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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 8 14
Rank change year-on-year -18 +6 +7
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,896 6,055 9,960
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.19% 13.47% 9.11%
As % of the General category 10.99% 18.54% 16.02%
Number of salaries quoted 3,185 2,440 5,431
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,620 £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 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,419 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,472 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.06% +11.11% -5.26%

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 44,556 32,662 62,172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 47.25% 72.64% 56.86%
Number of salaries quoted 27,374 16,061 41,190
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £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 £77,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
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 21 June 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 21 June 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 4,464 £55,000 - 1,650
UK excluding London -20 3,086 £48,472 -3.06% 1,434
London -11 1,534 £67,500 +3.85% 612
Work from Home -11 1,510 £55,000 - 787
North of England -19 954 £48,000 +1.05% 305
South East -8 772 £50,000 -9.09% 494
Midlands -9 568 £48,000 +1.05% 235
North West -17 559 £46,500 -7.00% 170
South West -23 337 £47,500 -2.08% 150
West Midlands -14 316 £50,000 +5.26% 127
Yorkshire -16 295 £49,942 +10.98% 93
East Midlands 0 251 £45,000 -5.26% 107
East of England -19 237 £45,050 -3.82% 116
Scotland -26 107 £40,000 -20.71% 60
North East -29 100 £53,750 +38.53% 50
Wales -11 83 £53,171 -3.33% 27
Northern Ireland -21 39 £40,000 -27.27% 102

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
1 171 (3.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 117 (2.39%) SharePoint
3 74 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
4 71 (1.45%) Confluence
5 70 (1.43%) Apache Spark
6 42 (0.86%) Apache
7 38 (0.78%) CMS
8 22 (0.45%) IIS
9 20 (0.41%) SAS
10 16 (0.33%) WordPress
11 14 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 13 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
13 6 (0.12%) Jupyter
13 6 (0.12%) WebLogic
13 6 (0.12%) WebSphere
14 3 (0.061%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.061%) govService
14 3 (0.061%) JBoss
14 3 (0.061%) Tomcat
15 2 (0.041%) Camunda
Applications
1 534 (10.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 189 (3.86%) Microsoft Office
3 99 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 86 (1.76%) MS Visio
5 34 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
6 31 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
7 9 (0.18%) CATIA
8 8 (0.16%) Adobe XD
9 6 (0.12%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.10%) Acrobat
11 4 (0.082%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.082%) Maya
12 3 (0.061%) Blender
12 3 (0.061%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.061%) Trello
13 2 (0.041%) AutoCAD
13 2 (0.041%) Lectora
13 2 (0.041%) Siemens NX
13 2 (0.041%) Simulink
13 2 (0.041%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 73 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 34 (0.69%) NetSuite
4 32 (0.65%) Salesforce CRM
5 17 (0.35%) SAP CO
6 16 (0.33%) SAP PM
7 15 (0.31%) SAP ERP
8 14 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
9 11 (0.22%) Maximo
9 11 (0.22%) SAP FI
10 10 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
11 9 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
11 9 (0.18%) Fidessa
11 9 (0.18%) Workday HCM
12 7 (0.14%) Elite 3E
13 6 (0.12%) Endur
13 6 (0.12%) Magento
13 6 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
13 6 (0.12%) SAP PP
13 6 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 887 (18.12%) Azure
2 646 (13.19%) Power Platform
3 485 (9.91%) AWS
4 371 (7.58%) Microsoft 365
5 304 (6.21%) SaaS
6 208 (4.25%) GCP
7 125 (2.55%) Dynamics 365
8 114 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
8 114 (2.33%) Entra ID
9 83 (1.70%) Google Analytics
10 78 (1.59%) GitHub
11 77 (1.57%) Power Automate
12 76 (1.55%) Microsoft Purview
13 73 (1.49%) Amazon S3
14 70 (1.43%) Snowflake
15 69 (1.41%) dbt
16 66 (1.35%) PowerApps
17 65 (1.33%) Serverless
18 52 (1.06%) Azure Data Factory
19 49 (1.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 197 (4.02%) Firewall
2 178 (3.64%) DNS
3 136 (2.78%) DHCP
4 120 (2.45%) VPN
5 83 (1.70%) WAN
6 79 (1.61%) TCP/IP
7 76 (1.55%) Broadband
8 75 (1.53%) LAN
9 62 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
10 51 (1.04%) VLAN
10 51 (1.04%) Wireless
11 46 (0.94%) Network Security
12 42 (0.86%) SAN
13 34 (0.69%) BGP
14 33 (0.67%) HTTP
15 31 (0.63%) Internet
16 26 (0.53%) Cisco ASA
16 26 (0.53%) SD-WAN
17 24 (0.49%) OSPF
18 23 (0.47%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 576 (11.76%) Power BI
2 298 (6.09%) Tableau
3 187 (3.82%) SQL Server
4 166 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
5 105 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
6 90 (1.84%) Metadata
7 82 (1.67%) Data Mining
8 71 (1.45%) Data Lake
8 71 (1.45%) Relational Database
9 61 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
10 60 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
10 60 (1.23%) Looker
11 57 (1.16%) Power Query
11 57 (1.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 52 (1.06%) MySQL
13 48 (0.98%) BigQuery
14 45 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 40 (0.82%) Big Data
16 36 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
17 35 (0.71%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 165 (3.37%) JIRA
2 143 (2.92%) Git
3 53 (1.08%) GitLab
4 33 (0.67%) Rational DOORS
5 30 (0.61%) MLflow
6 29 (0.59%) Jenkins
7 19 (0.39%) Selenium
8 18 (0.37%) Chocolatey
9 16 (0.33%) Cucumber
10 14 (0.29%) Eclipse
10 14 (0.29%) ERwin
11 13 (0.27%) IBM UrbanCode
11 13 (0.27%) Postman
12 12 (0.25%) Cypress.io
12 12 (0.25%) Visual Studio
13 11 (0.22%) SonarQube
14 9 (0.18%) Bitbucket
14 9 (0.18%) JMeter
14 9 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
15 8 (0.16%) Balsamiq
General
1 2,271 (46.38%) Social Skills
2 1,690 (34.52%) Finance
3 416 (8.50%) Marketing
4 357 (7.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 296 (6.05%) Organisational Skills
6 292 (5.96%) Public Sector
7 274 (5.60%) Retail
8 267 (5.45%) Law
9 266 (5.43%) Legal
10 243 (4.96%) Banking
11 184 (3.76%) Manufacturing
12 174 (3.55%) Influencing Skills
13 131 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
14 118 (2.41%) Telecoms
15 88 (1.80%) Advertising
15 88 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
16 80 (1.63%) Aerospace
17 77 (1.57%) Financial Institution
18 72 (1.47%) Electronics
19 54 (1.10%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,263 (25.80%) Analyst
2 631 (12.89%) Senior
3 341 (6.96%) Lead
4 310 (6.33%) Data Analyst
5 281 (5.74%) Business Analyst
6 241 (4.92%) Developer
7 215 (4.39%) Consultant
8 209 (4.27%) Architect
9 192 (3.92%) Systems Engineer
10 146 (2.98%) Senior Analyst
11 130 (2.66%) Data Engineer
12 119 (2.43%) Support Analyst
13 115 (2.35%) IT Manager
14 108 (2.21%) IT Support
14 108 (2.21%) Senior Manager
14 108 (2.21%) Support Engineer
15 105 (2.14%) Systems Analyst
16 98 (2.00%) Financial Analyst
17 94 (1.92%) Security Analyst
18 84 (1.72%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (2.49%) HTML
2 111 (2.27%) CSS
3 110 (2.25%) .NET
4 102 (2.08%) REST
5 90 (1.84%) Middleware
6 89 (1.82%) JSON
7 86 (1.76%) React
8 80 (1.63%) XML
9 69 (1.41%) PyTorch
10 63 (1.29%) TensorFlow
11 53 (1.08%) Kafka
12 50 (1.02%) Node.js
13 49 (1.00%) SOAP
14 47 (0.96%) RESTful
15 43 (0.88%) PySpark
16 42 (0.86%) scikit-learn
17 37 (0.76%) Web Services
18 33 (0.67%) Pandas
19 32 (0.65%) LangChain
20 30 (0.61%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 517 (10.56%) Analytical Mindset
2 242 (4.94%) Management Information System
3 210 (4.29%) Onboarding
4 196 (4.00%) Product Ownership
5 189 (3.86%) Self-Motivation
6 138 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
7 105 (2.14%) Data Centre
8 96 (1.96%) Cloud Native
8 96 (1.96%) Security Posture
9 89 (1.82%) Data Structures
10 81 (1.65%) Driving Licence
11 80 (1.63%) Algorithms
12 78 (1.59%) Cyber Threat
13 63 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
14 59 (1.21%) Social Media
15 56 (1.14%) Public Cloud
16 55 (1.12%) Virtual Team
17 46 (0.94%) Cyber Defence
18 45 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
18 45 (0.92%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 384 (7.84%) Windows
2 245 (5.00%) Linux
3 194 (3.96%) Windows Server
4 95 (1.94%) Windows Server 2016
5 35 (0.71%) Unix
6 27 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 27 (0.55%) Windows 10
7 18 (0.37%) Mac OS
8 17 (0.35%) Android
8 17 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
9 14 (0.29%) Apple iOS
10 11 (0.22%) CentOS
10 11 (0.22%) Ubuntu
11 8 (0.16%) VMS
12 4 (0.082%) AIX
12 4 (0.082%) Debian
12 4 (0.082%) OpenVMS
12 4 (0.082%) Rocky
12 4 (0.082%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.020%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,207 (45.08%) Problem-Solving
2 1,207 (24.65%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,086 (22.18%) Decision-Making
4 1,074 (21.94%) Analytics
5 848 (17.32%) Agile
6 657 (13.42%) Business Intelligence
7 643 (13.13%) AI
8 640 (13.07%) Stakeholder Management
9 510 (10.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 494 (10.09%) Roadmaps
11 481 (9.82%) Mentoring
12 477 (9.74%) Actionable Insight
13 472 (9.64%) Project Management
14 453 (9.25%) Cybersecurity
15 448 (9.15%) Data Modelling
16 444 (9.07%) Data Analysis
17 406 (8.29%) Data Governance
18 402 (8.21%) Process Improvement
19 367 (7.50%) Analytical Thinking
20 360 (7.35%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1,036 (21.16%) SQL
2 872 (17.81%) Python
3 175 (3.57%) JavaScript
4 170 (3.47%) Java
5 164 (3.35%) PowerShell
6 148 (3.02%) C#
7 81 (1.65%) R
8 72 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 70 (1.43%) C++
10 68 (1.39%) Bash
11 50 (1.02%) TypeScript
12 48 (0.98%) T-SQL
13 39 (0.80%) MATLAB
14 34 (0.69%) VBA
15 21 (0.43%) PHP
16 19 (0.39%) Go
17 18 (0.37%) Julia
17 18 (0.37%) Scala
18 17 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
18 17 (0.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 901 (18.40%) Degree
2 456 (9.31%) Security Cleared
3 331 (6.76%) SC Cleared
4 262 (5.35%) ACCA
5 247 (5.04%) CIMA
6 156 (3.19%) CISSP
7 155 (3.17%) DBS Check
8 153 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
9 113 (2.31%) Cisco Certification
10 110 (2.25%) CISM
11 90 (1.84%) DV Cleared
11 90 (1.84%) Master's Degree
12 83 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
13 72 (1.47%) Azure Certification
13 72 (1.47%) IRCA
13 72 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
14 67 (1.37%) CompTIA Security+
15 60 (1.23%) PMI Certification
16 54 (1.10%) PMP
17 49 (1.00%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 466 (9.52%) Data Quality
2 384 (7.84%) GDPR
3 319 (6.52%) QA
4 265 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 226 (4.62%) NIST
6 171 (3.49%) Cyber Essentials
7 141 (2.88%) SLA
8 138 (2.82%) PCI DSS
9 128 (2.61%) Accessibility
10 119 (2.43%) ISO 9001
11 75 (1.53%) GRC
12 57 (1.16%) PMO
13 51 (1.04%) Actionable Recommendations
14 45 (0.92%) IFRS
15 41 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 40 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 36 (0.74%) COBIT
18 28 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
19 24 (0.49%) ITGC
19 24 (0.49%) NCSC
System Software
1 280 (5.72%) Active Directory
2 97 (1.98%) Hyper-V
3 89 (1.82%) Docker
4 80 (1.63%) Terminal Server
5 77 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
6 26 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (0.25%) ProxySG
7 12 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
7 12 (0.25%) vSphere
8 9 (0.18%) VMware NSX
9 8 (0.16%) IAG
10 4 (0.082%) Firmware
10 4 (0.082%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 4 (0.082%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.082%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.082%) XenApp
11 3 (0.061%) DFS Replication
12 2 (0.041%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.041%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.020%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 128 (2.61%) Terraform
2 81 (1.65%) Kubernetes
3 64 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
4 59 (1.21%) Ansible
5 35 (0.71%) Grafana
6 27 (0.55%) SCCM
7 23 (0.47%) Prometheus
8 21 (0.43%) Nagios
9 16 (0.33%) QRadar
10 15 (0.31%) Kibana
10 15 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
11 12 (0.25%) Kubeflow
12 8 (0.16%) Control-M
13 7 (0.14%) logstash
13 7 (0.14%) Packer
14 6 (0.12%) Graylog
15 5 (0.10%) Docker Swarm
15 5 (0.10%) Podman
16 4 (0.082%) RSA Archer
16 4 (0.082%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,097 (22.41%) Microsoft
2 211 (4.31%) SAP
3 193 (3.94%) Google
4 168 (3.43%) Oracle
5 167 (3.41%) VMware
6 151 (3.08%) Salesforce
7 134 (2.74%) Splunk
8 126 (2.57%) SolarWinds
9 115 (2.35%) Databricks
10 93 (1.90%) Veeam
11 86 (1.76%) ServiceNow
12 81 (1.65%) Nimble Storage
13 80 (1.63%) Brocade
13 80 (1.63%) Tanium
14 74 (1.51%) Workday
15 71 (1.45%) Cisco
16 49 (1.00%) IBM
16 49 (1.00%) Red Hat
17 47 (0.96%) Adobe
18 44 (0.90%) HubSpot