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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 11 16
Rank change year-on-year -14 +5 +4
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,858 5,211 7,874
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 6.49% 12.18% 9.27%
As % of the General category 12.11% 17.27% 15.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,695 2,404 5,191
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,618 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,886 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,568 £93,778 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,814 £50,967 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.11% +13.26% -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 40,122 30,167 51,968
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 53.62% 70.52% 61.15%
Number of salaries quoted 21,945 15,530 37,503
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +12.15% -10.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,398 £47,500
% change year-on-year -14.12% +10.31% -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 18 March 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 18 March 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 4,306 £52,500 -4.55% 2,231
UK excluding London -17 3,026 £45,814 -10.11% 1,788
Work from Home +2 1,587 £55,000 - 948
London -5 1,524 £67,500 +3.85% 827
North of England -21 815 £45,000 -10.00% 403
South East +4 803 £50,000 -1.90% 623
Midlands -15 583 £47,250 -1.56% 299
North West -18 431 £42,500 -19.05% 226
West Midlands -17 356 £51,300 +2.60% 187
Yorkshire +1 274 £48,445 +4.74% 134
South West -13 273 £45,000 -14.29% 182
East of England -23 257 £42,175 -17.25% 143
East Midlands -2 226 £41,750 -4.02% 112
Scotland -19 189 £40,000 -23.81% 108
North East -7 110 £45,000 +13.97% 50
Wales +9 75 £40,000 -20.20% 52
Northern Ireland -17 50 £52,500 -4.55% 17
Isle of Man -3 1 £62,500 +101.61% 1
Channel Islands -7 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
1 140 (2.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 89 (1.83%) SharePoint
3 81 (1.67%) Confluence
4 59 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
4 59 (1.21%) Apache Spark
5 51 (1.05%) CMS
6 31 (0.64%) Apache
7 18 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
7 18 (0.37%) WordPress
8 16 (0.33%) SAS
9 13 (0.27%) IIS
10 5 (0.10%) nginx
11 4 (0.082%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.062%) Drupal
12 3 (0.062%) govService
13 2 (0.041%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.041%) Camunda
13 2 (0.041%) JBoss
13 2 (0.041%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.041%) MTS
Applications
1 685 (14.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 291 (5.99%) Microsoft Office
3 220 (4.53%) Chatbot
4 121 (2.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 93 (1.91%) MS Visio
6 36 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
7 28 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
8 25 (0.51%) Maya
9 16 (0.33%) Adobe XD
10 9 (0.19%) AutoCAD
11 8 (0.16%) CATIA
12 4 (0.082%) Trello
13 3 (0.062%) Sketch
14 2 (0.041%) Revit
14 2 (0.041%) Simulink
15 1 (0.021%) Notion
15 1 (0.021%) OrCAD
15 1 (0.021%) SmartSuite
15 1 (0.021%) SOLIDWORKS
15 1 (0.021%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 76 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 43 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 43 (0.89%) NetSuite
3 31 (0.64%) Salesforce CRM
4 27 (0.56%) SAP CO
5 21 (0.43%) Endur
6 19 (0.39%) SAP FI
7 18 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
8 17 (0.35%) SAP MDG
8 17 (0.35%) Workday HCM
9 14 (0.29%) SAP ERP
10 12 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
11 11 (0.23%) Sage X3
12 10 (0.21%) Maximo
12 10 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
12 10 (0.21%) SAP PM
13 8 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
14 7 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
14 7 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
15 6 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 834 (17.17%) Azure
2 620 (12.76%) Power Platform
3 451 (9.28%) AWS
4 305 (6.28%) Microsoft 365
5 271 (5.58%) SaaS
6 178 (3.66%) GCP
7 151 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
8 124 (2.55%) Dynamics 365
9 96 (1.98%) GitHub
10 92 (1.89%) Entra ID
11 87 (1.79%) Power Automate
12 75 (1.54%) Snowflake
13 68 (1.40%) Azure Data Factory
14 66 (1.36%) dbt
15 63 (1.30%) Amazon S3
16 58 (1.19%) Serverless
17 57 (1.17%) Google Analytics
18 51 (1.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 51 (1.05%) Microsoft Purview
18 51 (1.05%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 179 (3.68%) Firewall
2 156 (3.21%) DNS
3 123 (2.53%) DHCP
4 105 (2.16%) VPN
5 81 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
6 74 (1.52%) WAN
7 70 (1.44%) LAN
8 67 (1.38%) TCP/IP
9 65 (1.34%) Wireless
10 59 (1.21%) VLAN
11 50 (1.03%) Broadband
12 48 (0.99%) Network Security
13 37 (0.76%) BGP
13 37 (0.76%) SAN
14 35 (0.72%) Wireshark
15 34 (0.70%) OSPF
16 30 (0.62%) Cisco ASA
16 30 (0.62%) EIGRP
17 27 (0.56%) Remote Desktop
17 27 (0.56%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 557 (11.47%) Power BI
2 409 (8.42%) Tableau
3 215 (4.43%) SQL Server
4 196 (4.03%) Data Mining
5 160 (3.29%) Data Warehouse
6 102 (2.10%) Metadata
7 94 (1.93%) Relational Database
8 89 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
9 76 (1.56%) Data Lake
10 60 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 59 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
12 58 (1.19%) Looker
13 55 (1.13%) MySQL
14 50 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
15 48 (0.99%) NoSQL
16 44 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
17 43 (0.89%) Power Query
18 34 (0.70%) Big Data
19 33 (0.68%) GIS
20 32 (0.66%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 191 (3.93%) JIRA
2 133 (2.74%) Git
3 50 (1.03%) GitLab
4 42 (0.86%) Selenium
5 38 (0.78%) Jenkins
6 20 (0.41%) Visual Studio
7 17 (0.35%) MLflow
8 15 (0.31%) Balsamiq
8 15 (0.31%) Robot Framework
9 14 (0.29%) Axure RP
9 14 (0.29%) Chocolatey
9 14 (0.29%) Subversion
10 13 (0.27%) ERwin
10 13 (0.27%) IBM UrbanCode
10 13 (0.27%) Snyk
11 12 (0.25%) Bitbucket
12 11 (0.23%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.21%) LabVIEW
13 10 (0.21%) Postman
14 8 (0.16%) TestRail
General
1 2,401 (49.42%) Social Skills
2 1,782 (36.68%) Finance
3 432 (8.89%) Marketing
4 340 (7.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 308 (6.34%) Banking
6 274 (5.64%) Legal
6 274 (5.64%) Organisational Skills
7 273 (5.62%) Law
8 257 (5.29%) Public Sector
9 248 (5.10%) Retail
10 205 (4.22%) Presentation Skills
11 163 (3.36%) Manufacturing
12 131 (2.70%) Financial Institution
13 118 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
14 101 (2.08%) Telecoms
15 92 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
16 80 (1.65%) Games
17 72 (1.48%) Advertising
18 59 (1.21%) Electronics
19 47 (0.97%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1,227 (25.26%) Analyst
2 614 (12.64%) Senior
3 376 (7.74%) Data Analyst
4 315 (6.48%) Lead
5 242 (4.98%) Business Analyst
6 235 (4.84%) Developer
7 222 (4.57%) Architect
8 216 (4.45%) Trainer
9 202 (4.16%) Consultant
10 171 (3.52%) Trainee
11 169 (3.48%) Support Analyst
12 162 (3.33%) Trainee Analyst
12 162 (3.33%) Trainee Data Analyst
13 141 (2.90%) IT Support
14 139 (2.86%) Senior Analyst
15 132 (2.72%) Senior Manager
16 116 (2.39%) Financial Analyst
17 112 (2.31%) Systems Engineer
18 105 (2.16%) Support Engineer
19 90 (1.85%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (2.63%) HTML
2 118 (2.43%) CSS
3 90 (1.85%) React
4 85 (1.75%) .NET
5 61 (1.26%) REST
6 53 (1.09%) JSON
7 50 (1.03%) Middleware
7 50 (1.03%) XML
8 45 (0.93%) Node.js
9 38 (0.78%) TensorFlow
10 37 (0.76%) Kafka
11 35 (0.72%) PyTorch
12 32 (0.66%) PySpark
13 28 (0.58%) Spring
14 27 (0.56%) FIX Protocol
14 27 (0.56%) SOAP
15 23 (0.47%) EDI
15 23 (0.47%) Pandas
16 21 (0.43%) AngularJS
17 20 (0.41%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 484 (9.96%) Analytical Mindset
2 337 (6.94%) Self-Motivation
3 260 (5.35%) Onboarding
4 226 (4.65%) Management Information System
5 186 (3.83%) Product Ownership
6 122 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
7 103 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
8 98 (2.02%) Data Structures
9 94 (1.93%) Data Centre
10 89 (1.83%) Cloud Native
11 78 (1.61%) Driving Licence
12 75 (1.54%) Algorithms
13 58 (1.19%) Social Media
14 57 (1.17%) Security Posture
15 49 (1.01%) FMCG
15 49 (1.01%) Virtual Team
16 47 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
16 47 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 47 (0.97%) Low-Code
17 34 (0.70%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 359 (7.39%) Windows
2 234 (4.82%) Linux
3 146 (3.01%) Windows Server
4 76 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
5 41 (0.84%) Unix
6 27 (0.56%) Mac OS
7 19 (0.39%) Windows 10
8 18 (0.37%) Android
9 13 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 9 (0.19%) Apple iOS
11 5 (0.10%) CentOS
11 5 (0.10%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.10%) VMS
12 4 (0.082%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.062%) OpenWrt
14 2 (0.041%) AIX
14 2 (0.041%) Data ONTAP
14 2 (0.041%) Oracle Linux
15 1 (0.021%) Debian
15 1 (0.021%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,184 (44.96%) Problem-Solving
2 1,120 (23.05%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,096 (22.56%) Analytics
4 926 (19.06%) Decision-Making
5 880 (18.11%) AI
6 869 (17.89%) Agile
7 713 (14.68%) Business Intelligence
8 662 (13.63%) Project Management
9 584 (12.02%) Stakeholder Management
10 569 (11.71%) Data Analysis
11 450 (9.26%) Actionable Insight
12 432 (8.89%) Mentoring
13 415 (8.54%) Analytical Thinking
14 396 (8.15%) Process Improvement
15 394 (8.11%) Roadmaps
16 382 (7.86%) DevOps
17 373 (7.68%) Data Modelling
18 362 (7.45%) Business Analysis
19 360 (7.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 355 (7.31%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 1,023 (21.06%) SQL
2 868 (17.87%) Python
3 168 (3.46%) JavaScript
4 150 (3.09%) Java
5 142 (2.92%) PowerShell
6 121 (2.49%) C#
7 76 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 69 (1.42%) R
9 57 (1.17%) Bash
10 46 (0.95%) T-SQL
11 43 (0.89%) C++
11 43 (0.89%) VBA
12 37 (0.76%) TypeScript
13 20 (0.41%) C
13 20 (0.41%) Scala
14 19 (0.39%) MATLAB
15 17 (0.35%) Go
16 14 (0.29%) PL/SQL
17 12 (0.25%) Shell Script
18 11 (0.23%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,271 (26.16%) Degree
2 398 (8.19%) Security Cleared
3 342 (7.04%) Master's Degree
4 280 (5.76%) SC Cleared
5 228 (4.69%) PhD
6 221 (4.55%) ACCA
7 213 (4.38%) CIMA
8 178 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
9 144 (2.96%) CISSP
10 115 (2.37%) DBS Check
11 96 (1.98%) PMI Certification
12 95 (1.96%) DV Cleared
13 85 (1.75%) PMP
14 84 (1.73%) Cisco Certification
15 82 (1.69%) CISM
16 61 (1.26%) Azure Certification
17 60 (1.24%) IRCA
18 58 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
19 57 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
20 50 (1.03%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 361 (7.43%) Data Quality
2 276 (5.68%) GDPR
3 269 (5.54%) QA
4 210 (4.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 169 (3.48%) NIST
6 147 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
7 114 (2.35%) PCI DSS
8 107 (2.20%) Accessibility
9 82 (1.69%) PMO
10 74 (1.52%) ISO 9001
11 67 (1.38%) Actionable Recommendations
12 65 (1.34%) SLA
13 44 (0.91%) GRC
14 40 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 34 (0.70%) IFRS
16 30 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 22 (0.45%) WCAG
18 20 (0.41%) COBIT
19 18 (0.37%) NCSC
20 17 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 246 (5.06%) Active Directory
2 92 (1.89%) Hyper-V
3 78 (1.61%) Docker
4 72 (1.48%) Terminal Server
5 58 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
6 16 (0.33%) ProxySG
7 13 (0.27%) vSphere
8 10 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.14%) Firmware
9 7 (0.14%) IAG
9 7 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
10 6 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (0.12%) VMware NSX
11 4 (0.082%) XenApp
12 3 (0.062%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.062%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.041%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.021%) KVM
14 1 (0.021%) NFS
14 1 (0.021%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 138 (2.84%) Terraform
2 80 (1.65%) Kubernetes
3 72 (1.48%) Ansible
4 52 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
5 37 (0.76%) Grafana
6 35 (0.72%) Prometheus
7 25 (0.51%) SCCM
8 24 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (0.33%) Nagios
10 7 (0.14%) Control-M
11 6 (0.12%) QRadar
12 5 (0.10%) CASB
12 5 (0.10%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 5 (0.10%) Kubeflow
13 4 (0.082%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.082%) Backup Exec
13 4 (0.082%) Nessus
13 4 (0.082%) RSA Archer
13 4 (0.082%) SolarWinds Orion
13 4 (0.082%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,169 (24.06%) Microsoft
2 222 (4.57%) SAP
3 218 (4.49%) PayPal
4 185 (3.81%) Oracle
5 142 (2.92%) Salesforce
6 141 (2.90%) VMware
7 139 (2.86%) Google
8 122 (2.51%) SolarWinds
9 114 (2.35%) ServiceNow
10 107 (2.20%) Splunk
11 78 (1.61%) Cisco
11 78 (1.61%) Veeam
12 73 (1.50%) Brocade
12 73 (1.50%) Tanium
13 72 (1.48%) Nimble Storage
14 70 (1.44%) Databricks
15 59 (1.21%) Workday
16 53 (1.09%) Adobe
17 41 (0.84%) Alteryx
18 40 (0.82%) Bloomberg