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 11 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 13 19
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 +3
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 5,021 5,847 4,873
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 8.46% 10.89% 8.71%
As % of the General category 14.37% 16.40% 14.07%
Number of salaries quoted 2,460 2,461 3,369
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,967 £48,900
% change year-on-year -11.71% +4.23% -2.20%

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 34,942 35,650 34,628
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 58.90% 66.37% 61.92%
Number of salaries quoted 18,943 16,285 25,311
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £29,440
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +1.69% -4.07%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -4.76%

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 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Top 19 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 11 January 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 -6 4,394 £50,000 -9.09% 2,523
UK excluding London -9 3,203 £45,000 -11.71% 2,319
Work from Home +6 1,724 £52,500 -6.25% 973
London +2 1,528 £67,500 +3.85% 568
South East +5 846 £50,000 - 782
North of England -15 773 £42,500 -19.05% 448
Midlands -11 591 £42,500 -11.46% 331
North West -13 408 £42,500 -19.05% 219
South West +3 366 £45,000 -12.13% 301
West Midlands -14 348 £50,000 - 167
Scotland 0 277 £40,000 -34.29% 77
Yorkshire +2 266 £40,000 -20.00% 178
East of England -18 259 £40,000 -21.52% 302
East Midlands +5 241 £37,500 -11.76% 162
North East +4 99 £41,000 -6.82% 60
Wales +12 78 £42,500 -13.45% 93
Northern Ireland -2 44 £52,500 -11.66% 46
Isle of Man -1 1 £62,500 +150.00%
Channel Islands -6 1 - -

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 (2.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 88 (1.75%) Confluence
3 86 (1.71%) SharePoint
4 42 (0.84%) Apache Spark
5 37 (0.74%) CMS
6 21 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
7 20 (0.40%) SAS
8 18 (0.36%) WordPress
9 16 (0.32%) IIS
10 14 (0.28%) Apache
11 6 (0.12%) nginx
11 6 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 4 (0.080%) Camunda
12 4 (0.080%) Drupal
13 3 (0.060%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.060%) govService
13 3 (0.060%) HCL Notes
14 2 (0.040%) FactoryTalk
14 2 (0.040%) MTS
14 2 (0.040%) WinCC
Applications
1 756 (15.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 396 (7.89%) Chatbot
3 333 (6.63%) Microsoft Office
4 129 (2.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 71 (1.41%) MS Visio
6 56 (1.12%) Maya
7 41 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
8 35 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
9 21 (0.42%) AutoCAD
10 15 (0.30%) Adobe XD
11 8 (0.16%) SOLIDWORKS
12 5 (0.100%) CATIA
13 4 (0.080%) Oracle Smart View
13 4 (0.080%) PlantUML
13 4 (0.080%) Sketch
14 3 (0.060%) Stata
15 2 (0.040%) Photoshop
15 2 (0.040%) Revit
15 2 (0.040%) Simulink
15 2 (0.040%) Trello
Business Applications
1 143 (2.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 67 (1.33%) SAP MDG
3 56 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
4 44 (0.88%) NetSuite
5 39 (0.78%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 33 (0.66%) SAP CO
7 30 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
8 28 (0.56%) SAP FI
8 28 (0.56%) Shopify
9 27 (0.54%) SAP FI/CO
10 20 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
10 20 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
10 20 (0.40%) SAP IBP
11 17 (0.34%) Endur
11 17 (0.34%) Oracle Assets
12 16 (0.32%) Workday HCM
13 13 (0.26%) Sage X3
14 11 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
14 11 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
14 11 (0.22%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 790 (15.73%) Azure
2 600 (11.95%) Power Platform
3 424 (8.44%) AWS
4 270 (5.38%) Microsoft 365
5 243 (4.84%) SaaS
6 147 (2.93%) GCP
7 143 (2.85%) Azure DevOps
8 99 (1.97%) Dynamics 365
9 81 (1.61%) GitHub
10 77 (1.53%) Snowflake
11 68 (1.35%) Azure Data Factory
12 66 (1.31%) Entra ID
13 59 (1.18%) Power Automate
14 55 (1.10%) Google Analytics
15 52 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
16 51 (1.02%) Serverless
17 50 (1.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 44 (0.88%) dbt
19 41 (0.82%) PowerApps
20 37 (0.74%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 161 (3.21%) DNS
2 130 (2.59%) DHCP
3 126 (2.51%) Firewall
4 77 (1.53%) VPN
5 69 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
6 65 (1.29%) Network Security
7 62 (1.23%) WAN
8 60 (1.19%) LAN
9 47 (0.94%) Wireless
10 42 (0.84%) Remote Desktop
11 41 (0.82%) TCP/IP
12 35 (0.70%) VLAN
13 31 (0.62%) SMS
14 29 (0.58%) VoIP
15 27 (0.54%) OSPF
16 25 (0.50%) Broadband
17 24 (0.48%) BGP
18 23 (0.46%) EIGRP
19 21 (0.42%) SAN
20 20 (0.40%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 549 (10.93%) Power BI
2 365 (7.27%) Tableau
3 183 (3.64%) SQL Server
4 164 (3.27%) Data Mining
4 164 (3.27%) Data Warehouse
5 111 (2.21%) Metadata
6 110 (2.19%) Data Lake
7 109 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
8 95 (1.89%) Relational Database
9 64 (1.27%) NoSQL
10 57 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 53 (1.06%) Looker
12 51 (1.02%) MySQL
13 45 (0.90%) SAP BW
14 44 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
15 43 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
16 42 (0.84%) Big Data
17 41 (0.82%) GIS
18 39 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
19 36 (0.72%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 212 (4.22%) JIRA
2 95 (1.89%) Git
3 47 (0.94%) Selenium
4 43 (0.86%) Jenkins
5 39 (0.78%) GitLab
6 18 (0.36%) Bitbucket
6 18 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
7 15 (0.30%) Robot Framework
7 15 (0.30%) WebDriver
8 14 (0.28%) Cypress.io
8 14 (0.28%) Postman
9 13 (0.26%) Balsamiq
9 13 (0.26%) ER Studio
9 13 (0.26%) ERwin
9 13 (0.26%) Snyk
9 13 (0.26%) Subversion
10 12 (0.24%) Axure RP
11 9 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
11 9 (0.18%) TestRail
11 9 (0.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 2,581 (51.40%) Social Skills
2 1,734 (34.53%) Finance
3 507 (10.10%) Marketing
4 325 (6.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 325 (6.47%) Law
5 290 (5.78%) Retail
6 288 (5.74%) Legal
7 248 (4.94%) Banking
8 243 (4.84%) Organisational Skills
9 222 (4.42%) Presentation Skills
9 222 (4.42%) Public Sector
10 191 (3.80%) Manufacturing
11 136 (2.71%) Influencing Skills
12 127 (2.53%) Financial Institution
13 118 (2.35%) Telecoms
14 116 (2.31%) Games
15 81 (1.61%) Electronics
16 77 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
17 74 (1.47%) Advertising
18 54 (1.08%) German Language
Job Titles
1 1,134 (22.59%) Analyst
2 638 (12.71%) Senior
3 394 (7.85%) Trainer
4 337 (6.71%) Data Analyst
5 336 (6.69%) Lead
6 318 (6.33%) Architect
7 220 (4.38%) Developer
8 209 (4.16%) Business Analyst
9 193 (3.84%) Consultant
10 164 (3.27%) Support Analyst
11 140 (2.79%) IT Support
12 134 (2.67%) Senior Analyst
13 133 (2.65%) Trainee
14 127 (2.53%) Solutions Architect
15 122 (2.43%) Systems Engineer
16 120 (2.39%) Trainee Analyst
16 120 (2.39%) Trainee Data Analyst
17 109 (2.17%) Business Manager
18 107 (2.13%) Support Engineer
19 106 (2.11%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (2.21%) HTML
2 101 (2.01%) CSS
3 82 (1.63%) React
4 75 (1.49%) REST
5 62 (1.23%) .NET
6 57 (1.14%) Middleware
7 40 (0.80%) JSON
8 35 (0.70%) SOAP
9 34 (0.68%) AngularJS
9 34 (0.68%) EDI
10 32 (0.64%) Node.js
10 32 (0.64%) XML
11 31 (0.62%) Kafka
12 28 (0.56%) LangChain
13 26 (0.52%) Spring
14 23 (0.46%) FIX Protocol
15 22 (0.44%) Oracle Fusion
15 22 (0.44%) PySpark
16 20 (0.40%) OAuth
16 20 (0.40%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 511 (10.18%) Analytical Mindset
2 377 (7.51%) Self-Motivation
3 357 (7.11%) Onboarding
4 274 (5.46%) Management Information System
5 204 (4.06%) Product Ownership
6 160 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
7 132 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
8 87 (1.73%) Data Centre
9 84 (1.67%) FMCG
10 82 (1.63%) Driving Licence
11 70 (1.39%) Cloud Native
11 70 (1.39%) Data Structures
12 53 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 52 (1.04%) Algorithms
13 52 (1.04%) Robotics
14 50 (1.00%) Virtual Team
15 45 (0.90%) Social Media
16 44 (0.88%) Security Posture
17 42 (0.84%) Low-Code
18 37 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 349 (6.95%) Windows
2 237 (4.72%) Linux
3 156 (3.11%) Windows Server
4 97 (1.93%) Windows Server 2016
5 38 (0.76%) Unix
6 23 (0.46%) Mac OS
7 14 (0.28%) Windows 10
8 11 (0.22%) Android
9 7 (0.14%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.080%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.060%) Mac OS X
11 3 (0.060%) OpenWrt
11 3 (0.060%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (0.040%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.020%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.020%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.020%) Robot Operating System
13 1 (0.020%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.020%) VMS
13 1 (0.020%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,242 (44.65%) Problem-Solving
2 1,107 (22.05%) AI
3 1,071 (21.33%) Analytics
4 1,054 (20.99%) Continuous Improvement
5 964 (19.20%) Decision-Making
6 884 (17.61%) Agile
7 800 (15.93%) Project Management
8 730 (14.54%) Business Intelligence
9 624 (12.43%) Stakeholder Management
10 537 (10.70%) Data Analysis
11 440 (8.76%) Risk Management
12 439 (8.74%) Roadmaps
13 416 (8.29%) ERP
14 413 (8.23%) Business Strategy
15 404 (8.05%) Analytical Thinking
16 402 (8.01%) Chemistry
17 400 (7.97%) Customer Service
18 398 (7.93%) Conversational UI
18 398 (7.93%) Process Improvement
19 396 (7.89%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 964 (19.20%) SQL
2 668 (13.30%) Python
3 145 (2.89%) Java
4 136 (2.71%) JavaScript
5 115 (2.29%) PowerShell
6 111 (2.21%) C#
7 62 (1.23%) R
8 59 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 46 (0.92%) C++
10 45 (0.90%) T-SQL
10 45 (0.90%) VBA
11 38 (0.76%) Bash
12 30 (0.60%) Scala
13 29 (0.58%) TypeScript
14 21 (0.42%) C
15 20 (0.40%) Go
15 20 (0.40%) PL/SQL
16 16 (0.32%) Kotlin
17 15 (0.30%) MATLAB
18 13 (0.26%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 1,623 (32.32%) Degree
2 539 (10.73%) Master's Degree
3 433 (8.62%) Security Cleared
4 406 (8.09%) PhD
5 325 (6.47%) SC Cleared
6 204 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 177 (3.53%) ACCA
8 169 (3.37%) CIMA
9 154 (3.07%) CISSP
10 110 (2.19%) DBS Check
11 98 (1.95%) PMI Certification
12 86 (1.71%) DV Cleared
13 81 (1.61%) PMP
14 77 (1.53%) CISM
15 70 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
16 60 (1.19%) Azure Certification
17 59 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
18 53 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
19 51 (1.02%) AWS Certification
20 48 (0.96%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 315 (6.27%) Data Quality
2 252 (5.02%) QA
3 183 (3.64%) GDPR
4 181 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 145 (2.89%) Cyber Essentials
6 138 (2.75%) PCI DSS
7 116 (2.31%) NIST
8 107 (2.13%) Accessibility
9 104 (2.07%) PMO
10 52 (1.04%) SLA
11 51 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
12 36 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 35 (0.70%) GRC
14 27 (0.54%) IFRS
15 21 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 19 (0.38%) WCAG
17 16 (0.32%) ISO 9001
18 14 (0.28%) COBIT
19 13 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
19 13 (0.26%) NCSC
System Software
1 244 (4.86%) Active Directory
2 121 (2.41%) Hyper-V
3 96 (1.91%) Terminal Server
4 53 (1.06%) Docker
5 49 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
6 14 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
7 13 (0.26%) Firmware
8 11 (0.22%) ProxySG
8 11 (0.22%) vSphere
9 8 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.060%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.040%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.040%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.020%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.020%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.020%) NFS
12 1 (0.020%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.020%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 87 (1.73%) Terraform
2 60 (1.19%) Kubernetes
3 53 (1.06%) Ansible
4 47 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
6 19 (0.38%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.28%) SCCM
8 13 (0.26%) Grafana
9 6 (0.12%) SCOM
10 5 (0.100%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 5 (0.100%) Control-M
10 5 (0.100%) Nagios
11 4 (0.080%) CSIRT
11 4 (0.080%) Nessus
11 4 (0.080%) QRadar
11 4 (0.080%) Rancher
11 4 (0.080%) vRealize
12 3 (0.060%) CASB
12 3 (0.060%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.040%) Argo
Vendors
1 1,150 (22.90%) Microsoft
2 394 (7.85%) PayPal
3 376 (7.49%) SAP
4 212 (4.22%) Oracle
5 174 (3.47%) Salesforce
6 157 (3.13%) VMware
7 146 (2.91%) Google
8 127 (2.53%) SolarWinds
9 124 (2.47%) Splunk
10 98 (1.95%) ServiceNow
11 97 (1.93%) Brocade
11 97 (1.93%) Tanium
11 97 (1.93%) Veeam
12 96 (1.91%) Nimble Storage
13 80 (1.59%) Cisco
14 75 (1.49%) Databricks
15 63 (1.25%) Adobe
16 44 (0.88%) Alteryx
16 44 (0.88%) Bloomberg
16 44 (0.88%) Workday