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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 13 19
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 +3
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 5,065 5,843 4,894
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 8.35% 10.94% 8.73%
As % of the General category 14.27% 16.41% 14.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2,506 2,455 3,365
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £30,425
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,967 £48,608
% change year-on-year -11.71% +4.85% -2.78%

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 35,496 35,602 34,757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 58.51% 66.64% 61.98%
Number of salaries quoted 19,268 16,186 25,367
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +3.51% -6.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £96,488 £103,750 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -4.76%

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 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Top 19 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 January 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 -6 4,437 £50,915 -7.43% 2,461
UK excluding London -10 3,212 £45,000 -11.71% 2,259
Work from Home +6 1,739 £52,500 -6.25% 979
London +2 1,554 £67,500 +3.85% 581
South East +7 854 £50,000 - 775
North of England -16 777 £42,500 -19.05% 444
Midlands -11 591 £42,735 -10.97% 320
North West -14 407 £42,500 -19.05% 222
South West +1 359 £45,000 -10.00% 266
West Midlands -14 347 £52,500 +5.00% 158
Scotland -4 274 £40,000 -34.29% 83
Yorkshire +4 270 £42,500 -15.00% 169
East of England -20 262 £40,000 -21.52% 296
East Midlands +7 242 £37,500 -11.76% 160
North East +1 100 £43,500 -1.14% 62
Wales +16 79 £42,500 -13.45% 93
Northern Ireland -4 44 £52,500 -11.66% 47
Isle of Man -2 1 £62,500 +150.00% 1
Channel Islands -6 1 - -

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
1 142 (2.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 88 (1.74%) Confluence
3 85 (1.68%) SharePoint
4 43 (0.85%) Apache Spark
5 37 (0.73%) CMS
6 23 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
7 20 (0.39%) SAS
8 19 (0.38%) WordPress
9 16 (0.32%) Apache
9 16 (0.32%) IIS
10 6 (0.12%) nginx
10 6 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.079%) Camunda
11 4 (0.079%) Drupal
12 3 (0.059%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.059%) govService
12 3 (0.059%) HCL Notes
13 2 (0.039%) FactoryTalk
13 2 (0.039%) MTS
13 2 (0.039%) WinCC
Applications
1 757 (14.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 385 (7.60%) Chatbot
3 331 (6.54%) Microsoft Office
4 129 (2.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 71 (1.40%) MS Visio
6 56 (1.11%) Maya
7 41 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
8 37 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
9 21 (0.41%) AutoCAD
10 15 (0.30%) Adobe XD
11 8 (0.16%) SOLIDWORKS
12 5 (0.099%) CATIA
13 4 (0.079%) Oracle Smart View
13 4 (0.079%) PlantUML
13 4 (0.079%) Sketch
14 3 (0.059%) Stata
15 2 (0.039%) Photoshop
15 2 (0.039%) Revit
15 2 (0.039%) Trello
16 1 (0.020%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 143 (2.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 67 (1.32%) SAP MDG
3 54 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
4 43 (0.85%) NetSuite
5 39 (0.77%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 34 (0.67%) SAP CO
7 29 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
8 28 (0.55%) SAP FI
9 27 (0.53%) SAP FI/CO
10 26 (0.51%) Shopify
11 21 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
12 20 (0.39%) SAP IBP
13 19 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
14 18 (0.36%) Endur
15 17 (0.34%) Oracle Assets
16 16 (0.32%) Workday HCM
17 13 (0.26%) Sage X3
18 11 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
18 11 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
18 11 (0.22%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 816 (16.11%) Azure
2 616 (12.16%) Power Platform
3 441 (8.71%) AWS
4 274 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
5 245 (4.84%) SaaS
6 155 (3.06%) GCP
7 147 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
8 100 (1.97%) Dynamics 365
9 84 (1.66%) GitHub
10 77 (1.52%) Snowflake
11 70 (1.38%) Azure Data Factory
12 66 (1.30%) Entra ID
13 60 (1.18%) Power Automate
14 54 (1.07%) Google Analytics
15 53 (1.05%) Serverless
16 51 (1.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 50 (0.99%) Cloud Computing
18 46 (0.91%) dbt
19 42 (0.83%) OCI
19 42 (0.83%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 163 (3.22%) DNS
2 133 (2.63%) Firewall
3 131 (2.59%) DHCP
4 78 (1.54%) VPN
5 72 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
6 61 (1.20%) WAN
7 58 (1.15%) LAN
8 57 (1.13%) Network Security
9 48 (0.95%) Wireless
10 41 (0.81%) Remote Desktop
10 41 (0.81%) TCP/IP
11 39 (0.77%) VLAN
12 32 (0.63%) SMS
13 29 (0.57%) VoIP
14 27 (0.53%) OSPF
15 26 (0.51%) Broadband
16 25 (0.49%) BGP
17 23 (0.45%) EIGRP
17 23 (0.45%) SAN
17 23 (0.45%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 564 (11.14%) Power BI
2 372 (7.34%) Tableau
3 185 (3.65%) SQL Server
4 168 (3.32%) Data Warehouse
5 167 (3.30%) Data Mining
6 113 (2.23%) Data Lake
6 113 (2.23%) Metadata
7 110 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
8 96 (1.90%) Relational Database
9 61 (1.20%) NoSQL
10 57 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 53 (1.05%) Looker
12 51 (1.01%) MySQL
13 47 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
14 45 (0.89%) SAP BW
15 43 (0.85%) GIS
16 42 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
16 42 (0.83%) Big Data
16 42 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
17 35 (0.69%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 213 (4.21%) JIRA
2 95 (1.88%) Git
3 46 (0.91%) Selenium
4 43 (0.85%) Jenkins
5 39 (0.77%) GitLab
6 18 (0.36%) Bitbucket
6 18 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
7 15 (0.30%) Postman
7 15 (0.30%) Robot Framework
8 14 (0.28%) Cypress.io
8 14 (0.28%) WebDriver
9 13 (0.26%) Balsamiq
9 13 (0.26%) ER Studio
9 13 (0.26%) ERwin
9 13 (0.26%) Snyk
9 13 (0.26%) Subversion
10 12 (0.24%) Axure RP
11 10 (0.20%) TestRail
12 9 (0.18%) LabVIEW
12 9 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2,611 (51.55%) Social Skills
2 1,768 (34.91%) Finance
3 491 (9.69%) Marketing
4 329 (6.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 326 (6.44%) Law
6 292 (5.77%) Retail
7 290 (5.73%) Legal
8 252 (4.98%) Banking
9 244 (4.82%) Organisational Skills
10 241 (4.76%) Public Sector
11 218 (4.30%) Presentation Skills
12 189 (3.73%) Manufacturing
13 136 (2.69%) Influencing Skills
14 131 (2.59%) Financial Institution
15 115 (2.27%) Games
16 113 (2.23%) Telecoms
17 79 (1.56%) Electronics
18 77 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
19 71 (1.40%) Advertising
20 53 (1.05%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1,162 (22.94%) Analyst
2 663 (13.09%) Senior
3 381 (7.52%) Trainer
4 349 (6.89%) Data Analyst
5 334 (6.59%) Lead
6 319 (6.30%) Architect
7 225 (4.44%) Developer
8 218 (4.30%) Business Analyst
9 193 (3.81%) Consultant
10 165 (3.26%) Support Analyst
11 143 (2.82%) Senior Analyst
12 142 (2.80%) IT Support
13 136 (2.69%) Trainee
14 124 (2.45%) Solutions Architect
15 123 (2.43%) Trainee Analyst
15 123 (2.43%) Trainee Data Analyst
16 121 (2.39%) Systems Engineer
17 116 (2.29%) Senior Manager
18 111 (2.19%) Business Manager
19 106 (2.09%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (2.27%) HTML
2 107 (2.11%) CSS
3 84 (1.66%) React
4 75 (1.48%) REST
5 62 (1.22%) .NET
6 60 (1.18%) Middleware
7 39 (0.77%) JSON
8 35 (0.69%) SOAP
9 34 (0.67%) AngularJS
9 34 (0.67%) EDI
10 33 (0.65%) Node.js
11 32 (0.63%) XML
12 30 (0.59%) Kafka
13 29 (0.57%) LangChain
14 27 (0.53%) Spring
15 24 (0.47%) PySpark
16 23 (0.45%) FIX Protocol
16 23 (0.45%) Oracle Fusion
17 20 (0.39%) Playwright
17 20 (0.39%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 516 (10.19%) Analytical Mindset
2 383 (7.56%) Self-Motivation
3 347 (6.85%) Onboarding
4 272 (5.37%) Management Information System
5 209 (4.13%) Product Ownership
6 161 (3.18%) Legacy Systems
7 134 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
8 94 (1.86%) Data Centre
9 86 (1.70%) FMCG
10 81 (1.60%) Driving Licence
11 73 (1.44%) Data Structures
12 72 (1.42%) Cloud Native
13 53 (1.05%) Algorithms
13 53 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 52 (1.03%) Robotics
15 50 (0.99%) Virtual Team
16 43 (0.85%) Social Media
17 41 (0.81%) Low-Code
18 40 (0.79%) Security Posture
19 37 (0.73%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 354 (6.99%) Windows
2 238 (4.70%) Linux
3 156 (3.08%) Windows Server
4 98 (1.93%) Windows Server 2016
5 39 (0.77%) Unix
6 24 (0.47%) Mac OS
7 15 (0.30%) Windows 10
8 11 (0.22%) Android
9 7 (0.14%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.099%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.059%) Mac OS X
11 3 (0.059%) OpenWrt
11 3 (0.059%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (0.039%) VMS
12 2 (0.039%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.020%) AIX
13 1 (0.020%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.020%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.020%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.020%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,265 (44.72%) Problem-Solving
2 1,100 (21.72%) AI
3 1,093 (21.58%) Analytics
4 1,061 (20.95%) Continuous Improvement
5 977 (19.29%) Decision-Making
6 895 (17.67%) Agile
7 804 (15.87%) Project Management
8 743 (14.67%) Business Intelligence
9 623 (12.30%) Stakeholder Management
10 541 (10.68%) Data Analysis
11 453 (8.94%) Risk Management
12 439 (8.67%) Roadmaps
13 419 (8.27%) ERP
14 414 (8.17%) Business Strategy
15 410 (8.09%) Analytical Thinking
16 405 (8.00%) Mentoring
17 398 (7.86%) Process Improvement
18 395 (7.80%) Actionable Insight
19 394 (7.78%) Customer Service
19 394 (7.78%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 983 (19.41%) SQL
2 697 (13.76%) Python
3 147 (2.90%) Java
4 139 (2.74%) JavaScript
5 118 (2.33%) PowerShell
6 110 (2.17%) C#
7 61 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 60 (1.18%) R
9 48 (0.95%) C++
10 46 (0.91%) VBA
11 45 (0.89%) T-SQL
12 40 (0.79%) Bash
13 29 (0.57%) Scala
14 28 (0.55%) TypeScript
15 21 (0.41%) Go
16 20 (0.39%) C
17 19 (0.38%) PL/SQL
18 15 (0.30%) Kotlin
18 15 (0.30%) MATLAB
19 13 (0.26%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 1,612 (31.83%) Degree
2 528 (10.42%) Master's Degree
3 436 (8.61%) Security Cleared
4 393 (7.76%) PhD
5 323 (6.38%) SC Cleared
6 209 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 179 (3.53%) ACCA
8 171 (3.38%) CIMA
9 155 (3.06%) CISSP
10 112 (2.21%) DBS Check
11 100 (1.97%) PMI Certification
12 87 (1.72%) DV Cleared
13 83 (1.64%) PMP
14 78 (1.54%) CISM
15 71 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
16 65 (1.28%) Azure Certification
17 60 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
18 56 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
19 51 (1.01%) AWS Certification
20 50 (0.99%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 336 (6.63%) Data Quality
2 256 (5.05%) QA
3 188 (3.71%) GDPR
4 186 (3.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 150 (2.96%) Cyber Essentials
6 136 (2.69%) PCI DSS
7 122 (2.41%) NIST
8 111 (2.19%) Accessibility
9 103 (2.03%) PMO
10 54 (1.07%) SLA
11 52 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
12 39 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 35 (0.69%) GRC
14 28 (0.55%) IFRS
15 21 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 19 (0.38%) WCAG
17 16 (0.32%) COBIT
17 16 (0.32%) ISO 9001
18 14 (0.28%) NCSC
19 13 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 249 (4.92%) Active Directory
2 120 (2.37%) Hyper-V
3 96 (1.90%) Terminal Server
4 55 (1.09%) Docker
5 51 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
6 13 (0.26%) Firmware
7 12 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
7 12 (0.24%) vSphere
8 10 (0.20%) ProxySG
9 8 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.059%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.059%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.039%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.039%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.039%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.020%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.020%) NFS
12 1 (0.020%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 97 (1.92%) Terraform
2 62 (1.22%) Ansible
3 61 (1.20%) Kubernetes
4 48 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
6 20 (0.39%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.30%) Grafana
7 15 (0.30%) SCCM
8 6 (0.12%) SCOM
9 5 (0.099%) Computer Incident Response Team
9 5 (0.099%) Control-M
9 5 (0.099%) Nagios
10 4 (0.079%) CSIRT
10 4 (0.079%) Nessus
10 4 (0.079%) Rancher
10 4 (0.079%) vRealize
11 3 (0.059%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.059%) QRadar
12 2 (0.039%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 2 (0.039%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 1,154 (22.78%) Microsoft
2 381 (7.52%) PayPal
3 373 (7.36%) SAP
4 211 (4.17%) Oracle
5 177 (3.49%) Salesforce
6 159 (3.14%) VMware
7 147 (2.90%) Google
8 128 (2.53%) SolarWinds
9 123 (2.43%) Splunk
10 101 (1.99%) ServiceNow
11 97 (1.92%) Brocade
11 97 (1.92%) Tanium
11 97 (1.92%) Veeam
12 96 (1.90%) Nimble Storage
13 80 (1.58%) Cisco
14 77 (1.52%) Databricks
15 62 (1.22%) Adobe
16 44 (0.87%) Alteryx
16 44 (0.87%) Bloomberg
17 42 (0.83%) Ariba