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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 9 15
Rank change year-on-year -13 +6 +4
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 6,562 6,095 6,949
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.56% 12.40% 9.65%
As % of the General category 12.01% 18.15% 16.64%
Number of salaries quoted 3,676 2,487 2,644
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £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 £70,906
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 54,621 33,577 41,751
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.31% 68.30% 57.98%
Number of salaries quoted 33,418 17,582 20,494
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £33,750 £42,200
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 £78,750
90th Percentile £96,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £43,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +16.28% -14.00% -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 12 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 12 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 -13 5,744 £51,375 +2.75% 8,626
UK excluding London -14 4,472 £47,000 +4.44% 4,483
Work from Home -5 2,235 £54,400 +8.80% 3,357
London -12 1,793 £66,000 +1.54% 4,566
North of England -18 1,180 £47,500 +5.56% 1,066
South East -12 1,005 £48,000 +1.05% 1,174
Midlands -9 792 £45,000 +3.92% 689
North West -16 697 £46,500 +3.33% 570
South West -6 634 £46,743 +3.87% 449
West Midlands -16 407 £47,500 +5.56% 407
East Midlands -5 383 £42,500 +11.11% 282
Yorkshire -8 326 £47,000 +17.50% 381
East of England -7 300 £47,500 +21.79% 454
Northern Ireland +15 225 £43,750 -16.67% 206
Wales -4 210 £45,000 -10.00% 144
North East -22 166 £51,962 +29.91% 122
Scotland -22 149 £50,000 +47.93% 363

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
1 198 (3.02%) SharePoint
2 181 (2.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 114 (1.74%) Confluence
4 43 (0.66%) Apache Spark
5 41 (0.62%) CMS
6 39 (0.59%) Apache
7 36 (0.55%) IIS
8 33 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
9 30 (0.46%) SAS
10 18 (0.27%) WordPress
11 14 (0.21%) Jupyter
11 14 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
12 11 (0.17%) Headless CMS
13 10 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 9 (0.14%) WebLogic
14 9 (0.14%) WebSphere
15 8 (0.12%) OpenStack
16 6 (0.091%) nginx
17 4 (0.061%) Office Communications Server
17 4 (0.061%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 796 (12.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 364 (5.55%) Microsoft Office
3 139 (2.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 66 (1.01%) MS Visio
5 59 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
6 44 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
7 20 (0.30%) Simulink
8 17 (0.26%) AutoCAD
9 11 (0.17%) Chatbot
10 10 (0.15%) SOLIDWORKS
11 9 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 8 (0.12%) EPLAN
13 7 (0.11%) Adobe XD
13 7 (0.11%) Notion
13 7 (0.11%) Photoshop
14 6 (0.091%) Acrobat
14 6 (0.091%) Siemens NX
15 5 (0.076%) InDesign
15 5 (0.076%) Revit
16 4 (0.061%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 102 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 56 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
3 34 (0.52%) Dynamics GP
4 29 (0.44%) NetSuite
5 28 (0.43%) Shopify
6 19 (0.29%) Workday HCM
7 15 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
8 12 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
9 11 (0.17%) Magento
9 11 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
9 11 (0.17%) SAP CO
9 11 (0.17%) SAP FI
9 11 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
10 10 (0.15%) Distributed Ledger
10 10 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
10 10 (0.15%) Infor M3
10 10 (0.15%) SAP Business One
11 9 (0.14%) Elite 3E
11 9 (0.14%) Fidessa
11 9 (0.14%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 1,047 (15.96%) Azure
2 753 (11.48%) Power Platform
3 668 (10.18%) AWS
4 469 (7.15%) Microsoft 365
5 405 (6.17%) SaaS
6 310 (4.72%) GCP
7 236 (3.60%) Entra ID
8 158 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
9 136 (2.07%) Dynamics 365
10 134 (2.04%) Google Ads
11 125 (1.90%) Google Analytics
12 101 (1.54%) GitHub
13 93 (1.42%) Meta Ads
13 93 (1.42%) Serverless
14 80 (1.22%) Microsoft Purview
15 78 (1.19%) Snowflake
16 77 (1.17%) Amazon S3
16 77 (1.17%) Cloud Computing
17 75 (1.14%) PowerApps
18 72 (1.10%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 210 (3.20%) DNS
2 164 (2.50%) DHCP
3 150 (2.29%) Firewall
4 136 (2.07%) VPN
5 122 (1.86%) TCP/IP
6 99 (1.51%) Internet
7 80 (1.22%) WAN
8 73 (1.11%) LAN
9 69 (1.05%) Network Security
10 56 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
10 56 (0.85%) Wireless
11 54 (0.82%) VLAN
12 48 (0.73%) Broadband
13 38 (0.58%) HTTP
14 36 (0.55%) SAN
15 31 (0.47%) VoIP
16 29 (0.44%) 5G
17 28 (0.43%) BGP
18 25 (0.38%) SMS
19 23 (0.35%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 678 (10.33%) Power BI
2 208 (3.17%) SQL Server
3 179 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
4 174 (2.65%) Tableau
5 131 (2.00%) Relational Database
6 116 (1.77%) Metadata
7 111 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
8 92 (1.40%) MySQL
9 90 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
10 87 (1.33%) Power Query
11 83 (1.26%) Looker
12 67 (1.02%) Data Lake
13 66 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 59 (0.90%) Big Data
15 52 (0.79%) NoSQL
15 52 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 47 (0.72%) BigQuery
17 40 (0.61%) MongoDB
18 38 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
19 37 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 284 (4.33%) Git
2 267 (4.07%) JIRA
3 62 (0.94%) GitLab
4 58 (0.88%) Jenkins
5 33 (0.50%) Selenium
6 27 (0.41%) Eclipse
7 24 (0.37%) Postman
8 23 (0.35%) Claude Code
8 23 (0.35%) LabVIEW
9 21 (0.32%) Rational DOORS
10 20 (0.30%) Cucumber
10 20 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
11 16 (0.24%) Burp Suite
12 15 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
13 13 (0.20%) Bitbucket
13 13 (0.20%) JMeter
13 13 (0.20%) Metasploit
14 11 (0.17%) Chocolatey
15 10 (0.15%) Cypress.io
16 9 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 3,360 (51.20%) Social Skills
2 2,099 (31.99%) Finance
3 761 (11.60%) Marketing
4 578 (8.81%) Organisational Skills
5 565 (8.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 476 (7.25%) Retail
7 443 (6.75%) Public Sector
8 438 (6.67%) Legal
9 426 (6.49%) Manufacturing
10 416 (6.34%) Law
11 337 (5.14%) Influencing Skills
12 316 (4.82%) Presentation Skills
13 247 (3.76%) Banking
14 215 (3.28%) Aerospace
15 176 (2.68%) Electronics
16 163 (2.48%) Telecoms
17 123 (1.87%) Advertising
18 109 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
19 90 (1.37%) Automotive
20 72 (1.10%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,511 (23.03%) Analyst
2 865 (13.18%) Senior
3 432 (6.58%) Lead
4 321 (4.89%) Developer
5 301 (4.59%) Data Analyst
6 284 (4.33%) Business Analyst
7 261 (3.98%) Senior Analyst
8 248 (3.78%) Consultant
9 241 (3.67%) Support Analyst
10 224 (3.41%) Architect
11 199 (3.03%) Data Engineer
12 153 (2.33%) Systems Engineer
13 123 (1.87%) Support Engineer
14 120 (1.83%) IT Support
15 118 (1.80%) Applications Support
16 112 (1.71%) Administrator
17 110 (1.68%) Marketing Manager
18 107 (1.63%) ITSM Analyst
19 102 (1.55%) IT Manager
20 101 (1.54%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (2.70%) .NET
2 165 (2.51%) Terraform
3 128 (1.95%) REST
4 113 (1.72%) HTML
5 104 (1.58%) CSS
6 89 (1.36%) RESTful
7 79 (1.20%) React
8 77 (1.17%) PySpark
9 72 (1.10%) JSON
10 69 (1.05%) XML
11 64 (0.98%) Kafka
11 64 (0.98%) Middleware
12 52 (0.79%) SOAP
13 47 (0.72%) Spring Boot
14 46 (0.70%) LDAP
14 46 (0.70%) Spring
15 44 (0.67%) Web Services
16 41 (0.62%) EDI
17 40 (0.61%) ASP.NET
18 38 (0.58%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 499 (7.60%) Management Information System
2 427 (6.51%) Analytical Mindset
3 422 (6.43%) Onboarding
4 344 (5.24%) Self-Motivation
5 284 (4.33%) Product Ownership
6 199 (3.03%) Driving Licence
7 164 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
8 150 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
9 149 (2.27%) Cloud Native
10 138 (2.10%) Social Media
11 120 (1.83%) Blog
12 114 (1.74%) Data Centre
13 109 (1.66%) Cyber Threat
14 105 (1.60%) Marketing Technology
15 99 (1.51%) Virtual Team
16 94 (1.43%) Security Posture
17 91 (1.39%) Data Structures
18 79 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
19 77 (1.17%) AI Agents
20 63 (0.96%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 472 (7.19%) Windows
2 329 (5.01%) Linux
3 231 (3.52%) Windows Server
4 95 (1.45%) Windows Server 2016
5 44 (0.67%) Windows 10
6 38 (0.58%) macOS
7 29 (0.44%) Unix
8 28 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
9 26 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 19 (0.29%) Apple iOS
11 18 (0.27%) Android
12 9 (0.14%) CentOS
13 8 (0.12%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.091%) Debian
14 6 (0.091%) VMS
15 5 (0.076%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.061%) CoreOS
17 2 (0.030%) AIX
17 2 (0.030%) Solaris
17 2 (0.030%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,247 (49.48%) Problem-Solving
2 2,026 (30.87%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,577 (24.03%) Decision-Making
4 1,396 (21.27%) Stakeholder Management
5 1,306 (19.90%) Analytics
6 1,256 (19.14%) AI
7 1,112 (16.95%) Agile
8 856 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
9 707 (10.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 651 (9.92%) Mentoring
11 635 (9.68%) Validation
12 608 (9.27%) Roadmaps
13 604 (9.20%) Actionable Insight
14 581 (8.85%) Process Improvement
15 571 (8.70%) Data Analysis
16 554 (8.44%) CRM
16 554 (8.44%) Customer Service
17 552 (8.41%) Project Management
18 544 (8.29%) CI/CD
19 536 (8.17%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 1,253 (19.09%) SQL
2 917 (13.97%) Python
3 230 (3.51%) JavaScript
4 208 (3.17%) Java
5 207 (3.15%) C#
6 202 (3.08%) PowerShell
7 122 (1.86%) C++
8 100 (1.52%) Bash
9 98 (1.49%) R
10 83 (1.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 78 (1.19%) TypeScript
12 52 (0.79%) MATLAB
12 52 (0.79%) T-SQL
13 46 (0.70%) Shell Script
14 42 (0.64%) C
15 33 (0.50%) PL/SQL
16 28 (0.43%) Go
16 28 (0.43%) Scala
17 27 (0.41%) Perl
18 25 (0.38%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,387 (21.14%) Degree
2 751 (11.44%) Security Cleared
3 522 (7.95%) SC Cleared
4 243 (3.70%) ACCA
5 230 (3.51%) CIMA
6 170 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 164 (2.50%) DV Cleared
8 139 (2.12%) DBS Check
9 132 (2.01%) CISSP
10 131 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
11 118 (1.80%) Master's Degree
12 105 (1.60%) CISM
13 102 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
14 87 (1.33%) HND
15 85 (1.30%) Azure Certification
16 84 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
17 67 (1.02%) HNC
18 59 (0.90%) CompTIA Security+
19 56 (0.85%) AWS Certification
20 52 (0.79%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 656 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 387 (5.90%) QA
3 306 (4.66%) GDPR
4 225 (3.43%) Accessibility
5 202 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 148 (2.26%) NIST
7 144 (2.19%) Cyber Essentials
8 133 (2.03%) SLA
9 115 (1.75%) PCI DSS
10 70 (1.07%) Actionable Recommendations
11 65 (0.99%) PMO
12 63 (0.96%) GRC
13 52 (0.79%) ISO 9001
14 39 (0.59%) IFRS
15 33 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 32 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 31 (0.47%) NCSC
18 27 (0.41%) DO-254
19 24 (0.37%) GAAP
20 23 (0.35%) COBIT
System Software
1 382 (5.82%) Active Directory
2 191 (2.91%) Docker
3 114 (1.74%) Hyper-V
4 81 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 72 (1.10%) Terminal Server
6 54 (0.82%) Firmware
7 25 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
8 18 (0.27%) 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 (0.091%) VMware NSX
13 5 (0.076%) DFS Replication
14 4 (0.061%) ISA Server
14 4 (0.061%) KVM
14 4 (0.061%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.030%) IAG
15 2 (0.030%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 1 (0.015%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 130 (1.98%) Kubernetes
2 91 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
3 75 (1.14%) Ansible
4 50 (0.76%) Grafana
5 43 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
6 31 (0.47%) Prometheus
7 26 (0.40%) SCCM
8 22 (0.34%) Kibana
9 21 (0.32%) QRadar
10 14 (0.21%) Nagios
11 13 (0.20%) Nmap
12 11 (0.17%) Podman
13 10 (0.15%) Functional Safety
14 9 (0.14%) Argo
15 8 (0.12%) FortiGate
16 7 (0.11%) Check_MK
16 7 (0.11%) EnCase
16 7 (0.11%) FTK
16 7 (0.11%) logstash
16 7 (0.11%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 1,620 (24.69%) Microsoft
2 421 (6.42%) Google
3 243 (3.70%) SAP
4 205 (3.12%) Oracle
5 174 (2.65%) VMware
6 161 (2.45%) Splunk
7 156 (2.38%) Salesforce
8 149 (2.27%) ServiceNow
9 132 (2.01%) Databricks
10 103 (1.57%) SolarWinds
11 97 (1.48%) Cisco
12 80 (1.22%) Veeam
13 76 (1.16%) YouTube
14 73 (1.11%) Brocade
14 73 (1.11%) Nimble Storage
14 73 (1.11%) Tanium
15 70 (1.07%) Adobe
16 69 (1.05%) HubSpot
17 54 (0.82%) TikTok
18 50 (0.76%) Workday