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

6 months to
13 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 5,748 6,168 8,026
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.41% 12.35% 9.62%
As % of the General category 11.59% 17.90% 16.77%
Number of salaries quoted 3,534 2,626 3,718
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,923 £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 49,582 34,450 47,855
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.67% 68.98% 57.36%
Number of salaries quoted 30,326 18,013 28,361
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,100 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £39,720
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -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 13 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 13 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 5,184 £52,500 - 4,154
UK excluding London -18 3,673 £47,500 - 2,451
Work from Home -10 1,831 £55,000 +10.00% 1,559
London -10 1,789 £67,500 +3.85% 2,145
North of England -18 1,042 £47,500 +5.56% 595
South East -9 883 £50,000 -4.76% 750
Midlands -9 644 £48,000 +6.67% 383
North West -17 631 £47,000 +4.44% 332
South West -12 508 £47,500 +5.56% 330
West Midlands -17 335 £50,000 +11.11% 227
East Midlands -1 307 £45,000 - 157
Yorkshire -11 292 £47,000 +17.50% 200
East of England -17 256 £45,814 +1.81% 226
Wales -13 135 £51,709 +0.51% 59
Scotland -22 130 £44,000 +3.53% 133
North East -22 119 £55,000 +35.80% 68
Northern Ireland -25 83 £42,500 -22.73% 50

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 (3.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 160 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 84 (1.46%) Confluence
4 70 (1.22%) Apache Spark
5 69 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
6 49 (0.85%) Apache
7 47 (0.82%) CMS
8 31 (0.54%) IIS
9 25 (0.43%) SAS
10 11 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 11 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
10 11 (0.19%) WordPress
11 9 (0.16%) Jupyter
11 9 (0.16%) WebLogic
11 9 (0.16%) WebSphere
12 8 (0.14%) Headless CMS
12 8 (0.14%) OpenStack
13 3 (0.052%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.052%) JBoss
13 3 (0.052%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 614 (10.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 249 (4.33%) Microsoft Office
3 123 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 83 (1.44%) MS Visio
5 42 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
6 28 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.16%) Adobe XD
8 7 (0.12%) AutoCAD
9 6 (0.10%) CATIA
10 5 (0.087%) Acrobat
10 5 (0.087%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.087%) EPLAN
10 5 (0.087%) Simulink
11 4 (0.070%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.070%) Maya
11 4 (0.070%) Trello
12 3 (0.052%) Blender
12 3 (0.052%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.052%) Revit
12 3 (0.052%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 78 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 70 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
3 40 (0.70%) NetSuite
4 35 (0.61%) Dynamics GP
5 22 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
6 20 (0.35%) 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 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
9 13 (0.23%) Shopify
10 12 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
10 12 (0.21%) Workday HCM
11 11 (0.19%) Elite 3E
12 10 (0.17%) Magento
13 9 (0.16%) Fidessa
13 9 (0.16%) SAP Business One
14 8 (0.14%) Maximo
14 8 (0.14%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 993 (17.28%) Azure
2 687 (11.95%) Power Platform
3 603 (10.49%) AWS
4 405 (7.05%) Microsoft 365
5 357 (6.21%) SaaS
6 287 (4.99%) GCP
7 143 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
8 136 (2.37%) Dynamics 365
9 131 (2.28%) Entra ID
10 107 (1.86%) Google Analytics
11 105 (1.83%) Snowflake
12 95 (1.65%) GitHub
13 89 (1.55%) dbt
14 83 (1.44%) Power Automate
15 76 (1.32%) Amazon S3
16 75 (1.30%) PowerApps
17 72 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
18 63 (1.10%) Serverless
19 59 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
19 59 (1.03%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 195 (3.39%) DNS
2 151 (2.63%) DHCP
3 149 (2.59%) Firewall
4 126 (2.19%) VPN
5 98 (1.70%) TCP/IP
6 77 (1.34%) WAN
7 75 (1.30%) LAN
8 62 (1.08%) Broadband
9 57 (0.99%) Wireless
10 56 (0.97%) Network Security
11 55 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
12 44 (0.77%) SAN
13 42 (0.73%) Internet
13 42 (0.73%) VLAN
14 36 (0.63%) HTTP
15 27 (0.47%) BGP
16 25 (0.43%) VoIP
17 22 (0.38%) SD-WAN
18 20 (0.35%) OSPF
18 20 (0.35%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 608 (10.58%) Power BI
2 270 (4.70%) Tableau
3 230 (4.00%) SQL Server
4 196 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
5 113 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
6 103 (1.79%) Relational Database
7 98 (1.70%) Metadata
8 92 (1.60%) Looker
9 81 (1.41%) MySQL
10 78 (1.36%) Data Lake
11 75 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
12 66 (1.15%) Power Query
12 66 (1.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 62 (1.08%) BigQuery
13 62 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 55 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
15 53 (0.92%) Big Data
16 46 (0.80%) NoSQL
17 42 (0.73%) Data Mining
18 38 (0.66%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 236 (4.11%) JIRA
2 220 (3.83%) Git
3 56 (0.97%) GitLab
4 50 (0.87%) Jenkins
5 33 (0.57%) MLflow
5 33 (0.57%) Rational DOORS
6 30 (0.52%) Selenium
7 23 (0.40%) Cucumber
8 20 (0.35%) Postman
9 19 (0.33%) Eclipse
10 16 (0.28%) Chocolatey
11 14 (0.24%) ERwin
11 14 (0.24%) JMeter
12 13 (0.23%) Bitbucket
12 13 (0.23%) Burp Suite
12 13 (0.23%) Cypress.io
12 13 (0.23%) IBM UrbanCode
13 12 (0.21%) Claude Code
13 12 (0.21%) SonarQube
14 11 (0.19%) Metasploit
General
1 2,744 (47.74%) Social Skills
2 1,892 (32.92%) Finance
3 567 (9.86%) Marketing
4 506 (8.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 416 (7.24%) Organisational Skills
6 380 (6.61%) Retail
7 364 (6.33%) Law
8 351 (6.11%) Public Sector
9 327 (5.69%) Legal
10 279 (4.85%) Banking
11 272 (4.73%) Manufacturing
12 269 (4.68%) Influencing Skills
13 173 (3.01%) Presentation Skills
14 156 (2.71%) Aerospace
15 134 (2.33%) Telecoms
16 110 (1.91%) Advertising
17 101 (1.76%) Electronics
18 95 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
19 72 (1.25%) Financial Institution
20 65 (1.13%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,335 (23.23%) Analyst
2 744 (12.94%) Senior
3 407 (7.08%) Lead
4 303 (5.27%) Data Analyst
5 293 (5.10%) Business Analyst
6 277 (4.82%) Developer
7 227 (3.95%) Consultant
8 226 (3.93%) Architect
9 212 (3.69%) Systems Engineer
10 182 (3.17%) Senior Analyst
11 172 (2.99%) Data Engineer
12 153 (2.66%) Support Analyst
13 132 (2.30%) Support Engineer
14 121 (2.11%) IT Support
15 113 (1.97%) IT Manager
16 107 (1.86%) Security Analyst
16 107 (1.86%) Senior Manager
17 99 (1.72%) Systems Analyst
18 94 (1.64%) Financial Analyst
19 91 (1.58%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (2.51%) .NET
2 125 (2.17%) HTML
3 120 (2.09%) REST
4 116 (2.02%) CSS
5 88 (1.53%) JSON
6 78 (1.36%) Kafka
6 78 (1.36%) Middleware
7 76 (1.32%) React
7 76 (1.32%) XML
8 71 (1.24%) PyTorch
9 70 (1.22%) RESTful
10 64 (1.11%) TensorFlow
11 55 (0.96%) SOAP
12 50 (0.87%) PySpark
13 48 (0.84%) scikit-learn
14 42 (0.73%) Web Services
15 41 (0.71%) OAuth
16 39 (0.68%) Pandas
17 38 (0.66%) EDI
18 37 (0.64%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 547 (9.52%) Analytical Mindset
2 328 (5.71%) Management Information System
3 310 (5.39%) Onboarding
4 266 (4.63%) Product Ownership
4 266 (4.63%) Self-Motivation
5 163 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
6 139 (2.42%) Cloud Native
7 134 (2.33%) Driving Licence
8 118 (2.05%) Social Media
9 112 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
10 110 (1.91%) Security Posture
11 106 (1.84%) Data Centre
12 94 (1.64%) Blog
13 92 (1.60%) Virtual Team
14 90 (1.57%) Cyber Threat
15 80 (1.39%) Data Structures
16 77 (1.34%) Algorithms
17 76 (1.32%) Marketing Technology
18 67 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
19 56 (0.97%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 457 (7.95%) Windows
2 296 (5.15%) Linux
3 221 (3.84%) Windows Server
4 99 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
5 33 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 33 (0.57%) Windows 10
6 30 (0.52%) Unix
7 28 (0.49%) Mac OS
8 22 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
9 21 (0.37%) Apple iOS
10 20 (0.35%) Android
11 14 (0.24%) CentOS
12 11 (0.19%) Ubuntu
13 7 (0.12%) Debian
14 6 (0.10%) VMS
15 5 (0.087%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.070%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.070%) Rocky
17 2 (0.035%) AIX
17 2 (0.035%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,724 (47.39%) Problem-Solving
2 1,619 (28.17%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,303 (22.67%) Decision-Making
4 1,265 (22.01%) Analytics
5 1,025 (17.83%) Agile
6 971 (16.89%) AI
7 964 (16.77%) Stakeholder Management
8 732 (12.73%) Business Intelligence
9 634 (11.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 607 (10.56%) Roadmaps
11 558 (9.71%) Actionable Insight
12 554 (9.64%) Mentoring
13 541 (9.41%) Project Management
14 503 (8.75%) Data Analysis
15 488 (8.49%) Cybersecurity
16 485 (8.44%) Validation
17 473 (8.23%) Data Modelling
18 466 (8.11%) Customer Experience
19 454 (7.90%) Process Improvement
20 440 (7.65%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 1,155 (20.09%) SQL
2 922 (16.04%) Python
3 215 (3.74%) JavaScript
4 196 (3.41%) Java
5 185 (3.22%) PowerShell
6 182 (3.17%) C#
7 98 (1.70%) C++
8 93 (1.62%) Bash
9 84 (1.46%) R
10 72 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 64 (1.11%) TypeScript
12 47 (0.82%) T-SQL
13 45 (0.78%) MATLAB
14 30 (0.52%) C
15 28 (0.49%) Scala
16 25 (0.43%) PHP
17 22 (0.38%) Go
17 22 (0.38%) PL/SQL
18 20 (0.35%) Julia
19 19 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1,103 (19.19%) Degree
2 608 (10.58%) Security Cleared
3 421 (7.32%) SC Cleared
4 242 (4.21%) ACCA
5 228 (3.97%) CIMA
6 173 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 166 (2.89%) CISSP
8 150 (2.61%) DBS Check
9 148 (2.57%) DV Cleared
10 126 (2.19%) CISM
11 123 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
12 120 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
13 103 (1.79%) Master's Degree
14 75 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
15 74 (1.29%) Azure Certification
16 73 (1.27%) IRCA
17 72 (1.25%) CompTIA Security+
18 61 (1.06%) PMI Certification
19 48 (0.84%) CRISC
20 47 (0.82%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 552 (9.60%) Data Quality
2 401 (6.98%) QA
3 399 (6.94%) GDPR
4 242 (4.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 197 (3.43%) NIST
6 168 (2.92%) Accessibility
7 158 (2.75%) Cyber Essentials
8 157 (2.73%) SLA
9 131 (2.28%) PCI DSS
10 129 (2.24%) ISO 9001
11 72 (1.25%) GRC
12 65 (1.13%) PMO
13 47 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
14 41 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 38 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 36 (0.63%) COBIT
16 36 (0.63%) IFRS
17 28 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 24 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 20000
18 24 (0.42%) NCSC
System Software
1 324 (5.64%) Active Directory
2 139 (2.42%) Docker
3 104 (1.81%) Hyper-V
4 91 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 80 (1.39%) Terminal Server
6 27 (0.47%) Firmware
7 24 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
8 18 (0.31%) 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 (0.087%) KVM
13 4 (0.070%) Embedded Firmware
13 4 (0.070%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.070%) XenApp
14 3 (0.052%) DFS Replication
14 3 (0.052%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 148 (2.57%) Terraform
2 117 (2.04%) Kubernetes
3 85 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
4 76 (1.32%) Ansible
5 43 (0.75%) Grafana
6 30 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
7 26 (0.45%) SCCM
8 24 (0.42%) Prometheus
9 19 (0.33%) Nagios
10 18 (0.31%) QRadar
11 17 (0.30%) 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 1,255 (21.83%) Microsoft
2 287 (4.99%) Google
3 235 (4.09%) SAP
4 205 (3.57%) Oracle
5 184 (3.20%) VMware
6 148 (2.57%) Splunk
7 144 (2.51%) Databricks
8 124 (2.16%) Salesforce
9 123 (2.14%) ServiceNow
10 116 (2.02%) SolarWinds
11 90 (1.57%) Veeam
12 84 (1.46%) Cisco
13 83 (1.44%) Workday
14 81 (1.41%) Brocade
14 81 (1.41%) Nimble Storage
15 80 (1.39%) Tanium
16 63 (1.10%) Red Hat
17 57 (0.99%) Adobe
18 52 (0.90%) Dell
19 51 (0.89%) HubSpot