13 (0.22%) SAP FI
10 13 (0.22%) Workday HCM
11 12 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
12 11 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
13 10 (0.17%) Elite 3E
13 10 (0.17%) Magento
13 10 (0.17%) SAP Business One
14 9 (0.15%) Fidessa
14 9 (0.15%) Sage 200
15 7 (0.12%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 993 (17.06%) Azure
2 701 (12.04%) Power Platform
3 611 (10.50%) AWS
4 414 (7.11%) Microsoft 365
5 364 (6.25%) SaaS
6 293 (5.03%) GCP
7 146 (2.51%) Azure DevOps
8 141 (2.42%) Entra ID
9 136 (2.34%) Dynamics 365
10 113 (1.94%) Google Analytics
11 104 (1.79%) Snowflake
12 102 (1.75%) GitHub
13 91 (1.56%) dbt
14 86 (1.48%) Power Automate
15 81 (1.39%) Amazon S3
16 78 (1.34%) PowerApps
17 74 (1.27%) Microsoft Purview
18 69 (1.19%) Google Ads
19 64 (1.10%) Serverless
20 59 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 199 (3.42%) DNS
2 154 (2.65%) DHCP
3 150 (2.58%) Firewall
4 125 (2.15%) VPN
5 99 (1.70%) TCP/IP
6 75 (1.29%) WAN
7 74 (1.27%) LAN
8 59 (1.01%) Network Security
9 56 (0.96%) Wireless
10 54 (0.93%) Broadband
10 54 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
11 45 (0.77%) Internet
12 43 (0.74%) SAN
12 43 (0.74%) VLAN
13 36 (0.62%) HTTP
14 28 (0.48%) VoIP
15 24 (0.41%) BGP
16 21 (0.36%) SD-WAN
17 20 (0.34%) SMS
18 17 (0.29%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 622 (10.69%) Power BI
2 254 (4.36%) Tableau
3 230 (3.95%) SQL Server
4 195 (3.35%) Data Warehouse
5 118 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
6 104 (1.79%) Relational Database
7 95 (1.63%) Looker
7 95 (1.63%) Metadata
8 85 (1.46%) MySQL
9 79 (1.36%) Data Lake
10 76 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
11 68 (1.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 67 (1.15%) BigQuery
13 65 (1.12%) Power Query
14 60 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 54 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
15 54 (0.93%) Big Data
16 46 (0.79%) NoSQL
17 38 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
18 37 (0.64%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 250 (4.29%) JIRA
2 224 (3.85%) Git
3 52 (0.89%) GitLab
4 49 (0.84%) Jenkins
5 31 (0.53%) Rational DOORS
6 30 (0.52%) MLflow
7 28 (0.48%) Selenium
8 21 (0.36%) Cucumber
9 20 (0.34%) Eclipse
9 20 (0.34%) Postman
10 16 (0.27%) Chocolatey
11 14 (0.24%) Bitbucket
11 14 (0.24%) JMeter
12 13 (0.22%) Burp Suite
12 13 (0.22%) Claude Code
13 12 (0.21%) Cypress.io
13 12 (0.21%) ERwin
13 12 (0.21%) IBM UrbanCode
13 12 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
14 11 (0.19%) Metasploit
General
1 2,824 (48.51%) Social Skills
2 1,896 (32.57%) Finance
3 600 (10.31%) Marketing
4 514 (8.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 416 (7.15%) Organisational Skills
6 385 (6.61%) Law
7 382 (6.56%) Retail
8 359 (6.17%) Public Sector
9 350 (6.01%) Legal
10 284 (4.88%) Influencing Skills
11 280 (4.81%) Manufacturing
12 269 (4.62%) Banking
13 188 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
14 167 (2.87%) Aerospace
15 132 (2.27%) Telecoms
16 110 (1.89%) Electronics
17 106 (1.82%) Advertising
18 95 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
19 70 (1.20%) Financial Institution
20 69 (1.19%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,365 (23.45%) Analyst
2 764 (13.12%) Senior
3 406 (6.97%) Lead
4 302 (5.19%) Business Analyst
5 295 (5.07%) Data Analyst
6 285 (4.90%) Developer
7 231 (3.97%) Architect
8 224 (3.85%) Consultant
9 206 (3.54%) Systems Engineer
10 203 (3.49%) Senior Analyst
11 172 (2.95%) Data Engineer
12 171 (2.94%) Support Analyst
13 131 (2.25%) Support Engineer
14 116 (1.99%) IT Support
15 110 (1.89%) IT Manager
16 109 (1.87%) Senior Manager
17 108 (1.86%) Security Analyst
18 102 (1.75%) Systems Analyst
19 95 (1.63%) Applications Support
20 92 (1.58%) Marketing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (2.61%) .NET
2 151 (2.59%) Terraform
3 131 (2.25%) HTML
4 124 (2.13%) REST
5 122 (2.10%) CSS
6 87 (1.49%) JSON
7 77 (1.32%) Middleware
8 76 (1.31%) Kafka
9 75 (1.29%) React
9 75 (1.29%) XML
10 72 (1.24%) RESTful
11 66 (1.13%) PyTorch
12 59 (1.01%) TensorFlow
13 58 (1.00%) SOAP
14 53 (0.91%) PySpark
15 46 (0.79%) scikit-learn
16 45 (0.77%) Web Services
17 43 (0.74%) EDI
18 42 (0.72%) LDAP
19 40 (0.69%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 527 (9.05%) Analytical Mindset
2 342 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 331 (5.69%) Onboarding
4 274 (4.71%) Product Ownership
5 270 (4.64%) Self-Motivation
6 163 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
7 139 (2.39%) Cloud Native
8 133 (2.28%) Driving Licence
9 123 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
10 119 (2.04%) Blog
10 119 (2.04%) Social Media
11 107 (1.84%) Security Posture
12 106 (1.82%) Data Centre
13 102 (1.75%) Marketing Technology
14 97 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
15 92 (1.58%) Virtual Team
16 82 (1.41%) Data Structures
17 76 (1.31%) Algorithms
18 71 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
19 53 (0.91%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 459 (7.89%) Windows
2 292 (5.02%) Linux
3 222 (3.81%) Windows Server
4 99 (1.70%) Windows Server 2016
5 34 (0.58%) Windows 10
6 32 (0.55%) Unix
7 31 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 29 (0.50%) Mac OS
9 22 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
10 21 (0.36%) Apple iOS
11 19 (0.33%) Android
12 12 (0.21%) CentOS
13 9 (0.15%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.10%) Debian
14 6 (0.10%) VMS
15 5 (0.086%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.069%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.069%) Rocky
17 2 (0.034%) AIX
17 2 (0.034%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,789 (47.91%) Problem-Solving
2 1,685 (28.95%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,356 (23.29%) Decision-Making
4 1,264 (21.71%) Analytics
5 1,048 (18.00%) Agile
6 1,019 (17.51%) AI
7 1,002 (17.21%) Stakeholder Management
8 745 (12.80%) Business Intelligence
9 653 (11.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 605 (10.39%) Roadmaps
11 559 (9.60%) Actionable Insight
12 554 (9.52%) Mentoring
13 520 (8.93%) Project Management
14 505 (8.68%) Validation
15 499 (8.57%) Data Analysis
16 487 (8.37%) Cybersecurity
17 474 (8.14%) Data Modelling
18 453 (7.78%) Customer Experience
18 453 (7.78%) Process Improvement
19 438 (7.52%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 1,156 (19.86%) SQL
2 900 (15.46%) Python
3 224 (3.85%) JavaScript
4 192 (3.30%) Java
4 192 (3.30%) PowerShell
5 186 (3.20%) C#
6 100 (1.72%) C++
7 95 (1.63%) Bash
8 82 (1.41%) R
9 74 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 67 (1.15%) TypeScript
11 50 (0.86%) T-SQL
12 45 (0.77%) MATLAB
13 32 (0.55%) C
14 28 (0.48%) Scala
15 27 (0.46%) PHP
16 23 (0.40%) PL/SQL
17 22 (0.38%) Go
18 19 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
18 19 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,133 (19.46%) Degree
2 644 (11.06%) Security Cleared
3 446 (7.66%) SC Cleared
4 231 (3.97%) ACCA
5 218 (3.75%) CIMA
6 175 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 164 (2.82%) CISSP
8 156 (2.68%) DV Cleared
9 142 (2.44%) DBS Check
10 124 (2.13%) CISM
11 120 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
12 116 (1.99%) Cisco Certification
13 99 (1.70%) Master's Degree
14 79 (1.36%) Azure Certification
15 78 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
16 74 (1.27%) CompTIA Security+
17 62 (1.07%) PMI Certification
18 61 (1.05%) IRCA
19 48 (0.82%) CRISC
20 47 (0.81%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 561 (9.64%) Data Quality
2 396 (6.80%) QA
3 387 (6.65%) GDPR
4 241 (4.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 198 (3.40%) NIST
6 168 (2.89%) Accessibility
7 157 (2.70%) SLA
8 156 (2.68%) Cyber Essentials
9 129 (2.22%) PCI DSS
10 119 (2.04%) ISO 9001
11 71 (1.22%) GRC
12 63 (1.08%) PMO
13 46 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
14 41 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 36 (0.62%) COBIT
15 36 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 35 (0.60%) IFRS
17 28 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 27 (0.46%) NCSC
19 24 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 332 (5.70%) Active Directory
2 138 (2.37%) Docker
3 102 (1.75%) Hyper-V
4 89 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 80 (1.37%) Terminal Server
6 29 (0.50%) Firmware
7 22 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
8 19 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (0.15%) vSphere
10 8 (0.14%) VMware NSX
11 7 (0.12%) Ceph
11 7 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
12 6 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
13 4 (0.069%) KVM
13 4 (0.069%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.069%) ProxySG
14 3 (0.052%) DFS Replication
14 3 (0.052%) IAG
14 3 (0.052%) VMware ESXi
14 3 (0.052%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 115 (1.98%) Kubernetes
2 84 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
3 76 (1.31%) Ansible
4 42 (0.72%) Grafana
5 35 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
6 27 (0.46%) SCCM
7 23 (0.40%) Prometheus
8 19 (0.33%) QRadar
9 18 (0.31%) Kibana
10 17 (0.29%) Nagios
11 11 (0.19%) Nmap
11 11 (0.19%) Podman
12 9 (0.15%) Argo
12 9 (0.15%) Kubeflow
13 8 (0.14%) logstash
14 7 (0.12%) Check_MK
14 7 (0.12%) Istio
14 7 (0.12%) Packer
14 7 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
15 6 (0.10%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 1,272 (21.85%) Microsoft
2 304 (5.22%) Google
3 234 (4.02%) SAP
4 204 (3.50%) Oracle
5 183 (3.14%) VMware
6 150 (2.58%) Splunk
7 144 (2.47%) Databricks
8 131 (2.25%) ServiceNow
9 123 (2.11%) Salesforce
10 111 (1.91%) SolarWinds
11 90 (1.55%) Veeam
12 82 (1.41%) Cisco
13 81 (1.39%) Brocade
13 81 (1.39%) Nimble Storage
14 80 (1.37%) Tanium
15 76 (1.31%) Workday
16 62 (1.07%) Adobe
17 58 (1.00%) Red Hat
18 51 (0.88%) Dell
19 49 (0.84%) HubSpot