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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 8 14
Rank change year-on-year -19 +6 +7
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 5,026 6,196 9,699
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.16% 12.87% 9.45%
As % of the General category 10.88% 18.29% 16.28%
Number of salaries quoted 3,289 2,571 5,241
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £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 £72,625 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £88,750 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,445 £50,000 £45,692
% change year-on-year -3.11% +9.43% -3.81%

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 46,211 33,873 59,561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 47.41% 70.37% 58.03%
Number of salaries quoted 28,415 17,172 39,313
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 £72,500
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 8 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 8 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 4,587 £55,000 - 2,583
UK excluding London -21 3,161 £48,445 -3.11% 1,862
Work from Home -10 1,591 £55,000 +4.76% 1,669
London -11 1,579 £67,500 +3.85% 1,051
North of England -19 962 £48,350 +2.87% 454
South East -8 812 £50,000 -9.09% 579
Midlands -10 574 £47,500 - 317
North West -19 564 £47,500 -5.00% 243
South West -24 352 £47,250 -5.50% 205
West Midlands -16 315 £49,000 +3.16% 170
Yorkshire -11 294 £50,000 +11.11% 155
East Midlands -6 258 £46,743 -2.11% 146
East of England -22 242 £45,000 -2.01% 169
Scotland -33 105 £40,800 -8.31% 98
North East -28 104 £55,000 +39.06% 62
Wales -15 85 £53,171 -3.33% 36
Northern Ireland -43 40 £41,250 -25.00% 57

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
1 164 (3.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 127 (2.53%) SharePoint
3 72 (1.43%) Confluence
4 70 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
5 68 (1.35%) Apache Spark
6 44 (0.88%) Apache
7 37 (0.74%) CMS
8 23 (0.46%) SAS
9 22 (0.44%) IIS
10 16 (0.32%) WordPress
11 14 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 13 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
13 8 (0.16%) WebLogic
13 8 (0.16%) WebSphere
14 6 (0.12%) Jupyter
15 3 (0.060%) Anypoint
15 3 (0.060%) JBoss
15 3 (0.060%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 3 (0.060%) Tomcat
16 2 (0.040%) nginx
Applications
1 554 (11.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 205 (4.08%) Microsoft Office
3 110 (2.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 85 (1.69%) MS Visio
5 33 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
6 25 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
7 9 (0.18%) CATIA
8 6 (0.12%) Adobe XD
8 6 (0.12%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.099%) Acrobat
10 4 (0.080%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 4 (0.080%) Maya
11 3 (0.060%) Blender
11 3 (0.060%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.060%) Simulink
11 3 (0.060%) Trello
12 2 (0.040%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.040%) Lectora
12 2 (0.040%) Siemens NX
12 2 (0.040%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 74 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 40 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 35 (0.70%) NetSuite
4 25 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
5 16 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
5 16 (0.32%) SAP PM
6 15 (0.30%) SAP CO
6 15 (0.30%) SAP ERP
7 12 (0.24%) SAP FI
8 11 (0.22%) Maximo
8 11 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
9 10 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
10 9 (0.18%) Workday HCM
11 8 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
12 7 (0.14%) Elite 3E
12 7 (0.14%) Magento
12 7 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
12 7 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
12 7 (0.14%) Shopify
13 6 (0.12%) JDE EnterpriseOne
Cloud Services
1 893 (17.77%) Azure
2 659 (13.11%) Power Platform
3 488 (9.71%) AWS
4 367 (7.30%) Microsoft 365
5 314 (6.25%) SaaS
6 218 (4.34%) GCP
7 131 (2.61%) Dynamics 365
8 122 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
9 121 (2.41%) Entra ID
10 85 (1.69%) Microsoft Purview
11 84 (1.67%) Google Analytics
12 77 (1.53%) Power Automate
13 76 (1.51%) GitHub
14 71 (1.41%) Snowflake
15 68 (1.35%) dbt
16 67 (1.33%) Amazon S3
16 67 (1.33%) PowerApps
17 58 (1.15%) Serverless
18 56 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
19 53 (1.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 199 (3.96%) Firewall
2 169 (3.36%) DNS
3 128 (2.55%) DHCP
4 124 (2.47%) VPN
5 83 (1.65%) TCP/IP
5 83 (1.65%) WAN
6 78 (1.55%) LAN
7 75 (1.49%) Broadband
8 66 (1.31%) Wi-Fi
9 56 (1.11%) Wireless
10 50 (0.99%) Network Security
11 49 (0.97%) VLAN
12 41 (0.82%) SAN
13 36 (0.72%) Internet
14 35 (0.70%) BGP
15 33 (0.66%) HTTP
16 26 (0.52%) Cisco ASA
17 25 (0.50%) SD-WAN
17 25 (0.50%) Wireshark
18 24 (0.48%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 587 (11.68%) Power BI
2 284 (5.65%) Tableau
3 196 (3.90%) SQL Server
4 182 (3.62%) Data Warehouse
5 98 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
6 86 (1.71%) Metadata
7 73 (1.45%) Data Mining
7 73 (1.45%) Relational Database
8 71 (1.41%) Data Lake
9 67 (1.33%) Power Query
10 63 (1.25%) Looker
11 62 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
12 61 (1.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 57 (1.13%) MySQL
14 55 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
15 50 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 49 (0.97%) BigQuery
17 38 (0.76%) Big Data
18 37 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
18 37 (0.74%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 184 (3.66%) JIRA
2 147 (2.92%) Git
3 55 (1.09%) GitLab
4 36 (0.72%) Rational DOORS
5 33 (0.66%) Jenkins
6 31 (0.62%) MLflow
7 20 (0.40%) Cucumber
7 20 (0.40%) Selenium
8 17 (0.34%) Chocolatey
9 16 (0.32%) ERwin
10 15 (0.30%) Eclipse
11 13 (0.26%) IBM UrbanCode
11 13 (0.26%) Postman
11 13 (0.26%) Visual Studio
12 12 (0.24%) Cypress.io
12 12 (0.24%) SonarQube
13 11 (0.22%) JMeter
14 10 (0.20%) Oracle APEX
15 9 (0.18%) Bitbucket
16 8 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2,365 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 1,716 (34.14%) Finance
3 414 (8.24%) Marketing
4 361 (7.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 329 (6.55%) Organisational Skills
6 313 (6.23%) Public Sector
7 288 (5.73%) Retail
8 270 (5.37%) Law
9 268 (5.33%) Legal
10 239 (4.76%) Banking
11 201 (4.00%) Manufacturing
12 175 (3.48%) Influencing Skills
13 135 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
14 121 (2.41%) Telecoms
15 95 (1.89%) Advertising
16 91 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
17 87 (1.73%) Aerospace
18 76 (1.51%) Electronics
19 74 (1.47%) Financial Institution
20 55 (1.09%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,284 (25.55%) Analyst
2 652 (12.97%) Senior
3 350 (6.96%) Lead
4 303 (6.03%) Data Analyst
5 285 (5.67%) Business Analyst
6 236 (4.70%) Developer
7 227 (4.52%) Consultant
8 196 (3.90%) Systems Engineer
9 195 (3.88%) Architect
10 154 (3.06%) Senior Analyst
11 138 (2.75%) Data Engineer
12 137 (2.73%) Support Analyst
13 122 (2.43%) Support Engineer
14 117 (2.33%) IT Support
15 109 (2.17%) IT Manager
16 105 (2.09%) Senior Manager
17 103 (2.05%) Systems Analyst
18 102 (2.03%) Financial Analyst
19 99 (1.97%) Security Analyst
20 91 (1.81%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (2.27%) HTML
2 113 (2.25%) .NET
3 103 (2.05%) CSS
4 100 (1.99%) REST
5 87 (1.73%) JSON
5 87 (1.73%) Middleware
6 82 (1.63%) XML
7 78 (1.55%) React
8 66 (1.31%) PyTorch
9 60 (1.19%) TensorFlow
10 58 (1.15%) Kafka
11 50 (0.99%) RESTful
12 47 (0.94%) SOAP
13 45 (0.90%) PySpark
14 42 (0.84%) Node.js
15 41 (0.82%) scikit-learn
16 39 (0.78%) Web Services
17 33 (0.66%) LangChain
17 33 (0.66%) Pandas
18 30 (0.60%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 535 (10.64%) Analytical Mindset
2 251 (4.99%) Management Information System
3 220 (4.38%) Onboarding
4 209 (4.16%) Product Ownership
5 194 (3.86%) Self-Motivation
6 131 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
7 114 (2.27%) Cloud Native
8 108 (2.15%) Data Centre
9 101 (2.01%) Security Posture
10 92 (1.83%) Driving Licence
11 81 (1.61%) Data Structures
12 79 (1.57%) Cyber Threat
13 76 (1.51%) Algorithms
14 74 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
15 61 (1.21%) Social Media
16 60 (1.19%) Virtual Team
17 56 (1.11%) Public Cloud
18 51 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
19 46 (0.92%) Cyber Defence
20 45 (0.90%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 387 (7.70%) Windows
2 242 (4.81%) Linux
3 193 (3.84%) Windows Server
4 90 (1.79%) Windows Server 2016
5 30 (0.60%) Unix
6 29 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 27 (0.54%) Windows 10
8 20 (0.40%) Android
8 20 (0.40%) Mac OS
9 18 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
10 14 (0.28%) Apple iOS
11 11 (0.22%) CentOS
11 11 (0.22%) Ubuntu
12 8 (0.16%) VMS
13 6 (0.12%) Debian
14 5 (0.099%) OpenVMS
15 4 (0.080%) AIX
15 4 (0.080%) Rocky
16 2 (0.040%) Windows Server 2012
17 1 (0.020%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,287 (45.50%) Problem-Solving
2 1,278 (25.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,127 (22.42%) Decision-Making
4 1,107 (22.03%) Analytics
5 852 (16.95%) Agile
6 681 (13.55%) AI
7 673 (13.39%) Stakeholder Management
8 668 (13.29%) Business Intelligence
9 543 (10.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 522 (10.39%) Roadmaps
11 494 (9.83%) Mentoring
12 481 (9.57%) Actionable Insight
13 465 (9.25%) Project Management
14 464 (9.23%) Cybersecurity
15 454 (9.03%) Data Modelling
16 439 (8.73%) Data Analysis
17 410 (8.16%) Data Governance
18 409 (8.14%) Process Improvement
19 375 (7.46%) ERP
20 366 (7.28%) Analytical Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1,051 (20.91%) SQL
2 865 (17.21%) Python
3 175 (3.48%) JavaScript
4 174 (3.46%) Java
5 168 (3.34%) PowerShell
6 155 (3.08%) C#
7 78 (1.55%) C++
8 77 (1.53%) R
9 75 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 72 (1.43%) Bash
11 52 (1.03%) TypeScript
12 51 (1.01%) T-SQL
13 44 (0.88%) MATLAB
14 28 (0.56%) VBA
15 24 (0.48%) PHP
16 23 (0.46%) Go
17 21 (0.42%) C
18 19 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
18 19 (0.38%) PL/SQL
19 18 (0.36%) Julia
Qualifications
1 910 (18.11%) Degree
2 470 (9.35%) Security Cleared
3 335 (6.67%) SC Cleared
4 264 (5.25%) ACCA
5 249 (4.95%) CIMA
6 156 (3.10%) CISSP
6 156 (3.10%) DBS Check
7 145 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 116 (2.31%) Cisco Certification
9 113 (2.25%) CISM
10 91 (1.81%) DV Cleared
10 91 (1.81%) Master's Degree
11 88 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
12 73 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
13 72 (1.43%) IRCA
14 69 (1.37%) Azure Certification
15 67 (1.33%) CompTIA Security+
16 53 (1.05%) PMI Certification
17 47 (0.94%) CISA
18 46 (0.92%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 474 (9.43%) Data Quality
2 390 (7.76%) GDPR
3 336 (6.69%) QA
4 276 (5.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 225 (4.48%) NIST
6 169 (3.36%) Cyber Essentials
7 147 (2.92%) SLA
8 131 (2.61%) PCI DSS
9 128 (2.55%) Accessibility
10 125 (2.49%) ISO 9001
11 78 (1.55%) GRC
12 64 (1.27%) PMO
13 46 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
14 43 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 42 (0.84%) IFRS
16 39 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 37 (0.74%) COBIT
18 28 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
19 24 (0.48%) ITGC
19 24 (0.48%) SOC 2
System Software
1 278 (5.53%) Active Directory
2 96 (1.91%) Docker
3 89 (1.77%) Hyper-V
4 76 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 72 (1.43%) 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 6 (0.12%) Firmware
12 5 (0.099%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 5 (0.099%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.080%) XenApp
14 3 (0.060%) DFS Replication
14 3 (0.060%) Embedded Firmware
15 2 (0.040%) Oracle RAC
15 2 (0.040%) VMware ESXi
16 1 (0.020%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 139 (2.77%) Terraform
2 89 (1.77%) Kubernetes
3 65 (1.29%) Ansible
4 64 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 40 (0.80%) Grafana
6 27 (0.54%) SCCM
7 23 (0.46%) Prometheus
8 21 (0.42%) Nagios
9 18 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
10 17 (0.34%) QRadar
11 16 (0.32%) Kibana
12 11 (0.22%) Kubeflow
13 8 (0.16%) logstash
14 7 (0.14%) Packer
15 6 (0.12%) Control-M
15 6 (0.12%) Graylog
16 5 (0.099%) Docker Swarm
16 5 (0.099%) Podman
16 5 (0.099%) Puppet
16 5 (0.099%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 1,124 (22.36%) Microsoft
2 212 (4.22%) SAP
3 204 (4.06%) Google
4 166 (3.30%) Oracle
5 157 (3.12%) VMware
6 139 (2.77%) Salesforce
7 129 (2.57%) Splunk
8 121 (2.41%) Databricks
9 118 (2.35%) SolarWinds
10 97 (1.93%) ServiceNow
11 85 (1.69%) Veeam
12 76 (1.51%) Cisco
12 76 (1.51%) Workday
13 73 (1.45%) Nimble Storage
14 72 (1.43%) Brocade
14 72 (1.43%) Tanium
15 51 (1.01%) IBM
15 51 (1.01%) Red Hat
16 46 (0.92%) Adobe
17 45 (0.90%) HubSpot