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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 11 16
Rank change year-on-year -11 +5 +5
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,846 5,362 7,680
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 6.71% 12.17% 9.20%
As % of the General category 12.40% 17.29% 15.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2,612 2,404 5,146
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,561 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £74,004 £69,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £88,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,967 £45,500
% change year-on-year -11.71% +12.02% -4.21%

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 39,075 31,010 51,205
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 54.14% 70.36% 61.32%
Number of salaries quoted 21,306 15,563 37,294
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.38%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -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 March 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 9 March 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 -12 4,290 £52,500 -4.55% 2,390
UK excluding London -16 3,046 £45,000 -11.71% 1,924
Work from Home +3 1,655 £52,500 -4.55% 1,077
London -5 1,491 £67,500 +3.85% 622
North of England -18 828 £45,000 -10.00% 398
South East +10 802 £50,000 -1.90% 628
Midlands -14 583 £45,000 -6.25% 320
North West -16 428 £43,000 -18.10% 228
West Midlands -16 354 £51,250 +2.50% 195
South West -11 289 £45,000 -12.49% 219
Yorkshire +2 288 £48,445 +7.65% 129
East of England -23 256 £40,000 -21.52% 221
East Midlands +1 228 £40,000 -5.88% 124
Scotland -18 199 £40,000 -27.27% 104
North East -6 112 £43,000 +8.91% 45
Wales +14 71 £40,000 -19.38% 67
Northern Ireland -19 45 £52,500 -4.55% 17
Isle of Man -4 1 £62,500 +123.21% 5
Channel Islands -7 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
1 136 (2.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 82 (1.69%) Confluence
2 82 (1.69%) SharePoint
3 59 (1.22%) Apache Spark
4 57 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
5 47 (0.97%) CMS
6 32 (0.66%) Apache
7 18 (0.37%) WordPress
8 16 (0.33%) SAS
9 14 (0.29%) IIS
9 14 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.10%) nginx
11 4 (0.083%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.062%) Drupal
12 3 (0.062%) govService
13 2 (0.041%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.041%) Camunda
13 2 (0.041%) JBoss
13 2 (0.041%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.041%) MTS
Applications
1 687 (14.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 320 (6.60%) Chatbot
3 293 (6.05%) Microsoft Office
4 119 (2.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 88 (1.82%) MS Visio
6 33 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
7 30 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
8 25 (0.52%) Maya
9 15 (0.31%) Adobe XD
10 9 (0.19%) AutoCAD
10 9 (0.19%) CATIA
11 3 (0.062%) Sketch
11 3 (0.062%) Trello
12 2 (0.041%) Revit
12 2 (0.041%) Simulink
13 1 (0.021%) OrCAD
13 1 (0.021%) Siemens NX
13 1 (0.021%) SmartSuite
13 1 (0.021%) SOLIDWORKS
13 1 (0.021%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 75 (1.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 44 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 41 (0.85%) NetSuite
4 30 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
5 28 (0.58%) SAP CO
6 21 (0.43%) Endur
7 20 (0.41%) SAP FI
8 19 (0.39%) SAP FI/CO
8 19 (0.39%) Workday HCM
9 17 (0.35%) SAP MDG
10 15 (0.31%) SAP ERP
11 13 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
12 11 (0.23%) Sage X3
13 10 (0.21%) Maximo
13 10 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
13 10 (0.21%) SAP PM
14 8 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
15 7 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
15 7 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
15 7 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 813 (16.78%) Azure
2 620 (12.79%) Power Platform
3 426 (8.79%) AWS
4 291 (6.00%) Microsoft 365
5 256 (5.28%) SaaS
6 162 (3.34%) GCP
7 147 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
8 120 (2.48%) Dynamics 365
9 94 (1.94%) Entra ID
10 92 (1.90%) GitHub
11 84 (1.73%) Power Automate
12 78 (1.61%) Snowflake
13 68 (1.40%) Azure Data Factory
14 63 (1.30%) dbt
15 62 (1.28%) Amazon S3
16 56 (1.16%) Google Analytics
16 56 (1.16%) Serverless
17 51 (1.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 51 (1.05%) PowerApps
18 50 (1.03%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 177 (3.65%) Firewall
2 155 (3.20%) DNS
3 117 (2.41%) DHCP
4 101 (2.08%) VPN
5 78 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
6 72 (1.49%) WAN
7 67 (1.38%) LAN
8 65 (1.34%) TCP/IP
9 60 (1.24%) Wireless
10 56 (1.16%) VLAN
11 46 (0.95%) Network Security
12 43 (0.89%) Broadband
13 35 (0.72%) Wireshark
14 34 (0.70%) BGP
15 33 (0.68%) SAN
16 32 (0.66%) OSPF
17 31 (0.64%) Remote Desktop
18 29 (0.60%) EIGRP
19 27 (0.56%) VoIP
20 26 (0.54%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 558 (11.51%) Power BI
2 405 (8.36%) Tableau
3 212 (4.37%) SQL Server
4 191 (3.94%) Data Mining
5 162 (3.34%) Data Warehouse
6 107 (2.21%) Metadata
7 95 (1.96%) Relational Database
8 88 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
9 79 (1.63%) Data Lake
10 60 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 54 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
12 53 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
12 53 (1.09%) Looker
13 51 (1.05%) MySQL
14 46 (0.95%) NoSQL
15 44 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
16 43 (0.89%) Power Query
17 34 (0.70%) Big Data
17 34 (0.70%) GIS
18 33 (0.68%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 189 (3.90%) JIRA
2 127 (2.62%) Git
3 46 (0.95%) GitLab
4 41 (0.85%) Selenium
5 35 (0.72%) Jenkins
6 18 (0.37%) Visual Studio
7 15 (0.31%) MLflow
7 15 (0.31%) Robot Framework
8 14 (0.29%) Balsamiq
8 14 (0.29%) ERwin
8 14 (0.29%) Subversion
9 13 (0.27%) Axure RP
9 13 (0.27%) IBM UrbanCode
9 13 (0.27%) Snyk
10 12 (0.25%) Chocolatey
11 10 (0.21%) Bitbucket
11 10 (0.21%) Cypress.io
11 10 (0.21%) LabVIEW
12 9 (0.19%) ER Studio
12 9 (0.19%) Postman
General
1 2,374 (48.99%) Social Skills
2 1,737 (35.84%) Finance
3 418 (8.63%) Marketing
4 330 (6.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 292 (6.03%) Banking
6 274 (5.65%) Legal
7 267 (5.51%) Law
7 267 (5.51%) Organisational Skills
8 257 (5.30%) Retail
9 244 (5.04%) Public Sector
10 200 (4.13%) Presentation Skills
11 156 (3.22%) Manufacturing
12 130 (2.68%) Financial Institution
13 119 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
14 100 (2.06%) Telecoms
15 92 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
16 78 (1.61%) Games
17 69 (1.42%) Advertising
18 58 (1.20%) Electronics
19 47 (0.97%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1,209 (24.95%) Analyst
2 594 (12.26%) Senior
3 376 (7.76%) Data Analyst
4 316 (6.52%) Trainer
5 308 (6.36%) Lead
6 238 (4.91%) Business Analyst
7 236 (4.87%) Developer
8 225 (4.64%) Architect
9 184 (3.80%) Consultant
10 170 (3.51%) Support Analyst
11 167 (3.45%) Trainee
12 158 (3.26%) Trainee Analyst
12 158 (3.26%) Trainee Data Analyst
13 142 (2.93%) IT Support
14 134 (2.77%) Senior Analyst
15 126 (2.60%) Senior Manager
16 110 (2.27%) Financial Analyst
17 106 (2.19%) Support Engineer
18 104 (2.15%) Systems Engineer
19 95 (1.96%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (2.60%) HTML
2 116 (2.39%) CSS
3 86 (1.77%) React
4 80 (1.65%) .NET
5 57 (1.18%) REST
6 50 (1.03%) JSON
6 50 (1.03%) Middleware
7 47 (0.97%) XML
8 42 (0.87%) Node.js
9 36 (0.74%) Kafka
9 36 (0.74%) TensorFlow
10 33 (0.68%) PyTorch
11 32 (0.66%) PySpark
12 28 (0.58%) SOAP
12 28 (0.58%) Spring
13 25 (0.52%) FIX Protocol
14 24 (0.50%) EDI
15 23 (0.47%) Pandas
16 22 (0.45%) AngularJS
17 18 (0.37%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 450 (9.29%) Analytical Mindset
2 344 (7.10%) Self-Motivation
3 267 (5.51%) Onboarding
4 234 (4.83%) Management Information System
5 179 (3.69%) Product Ownership
6 115 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
7 97 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
8 92 (1.90%) Data Structures
9 90 (1.86%) Data Centre
10 83 (1.71%) Cloud Native
11 76 (1.57%) Algorithms
11 76 (1.57%) Driving Licence
12 55 (1.13%) Social Media
13 54 (1.11%) Security Posture
14 52 (1.07%) FMCG
15 49 (1.01%) Virtual Team
16 47 (0.97%) Low-Code
17 46 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
17 46 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 39 (0.80%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 349 (7.20%) Windows
2 227 (4.68%) Linux
3 141 (2.91%) Windows Server
4 76 (1.57%) Windows Server 2016
5 39 (0.80%) Unix
6 27 (0.56%) Mac OS
7 18 (0.37%) Android
8 15 (0.31%) Windows 10
9 13 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (0.14%) Apple iOS
11 5 (0.10%) CentOS
11 5 (0.10%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.10%) VMS
12 4 (0.083%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.062%) OpenWrt
14 2 (0.041%) AIX
14 2 (0.041%) Data ONTAP
14 2 (0.041%) Oracle Linux
15 1 (0.021%) Debian
15 1 (0.021%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,153 (44.43%) Problem-Solving
2 1,067 (22.02%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,048 (21.63%) Analytics
4 969 (20.00%) AI
5 912 (18.82%) Decision-Making
6 858 (17.71%) Agile
7 712 (14.69%) Business Intelligence
8 663 (13.68%) Project Management
9 573 (11.82%) Data Analysis
10 572 (11.80%) Stakeholder Management
11 421 (8.69%) Actionable Insight
11 421 (8.69%) Mentoring
12 408 (8.42%) Analytical Thinking
13 393 (8.11%) Process Improvement
14 383 (7.90%) Roadmaps
15 368 (7.59%) Data Modelling
16 365 (7.53%) DevOps
17 357 (7.37%) Cybersecurity
18 350 (7.22%) Computer Science
19 349 (7.20%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1,013 (20.90%) SQL
2 844 (17.42%) Python
3 161 (3.32%) JavaScript
4 142 (2.93%) PowerShell
5 141 (2.91%) Java
6 120 (2.48%) C#
7 77 (1.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 69 (1.42%) R
9 54 (1.11%) Bash
10 47 (0.97%) C++
10 47 (0.97%) T-SQL
11 43 (0.89%) VBA
12 36 (0.74%) TypeScript
13 21 (0.43%) C
14 20 (0.41%) Scala
15 19 (0.39%) MATLAB
16 16 (0.33%) Go
17 14 (0.29%) PL/SQL
18 12 (0.25%) Bicep
18 12 (0.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,377 (28.42%) Degree
2 445 (9.18%) Master's Degree
3 406 (8.38%) Security Cleared
4 327 (6.75%) PhD
5 293 (6.05%) SC Cleared
6 207 (4.27%) ACCA
7 199 (4.11%) CIMA
8 178 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
9 139 (2.87%) CISSP
10 107 (2.21%) DBS Check
11 91 (1.88%) PMI Certification
12 87 (1.80%) DV Cleared
13 80 (1.65%) PMP
14 79 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
15 76 (1.57%) CISM
16 71 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
17 63 (1.30%) Azure Certification
18 62 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
19 48 (0.99%) AWS Certification
20 46 (0.95%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 347 (7.16%) Data Quality
2 249 (5.14%) QA
3 242 (4.99%) GDPR
4 199 (4.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 156 (3.22%) NIST
6 144 (2.97%) Cyber Essentials
7 112 (2.31%) PCI DSS
8 102 (2.10%) Accessibility
9 80 (1.65%) PMO
10 69 (1.42%) Actionable Recommendations
11 58 (1.20%) SLA
12 48 (0.99%) ISO 9001
13 43 (0.89%) GRC
14 37 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 31 (0.64%) IFRS
16 24 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 22 (0.45%) WCAG
18 18 (0.37%) NCSC
19 17 (0.35%) GMP
20 16 (0.33%) COBIT
System Software
1 241 (4.97%) Active Directory
2 97 (2.00%) Hyper-V
3 72 (1.49%) Terminal Server
4 70 (1.44%) Docker
5 55 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
6 14 (0.29%) ProxySG
7 13 (0.27%) vSphere
8 11 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
9 8 (0.17%) Firmware
9 8 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.14%) IAG
11 5 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.083%) VMware NSX
13 3 (0.062%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.062%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.062%) XenApp
14 2 (0.041%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.021%) KVM
15 1 (0.021%) NFS
15 1 (0.021%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 132 (2.72%) Terraform
2 71 (1.47%) Kubernetes
3 67 (1.38%) Ansible
4 48 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
5 33 (0.68%) Grafana
6 32 (0.66%) Prometheus
7 25 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
8 22 (0.45%) SCCM
9 15 (0.31%) Nagios
10 7 (0.14%) Control-M
10 7 (0.14%) SCOM
11 5 (0.10%) CASB
11 5 (0.10%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 4 (0.083%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.083%) Backup Exec
12 4 (0.083%) Kubeflow
12 4 (0.083%) Nessus
12 4 (0.083%) QRadar
12 4 (0.083%) SolarWinds Orion
12 4 (0.083%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,162 (23.98%) Microsoft
2 318 (6.56%) PayPal
3 227 (4.68%) SAP
4 185 (3.82%) Oracle
5 140 (2.89%) Salesforce
6 138 (2.85%) VMware
7 129 (2.66%) Google
8 121 (2.50%) SolarWinds
9 110 (2.27%) ServiceNow
10 102 (2.10%) Splunk
11 78 (1.61%) Veeam
12 73 (1.51%) Brocade
12 73 (1.51%) Cisco
12 73 (1.51%) Tanium
13 72 (1.49%) Nimble Storage
14 69 (1.42%) Databricks
15 56 (1.16%) Workday
16 52 (1.07%) Adobe
17 43 (0.89%) Alteryx
18 41 (0.85%) Bloomberg