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 4 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 13 18
Rank change year-on-year -3 +5 +4
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 5,133 5,929 4,753
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 8.69% 10.90% 9.01%
As % of the General category 14.60% 16.51% 14.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2,497 2,491 3,287
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £91,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.71% +1.93% -

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 35,151 35,917 33,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.54% 66.00% 63.26%
Number of salaries quoted 19,010 16,501 24,451
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -4.76%

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 4 January 2026.

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 4 January 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 -5 4,451 £50,000 -9.09% 2,902
UK excluding London -9 3,293 £45,000 -11.71% 2,226
Work from Home +6 1,770 £52,500 -6.25% 1,171
London +2 1,535 £67,500 +3.85% 1,071
South East +5 852 £50,000 - 775
North of England -15 775 £42,500 -19.05% 433
Midlands -11 605 £42,920 -11.05% 359
North West -13 410 £44,000 -16.19% 222
South West +5 377 £45,000 -13.46% 266
West Midlands -14 359 £52,500 +5.00% 208
Scotland 0 321 £40,000 -33.74% 66
East of England -18 274 £40,000 -21.52% 302
Yorkshire +1 266 £40,000 -20.00% 179
East Midlands +4 244 £37,500 -11.76% 141
North East +8 99 £41,500 -5.68% 37
Wales +12 77 £47,811 -2.63% 52
Northern Ireland -2 44 £52,500 -11.66% 21
Isle of Man -1 1 £62,500 +150.00% 1
Channel Islands -6 1 - -

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
1 144 (2.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 88 (1.71%) Confluence
3 86 (1.68%) SharePoint
4 44 (0.86%) Apache Spark
5 41 (0.80%) CMS
6 21 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
7 20 (0.39%) SAS
8 17 (0.33%) WordPress
9 16 (0.31%) IIS
10 15 (0.29%) Apache
11 6 (0.12%) nginx
11 6 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 4 (0.078%) Camunda
12 4 (0.078%) Drupal
13 3 (0.058%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.058%) HCL Notes
13 3 (0.058%) Skype for Business
14 2 (0.039%) FactoryTalk
14 2 (0.039%) govService
14 2 (0.039%) MTS
Applications
1 765 (14.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 409 (7.97%) Chatbot
3 342 (6.66%) Microsoft Office
4 133 (2.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 68 (1.32%) MS Visio
6 56 (1.09%) Maya
7 42 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
8 36 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
9 21 (0.41%) AutoCAD
10 15 (0.29%) Adobe XD
11 8 (0.16%) SOLIDWORKS
12 5 (0.097%) CATIA
13 4 (0.078%) Oracle Smart View
13 4 (0.078%) PlantUML
13 4 (0.078%) Sketch
14 3 (0.058%) Photoshop
14 3 (0.058%) Stata
15 2 (0.039%) Revit
15 2 (0.039%) Simulink
15 2 (0.039%) Trello
Business Applications
1 147 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 67 (1.31%) SAP MDG
3 55 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
4 45 (0.88%) NetSuite
5 39 (0.76%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 32 (0.62%) SAP CO
7 31 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
8 30 (0.58%) Shopify
9 28 (0.55%) SAP FI
10 27 (0.53%) SAP FI/CO
11 21 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
11 21 (0.41%) SAP IBP
12 18 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
13 17 (0.33%) Endur
13 17 (0.33%) Oracle Assets
14 16 (0.31%) Workday HCM
15 13 (0.25%) Sage X3
16 11 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
16 11 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
16 11 (0.21%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 801 (15.60%) Azure
2 606 (11.81%) Power Platform
3 432 (8.42%) AWS
4 271 (5.28%) Microsoft 365
5 243 (4.73%) SaaS
6 153 (2.98%) GCP
7 144 (2.81%) Azure DevOps
8 99 (1.93%) Dynamics 365
9 81 (1.58%) GitHub
10 77 (1.50%) Snowflake
11 69 (1.34%) Azure Data Factory
12 67 (1.31%) Entra ID
13 62 (1.21%) Google Analytics
14 56 (1.09%) Power Automate
15 52 (1.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 52 (1.01%) Cloud Computing
16 49 (0.95%) Serverless
17 47 (0.92%) dbt
18 38 (0.74%) PowerApps
19 37 (0.72%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 164 (3.20%) DNS
2 132 (2.57%) DHCP
3 124 (2.42%) Firewall
4 76 (1.48%) VPN
5 71 (1.38%) Network Security
5 71 (1.38%) Wi-Fi
6 60 (1.17%) WAN
7 59 (1.15%) LAN
8 46 (0.90%) Wireless
9 44 (0.86%) Remote Desktop
10 42 (0.82%) TCP/IP
11 35 (0.68%) VLAN
12 31 (0.60%) SMS
13 30 (0.58%) VoIP
14 25 (0.49%) OSPF
15 22 (0.43%) BGP
15 22 (0.43%) Broadband
16 21 (0.41%) EIGRP
16 21 (0.41%) SAN
17 20 (0.39%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 556 (10.83%) Power BI
2 366 (7.13%) Tableau
3 185 (3.60%) SQL Server
4 170 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
5 162 (3.16%) Data Mining
6 114 (2.22%) Metadata
7 111 (2.16%) Data Lake
8 108 (2.10%) Amazon RDS
9 100 (1.95%) Relational Database
10 67 (1.31%) NoSQL
11 57 (1.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 56 (1.09%) MySQL
13 53 (1.03%) Looker
14 45 (0.88%) Big Data
14 45 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
14 45 (0.88%) SAP BW
15 43 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
16 41 (0.80%) GIS
17 39 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
18 38 (0.74%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 214 (4.17%) JIRA
2 97 (1.89%) Git
3 47 (0.92%) Selenium
4 43 (0.84%) Jenkins
5 40 (0.78%) GitLab
6 18 (0.35%) Bitbucket
6 18 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
7 15 (0.29%) Robot Framework
7 15 (0.29%) WebDriver
8 14 (0.27%) Cypress.io
8 14 (0.27%) Postman
8 14 (0.27%) Subversion
9 13 (0.25%) Balsamiq
9 13 (0.25%) ER Studio
9 13 (0.25%) ERwin
9 13 (0.25%) Snyk
10 12 (0.23%) Axure RP
11 10 (0.19%) Visual Studio
12 9 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
12 9 (0.18%) webpack
General
1 2,638 (51.39%) Social Skills
2 1,750 (34.09%) Finance
3 529 (10.31%) Marketing
4 334 (6.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 333 (6.49%) Law
6 296 (5.77%) Retail
7 290 (5.65%) Legal
8 249 (4.85%) Banking
9 245 (4.77%) Organisational Skills
10 233 (4.54%) Public Sector
11 221 (4.31%) Presentation Skills
12 205 (3.99%) Manufacturing
13 135 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
14 127 (2.47%) Financial Institution
15 125 (2.44%) Telecoms
16 118 (2.30%) Games
17 89 (1.73%) Electronics
18 80 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
19 77 (1.50%) Advertising
20 57 (1.11%) German Language
Job Titles
1 1,129 (21.99%) Analyst
2 647 (12.60%) Senior
3 407 (7.93%) Trainer
4 346 (6.74%) Lead
5 335 (6.53%) Data Analyst
6 324 (6.31%) Architect
7 222 (4.32%) Developer
8 203 (3.95%) Business Analyst
9 200 (3.90%) Consultant
10 163 (3.18%) Support Analyst
11 139 (2.71%) IT Support
12 138 (2.69%) Trainee
13 137 (2.67%) Senior Analyst
14 130 (2.53%) Solutions Architect
15 124 (2.42%) Systems Engineer
16 118 (2.30%) Trainee Analyst
16 118 (2.30%) Trainee Data Analyst
17 108 (2.10%) Senior Manager
18 106 (2.07%) Business Manager
18 106 (2.07%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (2.24%) HTML
2 102 (1.99%) CSS
3 83 (1.62%) React
4 77 (1.50%) REST
5 65 (1.27%) .NET
6 58 (1.13%) Middleware
7 42 (0.82%) JSON
8 36 (0.70%) SOAP
9 35 (0.68%) AngularJS
9 35 (0.68%) EDI
10 34 (0.66%) XML
11 33 (0.64%) Kafka
11 33 (0.64%) Node.js
12 28 (0.55%) LangChain
13 26 (0.51%) Spring
14 24 (0.47%) PySpark
15 23 (0.45%) FIX Protocol
15 23 (0.45%) Oracle Fusion
15 23 (0.45%) Web Services
16 22 (0.43%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 517 (10.07%) Analytical Mindset
2 379 (7.38%) Self-Motivation
3 374 (7.29%) Onboarding
4 278 (5.42%) Management Information System
5 202 (3.94%) Product Ownership
6 162 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
7 134 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
8 90 (1.75%) Data Centre
9 82 (1.60%) Driving Licence
9 82 (1.60%) FMCG
10 72 (1.40%) Cloud Native
11 69 (1.34%) Data Structures
12 54 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 52 (1.01%) Algorithms
13 52 (1.01%) Robotics
14 51 (0.99%) Virtual Team
15 46 (0.90%) Security Posture
16 45 (0.88%) Social Media
17 40 (0.78%) Low-Code
18 38 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 345 (6.72%) Windows
2 240 (4.68%) Linux
3 155 (3.02%) Windows Server
4 97 (1.89%) Windows Server 2016
5 36 (0.70%) Unix
6 21 (0.41%) Mac OS
7 12 (0.23%) Windows 10
8 10 (0.19%) Android
9 7 (0.14%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.078%) Mac OS X
10 4 (0.078%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.078%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.058%) OpenWrt
12 2 (0.039%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.019%) AIX
13 1 (0.019%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.019%) OpenVMS
13 1 (0.019%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.019%) VMS
13 1 (0.019%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,290 (44.61%) Problem-Solving
2 1,166 (22.72%) AI
3 1,115 (21.72%) Analytics
4 1,101 (21.45%) Continuous Improvement
5 1,004 (19.56%) Decision-Making
6 889 (17.32%) Agile
7 803 (15.64%) Project Management
8 747 (14.55%) Business Intelligence
9 662 (12.90%) Stakeholder Management
10 543 (10.58%) Data Analysis
11 443 (8.63%) Risk Management
12 440 (8.57%) Roadmaps
13 423 (8.24%) ERP
14 417 (8.12%) Business Strategy
15 416 (8.10%) Chemistry
16 412 (8.03%) Analytical Thinking
16 412 (8.03%) Cybersecurity
17 411 (8.01%) Conversational UI
18 405 (7.89%) Process Improvement
19 402 (7.83%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 974 (18.98%) SQL
2 677 (13.19%) Python
3 150 (2.92%) Java
4 137 (2.67%) JavaScript
5 113 (2.20%) PowerShell
6 112 (2.18%) C#
7 68 (1.32%) R
8 58 (1.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 46 (0.90%) C++
10 45 (0.88%) T-SQL
11 42 (0.82%) VBA
12 41 (0.80%) Bash
13 31 (0.60%) Scala
14 30 (0.58%) TypeScript
15 21 (0.41%) PL/SQL
16 20 (0.39%) C
16 20 (0.39%) Go
17 16 (0.31%) Kotlin
18 14 (0.27%) ABAP
18 14 (0.27%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1,673 (32.59%) Degree
2 562 (10.95%) Master's Degree
3 446 (8.69%) Security Cleared
4 419 (8.16%) PhD
5 330 (6.43%) SC Cleared
6 209 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 184 (3.58%) ACCA
8 176 (3.43%) CIMA
9 165 (3.21%) CISSP
10 109 (2.12%) DBS Check
11 99 (1.93%) PMI Certification
12 86 (1.68%) DV Cleared
13 82 (1.60%) PMP
14 81 (1.58%) CISM
15 73 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
16 63 (1.23%) Azure Certification
17 60 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
18 55 (1.07%) CompTIA Security+
18 55 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
19 52 (1.01%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 318 (6.20%) Data Quality
2 259 (5.05%) QA
3 191 (3.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 186 (3.62%) GDPR
5 148 (2.88%) Cyber Essentials
6 145 (2.82%) PCI DSS
7 122 (2.38%) NIST
8 112 (2.18%) Accessibility
9 103 (2.01%) PMO
10 53 (1.03%) SLA
11 51 (0.99%) Actionable Recommendations
12 38 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 35 (0.68%) GRC
14 27 (0.53%) IFRS
15 20 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 19 (0.37%) WCAG
17 16 (0.31%) ISO 9001
18 15 (0.29%) COBIT
19 13 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
19 13 (0.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 243 (4.73%) Active Directory
2 120 (2.34%) Hyper-V
3 96 (1.87%) Terminal Server
4 54 (1.05%) Docker
5 50 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
6 16 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
7 14 (0.27%) Firmware
8 12 (0.23%) vSphere
9 9 (0.18%) ProxySG
10 8 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.058%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.039%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.039%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.019%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.019%) NFS
13 1 (0.019%) VMware Server
13 1 (0.019%) zsh
Systems Management
1 87 (1.69%) Terraform
2 63 (1.23%) Kubernetes
3 55 (1.07%) Ansible
4 47 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
6 19 (0.37%) Prometheus
7 13 (0.25%) Grafana
7 13 (0.25%) SCCM
8 6 (0.12%) SCOM
9 5 (0.097%) Computer Incident Response Team
9 5 (0.097%) Nagios
10 4 (0.078%) Control-M
10 4 (0.078%) CSIRT
10 4 (0.078%) Nessus
10 4 (0.078%) QRadar
10 4 (0.078%) Rancher
10 4 (0.078%) vRealize
11 3 (0.058%) CASB
11 3 (0.058%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.039%) Argo
Vendors
1 1,173 (22.85%) Microsoft
2 407 (7.93%) PayPal
3 388 (7.56%) SAP
4 218 (4.25%) Oracle
5 170 (3.31%) Salesforce
6 158 (3.08%) VMware
7 155 (3.02%) Google
8 125 (2.44%) SolarWinds
8 125 (2.44%) Splunk
9 101 (1.97%) ServiceNow
10 97 (1.89%) Brocade
10 97 (1.89%) Tanium
10 97 (1.89%) Veeam
11 96 (1.87%) Nimble Storage
12 83 (1.62%) Databricks
13 82 (1.60%) Cisco
14 64 (1.25%) Adobe
15 49 (0.95%) Workday
16 46 (0.90%) Alteryx
17 45 (0.88%) Bloomberg