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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 8 14
Rank change year-on-year -18 +6 +6
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,880 6,058 9,966
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.18% 13.50% 9.13%
As % of the General category 10.98% 18.56% 16.04%
Number of salaries quoted 3,170 2,424 5,429
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 £88,193 £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 44,446 32,636 62,150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 47.22% 72.72% 56.91%
Number of salaries quoted 27,288 16,013 41,173
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 £77,424 £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 20 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 20 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 4,447 £55,000 - 1,914
UK excluding London -20 3,076 £48,472 -3.06% 1,513
London -11 1,528 £67,500 +3.85% 764
Work from Home -11 1,504 £55,000 - 909
North of England -19 953 £48,000 +1.05% 343
South East -8 769 £50,000 -9.09% 529
Midlands -9 564 £48,000 +1.05% 255
North West -17 558 £46,500 -7.00% 197
South West -26 334 £47,500 -5.00% 170
West Midlands -15 313 £50,000 +5.26% 139
Yorkshire -15 295 £49,942 +10.98% 98
East Midlands +1 250 £45,872 -3.43% 115
East of England -17 237 £45,050 -3.82% 122
Scotland -25 107 £40,000 -20.71% 70
North East -30 100 £53,750 +38.53% 55
Wales -6 84 £53,171 -3.33% 31
Northern Ireland -20 39 £40,000 -27.27% 51

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
1 170 (3.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 117 (2.40%) SharePoint
3 74 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
4 70 (1.43%) Apache Spark
4 70 (1.43%) Confluence
5 42 (0.86%) Apache
6 38 (0.78%) CMS
7 22 (0.45%) IIS
8 20 (0.41%) SAS
9 16 (0.33%) WordPress
10 14 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 13 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
12 6 (0.12%) Jupyter
12 6 (0.12%) WebLogic
12 6 (0.12%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.061%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.061%) govService
13 3 (0.061%) JBoss
13 3 (0.061%) Tomcat
14 2 (0.041%) Appian
Applications
1 532 (10.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 187 (3.83%) Microsoft Office
3 99 (2.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 86 (1.76%) MS Visio
5 34 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
6 30 (0.61%) 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 70 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 39 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 34 (0.70%) NetSuite
4 32 (0.66%) 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 (0.23%) Maximo
9 11 (0.23%) SAP FI
10 10 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
11 9 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
11 9 (0.18%) Workday HCM
12 8 (0.16%) Fidessa
13 7 (0.14%) Elite 3E
14 6 (0.12%) Endur
14 6 (0.12%) Magento
14 6 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
14 6 (0.12%) SAP PP
14 6 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 885 (18.14%) Azure
2 641 (13.14%) Power Platform
3 482 (9.88%) AWS
4 371 (7.60%) Microsoft 365
5 302 (6.19%) SaaS
6 207 (4.24%) GCP
7 126 (2.58%) Dynamics 365
8 114 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
8 114 (2.34%) Entra ID
9 83 (1.70%) Google Analytics
10 78 (1.60%) GitHub
11 76 (1.56%) Microsoft Purview
11 76 (1.56%) Power Automate
12 72 (1.48%) Amazon S3
13 70 (1.43%) Snowflake
14 69 (1.41%) dbt
15 65 (1.33%) PowerApps
15 65 (1.33%) Serverless
16 52 (1.07%) Azure Data Factory
17 49 (1.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 197 (4.04%) Firewall
2 178 (3.65%) DNS
3 136 (2.79%) DHCP
4 120 (2.46%) VPN
5 83 (1.70%) WAN
6 79 (1.62%) TCP/IP
7 76 (1.56%) Broadband
8 75 (1.54%) LAN
9 62 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
10 51 (1.05%) VLAN
10 51 (1.05%) Wireless
11 45 (0.92%) Network Security
12 42 (0.86%) SAN
13 34 (0.70%) BGP
14 33 (0.68%) HTTP
15 30 (0.61%) 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
1 571 (11.70%) Power BI
2 298 (6.11%) Tableau
3 185 (3.79%) SQL Server
4 162 (3.32%) Data Warehouse
5 104 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
6 90 (1.84%) Metadata
7 82 (1.68%) Data Mining
8 71 (1.45%) Relational Database
9 70 (1.43%) Data Lake
10 60 (1.23%) Looker
10 60 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
11 59 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
12 57 (1.17%) Power Query
13 56 (1.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 51 (1.05%) MySQL
15 48 (0.98%) BigQuery
16 44 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 40 (0.82%) Big Data
18 36 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
19 35 (0.72%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 164 (3.36%) JIRA
2 142 (2.91%) Git
3 53 (1.09%) GitLab
4 33 (0.68%) 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%) ERwin
11 13 (0.27%) Eclipse
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 (0.23%) SonarQube
14 9 (0.18%) Bitbucket
14 9 (0.18%) JMeter
14 9 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
15 8 (0.16%) Balsamiq
General
1 2,266 (46.43%) Social Skills
2 1,681 (34.45%) Finance
3 417 (8.55%) Marketing
4 357 (7.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 293 (6.00%) Organisational Skills
6 292 (5.98%) Public Sector
7 272 (5.57%) Retail
8 267 (5.47%) Law
9 265 (5.43%) Legal
10 243 (4.98%) Banking
11 183 (3.75%) Manufacturing
12 174 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
13 131 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
14 117 (2.40%) Telecoms
15 88 (1.80%) Advertising
15 88 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
16 80 (1.64%) Aerospace
17 77 (1.58%) Financial Institution
18 72 (1.48%) Electronics
19 54 (1.11%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,259 (25.80%) Analyst
2 630 (12.91%) Senior
3 341 (6.99%) Lead
4 309 (6.33%) Data Analyst
5 280 (5.74%) Business Analyst
6 239 (4.90%) Developer
7 216 (4.43%) Consultant
8 210 (4.30%) Architect
9 192 (3.93%) Systems Engineer
10 146 (2.99%) Senior Analyst
11 127 (2.60%) Data Engineer
12 119 (2.44%) Support Analyst
13 114 (2.34%) IT Manager
14 108 (2.21%) Support Engineer
15 107 (2.19%) IT Support
15 107 (2.19%) Senior Manager
16 102 (2.09%) Systems Analyst
17 97 (1.99%) Financial Analyst
18 94 (1.93%) Security Analyst
19 84 (1.72%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (2.52%) HTML
2 112 (2.30%) CSS
3 110 (2.25%) .NET
4 101 (2.07%) REST
5 90 (1.84%) Middleware
6 89 (1.82%) JSON
7 85 (1.74%) React
8 80 (1.64%) XML
9 69 (1.41%) PyTorch
10 63 (1.29%) TensorFlow
11 53 (1.09%) Kafka
12 50 (1.02%) Node.js
13 49 (1.00%) SOAP
14 45 (0.92%) RESTful
15 42 (0.86%) PySpark
15 42 (0.86%) scikit-learn
16 36 (0.74%) Web Services
17 33 (0.68%) Pandas
18 32 (0.66%) LangChain
19 29 (0.59%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 517 (10.59%) Analytical Mindset
2 241 (4.94%) Management Information System
3 207 (4.24%) Onboarding
4 196 (4.02%) Product Ownership
5 189 (3.87%) Self-Motivation
6 138 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
7 105 (2.15%) Data Centre
8 96 (1.97%) Security Posture
9 95 (1.95%) Cloud Native
10 86 (1.76%) Data Structures
11 80 (1.64%) Algorithms
11 80 (1.64%) Driving Licence
12 78 (1.60%) Cyber Threat
13 62 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
14 59 (1.21%) Social Media
15 56 (1.15%) Public Cloud
16 55 (1.13%) Virtual Team
17 46 (0.94%) Cyber Defence
18 45 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
18 45 (0.92%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 382 (7.83%) Windows
2 243 (4.98%) Linux
3 193 (3.95%) Windows Server
4 95 (1.95%) Windows Server 2016
5 34 (0.70%) 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 (0.23%) CentOS
10 11 (0.23%) 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%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,197 (45.02%) Problem-Solving
2 1,201 (24.61%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,079 (22.11%) Decision-Making
4 1,071 (21.95%) Analytics
5 846 (17.34%) Agile
6 652 (13.36%) Business Intelligence
7 643 (13.18%) AI
8 638 (13.07%) Stakeholder Management
9 508 (10.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 494 (10.12%) Roadmaps
11 481 (9.86%) Mentoring
12 477 (9.77%) Actionable Insight
13 470 (9.63%) Project Management
14 450 (9.22%) Cybersecurity
15 444 (9.10%) Data Modelling
16 441 (9.04%) Data Analysis
17 404 (8.28%) Data Governance
18 400 (8.20%) Process Improvement
19 367 (7.52%) Analytical Thinking
20 359 (7.36%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1,031 (21.13%) SQL
2 869 (17.81%) Python
3 174 (3.57%) JavaScript
4 168 (3.44%) Java
5 164 (3.36%) PowerShell
6 147 (3.01%) C#
7 81 (1.66%) R
8 71 (1.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 69 (1.41%) C++
10 68 (1.39%) Bash
11 50 (1.02%) TypeScript
12 48 (0.98%) T-SQL
13 39 (0.80%) MATLAB
14 34 (0.70%) 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%) C
18 17 (0.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 900 (18.44%) Degree
2 454 (9.30%) Security Cleared
3 330 (6.76%) SC Cleared
4 258 (5.29%) ACCA
5 243 (4.98%) CIMA
6 154 (3.16%) CISSP
6 154 (3.16%) DBS Check
7 152 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 113 (2.32%) Cisco Certification
9 109 (2.23%) CISM
10 90 (1.84%) DV Cleared
10 90 (1.84%) Master's Degree
11 82 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
12 72 (1.48%) Azure Certification
12 72 (1.48%) IRCA
12 72 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
13 67 (1.37%) CompTIA Security+
14 60 (1.23%) PMI Certification
15 54 (1.11%) PMP
16 48 (0.98%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 464 (9.51%) Data Quality
2 382 (7.83%) GDPR
3 319 (6.54%) QA
4 263 (5.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 225 (4.61%) NIST
6 171 (3.50%) Cyber Essentials
7 141 (2.89%) SLA
8 138 (2.83%) PCI DSS
9 129 (2.64%) Accessibility
10 119 (2.44%) ISO 9001
11 75 (1.54%) GRC
12 57 (1.17%) PMO
13 51 (1.05%) Actionable Recommendations
14 45 (0.92%) IFRS
15 41 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 39 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 34 (0.70%) COBIT
18 28 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
19 24 (0.49%) ITGC
19 24 (0.49%) NCSC
System Software
1 279 (5.72%) Active Directory
2 97 (1.99%) Hyper-V
3 88 (1.80%) Docker
4 80 (1.64%) Terminal Server
5 77 (1.58%) 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 (2.62%) Terraform
2 80 (1.64%) Kubernetes
3 64 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
4 59 (1.21%) Ansible
5 35 (0.72%) 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%) Functional Safety
16 4 (0.082%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,092 (22.38%) Microsoft
2 208 (4.26%) SAP
3 193 (3.95%) Google
4 167 (3.42%) Oracle
4 167 (3.42%) VMware
5 152 (3.11%) Salesforce
6 134 (2.75%) Splunk
7 126 (2.58%) SolarWinds
8 115 (2.36%) Databricks
9 93 (1.91%) Veeam
10 86 (1.76%) ServiceNow
11 81 (1.66%) Nimble Storage
12 80 (1.64%) Brocade
12 80 (1.64%) Tanium
13 74 (1.52%) Workday
14 71 (1.45%) Cisco
15 49 (1.00%) IBM
15 49 (1.00%) Red Hat
16 47 (0.96%) Adobe
17 44 (0.90%) HubSpot