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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 9 13
Rank change year-on-year -17 +4 +8
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 5,324 6,168 8,554
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.26% 12.48% 9.69%
As % of the General category 11.23% 17.99% 16.87%
Number of salaries quoted 3,376 2,644 4,154
10th Percentile £31,813 £30,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,839 £37,727
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,938 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,675 £87,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500

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 47,419 34,291 50,709
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.81% 69.37% 57.41%
Number of salaries quoted 29,052 17,911 31,666
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £39,050 £35,532 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £54,084
Median % change year-on-year - +1.69% -9.86%
75th Percentile £76,250 £76,250 £72,761
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -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 27 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 27 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 -16 4,827 £54,000 -1.82% 2,596
UK excluding London -19 3,407 £47,500 - 1,805
Work from Home -10 1,701 £55,000 +8.44% 1,004
London -10 1,632 £67,500 +3.85% 1,148
North of England -19 983 £47,500 +2.15% 462
South East -8 833 £50,000 -4.76% 581
Midlands -11 604 £48,000 +6.21% 304
North West -18 587 £46,750 -0.53% 242
South West -16 467 £47,000 -1.05% 217
West Midlands -18 323 £50,000 +11.11% 168
Yorkshire -11 283 £47,500 +5.56% 158
East Midlands -5 279 £45,872 +0.39% 136
East of England -23 244 £45,000 - 154
North East -25 113 £55,000 +37.50% 66
Wales -12 110 £53,171 -3.33% 35
Scotland -35 109 £43,668 -0.76% 70
Northern Ireland -32 67 £41,250 -25.00% 28

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
1 193 (3.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 148 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 74 (1.39%) Confluence
4 70 (1.31%) Apache Airflow
4 70 (1.31%) Apache Spark
5 46 (0.86%) Apache
6 38 (0.71%) CMS
7 25 (0.47%) IIS
8 24 (0.45%) SAS
9 14 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 14 (0.26%) WordPress
10 10 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
11 9 (0.17%) Jupyter
11 9 (0.17%) WebLogic
11 9 (0.17%) WebSphere
12 8 (0.15%) OpenStack
13 3 (0.056%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.056%) JBoss
13 3 (0.056%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.056%) Tomcat
Applications
1 586 (11.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 220 (4.13%) Microsoft Office
3 112 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 84 (1.58%) MS Visio
5 30 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
6 27 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.17%) CATIA
8 7 (0.13%) Adobe XD
9 5 (0.094%) Acrobat
9 5 (0.094%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.075%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 4 (0.075%) Maya
11 3 (0.056%) AutoCAD
11 3 (0.056%) Blender
11 3 (0.056%) LaTeX
11 3 (0.056%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.056%) Simulink
11 3 (0.056%) Trello
12 2 (0.038%) Siemens NX
12 2 (0.038%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 72 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 69 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 36 (0.68%) Dynamics GP
3 36 (0.68%) NetSuite
4 20 (0.38%) SAP PM
5 19 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
6 16 (0.30%) SAP CO
7 15 (0.28%) SAP ERP
7 15 (0.28%) SAP FI
8 14 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
9 13 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
10 10 (0.19%) Magento
11 9 (0.17%) Maximo
12 8 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
13 7 (0.13%) Elite 3E
13 7 (0.13%) Fidessa
13 7 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
13 7 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
13 7 (0.13%) Sage 200
13 7 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 944 (17.73%) Azure
2 675 (12.68%) Power Platform
3 535 (10.05%) AWS
4 411 (7.72%) Microsoft 365
5 333 (6.25%) SaaS
6 244 (4.58%) GCP
7 133 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
8 127 (2.39%) Azure DevOps
9 116 (2.18%) Entra ID
10 94 (1.77%) Google Analytics
11 88 (1.65%) Snowflake
12 82 (1.54%) GitHub
13 79 (1.48%) dbt
14 77 (1.45%) Power Automate
15 73 (1.37%) PowerApps
16 71 (1.33%) Amazon S3
16 71 (1.33%) Microsoft Purview
17 59 (1.11%) Serverless
18 57 (1.07%) Azure Data Factory
19 54 (1.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 202 (3.79%) DNS
2 157 (2.95%) DHCP
3 154 (2.89%) Firewall
4 125 (2.35%) VPN
5 94 (1.77%) TCP/IP
6 78 (1.47%) WAN
7 76 (1.43%) LAN
8 69 (1.30%) Broadband
9 58 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
10 54 (1.01%) Wireless
11 48 (0.90%) Network Security
12 41 (0.77%) Internet
12 41 (0.77%) VLAN
13 40 (0.75%) SAN
14 35 (0.66%) HTTP
15 30 (0.56%) BGP
16 23 (0.43%) SD-WAN
17 21 (0.39%) Cisco ASA
17 21 (0.39%) OSPF
18 20 (0.38%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 599 (11.25%) Power BI
2 287 (5.39%) Tableau
3 208 (3.91%) SQL Server
4 190 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
5 127 (2.39%) Amazon RDS
6 96 (1.80%) Metadata
7 84 (1.58%) Relational Database
8 74 (1.39%) Data Lake
9 73 (1.37%) Looker
10 72 (1.35%) MySQL
10 72 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
11 68 (1.28%) Power Query
12 67 (1.26%) Data Mining
13 66 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 57 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 56 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
16 54 (1.01%) BigQuery
17 44 (0.83%) Big Data
18 38 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
18 38 (0.71%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 208 (3.91%) JIRA
2 188 (3.53%) Git
3 58 (1.09%) GitLab
4 46 (0.86%) Jenkins
5 36 (0.68%) Rational DOORS
6 32 (0.60%) MLflow
7 27 (0.51%) Selenium
8 22 (0.41%) Cucumber
9 18 (0.34%) Postman
10 17 (0.32%) Eclipse
11 16 (0.30%) Chocolatey
12 15 (0.28%) ERwin
13 14 (0.26%) JMeter
14 13 (0.24%) IBM UrbanCode
14 13 (0.24%) Visual Studio
15 12 (0.23%) Bitbucket
15 12 (0.23%) Cypress.io
15 12 (0.23%) SonarQube
16 9 (0.17%) Burp Suite
16 9 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2,518 (47.30%) Social Skills
2 1,770 (33.25%) Finance
3 461 (8.66%) Marketing
4 409 (7.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 355 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
6 341 (6.40%) Retail
7 322 (6.05%) Public Sector
8 307 (5.77%) Legal
9 306 (5.75%) Law
10 255 (4.79%) Banking
11 219 (4.11%) Influencing Skills
12 215 (4.04%) Manufacturing
13 143 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
14 130 (2.44%) Telecoms
15 105 (1.97%) Aerospace
16 96 (1.80%) Advertising
17 95 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
18 85 (1.60%) Electronics
19 68 (1.28%) Financial Institution
20 60 (1.13%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,322 (24.83%) Analyst
2 675 (12.68%) Senior
3 365 (6.86%) Lead
4 318 (5.97%) Data Analyst
5 283 (5.32%) Business Analyst
6 255 (4.79%) Developer
7 229 (4.30%) Consultant
8 228 (4.28%) Systems Engineer
9 203 (3.81%) Architect
10 162 (3.04%) Senior Analyst
11 154 (2.89%) Data Engineer
12 153 (2.87%) Support Analyst
13 126 (2.37%) Support Engineer
14 118 (2.22%) IT Support
15 110 (2.07%) IT Manager
16 103 (1.93%) Security Analyst
17 101 (1.90%) Financial Analyst
18 99 (1.86%) Systems Analyst
19 92 (1.73%) Senior Manager
20 91 (1.71%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (2.35%) .NET
2 112 (2.10%) HTML
3 110 (2.07%) REST
4 101 (1.90%) CSS
5 93 (1.75%) JSON
6 85 (1.60%) XML
7 80 (1.50%) Middleware
8 78 (1.47%) React
9 72 (1.35%) Kafka
10 68 (1.28%) PyTorch
11 62 (1.16%) TensorFlow
12 60 (1.13%) RESTful
13 52 (0.98%) SOAP
14 49 (0.92%) PySpark
15 44 (0.83%) scikit-learn
16 41 (0.77%) Web Services
17 40 (0.75%) Node.js
18 36 (0.68%) Pandas
19 33 (0.62%) EDI
20 32 (0.60%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 534 (10.03%) Analytical Mindset
2 288 (5.41%) Management Information System
3 244 (4.58%) Onboarding
4 234 (4.40%) Product Ownership
5 223 (4.19%) Self-Motivation
6 162 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
7 123 (2.31%) Cloud Native
8 107 (2.01%) Driving Licence
8 107 (2.01%) Security Posture
9 91 (1.71%) Data Centre
10 90 (1.69%) Virtual Team
11 85 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
12 83 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
12 83 (1.56%) Social Media
13 81 (1.52%) Data Structures
14 76 (1.43%) Algorithms
15 71 (1.33%) Blog
16 60 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
17 56 (1.05%) Marketing Technology
17 56 (1.05%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 439 (8.25%) Windows
2 300 (5.63%) Linux
3 221 (4.15%) Windows Server
4 116 (2.18%) Windows Server 2016
5 34 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 30 (0.56%) Unix
7 28 (0.53%) Windows 10
8 24 (0.45%) Mac OS
9 22 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
10 20 (0.38%) Android
11 15 (0.28%) Apple iOS
11 15 (0.28%) CentOS
12 11 (0.21%) Ubuntu
13 8 (0.15%) VMS
14 6 (0.11%) Debian
15 5 (0.094%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.075%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.075%) Rocky
17 3 (0.056%) AIX
18 1 (0.019%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,464 (46.28%) Problem-Solving
2 1,441 (27.07%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,196 (22.46%) Decision-Making
4 1,175 (22.07%) Analytics
5 921 (17.30%) Agile
6 798 (14.99%) AI
7 785 (14.74%) Stakeholder Management
8 692 (13.00%) Business Intelligence
9 578 (10.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 550 (10.33%) Roadmaps
11 504 (9.47%) Project Management
12 503 (9.45%) Actionable Insight
13 501 (9.41%) Mentoring
14 469 (8.81%) Data Analysis
15 462 (8.68%) Data Modelling
16 450 (8.45%) Cybersecurity
17 448 (8.41%) Customer Experience
18 438 (8.23%) Process Improvement
19 413 (7.76%) CI/CD
20 409 (7.68%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1,092 (20.51%) SQL
2 887 (16.66%) Python
3 194 (3.64%) JavaScript
4 187 (3.51%) Java
5 175 (3.29%) PowerShell
6 166 (3.12%) C#
7 92 (1.73%) C++
8 86 (1.62%) Bash
8 86 (1.62%) R
9 74 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 56 (1.05%) TypeScript
11 52 (0.98%) T-SQL
12 44 (0.83%) MATLAB
13 25 (0.47%) C
14 24 (0.45%) PHP
14 24 (0.45%) Scala
15 23 (0.43%) Go
15 23 (0.43%) PL/SQL
16 21 (0.39%) VBA
17 19 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 969 (18.20%) Degree
2 545 (10.24%) Security Cleared
3 395 (7.42%) SC Cleared
4 258 (4.85%) ACCA
5 242 (4.55%) CIMA
6 154 (2.89%) CISSP
7 151 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
8 145 (2.72%) DBS Check
9 116 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
10 113 (2.12%) CISM
11 105 (1.97%) DV Cleared
12 97 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
13 93 (1.75%) Master's Degree
14 72 (1.35%) IRCA
14 72 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
15 70 (1.31%) CompTIA Security+
16 64 (1.20%) Azure Certification
17 54 (1.01%) PMI Certification
18 46 (0.86%) CRISC
19 45 (0.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 507 (9.52%) Data Quality
2 379 (7.12%) GDPR
3 358 (6.72%) QA
4 245 (4.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 193 (3.63%) NIST
6 175 (3.29%) Cyber Essentials
7 154 (2.89%) SLA
8 150 (2.82%) PCI DSS
9 143 (2.69%) Accessibility
10 123 (2.31%) ISO 9001
11 76 (1.43%) GRC
12 63 (1.18%) PMO
13 45 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
14 41 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 40 (0.75%) IFRS
16 39 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 35 (0.66%) COBIT
18 28 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
19 24 (0.45%) SOC 2
20 23 (0.43%) ITGC
System Software
1 319 (5.99%) Active Directory
2 122 (2.29%) Docker
3 115 (2.16%) Hyper-V
4 96 (1.80%) Terminal Server
5 77 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
6 25 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
7 18 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (0.21%) Firmware
9 9 (0.17%) VMware NSX
10 8 (0.15%) IAG
10 8 (0.15%) ProxySG
10 8 (0.15%) vSphere
11 7 (0.13%) Ceph
12 4 (0.075%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.075%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.075%) XenApp
13 3 (0.056%) DFS Replication
13 3 (0.056%) Embedded Firmware
14 2 (0.038%) KVM
14 2 (0.038%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 139 (2.61%) Terraform
2 107 (2.01%) Kubernetes
3 79 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
4 66 (1.24%) Ansible
5 43 (0.81%) Grafana
6 30 (0.56%) Prometheus
7 25 (0.47%) SCCM
8 22 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
9 20 (0.38%) Nagios
10 16 (0.30%) Kibana
10 16 (0.30%) QRadar
11 12 (0.23%) Podman
12 10 (0.19%) Kubeflow
13 8 (0.15%) logstash
14 7 (0.13%) Argo
14 7 (0.13%) Check_MK
14 7 (0.13%) Istio
14 7 (0.13%) Nmap
14 7 (0.13%) Packer
15 6 (0.11%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 1,185 (22.26%) Microsoft
2 224 (4.21%) Google
3 219 (4.11%) SAP
4 182 (3.42%) VMware
5 175 (3.29%) Oracle
6 157 (2.95%) Splunk
7 136 (2.55%) Salesforce
7 136 (2.55%) SolarWinds
8 130 (2.44%) Databricks
9 111 (2.08%) ServiceNow
10 107 (2.01%) Veeam
11 97 (1.82%) Brocade
11 97 (1.82%) Nimble Storage
12 96 (1.80%) Tanium
13 77 (1.45%) Cisco
14 76 (1.43%) Workday
15 66 (1.24%) Red Hat
16 50 (0.94%) Dell
17 49 (0.92%) IBM
18 46 (0.86%) HubSpot