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

6 months to
3 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 5,044 5,812 6,450
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 7.86% 11.31% 8.77%
As % of the General category 13.78% 16.75% 14.26%
Number of salaries quoted 2,507 2,368 4,602
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 £93,778 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,967 £47,000
% change year-on-year -11.71% +8.44% -6.00%

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 36,611 34,694 45,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 57.04% 67.49% 61.53%
Number of salaries quoted 19,762 15,447 33,801
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% -11.53%
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 3 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 3 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 4,440 £52,500 -4.55% 2,200
UK excluding London -12 3,207 £45,000 -11.71% 1,723
Work from Home +5 1,705 £52,500 -6.25% 990
London 0 1,545 £67,500 +3.85% 811
South East +8 886 £50,000 - 602
North of England -18 801 £44,000 -16.19% 361
Midlands -13 589 £44,543 -10.91% 319
North West -15 412 £42,500 -19.05% 215
West Midlands -13 350 £52,500 +5.00% 212
South West -1 333 £45,000 -11.76% 194
Yorkshire +1 288 £45,000 -10.00% 114
Scotland -6 262 £40,000 -38.46% 76
East of England -22 251 £40,000 -21.52% 148
East Midlands +6 237 £38,000 -10.59% 107
North East +1 101 £40,500 +1.25% 36
Wales +14 72 £42,500 -13.45% 47
Northern Ireland -6 43 £52,500 -11.66% 12
Isle of Man -2 1 £62,500 +150.00% 1
Channel Islands -7 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
1 155 (3.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 93 (1.84%) Confluence
3 86 (1.70%) SharePoint
4 41 (0.81%) Apache Spark
5 36 (0.71%) CMS
6 23 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
7 19 (0.38%) SAS
8 18 (0.36%) WordPress
9 16 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
10 14 (0.28%) Apache
10 14 (0.28%) IIS
11 6 (0.12%) nginx
12 4 (0.079%) Drupal
13 3 (0.059%) govService
13 3 (0.059%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 2 (0.040%) ArcGIS
14 2 (0.040%) FactoryTalk
14 2 (0.040%) MTS
14 2 (0.040%) WinCC
15 1 (0.020%) Umbraco
Applications
1 726 (14.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 385 (7.63%) Chatbot
3 315 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
4 127 (2.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 78 (1.55%) MS Visio
6 53 (1.05%) Maya
7 40 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
8 35 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
9 20 (0.40%) 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 (0.040%) Revit
15 2 (0.040%) Stata
15 2 (0.040%) Trello
16 1 (0.020%) Photoshop
16 1 (0.020%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 139 (2.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 67 (1.33%) SAP MDG
3 55 (1.09%) 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 27 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
9 25 (0.50%) SAP FI
10 24 (0.48%) SAP FI/CO
11 23 (0.46%) Workday HCM
12 21 (0.42%) Endur
12 21 (0.42%) Shopify
13 19 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
14 17 (0.34%) Oracle Assets
14 17 (0.34%) SAP IBP
15 13 (0.26%) Sage X3
16 11 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
16 11 (0.22%) SAP ERP
17 10 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 863 (17.11%) Azure
2 641 (12.71%) Power Platform
3 440 (8.72%) AWS
4 301 (5.97%) Microsoft 365
5 245 (4.86%) SaaS
6 161 (3.19%) GCP
7 155 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
8 106 (2.10%) Dynamics 365
9 89 (1.76%) Entra ID
10 86 (1.70%) GitHub
11 72 (1.43%) Snowflake
12 69 (1.37%) Azure Data Factory
13 68 (1.35%) Power Automate
14 55 (1.09%) Serverless
15 51 (1.01%) Cloud Computing
15 51 (1.01%) Google Analytics
16 48 (0.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 48 (0.95%) Microsoft Purview
16 48 (0.95%) OCI
17 44 (0.87%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 177 (3.51%) DNS
2 171 (3.39%) Firewall
3 145 (2.87%) DHCP
4 84 (1.67%) VPN
5 75 (1.49%) Wi-Fi
6 62 (1.23%) WAN
7 55 (1.09%) LAN
8 50 (0.99%) Wireless
9 49 (0.97%) TCP/IP
10 46 (0.91%) Network Security
10 46 (0.91%) VLAN
11 37 (0.73%) Remote Desktop
12 33 (0.65%) Broadband
13 31 (0.61%) Wireshark
14 29 (0.57%) VoIP
15 28 (0.56%) BGP
16 27 (0.54%) OSPF
17 26 (0.52%) SAN
18 23 (0.46%) EIGRP
18 23 (0.46%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 585 (11.60%) Power BI
2 375 (7.43%) Tableau
3 204 (4.04%) SQL Server
4 175 (3.47%) Data Mining
5 170 (3.37%) Data Warehouse
6 119 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
7 109 (2.16%) Data Lake
8 107 (2.12%) Metadata
9 96 (1.90%) Relational Database
10 60 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 59 (1.17%) NoSQL
12 52 (1.03%) Looker
12 52 (1.03%) MySQL
13 50 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
14 45 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
15 44 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
15 44 (0.87%) Big Data
15 44 (0.87%) SAP BW
16 40 (0.79%) GIS
17 33 (0.65%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 213 (4.22%) JIRA
2 91 (1.80%) Git
3 43 (0.85%) Selenium
4 34 (0.67%) GitLab
4 34 (0.67%) Jenkins
5 18 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
6 15 (0.30%) Robot Framework
7 14 (0.28%) ERwin
7 14 (0.28%) Postman
7 14 (0.28%) WebDriver
8 13 (0.26%) ER Studio
8 13 (0.26%) Snyk
8 13 (0.26%) Subversion
8 13 (0.26%) Visual Studio
9 12 (0.24%) Balsamiq
10 11 (0.22%) Axure RP
10 11 (0.22%) Bitbucket
10 11 (0.22%) Cypress.io
11 10 (0.20%) LabVIEW
12 9 (0.18%) Chocolatey
General
1 2,615 (51.84%) Social Skills
2 1,770 (35.09%) Finance
3 446 (8.84%) Marketing
4 326 (6.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 311 (6.17%) Law
6 287 (5.69%) Legal
7 285 (5.65%) Retail
8 255 (5.06%) Banking
9 244 (4.84%) Organisational Skills
10 233 (4.62%) Public Sector
11 215 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
12 173 (3.43%) Manufacturing
13 136 (2.70%) Financial Institution
14 135 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
15 110 (2.18%) Games
16 94 (1.86%) Telecoms
17 85 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
18 72 (1.43%) Advertising
19 66 (1.31%) Electronics
20 51 (1.01%) French Language
Job Titles
1 1,202 (23.83%) Analyst
2 630 (12.49%) Senior
3 381 (7.55%) Trainer
4 366 (7.26%) Data Analyst
5 357 (7.08%) Lead
6 312 (6.19%) Architect
7 236 (4.68%) Business Analyst
8 226 (4.48%) Developer
9 182 (3.61%) Consultant
10 171 (3.39%) Support Analyst
11 145 (2.87%) Trainee
12 144 (2.85%) IT Support
13 142 (2.82%) Senior Analyst
14 132 (2.62%) Trainee Analyst
14 132 (2.62%) Trainee Data Analyst
15 121 (2.40%) Systems Engineer
16 119 (2.36%) Senior Manager
16 119 (2.36%) Solutions Architect
17 110 (2.18%) Business Manager
18 102 (2.02%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (2.36%) HTML
2 116 (2.30%) CSS
3 88 (1.74%) React
4 70 (1.39%) REST
5 69 (1.37%) .NET
6 66 (1.31%) Middleware
7 43 (0.85%) JSON
8 38 (0.75%) Node.js
9 34 (0.67%) XML
10 33 (0.65%) EDI
10 33 (0.65%) SOAP
11 31 (0.61%) AngularJS
12 27 (0.54%) Kafka
13 26 (0.52%) Spring
14 24 (0.48%) LangChain
14 24 (0.48%) PySpark
15 23 (0.46%) PyTorch
16 22 (0.44%) FIX Protocol
16 22 (0.44%) TensorFlow
17 21 (0.42%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 498 (9.87%) Analytical Mindset
2 372 (7.38%) Self-Motivation
3 308 (6.11%) Onboarding
4 270 (5.35%) Management Information System
5 207 (4.10%) Product Ownership
6 164 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
7 135 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
8 103 (2.04%) Data Centre
9 86 (1.70%) FMCG
10 82 (1.63%) Data Structures
11 80 (1.59%) Cloud Native
12 77 (1.53%) Driving Licence
13 61 (1.21%) Algorithms
14 53 (1.05%) Virtual Team
15 52 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
15 52 (1.03%) Robotics
16 50 (0.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 45 (0.89%) Social Media
18 43 (0.85%) Low-Code
19 42 (0.83%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 374 (7.41%) Windows
2 245 (4.86%) Linux
3 168 (3.33%) Windows Server
4 107 (2.12%) Windows Server 2016
5 35 (0.69%) Unix
6 28 (0.56%) Mac OS
7 16 (0.32%) Windows 10
8 14 (0.28%) Android
9 9 (0.18%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.099%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.079%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.079%) VMS
12 3 (0.059%) OpenWrt
13 2 (0.040%) AIX
13 2 (0.040%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.040%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.040%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.020%) Robot Operating System
14 1 (0.020%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.020%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,259 (44.79%) Problem-Solving
2 1,094 (21.69%) AI
3 1,081 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 1,066 (21.13%) Analytics
5 966 (19.15%) Decision-Making
6 904 (17.92%) Agile
7 801 (15.88%) Project Management
8 751 (14.89%) Business Intelligence
9 644 (12.77%) Stakeholder Management
10 546 (10.82%) Data Analysis
11 460 (9.12%) Risk Management
12 421 (8.35%) Roadmaps
13 418 (8.29%) Mentoring
14 417 (8.27%) ERP
15 412 (8.17%) Actionable Insight
16 408 (8.09%) Analytical Thinking
16 408 (8.09%) Business Strategy
17 396 (7.85%) Cybersecurity
18 395 (7.83%) Computer Science
18 395 (7.83%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 988 (19.59%) SQL
2 741 (14.69%) Python
3 146 (2.89%) JavaScript
4 139 (2.76%) Java
5 129 (2.56%) PowerShell
6 115 (2.28%) C#
7 69 (1.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 56 (1.11%) R
9 47 (0.93%) C++
9 47 (0.93%) T-SQL
10 45 (0.89%) VBA
11 42 (0.83%) Bash
12 28 (0.56%) Scala
13 26 (0.52%) TypeScript
14 23 (0.46%) Go
15 22 (0.44%) C
16 17 (0.34%) MATLAB
16 17 (0.34%) PL/SQL
17 14 (0.28%) Kotlin
18 12 (0.24%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1,594 (31.60%) Degree
2 527 (10.45%) Master's Degree
3 426 (8.45%) Security Cleared
4 392 (7.77%) PhD
5 326 (6.46%) SC Cleared
6 207 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 180 (3.57%) ACCA
8 171 (3.39%) CIMA
9 143 (2.84%) CISSP
10 100 (1.98%) PMI Certification
11 92 (1.82%) DBS Check
12 83 (1.65%) PMP
13 82 (1.63%) DV Cleared
14 80 (1.59%) CISM
15 68 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
16 67 (1.33%) Azure Certification
17 60 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
18 55 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
19 49 (0.97%) AWS Certification
19 49 (0.97%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 329 (6.52%) Data Quality
2 239 (4.74%) QA
3 203 (4.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 188 (3.73%) GDPR
5 173 (3.43%) Cyber Essentials
6 138 (2.74%) PCI DSS
7 137 (2.72%) NIST
8 109 (2.16%) Accessibility
9 97 (1.92%) PMO
10 60 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
11 52 (1.03%) SLA
12 39 (0.77%) GRC
13 36 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 27 (0.54%) IFRS
15 21 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 18 (0.36%) WCAG
17 17 (0.34%) NCSC
18 16 (0.32%) COBIT
19 15 (0.30%) ISO 9001
20 13 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 268 (5.31%) Active Directory
2 131 (2.60%) Hyper-V
3 104 (2.06%) Terminal Server
4 55 (1.09%) Docker
5 49 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
6 15 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
7 14 (0.28%) vSphere
8 13 (0.26%) Firmware
9 10 (0.20%) ProxySG
10 8 (0.16%) 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 (0.040%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.020%) NFS
Systems Management
1 105 (2.08%) Terraform
2 67 (1.33%) Ansible
3 59 (1.17%) Kubernetes
4 49 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (0.46%) Prometheus
6 22 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (0.40%) Grafana
8 18 (0.36%) SCCM
9 6 (0.12%) Computer Incident Response Team
9 6 (0.12%) Nagios
9 6 (0.12%) SCOM
10 5 (0.099%) CASB
10 5 (0.099%) Control-M
11 4 (0.079%) Nessus
11 4 (0.079%) QRadar
12 3 (0.059%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 3 (0.059%) CSIRT
12 3 (0.059%) Rancher
12 3 (0.059%) RSA Archer
12 3 (0.059%) vRealize
Vendors
1 1,181 (23.41%) Microsoft
2 381 (7.55%) PayPal
3 352 (6.98%) SAP
4 204 (4.04%) Oracle
5 165 (3.27%) VMware
6 154 (3.05%) Salesforce
7 140 (2.78%) Google
8 138 (2.74%) SolarWinds
9 132 (2.62%) Splunk
10 108 (2.14%) Veeam
11 105 (2.08%) Brocade
11 105 (2.08%) Tanium
12 104 (2.06%) Nimble Storage
13 103 (2.04%) ServiceNow
14 81 (1.61%) Cisco
15 72 (1.43%) Databricks
16 62 (1.23%) Adobe
17 43 (0.85%) Alteryx
17 43 (0.85%) Bloomberg
17 43 (0.85%) Workday