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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 8 14
Rank change year-on-year -17 +6 +5
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 6,403 6,089 7,413
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.47% 12.36% 9.69%
As % of the General category 11.79% 18.06% 16.90%
Number of salaries quoted 3,735 2,523 2,883
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £54,793
Median % change year-on-year - -4.18% -0.38%
75th Percentile £70,751 £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 54,307 33,724 43,857
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.42% 68.46% 57.32%
Number of salaries quoted 33,027 17,617 22,226
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,700 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.42% -5.79% -5.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -2.06%

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 24 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 24 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 -16 5,643 £52,500 - 8,713
UK excluding London -16 4,293 £47,500 +5.56% 4,761
Work from Home -6 2,143 £55,000 +10.00% 3,539
London -11 1,815 £67,500 +3.85% 4,684
North of England -19 1,165 £47,500 +6.74% 1,078
South East -11 990 £49,480 +0.98% 1,264
Midlands -10 741 £46,901 +4.22% 767
North West -15 707 £46,500 +3.33% 624
South West -8 609 £47,500 +5.56% 549
West Midlands -18 379 £47,500 +5.56% 475
East Midlands -6 359 £45,000 +12.50% 291
Yorkshire -10 317 £47,000 +17.50% 349
East of England -14 274 £47,500 +18.75% 438
Wales -6 204 £45,000 -10.40% 134
Northern Ireland +4 176 £43,750 -20.45% 227
Scotland -20 148 £44,500 +11.25% 364
North East -18 144 £51,500 +28.75% 110

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
1 188 (2.94%) SharePoint
2 177 (2.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 112 (1.75%) Confluence
4 44 (0.69%) CMS
5 37 (0.58%) Apache Spark
5 37 (0.58%) IIS
6 36 (0.56%) Apache
7 29 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
7 29 (0.45%) SAS
8 13 (0.20%) WordPress
9 11 (0.17%) Headless CMS
9 11 (0.17%) Jupyter
10 10 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 9 (0.14%) WebLogic
11 9 (0.14%) WebSphere
12 8 (0.12%) OpenStack
13 7 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
14 3 (0.047%) Appian
14 3 (0.047%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.047%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 750 (11.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 327 (5.11%) Microsoft Office
3 132 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 72 (1.12%) MS Visio
5 51 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
6 45 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
7 18 (0.28%) Simulink
8 17 (0.27%) AutoCAD
9 9 (0.14%) Chatbot
9 9 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
10 8 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 8 (0.12%) Photoshop
11 7 (0.11%) Adobe XD
12 6 (0.094%) Acrobat
12 6 (0.094%) CATIA
12 6 (0.094%) Siemens NX
13 5 (0.078%) EPLAN
13 5 (0.078%) InDesign
13 5 (0.078%) Revit
14 4 (0.062%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 112 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 65 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
3 38 (0.59%) NetSuite
4 35 (0.55%) Dynamics GP
5 28 (0.44%) Shopify
6 18 (0.28%) Workday HCM
7 15 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
7 15 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
8 12 (0.19%) Magento
8 12 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
8 12 (0.19%) SAP CO
8 12 (0.19%) SAP FI
9 11 (0.17%) Elite 3E
9 11 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
10 10 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
10 10 (0.16%) Infor M3
10 10 (0.16%) SAP Business One
10 10 (0.16%) SAP PM
11 9 (0.14%) Sage 200
11 9 (0.14%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,021 (15.95%) Azure
2 743 (11.60%) Power Platform
3 646 (10.09%) AWS
4 452 (7.06%) Microsoft 365
5 396 (6.18%) SaaS
6 295 (4.61%) GCP
7 189 (2.95%) Entra ID
8 159 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
9 153 (2.39%) Dynamics 365
10 130 (2.03%) Google Analytics
11 128 (2.00%) Google Ads
12 105 (1.64%) GitHub
13 92 (1.44%) Serverless
14 91 (1.42%) Meta Ads
15 83 (1.30%) Microsoft Purview
15 83 (1.30%) Power Automate
16 81 (1.27%) PowerApps
17 78 (1.22%) Amazon S3
18 74 (1.16%) Snowflake
19 69 (1.08%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 203 (3.17%) DNS
2 157 (2.45%) DHCP
3 148 (2.31%) Firewall
4 131 (2.05%) VPN
5 108 (1.69%) TCP/IP
6 89 (1.39%) Internet
7 76 (1.19%) WAN
8 71 (1.11%) LAN
9 68 (1.06%) Network Security
10 57 (0.89%) Wireless
11 56 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
12 50 (0.78%) VLAN
13 44 (0.69%) Broadband
14 38 (0.59%) SAN
15 37 (0.58%) HTTP
16 29 (0.45%) VoIP
17 25 (0.39%) 5G
17 25 (0.39%) BGP
17 25 (0.39%) SMS
18 23 (0.36%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 665 (10.39%) Power BI
2 215 (3.36%) SQL Server
3 192 (3.00%) Tableau
4 174 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
5 112 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
6 111 (1.73%) Relational Database
7 104 (1.62%) Metadata
8 87 (1.36%) MySQL
9 83 (1.30%) Looker
10 79 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
11 77 (1.20%) Power Query
12 72 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 64 (1.00%) Data Lake
14 58 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 57 (0.89%) Big Data
16 48 (0.75%) NoSQL
17 44 (0.69%) BigQuery
18 38 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
18 38 (0.59%) MongoDB
19 37 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 267 (4.17%) JIRA
2 259 (4.04%) Git
3 54 (0.84%) Jenkins
4 51 (0.80%) GitLab
5 33 (0.52%) Selenium
6 30 (0.47%) Rational DOORS
7 26 (0.41%) Eclipse
8 23 (0.36%) Cucumber
9 21 (0.33%) Postman
10 20 (0.31%) Claude Code
11 18 (0.28%) LabVIEW
11 18 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
12 15 (0.23%) Bitbucket
12 15 (0.23%) Chocolatey
13 14 (0.22%) Burp Suite
13 14 (0.22%) JMeter
14 13 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
15 11 (0.17%) Cypress.io
15 11 (0.17%) Metasploit
15 11 (0.17%) SonarQube
General
1 3,217 (50.24%) Social Skills
2 2,083 (32.53%) Finance
3 740 (11.56%) Marketing
4 539 (8.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 538 (8.40%) Organisational Skills
6 455 (7.11%) Retail
7 424 (6.62%) Law
8 421 (6.58%) Public Sector
9 411 (6.42%) Legal
10 370 (5.78%) Manufacturing
11 328 (5.12%) Influencing Skills
12 267 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
13 246 (3.84%) Banking
14 208 (3.25%) Aerospace
15 161 (2.51%) Telecoms
16 157 (2.45%) Electronics
17 117 (1.83%) Advertising
18 99 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
19 78 (1.22%) Automotive
20 70 (1.09%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,478 (23.08%) Analyst
2 850 (13.28%) Senior
3 424 (6.62%) Lead
4 308 (4.81%) Data Analyst
4 308 (4.81%) Developer
5 303 (4.73%) Business Analyst
6 245 (3.83%) Senior Analyst
7 243 (3.80%) Consultant
8 236 (3.69%) Architect
9 212 (3.31%) Support Analyst
10 189 (2.95%) Data Engineer
11 170 (2.66%) Systems Engineer
12 127 (1.98%) Support Engineer
13 119 (1.86%) IT Support
14 116 (1.81%) Applications Support
15 111 (1.73%) Administrator
15 111 (1.73%) Senior Manager
16 109 (1.70%) IT Manager
16 109 (1.70%) Security Analyst
17 108 (1.69%) Marketing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (2.56%) .NET
2 148 (2.31%) Terraform
3 136 (2.12%) REST
4 122 (1.91%) HTML
5 111 (1.73%) CSS
6 90 (1.41%) JSON
7 84 (1.31%) RESTful
8 81 (1.27%) Middleware
9 78 (1.22%) XML
10 74 (1.16%) PySpark
11 72 (1.12%) React
12 64 (1.00%) SOAP
13 60 (0.94%) Kafka
14 48 (0.75%) EDI
15 46 (0.72%) LDAP
15 46 (0.72%) Web Services
16 41 (0.64%) Spring Boot
17 39 (0.61%) Spring
18 38 (0.59%) ASP.NET
19 37 (0.58%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 463 (7.23%) Management Information System
2 456 (7.12%) Analytical Mindset
3 395 (6.17%) Onboarding
4 320 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
5 289 (4.51%) Product Ownership
6 167 (2.61%) Driving Licence
7 148 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
8 145 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
9 134 (2.09%) Cloud Native
10 130 (2.03%) Social Media
11 119 (1.86%) Blog
12 113 (1.76%) Cyber Threat
13 107 (1.67%) Marketing Technology
14 103 (1.61%) Data Centre
15 102 (1.59%) Security Posture
16 98 (1.53%) Virtual Team
17 88 (1.37%) Data Structures
18 76 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
19 66 (1.03%) AI Agents
20 64 (1.00%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 466 (7.28%) Windows
2 313 (4.89%) Linux
3 219 (3.42%) Windows Server
4 93 (1.45%) Windows Server 2016
5 42 (0.66%) Windows 10
6 36 (0.56%) Mac OS
7 33 (0.52%) Unix
8 27 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 24 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
10 23 (0.36%) Apple iOS
11 19 (0.30%) Android
12 9 (0.14%) CentOS
13 8 (0.12%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.094%) Debian
14 6 (0.094%) VMS
15 5 (0.078%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.062%) CoreOS
17 2 (0.031%) AIX
17 2 (0.031%) Rocky
17 2 (0.031%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,112 (48.60%) Problem-Solving
2 1,915 (29.91%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,544 (24.11%) Decision-Making
4 1,301 (20.32%) Stakeholder Management
5 1,269 (19.82%) Analytics
6 1,155 (18.04%) AI
7 1,099 (17.16%) Agile
8 831 (12.98%) Business Intelligence
9 692 (10.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 638 (9.96%) Mentoring
11 624 (9.75%) Roadmaps
12 590 (9.21%) Actionable Insight
13 588 (9.18%) Validation
14 555 (8.67%) Data Analysis
14 555 (8.67%) Process Improvement
15 548 (8.56%) Project Management
16 538 (8.40%) CRM
17 522 (8.15%) Cybersecurity
18 514 (8.03%) Project Delivery
18 514 (8.03%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 1,212 (18.93%) SQL
2 861 (13.45%) Python
3 233 (3.64%) JavaScript
4 215 (3.36%) Java
5 199 (3.11%) C#
6 196 (3.06%) PowerShell
7 118 (1.84%) C++
8 94 (1.47%) Bash
9 82 (1.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 82 (1.28%) R
10 72 (1.12%) TypeScript
11 55 (0.86%) MATLAB
12 52 (0.81%) T-SQL
13 43 (0.67%) Shell Script
14 40 (0.62%) C
15 32 (0.50%) PL/SQL
16 29 (0.45%) Scala
17 26 (0.41%) Go
18 23 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
18 23 (0.36%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,306 (20.40%) Degree
2 712 (11.12%) Security Cleared
3 490 (7.65%) SC Cleared
4 265 (4.14%) ACCA
5 248 (3.87%) CIMA
6 179 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 159 (2.48%) DV Cleared
8 150 (2.34%) CISSP
9 140 (2.19%) DBS Check
10 131 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
11 118 (1.84%) CISM
12 110 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
13 100 (1.56%) Master's Degree
14 81 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
15 79 (1.23%) Azure Certification
16 77 (1.20%) HND
17 67 (1.05%) CompTIA Security+
18 62 (0.97%) PMI Certification
19 57 (0.89%) HNC
20 49 (0.77%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 632 (9.87%) Data Quality
2 375 (5.86%) QA
3 319 (4.98%) GDPR
4 228 (3.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 207 (3.23%) Accessibility
6 171 (2.67%) NIST
7 147 (2.30%) Cyber Essentials
7 147 (2.30%) SLA
8 120 (1.87%) PCI DSS
9 70 (1.09%) GRC
10 64 (1.00%) PMO
11 57 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
11 57 (0.89%) ISO 9001
12 41 (0.64%) IFRS
13 38 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 35 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 29 (0.45%) NCSC
16 27 (0.42%) COBIT
17 26 (0.41%) DO-254
18 25 (0.39%) GAAP
System Software
1 351 (5.48%) Active Directory
2 172 (2.69%) Docker
3 105 (1.64%) Hyper-V
4 87 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 72 (1.12%) Terminal Server
6 47 (0.73%) Firmware
7 23 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
8 21 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
10 11 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
11 8 (0.12%) vSphere
12 7 (0.11%) Ceph
12 7 (0.11%) VMware NSX
13 4 (0.062%) KVM
13 4 (0.062%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.047%) DFS Replication
15 2 (0.031%) IAG
15 2 (0.031%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 1 (0.016%) VirtualBox
16 1 (0.016%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 118 (1.84%) Kubernetes
2 86 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
3 70 (1.09%) Ansible
4 45 (0.70%) Grafana
5 40 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
6 24 (0.37%) Prometheus
7 23 (0.36%) SCCM
8 21 (0.33%) Kibana
9 20 (0.31%) QRadar
10 12 (0.19%) Nagios
11 11 (0.17%) Nmap
11 11 (0.17%) Podman
12 9 (0.14%) Argo
12 9 (0.14%) logstash
13 8 (0.12%) Functional Safety
14 7 (0.11%) Check_MK
14 7 (0.11%) Istio
15 6 (0.094%) Graylog
15 6 (0.094%) Nessus
15 6 (0.094%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1,539 (24.04%) Microsoft
2 408 (6.37%) Google
3 255 (3.98%) SAP
4 200 (3.12%) Oracle
5 177 (2.76%) VMware
6 156 (2.44%) Splunk
7 147 (2.30%) Salesforce
8 138 (2.16%) ServiceNow
9 132 (2.06%) Databricks
10 94 (1.47%) SolarWinds
11 86 (1.34%) Cisco
12 80 (1.25%) Veeam
13 73 (1.14%) Brocade
13 73 (1.14%) Nimble Storage
14 72 (1.12%) Tanium
15 71 (1.11%) Adobe
16 70 (1.09%) HubSpot
17 65 (1.02%) YouTube
18 59 (0.92%) Workday
19 44 (0.69%) Sage