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 21 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 8 13
Rank change year-on-year -17 +5 +6
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 6,301 6,071 7,512
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.42% 12.36% 9.69%
As % of the General category 11.72% 18.03% 16.95%
Number of salaries quoted 3,692 2,505 2,966
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,750
Median % change year-on-year - -0.47% -4.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% -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 53,764 33,668 44,323
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.29% 68.54% 57.19%
Number of salaries quoted 32,681 17,557 22,868
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £41,144
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,688 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -4.13% -6.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -1.96%

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 21 September 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 21 September 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 -16 5,572 £52,500 - 8,242
UK excluding London -16 4,205 £47,500 +5.56% 4,227
Work from Home -6 2,109 £55,000 +10.00% 3,275
London -12 1,806 £67,500 +3.85% 4,713
North of England -19 1,136 £47,500 +6.74% 943
South East -10 984 £49,536 +1.09% 1,183
Midlands -10 738 £47,500 +5.56% 677
North West -16 686 £46,500 +3.33% 570
South West -9 592 £47,500 +5.56% 504
West Midlands -18 380 £47,744 +6.10% 419
East Midlands -4 355 £45,000 +12.50% 257
Yorkshire -7 313 £47,000 +17.50% 278
East of England -15 267 £47,500 +18.75% 395
Wales -5 202 £45,000 -10.40% 99
Northern Ireland -1 153 £43,750 -20.45% 172
Scotland -22 147 £46,250 +15.63% 322
North East -19 140 £52,750 +31.88% 100

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
1 190 (3.02%) SharePoint
2 176 (2.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 111 (1.76%) Confluence
4 45 (0.71%) Apache Spark
5 39 (0.62%) CMS
6 37 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
6 37 (0.59%) IIS
7 36 (0.57%) Apache
8 29 (0.46%) SAS
9 12 (0.19%) WordPress
10 11 (0.17%) Headless CMS
10 11 (0.17%) Jupyter
11 10 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 9 (0.14%) WebLogic
12 9 (0.14%) WebSphere
13 8 (0.13%) OpenStack
14 7 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
15 3 (0.048%) Appian
15 3 (0.048%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 3 (0.048%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 728 (11.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 317 (5.03%) Microsoft Office
3 128 (2.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 73 (1.16%) MS Visio
5 48 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
6 44 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
7 18 (0.29%) Simulink
8 16 (0.25%) AutoCAD
9 9 (0.14%) Chatbot
9 9 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
10 7 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 7 (0.11%) Adobe XD
10 7 (0.11%) Photoshop
11 6 (0.095%) Acrobat
11 6 (0.095%) CATIA
11 6 (0.095%) Siemens NX
12 5 (0.079%) EPLAN
12 5 (0.079%) Revit
13 4 (0.063%) InDesign
14 3 (0.048%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 110 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 65 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
3 38 (0.60%) NetSuite
4 35 (0.56%) Dynamics GP
5 27 (0.43%) Shopify
6 17 (0.27%) Workday HCM
7 15 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
7 15 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
8 12 (0.19%) Magento
8 12 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
8 12 (0.19%) SAP CO
8 12 (0.19%) SAP FI
9 11 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
10 10 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
10 10 (0.16%) Infor M3
10 10 (0.16%) SAP Business One
10 10 (0.16%) SAP PM
11 9 (0.14%) Fidessa
11 9 (0.14%) Sage 200
11 9 (0.14%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,015 (16.11%) Azure
2 748 (11.87%) Power Platform
3 639 (10.14%) AWS
4 448 (7.11%) Microsoft 365
5 391 (6.21%) SaaS
6 295 (4.68%) GCP
7 175 (2.78%) Entra ID
8 156 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
9 155 (2.46%) Dynamics 365
10 127 (2.02%) Google Analytics
11 117 (1.86%) Google Ads
12 105 (1.67%) GitHub
13 92 (1.46%) Serverless
14 88 (1.40%) Meta Ads
15 84 (1.33%) Microsoft Purview
15 84 (1.33%) Power Automate
16 82 (1.30%) Snowflake
17 81 (1.29%) PowerApps
18 78 (1.24%) Amazon S3
19 70 (1.11%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 201 (3.19%) DNS
2 156 (2.48%) DHCP
3 147 (2.33%) Firewall
4 131 (2.08%) VPN
5 106 (1.68%) TCP/IP
6 79 (1.25%) Internet
7 77 (1.22%) WAN
8 72 (1.14%) LAN
9 67 (1.06%) Network Security
10 57 (0.90%) Wireless
11 54 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
12 49 (0.78%) VLAN
13 45 (0.71%) Broadband
14 38 (0.60%) SAN
15 37 (0.59%) HTTP
16 30 (0.48%) VoIP
17 25 (0.40%) 5G
17 25 (0.40%) BGP
18 24 (0.38%) SD-WAN
18 24 (0.38%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 670 (10.63%) Power BI
2 214 (3.40%) SQL Server
3 204 (3.24%) Tableau
4 183 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
5 112 (1.78%) Amazon RDS
6 110 (1.75%) Relational Database
7 103 (1.63%) Metadata
8 85 (1.35%) Looker
8 85 (1.35%) MySQL
9 78 (1.24%) Power Query
10 77 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
11 74 (1.17%) Data Lake
12 72 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 58 (0.92%) Big Data
14 57 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 53 (0.84%) BigQuery
16 49 (0.78%) NoSQL
17 46 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
18 39 (0.62%) MongoDB
19 35 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 265 (4.21%) JIRA
2 244 (3.87%) Git
3 53 (0.84%) Jenkins
4 51 (0.81%) GitLab
5 32 (0.51%) Selenium
6 30 (0.48%) Rational DOORS
7 26 (0.41%) Eclipse
8 24 (0.38%) Cucumber
9 20 (0.32%) Claude Code
9 20 (0.32%) Postman
10 18 (0.29%) LabVIEW
10 18 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
11 16 (0.25%) MLflow
12 15 (0.24%) Bitbucket
12 15 (0.24%) Chocolatey
12 15 (0.24%) JMeter
13 14 (0.22%) Burp Suite
14 13 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
15 11 (0.17%) Cypress.io
15 11 (0.17%) Metasploit
General
1 3,137 (49.79%) Social Skills
2 2,066 (32.79%) Finance
3 711 (11.28%) Marketing
4 539 (8.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 515 (8.17%) Organisational Skills
6 438 (6.95%) Retail
7 413 (6.55%) Law
8 411 (6.52%) Public Sector
9 392 (6.22%) Legal
10 363 (5.76%) Manufacturing
11 327 (5.19%) Influencing Skills
12 243 (3.86%) Presentation Skills
13 242 (3.84%) Banking
14 206 (3.27%) Aerospace
15 157 (2.49%) Telecoms
16 153 (2.43%) Electronics
17 113 (1.79%) Advertising
18 98 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
19 77 (1.22%) Automotive
20 71 (1.13%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,445 (22.93%) Analyst
2 829 (13.16%) Senior
3 423 (6.71%) Lead
4 306 (4.86%) Data Analyst
5 304 (4.82%) Business Analyst
6 298 (4.73%) Developer
7 238 (3.78%) Consultant
8 237 (3.76%) Architect
9 228 (3.62%) Senior Analyst
10 203 (3.22%) Support Analyst
11 191 (3.03%) Data Engineer
12 179 (2.84%) Systems Engineer
13 127 (2.02%) Support Engineer
14 118 (1.87%) IT Support
15 113 (1.79%) Applications Support
16 109 (1.73%) Security Analyst
17 108 (1.71%) IT Manager
18 107 (1.70%) Senior Manager
19 105 (1.67%) Administrator
20 104 (1.65%) Accountant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (2.57%) .NET
2 146 (2.32%) Terraform
3 133 (2.11%) REST
4 124 (1.97%) HTML
5 113 (1.79%) CSS
6 91 (1.44%) JSON
7 82 (1.30%) RESTful
8 80 (1.27%) XML
9 79 (1.25%) Middleware
10 74 (1.17%) PySpark
11 70 (1.11%) React
12 68 (1.08%) Kafka
13 64 (1.02%) SOAP
14 48 (0.76%) EDI
14 48 (0.76%) PyTorch
15 47 (0.75%) Web Services
16 46 (0.73%) LDAP
17 42 (0.67%) TensorFlow
18 41 (0.65%) Spring Boot
19 39 (0.62%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 475 (7.54%) Analytical Mindset
2 442 (7.01%) Management Information System
3 391 (6.21%) Onboarding
4 316 (5.02%) Self-Motivation
5 291 (4.62%) Product Ownership
6 157 (2.49%) Driving Licence
7 148 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
8 140 (2.22%) Cloud Native
8 140 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
9 123 (1.95%) Social Media
10 118 (1.87%) Blog
11 113 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
12 106 (1.68%) Marketing Technology
13 103 (1.63%) Data Centre
14 101 (1.60%) Security Posture
15 97 (1.54%) Virtual Team
16 86 (1.36%) Data Structures
17 75 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
18 65 (1.03%) Algorithms
19 64 (1.02%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 466 (7.40%) Windows
2 302 (4.79%) Linux
3 220 (3.49%) Windows Server
4 93 (1.48%) Windows Server 2016
5 41 (0.65%) Windows 10
6 35 (0.56%) Mac OS
7 32 (0.51%) Unix
8 27 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 24 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
10 23 (0.37%) Apple iOS
11 19 (0.30%) Android
12 9 (0.14%) CentOS
13 8 (0.13%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.095%) Debian
14 6 (0.095%) VMS
15 5 (0.079%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.063%) CoreOS
17 2 (0.032%) AIX
17 2 (0.032%) Solaris
17 2 (0.032%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,068 (48.69%) Problem-Solving
2 1,884 (29.90%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,505 (23.89%) Decision-Making
4 1,275 (20.23%) Analytics
5 1,254 (19.90%) Stakeholder Management
6 1,145 (18.17%) AI
7 1,099 (17.44%) Agile
8 834 (13.24%) Business Intelligence
9 680 (10.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 627 (9.95%) Roadmaps
11 620 (9.84%) Mentoring
12 595 (9.44%) Actionable Insight
13 585 (9.28%) Validation
14 550 (8.73%) Data Analysis
15 544 (8.63%) Process Improvement
16 539 (8.55%) Project Management
17 511 (8.11%) CRM
17 511 (8.11%) Cybersecurity
18 508 (8.06%) ERP
19 497 (7.89%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 1,205 (19.12%) SQL
2 867 (13.76%) Python
3 233 (3.70%) JavaScript
4 215 (3.41%) Java
5 198 (3.14%) C#
6 194 (3.08%) PowerShell
7 119 (1.89%) C++
8 92 (1.46%) Bash
9 84 (1.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 81 (1.29%) R
11 72 (1.14%) TypeScript
12 55 (0.87%) MATLAB
13 50 (0.79%) T-SQL
14 40 (0.63%) C
15 33 (0.52%) Shell Script
16 31 (0.49%) PL/SQL
17 29 (0.46%) Scala
18 24 (0.38%) PHP
19 23 (0.37%) Go
19 23 (0.37%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,278 (20.28%) Degree
2 704 (11.17%) Security Cleared
3 486 (7.71%) SC Cleared
4 263 (4.17%) ACCA
5 245 (3.89%) CIMA
6 180 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 159 (2.52%) DV Cleared
8 151 (2.40%) CISSP
9 142 (2.25%) DBS Check
10 129 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
11 119 (1.89%) CISM
12 111 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
13 101 (1.60%) Master's Degree
14 81 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
15 80 (1.27%) Azure Certification
16 76 (1.21%) HND
17 67 (1.06%) CompTIA Security+
18 63 (1.00%) PMI Certification
19 55 (0.87%) HNC
20 48 (0.76%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 621 (9.86%) Data Quality
2 386 (6.13%) QA
3 335 (5.32%) GDPR
4 230 (3.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 200 (3.17%) Accessibility
6 173 (2.75%) NIST
7 148 (2.35%) SLA
8 147 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials
9 119 (1.89%) PCI DSS
10 71 (1.13%) GRC
11 69 (1.10%) ISO 9001
12 60 (0.95%) PMO
13 55 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
14 40 (0.63%) IFRS
15 39 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 35 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 29 (0.46%) NCSC
18 27 (0.43%) COBIT
19 26 (0.41%) DO-254
20 25 (0.40%) GAAP
System Software
1 340 (5.40%) Active Directory
2 162 (2.57%) Docker
3 103 (1.63%) Hyper-V
4 87 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 72 (1.14%) Terminal Server
6 45 (0.71%) Firmware
7 22 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
8 21 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
10 11 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
11 8 (0.13%) vSphere
12 7 (0.11%) Ceph
12 7 (0.11%) VMware NSX
13 4 (0.063%) KVM
13 4 (0.063%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.048%) DFS Replication
15 2 (0.032%) IAG
15 2 (0.032%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 1 (0.016%) HDFS
16 1 (0.016%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 116 (1.84%) Kubernetes
2 85 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
3 72 (1.14%) Ansible
4 42 (0.67%) Grafana
5 40 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
6 23 (0.37%) Prometheus
6 23 (0.37%) SCCM
7 21 (0.33%) Kibana
8 20 (0.32%) QRadar
9 11 (0.17%) Nagios
9 11 (0.17%) Nmap
9 11 (0.17%) Podman
10 9 (0.14%) Argo
10 9 (0.14%) logstash
11 7 (0.11%) Check_MK
11 7 (0.11%) Functional Safety
11 7 (0.11%) Istio
11 7 (0.11%) Kubeflow
12 6 (0.095%) Graylog
12 6 (0.095%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1,493 (23.69%) Microsoft
2 381 (6.05%) Google
3 254 (4.03%) SAP
4 195 (3.09%) Oracle
5 177 (2.81%) VMware
6 155 (2.46%) Splunk
7 143 (2.27%) Databricks
8 138 (2.19%) Salesforce
9 136 (2.16%) ServiceNow
10 94 (1.49%) SolarWinds
11 86 (1.36%) Cisco
12 80 (1.27%) Veeam
13 73 (1.16%) Brocade
13 73 (1.16%) Nimble Storage
14 72 (1.14%) Tanium
15 70 (1.11%) Adobe
16 65 (1.03%) HubSpot
17 64 (1.02%) YouTube
18 58 (0.92%) Workday
19 44 (0.70%) Sage