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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 9 14
Rank change year-on-year -17 +5 +5
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,690 5,910 9,494
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.10% 13.41% 9.77%
As % of the General category 10.46% 18.42% 16.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2,942 2,479 5,430
10th Percentile £33,125 £31,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,350 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +10.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £89,000 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -2.00% +11.11% -4.26%

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 44,852 32,091 58,409
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 48.73% 72.83% 60.08%
Number of salaries quoted 25,332 15,874 39,640
10th Percentile £29,625 £28,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £39,947 £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 £77,424 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £104,500 £93,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - +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 19 May 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 19 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 -17 4,234 £55,000 - 2,285
UK excluding London -20 2,903 £49,000 -2.00% 1,664
London -8 1,495 £67,500 +3.85% 911
Work from Home -8 1,374 £55,000 - 1,001
North of England -30 889 £47,500 -5.00% 392
South East -4 745 £50,000 -7.37% 539
Midlands -25 536 £48,000 - 257
North West -31 514 £45,037 -9.93% 223
West Midlands -28 318 £50,000 +4.71% 159
Yorkshire -12 291 £52,500 +16.67% 120
South West -28 269 £47,500 -5.00% 171
East of England -21 243 £45,050 -11.61% 188
East Midlands +3 216 £45,000 -7.22% 96
Scotland -29 122 £40,000 -20.71% 82
North East -28 84 £48,445 +25.83% 57
Wales -6 76 £51,709 -1.51% 47
Northern Ireland -27 37 £46,250 -15.91% 30

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
1 137 (2.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 103 (2.20%) SharePoint
3 74 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
4 72 (1.54%) Apache Spark
5 60 (1.28%) Confluence
6 42 (0.90%) CMS
7 35 (0.75%) Apache
8 19 (0.41%) IIS
9 17 (0.36%) SAS
10 16 (0.34%) WordPress
11 12 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
12 10 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 6 (0.13%) nginx
14 3 (0.064%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.064%) govService
14 3 (0.064%) JBoss
14 3 (0.064%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.064%) Tomcat
15 2 (0.043%) Appian
15 2 (0.043%) Umbraco
Applications
1 555 (11.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 216 (4.61%) Microsoft Office
3 93 (1.98%) MS Visio
4 88 (1.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 30 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
6 25 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
7 12 (0.26%) Maya
8 11 (0.23%) Adobe XD
9 10 (0.21%) CATIA
10 4 (0.085%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 4 (0.085%) Chatbot
11 3 (0.064%) Acrobat
11 3 (0.064%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.064%) Trello
12 2 (0.043%) Lectora
12 2 (0.043%) Simulink
13 1 (0.021%) AutoCAD
13 1 (0.021%) Sketch
13 1 (0.021%) SPSS
13 1 (0.021%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 68 (1.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 40 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 38 (0.81%) NetSuite
4 32 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
5 19 (0.41%) SAP CO
6 15 (0.32%) SAP PM
7 14 (0.30%) SAP ERP
8 11 (0.23%) Endur
8 11 (0.23%) Maximo
8 11 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
8 11 (0.23%) SAP FI
9 10 (0.21%) Workday HCM
10 9 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
11 7 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
11 7 (0.15%) Elite 3E
11 7 (0.15%) Magento
11 7 (0.15%) SAP PP
12 6 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
12 6 (0.13%) Shopify
13 5 (0.11%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 844 (18.00%) Azure
2 647 (13.80%) Power Platform
3 473 (10.09%) AWS
4 333 (7.10%) Microsoft 365
5 271 (5.78%) SaaS
6 206 (4.39%) GCP
7 130 (2.77%) Azure DevOps
8 128 (2.73%) Dynamics 365
9 110 (2.35%) Entra ID
10 96 (2.05%) GitHub
11 90 (1.92%) Snowflake
12 89 (1.90%) Power Automate
13 80 (1.71%) dbt
14 75 (1.60%) Google Analytics
15 73 (1.56%) Microsoft Purview
16 66 (1.41%) Amazon S3
17 64 (1.36%) PowerApps
18 59 (1.26%) Serverless
19 55 (1.17%) Azure Data Factory
20 49 (1.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 197 (4.20%) Firewall
2 147 (3.13%) DNS
3 126 (2.69%) VPN
4 102 (2.17%) DHCP
5 78 (1.66%) WAN
6 70 (1.49%) TCP/IP
7 69 (1.47%) LAN
8 59 (1.26%) VLAN
9 58 (1.24%) Broadband
9 58 (1.24%) Wi-Fi
9 58 (1.24%) Wireless
10 51 (1.09%) SAN
11 47 (1.00%) Network Security
12 39 (0.83%) BGP
13 31 (0.66%) Cisco ASA
14 30 (0.64%) OSPF
15 28 (0.60%) Wireshark
16 26 (0.55%) SD-WAN
17 25 (0.53%) EIGRP
17 25 (0.53%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 576 (12.28%) Power BI
2 351 (7.48%) Tableau
3 184 (3.92%) SQL Server
4 162 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
5 133 (2.84%) Data Mining
6 83 (1.77%) Metadata
7 73 (1.56%) Data Lake
8 69 (1.47%) Relational Database
9 67 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
10 60 (1.28%) Looker
11 59 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
11 59 (1.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 57 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
13 49 (1.04%) BigQuery
14 47 (1.00%) MySQL
15 45 (0.96%) Power Query
16 42 (0.90%) NoSQL
16 42 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 35 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
18 34 (0.72%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 165 (3.52%) JIRA
2 137 (2.92%) Git
3 47 (1.00%) GitLab
4 38 (0.81%) Jenkins
5 31 (0.66%) MLflow
6 28 (0.60%) Rational DOORS
7 25 (0.53%) Selenium
8 21 (0.45%) Chocolatey
9 16 (0.34%) Visual Studio
10 15 (0.32%) Cucumber
11 14 (0.30%) ERwin
12 13 (0.28%) Bitbucket
12 13 (0.28%) IBM UrbanCode
13 12 (0.26%) Balsamiq
14 10 (0.21%) Axure RP
14 10 (0.21%) Maven
14 10 (0.21%) SonarQube
14 10 (0.21%) Subversion
15 9 (0.19%) Oracle APEX
15 9 (0.19%) Postman
General
1 2,134 (45.50%) Social Skills
2 1,691 (36.06%) Finance
3 418 (8.91%) Marketing
4 373 (7.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 274 (5.84%) Law
6 260 (5.54%) Banking
7 258 (5.50%) Organisational Skills
7 258 (5.50%) Public Sector
8 253 (5.39%) Retail
9 243 (5.18%) Legal
10 165 (3.52%) Manufacturing
11 149 (3.18%) Presentation Skills
12 148 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
13 111 (2.37%) Telecoms
14 88 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
14 88 (1.88%) Financial Institution
15 73 (1.56%) Electronics
16 71 (1.51%) Advertising
17 67 (1.43%) Games
18 65 (1.39%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,220 (26.01%) Analyst
2 653 (13.92%) Senior
3 322 (6.87%) Data Analyst
4 303 (6.46%) Lead
5 268 (5.71%) Business Analyst
6 246 (5.25%) Developer
7 216 (4.61%) Architect
8 203 (4.33%) Consultant
9 150 (3.20%) Systems Engineer
10 132 (2.81%) Senior Analyst
11 130 (2.77%) Senior Manager
12 122 (2.60%) Trainee
13 121 (2.58%) Support Analyst
14 110 (2.35%) Trainee Analyst
14 110 (2.35%) Trainee Data Analyst
15 109 (2.32%) Data Engineer
16 107 (2.28%) IT Manager
17 102 (2.17%) IT Support
17 102 (2.17%) Support Engineer
18 87 (1.86%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (2.73%) HTML
2 118 (2.52%) CSS
3 97 (2.07%) .NET
4 90 (1.92%) REST
5 81 (1.73%) JSON
5 81 (1.73%) Middleware
6 80 (1.71%) React
7 73 (1.56%) XML
8 60 (1.28%) PyTorch
9 55 (1.17%) TensorFlow
10 52 (1.11%) Kafka
10 52 (1.11%) SOAP
11 44 (0.94%) Node.js
12 40 (0.85%) scikit-learn
13 36 (0.77%) PySpark
14 35 (0.75%) RESTful
15 33 (0.70%) Pandas
16 32 (0.68%) LangChain
17 31 (0.66%) EDI
18 26 (0.55%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 496 (10.58%) Analytical Mindset
2 225 (4.80%) Management Information System
3 205 (4.37%) Onboarding
4 192 (4.09%) Product Ownership
5 189 (4.03%) Self-Motivation
6 113 (2.41%) Data Centre
7 101 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
8 89 (1.90%) Cloud Native
9 81 (1.73%) Data Structures
9 81 (1.73%) Security Posture
10 77 (1.64%) Algorithms
11 70 (1.49%) Driving Licence
12 68 (1.45%) Cyber Threat
12 68 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
13 53 (1.13%) Public Cloud
13 53 (1.13%) Virtual Team
14 50 (1.07%) FMCG
14 50 (1.07%) Social Media
15 43 (0.92%) Cyber Defence
16 42 (0.90%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 339 (7.23%) Windows
2 203 (4.33%) Linux
3 145 (3.09%) Windows Server
4 57 (1.22%) Windows Server 2016
5 35 (0.75%) Unix
6 22 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 22 (0.47%) Windows 10
7 18 (0.38%) Mac OS
8 15 (0.32%) Android
9 14 (0.30%) Apple iOS
10 9 (0.19%) CentOS
11 8 (0.17%) VMS
12 7 (0.15%) Ubuntu
13 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
14 4 (0.085%) AIX
14 4 (0.085%) Rocky
14 4 (0.085%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.043%) Debian
16 1 (0.021%) OpenBSD
16 1 (0.021%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,086 (44.48%) Problem-Solving
2 1,101 (23.48%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,048 (22.35%) Analytics
4 971 (20.70%) Decision-Making
5 821 (17.51%) Agile
6 670 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
7 638 (13.60%) AI
8 594 (12.67%) Stakeholder Management
9 519 (11.07%) Project Management
10 459 (9.79%) Actionable Insight
10 459 (9.79%) Mentoring
11 444 (9.47%) Data Analysis
11 444 (9.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 434 (9.25%) Roadmaps
13 433 (9.23%) Data Modelling
14 431 (9.19%) Cybersecurity
15 375 (8.00%) Analytical Thinking
16 370 (7.89%) Data Governance
17 361 (7.70%) DevOps
18 358 (7.63%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 994 (21.19%) SQL
2 865 (18.44%) Python
3 177 (3.77%) PowerShell
4 168 (3.58%) Java
5 166 (3.54%) JavaScript
6 127 (2.71%) C#
7 73 (1.56%) R
8 66 (1.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 63 (1.34%) Bash
10 61 (1.30%) C++
11 42 (0.90%) T-SQL
11 42 (0.90%) TypeScript
12 39 (0.83%) VBA
13 35 (0.75%) MATLAB
14 24 (0.51%) Scala
15 20 (0.43%) Go
16 18 (0.38%) PHP
17 16 (0.34%) PL/SQL
18 15 (0.32%) C
19 14 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 937 (19.98%) Degree
2 359 (7.65%) Security Cleared
3 247 (5.27%) SC Cleared
4 224 (4.78%) ACCA
5 212 (4.52%) CIMA
6 168 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
7 154 (3.28%) DBS Check
8 148 (3.16%) CISSP
9 115 (2.45%) Cisco Certification
10 104 (2.22%) Master's Degree
11 100 (2.13%) CISM
12 94 (2.00%) PMI Certification
13 83 (1.77%) PMP
14 82 (1.75%) DV Cleared
15 73 (1.56%) Azure Certification
16 72 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
16 72 (1.54%) IRCA
17 69 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
18 60 (1.28%) CompTIA Security+
19 54 (1.15%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 437 (9.32%) Data Quality
2 356 (7.59%) GDPR
3 290 (6.18%) QA
4 245 (5.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 212 (4.52%) NIST
6 127 (2.71%) Cyber Essentials
7 119 (2.54%) SLA
8 106 (2.26%) ISO 9001
9 103 (2.20%) PCI DSS
10 101 (2.15%) Accessibility
11 63 (1.34%) GRC
12 61 (1.30%) PMO
13 53 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
14 38 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 37 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 33 (0.70%) IFRS
17 31 (0.66%) COBIT
18 28 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
19 24 (0.51%) NCSC
20 22 (0.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 238 (5.07%) Active Directory
2 78 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 71 (1.51%) Docker
4 64 (1.36%) Hyper-V
5 48 (1.02%) Terminal Server
6 26 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.34%) ProxySG
8 12 (0.26%) 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 (0.043%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.043%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.021%) KVM
15 1 (0.021%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 126 (2.69%) Terraform
2 78 (1.66%) Kubernetes
3 70 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
4 60 (1.28%) Ansible
5 33 (0.70%) Grafana
6 30 (0.64%) SCCM
7 25 (0.53%) Prometheus
8 23 (0.49%) Nagios
8 23 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
9 13 (0.28%) QRadar
10 11 (0.23%) Kibana
11 9 (0.19%) Kubeflow
12 6 (0.13%) Control-M
12 6 (0.13%) logstash
12 6 (0.13%) Packer
13 5 (0.11%) CASB
13 5 (0.11%) Graylog
14 4 (0.085%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.085%) Backup Exec
14 4 (0.085%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,097 (23.39%) Microsoft
2 202 (4.31%) SAP
3 177 (3.77%) Google
4 170 (3.62%) Oracle
5 150 (3.20%) Salesforce
6 137 (2.92%) VMware
7 109 (2.32%) Databricks
7 109 (2.32%) ServiceNow
8 96 (2.05%) SolarWinds
9 93 (1.98%) Splunk
10 78 (1.66%) Workday
11 73 (1.56%) Cisco
12 59 (1.26%) Veeam
13 52 (1.11%) IBM
14 50 (1.07%) Dell
15 49 (1.04%) Tanium
16 48 (1.02%) Brocade
16 48 (1.02%) Nimble Storage
17 47 (1.00%) Red Hat
18 42 (0.90%) Adobe