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 23 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 9 12
Rank change year-on-year -17 +3 +8
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 5,227 6,160 8,942
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.21% 12.55% 9.66%
As % of the General category 11.12% 18.08% 16.75%
Number of salaries quoted 3,348 2,618 4,484
10th Percentile £32,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,645 £87,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £48,306 £47,500
% change year-on-year -1.67% +1.70% -

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 46,999 34,073 53,392
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.84% 69.40% 57.67%
Number of salaries quoted 28,874 17,674 33,942
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,697
Median % change year-on-year - +4.37% -12.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -9.52%

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 23 July 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 23 July 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 -16 4,741 £54,191 -1.47% 2,731
UK excluding London -20 3,346 £47,500 -1.67% 1,742
Work from Home -9 1,673 £55,000 +4.76% 1,101
London -9 1,595 £67,500 +3.85% 1,264
North of England -19 972 £48,000 +6.67% 468
South East -9 828 £50,000 -8.26% 542
Midlands -11 596 £47,500 - 262
North West -18 577 £47,500 +1.06% 255
South West -20 447 £47,000 -6.00% 210
West Midlands -19 319 £50,000 +11.11% 143
Yorkshire -10 288 £48,000 +6.67% 160
East Midlands -6 276 £45,000 -5.26% 117
East of England -22 236 £45,000 -3.93% 167
North East -26 107 £55,000 +37.50% 58
Wales -13 106 £53,171 -3.33% 31
Scotland -35 105 £43,335 -1.51% 74
Northern Ireland -36 66 £41,250 -25.00% 30

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
1 193 (3.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 142 (2.72%) SharePoint
3 73 (1.40%) Confluence
4 69 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
4 69 (1.32%) Apache Spark
5 45 (0.86%) Apache
6 38 (0.73%) CMS
7 26 (0.50%) IIS
8 24 (0.46%) SAS
9 14 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 13 (0.25%) WordPress
11 11 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
12 9 (0.17%) Jupyter
12 9 (0.17%) WebSphere
13 8 (0.15%) WebLogic
14 3 (0.057%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.057%) JBoss
14 3 (0.057%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.057%) Tomcat
15 2 (0.038%) Appian
Applications
1 572 (10.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 212 (4.06%) Microsoft Office
3 114 (2.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 79 (1.51%) MS Visio
5 29 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
6 28 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.17%) CATIA
8 7 (0.13%) Adobe XD
9 5 (0.096%) Acrobat
10 4 (0.077%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 4 (0.077%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.077%) Maya
11 3 (0.057%) Blender
11 3 (0.057%) LaTeX
11 3 (0.057%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.057%) Simulink
11 3 (0.057%) Trello
12 2 (0.038%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.038%) Lectora
12 2 (0.038%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 74 (1.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 67 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 36 (0.69%) Dynamics GP
3 36 (0.69%) NetSuite
4 20 (0.38%) SAP PM
5 19 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
6 16 (0.31%) SAP CO
7 15 (0.29%) SAP ERP
7 15 (0.29%) SAP FI
8 14 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
8 14 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
9 10 (0.19%) Magento
10 9 (0.17%) Maximo
11 8 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
12 7 (0.13%) Elite 3E
12 7 (0.13%) Fidessa
12 7 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
12 7 (0.13%) Sage 200
13 6 (0.11%) JDE EnterpriseOne
13 6 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 923 (17.66%) Azure
2 671 (12.84%) Power Platform
3 511 (9.78%) AWS
4 410 (7.84%) Microsoft 365
5 327 (6.26%) SaaS
6 236 (4.52%) GCP
7 132 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
8 121 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
9 120 (2.30%) Entra ID
10 91 (1.74%) Google Analytics
11 85 (1.63%) Snowflake
12 78 (1.49%) Microsoft Purview
13 77 (1.47%) GitHub
14 75 (1.43%) Power Automate
15 73 (1.40%) dbt
16 71 (1.36%) PowerApps
17 69 (1.32%) Amazon S3
18 58 (1.11%) Serverless
19 57 (1.09%) Azure Data Factory
20 55 (1.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 196 (3.75%) DNS
2 166 (3.18%) Firewall
3 153 (2.93%) DHCP
4 120 (2.30%) VPN
5 89 (1.70%) TCP/IP
6 73 (1.40%) WAN
7 71 (1.36%) LAN
8 69 (1.32%) Broadband
9 59 (1.13%) Wi-Fi
10 53 (1.01%) Wireless
11 45 (0.86%) Network Security
12 42 (0.80%) VLAN
13 40 (0.77%) Internet
13 40 (0.77%) SAN
14 34 (0.65%) HTTP
15 30 (0.57%) BGP
16 22 (0.42%) SD-WAN
17 21 (0.40%) Cisco ASA
18 20 (0.38%) OSPF
18 20 (0.38%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 595 (11.38%) Power BI
2 286 (5.47%) Tableau
3 208 (3.98%) SQL Server
4 189 (3.62%) Data Warehouse
5 124 (2.37%) Amazon RDS
6 92 (1.76%) Metadata
7 80 (1.53%) Relational Database
8 72 (1.38%) Data Lake
9 70 (1.34%) Looker
9 70 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
10 69 (1.32%) MySQL
11 68 (1.30%) Data Mining
12 67 (1.28%) Power Query
13 65 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 55 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
14 55 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 53 (1.01%) BigQuery
16 44 (0.84%) Big Data
17 38 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
17 38 (0.73%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 199 (3.81%) JIRA
2 168 (3.21%) Git
3 59 (1.13%) GitLab
4 46 (0.88%) Jenkins
5 36 (0.69%) Rational DOORS
6 30 (0.57%) MLflow
7 25 (0.48%) Selenium
8 22 (0.42%) Cucumber
9 17 (0.33%) Eclipse
9 17 (0.33%) Postman
10 16 (0.31%) Chocolatey
11 15 (0.29%) ERwin
12 14 (0.27%) JMeter
12 14 (0.27%) Visual Studio
13 13 (0.25%) IBM UrbanCode
14 12 (0.23%) Bitbucket
14 12 (0.23%) Cypress.io
14 12 (0.23%) SonarQube
15 9 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
15 9 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2,477 (47.39%) Social Skills
2 1,741 (33.31%) Finance
3 449 (8.59%) Marketing
4 378 (7.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 346 (6.62%) Organisational Skills
6 330 (6.31%) Retail
7 312 (5.97%) Public Sector
8 301 (5.76%) Legal
9 285 (5.45%) Law
10 245 (4.69%) Banking
11 214 (4.09%) Influencing Skills
12 210 (4.02%) Manufacturing
13 137 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
14 129 (2.47%) Telecoms
15 98 (1.87%) Aerospace
16 95 (1.82%) Advertising
17 93 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
18 84 (1.61%) Electronics
19 74 (1.42%) Financial Institution
20 55 (1.05%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,285 (24.58%) Analyst
2 655 (12.53%) Senior
3 358 (6.85%) Lead
4 304 (5.82%) Data Analyst
5 273 (5.22%) Business Analyst
6 248 (4.74%) Developer
7 229 (4.38%) Consultant
8 225 (4.30%) Systems Engineer
9 199 (3.81%) Architect
10 153 (2.93%) Senior Analyst
11 149 (2.85%) Data Engineer
12 145 (2.77%) Support Analyst
13 124 (2.37%) Support Engineer
14 117 (2.24%) IT Support
15 109 (2.09%) IT Manager
16 103 (1.97%) Security Analyst
17 102 (1.95%) Financial Analyst
18 98 (1.87%) Systems Analyst
19 91 (1.74%) Senior Manager
20 89 (1.70%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (2.33%) .NET
2 111 (2.12%) HTML
3 109 (2.09%) REST
4 100 (1.91%) CSS
5 91 (1.74%) JSON
6 85 (1.63%) XML
7 80 (1.53%) Middleware
8 78 (1.49%) React
9 71 (1.36%) Kafka
10 66 (1.26%) PyTorch
11 61 (1.17%) TensorFlow
12 59 (1.13%) RESTful
13 52 (0.99%) SOAP
14 47 (0.90%) PySpark
15 41 (0.78%) scikit-learn
15 41 (0.78%) Web Services
16 40 (0.77%) Node.js
17 33 (0.63%) Pandas
18 32 (0.61%) LangChain
19 31 (0.59%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 534 (10.22%) Analytical Mindset
2 283 (5.41%) Management Information System
3 232 (4.44%) Onboarding
4 227 (4.34%) Product Ownership
5 213 (4.07%) Self-Motivation
6 158 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
7 120 (2.30%) Cloud Native
8 104 (1.99%) Security Posture
9 101 (1.93%) Driving Licence
10 94 (1.80%) Data Centre
11 90 (1.72%) Virtual Team
12 82 (1.57%) Cyber Threat
12 82 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
13 80 (1.53%) Data Structures
14 74 (1.42%) Algorithms
15 67 (1.28%) Social Media
16 66 (1.26%) Blog
17 59 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
18 56 (1.07%) Marketing Technology
18 56 (1.07%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 434 (8.30%) Windows
2 291 (5.57%) Linux
3 217 (4.15%) Windows Server
4 113 (2.16%) Windows Server 2016
5 31 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 29 (0.55%) Unix
7 27 (0.52%) Windows 10
8 24 (0.46%) Mac OS
9 20 (0.38%) Android
10 19 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
11 16 (0.31%) Apple iOS
12 12 (0.23%) CentOS
13 11 (0.21%) Ubuntu
14 7 (0.13%) VMS
15 6 (0.11%) Debian
16 5 (0.096%) OpenVMS
17 4 (0.077%) Rocky
18 3 (0.057%) AIX
19 1 (0.019%) FreeBSD
19 1 (0.019%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,407 (46.05%) Problem-Solving
2 1,408 (26.94%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,182 (22.61%) Decision-Making
4 1,153 (22.06%) Analytics
5 891 (17.05%) Agile
6 758 (14.50%) AI
7 757 (14.48%) Stakeholder Management
8 684 (13.09%) Business Intelligence
9 563 (10.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 545 (10.43%) Roadmaps
11 494 (9.45%) Project Management
12 493 (9.43%) Actionable Insight
13 488 (9.34%) Mentoring
14 453 (8.67%) Cybersecurity
14 453 (8.67%) Data Modelling
15 452 (8.65%) Data Analysis
16 432 (8.26%) Process Improvement
17 431 (8.25%) Customer Experience
18 404 (7.73%) Data Governance
19 398 (7.61%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 1,066 (20.39%) SQL
2 867 (16.59%) Python
3 189 (3.62%) JavaScript
4 188 (3.60%) Java
5 171 (3.27%) PowerShell
6 161 (3.08%) C#
7 90 (1.72%) C++
8 83 (1.59%) R
9 82 (1.57%) Bash
10 74 (1.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 56 (1.07%) TypeScript
12 51 (0.98%) T-SQL
13 44 (0.84%) MATLAB
14 24 (0.46%) C
14 24 (0.46%) PHP
15 23 (0.44%) PL/SQL
16 22 (0.42%) Go
16 22 (0.42%) Scala
17 20 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
17 20 (0.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 940 (17.98%) Degree
2 524 (10.02%) Security Cleared
3 379 (7.25%) SC Cleared
4 261 (4.99%) ACCA
5 245 (4.69%) CIMA
6 148 (2.83%) CISSP
7 146 (2.79%) DBS Check
8 145 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
9 113 (2.16%) Cisco Certification
10 109 (2.09%) CISM
11 99 (1.89%) DV Cleared
12 93 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
13 90 (1.72%) Master's Degree
14 72 (1.38%) IRCA
15 71 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
16 70 (1.34%) CompTIA Security+
17 61 (1.17%) Azure Certification
18 53 (1.01%) PMI Certification
19 44 (0.84%) PMP
20 43 (0.82%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 492 (9.41%) Data Quality
2 390 (7.46%) GDPR
3 351 (6.72%) QA
4 254 (4.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 199 (3.81%) NIST
6 181 (3.46%) Cyber Essentials
7 154 (2.95%) SLA
8 151 (2.89%) PCI DSS
9 137 (2.62%) Accessibility
10 124 (2.37%) ISO 9001
11 75 (1.43%) GRC
12 63 (1.21%) PMO
13 41 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
14 40 (0.77%) IFRS
14 40 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 39 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 34 (0.65%) COBIT
17 28 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 25 (0.48%) SOC 2
19 24 (0.46%) ITGC
System Software
1 313 (5.99%) Active Directory
2 114 (2.18%) Docker
3 112 (2.14%) Hyper-V
4 96 (1.84%) Terminal Server
5 76 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
6 25 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
7 15 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (0.17%) Firmware
8 9 (0.17%) VMware NSX
9 8 (0.15%) IAG
9 8 (0.15%) ProxySG
9 8 (0.15%) vSphere
10 5 (0.096%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 5 (0.096%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.077%) XenApp
12 3 (0.057%) DFS Replication
12 3 (0.057%) Embedded Firmware
13 2 (0.038%) Oracle RAC
13 2 (0.038%) VMware ESXi
14 1 (0.019%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 139 (2.66%) Terraform
2 97 (1.86%) Kubernetes
3 76 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 63 (1.21%) Ansible
5 44 (0.84%) Grafana
6 25 (0.48%) SCCM
7 24 (0.46%) Prometheus
8 21 (0.40%) Nagios
8 21 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (0.31%) Kibana
9 16 (0.31%) QRadar
10 10 (0.19%) Kubeflow
11 8 (0.15%) logstash
12 7 (0.13%) Packer
13 6 (0.11%) Graylog
13 6 (0.11%) Nmap
13 6 (0.11%) Podman
13 6 (0.11%) Red Hat Satellite
14 5 (0.096%) Control-M
14 5 (0.096%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1,177 (22.52%) Microsoft
2 219 (4.19%) SAP
3 217 (4.15%) Google
4 181 (3.46%) VMware
5 175 (3.35%) Oracle
6 157 (3.00%) Splunk
7 135 (2.58%) SolarWinds
8 134 (2.56%) Salesforce
9 125 (2.39%) Databricks
10 108 (2.07%) ServiceNow
10 108 (2.07%) Veeam
11 97 (1.86%) Brocade
11 97 (1.86%) Nimble Storage
12 96 (1.84%) Tanium
13 76 (1.45%) Cisco
14 72 (1.38%) Workday
15 56 (1.07%) Red Hat
16 49 (0.94%) Adobe
16 49 (0.94%) IBM
17 46 (0.88%) HubSpot