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 2 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 8 14
Rank change year-on-year -16 +6 +5
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 6,537 6,241 7,322
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.53% 12.58% 9.77%
As % of the General category 11.96% 18.41% 16.97%
Number of salaries quoted 3,747 2,487 2,796
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,875 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,375 £51,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.24% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £90,000
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 54,650 33,906 43,154
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.27% 68.36% 57.56%
Number of salaries quoted 33,413 17,483 21,581
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,750 £34,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £96,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £44,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% -12.00% -1.38%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -15 5,732 £51,500 +0.57% 9,988
UK excluding London -14 4,414 £47,500 +5.56% 5,435
Work from Home -5 2,190 £55,000 +10.00% 3,987
London -12 1,823 £65,000 - 5,285
North of England -18 1,192 £47,500 +5.56% 1,230
South East -12 999 £48,963 +3.04% 1,471
Midlands -9 767 £45,483 +3.96% 789
North West -15 725 £46,500 +2.23% 673
South West -8 618 £47,000 +4.44% 649
West Midlands -18 391 £47,500 +5.56% 475
East Midlands -6 374 £42,500 +6.47% 314
Yorkshire -6 320 £47,000 +17.50% 443
East of England -14 289 £47,500 +21.79% 550
Northern Ireland +6 211 £43,750 -20.45% 221
Wales -3 208 £45,000 -10.40% 147
North East -19 156 £53,750 +34.38% 120
Scotland -22 149 £47,500 +23.50% 439

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 (2.94%) SharePoint
2 180 (2.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 111 (1.70%) Confluence
4 45 (0.69%) CMS
5 42 (0.64%) Apache Spark
6 40 (0.61%) Apache
7 37 (0.57%) IIS
8 31 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
9 28 (0.43%) SAS
10 17 (0.26%) WordPress
11 13 (0.20%) Jupyter
12 11 (0.17%) Headless CMS
12 11 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
13 10 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 9 (0.14%) WebLogic
14 9 (0.14%) WebSphere
15 8 (0.12%) OpenStack
16 5 (0.076%) nginx
17 3 (0.046%) Oracle SOA Suite
17 3 (0.046%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 773 (11.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 344 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
3 136 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 72 (1.10%) MS Visio
5 55 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
6 45 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
7 19 (0.29%) Simulink
8 17 (0.26%) AutoCAD
9 10 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 10 (0.15%) Chatbot
9 10 (0.15%) SOLIDWORKS
10 8 (0.12%) Photoshop
11 7 (0.11%) Adobe XD
12 6 (0.092%) Acrobat
12 6 (0.092%) EPLAN
12 6 (0.092%) Siemens NX
13 5 (0.076%) InDesign
13 5 (0.076%) Revit
14 4 (0.061%) Adobe Illustrator
14 4 (0.061%) Notion
Business Applications
1 108 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 65 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
3 36 (0.55%) NetSuite
4 34 (0.52%) Dynamics GP
5 28 (0.43%) Shopify
6 19 (0.29%) Workday HCM
7 15 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
8 14 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
9 13 (0.20%) Magento
10 12 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
10 12 (0.18%) SAP CO
10 12 (0.18%) SAP FI
11 11 (0.17%) Infor M3
11 11 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
12 10 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
12 10 (0.15%) Elite 3E
12 10 (0.15%) SAP Business One
13 9 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
13 9 (0.14%) Sage 200
13 9 (0.14%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,033 (15.80%) Azure
2 748 (11.44%) Power Platform
3 664 (10.16%) AWS
4 454 (6.95%) Microsoft 365
5 404 (6.18%) SaaS
6 306 (4.68%) GCP
7 206 (3.15%) Entra ID
8 162 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
9 143 (2.19%) Dynamics 365
10 130 (1.99%) Google Ads
11 128 (1.96%) Google Analytics
12 103 (1.58%) GitHub
13 92 (1.41%) Meta Ads
13 92 (1.41%) Serverless
14 82 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
15 78 (1.19%) Amazon S3
15 78 (1.19%) Power Automate
15 78 (1.19%) PowerApps
16 74 (1.13%) Snowflake
17 71 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 203 (3.11%) DNS
2 158 (2.42%) DHCP
3 144 (2.20%) Firewall
4 130 (1.99%) VPN
5 113 (1.73%) TCP/IP
6 92 (1.41%) Internet
7 79 (1.21%) WAN
8 72 (1.10%) LAN
9 69 (1.06%) Network Security
10 57 (0.87%) Wireless
11 54 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
12 50 (0.76%) VLAN
13 45 (0.69%) Broadband
14 38 (0.58%) HTTP
15 35 (0.54%) SAN
16 29 (0.44%) VoIP
17 26 (0.40%) 5G
18 25 (0.38%) BGP
18 25 (0.38%) SMS
19 23 (0.35%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 673 (10.30%) Power BI
2 208 (3.18%) SQL Server
3 190 (2.91%) Tableau
4 177 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
5 120 (1.84%) Relational Database
6 112 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
7 108 (1.65%) Metadata
8 89 (1.36%) MySQL
9 84 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
10 83 (1.27%) Looker
11 79 (1.21%) Power Query
12 74 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 65 (0.99%) Data Lake
14 56 (0.86%) Big Data
15 55 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 51 (0.78%) NoSQL
17 45 (0.69%) BigQuery
18 39 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
19 38 (0.58%) MongoDB
20 35 (0.54%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 273 (4.18%) Git
2 270 (4.13%) JIRA
3 59 (0.90%) GitLab
4 58 (0.89%) Jenkins
5 32 (0.49%) Selenium
6 26 (0.40%) Eclipse
6 26 (0.40%) Rational DOORS
7 23 (0.35%) Cucumber
8 22 (0.34%) Claude Code
9 21 (0.32%) LabVIEW
9 21 (0.32%) Postman
10 19 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
11 15 (0.23%) Burp Suite
12 14 (0.21%) Bitbucket
12 14 (0.21%) JMeter
12 14 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
13 12 (0.18%) Metasploit
14 11 (0.17%) Chocolatey
15 10 (0.15%) Cypress.io
15 10 (0.15%) SonarQube
General
1 3,324 (50.85%) Social Skills
2 2,118 (32.40%) Finance
3 763 (11.67%) Marketing
4 559 (8.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 557 (8.52%) Organisational Skills
6 469 (7.17%) Retail
7 437 (6.69%) Public Sector
8 430 (6.58%) Legal
9 423 (6.47%) Law
10 397 (6.07%) Manufacturing
11 335 (5.12%) Influencing Skills
12 306 (4.68%) Presentation Skills
13 241 (3.69%) Banking
14 215 (3.29%) Aerospace
15 169 (2.59%) Electronics
16 164 (2.51%) Telecoms
17 118 (1.81%) Advertising
18 104 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
19 82 (1.25%) Automotive
20 71 (1.09%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,527 (23.36%) Analyst
2 871 (13.32%) Senior
3 427 (6.53%) Lead
4 315 (4.82%) Developer
5 311 (4.76%) Data Analyst
6 297 (4.54%) Business Analyst
7 262 (4.01%) Senior Analyst
8 249 (3.81%) Consultant
9 237 (3.63%) Support Analyst
10 230 (3.52%) Architect
11 187 (2.86%) Data Engineer
12 158 (2.42%) Systems Engineer
13 126 (1.93%) Support Engineer
14 118 (1.81%) Applications Support
15 115 (1.76%) Administrator
15 115 (1.76%) IT Support
16 110 (1.68%) Security Analyst
17 109 (1.67%) Senior Manager
18 108 (1.65%) Marketing Manager
19 107 (1.64%) ITSM Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (2.65%) .NET
2 160 (2.45%) Terraform
3 136 (2.08%) REST
4 120 (1.84%) HTML
5 109 (1.67%) CSS
6 89 (1.36%) JSON
7 85 (1.30%) RESTful
8 78 (1.19%) XML
9 77 (1.18%) Middleware
10 76 (1.16%) React
11 75 (1.15%) PySpark
12 64 (0.98%) Kafka
13 61 (0.93%) SOAP
14 48 (0.73%) EDI
15 46 (0.70%) LDAP
15 46 (0.70%) Web Services
16 44 (0.67%) Spring Boot
17 43 (0.66%) Spring
18 39 (0.60%) ASP.NET
19 38 (0.58%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 482 (7.37%) Management Information System
2 451 (6.90%) Analytical Mindset
3 409 (6.26%) Onboarding
4 324 (4.96%) Self-Motivation
5 287 (4.39%) Product Ownership
6 178 (2.72%) Driving Licence
7 152 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
8 147 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
9 141 (2.16%) Cloud Native
10 133 (2.03%) Social Media
11 121 (1.85%) Blog
12 112 (1.71%) Cyber Threat
13 109 (1.67%) Data Centre
14 105 (1.61%) Marketing Technology
15 101 (1.55%) Security Posture
16 96 (1.47%) Virtual Team
17 88 (1.35%) Data Structures
18 81 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
19 70 (1.07%) AI Agents
20 63 (0.96%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 463 (7.08%) Windows
2 319 (4.88%) Linux
3 222 (3.40%) Windows Server
4 94 (1.44%) Windows Server 2016
5 44 (0.67%) Windows 10
6 36 (0.55%) Mac OS
7 31 (0.47%) Unix
8 26 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 25 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
10 20 (0.31%) Apple iOS
11 19 (0.29%) Android
12 9 (0.14%) CentOS
13 8 (0.12%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.092%) Debian
14 6 (0.092%) VMS
15 5 (0.076%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.061%) CoreOS
17 2 (0.031%) AIX
17 2 (0.031%) Rocky
17 2 (0.031%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,188 (48.77%) Problem-Solving
2 1,994 (30.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,580 (24.17%) Decision-Making
4 1,350 (20.65%) Stakeholder Management
5 1,284 (19.64%) Analytics
6 1,196 (18.30%) AI
7 1,120 (17.13%) Agile
8 844 (12.91%) Business Intelligence
9 719 (11.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 655 (10.02%) Mentoring
11 622 (9.52%) Roadmaps
12 611 (9.35%) Validation
13 594 (9.09%) Actionable Insight
14 571 (8.73%) Process Improvement
15 564 (8.63%) Data Analysis
16 558 (8.54%) CRM
17 550 (8.41%) Project Management
18 545 (8.34%) Risk Management
19 538 (8.23%) Project Delivery
20 531 (8.12%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 1,226 (18.75%) SQL
2 888 (13.58%) Python
3 234 (3.58%) JavaScript
4 215 (3.29%) Java
5 208 (3.18%) C#
6 195 (2.98%) PowerShell
7 121 (1.85%) C++
8 97 (1.48%) Bash
9 88 (1.35%) R
10 82 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 76 (1.16%) TypeScript
12 53 (0.81%) MATLAB
13 50 (0.76%) T-SQL
14 46 (0.70%) Shell Script
15 43 (0.66%) C
16 33 (0.50%) PL/SQL
17 29 (0.44%) Scala
18 27 (0.41%) Go
19 25 (0.38%) Perl
20 24 (0.37%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,363 (20.85%) Degree
2 731 (11.18%) Security Cleared
3 505 (7.73%) SC Cleared
4 251 (3.84%) ACCA
5 238 (3.64%) CIMA
6 181 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 161 (2.46%) DV Cleared
8 142 (2.17%) DBS Check
9 140 (2.14%) CISSP
10 133 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
11 112 (1.71%) Master's Degree
12 111 (1.70%) CISM
13 104 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
14 85 (1.30%) HND
15 79 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
16 75 (1.15%) Azure Certification
17 67 (1.02%) CompTIA Security+
18 63 (0.96%) HNC
19 59 (0.90%) PMI Certification
20 51 (0.78%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 645 (9.87%) Data Quality
2 374 (5.72%) QA
3 322 (4.93%) GDPR
4 221 (3.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 206 (3.15%) Accessibility
6 166 (2.54%) NIST
7 145 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
8 141 (2.16%) SLA
9 119 (1.82%) PCI DSS
10 70 (1.07%) GRC
11 66 (1.01%) PMO
12 60 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
13 53 (0.81%) ISO 9001
14 41 (0.63%) IFRS
15 34 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 33 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 30 (0.46%) NCSC
18 28 (0.43%) DO-254
19 25 (0.38%) COBIT
19 25 (0.38%) GAAP
System Software
1 356 (5.45%) Active Directory
2 186 (2.85%) Docker
3 106 (1.62%) Hyper-V
4 81 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 72 (1.10%) Terminal Server
6 52 (0.80%) Firmware
7 23 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
8 18 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
10 11 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
11 8 (0.12%) vSphere
12 7 (0.11%) Ceph
13 6 (0.092%) VMware NSX
14 4 (0.061%) KVM
14 4 (0.061%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.046%) DFS Replication
16 2 (0.031%) IAG
16 2 (0.031%) Slurm Workload Manager
17 1 (0.015%) HDFS
17 1 (0.015%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 126 (1.93%) Kubernetes
2 85 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
3 72 (1.10%) Ansible
4 50 (0.76%) Grafana
5 41 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
6 28 (0.43%) Prometheus
7 23 (0.35%) Kibana
8 21 (0.32%) QRadar
9 19 (0.29%) SCCM
10 13 (0.20%) Nagios
11 12 (0.18%) Nmap
12 11 (0.17%) Podman
13 9 (0.14%) Argo
13 9 (0.14%) Functional Safety
13 9 (0.14%) logstash
14 7 (0.11%) Check_MK
14 7 (0.11%) Istio
15 6 (0.092%) Graylog
15 6 (0.092%) Nessus
15 6 (0.092%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1,572 (24.05%) Microsoft
2 409 (6.26%) Google
3 249 (3.81%) SAP
4 202 (3.09%) Oracle
5 174 (2.66%) VMware
6 156 (2.39%) Splunk
7 153 (2.34%) Salesforce
8 142 (2.17%) ServiceNow
9 130 (1.99%) Databricks
10 94 (1.44%) SolarWinds
11 88 (1.35%) Cisco
12 80 (1.22%) Veeam
13 73 (1.12%) Brocade
13 73 (1.12%) Nimble Storage
14 72 (1.10%) Tanium
15 71 (1.09%) Adobe
15 71 (1.09%) HubSpot
15 71 (1.09%) YouTube
16 61 (0.93%) Workday
17 45 (0.69%) TikTok