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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 8 14
Rank change year-on-year -17 +6 +5
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 6,342 6,043 7,364
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.46% 12.35% 9.67%
As % of the General category 11.80% 18.02% 16.90%
Number of salaries quoted 3,713 2,495 2,907
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year - -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% -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 53,741 33,544 43,580
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.25% 68.54% 57.21%
Number of salaries quoted 32,733 17,467 22,412
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,500 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -5.31% -5.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -1.96%

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 -16 5,607 £52,500 - 7,280
UK excluding London -16 4,234 £47,500 +5.56% 4,096
Work from Home -6 2,127 £55,000 +10.00% 3,022
London -12 1,817 £67,500 +3.85% 3,891
North of England -18 1,146 £47,500 +6.74% 916
South East -12 983 £49,768 +1.57% 1,124
Midlands -10 741 £47,000 +4.44% 670
North West -14 692 £46,500 +3.33% 545
South West -8 601 £47,500 +5.56% 490
West Midlands -18 382 £47,500 +5.56% 421
East Midlands -5 356 £45,000 +9.09% 248
Yorkshire -6 316 £47,000 +17.50% 279
East of England -14 270 £47,500 +18.75% 342
Wales -6 202 £45,000 -10.40% 96
Northern Ireland +1 158 £43,750 -20.45% 220
Scotland -20 147 £44,500 +11.25% 299
North East -20 141 £50,500 +26.25% 97

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
1 190 (3.00%) SharePoint
2 179 (2.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 111 (1.75%) Confluence
4 41 (0.65%) Apache Spark
5 39 (0.61%) CMS
6 37 (0.58%) IIS
7 36 (0.57%) Apache
8 33 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
9 29 (0.46%) SAS
10 12 (0.19%) WordPress
11 11 (0.17%) Headless CMS
11 11 (0.17%) Jupyter
12 10 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 9 (0.14%) WebLogic
13 9 (0.14%) WebSphere
14 8 (0.13%) OpenStack
15 7 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
16 3 (0.047%) Appian
16 3 (0.047%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 3 (0.047%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 732 (11.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 319 (5.03%) Microsoft Office
3 130 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 73 (1.15%) MS Visio
5 48 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
6 44 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
7 18 (0.28%) Simulink
8 17 (0.27%) AutoCAD
9 9 (0.14%) Chatbot
9 9 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
10 8 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 8 (0.13%) Photoshop
11 7 (0.11%) Adobe XD
12 6 (0.095%) Acrobat
12 6 (0.095%) CATIA
12 6 (0.095%) Siemens NX
13 5 (0.079%) EPLAN
13 5 (0.079%) InDesign
13 5 (0.079%) Revit
14 4 (0.063%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 110 (1.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 65 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
3 38 (0.60%) NetSuite
4 35 (0.55%) Dynamics GP
5 27 (0.43%) Shopify
6 17 (0.27%) Workday HCM
7 15 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
7 15 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
8 12 (0.19%) Magento
8 12 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
8 12 (0.19%) SAP CO
8 12 (0.19%) SAP FI
9 11 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
10 10 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
10 10 (0.16%) Infor M3
10 10 (0.16%) SAP Business One
10 10 (0.16%) SAP PM
11 9 (0.14%) Elite 3E
11 9 (0.14%) Sage 200
11 9 (0.14%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,025 (16.16%) Azure
2 750 (11.83%) Power Platform
3 647 (10.20%) AWS
4 451 (7.11%) Microsoft 365
5 395 (6.23%) SaaS
6 297 (4.68%) GCP
7 181 (2.85%) Entra ID
8 158 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
9 154 (2.43%) Dynamics 365
10 127 (2.00%) Google Analytics
11 120 (1.89%) Google Ads
12 106 (1.67%) GitHub
13 93 (1.47%) Serverless
14 88 (1.39%) Meta Ads
15 84 (1.32%) Microsoft Purview
15 84 (1.32%) Power Automate
16 81 (1.28%) PowerApps
17 79 (1.25%) Snowflake
18 78 (1.23%) Amazon S3
19 71 (1.12%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 202 (3.19%) DNS
2 156 (2.46%) DHCP
3 148 (2.33%) Firewall
4 131 (2.07%) VPN
5 107 (1.69%) TCP/IP
6 84 (1.32%) Internet
7 76 (1.20%) WAN
8 71 (1.12%) LAN
9 68 (1.07%) Network Security
10 58 (0.91%) Wireless
11 55 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
12 50 (0.79%) VLAN
13 46 (0.73%) Broadband
14 38 (0.60%) SAN
15 37 (0.58%) HTTP
16 29 (0.46%) VoIP
17 25 (0.39%) 5G
17 25 (0.39%) BGP
18 24 (0.38%) SMS
19 23 (0.36%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 672 (10.60%) Power BI
2 218 (3.44%) SQL Server
3 200 (3.15%) Tableau
4 180 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
5 113 (1.78%) Relational Database
6 112 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
7 104 (1.64%) Metadata
8 86 (1.36%) MySQL
9 83 (1.31%) Looker
10 78 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
10 78 (1.23%) Power Query
11 74 (1.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 70 (1.10%) Data Lake
13 59 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 58 (0.91%) Big Data
15 49 (0.77%) BigQuery
15 49 (0.77%) NoSQL
16 42 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
17 39 (0.61%) MongoDB
18 38 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 265 (4.18%) JIRA
2 252 (3.97%) Git
3 53 (0.84%) Jenkins
4 51 (0.80%) GitLab
5 32 (0.50%) Selenium
6 30 (0.47%) Rational DOORS
7 26 (0.41%) Eclipse
8 24 (0.38%) Cucumber
9 20 (0.32%) Claude Code
9 20 (0.32%) Postman
10 18 (0.28%) LabVIEW
10 18 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
11 15 (0.24%) Bitbucket
11 15 (0.24%) Chocolatey
11 15 (0.24%) JMeter
12 14 (0.22%) Burp Suite
13 13 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
14 12 (0.19%) MLflow
15 11 (0.17%) Cypress.io
15 11 (0.17%) SonarQube
General
1 3,167 (49.94%) Social Skills
2 2,075 (32.72%) Finance
3 718 (11.32%) Marketing
4 539 (8.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 517 (8.15%) Organisational Skills
6 442 (6.97%) Retail
7 416 (6.56%) Public Sector
8 414 (6.53%) Law
9 393 (6.20%) Legal
10 364 (5.74%) Manufacturing
11 326 (5.14%) Influencing Skills
12 246 (3.88%) Presentation Skills
13 244 (3.85%) Banking
14 206 (3.25%) Aerospace
15 157 (2.48%) Telecoms
16 153 (2.41%) Electronics
17 114 (1.80%) Advertising
18 99 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
19 77 (1.21%) Automotive
20 71 (1.12%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,459 (23.01%) Analyst
2 831 (13.10%) Senior
3 424 (6.69%) Lead
4 308 (4.86%) Data Analyst
5 307 (4.84%) Business Analyst
6 303 (4.78%) Developer
7 240 (3.78%) Consultant
8 237 (3.74%) Architect
9 231 (3.64%) Senior Analyst
10 205 (3.23%) Support Analyst
11 194 (3.06%) Data Engineer
12 175 (2.76%) Systems Engineer
13 127 (2.00%) Support Engineer
14 119 (1.88%) IT Support
15 113 (1.78%) Applications Support
16 110 (1.73%) Security Analyst
17 108 (1.70%) IT Manager
18 107 (1.69%) Senior Manager
19 106 (1.67%) Administrator
20 104 (1.64%) Marketing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (2.57%) .NET
2 149 (2.35%) Terraform
3 134 (2.11%) REST
4 124 (1.96%) HTML
5 113 (1.78%) CSS
6 91 (1.43%) JSON
7 82 (1.29%) RESTful
8 80 (1.26%) Middleware
8 80 (1.26%) XML
9 74 (1.17%) PySpark
10 71 (1.12%) React
11 64 (1.01%) Kafka
11 64 (1.01%) SOAP
12 48 (0.76%) EDI
13 47 (0.74%) Web Services
14 46 (0.73%) LDAP
15 44 (0.69%) PyTorch
16 41 (0.65%) Spring Boot
17 39 (0.61%) Spring
18 38 (0.60%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 477 (7.52%) Analytical Mindset
2 446 (7.03%) Management Information System
3 390 (6.15%) Onboarding
4 317 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
5 292 (4.60%) Product Ownership
6 159 (2.51%) Driving Licence
7 149 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
8 142 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
9 137 (2.16%) Cloud Native
10 126 (1.99%) Social Media
11 118 (1.86%) Blog
12 113 (1.78%) Cyber Threat
13 105 (1.66%) Marketing Technology
14 103 (1.62%) Data Centre
14 103 (1.62%) Security Posture
15 97 (1.53%) Virtual Team
16 88 (1.39%) Data Structures
17 76 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
18 65 (1.02%) Algorithms
19 64 (1.01%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 470 (7.41%) Windows
2 308 (4.86%) Linux
3 222 (3.50%) Windows Server
4 93 (1.47%) Windows Server 2016
5 42 (0.66%) Windows 10
6 36 (0.57%) Mac OS
7 33 (0.52%) Unix
8 27 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 24 (0.38%) Apple iOS
9 24 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
10 19 (0.30%) Android
11 9 (0.14%) CentOS
12 8 (0.13%) Ubuntu
13 6 (0.095%) Debian
13 6 (0.095%) VMS
14 5 (0.079%) OpenVMS
15 4 (0.063%) CoreOS
16 2 (0.032%) AIX
16 2 (0.032%) Rocky
16 2 (0.032%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,085 (48.64%) Problem-Solving
2 1,900 (29.96%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,519 (23.95%) Decision-Making
4 1,281 (20.20%) Analytics
5 1,268 (19.99%) Stakeholder Management
6 1,145 (18.05%) AI
7 1,101 (17.36%) Agile
8 838 (13.21%) Business Intelligence
9 689 (10.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 630 (9.93%) Roadmaps
11 628 (9.90%) Mentoring
12 597 (9.41%) Actionable Insight
13 586 (9.24%) Validation
14 554 (8.74%) Data Analysis
15 549 (8.66%) Process Improvement
16 542 (8.55%) Project Management
17 516 (8.14%) CRM
18 515 (8.12%) Cybersecurity
19 509 (8.03%) ERP
20 499 (7.87%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 1,217 (19.19%) SQL
2 866 (13.65%) Python
3 234 (3.69%) JavaScript
4 215 (3.39%) Java
5 199 (3.14%) C#
6 198 (3.12%) PowerShell
7 119 (1.88%) C++
8 93 (1.47%) Bash
9 84 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 82 (1.29%) R
11 73 (1.15%) TypeScript
12 55 (0.87%) MATLAB
13 51 (0.80%) T-SQL
14 40 (0.63%) C
15 38 (0.60%) Shell Script
16 32 (0.50%) PL/SQL
17 29 (0.46%) Scala
18 24 (0.38%) Go
18 24 (0.38%) PHP
19 23 (0.36%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,284 (20.25%) Degree
2 707 (11.15%) Security Cleared
3 485 (7.65%) SC Cleared
4 260 (4.10%) ACCA
5 242 (3.82%) CIMA
6 178 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 159 (2.51%) DV Cleared
8 150 (2.37%) CISSP
9 142 (2.24%) DBS Check
10 130 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
11 118 (1.86%) CISM
12 110 (1.73%) Cisco Certification
13 100 (1.58%) Master's Degree
14 82 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
15 81 (1.28%) Azure Certification
16 76 (1.20%) HND
17 68 (1.07%) CompTIA Security+
18 63 (0.99%) PMI Certification
19 55 (0.87%) HNC
20 49 (0.77%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 625 (9.85%) Data Quality
2 386 (6.09%) QA
3 332 (5.23%) GDPR
4 230 (3.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 201 (3.17%) Accessibility
6 172 (2.71%) NIST
7 148 (2.33%) SLA
8 147 (2.32%) Cyber Essentials
9 119 (1.88%) PCI DSS
10 71 (1.12%) GRC
11 69 (1.09%) ISO 9001
12 60 (0.95%) PMO
13 56 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
14 41 (0.65%) IFRS
15 39 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 35 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 29 (0.46%) NCSC
18 27 (0.43%) COBIT
19 26 (0.41%) DO-254
20 25 (0.39%) GAAP
System Software
1 345 (5.44%) Active Directory
2 167 (2.63%) Docker
3 105 (1.66%) Hyper-V
4 88 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 72 (1.14%) Terminal Server
6 46 (0.73%) Firmware
7 22 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
8 21 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
10 11 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
11 8 (0.13%) vSphere
12 7 (0.11%) Ceph
12 7 (0.11%) VMware NSX
13 4 (0.063%) KVM
13 4 (0.063%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.047%) DFS Replication
15 2 (0.032%) IAG
15 2 (0.032%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 1 (0.016%) VirtualBox
16 1 (0.016%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 118 (1.86%) Kubernetes
2 85 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
3 71 (1.12%) Ansible
4 43 (0.68%) Grafana
5 40 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
6 23 (0.36%) Prometheus
6 23 (0.36%) SCCM
7 21 (0.33%) Kibana
8 20 (0.32%) QRadar
9 11 (0.17%) Nagios
9 11 (0.17%) Nmap
9 11 (0.17%) Podman
10 9 (0.14%) Argo
10 9 (0.14%) logstash
11 7 (0.11%) Check_MK
11 7 (0.11%) Functional Safety
11 7 (0.11%) Istio
11 7 (0.11%) Kubeflow
12 6 (0.095%) Graylog
12 6 (0.095%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1,511 (23.83%) Microsoft
2 389 (6.13%) Google
3 254 (4.01%) SAP
4 198 (3.12%) Oracle
5 178 (2.81%) VMware
6 156 (2.46%) Splunk
7 142 (2.24%) Salesforce
8 139 (2.19%) Databricks
9 137 (2.16%) ServiceNow
10 94 (1.48%) SolarWinds
11 87 (1.37%) Cisco
12 80 (1.26%) Veeam
13 73 (1.15%) Brocade
13 73 (1.15%) Nimble Storage
14 72 (1.14%) Tanium
15 71 (1.12%) Adobe
16 68 (1.07%) HubSpot
17 65 (1.02%) YouTube
18 58 (0.91%) Workday
19 45 (0.71%) Sage