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 9 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 9 13
Rank change year-on-year -18 +4 +8
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 5,054 6,227 9,755
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.17% 12.78% 9.51%
As % of the General category 10.91% 18.25% 16.37%
Number of salaries quoted 3,289 2,594 5,244
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% +10.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £88,750 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,445 £49,852 £46,500
% change year-on-year -2.82% +7.21% -2.11%

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 46,319 34,112 59,582
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 47.41% 70.00% 58.06%
Number of salaries quoted 28,423 17,362 39,287
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +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 9 July 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 9 July 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 -17 4,611 £55,000 - 2,401
UK excluding London -21 3,188 £48,445 -2.82% 1,685
Work from Home -9 1,602 £55,000 +4.76% 1,070
London -11 1,577 £67,500 +3.85% 1,027
North of England -19 959 £48,397 +2.43% 407
South East -8 811 £50,000 -8.36% 559
Midlands -10 576 £47,500 - 283
North West -19 566 £47,500 -5.00% 221
South West -24 380 £46,000 -6.60% 190
West Midlands -17 314 £50,000 +5.26% 151
Yorkshire -11 290 £50,000 +11.11% 136
East Midlands -3 261 £45,872 -4.43% 131
East of England -22 239 £45,000 -3.93% 149
Scotland -33 105 £42,068 -5.47% 68
North East -24 103 £55,000 +37.50% 56
Wales -15 88 £53,171 -3.33% 34
Northern Ireland -45 41 £41,250 -25.00% 43

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
1 175 (3.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 127 (2.51%) SharePoint
3 71 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
3 71 (1.40%) Confluence
4 68 (1.35%) Apache Spark
5 45 (0.89%) Apache
6 37 (0.73%) CMS
7 23 (0.46%) SAS
8 22 (0.44%) IIS
9 15 (0.30%) WordPress
10 14 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 13 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
12 8 (0.16%) WebLogic
12 8 (0.16%) WebSphere
13 6 (0.12%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.059%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.059%) JBoss
14 3 (0.059%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.059%) Tomcat
15 2 (0.040%) nginx
Applications
1 556 (11.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 206 (4.08%) Microsoft Office
3 114 (2.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 84 (1.66%) MS Visio
5 32 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
6 28 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
7 9 (0.18%) CATIA
8 6 (0.12%) Adobe XD
8 6 (0.12%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.099%) Acrobat
10 4 (0.079%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 4 (0.079%) Maya
11 3 (0.059%) Blender
11 3 (0.059%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.059%) Simulink
11 3 (0.059%) Trello
12 2 (0.040%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.040%) Lectora
12 2 (0.040%) Siemens NX
12 2 (0.040%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 74 (1.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 40 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 35 (0.69%) NetSuite
4 25 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
5 16 (0.32%) SAP CO
5 16 (0.32%) SAP PM
6 15 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
6 15 (0.30%) SAP ERP
7 13 (0.26%) SAP FI
8 12 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
9 10 (0.20%) Maximo
10 9 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
10 9 (0.18%) Workday HCM
11 8 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
12 7 (0.14%) Elite 3E
12 7 (0.14%) Magento
12 7 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
12 7 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
12 7 (0.14%) Shopify
13 6 (0.12%) JDE EnterpriseOne
Cloud Services
1 901 (17.83%) Azure
2 657 (13.00%) Power Platform
3 492 (9.73%) AWS
4 381 (7.54%) Microsoft 365
5 312 (6.17%) SaaS
6 218 (4.31%) GCP
7 130 (2.57%) Dynamics 365
8 124 (2.45%) Entra ID
9 122 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
10 85 (1.68%) Microsoft Purview
11 84 (1.66%) Google Analytics
12 76 (1.50%) GitHub
13 73 (1.44%) Power Automate
13 73 (1.44%) Snowflake
14 69 (1.37%) dbt
15 67 (1.33%) Amazon S3
16 63 (1.25%) PowerApps
17 58 (1.15%) Serverless
18 56 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
19 53 (1.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 198 (3.92%) Firewall
2 179 (3.54%) DNS
3 136 (2.69%) DHCP
4 125 (2.47%) VPN
5 86 (1.70%) TCP/IP
6 80 (1.58%) WAN
7 75 (1.48%) LAN
8 73 (1.44%) Broadband
9 68 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
10 54 (1.07%) Wireless
11 49 (0.97%) Network Security
12 48 (0.95%) VLAN
13 41 (0.81%) SAN
14 35 (0.69%) BGP
14 35 (0.69%) Internet
15 33 (0.65%) HTTP
16 25 (0.49%) SD-WAN
16 25 (0.49%) Wireshark
17 24 (0.47%) Cisco ASA
18 23 (0.46%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 585 (11.57%) Power BI
2 283 (5.60%) Tableau
3 195 (3.86%) SQL Server
4 182 (3.60%) Data Warehouse
5 106 (2.10%) Amazon RDS
6 85 (1.68%) Metadata
7 73 (1.44%) Data Mining
7 73 (1.44%) Relational Database
8 70 (1.39%) Data Lake
9 67 (1.33%) Power Query
10 63 (1.25%) Looker
11 62 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
11 62 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 57 (1.13%) MySQL
13 56 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
14 50 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 49 (0.97%) BigQuery
16 39 (0.77%) Big Data
16 39 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
17 37 (0.73%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 185 (3.66%) JIRA
2 148 (2.93%) Git
3 56 (1.11%) GitLab
4 37 (0.73%) Jenkins
5 36 (0.71%) Rational DOORS
6 31 (0.61%) MLflow
7 21 (0.42%) Cucumber
7 21 (0.42%) Selenium
8 17 (0.34%) Chocolatey
9 16 (0.32%) ERwin
10 15 (0.30%) Eclipse
10 15 (0.30%) Postman
11 13 (0.26%) IBM UrbanCode
11 13 (0.26%) JMeter
11 13 (0.26%) SonarQube
11 13 (0.26%) Visual Studio
12 12 (0.24%) Cypress.io
13 9 (0.18%) Bitbucket
13 9 (0.18%) LabVIEW
13 9 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
General
1 2,382 (47.13%) Social Skills
2 1,711 (33.85%) Finance
3 413 (8.17%) Marketing
4 361 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 331 (6.55%) Organisational Skills
6 313 (6.19%) Public Sector
7 297 (5.88%) Retail
8 268 (5.30%) Law
9 267 (5.28%) Legal
10 239 (4.73%) Banking
11 201 (3.98%) Manufacturing
12 191 (3.78%) Influencing Skills
13 135 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
14 119 (2.35%) Telecoms
15 97 (1.92%) Advertising
16 93 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
17 88 (1.74%) Aerospace
18 79 (1.56%) Electronics
19 72 (1.42%) Financial Institution
20 55 (1.09%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,280 (25.33%) Analyst
2 648 (12.82%) Senior
3 353 (6.98%) Lead
4 305 (6.03%) Data Analyst
5 280 (5.54%) Business Analyst
6 236 (4.67%) Developer
7 228 (4.51%) Consultant
8 205 (4.06%) Systems Engineer
9 194 (3.84%) Architect
10 152 (3.01%) Senior Analyst
11 139 (2.75%) Support Analyst
12 138 (2.73%) Data Engineer
13 121 (2.39%) Support Engineer
14 118 (2.33%) IT Support
15 109 (2.16%) IT Manager
16 104 (2.06%) Senior Manager
17 100 (1.98%) Financial Analyst
17 100 (1.98%) Systems Analyst
18 99 (1.96%) Security Analyst
19 89 (1.76%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (2.26%) .NET
1 114 (2.26%) HTML
2 103 (2.04%) CSS
3 101 (2.00%) REST
4 88 (1.74%) JSON
5 87 (1.72%) Middleware
6 83 (1.64%) XML
7 78 (1.54%) React
8 66 (1.31%) PyTorch
9 60 (1.19%) TensorFlow
10 58 (1.15%) Kafka
11 51 (1.01%) RESTful
12 48 (0.95%) SOAP
13 46 (0.91%) PySpark
14 42 (0.83%) Node.js
15 41 (0.81%) scikit-learn
16 39 (0.77%) Web Services
17 33 (0.65%) LangChain
17 33 (0.65%) Pandas
18 31 (0.61%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 531 (10.51%) Analytical Mindset
2 254 (5.03%) Management Information System
3 221 (4.37%) Onboarding
4 207 (4.10%) Product Ownership
5 192 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
6 140 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
7 114 (2.26%) Cloud Native
8 110 (2.18%) Data Centre
9 101 (2.00%) Security Posture
10 93 (1.84%) Driving Licence
11 81 (1.60%) Data Structures
12 79 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
13 76 (1.50%) Algorithms
14 75 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
15 68 (1.35%) Virtual Team
16 61 (1.21%) Social Media
17 56 (1.11%) Public Cloud
18 51 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
19 46 (0.91%) Cyber Defence
20 44 (0.87%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 402 (7.95%) Windows
2 250 (4.95%) Linux
3 201 (3.98%) Windows Server
4 98 (1.94%) Windows Server 2016
5 30 (0.59%) Unix
6 29 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 26 (0.51%) Windows 10
8 21 (0.42%) Mac OS
9 19 (0.38%) Android
10 18 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
11 15 (0.30%) Apple iOS
12 11 (0.22%) CentOS
12 11 (0.22%) Ubuntu
13 8 (0.16%) VMS
14 6 (0.12%) Debian
15 5 (0.099%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.079%) AIX
16 4 (0.079%) Rocky
17 2 (0.040%) Windows Server 2012
18 1 (0.020%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,302 (45.55%) Problem-Solving
2 1,289 (25.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,126 (22.28%) Decision-Making
4 1,109 (21.94%) Analytics
5 851 (16.84%) Agile
6 689 (13.63%) Stakeholder Management
7 682 (13.49%) AI
8 666 (13.18%) Business Intelligence
9 541 (10.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 525 (10.39%) Roadmaps
11 497 (9.83%) Mentoring
12 488 (9.66%) Actionable Insight
13 475 (9.40%) Project Management
14 467 (9.24%) Cybersecurity
15 453 (8.96%) Data Modelling
16 439 (8.69%) Data Analysis
17 409 (8.09%) Data Governance
17 409 (8.09%) Process Improvement
18 382 (7.56%) Customer Experience
19 376 (7.44%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1,047 (20.72%) SQL
2 871 (17.23%) Python
3 178 (3.52%) JavaScript
4 176 (3.48%) Java
5 170 (3.36%) PowerShell
6 156 (3.09%) C#
7 79 (1.56%) C++
8 77 (1.52%) R
9 76 (1.50%) Bash
10 75 (1.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 53 (1.05%) TypeScript
12 51 (1.01%) T-SQL
13 45 (0.89%) MATLAB
14 24 (0.47%) Go
14 24 (0.47%) PHP
15 23 (0.46%) VBA
16 21 (0.42%) C
17 19 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
17 19 (0.38%) PL/SQL
18 18 (0.36%) Julia
Qualifications
1 916 (18.12%) Degree
2 481 (9.52%) Security Cleared
3 342 (6.77%) SC Cleared
4 260 (5.14%) ACCA
5 245 (4.85%) CIMA
6 157 (3.11%) CISSP
7 155 (3.07%) DBS Check
8 143 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
9 115 (2.28%) Cisco Certification
10 113 (2.24%) CISM
11 92 (1.82%) DV Cleared
11 92 (1.82%) Master's Degree
12 89 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
13 74 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
14 72 (1.42%) IRCA
15 68 (1.35%) Azure Certification
15 68 (1.35%) CompTIA Security+
16 53 (1.05%) PMI Certification
17 47 (0.93%) CISA
18 46 (0.91%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 476 (9.42%) Data Quality
2 397 (7.86%) GDPR
3 339 (6.71%) QA
4 275 (5.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 224 (4.43%) NIST
6 179 (3.54%) Cyber Essentials
7 148 (2.93%) SLA
8 139 (2.75%) PCI DSS
9 129 (2.55%) Accessibility
10 125 (2.47%) ISO 9001
11 78 (1.54%) GRC
12 63 (1.25%) PMO
13 46 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
14 43 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 41 (0.81%) IFRS
16 38 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 37 (0.73%) COBIT
18 28 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
19 24 (0.47%) ITGC
19 24 (0.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 290 (5.74%) Active Directory
2 97 (1.92%) Hyper-V
3 96 (1.90%) Docker
4 80 (1.58%) Terminal Server
5 77 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
6 25 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
7 14 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
8 10 (0.20%) ProxySG
8 10 (0.20%) VMware NSX
9 9 (0.18%) vSphere
10 8 (0.16%) IAG
11 6 (0.12%) Firmware
12 4 (0.079%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.079%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.079%) XenApp
13 3 (0.059%) DFS Replication
13 3 (0.059%) Embedded Firmware
14 2 (0.040%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.040%) VMware ESXi
15 1 (0.020%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 143 (2.83%) Terraform
2 90 (1.78%) Kubernetes
3 69 (1.37%) Ansible
4 67 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 42 (0.83%) Grafana
6 27 (0.53%) SCCM
7 23 (0.46%) Prometheus
8 21 (0.42%) Nagios
9 18 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
10 17 (0.34%) Kibana
10 17 (0.34%) QRadar
11 11 (0.22%) Kubeflow
12 9 (0.18%) logstash
13 7 (0.14%) Packer
14 6 (0.12%) Control-M
14 6 (0.12%) Graylog
15 5 (0.099%) Docker Swarm
15 5 (0.099%) Podman
15 5 (0.099%) Puppet
15 5 (0.099%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 1,136 (22.48%) Microsoft
2 215 (4.25%) SAP
3 204 (4.04%) Google
4 166 (3.28%) Oracle
4 166 (3.28%) VMware
5 139 (2.75%) Salesforce
6 137 (2.71%) Splunk
7 124 (2.45%) SolarWinds
8 122 (2.41%) Databricks
9 101 (2.00%) ServiceNow
10 93 (1.84%) Veeam
11 81 (1.60%) Nimble Storage
12 80 (1.58%) Brocade
12 80 (1.58%) Tanium
13 77 (1.52%) Workday
14 76 (1.50%) Cisco
15 51 (1.01%) Red Hat
16 50 (0.99%) IBM
17 46 (0.91%) Adobe
18 45 (0.89%) HubSpot