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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 9 13
Rank change year-on-year -17 +4 +7
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 5,546 6,183 8,030
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.35% 12.43% 9.65%
As % of the General category 11.42% 17.97% 16.85%
Number of salaries quoted 3,481 2,668 3,754
10th Percentile £31,735 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £39,360
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £51,001
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.84% -7.07%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £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 48,573 34,399 47,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.85% 69.16% 57.24%
Number of salaries quoted 29,780 18,091 28,914
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £29,500
25th Percentile £39,750 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,075 £75,000 £73,950
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £49,070
% change year-on-year +11.11% -8.29% -6.53%

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 3 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 3 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 5,024 £53,000 -3.64% 3,505
UK excluding London -17 3,557 £47,500 - 2,226
Work from Home -10 1,758 £55,000 +8.44% 1,537
London -10 1,700 £67,500 +3.85% 1,704
North of England -18 1,020 £47,500 +5.56% 538
South East -9 868 £50,000 -4.76% 662
Midlands -10 631 £48,000 +6.67% 362
North West -17 617 £46,750 -0.53% 295
South West -14 488 £47,500 - 279
West Midlands -17 332 £50,149 +11.44% 206
East Midlands -1 297 £45,000 -0.86% 156
Yorkshire -13 282 £47,500 +5.91% 176
East of England -23 251 £45,000 - 199
North East -20 121 £53,750 +34.38% 72
Wales -12 117 £53,171 -3.33% 48
Scotland -27 116 £43,335 -2.07% 103
Northern Ireland -34 75 £42,500 -22.73% 85

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
1 188 (3.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 155 (2.79%) SharePoint
3 80 (1.44%) Confluence
4 70 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
4 70 (1.26%) Apache Spark
5 48 (0.87%) Apache
6 46 (0.83%) CMS
7 28 (0.50%) IIS
8 24 (0.43%) SAS
9 13 (0.23%) 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 (0.14%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.090%) Headless CMS
15 3 (0.054%) Anypoint
15 3 (0.054%) JBoss
15 3 (0.054%) Tomcat
Applications
1 607 (10.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 228 (4.11%) Microsoft Office
3 120 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 83 (1.50%) MS Visio
5 35 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
6 28 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.16%) Adobe XD
8 7 (0.13%) CATIA
9 5 (0.090%) Acrobat
9 5 (0.090%) AutoCAD
9 5 (0.090%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.072%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 4 (0.072%) 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
11 3 (0.054%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 74 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 71 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 37 (0.67%) NetSuite
4 36 (0.65%) Dynamics GP
5 20 (0.36%) SAP PM
6 17 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
6 17 (0.31%) SAP CO
7 16 (0.29%) SAP FI
8 15 (0.27%) SAP ERP
8 15 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
9 13 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
10 10 (0.18%) Magento
11 9 (0.16%) Elite 3E
11 9 (0.16%) Maximo
11 9 (0.16%) Workday HCM
12 8 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
12 8 (0.14%) Sage 200
12 8 (0.14%) Shopify
13 7 (0.13%) Fidessa
13 7 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 967 (17.44%) Azure
2 689 (12.42%) Power Platform
3 573 (10.33%) AWS
4 406 (7.32%) Microsoft 365
5 341 (6.15%) SaaS
6 260 (4.69%) GCP
7 136 (2.45%) Dynamics 365
8 131 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
9 124 (2.24%) Entra ID
10 99 (1.79%) Snowflake
11 94 (1.69%) Google Analytics
12 85 (1.53%) GitHub
13 82 (1.48%) dbt
14 80 (1.44%) Power Automate
15 73 (1.32%) Amazon S3
16 72 (1.30%) PowerApps
17 71 (1.28%) Microsoft Purview
18 58 (1.05%) Serverless
19 55 (0.99%) Azure Data Factory
19 55 (0.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 200 (3.61%) DNS
2 155 (2.79%) DHCP
3 154 (2.78%) Firewall
4 129 (2.33%) VPN
5 97 (1.75%) TCP/IP
6 79 (1.42%) WAN
7 78 (1.41%) LAN
8 63 (1.14%) Broadband
9 60 (1.08%) Wireless
10 58 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
11 55 (0.99%) Network Security
12 43 (0.78%) SAN
12 43 (0.78%) VLAN
13 41 (0.74%) Internet
14 37 (0.67%) HTTP
15 30 (0.54%) BGP
16 23 (0.41%) VoIP
17 22 (0.40%) OSPF
17 22 (0.40%) SD-WAN
18 21 (0.38%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 609 (10.98%) Power BI
2 284 (5.12%) Tableau
3 212 (3.82%) SQL Server
4 195 (3.52%) Data Warehouse
5 120 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
6 92 (1.66%) Metadata
6 92 (1.66%) Relational Database
7 80 (1.44%) Looker
8 74 (1.33%) Data Lake
8 74 (1.33%) MySQL
9 72 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
10 71 (1.28%) Power Query
11 65 (1.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 59 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 58 (1.05%) Data Mining
14 57 (1.03%) BigQuery
15 56 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
16 46 (0.83%) Big Data
17 42 (0.76%) NoSQL
18 38 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 224 (4.04%) JIRA
2 205 (3.70%) Git
3 59 (1.06%) GitLab
4 49 (0.88%) Jenkins
5 34 (0.61%) Rational DOORS
6 32 (0.58%) MLflow
7 31 (0.56%) Selenium
8 23 (0.41%) Cucumber
9 20 (0.36%) Postman
10 18 (0.32%) Eclipse
11 16 (0.29%) Chocolatey
12 15 (0.27%) ERwin
13 14 (0.25%) JMeter
14 13 (0.23%) Bitbucket
14 13 (0.23%) Cypress.io
14 13 (0.23%) IBM UrbanCode
15 12 (0.22%) SonarQube
16 11 (0.20%) Burp Suite
16 11 (0.20%) Visual Studio
17 10 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
General
1 2,639 (47.58%) Social Skills
2 1,827 (32.94%) Finance
3 508 (9.16%) Marketing
4 453 (8.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 393 (7.09%) Organisational Skills
6 359 (6.47%) Retail
7 337 (6.08%) Public Sector
8 336 (6.06%) Law
9 312 (5.63%) Legal
10 265 (4.78%) Banking
11 244 (4.40%) Manufacturing
12 238 (4.29%) Influencing Skills
13 161 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
14 137 (2.47%) Telecoms
15 130 (2.34%) Aerospace
16 102 (1.84%) Advertising
17 95 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
18 89 (1.60%) Electronics
19 75 (1.35%) Financial Institution
20 63 (1.14%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,326 (23.91%) Analyst
2 706 (12.73%) Senior
3 388 (7.00%) Lead
4 312 (5.63%) Data Analyst
5 281 (5.07%) Business Analyst
6 269 (4.85%) Developer
7 232 (4.18%) Consultant
8 220 (3.97%) Systems Engineer
9 216 (3.89%) Architect
10 169 (3.05%) Senior Analyst
11 162 (2.92%) Data Engineer
12 154 (2.78%) Support Analyst
13 129 (2.33%) Support Engineer
14 121 (2.18%) IT Support
15 112 (2.02%) IT Manager
16 105 (1.89%) Security Analyst
17 100 (1.80%) Financial Analyst
17 100 (1.80%) Systems Analyst
18 98 (1.77%) Senior Manager
19 88 (1.59%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (2.40%) .NET
2 119 (2.15%) HTML
3 115 (2.07%) REST
4 109 (1.97%) CSS
5 92 (1.66%) JSON
6 82 (1.48%) XML
7 79 (1.42%) Middleware
8 76 (1.37%) Kafka
9 75 (1.35%) React
10 67 (1.21%) RESTful
11 65 (1.17%) PyTorch
12 59 (1.06%) TensorFlow
13 54 (0.97%) SOAP
14 51 (0.92%) PySpark
15 43 (0.78%) scikit-learn
16 41 (0.74%) Web Services
17 39 (0.70%) Node.js
18 35 (0.63%) EDI
18 35 (0.63%) OAuth
18 35 (0.63%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 545 (9.83%) Analytical Mindset
2 311 (5.61%) Management Information System
3 273 (4.92%) Onboarding
4 254 (4.58%) Self-Motivation
5 244 (4.40%) Product Ownership
6 166 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
7 128 (2.31%) Cloud Native
8 120 (2.16%) Driving Licence
9 109 (1.97%) Security Posture
10 101 (1.82%) Data Centre
11 98 (1.77%) Social Media
12 94 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
13 91 (1.64%) Virtual Team
14 87 (1.57%) Cyber Threat
15 84 (1.51%) Data Structures
16 77 (1.39%) Algorithms
16 77 (1.39%) Blog
17 65 (1.17%) Marketing Technology
18 61 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
19 57 (1.03%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 449 (8.10%) Windows
2 303 (5.46%) Linux
3 222 (4.00%) Windows Server
4 108 (1.95%) Windows Server 2016
5 36 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 32 (0.58%) Unix
6 32 (0.58%) Windows 10
7 28 (0.50%) Mac OS
8 23 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
9 22 (0.40%) Android
10 18 (0.32%) Apple iOS
11 15 (0.27%) CentOS
12 12 (0.22%) Ubuntu
13 7 (0.13%) Debian
13 7 (0.13%) VMS
14 5 (0.090%) OpenVMS
15 4 (0.072%) CoreOS
15 4 (0.072%) Rocky
16 3 (0.054%) AIX
17 2 (0.036%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,597 (46.83%) Problem-Solving
2 1,531 (27.61%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,248 (22.50%) Decision-Making
4 1,219 (21.98%) Analytics
5 975 (17.58%) Agile
6 870 (15.69%) AI
7 861 (15.52%) Stakeholder Management
8 716 (12.91%) Business Intelligence
9 610 (11.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 575 (10.37%) Roadmaps
11 528 (9.52%) Project Management
12 527 (9.50%) Mentoring
13 518 (9.34%) Actionable Insight
14 487 (8.78%) Data Analysis
15 473 (8.53%) Data Modelling
16 471 (8.49%) Cybersecurity
17 454 (8.19%) Customer Experience
18 452 (8.15%) Validation
19 449 (8.10%) Process Improvement
20 428 (7.72%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 1,120 (20.19%) SQL
2 911 (16.43%) Python
3 210 (3.79%) JavaScript
4 192 (3.46%) Java
5 181 (3.26%) PowerShell
6 173 (3.12%) C#
7 98 (1.77%) C++
8 93 (1.68%) Bash
9 83 (1.50%) R
10 75 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 64 (1.15%) TypeScript
12 49 (0.88%) T-SQL
13 43 (0.78%) MATLAB
14 30 (0.54%) C
15 26 (0.47%) Scala
16 25 (0.45%) PHP
17 22 (0.40%) PL/SQL
18 21 (0.38%) Go
18 21 (0.38%) VBA
19 19 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1,034 (18.64%) Degree
2 583 (10.51%) Security Cleared
3 413 (7.45%) SC Cleared
4 254 (4.58%) ACCA
5 239 (4.31%) CIMA
6 164 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 159 (2.87%) CISSP
8 149 (2.69%) DBS Check
9 130 (2.34%) DV Cleared
10 122 (2.20%) Cisco Certification
11 119 (2.15%) CISM
12 108 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
13 97 (1.75%) Master's Degree
14 73 (1.32%) IRCA
14 73 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
15 71 (1.28%) CompTIA Security+
16 68 (1.23%) Azure Certification
17 59 (1.06%) PMI Certification
18 47 (0.85%) CRISC
18 47 (0.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 532 (9.59%) Data Quality
2 392 (7.07%) GDPR
3 382 (6.89%) QA
4 242 (4.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 194 (3.50%) NIST
6 167 (3.01%) Cyber Essentials
7 158 (2.85%) Accessibility
8 155 (2.79%) SLA
9 143 (2.58%) PCI DSS
10 124 (2.24%) ISO 9001
11 75 (1.35%) GRC
12 66 (1.19%) PMO
13 44 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
14 41 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 39 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 39 (0.70%) IFRS
16 36 (0.65%) COBIT
17 28 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 25 (0.45%) NCSC
19 24 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 324 (5.84%) Active Directory
2 130 (2.34%) Docker
3 111 (2.00%) Hyper-V
4 88 (1.59%) Terminal Server
4 88 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 25 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
6 19 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
7 16 (0.29%) Firmware
8 9 (0.16%) IAG
8 9 (0.16%) VMware NSX
8 9 (0.16%) vSphere
9 8 (0.14%) ProxySG
10 7 (0.13%) Ceph
11 5 (0.090%) KVM
11 5 (0.090%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.072%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.072%) XenApp
13 3 (0.054%) DFS Replication
13 3 (0.054%) Embedded Firmware
13 3 (0.054%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 146 (2.63%) Terraform
2 112 (2.02%) Kubernetes
3 84 (1.51%) Microsoft Intune
4 72 (1.30%) Ansible
5 43 (0.78%) Grafana
6 28 (0.50%) Prometheus
7 25 (0.45%) SCCM
8 24 (0.43%) 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
13 9 (0.16%) Nmap
14 8 (0.14%) Argo
14 8 (0.14%) logstash
15 7 (0.13%) Check_MK
15 7 (0.13%) Istio
15 7 (0.13%) Packer
15 7 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 1,214 (21.89%) Microsoft
2 246 (4.44%) Google
3 233 (4.20%) SAP
4 187 (3.37%) Oracle
5 186 (3.35%) VMware
6 154 (2.78%) Splunk
7 132 (2.38%) Databricks
8 130 (2.34%) Salesforce
8 130 (2.34%) SolarWinds
9 119 (2.15%) ServiceNow
10 99 (1.79%) Veeam
11 89 (1.60%) Brocade
11 89 (1.60%) Nimble Storage
12 88 (1.59%) Tanium
13 84 (1.51%) Cisco
14 78 (1.41%) Workday
15 68 (1.23%) Red Hat
16 53 (0.96%) Adobe
17 51 (0.92%) Dell
18 46 (0.83%) IBM