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 9 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 9 15
Rank change year-on-year -14 +6 +4
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 6,494 6,246 7,067
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.51% 12.55% 9.74%
As % of the General category 11.92% 18.35% 16.86%
Number of salaries quoted 3,662 2,507 2,679
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,328 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.66% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £70,300
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.44% -10.00% -

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 54,481 34,039 41,928
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.21% 68.39% 57.80%
Number of salaries quoted 33,282 17,681 20,732
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £33,750 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £96,000 £96,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £43,095 £50,000
% change year-on-year +16.02% -13.81% -0.99%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -15 5,679 £51,375 +2.75% 9,932
UK excluding London -14 4,414 £47,000 +4.44% 4,929
Work from Home -6 2,195 £55,000 +10.00% 3,887
London -12 1,783 £65,000 - 5,481
North of England -18 1,167 £47,500 +5.56% 1,160
South East -11 1,004 £48,000 +1.05% 1,263
Midlands -8 770 £45,000 +3.45% 735
North West -15 691 £46,500 +3.33% 633
South West -9 624 £46,872 +4.16% 522
West Midlands -17 392 £47,500 +5.56% 456
East Midlands -5 376 £42,500 +8.39% 279
Yorkshire -9 321 £47,000 +17.50% 412
East of England -13 292 £47,500 +21.79% 516
Northern Ireland +10 224 £43,750 -18.60% 225
Wales -4 207 £45,000 -10.20% 150
North East -21 164 £52,231 +30.58% 122
Scotland -18 149 £50,000 +46.50% 413

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
1 195 (3.00%) SharePoint
2 180 (2.77%) Microsoft Exchange
3 112 (1.72%) Confluence
4 42 (0.65%) Apache Spark
4 42 (0.65%) CMS
5 39 (0.60%) Apache
6 36 (0.55%) IIS
7 32 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
8 29 (0.45%) SAS
9 16 (0.25%) WordPress
10 14 (0.22%) Jupyter
11 13 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
12 11 (0.17%) Headless CMS
13 10 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 9 (0.14%) WebLogic
14 9 (0.14%) WebSphere
15 8 (0.12%) OpenStack
16 5 (0.077%) nginx
17 3 (0.046%) Office Communications Server
17 3 (0.046%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 782 (12.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 363 (5.59%) Microsoft Office
3 137 (2.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 67 (1.03%) MS Visio
5 57 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
6 45 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
7 20 (0.31%) Simulink
8 17 (0.26%) AutoCAD
9 10 (0.15%) Chatbot
9 10 (0.15%) SOLIDWORKS
10 9 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 8 (0.12%) EPLAN
12 7 (0.11%) Adobe XD
12 7 (0.11%) Photoshop
13 6 (0.092%) Acrobat
13 6 (0.092%) Notion
13 6 (0.092%) Siemens NX
14 5 (0.077%) InDesign
14 5 (0.077%) Revit
15 4 (0.062%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 102 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 57 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
3 34 (0.52%) Dynamics GP
4 31 (0.48%) NetSuite
5 27 (0.42%) Shopify
6 19 (0.29%) Workday HCM
7 15 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
8 13 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
9 11 (0.17%) Magento
9 11 (0.17%) SAP CO
9 11 (0.17%) SAP FI
9 11 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
10 10 (0.15%) Distributed Ledger
10 10 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
10 10 (0.15%) Infor M3
10 10 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
10 10 (0.15%) SAP Business One
11 9 (0.14%) Elite 3E
11 9 (0.14%) Fidessa
11 9 (0.14%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 1,026 (15.80%) Azure
2 733 (11.29%) Power Platform
3 659 (10.15%) AWS
4 460 (7.08%) Microsoft 365
5 400 (6.16%) SaaS
6 302 (4.65%) GCP
7 228 (3.51%) Entra ID
8 157 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
9 131 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
9 131 (2.02%) Google Ads
10 122 (1.88%) Google Analytics
11 98 (1.51%) GitHub
12 92 (1.42%) Serverless
13 91 (1.40%) Meta Ads
14 80 (1.23%) Microsoft Purview
15 76 (1.17%) Amazon S3
16 75 (1.15%) Cloud Computing
17 74 (1.14%) PowerApps
18 73 (1.12%) Snowflake
19 71 (1.09%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 207 (3.19%) DNS
2 161 (2.48%) DHCP
3 146 (2.25%) Firewall
4 131 (2.02%) VPN
5 117 (1.80%) TCP/IP
6 99 (1.52%) Internet
7 79 (1.22%) WAN
8 72 (1.11%) LAN
9 68 (1.05%) Network Security
10 56 (0.86%) Wireless
11 55 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
12 52 (0.80%) VLAN
13 46 (0.71%) Broadband
14 38 (0.59%) HTTP
15 35 (0.54%) SAN
16 29 (0.45%) 5G
16 29 (0.45%) VoIP
17 27 (0.42%) BGP
18 25 (0.38%) SMS
19 23 (0.35%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 661 (10.18%) Power BI
2 204 (3.14%) SQL Server
3 173 (2.66%) Data Warehouse
4 172 (2.65%) Tableau
5 124 (1.91%) Relational Database
6 113 (1.74%) Metadata
7 110 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
8 90 (1.39%) MySQL
9 86 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
10 82 (1.26%) Power Query
11 81 (1.25%) Looker
12 68 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 64 (0.99%) Data Lake
14 54 (0.83%) Big Data
15 52 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 51 (0.79%) NoSQL
17 44 (0.68%) BigQuery
18 39 (0.60%) MongoDB
19 38 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
20 36 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 271 (4.17%) Git
2 268 (4.13%) JIRA
3 60 (0.92%) GitLab
4 57 (0.88%) Jenkins
5 31 (0.48%) Selenium
6 27 (0.42%) Eclipse
7 23 (0.35%) Claude Code
8 22 (0.34%) LabVIEW
9 21 (0.32%) Postman
9 21 (0.32%) Rational DOORS
10 20 (0.31%) Cucumber
10 20 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
11 16 (0.25%) Burp Suite
12 15 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
13 13 (0.20%) Bitbucket
13 13 (0.20%) JMeter
13 13 (0.20%) Metasploit
14 11 (0.17%) Chocolatey
15 9 (0.14%) Cypress.io
15 9 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 3,331 (51.29%) Social Skills
2 2,087 (32.14%) Finance
3 758 (11.67%) Marketing
4 572 (8.81%) Organisational Skills
5 560 (8.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 470 (7.24%) Retail
7 441 (6.79%) Public Sector
8 437 (6.73%) Legal
9 412 (6.34%) Law
10 411 (6.33%) Manufacturing
11 330 (5.08%) Influencing Skills
12 311 (4.79%) Presentation Skills
13 247 (3.80%) Banking
14 213 (3.28%) Aerospace
15 173 (2.66%) Electronics
16 158 (2.43%) Telecoms
17 119 (1.83%) Advertising
18 107 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
19 88 (1.36%) Automotive
20 71 (1.09%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,498 (23.07%) Analyst
2 852 (13.12%) Senior
3 423 (6.51%) Lead
4 313 (4.82%) Developer
5 297 (4.57%) Data Analyst
6 287 (4.42%) Business Analyst
7 260 (4.00%) Senior Analyst
8 246 (3.79%) Consultant
9 235 (3.62%) Support Analyst
10 225 (3.46%) Architect
11 188 (2.89%) Data Engineer
12 152 (2.34%) Systems Engineer
13 123 (1.89%) Support Engineer
14 116 (1.79%) Applications Support
15 114 (1.76%) IT Support
16 111 (1.71%) Administrator
17 109 (1.68%) Marketing Manager
18 107 (1.65%) ITSM Analyst
19 101 (1.56%) IT Manager
19 101 (1.56%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (2.60%) .NET
2 161 (2.48%) Terraform
3 126 (1.94%) REST
4 112 (1.72%) HTML
5 103 (1.59%) CSS
6 85 (1.31%) RESTful
7 78 (1.20%) React
8 76 (1.17%) PySpark
9 75 (1.15%) JSON
10 70 (1.08%) XML
11 66 (1.02%) Middleware
12 62 (0.95%) Kafka
13 54 (0.83%) SOAP
14 46 (0.71%) LDAP
14 46 (0.71%) Spring Boot
15 45 (0.69%) Spring
16 43 (0.66%) EDI
16 43 (0.66%) Web Services
17 40 (0.62%) ASP.NET
18 38 (0.59%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 492 (7.58%) Management Information System
2 431 (6.64%) Analytical Mindset
3 419 (6.45%) Onboarding
4 335 (5.16%) Self-Motivation
5 285 (4.39%) Product Ownership
6 191 (2.94%) Driving Licence
7 155 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
8 149 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
9 146 (2.25%) Cloud Native
10 137 (2.11%) Social Media
11 119 (1.83%) Blog
12 113 (1.74%) Data Centre
13 112 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
14 106 (1.63%) Marketing Technology
15 97 (1.49%) Virtual Team
16 95 (1.46%) Security Posture
17 90 (1.39%) Data Structures
18 77 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
19 73 (1.12%) AI Agents
20 62 (0.95%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 460 (7.08%) Windows
2 321 (4.94%) Linux
3 222 (3.42%) Windows Server
4 94 (1.45%) Windows Server 2016
5 46 (0.71%) Windows 10
6 37 (0.57%) Mac OS
7 29 (0.45%) Unix
8 27 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
9 26 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 18 (0.28%) Apple iOS
11 17 (0.26%) Android
12 9 (0.14%) CentOS
13 8 (0.12%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.092%) Debian
14 6 (0.092%) VMS
15 5 (0.077%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.062%) CoreOS
17 2 (0.031%) AIX
17 2 (0.031%) Solaris
17 2 (0.031%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,201 (49.29%) Problem-Solving
2 1,997 (30.75%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,552 (23.90%) Decision-Making
4 1,365 (21.02%) Stakeholder Management
5 1,271 (19.57%) Analytics
6 1,219 (18.77%) AI
7 1,103 (16.98%) Agile
8 836 (12.87%) Business Intelligence
9 710 (10.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 645 (9.93%) Mentoring
11 619 (9.53%) Validation
12 600 (9.24%) Roadmaps
13 582 (8.96%) Actionable Insight
14 569 (8.76%) Process Improvement
15 559 (8.61%) Data Analysis
16 552 (8.50%) CRM
17 547 (8.42%) Project Management
18 545 (8.39%) Customer Service
19 541 (8.33%) Risk Management
20 531 (8.18%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1,217 (18.74%) SQL
2 897 (13.81%) Python
3 225 (3.46%) JavaScript
4 207 (3.19%) Java
5 200 (3.08%) C#
6 196 (3.02%) PowerShell
7 122 (1.88%) C++
8 97 (1.49%) Bash
9 92 (1.42%) R
10 81 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 77 (1.19%) TypeScript
12 53 (0.82%) MATLAB
13 51 (0.79%) T-SQL
14 46 (0.71%) Shell Script
15 41 (0.63%) C
16 32 (0.49%) PL/SQL
17 28 (0.43%) Scala
18 27 (0.42%) Go
18 27 (0.42%) Perl
19 25 (0.38%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,377 (21.20%) Degree
2 738 (11.36%) Security Cleared
3 511 (7.87%) SC Cleared
4 241 (3.71%) ACCA
5 228 (3.51%) CIMA
6 174 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 162 (2.49%) DV Cleared
8 137 (2.11%) DBS Check
9 135 (2.08%) CISSP
10 129 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
11 117 (1.80%) Master's Degree
12 106 (1.63%) CISM
13 102 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
14 86 (1.32%) HND
15 82 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
16 81 (1.25%) Azure Certification
17 66 (1.02%) HNC
18 63 (0.97%) CompTIA Security+
19 54 (0.83%) AWS Certification
20 53 (0.82%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 636 (9.79%) Data Quality
2 375 (5.77%) QA
3 306 (4.71%) GDPR
4 214 (3.30%) Accessibility
5 208 (3.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 154 (2.37%) NIST
7 145 (2.23%) Cyber Essentials
8 134 (2.06%) SLA
9 115 (1.77%) PCI DSS
10 69 (1.06%) GRC
11 64 (0.99%) Actionable Recommendations
11 64 (0.99%) PMO
12 53 (0.82%) ISO 9001
13 39 (0.60%) IFRS
14 32 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 32 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 31 (0.48%) NCSC
16 28 (0.43%) DO-254
17 24 (0.37%) GAAP
18 23 (0.35%) COBIT
System Software
1 372 (5.73%) Active Directory
2 187 (2.88%) Docker
3 111 (1.71%) Hyper-V
4 78 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 72 (1.11%) Terminal Server
6 54 (0.83%) Firmware
7 24 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
8 18 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
9 12 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.12%) vSphere
11 7 (0.11%) Ceph
12 6 (0.092%) VMware NSX
13 4 (0.062%) DFS Replication
13 4 (0.062%) ISA Server
13 4 (0.062%) KVM
13 4 (0.062%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.031%) IAG
14 2 (0.031%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 1 (0.015%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 127 (1.96%) Kubernetes
2 88 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
3 73 (1.12%) Ansible
4 48 (0.74%) Grafana
5 41 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
6 29 (0.45%) Prometheus
7 23 (0.35%) SCCM
8 21 (0.32%) QRadar
9 20 (0.31%) Kibana
10 13 (0.20%) Nagios
10 13 (0.20%) Nmap
11 11 (0.17%) Podman
12 10 (0.15%) Functional Safety
13 9 (0.14%) Argo
14 7 (0.11%) Check_MK
14 7 (0.11%) EnCase
14 7 (0.11%) FortiGate
14 7 (0.11%) FTK
14 7 (0.11%) Istio
14 7 (0.11%) logstash
Vendors
1 1,591 (24.50%) Microsoft
2 409 (6.30%) Google
3 242 (3.73%) SAP
4 199 (3.06%) Oracle
5 171 (2.63%) VMware
6 158 (2.43%) Splunk
7 157 (2.42%) Salesforce
8 144 (2.22%) ServiceNow
9 127 (1.96%) Databricks
10 100 (1.54%) SolarWinds
11 94 (1.45%) Cisco
12 80 (1.23%) Veeam
13 73 (1.12%) Brocade
13 73 (1.12%) Nimble Storage
13 73 (1.12%) Tanium
13 73 (1.12%) YouTube
14 70 (1.08%) Adobe
14 70 (1.08%) HubSpot
15 53 (0.82%) TikTok
16 50 (0.77%) Workday