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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 11 16
Rank change year-on-year -12 +5 +5
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,881 5,332 7,707
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 6.69% 12.16% 9.21%
As % of the General category 12.37% 17.29% 15.03%
Number of salaries quoted 2,638 2,389 5,146
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,712 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,563 £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 £68,938
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,822 £88,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,967 £45,000
% change year-on-year -11.71% +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 39,451 30,830 51,266
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 54.05% 70.31% 61.25%
Number of salaries quoted 21,476 15,459 37,311
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -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 11 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 11 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 -12 4,325 £52,500 -4.55% 2,256
UK excluding London -17 3,064 £45,000 -11.71% 1,763
Work from Home +3 1,668 £52,500 -4.55% 973
London -5 1,510 £67,500 +3.85% 603
North of England -18 828 £45,000 -10.00% 375
South East +9 804 £50,000 -1.90% 590
Midlands -14 594 £45,000 -6.25% 301
North West -17 426 £42,500 -19.05% 219
West Midlands -15 363 £51,900 +3.80% 186
Yorkshire +2 290 £47,000 +4.44% 121
South West -10 288 £45,000 -12.49% 197
East of England -21 260 £40,000 -21.52% 173
East Midlands +1 230 £40,000 -5.88% 115
Scotland -17 198 £40,000 -24.23% 100
North East -4 112 £43,000 +8.91% 38
Wales +14 71 £40,000 -20.20% 56
Northern Ireland -15 48 £52,500 -4.55% 15
Isle of Man -5 1 £62,500 +123.21% 4
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
1 135 (2.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 84 (1.72%) SharePoint
3 83 (1.70%) Confluence
4 59 (1.21%) Apache Spark
5 57 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
6 47 (0.96%) CMS
7 32 (0.66%) Apache
8 18 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
8 18 (0.37%) WordPress
9 16 (0.33%) SAS
10 13 (0.27%) IIS
11 5 (0.10%) nginx
12 4 (0.082%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.061%) Drupal
13 3 (0.061%) govService
14 2 (0.041%) ArcGIS
14 2 (0.041%) Camunda
14 2 (0.041%) JBoss
14 2 (0.041%) Jupyter
14 2 (0.041%) MTS
Applications
1 691 (14.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 320 (6.56%) Chatbot
3 292 (5.98%) Microsoft Office
4 119 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 91 (1.86%) MS Visio
6 34 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
7 30 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
8 25 (0.51%) Maya
9 15 (0.31%) Adobe XD
10 9 (0.18%) AutoCAD
10 9 (0.18%) CATIA
11 3 (0.061%) Sketch
11 3 (0.061%) Trello
12 2 (0.041%) Revit
12 2 (0.041%) Simulink
13 1 (0.020%) OrCAD
13 1 (0.020%) Siemens NX
13 1 (0.020%) SmartSuite
13 1 (0.020%) SOLIDWORKS
13 1 (0.020%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 76 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 44 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 42 (0.86%) NetSuite
4 29 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
5 28 (0.57%) SAP CO
6 21 (0.43%) Endur
7 20 (0.41%) SAP FI
8 19 (0.39%) SAP FI/CO
9 18 (0.37%) Workday HCM
10 17 (0.35%) SAP MDG
11 15 (0.31%) SAP ERP
12 13 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
13 11 (0.23%) Sage X3
14 10 (0.20%) Maximo
14 10 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
14 10 (0.20%) SAP PM
15 8 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
16 7 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
16 7 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
16 7 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 814 (16.68%) Azure
2 620 (12.70%) Power Platform
3 430 (8.81%) AWS
4 290 (5.94%) Microsoft 365
5 260 (5.33%) SaaS
6 163 (3.34%) GCP
7 148 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
8 123 (2.52%) Dynamics 365
9 94 (1.93%) GitHub
10 93 (1.91%) Entra ID
11 86 (1.76%) Power Automate
12 76 (1.56%) Snowflake
13 67 (1.37%) Azure Data Factory
14 63 (1.29%) dbt
15 62 (1.27%) Amazon S3
16 57 (1.17%) Serverless
17 56 (1.15%) Google Analytics
18 51 (1.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 51 (1.04%) PowerApps
19 49 (1.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 178 (3.65%) Firewall
2 156 (3.20%) DNS
3 118 (2.42%) DHCP
4 102 (2.09%) VPN
5 79 (1.62%) Wi-Fi
6 71 (1.45%) WAN
7 66 (1.35%) LAN
8 64 (1.31%) TCP/IP
9 59 (1.21%) Wireless
10 57 (1.17%) VLAN
11 46 (0.94%) Network Security
12 43 (0.88%) Broadband
13 35 (0.72%) Wireshark
14 34 (0.70%) BGP
15 33 (0.68%) SAN
16 32 (0.66%) OSPF
17 30 (0.61%) Remote Desktop
18 29 (0.59%) EIGRP
19 27 (0.55%) VoIP
20 26 (0.53%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 559 (11.45%) Power BI
2 408 (8.36%) Tableau
3 212 (4.34%) SQL Server
4 194 (3.97%) Data Mining
5 161 (3.30%) Data Warehouse
6 107 (2.19%) Metadata
7 93 (1.91%) Relational Database
8 88 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
9 78 (1.60%) Data Lake
10 60 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 56 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
12 53 (1.09%) Looker
13 52 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
14 51 (1.04%) MySQL
15 46 (0.94%) NoSQL
16 44 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
17 42 (0.86%) Power Query
18 34 (0.70%) Big Data
19 33 (0.68%) GIS
19 33 (0.68%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 192 (3.93%) JIRA
2 128 (2.62%) Git
3 48 (0.98%) GitLab
4 42 (0.86%) Selenium
5 36 (0.74%) Jenkins
6 18 (0.37%) Visual Studio
7 15 (0.31%) MLflow
7 15 (0.31%) Robot Framework
8 14 (0.29%) Balsamiq
8 14 (0.29%) ERwin
8 14 (0.29%) Subversion
9 13 (0.27%) Axure RP
9 13 (0.27%) Chocolatey
9 13 (0.27%) IBM UrbanCode
9 13 (0.27%) Snyk
10 11 (0.23%) Cypress.io
11 10 (0.20%) Bitbucket
11 10 (0.20%) LabVIEW
11 10 (0.20%) Postman
12 8 (0.16%) ER Studio
General
1 2,395 (49.07%) Social Skills
2 1,763 (36.12%) Finance
3 415 (8.50%) Marketing
4 330 (6.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 301 (6.17%) Banking
6 274 (5.61%) Legal
7 269 (5.51%) Organisational Skills
8 267 (5.47%) Law
9 253 (5.18%) Retail
10 249 (5.10%) Public Sector
11 201 (4.12%) Presentation Skills
12 157 (3.22%) Manufacturing
13 132 (2.70%) Financial Institution
14 117 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
15 99 (2.03%) Telecoms
16 91 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
17 79 (1.62%) Games
18 68 (1.39%) Advertising
19 60 (1.23%) Electronics
20 47 (0.96%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1,220 (24.99%) Analyst
2 599 (12.27%) Senior
3 379 (7.76%) Data Analyst
4 316 (6.47%) Trainer
5 310 (6.35%) Lead
6 241 (4.94%) Business Analyst
7 235 (4.81%) Developer
8 224 (4.59%) Architect
9 190 (3.89%) Consultant
10 170 (3.48%) Support Analyst
10 170 (3.48%) Trainee
11 161 (3.30%) Trainee Analyst
11 161 (3.30%) Trainee Data Analyst
12 141 (2.89%) IT Support
13 140 (2.87%) Senior Analyst
14 127 (2.60%) Senior Manager
15 112 (2.29%) Financial Analyst
16 105 (2.15%) Support Engineer
16 105 (2.15%) Systems Engineer
17 92 (1.88%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (2.54%) HTML
2 114 (2.34%) CSS
3 87 (1.78%) React
4 79 (1.62%) .NET
5 56 (1.15%) REST
6 50 (1.02%) JSON
6 50 (1.02%) Middleware
7 47 (0.96%) XML
8 42 (0.86%) Node.js
9 36 (0.74%) Kafka
9 36 (0.74%) TensorFlow
10 33 (0.68%) PyTorch
11 32 (0.66%) PySpark
12 28 (0.57%) Spring
13 26 (0.53%) FIX Protocol
13 26 (0.53%) SOAP
14 24 (0.49%) EDI
15 23 (0.47%) Pandas
16 22 (0.45%) AngularJS
17 18 (0.37%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 466 (9.55%) Analytical Mindset
2 342 (7.01%) Self-Motivation
3 267 (5.47%) Onboarding
4 233 (4.77%) Management Information System
5 183 (3.75%) Product Ownership
6 117 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
7 101 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
8 95 (1.95%) Data Structures
9 90 (1.84%) Data Centre
10 82 (1.68%) Cloud Native
11 77 (1.58%) Driving Licence
12 76 (1.56%) Algorithms
13 55 (1.13%) Security Posture
13 55 (1.13%) Social Media
14 52 (1.07%) FMCG
15 49 (1.00%) Virtual Team
16 47 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 47 (0.96%) Low-Code
17 45 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
18 37 (0.76%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 350 (7.17%) Windows
2 229 (4.69%) Linux
3 142 (2.91%) Windows Server
4 76 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
5 39 (0.80%) Unix
6 27 (0.55%) Mac OS
7 18 (0.37%) Android
8 15 (0.31%) Windows 10
9 13 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (0.14%) 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 (0.061%) OpenWrt
14 2 (0.041%) AIX
14 2 (0.041%) Data ONTAP
14 2 (0.041%) Oracle Linux
15 1 (0.020%) FreeBSD
15 1 (0.020%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,160 (44.25%) Problem-Solving
2 1,088 (22.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,069 (21.90%) Analytics
4 970 (19.87%) AI
5 911 (18.66%) Decision-Making
6 857 (17.56%) Agile
7 713 (14.61%) Business Intelligence
8 665 (13.62%) Project Management
9 578 (11.84%) Data Analysis
10 575 (11.78%) Stakeholder Management
11 437 (8.95%) Actionable Insight
12 426 (8.73%) Mentoring
13 409 (8.38%) Analytical Thinking
14 401 (8.22%) Process Improvement
15 385 (7.89%) Roadmaps
16 370 (7.58%) Data Modelling
17 369 (7.56%) DevOps
18 358 (7.33%) Business Analysis
19 356 (7.29%) Cybersecurity
20 350 (7.17%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,018 (20.86%) SQL
2 851 (17.43%) Python
3 162 (3.32%) JavaScript
4 143 (2.93%) PowerShell
5 142 (2.91%) Java
6 119 (2.44%) C#
7 76 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 70 (1.43%) R
9 56 (1.15%) Bash
10 47 (0.96%) C++
11 46 (0.94%) T-SQL
12 43 (0.88%) VBA
13 37 (0.76%) TypeScript
14 21 (0.43%) C
15 20 (0.41%) Scala
16 19 (0.39%) MATLAB
17 16 (0.33%) Go
18 14 (0.29%) PL/SQL
19 12 (0.25%) Bicep
19 12 (0.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,377 (28.21%) Degree
2 446 (9.14%) Master's Degree
3 410 (8.40%) Security Cleared
4 327 (6.70%) PhD
5 294 (6.02%) SC Cleared
6 215 (4.40%) ACCA
7 207 (4.24%) CIMA
8 177 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
9 141 (2.89%) CISSP
10 107 (2.19%) DBS Check
11 92 (1.88%) DV Cleared
12 91 (1.86%) PMI Certification
13 80 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
13 80 (1.64%) PMP
14 77 (1.58%) CISM
15 68 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
16 64 (1.31%) Azure Certification
17 61 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
18 48 (0.98%) CISA
18 48 (0.98%) IRCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 351 (7.19%) Data Quality
2 260 (5.33%) QA
3 251 (5.14%) GDPR
4 202 (4.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 160 (3.28%) NIST
6 146 (2.99%) Cyber Essentials
7 113 (2.32%) PCI DSS
8 104 (2.13%) Accessibility
9 79 (1.62%) PMO
10 69 (1.41%) Actionable Recommendations
11 62 (1.27%) ISO 9001
12 59 (1.21%) SLA
13 44 (0.90%) GRC
14 39 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 33 (0.68%) IFRS
16 26 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 22 (0.45%) WCAG
18 18 (0.37%) NCSC
19 17 (0.35%) COBIT
19 17 (0.35%) GMP
System Software
1 241 (4.94%) Active Directory
2 97 (1.99%) Hyper-V
3 74 (1.52%) Docker
4 72 (1.48%) Terminal Server
5 56 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
6 14 (0.29%) ProxySG
7 13 (0.27%) vSphere
8 11 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (0.16%) Firmware
11 7 (0.14%) IAG
12 5 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
13 4 (0.082%) VMware NSX
14 3 (0.061%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.061%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.061%) XenApp
15 2 (0.041%) XenDesktop
16 1 (0.020%) KVM
16 1 (0.020%) NFS
16 1 (0.020%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 135 (2.77%) Terraform
2 74 (1.52%) Kubernetes
3 68 (1.39%) Ansible
4 48 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
5 35 (0.72%) Grafana
6 34 (0.70%) Prometheus
7 25 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
8 23 (0.47%) SCCM
9 15 (0.31%) Nagios
10 7 (0.14%) Control-M
10 7 (0.14%) SCOM
11 5 (0.10%) CASB
11 5 (0.10%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 4 (0.082%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.082%) Backup Exec
12 4 (0.082%) Kubeflow
12 4 (0.082%) Nessus
12 4 (0.082%) QRadar
12 4 (0.082%) SolarWinds Orion
12 4 (0.082%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,164 (23.85%) Microsoft
2 318 (6.52%) PayPal
3 226 (4.63%) SAP
4 186 (3.81%) Oracle
5 139 (2.85%) VMware
6 138 (2.83%) Salesforce
7 129 (2.64%) Google
8 121 (2.48%) SolarWinds
9 113 (2.32%) ServiceNow
10 103 (2.11%) Splunk
11 78 (1.60%) Veeam
12 73 (1.50%) Brocade
12 73 (1.50%) Cisco
12 73 (1.50%) Tanium
13 72 (1.48%) Nimble Storage
14 68 (1.39%) Databricks
15 55 (1.13%) Workday
16 52 (1.07%) Adobe
17 43 (0.88%) Alteryx
18 41 (0.84%) Bloomberg