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

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 9 14
Rank change year-on-year -20 +5 +6
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,724 5,688 9,443
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.19% 13.24% 9.85%
As % of the General category 10.35% 18.52% 16.32%
Number of salaries quoted 2,897 2,534 5,431
10th Percentile £32,750 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,150 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.55% +10.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.00% +11.11% -3.84%

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 45,623 30,716 57,851
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 50.16% 71.50% 60.36%
Number of salaries quoted 24,630 15,996 39,486
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £77,219 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £105,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.00% +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 5 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Top 18 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 5 May 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 -24 4,246 £55,000 - 2,557
UK excluding London -28 2,923 £48,500 -3.00% 1,815
London -8 1,498 £67,500 +3.85% 1,042
Work from Home -8 1,403 £55,000 - 1,107
North of England -31 859 £46,500 -7.00% 438
South East -5 762 £50,000 -6.47% 564
Midlands -28 556 £47,500 - 331
North West -31 487 £45,000 -10.00% 247
West Midlands -27 335 £50,000 +5.26% 201
Yorkshire -12 282 £51,750 +15.00% 136
East of England -31 256 £45,000 -11.71% 185
South West -28 252 £47,500 -6.79% 188
East Midlands -5 219 £45,000 - 130
Scotland -25 137 £40,000 -23.81% 81
North East -24 90 £50,000 +28.87% 62
Wales -4 80 £47,105 -6.28% 50
Northern Ireland -33 34 £56,250 +2.27% 26
Isle of Man -2 1 £62,500 +68.92%

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
1 135 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 94 (1.99%) SharePoint
3 74 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
4 72 (1.52%) Apache Spark
5 63 (1.33%) Confluence
6 48 (1.02%) CMS
7 36 (0.76%) Apache
8 20 (0.42%) WordPress
9 18 (0.38%) IIS
10 11 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
10 11 (0.23%) SAS
11 6 (0.13%) nginx
12 4 (0.085%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.064%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.064%) Drupal
13 3 (0.064%) govService
13 3 (0.064%) JBoss
13 3 (0.064%) Tomcat
14 2 (0.042%) Appian
14 2 (0.042%) Jupyter
Applications
1 591 (12.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 258 (5.46%) Microsoft Office
3 96 (2.03%) MS Visio
4 91 (1.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 30 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
6 26 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
7 24 (0.51%) Chatbot
8 13 (0.28%) Adobe XD
9 12 (0.25%) Maya
10 10 (0.21%) CATIA
11 4 (0.085%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.085%) Trello
12 3 (0.064%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.042%) AutoCAD
13 2 (0.042%) Lectora
13 2 (0.042%) Simulink
14 1 (0.021%) Sketch
14 1 (0.021%) SOLIDWORKS
14 1 (0.021%) SPSS
14 1 (0.021%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 66 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 40 (0.85%) NetSuite
3 36 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
4 33 (0.70%) Salesforce CRM
5 20 (0.42%) SAP CO
6 15 (0.32%) SAP ERP
6 15 (0.32%) SAP PM
7 12 (0.25%) Endur
7 12 (0.25%) Maximo
7 12 (0.25%) SAP FI
8 11 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
8 11 (0.23%) Workday HCM
9 10 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
10 8 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
10 8 (0.17%) Elite 3E
11 7 (0.15%) Magento
11 7 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
12 6 (0.13%) Fidessa
12 6 (0.13%) SAP PP
13 5 (0.11%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 843 (17.85%) Azure
2 642 (13.59%) Power Platform
3 471 (9.97%) AWS
4 334 (7.07%) Microsoft 365
5 259 (5.48%) SaaS
6 211 (4.47%) GCP
7 148 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
8 145 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
9 110 (2.33%) Entra ID
10 102 (2.16%) GitHub
11 95 (2.01%) Snowflake
12 93 (1.97%) Power Automate
13 87 (1.84%) dbt
14 74 (1.57%) Google Analytics
15 72 (1.52%) Microsoft Purview
16 69 (1.46%) Amazon S3
17 63 (1.33%) Serverless
18 58 (1.23%) PowerApps
19 52 (1.10%) Azure Data Factory
20 47 (0.99%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 192 (4.06%) Firewall
2 148 (3.13%) DNS
3 123 (2.60%) VPN
4 107 (2.27%) DHCP
5 79 (1.67%) WAN
6 71 (1.50%) TCP/IP
7 66 (1.40%) LAN
8 62 (1.31%) Wireless
9 61 (1.29%) VLAN
10 53 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
11 50 (1.06%) Broadband
12 48 (1.02%) SAN
13 46 (0.97%) Network Security
14 38 (0.80%) BGP
15 31 (0.66%) OSPF
16 30 (0.64%) Wireshark
17 28 (0.59%) Cisco ASA
18 27 (0.57%) EIGRP
18 27 (0.57%) SD-WAN
19 24 (0.51%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 577 (12.21%) Power BI
2 371 (7.85%) Tableau
3 190 (4.02%) SQL Server
4 166 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
5 154 (3.26%) Data Mining
6 89 (1.88%) Metadata
7 79 (1.67%) Relational Database
8 78 (1.65%) Data Lake
9 69 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
10 67 (1.42%) Looker
11 60 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
12 56 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
13 52 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 48 (1.02%) MySQL
15 47 (0.99%) BigQuery
16 45 (0.95%) Power Query
17 43 (0.91%) NoSQL
18 39 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 36 (0.76%) Big Data
20 35 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 172 (3.64%) JIRA
2 133 (2.82%) Git
3 46 (0.97%) GitLab
4 38 (0.80%) Jenkins
5 32 (0.68%) MLflow
6 26 (0.55%) Rational DOORS
7 25 (0.53%) Selenium
8 20 (0.42%) Chocolatey
9 17 (0.36%) Visual Studio
10 15 (0.32%) Bitbucket
10 15 (0.32%) Cucumber
11 14 (0.30%) Balsamiq
11 14 (0.30%) ERwin
12 13 (0.28%) IBM UrbanCode
13 12 (0.25%) Axure RP
13 12 (0.25%) Subversion
14 11 (0.23%) Cypress.io
15 10 (0.21%) Maven
15 10 (0.21%) Postman
15 10 (0.21%) SonarQube
General
1 2,207 (46.72%) Social Skills
2 1,736 (36.75%) Finance
3 434 (9.19%) Marketing
4 365 (7.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 267 (5.65%) Law
6 266 (5.63%) Banking
7 260 (5.50%) Organisational Skills
8 256 (5.42%) Public Sector
9 241 (5.10%) Retail
10 239 (5.06%) Legal
11 175 (3.70%) Manufacturing
12 160 (3.39%) Presentation Skills
13 131 (2.77%) Influencing Skills
14 110 (2.33%) Telecoms
15 101 (2.14%) Financial Institution
16 84 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
17 74 (1.57%) Advertising
18 72 (1.52%) Electronics
19 67 (1.42%) Games
20 58 (1.23%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,276 (27.01%) Analyst
2 654 (13.84%) Senior
3 343 (7.26%) Data Analyst
4 300 (6.35%) Lead
5 274 (5.80%) Business Analyst
6 242 (5.12%) Developer
7 223 (4.72%) Architect
8 197 (4.17%) Consultant
9 142 (3.01%) Trainee
10 140 (2.96%) Support Analyst
11 139 (2.94%) Systems Engineer
12 134 (2.84%) Senior Analyst
13 130 (2.75%) Trainee Analyst
13 130 (2.75%) Trainee Data Analyst
14 129 (2.73%) Senior Manager
15 111 (2.35%) Financial Analyst
16 105 (2.22%) Data Engineer
16 105 (2.22%) IT Support
17 99 (2.10%) Support Engineer
18 98 (2.07%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (2.82%) HTML
2 120 (2.54%) CSS
3 99 (2.10%) .NET
4 87 (1.84%) REST
5 80 (1.69%) JSON
5 80 (1.69%) React
6 78 (1.65%) Middleware
7 73 (1.55%) XML
8 57 (1.21%) PyTorch
9 54 (1.14%) Kafka
10 53 (1.12%) TensorFlow
11 49 (1.04%) SOAP
12 46 (0.97%) Node.js
13 41 (0.87%) scikit-learn
14 37 (0.78%) PySpark
15 34 (0.72%) Pandas
16 33 (0.70%) LangChain
16 33 (0.70%) RESTful
17 30 (0.64%) EDI
18 29 (0.61%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 488 (10.33%) Analytical Mindset
2 231 (4.89%) Management Information System
3 222 (4.70%) Onboarding
3 222 (4.70%) Self-Motivation
4 199 (4.21%) Product Ownership
5 106 (2.24%) Data Centre
6 99 (2.10%) Cloud Native
7 96 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
8 80 (1.69%) Data Structures
9 76 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
10 75 (1.59%) Security Posture
11 73 (1.55%) Algorithms
12 64 (1.35%) Driving Licence
13 62 (1.31%) Virtual Team
14 56 (1.19%) Cyber Threat
15 54 (1.14%) Social Media
16 51 (1.08%) Public Cloud
17 45 (0.95%) FMCG
18 43 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
18 43 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 343 (7.26%) Windows
2 197 (4.17%) Linux
3 146 (3.09%) Windows Server
4 54 (1.14%) Windows Server 2016
5 34 (0.72%) Unix
6 22 (0.47%) Windows 10
7 20 (0.42%) Mac OS
8 19 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 18 (0.38%) Android
10 15 (0.32%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.17%) CentOS
12 7 (0.15%) VMS
13 6 (0.13%) Ubuntu
14 4 (0.085%) AIX
14 4 (0.085%) Windows Server 2012
15 3 (0.064%) Rocky
16 2 (0.042%) Debian
16 2 (0.042%) Windows Server 2019
17 1 (0.021%) OpenBSD
17 1 (0.021%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,105 (44.56%) Problem-Solving
2 1,115 (23.60%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,062 (22.48%) Analytics
4 970 (20.53%) Decision-Making
5 830 (17.57%) Agile
6 687 (14.54%) Business Intelligence
7 682 (14.44%) AI
8 593 (12.55%) Stakeholder Management
9 576 (12.19%) Project Management
10 481 (10.18%) Data Analysis
11 453 (9.59%) Actionable Insight
12 437 (9.25%) Mentoring
13 431 (9.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 423 (8.95%) Data Modelling
15 418 (8.85%) Roadmaps
16 406 (8.59%) Cybersecurity
17 402 (8.51%) Analytical Thinking
18 379 (8.02%) DevOps
19 357 (7.56%) Data Governance
19 357 (7.56%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,010 (21.38%) SQL
2 848 (17.95%) Python
3 171 (3.62%) JavaScript
4 168 (3.56%) Java
4 168 (3.56%) PowerShell
5 125 (2.65%) C#
6 63 (1.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 63 (1.33%) R
7 59 (1.25%) Bash
8 53 (1.12%) C++
9 47 (0.99%) T-SQL
10 42 (0.89%) TypeScript
11 40 (0.85%) VBA
12 27 (0.57%) MATLAB
13 23 (0.49%) Scala
14 20 (0.42%) Go
14 20 (0.42%) PL/SQL
15 15 (0.32%) PHP
16 14 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
17 13 (0.28%) C
Qualifications
1 974 (20.62%) Degree
2 355 (7.51%) Security Cleared
3 245 (5.19%) ACCA
4 242 (5.12%) SC Cleared
5 233 (4.93%) CIMA
6 168 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 154 (3.26%) DBS Check
8 145 (3.07%) CISSP
9 131 (2.77%) Master's Degree
10 96 (2.03%) Cisco Certification
11 95 (2.01%) PMI Certification
12 94 (1.99%) CISM
13 83 (1.76%) PMP
14 77 (1.63%) DV Cleared
15 72 (1.52%) IRCA
16 70 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
17 69 (1.46%) Azure Certification
18 63 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
19 57 (1.21%) CompTIA Security+
20 56 (1.19%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 426 (9.02%) Data Quality
2 338 (7.15%) GDPR
3 285 (6.03%) QA
4 240 (5.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 203 (4.30%) NIST
6 124 (2.62%) Cyber Essentials
7 108 (2.29%) SLA
8 98 (2.07%) PCI DSS
9 97 (2.05%) ISO 9001
10 94 (1.99%) Accessibility
11 68 (1.44%) PMO
12 58 (1.23%) GRC
13 56 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
14 39 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 38 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 34 (0.72%) IFRS
17 30 (0.64%) COBIT
18 29 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
19 25 (0.53%) SOC 2
20 21 (0.44%) ITGC
System Software
1 245 (5.19%) Active Directory
2 77 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 72 (1.52%) Docker
4 65 (1.38%) Hyper-V
5 48 (1.02%) Terminal Server
6 24 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.34%) ProxySG
8 12 (0.25%) vSphere
9 10 (0.21%) VMware NSX
10 8 (0.17%) IAG
10 8 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
11 5 (0.11%) Firmware
12 4 (0.085%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.085%) XenApp
13 3 (0.064%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.064%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.042%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.042%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.021%) KVM
15 1 (0.021%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 131 (2.77%) Terraform
2 79 (1.67%) Kubernetes
3 68 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
4 60 (1.27%) Ansible
5 34 (0.72%) Grafana
6 30 (0.64%) SCCM
7 27 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
8 25 (0.53%) Prometheus
9 20 (0.42%) Nagios
10 10 (0.21%) Kibana
11 8 (0.17%) Kubeflow
11 8 (0.17%) QRadar
12 6 (0.13%) Control-M
12 6 (0.13%) logstash
13 5 (0.11%) CASB
13 5 (0.11%) Packer
14 4 (0.085%) Graylog
14 4 (0.085%) RSA Archer
14 4 (0.085%) SolarWinds Orion
14 4 (0.085%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,146 (24.26%) Microsoft
2 199 (4.21%) SAP
3 177 (3.75%) Google
3 177 (3.75%) Oracle
4 146 (3.09%) Salesforce
5 136 (2.88%) VMware
6 110 (2.33%) ServiceNow
7 107 (2.27%) Databricks
8 97 (2.05%) SolarWinds
9 87 (1.84%) Splunk
10 80 (1.69%) Workday
11 70 (1.48%) Cisco
12 56 (1.19%) Veeam
13 52 (1.10%) IBM
14 49 (1.04%) Dell
14 49 (1.04%) Tanium
15 48 (1.02%) Brocade
15 48 (1.02%) Nimble Storage
16 44 (0.93%) Red Hat
17 37 (0.78%) Dynatrace