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 24 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 11 16
Rank change year-on-year -14 +5 +3
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,917 5,107 8,080
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 6.41% 12.34% 9.24%
As % of the General category 12.04% 17.48% 15.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,738 2,392 5,262
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,886 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,645 £93,775 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,000 £50,890 £45,000
% change year-on-year -7.64% +13.09% -4.26%

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 40,841 29,222 53,336
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 53.20% 70.64% 61.01%
Number of salaries quoted 22,335 15,504 38,046
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,677 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £51,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -12.62% +8.42% -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 24 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Top 19 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 24 March 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 4,369 £52,500 -4.55% 2,174
UK excluding London -20 3,052 £47,000 -7.64% 1,683
Work from Home +1 1,576 £55,000 - 962
London -4 1,565 £67,500 +3.85% 812
South East +1 816 £50,000 -1.90% 572
North of England -21 815 £45,000 -10.00% 379
Midlands -16 584 £47,000 -2.08% 285
North West -20 435 £43,000 -17.31% 213
West Midlands -16 360 £51,275 +2.55% 170
Yorkshire +3 272 £48,445 +7.65% 126
South West -19 270 £45,000 -13.88% 171
East of England -26 264 £45,000 -11.71% 151
East Midlands -1 223 £42,500 -2.30% 114
Scotland -18 192 £40,000 -23.81% 92
North East -6 108 £45,249 +15.73% 46
Wales +15 76 £40,000 -20.20% 55
Northern Ireland -19 51 £52,500 -4.55% 18
Isle of Man -3 1 £62,500 +101.61%
Channel Islands -6 1 - -

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
1 142 (2.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 93 (1.89%) SharePoint
3 80 (1.63%) Confluence
4 72 (1.46%) Apache Spark
5 71 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
6 51 (1.04%) CMS
7 30 (0.61%) Apache
8 18 (0.37%) WordPress
9 16 (0.33%) SAS
10 13 (0.26%) IIS
10 13 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
11 6 (0.12%) nginx
12 4 (0.081%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.061%) Drupal
13 3 (0.061%) govService
14 2 (0.041%) Anypoint
14 2 (0.041%) Camunda
14 2 (0.041%) JBoss
14 2 (0.041%) Jupyter
14 2 (0.041%) MTS
Applications
1 685 (13.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 290 (5.90%) Microsoft Office
3 186 (3.78%) Chatbot
4 121 (2.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 94 (1.91%) MS Visio
6 36 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
7 27 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
8 25 (0.51%) Maya
9 15 (0.31%) Adobe XD
10 8 (0.16%) CATIA
11 7 (0.14%) AutoCAD
12 5 (0.10%) Trello
13 2 (0.041%) Revit
13 2 (0.041%) Simulink
13 2 (0.041%) Sketch
14 1 (0.020%) Notion
14 1 (0.020%) OrCAD
14 1 (0.020%) SmartSuite
14 1 (0.020%) SOLIDWORKS
14 1 (0.020%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 76 (1.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 45 (0.92%) NetSuite
3 43 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
4 31 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
5 27 (0.55%) SAP CO
6 21 (0.43%) Endur
7 19 (0.39%) SAP FI
8 18 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
9 17 (0.35%) SAP MDG
9 17 (0.35%) Workday HCM
10 13 (0.26%) SAP ERP
11 12 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
12 11 (0.22%) Maximo
12 11 (0.22%) Sage X3
13 10 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
13 10 (0.20%) SAP PM
14 8 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
15 7 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
15 7 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
16 6 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 864 (17.57%) Azure
2 650 (13.22%) Power Platform
3 469 (9.54%) AWS
4 310 (6.30%) Microsoft 365
5 274 (5.57%) SaaS
6 202 (4.11%) GCP
7 153 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
8 129 (2.62%) Dynamics 365
9 96 (1.95%) GitHub
10 95 (1.93%) Entra ID
11 92 (1.87%) Snowflake
12 90 (1.83%) Power Automate
13 82 (1.67%) dbt
14 71 (1.44%) Azure Data Factory
15 66 (1.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 62 (1.26%) Amazon S3
17 58 (1.18%) Serverless
18 57 (1.16%) Google Analytics
19 53 (1.08%) Microsoft Purview
20 52 (1.06%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 180 (3.66%) Firewall
2 157 (3.19%) DNS
3 123 (2.50%) DHCP
4 107 (2.18%) VPN
5 82 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
6 74 (1.50%) WAN
7 71 (1.44%) LAN
8 67 (1.36%) TCP/IP
9 66 (1.34%) Wireless
10 60 (1.22%) VLAN
11 52 (1.06%) Broadband
12 47 (0.96%) Network Security
13 38 (0.77%) BGP
14 37 (0.75%) SAN
15 35 (0.71%) Wireshark
16 34 (0.69%) OSPF
17 30 (0.61%) Cisco ASA
17 30 (0.61%) EIGRP
18 28 (0.57%) VoIP
19 26 (0.53%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 587 (11.94%) Power BI
2 428 (8.70%) Tableau
3 218 (4.43%) SQL Server
4 196 (3.99%) Data Mining
5 174 (3.54%) Data Warehouse
6 98 (1.99%) Metadata
7 97 (1.97%) Relational Database
8 88 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
8 88 (1.79%) Data Lake
9 72 (1.46%) Looker
10 62 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
11 61 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 59 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
13 56 (1.14%) MySQL
14 49 (1.00%) NoSQL
15 45 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
16 44 (0.89%) BigQuery
17 43 (0.87%) Power Query
18 35 (0.71%) Big Data
19 33 (0.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 191 (3.88%) JIRA
2 135 (2.75%) Git
3 50 (1.02%) GitLab
4 42 (0.85%) Selenium
5 38 (0.77%) Jenkins
6 32 (0.65%) MLflow
7 19 (0.39%) Visual Studio
8 15 (0.31%) Balsamiq
8 15 (0.31%) ERwin
8 15 (0.31%) Robot Framework
9 14 (0.28%) Axure RP
9 14 (0.28%) Chocolatey
9 14 (0.28%) Subversion
10 13 (0.26%) IBM UrbanCode
10 13 (0.26%) Snyk
11 12 (0.24%) Bitbucket
12 11 (0.22%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.20%) LabVIEW
13 10 (0.20%) Postman
14 8 (0.16%) webpack
General
1 2,410 (49.01%) Social Skills
2 1,807 (36.75%) Finance
3 440 (8.95%) Marketing
4 351 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 312 (6.35%) Banking
6 277 (5.63%) Law
7 276 (5.61%) Legal
8 270 (5.49%) Organisational Skills
9 252 (5.13%) Public Sector
10 251 (5.10%) Retail
11 206 (4.19%) Presentation Skills
12 166 (3.38%) Manufacturing
13 132 (2.68%) Financial Institution
14 131 (2.66%) Influencing Skills
15 100 (2.03%) Telecoms
16 90 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
17 79 (1.61%) Games
18 70 (1.42%) Advertising
19 63 (1.28%) Electronics
20 49 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1,248 (25.38%) Analyst
2 641 (13.04%) Senior
3 376 (7.65%) Data Analyst
4 321 (6.53%) Lead
5 245 (4.98%) Business Analyst
6 234 (4.76%) Developer
7 220 (4.47%) Architect
8 203 (4.13%) Consultant
9 182 (3.70%) Trainer
10 171 (3.48%) Support Analyst
10 171 (3.48%) Trainee
11 162 (3.29%) Trainee Analyst
11 162 (3.29%) Trainee Data Analyst
12 142 (2.89%) Senior Analyst
13 140 (2.85%) IT Support
14 134 (2.73%) Senior Manager
15 132 (2.68%) Systems Engineer
16 116 (2.36%) Financial Analyst
17 104 (2.12%) Support Engineer
18 90 (1.83%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (2.64%) HTML
2 120 (2.44%) CSS
3 90 (1.83%) .NET
4 88 (1.79%) React
5 61 (1.24%) REST
6 54 (1.10%) JSON
6 54 (1.10%) TensorFlow
7 53 (1.08%) PyTorch
8 52 (1.06%) XML
9 51 (1.04%) Kafka
10 46 (0.94%) Node.js
11 45 (0.92%) Middleware
12 36 (0.73%) scikit-learn
13 33 (0.67%) LangChain
14 32 (0.65%) PySpark
15 28 (0.57%) FIX Protocol
15 28 (0.57%) Spring
16 26 (0.53%) SOAP
17 25 (0.51%) Pandas
18 24 (0.49%) LlamaIndex
Miscellaneous
1 503 (10.23%) Analytical Mindset
2 334 (6.79%) Self-Motivation
3 256 (5.21%) Onboarding
4 225 (4.58%) Management Information System
5 191 (3.88%) Product Ownership
6 121 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
7 104 (2.12%) Cloud Native
8 103 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
9 97 (1.97%) Data Centre
10 94 (1.91%) Data Structures
11 78 (1.59%) Driving Licence
12 74 (1.50%) Algorithms
13 58 (1.18%) Social Media
14 57 (1.16%) Security Posture
15 52 (1.06%) Virtual Team
16 47 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
16 47 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 47 (0.96%) Low-Code
17 46 (0.94%) FMCG
17 46 (0.94%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 362 (7.36%) Windows
2 235 (4.78%) Linux
3 148 (3.01%) Windows Server
4 76 (1.55%) Windows Server 2016
5 41 (0.83%) Unix
6 27 (0.55%) Mac OS
7 19 (0.39%) Windows 10
8 18 (0.37%) Android
9 13 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 10 (0.20%) Apple iOS
11 6 (0.12%) CentOS
12 5 (0.10%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.10%) VMS
13 4 (0.081%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.061%) OpenWrt
15 2 (0.041%) AIX
15 2 (0.041%) Data ONTAP
15 2 (0.041%) Oracle Linux
15 2 (0.041%) Rocky
16 1 (0.020%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,203 (44.80%) Problem-Solving
2 1,152 (23.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,148 (23.35%) Analytics
4 951 (19.34%) Decision-Making
5 881 (17.92%) AI
6 878 (17.86%) Agile
7 743 (15.11%) Business Intelligence
8 665 (13.52%) Project Management
9 599 (12.18%) Stakeholder Management
10 568 (11.55%) Data Analysis
11 462 (9.40%) Actionable Insight
12 432 (8.79%) Mentoring
13 410 (8.34%) Analytical Thinking
14 404 (8.22%) Process Improvement
15 402 (8.18%) Roadmaps
16 396 (8.05%) Data Modelling
17 383 (7.79%) DevOps
18 382 (7.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 365 (7.42%) Business Analysis
20 363 (7.38%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 1,043 (21.21%) SQL
2 890 (18.10%) Python
3 170 (3.46%) JavaScript
4 152 (3.09%) Java
5 147 (2.99%) PowerShell
6 122 (2.48%) C#
7 78 (1.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 69 (1.40%) R
9 56 (1.14%) Bash
10 45 (0.92%) C++
10 45 (0.92%) T-SQL
11 43 (0.87%) VBA
12 37 (0.75%) TypeScript
13 21 (0.43%) C
14 20 (0.41%) Scala
15 19 (0.39%) MATLAB
16 17 (0.35%) Go
17 13 (0.26%) PL/SQL
18 12 (0.24%) PHP
18 12 (0.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,247 (25.36%) Degree
2 400 (8.14%) Security Cleared
3 310 (6.30%) Master's Degree
4 284 (5.78%) SC Cleared
5 225 (4.58%) ACCA
6 217 (4.41%) CIMA
7 196 (3.99%) PhD
8 181 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
9 143 (2.91%) CISSP
10 123 (2.50%) DBS Check
11 97 (1.97%) PMI Certification
12 93 (1.89%) DV Cleared
13 86 (1.75%) PMP
14 84 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
14 84 (1.71%) CISM
15 72 (1.46%) IRCA
16 62 (1.26%) Azure Certification
17 59 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
17 59 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
18 50 (1.02%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 379 (7.71%) Data Quality
2 312 (6.35%) GDPR
3 277 (5.63%) QA
4 217 (4.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 177 (3.60%) NIST
6 148 (3.01%) Cyber Essentials
7 117 (2.38%) PCI DSS
8 104 (2.12%) Accessibility
9 88 (1.79%) ISO 9001
10 84 (1.71%) PMO
11 68 (1.38%) SLA
12 67 (1.36%) Actionable Recommendations
13 46 (0.94%) GRC
14 40 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 34 (0.69%) IFRS
16 33 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 32 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 21 (0.43%) COBIT
18 21 (0.43%) WCAG
19 19 (0.39%) NCSC
System Software
1 251 (5.10%) Active Directory
2 92 (1.87%) Hyper-V
3 76 (1.55%) Docker
4 72 (1.46%) Terminal Server
5 59 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
6 16 (0.33%) ProxySG
7 13 (0.26%) vSphere
8 11 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.14%) IAG
9 7 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
9 7 (0.14%) VMware NSX
10 6 (0.12%) Firmware
11 4 (0.081%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.081%) XenApp
12 3 (0.061%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.061%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.041%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.020%) KVM
14 1 (0.020%) NFS
14 1 (0.020%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 137 (2.79%) Terraform
2 80 (1.63%) Kubernetes
3 72 (1.46%) Ansible
4 54 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
5 37 (0.75%) Grafana
6 33 (0.67%) Prometheus
7 26 (0.53%) SCCM
8 24 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
9 17 (0.35%) Nagios
10 7 (0.14%) Control-M
10 7 (0.14%) Kubeflow
11 6 (0.12%) QRadar
12 5 (0.10%) CASB
12 5 (0.10%) Computer Incident Response Team
13 4 (0.081%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.081%) Backup Exec
13 4 (0.081%) RSA Archer
13 4 (0.081%) SolarWinds Orion
13 4 (0.081%) vCenter Server
14 3 (0.061%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1,176 (23.92%) Microsoft
2 223 (4.54%) SAP
3 189 (3.84%) Oracle
4 185 (3.76%) PayPal
5 142 (2.89%) Salesforce
5 142 (2.89%) VMware
6 139 (2.83%) Google
7 122 (2.48%) SolarWinds
8 117 (2.38%) ServiceNow
9 108 (2.20%) Splunk
10 90 (1.83%) Databricks
11 79 (1.61%) Veeam
12 77 (1.57%) Cisco
13 73 (1.48%) Brocade
13 73 (1.48%) Tanium
14 72 (1.46%) Nimble Storage
15 65 (1.32%) Workday
16 53 (1.08%) Adobe
17 51 (1.04%) Dell
18 42 (0.85%) Bloomberg