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 1 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 9 13
Rank change year-on-year -16 +4 +7
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 5,515 6,152 8,241
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.34% 12.42% 9.59%
As % of the General category 11.39% 17.95% 16.72%
Number of salaries quoted 3,472 2,649 3,905
10th Percentile £31,735 £30,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £87,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500

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 48,440 34,270 49,279
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.93% 69.21% 57.36%
Number of salaries quoted 29,730 17,985 30,220
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £39,750 £35,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,201 £75,246 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £99,273 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -7.22% -7.62%

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 1 August 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 1 August 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 4,999 £53,500 -2.73% 3,539
UK excluding London -19 3,533 £47,500 - 2,241
Work from Home -10 1,759 £55,000 +9.03% 1,507
London -10 1,691 £67,500 +3.85% 1,697
North of England -18 1,014 £47,500 +5.56% 570
South East -9 866 £50,000 -4.76% 671
Midlands -10 628 £48,000 +6.21% 350
North West -17 612 £47,050 +0.11% 316
South West -15 483 £47,500 - 292
West Midlands -16 333 £50,149 +11.44% 204
East Midlands -2 293 £45,000 -2.17% 145
Yorkshire -12 285 £47,500 +5.91% 185
East of England -21 252 £45,025 +0.06% 204
North East -22 117 £55,000 +37.50% 74
Wales -14 115 £53,171 -3.33% 52
Scotland -29 112 £42,068 -4.39% 97
Northern Ireland -33 73 £42,500 -22.73% 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
1 191 (3.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 157 (2.85%) SharePoint
3 78 (1.41%) Confluence
4 70 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
4 70 (1.27%) Apache Spark
5 48 (0.87%) Apache
6 45 (0.82%) CMS
7 26 (0.47%) IIS
8 24 (0.44%) SAS
9 13 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 12 (0.22%) WordPress
11 10 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
12 9 (0.16%) Jupyter
12 9 (0.16%) WebLogic
12 9 (0.16%) WebSphere
13 8 (0.15%) OpenStack
14 4 (0.073%) Headless CMS
15 3 (0.054%) Anypoint
15 3 (0.054%) JBoss
15 3 (0.054%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 607 (11.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 228 (4.13%) Microsoft Office
3 118 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 81 (1.47%) MS Visio
5 34 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
6 29 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.16%) Adobe XD
8 7 (0.13%) CATIA
9 5 (0.091%) Acrobat
9 5 (0.091%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.073%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 4 (0.073%) AutoCAD
10 4 (0.073%) Maya
11 3 (0.054%) Blender
11 3 (0.054%) EPLAN
11 3 (0.054%) LaTeX
11 3 (0.054%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.054%) Simulink
11 3 (0.054%) Trello
12 2 (0.036%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 74 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 70 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 38 (0.69%) NetSuite
4 36 (0.65%) Dynamics GP
5 20 (0.36%) SAP PM
6 18 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
7 17 (0.31%) SAP CO
8 16 (0.29%) SAP FI
9 15 (0.27%) SAP ERP
9 15 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
10 13 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
11 10 (0.18%) Magento
12 9 (0.16%) Elite 3E
12 9 (0.16%) Maximo
13 8 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
13 8 (0.15%) Sage 200
13 8 (0.15%) Shopify
13 8 (0.15%) Workday HCM
14 7 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
14 7 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 964 (17.48%) Azure
2 695 (12.60%) Power Platform
3 569 (10.32%) AWS
4 409 (7.42%) Microsoft 365
5 341 (6.18%) SaaS
6 256 (4.64%) GCP
7 138 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
8 131 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
9 125 (2.27%) Entra ID
10 97 (1.76%) Snowflake
11 96 (1.74%) Google Analytics
12 85 (1.54%) GitHub
13 82 (1.49%) dbt
14 80 (1.45%) Power Automate
15 73 (1.32%) Amazon S3
15 73 (1.32%) PowerApps
16 71 (1.29%) Microsoft Purview
17 59 (1.07%) Serverless
18 56 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
19 55 (1.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 199 (3.61%) DNS
2 155 (2.81%) DHCP
3 153 (2.77%) Firewall
4 128 (2.32%) VPN
5 96 (1.74%) TCP/IP
6 79 (1.43%) WAN
7 78 (1.41%) LAN
8 63 (1.14%) Broadband
9 60 (1.09%) Wireless
10 58 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
11 54 (0.98%) Network Security
12 43 (0.78%) VLAN
13 42 (0.76%) SAN
14 41 (0.74%) Internet
15 37 (0.67%) HTTP
16 30 (0.54%) BGP
17 23 (0.42%) VoIP
18 22 (0.40%) OSPF
18 22 (0.40%) SD-WAN
19 21 (0.38%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 615 (11.15%) Power BI
2 284 (5.15%) Tableau
3 213 (3.86%) SQL Server
4 196 (3.55%) Data Warehouse
5 119 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
6 90 (1.63%) Metadata
6 90 (1.63%) Relational Database
7 80 (1.45%) Looker
8 73 (1.32%) Data Lake
8 73 (1.32%) MySQL
9 72 (1.31%) Power Query
10 71 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
11 66 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 60 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 58 (1.05%) Data Mining
14 57 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
14 57 (1.03%) BigQuery
15 46 (0.83%) Big Data
16 42 (0.76%) NoSQL
17 38 (0.69%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 219 (3.97%) JIRA
2 201 (3.64%) Git
3 59 (1.07%) GitLab
4 50 (0.91%) Jenkins
5 34 (0.62%) Rational DOORS
6 32 (0.58%) MLflow
7 31 (0.56%) Selenium
8 23 (0.42%) Cucumber
9 20 (0.36%) Postman
10 18 (0.33%) Eclipse
11 16 (0.29%) Chocolatey
12 15 (0.27%) ERwin
13 14 (0.25%) JMeter
14 13 (0.24%) Bitbucket
14 13 (0.24%) IBM UrbanCode
15 12 (0.22%) Cypress.io
15 12 (0.22%) SonarQube
15 12 (0.22%) Visual Studio
16 10 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
17 9 (0.16%) Oracle APEX
General
1 2,624 (47.58%) Social Skills
2 1,823 (33.06%) Finance
3 502 (9.10%) Marketing
4 440 (7.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 390 (7.07%) Organisational Skills
6 361 (6.55%) Retail
7 333 (6.04%) Public Sector
8 327 (5.93%) Law
9 312 (5.66%) Legal
10 261 (4.73%) Banking
11 237 (4.30%) Influencing Skills
12 236 (4.28%) Manufacturing
13 157 (2.85%) Presentation Skills
14 136 (2.47%) Telecoms
15 125 (2.27%) Aerospace
16 99 (1.80%) Advertising
17 97 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
18 88 (1.60%) Electronics
19 74 (1.34%) Financial Institution
20 62 (1.12%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,328 (24.08%) Analyst
2 703 (12.75%) Senior
3 386 (7.00%) Lead
4 314 (5.69%) Data Analyst
5 281 (5.10%) Business Analyst
6 267 (4.84%) Developer
7 231 (4.19%) Consultant
8 219 (3.97%) Systems Engineer
9 210 (3.81%) Architect
10 169 (3.06%) Senior Analyst
11 162 (2.94%) Data Engineer
12 152 (2.76%) Support Analyst
13 131 (2.38%) Support Engineer
14 121 (2.19%) IT Support
15 110 (1.99%) IT Manager
16 105 (1.90%) Security Analyst
17 104 (1.89%) Financial Analyst
18 101 (1.83%) Systems Analyst
19 99 (1.80%) Senior Manager
20 87 (1.58%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (2.38%) .NET
2 119 (2.16%) HTML
3 115 (2.09%) REST
4 109 (1.98%) CSS
5 93 (1.69%) JSON
6 83 (1.50%) XML
7 79 (1.43%) Middleware
8 78 (1.41%) React
9 75 (1.36%) Kafka
10 66 (1.20%) RESTful
11 64 (1.16%) PyTorch
12 58 (1.05%) TensorFlow
13 54 (0.98%) SOAP
14 50 (0.91%) PySpark
15 43 (0.78%) scikit-learn
16 41 (0.74%) Node.js
16 41 (0.74%) Web Services
17 35 (0.63%) EDI
17 35 (0.63%) Pandas
18 34 (0.62%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 546 (9.90%) Analytical Mindset
2 311 (5.64%) Management Information System
3 268 (4.86%) Onboarding
4 249 (4.51%) Self-Motivation
5 238 (4.32%) Product Ownership
6 165 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
7 127 (2.30%) Cloud Native
8 118 (2.14%) Driving Licence
9 107 (1.94%) Security Posture
10 101 (1.83%) Data Centre
11 95 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
12 94 (1.70%) Social Media
13 91 (1.65%) Virtual Team
14 87 (1.58%) Cyber Threat
15 82 (1.49%) Data Structures
16 78 (1.41%) Algorithms
17 77 (1.40%) Blog
18 64 (1.16%) Marketing Technology
19 62 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
20 57 (1.03%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 447 (8.11%) Windows
2 303 (5.49%) Linux
3 221 (4.01%) Windows Server
4 108 (1.96%) Windows Server 2016
5 36 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 32 (0.58%) Unix
6 32 (0.58%) Windows 10
7 29 (0.53%) Mac OS
8 23 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
9 22 (0.40%) Android
10 18 (0.33%) Apple iOS
11 15 (0.27%) CentOS
12 12 (0.22%) Ubuntu
13 7 (0.13%) Debian
13 7 (0.13%) VMS
14 5 (0.091%) OpenVMS
15 4 (0.073%) CoreOS
15 4 (0.073%) Rocky
16 3 (0.054%) AIX
17 2 (0.036%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,572 (46.64%) Problem-Solving
2 1,518 (27.52%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,235 (22.39%) Decision-Making
4 1,211 (21.96%) Analytics
5 968 (17.55%) Agile
6 858 (15.56%) AI
7 849 (15.39%) Stakeholder Management
8 724 (13.13%) Business Intelligence
9 607 (11.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 568 (10.30%) Roadmaps
11 521 (9.45%) Project Management
12 519 (9.41%) Mentoring
13 515 (9.34%) Actionable Insight
14 483 (8.76%) Data Analysis
15 475 (8.61%) Data Modelling
16 464 (8.41%) Cybersecurity
17 451 (8.18%) Customer Experience
18 449 (8.14%) Process Improvement
19 447 (8.11%) Validation
20 428 (7.76%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 1,118 (20.27%) SQL
2 909 (16.48%) Python
3 208 (3.77%) JavaScript
4 192 (3.48%) Java
5 184 (3.34%) PowerShell
6 173 (3.14%) C#
7 97 (1.76%) C++
8 93 (1.69%) Bash
9 86 (1.56%) R
10 77 (1.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 60 (1.09%) TypeScript
12 50 (0.91%) T-SQL
13 43 (0.78%) MATLAB
14 30 (0.54%) C
15 25 (0.45%) PHP
15 25 (0.45%) Scala
16 23 (0.42%) Go
17 22 (0.40%) PL/SQL
18 21 (0.38%) VBA
19 19 (0.34%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,020 (18.50%) Degree
2 572 (10.37%) Security Cleared
3 409 (7.42%) SC Cleared
4 262 (4.75%) ACCA
5 246 (4.46%) CIMA
6 161 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 158 (2.86%) CISSP
8 148 (2.68%) DBS Check
9 125 (2.27%) DV Cleared
10 122 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
11 117 (2.12%) CISM
12 105 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
13 96 (1.74%) Master's Degree
14 73 (1.32%) IRCA
14 73 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
15 71 (1.29%) CompTIA Security+
16 67 (1.21%) Azure Certification
17 61 (1.11%) PMI Certification
18 49 (0.89%) PMP
19 46 (0.83%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 531 (9.63%) Data Quality
2 391 (7.09%) GDPR
3 380 (6.89%) QA
4 242 (4.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 194 (3.52%) NIST
6 167 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
7 156 (2.83%) SLA
8 155 (2.81%) Accessibility
9 143 (2.59%) PCI DSS
10 124 (2.25%) ISO 9001
11 75 (1.36%) GRC
12 66 (1.20%) PMO
13 46 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
14 41 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 40 (0.73%) IFRS
16 39 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 35 (0.63%) COBIT
18 28 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
19 24 (0.44%) NCSC
19 24 (0.44%) SOC 2
System Software
1 324 (5.87%) Active Directory
2 129 (2.34%) Docker
3 110 (1.99%) Hyper-V
4 88 (1.60%) Terminal Server
5 87 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
6 25 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
7 19 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
8 15 (0.27%) Firmware
9 9 (0.16%) IAG
9 9 (0.16%) VMware NSX
9 9 (0.16%) vSphere
10 8 (0.15%) ProxySG
11 7 (0.13%) Ceph
12 5 (0.091%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.073%) KVM
13 4 (0.073%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.073%) XenApp
14 3 (0.054%) DFS Replication
14 3 (0.054%) Embedded Firmware
14 3 (0.054%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 147 (2.67%) Terraform
2 111 (2.01%) Kubernetes
3 84 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 72 (1.31%) Ansible
5 43 (0.78%) Grafana
6 28 (0.51%) Prometheus
7 25 (0.45%) SCCM
8 24 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
9 22 (0.40%) Nagios
10 17 (0.31%) QRadar
11 16 (0.29%) Kibana
12 12 (0.22%) Podman
13 9 (0.16%) Kubeflow
14 8 (0.15%) Argo
14 8 (0.15%) logstash
15 7 (0.13%) Check_MK
15 7 (0.13%) Istio
15 7 (0.13%) Nmap
15 7 (0.13%) Packer
15 7 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 1,209 (21.92%) Microsoft
2 243 (4.41%) Google
3 234 (4.24%) SAP
4 185 (3.35%) VMware
5 184 (3.34%) Oracle
6 154 (2.79%) Splunk
7 131 (2.38%) Databricks
7 131 (2.38%) Salesforce
8 130 (2.36%) SolarWinds
9 120 (2.18%) ServiceNow
10 99 (1.80%) Veeam
11 89 (1.61%) Brocade
11 89 (1.61%) Nimble Storage
12 88 (1.60%) Tanium
13 84 (1.52%) Cisco
14 77 (1.40%) Workday
15 68 (1.23%) Red Hat
16 51 (0.92%) Adobe
16 51 (0.92%) Dell
17 46 (0.83%) IBM