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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 8 14
Rank change year-on-year -16 +6 +5
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 6,516 6,251 7,288
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.51% 12.61% 9.78%
As % of the General category 11.93% 18.43% 16.97%
Number of salaries quoted 3,735 2,493 2,767
10th Percentile £31,175 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,610 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,356 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.71% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.44% -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 54,598 33,925 42,959
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.20% 68.44% 57.66%
Number of salaries quoted 33,357 17,509 21,408
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,570 £34,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £78,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £96,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £44,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% -12.00% -0.99%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -15 5,711 £51,500 +1.98% 10,292
UK excluding London -14 4,407 £47,000 +4.44% 6,261
Work from Home -5 2,183 £55,000 +10.00% 4,868
London -12 1,810 £65,000 - 5,249
North of England -18 1,190 £47,500 +5.56% 1,345
South East -10 998 £48,000 +1.01% 1,556
Midlands -9 767 £45,000 +3.45% 860
North West -15 722 £45,250 -1.57% 714
South West -8 617 £47,000 +4.44% 691
West Midlands -18 391 £47,500 +5.56% 505
East Midlands -5 374 £42,500 +6.47% 355
Yorkshire -9 319 £47,000 +17.50% 478
East of England -16 287 £47,500 +21.79% 593
Northern Ireland +4 211 £43,750 -20.45% 308
Wales -3 208 £45,000 -10.40% 287
North East -20 158 £52,231 +28.97% 165
Scotland -22 149 £47,500 +40.53% 697

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
1 194 (2.98%) SharePoint
2 178 (2.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 112 (1.72%) Confluence
4 46 (0.71%) CMS
5 42 (0.64%) Apache Spark
6 38 (0.58%) Apache
6 38 (0.58%) IIS
7 32 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
8 28 (0.43%) SAS
9 18 (0.28%) WordPress
10 13 (0.20%) Jupyter
11 11 (0.17%) Headless CMS
11 11 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
12 10 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 9 (0.14%) WebLogic
13 9 (0.14%) WebSphere
14 8 (0.12%) OpenStack
15 5 (0.077%) nginx
16 3 (0.046%) Office Communications Server
16 3 (0.046%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 775 (11.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 344 (5.28%) Microsoft Office
3 136 (2.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 71 (1.09%) MS Visio
5 55 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
6 45 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
7 19 (0.29%) Simulink
8 17 (0.26%) AutoCAD
9 10 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 10 (0.15%) Chatbot
9 10 (0.15%) SOLIDWORKS
10 8 (0.12%) Photoshop
11 7 (0.11%) Adobe XD
12 6 (0.092%) Acrobat
12 6 (0.092%) EPLAN
12 6 (0.092%) Siemens NX
13 5 (0.077%) InDesign
13 5 (0.077%) Notion
13 5 (0.077%) Revit
14 4 (0.061%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 107 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 65 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 35 (0.54%) NetSuite
4 34 (0.52%) Dynamics GP
5 28 (0.43%) Shopify
6 19 (0.29%) Workday HCM
7 15 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
8 13 (0.20%) Magento
8 13 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
9 12 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
9 12 (0.18%) SAP CO
9 12 (0.18%) SAP FI
10 11 (0.17%) Infor M3
10 11 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
11 10 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
11 10 (0.15%) Elite 3E
11 10 (0.15%) SAP Business One
12 9 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
12 9 (0.14%) Sage 200
12 9 (0.14%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,030 (15.81%) Azure
2 735 (11.28%) Power Platform
3 660 (10.13%) AWS
4 458 (7.03%) Microsoft 365
5 405 (6.22%) SaaS
6 304 (4.67%) GCP
7 208 (3.19%) Entra ID
8 160 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
9 140 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
10 131 (2.01%) Google Ads
11 127 (1.95%) Google Analytics
12 101 (1.55%) GitHub
13 92 (1.41%) Meta Ads
13 92 (1.41%) Serverless
14 82 (1.26%) Microsoft Purview
15 77 (1.18%) Amazon S3
15 77 (1.18%) Power Automate
15 77 (1.18%) PowerApps
16 72 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
16 72 (1.10%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 204 (3.13%) DNS
2 159 (2.44%) DHCP
3 145 (2.23%) Firewall
4 131 (2.01%) VPN
5 114 (1.75%) TCP/IP
6 91 (1.40%) Internet
7 79 (1.21%) WAN
8 71 (1.09%) LAN
9 69 (1.06%) Network Security
10 57 (0.87%) Wireless
11 55 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
12 50 (0.77%) VLAN
13 45 (0.69%) Broadband
14 37 (0.57%) HTTP
15 35 (0.54%) SAN
16 30 (0.46%) VoIP
17 26 (0.40%) 5G
17 26 (0.40%) BGP
18 25 (0.38%) SMS
19 24 (0.37%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 661 (10.14%) Power BI
2 209 (3.21%) SQL Server
3 182 (2.79%) Tableau
4 176 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
5 123 (1.89%) Relational Database
6 111 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
7 109 (1.67%) Metadata
8 91 (1.40%) MySQL
9 85 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
10 83 (1.27%) Looker
11 79 (1.21%) Power Query
12 72 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 64 (0.98%) Data Lake
14 55 (0.84%) Big Data
14 55 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 52 (0.80%) NoSQL
16 44 (0.68%) BigQuery
17 39 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
17 39 (0.60%) MongoDB
18 35 (0.54%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 272 (4.17%) Git
2 269 (4.13%) JIRA
3 57 (0.87%) GitLab
4 56 (0.86%) Jenkins
5 32 (0.49%) Selenium
6 26 (0.40%) Eclipse
6 26 (0.40%) Rational DOORS
7 23 (0.35%) Claude Code
8 21 (0.32%) Cucumber
8 21 (0.32%) LabVIEW
8 21 (0.32%) Postman
9 20 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
10 15 (0.23%) Burp Suite
10 15 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
11 14 (0.21%) Bitbucket
11 14 (0.21%) JMeter
12 12 (0.18%) Metasploit
13 11 (0.17%) Chocolatey
14 10 (0.15%) Cypress.io
15 9 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 3,320 (50.95%) Social Skills
2 2,102 (32.26%) Finance
3 758 (11.63%) Marketing
4 559 (8.58%) Organisational Skills
5 555 (8.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 465 (7.14%) Retail
7 438 (6.72%) Public Sector
8 433 (6.65%) Legal
9 420 (6.45%) Law
10 397 (6.09%) Manufacturing
11 332 (5.10%) Influencing Skills
12 305 (4.68%) Presentation Skills
13 242 (3.71%) Banking
14 217 (3.33%) Aerospace
15 169 (2.59%) Electronics
16 164 (2.52%) Telecoms
17 119 (1.83%) Advertising
18 104 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
19 84 (1.29%) Automotive
20 71 (1.09%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,520 (23.33%) Analyst
2 866 (13.29%) Senior
3 422 (6.48%) Lead
4 317 (4.86%) Developer
5 308 (4.73%) Data Analyst
6 292 (4.48%) Business Analyst
7 260 (3.99%) Senior Analyst
8 246 (3.78%) Consultant
9 239 (3.67%) Support Analyst
10 233 (3.58%) Architect
11 183 (2.81%) Data Engineer
12 158 (2.42%) Systems Engineer
13 128 (1.96%) Support Engineer
14 118 (1.81%) Applications Support
14 118 (1.81%) IT Support
15 115 (1.76%) Administrator
16 110 (1.69%) Security Analyst
17 109 (1.67%) Marketing Manager
18 107 (1.64%) ITSM Analyst
18 107 (1.64%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (2.67%) .NET
2 158 (2.42%) Terraform
3 133 (2.04%) REST
4 119 (1.83%) HTML
5 108 (1.66%) CSS
6 86 (1.32%) RESTful
7 83 (1.27%) JSON
8 76 (1.17%) React
9 75 (1.15%) PySpark
10 74 (1.14%) Middleware
10 74 (1.14%) XML
11 65 (1.00%) Kafka
12 60 (0.92%) SOAP
13 46 (0.71%) EDI
13 46 (0.71%) Web Services
14 45 (0.69%) LDAP
14 45 (0.69%) Spring Boot
15 44 (0.68%) Spring
16 40 (0.61%) ASP.NET
17 38 (0.58%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 479 (7.35%) Management Information System
2 447 (6.86%) Analytical Mindset
3 409 (6.28%) Onboarding
4 327 (5.02%) Self-Motivation
5 287 (4.40%) Product Ownership
6 179 (2.75%) Driving Licence
7 153 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
8 147 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
9 143 (2.19%) Cloud Native
10 131 (2.01%) Social Media
11 121 (1.86%) Blog
12 111 (1.70%) Cyber Threat
13 109 (1.67%) Data Centre
14 105 (1.61%) Marketing Technology
15 102 (1.57%) Security Posture
16 97 (1.49%) Virtual Team
17 88 (1.35%) Data Structures
18 82 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
19 70 (1.07%) AI Agents
20 63 (0.97%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 468 (7.18%) Windows
2 320 (4.91%) Linux
3 223 (3.42%) Windows Server
4 94 (1.44%) Windows Server 2016
5 45 (0.69%) Windows 10
6 36 (0.55%) Mac OS
7 31 (0.48%) Unix
8 26 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 25 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
10 20 (0.31%) Apple iOS
11 19 (0.29%) Android
12 9 (0.14%) CentOS
13 8 (0.12%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.092%) Debian
14 6 (0.092%) VMS
15 5 (0.077%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.061%) CoreOS
17 2 (0.031%) AIX
17 2 (0.031%) Solaris
17 2 (0.031%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,177 (48.76%) Problem-Solving
2 1,994 (30.60%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,566 (24.03%) Decision-Making
4 1,350 (20.72%) Stakeholder Management
5 1,273 (19.54%) Analytics
6 1,193 (18.31%) AI
7 1,118 (17.16%) Agile
8 836 (12.83%) Business Intelligence
9 717 (11.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 651 (9.99%) Mentoring
11 617 (9.47%) Roadmaps
12 611 (9.38%) Validation
13 587 (9.01%) Actionable Insight
14 569 (8.73%) Process Improvement
15 561 (8.61%) Data Analysis
16 555 (8.52%) CRM
17 546 (8.38%) Risk Management
18 545 (8.36%) Project Management
19 532 (8.16%) Customer Service
19 532 (8.16%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1,220 (18.72%) SQL
2 880 (13.51%) Python
3 231 (3.55%) JavaScript
4 213 (3.27%) Java
5 209 (3.21%) C#
6 195 (2.99%) PowerShell
7 119 (1.83%) C++
8 95 (1.46%) Bash
9 88 (1.35%) R
10 81 (1.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 76 (1.17%) TypeScript
12 53 (0.81%) MATLAB
13 51 (0.78%) T-SQL
14 46 (0.71%) Shell Script
15 43 (0.66%) C
16 33 (0.51%) PL/SQL
17 29 (0.45%) Scala
18 26 (0.40%) Go
19 25 (0.38%) Perl
19 25 (0.38%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,357 (20.83%) Degree
2 729 (11.19%) Security Cleared
3 508 (7.80%) SC Cleared
4 250 (3.84%) ACCA
5 237 (3.64%) CIMA
6 181 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 161 (2.47%) DV Cleared
8 142 (2.18%) DBS Check
9 140 (2.15%) CISSP
10 134 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
11 111 (1.70%) CISM
11 111 (1.70%) Master's Degree
12 105 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
13 85 (1.30%) HND
14 80 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
15 75 (1.15%) Azure Certification
16 67 (1.03%) CompTIA Security+
17 63 (0.97%) HNC
18 59 (0.91%) PMI Certification
19 50 (0.77%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 642 (9.85%) Data Quality
2 375 (5.76%) QA
3 319 (4.90%) GDPR
4 221 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 205 (3.15%) Accessibility
6 166 (2.55%) NIST
7 144 (2.21%) Cyber Essentials
8 140 (2.15%) SLA
9 119 (1.83%) PCI DSS
10 70 (1.07%) GRC
11 64 (0.98%) PMO
12 59 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
13 52 (0.80%) ISO 9001
14 41 (0.63%) IFRS
15 34 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 32 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 30 (0.46%) NCSC
18 28 (0.43%) DO-254
19 25 (0.38%) COBIT
19 25 (0.38%) GAAP
System Software
1 361 (5.54%) Active Directory
2 187 (2.87%) Docker
3 106 (1.63%) Hyper-V
4 81 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 72 (1.10%) Terminal Server
6 52 (0.80%) Firmware
7 23 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
8 18 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
9 12 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.12%) vSphere
11 7 (0.11%) Ceph
12 6 (0.092%) VMware NSX
13 4 (0.061%) KVM
13 4 (0.061%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.046%) DFS Replication
15 2 (0.031%) IAG
15 2 (0.031%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 1 (0.015%) HDFS
16 1 (0.015%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 127 (1.95%) Kubernetes
2 86 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
3 71 (1.09%) Ansible
4 49 (0.75%) Grafana
5 40 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
6 29 (0.45%) Prometheus
7 21 (0.32%) Kibana
8 20 (0.31%) QRadar
8 20 (0.31%) SCCM
9 13 (0.20%) Nagios
10 12 (0.18%) Nmap
11 11 (0.17%) Podman
12 9 (0.14%) Argo
12 9 (0.14%) Functional Safety
13 7 (0.11%) Check_MK
13 7 (0.11%) Istio
13 7 (0.11%) logstash
14 6 (0.092%) Graylog
14 6 (0.092%) Nessus
14 6 (0.092%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1,573 (24.14%) Microsoft
2 407 (6.25%) Google
3 247 (3.79%) SAP
4 203 (3.12%) Oracle
5 174 (2.67%) VMware
6 156 (2.39%) Splunk
7 153 (2.35%) Salesforce
8 144 (2.21%) ServiceNow
9 129 (1.98%) Databricks
10 95 (1.46%) SolarWinds
11 90 (1.38%) Cisco
12 80 (1.23%) Veeam
13 73 (1.12%) Brocade
13 73 (1.12%) Nimble Storage
14 72 (1.10%) Tanium
15 71 (1.09%) Adobe
15 71 (1.09%) HubSpot
15 71 (1.09%) YouTube
16 61 (0.94%) Workday
17 45 (0.69%) TikTok