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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 9 13
Rank change year-on-year -16 +4 +7
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 5,857 6,072 8,024
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.38% 12.16% 9.61%
As % of the General category 11.67% 17.77% 16.88%
Number of salaries quoted 3,565 2,600 3,575
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £46,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year +3.26% -6.12% -2.00%

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 50,206 34,162 47,538
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.15% 68.43% 56.93%
Number of salaries quoted 30,790 17,967 27,395
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,441 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.03% -1.02% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -3.85%

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 25 August 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 25 August 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 5,244 £52,500 - 5,040
UK excluding London -16 3,793 £47,500 +3.26% 2,836
Work from Home -9 1,905 £55,000 +10.00% 2,216
London -10 1,787 £67,500 +3.85% 2,736
North of England -19 1,049 £47,500 +5.56% 719
South East -7 901 £49,768 -5.20% 618
Midlands -7 663 £47,750 +6.11% 379
North West -16 649 £46,500 +3.33% 415
South West -8 528 £47,500 +5.56% 496
West Midlands -16 343 £49,500 +10.00% 219
East Midlands -4 317 £46,743 +3.87% 161
Yorkshire -12 282 £47,000 +17.50% 234
East of England -16 256 £47,500 +5.56% 261
Wales -11 154 £51,709 +2.61% 69
Scotland -21 132 £45,000 +10.43% 247
Northern Ireland -8 118 £42,500 -22.73% 122
North East -16 118 £55,000 +17.65% 79

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
1 182 (3.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 173 (2.95%) SharePoint
3 95 (1.62%) Confluence
4 59 (1.01%) Apache Spark
5 58 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
6 47 (0.80%) CMS
7 38 (0.65%) Apache
8 34 (0.58%) IIS
9 26 (0.44%) SAS
10 11 (0.19%) WordPress
11 10 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 10 (0.17%) Jupyter
11 10 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
12 9 (0.15%) Headless CMS
12 9 (0.15%) WebLogic
12 9 (0.15%) WebSphere
13 8 (0.14%) OpenStack
14 3 (0.051%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.051%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.051%) Tomcat
Applications
1 618 (10.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 258 (4.40%) Microsoft Office
3 123 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 75 (1.28%) MS Visio
5 43 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
6 27 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.17%) Simulink
8 9 (0.15%) Adobe XD
9 7 (0.12%) AutoCAD
10 5 (0.085%) Acrobat
10 5 (0.085%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.085%) EPLAN
11 4 (0.068%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.068%) CATIA
11 4 (0.068%) Maya
11 4 (0.068%) Trello
12 3 (0.051%) LaTeX
12 3 (0.051%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.051%) SOLIDWORKS
12 3 (0.051%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 104 (1.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 66 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 40 (0.68%) NetSuite
4 34 (0.58%) Dynamics GP
5 21 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
5 21 (0.36%) Shopify
6 20 (0.34%) SAP PM
7 15 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
8 13 (0.22%) SAP CO
8 13 (0.22%) SAP ERP
8 13 (0.22%) SAP FI
8 13 (0.22%) Workday HCM
9 12 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
10 11 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
11 10 (0.17%) Elite 3E
11 10 (0.17%) Magento
11 10 (0.17%) SAP Business One
12 9 (0.15%) Fidessa
12 9 (0.15%) Sage 200
13 8 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 986 (16.83%) Azure
2 701 (11.97%) Power Platform
3 600 (10.24%) AWS
4 417 (7.12%) Microsoft 365
5 369 (6.30%) SaaS
6 289 (4.93%) GCP
7 145 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
8 143 (2.44%) Entra ID
9 140 (2.39%) Dynamics 365
10 117 (2.00%) Google Analytics
11 102 (1.74%) Snowflake
12 101 (1.72%) GitHub
13 91 (1.55%) dbt
14 85 (1.45%) Power Automate
15 79 (1.35%) Google Ads
16 78 (1.33%) PowerApps
17 75 (1.28%) Microsoft Purview
18 70 (1.20%) Amazon S3
19 64 (1.09%) Serverless
20 59 (1.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 201 (3.43%) DNS
2 156 (2.66%) DHCP
3 149 (2.54%) Firewall
4 126 (2.15%) VPN
5 102 (1.74%) TCP/IP
6 76 (1.30%) WAN
7 75 (1.28%) LAN
8 62 (1.06%) Network Security
9 57 (0.97%) Wireless
10 54 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
11 52 (0.89%) Broadband
12 46 (0.79%) Internet
12 46 (0.79%) VLAN
13 41 (0.70%) SAN
14 36 (0.61%) HTTP
15 29 (0.50%) VoIP
16 26 (0.44%) BGP
17 21 (0.36%) SMS
18 20 (0.34%) SD-WAN
19 19 (0.32%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 621 (10.60%) Power BI
2 243 (4.15%) Tableau
3 225 (3.84%) SQL Server
4 193 (3.30%) Data Warehouse
5 118 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
6 103 (1.76%) Relational Database
7 96 (1.64%) Looker
8 95 (1.62%) Metadata
9 84 (1.43%) MySQL
10 79 (1.35%) Data Lake
11 74 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
12 68 (1.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 67 (1.14%) BigQuery
14 65 (1.11%) Power Query
15 60 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 54 (0.92%) Big Data
17 53 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
18 46 (0.79%) NoSQL
19 38 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
20 36 (0.61%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 251 (4.29%) JIRA
2 209 (3.57%) Git
3 50 (0.85%) GitLab
4 49 (0.84%) Jenkins
5 31 (0.53%) MLflow
5 31 (0.53%) Rational DOORS
6 29 (0.50%) Selenium
7 21 (0.36%) Cucumber
7 21 (0.36%) Eclipse
8 20 (0.34%) Postman
9 15 (0.26%) Chocolatey
9 15 (0.26%) Claude Code
10 14 (0.24%) Bitbucket
10 14 (0.24%) JMeter
11 13 (0.22%) Burp Suite
11 13 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
12 12 (0.20%) Cypress.io
12 12 (0.20%) ERwin
12 12 (0.20%) LabVIEW
13 11 (0.19%) Metasploit
General
1 2,843 (48.54%) Social Skills
2 1,905 (32.53%) Finance
3 621 (10.60%) Marketing
4 518 (8.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 424 (7.24%) Organisational Skills
6 399 (6.81%) Retail
7 396 (6.76%) Law
8 359 (6.13%) Legal
9 357 (6.10%) Public Sector
10 290 (4.95%) Influencing Skills
11 286 (4.88%) Manufacturing
12 259 (4.42%) Banking
13 193 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
14 172 (2.94%) Aerospace
15 134 (2.29%) Telecoms
16 116 (1.98%) Electronics
17 107 (1.83%) Advertising
18 95 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
19 72 (1.23%) Financial Institution
20 70 (1.20%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,358 (23.19%) Analyst
2 766 (13.08%) Senior
3 412 (7.03%) Lead
4 297 (5.07%) Data Analyst
5 295 (5.04%) Business Analyst
6 282 (4.81%) Developer
7 232 (3.96%) Architect
8 224 (3.82%) Consultant
9 207 (3.53%) Systems Engineer
10 204 (3.48%) Senior Analyst
11 172 (2.94%) Support Analyst
12 170 (2.90%) Data Engineer
13 130 (2.22%) Support Engineer
14 118 (2.01%) IT Support
15 110 (1.88%) IT Manager
16 109 (1.86%) Senior Manager
17 107 (1.83%) Security Analyst
18 101 (1.72%) Systems Analyst
19 93 (1.59%) Applications Support
19 93 (1.59%) Marketing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (2.61%) .NET
2 147 (2.51%) Terraform
3 128 (2.19%) HTML
4 123 (2.10%) REST
5 119 (2.03%) CSS
6 87 (1.49%) JSON
7 78 (1.33%) Middleware
8 76 (1.30%) Kafka
8 76 (1.30%) XML
9 74 (1.26%) React
10 72 (1.23%) RESTful
11 66 (1.13%) PyTorch
12 59 (1.01%) TensorFlow
13 57 (0.97%) SOAP
14 46 (0.79%) PySpark
14 46 (0.79%) scikit-learn
15 45 (0.77%) Web Services
16 43 (0.73%) EDI
17 42 (0.72%) LDAP
18 39 (0.67%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 513 (8.76%) Analytical Mindset
2 352 (6.01%) Management Information System
3 339 (5.79%) Onboarding
4 278 (4.75%) Product Ownership
4 278 (4.75%) Self-Motivation
5 164 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
6 137 (2.34%) Cloud Native
7 132 (2.25%) Driving Licence
8 125 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
9 119 (2.03%) Blog
9 119 (2.03%) Social Media
10 106 (1.81%) Security Posture
11 103 (1.76%) Data Centre
11 103 (1.76%) Marketing Technology
12 97 (1.66%) Cyber Threat
13 92 (1.57%) Virtual Team
14 83 (1.42%) Data Structures
15 76 (1.30%) Algorithms
16 71 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
17 53 (0.90%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 457 (7.80%) Windows
2 290 (4.95%) Linux
3 221 (3.77%) Windows Server
4 99 (1.69%) Windows Server 2016
5 35 (0.60%) Windows 10
6 33 (0.56%) Unix
7 30 (0.51%) Mac OS
7 30 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 22 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
9 21 (0.36%) Apple iOS
10 19 (0.32%) Android
11 11 (0.19%) CentOS
12 8 (0.14%) Ubuntu
13 6 (0.10%) Debian
13 6 (0.10%) VMS
14 5 (0.085%) OpenVMS
15 4 (0.068%) CoreOS
15 4 (0.068%) Rocky
16 2 (0.034%) AIX
16 2 (0.034%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,814 (48.05%) Problem-Solving
2 1,686 (28.79%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,364 (23.29%) Decision-Making
4 1,251 (21.36%) Analytics
5 1,045 (17.84%) Agile
6 1,033 (17.64%) Stakeholder Management
7 1,029 (17.57%) AI
8 751 (12.82%) Business Intelligence
9 639 (10.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 609 (10.40%) Roadmaps
11 561 (9.58%) Actionable Insight
12 553 (9.44%) Mentoring
13 521 (8.90%) Project Management
14 506 (8.64%) Validation
15 495 (8.45%) Data Analysis
16 491 (8.38%) Cybersecurity
17 475 (8.11%) Data Modelling
18 458 (7.82%) Process Improvement
19 446 (7.61%) CRM
19 446 (7.61%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 1,154 (19.70%) SQL
2 888 (15.16%) Python
3 223 (3.81%) JavaScript
4 193 (3.30%) Java
5 189 (3.23%) PowerShell
6 186 (3.18%) C#
7 101 (1.72%) C++
8 91 (1.55%) Bash
9 83 (1.42%) R
10 75 (1.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 67 (1.14%) TypeScript
12 51 (0.87%) T-SQL
13 47 (0.80%) MATLAB
14 34 (0.58%) C
15 28 (0.48%) Scala
16 27 (0.46%) PHP
17 23 (0.39%) PL/SQL
18 22 (0.38%) Go
19 19 (0.32%) Perl
20 18 (0.31%) Julia
Qualifications
1 1,148 (19.60%) Degree
2 651 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 450 (7.68%) SC Cleared
4 232 (3.96%) ACCA
5 217 (3.70%) CIMA
6 174 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 163 (2.78%) CISSP
8 157 (2.68%) DV Cleared
9 145 (2.48%) DBS Check
10 123 (2.10%) CISM
11 121 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
12 116 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
13 99 (1.69%) Master's Degree
14 80 (1.37%) Azure Certification
15 77 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
16 73 (1.25%) CompTIA Security+
17 63 (1.08%) PMI Certification
18 49 (0.84%) IRCA
19 47 (0.80%) CCNA
19 47 (0.80%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 558 (9.53%) Data Quality
2 389 (6.64%) QA
3 375 (6.40%) GDPR
4 242 (4.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 197 (3.36%) NIST
6 169 (2.89%) Accessibility
7 157 (2.68%) Cyber Essentials
8 155 (2.65%) SLA
9 128 (2.19%) PCI DSS
10 110 (1.88%) ISO 9001
11 70 (1.20%) GRC
12 63 (1.08%) PMO
13 45 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
14 41 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 37 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 37 (0.63%) IFRS
16 35 (0.60%) COBIT
17 28 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 27 (0.46%) NCSC
19 24 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 329 (5.62%) Active Directory
2 134 (2.29%) Docker
3 103 (1.76%) Hyper-V
4 88 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 80 (1.37%) Terminal Server
6 31 (0.53%) Firmware
7 21 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
8 19 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (0.15%) vSphere
10 8 (0.14%) VMware NSX
11 7 (0.12%) Ceph
11 7 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
11 7 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.068%) KVM
12 4 (0.068%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.068%) ProxySG
13 3 (0.051%) DFS Replication
13 3 (0.051%) IAG
13 3 (0.051%) VMware ESXi
14 2 (0.034%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 112 (1.91%) Kubernetes
2 83 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
3 76 (1.30%) Ansible
4 40 (0.68%) Grafana
5 36 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
6 26 (0.44%) SCCM
7 21 (0.36%) Prometheus
8 19 (0.32%) QRadar
9 18 (0.31%) Kibana
10 16 (0.27%) Nagios
11 11 (0.19%) Nmap
11 11 (0.19%) Podman
12 9 (0.15%) Argo
12 9 (0.15%) Kubeflow
13 8 (0.14%) logstash
14 7 (0.12%) Check_MK
14 7 (0.12%) Istio
14 7 (0.12%) Packer
14 7 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
15 6 (0.10%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 1,288 (21.99%) Microsoft
2 313 (5.34%) Google
3 233 (3.98%) SAP
4 194 (3.31%) Oracle
5 182 (3.11%) VMware
6 149 (2.54%) Splunk
7 144 (2.46%) Databricks
8 132 (2.25%) ServiceNow
9 126 (2.15%) Salesforce
10 111 (1.90%) SolarWinds
11 90 (1.54%) Veeam
12 83 (1.42%) Cisco
13 81 (1.38%) Brocade
13 81 (1.38%) Nimble Storage
14 80 (1.37%) Tanium
15 76 (1.30%) Workday
16 64 (1.09%) Adobe
17 51 (0.87%) HubSpot
18 50 (0.85%) Dell
19 48 (0.82%) Red Hat