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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 9 13
Rank change year-on-year -15 +4 +7
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 5,846 6,159 7,917
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.44% 12.33% 9.56%
As % of the General category 11.70% 17.91% 16.75%
Number of salaries quoted 3,573 2,615 3,642
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year - -3.06% -2.00%

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 49,946 34,389 47,276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.49% 68.83% 57.08%
Number of salaries quoted 30,608 18,000 27,872
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,818 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,421 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% -1.05% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £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 18 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 18 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 -16 5,234 £52,500 - 2,637
UK excluding London -17 3,776 £47,500 - 2,140
Work from Home -10 1,860 £55,000 +10.00% 1,131
London -10 1,787 £67,500 +3.85% 919
North of England -18 1,061 £47,500 +5.56% 532
South East -9 893 £50,000 -4.76% 692
Midlands -8 650 £48,000 +6.67% 337
North West -15 644 £46,750 +3.89% 294
South West -12 523 £47,500 +5.56% 286
West Midlands -17 338 £50,000 +11.11% 201
East Midlands -1 310 £46,743 +3.87% 137
Yorkshire -9 294 £47,000 +17.50% 178
East of England -17 260 £47,500 +5.56% 179
Wales -16 144 £51,709 +2.61% 44
Scotland -25 132 £44,000 +3.53% 74
North East -14 123 £53,750 +31.10% 67
Northern Ireland -15 122 £42,500 -22.73% 69

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
1 181 (3.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 168 (2.87%) SharePoint
3 89 (1.52%) Confluence
4 69 (1.18%) Apache Spark
5 67 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
6 49 (0.84%) CMS
7 47 (0.80%) Apache
8 33 (0.56%) IIS
9 26 (0.44%) SAS
10 11 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
10 11 (0.19%) WordPress
11 10 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 9 (0.15%) Headless CMS
12 9 (0.15%) Jupyter
12 9 (0.15%) WebLogic
12 9 (0.15%) WebSphere
13 8 (0.14%) OpenStack
14 3 (0.051%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.051%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.051%) Tomcat
Applications
1 618 (10.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 252 (4.31%) Microsoft Office
3 119 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 83 (1.42%) MS Visio
5 43 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
6 27 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.15%) Adobe XD
8 8 (0.14%) Simulink
9 7 (0.12%) AutoCAD
10 5 (0.086%) Acrobat
10 5 (0.086%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.086%) EPLAN
11 4 (0.068%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.068%) CATIA
11 4 (0.068%) Maya
11 4 (0.068%) Trello
12 3 (0.051%) LaTeX
12 3 (0.051%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.051%) Revit
12 3 (0.051%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 103 (1.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 69 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 40 (0.68%) NetSuite
4 35 (0.60%) Dynamics GP
5 21 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
6 20 (0.34%) SAP PM
7 17 (0.29%) Shopify
8 15 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
8 15 (0.26%) SAP ERP
9 14 (0.24%) SAP CO
9 14 (0.24%) SAP FI
10 13 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
11 12 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
11 12 (0.21%) Workday HCM
12 10 (0.17%) Elite 3E
12 10 (0.17%) Magento
13 9 (0.15%) Fidessa
13 9 (0.15%) Sage 200
13 9 (0.15%) SAP Business One
14 8 (0.14%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 993 (16.99%) Azure
2 690 (11.80%) Power Platform
3 610 (10.43%) AWS
4 413 (7.06%) Microsoft 365
5 367 (6.28%) SaaS
6 289 (4.94%) GCP
7 143 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
8 139 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
9 138 (2.36%) Entra ID
10 110 (1.88%) Google Analytics
11 109 (1.86%) Snowflake
12 98 (1.68%) GitHub
13 89 (1.52%) dbt
14 86 (1.47%) Power Automate
15 79 (1.35%) Amazon S3
16 77 (1.32%) PowerApps
17 73 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
18 68 (1.16%) Google Ads
19 66 (1.13%) Serverless
20 57 (0.98%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 198 (3.39%) DNS
2 154 (2.63%) DHCP
3 150 (2.57%) Firewall
4 125 (2.14%) VPN
5 100 (1.71%) TCP/IP
6 76 (1.30%) WAN
7 75 (1.28%) LAN
8 58 (0.99%) Network Security
9 57 (0.98%) Wireless
10 56 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
11 55 (0.94%) Broadband
12 45 (0.77%) Internet
13 44 (0.75%) SAN
14 43 (0.74%) VLAN
15 36 (0.62%) HTTP
16 27 (0.46%) VoIP
17 25 (0.43%) BGP
18 21 (0.36%) SD-WAN
19 20 (0.34%) SMS
20 18 (0.31%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 610 (10.43%) Power BI
2 267 (4.57%) Tableau
3 228 (3.90%) SQL Server
4 193 (3.30%) Data Warehouse
5 118 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
6 103 (1.76%) Relational Database
7 92 (1.57%) Looker
8 91 (1.56%) Metadata
9 84 (1.44%) MySQL
10 78 (1.33%) Data Lake
11 76 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
12 66 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 63 (1.08%) BigQuery
13 63 (1.08%) Power Query
14 60 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 55 (0.94%) Big Data
16 54 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
17 47 (0.80%) NoSQL
18 42 (0.72%) Data Mining
19 38 (0.65%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 243 (4.16%) JIRA
2 219 (3.75%) Git
3 54 (0.92%) GitLab
4 49 (0.84%) Jenkins
5 32 (0.55%) MLflow
6 31 (0.53%) Rational DOORS
7 28 (0.48%) Selenium
8 22 (0.38%) Cucumber
9 20 (0.34%) Eclipse
9 20 (0.34%) Postman
10 16 (0.27%) Chocolatey
11 14 (0.24%) JMeter
12 13 (0.22%) Bitbucket
12 13 (0.22%) Burp Suite
12 13 (0.22%) Claude Code
12 13 (0.22%) Cypress.io
12 13 (0.22%) ERwin
13 12 (0.21%) IBM UrbanCode
13 12 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
14 11 (0.19%) LabVIEW
General
1 2,813 (48.12%) Social Skills
2 1,921 (32.86%) Finance
3 604 (10.33%) Marketing
4 515 (8.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 415 (7.10%) Organisational Skills
6 386 (6.60%) Retail
7 384 (6.57%) Law
8 357 (6.11%) Public Sector
9 350 (5.99%) Legal
10 281 (4.81%) Influencing Skills
10 281 (4.81%) Manufacturing
11 275 (4.70%) Banking
12 189 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
13 166 (2.84%) Aerospace
14 133 (2.28%) Telecoms
15 110 (1.88%) Electronics
16 106 (1.81%) Advertising
17 94 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
18 72 (1.23%) Financial Institution
19 68 (1.16%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,363 (23.32%) Analyst
2 770 (13.17%) Senior
3 407 (6.96%) Lead
4 307 (5.25%) Data Analyst
5 297 (5.08%) Business Analyst
6 282 (4.82%) Developer
7 230 (3.93%) Architect
8 227 (3.88%) Consultant
9 208 (3.56%) Systems Engineer
10 200 (3.42%) Senior Analyst
11 170 (2.91%) Data Engineer
11 170 (2.91%) Support Analyst
12 131 (2.24%) Support Engineer
13 120 (2.05%) IT Support
14 113 (1.93%) IT Manager
15 108 (1.85%) Security Analyst
15 108 (1.85%) Senior Manager
16 100 (1.71%) Systems Analyst
17 92 (1.57%) Marketing Manager
18 91 (1.56%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (2.58%) .NET
2 128 (2.19%) HTML
3 124 (2.12%) REST
4 120 (2.05%) CSS
5 89 (1.52%) JSON
6 78 (1.33%) Kafka
6 78 (1.33%) React
7 77 (1.32%) Middleware
8 75 (1.28%) XML
9 72 (1.23%) RESTful
10 67 (1.15%) PyTorch
11 60 (1.03%) TensorFlow
12 57 (0.98%) SOAP
13 50 (0.86%) PySpark
14 48 (0.82%) scikit-learn
15 43 (0.74%) Web Services
16 41 (0.70%) EDI
17 40 (0.68%) Node.js
17 40 (0.68%) OAuth
18 39 (0.67%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 548 (9.37%) Analytical Mindset
2 346 (5.92%) Management Information System
3 327 (5.59%) Onboarding
4 272 (4.65%) Self-Motivation
5 269 (4.60%) Product Ownership
6 164 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
7 139 (2.38%) Cloud Native
8 134 (2.29%) Driving Licence
9 119 (2.04%) Blog
10 118 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
11 116 (1.98%) Social Media
12 109 (1.86%) Security Posture
13 106 (1.81%) Data Centre
14 101 (1.73%) Marketing Technology
15 93 (1.59%) Cyber Threat
15 93 (1.59%) Virtual Team
16 80 (1.37%) Data Structures
17 77 (1.32%) Algorithms
18 71 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
19 53 (0.91%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 459 (7.85%) Windows
2 294 (5.03%) Linux
3 221 (3.78%) Windows Server
4 99 (1.69%) Windows Server 2016
5 33 (0.56%) Unix
5 33 (0.56%) Windows 10
6 31 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 29 (0.50%) Mac OS
8 22 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
9 21 (0.36%) Apple iOS
10 20 (0.34%) Android
11 13 (0.22%) CentOS
12 10 (0.17%) Ubuntu
13 7 (0.12%) Debian
14 6 (0.10%) VMS
15 5 (0.086%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.068%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.068%) Rocky
17 2 (0.034%) AIX
17 2 (0.034%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,767 (47.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1,688 (28.87%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,354 (23.16%) Decision-Making
4 1,288 (22.03%) Analytics
5 1,036 (17.72%) Agile
6 1,020 (17.45%) AI
7 997 (17.05%) Stakeholder Management
8 739 (12.64%) Business Intelligence
9 654 (11.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 608 (10.40%) Roadmaps
11 561 (9.60%) Actionable Insight
12 555 (9.49%) Mentoring
13 537 (9.19%) Project Management
14 509 (8.71%) Data Analysis
15 498 (8.52%) Validation
16 491 (8.40%) Cybersecurity
17 472 (8.07%) Data Modelling
18 467 (7.99%) Customer Experience
19 458 (7.83%) Process Improvement
20 441 (7.54%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 1,159 (19.83%) SQL
2 914 (15.63%) Python
3 223 (3.81%) JavaScript
4 196 (3.35%) Java
5 188 (3.22%) PowerShell
6 185 (3.16%) C#
7 100 (1.71%) C++
8 97 (1.66%) Bash
9 80 (1.37%) R
10 72 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 67 (1.15%) TypeScript
12 47 (0.80%) T-SQL
13 45 (0.77%) MATLAB
14 32 (0.55%) C
15 28 (0.48%) Scala
16 25 (0.43%) PHP
17 22 (0.38%) Go
17 22 (0.38%) PL/SQL
18 19 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
18 19 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,126 (19.26%) Degree
2 636 (10.88%) Security Cleared
3 440 (7.53%) SC Cleared
4 240 (4.11%) ACCA
5 226 (3.87%) CIMA
6 175 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 167 (2.86%) CISSP
8 154 (2.63%) DV Cleared
9 149 (2.55%) DBS Check
10 127 (2.17%) CISM
11 123 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
12 121 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
13 104 (1.78%) Master's Degree
14 76 (1.30%) Azure Certification
15 75 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
16 74 (1.27%) CompTIA Security+
17 73 (1.25%) IRCA
18 60 (1.03%) PMI Certification
19 48 (0.82%) CCNA
19 48 (0.82%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 553 (9.46%) Data Quality
2 408 (6.98%) QA
3 400 (6.84%) GDPR
4 244 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 201 (3.44%) NIST
6 168 (2.87%) Accessibility
7 158 (2.70%) SLA
8 157 (2.69%) Cyber Essentials
9 131 (2.24%) PCI DSS
10 130 (2.22%) ISO 9001
11 72 (1.23%) GRC
12 62 (1.06%) PMO
13 45 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
14 41 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 38 (0.65%) COBIT
15 38 (0.65%) IFRS
16 37 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 28 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 27 (0.46%) NCSC
19 24 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 328 (5.61%) Active Directory
2 141 (2.41%) Docker
3 103 (1.76%) Hyper-V
4 89 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 80 (1.37%) Terminal Server
6 28 (0.48%) Firmware
7 22 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
8 19 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
9 10 (0.17%) vSphere
10 8 (0.14%) VMware NSX
11 7 (0.12%) Ceph
12 6 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
13 5 (0.086%) Embedded Firmware
14 4 (0.068%) KVM
14 4 (0.068%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.068%) ProxySG
15 3 (0.051%) DFS Replication
15 3 (0.051%) IAG
15 3 (0.051%) VMware ESXi
15 3 (0.051%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 153 (2.62%) Terraform
2 116 (1.98%) Kubernetes
3 85 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 76 (1.30%) Ansible
5 42 (0.72%) Grafana
6 31 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
7 27 (0.46%) SCCM
8 24 (0.41%) Prometheus
9 19 (0.33%) QRadar
10 17 (0.29%) Kibana
10 17 (0.29%) Nagios
11 11 (0.19%) Nmap
11 11 (0.19%) Podman
12 9 (0.15%) Argo
12 9 (0.15%) Kubeflow
13 8 (0.14%) logstash
14 7 (0.12%) Check_MK
14 7 (0.12%) Istio
14 7 (0.12%) Packer
14 7 (0.12%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1,278 (21.86%) Microsoft
2 298 (5.10%) Google
3 234 (4.00%) SAP
4 206 (3.52%) Oracle
5 182 (3.11%) VMware
6 150 (2.57%) Splunk
7 142 (2.43%) Databricks
8 127 (2.17%) ServiceNow
9 123 (2.10%) Salesforce
10 112 (1.92%) SolarWinds
11 90 (1.54%) Veeam
12 82 (1.40%) Cisco
12 82 (1.40%) Workday
13 81 (1.39%) Brocade
13 81 (1.39%) Nimble Storage
14 80 (1.37%) Tanium
15 60 (1.03%) Red Hat
16 58 (0.99%) Adobe
17 52 (0.89%) Dell
18 49 (0.84%) HubSpot