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 13 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 8 13
Rank change year-on-year -16 +5 +6
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 6,045 6,100 7,473
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.32% 12.30% 9.55%
As % of the General category 11.60% 17.97% 16.78%
Number of salaries quoted 3,624 2,546 3,066
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year - -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £89,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -

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 52,131 33,941 44,532
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 45.92% 68.44% 56.89%
Number of salaries quoted 31,983 17,724 23,544
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,422
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £40,400
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -2.66%

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 13 September 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 13 September 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 5,379 £52,500 - 5,786
UK excluding London -16 3,994 £47,500 +5.56% 3,196
Work from Home -6 2,024 £55,000 +10.00% 4,020
London -11 1,761 £67,500 +3.85% 3,256
North of England -19 1,096 £47,500 +6.74% 691
South East -9 949 £49,536 -0.93% 950
Midlands -10 692 £47,500 +5.56% 493
North West -17 668 £46,500 +3.33% 392
South West -11 573 £47,500 +5.56% 430
West Midlands -17 355 £48,000 +6.67% 294
East Midlands -2 334 £45,000 +3.45% 198
Yorkshire -11 296 £47,000 +17.50% 234
East of England -17 253 £47,500 +18.75% 294
Wales -7 193 £45,000 -10.40% 89
Scotland -19 135 £45,000 +15.38% 218
North East -14 132 £50,500 +26.25% 71
Northern Ireland -12 114 £43,750 -20.45% 102

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
1 184 (3.04%) SharePoint
2 178 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 105 (1.74%) Confluence
4 48 (0.79%) Apache Spark
5 43 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
6 40 (0.66%) CMS
7 37 (0.61%) IIS
8 35 (0.58%) Apache
9 28 (0.46%) SAS
10 11 (0.18%) WordPress
11 10 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 10 (0.17%) Headless CMS
11 10 (0.17%) Jupyter
12 9 (0.15%) WebLogic
12 9 (0.15%) WebSphere
13 8 (0.13%) OpenStack
14 7 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
15 3 (0.050%) Appian
15 3 (0.050%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 2 (0.033%) Tornado
Applications
1 668 (11.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 288 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
3 121 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 69 (1.14%) MS Visio
5 44 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
6 38 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
7 15 (0.25%) Simulink
8 12 (0.20%) AutoCAD
9 7 (0.12%) Adobe XD
9 7 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
10 6 (0.099%) CATIA
10 6 (0.099%) Chatbot
11 5 (0.083%) Acrobat
11 5 (0.083%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 5 (0.083%) EPLAN
11 5 (0.083%) Photoshop
11 5 (0.083%) Revit
11 5 (0.083%) Siemens NX
12 3 (0.050%) LaTeX
12 3 (0.050%) Maya
Business Applications
1 107 (1.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 63 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
3 38 (0.63%) NetSuite
4 35 (0.58%) Dynamics GP
5 25 (0.41%) Shopify
6 18 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
7 15 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
7 15 (0.25%) Workday HCM
8 12 (0.20%) Magento
8 12 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
8 12 (0.20%) SAP CO
8 12 (0.20%) SAP FI
9 11 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
10 10 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
10 10 (0.17%) SAP Business One
10 10 (0.17%) SAP PM
11 9 (0.15%) Fidessa
11 9 (0.15%) Sage 200
11 9 (0.15%) SAP ERP
12 8 (0.13%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 989 (16.36%) Azure
2 720 (11.91%) Power Platform
3 625 (10.34%) AWS
4 433 (7.16%) Microsoft 365
5 383 (6.34%) SaaS
6 281 (4.65%) GCP
7 161 (2.66%) Entra ID
8 154 (2.55%) Dynamics 365
9 152 (2.51%) Azure DevOps
10 124 (2.05%) Google Analytics
11 111 (1.84%) Google Ads
12 103 (1.70%) GitHub
13 88 (1.46%) Serverless
14 87 (1.44%) Snowflake
15 84 (1.39%) Meta Ads
16 82 (1.36%) Microsoft Purview
17 80 (1.32%) Power Automate
18 79 (1.31%) Amazon S3
19 78 (1.29%) dbt
19 78 (1.29%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 198 (3.28%) DNS
2 154 (2.55%) DHCP
3 149 (2.46%) Firewall
4 131 (2.17%) VPN
5 102 (1.69%) TCP/IP
6 75 (1.24%) WAN
7 72 (1.19%) LAN
8 69 (1.14%) Network Security
9 60 (0.99%) Wireless
10 54 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
11 52 (0.86%) Broadband
12 49 (0.81%) Internet
13 47 (0.78%) VLAN
14 37 (0.61%) SAN
15 35 (0.58%) HTTP
16 30 (0.50%) VoIP
17 24 (0.40%) 5G
17 24 (0.40%) BGP
18 22 (0.36%) SD-WAN
18 22 (0.36%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 642 (10.62%) Power BI
2 214 (3.54%) SQL Server
3 205 (3.39%) Tableau
4 185 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
5 112 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
6 107 (1.77%) Relational Database
7 97 (1.60%) Metadata
8 90 (1.49%) Looker
9 83 (1.37%) MySQL
10 78 (1.29%) Data Lake
11 72 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
11 72 (1.19%) Power Query
11 72 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 60 (0.99%) BigQuery
13 57 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 55 (0.91%) Big Data
15 53 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
16 46 (0.76%) NoSQL
17 37 (0.61%) MongoDB
18 36 (0.60%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 257 (4.25%) JIRA
2 211 (3.49%) Git
3 53 (0.88%) Jenkins
4 45 (0.74%) GitLab
5 32 (0.53%) Rational DOORS
6 29 (0.48%) Selenium
7 24 (0.40%) Cucumber
7 24 (0.40%) Eclipse
8 22 (0.36%) MLflow
9 19 (0.31%) Claude Code
10 18 (0.30%) Postman
11 16 (0.26%) LabVIEW
12 15 (0.25%) Bitbucket
12 15 (0.25%) Chocolatey
12 15 (0.25%) Oracle Forms
13 14 (0.23%) JMeter
14 13 (0.22%) Burp Suite
15 12 (0.20%) Cypress.io
15 12 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
16 11 (0.18%) SonarQube
General
1 2,969 (49.11%) Social Skills
2 1,988 (32.89%) Finance
3 680 (11.25%) Marketing
4 534 (8.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 480 (7.94%) Organisational Skills
6 422 (6.98%) Retail
7 410 (6.78%) Law
8 381 (6.30%) Public Sector
9 377 (6.24%) Legal
10 334 (5.53%) Manufacturing
11 312 (5.16%) Influencing Skills
12 237 (3.92%) Banking
13 205 (3.39%) Presentation Skills
14 192 (3.18%) Aerospace
15 141 (2.33%) Electronics
16 140 (2.32%) Telecoms
17 109 (1.80%) Advertising
18 95 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
19 69 (1.14%) Automotive
19 69 (1.14%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,357 (22.45%) Analyst
2 781 (12.92%) Senior
3 415 (6.87%) Lead
4 297 (4.91%) Business Analyst
5 294 (4.86%) Data Analyst
6 285 (4.71%) Developer
7 233 (3.85%) Architect
8 230 (3.80%) Consultant
9 194 (3.21%) Senior Analyst
10 191 (3.16%) Systems Engineer
11 186 (3.08%) Data Engineer
12 184 (3.04%) Support Analyst
13 128 (2.12%) Support Engineer
14 119 (1.97%) IT Support
15 109 (1.80%) Applications Support
15 109 (1.80%) IT Manager
16 107 (1.77%) Security Analyst
17 104 (1.72%) Senior Manager
18 97 (1.60%) Systems Analyst
19 96 (1.59%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (2.65%) .NET
2 144 (2.38%) Terraform
3 125 (2.07%) REST
4 122 (2.02%) HTML
5 113 (1.87%) CSS
6 90 (1.49%) JSON
7 77 (1.27%) Middleware
7 77 (1.27%) XML
8 75 (1.24%) RESTful
9 71 (1.17%) Kafka
10 68 (1.12%) PySpark
11 65 (1.08%) React
12 62 (1.03%) SOAP
13 56 (0.93%) PyTorch
14 49 (0.81%) TensorFlow
15 47 (0.78%) EDI
16 46 (0.76%) Web Services
17 44 (0.73%) LDAP
18 39 (0.65%) Spring Boot
19 38 (0.63%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 476 (7.87%) Analytical Mindset
2 399 (6.60%) Management Information System
3 379 (6.27%) Onboarding
4 305 (5.05%) Self-Motivation
5 290 (4.80%) Product Ownership
6 155 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
7 145 (2.40%) Driving Licence
8 143 (2.37%) Cloud Native
9 136 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
10 119 (1.97%) Blog
11 116 (1.92%) Social Media
12 108 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
13 104 (1.72%) Marketing Technology
14 103 (1.70%) Security Posture
15 101 (1.67%) Data Centre
16 97 (1.60%) Virtual Team
17 83 (1.37%) Data Structures
18 71 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
19 65 (1.08%) Algorithms
20 59 (0.98%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 465 (7.69%) Windows
2 276 (4.57%) Linux
3 218 (3.61%) Windows Server
4 93 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
5 39 (0.65%) Windows 10
6 32 (0.53%) Mac OS
7 30 (0.50%) Unix
8 27 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 24 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
10 22 (0.36%) Apple iOS
11 17 (0.28%) Android
12 10 (0.17%) CentOS
13 8 (0.13%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.099%) Debian
14 6 (0.099%) VMS
15 5 (0.083%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.066%) CoreOS
17 3 (0.050%) Rocky
18 2 (0.033%) AIX
18 2 (0.033%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,954 (48.87%) Problem-Solving
2 1,787 (29.56%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,423 (23.54%) Decision-Making
4 1,258 (20.81%) Analytics
5 1,173 (19.40%) Stakeholder Management
6 1,113 (18.41%) AI
7 1,070 (17.70%) Agile
8 806 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
9 633 (10.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 617 (10.21%) Roadmaps
11 580 (9.59%) Mentoring
12 575 (9.51%) Actionable Insight
13 556 (9.20%) Validation
14 526 (8.70%) Data Analysis
15 515 (8.52%) Project Management
16 496 (8.21%) Process Improvement
17 493 (8.16%) Cybersecurity
18 483 (7.99%) ERP
19 480 (7.94%) Data Modelling
20 475 (7.86%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 1,178 (19.49%) SQL
2 852 (14.09%) Python
3 223 (3.69%) JavaScript
4 219 (3.62%) Java
5 193 (3.19%) C#
6 189 (3.13%) PowerShell
7 115 (1.90%) C++
8 91 (1.51%) Bash
9 80 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 79 (1.31%) R
11 69 (1.14%) TypeScript
12 53 (0.88%) MATLAB
13 48 (0.79%) T-SQL
14 39 (0.65%) C
15 29 (0.48%) Scala
16 27 (0.45%) PL/SQL
17 26 (0.43%) PHP
18 22 (0.36%) Go
18 22 (0.36%) Perl
19 21 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1,216 (20.12%) Degree
2 681 (11.27%) Security Cleared
3 471 (7.79%) SC Cleared
4 249 (4.12%) ACCA
5 232 (3.84%) CIMA
6 178 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 157 (2.60%) CISSP
8 155 (2.56%) DV Cleared
9 145 (2.40%) DBS Check
10 124 (2.05%) CISM
11 123 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
12 112 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
13 98 (1.62%) Master's Degree
14 82 (1.36%) Azure Certification
15 78 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
16 69 (1.14%) CompTIA Security+
17 68 (1.12%) HND
18 62 (1.03%) PMI Certification
19 51 (0.84%) AWS Certification
19 51 (0.84%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 596 (9.86%) Data Quality
2 378 (6.25%) QA
3 358 (5.92%) GDPR
4 235 (3.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 199 (3.29%) Accessibility
6 181 (2.99%) NIST
7 149 (2.46%) SLA
8 146 (2.42%) Cyber Essentials
9 120 (1.99%) PCI DSS
10 82 (1.36%) ISO 9001
11 70 (1.16%) GRC
12 58 (0.96%) PMO
13 50 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
14 41 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 38 (0.63%) IFRS
16 33 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 30 (0.50%) COBIT
17 30 (0.50%) NCSC
18 24 (0.40%) DO-254
19 23 (0.38%) GAAP
System Software
1 335 (5.54%) Active Directory
2 132 (2.18%) Docker
3 100 (1.65%) Hyper-V
4 85 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 72 (1.19%) Terminal Server
6 40 (0.66%) Firmware
7 23 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
8 22 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
9 10 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
9 10 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.15%) vSphere
11 7 (0.12%) Ceph
11 7 (0.12%) VMware NSX
12 4 (0.066%) KVM
12 4 (0.066%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.050%) DFS Replication
14 2 (0.033%) IAG
14 2 (0.033%) ProxySG
14 2 (0.033%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 2 (0.033%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 113 (1.87%) Kubernetes
2 85 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
3 75 (1.24%) Ansible
4 41 (0.68%) Grafana
5 40 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
6 24 (0.40%) SCCM
7 21 (0.35%) Prometheus
8 20 (0.33%) QRadar
9 19 (0.31%) Kibana
10 12 (0.20%) Nagios
11 11 (0.18%) Nmap
11 11 (0.18%) Podman
12 9 (0.15%) Argo
12 9 (0.15%) logstash
13 7 (0.12%) Check_MK
13 7 (0.12%) Istio
13 7 (0.12%) Kubeflow
14 6 (0.099%) Functional Safety
14 6 (0.099%) Graylog
14 6 (0.099%) Packer
Vendors
1 1,381 (22.85%) Microsoft
2 352 (5.82%) Google
3 240 (3.97%) SAP
4 186 (3.08%) Oracle
5 174 (2.88%) VMware
6 148 (2.45%) Splunk
7 143 (2.37%) Databricks
8 135 (2.23%) ServiceNow
9 130 (2.15%) Salesforce
10 97 (1.60%) SolarWinds
11 83 (1.37%) Cisco
12 81 (1.34%) Veeam
13 73 (1.21%) Brocade
13 73 (1.21%) Nimble Storage
14 72 (1.19%) Tanium
15 67 (1.11%) Adobe
16 62 (1.03%) YouTube
17 61 (1.01%) Workday
18 59 (0.98%) HubSpot
19 41 (0.68%) Dell