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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 8 13
Rank change year-on-year -17 +5 +6
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 6,292 6,125 7,555
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.42% 12.39% 9.67%
As % of the General category 11.68% 18.08% 16.93%
Number of salaries quoted 3,712 2,536 2,982
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £31,025
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,750
Median % change year-on-year - -0.47% -4.09%
75th Percentile £70,188 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% -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 53,857 33,886 44,613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.38% 68.56% 57.09%
Number of salaries quoted 32,840 17,689 23,080
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,688 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -4.13% -6.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -1.96%

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 5,583 £52,500 - 8,319
UK excluding London -16 4,186 £47,500 +5.56% 4,292
Work from Home -6 2,108 £55,000 +10.00% 3,215
London -12 1,814 £66,750 +2.69% 4,712
North of England -20 1,136 £47,500 +6.74% 959
South East -11 987 £50,000 +1.01% 1,205
Midlands -10 730 £47,500 +5.56% 680
North West -16 687 £46,500 +3.33% 578
South West -10 594 £47,500 +5.56% 518
West Midlands -17 375 £47,988 +6.64% 428
East Midlands -5 352 £45,000 +9.09% 252
Yorkshire -8 312 £47,500 +18.75% 286
East of England -14 271 £47,500 +18.75% 403
Wales -6 201 £45,000 -10.31% 101
Scotland -23 145 £45,000 +12.50% 320
North East -20 140 £50,500 +26.25% 99
Northern Ireland -3 135 £43,750 -20.45% 173

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
1 191 (3.04%) SharePoint
2 177 (2.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 110 (1.75%) Confluence
4 47 (0.75%) Apache Spark
5 40 (0.64%) CMS
6 39 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
7 37 (0.59%) IIS
8 36 (0.57%) Apache
9 29 (0.46%) SAS
10 12 (0.19%) WordPress
11 11 (0.17%) Headless CMS
11 11 (0.17%) Jupyter
12 10 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 9 (0.14%) WebLogic
13 9 (0.14%) WebSphere
14 8 (0.13%) OpenStack
15 7 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
16 3 (0.048%) Appian
16 3 (0.048%) nginx
16 3 (0.048%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 724 (11.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 315 (5.01%) Microsoft Office
3 126 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 73 (1.16%) MS Visio
5 48 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
6 44 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
7 17 (0.27%) Simulink
8 15 (0.24%) AutoCAD
9 9 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
10 8 (0.13%) Chatbot
11 7 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 7 (0.11%) Adobe XD
11 7 (0.11%) Photoshop
12 6 (0.095%) Acrobat
12 6 (0.095%) CATIA
12 6 (0.095%) Siemens NX
13 5 (0.079%) EPLAN
13 5 (0.079%) Revit
14 4 (0.064%) InDesign
15 3 (0.048%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 110 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 66 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
3 39 (0.62%) NetSuite
4 35 (0.56%) Dynamics GP
5 27 (0.43%) Shopify
6 17 (0.27%) Workday HCM
7 15 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
7 15 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
8 13 (0.21%) Magento
9 12 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
9 12 (0.19%) SAP CO
9 12 (0.19%) SAP FI
10 11 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
11 10 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
11 10 (0.16%) SAP Business One
11 10 (0.16%) SAP PM
12 9 (0.14%) Fidessa
12 9 (0.14%) Infor M3
12 9 (0.14%) Sage 200
12 9 (0.14%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,008 (16.02%) Azure
2 750 (11.92%) Power Platform
3 631 (10.03%) AWS
4 449 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
5 393 (6.25%) SaaS
6 288 (4.58%) GCP
7 169 (2.69%) Entra ID
8 156 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
8 156 (2.48%) Dynamics 365
9 129 (2.05%) Google Analytics
10 119 (1.89%) Google Ads
11 104 (1.65%) GitHub
12 92 (1.46%) Serverless
13 88 (1.40%) Meta Ads
14 85 (1.35%) Microsoft Purview
14 85 (1.35%) Power Automate
15 84 (1.34%) Snowflake
16 82 (1.30%) PowerApps
17 78 (1.24%) Amazon S3
18 73 (1.16%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 201 (3.19%) DNS
2 155 (2.46%) DHCP
3 149 (2.37%) Firewall
4 131 (2.08%) VPN
5 106 (1.68%) TCP/IP
6 77 (1.22%) WAN
7 72 (1.14%) LAN
8 67 (1.06%) Network Security
9 65 (1.03%) Internet
10 57 (0.91%) Wireless
11 55 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
12 50 (0.79%) VLAN
13 45 (0.72%) Broadband
14 38 (0.60%) SAN
15 37 (0.59%) HTTP
16 31 (0.49%) VoIP
17 25 (0.40%) 5G
17 25 (0.40%) BGP
18 24 (0.38%) SD-WAN
18 24 (0.38%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 672 (10.68%) Power BI
2 216 (3.43%) SQL Server
3 207 (3.29%) Tableau
4 185 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
5 112 (1.78%) Amazon RDS
6 110 (1.75%) Relational Database
7 104 (1.65%) Metadata
8 90 (1.43%) Looker
9 86 (1.37%) MySQL
10 78 (1.24%) Power Query
11 77 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
12 76 (1.21%) Data Lake
13 73 (1.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 58 (0.92%) Big Data
14 58 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 57 (0.91%) BigQuery
16 49 (0.78%) NoSQL
17 48 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
18 39 (0.62%) MongoDB
19 36 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 265 (4.21%) JIRA
2 232 (3.69%) Git
3 53 (0.84%) Jenkins
4 51 (0.81%) GitLab
5 32 (0.51%) Selenium
6 31 (0.49%) Rational DOORS
7 25 (0.40%) Eclipse
8 24 (0.38%) Cucumber
9 20 (0.32%) Claude Code
9 20 (0.32%) Postman
10 18 (0.29%) MLflow
10 18 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
11 17 (0.27%) LabVIEW
12 15 (0.24%) Bitbucket
12 15 (0.24%) Chocolatey
12 15 (0.24%) JMeter
13 14 (0.22%) Burp Suite
14 13 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
15 11 (0.17%) Cypress.io
15 11 (0.17%) Metasploit
General
1 3,119 (49.57%) Social Skills
2 2,070 (32.90%) Finance
3 714 (11.35%) Marketing
4 544 (8.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 512 (8.14%) Organisational Skills
6 443 (7.04%) Retail
7 414 (6.58%) Law
8 412 (6.55%) Public Sector
9 393 (6.25%) Legal
10 363 (5.77%) Manufacturing
11 333 (5.29%) Influencing Skills
12 244 (3.88%) Banking
13 231 (3.67%) Presentation Skills
14 209 (3.32%) Aerospace
15 154 (2.45%) Electronics
15 154 (2.45%) Telecoms
16 113 (1.80%) Advertising
17 97 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
18 77 (1.22%) Automotive
19 71 (1.13%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,422 (22.60%) Analyst
2 820 (13.03%) Senior
3 424 (6.74%) Lead
4 306 (4.86%) Data Analyst
5 304 (4.83%) Business Analyst
6 299 (4.75%) Developer
7 240 (3.81%) Consultant
8 237 (3.77%) Architect
9 213 (3.39%) Senior Analyst
10 195 (3.10%) Support Analyst
11 190 (3.02%) Data Engineer
12 184 (2.92%) Systems Engineer
13 127 (2.02%) Support Engineer
14 118 (1.88%) IT Support
15 111 (1.76%) Applications Support
15 111 (1.76%) Security Analyst
16 108 (1.72%) IT Manager
17 107 (1.70%) Senior Manager
18 105 (1.67%) Accountant
18 105 (1.67%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (2.61%) .NET
2 147 (2.34%) Terraform
3 133 (2.11%) REST
4 127 (2.02%) HTML
5 116 (1.84%) CSS
6 91 (1.45%) JSON
7 82 (1.30%) RESTful
8 80 (1.27%) XML
9 79 (1.26%) Middleware
10 74 (1.18%) PySpark
11 70 (1.11%) Kafka
11 70 (1.11%) React
12 64 (1.02%) SOAP
13 51 (0.81%) PyTorch
14 48 (0.76%) EDI
14 48 (0.76%) Web Services
15 46 (0.73%) LDAP
16 44 (0.70%) TensorFlow
17 41 (0.65%) Spring Boot
18 39 (0.62%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 475 (7.55%) Analytical Mindset
2 443 (7.04%) Management Information System
3 393 (6.25%) Onboarding
4 316 (5.02%) Self-Motivation
5 292 (4.64%) Product Ownership
6 158 (2.51%) Driving Licence
7 149 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
8 143 (2.27%) Cloud Native
9 141 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
10 123 (1.95%) Social Media
11 119 (1.89%) Blog
12 112 (1.78%) Cyber Threat
13 106 (1.68%) Marketing Technology
14 105 (1.67%) Data Centre
15 103 (1.64%) Security Posture
16 99 (1.57%) Virtual Team
17 84 (1.34%) Data Structures
18 75 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
19 65 (1.03%) Algorithms
20 63 (1.00%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 468 (7.44%) Windows
2 291 (4.62%) Linux
3 220 (3.50%) Windows Server
4 93 (1.48%) Windows Server 2016
5 41 (0.65%) Windows 10
6 35 (0.56%) Mac OS
7 32 (0.51%) Unix
8 27 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 24 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
10 23 (0.37%) Apple iOS
11 19 (0.30%) Android
12 10 (0.16%) CentOS
13 8 (0.13%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.095%) Debian
14 6 (0.095%) VMS
15 5 (0.079%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.064%) CoreOS
17 3 (0.048%) Rocky
18 2 (0.032%) AIX
18 2 (0.032%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,070 (48.79%) Problem-Solving
2 1,875 (29.80%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,503 (23.89%) Decision-Making
4 1,284 (20.41%) Analytics
5 1,258 (19.99%) Stakeholder Management
6 1,150 (18.28%) AI
7 1,098 (17.45%) Agile
8 837 (13.30%) Business Intelligence
9 666 (10.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 634 (10.08%) Roadmaps
11 610 (9.69%) Mentoring
12 593 (9.42%) Actionable Insight
13 580 (9.22%) Validation
14 551 (8.76%) Data Analysis
15 545 (8.66%) Process Improvement
16 542 (8.61%) Project Management
17 510 (8.11%) CRM
18 507 (8.06%) ERP
19 506 (8.04%) Cybersecurity
20 497 (7.90%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 1,212 (19.26%) SQL
2 871 (13.84%) Python
3 236 (3.75%) JavaScript
4 216 (3.43%) Java
5 200 (3.18%) C#
6 194 (3.08%) PowerShell
7 120 (1.91%) C++
8 93 (1.48%) Bash
9 85 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 80 (1.27%) R
11 72 (1.14%) TypeScript
12 54 (0.86%) MATLAB
13 50 (0.79%) T-SQL
14 40 (0.64%) C
15 31 (0.49%) PL/SQL
16 29 (0.46%) Scala
17 24 (0.38%) PHP
18 23 (0.37%) Go
18 23 (0.37%) Perl
19 22 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1,273 (20.23%) Degree
2 706 (11.22%) Security Cleared
3 487 (7.74%) SC Cleared
4 263 (4.18%) ACCA
5 245 (3.89%) CIMA
6 181 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 160 (2.54%) DV Cleared
8 153 (2.43%) CISSP
9 150 (2.38%) DBS Check
10 131 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
11 121 (1.92%) CISM
12 112 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
13 103 (1.64%) Master's Degree
14 81 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
15 80 (1.27%) Azure Certification
16 75 (1.19%) HND
17 68 (1.08%) CompTIA Security+
18 62 (0.99%) PMI Certification
19 54 (0.86%) HNC
20 48 (0.76%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 625 (9.93%) Data Quality
2 386 (6.13%) QA
3 342 (5.44%) GDPR
4 235 (3.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 200 (3.18%) Accessibility
6 177 (2.81%) NIST
7 149 (2.37%) SLA
8 147 (2.34%) Cyber Essentials
9 120 (1.91%) PCI DSS
10 71 (1.13%) GRC
10 71 (1.13%) ISO 9001
11 61 (0.97%) PMO
12 54 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
13 41 (0.65%) IFRS
14 40 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 35 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 29 (0.46%) NCSC
17 28 (0.45%) COBIT
18 27 (0.43%) DO-254
19 26 (0.41%) GAAP
System Software
1 333 (5.29%) Active Directory
2 149 (2.37%) Docker
3 103 (1.64%) Hyper-V
4 88 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
5 72 (1.14%) Terminal Server
6 44 (0.70%) Firmware
7 22 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
8 21 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
9 11 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
9 11 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.13%) vSphere
11 7 (0.11%) Ceph
11 7 (0.11%) VMware NSX
12 4 (0.064%) KVM
12 4 (0.064%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.048%) DFS Replication
14 2 (0.032%) IAG
14 2 (0.032%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 1 (0.016%) HDFS
15 1 (0.016%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 116 (1.84%) Kubernetes
2 87 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 73 (1.16%) Ansible
4 42 (0.67%) Grafana
5 40 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
6 23 (0.37%) Prometheus
6 23 (0.37%) SCCM
7 21 (0.33%) Kibana
8 20 (0.32%) QRadar
9 12 (0.19%) Nagios
10 11 (0.17%) Nmap
10 11 (0.17%) Podman
11 9 (0.14%) Argo
11 9 (0.14%) logstash
12 7 (0.11%) Check_MK
12 7 (0.11%) Functional Safety
12 7 (0.11%) Istio
12 7 (0.11%) Kubeflow
13 6 (0.095%) Graylog
13 6 (0.095%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1,474 (23.43%) Microsoft
2 372 (5.91%) Google
3 253 (4.02%) SAP
4 195 (3.10%) Oracle
5 177 (2.81%) VMware
6 156 (2.48%) Splunk
7 145 (2.30%) Databricks
8 137 (2.18%) Salesforce
9 136 (2.16%) ServiceNow
10 95 (1.51%) SolarWinds
11 86 (1.37%) Cisco
12 81 (1.29%) Veeam
13 73 (1.16%) Brocade
13 73 (1.16%) Nimble Storage
14 72 (1.14%) Tanium
15 71 (1.13%) Adobe
16 64 (1.02%) HubSpot
16 64 (1.02%) Workday
16 64 (1.02%) YouTube
17 44 (0.70%) Sage