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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 9 16
Rank change year-on-year -16 +7 +4
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,905 5,169 8,483
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.89% 12.63% 9.20%
As % of the General category 11.30% 17.90% 15.22%
Number of salaries quoted 2,908 2,467 5,400
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,561 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,800 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,445 £50,890 £45,000
% change year-on-year -4.81% +13.09% -4.05%

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 43,406 28,883 55,754
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 52.09% 70.59% 60.50%
Number of salaries quoted 23,711 15,777 39,097
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 10 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 10 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 4,356 £55,000 - 2,239
UK excluding London -23 3,036 £48,445 -4.81% 1,762
London -7 1,555 £67,500 +3.85% 833
Work from Home -6 1,444 £55,000 - 981
North of England -23 827 £45,497 -9.01% 400
South East -1 811 £50,000 -4.76% 595
Midlands -21 569 £47,500 -1.04% 298
North West -20 469 £45,000 -10.10% 220
West Midlands -22 345 £51,250 +2.50% 175
South West -21 273 £50,000 -2.76% 178
Yorkshire -10 266 £51,750 +15.00% 136
East of England -33 258 £43,500 -14.65% 161
East Midlands -10 222 £43,500 -3.33% 123
Scotland -17 177 £40,000 -23.81% 92
North East -15 92 £50,000 +29.87% 50
Wales +6 83 £42,500 -15.21% 59
Northern Ireland -19 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
1 152 (3.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 93 (1.90%) SharePoint
3 79 (1.61%) Confluence
4 73 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
5 72 (1.47%) Apache Spark
6 50 (1.02%) CMS
7 34 (0.69%) Apache
8 19 (0.39%) WordPress
9 17 (0.35%) IIS
9 17 (0.35%) SAS
10 11 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
11 6 (0.12%) nginx
12 4 (0.082%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.061%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.061%) Drupal
13 3 (0.061%) govService
13 3 (0.061%) JBoss
14 2 (0.041%) Appian
14 2 (0.041%) Camunda
14 2 (0.041%) Jupyter
Applications
1 684 (13.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 281 (5.73%) Microsoft Office
3 111 (2.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 101 (2.06%) MS Visio
5 34 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
6 31 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
7 24 (0.49%) Chatbot
8 15 (0.31%) Adobe XD
9 12 (0.24%) Maya
10 10 (0.20%) 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 (0.020%) Lectora
14 1 (0.020%) Notion
14 1 (0.020%) Photoshop
14 1 (0.020%) SmartSuite
14 1 (0.020%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 66 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 50 (1.02%) NetSuite
3 43 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
4 34 (0.69%) 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
11 12 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
11 12 (0.24%) SAP ERP
12 11 (0.22%) Sage X3
13 10 (0.20%) 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
1 877 (17.88%) Azure
2 686 (13.99%) Power Platform
3 480 (9.79%) AWS
4 330 (6.73%) Microsoft 365
5 280 (5.71%) SaaS
6 210 (4.28%) GCP
7 150 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
8 145 (2.96%) Dynamics 365
9 106 (2.16%) GitHub
10 104 (2.12%) Power Automate
11 97 (1.98%) Entra ID
12 95 (1.94%) Snowflake
13 86 (1.75%) dbt
14 77 (1.57%) Azure Data Factory
15 70 (1.43%) Google Analytics
16 68 (1.39%) Amazon S3
16 68 (1.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 61 (1.24%) PowerApps
18 59 (1.20%) Microsoft Purview
18 59 (1.20%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 185 (3.77%) Firewall
2 165 (3.36%) DNS
3 133 (2.71%) DHCP
4 117 (2.39%) VPN
5 76 (1.55%) WAN
6 69 (1.41%) TCP/IP
6 69 (1.41%) Wireless
7 68 (1.39%) LAN
8 67 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
9 61 (1.24%) VLAN
10 50 (1.02%) Network Security
11 45 (0.92%) SAN
12 43 (0.88%) Broadband
13 40 (0.82%) BGP
14 34 (0.69%) OSPF
15 32 (0.65%) Wireshark
16 30 (0.61%) Cisco ASA
16 30 (0.61%) EIGRP
17 26 (0.53%) SD-WAN
18 24 (0.49%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 623 (12.70%) Power BI
2 421 (8.58%) Tableau
3 225 (4.59%) SQL Server
4 180 (3.67%) Data Mining
5 175 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
6 96 (1.96%) Metadata
6 96 (1.96%) Relational Database
7 91 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
8 80 (1.63%) Data Lake
9 72 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 65 (1.33%) Looker
11 63 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
12 55 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
13 54 (1.10%) MySQL
14 49 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
15 48 (0.98%) NoSQL
16 47 (0.96%) Power Query
17 46 (0.94%) BigQuery
18 41 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 38 (0.77%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 191 (3.89%) JIRA
2 139 (2.83%) Git
3 50 (1.02%) GitLab
4 40 (0.82%) Jenkins
5 38 (0.77%) Selenium
6 32 (0.65%) MLflow
7 21 (0.43%) Rational DOORS
8 19 (0.39%) Visual Studio
9 18 (0.37%) Chocolatey
10 16 (0.33%) Balsamiq
11 14 (0.29%) Axure RP
11 14 (0.29%) Bitbucket
11 14 (0.29%) Subversion
12 13 (0.27%) ERwin
12 13 (0.27%) IBM UrbanCode
13 12 (0.24%) Cucumber
13 12 (0.24%) Cypress.io
14 10 (0.20%) Postman
14 10 (0.20%) Robot Framework
15 9 (0.18%) TestRail
General
1 2,432 (49.58%) Social Skills
2 1,842 (37.55%) Finance
3 440 (8.97%) Marketing
4 372 (7.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 311 (6.34%) Banking
6 273 (5.57%) Law
7 267 (5.44%) Legal
8 261 (5.32%) Organisational Skills
9 259 (5.28%) Retail
10 252 (5.14%) Public Sector
11 203 (4.14%) Presentation Skills
12 173 (3.53%) Manufacturing
13 139 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
14 120 (2.45%) Telecoms
15 118 (2.41%) Financial Institution
16 87 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
17 75 (1.53%) Advertising
18 68 (1.39%) Electronics
19 62 (1.26%) Games
20 56 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1,313 (26.77%) Analyst
2 672 (13.70%) Senior
3 377 (7.69%) Data Analyst
4 310 (6.32%) Lead
5 271 (5.52%) Business Analyst
6 249 (5.08%) Developer
7 218 (4.44%) Architect
8 209 (4.26%) Consultant
9 171 (3.49%) Support Analyst
10 158 (3.22%) Trainee
11 154 (3.14%) Systems Engineer
12 150 (3.06%) Trainee Analyst
12 150 (3.06%) Trainee Data Analyst
13 146 (2.98%) Senior Manager
14 142 (2.90%) Senior Analyst
15 129 (2.63%) IT Support
16 121 (2.47%) Financial Analyst
17 106 (2.16%) Data Engineer
18 104 (2.12%) Support Engineer
19 95 (1.94%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (2.90%) HTML
2 131 (2.67%) CSS
3 90 (1.83%) .NET
4 85 (1.73%) React
5 74 (1.51%) REST
6 71 (1.45%) JSON
7 63 (1.28%) XML
8 60 (1.22%) Middleware
9 57 (1.16%) PyTorch
10 53 (1.08%) Kafka
10 53 (1.08%) TensorFlow
11 48 (0.98%) Node.js
12 42 (0.86%) scikit-learn
13 38 (0.77%) SOAP
14 36 (0.73%) PySpark
15 33 (0.67%) LangChain
16 31 (0.63%) Pandas
17 29 (0.59%) EDI
17 29 (0.59%) FIX Protocol
18 26 (0.53%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 510 (10.40%) Analytical Mindset
2 288 (5.87%) Self-Motivation
3 238 (4.85%) Onboarding
4 237 (4.83%) Management Information System
5 200 (4.08%) Product Ownership
6 117 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
7 102 (2.08%) Data Centre
8 98 (2.00%) Cloud Native
9 92 (1.88%) Data Structures
10 83 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
11 76 (1.55%) Algorithms
12 69 (1.41%) Security Posture
13 66 (1.35%) Driving Licence
14 59 (1.20%) Social Media
15 55 (1.12%) Virtual Team
16 52 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 49 (1.00%) Low-Code
18 48 (0.98%) Public Cloud
19 46 (0.94%) FMCG
20 43 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 372 (7.58%) Windows
2 228 (4.65%) Linux
3 158 (3.22%) Windows Server
4 78 (1.59%) Windows Server 2016
5 42 (0.86%) Unix
6 26 (0.53%) Mac OS
7 19 (0.39%) Android
8 18 (0.37%) 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 (0.020%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,269 (46.26%) Problem-Solving
2 1,194 (24.34%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,158 (23.61%) Analytics
4 1,025 (20.90%) Decision-Making
5 868 (17.70%) Agile
6 768 (15.66%) Business Intelligence
7 730 (14.88%) AI
8 630 (12.84%) Project Management
9 628 (12.80%) Stakeholder Management
10 571 (11.64%) Data Analysis
11 491 (10.01%) Actionable Insight
12 430 (8.77%) Data Modelling
12 430 (8.77%) Mentoring
13 422 (8.60%) Roadmaps
14 418 (8.52%) Analytical Thinking
15 412 (8.40%) Process Improvement
16 397 (8.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 389 (7.93%) DevOps
18 376 (7.67%) Cybersecurity
19 370 (7.54%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1,067 (21.75%) SQL
2 890 (18.14%) Python
3 182 (3.71%) JavaScript
4 168 (3.43%) Java
5 163 (3.32%) PowerShell
6 125 (2.55%) C#
7 91 (1.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 66 (1.35%) R
9 57 (1.16%) Bash
10 49 (1.00%) T-SQL
11 46 (0.94%) C++
12 42 (0.86%) VBA
13 41 (0.84%) TypeScript
14 24 (0.49%) MATLAB
15 20 (0.41%) Scala
16 19 (0.39%) C
16 19 (0.39%) Go
17 15 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
18 14 (0.29%) PL/SQL
19 13 (0.27%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,049 (21.39%) Degree
2 410 (8.36%) Security Cleared
3 293 (5.97%) SC Cleared
4 251 (5.12%) ACCA
5 241 (4.91%) CIMA
6 184 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 148 (3.02%) CISSP
8 142 (2.90%) Master's Degree
9 134 (2.73%) DBS Check
10 103 (2.10%) PMI Certification
11 94 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
12 90 (1.83%) CISM
12 90 (1.83%) DV Cleared
12 90 (1.83%) PMP
13 72 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
13 72 (1.47%) IRCA
14 66 (1.35%) Azure Certification
15 59 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
16 51 (1.04%) CISA
17 50 (1.02%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 423 (8.62%) Data Quality
2 339 (6.91%) GDPR
3 277 (5.65%) QA
4 232 (4.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 197 (4.02%) NIST
6 149 (3.04%) Cyber Essentials
7 119 (2.43%) PCI DSS
8 102 (2.08%) Accessibility
9 95 (1.94%) ISO 9001
10 91 (1.86%) SLA
11 83 (1.69%) PMO
12 69 (1.41%) Actionable Recommendations
13 56 (1.14%) GRC
14 41 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 37 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 33 (0.67%) IFRS
17 29 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 27 (0.55%) COBIT
19 23 (0.47%) SOC 2
20 21 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 262 (5.34%) Active Directory
2 91 (1.86%) Hyper-V
3 75 (1.53%) Docker
4 72 (1.47%) Terminal Server
4 72 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (0.33%) ProxySG
6 15 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
7 11 (0.22%) 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 (0.061%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.061%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.041%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.020%) NFS
14 1 (0.020%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.020%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 138 (2.81%) Terraform
2 79 (1.61%) Kubernetes
3 71 (1.45%) Ansible
4 59 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
5 38 (0.77%) Grafana
6 30 (0.61%) Prometheus
6 30 (0.61%) SCCM
7 27 (0.55%) 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%) logstash
12 4 (0.082%) Packer
12 4 (0.082%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,200 (24.46%) Microsoft
2 212 (4.32%) SAP
3 184 (3.75%) Oracle
4 163 (3.32%) Google
5 154 (3.14%) VMware
6 143 (2.92%) Salesforce
7 121 (2.47%) SolarWinds
8 117 (2.39%) ServiceNow
9 110 (2.24%) Splunk
10 107 (2.18%) Databricks
11 79 (1.61%) Veeam
12 74 (1.51%) Cisco
13 73 (1.49%) Brocade
13 73 (1.49%) Tanium
13 73 (1.49%) Workday
14 72 (1.47%) Nimble Storage
15 47 (0.96%) Dell
15 47 (0.96%) IBM
16 42 (0.86%) Adobe
17 40 (0.82%) Red Hat