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 have cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months to 2 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 22 20 28
Rank change year-on-year -2 +8 +12
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,808 12,424 11,017
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.01% 9.91% 8.52%
As % of the General category 13.70% 14.44% 14.21%
Number of salaries quoted 3,324 6,268 6,082
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% +2.80% +5.94%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,900 £47,000
% change year-on-year +4.38% +1.91% +2.36%

All General Skills
UK

Analytical Skills is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 35,097 86,059 77,509
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 65.77% 68.66% 59.93%
Number of salaries quoted 24,595 48,938 48,014
10th Percentile £30,625 £32,500 £31,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £49,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +6.06% +4.21%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Analytical Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills.

Salary trend for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills over the 6 months to 2 December 2023.

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 2 December 2023. 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 -1 4,168 £57,500 +4.55% 3,862
UK excluding London -5 2,794 £50,000 +4.38% 2,365
Work from Home 0 1,970 £58,920 +7.13% 1,699
London +4 1,716 £70,000 +7.69% 1,679
North of England +9 687 £50,000 +7.53% 666
South East -2 667 £50,000 -4.76% 580
Midlands -4 510 £50,000 +4.70% 401
West Midlands -1 404 £50,000 +6.38% 272
North West +8 343 £50,000 +11.11% 411
Yorkshire -1 303 £54,000 +8.00% 177
South West -22 275 £47,500 +5.56% 284
East of England +5 220 £50,000 - 251
Scotland -18 208 £57,500 +21.05% 144
Wales +2 197 £43,067 -0.31% 47
East Midlands -15 111 £50,000 - 129
North East +10 41 £40,500 -12.43% 85
Northern Ireland +2 37 £42,288 -4.97% 49
Isle of Man +2 10 £45,000 -37.93% 1
Channel Islands - 4 £47,000 -

Analytical Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 118 (2.45%) Confluence
2 112 (2.33%) SharePoint
3 97 (2.02%) SAS
4 94 (1.96%) WebLogic
5 72 (1.50%) Apache Spark
6 55 (1.14%) IIS
7 49 (1.02%) Apache
8 27 (0.56%) CMS
9 22 (0.46%) Tomcat
10 20 (0.42%) WebSphere
11 19 (0.40%) MS Exchange
11 19 (0.40%) WebSphere Application Server
12 14 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
13 11 (0.23%) WordPress
14 10 (0.21%) Oracle Application Server
15 8 (0.17%) Drupal
15 8 (0.17%) Oracle Service Bus
16 6 (0.12%) Umbraco
17 5 (0.10%) ThingWorx
18 4 (0.083%) OpenStack
Applications
1 455 (9.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 305 (6.34%) Microsoft Office
3 158 (3.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 65 (1.35%) MS Visio
5 48 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
6 13 (0.27%) Windchill
7 12 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
8 10 (0.21%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.17%) SPSS
9 8 (0.17%) Trello
10 5 (0.10%) Autodesk Inventor
10 5 (0.10%) SOLIDWORKS
11 4 (0.083%) Simulink
11 4 (0.083%) Sketch
12 3 (0.062%) 3ds Max
12 3 (0.062%) Blender
12 3 (0.062%) Chatbot
12 3 (0.062%) Maya
13 2 (0.042%) Adobe XD
13 2 (0.042%) InVision
Business Applications
1 53 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 30 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
3 27 (0.56%) NetSuite
4 15 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
5 11 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
5 11 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
6 9 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
7 8 (0.17%) Distributed Ledger
7 8 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
7 8 (0.17%) Workday HCM
8 7 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
8 7 (0.15%) Shopify
9 6 (0.12%) Adaptiv
9 6 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
9 6 (0.12%) SAP CX
10 5 (0.10%) BusinessWorks
10 5 (0.10%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 5 (0.10%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (0.10%) SAP ERP
11 4 (0.083%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 917 (19.07%) Azure
2 604 (12.56%) Power Platform
3 531 (11.04%) AWS
4 300 (6.24%) Microsoft 365
5 220 (4.58%) GCP
6 183 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
7 168 (3.49%) SaaS
8 93 (1.93%) Dynamics 365
9 84 (1.75%) Google Analytics
10 67 (1.39%) PowerApps
11 62 (1.29%) Power Automate
11 62 (1.29%) Serverless
12 60 (1.25%) Azure Data Factory
12 60 (1.25%) Entra ID
12 60 (1.25%) WhatsApp
13 59 (1.23%) Snowflake
14 58 (1.21%) IaaS
15 56 (1.16%) GitHub
16 52 (1.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 51 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 210 (4.37%) Firewall
2 176 (3.66%) VPN
3 165 (3.43%) DNS
4 159 (3.31%) WAN
5 143 (2.97%) TCP/IP
6 134 (2.79%) Network Security
7 126 (2.62%) LAN
8 113 (2.35%) DHCP
8 113 (2.35%) Internet
9 83 (1.73%) Wireless
10 69 (1.44%) HTTP
11 53 (1.10%) Intrusion Detection
11 53 (1.10%) SAN
11 53 (1.10%) SMTP
12 42 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
13 40 (0.83%) BGP
13 40 (0.83%) FTP
14 39 (0.81%) VLAN
15 38 (0.79%) Intranet
16 37 (0.77%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 557 (11.58%) Power BI
2 338 (7.03%) SQL Server
3 241 (5.01%) Tableau
4 202 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
5 137 (2.85%) Elasticsearch
6 134 (2.79%) MySQL
7 133 (2.77%) PostgreSQL
8 131 (2.72%) Relational Database
9 100 (2.08%) Data Lake
10 97 (2.02%) MongoDB
11 87 (1.81%) Looker
12 83 (1.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 81 (1.68%) Data Mining
13 81 (1.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 61 (1.27%) Hadoop
14 61 (1.27%) NoSQL
15 59 (1.23%) Metadata
16 57 (1.19%) Big Data
16 57 (1.19%) Power Query
17 51 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 262 (5.45%) JIRA
2 194 (4.03%) Git
3 75 (1.56%) Jenkins
4 50 (1.04%) GitLab
4 50 (1.04%) Selenium
5 28 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
6 24 (0.50%) Robot Framework
6 24 (0.50%) Visual Studio
7 20 (0.42%) Cucumber
8 18 (0.37%) Bitbucket
9 15 (0.31%) Oracle APEX
10 14 (0.29%) Postman
11 13 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
12 11 (0.23%) JUnit
13 10 (0.21%) ERwin
13 10 (0.21%) JMeter
14 9 (0.19%) Cypress.io
14 9 (0.19%) Maven
14 9 (0.19%) SpecFlow
15 8 (0.17%) AutoIt
General
1 2,311 (48.07%) Social Skills
2 1,437 (29.89%) Finance
3 439 (9.13%) Retail
4 416 (8.65%) Banking
4 416 (8.65%) Marketing
5 256 (5.32%) Manufacturing
6 248 (5.16%) Legal
7 242 (5.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 228 (4.74%) Presentation Skills
9 184 (3.83%) Organisational Skills
10 167 (3.47%) Law
11 165 (3.43%) Public Sector
12 140 (2.91%) Local Government
13 123 (2.56%) Telecoms
14 111 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
15 110 (2.29%) Games
16 86 (1.79%) Advertising
17 77 (1.60%) Automotive
18 72 (1.50%) Electronics
19 61 (1.27%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,514 (31.49%) Analyst
2 725 (15.08%) Senior
3 468 (9.73%) Developer
4 294 (6.11%) Lead
5 261 (5.43%) Architect
5 261 (5.43%) Senior Analyst
6 258 (5.37%) Business Analyst
7 209 (4.35%) Support Analyst
8 186 (3.87%) Consultant
9 184 (3.83%) Data Analyst
10 178 (3.70%) Applications Support
11 137 (2.85%) Applications Support Analyst
12 133 (2.77%) Data Engineer
13 117 (2.43%) Solutions Architect
14 116 (2.41%) Support Engineer
15 111 (2.31%) IT Analyst
16 109 (2.27%) Digital Analyst
16 109 (2.27%) Software Engineer
17 106 (2.20%) IT Manager
18 98 (2.04%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 260 (5.41%) .NET
2 255 (5.30%) HTML
3 197 (4.10%) CSS
4 158 (3.29%) React
5 138 (2.87%) Spring
6 133 (2.77%) AngularJS
7 108 (2.25%) REST
8 98 (2.04%) RESTful
9 94 (1.96%) J2EE
9 94 (1.96%) Node.js
10 88 (1.83%) Java EE
11 81 (1.68%) XML
12 78 (1.62%) Kafka
13 73 (1.52%) Web Services
14 72 (1.50%) JSON
15 66 (1.37%) ASP.NET
16 62 (1.29%) ModSecurity
17 52 (1.08%) Express.js
18 42 (0.87%) EDI
18 42 (0.87%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 401 (8.34%) Management Information System
2 345 (7.18%) Self-Motivation
3 259 (5.39%) Analytical Mindset
4 202 (4.20%) Product Ownership
5 132 (2.75%) Greenfield Project
6 113 (2.35%) Onboarding
7 88 (1.83%) Data Structures
8 85 (1.77%) Algorithms
9 84 (1.75%) Data Centre
10 73 (1.52%) Cloud Native
10 73 (1.52%) IoT
11 66 (1.37%) NHS
12 65 (1.35%) Credit Risk
13 63 (1.31%) Cyber Threat
14 54 (1.12%) Public Cloud
15 48 (1.00%) Security Operations Centre
16 45 (0.94%) PKI
17 44 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
18 43 (0.89%) Virtual Team
19 36 (0.75%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 507 (10.54%) Windows
2 263 (5.47%) Linux
3 203 (4.22%) Windows Server
4 186 (3.87%) Unix
5 106 (2.20%) Windows 10
6 84 (1.75%) Android
7 48 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 36 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
9 34 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
10 32 (0.67%) Mac OS
11 22 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
12 21 (0.44%) Solaris
13 15 (0.31%) Windows 7
14 12 (0.25%) HPUX
15 11 (0.23%) Apple iOS
15 11 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
16 10 (0.21%) Mac OS X
17 8 (0.17%) CentOS
18 6 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
19 5 (0.10%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,358 (49.04%) Problem-Solving
2 1,242 (25.83%) Agile
3 819 (17.03%) Analytics
4 702 (14.60%) Business Intelligence
5 635 (13.21%) Project Management
6 598 (12.44%) Decision-Making
7 477 (9.92%) ITIL
8 474 (9.86%) Computer Science
8 474 (9.86%) Customer Service
9 446 (9.28%) DevOps
10 435 (9.05%) Continuous Improvement
11 432 (8.99%) Stakeholder Management
12 413 (8.59%) Visualisation
13 396 (8.24%) Actionable Insight
14 390 (8.11%) Data Analysis
15 382 (7.95%) Mentoring
16 380 (7.90%) Roadmaps
17 322 (6.70%) Project Delivery
18 320 (6.66%) Data Modelling
19 306 (6.36%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1,058 (22.00%) SQL
2 646 (13.44%) Python
3 348 (7.24%) Java
4 293 (6.09%) JavaScript
5 270 (5.62%) C#
6 242 (5.03%) PowerShell
7 163 (3.39%) C++
8 155 (3.22%) R
9 87 (1.81%) T-SQL
10 72 (1.50%) C
10 72 (1.50%) Shell Script
11 68 (1.41%) Bash
12 63 (1.31%) VBA
13 60 (1.25%) PHP
13 60 (1.25%) TypeScript
14 49 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 45 (0.94%) MATLAB
16 43 (0.89%) PL/SQL
16 43 (0.89%) Scala
17 28 (0.58%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1,433 (29.80%) Degree
2 486 (10.11%) Security Cleared
3 297 (6.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 248 (5.16%) SC Cleared
5 197 (4.10%) Master's Degree
6 134 (2.79%) CISSP
7 125 (2.60%) CISM
8 89 (1.85%) CISA
9 87 (1.81%) CRISC
10 84 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
11 75 (1.56%) DV Cleared
12 73 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
13 57 (1.19%) Azure Certification
14 52 (1.08%) CCNA
15 50 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
16 41 (0.85%) PhD
16 41 (0.85%) PMI Certification
17 38 (0.79%) DBS Check
18 28 (0.58%) Numerate Degree
19 26 (0.54%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 208 (4.33%) Data Quality
2 191 (3.97%) SLA
3 184 (3.83%) QA
4 130 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 127 (2.64%) NIST
6 99 (2.06%) GRC
7 89 (1.85%) PMO
8 84 (1.75%) GDPR
9 64 (1.33%) ISO 22301
10 55 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
11 34 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
12 33 (0.69%) Accessibility
13 21 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 19 (0.40%) PCI DSS
15 16 (0.33%) CRD IV
16 14 (0.29%) IFRS
17 12 (0.25%) IFRS 9
18 11 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
19 10 (0.21%) ISO 9001
20 9 (0.19%) GxP
System Software
1 258 (5.37%) Active Directory
2 131 (2.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 105 (2.18%) Docker
4 34 (0.71%) Hyper-V
5 32 (0.67%) Firmware
6 30 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
7 28 (0.58%) vSphere
8 16 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
9 15 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
10 14 (0.29%) Embedded Firmware
11 12 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
12 10 (0.21%) VMware NSX
13 8 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
13 8 (0.17%) XenApp
14 5 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 5 (0.10%) XenDesktop
15 3 (0.062%) Time Sharing Option
15 3 (0.062%) vCloud
16 2 (0.042%) Apache Flume
16 2 (0.042%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 127 (2.64%) Kubernetes
2 94 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
3 83 (1.73%) OpenSSO
4 82 (1.71%) SCCM
5 72 (1.50%) Terraform
6 60 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
7 55 (1.14%) Ansible
8 43 (0.89%) FortiGate
9 26 (0.54%) AirWatch
10 18 (0.37%) Cisco CUCM
11 16 (0.33%) Puppet
12 13 (0.27%) Cisco UCCX
13 12 (0.25%) Cisco Prime
13 12 (0.25%) Nagios
14 11 (0.23%) Oracle RMAN
15 10 (0.21%) Nessus
16 9 (0.19%) Progress Chef
17 8 (0.17%) Data Guard
18 7 (0.15%) Control-M
19 6 (0.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 1,003 (20.86%) Microsoft
2 258 (5.37%) Oracle
3 252 (5.24%) Google
4 176 (3.66%) VMware
5 164 (3.41%) Cisco
6 155 (3.22%) SAP
7 125 (2.60%) Salesforce
8 115 (2.39%) ServiceNow
9 104 (2.16%) HP
10 89 (1.85%) Databricks
11 79 (1.64%) IBM
12 73 (1.52%) Remedy
12 73 (1.52%) Splunk
13 71 (1.48%) Dell
14 69 (1.44%) Juniper
15 65 (1.35%) CA
16 47 (0.98%) F5
17 40 (0.83%) Bloomberg
18 39 (0.81%) Atlassian
19 38 (0.79%) CheckPoint