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 15 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 9 13
Rank change year-on-year -17 +4 +7
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 5,802 6,162 7,919
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.44% 12.36% 9.54%
As % of the General category 11.66% 17.94% 16.66%
Number of salaries quoted 3,560 2,622 3,683
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,563 £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 £47,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year - -2.06% -3.00%

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 49,740 34,356 47,526
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.67% 68.89% 57.23%
Number of salaries quoted 30,432 17,987 28,152
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,040 £29,750
25th Percentile £39,969 £35,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,437 £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 15 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 15 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 -16 5,230 £52,500 - 6,809
UK excluding London -18 3,723 £47,500 - 3,608
Work from Home -11 1,842 £55,000 +10.00% 2,776
London -10 1,794 £67,500 +3.85% 3,952
North of England -19 1,055 £47,500 +5.56% 878
South East -9 894 £50,000 -4.76% 978
Midlands -9 651 £47,500 +5.56% 500
North West -16 640 £47,000 +4.44% 518
South West -13 517 £47,500 +5.56% 459
West Midlands -18 336 £50,000 +11.11% 295
East Midlands 0 313 £45,000 - 206
Yorkshire -12 292 £47,000 +16.05% 273
East of England -16 258 £47,500 +5.56% 334
Wales -11 140 £51,709 +0.51% 88
Scotland -24 134 £44,000 +3.53% 297
North East -20 123 £55,000 +35.80% 92
Northern Ireland -27 83 £42,500 -22.73% 147

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
1 177 (3.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 164 (2.83%) SharePoint
3 88 (1.52%) Confluence
4 71 (1.22%) Apache Spark
5 70 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
6 50 (0.86%) Apache
7 48 (0.83%) CMS
8 32 (0.55%) IIS
9 26 (0.45%) SAS
10 11 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 11 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
10 11 (0.19%) WordPress
11 9 (0.16%) Headless CMS
11 9 (0.16%) Jupyter
11 9 (0.16%) WebLogic
11 9 (0.16%) WebSphere
12 8 (0.14%) OpenStack
13 3 (0.052%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.052%) JBoss
13 3 (0.052%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 622 (10.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 254 (4.38%) Microsoft Office
3 122 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 85 (1.47%) MS Visio
5 43 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
6 28 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.16%) Adobe XD
8 7 (0.12%) AutoCAD
9 6 (0.10%) Simulink
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%) Blender
12 3 (0.052%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.052%) Revit
12 3 (0.052%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 79 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 70 (1.21%) SAP S/4HANA
3 40 (0.69%) NetSuite
4 35 (0.60%) Dynamics GP
5 22 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
6 20 (0.34%) SAP PM
7 15 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
7 15 (0.26%) SAP ERP
8 14 (0.24%) SAP CO
8 14 (0.24%) SAP FI
9 13 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
9 13 (0.22%) Shopify
10 12 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
10 12 (0.21%) Workday HCM
11 10 (0.17%) Elite 3E
11 10 (0.17%) Magento
12 9 (0.16%) Fidessa
12 9 (0.16%) Sage 200
12 9 (0.16%) SAP Business One
13 8 (0.14%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 1,001 (17.25%) Azure
2 694 (11.96%) Power Platform
3 614 (10.58%) AWS
4 409 (7.05%) Microsoft 365
5 364 (6.27%) SaaS
6 290 (5.00%) GCP
7 144 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
8 138 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
9 135 (2.33%) Entra ID
10 107 (1.84%) Google Analytics
10 107 (1.84%) Snowflake
11 98 (1.69%) GitHub
12 89 (1.53%) dbt
13 87 (1.50%) Power Automate
14 81 (1.40%) Amazon S3
15 77 (1.33%) PowerApps
16 72 (1.24%) Microsoft Purview
17 66 (1.14%) Serverless
18 63 (1.09%) Google Ads
19 59 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 196 (3.38%) DNS
2 152 (2.62%) DHCP
3 150 (2.59%) Firewall
4 126 (2.17%) VPN
5 97 (1.67%) TCP/IP
6 76 (1.31%) WAN
7 74 (1.28%) LAN
8 62 (1.07%) Broadband
9 57 (0.98%) Network Security
9 57 (0.98%) Wireless
10 55 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
11 44 (0.76%) SAN
12 43 (0.74%) Internet
13 42 (0.72%) VLAN
14 36 (0.62%) HTTP
15 27 (0.47%) BGP
16 25 (0.43%) VoIP
17 22 (0.38%) SD-WAN
18 20 (0.34%) OSPF
18 20 (0.34%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 614 (10.58%) Power BI
2 270 (4.65%) Tableau
3 231 (3.98%) SQL Server
4 198 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
5 116 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
6 105 (1.81%) Relational Database
7 98 (1.69%) Metadata
8 91 (1.57%) Looker
9 83 (1.43%) MySQL
10 80 (1.38%) Data Lake
11 77 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
12 67 (1.15%) Power Query
13 66 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 62 (1.07%) BigQuery
14 62 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 55 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
16 54 (0.93%) Big Data
17 47 (0.81%) NoSQL
18 42 (0.72%) Data Mining
19 39 (0.67%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 241 (4.15%) JIRA
2 225 (3.88%) Git
3 57 (0.98%) GitLab
4 50 (0.86%) Jenkins
5 32 (0.55%) MLflow
6 31 (0.53%) Rational DOORS
7 29 (0.50%) Selenium
8 23 (0.40%) Cucumber
9 20 (0.34%) Postman
10 19 (0.33%) Eclipse
11 16 (0.28%) Chocolatey
12 14 (0.24%) Cypress.io
12 14 (0.24%) JMeter
13 13 (0.22%) Bitbucket
13 13 (0.22%) Burp Suite
13 13 (0.22%) ERwin
13 13 (0.22%) IBM UrbanCode
14 12 (0.21%) Claude Code
14 12 (0.21%) SonarQube
15 11 (0.19%) Metasploit
General
1 2,769 (47.72%) Social Skills
2 1,902 (32.78%) Finance
3 580 (10.00%) Marketing
4 508 (8.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 418 (7.20%) Organisational Skills
6 380 (6.55%) Retail
7 369 (6.36%) Law
8 356 (6.14%) Public Sector
9 326 (5.62%) Legal
10 277 (4.77%) Manufacturing
11 276 (4.76%) Banking
12 275 (4.74%) Influencing Skills
13 174 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
14 161 (2.77%) Aerospace
15 133 (2.29%) Telecoms
16 109 (1.88%) Advertising
17 104 (1.79%) Electronics
18 96 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
19 70 (1.21%) Financial Institution
20 67 (1.15%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,345 (23.18%) Analyst
2 753 (12.98%) Senior
3 407 (7.01%) Lead
4 305 (5.26%) Data Analyst
5 298 (5.14%) Business Analyst
6 282 (4.86%) Developer
7 229 (3.95%) Architect
8 222 (3.83%) Consultant
9 210 (3.62%) Systems Engineer
10 184 (3.17%) Senior Analyst
11 173 (2.98%) Data Engineer
12 154 (2.65%) Support Analyst
13 131 (2.26%) Support Engineer
14 123 (2.12%) IT Support
15 115 (1.98%) IT Manager
16 110 (1.90%) Senior Manager
17 108 (1.86%) Security Analyst
18 98 (1.69%) Systems Analyst
19 92 (1.59%) Financial Analyst
20 91 (1.57%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (2.55%) .NET
2 127 (2.19%) HTML
3 123 (2.12%) REST
4 119 (2.05%) CSS
5 87 (1.50%) JSON
6 79 (1.36%) Kafka
7 78 (1.34%) Middleware
7 78 (1.34%) React
8 73 (1.26%) XML
9 71 (1.22%) PyTorch
9 71 (1.22%) RESTful
10 64 (1.10%) TensorFlow
11 56 (0.97%) SOAP
12 51 (0.88%) PySpark
13 48 (0.83%) scikit-learn
14 42 (0.72%) OAuth
14 42 (0.72%) Web Services
15 39 (0.67%) Node.js
15 39 (0.67%) Pandas
16 38 (0.65%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 548 (9.45%) Analytical Mindset
2 332 (5.72%) Management Information System
3 318 (5.48%) Onboarding
4 272 (4.69%) Self-Motivation
5 271 (4.67%) Product Ownership
6 164 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
7 140 (2.41%) Cloud Native
8 133 (2.29%) Driving Licence
9 119 (2.05%) Social Media
10 116 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
11 110 (1.90%) Security Posture
12 108 (1.86%) Data Centre
13 95 (1.64%) Blog
14 92 (1.59%) Virtual Team
15 91 (1.57%) Cyber Threat
16 79 (1.36%) Data Structures
17 78 (1.34%) Algorithms
18 77 (1.33%) Marketing Technology
19 69 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
20 56 (0.97%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 460 (7.93%) Windows
2 299 (5.15%) Linux
3 220 (3.79%) Windows Server
4 99 (1.71%) Windows Server 2016
5 33 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 33 (0.57%) Unix
5 33 (0.57%) Windows 10
6 28 (0.48%) Mac OS
7 22 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
8 21 (0.36%) Apple iOS
9 20 (0.34%) Android
10 14 (0.24%) CentOS
11 11 (0.19%) Ubuntu
12 7 (0.12%) Debian
13 6 (0.10%) VMS
14 5 (0.086%) OpenVMS
15 4 (0.069%) CoreOS
15 4 (0.069%) Rocky
16 2 (0.034%) AIX
16 2 (0.034%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,758 (47.54%) Problem-Solving
2 1,649 (28.42%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,316 (22.68%) Decision-Making
4 1,269 (21.87%) Analytics
5 1,042 (17.96%) Agile
6 991 (17.08%) AI
7 986 (16.99%) Stakeholder Management
8 743 (12.81%) Business Intelligence
9 638 (11.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 611 (10.53%) Roadmaps
11 564 (9.72%) Actionable Insight
12 562 (9.69%) Mentoring
13 541 (9.32%) Project Management
14 509 (8.77%) Data Analysis
15 498 (8.58%) Validation
16 490 (8.45%) Cybersecurity
17 475 (8.19%) Data Modelling
18 468 (8.07%) Customer Experience
19 457 (7.88%) Process Improvement
20 448 (7.72%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 1,161 (20.01%) SQL
2 922 (15.89%) Python
3 219 (3.77%) JavaScript
4 198 (3.41%) Java
5 188 (3.24%) PowerShell
6 183 (3.15%) C#
7 98 (1.69%) Bash
7 98 (1.69%) C++
8 79 (1.36%) R
9 73 (1.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 66 (1.14%) TypeScript
11 48 (0.83%) T-SQL
12 43 (0.74%) MATLAB
13 31 (0.53%) C
14 28 (0.48%) Scala
15 25 (0.43%) PHP
16 22 (0.38%) Go
16 22 (0.38%) PL/SQL
17 20 (0.34%) VBA
18 19 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1,108 (19.10%) Degree
2 628 (10.82%) Security Cleared
3 432 (7.45%) SC Cleared
4 241 (4.15%) ACCA
5 227 (3.91%) CIMA
6 176 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 167 (2.88%) CISSP
8 155 (2.67%) DV Cleared
9 149 (2.57%) DBS Check
10 127 (2.19%) CISM
11 123 (2.12%) Cisco Certification
12 120 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
13 103 (1.78%) Master's Degree
14 75 (1.29%) Azure Certification
15 74 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
16 73 (1.26%) CompTIA Security+
16 73 (1.26%) IRCA
17 62 (1.07%) PMI Certification
18 48 (0.83%) CRISC
19 47 (0.81%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 558 (9.62%) Data Quality
2 406 (7.00%) QA
3 402 (6.93%) GDPR
4 243 (4.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 199 (3.43%) NIST
6 168 (2.90%) Accessibility
7 158 (2.72%) Cyber Essentials
8 157 (2.71%) SLA
9 131 (2.26%) PCI DSS
10 129 (2.22%) ISO 9001
11 72 (1.24%) GRC
12 65 (1.12%) PMO
13 47 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
14 41 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 38 (0.65%) COBIT
15 38 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 36 (0.62%) IFRS
17 28 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 25 (0.43%) NCSC
19 24 (0.41%) GMP
System Software
1 327 (5.64%) Active Directory
2 143 (2.46%) Docker
3 104 (1.79%) Hyper-V
4 91 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 80 (1.38%) Terminal Server
6 27 (0.47%) Firmware
7 24 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
8 19 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (0.16%) VMware NSX
9 9 (0.16%) vSphere
10 7 (0.12%) Ceph
11 6 (0.10%) IAG
11 6 (0.10%) ProxySG
11 6 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
12 5 (0.086%) KVM
13 4 (0.069%) Embedded Firmware
13 4 (0.069%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.052%) DFS Replication
14 3 (0.052%) VMware ESXi
14 3 (0.052%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 156 (2.69%) Terraform
2 119 (2.05%) Kubernetes
3 85 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 78 (1.34%) Ansible
5 43 (0.74%) Grafana
6 32 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
7 26 (0.45%) SCCM
8 25 (0.43%) Prometheus
9 19 (0.33%) Nagios
10 18 (0.31%) QRadar
11 17 (0.29%) Kibana
12 11 (0.19%) Nmap
12 11 (0.19%) Podman
13 9 (0.16%) Argo
13 9 (0.16%) Kubeflow
14 8 (0.14%) logstash
15 7 (0.12%) Check_MK
15 7 (0.12%) Packer
15 7 (0.12%) Puppet
15 7 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 1,273 (21.94%) Microsoft
2 293 (5.05%) Google
3 235 (4.05%) SAP
4 207 (3.57%) Oracle
5 184 (3.17%) VMware
6 150 (2.59%) Splunk
7 143 (2.46%) Databricks
8 127 (2.19%) ServiceNow
9 126 (2.17%) Salesforce
10 115 (1.98%) SolarWinds
11 90 (1.55%) Veeam
12 84 (1.45%) Cisco
13 82 (1.41%) Workday
14 81 (1.40%) Brocade
14 81 (1.40%) Nimble Storage
15 80 (1.38%) Tanium
16 63 (1.09%) Red Hat
17 58 (1.00%) Adobe
18 52 (0.90%) Dell
19 50 (0.86%) HubSpot