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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 9 14
Rank change year-on-year -17 +5 +5
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,853 5,667 9,363
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.48% 13.46% 9.82%
As % of the General category 10.71% 18.96% 16.26%
Number of salaries quoted 2,910 2,533 5,455
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,150 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% +10.00% -8.99%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £91,150 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,445 £50,445 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.97% +12.10% -3.07%

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 45,293 29,890 57,566
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 51.15% 70.98% 60.40%
Number of salaries quoted 24,320 16,064 39,486
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £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 £76,250 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,175 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +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 25 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 25 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 4,332 £54,750 -0.45% 1,770
UK excluding London -27 3,019 £48,445 -3.97% 1,567
London -8 1,529 £67,500 +3.85% 570
Work from Home -8 1,420 £55,000 - 1,087
North of England -29 864 £45,000 -10.00% 336
South East -4 793 £50,000 -4.96% 503
Midlands -27 571 £48,000 - 279
North West -27 486 £45,000 -10.00% 197
West Midlands -25 342 £51,250 +6.77% 164
Yorkshire -12 285 £50,000 +11.11% 94
South West -26 261 £48,750 -6.18% 168
East of England -36 251 £42,879 -15.87% 160
East Midlands -12 227 £45,000 -5.26% 114
Scotland -23 158 £40,000 -24.23% 98
North East -23 93 £48,445 +25.83% 52
Wales +4 83 £42,500 -15.66% 39
Northern Ireland -22 50 £40,000 -27.27% 33
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 (2.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 97 (2.00%) SharePoint
3 74 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
4 73 (1.50%) 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
1 645 (13.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 278 (5.73%) 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 64 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 43 (0.89%) NetSuite
3 38 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
4 34 (0.70%) Salesforce CRM
5 22 (0.45%) SAP CO
6 15 (0.31%) SAP ERP
6 15 (0.31%) SAP PM
7 14 (0.29%) Endur
7 14 (0.29%) SAP FI
8 13 (0.27%) Maximo
9 12 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
9 12 (0.25%) Workday HCM
10 11 (0.23%) Sage X3
11 10 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
12 8 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
12 8 (0.16%) Elite 3E
12 8 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
13 7 (0.14%) Magento
13 7 (0.14%) SAP PP
14 6 (0.12%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 879 (18.11%) Azure
2 674 (13.89%) Power Platform
3 475 (9.79%) AWS
4 336 (6.92%) Microsoft 365
5 265 (5.46%) SaaS
6 212 (4.37%) GCP
7 147 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
8 146 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
9 111 (2.29%) Entra ID
10 105 (2.16%) GitHub
11 97 (2.00%) Power Automate
12 94 (1.94%) Snowflake
13 89 (1.83%) dbt
14 77 (1.59%) Azure Data Factory
15 75 (1.55%) Google Analytics
16 71 (1.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 69 (1.42%) Amazon S3
18 62 (1.28%) Microsoft Purview
19 61 (1.26%) Serverless
20 58 (1.20%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 194 (4.00%) Firewall
2 156 (3.21%) DNS
3 124 (2.56%) 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 58 (1.20%) 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 (0.54%) SD-WAN
19 24 (0.49%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 609 (12.55%) Power BI
2 389 (8.02%) Tableau
3 220 (4.53%) SQL Server
4 170 (3.50%) Data Warehouse
5 167 (3.44%) Data Mining
6 95 (1.96%) Metadata
7 86 (1.77%) Relational Database
8 78 (1.61%) Data Lake
9 75 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
10 74 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 68 (1.40%) Looker
12 61 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
13 54 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
14 48 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
14 48 (0.99%) MySQL
15 46 (0.95%) BigQuery
16 45 (0.93%) Power Query
17 44 (0.91%) NoSQL
18 39 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 37 (0.76%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 182 (3.75%) JIRA
2 132 (2.72%) Git
3 47 (0.97%) GitLab
4 38 (0.78%) Jenkins
5 32 (0.66%) MLflow
6 26 (0.54%) Rational DOORS
6 26 (0.54%) 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 2,358 (48.59%) Social Skills
2 1,808 (37.26%) Finance
3 435 (8.96%) Marketing
4 354 (7.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 293 (6.04%) Banking
6 271 (5.58%) Law
7 266 (5.48%) Organisational Skills
8 261 (5.38%) Retail
9 257 (5.30%) Legal
10 245 (5.05%) Public Sector
11 192 (3.96%) Presentation Skills
12 171 (3.52%) Manufacturing
13 121 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
14 115 (2.37%) Telecoms
15 106 (2.18%) Financial Institution
16 84 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
17 75 (1.55%) Advertising
18 68 (1.40%) Electronics
19 62 (1.28%) Games
20 55 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1,316 (27.12%) Analyst
2 662 (13.64%) Senior
3 365 (7.52%) Data Analyst
4 309 (6.37%) Lead
5 280 (5.77%) Business Analyst
6 242 (4.99%) Developer
7 217 (4.47%) Architect
8 207 (4.27%) Consultant
9 158 (3.26%) Support Analyst
10 155 (3.19%) Trainee
11 145 (2.99%) Systems Engineer
12 144 (2.97%) Trainee Analyst
12 144 (2.97%) Trainee Data Analyst
13 137 (2.82%) Senior Manager
14 134 (2.76%) Senior Analyst
15 115 (2.37%) Financial Analyst
16 110 (2.27%) IT Support
17 107 (2.20%) Data Engineer
18 101 (2.08%) Support Engineer
19 99 (2.04%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (2.86%) HTML
2 126 (2.60%) CSS
3 90 (1.85%) .NET
4 86 (1.77%) REST
5 83 (1.71%) React
6 78 (1.61%) JSON
7 73 (1.50%) Middleware
8 65 (1.34%) XML
9 57 (1.17%) PyTorch
10 53 (1.09%) Kafka
10 53 (1.09%) TensorFlow
11 47 (0.97%) Node.js
11 47 (0.97%) SOAP
12 42 (0.87%) scikit-learn
13 37 (0.76%) PySpark
14 35 (0.72%) Pandas
15 33 (0.68%) LangChain
16 29 (0.60%) Web Services
17 28 (0.58%) EDI
17 28 (0.58%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 519 (10.69%) Analytical Mindset
2 257 (5.30%) Self-Motivation
3 246 (5.07%) Management Information System
4 225 (4.64%) Onboarding
5 202 (4.16%) Product Ownership
6 102 (2.10%) Data Centre
6 102 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
7 98 (2.02%) Cloud Native
8 83 (1.71%) Data Structures
9 78 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
10 76 (1.57%) Security Posture
11 72 (1.48%) Algorithms
12 64 (1.32%) Driving Licence
13 56 (1.15%) Social Media
14 53 (1.09%) Virtual Team
15 50 (1.03%) Public Cloud
16 49 (1.01%) Cyber Threat
17 47 (0.97%) Low-Code
18 45 (0.93%) FMCG
19 42 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 358 (7.38%) Windows
2 202 (4.16%) Linux
3 152 (3.13%) Windows Server
4 62 (1.28%) Windows Server 2016
5 34 (0.70%) Unix
6 22 (0.45%) Windows 10
7 21 (0.43%) Android
7 21 (0.43%) Mac OS
8 17 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 15 (0.31%) 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 2,184 (45.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1,199 (24.71%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,113 (22.93%) Analytics
4 1,034 (21.31%) Decision-Making
5 845 (17.41%) Agile
6 738 (15.21%) Business Intelligence
7 715 (14.73%) AI
8 623 (12.84%) Stakeholder Management
9 611 (12.59%) Project Management
10 536 (11.04%) Data Analysis
11 478 (9.85%) Actionable Insight
12 448 (9.23%) Mentoring
13 434 (8.94%) Data Modelling
14 421 (8.68%) Analytical Thinking
15 415 (8.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 413 (8.51%) Roadmaps
17 411 (8.47%) Process Improvement
18 408 (8.41%) Cybersecurity
19 383 (7.89%) DevOps
20 373 (7.69%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1,053 (21.70%) SQL
2 861 (17.74%) Python
3 179 (3.69%) JavaScript
4 170 (3.50%) Java
4 170 (3.50%) PowerShell
5 121 (2.49%) C#
6 89 (1.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 62 (1.28%) R
8 58 (1.20%) Bash
9 47 (0.97%) T-SQL
10 45 (0.93%) C++
11 44 (0.91%) TypeScript
12 41 (0.84%) VBA
13 25 (0.52%) MATLAB
14 22 (0.45%) Scala
15 19 (0.39%) Go
16 18 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
16 18 (0.37%) PL/SQL
17 14 (0.29%) C
18 13 (0.27%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,019 (21.00%) Degree
2 378 (7.79%) Security Cleared
3 269 (5.54%) SC Cleared
4 251 (5.17%) ACCA
5 239 (4.92%) CIMA
6 170 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 153 (3.15%) CISSP
8 144 (2.97%) DBS Check
9 136 (2.80%) 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 (1.61%) DV Cleared
15 72 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
15 72 (1.48%) IRCA
16 69 (1.42%) Azure Certification
17 63 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
18 58 (1.20%) CompTIA Security+
19 56 (1.15%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 432 (8.90%) Data Quality
2 330 (6.80%) GDPR
3 286 (5.89%) QA
4 238 (4.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 202 (4.16%) NIST
6 132 (2.72%) Cyber Essentials
7 105 (2.16%) PCI DSS
8 104 (2.14%) SLA
9 95 (1.96%) ISO 9001
10 88 (1.81%) Accessibility
11 79 (1.63%) PMO
12 69 (1.42%) Actionable Recommendations
13 57 (1.17%) GRC
14 40 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 38 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 33 (0.68%) IFRS
17 31 (0.64%) COBIT
18 29 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
19 26 (0.54%) SOC 2
20 22 (0.45%) NCSC
System Software
1 259 (5.34%) Active Directory
2 78 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 73 (1.50%) Hyper-V
4 72 (1.48%) Docker
5 56 (1.15%) Terminal Server
6 22 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.33%) ProxySG
8 12 (0.25%) vSphere
9 10 (0.21%) VMware NSX
10 8 (0.16%) IAG
10 8 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
11 4 (0.082%) Firmware
11 4 (0.082%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.082%) XenApp
12 3 (0.062%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.062%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.041%) Oracle RAC
13 2 (0.041%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.021%) KVM
14 1 (0.021%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 134 (2.76%) Terraform
2 78 (1.61%) 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 (0.54%) 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 1,194 (24.60%) Microsoft
2 204 (4.20%) SAP
3 179 (3.69%) Oracle
4 173 (3.56%) Google
5 146 (3.01%) Salesforce
6 145 (2.99%) VMware
7 115 (2.37%) ServiceNow
8 106 (2.18%) Databricks
9 104 (2.14%) SolarWinds
10 93 (1.92%) 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 (0.89%) Red Hat
19 38 (0.78%) Dynatrace