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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 9 13
Rank change year-on-year -16 +4 +7
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 5,859 6,125 8,035
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.35% 12.25% 9.62%
As % of the General category 11.63% 17.91% 16.95%
Number of salaries quoted 3,575 2,592 3,556
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £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 £45,390 £49,000
% change year-on-year +4.65% -7.37% -2.00%

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 50,371 34,191 47,413
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.03% 68.40% 56.79%
Number of salaries quoted 30,931 17,976 27,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £95,825
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -3.85%

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 28 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 28 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 -16 5,238 £52,500 - 6,915
UK excluding London -16 3,809 £47,500 +4.65% 3,841
Work from Home -9 1,919 £55,000 +10.00% 2,931
London -10 1,775 £67,500 +3.85% 3,973
North of England -18 1,042 £47,500 +5.56% 897
South East -6 912 £49,536 -4.74% 1,059
Midlands -7 660 £47,994 +6.65% 519
North West -17 639 £46,500 +3.33% 519
South West -10 534 £47,500 +5.56% 559
West Midlands -16 338 £50,000 +11.11% 293
East Midlands -3 319 £46,743 +3.87% 228
Yorkshire -12 282 £47,000 +17.50% 290
East of England -19 257 £47,500 +5.56% 338
Wales -14 159 £47,500 -5.58% 84
Scotland -20 135 £44,000 +3.53% 308
North East -13 121 £53,750 +2.38% 98
Northern Ireland -12 118 £42,500 -22.73% 149

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
1 184 (3.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 173 (2.95%) SharePoint
3 96 (1.64%) Confluence
4 55 (0.94%) Apache Spark
5 54 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
6 44 (0.75%) CMS
7 35 (0.60%) Apache
7 35 (0.60%) IIS
8 26 (0.44%) SAS
9 11 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
9 11 (0.19%) WordPress
10 10 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 10 (0.17%) Jupyter
11 9 (0.15%) Headless CMS
11 9 (0.15%) WebLogic
11 9 (0.15%) WebSphere
12 8 (0.14%) OpenStack
13 3 (0.051%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.051%) Appian
13 3 (0.051%) Tomcat
Applications
1 615 (10.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 253 (4.32%) Microsoft Office
3 120 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 72 (1.23%) MS Visio
5 44 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
6 27 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.19%) Simulink
8 9 (0.15%) Adobe XD
9 7 (0.12%) AutoCAD
10 5 (0.085%) Acrobat
10 5 (0.085%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.085%) EPLAN
11 4 (0.068%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.068%) CATIA
11 4 (0.068%) Maya
11 4 (0.068%) Trello
12 3 (0.051%) Blender
12 3 (0.051%) LaTeX
12 3 (0.051%) Revit
12 3 (0.051%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 104 (1.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 65 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 40 (0.68%) NetSuite
4 35 (0.60%) Dynamics GP
5 21 (0.36%) Shopify
6 20 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
7 15 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
7 15 (0.26%) SAP PM
8 13 (0.22%) SAP CO
8 13 (0.22%) SAP FI
8 13 (0.22%) Workday HCM
9 12 (0.20%) SAP ERP
9 12 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
10 11 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
11 10 (0.17%) Elite 3E
11 10 (0.17%) Magento
11 10 (0.17%) SAP Business One
12 9 (0.15%) Fidessa
12 9 (0.15%) Sage 200
13 8 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 990 (16.90%) Azure
2 699 (11.93%) Power Platform
3 611 (10.43%) AWS
4 416 (7.10%) Microsoft 365
5 370 (6.32%) SaaS
6 291 (4.97%) GCP
7 147 (2.51%) Azure DevOps
8 145 (2.47%) Entra ID
9 140 (2.39%) Dynamics 365
10 117 (2.00%) Google Analytics
11 102 (1.74%) GitHub
12 99 (1.69%) Snowflake
13 89 (1.52%) dbt
14 81 (1.38%) Power Automate
15 79 (1.35%) Google Ads
16 77 (1.31%) Microsoft Purview
16 77 (1.31%) PowerApps
17 72 (1.23%) Serverless
18 69 (1.18%) Amazon S3
19 59 (1.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 203 (3.46%) DNS
2 158 (2.70%) DHCP
3 153 (2.61%) Firewall
4 129 (2.20%) VPN
5 101 (1.72%) TCP/IP
6 76 (1.30%) WAN
7 74 (1.26%) LAN
8 64 (1.09%) Network Security
9 59 (1.01%) Wireless
10 55 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
11 52 (0.89%) Broadband
12 48 (0.82%) VLAN
13 46 (0.79%) Internet
14 41 (0.70%) SAN
15 35 (0.60%) HTTP
16 30 (0.51%) VoIP
17 27 (0.46%) BGP
18 21 (0.36%) SD-WAN
18 21 (0.36%) SMS
19 20 (0.34%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 619 (10.56%) Power BI
2 234 (3.99%) Tableau
3 223 (3.81%) SQL Server
4 194 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
5 120 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
6 101 (1.72%) Relational Database
7 96 (1.64%) Looker
8 93 (1.59%) Metadata
9 87 (1.48%) MySQL
10 78 (1.33%) Data Lake
11 76 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
12 70 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 67 (1.14%) BigQuery
14 65 (1.11%) Power Query
15 59 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 54 (0.92%) Big Data
17 53 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
18 48 (0.82%) NoSQL
19 38 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
20 37 (0.63%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 254 (4.34%) JIRA
2 208 (3.55%) Git
3 49 (0.84%) GitLab
3 49 (0.84%) Jenkins
4 31 (0.53%) MLflow
4 31 (0.53%) Rational DOORS
5 29 (0.49%) Selenium
6 23 (0.39%) Cucumber
7 21 (0.36%) Eclipse
8 20 (0.34%) Postman
9 16 (0.27%) Chocolatey
9 16 (0.27%) Claude Code
10 15 (0.26%) Bitbucket
11 14 (0.24%) JMeter
11 14 (0.24%) Oracle Forms
12 13 (0.22%) Burp Suite
12 13 (0.22%) LabVIEW
13 12 (0.20%) Cypress.io
14 11 (0.19%) Metasploit
14 11 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2,851 (48.66%) Social Skills
2 1,905 (32.51%) Finance
3 616 (10.51%) Marketing
4 524 (8.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 429 (7.32%) Organisational Skills
6 395 (6.74%) Law
7 393 (6.71%) Retail
8 363 (6.20%) Public Sector
9 357 (6.09%) Legal
10 294 (5.02%) Influencing Skills
11 288 (4.92%) Manufacturing
12 255 (4.35%) Banking
13 195 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
14 174 (2.97%) Aerospace
15 130 (2.22%) Telecoms
16 119 (2.03%) Electronics
17 106 (1.81%) Advertising
18 94 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
19 69 (1.18%) Financial Institution
20 67 (1.14%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,350 (23.04%) Analyst
2 765 (13.06%) Senior
3 410 (7.00%) Lead
4 301 (5.14%) Data Analyst
5 291 (4.97%) Business Analyst
6 284 (4.85%) Developer
7 230 (3.93%) Architect
8 226 (3.86%) Consultant
9 207 (3.53%) Systems Engineer
10 202 (3.45%) Senior Analyst
11 174 (2.97%) Data Engineer
11 174 (2.97%) Support Analyst
12 130 (2.22%) Support Engineer
13 117 (2.00%) IT Support
14 110 (1.88%) IT Manager
15 109 (1.86%) Senior Manager
16 107 (1.83%) Security Analyst
17 99 (1.69%) Systems Analyst
18 95 (1.62%) Applications Support
19 94 (1.60%) Marketing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (2.70%) .NET
2 149 (2.54%) Terraform
3 128 (2.18%) HTML
4 125 (2.13%) REST
5 119 (2.03%) CSS
6 87 (1.48%) JSON
7 78 (1.33%) Middleware
8 77 (1.31%) Kafka
9 76 (1.30%) XML
10 73 (1.25%) RESTful
11 71 (1.21%) React
12 66 (1.13%) PyTorch
13 59 (1.01%) SOAP
13 59 (1.01%) TensorFlow
14 48 (0.82%) PySpark
15 46 (0.79%) scikit-learn
16 45 (0.77%) EDI
16 45 (0.77%) Web Services
17 43 (0.73%) LDAP
18 40 (0.68%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 505 (8.62%) Analytical Mindset
2 349 (5.96%) Management Information System
3 347 (5.92%) Onboarding
4 284 (4.85%) Product Ownership
5 282 (4.81%) Self-Motivation
6 165 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
7 138 (2.36%) Cloud Native
8 133 (2.27%) Driving Licence
9 129 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
10 119 (2.03%) Blog
10 119 (2.03%) Social Media
11 106 (1.81%) Security Posture
12 103 (1.76%) Marketing Technology
13 102 (1.74%) Cyber Threat
13 102 (1.74%) Data Centre
14 95 (1.62%) Virtual Team
15 82 (1.40%) Data Structures
16 72 (1.23%) Algorithms
16 72 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
17 54 (0.92%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 457 (7.80%) Windows
2 288 (4.92%) Linux
3 223 (3.81%) Windows Server
4 99 (1.69%) Windows Server 2016
5 35 (0.60%) Windows 10
6 33 (0.56%) Unix
7 30 (0.51%) Mac OS
8 29 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 22 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
10 21 (0.36%) Apple iOS
11 18 (0.31%) Android
12 11 (0.19%) CentOS
13 8 (0.14%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.10%) Debian
14 6 (0.10%) VMS
15 5 (0.085%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.068%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.068%) Rocky
17 2 (0.034%) AIX
17 2 (0.034%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,822 (48.17%) Problem-Solving
2 1,691 (28.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,369 (23.37%) Decision-Making
4 1,252 (21.37%) Analytics
5 1,050 (17.92%) Agile
6 1,047 (17.87%) Stakeholder Management
7 1,026 (17.51%) AI
8 756 (12.90%) Business Intelligence
9 641 (10.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 608 (10.38%) Roadmaps
11 571 (9.75%) Mentoring
12 564 (9.63%) Actionable Insight
13 520 (8.88%) Project Management
14 509 (8.69%) Validation
15 494 (8.43%) Data Analysis
16 493 (8.41%) Cybersecurity
17 473 (8.07%) Data Modelling
18 460 (7.85%) Process Improvement
19 446 (7.61%) Customer Experience
20 442 (7.54%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1,149 (19.61%) SQL
2 876 (14.95%) Python
3 229 (3.91%) JavaScript
4 199 (3.40%) Java
5 191 (3.26%) C#
6 189 (3.23%) PowerShell
7 106 (1.81%) C++
8 91 (1.55%) Bash
9 81 (1.38%) R
10 74 (1.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 67 (1.14%) TypeScript
12 49 (0.84%) T-SQL
13 48 (0.82%) MATLAB
14 33 (0.56%) C
15 28 (0.48%) Scala
16 27 (0.46%) PHP
17 24 (0.41%) PL/SQL
18 22 (0.38%) Go
19 20 (0.34%) Perl
20 19 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1,154 (19.70%) Degree
2 658 (11.23%) Security Cleared
3 455 (7.77%) SC Cleared
4 231 (3.94%) ACCA
5 216 (3.69%) CIMA
6 177 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 166 (2.83%) CISSP
8 161 (2.75%) DV Cleared
9 141 (2.41%) DBS Check
10 125 (2.13%) CISM
11 119 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
12 116 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
13 99 (1.69%) Master's Degree
14 81 (1.38%) Azure Certification
15 77 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
16 74 (1.26%) CompTIA Security+
17 63 (1.08%) PMI Certification
18 49 (0.84%) IRCA
19 47 (0.80%) AWS Certification
19 47 (0.80%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 553 (9.44%) Data Quality
2 396 (6.76%) QA
3 374 (6.38%) GDPR
4 245 (4.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 197 (3.36%) NIST
6 171 (2.92%) Accessibility
7 156 (2.66%) Cyber Essentials
8 154 (2.63%) SLA
9 127 (2.17%) PCI DSS
10 109 (1.86%) ISO 9001
11 69 (1.18%) GRC
12 61 (1.04%) PMO
13 46 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
14 41 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 37 (0.63%) IFRS
16 36 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 33 (0.56%) COBIT
18 28 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
19 27 (0.46%) NCSC
20 24 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 332 (5.67%) Active Directory
2 135 (2.30%) Docker
3 105 (1.79%) Hyper-V
4 89 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 80 (1.37%) Terminal Server
6 32 (0.55%) Firmware
7 22 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
8 20 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (0.15%) vSphere
10 8 (0.14%) VMware NSX
11 7 (0.12%) Ceph
11 7 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
11 7 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.068%) KVM
12 4 (0.068%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.068%) ProxySG
13 3 (0.051%) DFS Replication
13 3 (0.051%) IAG
13 3 (0.051%) VMware ESXi
14 2 (0.034%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 112 (1.91%) Kubernetes
2 84 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
3 76 (1.30%) Ansible
4 41 (0.70%) Grafana
5 38 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
6 26 (0.44%) SCCM
7 22 (0.38%) Prometheus
8 19 (0.32%) QRadar
9 18 (0.31%) Kibana
10 15 (0.26%) Nagios
11 11 (0.19%) Nmap
11 11 (0.19%) Podman
12 9 (0.15%) Argo
12 9 (0.15%) Kubeflow
13 8 (0.14%) logstash
14 7 (0.12%) Check_MK
14 7 (0.12%) Istio
14 7 (0.12%) Packer
14 7 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
15 6 (0.10%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1,285 (21.93%) Microsoft
2 312 (5.33%) Google
3 231 (3.94%) SAP
4 190 (3.24%) Oracle
5 183 (3.12%) VMware
6 151 (2.58%) Splunk
7 144 (2.46%) Databricks
8 133 (2.27%) ServiceNow
9 125 (2.13%) Salesforce
10 111 (1.89%) SolarWinds
11 90 (1.54%) Veeam
12 84 (1.43%) Cisco
13 81 (1.38%) Brocade
13 81 (1.38%) Nimble Storage
14 80 (1.37%) Tanium
15 70 (1.19%) Workday
16 65 (1.11%) Adobe
17 53 (0.90%) HubSpot
18 49 (0.84%) Dell
19 45 (0.77%) YouTube