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 24 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 9 13
Rank change year-on-year -17 +4 +7
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 5,246 6,133 8,824
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.22% 12.49% 9.67%
As % of the General category 11.13% 18.01% 16.79%
Number of salaries quoted 3,347 2,609 4,384
10th Percentile £32,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +10.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,148 £87,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £48,153 £47,500
% change year-on-year -1.36% +1.37% -

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 47,117 34,062 52,540
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.87% 69.39% 57.58%
Number of salaries quoted 28,898 17,699 33,221
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £53,046
Median % change year-on-year - +3.68% -11.59%
75th Percentile £76,250 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -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 24 July 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 24 July 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 4,753 £54,241 -1.38% 2,663
UK excluding London -20 3,359 £47,500 -1.36% 1,770
Work from Home -9 1,684 £55,000 +5.77% 986
London -9 1,601 £67,500 +3.85% 1,211
North of England -19 971 £48,000 +6.67% 484
South East -6 830 £50,000 -8.26% 552
Midlands -11 597 £47,500 - 262
North West -18 577 £47,500 +1.06% 267
South West -18 452 £46,000 -5.15% 219
West Midlands -20 319 £50,000 +11.11% 143
Yorkshire -12 286 £48,000 +7.02% 160
East Midlands -8 276 £45,000 -5.26% 119
East of England -20 237 £45,000 -3.93% 164
North East -22 108 £55,000 +37.50% 61
Scotland -30 108 £44,000 - 75
Wales -13 106 £53,171 -3.33% 29
Northern Ireland -32 68 £41,250 -25.00% 29

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
1 192 (3.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 142 (2.71%) SharePoint
3 72 (1.37%) Confluence
4 69 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
4 69 (1.32%) Apache Spark
5 45 (0.86%) Apache
6 38 (0.72%) CMS
7 26 (0.50%) IIS
8 24 (0.46%) SAS
9 14 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 13 (0.25%) WordPress
11 11 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
12 9 (0.17%) Jupyter
12 9 (0.17%) WebSphere
13 8 (0.15%) WebLogic
14 5 (0.095%) OpenStack
15 3 (0.057%) Anypoint
15 3 (0.057%) JBoss
15 3 (0.057%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 3 (0.057%) Tomcat
Applications
1 568 (10.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 210 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
3 111 (2.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 79 (1.51%) MS Visio
5 29 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
6 28 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.17%) CATIA
8 7 (0.13%) Adobe XD
9 5 (0.095%) Acrobat
9 5 (0.095%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.076%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 4 (0.076%) Maya
11 3 (0.057%) Blender
11 3 (0.057%) LaTeX
11 3 (0.057%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.057%) Simulink
11 3 (0.057%) Trello
12 2 (0.038%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.038%) Siemens NX
12 2 (0.038%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 73 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 67 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 36 (0.69%) Dynamics GP
3 36 (0.69%) NetSuite
4 20 (0.38%) SAP PM
5 19 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
6 16 (0.30%) SAP CO
7 15 (0.29%) SAP ERP
7 15 (0.29%) SAP FI
8 14 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
9 13 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
10 10 (0.19%) Magento
11 9 (0.17%) Maximo
12 8 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
13 7 (0.13%) Elite 3E
13 7 (0.13%) Fidessa
13 7 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
13 7 (0.13%) Sage 200
14 6 (0.11%) Shopify
14 6 (0.11%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 923 (17.59%) Azure
2 667 (12.71%) Power Platform
3 509 (9.70%) AWS
4 409 (7.80%) Microsoft 365
5 327 (6.23%) SaaS
6 236 (4.50%) GCP
7 133 (2.54%) Dynamics 365
8 123 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
9 119 (2.27%) Entra ID
10 92 (1.75%) Google Analytics
11 85 (1.62%) Snowflake
12 79 (1.51%) GitHub
13 77 (1.47%) dbt
14 75 (1.43%) Microsoft Purview
14 75 (1.43%) Power Automate
15 72 (1.37%) PowerApps
16 68 (1.30%) Amazon S3
17 57 (1.09%) Azure Data Factory
17 57 (1.09%) Serverless
18 55 (1.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 195 (3.72%) DNS
2 159 (3.03%) Firewall
3 152 (2.90%) DHCP
4 120 (2.29%) VPN
5 87 (1.66%) TCP/IP
6 73 (1.39%) WAN
7 71 (1.35%) LAN
8 69 (1.32%) Broadband
9 58 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
10 52 (0.99%) Wireless
11 46 (0.88%) Network Security
12 41 (0.78%) SAN
12 41 (0.78%) VLAN
13 40 (0.76%) Internet
14 34 (0.65%) HTTP
15 29 (0.55%) BGP
16 22 (0.42%) SD-WAN
17 21 (0.40%) Cisco ASA
18 20 (0.38%) OSPF
18 20 (0.38%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 591 (11.27%) Power BI
2 286 (5.45%) Tableau
3 208 (3.96%) SQL Server
4 189 (3.60%) Data Warehouse
5 124 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
6 94 (1.79%) Metadata
7 81 (1.54%) Relational Database
8 72 (1.37%) Data Lake
9 71 (1.35%) Looker
9 71 (1.35%) MySQL
9 71 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
10 67 (1.28%) Data Mining
11 66 (1.26%) Power Query
12 65 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 55 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
13 55 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 53 (1.01%) BigQuery
15 43 (0.82%) Big Data
16 38 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
16 38 (0.72%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 199 (3.79%) JIRA
2 174 (3.32%) Git
3 59 (1.12%) GitLab
4 46 (0.88%) Jenkins
5 36 (0.69%) Rational DOORS
6 32 (0.61%) MLflow
7 25 (0.48%) Selenium
8 22 (0.42%) Cucumber
9 17 (0.32%) Eclipse
9 17 (0.32%) Postman
10 16 (0.30%) Chocolatey
11 15 (0.29%) ERwin
12 14 (0.27%) JMeter
12 14 (0.27%) Visual Studio
13 13 (0.25%) IBM UrbanCode
14 12 (0.23%) Bitbucket
14 12 (0.23%) Cypress.io
14 12 (0.23%) SonarQube
15 9 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
15 9 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2,486 (47.39%) Social Skills
2 1,745 (33.26%) Finance
3 454 (8.65%) Marketing
4 388 (7.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 350 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
6 331 (6.31%) Retail
7 316 (6.02%) Public Sector
8 303 (5.78%) Legal
9 294 (5.60%) Law
10 248 (4.73%) Banking
11 214 (4.08%) Influencing Skills
12 209 (3.98%) Manufacturing
13 140 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
14 129 (2.46%) Telecoms
15 101 (1.93%) Aerospace
16 97 (1.85%) Advertising
17 93 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
18 85 (1.62%) Electronics
19 66 (1.26%) Financial Institution
20 56 (1.07%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,299 (24.76%) Analyst
2 663 (12.64%) Senior
3 361 (6.88%) Lead
4 308 (5.87%) Data Analyst
5 277 (5.28%) Business Analyst
6 250 (4.77%) Developer
7 231 (4.40%) Consultant
8 228 (4.35%) Systems Engineer
9 202 (3.85%) Architect
10 155 (2.95%) Senior Analyst
11 150 (2.86%) Data Engineer
12 149 (2.84%) Support Analyst
13 122 (2.33%) Support Engineer
14 116 (2.21%) IT Support
15 109 (2.08%) IT Manager
16 102 (1.94%) Financial Analyst
16 102 (1.94%) Security Analyst
17 98 (1.87%) Systems Analyst
18 92 (1.75%) Senior Manager
19 89 (1.70%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (2.34%) .NET
2 112 (2.13%) HTML
3 109 (2.08%) REST
4 101 (1.93%) CSS
5 91 (1.73%) JSON
6 85 (1.62%) XML
7 79 (1.51%) Middleware
7 79 (1.51%) React
8 71 (1.35%) Kafka
9 67 (1.28%) PyTorch
10 62 (1.18%) TensorFlow
11 59 (1.12%) RESTful
12 52 (0.99%) SOAP
13 47 (0.90%) PySpark
14 42 (0.80%) scikit-learn
15 41 (0.78%) Node.js
15 41 (0.78%) Web Services
16 34 (0.65%) Pandas
17 32 (0.61%) LangChain
18 31 (0.59%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 533 (10.16%) Analytical Mindset
2 283 (5.39%) Management Information System
3 234 (4.46%) Onboarding
4 228 (4.35%) Product Ownership
5 215 (4.10%) Self-Motivation
6 160 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
7 121 (2.31%) Cloud Native
8 104 (1.98%) Security Posture
9 102 (1.94%) Driving Licence
10 91 (1.73%) Data Centre
10 91 (1.73%) Virtual Team
11 84 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
12 83 (1.58%) Cyber Threat
13 82 (1.56%) Data Structures
14 74 (1.41%) Social Media
15 72 (1.37%) Algorithms
16 69 (1.32%) Blog
17 60 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
18 56 (1.07%) Marketing Technology
18 56 (1.07%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 432 (8.23%) Windows
2 293 (5.59%) Linux
3 216 (4.12%) Windows Server
4 113 (2.15%) Windows Server 2016
5 31 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 29 (0.55%) Unix
7 27 (0.51%) Windows 10
8 25 (0.48%) Mac OS
9 19 (0.36%) Android
9 19 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
10 15 (0.29%) Apple iOS
11 12 (0.23%) CentOS
12 11 (0.21%) Ubuntu
13 7 (0.13%) VMS
14 6 (0.11%) Debian
15 5 (0.095%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.076%) Rocky
17 3 (0.057%) AIX
18 1 (0.019%) FreeBSD
18 1 (0.019%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,416 (46.05%) Problem-Solving
2 1,415 (26.97%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,188 (22.65%) Decision-Making
4 1,155 (22.02%) Analytics
5 897 (17.10%) Agile
6 772 (14.72%) AI
7 766 (14.60%) Stakeholder Management
8 682 (13.00%) Business Intelligence
9 569 (10.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 546 (10.41%) Roadmaps
11 495 (9.44%) Actionable Insight
11 495 (9.44%) Project Management
12 490 (9.34%) Mentoring
13 455 (8.67%) Data Modelling
14 452 (8.62%) Cybersecurity
15 451 (8.60%) Data Analysis
16 434 (8.27%) Customer Experience
17 430 (8.20%) Process Improvement
18 405 (7.72%) Data Governance
19 397 (7.57%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 1,068 (20.36%) SQL
2 867 (16.53%) Python
3 188 (3.58%) JavaScript
4 186 (3.55%) Java
5 172 (3.28%) PowerShell
6 162 (3.09%) C#
7 91 (1.73%) C++
8 82 (1.56%) Bash
8 82 (1.56%) R
9 73 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 56 (1.07%) TypeScript
11 51 (0.97%) T-SQL
12 44 (0.84%) MATLAB
13 25 (0.48%) C
14 24 (0.46%) PHP
15 23 (0.44%) PL/SQL
16 22 (0.42%) Go
16 22 (0.42%) Scala
17 20 (0.38%) VBA
18 19 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 943 (17.98%) Degree
2 533 (10.16%) Security Cleared
3 386 (7.36%) SC Cleared
4 261 (4.98%) ACCA
5 245 (4.67%) CIMA
6 151 (2.88%) CISSP
7 145 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 145 (2.76%) DBS Check
8 113 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
9 111 (2.12%) CISM
10 103 (1.96%) DV Cleared
11 95 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
12 91 (1.73%) Master's Degree
13 72 (1.37%) IRCA
14 70 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
15 69 (1.32%) CompTIA Security+
16 63 (1.20%) Azure Certification
17 53 (1.01%) PMI Certification
18 44 (0.84%) CRISC
18 44 (0.84%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 494 (9.42%) Data Quality
2 384 (7.32%) GDPR
3 354 (6.75%) QA
4 250 (4.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 196 (3.74%) NIST
6 179 (3.41%) Cyber Essentials
7 153 (2.92%) SLA
8 150 (2.86%) PCI DSS
9 136 (2.59%) Accessibility
10 124 (2.36%) ISO 9001
11 75 (1.43%) GRC
12 63 (1.20%) PMO
13 43 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
14 40 (0.76%) IFRS
14 40 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 39 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 33 (0.63%) COBIT
17 28 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 24 (0.46%) SOC 2
19 23 (0.44%) ITGC
System Software
1 314 (5.99%) Active Directory
2 117 (2.23%) Docker
3 112 (2.13%) Hyper-V
4 96 (1.83%) Terminal Server
5 77 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
6 25 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
7 15 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
8 10 (0.19%) Firmware
9 9 (0.17%) VMware NSX
10 8 (0.15%) IAG
10 8 (0.15%) ProxySG
10 8 (0.15%) vSphere
11 4 (0.076%) Ceph
11 4 (0.076%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 4 (0.076%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.076%) XenApp
12 3 (0.057%) DFS Replication
12 3 (0.057%) Embedded Firmware
13 2 (0.038%) KVM
13 2 (0.038%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 139 (2.65%) Terraform
2 103 (1.96%) Kubernetes
3 77 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 64 (1.22%) Ansible
5 45 (0.86%) Grafana
6 27 (0.51%) Prometheus
7 25 (0.48%) SCCM
8 22 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
9 21 (0.40%) Nagios
10 16 (0.30%) Kibana
10 16 (0.30%) QRadar
11 10 (0.19%) Kubeflow
12 9 (0.17%) Podman
13 8 (0.15%) logstash
14 7 (0.13%) Packer
15 6 (0.11%) Graylog
15 6 (0.11%) Nmap
15 6 (0.11%) Red Hat Satellite
16 5 (0.095%) Control-M
16 5 (0.095%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1,173 (22.36%) Microsoft
2 218 (4.16%) Google
2 218 (4.16%) SAP
3 182 (3.47%) VMware
4 172 (3.28%) Oracle
5 157 (2.99%) Splunk
6 135 (2.57%) Salesforce
6 135 (2.57%) SolarWinds
7 128 (2.44%) Databricks
8 110 (2.10%) ServiceNow
9 107 (2.04%) Veeam
10 97 (1.85%) Brocade
10 97 (1.85%) Nimble Storage
11 96 (1.83%) Tanium
12 75 (1.43%) Cisco
12 75 (1.43%) Workday
13 59 (1.12%) Red Hat
14 49 (0.93%) IBM
15 47 (0.90%) Dell
16 46 (0.88%) HubSpot