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 28 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 14 19
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 +1
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 5,548 6,421 4,723
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 10.28% 9.61% 9.27%
As % of the General category 16.57% 15.87% 14.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2,646 2,684 3,383
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -3.51% +3.64%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +4.17%

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 common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 33,487 40,452 33,298
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 62.04% 60.54% 65.36%
Number of salaries quoted 19,283 19,548 24,910
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £30,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £51,500 £50,500
% change year-on-year -12.62% +1.98% -3.81%

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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 2025. 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 +4 4,810 £50,000 -9.09% 3,002
UK excluding London +4 3,542 £45,000 -10.00% 2,555
Work from Home +6 1,980 £50,000 -9.68% 4,155
London +3 1,669 £67,500 +3.85% 993
South East +5 899 £47,760 -4.48% 968
North of England +2 843 £45,000 -10.00% 542
Midlands +6 645 £45,000 -6.25% 434
North West -9 428 £45,000 -14.29% 315
South West +6 399 £45,000 -15.09% 240
West Midlands +7 386 £52,500 +5.00% 264
Scotland +2 350 £33,500 -44.17% 105
East of England +2 318 £40,000 -27.27% 220
Yorkshire +6 300 £40,000 -23.81% 169
East Midlands +6 257 £37,500 -11.76% 166
North East +16 115 £42,000 +2.44% 64
Wales +12 79 £48,122 -2.00% 58
Northern Ireland -2 40 £52,500 -28.54% 38
Isle of Man -1 1 £62,500 +150.00% 2
Channel Islands -5 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
1 138 (2.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 102 (1.84%) Confluence
3 96 (1.73%) SharePoint
4 68 (1.23%) CMS
5 53 (0.96%) Apache Spark
6 22 (0.40%) WordPress
7 21 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
8 18 (0.32%) Apache
9 15 (0.27%) SAS
10 10 (0.18%) Camunda
11 7 (0.13%) IIS
11 7 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
12 6 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 6 (0.11%) Drupal
12 6 (0.11%) nginx
12 6 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 6 (0.11%) Skype for Business
13 5 (0.090%) Apache Synapse
13 5 (0.090%) Umbraco
14 4 (0.072%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 791 (14.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 538 (9.70%) Chatbot
3 383 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
4 140 (2.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 56 (1.01%) Maya
6 54 (0.97%) MS Visio
7 42 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
8 37 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
9 23 (0.41%) AutoCAD
10 14 (0.25%) Adobe XD
11 10 (0.18%) SOLIDWORKS
12 6 (0.11%) Simulink
13 4 (0.072%) Blender
13 4 (0.072%) CATIA
13 4 (0.072%) Oracle Smart View
13 4 (0.072%) Photoshop
13 4 (0.072%) PlantUML
14 3 (0.054%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 3 (0.054%) Sketch
14 3 (0.054%) Stata
Business Applications
1 168 (3.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 71 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 68 (1.23%) SAP MDG
4 48 (0.87%) NetSuite
5 39 (0.70%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 39 (0.70%) SAP FI
5 39 (0.70%) Shopify
6 38 (0.68%) SAP CO
6 38 (0.68%) SAP FI/CO
7 29 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
8 24 (0.43%) SAP IBP
9 20 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
10 16 (0.29%) Oracle Assets
11 15 (0.27%) Endur
11 15 (0.27%) Workday HCM
12 13 (0.23%) Sage X3
12 13 (0.23%) SAP FSCM
12 13 (0.23%) Sprinklr
13 12 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
14 11 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 818 (14.74%) Azure
2 628 (11.32%) Power Platform
3 444 (8.00%) AWS
4 270 (4.87%) Microsoft 365
5 255 (4.60%) SaaS
6 161 (2.90%) GCP
7 128 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
8 111 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
9 99 (1.78%) Google Analytics
10 74 (1.33%) Entra ID
11 68 (1.23%) Azure Data Factory
11 68 (1.23%) GitHub
12 63 (1.14%) Snowflake
13 60 (1.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 58 (1.05%) Serverless
15 54 (0.97%) Power Automate
16 53 (0.96%) Cloud Computing
16 53 (0.96%) PaaS
17 43 (0.78%) Google Ads
18 42 (0.76%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 158 (2.85%) DNS
2 131 (2.36%) DHCP
3 118 (2.13%) Firewall
4 74 (1.33%) Network Security
5 71 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
6 68 (1.23%) VPN
7 64 (1.15%) LAN
8 60 (1.08%) WAN
9 51 (0.92%) TCP/IP
10 41 (0.74%) Remote Desktop
11 36 (0.65%) Wireless
12 33 (0.59%) VoIP
13 32 (0.58%) SMS
14 31 (0.56%) VLAN
15 26 (0.47%) Internet
16 24 (0.43%) Broadband
17 20 (0.36%) SAN
18 19 (0.34%) OSPF
19 17 (0.31%) Intrusion Detection
19 17 (0.31%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 576 (10.38%) Power BI
2 308 (5.55%) Tableau
3 195 (3.51%) SQL Server
4 165 (2.97%) Data Warehouse
5 135 (2.43%) Data Mining
6 119 (2.14%) Data Lake
7 118 (2.13%) Metadata
8 111 (2.00%) Relational Database
9 100 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
10 64 (1.15%) Looker
11 59 (1.06%) MySQL
12 58 (1.05%) NoSQL
13 57 (1.03%) SAP BW
13 57 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 46 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
15 45 (0.81%) Big Data
16 38 (0.68%) GIS
17 37 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
18 36 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
19 34 (0.61%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 231 (4.16%) JIRA
2 111 (2.00%) Git
3 59 (1.06%) Jenkins
4 52 (0.94%) Selenium
5 45 (0.81%) GitLab
6 19 (0.34%) Maven
6 19 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
7 16 (0.29%) Bitbucket
8 15 (0.27%) Cypress.io
8 15 (0.27%) Postman
9 14 (0.25%) WebDriver
10 13 (0.23%) Robot Framework
11 12 (0.22%) JUnit
11 12 (0.22%) Subversion
12 11 (0.20%) Axure RP
12 11 (0.20%) Balsamiq
12 11 (0.20%) Snyk
13 10 (0.18%) ERwin
13 10 (0.18%) TestRail
13 10 (0.18%) webpack
General
1 2,857 (51.50%) Social Skills
2 1,831 (33.00%) Finance
3 663 (11.95%) Marketing
4 442 (7.97%) Law
5 374 (6.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 359 (6.47%) Retail
7 326 (5.88%) Legal
8 309 (5.57%) Banking
9 257 (4.63%) Organisational Skills
10 249 (4.49%) Public Sector
11 233 (4.20%) Manufacturing
11 233 (4.20%) Presentation Skills
12 157 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
13 148 (2.67%) Telecoms
14 139 (2.51%) Financial Institution
15 113 (2.04%) Advertising
16 111 (2.00%) Games
17 98 (1.77%) Electronics
18 77 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
19 62 (1.12%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1,153 (20.78%) Analyst
2 697 (12.56%) Senior
3 537 (9.68%) Trainer
4 427 (7.70%) Lead
5 308 (5.55%) Architect
6 305 (5.50%) Data Analyst
7 246 (4.43%) Developer
8 217 (3.91%) Consultant
9 199 (3.59%) Business Analyst
10 177 (3.19%) Support Analyst
11 162 (2.92%) Senior Analyst
12 143 (2.58%) IT Support
13 136 (2.45%) Solutions Architect
14 126 (2.27%) Systems Engineer
15 115 (2.07%) Trainee
16 109 (1.96%) Business Manager
17 108 (1.95%) IT Manager
18 105 (1.89%) Financial Analyst
19 102 (1.84%) Applications Support
19 102 (1.84%) Innovation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (2.60%) HTML
2 113 (2.04%) CSS
3 95 (1.71%) React
4 87 (1.57%) REST
5 73 (1.32%) .NET
6 53 (0.96%) Middleware
7 52 (0.94%) Kafka
8 47 (0.85%) Spring
9 46 (0.83%) JSON
10 39 (0.70%) AngularJS
11 36 (0.65%) XML
12 33 (0.59%) EDI
13 32 (0.58%) SOAP
14 28 (0.50%) Node.js
14 28 (0.50%) Web Services
15 27 (0.49%) Oracle Fusion
16 26 (0.47%) LangChain
16 26 (0.47%) PySpark
17 24 (0.43%) Playwright
18 22 (0.40%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 588 (10.60%) Analytical Mindset
2 398 (7.17%) Self-Motivation
3 395 (7.12%) Onboarding
4 292 (5.26%) Management Information System
5 206 (3.71%) Product Ownership
6 169 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
7 139 (2.51%) Enterprise Software
8 106 (1.91%) Driving Licence
9 90 (1.62%) Algorithms
10 89 (1.60%) Data Centre
11 84 (1.51%) FMCG
12 77 (1.39%) Cloud Native
13 66 (1.19%) Data Structures
14 65 (1.17%) Social Media
15 59 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 54 (0.97%) Security Posture
17 53 (0.96%) Virtual Team
18 51 (0.92%) Robotics
19 43 (0.78%) e-Learning
20 35 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 321 (5.79%) Windows
2 216 (3.89%) Linux
3 141 (2.54%) Windows Server
4 90 (1.62%) Windows Server 2016
5 30 (0.54%) Unix
6 21 (0.38%) Mac OS
7 13 (0.23%) Android
8 10 (0.18%) Windows 10
9 9 (0.16%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.090%) Mac OS X
10 5 (0.090%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.072%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.054%) OpenWrt
12 3 (0.054%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (0.054%) VMS
12 3 (0.054%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.018%) AIX
13 1 (0.018%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.018%) OpenVMS
13 1 (0.018%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,493 (44.94%) Problem-Solving
2 1,317 (23.74%) AI
3 1,183 (21.32%) Analytics
4 1,101 (19.84%) Continuous Improvement
5 1,046 (18.85%) Decision-Making
6 997 (17.97%) Agile
7 854 (15.39%) Project Management
8 786 (14.17%) Business Intelligence
9 656 (11.82%) Stakeholder Management
10 550 (9.91%) Chemistry
11 540 (9.73%) Conversational UI
12 531 (9.57%) Data Analysis
13 486 (8.76%) Risk Management
14 469 (8.45%) Roadmaps
15 466 (8.40%) ERP
16 451 (8.13%) Cybersecurity
17 446 (8.04%) Mentoring
18 443 (7.98%) Customer Service
19 438 (7.89%) CRM
20 426 (7.68%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 995 (17.93%) SQL
2 662 (11.93%) Python
3 175 (3.15%) Java
4 171 (3.08%) JavaScript
5 127 (2.29%) C#
6 88 (1.59%) PowerShell
7 80 (1.44%) R
8 55 (0.99%) C++
9 51 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 47 (0.85%) T-SQL
11 44 (0.79%) Bash
12 40 (0.72%) VBA
13 38 (0.68%) TypeScript
14 29 (0.52%) PL/SQL
15 26 (0.47%) C
16 22 (0.40%) Scala
17 20 (0.36%) Go
18 19 (0.34%) Kotlin
19 15 (0.27%) ABAP
19 15 (0.27%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,902 (34.28%) Degree
2 717 (12.92%) Master's Degree
3 557 (10.04%) PhD
4 446 (8.04%) Security Cleared
5 323 (5.82%) SC Cleared
6 206 (3.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 181 (3.26%) CISSP
8 179 (3.23%) ACCA
9 171 (3.08%) CIMA
10 105 (1.89%) DBS Check
11 95 (1.71%) DV Cleared
12 84 (1.51%) CISM
13 79 (1.42%) PMI Certification
14 69 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
15 67 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
16 64 (1.15%) PMP
17 61 (1.10%) CompTIA Security+
18 59 (1.06%) Azure Certification
18 59 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
19 51 (0.92%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 287 (5.17%) Data Quality
2 278 (5.01%) QA
3 203 (3.66%) GDPR
4 193 (3.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 143 (2.58%) PCI DSS
6 137 (2.47%) Cyber Essentials
7 115 (2.07%) PMO
8 114 (2.05%) NIST
9 113 (2.04%) Accessibility
10 53 (0.96%) SLA
11 40 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
11 40 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 34 (0.61%) GRC
13 22 (0.40%) IFRS
14 20 (0.36%) ISO 9001
15 19 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 16 (0.29%) WCAG
17 14 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 13 (0.23%) COBIT
19 10 (0.18%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 238 (4.29%) Active Directory
2 119 (2.14%) Hyper-V
3 88 (1.59%) Terminal Server
4 60 (1.08%) Docker
5 46 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
6 28 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (0.31%) Firmware
8 10 (0.18%) vSphere
9 7 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.090%) ProxySG
11 4 (0.072%) zsh
12 3 (0.054%) HDFS
13 1 (0.018%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.018%) Embedded Firmware
13 1 (0.018%) NFS
13 1 (0.018%) Virtual Desktop
13 1 (0.018%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 88 (1.59%) Terraform
2 79 (1.42%) Kubernetes
3 53 (0.96%) Ansible
4 40 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (0.32%) Grafana
6 16 (0.29%) Prometheus
6 16 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.14%) SCCM
8 7 (0.13%) QRadar
9 6 (0.11%) SCOM
10 5 (0.090%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 4 (0.072%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.072%) Nessus
11 4 (0.072%) Rancher
11 4 (0.072%) vRealize
12 3 (0.054%) HAProxy
12 3 (0.054%) Nagios
13 2 (0.036%) CSIRT
13 2 (0.036%) Kibana
13 2 (0.036%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1,225 (22.08%) Microsoft
2 535 (9.64%) PayPal
3 427 (7.70%) SAP
4 238 (4.29%) Google
5 224 (4.04%) Oracle
6 169 (3.05%) Salesforce
7 145 (2.61%) VMware
8 123 (2.22%) Splunk
9 115 (2.07%) Databricks
10 108 (1.95%) SolarWinds
11 92 (1.66%) Veeam
12 89 (1.60%) Brocade
13 88 (1.59%) Nimble Storage
13 88 (1.59%) Tanium
14 85 (1.53%) Adobe
15 81 (1.46%) ServiceNow
16 79 (1.42%) Cisco
17 60 (1.08%) Workday
18 52 (0.94%) Alteryx
19 43 (0.78%) Ariba