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 26 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 8 14
Rank change year-on-year -18 +6 +7
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,933 6,097 9,871
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.19% 13.42% 9.29%
As % of the General category 10.98% 18.52% 16.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3,231 2,465 5,371
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,240 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% +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 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.11% +11.11% -5.26%

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 44,943 32,916 61,063
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 47.32% 72.47% 57.48%
Number of salaries quoted 27,648 16,257 40,482
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,999 £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 £76,977 £77,500 £71,755
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £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 26 June 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 26 June 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 4,500 £55,000 - 1,964
UK excluding London -20 3,106 £48,445 -3.11% 1,471
London -11 1,548 £69,875 +7.50% 806
Work from Home -10 1,533 £55,000 - 808
North of England -18 957 £48,000 +1.05% 318
South East -9 788 £50,000 -9.09% 512
Midlands -9 567 £47,500 - 268
North West -18 560 £46,500 -7.00% 176
South West -26 337 £47,500 - 172
West Midlands -16 316 £49,500 +4.21% 155
Yorkshire -12 295 £50,000 +11.11% 105
East Midlands -1 250 £45,000 -5.26% 112
East of England -17 239 £45,050 -3.82% 135
Scotland -25 107 £40,000 -20.00% 70
North East -26 102 £55,000 +41.75% 44
Wales -10 83 £53,171 -3.33% 30
Northern Ireland -22 39 £40,000 -27.27% 19

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
1 163 (3.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 121 (2.45%) SharePoint
3 73 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
4 71 (1.44%) Confluence
5 68 (1.38%) Apache Spark
6 44 (0.89%) Apache
7 37 (0.75%) CMS
8 22 (0.45%) IIS
9 21 (0.43%) SAS
10 16 (0.32%) WordPress
11 14 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 13 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
13 7 (0.14%) WebLogic
13 7 (0.14%) WebSphere
14 6 (0.12%) Jupyter
15 3 (0.061%) Anypoint
15 3 (0.061%) JBoss
15 3 (0.061%) Tomcat
16 2 (0.041%) Appian
16 2 (0.041%) Camunda
Applications
1 541 (10.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 192 (3.89%) Microsoft Office
3 102 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 84 (1.70%) MS Visio
5 34 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
6 26 (0.53%) 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 (0.061%) Blender
12 3 (0.061%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.061%) Simulink
12 3 (0.061%) Trello
13 2 (0.041%) AutoCAD
13 2 (0.041%) Lectora
13 2 (0.041%) Siemens NX
13 2 (0.041%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 73 (1.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 39 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 36 (0.73%) NetSuite
4 30 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
5 17 (0.34%) SAP CO
6 16 (0.32%) SAP PM
7 15 (0.30%) SAP ERP
8 14 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
9 12 (0.24%) SAP FI
10 11 (0.22%) Maximo
10 11 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
11 9 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
11 9 (0.18%) Workday HCM
12 7 (0.14%) Elite 3E
12 7 (0.14%) Fidessa
12 7 (0.14%) Shopify
13 6 (0.12%) Endur
13 6 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
13 6 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
13 6 (0.12%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 876 (17.76%) Azure
2 651 (13.20%) Power Platform
3 483 (9.79%) AWS
4 362 (7.34%) Microsoft 365
5 307 (6.22%) SaaS
6 210 (4.26%) GCP
7 129 (2.62%) Dynamics 365
8 116 (2.35%) Entra ID
9 114 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
10 83 (1.68%) Google Analytics
11 79 (1.60%) Microsoft Purview
12 78 (1.58%) Power Automate
13 77 (1.56%) GitHub
14 73 (1.48%) Amazon S3
15 68 (1.38%) dbt
16 67 (1.36%) PowerApps
16 67 (1.36%) Snowflake
17 63 (1.28%) Serverless
18 54 (1.09%) Azure Data Factory
19 52 (1.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 200 (4.05%) Firewall
2 170 (3.45%) DNS
3 128 (2.59%) DHCP
4 119 (2.41%) VPN
5 85 (1.72%) WAN
6 82 (1.66%) TCP/IP
7 77 (1.56%) LAN
8 76 (1.54%) Broadband
9 62 (1.26%) Wi-Fi
10 54 (1.09%) Wireless
11 50 (1.01%) VLAN
12 47 (0.95%) Network Security
13 41 (0.83%) SAN
14 35 (0.71%) BGP
15 33 (0.67%) HTTP
16 31 (0.63%) Internet
17 27 (0.55%) SD-WAN
18 26 (0.53%) Cisco ASA
19 25 (0.51%) Wireshark
20 24 (0.49%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 580 (11.76%) Power BI
2 295 (5.98%) Tableau
3 185 (3.75%) SQL Server
4 172 (3.49%) Data Warehouse
5 99 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
6 89 (1.80%) Metadata
7 81 (1.64%) Data Mining
8 72 (1.46%) Relational Database
9 71 (1.44%) Data Lake
10 63 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
11 61 (1.24%) Looker
12 60 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
13 58 (1.18%) Power Query
14 56 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 54 (1.09%) MySQL
16 48 (0.97%) BigQuery
17 46 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 38 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
19 36 (0.73%) Big Data
19 36 (0.73%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 170 (3.45%) JIRA
2 147 (2.98%) Git
3 54 (1.09%) GitLab
4 35 (0.71%) Rational DOORS
5 31 (0.63%) Jenkins
5 31 (0.63%) MLflow
6 19 (0.39%) Selenium
7 17 (0.34%) Chocolatey
7 17 (0.34%) Cucumber
8 15 (0.30%) Eclipse
9 14 (0.28%) ERwin
10 13 (0.26%) IBM UrbanCode
10 13 (0.26%) Postman
11 12 (0.24%) Cypress.io
11 12 (0.24%) SonarQube
11 12 (0.24%) Visual Studio
12 10 (0.20%) Oracle APEX
13 9 (0.18%) Bitbucket
13 9 (0.18%) JMeter
14 8 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2,294 (46.50%) Social Skills
2 1,702 (34.50%) Finance
3 414 (8.39%) Marketing
4 357 (7.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 307 (6.22%) Organisational Skills
6 299 (6.06%) Public Sector
7 275 (5.57%) Retail
8 268 (5.43%) Law
8 268 (5.43%) Legal
9 239 (4.84%) Banking
10 187 (3.79%) Manufacturing
11 175 (3.55%) Influencing Skills
12 135 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
13 118 (2.39%) Telecoms
14 89 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
15 87 (1.76%) Advertising
16 83 (1.68%) Aerospace
17 75 (1.52%) Electronics
18 74 (1.50%) Financial Institution
19 55 (1.11%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,270 (25.74%) Analyst
2 633 (12.83%) Senior
3 350 (7.10%) Lead
4 312 (6.32%) Data Analyst
5 278 (5.64%) Business Analyst
6 236 (4.78%) Developer
7 218 (4.42%) Consultant
8 201 (4.07%) Architect
9 189 (3.83%) Systems Engineer
10 149 (3.02%) Senior Analyst
11 132 (2.68%) Data Engineer
12 124 (2.51%) Support Analyst
13 115 (2.33%) Support Engineer
14 112 (2.27%) IT Manager
14 112 (2.27%) IT Support
15 105 (2.13%) Senior Manager
15 105 (2.13%) Systems Analyst
16 99 (2.01%) Financial Analyst
17 96 (1.95%) Security Analyst
18 86 (1.74%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (2.37%) HTML
2 110 (2.23%) .NET
3 106 (2.15%) CSS
4 101 (2.05%) REST
5 91 (1.84%) Middleware
6 89 (1.80%) JSON
7 85 (1.72%) React
8 81 (1.64%) XML
9 67 (1.36%) PyTorch
10 61 (1.24%) TensorFlow
11 54 (1.09%) Kafka
12 48 (0.97%) RESTful
12 48 (0.97%) SOAP
13 47 (0.95%) Node.js
14 43 (0.87%) PySpark
15 41 (0.83%) scikit-learn
16 39 (0.79%) Web Services
17 33 (0.67%) Pandas
18 32 (0.65%) LangChain
19 29 (0.59%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 530 (10.74%) Analytical Mindset
2 242 (4.91%) Management Information System
3 217 (4.40%) Onboarding
4 199 (4.03%) Product Ownership
5 190 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
6 130 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
7 106 (2.15%) Data Centre
8 99 (2.01%) Cloud Native
8 99 (2.01%) Security Posture
9 86 (1.74%) Driving Licence
10 85 (1.72%) Data Structures
11 78 (1.58%) Algorithms
11 78 (1.58%) Cyber Threat
12 66 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
13 60 (1.22%) Social Media
14 56 (1.14%) Public Cloud
14 56 (1.14%) Virtual Team
15 45 (0.91%) Cyber Defence
15 45 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
16 43 (0.87%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 377 (7.64%) Windows
2 234 (4.74%) Linux
3 190 (3.85%) Windows Server
4 88 (1.78%) Windows Server 2016
5 34 (0.69%) Unix
6 29 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 28 (0.57%) Windows 10
8 18 (0.36%) Mac OS
8 18 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
9 17 (0.34%) Android
10 14 (0.28%) Apple iOS
11 11 (0.22%) CentOS
11 11 (0.22%) Ubuntu
12 8 (0.16%) VMS
13 5 (0.10%) OpenVMS
14 4 (0.081%) AIX
14 4 (0.081%) Debian
14 4 (0.081%) Rocky
15 3 (0.061%) Windows Server 2012
16 1 (0.020%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,213 (44.86%) Problem-Solving
2 1,233 (24.99%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,098 (22.26%) Decision-Making
4 1,080 (21.89%) Analytics
5 843 (17.09%) Agile
6 659 (13.36%) Business Intelligence
7 653 (13.24%) Stakeholder Management
8 650 (13.18%) AI
9 523 (10.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 507 (10.28%) Roadmaps
11 489 (9.91%) Mentoring
12 477 (9.67%) Actionable Insight
13 467 (9.47%) Project Management
14 455 (9.22%) Cybersecurity
15 447 (9.06%) Data Modelling
16 437 (8.86%) Data Analysis
17 406 (8.23%) Data Governance
18 404 (8.19%) Process Improvement
19 365 (7.40%) ERP
20 362 (7.34%) Analytical Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1,044 (21.16%) SQL
2 873 (17.70%) Python
3 174 (3.53%) Java
3 174 (3.53%) JavaScript
4 166 (3.37%) PowerShell
5 151 (3.06%) C#
6 77 (1.56%) R
7 72 (1.46%) C++
7 72 (1.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 71 (1.44%) Bash
9 52 (1.05%) TypeScript
10 48 (0.97%) T-SQL
11 44 (0.89%) MATLAB
12 34 (0.69%) VBA
13 22 (0.45%) PHP
14 20 (0.41%) Go
15 18 (0.36%) C
15 18 (0.36%) Julia
16 17 (0.34%) Perl
16 17 (0.34%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 904 (18.33%) Degree
2 455 (9.22%) Security Cleared
3 324 (6.57%) SC Cleared
4 267 (5.41%) ACCA
5 252 (5.11%) CIMA
6 156 (3.16%) DBS Check
7 155 (3.14%) CISSP
8 146 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
9 115 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
10 111 (2.25%) CISM
11 91 (1.84%) Master's Degree
12 90 (1.82%) DV Cleared
13 86 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
14 73 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
15 72 (1.46%) IRCA
16 71 (1.44%) Azure Certification
17 67 (1.36%) CompTIA Security+
18 56 (1.14%) PMI Certification
19 50 (1.01%) PMP
20 47 (0.95%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 468 (9.49%) Data Quality
2 385 (7.80%) GDPR
3 323 (6.55%) QA
4 272 (5.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 227 (4.60%) NIST
6 165 (3.34%) Cyber Essentials
7 143 (2.90%) SLA
8 130 (2.64%) PCI DSS
9 127 (2.57%) Accessibility
10 121 (2.45%) ISO 9001
11 76 (1.54%) GRC
12 59 (1.20%) PMO
13 49 (0.99%) Actionable Recommendations
14 45 (0.91%) IFRS
15 43 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 41 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 36 (0.73%) COBIT
18 28 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
19 24 (0.49%) ITGC
19 24 (0.49%) NCSC
System Software
1 273 (5.53%) Active Directory
2 92 (1.86%) Docker
3 88 (1.78%) Hyper-V
4 75 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 72 (1.46%) Terminal Server
6 25 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
7 14 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
8 12 (0.24%) ProxySG
9 11 (0.22%) vSphere
10 9 (0.18%) VMware NSX
11 8 (0.16%) IAG
12 5 (0.10%) Firmware
13 4 (0.081%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.081%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.081%) XenApp
14 3 (0.061%) DFS Replication
14 3 (0.061%) VMware ESXi
15 2 (0.041%) Embedded Firmware
15 2 (0.041%) Oracle RAC
16 1 (0.020%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 132 (2.68%) Terraform
2 81 (1.64%) Kubernetes
3 61 (1.24%) Ansible
3 61 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
4 37 (0.75%) Grafana
5 26 (0.53%) SCCM
6 23 (0.47%) Prometheus
7 21 (0.43%) Nagios
8 16 (0.32%) Kibana
8 16 (0.32%) QRadar
8 16 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (0.24%) Kubeflow
10 8 (0.16%) Control-M
10 8 (0.16%) logstash
11 7 (0.14%) Packer
12 6 (0.12%) Graylog
13 5 (0.10%) Docker Swarm
13 5 (0.10%) Podman
13 5 (0.10%) Red Hat Satellite
14 4 (0.081%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 1,097 (22.24%) Microsoft
2 210 (4.26%) SAP
3 194 (3.93%) Google
4 165 (3.34%) Oracle
5 157 (3.18%) VMware
6 149 (3.02%) Salesforce
7 127 (2.57%) Splunk
8 118 (2.39%) SolarWinds
9 116 (2.35%) Databricks
10 91 (1.84%) ServiceNow
11 85 (1.72%) Veeam
12 74 (1.50%) Workday
13 73 (1.48%) Cisco
13 73 (1.48%) Nimble Storage
14 72 (1.46%) Brocade
14 72 (1.46%) Tanium
15 51 (1.03%) IBM
15 51 (1.03%) Red Hat
16 46 (0.93%) Adobe
17 45 (0.91%) HubSpot