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 16 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 9 15
Rank change year-on-year -16 +6 +4
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,869 5,560 9,073
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.68% 13.41% 9.65%
As % of the General category 10.96% 18.89% 15.94%
Number of salaries quoted 2,890 2,488 5,460
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,692 £50,445 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.47% +12.10% -3.23%

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 44,407 29,439 56,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 51.79% 70.99% 60.52%
Number of salaries quoted 23,916 15,815 39,443
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,913 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,684 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.85% +13.68% -12.50%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,055 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.10% +5.38% -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 16 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Top 18 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 16 April 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 -20 4,327 £55,000 - 2,214
UK excluding London -27 3,015 £48,692 -3.47% 1,679
London -8 1,540 £67,500 +3.85% 858
Work from Home -7 1,422 £55,000 - 919
North of England -31 827 £45,000 -10.00% 410
South East -1 797 £50,000 -4.76% 528
Midlands -23 569 £48,250 +0.52% 311
North West -25 468 £45,000 -10.00% 228
West Midlands -24 342 £51,300 +2.60% 190
South West -24 271 £50,000 -4.76% 171
Yorkshire -12 268 £50,000 +11.11% 132
East of England -31 255 £43,189 -15.26% 159
East Midlands -12 225 £45,000 - 122
Scotland -19 174 £40,000 -23.81% 56
North East -18 91 £49,222 +27.85% 54
Wales 0 84 £42,500 -15.21% 56
Northern Ireland -25 49 £40,000 -27.27% 23
Isle of Man -2 1 £62,500 +68.92%

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
1 147 (3.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 94 (1.93%) SharePoint
3 74 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
3 74 (1.52%) Confluence
4 73 (1.50%) Apache Spark
5 50 (1.03%) CMS
6 36 (0.74%) Apache
7 20 (0.41%) WordPress
8 18 (0.37%) IIS
9 17 (0.35%) SAS
10 12 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
11 6 (0.12%) nginx
12 4 (0.082%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.062%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.062%) Drupal
13 3 (0.062%) govService
13 3 (0.062%) JBoss
14 2 (0.041%) Appian
14 2 (0.041%) Camunda
14 2 (0.041%) Jupyter
Applications
1 653 (13.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 272 (5.59%) Microsoft Office
3 106 (2.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 97 (1.99%) MS Visio
5 32 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
6 30 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
7 24 (0.49%) Chatbot
8 15 (0.31%) Adobe XD
9 12 (0.25%) Maya
10 10 (0.21%) CATIA
11 6 (0.12%) AutoCAD
12 5 (0.10%) Trello
13 2 (0.041%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.041%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.041%) Revit
13 2 (0.041%) Simulink
13 2 (0.041%) Sketch
14 1 (0.021%) Lectora
14 1 (0.021%) Notion
14 1 (0.021%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 65 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 46 (0.94%) NetSuite
3 44 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
4 34 (0.70%) Salesforce CRM
5 25 (0.51%) SAP CO
6 17 (0.35%) SAP FI
7 16 (0.33%) Endur
8 15 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
8 15 (0.31%) SAP PM
8 15 (0.31%) Workday HCM
9 13 (0.27%) Maximo
10 12 (0.25%) SAP ERP
11 11 (0.23%) Sage X3
12 10 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
13 9 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
14 8 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
14 8 (0.16%) Elite 3E
14 8 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
15 7 (0.14%) Magento
15 7 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 868 (17.83%) Azure
2 669 (13.74%) Power Platform
3 474 (9.74%) AWS
4 327 (6.72%) Microsoft 365
5 272 (5.59%) SaaS
6 207 (4.25%) GCP
7 149 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
8 146 (3.00%) Dynamics 365
9 106 (2.18%) GitHub
10 102 (2.09%) Entra ID
11 101 (2.07%) Power Automate
12 94 (1.93%) Snowflake
13 89 (1.83%) dbt
14 77 (1.58%) Azure Data Factory
15 71 (1.46%) Google Analytics
16 69 (1.42%) Amazon S3
16 69 (1.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 61 (1.25%) Serverless
18 60 (1.23%) Microsoft Purview
18 60 (1.23%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 183 (3.76%) Firewall
2 157 (3.22%) DNS
3 126 (2.59%) DHCP
4 117 (2.40%) VPN
5 79 (1.62%) WAN
6 69 (1.42%) LAN
6 69 (1.42%) TCP/IP
7 67 (1.38%) Wireless
8 64 (1.31%) Wi-Fi
9 61 (1.25%) VLAN
10 49 (1.01%) Network Security
11 45 (0.92%) SAN
12 42 (0.86%) Broadband
13 39 (0.80%) BGP
14 33 (0.68%) OSPF
14 33 (0.68%) Wireshark
15 29 (0.60%) Cisco ASA
15 29 (0.60%) EIGRP
16 25 (0.51%) SD-WAN
17 23 (0.47%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 605 (12.43%) Power BI
2 404 (8.30%) Tableau
3 224 (4.60%) SQL Server
4 174 (3.57%) Data Mining
5 173 (3.55%) Data Warehouse
6 97 (1.99%) Metadata
7 94 (1.93%) Relational Database
8 84 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
9 80 (1.64%) Data Lake
10 73 (1.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 66 (1.36%) Looker
12 61 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
13 55 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
14 52 (1.07%) MySQL
15 48 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
16 46 (0.94%) Power Query
17 45 (0.92%) BigQuery
17 45 (0.92%) NoSQL
18 40 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 38 (0.78%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 188 (3.86%) JIRA
2 136 (2.79%) Git
3 49 (1.01%) GitLab
4 40 (0.82%) Jenkins
5 37 (0.76%) Selenium
6 32 (0.66%) MLflow
7 22 (0.45%) Rational DOORS
8 19 (0.39%) Visual Studio
9 18 (0.37%) Chocolatey
10 16 (0.33%) Balsamiq
11 15 (0.31%) Bitbucket
12 14 (0.29%) Axure RP
12 14 (0.29%) ERwin
12 14 (0.29%) Subversion
13 13 (0.27%) Cucumber
13 13 (0.27%) IBM UrbanCode
14 12 (0.25%) Cypress.io
15 10 (0.21%) Postman
15 10 (0.21%) SonarQube
16 9 (0.18%) Robot Framework
General
1 2,409 (49.48%) Social Skills
2 1,822 (37.42%) Finance
3 438 (9.00%) Marketing
4 361 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 304 (6.24%) Banking
6 267 (5.48%) Law
7 264 (5.42%) Organisational Skills
8 262 (5.38%) Legal
9 260 (5.34%) Retail
10 249 (5.11%) Public Sector
11 201 (4.13%) Presentation Skills
12 173 (3.55%) Manufacturing
13 132 (2.71%) Influencing Skills
14 117 (2.40%) Telecoms
15 116 (2.38%) Financial Institution
16 84 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
17 75 (1.54%) Advertising
18 68 (1.40%) Electronics
19 62 (1.27%) Games
20 57 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1,301 (26.72%) Analyst
2 666 (13.68%) Senior
3 373 (7.66%) Data Analyst
4 309 (6.35%) Lead
5 271 (5.57%) Business Analyst
6 248 (5.09%) Developer
7 221 (4.54%) Architect
8 208 (4.27%) Consultant
9 166 (3.41%) Support Analyst
10 157 (3.22%) Trainee
11 149 (3.06%) Systems Engineer
12 148 (3.04%) Trainee Analyst
12 148 (3.04%) Trainee Data Analyst
13 140 (2.88%) Senior Manager
14 136 (2.79%) Senior Analyst
15 122 (2.51%) IT Support
16 119 (2.44%) Financial Analyst
17 105 (2.16%) Data Engineer
18 101 (2.07%) Support Engineer
19 93 (1.91%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (2.96%) HTML
2 132 (2.71%) CSS
3 89 (1.83%) .NET
4 85 (1.75%) React
5 78 (1.60%) REST
6 73 (1.50%) JSON
7 68 (1.40%) Middleware
8 65 (1.33%) XML
9 57 (1.17%) PyTorch
10 53 (1.09%) Kafka
10 53 (1.09%) TensorFlow
11 48 (0.99%) Node.js
12 42 (0.86%) scikit-learn
13 41 (0.84%) SOAP
14 37 (0.76%) PySpark
15 33 (0.68%) LangChain
16 31 (0.64%) Pandas
17 29 (0.60%) FIX Protocol
18 28 (0.58%) EDI
18 28 (0.58%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 513 (10.54%) Analytical Mindset
2 280 (5.75%) Self-Motivation
3 236 (4.85%) Management Information System
4 231 (4.74%) Onboarding
5 199 (4.09%) Product Ownership
6 109 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
7 101 (2.07%) Data Centre
8 98 (2.01%) Cloud Native
9 90 (1.85%) Data Structures
10 82 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
11 75 (1.54%) Algorithms
12 74 (1.52%) Security Posture
13 65 (1.33%) Driving Licence
14 58 (1.19%) Social Media
15 55 (1.13%) Virtual Team
16 48 (0.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 48 (0.99%) Low-Code
16 48 (0.99%) Public Cloud
17 46 (0.94%) FMCG
18 43 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 358 (7.35%) Windows
2 212 (4.35%) Linux
3 153 (3.14%) Windows Server
4 70 (1.44%) Windows Server 2016
5 36 (0.74%) Unix
6 25 (0.51%) Mac OS
7 20 (0.41%) Windows 10
8 19 (0.39%) Android
9 15 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 14 (0.29%) Apple iOS
11 6 (0.12%) CentOS
12 5 (0.10%) Ubuntu
13 4 (0.082%) AIX
13 4 (0.082%) VMS
13 4 (0.082%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.041%) Data ONTAP
14 2 (0.041%) OpenWrt
14 2 (0.041%) Oracle Linux
14 2 (0.041%) Rocky
15 1 (0.021%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,230 (45.80%) Problem-Solving
2 1,187 (24.38%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,143 (23.48%) Analytics
4 1,027 (21.09%) Decision-Making
5 864 (17.74%) Agile
6 745 (15.30%) Business Intelligence
7 725 (14.89%) AI
8 624 (12.82%) Project Management
9 620 (12.73%) Stakeholder Management
10 554 (11.38%) Data Analysis
11 483 (9.92%) Actionable Insight
12 440 (9.04%) Mentoring
13 431 (8.85%) Data Modelling
14 424 (8.71%) Roadmaps
15 418 (8.58%) Analytical Thinking
16 405 (8.32%) Process Improvement
17 399 (8.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 388 (7.97%) Cybersecurity
19 386 (7.93%) DevOps
20 363 (7.46%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1,053 (21.63%) SQL
2 878 (18.03%) Python
3 185 (3.80%) JavaScript
4 171 (3.51%) Java
5 166 (3.41%) PowerShell
6 123 (2.53%) C#
7 91 (1.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 62 (1.27%) R
9 58 (1.19%) Bash
10 50 (1.03%) C++
11 48 (0.99%) T-SQL
12 45 (0.92%) TypeScript
13 42 (0.86%) VBA
14 25 (0.51%) MATLAB
15 20 (0.41%) C
15 20 (0.41%) Go
15 20 (0.41%) Scala
16 17 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
17 15 (0.31%) PL/SQL
18 14 (0.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,038 (21.32%) Degree
2 402 (8.26%) Security Cleared
3 283 (5.81%) SC Cleared
4 247 (5.07%) ACCA
5 237 (4.87%) CIMA
6 181 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 147 (3.02%) CISSP
8 145 (2.98%) Master's Degree
9 134 (2.75%) DBS Check
10 102 (2.09%) PMI Certification
11 94 (1.93%) Cisco Certification
12 92 (1.89%) CISM
13 91 (1.87%) DV Cleared
14 89 (1.83%) PMP
15 72 (1.48%) IRCA
16 71 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
17 66 (1.36%) Azure Certification
18 61 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
19 51 (1.05%) CISA
20 49 (1.01%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 428 (8.79%) Data Quality
2 333 (6.84%) GDPR
3 278 (5.71%) QA
4 227 (4.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 195 (4.00%) NIST
6 140 (2.88%) Cyber Essentials
7 111 (2.28%) PCI DSS
8 95 (1.95%) Accessibility
8 95 (1.95%) SLA
9 94 (1.93%) ISO 9001
10 81 (1.66%) PMO
11 70 (1.44%) Actionable Recommendations
12 55 (1.13%) GRC
13 41 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 35 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 32 (0.66%) IFRS
16 29 (0.60%) COBIT
17 28 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 23 (0.47%) SOC 2
19 21 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 256 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 83 (1.70%) Hyper-V
3 74 (1.52%) Docker
4 73 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 64 (1.31%) Terminal Server
6 16 (0.33%) ProxySG
7 15 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.23%) vSphere
9 9 (0.18%) VMware NSX
10 8 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
11 7 (0.14%) IAG
12 4 (0.082%) Firmware
12 4 (0.082%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.082%) XenApp
13 3 (0.062%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.062%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.041%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.041%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.021%) KVM
15 1 (0.021%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 138 (2.83%) Terraform
2 78 (1.60%) Kubernetes
3 69 (1.42%) Ansible
4 61 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
5 37 (0.76%) Grafana
6 30 (0.62%) SCCM
7 28 (0.58%) Prometheus
7 28 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
8 17 (0.35%) Nagios
9 9 (0.18%) QRadar
10 7 (0.14%) Control-M
10 7 (0.14%) Kibana
10 7 (0.14%) Kubeflow
11 5 (0.10%) CASB
11 5 (0.10%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 5 (0.10%) logstash
11 5 (0.10%) RSA Archer
12 4 (0.082%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.082%) Packer
12 4 (0.082%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,184 (24.32%) Microsoft
2 207 (4.25%) SAP
3 179 (3.68%) Oracle
4 167 (3.43%) Google
5 147 (3.02%) VMware
6 142 (2.92%) Salesforce
7 118 (2.42%) ServiceNow
8 111 (2.28%) SolarWinds
9 107 (2.20%) Databricks
10 102 (2.09%) Splunk
11 79 (1.62%) Workday
12 71 (1.46%) Cisco
12 71 (1.46%) Veeam
13 65 (1.33%) Brocade
13 65 (1.33%) Tanium
14 64 (1.31%) Nimble Storage
15 48 (0.99%) IBM
16 47 (0.97%) Dell
17 41 (0.84%) Red Hat
18 38 (0.78%) Adobe