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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 9 14
Rank change year-on-year -17 +5 +6
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,703 5,876 9,495
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.10% 13.38% 9.77%
As % of the General category 10.45% 18.36% 16.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2,956 2,450 5,431
10th Percentile £33,000 £30,725 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,313 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,034 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.76% +10.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,688 £68,473
90th Percentile £89,000 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -2.00% +11.11% -4.26%

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 45,004 32,001 58,417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 48.79% 72.87% 60.09%
Number of salaries quoted 25,429 15,774 39,615
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £39,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £103,750 £93,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £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 May 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 May 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 4,249 £55,000 - 2,248
UK excluding London -21 2,910 £49,000 -2.00% 1,714
London -8 1,504 £67,500 +3.85% 950
Work from Home -9 1,385 £55,000 - 1,117
North of England -29 892 £47,500 -5.00% 383
South East -3 746 £50,000 -6.47% 563
Midlands -25 535 £48,250 +1.58% 257
North West -30 517 £46,250 -7.50% 212
West Midlands -28 318 £50,774 +6.89% 157
Yorkshire -11 290 £52,500 +16.67% 120
South West -28 273 £47,500 -5.00% 170
East of England -25 241 £45,050 -11.61% 196
East Midlands +2 215 £45,000 -6.25% 98
Scotland -23 122 £40,000 -20.00% 83
North East -28 85 £48,445 +23.90% 61
Wales -2 76 £51,709 -1.51% 35
Northern Ireland -26 39 £52,500 -4.55% 74

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 (2.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 104 (2.21%) SharePoint
3 73 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
4 72 (1.53%) Apache Spark
5 62 (1.32%) Confluence
6 42 (0.89%) CMS
7 35 (0.74%) Apache
8 19 (0.40%) IIS
9 18 (0.38%) SAS
10 16 (0.34%) WordPress
11 13 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
12 10 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 6 (0.13%) nginx
14 3 (0.064%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.064%) govService
14 3 (0.064%) JBoss
14 3 (0.064%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.064%) Tomcat
15 2 (0.043%) Appian
15 2 (0.043%) Camunda
Applications
1 546 (11.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 212 (4.51%) Microsoft Office
3 94 (2.00%) MS Visio
4 87 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 30 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
6 26 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
7 13 (0.28%) Maya
8 11 (0.23%) Adobe XD
9 10 (0.21%) CATIA
10 5 (0.11%) Chatbot
11 4 (0.085%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.064%) Acrobat
12 3 (0.064%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.064%) Trello
13 2 (0.043%) Lectora
13 2 (0.043%) Simulink
14 1 (0.021%) AutoCAD
14 1 (0.021%) PlantUML
14 1 (0.021%) Sketch
14 1 (0.021%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 67 (1.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 40 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 35 (0.74%) NetSuite
4 32 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
5 19 (0.40%) SAP CO
6 15 (0.32%) SAP PM
7 14 (0.30%) SAP ERP
8 11 (0.23%) Maximo
8 11 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
9 10 (0.21%) Endur
9 10 (0.21%) SAP FI
9 10 (0.21%) Workday HCM
10 9 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
11 7 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
11 7 (0.15%) Elite 3E
11 7 (0.15%) Fidessa
11 7 (0.15%) Magento
11 7 (0.15%) SAP PP
12 6 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
12 6 (0.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 846 (17.99%) Azure
2 645 (13.71%) Power Platform
3 475 (10.10%) AWS
4 333 (7.08%) Microsoft 365
5 275 (5.85%) SaaS
6 203 (4.32%) GCP
7 130 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
8 128 (2.72%) Dynamics 365
9 110 (2.34%) Entra ID
10 95 (2.02%) GitHub
11 89 (1.89%) Power Automate
11 89 (1.89%) Snowflake
12 79 (1.68%) dbt
13 75 (1.59%) Google Analytics
14 73 (1.55%) Microsoft Purview
15 67 (1.42%) Amazon S3
16 64 (1.36%) PowerApps
17 60 (1.28%) Serverless
18 55 (1.17%) Azure Data Factory
19 48 (1.02%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 195 (4.15%) Firewall
2 148 (3.15%) DNS
3 124 (2.64%) VPN
4 103 (2.19%) DHCP
5 77 (1.64%) WAN
6 69 (1.47%) TCP/IP
7 67 (1.42%) LAN
8 60 (1.28%) Broadband
9 58 (1.23%) VLAN
9 58 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
10 56 (1.19%) Wireless
11 53 (1.13%) SAN
12 46 (0.98%) Network Security
13 39 (0.83%) BGP
14 31 (0.66%) Cisco ASA
15 29 (0.62%) OSPF
16 27 (0.57%) SD-WAN
16 27 (0.57%) Wireshark
17 25 (0.53%) HTTP
18 24 (0.51%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 573 (12.18%) Power BI
2 344 (7.31%) Tableau
3 185 (3.93%) SQL Server
4 162 (3.44%) Data Warehouse
5 127 (2.70%) Data Mining
6 84 (1.79%) Metadata
7 72 (1.53%) Data Lake
8 68 (1.45%) Relational Database
9 67 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
10 60 (1.28%) Looker
10 60 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
10 60 (1.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 59 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
12 50 (1.06%) BigQuery
13 48 (1.02%) MySQL
14 46 (0.98%) Power Query
15 42 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 41 (0.87%) NoSQL
17 35 (0.74%) Big Data
17 35 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 168 (3.57%) JIRA
2 136 (2.89%) Git
3 45 (0.96%) GitLab
4 37 (0.79%) Jenkins
5 31 (0.66%) MLflow
6 28 (0.60%) Rational DOORS
7 24 (0.51%) Selenium
8 21 (0.45%) Chocolatey
9 16 (0.34%) Visual Studio
10 15 (0.32%) Cucumber
11 14 (0.30%) ERwin
12 13 (0.28%) IBM UrbanCode
13 12 (0.26%) Balsamiq
13 12 (0.26%) Bitbucket
14 10 (0.21%) Axure RP
14 10 (0.21%) Maven
14 10 (0.21%) SonarQube
15 9 (0.19%) Oracle APEX
15 9 (0.19%) Postman
15 9 (0.19%) Subversion
General
1 2,139 (45.48%) Social Skills
2 1,693 (36.00%) Finance
3 420 (8.93%) Marketing
4 373 (7.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 279 (5.93%) Law
6 267 (5.68%) Public Sector
7 255 (5.42%) Banking
7 255 (5.42%) Organisational Skills
8 251 (5.34%) Legal
9 249 (5.29%) Retail
10 165 (3.51%) Manufacturing
11 150 (3.19%) Influencing Skills
11 150 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
12 108 (2.30%) Telecoms
13 88 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
14 86 (1.83%) Financial Institution
15 73 (1.55%) Advertising
16 72 (1.53%) Electronics
17 67 (1.42%) Games
18 65 (1.38%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,211 (25.75%) Analyst
2 657 (13.97%) Senior
3 315 (6.70%) Data Analyst
4 306 (6.51%) Lead
5 271 (5.76%) Business Analyst
6 245 (5.21%) Developer
7 216 (4.59%) Architect
8 206 (4.38%) Consultant
9 150 (3.19%) Systems Engineer
10 132 (2.81%) Senior Analyst
10 132 (2.81%) Senior Manager
11 118 (2.51%) Support Analyst
12 116 (2.47%) Trainee
13 108 (2.30%) Data Engineer
13 108 (2.30%) IT Manager
14 104 (2.21%) Trainee Analyst
14 104 (2.21%) Trainee Data Analyst
15 103 (2.19%) Support Engineer
16 102 (2.17%) IT Support
17 89 (1.89%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (2.72%) HTML
2 118 (2.51%) CSS
3 97 (2.06%) .NET
4 92 (1.96%) REST
5 84 (1.79%) JSON
6 80 (1.70%) Middleware
7 79 (1.68%) React
8 74 (1.57%) XML
9 60 (1.28%) PyTorch
10 55 (1.17%) TensorFlow
11 53 (1.13%) SOAP
12 52 (1.11%) Kafka
13 45 (0.96%) Node.js
14 40 (0.85%) scikit-learn
15 35 (0.74%) PySpark
15 35 (0.74%) RESTful
16 33 (0.70%) EDI
16 33 (0.70%) Pandas
17 32 (0.68%) LangChain
18 26 (0.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 498 (10.59%) Analytical Mindset
2 230 (4.89%) Management Information System
3 210 (4.47%) Onboarding
4 195 (4.15%) Product Ownership
5 190 (4.04%) Self-Motivation
6 116 (2.47%) Data Centre
7 101 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
8 91 (1.93%) Cloud Native
9 81 (1.72%) Data Structures
10 80 (1.70%) Security Posture
11 79 (1.68%) Algorithms
12 70 (1.49%) Driving Licence
12 70 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
13 69 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
14 53 (1.13%) Public Cloud
14 53 (1.13%) Virtual Team
15 50 (1.06%) Social Media
16 48 (1.02%) FMCG
17 44 (0.94%) Cyber Defence
17 44 (0.94%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 341 (7.25%) Windows
2 205 (4.36%) Linux
3 147 (3.13%) Windows Server
4 59 (1.25%) Windows Server 2016
5 34 (0.72%) Unix
6 22 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 22 (0.47%) Windows 10
7 18 (0.38%) Mac OS
8 15 (0.32%) Android
9 14 (0.30%) Apple iOS
10 9 (0.19%) CentOS
11 8 (0.17%) VMS
11 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
12 7 (0.15%) Ubuntu
13 4 (0.085%) AIX
13 4 (0.085%) Rocky
13 4 (0.085%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.043%) Debian
15 1 (0.021%) OpenBSD
15 1 (0.021%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,087 (44.38%) Problem-Solving
2 1,103 (23.45%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,049 (22.30%) Analytics
4 983 (20.90%) Decision-Making
5 824 (17.52%) Agile
6 666 (14.16%) Business Intelligence
7 646 (13.74%) AI
8 598 (12.72%) Stakeholder Management
9 516 (10.97%) Project Management
10 463 (9.84%) Actionable Insight
11 461 (9.80%) Mentoring
12 449 (9.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 440 (9.36%) Roadmaps
14 437 (9.29%) Data Analysis
15 435 (9.25%) Cybersecurity
16 434 (9.23%) Data Modelling
17 377 (8.02%) Analytical Thinking
18 374 (7.95%) Data Governance
19 358 (7.61%) DevOps
19 358 (7.61%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 987 (20.99%) SQL
2 858 (18.24%) Python
3 177 (3.76%) PowerShell
4 167 (3.55%) Java
4 167 (3.55%) JavaScript
5 128 (2.72%) C#
6 72 (1.53%) R
7 67 (1.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 61 (1.30%) Bash
8 61 (1.30%) C++
9 42 (0.89%) T-SQL
10 41 (0.87%) TypeScript
11 40 (0.85%) VBA
12 35 (0.74%) MATLAB
13 23 (0.49%) Scala
14 20 (0.43%) Go
15 18 (0.38%) PHP
16 16 (0.34%) PL/SQL
17 15 (0.32%) C
18 14 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 926 (19.69%) Degree
2 363 (7.72%) Security Cleared
3 251 (5.34%) SC Cleared
4 229 (4.87%) ACCA
5 217 (4.61%) CIMA
6 166 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 153 (3.25%) DBS Check
8 149 (3.17%) CISSP
9 117 (2.49%) Cisco Certification
10 103 (2.19%) CISM
10 103 (2.19%) Master's Degree
11 94 (2.00%) PMI Certification
12 84 (1.79%) DV Cleared
13 83 (1.76%) PMP
14 74 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
15 72 (1.53%) Azure Certification
15 72 (1.53%) IRCA
16 71 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
17 60 (1.28%) CompTIA Security+
18 54 (1.15%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 435 (9.25%) Data Quality
2 360 (7.65%) GDPR
3 287 (6.10%) QA
4 247 (5.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 214 (4.55%) NIST
6 128 (2.72%) Cyber Essentials
7 119 (2.53%) SLA
8 106 (2.25%) ISO 9001
9 104 (2.21%) Accessibility
10 103 (2.19%) PCI DSS
11 65 (1.38%) GRC
12 60 (1.28%) PMO
13 56 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
14 39 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 37 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 34 (0.72%) IFRS
17 32 (0.68%) COBIT
18 28 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
19 24 (0.51%) NCSC
20 23 (0.49%) ITGC
System Software
1 236 (5.02%) Active Directory
2 77 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 70 (1.49%) Docker
4 63 (1.34%) Hyper-V
5 48 (1.02%) Terminal Server
6 26 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.34%) ProxySG
8 12 (0.26%) vSphere
9 10 (0.21%) VMware NSX
10 8 (0.17%) IAG
10 8 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
11 5 (0.11%) Firmware
12 4 (0.085%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.085%) XenApp
13 3 (0.064%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.064%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.043%) DFS Replication
14 2 (0.043%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.043%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.021%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 125 (2.66%) Terraform
2 78 (1.66%) Kubernetes
3 70 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
4 58 (1.23%) Ansible
5 32 (0.68%) Grafana
6 30 (0.64%) SCCM
7 24 (0.51%) Prometheus
8 23 (0.49%) Nagios
9 22 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
10 13 (0.28%) QRadar
11 11 (0.23%) Kibana
12 9 (0.19%) Kubeflow
13 6 (0.13%) Control-M
13 6 (0.13%) logstash
13 6 (0.13%) Packer
14 5 (0.11%) CASB
14 5 (0.11%) Graylog
15 4 (0.085%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.085%) RSA Archer
15 4 (0.085%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,086 (23.09%) Microsoft
2 202 (4.30%) SAP
3 178 (3.78%) Google
4 172 (3.66%) Oracle
5 149 (3.17%) Salesforce
6 138 (2.93%) VMware
7 108 (2.30%) Databricks
7 108 (2.30%) ServiceNow
8 98 (2.08%) SolarWinds
9 94 (2.00%) Splunk
10 77 (1.64%) Workday
11 72 (1.53%) Cisco
12 59 (1.25%) Veeam
13 52 (1.11%) Dell
14 51 (1.08%) IBM
15 49 (1.04%) Tanium
16 48 (1.02%) Brocade
16 48 (1.02%) Nimble Storage
17 47 (1.00%) Red Hat
18 44 (0.94%) Adobe