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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 8 14
Rank change year-on-year -17 +6 +5
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 6,434 6,115 7,437
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.49% 12.38% 9.67%
As % of the General category 11.84% 18.11% 16.87%
Number of salaries quoted 3,734 2,516 2,898
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -

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 54,358 33,772 44,081
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.38% 68.37% 57.33%
Number of salaries quoted 33,110 17,601 22,351
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,200
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,500 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -6.14% -5.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -1.93%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 5,666 £52,500 - 8,739
UK excluding London -15 4,322 £47,500 +5.56% 4,732
Work from Home -6 2,158 £55,000 +10.00% 3,554
London -10 1,816 £67,500 +3.85% 4,707
North of England -18 1,172 £47,500 +6.74% 1,075
South East -11 985 £49,425 +0.87% 1,261
Midlands -11 747 £46,801 +4.00% 761
North West -14 711 £46,500 +3.33% 624
South West -8 614 £47,500 +5.56% 534
West Midlands -19 382 £47,500 +5.56% 471
East Midlands -4 362 £45,000 +12.50% 289
Yorkshire -10 318 £47,000 +17.50% 349
East of England -13 282 £47,500 +18.75% 445
Wales -3 208 £45,000 -10.40% 128
Northern Ireland +3 182 £43,750 -20.45% 220
North East -20 149 £55,000 +37.50% 107
Scotland -18 146 £46,250 +15.63% 371

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
1 189 (2.94%) SharePoint
2 178 (2.77%) Microsoft Exchange
3 113 (1.76%) Confluence
4 45 (0.70%) CMS
5 38 (0.59%) Apache Spark
6 37 (0.58%) Apache
6 37 (0.58%) IIS
7 31 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
8 28 (0.44%) SAS
9 15 (0.23%) WordPress
10 12 (0.19%) Jupyter
11 11 (0.17%) Headless CMS
12 10 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 9 (0.14%) WebLogic
13 9 (0.14%) WebSphere
14 8 (0.12%) OpenStack
15 7 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
16 3 (0.047%) Appian
16 3 (0.047%) nginx
16 3 (0.047%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 761 (11.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 332 (5.16%) Microsoft Office
3 133 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 72 (1.12%) MS Visio
5 50 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
6 45 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
7 18 (0.28%) Simulink
8 17 (0.26%) AutoCAD
9 10 (0.16%) Chatbot
10 9 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 9 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
11 8 (0.12%) Photoshop
12 7 (0.11%) Adobe XD
13 6 (0.093%) Acrobat
13 6 (0.093%) CATIA
13 6 (0.093%) EPLAN
13 6 (0.093%) Siemens NX
14 5 (0.078%) InDesign
14 5 (0.078%) Revit
15 4 (0.062%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 112 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 65 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
3 37 (0.58%) NetSuite
4 35 (0.54%) Dynamics GP
5 28 (0.44%) Shopify
6 18 (0.28%) Workday HCM
7 15 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
7 15 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
8 13 (0.20%) Magento
9 12 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
9 12 (0.19%) SAP CO
9 12 (0.19%) SAP FI
10 11 (0.17%) Elite 3E
10 11 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
11 10 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
11 10 (0.16%) Infor M3
11 10 (0.16%) SAP Business One
11 10 (0.16%) SAP PM
12 9 (0.14%) Fidessa
12 9 (0.14%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 1,018 (15.82%) Azure
2 748 (11.63%) Power Platform
3 649 (10.09%) AWS
4 450 (6.99%) Microsoft 365
5 393 (6.11%) SaaS
6 298 (4.63%) GCP
7 194 (3.02%) Entra ID
8 160 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
9 153 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
10 131 (2.04%) Google Analytics
11 128 (1.99%) Google Ads
12 105 (1.63%) GitHub
13 91 (1.41%) Meta Ads
13 91 (1.41%) Serverless
14 83 (1.29%) Power Automate
15 82 (1.27%) Microsoft Purview
16 81 (1.26%) PowerApps
17 79 (1.23%) Amazon S3
18 74 (1.15%) Snowflake
19 70 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 199 (3.09%) DNS
2 154 (2.39%) DHCP
3 145 (2.25%) Firewall
4 128 (1.99%) VPN
5 108 (1.68%) TCP/IP
6 94 (1.46%) Internet
7 77 (1.20%) WAN
8 72 (1.12%) LAN
9 68 (1.06%) Network Security
10 56 (0.87%) Wireless
11 53 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
12 47 (0.73%) VLAN
13 44 (0.68%) Broadband
14 37 (0.58%) HTTP
15 35 (0.54%) SAN
16 29 (0.45%) VoIP
17 25 (0.39%) 5G
17 25 (0.39%) BGP
17 25 (0.39%) SMS
18 23 (0.36%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 670 (10.41%) Power BI
2 210 (3.26%) SQL Server
3 193 (3.00%) Tableau
4 175 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
5 112 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
5 112 (1.74%) Relational Database
6 102 (1.59%) Metadata
7 87 (1.35%) MySQL
8 84 (1.31%) Looker
9 79 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
10 78 (1.21%) Power Query
11 74 (1.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 65 (1.01%) Data Lake
13 60 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 57 (0.89%) Big Data
15 48 (0.75%) NoSQL
16 44 (0.68%) BigQuery
17 38 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
17 38 (0.59%) MongoDB
18 37 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 269 (4.18%) JIRA
2 263 (4.09%) Git
3 55 (0.85%) Jenkins
4 54 (0.84%) GitLab
5 33 (0.51%) Selenium
6 30 (0.47%) Rational DOORS
7 26 (0.40%) Eclipse
8 24 (0.37%) Cucumber
9 21 (0.33%) Claude Code
9 21 (0.33%) Postman
10 18 (0.28%) LabVIEW
10 18 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
11 15 (0.23%) Bitbucket
12 14 (0.22%) Burp Suite
12 14 (0.22%) JMeter
13 13 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
14 12 (0.19%) Chocolatey
15 11 (0.17%) Cypress.io
15 11 (0.17%) Metasploit
15 11 (0.17%) SonarQube
General
1 3,243 (50.40%) Social Skills
2 2,088 (32.45%) Finance
3 744 (11.56%) Marketing
4 547 (8.50%) Organisational Skills
5 540 (8.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 461 (7.17%) Retail
7 426 (6.62%) Public Sector
8 425 (6.61%) Law
9 411 (6.39%) Legal
10 374 (5.81%) Manufacturing
11 331 (5.14%) Influencing Skills
12 270 (4.20%) Presentation Skills
13 243 (3.78%) Banking
14 210 (3.26%) Aerospace
15 161 (2.50%) Telecoms
16 157 (2.44%) Electronics
17 117 (1.82%) Advertising
18 101 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
19 80 (1.24%) Automotive
20 71 (1.10%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,488 (23.13%) Analyst
2 851 (13.23%) Senior
3 426 (6.62%) Lead
4 311 (4.83%) Developer
5 307 (4.77%) Data Analyst
6 303 (4.71%) Business Analyst
7 248 (3.85%) Consultant
8 246 (3.82%) Senior Analyst
9 235 (3.65%) Architect
10 213 (3.31%) Support Analyst
11 186 (2.89%) Data Engineer
12 170 (2.64%) Systems Engineer
13 126 (1.96%) Support Engineer
14 118 (1.83%) IT Support
15 115 (1.79%) Applications Support
16 111 (1.73%) Administrator
17 110 (1.71%) Senior Manager
18 109 (1.69%) Security Analyst
19 108 (1.68%) Marketing Manager
20 107 (1.66%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (2.58%) .NET
2 149 (2.32%) Terraform
3 136 (2.11%) REST
4 123 (1.91%) HTML
5 112 (1.74%) CSS
6 90 (1.40%) JSON
7 84 (1.31%) RESTful
8 81 (1.26%) Middleware
9 79 (1.23%) XML
10 74 (1.15%) PySpark
11 71 (1.10%) React
12 64 (0.99%) SOAP
13 61 (0.95%) Kafka
14 48 (0.75%) EDI
15 47 (0.73%) Web Services
16 46 (0.71%) LDAP
17 42 (0.65%) Spring Boot
18 40 (0.62%) Spring
19 38 (0.59%) ASP.NET
19 38 (0.59%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 469 (7.29%) Management Information System
2 457 (7.10%) Analytical Mindset
3 396 (6.15%) Onboarding
4 322 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
5 290 (4.51%) Product Ownership
6 170 (2.64%) Driving Licence
7 149 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
8 146 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
9 133 (2.07%) Cloud Native
10 131 (2.04%) Social Media
11 120 (1.87%) Blog
12 110 (1.71%) Cyber Threat
13 107 (1.66%) Marketing Technology
14 103 (1.60%) Data Centre
15 102 (1.59%) Security Posture
16 98 (1.52%) Virtual Team
17 87 (1.35%) Data Structures
18 76 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
19 67 (1.04%) AI Agents
20 64 (0.99%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 462 (7.18%) Windows
2 316 (4.91%) Linux
3 219 (3.40%) Windows Server
4 93 (1.45%) Windows Server 2016
5 42 (0.65%) Windows 10
6 36 (0.56%) Mac OS
7 33 (0.51%) Unix
8 27 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 24 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
10 22 (0.34%) Apple iOS
11 19 (0.30%) Android
12 9 (0.14%) CentOS
13 8 (0.12%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.093%) Debian
14 6 (0.093%) VMS
15 5 (0.078%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.062%) CoreOS
17 2 (0.031%) AIX
17 2 (0.031%) Solaris
17 2 (0.031%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,134 (48.71%) Problem-Solving
2 1,929 (29.98%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,550 (24.09%) Decision-Making
4 1,314 (20.42%) Stakeholder Management
5 1,274 (19.80%) Analytics
6 1,150 (17.87%) AI
7 1,111 (17.27%) Agile
8 837 (13.01%) Business Intelligence
9 700 (10.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 643 (9.99%) Mentoring
11 624 (9.70%) Roadmaps
12 592 (9.20%) Validation
13 588 (9.14%) Actionable Insight
14 558 (8.67%) Process Improvement
15 557 (8.66%) Data Analysis
16 550 (8.55%) Project Management
17 540 (8.39%) CRM
18 523 (8.13%) Cybersecurity
19 518 (8.05%) Project Delivery
20 516 (8.02%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1,212 (18.84%) SQL
2 865 (13.44%) Python
3 234 (3.64%) JavaScript
4 215 (3.34%) Java
5 201 (3.12%) C#
6 195 (3.03%) PowerShell
7 118 (1.83%) C++
8 94 (1.46%) Bash
9 83 (1.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 82 (1.27%) R
11 71 (1.10%) TypeScript
12 55 (0.85%) MATLAB
13 53 (0.82%) T-SQL
14 46 (0.71%) Shell Script
15 40 (0.62%) C
16 33 (0.51%) PL/SQL
17 29 (0.45%) Scala
18 26 (0.40%) Go
19 23 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
19 23 (0.36%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,311 (20.38%) Degree
2 715 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 493 (7.66%) SC Cleared
4 260 (4.04%) ACCA
5 245 (3.81%) CIMA
6 179 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 158 (2.46%) DV Cleared
8 148 (2.30%) CISSP
9 141 (2.19%) DBS Check
10 132 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
11 116 (1.80%) CISM
12 108 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
13 100 (1.55%) Master's Degree
14 81 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
15 78 (1.21%) HND
16 76 (1.18%) Azure Certification
17 67 (1.04%) CompTIA Security+
18 61 (0.95%) PMI Certification
19 58 (0.90%) HNC
20 50 (0.78%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 631 (9.81%) Data Quality
2 375 (5.83%) QA
3 317 (4.93%) GDPR
4 226 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 206 (3.20%) Accessibility
6 169 (2.63%) NIST
7 145 (2.25%) Cyber Essentials
8 142 (2.21%) SLA
9 119 (1.85%) PCI DSS
10 69 (1.07%) GRC
11 67 (1.04%) PMO
12 56 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
12 56 (0.87%) ISO 9001
13 41 (0.64%) IFRS
14 38 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 33 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 29 (0.45%) NCSC
17 27 (0.42%) COBIT
18 26 (0.40%) DO-254
18 26 (0.40%) GAAP
System Software
1 351 (5.46%) Active Directory
2 176 (2.74%) Docker
3 105 (1.63%) Hyper-V
4 84 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 72 (1.12%) Terminal Server
6 47 (0.73%) Firmware
7 23 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
8 18 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
10 11 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
11 8 (0.12%) vSphere
12 7 (0.11%) Ceph
12 7 (0.11%) VMware NSX
13 4 (0.062%) KVM
13 4 (0.062%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.047%) DFS Replication
15 2 (0.031%) IAG
15 2 (0.031%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 1 (0.016%) HDFS
16 1 (0.016%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 118 (1.83%) Kubernetes
2 84 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
3 70 (1.09%) Ansible
4 46 (0.71%) Grafana
5 40 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
6 25 (0.39%) Prometheus
7 21 (0.33%) Kibana
8 20 (0.31%) QRadar
8 20 (0.31%) SCCM
9 12 (0.19%) Nagios
10 11 (0.17%) Nmap
10 11 (0.17%) Podman
11 9 (0.14%) Argo
11 9 (0.14%) Functional Safety
11 9 (0.14%) logstash
12 7 (0.11%) Check_MK
12 7 (0.11%) Istio
13 6 (0.093%) Graylog
13 6 (0.093%) Nessus
13 6 (0.093%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1,550 (24.09%) Microsoft
2 411 (6.39%) Google
3 255 (3.96%) SAP
4 201 (3.12%) Oracle
5 174 (2.70%) VMware
6 156 (2.42%) Splunk
7 147 (2.28%) Salesforce
8 140 (2.18%) ServiceNow
9 130 (2.02%) Databricks
10 94 (1.46%) SolarWinds
11 87 (1.35%) Cisco
12 80 (1.24%) Veeam
13 73 (1.13%) Brocade
13 73 (1.13%) Nimble Storage
14 72 (1.12%) Adobe
14 72 (1.12%) Tanium
15 70 (1.09%) HubSpot
16 65 (1.01%) YouTube
17 60 (0.93%) Workday
18 43 (0.67%) Sage