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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 8 14
Rank change year-on-year -17 +6 +5
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,846 5,980 9,838
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.25% 13.53% 9.24%
As % of the General category 11.10% 18.53% 16.02%
Number of salaries quoted 3,114 2,390 5,407
10th Percentile £32,750 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,871 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,885 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -2.23% +11.11% -5.26%

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 43,669 32,267 61,421
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 47.27% 72.98% 57.69%
Number of salaries quoted 26,648 15,616 40,734
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £37,170 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +7.62% -12.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +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 11 June 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 11 June 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 -16 4,407 £55,000 - 2,150
UK excluding London -19 3,044 £48,885 -2.23% 1,620
London -11 1,536 £67,500 +3.85% 852
Work from Home -11 1,482 £55,000 - 1,076
North of England -17 941 £48,000 -0.63% 407
South East -5 766 £50,000 -8.78% 545
North West -18 555 £46,500 -7.00% 239
Midlands -10 554 £49,250 +3.68% 268
South West -25 318 £47,500 -5.00% 176
West Midlands -15 310 £51,300 +8.00% 161
Yorkshire -13 290 £50,000 +11.11% 118
East Midlands +4 243 £45,000 -5.26% 107
East of England -9 234 £45,000 - 142
Scotland -19 119 £40,000 -20.71% 70
North East -32 96 £51,000 +30.43% 58
Wales -4 82 £53,171 -3.33% 30
Northern Ireland -20 41 £40,000 -27.27% 40

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
1 161 (3.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 115 (2.37%) SharePoint
3 76 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
4 70 (1.44%) Apache Spark
5 65 (1.34%) Confluence
6 42 (0.87%) Apache
7 41 (0.85%) CMS
8 23 (0.47%) IIS
9 19 (0.39%) SAS
10 16 (0.33%) WordPress
11 14 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 13 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
13 6 (0.12%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.062%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.062%) govService
14 3 (0.062%) JBoss
14 3 (0.062%) nginx
14 3 (0.062%) Tomcat
14 3 (0.062%) WebLogic
14 3 (0.062%) WebSphere
Applications
1 534 (11.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 190 (3.92%) Microsoft Office
3 101 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 90 (1.86%) MS Visio
5 31 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
6 28 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
7 9 (0.19%) Adobe XD
7 9 (0.19%) CATIA
8 6 (0.12%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.10%) Acrobat
10 4 (0.083%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 4 (0.083%) Maya
11 3 (0.062%) Blender
11 3 (0.062%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.062%) Trello
12 2 (0.041%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.041%) Lectora
12 2 (0.041%) Simulink
12 2 (0.041%) SOLIDWORKS
13 1 (0.021%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 71 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 39 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 34 (0.70%) Salesforce CRM
4 32 (0.66%) NetSuite
5 18 (0.37%) SAP CO
6 16 (0.33%) SAP PM
7 15 (0.31%) SAP ERP
8 14 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
9 11 (0.23%) Maximo
9 11 (0.23%) SAP FI
10 10 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
11 9 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
12 8 (0.17%) Workday HCM
13 7 (0.14%) Elite 3E
13 7 (0.14%) Endur
13 7 (0.14%) Fidessa
13 7 (0.14%) Magento
13 7 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
13 7 (0.14%) Shopify
14 6 (0.12%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 874 (18.04%) Azure
2 641 (13.23%) Power Platform
3 480 (9.91%) AWS
4 361 (7.45%) Microsoft 365
5 297 (6.13%) SaaS
6 204 (4.21%) GCP
7 126 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
8 117 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
9 113 (2.33%) Entra ID
10 84 (1.73%) GitHub
11 79 (1.63%) Google Analytics
12 78 (1.61%) Power Automate
12 78 (1.61%) Snowflake
13 76 (1.57%) Microsoft Purview
14 73 (1.51%) Amazon S3
15 69 (1.42%) dbt
16 64 (1.32%) PowerApps
17 63 (1.30%) Serverless
18 51 (1.05%) Azure Data Factory
19 47 (0.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 204 (4.21%) Firewall
2 169 (3.49%) DNS
3 125 (2.58%) DHCP
3 125 (2.58%) VPN
4 83 (1.71%) WAN
5 75 (1.55%) LAN
5 75 (1.55%) TCP/IP
6 72 (1.49%) Broadband
7 62 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
8 55 (1.13%) VLAN
9 54 (1.11%) Wireless
10 46 (0.95%) Network Security
11 45 (0.93%) SAN
12 38 (0.78%) BGP
13 30 (0.62%) Cisco ASA
14 29 (0.60%) HTTP
14 29 (0.60%) OSPF
15 28 (0.58%) Internet
16 27 (0.56%) SD-WAN
17 25 (0.52%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 568 (11.72%) Power BI
2 314 (6.48%) Tableau
3 183 (3.78%) SQL Server
4 152 (3.14%) Data Warehouse
5 97 (2.00%) Data Mining
6 95 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
7 91 (1.88%) Metadata
8 70 (1.44%) Data Lake
9 66 (1.36%) Relational Database
10 59 (1.22%) Looker
10 59 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 57 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
11 57 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
12 54 (1.11%) Power Query
13 46 (0.95%) BigQuery
14 45 (0.93%) MySQL
15 43 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 40 (0.83%) Big Data
17 35 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
17 35 (0.72%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 155 (3.20%) JIRA
2 132 (2.72%) Git
3 50 (1.03%) GitLab
4 32 (0.66%) Rational DOORS
5 30 (0.62%) MLflow
6 29 (0.60%) Jenkins
7 19 (0.39%) Chocolatey
7 19 (0.39%) Selenium
8 15 (0.31%) Cucumber
9 14 (0.29%) ERwin
10 13 (0.27%) IBM UrbanCode
11 12 (0.25%) Cypress.io
11 12 (0.25%) Visual Studio
12 10 (0.21%) Bitbucket
12 10 (0.21%) Postman
12 10 (0.21%) SonarQube
13 9 (0.19%) Balsamiq
13 9 (0.19%) Oracle APEX
14 8 (0.17%) Axure RP
14 8 (0.17%) Maven
General
1 2,222 (45.85%) Social Skills
2 1,684 (34.75%) Finance
3 425 (8.77%) Marketing
4 375 (7.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 279 (5.76%) Law
6 277 (5.72%) Public Sector
7 275 (5.67%) Organisational Skills
8 264 (5.45%) Retail
9 262 (5.41%) Legal
10 248 (5.12%) Banking
11 173 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
12 165 (3.40%) Manufacturing
13 140 (2.89%) Presentation Skills
14 115 (2.37%) Telecoms
15 92 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
16 85 (1.75%) Advertising
17 81 (1.67%) Financial Institution
18 80 (1.65%) Aerospace
19 74 (1.53%) Electronics
20 53 (1.09%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,242 (25.63%) Analyst
2 638 (13.17%) Senior
3 330 (6.81%) Lead
4 310 (6.40%) Data Analyst
5 280 (5.78%) Business Analyst
6 241 (4.97%) Developer
7 222 (4.58%) Architect
8 209 (4.31%) Consultant
9 182 (3.76%) Systems Engineer
10 140 (2.89%) Senior Analyst
11 120 (2.48%) Data Engineer
12 119 (2.46%) IT Manager
12 119 (2.46%) Senior Manager
13 117 (2.41%) Support Analyst
14 103 (2.13%) IT Support
14 103 (2.13%) Support Engineer
15 98 (2.02%) Systems Analyst
16 94 (1.94%) Trainee
17 91 (1.88%) Financial Analyst
18 89 (1.84%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (2.58%) HTML
2 113 (2.33%) CSS
3 104 (2.15%) .NET
4 97 (2.00%) REST
5 88 (1.82%) JSON
6 86 (1.77%) Middleware
7 84 (1.73%) React
8 77 (1.59%) XML
9 68 (1.40%) PyTorch
10 63 (1.30%) TensorFlow
11 51 (1.05%) Node.js
12 50 (1.03%) Kafka
12 50 (1.03%) SOAP
13 41 (0.85%) scikit-learn
14 37 (0.76%) PySpark
14 37 (0.76%) RESTful
15 33 (0.68%) Pandas
16 32 (0.66%) LangChain
16 32 (0.66%) Web Services
17 30 (0.62%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 513 (10.59%) Analytical Mindset
2 234 (4.83%) Management Information System
3 206 (4.25%) Onboarding
4 188 (3.88%) Product Ownership
5 185 (3.82%) Self-Motivation
6 127 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
7 111 (2.29%) Data Centre
8 92 (1.90%) Cloud Native
9 89 (1.84%) Security Posture
10 87 (1.80%) Data Structures
11 82 (1.69%) Algorithms
12 76 (1.57%) Cyber Threat
13 74 (1.53%) Driving Licence
14 59 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
15 57 (1.18%) Social Media
16 55 (1.13%) Public Cloud
17 51 (1.05%) Virtual Team
18 47 (0.97%) FMCG
19 45 (0.93%) Cyber Defence
20 40 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 369 (7.61%) Windows
2 229 (4.73%) Linux
3 182 (3.76%) Windows Server
4 86 (1.77%) Windows Server 2016
5 35 (0.72%) Unix
6 27 (0.56%) Windows 10
7 26 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 19 (0.39%) Mac OS
9 16 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
10 15 (0.31%) Android
10 15 (0.31%) Apple iOS
11 11 (0.23%) CentOS
11 11 (0.23%) Ubuntu
12 8 (0.17%) VMS
13 4 (0.083%) AIX
13 4 (0.083%) Debian
13 4 (0.083%) Rocky
13 4 (0.083%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.041%) OpenVMS
15 1 (0.021%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,184 (45.07%) Problem-Solving
2 1,172 (24.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,063 (21.94%) Analytics
4 1,054 (21.75%) Decision-Making
5 837 (17.27%) Agile
6 652 (13.45%) Business Intelligence
7 629 (12.98%) AI
8 627 (12.94%) Stakeholder Management
9 496 (10.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 485 (10.01%) Project Management
11 481 (9.93%) Roadmaps
12 476 (9.82%) Actionable Insight
13 473 (9.76%) Mentoring
14 445 (9.18%) Data Modelling
15 442 (9.12%) Data Analysis
16 440 (9.08%) Cybersecurity
17 395 (8.15%) Data Governance
18 375 (7.74%) Process Improvement
19 370 (7.64%) Analytical Thinking
20 347 (7.16%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1,019 (21.03%) SQL
2 879 (18.14%) Python
3 173 (3.57%) JavaScript
4 172 (3.55%) PowerShell
5 170 (3.51%) Java
6 137 (2.83%) C#
7 80 (1.65%) R
8 72 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 68 (1.40%) Bash
10 65 (1.34%) C++
11 47 (0.97%) T-SQL
12 46 (0.95%) TypeScript
13 38 (0.78%) MATLAB
14 36 (0.74%) VBA
15 23 (0.47%) Scala
16 21 (0.43%) Go
16 21 (0.43%) PHP
17 18 (0.37%) PL/SQL
18 17 (0.35%) Julia
18 17 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 893 (18.43%) Degree
2 420 (8.67%) Security Cleared
3 307 (6.34%) SC Cleared
4 242 (4.99%) ACCA
5 227 (4.68%) CIMA
6 156 (3.22%) DBS Check
7 152 (3.14%) CISSP
8 149 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
9 120 (2.48%) Cisco Certification
10 105 (2.17%) CISM
11 89 (1.84%) Master's Degree
12 85 (1.75%) DV Cleared
13 79 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
14 74 (1.53%) Azure Certification
14 74 (1.53%) PMI Certification
15 72 (1.49%) IRCA
15 72 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
16 66 (1.36%) PMP
17 64 (1.32%) CompTIA Security+
18 49 (1.01%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 454 (9.37%) Data Quality
2 378 (7.80%) GDPR
3 307 (6.34%) QA
4 261 (5.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 227 (4.68%) NIST
6 157 (3.24%) Cyber Essentials
7 135 (2.79%) SLA
8 129 (2.66%) PCI DSS
9 121 (2.50%) Accessibility
10 115 (2.37%) ISO 9001
11 71 (1.47%) GRC
12 56 (1.16%) PMO
13 54 (1.11%) Actionable Recommendations
14 41 (0.85%) IFRS
15 38 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 37 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 33 (0.68%) COBIT
18 28 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
19 24 (0.50%) ITGC
19 24 (0.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 267 (5.51%) Active Directory
2 89 (1.84%) Hyper-V
3 80 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 78 (1.61%) Docker
5 72 (1.49%) Terminal Server
6 26 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
7 14 (0.29%) ProxySG
8 12 (0.25%) vSphere
9 10 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
10 9 (0.19%) VMware NSX
11 8 (0.17%) IAG
12 4 (0.083%) Firmware
12 4 (0.083%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.083%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.083%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.083%) XenApp
13 3 (0.062%) DFS Replication
14 2 (0.041%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.041%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.021%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 132 (2.72%) Terraform
2 76 (1.57%) Kubernetes
3 66 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
4 57 (1.18%) Ansible
5 34 (0.70%) Grafana
6 28 (0.58%) SCCM
7 25 (0.52%) Prometheus
8 24 (0.50%) Nagios
9 19 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
10 15 (0.31%) QRadar
11 14 (0.29%) Kibana
12 11 (0.23%) Kubeflow
13 9 (0.19%) Control-M
14 6 (0.12%) logstash
14 6 (0.12%) Packer
15 5 (0.10%) Docker Swarm
15 5 (0.10%) Graylog
15 5 (0.10%) Podman
16 4 (0.083%) CASB
16 4 (0.083%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,085 (22.39%) Microsoft
2 203 (4.19%) SAP
3 184 (3.80%) Google
4 168 (3.47%) Oracle
5 163 (3.36%) VMware
6 150 (3.10%) Salesforce
7 127 (2.62%) Splunk
8 123 (2.54%) SolarWinds
9 108 (2.23%) Databricks
10 97 (2.00%) ServiceNow
11 85 (1.75%) Veeam
12 74 (1.53%) Cisco
13 73 (1.51%) Nimble Storage
13 73 (1.51%) Workday
14 72 (1.49%) Brocade
14 72 (1.49%) Tanium
15 50 (1.03%) IBM
16 49 (1.01%) Red Hat
17 46 (0.95%) Adobe
18 45 (0.93%) Dell