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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 8 14
Rank change year-on-year -18 +6 +7
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,963 6,114 9,813
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.14% 13.03% 9.29%
As % of the General category 10.87% 18.32% 16.14%
Number of salaries quoted 3,251 2,507 5,319
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £28,076
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,445 £50,000 £45,096
% change year-on-year -3.11% +10.87% -5.06%

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 45,638 33,374 60,799
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 47.23% 71.15% 57.58%
Number of salaries quoted 28,092 16,732 40,216
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £71,991
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +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 2 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 2 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 -17 4,528 £55,000 - 2,828
UK excluding London -20 3,120 £48,445 -3.11% 1,825
London -11 1,558 £69,750 +7.31% 1,311
Work from Home -11 1,557 £55,000 - 1,241
North of England -18 959 £48,350 +1.79% 426
South East -8 796 £50,000 -8.78% 586
Midlands -10 566 £47,750 +0.53% 306
North West -19 562 £47,500 -5.00% 251
South West -24 342 £47,500 - 195
West Midlands -17 312 £50,000 +5.26% 170
Yorkshire -10 294 £50,000 +11.11% 131
East Midlands 0 253 £45,872 -4.43% 136
East of England -17 241 £45,000 - 176
Scotland -31 105 £40,000 -12.35% 99
North East -30 103 £55,000 +42.86% 53
Wales -11 82 £53,171 -3.33% 36
Northern Ireland -30 40 £41,250 -25.00% 46

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
1 162 (3.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 123 (2.48%) SharePoint
3 71 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
3 71 (1.43%) Confluence
4 67 (1.35%) Apache Spark
5 44 (0.89%) Apache
6 37 (0.75%) CMS
7 22 (0.44%) IIS
7 22 (0.44%) SAS
8 16 (0.32%) WordPress
9 14 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 13 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
11 8 (0.16%) WebLogic
11 8 (0.16%) WebSphere
12 6 (0.12%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.060%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.060%) JBoss
13 3 (0.060%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.060%) Tomcat
14 2 (0.040%) Camunda
Applications
1 542 (10.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 196 (3.95%) Microsoft Office
3 105 (2.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 82 (1.65%) MS Visio
5 33 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
6 25 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
7 9 (0.18%) CATIA
8 7 (0.14%) Adobe XD
9 6 (0.12%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.10%) Acrobat
11 4 (0.081%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.081%) Maya
12 3 (0.060%) Blender
12 3 (0.060%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.060%) Simulink
12 3 (0.060%) Trello
13 2 (0.040%) AutoCAD
13 2 (0.040%) Lectora
13 2 (0.040%) Siemens NX
13 2 (0.040%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 74 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 40 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 37 (0.75%) NetSuite
4 27 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
5 17 (0.34%) SAP CO
6 16 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
6 16 (0.32%) SAP PM
7 15 (0.30%) SAP ERP
8 12 (0.24%) SAP FI
9 11 (0.22%) Maximo
9 11 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
10 10 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
11 9 (0.18%) Workday HCM
12 8 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
13 7 (0.14%) Elite 3E
13 7 (0.14%) Fidessa
13 7 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
13 7 (0.14%) Shopify
14 6 (0.12%) Magento
14 6 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 884 (17.81%) Azure
2 649 (13.08%) Power Platform
3 482 (9.71%) AWS
4 360 (7.25%) Microsoft 365
5 310 (6.25%) SaaS
6 214 (4.31%) GCP
7 129 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
8 119 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
9 118 (2.38%) Entra ID
10 84 (1.69%) Google Analytics
11 80 (1.61%) Microsoft Purview
12 77 (1.55%) GitHub
13 76 (1.53%) Power Automate
14 70 (1.41%) Amazon S3
15 68 (1.37%) dbt
16 67 (1.35%) Snowflake
17 64 (1.29%) PowerApps
18 60 (1.21%) Serverless
19 55 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
20 52 (1.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 199 (4.01%) Firewall
2 169 (3.41%) DNS
3 128 (2.58%) DHCP
4 120 (2.42%) VPN
5 84 (1.69%) WAN
6 82 (1.65%) TCP/IP
7 78 (1.57%) LAN
8 75 (1.51%) Broadband
9 63 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
10 55 (1.11%) Wireless
11 50 (1.01%) Network Security
12 49 (0.99%) VLAN
13 41 (0.83%) SAN
14 35 (0.71%) BGP
15 33 (0.66%) HTTP
15 33 (0.66%) Internet
16 26 (0.52%) Cisco ASA
16 26 (0.52%) SD-WAN
17 25 (0.50%) Wireshark
18 24 (0.48%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 580 (11.69%) Power BI
2 286 (5.76%) Tableau
3 193 (3.89%) SQL Server
4 175 (3.53%) Data Warehouse
5 99 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
6 85 (1.71%) Metadata
7 75 (1.51%) Data Mining
8 73 (1.47%) Relational Database
9 71 (1.43%) Data Lake
10 62 (1.25%) Looker
10 62 (1.25%) Power Query
11 61 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
12 59 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 57 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
14 55 (1.11%) MySQL
15 49 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 48 (0.97%) BigQuery
17 37 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
17 37 (0.75%) Oracle Database
18 36 (0.73%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 175 (3.53%) JIRA
2 146 (2.94%) Git
3 54 (1.09%) GitLab
4 36 (0.73%) Rational DOORS
5 32 (0.64%) Jenkins
6 31 (0.62%) MLflow
7 20 (0.40%) Selenium
8 18 (0.36%) Cucumber
9 17 (0.34%) Chocolatey
10 15 (0.30%) Eclipse
11 14 (0.28%) ERwin
12 13 (0.26%) IBM UrbanCode
12 13 (0.26%) Postman
13 12 (0.24%) Cypress.io
13 12 (0.24%) SonarQube
13 12 (0.24%) Visual Studio
14 11 (0.22%) JMeter
15 10 (0.20%) Oracle APEX
16 9 (0.18%) Bitbucket
16 9 (0.18%) LabVIEW
General
1 2,321 (46.77%) Social Skills
2 1,703 (34.31%) Finance
3 411 (8.28%) Marketing
4 361 (7.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 320 (6.45%) Organisational Skills
6 306 (6.17%) Public Sector
7 276 (5.56%) Retail
8 268 (5.40%) Law
9 265 (5.34%) Legal
10 236 (4.76%) Banking
11 195 (3.93%) Manufacturing
12 175 (3.53%) Influencing Skills
13 136 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
14 118 (2.38%) Telecoms
15 89 (1.79%) Advertising
15 89 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
16 84 (1.69%) Aerospace
17 75 (1.51%) Electronics
18 73 (1.47%) Financial Institution
19 55 (1.11%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,270 (25.59%) Analyst
2 640 (12.90%) Senior
3 348 (7.01%) Lead
4 304 (6.13%) Data Analyst
5 279 (5.62%) Business Analyst
6 234 (4.71%) Developer
7 226 (4.55%) Consultant
8 197 (3.97%) Architect
9 193 (3.89%) Systems Engineer
10 151 (3.04%) Senior Analyst
11 136 (2.74%) Data Engineer
12 130 (2.62%) Support Analyst
13 117 (2.36%) Support Engineer
14 116 (2.34%) IT Support
15 111 (2.24%) IT Manager
16 104 (2.10%) Senior Manager
17 103 (2.08%) Systems Analyst
18 102 (2.06%) Financial Analyst
19 96 (1.93%) Security Analyst
20 89 (1.79%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (2.30%) HTML
2 111 (2.24%) .NET
3 104 (2.10%) CSS
4 99 (1.99%) REST
5 89 (1.79%) Middleware
6 87 (1.75%) JSON
7 81 (1.63%) React
8 80 (1.61%) XML
9 66 (1.33%) PyTorch
10 60 (1.21%) TensorFlow
11 55 (1.11%) Kafka
12 49 (0.99%) RESTful
13 46 (0.93%) SOAP
14 45 (0.91%) Node.js
15 44 (0.89%) PySpark
16 41 (0.83%) scikit-learn
17 38 (0.77%) Web Services
18 33 (0.66%) LangChain
18 33 (0.66%) Pandas
19 29 (0.58%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 532 (10.72%) Analytical Mindset
2 244 (4.92%) Management Information System
3 220 (4.43%) Onboarding
4 203 (4.09%) Product Ownership
5 188 (3.79%) Self-Motivation
6 130 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
7 106 (2.14%) Cloud Native
7 106 (2.14%) Data Centre
8 98 (1.97%) Security Posture
9 87 (1.75%) Driving Licence
10 82 (1.65%) Data Structures
11 77 (1.55%) Cyber Threat
12 75 (1.51%) Algorithms
13 69 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
14 61 (1.23%) Social Media
15 58 (1.17%) Virtual Team
16 56 (1.13%) Public Cloud
17 48 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
18 45 (0.91%) Cyber Defence
19 43 (0.87%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 376 (7.58%) Windows
2 233 (4.69%) Linux
3 190 (3.83%) Windows Server
4 89 (1.79%) Windows Server 2016
5 31 (0.62%) Unix
6 29 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 27 (0.54%) Windows 10
8 18 (0.36%) Android
8 18 (0.36%) Mac OS
8 18 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
9 14 (0.28%) Apple iOS
10 11 (0.22%) CentOS
10 11 (0.22%) Ubuntu
11 8 (0.16%) VMS
12 5 (0.10%) Debian
12 5 (0.10%) OpenVMS
13 4 (0.081%) AIX
13 4 (0.081%) Rocky
14 2 (0.040%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.020%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,247 (45.28%) Problem-Solving
2 1,247 (25.13%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,111 (22.39%) Decision-Making
4 1,085 (21.86%) Analytics
5 841 (16.95%) Agile
6 659 (13.28%) AI
6 659 (13.28%) Business Intelligence
6 659 (13.28%) Stakeholder Management
7 529 (10.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 513 (10.34%) Roadmaps
9 487 (9.81%) Mentoring
10 479 (9.65%) Actionable Insight
11 463 (9.33%) Project Management
12 454 (9.15%) Cybersecurity
13 451 (9.09%) Data Modelling
14 432 (8.70%) Data Analysis
15 403 (8.12%) Data Governance
16 402 (8.10%) Process Improvement
17 368 (7.41%) ERP
18 367 (7.39%) Analytical Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1,041 (20.98%) SQL
2 861 (17.35%) Python
3 174 (3.51%) JavaScript
4 172 (3.47%) Java
5 164 (3.30%) PowerShell
6 152 (3.06%) C#
7 76 (1.53%) R
8 75 (1.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 73 (1.47%) C++
10 70 (1.41%) Bash
11 52 (1.05%) TypeScript
12 50 (1.01%) T-SQL
13 45 (0.91%) MATLAB
14 29 (0.58%) VBA
15 23 (0.46%) PHP
16 22 (0.44%) Go
17 18 (0.36%) C
17 18 (0.36%) Julia
17 18 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
17 18 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 901 (18.15%) Degree
2 462 (9.31%) Security Cleared
3 328 (6.61%) SC Cleared
4 267 (5.38%) ACCA
5 252 (5.08%) CIMA
6 156 (3.14%) CISSP
6 156 (3.14%) DBS Check
7 143 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 116 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
9 112 (2.26%) CISM
10 90 (1.81%) DV Cleared
10 90 (1.81%) Master's Degree
11 86 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
12 72 (1.45%) IRCA
12 72 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
13 71 (1.43%) Azure Certification
14 67 (1.35%) CompTIA Security+
15 54 (1.09%) PMI Certification
16 48 (0.97%) PMP
17 47 (0.95%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 467 (9.41%) Data Quality
2 385 (7.76%) GDPR
3 327 (6.59%) QA
4 273 (5.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 225 (4.53%) NIST
6 167 (3.36%) Cyber Essentials
7 145 (2.92%) SLA
8 130 (2.62%) PCI DSS
9 127 (2.56%) Accessibility
10 122 (2.46%) ISO 9001
11 77 (1.55%) GRC
12 61 (1.23%) PMO
13 47 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
14 44 (0.89%) IFRS
15 43 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 40 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 37 (0.75%) COBIT
18 28 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
19 24 (0.48%) ITGC
20 23 (0.46%) NCSC
System Software
1 275 (5.54%) Active Directory
2 94 (1.89%) Docker
3 88 (1.77%) Hyper-V
4 75 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 72 (1.45%) Terminal Server
6 25 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
7 14 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
8 12 (0.24%) ProxySG
9 9 (0.18%) VMware NSX
9 9 (0.18%) vSphere
10 8 (0.16%) IAG
11 5 (0.10%) Firmware
12 4 (0.081%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.081%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.081%) XenApp
13 3 (0.060%) DFS Replication
14 2 (0.040%) Embedded Firmware
14 2 (0.040%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.040%) VMware ESXi
15 1 (0.020%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 137 (2.76%) Terraform
2 85 (1.71%) Kubernetes
3 63 (1.27%) Ansible
4 61 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 39 (0.79%) Grafana
6 26 (0.52%) SCCM
7 22 (0.44%) Prometheus
8 21 (0.42%) Nagios
9 17 (0.34%) QRadar
9 17 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
10 16 (0.32%) Kibana
11 11 (0.22%) Kubeflow
12 8 (0.16%) logstash
13 7 (0.14%) Control-M
13 7 (0.14%) Packer
14 6 (0.12%) Graylog
15 5 (0.10%) Docker Swarm
15 5 (0.10%) Podman
15 5 (0.10%) Red Hat Satellite
16 4 (0.081%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,102 (22.20%) Microsoft
2 212 (4.27%) SAP
3 198 (3.99%) Google
4 166 (3.34%) Oracle
5 156 (3.14%) VMware
6 144 (2.90%) Salesforce
7 127 (2.56%) Splunk
8 119 (2.40%) Databricks
9 117 (2.36%) SolarWinds
10 93 (1.87%) ServiceNow
11 85 (1.71%) Veeam
12 75 (1.51%) Workday
13 73 (1.47%) Cisco
13 73 (1.47%) Nimble Storage
14 72 (1.45%) Brocade
14 72 (1.45%) Tanium
15 51 (1.03%) IBM
15 51 (1.03%) Red Hat
16 47 (0.95%) Adobe
17 45 (0.91%) HubSpot