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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 9 13
Rank change year-on-year -17 +4 +8
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 5,306 6,126 8,701
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.27% 12.47% 9.68%
As % of the General category 11.22% 17.98% 16.82%
Number of salaries quoted 3,372 2,614 4,284
10th Percentile £32,000 £30,000 £29,087
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -7.85%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,313 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,148 £87,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £48,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -1.04% +1.05% -

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 47,286 34,077 51,739
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.93% 69.36% 57.55%
Number of salaries quoted 28,980 17,730 32,504
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £39,375 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £53,818
Median % change year-on-year - +2.20% -10.30%
75th Percentile £76,250 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -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 25 July 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 25 July 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 4,809 £54,191 -1.47% 2,544
UK excluding London -20 3,396 £47,500 -1.04% 1,721
Work from Home -9 1,695 £55,000 +7.61% 965
London -10 1,623 £67,500 +3.85% 1,132
North of England -19 981 £47,500 +5.56% 447
South East -8 839 £50,000 -4.76% 552
Midlands -10 602 £48,000 +2.67% 279
North West -18 583 £47,275 +0.59% 246
South West -18 459 £45,000 -5.26% 207
West Midlands -19 321 £50,000 +11.11% 149
Yorkshire -11 286 £47,500 +5.56% 146
East Midlands -7 279 £45,872 -3.43% 129
East of England -21 240 £45,000 - 159
North East -22 112 £55,000 +37.50% 59
Scotland -32 110 £44,000 - 62
Wales -12 107 £53,171 -3.33% 30
Northern Ireland -34 68 £41,250 -25.00% 29

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
1 192 (3.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 145 (2.73%) SharePoint
3 73 (1.38%) Confluence
4 70 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
4 70 (1.32%) Apache Spark
5 46 (0.87%) Apache
6 39 (0.74%) CMS
7 26 (0.49%) IIS
8 24 (0.45%) SAS
9 14 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 14 (0.26%) WordPress
10 11 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
11 9 (0.17%) Jupyter
11 9 (0.17%) WebLogic
11 9 (0.17%) WebSphere
12 5 (0.094%) OpenStack
13 3 (0.057%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.057%) JBoss
13 3 (0.057%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.057%) Tomcat
Applications
1 579 (10.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 213 (4.01%) Microsoft Office
3 111 (2.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 81 (1.53%) MS Visio
5 30 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
6 28 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.17%) CATIA
8 7 (0.13%) Adobe XD
9 5 (0.094%) Acrobat
9 5 (0.094%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.075%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 4 (0.075%) Maya
11 3 (0.057%) AutoCAD
11 3 (0.057%) Blender
11 3 (0.057%) LaTeX
11 3 (0.057%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.057%) Simulink
11 3 (0.057%) Trello
12 2 (0.038%) Siemens NX
12 2 (0.038%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 73 (1.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 69 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 37 (0.70%) NetSuite
4 36 (0.68%) Dynamics GP
5 20 (0.38%) SAP PM
6 19 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
7 16 (0.30%) SAP CO
8 15 (0.28%) SAP ERP
8 15 (0.28%) SAP FI
9 14 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
10 13 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
11 10 (0.19%) Magento
12 9 (0.17%) Maximo
13 8 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
14 7 (0.13%) Elite 3E
14 7 (0.13%) Fidessa
14 7 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
14 7 (0.13%) Sage 200
15 6 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
15 6 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 938 (17.68%) Azure
2 672 (12.66%) Power Platform
3 529 (9.97%) AWS
4 409 (7.71%) Microsoft 365
5 329 (6.20%) SaaS
6 242 (4.56%) GCP
7 134 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
8 125 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
9 117 (2.21%) Entra ID
10 94 (1.77%) Google Analytics
11 88 (1.66%) Snowflake
12 81 (1.53%) GitHub
13 78 (1.47%) dbt
14 76 (1.43%) Power Automate
15 74 (1.39%) Microsoft Purview
16 73 (1.38%) PowerApps
17 70 (1.32%) Amazon S3
18 59 (1.11%) Serverless
19 57 (1.07%) Azure Data Factory
20 55 (1.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 199 (3.75%) DNS
2 158 (2.98%) Firewall
3 155 (2.92%) DHCP
4 123 (2.32%) VPN
5 90 (1.70%) TCP/IP
6 78 (1.47%) WAN
7 75 (1.41%) LAN
8 69 (1.30%) Broadband
9 58 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
10 54 (1.02%) Wireless
11 47 (0.89%) Network Security
12 41 (0.77%) SAN
12 41 (0.77%) VLAN
13 40 (0.75%) Internet
14 35 (0.66%) HTTP
15 30 (0.57%) BGP
16 24 (0.45%) SD-WAN
17 21 (0.40%) Cisco ASA
17 21 (0.40%) OSPF
18 20 (0.38%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 596 (11.23%) Power BI
2 287 (5.41%) Tableau
3 209 (3.94%) SQL Server
4 190 (3.58%) Data Warehouse
5 125 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
6 96 (1.81%) Metadata
7 82 (1.55%) Relational Database
8 73 (1.38%) Data Lake
8 73 (1.38%) Looker
9 71 (1.34%) MySQL
9 71 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
10 69 (1.30%) Power Query
11 67 (1.26%) Data Mining
12 65 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 56 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
13 56 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 54 (1.02%) BigQuery
15 44 (0.83%) Big Data
16 38 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
16 38 (0.72%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 204 (3.84%) JIRA
2 181 (3.41%) Git
3 59 (1.11%) GitLab
4 46 (0.87%) Jenkins
5 36 (0.68%) Rational DOORS
6 32 (0.60%) MLflow
7 27 (0.51%) Selenium
8 22 (0.41%) Cucumber
9 18 (0.34%) Postman
10 17 (0.32%) Eclipse
11 16 (0.30%) Chocolatey
12 15 (0.28%) ERwin
13 14 (0.26%) JMeter
14 13 (0.25%) IBM UrbanCode
14 13 (0.25%) Visual Studio
15 12 (0.23%) Bitbucket
15 12 (0.23%) Cypress.io
15 12 (0.23%) SonarQube
16 9 (0.17%) Burp Suite
16 9 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
General
1 2,516 (47.42%) Social Skills
2 1,767 (33.30%) Finance
3 460 (8.67%) Marketing
4 402 (7.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 352 (6.63%) Organisational Skills
6 338 (6.37%) Retail
7 320 (6.03%) Public Sector
8 306 (5.77%) Legal
9 301 (5.67%) Law
10 253 (4.77%) Banking
11 219 (4.13%) Influencing Skills
12 212 (4.00%) Manufacturing
13 144 (2.71%) Presentation Skills
14 132 (2.49%) Telecoms
15 102 (1.92%) Aerospace
16 96 (1.81%) Advertising
17 93 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
18 85 (1.60%) Electronics
19 67 (1.26%) Financial Institution
20 58 (1.09%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,312 (24.73%) Analyst
2 672 (12.66%) Senior
3 367 (6.92%) Lead
4 313 (5.90%) Data Analyst
5 280 (5.28%) Business Analyst
6 253 (4.77%) Developer
7 232 (4.37%) Consultant
8 228 (4.30%) Systems Engineer
9 203 (3.83%) Architect
10 160 (3.02%) Senior Analyst
11 153 (2.88%) Data Engineer
12 151 (2.85%) Support Analyst
13 123 (2.32%) Support Engineer
14 117 (2.21%) IT Support
15 110 (2.07%) IT Manager
16 102 (1.92%) Financial Analyst
16 102 (1.92%) Security Analyst
17 97 (1.83%) Systems Analyst
18 92 (1.73%) Senior Manager
19 90 (1.70%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (2.36%) .NET
2 113 (2.13%) HTML
3 110 (2.07%) REST
4 102 (1.92%) CSS
5 91 (1.72%) JSON
6 84 (1.58%) XML
7 80 (1.51%) React
8 79 (1.49%) Middleware
9 72 (1.36%) Kafka
10 68 (1.28%) PyTorch
11 62 (1.17%) TensorFlow
12 60 (1.13%) RESTful
13 52 (0.98%) SOAP
14 47 (0.89%) PySpark
15 44 (0.83%) scikit-learn
16 41 (0.77%) Node.js
16 41 (0.77%) Web Services
17 36 (0.68%) Pandas
18 32 (0.60%) LangChain
19 31 (0.58%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 535 (10.08%) Analytical Mindset
2 287 (5.41%) Management Information System
3 239 (4.50%) Onboarding
4 232 (4.37%) Product Ownership
5 218 (4.11%) Self-Motivation
6 161 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
7 123 (2.32%) Cloud Native
8 106 (2.00%) Security Posture
9 105 (1.98%) Driving Licence
10 92 (1.73%) Data Centre
11 91 (1.72%) Virtual Team
12 86 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
13 83 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
14 81 (1.53%) Data Structures
15 79 (1.49%) Social Media
16 75 (1.41%) Algorithms
17 70 (1.32%) Blog
18 60 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
19 57 (1.07%) Marketing Technology
20 56 (1.06%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 440 (8.29%) Windows
2 299 (5.64%) Linux
3 219 (4.13%) Windows Server
4 115 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
5 34 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 30 (0.57%) Unix
7 27 (0.51%) Windows 10
8 25 (0.47%) Mac OS
9 21 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
10 20 (0.38%) Android
11 15 (0.28%) Apple iOS
12 14 (0.26%) CentOS
13 11 (0.21%) Ubuntu
14 7 (0.13%) VMS
15 6 (0.11%) Debian
16 5 (0.094%) OpenVMS
17 4 (0.075%) Rocky
18 3 (0.057%) AIX
18 3 (0.057%) CoreOS
19 1 (0.019%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,451 (46.19%) Problem-Solving
2 1,437 (27.08%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,203 (22.67%) Decision-Making
4 1,170 (22.05%) Analytics
5 919 (17.32%) Agile
6 787 (14.83%) AI
7 781 (14.72%) Stakeholder Management
8 688 (12.97%) Business Intelligence
9 577 (10.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 552 (10.40%) Roadmaps
11 504 (9.50%) Actionable Insight
12 501 (9.44%) Project Management
13 498 (9.39%) Mentoring
14 460 (8.67%) Data Modelling
15 458 (8.63%) Data Analysis
16 454 (8.56%) Cybersecurity
17 443 (8.35%) Customer Experience
18 437 (8.24%) Process Improvement
19 409 (7.71%) CI/CD
20 408 (7.69%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 1,083 (20.41%) SQL
2 881 (16.60%) Python
3 191 (3.60%) JavaScript
4 188 (3.54%) Java
5 173 (3.26%) PowerShell
6 165 (3.11%) C#
7 92 (1.73%) C++
8 86 (1.62%) Bash
9 85 (1.60%) R
10 75 (1.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 56 (1.06%) TypeScript
12 50 (0.94%) T-SQL
13 44 (0.83%) MATLAB
14 25 (0.47%) C
15 24 (0.45%) PHP
16 23 (0.43%) Go
16 23 (0.43%) PL/SQL
16 23 (0.43%) Scala
17 21 (0.40%) VBA
18 19 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 962 (18.13%) Degree
2 545 (10.27%) Security Cleared
3 393 (7.41%) SC Cleared
4 263 (4.96%) ACCA
5 247 (4.66%) CIMA
6 154 (2.90%) CISSP
7 150 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 145 (2.73%) DBS Check
9 116 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
10 113 (2.13%) CISM
11 106 (2.00%) DV Cleared
12 96 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
13 94 (1.77%) Master's Degree
14 72 (1.36%) IRCA
15 71 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
16 70 (1.32%) CompTIA Security+
17 64 (1.21%) Azure Certification
18 54 (1.02%) PMI Certification
19 46 (0.87%) CRISC
20 45 (0.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 506 (9.54%) Data Quality
2 386 (7.27%) GDPR
3 358 (6.75%) QA
4 251 (4.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 198 (3.73%) NIST
6 178 (3.35%) Cyber Essentials
7 154 (2.90%) SLA
8 150 (2.83%) PCI DSS
9 139 (2.62%) Accessibility
10 124 (2.34%) ISO 9001
11 76 (1.43%) GRC
12 63 (1.19%) PMO
13 46 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
14 41 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 40 (0.75%) IFRS
16 39 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 35 (0.66%) COBIT
18 28 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
19 24 (0.45%) SOC 2
20 23 (0.43%) ITGC
System Software
1 317 (5.97%) Active Directory
2 119 (2.24%) Docker
3 114 (2.15%) Hyper-V
4 96 (1.81%) Terminal Server
5 78 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
6 25 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (0.21%) Firmware
9 9 (0.17%) VMware NSX
10 8 (0.15%) IAG
10 8 (0.15%) ProxySG
10 8 (0.15%) vSphere
11 4 (0.075%) Ceph
11 4 (0.075%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 4 (0.075%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.075%) XenApp
12 3 (0.057%) DFS Replication
12 3 (0.057%) Embedded Firmware
13 2 (0.038%) KVM
13 2 (0.038%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 140 (2.64%) Terraform
2 104 (1.96%) Kubernetes
3 77 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 64 (1.21%) Ansible
5 45 (0.85%) Grafana
6 27 (0.51%) Prometheus
7 25 (0.47%) SCCM
8 22 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
9 21 (0.40%) Nagios
10 16 (0.30%) Kibana
10 16 (0.30%) QRadar
11 10 (0.19%) Kubeflow
12 9 (0.17%) Podman
13 8 (0.15%) logstash
14 7 (0.13%) Nmap
14 7 (0.13%) Packer
15 6 (0.11%) Graylog
15 6 (0.11%) Red Hat Satellite
16 5 (0.094%) Control-M
16 5 (0.094%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1,178 (22.20%) Microsoft
2 224 (4.22%) Google
3 222 (4.18%) SAP
4 183 (3.45%) VMware
5 177 (3.34%) Oracle
6 157 (2.96%) Splunk
7 137 (2.58%) Salesforce
8 136 (2.56%) SolarWinds
9 128 (2.41%) Databricks
10 111 (2.09%) ServiceNow
11 107 (2.02%) Veeam
12 97 (1.83%) Brocade
12 97 (1.83%) Nimble Storage
13 96 (1.81%) Tanium
14 77 (1.45%) Cisco
15 75 (1.41%) Workday
16 62 (1.17%) Red Hat
17 49 (0.92%) IBM
18 47 (0.89%) Dell
19 46 (0.87%) HubSpot