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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 9 13
Rank change year-on-year -18 +4 +6
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 5,084 6,195 9,653
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.15% 12.61% 9.56%
As % of the General category 10.93% 18.13% 16.53%
Number of salaries quoted 3,283 2,610 5,086
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +10.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £67,969
90th Percentile £88,750 £88,750 £87,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,000 £48,500 £46,979
% change year-on-year -1.03% +3.24% -1.10%

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 46,497 34,178 58,403
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 47.07% 69.56% 57.86%
Number of salaries quoted 28,512 17,546 38,122
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,438 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £36,250 £36,540
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £76,250 £76,840 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £46,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +8.70% -3.16% -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 16 July 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 16 July 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 4,621 £55,000 - 2,086
UK excluding London -20 3,243 £48,000 -1.03% 1,504
Work from Home -9 1,604 £55,000 +4.76% 838
London -11 1,559 £70,000 +7.69% 875
North of England -19 960 £48,000 +2.13% 369
South East -9 814 £50,000 -7.37% 487
Midlands -11 580 £47,500 - 243
North West -18 571 £47,500 -1.67% 211
South West -22 408 £45,000 -10.00% 179
West Midlands -19 313 £50,000 +5.26% 139
Yorkshire -11 286 £50,000 +11.86% 119
East Midlands -7 266 £45,000 -5.26% 102
East of England -22 236 £45,050 -3.82% 139
Scotland -35 106 £43,335 -2.62% 62
North East -28 103 £55,000 +37.50% 43
Wales -13 96 £53,171 -3.33% 26
Northern Ireland -34 54 £41,250 -25.00% 38

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
1 186 (3.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 138 (2.71%) SharePoint
3 72 (1.42%) Confluence
4 69 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
5 67 (1.32%) Apache Spark
6 44 (0.87%) Apache
7 38 (0.75%) CMS
8 24 (0.47%) SAS
9 23 (0.45%) IIS
10 14 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 14 (0.28%) WordPress
11 13 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
12 9 (0.18%) Jupyter
12 9 (0.18%) WebSphere
13 8 (0.16%) WebLogic
14 3 (0.059%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.059%) JBoss
14 3 (0.059%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.059%) Tomcat
15 2 (0.039%) Appian
Applications
1 555 (10.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 210 (4.13%) Microsoft Office
3 115 (2.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 83 (1.63%) MS Visio
5 29 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
6 28 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
7 9 (0.18%) CATIA
8 6 (0.12%) Adobe XD
9 5 (0.098%) Acrobat
10 4 (0.079%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 4 (0.079%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.079%) Maya
11 3 (0.059%) Blender
11 3 (0.059%) LaTeX
11 3 (0.059%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.059%) Simulink
11 3 (0.059%) Trello
12 2 (0.039%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.039%) Lectora
12 2 (0.039%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 75 (1.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 54 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 36 (0.71%) NetSuite
4 23 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
5 22 (0.43%) Dynamics GP
6 20 (0.39%) SAP PM
7 16 (0.31%) SAP CO
8 15 (0.30%) SAP ERP
9 14 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
9 14 (0.28%) SAP FI
10 13 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
11 10 (0.20%) Maximo
12 9 (0.18%) Magento
12 9 (0.18%) Workday HCM
13 8 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
14 7 (0.14%) Elite 3E
14 7 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
14 7 (0.14%) Sage 200
15 6 (0.12%) JDE EnterpriseOne
15 6 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 898 (17.66%) Azure
2 655 (12.88%) Power Platform
3 485 (9.54%) AWS
4 397 (7.81%) Microsoft 365
5 316 (6.22%) SaaS
6 222 (4.37%) GCP
7 131 (2.58%) Dynamics 365
8 127 (2.50%) Entra ID
9 120 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
10 86 (1.69%) Google Analytics
11 85 (1.67%) Microsoft Purview
12 76 (1.49%) Snowflake
13 75 (1.48%) GitHub
14 73 (1.44%) Power Automate
15 68 (1.34%) dbt
16 67 (1.32%) PowerApps
17 64 (1.26%) Amazon S3
18 57 (1.12%) Azure Data Factory
19 54 (1.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 54 (1.06%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 187 (3.68%) DNS
2 183 (3.60%) Firewall
3 144 (2.83%) DHCP
4 122 (2.40%) VPN
5 88 (1.73%) TCP/IP
6 75 (1.48%) WAN
7 72 (1.42%) LAN
8 71 (1.40%) Broadband
9 60 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
10 51 (1.00%) Wireless
11 46 (0.90%) Network Security
12 44 (0.87%) VLAN
13 39 (0.77%) SAN
14 38 (0.75%) Internet
15 33 (0.65%) HTTP
16 31 (0.61%) BGP
17 23 (0.45%) SD-WAN
18 21 (0.41%) Cisco ASA
19 20 (0.39%) OSPF
20 19 (0.37%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 580 (11.41%) Power BI
2 280 (5.51%) Tableau
3 198 (3.89%) SQL Server
4 184 (3.62%) Data Warehouse
5 112 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
6 88 (1.73%) Metadata
7 75 (1.48%) Relational Database
8 71 (1.40%) Data Lake
9 68 (1.34%) Data Mining
10 66 (1.30%) Power Query
11 65 (1.28%) Looker
11 65 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
12 64 (1.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 61 (1.20%) MySQL
14 53 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
15 51 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 49 (0.96%) BigQuery
17 39 (0.77%) Big Data
18 38 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
19 37 (0.73%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 193 (3.80%) JIRA
2 155 (3.05%) Git
3 58 (1.14%) GitLab
4 39 (0.77%) Jenkins
5 36 (0.71%) Rational DOORS
6 30 (0.59%) MLflow
7 23 (0.45%) Selenium
8 22 (0.43%) Cucumber
9 17 (0.33%) Eclipse
10 16 (0.31%) Chocolatey
10 16 (0.31%) ERwin
10 16 (0.31%) Postman
11 15 (0.30%) Visual Studio
12 14 (0.28%) JMeter
13 13 (0.26%) IBM UrbanCode
14 12 (0.24%) Cypress.io
14 12 (0.24%) SonarQube
15 9 (0.18%) Bitbucket
15 9 (0.18%) LabVIEW
15 9 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
General
1 2,414 (47.48%) Social Skills
2 1,700 (33.44%) Finance
3 424 (8.34%) Marketing
4 360 (7.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 341 (6.71%) Organisational Skills
6 307 (6.04%) Retail
7 302 (5.94%) Public Sector
8 282 (5.55%) Legal
9 269 (5.29%) Law
10 238 (4.68%) Banking
11 209 (4.11%) Manufacturing
12 203 (3.99%) Influencing Skills
13 135 (2.66%) Presentation Skills
14 122 (2.40%) Telecoms
15 96 (1.89%) Advertising
16 93 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
17 90 (1.77%) Aerospace
18 80 (1.57%) Electronics
19 70 (1.38%) Financial Institution
20 53 (1.04%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,268 (24.94%) Analyst
2 634 (12.47%) Senior
3 360 (7.08%) Lead
4 296 (5.82%) Data Analyst
5 276 (5.43%) Business Analyst
6 239 (4.70%) Developer
7 225 (4.43%) Consultant
8 215 (4.23%) Systems Engineer
9 195 (3.84%) Architect
10 148 (2.91%) Senior Analyst
11 144 (2.83%) Support Analyst
12 140 (2.75%) Data Engineer
13 123 (2.42%) Support Engineer
14 120 (2.36%) IT Support
15 111 (2.18%) IT Manager
16 104 (2.05%) Systems Analyst
17 101 (1.99%) Financial Analyst
18 100 (1.97%) Security Analyst
19 93 (1.83%) Senior Manager
20 89 (1.75%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (2.32%) .NET
2 111 (2.18%) HTML
3 105 (2.07%) REST
4 100 (1.97%) CSS
5 90 (1.77%) JSON
6 86 (1.69%) Middleware
7 85 (1.67%) XML
8 75 (1.48%) React
9 66 (1.30%) PyTorch
10 65 (1.28%) Kafka
11 61 (1.20%) TensorFlow
12 54 (1.06%) RESTful
13 51 (1.00%) SOAP
14 47 (0.92%) PySpark
15 42 (0.83%) Web Services
16 41 (0.81%) Node.js
16 41 (0.81%) scikit-learn
17 33 (0.65%) Pandas
18 32 (0.63%) EDI
18 32 (0.63%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 525 (10.33%) Analytical Mindset
2 264 (5.19%) Management Information System
3 221 (4.35%) Onboarding
4 217 (4.27%) Product Ownership
5 198 (3.89%) Self-Motivation
6 149 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
7 115 (2.26%) Cloud Native
8 103 (2.03%) Security Posture
9 98 (1.93%) Data Centre
10 96 (1.89%) Driving Licence
11 80 (1.57%) Data Structures
11 80 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
12 79 (1.55%) Cyber Threat
12 79 (1.55%) Virtual Team
13 72 (1.42%) Algorithms
14 60 (1.18%) Social Media
15 56 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
15 56 (1.10%) Public Cloud
16 52 (1.02%) Blog
17 44 (0.87%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 418 (8.22%) Windows
2 268 (5.27%) Linux
3 209 (4.11%) Windows Server
4 105 (2.07%) Windows Server 2016
5 30 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 29 (0.57%) Unix
7 27 (0.53%) Windows 10
8 22 (0.43%) Mac OS
9 20 (0.39%) Android
10 18 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
11 16 (0.31%) Apple iOS
12 11 (0.22%) CentOS
12 11 (0.22%) Ubuntu
13 7 (0.14%) VMS
14 6 (0.12%) Debian
15 5 (0.098%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.079%) AIX
16 4 (0.079%) Rocky
17 1 (0.020%) Oracle Linux
17 1 (0.020%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,318 (45.59%) Problem-Solving
2 1,336 (26.28%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,145 (22.52%) Decision-Making
4 1,108 (21.79%) Analytics
5 861 (16.94%) Agile
6 719 (14.14%) Stakeholder Management
7 703 (13.83%) AI
8 663 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
9 551 (10.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 528 (10.39%) Roadmaps
11 484 (9.52%) Actionable Insight
12 482 (9.48%) Mentoring
13 477 (9.38%) Project Management
14 462 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
15 453 (8.91%) Data Modelling
16 436 (8.58%) Data Analysis
17 415 (8.16%) Process Improvement
18 400 (7.87%) Customer Experience
18 400 (7.87%) Data Governance
19 384 (7.55%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1,039 (20.44%) SQL
2 853 (16.78%) Python
3 182 (3.58%) Java
4 178 (3.50%) JavaScript
5 169 (3.32%) PowerShell
6 159 (3.13%) C#
7 83 (1.63%) C++
8 78 (1.53%) R
9 75 (1.48%) Bash
9 75 (1.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 52 (1.02%) T-SQL
10 52 (1.02%) TypeScript
11 45 (0.89%) MATLAB
12 24 (0.47%) PHP
13 22 (0.43%) Go
13 22 (0.43%) PL/SQL
14 21 (0.41%) C
15 20 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
15 20 (0.39%) Scala
15 20 (0.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 917 (18.04%) Degree
2 494 (9.72%) Security Cleared
3 361 (7.10%) SC Cleared
4 262 (5.15%) ACCA
5 246 (4.84%) CIMA
6 154 (3.03%) DBS Check
7 150 (2.95%) CISSP
8 139 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
9 111 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
10 109 (2.14%) CISM
11 91 (1.79%) DV Cleared
12 89 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
12 89 (1.75%) Master's Degree
13 72 (1.42%) IRCA
14 71 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
15 69 (1.36%) CompTIA Security+
16 63 (1.24%) Azure Certification
17 52 (1.02%) PMI Certification
18 44 (0.87%) PMP
19 43 (0.85%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 471 (9.26%) Data Quality
2 400 (7.87%) GDPR
3 342 (6.73%) QA
4 266 (5.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 212 (4.17%) NIST
6 183 (3.60%) Cyber Essentials
7 150 (2.95%) SLA
8 147 (2.89%) PCI DSS
9 133 (2.62%) Accessibility
10 124 (2.44%) ISO 9001
11 78 (1.53%) GRC
12 62 (1.22%) PMO
13 42 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
14 40 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 40 (0.79%) IFRS
15 39 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 35 (0.69%) COBIT
17 28 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 25 (0.49%) SOC 2
19 24 (0.47%) ITGC
System Software
1 301 (5.92%) Active Directory
2 104 (2.05%) Hyper-V
3 100 (1.97%) Docker
4 88 (1.73%) Terminal Server
5 74 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
6 25 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
7 14 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (0.18%) VMware NSX
8 9 (0.18%) vSphere
9 8 (0.16%) IAG
9 8 (0.16%) ProxySG
10 7 (0.14%) Firmware
11 4 (0.079%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 4 (0.079%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.079%) XenApp
12 3 (0.059%) DFS Replication
12 3 (0.059%) Embedded Firmware
13 2 (0.039%) Oracle RAC
13 2 (0.039%) VMware ESXi
14 1 (0.020%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 136 (2.68%) Terraform
2 90 (1.77%) Kubernetes
3 73 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
4 62 (1.22%) Ansible
5 43 (0.85%) Grafana
6 25 (0.49%) SCCM
7 23 (0.45%) Prometheus
8 21 (0.41%) Nagios
9 19 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
10 17 (0.33%) QRadar
11 16 (0.31%) Kibana
12 11 (0.22%) Kubeflow
13 8 (0.16%) logstash
14 7 (0.14%) Packer
15 6 (0.12%) Graylog
15 6 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
16 5 (0.098%) Control-M
16 5 (0.098%) Docker Swarm
16 5 (0.098%) Podman
16 5 (0.098%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1,153 (22.68%) Microsoft
2 220 (4.33%) SAP
3 208 (4.09%) Google
4 171 (3.36%) VMware
5 169 (3.32%) Oracle
6 149 (2.93%) Splunk
7 138 (2.71%) Salesforce
8 128 (2.52%) SolarWinds
9 123 (2.42%) Databricks
10 106 (2.08%) ServiceNow
11 101 (1.99%) Veeam
12 89 (1.75%) Nimble Storage
13 88 (1.73%) Brocade
13 88 (1.73%) Tanium
14 79 (1.55%) Workday
15 74 (1.46%) Cisco
16 53 (1.04%) Red Hat
17 51 (1.00%) IBM
18 46 (0.90%) Adobe
19 44 (0.87%) HubSpot