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 27 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 9 14
Rank change year-on-year -18 +5 +5
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,861 5,669 9,419
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.44% 13.46% 9.86%
As % of the General category 10.70% 18.95% 16.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2,919 2,524 5,447
10th Percentile £32,722 £31,250 £28,200
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,150 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.55% +10.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £92,350 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,942 £50,393 £45,000
% change year-on-year -2.88% +11.98% -3.23%

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 45,433 29,912 57,664
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 50.87% 71.00% 60.36%
Number of salaries quoted 24,411 15,997 39,480
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +10.48% -12.50%
75th Percentile £76,299 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £105,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +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 27 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Top 18 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 27 April 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 -21 4,335 £55,000 - 1,823
UK excluding London -26 3,026 £48,942 -2.88% 1,501
London -8 1,528 £67,500 +3.85% 639
Work from Home -7 1,424 £55,000 - 878
North of England -31 871 £46,500 -7.00% 336
South East -3 790 £50,000 -4.96% 482
Midlands -26 569 £48,500 +1.04% 283
North West -27 492 £45,000 -10.00% 197
West Midlands -26 343 £51,275 +6.82% 164
Yorkshire -13 286 £51,000 +13.33% 92
South West -27 262 £50,000 -2.76% 164
East of England -36 252 £42,879 -15.87% 146
East Midlands -14 224 £45,000 -5.26% 118
Scotland -22 158 £40,000 -24.23% 50
North East -24 93 £49,222 +29.53% 54
Wales +5 84 £42,500 -15.44% 41
Northern Ireland -22 52 £47,500 -13.64% 35
Isle of Man -2 1 £62,500 +68.92%

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
1 143 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 98 (2.02%) SharePoint
3 74 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
4 72 (1.48%) Apache Spark
5 69 (1.42%) Confluence
6 49 (1.01%) CMS
7 35 (0.72%) Apache
8 20 (0.41%) WordPress
9 17 (0.35%) IIS
10 11 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
10 11 (0.23%) SAS
11 6 (0.12%) nginx
12 4 (0.082%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 4 (0.082%) Drupal
13 3 (0.062%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.062%) govService
13 3 (0.062%) JBoss
14 2 (0.041%) Appian
14 2 (0.041%) Camunda
14 2 (0.041%) Jupyter
Applications
1 638 (13.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 275 (5.66%) Microsoft Office
3 97 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 97 (2.00%) MS Visio
4 33 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
5 29 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
6 24 (0.49%) Chatbot
7 13 (0.27%) Adobe XD
8 12 (0.25%) Maya
9 10 (0.21%) CATIA
10 5 (0.10%) AutoCAD
11 4 (0.082%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.082%) Trello
12 3 (0.062%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.041%) Simulink
14 1 (0.021%) Lectora
14 1 (0.021%) Revit
14 1 (0.021%) SOLIDWORKS
14 1 (0.021%) SPSS
14 1 (0.021%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 68 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 42 (0.86%) NetSuite
3 38 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
4 34 (0.70%) Salesforce CRM
5 22 (0.45%) SAP CO
6 17 (0.35%) SAP ERP
7 15 (0.31%) SAP PM
8 14 (0.29%) Endur
8 14 (0.29%) SAP FI
9 13 (0.27%) Maximo
10 12 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
10 12 (0.25%) Workday HCM
11 11 (0.23%) Sage X3
12 10 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
13 8 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
13 8 (0.16%) Elite 3E
13 8 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
13 8 (0.16%) SAP PP
14 7 (0.14%) Magento
15 6 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 885 (18.21%) Azure
2 673 (13.84%) Power Platform
3 477 (9.81%) AWS
4 340 (6.99%) Microsoft 365
5 262 (5.39%) SaaS
6 214 (4.40%) GCP
7 147 (3.02%) Dynamics 365
8 145 (2.98%) Azure DevOps
9 111 (2.28%) Entra ID
10 105 (2.16%) GitHub
11 98 (2.02%) Power Automate
12 95 (1.95%) Snowflake
13 89 (1.83%) dbt
14 76 (1.56%) Azure Data Factory
15 75 (1.54%) Google Analytics
16 71 (1.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 69 (1.42%) Amazon S3
18 62 (1.28%) Microsoft Purview
19 61 (1.25%) Serverless
20 59 (1.21%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 194 (3.99%) Firewall
2 157 (3.23%) DNS
3 124 (2.55%) VPN
4 119 (2.45%) DHCP
5 81 (1.67%) WAN
6 71 (1.46%) TCP/IP
7 67 (1.38%) LAN
7 67 (1.38%) Wireless
8 63 (1.30%) VLAN
9 57 (1.17%) Wi-Fi
10 49 (1.01%) Network Security
11 46 (0.95%) SAN
12 45 (0.93%) Broadband
13 40 (0.82%) BGP
14 33 (0.68%) OSPF
15 30 (0.62%) Wireshark
16 29 (0.60%) EIGRP
17 28 (0.58%) Cisco ASA
18 26 (0.53%) SD-WAN
19 24 (0.49%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 608 (12.51%) Power BI
2 380 (7.82%) Tableau
3 217 (4.46%) SQL Server
4 170 (3.50%) Data Warehouse
5 158 (3.25%) Data Mining
6 95 (1.95%) Metadata
7 85 (1.75%) Relational Database
8 78 (1.60%) Data Lake
9 75 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
9 75 (1.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 68 (1.40%) Looker
11 61 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
12 54 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
13 48 (0.99%) MySQL
14 47 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
15 46 (0.95%) BigQuery
16 45 (0.93%) Power Query
17 44 (0.91%) NoSQL
18 40 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 37 (0.76%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 182 (3.74%) JIRA
2 132 (2.72%) Git
3 47 (0.97%) GitLab
4 38 (0.78%) Jenkins
5 32 (0.66%) MLflow
6 26 (0.53%) Rational DOORS
6 26 (0.53%) Selenium
7 20 (0.41%) Chocolatey
8 17 (0.35%) Visual Studio
9 15 (0.31%) Balsamiq
10 14 (0.29%) Bitbucket
10 14 (0.29%) Cucumber
10 14 (0.29%) ERwin
11 13 (0.27%) Axure RP
11 13 (0.27%) IBM UrbanCode
11 13 (0.27%) Subversion
12 11 (0.23%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.21%) Postman
13 10 (0.21%) SonarQube
14 9 (0.19%) Maven
General
1 2,369 (48.73%) Social Skills
2 1,803 (37.09%) Finance
3 437 (8.99%) Marketing
4 355 (7.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 292 (6.01%) Banking
6 271 (5.57%) Law
7 266 (5.47%) Organisational Skills
8 259 (5.33%) Legal
8 259 (5.33%) Retail
9 246 (5.06%) Public Sector
10 191 (3.93%) Presentation Skills
11 176 (3.62%) Manufacturing
12 132 (2.72%) Influencing Skills
13 115 (2.37%) Telecoms
14 104 (2.14%) Financial Institution
15 83 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
16 75 (1.54%) Advertising
17 69 (1.42%) Electronics
18 62 (1.28%) Games
19 55 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1,306 (26.87%) Analyst
2 662 (13.62%) Senior
3 356 (7.32%) Data Analyst
4 312 (6.42%) Lead
5 281 (5.78%) Business Analyst
6 242 (4.98%) Developer
7 219 (4.51%) Architect
8 209 (4.30%) Consultant
9 152 (3.13%) Support Analyst
10 148 (3.04%) Trainee
11 145 (2.98%) Systems Engineer
12 136 (2.80%) Senior Manager
12 136 (2.80%) Trainee Analyst
12 136 (2.80%) Trainee Data Analyst
13 135 (2.78%) Senior Analyst
14 115 (2.37%) Financial Analyst
15 111 (2.28%) IT Support
16 107 (2.20%) Data Engineer
17 101 (2.08%) Support Engineer
18 99 (2.04%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (2.86%) HTML
2 126 (2.59%) CSS
3 91 (1.87%) .NET
4 88 (1.81%) REST
5 83 (1.71%) React
6 79 (1.63%) JSON
7 75 (1.54%) Middleware
8 67 (1.38%) XML
9 57 (1.17%) PyTorch
10 53 (1.09%) Kafka
10 53 (1.09%) TensorFlow
11 48 (0.99%) SOAP
12 47 (0.97%) Node.js
13 42 (0.86%) scikit-learn
14 37 (0.76%) PySpark
15 35 (0.72%) Pandas
16 33 (0.68%) LangChain
17 29 (0.60%) RESTful
17 29 (0.60%) Web Services
18 28 (0.58%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 522 (10.74%) Analytical Mindset
2 255 (5.25%) Self-Motivation
3 244 (5.02%) Management Information System
4 224 (4.61%) Onboarding
5 203 (4.18%) Product Ownership
6 102 (2.10%) Data Centre
6 102 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
7 99 (2.04%) Cloud Native
8 83 (1.71%) Data Structures
9 77 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
10 76 (1.56%) Security Posture
11 72 (1.48%) Algorithms
12 64 (1.32%) Driving Licence
13 56 (1.15%) Social Media
14 52 (1.07%) Virtual Team
15 50 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
15 50 (1.03%) Public Cloud
16 47 (0.97%) Low-Code
17 46 (0.95%) FMCG
18 42 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 358 (7.36%) Windows
2 203 (4.18%) Linux
3 153 (3.15%) Windows Server
4 62 (1.28%) Windows Server 2016
5 34 (0.70%) Unix
6 22 (0.45%) Android
6 22 (0.45%) Windows 10
7 21 (0.43%) Mac OS
8 17 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 16 (0.33%) Apple iOS
10 7 (0.14%) CentOS
11 6 (0.12%) VMS
12 5 (0.10%) Ubuntu
13 4 (0.082%) AIX
13 4 (0.082%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.041%) Debian
14 2 (0.041%) OpenWrt
14 2 (0.041%) Oracle Linux
14 2 (0.041%) Rocky
15 1 (0.021%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,191 (45.07%) Problem-Solving
2 1,208 (24.85%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,117 (22.98%) Analytics
4 1,037 (21.33%) Decision-Making
5 848 (17.44%) Agile
6 734 (15.10%) Business Intelligence
7 713 (14.67%) AI
8 625 (12.86%) Stakeholder Management
9 599 (12.32%) Project Management
10 529 (10.88%) Data Analysis
11 481 (9.90%) Actionable Insight
12 446 (9.18%) Mentoring
13 440 (9.05%) Data Modelling
14 429 (8.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 427 (8.78%) Roadmaps
16 417 (8.58%) Analytical Thinking
17 409 (8.41%) Cybersecurity
17 409 (8.41%) Process Improvement
18 383 (7.88%) DevOps
19 373 (7.67%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1,043 (21.46%) SQL
2 852 (17.53%) Python
3 179 (3.68%) JavaScript
4 171 (3.52%) PowerShell
5 170 (3.50%) Java
6 118 (2.43%) C#
7 87 (1.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 63 (1.30%) R
9 58 (1.19%) Bash
10 48 (0.99%) T-SQL
11 46 (0.95%) C++
12 44 (0.91%) TypeScript
13 41 (0.84%) VBA
14 25 (0.51%) MATLAB
15 21 (0.43%) Scala
16 20 (0.41%) Go
17 18 (0.37%) PL/SQL
18 16 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
19 14 (0.29%) C
20 13 (0.27%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,013 (20.84%) Degree
2 378 (7.78%) Security Cleared
3 268 (5.51%) SC Cleared
4 250 (5.14%) ACCA
5 238 (4.90%) CIMA
6 171 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 152 (3.13%) CISSP
8 146 (3.00%) DBS Check
9 135 (2.78%) Master's Degree
10 102 (2.10%) PMI Certification
11 98 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
12 97 (2.00%) CISM
13 90 (1.85%) PMP
14 78 (1.60%) DV Cleared
15 72 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
15 72 (1.48%) IRCA
16 69 (1.42%) Azure Certification
17 64 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
18 59 (1.21%) CompTIA Security+
19 56 (1.15%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 432 (8.89%) Data Quality
2 333 (6.85%) GDPR
3 285 (5.86%) QA
4 239 (4.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 202 (4.16%) NIST
6 132 (2.72%) Cyber Essentials
7 105 (2.16%) PCI DSS
7 105 (2.16%) SLA
8 96 (1.97%) ISO 9001
9 88 (1.81%) Accessibility
10 78 (1.60%) PMO
11 69 (1.42%) Actionable Recommendations
12 57 (1.17%) GRC
13 40 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 38 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 33 (0.68%) IFRS
16 31 (0.64%) COBIT
17 29 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 26 (0.53%) SOC 2
19 22 (0.45%) NCSC
System Software
1 260 (5.35%) Active Directory
2 78 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 73 (1.50%) Docker
3 73 (1.50%) Hyper-V
4 56 (1.15%) Terminal Server
5 23 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 16 (0.33%) ProxySG
7 12 (0.25%) vSphere
8 10 (0.21%) VMware NSX
9 8 (0.16%) IAG
9 8 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.082%) Firmware
10 4 (0.082%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.082%) XenApp
11 3 (0.062%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.062%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.041%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.041%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.021%) KVM
13 1 (0.021%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 134 (2.76%) Terraform
2 79 (1.63%) Kubernetes
3 68 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
4 65 (1.34%) Ansible
5 35 (0.72%) Grafana
6 31 (0.64%) SCCM
7 28 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
8 26 (0.53%) Prometheus
9 18 (0.37%) Nagios
10 10 (0.21%) Kibana
11 8 (0.16%) QRadar
12 7 (0.14%) Control-M
12 7 (0.14%) Kubeflow
13 6 (0.12%) logstash
14 5 (0.10%) CASB
14 5 (0.10%) Packer
15 4 (0.082%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.082%) Graylog
15 4 (0.082%) RSA Archer
15 4 (0.082%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,187 (24.42%) Microsoft
2 207 (4.26%) SAP
3 179 (3.68%) Oracle
4 174 (3.58%) Google
5 146 (3.00%) Salesforce
6 145 (2.98%) VMware
7 115 (2.37%) ServiceNow
8 108 (2.22%) Databricks
9 104 (2.14%) SolarWinds
10 93 (1.91%) Splunk
11 81 (1.67%) Workday
12 73 (1.50%) Cisco
13 64 (1.32%) Veeam
14 57 (1.17%) Tanium
15 56 (1.15%) Brocade
15 56 (1.15%) Nimble Storage
16 53 (1.09%) IBM
17 47 (0.97%) Dell
18 43 (0.88%) Red Hat
19 38 (0.78%) Dynatrace