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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 9 15
Rank change year-on-year -13 +6 +3
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 6,621 6,044 6,653
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.58% 12.29% 9.36%
As % of the General category 12.01% 17.99% 16.20%
Number of salaries quoted 3,710 2,499 2,601
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,356 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.71% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £71,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.44% -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 55,145 33,598 41,075
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.46% 68.30% 57.80%
Number of salaries quoted 33,735 17,655 20,182
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £33,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,560
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.79% -4.07%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £79,484
90th Percentile £96,150 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £43,085 £50,000
% change year-on-year +16.05% -13.83% -0.99%

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 14 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 14 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 -14 5,799 £51,500 +3.00% 4,910
UK excluding London -14 4,508 £47,000 +4.44% 2,454
Work from Home -5 2,256 £55,000 +10.00% 2,115
London -11 1,816 £66,000 +1.54% 2,694
North of England -18 1,187 £47,500 +5.56% 579
South East -11 1,015 £48,000 +1.05% 640
Midlands -9 804 £45,000 +4.85% 356
North West -15 700 £46,500 +3.33% 310
South West -7 636 £46,743 +3.87% 293
West Midlands -15 413 £47,500 +5.56% 227
East Midlands -5 389 £42,500 +10.39% 129
Yorkshire -8 330 £47,000 +17.50% 205
East of England -8 302 £47,500 +21.79% 247
Northern Ireland +14 225 £43,750 -16.67% 105
Wales -3 212 £45,000 -10.00% 76
North East -22 166 £51,962 +29.91% 66
Scotland -22 151 £50,000 +46.63% 197

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
1 199 (3.01%) SharePoint
2 182 (2.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 114 (1.72%) Confluence
4 43 (0.65%) Apache Spark
5 41 (0.62%) CMS
6 39 (0.59%) Apache
7 35 (0.53%) IIS
8 33 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
9 30 (0.45%) SAS
10 18 (0.27%) WordPress
11 14 (0.21%) Jupyter
11 14 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
12 11 (0.17%) Headless CMS
13 10 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 9 (0.14%) WebLogic
14 9 (0.14%) WebSphere
15 8 (0.12%) OpenStack
16 6 (0.091%) nginx
17 4 (0.060%) Office Communications Server
17 4 (0.060%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 801 (12.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 369 (5.57%) Microsoft Office
3 142 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 66 (1.00%) MS Visio
5 60 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
6 46 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
7 20 (0.30%) Simulink
8 17 (0.26%) AutoCAD
9 13 (0.20%) Chatbot
10 10 (0.15%) SOLIDWORKS
11 9 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 8 (0.12%) EPLAN
12 8 (0.12%) Notion
13 7 (0.11%) Adobe XD
14 6 (0.091%) Acrobat
14 6 (0.091%) Photoshop
14 6 (0.091%) Siemens NX
15 5 (0.076%) InDesign
15 5 (0.076%) Revit
16 4 (0.060%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 103 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 57 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
3 34 (0.51%) Dynamics GP
4 29 (0.44%) NetSuite
5 28 (0.42%) Shopify
6 19 (0.29%) Workday HCM
7 15 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
8 12 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
9 11 (0.17%) Distributed Ledger
9 11 (0.17%) Magento
9 11 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
9 11 (0.17%) SAP CO
9 11 (0.17%) SAP FI
9 11 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
10 10 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
10 10 (0.15%) Infor M3
10 10 (0.15%) SAP Business One
11 9 (0.14%) Elite 3E
11 9 (0.14%) Fidessa
11 9 (0.14%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 1,055 (15.93%) Azure
2 763 (11.52%) Power Platform
3 669 (10.10%) AWS
4 476 (7.19%) Microsoft 365
5 408 (6.16%) SaaS
6 312 (4.71%) GCP
7 237 (3.58%) Entra ID
8 159 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
9 137 (2.07%) Dynamics 365
10 135 (2.04%) Google Ads
11 125 (1.89%) Google Analytics
12 101 (1.53%) GitHub
13 93 (1.40%) Meta Ads
13 93 (1.40%) Serverless
14 81 (1.22%) Microsoft Purview
14 81 (1.22%) Snowflake
15 77 (1.16%) Amazon S3
15 77 (1.16%) Cloud Computing
16 75 (1.13%) PowerApps
17 72 (1.09%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 211 (3.19%) DNS
2 165 (2.49%) DHCP
3 150 (2.27%) Firewall
4 136 (2.05%) VPN
5 122 (1.84%) TCP/IP
6 99 (1.50%) Internet
7 80 (1.21%) WAN
8 73 (1.10%) LAN
9 69 (1.04%) Network Security
10 57 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
11 56 (0.85%) Wireless
12 54 (0.82%) VLAN
13 48 (0.72%) Broadband
14 38 (0.57%) HTTP
15 36 (0.54%) SAN
16 31 (0.47%) VoIP
17 29 (0.44%) 5G
18 28 (0.42%) BGP
19 25 (0.38%) SMS
20 23 (0.35%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 687 (10.38%) Power BI
2 207 (3.13%) SQL Server
3 180 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
4 177 (2.67%) Tableau
5 134 (2.02%) Relational Database
6 117 (1.77%) Metadata
7 111 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
8 91 (1.37%) MySQL
9 89 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
10 87 (1.31%) Power Query
11 83 (1.25%) Looker
12 68 (1.03%) Data Lake
13 66 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 59 (0.89%) Big Data
15 52 (0.79%) NoSQL
15 52 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 47 (0.71%) BigQuery
17 40 (0.60%) MongoDB
18 38 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
19 37 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 286 (4.32%) Git
2 268 (4.05%) JIRA
3 62 (0.94%) GitLab
4 58 (0.88%) Jenkins
5 33 (0.50%) Selenium
6 27 (0.41%) Eclipse
7 24 (0.36%) Postman
8 23 (0.35%) Claude Code
8 23 (0.35%) LabVIEW
9 22 (0.33%) Rational DOORS
10 20 (0.30%) Cucumber
10 20 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
11 16 (0.24%) Burp Suite
12 15 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
13 13 (0.20%) Bitbucket
13 13 (0.20%) JMeter
13 13 (0.20%) Metasploit
14 11 (0.17%) Chocolatey
15 10 (0.15%) Cypress.io
16 9 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 3,383 (51.10%) Social Skills
2 2,116 (31.96%) Finance
3 767 (11.58%) Marketing
4 588 (8.88%) Organisational Skills
5 572 (8.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 479 (7.23%) Retail
7 443 (6.69%) Public Sector
8 442 (6.68%) Legal
9 437 (6.60%) Manufacturing
10 418 (6.31%) Law
11 341 (5.15%) Influencing Skills
12 322 (4.86%) Presentation Skills
13 251 (3.79%) Banking
14 218 (3.29%) Aerospace
15 181 (2.73%) Electronics
16 165 (2.49%) Telecoms
17 123 (1.86%) Advertising
18 110 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
19 93 (1.40%) Automotive
20 73 (1.10%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,513 (22.85%) Analyst
2 878 (13.26%) Senior
3 434 (6.55%) Lead
4 323 (4.88%) Developer
5 300 (4.53%) Data Analyst
6 285 (4.30%) Business Analyst
7 261 (3.94%) Senior Analyst
8 249 (3.76%) Consultant
9 240 (3.62%) Support Analyst
10 228 (3.44%) Architect
11 203 (3.07%) Data Engineer
12 154 (2.33%) Systems Engineer
13 124 (1.87%) Support Engineer
14 120 (1.81%) IT Support
15 117 (1.77%) Applications Support
16 113 (1.71%) Marketing Manager
17 112 (1.69%) Administrator
18 107 (1.62%) ITSM Analyst
19 105 (1.59%) Senior Manager
20 101 (1.53%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (2.67%) .NET
2 165 (2.49%) Terraform
3 129 (1.95%) REST
4 112 (1.69%) HTML
5 103 (1.56%) CSS
6 89 (1.34%) RESTful
7 80 (1.21%) PySpark
8 79 (1.19%) React
9 71 (1.07%) JSON
10 69 (1.04%) XML
11 64 (0.97%) Kafka
12 63 (0.95%) Middleware
13 52 (0.79%) SOAP
14 47 (0.71%) Spring Boot
15 46 (0.69%) LDAP
15 46 (0.69%) Spring
16 44 (0.66%) Web Services
17 41 (0.62%) EDI
18 40 (0.60%) ASP.NET
19 38 (0.57%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 503 (7.60%) Management Information System
2 431 (6.51%) Analytical Mindset
3 424 (6.40%) Onboarding
4 348 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
5 284 (4.29%) Product Ownership
6 204 (3.08%) Driving Licence
7 165 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
8 151 (2.28%) Cloud Native
9 149 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
10 137 (2.07%) Social Media
11 122 (1.84%) Blog
12 114 (1.72%) Data Centre
13 110 (1.66%) Cyber Threat
14 105 (1.59%) Marketing Technology
15 100 (1.51%) Virtual Team
16 93 (1.40%) Security Posture
17 92 (1.39%) Data Structures
18 80 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
19 79 (1.19%) AI Agents
20 65 (0.98%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 472 (7.13%) Windows
2 328 (4.95%) Linux
3 231 (3.49%) Windows Server
4 95 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
5 44 (0.66%) Windows 10
6 38 (0.57%) macOS
7 29 (0.44%) Unix
8 28 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
9 25 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 19 (0.29%) Apple iOS
11 18 (0.27%) Android
12 9 (0.14%) CentOS
13 8 (0.12%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.091%) Debian
14 6 (0.091%) VMS
15 5 (0.076%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.060%) CoreOS
17 2 (0.030%) Rocky
17 2 (0.030%) zOS
18 1 (0.015%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,281 (49.55%) Problem-Solving
2 2,046 (30.90%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,591 (24.03%) Decision-Making
4 1,416 (21.39%) Stakeholder Management
5 1,322 (19.97%) Analytics
6 1,274 (19.24%) AI
7 1,117 (16.87%) Agile
8 867 (13.09%) Business Intelligence
9 710 (10.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 662 (10.00%) Mentoring
11 642 (9.70%) Validation
12 618 (9.33%) Roadmaps
13 612 (9.24%) Actionable Insight
14 593 (8.96%) Process Improvement
15 576 (8.70%) Data Analysis
16 560 (8.46%) CRM
17 559 (8.44%) Customer Service
18 556 (8.40%) Project Management
19 548 (8.28%) CI/CD
20 541 (8.17%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 1,264 (19.09%) SQL
2 927 (14.00%) Python
3 229 (3.46%) JavaScript
4 210 (3.17%) Java
5 208 (3.14%) C#
6 201 (3.04%) PowerShell
7 123 (1.86%) C++
8 99 (1.50%) Bash
8 99 (1.50%) R
9 84 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 78 (1.18%) TypeScript
11 52 (0.79%) MATLAB
11 52 (0.79%) T-SQL
12 46 (0.69%) Shell Script
13 42 (0.63%) C
14 33 (0.50%) PL/SQL
15 28 (0.42%) Go
15 28 (0.42%) Scala
16 27 (0.41%) Perl
17 25 (0.38%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,397 (21.10%) Degree
2 754 (11.39%) Security Cleared
3 524 (7.91%) SC Cleared
4 243 (3.67%) ACCA
5 230 (3.47%) CIMA
6 170 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 164 (2.48%) DV Cleared
8 139 (2.10%) DBS Check
9 131 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
9 131 (1.98%) CISSP
10 122 (1.84%) Master's Degree
11 105 (1.59%) CISM
12 102 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
13 89 (1.34%) HND
14 86 (1.30%) Azure Certification
15 83 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
16 70 (1.06%) HNC
17 59 (0.89%) CompTIA Security+
18 56 (0.85%) AWS Certification
19 54 (0.82%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 663 (10.01%) Data Quality
2 390 (5.89%) QA
3 310 (4.68%) GDPR
4 227 (3.43%) Accessibility
5 203 (3.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 149 (2.25%) NIST
7 145 (2.19%) Cyber Essentials
8 135 (2.04%) SLA
9 115 (1.74%) PCI DSS
10 73 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
11 65 (0.98%) PMO
12 63 (0.95%) GRC
13 52 (0.79%) ISO 9001
14 39 (0.59%) IFRS
15 33 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 33 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 31 (0.47%) NCSC
17 27 (0.41%) DO-254
18 24 (0.36%) GAAP
19 23 (0.35%) COBIT
System Software
1 385 (5.81%) Active Directory
2 193 (2.91%) Docker
3 115 (1.74%) Hyper-V
4 82 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 72 (1.09%) Terminal Server
6 56 (0.85%) Firmware
7 25 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
8 18 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
9 12 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.12%) vSphere
11 7 (0.11%) Ceph
12 6 (0.091%) VMware NSX
13 5 (0.076%) DFS Replication
14 4 (0.060%) ISA Server
14 4 (0.060%) KVM
14 4 (0.060%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.030%) IAG
15 2 (0.030%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 1 (0.015%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 131 (1.98%) Kubernetes
2 92 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
3 75 (1.13%) Ansible
4 50 (0.76%) Grafana
5 44 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
6 31 (0.47%) Prometheus
7 26 (0.39%) SCCM
8 22 (0.33%) Kibana
9 21 (0.32%) QRadar
10 14 (0.21%) Nagios
11 13 (0.20%) Nmap
12 11 (0.17%) Podman
13 10 (0.15%) Functional Safety
14 9 (0.14%) Argo
14 9 (0.14%) FortiGate
15 8 (0.12%) EnCase
15 8 (0.12%) FTK
16 7 (0.11%) Check_MK
16 7 (0.11%) Istio
16 7 (0.11%) logstash
Vendors
1 1,634 (24.68%) Microsoft
2 424 (6.40%) Google
3 245 (3.70%) SAP
4 204 (3.08%) Oracle
5 175 (2.64%) VMware
6 161 (2.43%) Splunk
7 157 (2.37%) Salesforce
8 149 (2.25%) ServiceNow
9 134 (2.02%) Databricks
10 103 (1.56%) SolarWinds
11 99 (1.50%) Cisco
12 80 (1.21%) Veeam
13 76 (1.15%) YouTube
14 73 (1.10%) Brocade
14 73 (1.10%) Nimble Storage
14 73 (1.10%) Tanium
15 70 (1.06%) HubSpot
16 69 (1.04%) Adobe
17 54 (0.82%) TikTok
18 50 (0.76%) Workday