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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 9 14
Rank change year-on-year -17 +5 +6
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,635 5,855 9,468
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.15% 13.48% 9.82%
As % of the General category 10.51% 18.58% 16.28%
Number of salaries quoted 2,895 2,469 5,424
10th Percentile £32,838 £31,200 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,110 £41,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +10.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,900 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -2.00% +11.11% -3.84%

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 44,118 31,514 58,140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 49.06% 72.58% 60.30%
Number of salaries quoted 24,747 15,713 39,506
10th Percentile £29,250 £28,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,750 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £77,250 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £105,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -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 13 May 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 May 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 4,179 £55,000 - 2,285
UK excluding London -20 2,859 £49,000 -2.00% 1,651
London -8 1,484 £67,500 +3.85% 920
Work from Home -9 1,355 £55,000 - 1,029
North of England -28 863 £47,500 -5.00% 395
South East -4 739 £50,000 -8.26% 540
Midlands -29 532 £48,000 +1.05% 275
North West -31 493 £45,000 -10.00% 234
West Midlands -29 319 £50,000 +5.26% 174
Yorkshire -13 285 £52,500 +16.67% 118
South West -28 258 £47,500 -5.00% 164
East of England -21 245 £45,000 -11.71% 166
East Midlands -2 211 £45,000 -5.26% 99
Scotland -29 128 £40,000 -20.71% 79
North East -24 85 £49,222 +27.85% 51
Wales -3 76 £47,105 -10.28% 44
Northern Ireland -31 33 £52,500 -4.55% 29

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 (2.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 101 (2.18%) SharePoint
3 74 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
4 72 (1.55%) Apache Spark
5 58 (1.25%) Confluence
6 44 (0.95%) CMS
7 35 (0.76%) Apache
8 19 (0.41%) IIS
9 16 (0.35%) WordPress
10 15 (0.32%) SAS
11 12 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
12 8 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 6 (0.13%) nginx
14 3 (0.065%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.065%) govService
14 3 (0.065%) JBoss
14 3 (0.065%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.065%) Tomcat
15 2 (0.043%) Appian
15 2 (0.043%) Umbraco
Applications
1 551 (11.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 230 (4.96%) Microsoft Office
3 97 (2.09%) MS Visio
4 86 (1.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 30 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
6 22 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
7 12 (0.26%) Adobe XD
7 12 (0.26%) Maya
8 10 (0.22%) CATIA
9 4 (0.086%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.086%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.086%) Trello
10 3 (0.065%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.043%) Acrobat
11 2 (0.043%) Lectora
11 2 (0.043%) Simulink
12 1 (0.022%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.022%) Sketch
12 1 (0.022%) SPSS
12 1 (0.022%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 67 (1.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 39 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
3 38 (0.82%) NetSuite
4 32 (0.69%) Salesforce CRM
5 19 (0.41%) SAP CO
6 15 (0.32%) SAP PM
7 14 (0.30%) SAP ERP
8 11 (0.24%) Endur
8 11 (0.24%) Maximo
8 11 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
8 11 (0.24%) SAP FI
9 10 (0.22%) Workday HCM
10 9 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
11 7 (0.15%) Elite 3E
11 7 (0.15%) Magento
11 7 (0.15%) SAP PP
12 6 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
12 6 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
12 6 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
13 5 (0.11%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 834 (17.99%) Azure
2 639 (13.79%) Power Platform
3 464 (10.01%) AWS
4 331 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
5 263 (5.67%) SaaS
6 204 (4.40%) GCP
7 137 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
8 135 (2.91%) Dynamics 365
9 110 (2.37%) Entra ID
10 98 (2.11%) GitHub
11 92 (1.98%) Snowflake
12 90 (1.94%) Power Automate
13 82 (1.77%) dbt
14 74 (1.60%) Microsoft Purview
15 73 (1.57%) Google Analytics
16 65 (1.40%) Amazon S3
17 63 (1.36%) PowerApps
18 59 (1.27%) Serverless
19 53 (1.14%) Azure Data Factory
20 49 (1.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 192 (4.14%) Firewall
2 147 (3.17%) DNS
3 123 (2.65%) VPN
4 101 (2.18%) DHCP
5 77 (1.66%) WAN
6 70 (1.51%) TCP/IP
7 68 (1.47%) LAN
8 58 (1.25%) VLAN
8 58 (1.25%) Wireless
9 55 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
10 53 (1.14%) Broadband
11 50 (1.08%) SAN
12 46 (0.99%) Network Security
13 39 (0.84%) BGP
14 30 (0.65%) Cisco ASA
14 30 (0.65%) OSPF
15 28 (0.60%) Wireshark
16 26 (0.56%) SD-WAN
17 25 (0.54%) EIGRP
17 25 (0.54%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 569 (12.28%) Power BI
2 351 (7.57%) Tableau
3 183 (3.95%) SQL Server
4 161 (3.47%) Data Warehouse
5 133 (2.87%) Data Mining
6 81 (1.75%) Metadata
7 75 (1.62%) Data Lake
8 72 (1.55%) Relational Database
9 66 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
10 60 (1.29%) Looker
11 59 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
12 58 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 56 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
14 49 (1.06%) MySQL
15 48 (1.04%) BigQuery
16 45 (0.97%) Power Query
17 42 (0.91%) NoSQL
18 41 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 35 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
20 34 (0.73%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 162 (3.50%) JIRA
2 137 (2.96%) Git
3 46 (0.99%) GitLab
4 38 (0.82%) Jenkins
5 31 (0.67%) MLflow
6 28 (0.60%) Rational DOORS
7 25 (0.54%) Selenium
8 20 (0.43%) Chocolatey
9 15 (0.32%) Cucumber
9 15 (0.32%) Visual Studio
10 14 (0.30%) ERwin
11 13 (0.28%) Balsamiq
11 13 (0.28%) Bitbucket
11 13 (0.28%) IBM UrbanCode
12 11 (0.24%) Axure RP
13 10 (0.22%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.22%) Maven
13 10 (0.22%) SonarQube
13 10 (0.22%) Subversion
14 9 (0.19%) Oracle APEX
General
1 2,136 (46.08%) Social Skills
2 1,682 (36.29%) Finance
3 410 (8.85%) Marketing
4 372 (8.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 272 (5.87%) Law
6 263 (5.67%) Banking
7 258 (5.57%) Organisational Skills
8 253 (5.46%) Public Sector
9 249 (5.37%) Retail
10 238 (5.13%) Legal
11 169 (3.65%) Manufacturing
12 148 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
13 140 (3.02%) Influencing Skills
14 110 (2.37%) Telecoms
15 92 (1.98%) Financial Institution
16 84 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
17 76 (1.64%) Electronics
18 67 (1.45%) Advertising
18 67 (1.45%) Games
19 62 (1.34%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,222 (26.36%) Analyst
2 652 (14.07%) Senior
3 321 (6.93%) Data Analyst
4 297 (6.41%) Lead
5 269 (5.80%) Business Analyst
6 245 (5.29%) Developer
7 214 (4.62%) Architect
8 197 (4.25%) Consultant
9 147 (3.17%) Systems Engineer
10 129 (2.78%) Senior Analyst
11 128 (2.76%) Senior Manager
12 122 (2.63%) Support Analyst
12 122 (2.63%) Trainee
13 110 (2.37%) Trainee Analyst
13 110 (2.37%) Trainee Data Analyst
14 106 (2.29%) Data Engineer
15 101 (2.18%) IT Manager
15 101 (2.18%) IT Support
16 100 (2.16%) Support Engineer
17 92 (1.98%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (2.76%) HTML
2 117 (2.52%) CSS
3 99 (2.14%) .NET
4 88 (1.90%) REST
5 80 (1.73%) JSON
6 79 (1.70%) Middleware
7 78 (1.68%) React
8 73 (1.57%) XML
9 55 (1.19%) PyTorch
10 52 (1.12%) Kafka
11 51 (1.10%) SOAP
12 50 (1.08%) TensorFlow
13 44 (0.95%) Node.js
14 40 (0.86%) scikit-learn
15 37 (0.80%) PySpark
16 34 (0.73%) RESTful
17 33 (0.71%) Pandas
18 32 (0.69%) EDI
18 32 (0.69%) LangChain
19 26 (0.56%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 486 (10.49%) Analytical Mindset
2 228 (4.92%) Management Information System
3 204 (4.40%) Onboarding
4 196 (4.23%) Product Ownership
5 194 (4.19%) Self-Motivation
6 111 (2.39%) Data Centre
7 100 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
8 90 (1.94%) Cloud Native
9 81 (1.75%) Data Structures
10 79 (1.70%) Security Posture
11 74 (1.60%) Algorithms
12 69 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
13 66 (1.42%) Driving Licence
14 65 (1.40%) Cyber Threat
15 52 (1.12%) Public Cloud
16 51 (1.10%) Social Media
17 50 (1.08%) Virtual Team
18 45 (0.97%) FMCG
19 44 (0.95%) Cyber Defence
20 43 (0.93%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 339 (7.31%) Windows
2 203 (4.38%) Linux
3 144 (3.11%) Windows Server
4 56 (1.21%) Windows Server 2016
5 35 (0.76%) Unix
6 22 (0.47%) Windows 10
7 21 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 18 (0.39%) Mac OS
9 16 (0.35%) Android
10 14 (0.30%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.17%) CentOS
11 8 (0.17%) VMS
12 6 (0.13%) Ubuntu
13 4 (0.086%) AIX
13 4 (0.086%) Rocky
13 4 (0.086%) Windows Server 2012
13 4 (0.086%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.043%) Debian
15 1 (0.022%) OpenBSD
15 1 (0.022%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,070 (44.66%) Problem-Solving
2 1,093 (23.58%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,034 (22.31%) Analytics
4 955 (20.60%) Decision-Making
5 820 (17.69%) Agile
6 668 (14.41%) Business Intelligence
7 634 (13.68%) AI
8 586 (12.64%) Stakeholder Management
9 521 (11.24%) Project Management
10 454 (9.80%) Mentoring
11 453 (9.77%) Actionable Insight
12 449 (9.69%) Data Analysis
13 435 (9.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 431 (9.30%) Data Modelling
15 426 (9.19%) Roadmaps
16 424 (9.15%) Cybersecurity
17 384 (8.28%) Analytical Thinking
18 366 (7.90%) DevOps
19 363 (7.83%) Data Governance
20 354 (7.64%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 983 (21.21%) SQL
2 852 (18.38%) Python
3 174 (3.75%) PowerShell
4 168 (3.62%) Java
4 168 (3.62%) JavaScript
5 126 (2.72%) C#
6 68 (1.47%) R
7 65 (1.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 62 (1.34%) Bash
9 58 (1.25%) C++
10 45 (0.97%) T-SQL
11 40 (0.86%) TypeScript
12 39 (0.84%) VBA
13 32 (0.69%) MATLAB
14 23 (0.50%) Scala
15 20 (0.43%) Go
16 17 (0.37%) PL/SQL
17 16 (0.35%) PHP
18 14 (0.30%) C
18 14 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 928 (20.02%) Degree
2 354 (7.64%) Security Cleared
3 242 (5.22%) SC Cleared
4 233 (5.03%) ACCA
5 221 (4.77%) CIMA
6 167 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 152 (3.28%) DBS Check
8 146 (3.15%) CISSP
9 110 (2.37%) Cisco Certification
10 104 (2.24%) Master's Degree
11 100 (2.16%) CISM
12 94 (2.03%) PMI Certification
13 83 (1.79%) PMP
14 82 (1.77%) DV Cleared
15 72 (1.55%) IRCA
16 71 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
17 70 (1.51%) Azure Certification
18 68 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
19 58 (1.25%) CompTIA Security+
20 55 (1.19%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 434 (9.36%) Data Quality
2 348 (7.51%) GDPR
3 289 (6.24%) QA
4 244 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 208 (4.49%) NIST
6 126 (2.72%) Cyber Essentials
7 114 (2.46%) SLA
8 103 (2.22%) PCI DSS
9 102 (2.20%) ISO 9001
10 95 (2.05%) Accessibility
11 61 (1.32%) PMO
12 60 (1.29%) GRC
13 53 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
14 38 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 38 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 33 (0.71%) IFRS
16 31 (0.67%) COBIT
17 28 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 22 (0.47%) ITGC
18 22 (0.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 236 (5.09%) Active Directory
2 77 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 69 (1.49%) Docker
4 64 (1.38%) Hyper-V
5 48 (1.04%) Terminal Server
6 25 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.35%) ProxySG
8 12 (0.26%) vSphere
9 10 (0.22%) VMware NSX
10 8 (0.17%) IAG
10 8 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
11 5 (0.11%) Firmware
12 4 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.086%) XenApp
13 3 (0.065%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.065%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.043%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.043%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.022%) KVM
15 1 (0.022%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 126 (2.72%) Terraform
2 77 (1.66%) Kubernetes
3 69 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
4 58 (1.25%) Ansible
5 32 (0.69%) Grafana
6 29 (0.63%) SCCM
7 24 (0.52%) Prometheus
7 24 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
8 22 (0.47%) Nagios
9 12 (0.26%) QRadar
10 11 (0.24%) Kibana
11 8 (0.17%) Kubeflow
12 6 (0.13%) Control-M
12 6 (0.13%) logstash
12 6 (0.13%) Packer
13 5 (0.11%) CASB
13 5 (0.11%) Graylog
14 4 (0.086%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.086%) RSA Archer
14 4 (0.086%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,095 (23.62%) Microsoft
2 197 (4.25%) SAP
3 177 (3.82%) Google
4 173 (3.73%) Oracle
5 146 (3.15%) Salesforce
6 136 (2.93%) VMware
7 108 (2.33%) Databricks
7 108 (2.33%) ServiceNow
8 96 (2.07%) SolarWinds
9 92 (1.98%) Splunk
10 78 (1.68%) Workday
11 72 (1.55%) Cisco
12 58 (1.25%) Veeam
13 52 (1.12%) IBM
14 50 (1.08%) Dell
15 49 (1.06%) Tanium
16 48 (1.04%) Brocade
16 48 (1.04%) Nimble Storage
17 47 (1.01%) Red Hat
18 41 (0.88%) Adobe