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 9 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 9 15
Rank change year-on-year -16 +6 +5
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,874 5,134 8,478
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.88% 12.56% 9.19%
As % of the General category 11.27% 17.76% 15.19%
Number of salaries quoted 2,887 2,469 5,388
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,501 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.54% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,445 £50,445 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.97% +12.10% -3.84%

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 43,234 28,908 55,812
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 52.15% 70.72% 60.50%
Number of salaries quoted 23,594 15,767 39,038
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,750 £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 £76,250 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,967 £47,500
% change year-on-year -6.80% +7.30% -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 9 April 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 9 April 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 -18 4,329 £55,000 - 2,239
UK excluding London -23 3,019 £48,445 -3.97% 1,762
London -7 1,547 £67,500 +3.85% 833
Work from Home -4 1,442 £55,000 - 981
North of England -23 821 £45,000 -10.00% 400
South East 0 803 £50,000 -4.76% 595
Midlands -19 568 £47,500 -1.04% 298
North West -19 465 £45,000 -10.00% 220
West Midlands -20 345 £51,250 +2.50% 175
South West -19 272 £47,500 -7.63% 178
Yorkshire -8 265 £51,750 +15.00% 136
East of England -32 257 £43,500 -14.65% 161
East Midlands -10 221 £43,500 -3.33% 123
Scotland -16 177 £40,000 -23.81% 92
North East -17 91 £50,000 +29.87% 50
Wales +5 83 £42,500 -15.21% 59
Northern Ireland -21 49 £40,000 -27.27% 22
Isle of Man -2 1 £62,500 +68.92%
Channel Islands -7 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
1 150 (3.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 91 (1.87%) SharePoint
3 79 (1.62%) Confluence
4 73 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
5 72 (1.48%) Apache Spark
6 50 (1.03%) CMS
7 34 (0.70%) Apache
8 19 (0.39%) WordPress
9 17 (0.35%) IIS
9 17 (0.35%) SAS
10 11 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
11 6 (0.12%) nginx
12 4 (0.082%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.062%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.062%) Drupal
13 3 (0.062%) govService
13 3 (0.062%) JBoss
14 2 (0.041%) Appian
14 2 (0.041%) Camunda
14 2 (0.041%) Jupyter
Applications
1 681 (13.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 277 (5.68%) Microsoft Office
3 113 (2.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 100 (2.05%) MS Visio
5 34 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
6 30 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
7 24 (0.49%) Chatbot
8 15 (0.31%) Adobe XD
9 12 (0.25%) Maya
10 10 (0.21%) CATIA
11 6 (0.12%) AutoCAD
12 5 (0.10%) Trello
13 2 (0.041%) Revit
13 2 (0.041%) Simulink
13 2 (0.041%) Sketch
14 1 (0.021%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 1 (0.021%) Notion
14 1 (0.021%) Photoshop
14 1 (0.021%) SmartSuite
14 1 (0.021%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 65 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 49 (1.01%) NetSuite
3 43 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
4 34 (0.70%) Salesforce CRM
5 26 (0.53%) SAP CO
6 18 (0.37%) SAP FI
7 17 (0.35%) Endur
8 16 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
9 15 (0.31%) SAP PM
9 15 (0.31%) Workday HCM
10 13 (0.27%) Maximo
10 13 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
11 12 (0.25%) SAP ERP
12 11 (0.23%) Sage X3
13 10 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
14 9 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
15 8 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
15 8 (0.16%) Elite 3E
16 7 (0.14%) Magento
16 7 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 872 (17.89%) Azure
2 674 (13.83%) Power Platform
3 478 (9.81%) AWS
4 326 (6.69%) Microsoft 365
5 281 (5.77%) SaaS
6 209 (4.29%) GCP
7 148 (3.04%) Azure DevOps
8 143 (2.93%) Dynamics 365
9 104 (2.13%) GitHub
10 103 (2.11%) Power Automate
11 96 (1.97%) Snowflake
12 95 (1.95%) Entra ID
13 86 (1.76%) dbt
14 77 (1.58%) Azure Data Factory
15 70 (1.44%) Google Analytics
16 68 (1.40%) Amazon S3
16 68 (1.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 60 (1.23%) PowerApps
18 59 (1.21%) Serverless
19 57 (1.17%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 184 (3.78%) Firewall
2 163 (3.34%) DNS
3 132 (2.71%) DHCP
4 117 (2.40%) VPN
5 76 (1.56%) WAN
6 69 (1.42%) Wireless
7 68 (1.40%) LAN
7 68 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
8 67 (1.37%) TCP/IP
9 61 (1.25%) VLAN
10 50 (1.03%) Network Security
11 45 (0.92%) SAN
12 44 (0.90%) Broadband
13 40 (0.82%) BGP
14 34 (0.70%) OSPF
15 33 (0.68%) Wireshark
16 30 (0.62%) Cisco ASA
16 30 (0.62%) EIGRP
17 26 (0.53%) SD-WAN
18 24 (0.49%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 611 (12.54%) Power BI
2 421 (8.64%) Tableau
3 224 (4.60%) SQL Server
4 180 (3.69%) Data Mining
5 175 (3.59%) Data Warehouse
6 97 (1.99%) Metadata
7 93 (1.91%) Relational Database
8 91 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
9 81 (1.66%) Data Lake
10 70 (1.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 65 (1.33%) Looker
12 63 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
13 55 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
14 54 (1.11%) MySQL
15 49 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
16 48 (0.98%) NoSQL
17 47 (0.96%) Power Query
18 46 (0.94%) BigQuery
19 41 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
20 37 (0.76%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 189 (3.88%) JIRA
2 139 (2.85%) Git
3 50 (1.03%) GitLab
4 40 (0.82%) Jenkins
5 38 (0.78%) Selenium
6 32 (0.66%) MLflow
7 19 (0.39%) Rational DOORS
7 19 (0.39%) Visual Studio
8 18 (0.37%) Chocolatey
9 15 (0.31%) Balsamiq
10 14 (0.29%) Axure RP
10 14 (0.29%) Bitbucket
10 14 (0.29%) Subversion
11 13 (0.27%) ERwin
11 13 (0.27%) IBM UrbanCode
12 12 (0.25%) Cucumber
12 12 (0.25%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.21%) Postman
13 10 (0.21%) Robot Framework
14 9 (0.18%) TestRail
General
1 2,413 (49.51%) Social Skills
2 1,830 (37.55%) Finance
3 440 (9.03%) Marketing
4 370 (7.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 312 (6.40%) Banking
6 273 (5.60%) Law
7 267 (5.48%) Legal
8 258 (5.29%) Organisational Skills
8 258 (5.29%) Retail
9 250 (5.13%) Public Sector
10 201 (4.12%) Presentation Skills
11 172 (3.53%) Manufacturing
12 139 (2.85%) Influencing Skills
13 121 (2.48%) Financial Institution
14 118 (2.42%) Telecoms
15 86 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
16 75 (1.54%) Advertising
17 67 (1.37%) Electronics
18 62 (1.27%) Games
19 56 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1,301 (26.69%) Analyst
2 667 (13.68%) Senior
3 379 (7.78%) Data Analyst
4 308 (6.32%) Lead
5 264 (5.42%) Business Analyst
6 246 (5.05%) Developer
7 218 (4.47%) Architect
8 207 (4.25%) Consultant
9 173 (3.55%) Support Analyst
10 157 (3.22%) Trainee
11 152 (3.12%) Systems Engineer
12 150 (3.08%) Trainee Analyst
12 150 (3.08%) Trainee Data Analyst
13 145 (2.97%) Senior Manager
14 140 (2.87%) Senior Analyst
15 130 (2.67%) IT Support
16 120 (2.46%) Financial Analyst
17 105 (2.15%) Data Engineer
18 103 (2.11%) Support Engineer
19 96 (1.97%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (2.89%) HTML
2 130 (2.67%) CSS
3 90 (1.85%) .NET
4 85 (1.74%) React
5 72 (1.48%) REST
6 68 (1.40%) JSON
7 61 (1.25%) XML
8 57 (1.17%) Middleware
8 57 (1.17%) PyTorch
9 54 (1.11%) TensorFlow
10 53 (1.09%) Kafka
11 48 (0.98%) Node.js
12 42 (0.86%) scikit-learn
13 36 (0.74%) PySpark
13 36 (0.74%) SOAP
14 33 (0.68%) LangChain
15 31 (0.64%) Pandas
16 29 (0.59%) FIX Protocol
17 27 (0.55%) EDI
18 26 (0.53%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 510 (10.46%) Analytical Mindset
2 287 (5.89%) Self-Motivation
3 237 (4.86%) Onboarding
4 234 (4.80%) Management Information System
5 196 (4.02%) Product Ownership
6 119 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
7 101 (2.07%) Data Centre
8 98 (2.01%) Cloud Native
9 92 (1.89%) Data Structures
10 84 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
11 76 (1.56%) Algorithms
12 68 (1.40%) Security Posture
13 66 (1.35%) Driving Licence
14 59 (1.21%) Social Media
15 55 (1.13%) Virtual Team
16 53 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 49 (1.01%) Low-Code
17 49 (1.01%) Public Cloud
18 46 (0.94%) FMCG
19 43 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 372 (7.63%) Windows
2 228 (4.68%) Linux
3 158 (3.24%) Windows Server
4 78 (1.60%) Windows Server 2016
5 42 (0.86%) Unix
6 26 (0.53%) Mac OS
7 19 (0.39%) Android
8 17 (0.35%) Windows 10
9 14 (0.29%) Apple iOS
9 14 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (0.12%) CentOS
11 5 (0.10%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.082%) VMS
12 4 (0.082%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.041%) AIX
13 2 (0.041%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.041%) OpenWrt
13 2 (0.041%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.041%) Rocky
14 1 (0.021%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,255 (46.27%) Problem-Solving
2 1,185 (24.31%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,156 (23.72%) Analytics
4 1,017 (20.87%) Decision-Making
5 861 (17.67%) Agile
6 759 (15.57%) Business Intelligence
7 729 (14.96%) AI
8 631 (12.95%) Project Management
9 624 (12.80%) Stakeholder Management
10 572 (11.74%) Data Analysis
11 491 (10.07%) Actionable Insight
12 427 (8.76%) Data Modelling
13 426 (8.74%) Mentoring
14 419 (8.60%) Roadmaps
15 411 (8.43%) Analytical Thinking
15 411 (8.43%) Process Improvement
16 390 (8.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 384 (7.88%) DevOps
18 370 (7.59%) Cybersecurity
19 363 (7.45%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1,065 (21.85%) SQL
2 890 (18.26%) Python
3 181 (3.71%) JavaScript
4 168 (3.45%) Java
5 161 (3.30%) PowerShell
6 126 (2.59%) C#
7 90 (1.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 66 (1.35%) R
9 56 (1.15%) Bash
10 48 (0.98%) T-SQL
11 47 (0.96%) C++
12 43 (0.88%) VBA
13 41 (0.84%) TypeScript
14 24 (0.49%) MATLAB
15 20 (0.41%) C
15 20 (0.41%) Scala
16 18 (0.37%) Go
17 15 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
18 14 (0.29%) PL/SQL
19 13 (0.27%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,040 (21.34%) Degree
2 408 (8.37%) Security Cleared
3 293 (6.01%) SC Cleared
4 249 (5.11%) ACCA
5 239 (4.90%) CIMA
6 181 (3.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 147 (3.02%) CISSP
8 142 (2.91%) Master's Degree
9 134 (2.75%) DBS Check
10 102 (2.09%) PMI Certification
11 94 (1.93%) Cisco Certification
12 90 (1.85%) CISM
13 89 (1.83%) DV Cleared
14 88 (1.81%) PMP
15 72 (1.48%) IRCA
16 70 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
17 66 (1.35%) Azure Certification
18 59 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
19 51 (1.05%) CISA
20 48 (0.98%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 421 (8.64%) Data Quality
2 333 (6.83%) GDPR
3 276 (5.66%) QA
4 228 (4.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 192 (3.94%) NIST
6 148 (3.04%) Cyber Essentials
7 120 (2.46%) PCI DSS
8 102 (2.09%) Accessibility
9 94 (1.93%) ISO 9001
10 88 (1.81%) SLA
11 81 (1.66%) PMO
12 69 (1.42%) Actionable Recommendations
13 51 (1.05%) GRC
14 41 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 37 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 33 (0.68%) IFRS
17 29 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 27 (0.55%) COBIT
19 22 (0.45%) SOC 2
20 21 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 261 (5.35%) Active Directory
2 91 (1.87%) Hyper-V
3 75 (1.54%) Docker
4 72 (1.48%) Terminal Server
4 72 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (0.33%) ProxySG
6 15 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
7 11 (0.23%) vSphere
8 9 (0.18%) VMware NSX
9 8 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
10 7 (0.14%) IAG
11 4 (0.082%) Firmware
11 4 (0.082%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.082%) XenApp
12 3 (0.062%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.062%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.041%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.021%) NFS
14 1 (0.021%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.021%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 138 (2.83%) Terraform
2 79 (1.62%) Kubernetes
3 71 (1.46%) Ansible
4 58 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
5 38 (0.78%) Grafana
6 30 (0.62%) Prometheus
6 30 (0.62%) SCCM
7 26 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
8 17 (0.35%) Nagios
9 7 (0.14%) Control-M
9 7 (0.14%) Kubeflow
9 7 (0.14%) QRadar
10 6 (0.12%) Kibana
11 5 (0.10%) CASB
11 5 (0.10%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 5 (0.10%) RSA Archer
12 4 (0.082%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.082%) Backup Exec
12 4 (0.082%) Packer
12 4 (0.082%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,193 (24.48%) Microsoft
2 212 (4.35%) SAP
3 184 (3.78%) Oracle
4 163 (3.34%) Google
5 154 (3.16%) VMware
6 140 (2.87%) Salesforce
7 121 (2.48%) SolarWinds
8 116 (2.38%) ServiceNow
9 110 (2.26%) Splunk
10 106 (2.17%) Databricks
11 79 (1.62%) Veeam
12 75 (1.54%) Cisco
13 73 (1.50%) Brocade
13 73 (1.50%) Tanium
13 73 (1.50%) Workday
14 72 (1.48%) Nimble Storage
15 47 (0.96%) Dell
16 44 (0.90%) IBM
17 42 (0.86%) Adobe
18 40 (0.82%) Red Hat