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 7 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 9 14
Rank change year-on-year -19 +5 +5
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,736 5,685 9,465
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.18% 13.01% 9.85%
As % of the General category 10.34% 18.10% 16.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2,909 2,522 5,454
10th Percentile £32,838 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +10.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £90,725 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,885 £50,027 £45,000
% change year-on-year -2.28% +11.17% -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 45,808 31,403 58,038
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 50.11% 71.89% 60.38%
Number of salaries quoted 24,744 15,990 39,621
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,896 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,910 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £77,314 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £105,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -1.00% +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 7 May 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 7 May 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 -23 4,260 £55,000 - 2,310
UK excluding London -28 2,930 £48,885 -2.28% 1,745
London -8 1,505 £67,500 +3.85% 881
Work from Home -8 1,403 £55,000 - 973
North of England -31 870 £46,750 -6.50% 386
South East -5 762 £50,000 -8.26% 579
Midlands -27 551 £48,000 +1.05% 300
North West -26 491 £45,000 -10.00% 226
West Midlands -27 337 £50,000 +5.26% 185
Yorkshire -12 287 £51,000 +13.33% 119
East of England -30 256 £45,000 -11.71% 185
South West -29 255 £47,500 -5.94% 173
East Midlands -3 212 £45,000 -5.26% 115
Scotland -27 137 £40,000 -23.81% 82
North East -21 92 £50,000 +29.87% 47
Wales +1 79 £42,500 -15.44% 56
Northern Ireland -30 34 £55,000 - 29

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
1 137 (2.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 99 (2.09%) SharePoint
3 74 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
4 73 (1.54%) Apache Spark
5 63 (1.33%) Confluence
6 46 (0.97%) CMS
7 36 (0.76%) Apache
8 18 (0.38%) IIS
8 18 (0.38%) WordPress
9 12 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
9 12 (0.25%) SAS
10 6 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 6 (0.13%) nginx
11 3 (0.063%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.063%) govService
11 3 (0.063%) JBoss
11 3 (0.063%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.042%) Appian
12 2 (0.042%) Camunda
12 2 (0.042%) MTS
Applications
1 588 (12.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 251 (5.30%) Microsoft Office
3 96 (2.03%) MS Visio
4 91 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 30 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
6 25 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
7 24 (0.51%) Chatbot
8 13 (0.27%) Adobe XD
9 12 (0.25%) Maya
10 10 (0.21%) CATIA
11 4 (0.084%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.084%) Trello
12 3 (0.063%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.042%) Lectora
13 2 (0.042%) Simulink
14 1 (0.021%) Acrobat
14 1 (0.021%) AutoCAD
14 1 (0.021%) Notion
14 1 (0.021%) Sketch
14 1 (0.021%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 69 (1.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 39 (0.82%) NetSuite
3 36 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
4 33 (0.70%) Salesforce CRM
5 22 (0.46%) SAP CO
6 15 (0.32%) SAP ERP
6 15 (0.32%) SAP PM
7 14 (0.30%) SAP FI
8 12 (0.25%) Endur
8 12 (0.25%) Maximo
8 12 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
9 11 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
10 10 (0.21%) Workday HCM
11 8 (0.17%) Elite 3E
12 7 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
12 7 (0.15%) Magento
12 7 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
12 7 (0.15%) SAP PP
13 6 (0.13%) Fidessa
14 5 (0.11%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 845 (17.84%) Azure
2 645 (13.62%) Power Platform
3 473 (9.99%) AWS
4 337 (7.12%) Microsoft 365
5 259 (5.47%) SaaS
6 211 (4.46%) GCP
7 144 (3.04%) Azure DevOps
7 144 (3.04%) Dynamics 365
8 110 (2.32%) Entra ID
9 100 (2.11%) GitHub
10 95 (2.01%) Snowflake
11 93 (1.96%) Power Automate
12 86 (1.82%) dbt
13 74 (1.56%) Google Analytics
14 73 (1.54%) Microsoft Purview
15 67 (1.41%) Amazon S3
16 61 (1.29%) Serverless
17 60 (1.27%) PowerApps
18 53 (1.12%) Azure Data Factory
19 48 (1.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 196 (4.14%) Firewall
2 149 (3.15%) DNS
3 123 (2.60%) VPN
4 106 (2.24%) DHCP
5 79 (1.67%) WAN
6 73 (1.54%) TCP/IP
7 67 (1.41%) LAN
8 62 (1.31%) Wireless
9 61 (1.29%) VLAN
10 54 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
11 51 (1.08%) Broadband
12 48 (1.01%) SAN
13 47 (0.99%) Network Security
14 38 (0.80%) BGP
15 31 (0.65%) OSPF
16 30 (0.63%) Wireshark
17 29 (0.61%) Cisco ASA
18 27 (0.57%) EIGRP
18 27 (0.57%) SD-WAN
19 24 (0.51%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 579 (12.23%) Power BI
2 374 (7.90%) Tableau
3 190 (4.01%) SQL Server
4 165 (3.48%) Data Warehouse
5 153 (3.23%) Data Mining
6 88 (1.86%) Metadata
7 78 (1.65%) Data Lake
8 77 (1.63%) Relational Database
9 69 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
10 66 (1.39%) Looker
11 60 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
12 56 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
13 52 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 48 (1.01%) BigQuery
14 48 (1.01%) MySQL
15 45 (0.95%) Power Query
16 44 (0.93%) NoSQL
17 39 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 37 (0.78%) Big Data
19 35 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 172 (3.63%) JIRA
2 134 (2.83%) Git
3 46 (0.97%) GitLab
4 38 (0.80%) Jenkins
5 32 (0.68%) MLflow
6 26 (0.55%) Rational DOORS
6 26 (0.55%) Selenium
7 20 (0.42%) Chocolatey
8 16 (0.34%) Visual Studio
9 15 (0.32%) Cucumber
10 14 (0.30%) Balsamiq
10 14 (0.30%) Bitbucket
10 14 (0.30%) ERwin
11 13 (0.27%) IBM UrbanCode
12 12 (0.25%) Axure RP
13 11 (0.23%) Cypress.io
13 11 (0.23%) Subversion
14 10 (0.21%) Maven
14 10 (0.21%) Postman
14 10 (0.21%) SonarQube
General
1 2,204 (46.54%) Social Skills
2 1,738 (36.70%) Finance
3 432 (9.12%) Marketing
4 364 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 268 (5.66%) Banking
5 268 (5.66%) Law
6 260 (5.49%) Organisational Skills
7 257 (5.43%) Public Sector
8 240 (5.07%) Retail
9 238 (5.03%) Legal
10 171 (3.61%) Manufacturing
11 164 (3.46%) Presentation Skills
12 134 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
13 111 (2.34%) Telecoms
14 101 (2.13%) Financial Institution
15 84 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
16 77 (1.63%) Advertising
17 73 (1.54%) Electronics
18 66 (1.39%) Games
19 58 (1.22%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,263 (26.67%) Analyst
2 657 (13.87%) Senior
3 342 (7.22%) Data Analyst
4 304 (6.42%) Lead
5 268 (5.66%) Business Analyst
6 244 (5.15%) Developer
7 227 (4.79%) Architect
8 199 (4.20%) Consultant
9 142 (3.00%) Systems Engineer
9 142 (3.00%) Trainee
10 135 (2.85%) Support Analyst
11 133 (2.81%) Senior Analyst
12 130 (2.74%) Trainee Analyst
12 130 (2.74%) Trainee Data Analyst
13 129 (2.72%) Senior Manager
14 107 (2.26%) Data Engineer
14 107 (2.26%) Financial Analyst
15 105 (2.22%) IT Support
16 100 (2.11%) IT Manager
16 100 (2.11%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (2.77%) HTML
2 118 (2.49%) CSS
3 100 (2.11%) .NET
4 89 (1.88%) REST
5 81 (1.71%) JSON
5 81 (1.71%) React
6 79 (1.67%) Middleware
7 73 (1.54%) XML
8 56 (1.18%) PyTorch
9 54 (1.14%) Kafka
10 52 (1.10%) TensorFlow
11 50 (1.06%) SOAP
12 44 (0.93%) Node.js
13 40 (0.84%) scikit-learn
14 37 (0.78%) PySpark
15 33 (0.70%) LangChain
15 33 (0.70%) Pandas
15 33 (0.70%) RESTful
16 30 (0.63%) EDI
17 27 (0.57%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 491 (10.37%) Analytical Mindset
2 233 (4.92%) Management Information System
3 221 (4.67%) Self-Motivation
4 220 (4.65%) Onboarding
5 201 (4.24%) Product Ownership
6 107 (2.26%) Data Centre
7 99 (2.09%) Cloud Native
8 96 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
9 83 (1.75%) Data Structures
10 76 (1.60%) Security Posture
11 74 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
12 73 (1.54%) Algorithms
13 66 (1.39%) Driving Licence
14 62 (1.31%) Virtual Team
15 57 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
16 52 (1.10%) Public Cloud
16 52 (1.10%) Social Media
17 44 (0.93%) FMCG
18 42 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
18 42 (0.89%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 348 (7.35%) Windows
2 202 (4.27%) Linux
3 149 (3.15%) Windows Server
4 55 (1.16%) Windows Server 2016
5 34 (0.72%) Unix
6 22 (0.46%) Windows 10
7 20 (0.42%) Mac OS
7 20 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 18 (0.38%) Android
9 15 (0.32%) Apple iOS
10 8 (0.17%) CentOS
11 7 (0.15%) VMS
12 6 (0.13%) Ubuntu
13 4 (0.084%) AIX
13 4 (0.084%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.063%) Rocky
14 3 (0.063%) Windows Server 2019
15 2 (0.042%) Debian
16 1 (0.021%) OpenBSD
16 1 (0.021%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,101 (44.36%) Problem-Solving
2 1,124 (23.73%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,070 (22.59%) Analytics
4 977 (20.63%) Decision-Making
5 833 (17.59%) Agile
6 686 (14.48%) Business Intelligence
7 682 (14.40%) AI
8 599 (12.65%) Stakeholder Management
9 568 (11.99%) Project Management
10 472 (9.97%) Data Analysis
11 456 (9.63%) Actionable Insight
12 441 (9.31%) Mentoring
13 434 (9.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 433 (9.14%) Data Modelling
15 424 (8.95%) Roadmaps
16 412 (8.70%) Cybersecurity
17 398 (8.40%) Analytical Thinking
18 378 (7.98%) DevOps
19 364 (7.69%) Data Governance
20 358 (7.56%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,001 (21.14%) SQL
2 852 (17.99%) Python
3 171 (3.61%) PowerShell
4 170 (3.59%) JavaScript
5 169 (3.57%) Java
6 124 (2.62%) C#
7 63 (1.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 63 (1.33%) R
8 60 (1.27%) Bash
9 54 (1.14%) C++
10 47 (0.99%) T-SQL
11 41 (0.87%) TypeScript
12 40 (0.84%) VBA
13 29 (0.61%) MATLAB
14 25 (0.53%) Scala
15 20 (0.42%) Go
16 19 (0.40%) PL/SQL
17 15 (0.32%) PHP
18 14 (0.30%) C
18 14 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 967 (20.42%) Degree
2 360 (7.60%) Security Cleared
3 249 (5.26%) ACCA
4 246 (5.19%) SC Cleared
5 237 (5.00%) CIMA
6 167 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 155 (3.27%) DBS Check
8 146 (3.08%) CISSP
9 126 (2.66%) Master's Degree
10 101 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
11 95 (2.01%) CISM
11 95 (2.01%) PMI Certification
12 83 (1.75%) PMP
13 81 (1.71%) DV Cleared
14 72 (1.52%) IRCA
15 71 (1.50%) Azure Certification
16 70 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
17 65 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
18 58 (1.22%) CompTIA Security+
19 57 (1.20%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 432 (9.12%) Data Quality
2 342 (7.22%) GDPR
3 281 (5.93%) QA
4 241 (5.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 206 (4.35%) NIST
6 126 (2.66%) Cyber Essentials
7 112 (2.36%) SLA
8 99 (2.09%) PCI DSS
9 98 (2.07%) ISO 9001
10 95 (2.01%) Accessibility
11 69 (1.46%) PMO
12 59 (1.25%) GRC
13 55 (1.16%) Actionable Recommendations
14 39 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 38 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 34 (0.72%) IFRS
17 31 (0.65%) COBIT
18 29 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
19 25 (0.53%) SOC 2
20 22 (0.46%) ITGC
System Software
1 248 (5.24%) Active Directory
2 79 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 70 (1.48%) Docker
4 66 (1.39%) Hyper-V
5 48 (1.01%) Terminal Server
6 25 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.34%) ProxySG
8 12 (0.25%) vSphere
9 10 (0.21%) VMware NSX
10 8 (0.17%) IAG
10 8 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
11 5 (0.11%) Firmware
12 4 (0.084%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.084%) XenApp
13 3 (0.063%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.063%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.042%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.042%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.021%) KVM
15 1 (0.021%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 130 (2.74%) Terraform
2 80 (1.69%) Kubernetes
3 69 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
4 59 (1.25%) Ansible
5 34 (0.72%) Grafana
6 30 (0.63%) SCCM
7 26 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
8 25 (0.53%) Prometheus
9 21 (0.44%) Nagios
10 11 (0.23%) Kibana
11 8 (0.17%) Kubeflow
11 8 (0.17%) QRadar
12 6 (0.13%) Control-M
12 6 (0.13%) logstash
12 6 (0.13%) Packer
13 5 (0.11%) CASB
14 4 (0.084%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.084%) Graylog
14 4 (0.084%) RSA Archer
14 4 (0.084%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,146 (24.20%) Microsoft
2 201 (4.24%) SAP
3 179 (3.78%) Oracle
4 176 (3.72%) Google
5 148 (3.13%) Salesforce
6 138 (2.91%) VMware
7 111 (2.34%) ServiceNow
8 110 (2.32%) Databricks
9 98 (2.07%) SolarWinds
10 89 (1.88%) Splunk
11 78 (1.65%) Workday
12 72 (1.52%) Cisco
13 57 (1.20%) Veeam
14 52 (1.10%) IBM
15 49 (1.03%) Dell
15 49 (1.03%) Tanium
16 48 (1.01%) Brocade
16 48 (1.01%) Nimble Storage
17 45 (0.95%) Red Hat
18 39 (0.82%) Adobe