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 6 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 12 19
Rank change year-on-year -5 +7 +2
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 5,071 5,788 6,468
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 7.80% 11.34% 8.83%
As % of the General category 13.69% 16.78% 14.35%
Number of salaries quoted 2,528 2,390 4,595
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £94,663 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,967 £46,283
% change year-on-year -11.71% +10.12% -7.43%

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 37,035 34,485 45,062
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 56.98% 67.58% 61.49%
Number of salaries quoted 20,002 15,582 33,622
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -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 6 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Top 19 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 6 February 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 -6 4,459 £52,500 -4.55% 2,178
UK excluding London -12 3,234 £45,000 -11.71% 1,710
Work from Home +4 1,707 £52,500 -8.70% 1,003
London -1 1,539 £67,500 +3.85% 788
South East +8 884 £50,000 - 564
North of England -18 815 £43,000 -18.10% 363
Midlands -13 589 £44,543 -10.91% 334
North West -15 416 £42,500 -19.05% 224
West Midlands -14 350 £52,500 +5.00% 225
South West -2 342 £45,000 -13.46% 206
Yorkshire +2 296 £45,000 -12.20% 108
Scotland -7 265 £40,000 -38.46% 79
East of England -19 255 £40,000 -21.52% 154
East Midlands +6 237 £40,000 -5.88% 109
North East -2 103 £40,000 - 34
Wales +15 72 £40,500 -17.52% 43
Northern Ireland -9 43 £52,500 -8.24% 12
Isle of Man -2 1 £62,500 +150.00% 1
Channel Islands -7 1 - - 1

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
1 165 (3.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 94 (1.85%) Confluence
3 86 (1.70%) SharePoint
4 42 (0.83%) Apache Spark
5 40 (0.79%) CMS
6 26 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
7 18 (0.35%) SAS
7 18 (0.35%) WordPress
8 14 (0.28%) Apache
8 14 (0.28%) IIS
9 13 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.12%) nginx
11 4 (0.079%) Drupal
12 3 (0.059%) govService
12 3 (0.059%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 2 (0.039%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.039%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.039%) FactoryTalk
13 2 (0.039%) MTS
13 2 (0.039%) WinCC
Applications
1 733 (14.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 385 (7.59%) Chatbot
3 314 (6.19%) Microsoft Office
4 124 (2.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 78 (1.54%) MS Visio
6 52 (1.03%) Maya
7 40 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
8 35 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
9 20 (0.39%) AutoCAD
10 13 (0.26%) Adobe XD
11 8 (0.16%) SOLIDWORKS
12 7 (0.14%) CATIA
13 4 (0.079%) Oracle Smart View
13 4 (0.079%) PlantUML
14 3 (0.059%) Sketch
15 2 (0.039%) Revit
15 2 (0.039%) Stata
15 2 (0.039%) Trello
16 1 (0.020%) Photoshop
16 1 (0.020%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 137 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 67 (1.32%) SAP MDG
3 57 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
4 42 (0.83%) NetSuite
5 38 (0.75%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 32 (0.63%) SAP CO
7 29 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
8 28 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
9 24 (0.47%) SAP FI
10 23 (0.45%) SAP FI/CO
10 23 (0.45%) Workday HCM
11 21 (0.41%) Endur
11 21 (0.41%) Shopify
12 19 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
13 17 (0.34%) Oracle Assets
13 17 (0.34%) SAP IBP
14 13 (0.26%) Sage X3
15 11 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
15 11 (0.22%) SAP ERP
16 10 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 868 (17.12%) Azure
2 641 (12.64%) Power Platform
3 432 (8.52%) AWS
4 311 (6.13%) Microsoft 365
5 246 (4.85%) SaaS
6 161 (3.17%) GCP
7 153 (3.02%) Azure DevOps
8 108 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
9 90 (1.77%) Entra ID
10 87 (1.72%) GitHub
11 73 (1.44%) Snowflake
12 70 (1.38%) Azure Data Factory
13 69 (1.36%) Power Automate
14 56 (1.10%) Serverless
15 54 (1.06%) Google Analytics
16 49 (0.97%) Microsoft Purview
17 48 (0.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 48 (0.95%) dbt
17 48 (0.95%) OCI
18 45 (0.89%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 185 (3.65%) DNS
2 173 (3.41%) Firewall
3 154 (3.04%) DHCP
4 86 (1.70%) VPN
5 76 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
6 62 (1.22%) WAN
7 55 (1.08%) LAN
8 51 (1.01%) Wireless
9 50 (0.99%) TCP/IP
10 47 (0.93%) VLAN
11 45 (0.89%) Network Security
12 37 (0.73%) Remote Desktop
13 33 (0.65%) Broadband
14 32 (0.63%) Wireshark
15 29 (0.57%) BGP
15 29 (0.57%) VoIP
16 28 (0.55%) OSPF
17 27 (0.53%) SAN
18 24 (0.47%) EIGRP
19 23 (0.45%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 585 (11.54%) Power BI
2 379 (7.47%) Tableau
3 203 (4.00%) SQL Server
4 181 (3.57%) Data Mining
5 169 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
6 128 (2.52%) Amazon RDS
7 110 (2.17%) Data Lake
8 106 (2.09%) Metadata
9 97 (1.91%) Relational Database
10 61 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 58 (1.14%) NoSQL
12 53 (1.05%) Looker
12 53 (1.05%) MySQL
13 52 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
14 44 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
14 44 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
14 44 (0.87%) SAP BW
15 43 (0.85%) Big Data
16 38 (0.75%) GIS
17 33 (0.65%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 214 (4.22%) JIRA
2 91 (1.79%) Git
3 43 (0.85%) Selenium
4 35 (0.69%) GitLab
5 34 (0.67%) Jenkins
6 18 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
7 15 (0.30%) Robot Framework
8 14 (0.28%) ERwin
8 14 (0.28%) Postman
9 13 (0.26%) ER Studio
9 13 (0.26%) Snyk
9 13 (0.26%) Subversion
9 13 (0.26%) Visual Studio
9 13 (0.26%) WebDriver
10 12 (0.24%) Balsamiq
11 11 (0.22%) Axure RP
11 11 (0.22%) Bitbucket
12 10 (0.20%) Cypress.io
12 10 (0.20%) LabVIEW
13 9 (0.18%) Chocolatey
General
1 2,627 (51.80%) Social Skills
2 1,779 (35.08%) Finance
3 456 (8.99%) Marketing
4 328 (6.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 307 (6.05%) Law
6 283 (5.58%) Legal
7 281 (5.54%) Retail
8 253 (4.99%) Banking
9 246 (4.85%) Organisational Skills
10 234 (4.61%) Public Sector
11 217 (4.28%) Presentation Skills
12 168 (3.31%) Manufacturing
13 138 (2.72%) Financial Institution
14 136 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
15 109 (2.15%) Games
16 100 (1.97%) Telecoms
17 86 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
18 75 (1.48%) Advertising
19 65 (1.28%) Electronics
20 52 (1.03%) French Language
Job Titles
1 1,210 (23.86%) Analyst
2 627 (12.36%) Senior
3 381 (7.51%) Trainer
4 375 (7.39%) Data Analyst
5 355 (7.00%) Lead
6 313 (6.17%) Architect
7 238 (4.69%) Business Analyst
8 227 (4.48%) Developer
9 180 (3.55%) Consultant
10 171 (3.37%) Support Analyst
11 154 (3.04%) Trainee
12 143 (2.82%) IT Support
13 141 (2.78%) Senior Analyst
13 141 (2.78%) Trainee Analyst
13 141 (2.78%) Trainee Data Analyst
14 127 (2.50%) Systems Engineer
15 120 (2.37%) Solutions Architect
16 119 (2.35%) Senior Manager
17 110 (2.17%) Business Manager
18 101 (1.99%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (2.35%) HTML
2 116 (2.29%) CSS
3 87 (1.72%) React
4 72 (1.42%) REST
5 71 (1.40%) .NET
6 67 (1.32%) Middleware
7 44 (0.87%) JSON
8 38 (0.75%) Node.js
9 35 (0.69%) XML
10 33 (0.65%) EDI
10 33 (0.65%) SOAP
11 31 (0.61%) AngularJS
12 29 (0.57%) Kafka
13 28 (0.55%) Spring
14 24 (0.47%) PySpark
15 22 (0.43%) FIX Protocol
15 22 (0.43%) LangChain
15 22 (0.43%) TensorFlow
16 21 (0.41%) Oracle Fusion
16 21 (0.41%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 494 (9.74%) Analytical Mindset
2 373 (7.36%) Self-Motivation
3 306 (6.03%) Onboarding
4 266 (5.25%) Management Information System
5 208 (4.10%) Product Ownership
6 169 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
7 133 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
8 103 (2.03%) Data Centre
9 85 (1.68%) FMCG
10 81 (1.60%) Cloud Native
10 81 (1.60%) Data Structures
11 77 (1.52%) Driving Licence
12 64 (1.26%) Algorithms
13 54 (1.06%) Virtual Team
14 52 (1.03%) Robotics
15 51 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
16 49 (0.97%) Social Media
17 47 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 43 (0.85%) Low-Code
18 43 (0.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 381 (7.51%) Windows
2 252 (4.97%) Linux
3 175 (3.45%) Windows Server
4 116 (2.29%) Windows Server 2016
5 36 (0.71%) Unix
6 28 (0.55%) Mac OS
7 16 (0.32%) Windows 10
8 15 (0.30%) Android
9 9 (0.18%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.099%) VMS
10 5 (0.099%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.079%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.059%) OpenWrt
13 2 (0.039%) AIX
13 2 (0.039%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.039%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.039%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.020%) Robot Operating System
14 1 (0.020%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.020%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,262 (44.61%) Problem-Solving
2 1,094 (21.57%) AI
3 1,084 (21.38%) Continuous Improvement
4 1,078 (21.26%) Analytics
5 965 (19.03%) Decision-Making
6 897 (17.69%) Agile
7 807 (15.91%) Project Management
8 750 (14.79%) Business Intelligence
9 642 (12.66%) Stakeholder Management
10 553 (10.91%) Data Analysis
11 450 (8.87%) Risk Management
12 420 (8.28%) Roadmaps
13 416 (8.20%) Mentoring
14 415 (8.18%) ERP
15 412 (8.12%) Actionable Insight
16 408 (8.05%) Business Strategy
17 407 (8.03%) Migration
18 405 (7.99%) Analytical Thinking
18 405 (7.99%) Customer Service
19 402 (7.93%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 993 (19.58%) SQL
2 755 (14.89%) Python
3 149 (2.94%) JavaScript
4 138 (2.72%) Java
5 129 (2.54%) PowerShell
6 113 (2.23%) C#
7 69 (1.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 59 (1.16%) R
9 47 (0.93%) C++
9 47 (0.93%) T-SQL
10 43 (0.85%) VBA
11 42 (0.83%) Bash
12 27 (0.53%) TypeScript
13 26 (0.51%) Scala
14 22 (0.43%) C
15 21 (0.41%) Go
16 17 (0.34%) MATLAB
16 17 (0.34%) PL/SQL
17 12 (0.24%) ABAP
17 12 (0.24%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,583 (31.22%) Degree
2 527 (10.39%) Master's Degree
3 433 (8.54%) Security Cleared
4 391 (7.71%) PhD
5 334 (6.59%) SC Cleared
6 204 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 181 (3.57%) ACCA
8 172 (3.39%) CIMA
9 141 (2.78%) CISSP
10 95 (1.87%) PMI Certification
11 90 (1.77%) DBS Check
12 80 (1.58%) DV Cleared
13 79 (1.56%) CISM
14 78 (1.54%) PMP
15 69 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
16 68 (1.34%) Azure Certification
17 62 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
18 57 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
19 49 (0.97%) AWS Certification
20 48 (0.95%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 333 (6.57%) Data Quality
2 237 (4.67%) QA
3 205 (4.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 193 (3.81%) GDPR
5 181 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials
6 147 (2.90%) PCI DSS
7 138 (2.72%) NIST
8 108 (2.13%) Accessibility
9 92 (1.81%) PMO
10 61 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
11 50 (0.99%) SLA
12 40 (0.79%) GRC
13 35 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 27 (0.53%) IFRS
15 21 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 18 (0.35%) NCSC
16 18 (0.35%) WCAG
17 15 (0.30%) COBIT
17 15 (0.30%) ISO 9001
18 12 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 278 (5.48%) Active Directory
2 139 (2.74%) Hyper-V
3 112 (2.21%) Terminal Server
4 53 (1.05%) Docker
5 48 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
6 16 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (0.30%) vSphere
8 11 (0.22%) Firmware
9 10 (0.20%) ProxySG
10 6 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.079%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.059%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.059%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.059%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.039%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.020%) NFS
Systems Management
1 104 (2.05%) Terraform
2 64 (1.26%) Ansible
3 60 (1.18%) Kubernetes
4 48 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (0.45%) Prometheus
6 22 (0.43%) Grafana
6 22 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
7 18 (0.35%) SCCM
8 6 (0.12%) Computer Incident Response Team
8 6 (0.12%) Nagios
8 6 (0.12%) SCOM
9 5 (0.099%) CASB
9 5 (0.099%) Control-M
10 4 (0.079%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.079%) Nessus
10 4 (0.079%) QRadar
10 4 (0.079%) SolarWinds Orion
10 4 (0.079%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.059%) Kubeflow
11 3 (0.059%) vRealize
Vendors
1 1,196 (23.59%) Microsoft
2 381 (7.51%) PayPal
3 347 (6.84%) SAP
4 203 (4.00%) Oracle
5 172 (3.39%) VMware
6 154 (3.04%) Salesforce
7 148 (2.92%) SolarWinds
8 142 (2.80%) Google
9 140 (2.76%) Splunk
10 116 (2.29%) Veeam
11 113 (2.23%) Brocade
11 113 (2.23%) Tanium
12 112 (2.21%) Nimble Storage
13 105 (2.07%) ServiceNow
14 80 (1.58%) Cisco
15 70 (1.38%) Databricks
16 63 (1.24%) Adobe
17 44 (0.87%) Workday
18 43 (0.85%) Bloomberg
19 42 (0.83%) Alteryx