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

6 months to
16 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 6,101 6,135 7,489
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.35% 12.43% 9.62%
As % of the General category 11.61% 18.12% 16.87%
Number of salaries quoted 3,635 2,536 2,977
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £88,750
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 52,572 33,854 44,392
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.08% 68.58% 57.02%
Number of salaries quoted 32,150 17,642 23,013
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £55,655
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -2.97% -7.24%
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% -1.93%

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 16 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 16 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 -17 5,428 £52,500 - 10,376
UK excluding London -16 4,038 £47,500 +5.56% 5,233
Work from Home -6 2,054 £55,000 +10.00% 4,218
London -11 1,777 £67,500 +3.85% 6,086
North of England -20 1,101 £47,500 +10.47% 1,213
South East -10 954 £49,536 +0.07% 1,352
Midlands -10 702 £47,500 +5.56% 777
North West -17 673 £46,500 +3.33% 749
South West -11 581 £47,500 +5.56% 658
West Midlands -17 356 £47,994 +6.65% 485
East Midlands -5 343 £45,000 +5.88% 291
Yorkshire -11 300 £47,000 +17.50% 361
East of England -17 260 £47,500 +18.75% 477
Wales -7 197 £45,000 -10.40% 120
Scotland -24 141 £45,000 +12.50% 455
North East -22 128 £50,500 +26.25% 113
Northern Ireland -12 113 £43,750 -20.45% 259

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
1 188 (3.08%) SharePoint
2 177 (2.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 107 (1.75%) Confluence
4 48 (0.79%) Apache Spark
5 42 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
6 37 (0.61%) CMS
7 36 (0.59%) IIS
8 35 (0.57%) Apache
9 28 (0.46%) SAS
10 11 (0.18%) WordPress
11 10 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 10 (0.16%) Headless CMS
11 10 (0.16%) Jupyter
12 9 (0.15%) WebLogic
12 9 (0.15%) WebSphere
13 8 (0.13%) OpenStack
14 7 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
15 3 (0.049%) Appian
15 3 (0.049%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 3 (0.049%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 688 (11.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 293 (4.80%) Microsoft Office
3 119 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 68 (1.11%) MS Visio
5 44 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
6 43 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
7 17 (0.28%) Simulink
8 12 (0.20%) AutoCAD
9 7 (0.11%) Adobe XD
9 7 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
10 6 (0.098%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 6 (0.098%) CATIA
10 6 (0.098%) Chatbot
10 6 (0.098%) Photoshop
11 5 (0.082%) Acrobat
11 5 (0.082%) EPLAN
11 5 (0.082%) Revit
11 5 (0.082%) Siemens NX
12 3 (0.049%) Adobe Illustrator
12 3 (0.049%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 107 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 63 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
3 40 (0.66%) NetSuite
4 35 (0.57%) Dynamics GP
5 25 (0.41%) Shopify
6 16 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
6 16 (0.26%) Workday HCM
7 15 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
8 12 (0.20%) Magento
8 12 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
8 12 (0.20%) SAP CO
8 12 (0.20%) SAP FI
9 11 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
10 10 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
10 10 (0.16%) SAP Business One
10 10 (0.16%) SAP PM
11 9 (0.15%) Fidessa
11 9 (0.15%) Infor M3
11 9 (0.15%) Sage 200
11 9 (0.15%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 992 (16.26%) Azure
2 738 (12.10%) Power Platform
3 620 (10.16%) AWS
4 438 (7.18%) Microsoft 365
5 387 (6.34%) SaaS
6 279 (4.57%) GCP
7 163 (2.67%) Entra ID
8 154 (2.52%) Dynamics 365
9 153 (2.51%) Azure DevOps
10 124 (2.03%) Google Analytics
11 115 (1.88%) Google Ads
12 103 (1.69%) GitHub
13 90 (1.48%) Serverless
14 87 (1.43%) Snowflake
15 86 (1.41%) Meta Ads
16 84 (1.38%) Power Automate
17 82 (1.34%) Microsoft Purview
18 81 (1.33%) PowerApps
19 79 (1.29%) Amazon S3
20 75 (1.23%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 201 (3.29%) DNS
2 155 (2.54%) DHCP
3 150 (2.46%) Firewall
4 130 (2.13%) VPN
5 104 (1.70%) TCP/IP
6 74 (1.21%) WAN
7 71 (1.16%) LAN
8 68 (1.11%) Network Security
9 56 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
10 55 (0.90%) Wireless
11 53 (0.87%) Internet
12 50 (0.82%) VLAN
13 45 (0.74%) Broadband
14 39 (0.64%) SAN
15 36 (0.59%) HTTP
16 31 (0.51%) VoIP
17 25 (0.41%) BGP
18 24 (0.39%) 5G
19 23 (0.38%) SMS
20 22 (0.36%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 661 (10.83%) Power BI
2 214 (3.51%) SQL Server
3 207 (3.39%) Tableau
4 185 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
5 111 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
6 108 (1.77%) Relational Database
7 99 (1.62%) Metadata
8 88 (1.44%) Looker
9 84 (1.38%) MySQL
10 78 (1.28%) Data Lake
11 74 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
11 74 (1.21%) Power Query
12 71 (1.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 60 (0.98%) BigQuery
14 57 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 55 (0.90%) Big Data
16 52 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
17 48 (0.79%) NoSQL
18 39 (0.64%) MongoDB
19 35 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 262 (4.29%) JIRA
2 215 (3.52%) Git
3 52 (0.85%) Jenkins
4 46 (0.75%) GitLab
5 31 (0.51%) Rational DOORS
6 30 (0.49%) Selenium
7 25 (0.41%) Eclipse
8 24 (0.39%) Cucumber
9 22 (0.36%) MLflow
10 19 (0.31%) Claude Code
10 19 (0.31%) Postman
11 17 (0.28%) LabVIEW
12 16 (0.26%) Chocolatey
13 15 (0.25%) Bitbucket
13 15 (0.25%) JMeter
13 15 (0.25%) Oracle Forms
14 14 (0.23%) Burp Suite
15 12 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
16 11 (0.18%) Cypress.io
16 11 (0.18%) Metasploit
General
1 3,003 (49.22%) Social Skills
2 2,022 (33.14%) Finance
3 690 (11.31%) Marketing
4 534 (8.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 495 (8.11%) Organisational Skills
6 429 (7.03%) Retail
7 410 (6.72%) Law
8 391 (6.41%) Public Sector
9 382 (6.26%) Legal
10 342 (5.61%) Manufacturing
11 317 (5.20%) Influencing Skills
12 243 (3.98%) Banking
13 210 (3.44%) Presentation Skills
14 194 (3.18%) Aerospace
15 149 (2.44%) Telecoms
16 144 (2.36%) Electronics
17 113 (1.85%) Advertising
18 96 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
19 74 (1.21%) Automotive
20 70 (1.15%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,370 (22.46%) Analyst
2 792 (12.98%) Senior
3 418 (6.85%) Lead
4 300 (4.92%) Data Analyst
5 296 (4.85%) Business Analyst
6 287 (4.70%) Developer
7 235 (3.85%) Architect
8 227 (3.72%) Consultant
9 193 (3.16%) Senior Analyst
10 189 (3.10%) Data Engineer
11 187 (3.07%) Support Analyst
11 187 (3.07%) Systems Engineer
12 128 (2.10%) Support Engineer
13 117 (1.92%) IT Support
14 111 (1.82%) Applications Support
15 110 (1.80%) Security Analyst
16 107 (1.75%) IT Manager
17 104 (1.70%) Senior Manager
18 103 (1.69%) Accountant
19 102 (1.67%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (2.62%) .NET
2 143 (2.34%) Terraform
3 130 (2.13%) REST
4 123 (2.02%) HTML
5 113 (1.85%) CSS
6 90 (1.48%) JSON
7 80 (1.31%) RESTful
8 77 (1.26%) Middleware
8 77 (1.26%) XML
9 73 (1.20%) Kafka
10 70 (1.15%) PySpark
11 66 (1.08%) React
12 63 (1.03%) SOAP
13 55 (0.90%) PyTorch
14 48 (0.79%) TensorFlow
15 47 (0.77%) EDI
15 47 (0.77%) Web Services
16 45 (0.74%) LDAP
17 41 (0.67%) Spring Boot
18 39 (0.64%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 467 (7.65%) Analytical Mindset
2 422 (6.92%) Management Information System
3 385 (6.31%) Onboarding
4 308 (5.05%) Self-Motivation
5 291 (4.77%) Product Ownership
6 151 (2.48%) Driving Licence
7 149 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
8 144 (2.36%) Cloud Native
9 141 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
10 119 (1.95%) Blog
10 119 (1.95%) Social Media
11 112 (1.84%) Cyber Threat
12 104 (1.70%) Marketing Technology
13 103 (1.69%) Data Centre
13 103 (1.69%) Security Posture
14 99 (1.62%) Virtual Team
15 85 (1.39%) Data Structures
16 73 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
17 65 (1.07%) Algorithms
18 61 (1.00%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 466 (7.64%) Windows
2 280 (4.59%) Linux
3 219 (3.59%) Windows Server
4 93 (1.52%) Windows Server 2016
5 38 (0.62%) Windows 10
6 34 (0.56%) Mac OS
7 32 (0.52%) Unix
8 27 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 24 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
10 21 (0.34%) Apple iOS
11 17 (0.28%) Android
12 10 (0.16%) CentOS
13 8 (0.13%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.098%) Debian
14 6 (0.098%) VMS
15 5 (0.082%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.066%) CoreOS
17 3 (0.049%) Rocky
18 2 (0.033%) AIX
18 2 (0.033%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,981 (48.86%) Problem-Solving
2 1,789 (29.32%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,442 (23.64%) Decision-Making
4 1,262 (20.69%) Analytics
5 1,205 (19.75%) Stakeholder Management
6 1,119 (18.34%) AI
7 1,073 (17.59%) Agile
8 822 (13.47%) Business Intelligence
9 631 (10.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 619 (10.15%) Roadmaps
11 588 (9.64%) Mentoring
12 579 (9.49%) Actionable Insight
13 569 (9.33%) Validation
14 534 (8.75%) Data Analysis
15 519 (8.51%) Project Management
16 512 (8.39%) Process Improvement
17 497 (8.15%) Cybersecurity
18 493 (8.08%) ERP
19 489 (8.02%) CRM
20 486 (7.97%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,192 (19.54%) SQL
2 851 (13.95%) Python
3 226 (3.70%) JavaScript
4 217 (3.56%) Java
5 194 (3.18%) C#
6 192 (3.15%) PowerShell
7 116 (1.90%) C++
8 91 (1.49%) Bash
9 83 (1.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 78 (1.28%) R
11 70 (1.15%) TypeScript
12 54 (0.89%) MATLAB
13 48 (0.79%) T-SQL
14 40 (0.66%) C
15 29 (0.48%) Scala
16 28 (0.46%) PL/SQL
17 24 (0.39%) Go
17 24 (0.39%) PHP
18 22 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
18 22 (0.36%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,228 (20.13%) Degree
2 693 (11.36%) Security Cleared
3 477 (7.82%) SC Cleared
4 256 (4.20%) ACCA
5 238 (3.90%) CIMA
6 180 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 157 (2.57%) DV Cleared
8 153 (2.51%) CISSP
9 145 (2.38%) DBS Check
10 126 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
11 121 (1.98%) CISM
12 113 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
13 99 (1.62%) Master's Degree
14 81 (1.33%) Azure Certification
15 80 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
16 68 (1.11%) HND
17 67 (1.10%) CompTIA Security+
18 62 (1.02%) PMI Certification
19 51 (0.84%) HNC
20 49 (0.80%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 608 (9.97%) Data Quality
2 371 (6.08%) QA
3 342 (5.61%) GDPR
4 234 (3.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 197 (3.23%) Accessibility
6 177 (2.90%) NIST
7 148 (2.43%) SLA
8 147 (2.41%) Cyber Essentials
9 120 (1.97%) PCI DSS
10 70 (1.15%) GRC
11 69 (1.13%) ISO 9001
12 59 (0.97%) PMO
13 51 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
14 40 (0.66%) IFRS
14 40 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 34 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 30 (0.49%) NCSC
17 28 (0.46%) COBIT
18 26 (0.43%) GAAP
19 24 (0.39%) DO-254
System Software
1 329 (5.39%) Active Directory
2 136 (2.23%) Docker
3 102 (1.67%) Hyper-V
4 88 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 72 (1.18%) Terminal Server
6 42 (0.69%) Firmware
7 23 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
8 22 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
9 11 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
9 11 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.15%) vSphere
11 8 (0.13%) VMware NSX
12 7 (0.11%) Ceph
13 4 (0.066%) KVM
13 4 (0.066%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.049%) DFS Replication
15 2 (0.033%) IAG
15 2 (0.033%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 1 (0.016%) HDFS
16 1 (0.016%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 116 (1.90%) Kubernetes
2 86 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
3 73 (1.20%) Ansible
4 41 (0.67%) Grafana
5 40 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
6 24 (0.39%) SCCM
7 22 (0.36%) Prometheus
8 20 (0.33%) Kibana
9 19 (0.31%) QRadar
10 12 (0.20%) Nagios
11 11 (0.18%) Nmap
11 11 (0.18%) Podman
12 9 (0.15%) Argo
12 9 (0.15%) logstash
13 7 (0.11%) Check_MK
13 7 (0.11%) Istio
13 7 (0.11%) Kubeflow
14 6 (0.098%) Functional Safety
14 6 (0.098%) Graylog
14 6 (0.098%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1,410 (23.11%) Microsoft
2 354 (5.80%) Google
3 246 (4.03%) SAP
4 189 (3.10%) Oracle
5 177 (2.90%) VMware
6 153 (2.51%) Splunk
7 142 (2.33%) Databricks
8 136 (2.23%) ServiceNow
9 132 (2.16%) Salesforce
10 95 (1.56%) SolarWinds
11 85 (1.39%) Cisco
12 81 (1.33%) Veeam
13 73 (1.20%) Brocade
13 73 (1.20%) Nimble Storage
14 72 (1.18%) Tanium
15 69 (1.13%) Adobe
16 63 (1.03%) HubSpot
16 63 (1.03%) Workday
16 63 (1.03%) YouTube
17 43 (0.70%) Dell