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

6 months to
9 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 5,717 6,151 7,983
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.43% 12.33% 9.63%
As % of the General category 11.56% 17.83% 16.81%
Number of salaries quoted 3,550 2,653 3,759
10th Percentile £31,590 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £48,734
% change year-on-year - -2.53% -2.53%

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 49,473 34,499 47,489
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.96% 69.14% 57.27%
Number of salaries quoted 30,272 18,140 28,508
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,040 £29,750
25th Percentile £39,750 £35,000 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,250 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -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 9 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 9 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 5,165 £52,500 -1.87% 3,881
UK excluding London -18 3,662 £47,500 - 2,307
Work from Home -10 1,820 £55,000 +10.00% 1,453
London -10 1,766 £67,500 +3.85% 1,952
North of England -18 1,043 £47,500 +5.56% 576
South East -9 886 £50,000 -4.76% 707
Midlands -9 645 £48,000 +6.67% 363
North West -16 631 £47,500 +4.40% 314
South West -12 503 £47,500 +4.92% 293
West Midlands -17 338 £50,000 +11.11% 220
East Midlands -1 305 £45,000 -0.43% 143
Yorkshire -12 290 £47,000 +5.15% 201
East of England -21 259 £45,050 +0.11% 217
Wales -12 130 £53,171 +1.28% 58
Scotland -24 124 £44,000 - 114
North East -20 122 £55,000 +37.50% 65
Northern Ireland -27 81 £42,500 -22.73% 44

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
1 180 (3.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 162 (2.83%) SharePoint
3 83 (1.45%) Confluence
4 70 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
4 70 (1.22%) Apache Spark
5 49 (0.86%) Apache
6 46 (0.80%) CMS
7 30 (0.52%) IIS
8 25 (0.44%) SAS
9 12 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 11 (0.19%) WordPress
11 10 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
12 9 (0.16%) Jupyter
12 9 (0.16%) WebLogic
12 9 (0.16%) WebSphere
13 8 (0.14%) OpenStack
14 6 (0.10%) Headless CMS
15 3 (0.052%) Anypoint
15 3 (0.052%) JBoss
15 3 (0.052%) Tomcat
Applications
1 629 (11.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 250 (4.37%) Microsoft Office
3 126 (2.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 83 (1.45%) MS Visio
5 39 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
6 30 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.16%) Adobe XD
8 7 (0.12%) AutoCAD
8 7 (0.12%) CATIA
9 6 (0.10%) Simulink
10 5 (0.087%) Acrobat
10 5 (0.087%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.087%) EPLAN
11 4 (0.070%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.070%) Maya
11 4 (0.070%) Trello
12 3 (0.052%) Blender
12 3 (0.052%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.052%) Revit
12 3 (0.052%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 77 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 73 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 39 (0.68%) NetSuite
4 36 (0.63%) Dynamics GP
5 23 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
6 20 (0.35%) SAP PM
7 15 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
7 15 (0.26%) SAP CO
7 15 (0.26%) SAP ERP
7 15 (0.26%) SAP FI
8 14 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
9 13 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
10 10 (0.17%) Elite 3E
10 10 (0.17%) Magento
10 10 (0.17%) Shopify
10 10 (0.17%) Workday HCM
11 8 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
11 8 (0.14%) Fidessa
11 8 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
11 8 (0.14%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 985 (17.23%) Azure
2 695 (12.16%) Power Platform
3 599 (10.48%) AWS
4 405 (7.08%) Microsoft 365
5 356 (6.23%) SaaS
6 279 (4.88%) GCP
7 140 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
8 137 (2.40%) Dynamics 365
9 130 (2.27%) Entra ID
10 103 (1.80%) Snowflake
11 102 (1.78%) Google Analytics
12 94 (1.64%) GitHub
13 87 (1.52%) dbt
14 83 (1.45%) Power Automate
15 76 (1.33%) Amazon S3
16 75 (1.31%) PowerApps
17 73 (1.28%) Microsoft Purview
18 63 (1.10%) Serverless
19 56 (0.98%) Azure Data Factory
20 55 (0.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 193 (3.38%) DNS
2 151 (2.64%) Firewall
3 149 (2.61%) DHCP
4 126 (2.20%) VPN
5 96 (1.68%) TCP/IP
6 76 (1.33%) WAN
7 74 (1.29%) LAN
8 64 (1.12%) Broadband
9 58 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
10 57 (1.00%) Wireless
11 54 (0.94%) Network Security
12 43 (0.75%) SAN
13 42 (0.73%) VLAN
14 41 (0.72%) Internet
15 35 (0.61%) HTTP
16 27 (0.47%) BGP
17 25 (0.44%) VoIP
18 22 (0.38%) SD-WAN
19 20 (0.35%) OSPF
19 20 (0.35%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 616 (10.77%) Power BI
2 283 (4.95%) Tableau
3 224 (3.92%) SQL Server
4 197 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
5 113 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
6 101 (1.77%) Relational Database
7 95 (1.66%) Metadata
8 90 (1.57%) Looker
9 79 (1.38%) MySQL
10 77 (1.35%) Data Lake
11 74 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
12 67 (1.17%) Power Query
12 67 (1.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 61 (1.07%) BigQuery
13 61 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 56 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
15 50 (0.87%) Data Mining
16 48 (0.84%) Big Data
17 46 (0.80%) NoSQL
18 38 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 233 (4.08%) JIRA
2 219 (3.83%) Git
3 58 (1.01%) GitLab
4 49 (0.86%) Jenkins
5 34 (0.59%) Rational DOORS
6 33 (0.58%) MLflow
7 30 (0.52%) Selenium
8 23 (0.40%) Cucumber
9 21 (0.37%) Postman
10 19 (0.33%) Eclipse
11 17 (0.30%) Chocolatey
12 14 (0.24%) ERwin
12 14 (0.24%) JMeter
13 13 (0.23%) Bitbucket
13 13 (0.23%) Cypress.io
13 13 (0.23%) IBM UrbanCode
14 12 (0.21%) Burp Suite
14 12 (0.21%) Claude Code
14 12 (0.21%) SonarQube
15 11 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
General
1 2,727 (47.70%) Social Skills
2 1,886 (32.99%) Finance
3 560 (9.80%) Marketing
4 488 (8.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 417 (7.29%) Organisational Skills
6 376 (6.58%) Retail
7 357 (6.24%) Law
8 347 (6.07%) Public Sector
9 325 (5.68%) Legal
10 279 (4.88%) Banking
11 264 (4.62%) Manufacturing
12 259 (4.53%) Influencing Skills
13 171 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
14 146 (2.55%) Aerospace
15 138 (2.41%) Telecoms
16 107 (1.87%) Advertising
17 99 (1.73%) Electronics
18 96 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
19 74 (1.29%) Financial Institution
20 65 (1.14%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,342 (23.47%) Analyst
2 738 (12.91%) Senior
3 406 (7.10%) Lead
4 310 (5.42%) Data Analyst
5 293 (5.13%) Business Analyst
6 278 (4.86%) Developer
7 227 (3.97%) Consultant
8 223 (3.90%) Architect
9 212 (3.71%) Systems Engineer
10 179 (3.13%) Senior Analyst
11 170 (2.97%) Data Engineer
12 154 (2.69%) Support Analyst
13 131 (2.29%) Support Engineer
14 120 (2.10%) IT Support
15 113 (1.98%) IT Manager
16 108 (1.89%) Security Analyst
17 105 (1.84%) Senior Manager
18 97 (1.70%) Systems Analyst
19 96 (1.68%) Financial Analyst
20 89 (1.56%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (2.47%) .NET
2 126 (2.20%) HTML
3 118 (2.06%) REST
4 117 (2.05%) CSS
5 88 (1.54%) JSON
6 77 (1.35%) Kafka
6 77 (1.35%) Middleware
6 77 (1.35%) React
6 77 (1.35%) XML
7 71 (1.24%) RESTful
8 68 (1.19%) PyTorch
9 61 (1.07%) TensorFlow
10 56 (0.98%) SOAP
11 52 (0.91%) PySpark
12 44 (0.77%) scikit-learn
13 42 (0.73%) Web Services
14 39 (0.68%) EDI
14 39 (0.68%) Node.js
14 39 (0.68%) OAuth
15 36 (0.63%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 546 (9.55%) Analytical Mindset
2 325 (5.68%) Management Information System
3 307 (5.37%) Onboarding
4 265 (4.64%) Self-Motivation
5 259 (4.53%) Product Ownership
6 164 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
7 133 (2.33%) Cloud Native
8 132 (2.31%) Driving Licence
9 111 (1.94%) Social Media
10 109 (1.91%) Security Posture
11 105 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
12 102 (1.78%) Data Centre
13 92 (1.61%) Virtual Team
14 91 (1.59%) Cyber Threat
15 87 (1.52%) Blog
16 82 (1.43%) Data Structures
17 77 (1.35%) Algorithms
18 74 (1.29%) Marketing Technology
19 64 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
20 57 (1.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 453 (7.92%) Windows
2 297 (5.20%) Linux
3 219 (3.83%) Windows Server
4 99 (1.73%) Windows Server 2016
5 34 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 33 (0.58%) Windows 10
7 31 (0.54%) Unix
8 29 (0.51%) Mac OS
9 23 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
10 21 (0.37%) Android
11 19 (0.33%) Apple iOS
12 15 (0.26%) CentOS
13 12 (0.21%) Ubuntu
14 7 (0.12%) Debian
15 6 (0.10%) VMS
16 5 (0.087%) OpenVMS
17 4 (0.070%) CoreOS
17 4 (0.070%) Rocky
18 3 (0.052%) AIX
19 2 (0.035%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,695 (47.14%) Problem-Solving
2 1,603 (28.04%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,287 (22.51%) Decision-Making
4 1,257 (21.99%) Analytics
5 1,021 (17.86%) Agile
6 948 (16.58%) AI
7 943 (16.49%) Stakeholder Management
8 736 (12.87%) Business Intelligence
9 627 (10.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 598 (10.46%) Roadmaps
11 552 (9.66%) Actionable Insight
12 547 (9.57%) Mentoring
13 543 (9.50%) Project Management
14 510 (8.92%) Data Analysis
15 485 (8.48%) Cybersecurity
16 477 (8.34%) Validation
17 473 (8.27%) Data Modelling
18 466 (8.15%) Customer Experience
19 452 (7.91%) Process Improvement
20 437 (7.64%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 1,152 (20.15%) SQL
2 918 (16.06%) Python
3 217 (3.80%) JavaScript
4 195 (3.41%) Java
5 187 (3.27%) PowerShell
6 179 (3.13%) C#
7 98 (1.71%) C++
8 94 (1.64%) Bash
9 85 (1.49%) R
10 73 (1.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 65 (1.14%) TypeScript
12 48 (0.84%) T-SQL
13 47 (0.82%) MATLAB
14 30 (0.52%) C
15 28 (0.49%) Scala
16 25 (0.44%) PHP
17 22 (0.38%) Go
17 22 (0.38%) PL/SQL
18 19 (0.33%) Julia
18 19 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1,094 (19.14%) Degree
2 600 (10.50%) Security Cleared
3 420 (7.35%) SC Cleared
4 248 (4.34%) ACCA
5 233 (4.08%) CIMA
6 173 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 167 (2.92%) CISSP
8 149 (2.61%) DBS Check
9 141 (2.47%) DV Cleared
10 126 (2.20%) CISM
11 121 (2.12%) Cisco Certification
12 116 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
13 102 (1.78%) Master's Degree
14 73 (1.28%) Azure Certification
14 73 (1.28%) IRCA
14 73 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
15 72 (1.26%) CompTIA Security+
16 63 (1.10%) PMI Certification
17 48 (0.84%) CRISC
17 48 (0.84%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 544 (9.52%) Data Quality
2 403 (7.05%) GDPR
3 400 (7.00%) QA
4 246 (4.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 200 (3.50%) NIST
6 165 (2.89%) Accessibility
7 159 (2.78%) SLA
8 158 (2.76%) Cyber Essentials
9 134 (2.34%) PCI DSS
10 129 (2.26%) ISO 9001
11 75 (1.31%) GRC
12 64 (1.12%) PMO
13 46 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
14 41 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 40 (0.70%) IFRS
16 38 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 36 (0.63%) COBIT
18 28 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
19 24 (0.42%) NCSC
19 24 (0.42%) PERC
System Software
1 322 (5.63%) Active Directory
2 140 (2.45%) Docker
3 103 (1.80%) Hyper-V
4 89 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 80 (1.40%) Terminal Server
6 25 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
7 23 (0.40%) Firmware
8 18 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (0.16%) IAG
9 9 (0.16%) VMware NSX
10 8 (0.14%) vSphere
11 7 (0.12%) Ceph
12 6 (0.10%) ProxySG
12 6 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
13 5 (0.087%) KVM
14 4 (0.070%) Embedded Firmware
14 4 (0.070%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.070%) XenApp
15 3 (0.052%) DFS Replication
15 3 (0.052%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 149 (2.61%) Terraform
2 116 (2.03%) Kubernetes
3 86 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 76 (1.33%) Ansible
5 43 (0.75%) Grafana
6 30 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
7 26 (0.45%) Prometheus
7 26 (0.45%) SCCM
8 20 (0.35%) Nagios
9 17 (0.30%) QRadar
10 16 (0.28%) Kibana
11 12 (0.21%) Podman
12 10 (0.17%) Nmap
13 9 (0.16%) Argo
13 9 (0.16%) Kubeflow
14 8 (0.14%) logstash
15 7 (0.12%) Check_MK
15 7 (0.12%) Packer
15 7 (0.12%) Puppet
15 7 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 1,260 (22.04%) Microsoft
2 280 (4.90%) Google
3 239 (4.18%) SAP
4 201 (3.52%) Oracle
5 180 (3.15%) VMware
6 148 (2.59%) Splunk
7 139 (2.43%) Databricks
8 131 (2.29%) Salesforce
9 125 (2.19%) ServiceNow
10 117 (2.05%) SolarWinds
11 90 (1.57%) Veeam
12 82 (1.43%) Cisco
13 81 (1.42%) Brocade
13 81 (1.42%) Nimble Storage
14 80 (1.40%) Tanium
14 80 (1.40%) Workday
15 65 (1.14%) Red Hat
16 56 (0.98%) Adobe
17 51 (0.89%) HubSpot
18 50 (0.87%) Dell