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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 8 15
Rank change year-on-year -16 +7 +4
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 6,507 6,193 7,061
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.51% 12.53% 9.72%
As % of the General category 11.90% 18.32% 16.79%
Number of salaries quoted 3,663 2,498 2,672
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,800 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,356 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.71% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £71,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.44% -10.00% -

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 54,662 33,812 42,045
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.30% 68.40% 57.86%
Number of salaries quoted 33,337 17,621 20,673
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £33,750 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £96,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £43,095 £50,000
% change year-on-year +16.02% -13.81% -0.99%

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 October 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 10 October 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 5,691 £51,375 +2.75% 9,538
UK excluding London -14 4,432 £47,000 +4.44% 4,711
Work from Home -6 2,205 £55,000 +10.00% 3,651
London -12 1,780 £65,000 - 5,296
North of England -18 1,173 £47,500 +5.56% 1,108
South East -12 1,001 £48,000 +1.59% 1,224
Midlands -8 777 £45,000 +3.45% 714
North West -15 693 £46,500 +3.33% 591
South West -8 626 £46,743 +3.87% 485
West Midlands -17 395 £47,500 +5.56% 425
East Midlands -4 380 £42,500 +10.39% 289
Yorkshire -8 324 £47,000 +17.50% 400
East of England -12 295 £47,500 +21.79% 482
Northern Ireland +11 224 £43,750 -18.60% 211
Wales -5 210 £45,000 -10.20% 149
North East -22 165 £51,962 +29.91% 124
Scotland -20 149 £50,000 +46.50% 398

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
1 195 (3.00%) SharePoint
2 179 (2.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 113 (1.74%) Confluence
4 42 (0.65%) Apache Spark
4 42 (0.65%) CMS
5 39 (0.60%) Apache
6 36 (0.55%) IIS
7 33 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
8 29 (0.45%) SAS
9 17 (0.26%) WordPress
10 14 (0.22%) Jupyter
10 14 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
11 11 (0.17%) Headless CMS
12 10 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 9 (0.14%) WebLogic
13 9 (0.14%) WebSphere
14 8 (0.12%) OpenStack
15 5 (0.077%) nginx
16 4 (0.061%) Office Communications Server
17 3 (0.046%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 787 (12.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 359 (5.52%) Microsoft Office
3 138 (2.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 66 (1.01%) MS Visio
5 57 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
6 44 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
7 20 (0.31%) Simulink
8 17 (0.26%) AutoCAD
9 11 (0.17%) Chatbot
10 10 (0.15%) SOLIDWORKS
11 9 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 8 (0.12%) EPLAN
13 7 (0.11%) Adobe XD
13 7 (0.11%) Notion
13 7 (0.11%) Photoshop
14 6 (0.092%) Acrobat
14 6 (0.092%) Siemens NX
15 5 (0.077%) InDesign
15 5 (0.077%) Revit
16 4 (0.061%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 102 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 56 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
3 34 (0.52%) Dynamics GP
4 29 (0.45%) NetSuite
5 28 (0.43%) Shopify
6 19 (0.29%) Workday HCM
7 15 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
8 13 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
9 11 (0.17%) Magento
9 11 (0.17%) SAP CO
9 11 (0.17%) SAP FI
9 11 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
10 10 (0.15%) Distributed Ledger
10 10 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
10 10 (0.15%) Infor M3
10 10 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
10 10 (0.15%) SAP Business One
11 9 (0.14%) Elite 3E
11 9 (0.14%) Fidessa
11 9 (0.14%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 1,032 (15.86%) Azure
2 731 (11.23%) Power Platform
3 660 (10.14%) AWS
4 462 (7.10%) Microsoft 365
5 401 (6.16%) SaaS
6 305 (4.69%) GCP
7 232 (3.57%) Entra ID
8 155 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
9 134 (2.06%) Google Ads
10 131 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
11 125 (1.92%) Google Analytics
12 98 (1.51%) GitHub
13 93 (1.43%) Meta Ads
14 92 (1.41%) Serverless
15 78 (1.20%) Microsoft Purview
16 76 (1.17%) Amazon S3
16 76 (1.17%) Cloud Computing
16 76 (1.17%) Snowflake
17 73 (1.12%) PowerApps
18 70 (1.08%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 209 (3.21%) DNS
2 164 (2.52%) DHCP
3 148 (2.27%) Firewall
4 134 (2.06%) VPN
5 118 (1.81%) TCP/IP
6 99 (1.52%) Internet
7 79 (1.21%) WAN
8 72 (1.11%) LAN
9 69 (1.06%) Network Security
10 56 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
10 56 (0.86%) Wireless
11 53 (0.81%) VLAN
12 48 (0.74%) Broadband
13 38 (0.58%) HTTP
14 36 (0.55%) SAN
15 31 (0.48%) VoIP
16 29 (0.45%) 5G
17 27 (0.41%) BGP
18 25 (0.38%) SMS
19 23 (0.35%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 658 (10.11%) Power BI
2 204 (3.14%) SQL Server
3 175 (2.69%) Data Warehouse
4 170 (2.61%) Tableau
5 123 (1.89%) Relational Database
6 114 (1.75%) Metadata
7 110 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
8 91 (1.40%) MySQL
9 87 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
10 84 (1.29%) Power Query
11 82 (1.26%) Looker
12 67 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 64 (0.98%) Data Lake
14 55 (0.85%) Big Data
15 52 (0.80%) NoSQL
15 52 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 46 (0.71%) BigQuery
17 40 (0.61%) MongoDB
18 38 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
19 36 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 273 (4.20%) Git
2 266 (4.09%) JIRA
3 60 (0.92%) GitLab
4 57 (0.88%) Jenkins
5 31 (0.48%) Selenium
6 27 (0.41%) Eclipse
7 23 (0.35%) Claude Code
7 23 (0.35%) LabVIEW
8 22 (0.34%) Postman
9 20 (0.31%) Cucumber
9 20 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
9 20 (0.31%) Rational DOORS
10 16 (0.25%) Burp Suite
11 15 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
12 13 (0.20%) Bitbucket
12 13 (0.20%) JMeter
12 13 (0.20%) Metasploit
13 11 (0.17%) Chocolatey
14 9 (0.14%) Cypress.io
14 9 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 3,331 (51.19%) Social Skills
2 2,086 (32.06%) Finance
3 762 (11.71%) Marketing
4 577 (8.87%) Organisational Skills
5 561 (8.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 472 (7.25%) Retail
7 442 (6.79%) Public Sector
8 436 (6.70%) Legal
9 418 (6.42%) Manufacturing
10 413 (6.35%) Law
11 333 (5.12%) Influencing Skills
12 314 (4.83%) Presentation Skills
13 248 (3.81%) Banking
14 213 (3.27%) Aerospace
15 173 (2.66%) Electronics
16 159 (2.44%) Telecoms
17 122 (1.87%) Advertising
18 107 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
19 89 (1.37%) Automotive
20 71 (1.09%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,497 (23.01%) Analyst
2 858 (13.19%) Senior
3 426 (6.55%) Lead
4 315 (4.84%) Developer
5 296 (4.55%) Data Analyst
6 283 (4.35%) Business Analyst
7 261 (4.01%) Senior Analyst
8 246 (3.78%) Consultant
9 237 (3.64%) Support Analyst
10 224 (3.44%) Architect
11 191 (2.94%) Data Engineer
12 152 (2.34%) Systems Engineer
13 123 (1.89%) Support Engineer
14 117 (1.80%) IT Support
15 115 (1.77%) Applications Support
16 111 (1.71%) Administrator
17 110 (1.69%) Marketing Manager
18 107 (1.64%) ITSM Analyst
19 101 (1.55%) IT Manager
19 101 (1.55%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (2.66%) .NET
2 163 (2.50%) Terraform
3 125 (1.92%) REST
4 112 (1.72%) HTML
5 103 (1.58%) CSS
6 88 (1.35%) RESTful
7 78 (1.20%) React
8 76 (1.17%) PySpark
9 72 (1.11%) JSON
10 68 (1.05%) XML
11 63 (0.97%) Kafka
11 63 (0.97%) Middleware
12 52 (0.80%) SOAP
13 47 (0.72%) Spring Boot
14 46 (0.71%) LDAP
14 46 (0.71%) Spring
15 43 (0.66%) Web Services
16 41 (0.63%) EDI
17 40 (0.61%) ASP.NET
18 38 (0.58%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 494 (7.59%) Management Information System
2 428 (6.58%) Analytical Mindset
3 418 (6.42%) Onboarding
4 335 (5.15%) Self-Motivation
5 282 (4.33%) Product Ownership
6 196 (3.01%) Driving Licence
7 159 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
8 149 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
9 147 (2.26%) Cloud Native
10 138 (2.12%) Social Media
11 120 (1.84%) Blog
12 112 (1.72%) Data Centre
13 110 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
14 106 (1.63%) Marketing Technology
15 98 (1.51%) Virtual Team
16 95 (1.46%) Security Posture
17 90 (1.38%) Data Structures
18 78 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
19 75 (1.15%) AI Agents
20 62 (0.95%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 465 (7.15%) Windows
2 323 (4.96%) Linux
3 226 (3.47%) Windows Server
4 94 (1.44%) Windows Server 2016
5 45 (0.69%) Windows 10
6 38 (0.58%) Mac OS
7 29 (0.45%) Unix
8 27 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
9 26 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 19 (0.29%) Apple iOS
11 17 (0.26%) Android
12 9 (0.14%) CentOS
13 8 (0.12%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.092%) Debian
14 6 (0.092%) VMS
15 5 (0.077%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.061%) CoreOS
17 2 (0.031%) AIX
17 2 (0.031%) Solaris
17 2 (0.031%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,210 (49.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2,004 (30.80%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,557 (23.93%) Decision-Making
4 1,373 (21.10%) Stakeholder Management
5 1,284 (19.73%) Analytics
6 1,231 (18.92%) AI
7 1,104 (16.97%) Agile
8 836 (12.85%) Business Intelligence
9 708 (10.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 645 (9.91%) Mentoring
11 626 (9.62%) Validation
12 602 (9.25%) Roadmaps
13 587 (9.02%) Actionable Insight
14 573 (8.81%) Process Improvement
15 559 (8.59%) Data Analysis
16 553 (8.50%) CRM
17 550 (8.45%) Customer Service
18 549 (8.44%) Project Management
19 537 (8.25%) Risk Management
20 535 (8.22%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 1,226 (18.84%) SQL
2 901 (13.85%) Python
3 226 (3.47%) JavaScript
4 209 (3.21%) Java
5 203 (3.12%) C#
6 198 (3.04%) PowerShell
7 122 (1.87%) C++
8 98 (1.51%) Bash
9 93 (1.43%) R
10 82 (1.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 77 (1.18%) TypeScript
12 53 (0.81%) MATLAB
13 51 (0.78%) T-SQL
14 46 (0.71%) Shell Script
15 41 (0.63%) C
16 32 (0.49%) PL/SQL
17 28 (0.43%) Scala
18 27 (0.41%) Go
18 27 (0.41%) Perl
19 25 (0.38%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,371 (21.07%) Degree
2 744 (11.43%) Security Cleared
3 516 (7.93%) SC Cleared
4 240 (3.69%) ACCA
5 227 (3.49%) CIMA
6 170 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 163 (2.50%) DV Cleared
8 139 (2.14%) DBS Check
9 134 (2.06%) CISSP
10 131 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
11 117 (1.80%) Master's Degree
12 106 (1.63%) CISM
13 102 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
14 87 (1.34%) HND
15 83 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
16 81 (1.24%) Azure Certification
17 67 (1.03%) HNC
18 59 (0.91%) CompTIA Security+
19 53 (0.81%) AWS Certification
20 51 (0.78%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 641 (9.85%) Data Quality
2 377 (5.79%) QA
3 303 (4.66%) GDPR
4 218 (3.35%) Accessibility
5 205 (3.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 150 (2.31%) NIST
7 144 (2.21%) Cyber Essentials
8 134 (2.06%) SLA
9 115 (1.77%) PCI DSS
10 65 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
10 65 (1.00%) PMO
11 64 (0.98%) GRC
12 52 (0.80%) ISO 9001
13 39 (0.60%) IFRS
14 32 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 32 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 31 (0.48%) NCSC
16 28 (0.43%) DO-254
17 24 (0.37%) GAAP
18 23 (0.35%) COBIT
System Software
1 377 (5.79%) Active Directory
2 189 (2.90%) Docker
3 112 (1.72%) Hyper-V
4 78 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 72 (1.11%) Terminal Server
6 54 (0.83%) Firmware
7 24 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
8 18 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
9 12 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.12%) vSphere
11 7 (0.11%) Ceph
12 6 (0.092%) VMware NSX
13 4 (0.061%) DFS Replication
13 4 (0.061%) ISA Server
13 4 (0.061%) KVM
13 4 (0.061%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.031%) IAG
14 2 (0.031%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 1 (0.015%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 129 (1.98%) Kubernetes
2 90 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 74 (1.14%) Ansible
4 49 (0.75%) Grafana
5 40 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
6 30 (0.46%) Prometheus
7 25 (0.38%) SCCM
8 21 (0.32%) QRadar
9 20 (0.31%) Kibana
10 13 (0.20%) Nagios
10 13 (0.20%) Nmap
11 11 (0.17%) Podman
12 10 (0.15%) Functional Safety
13 9 (0.14%) Argo
14 7 (0.11%) Check_MK
14 7 (0.11%) EnCase
14 7 (0.11%) FortiGate
14 7 (0.11%) FTK
14 7 (0.11%) Istio
14 7 (0.11%) logstash
Vendors
1 1,598 (24.56%) Microsoft
2 417 (6.41%) Google
3 242 (3.72%) SAP
4 200 (3.07%) Oracle
5 171 (2.63%) VMware
6 160 (2.46%) Splunk
7 155 (2.38%) Salesforce
8 144 (2.21%) ServiceNow
9 128 (1.97%) Databricks
10 101 (1.55%) SolarWinds
11 95 (1.46%) Cisco
12 80 (1.23%) Veeam
13 74 (1.14%) YouTube
14 73 (1.12%) Brocade
14 73 (1.12%) Nimble Storage
14 73 (1.12%) Tanium
15 70 (1.08%) Adobe
16 69 (1.06%) HubSpot
17 54 (0.83%) TikTok
18 50 (0.77%) Workday