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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 9 13
Rank change year-on-year -17 +4 +7
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 5,619 6,165 8,053
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.37% 12.43% 9.62%
As % of the General category 11.47% 17.97% 16.81%
Number of salaries quoted 3,523 2,647 3,747
10th Percentile £31,500 £29,848 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,725 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,500 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% +2.88% -5.25%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - - -0.44%

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 48,974 34,298 47,915
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.80% 69.17% 57.24%
Number of salaries quoted 30,041 17,971 28,856
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £29,627
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,900 £75,000 £74,919
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,474 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £49,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -9.09% -5.71%

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 6 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 6 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 -16 5,091 £53,000 -3.64% 3,811
UK excluding London -18 3,598 £47,500 - 2,286
Work from Home -11 1,795 £55,000 +9.73% 1,510
London -10 1,733 £67,500 +3.85% 1,927
North of England -18 1,029 £47,500 +5.56% 547
South East -9 879 £50,000 -4.76% 699
Midlands -10 639 £48,000 +6.67% 380
North West -16 624 £47,500 +2.15% 300
South West -15 492 £47,500 +2.93% 299
West Midlands -16 331 £50,149 +11.44% 224
East Midlands -1 306 £45,000 - 156
Yorkshire -9 284 £47,500 +6.26% 187
East of England -23 253 £45,050 -3.82% 208
North East -17 121 £55,000 +37.50% 64
Scotland -25 119 £44,000 - 118
Wales -17 114 £53,171 +1.28% 51
Northern Ireland -31 81 £42,500 -22.73% 48

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
1 180 (3.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 156 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 81 (1.44%) Confluence
4 69 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
5 68 (1.21%) Apache Spark
6 48 (0.85%) Apache
7 45 (0.80%) CMS
8 29 (0.52%) IIS
9 24 (0.43%) SAS
10 12 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 12 (0.21%) WordPress
11 10 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
12 9 (0.16%) Jupyter
12 9 (0.16%) WebLogic
12 9 (0.16%) WebSphere
13 8 (0.14%) OpenStack
14 6 (0.11%) Headless CMS
15 3 (0.053%) Anypoint
15 3 (0.053%) JBoss
15 3 (0.053%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 607 (10.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 242 (4.31%) Microsoft Office
3 123 (2.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 83 (1.48%) MS Visio
5 37 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
6 31 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.16%) Adobe XD
8 7 (0.12%) CATIA
9 6 (0.11%) AutoCAD
10 5 (0.089%) Acrobat
10 5 (0.089%) Chatbot
11 4 (0.071%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.071%) EPLAN
11 4 (0.071%) Maya
12 3 (0.053%) LaTeX
12 3 (0.053%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.053%) Simulink
12 3 (0.053%) SOLIDWORKS
12 3 (0.053%) Trello
12 3 (0.053%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 76 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 74 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 38 (0.68%) NetSuite
4 36 (0.64%) Dynamics GP
5 23 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
6 20 (0.36%) SAP PM
7 16 (0.28%) SAP CO
7 16 (0.28%) SAP FI
8 15 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
8 15 (0.27%) SAP ERP
8 15 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
9 13 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
10 10 (0.18%) Elite 3E
10 10 (0.18%) Magento
11 9 (0.16%) Maximo
11 9 (0.16%) Shopify
11 9 (0.16%) Workday HCM
12 8 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
12 8 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
12 8 (0.14%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 978 (17.41%) Azure
2 696 (12.39%) Power Platform
3 585 (10.41%) AWS
4 402 (7.15%) Microsoft 365
5 346 (6.16%) SaaS
6 266 (4.73%) GCP
7 140 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
8 138 (2.46%) Dynamics 365
9 128 (2.28%) Entra ID
10 99 (1.76%) Snowflake
11 98 (1.74%) Google Analytics
12 92 (1.64%) GitHub
13 83 (1.48%) dbt
14 82 (1.46%) Power Automate
15 74 (1.32%) Amazon S3
16 73 (1.30%) PowerApps
17 71 (1.26%) Microsoft Purview
18 61 (1.09%) Serverless
19 56 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
20 55 (0.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 195 (3.47%) DNS
2 154 (2.74%) Firewall
3 149 (2.65%) DHCP
4 130 (2.31%) VPN
5 98 (1.74%) TCP/IP
6 79 (1.41%) WAN
7 78 (1.39%) LAN
8 63 (1.12%) Broadband
9 60 (1.07%) Wireless
10 57 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
11 56 (1.00%) Network Security
12 44 (0.78%) VLAN
13 43 (0.77%) SAN
14 40 (0.71%) Internet
15 37 (0.66%) HTTP
16 30 (0.53%) BGP
17 23 (0.41%) SD-WAN
17 23 (0.41%) VoIP
18 22 (0.39%) OSPF
19 19 (0.34%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 616 (10.96%) Power BI
2 282 (5.02%) Tableau
3 223 (3.97%) SQL Server
4 197 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
5 111 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
6 99 (1.76%) Relational Database
7 92 (1.64%) Metadata
8 86 (1.53%) Looker
9 77 (1.37%) MySQL
10 75 (1.33%) Data Lake
11 73 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
12 71 (1.26%) Power Query
13 66 (1.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 61 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 58 (1.03%) BigQuery
16 56 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
17 49 (0.87%) Data Mining
18 46 (0.82%) Big Data
19 42 (0.75%) NoSQL
20 38 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 230 (4.09%) JIRA
2 216 (3.84%) Git
3 58 (1.03%) GitLab
4 50 (0.89%) Jenkins
5 34 (0.61%) Rational DOORS
6 33 (0.59%) MLflow
7 30 (0.53%) Selenium
8 23 (0.41%) Cucumber
9 20 (0.36%) Postman
10 18 (0.32%) Eclipse
11 17 (0.30%) Chocolatey
12 15 (0.27%) ERwin
13 14 (0.25%) JMeter
14 13 (0.23%) Bitbucket
14 13 (0.23%) Cypress.io
14 13 (0.23%) IBM UrbanCode
15 12 (0.21%) SonarQube
16 11 (0.20%) Burp Suite
16 11 (0.20%) Claude Code
16 11 (0.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 2,666 (47.45%) Social Skills
2 1,848 (32.89%) Finance
3 536 (9.54%) Marketing
4 466 (8.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 407 (7.24%) Organisational Skills
6 368 (6.55%) Retail
7 343 (6.10%) Law
8 338 (6.02%) Public Sector
9 322 (5.73%) Legal
10 274 (4.88%) Banking
11 252 (4.48%) Manufacturing
12 249 (4.43%) Influencing Skills
13 164 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
14 139 (2.47%) Aerospace
15 132 (2.35%) Telecoms
16 103 (1.83%) Advertising
17 97 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
18 92 (1.64%) Electronics
19 74 (1.32%) Financial Institution
20 64 (1.14%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,329 (23.65%) Analyst
2 714 (12.71%) Senior
3 397 (7.07%) Lead
4 307 (5.46%) Data Analyst
5 285 (5.07%) Business Analyst
6 273 (4.86%) Developer
7 233 (4.15%) Consultant
8 219 (3.90%) Architect
9 213 (3.79%) Systems Engineer
10 173 (3.08%) Senior Analyst
11 165 (2.94%) Data Engineer
12 156 (2.78%) Support Analyst
13 129 (2.30%) Support Engineer
14 122 (2.17%) IT Support
15 114 (2.03%) IT Manager
16 107 (1.90%) Security Analyst
17 102 (1.82%) Senior Manager
18 100 (1.78%) Financial Analyst
19 99 (1.76%) Systems Analyst
20 89 (1.58%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (2.47%) .NET
2 123 (2.19%) HTML
3 115 (2.05%) REST
4 113 (2.01%) CSS
5 90 (1.60%) JSON
6 80 (1.42%) XML
7 78 (1.39%) Middleware
8 76 (1.35%) React
9 74 (1.32%) Kafka
10 67 (1.19%) RESTful
11 66 (1.17%) PyTorch
12 59 (1.05%) TensorFlow
13 54 (0.96%) SOAP
14 51 (0.91%) PySpark
15 44 (0.78%) scikit-learn
16 41 (0.73%) Web Services
17 39 (0.69%) Node.js
18 37 (0.66%) OAuth
19 36 (0.64%) EDI
19 36 (0.64%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 543 (9.66%) Analytical Mindset
2 319 (5.68%) Management Information System
3 285 (5.07%) Onboarding
4 257 (4.57%) Self-Motivation
5 249 (4.43%) Product Ownership
6 162 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
7 129 (2.30%) Cloud Native
7 129 (2.30%) Driving Licence
8 109 (1.94%) Security Posture
9 104 (1.85%) Data Centre
10 101 (1.80%) Social Media
11 99 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
12 91 (1.62%) Virtual Team
13 90 (1.60%) Cyber Threat
14 85 (1.51%) Blog
15 83 (1.48%) Data Structures
16 77 (1.37%) Algorithms
17 73 (1.30%) Marketing Technology
18 63 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
19 57 (1.01%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 447 (7.96%) Windows
2 297 (5.29%) Linux
3 218 (3.88%) Windows Server
4 99 (1.76%) Windows Server 2016
5 36 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 32 (0.57%) Windows 10
7 31 (0.55%) Unix
8 28 (0.50%) Mac OS
9 23 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
10 21 (0.37%) Android
11 19 (0.34%) Apple iOS
12 15 (0.27%) CentOS
13 12 (0.21%) Ubuntu
14 7 (0.12%) Debian
15 6 (0.11%) VMS
16 5 (0.089%) OpenVMS
17 4 (0.071%) CoreOS
17 4 (0.071%) Rocky
18 3 (0.053%) AIX
19 2 (0.036%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,648 (47.13%) Problem-Solving
2 1,573 (27.99%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,267 (22.55%) Decision-Making
4 1,234 (21.96%) Analytics
5 991 (17.64%) Agile
6 903 (16.07%) AI
7 889 (15.82%) Stakeholder Management
8 725 (12.90%) Business Intelligence
9 618 (11.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 580 (10.32%) Roadmaps
11 537 (9.56%) Mentoring
12 533 (9.49%) Project Management
13 525 (9.34%) Actionable Insight
14 486 (8.65%) Data Analysis
15 474 (8.44%) Cybersecurity
16 472 (8.40%) Data Modelling
17 465 (8.28%) Validation
18 461 (8.20%) Customer Experience
19 451 (8.03%) Process Improvement
20 434 (7.72%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 1,132 (20.15%) SQL
2 913 (16.25%) Python
3 213 (3.79%) JavaScript
4 193 (3.43%) Java
5 186 (3.31%) PowerShell
6 179 (3.19%) C#
7 98 (1.74%) C++
8 93 (1.66%) Bash
9 83 (1.48%) R
10 75 (1.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 63 (1.12%) TypeScript
12 50 (0.89%) T-SQL
13 44 (0.78%) MATLAB
14 30 (0.53%) C
15 26 (0.46%) Scala
16 25 (0.44%) PHP
17 23 (0.41%) Go
18 22 (0.39%) PL/SQL
19 21 (0.37%) VBA
20 19 (0.34%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,069 (19.02%) Degree
2 585 (10.41%) Security Cleared
3 413 (7.35%) SC Cleared
4 255 (4.54%) ACCA
5 240 (4.27%) CIMA
6 167 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 164 (2.92%) CISSP
8 148 (2.63%) DBS Check
9 135 (2.40%) DV Cleared
10 123 (2.19%) CISM
11 122 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
12 111 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
13 97 (1.73%) Master's Degree
14 73 (1.30%) IRCA
14 73 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
15 72 (1.28%) CompTIA Security+
16 70 (1.25%) Azure Certification
17 61 (1.09%) PMI Certification
18 48 (0.85%) CRISC
19 47 (0.84%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 537 (9.56%) Data Quality
2 395 (7.03%) GDPR
3 394 (7.01%) QA
4 242 (4.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 196 (3.49%) NIST
6 161 (2.87%) Accessibility
7 158 (2.81%) Cyber Essentials
8 155 (2.76%) SLA
9 134 (2.38%) PCI DSS
10 127 (2.26%) ISO 9001
11 74 (1.32%) GRC
12 66 (1.17%) PMO
13 47 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
14 41 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 39 (0.69%) IFRS
16 38 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 36 (0.64%) COBIT
18 28 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
19 24 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 20000
19 24 (0.43%) NCSC
System Software
1 318 (5.66%) Active Directory
2 133 (2.37%) Docker
3 104 (1.85%) Hyper-V
4 90 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 80 (1.42%) Terminal Server
6 25 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
7 19 (0.34%) Firmware
8 18 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (0.16%) IAG
9 9 (0.16%) VMware NSX
10 8 (0.14%) ProxySG
10 8 (0.14%) vSphere
11 7 (0.12%) Ceph
12 5 (0.089%) KVM
12 5 (0.089%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.071%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.071%) XenApp
14 3 (0.053%) DFS Replication
14 3 (0.053%) Embedded Firmware
14 3 (0.053%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 148 (2.63%) Terraform
2 113 (2.01%) Kubernetes
3 86 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
4 76 (1.35%) Ansible
5 43 (0.77%) Grafana
6 26 (0.46%) Prometheus
6 26 (0.46%) SCCM
7 25 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
8 22 (0.39%) Nagios
9 17 (0.30%) QRadar
10 16 (0.28%) Kibana
11 12 (0.21%) Podman
12 9 (0.16%) Kubeflow
12 9 (0.16%) Nmap
13 8 (0.14%) Argo
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%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1,227 (21.84%) Microsoft
2 253 (4.50%) Google
3 238 (4.24%) SAP
4 197 (3.51%) Oracle
5 180 (3.20%) VMware
6 147 (2.62%) Splunk
7 137 (2.44%) Salesforce
8 136 (2.42%) Databricks
9 121 (2.15%) ServiceNow
9 121 (2.15%) SolarWinds
10 91 (1.62%) Veeam
11 85 (1.51%) Cisco
12 81 (1.44%) Brocade
12 81 (1.44%) Nimble Storage
13 80 (1.42%) Tanium
14 78 (1.39%) Workday
15 67 (1.19%) Red Hat
16 53 (0.94%) Adobe
17 50 (0.89%) Dell
17 50 (0.89%) HubSpot