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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 8 14
Rank change year-on-year -18 +6 +7
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,845 6,049 9,938
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.17% 13.52% 9.14%
As % of the General category 10.97% 18.60% 16.01%
Number of salaries quoted 3,139 2,425 5,438
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,292 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.29% +10.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,445 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.11% +11.11% -5.26%

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 44,182 32,525 62,067
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 47.17% 72.72% 57.06%
Number of salaries quoted 27,118 15,921 41,122
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £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 18 June 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 18 June 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 4,413 £55,000 - 1,747
UK excluding London -20 3,056 £48,445 -3.11% 1,497
London -11 1,520 £67,500 +3.85% 652
Work from Home -12 1,492 £55,000 - 807
North of England -19 950 £48,000 +0.20% 320
South East -8 761 £50,000 -9.09% 518
North West -18 560 £46,500 -7.00% 182
Midlands -9 558 £48,000 +1.05% 246
South West -26 332 £47,500 -5.00% 164
West Midlands -14 314 £51,250 +7.89% 132
Yorkshire -15 294 £50,000 +11.11% 91
East Midlands +2 243 £45,000 -5.26% 113
East of England -20 232 £45,000 -3.93% 125
Scotland -22 112 £40,000 -20.71% 62
North East -31 96 £51,750 +33.38% 56
Wales -6 83 £53,171 -3.33% 31
Northern Ireland -23 39 £40,000 -27.27% 92

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
1 171 (3.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 117 (2.41%) SharePoint
3 75 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
4 71 (1.47%) Apache Spark
5 70 (1.44%) Confluence
6 43 (0.89%) Apache
7 38 (0.78%) CMS
8 23 (0.47%) IIS
9 20 (0.41%) SAS
10 16 (0.33%) WordPress
11 14 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 13 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
13 6 (0.12%) Jupyter
14 4 (0.083%) WebLogic
14 4 (0.083%) WebSphere
15 3 (0.062%) Anypoint
15 3 (0.062%) govService
15 3 (0.062%) JBoss
15 3 (0.062%) nginx
15 3 (0.062%) Tomcat
Applications
1 533 (11.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 185 (3.82%) Microsoft Office
3 99 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 86 (1.78%) MS Visio
5 33 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
6 30 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
7 9 (0.19%) CATIA
8 8 (0.17%) Adobe XD
9 6 (0.12%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.10%) Acrobat
11 4 (0.083%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.083%) Maya
12 3 (0.062%) Blender
12 3 (0.062%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.062%) Trello
13 2 (0.041%) AutoCAD
13 2 (0.041%) Lectora
13 2 (0.041%) Siemens NX
13 2 (0.041%) Simulink
13 2 (0.041%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 69 (1.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 33 (0.68%) NetSuite
4 32 (0.66%) Salesforce CRM
5 17 (0.35%) SAP CO
6 16 (0.33%) SAP PM
7 15 (0.31%) SAP ERP
8 14 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
9 11 (0.23%) Maximo
9 11 (0.23%) SAP FI
10 10 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
11 9 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
11 9 (0.19%) Fidessa
12 8 (0.17%) Workday HCM
13 7 (0.14%) Elite 3E
14 6 (0.12%) Endur
14 6 (0.12%) Magento
14 6 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
14 6 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
14 6 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 879 (18.14%) Azure
2 639 (13.19%) Power Platform
3 474 (9.78%) AWS
4 368 (7.60%) Microsoft 365
5 302 (6.23%) SaaS
6 206 (4.25%) GCP
7 124 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
8 115 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
9 113 (2.33%) Entra ID
10 80 (1.65%) Google Analytics
11 79 (1.63%) GitHub
12 76 (1.57%) Microsoft Purview
12 76 (1.57%) Power Automate
13 72 (1.49%) Amazon S3
13 72 (1.49%) Snowflake
14 70 (1.44%) dbt
15 65 (1.34%) Serverless
16 64 (1.32%) PowerApps
17 54 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
18 50 (1.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 195 (4.02%) Firewall
2 176 (3.63%) DNS
3 135 (2.79%) DHCP
4 119 (2.46%) VPN
5 82 (1.69%) WAN
6 77 (1.59%) TCP/IP
7 76 (1.57%) Broadband
8 74 (1.53%) LAN
9 63 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
10 52 (1.07%) Wireless
11 51 (1.05%) VLAN
12 45 (0.93%) Network Security
13 42 (0.87%) SAN
14 34 (0.70%) BGP
15 32 (0.66%) HTTP
16 30 (0.62%) Internet
17 28 (0.58%) Cisco ASA
18 26 (0.54%) SD-WAN
19 25 (0.52%) OSPF
19 25 (0.52%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 570 (11.76%) Power BI
2 302 (6.23%) Tableau
3 188 (3.88%) SQL Server
4 159 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
5 105 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
6 91 (1.88%) Metadata
7 87 (1.80%) Data Mining
8 71 (1.47%) Data Lake
8 71 (1.47%) Relational Database
9 60 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
10 58 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
10 58 (1.20%) Looker
11 56 (1.16%) Power Query
11 56 (1.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 51 (1.05%) MySQL
13 46 (0.95%) BigQuery
14 45 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 39 (0.80%) Big Data
16 35 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
16 35 (0.72%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 162 (3.34%) JIRA
2 140 (2.89%) Git
3 52 (1.07%) GitLab
4 33 (0.68%) Rational DOORS
5 30 (0.62%) Jenkins
5 30 (0.62%) MLflow
6 19 (0.39%) Selenium
7 18 (0.37%) Chocolatey
8 16 (0.33%) Cucumber
9 15 (0.31%) ERwin
10 13 (0.27%) IBM UrbanCode
10 13 (0.27%) Postman
11 12 (0.25%) Cypress.io
11 12 (0.25%) Visual Studio
12 11 (0.23%) Eclipse
12 11 (0.23%) SonarQube
13 9 (0.19%) Bitbucket
13 9 (0.19%) JMeter
13 9 (0.19%) Oracle APEX
14 8 (0.17%) Balsamiq
General
1 2,236 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 1,678 (34.63%) Finance
3 419 (8.65%) Marketing
4 361 (7.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 289 (5.96%) Organisational Skills
6 285 (5.88%) Public Sector
7 268 (5.53%) Law
8 263 (5.43%) Legal
9 262 (5.41%) Retail
10 241 (4.97%) Banking
11 173 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
12 172 (3.55%) Manufacturing
13 128 (2.64%) Presentation Skills
14 116 (2.39%) Telecoms
15 88 (1.82%) Advertising
15 88 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
16 80 (1.65%) Aerospace
17 78 (1.61%) Financial Institution
18 71 (1.47%) Electronics
19 54 (1.11%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,252 (25.84%) Analyst
2 624 (12.88%) Senior
3 339 (7.00%) Lead
4 312 (6.44%) Data Analyst
5 280 (5.78%) Business Analyst
6 237 (4.89%) Developer
7 210 (4.33%) Consultant
8 206 (4.25%) Architect
9 189 (3.90%) Systems Engineer
10 146 (3.01%) Senior Analyst
11 126 (2.60%) Data Engineer
12 118 (2.44%) Support Analyst
13 113 (2.33%) IT Manager
14 108 (2.23%) Support Engineer
15 106 (2.19%) IT Support
16 103 (2.13%) Senior Manager
17 100 (2.06%) Systems Analyst
18 96 (1.98%) Financial Analyst
19 93 (1.92%) Security Analyst
20 89 (1.84%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (2.50%) HTML
2 110 (2.27%) CSS
3 107 (2.21%) .NET
4 99 (2.04%) REST
5 88 (1.82%) JSON
6 86 (1.78%) Middleware
7 84 (1.73%) React
8 78 (1.61%) XML
9 69 (1.42%) PyTorch
10 63 (1.30%) TensorFlow
11 51 (1.05%) Kafka
12 50 (1.03%) Node.js
13 49 (1.01%) SOAP
14 42 (0.87%) RESTful
14 42 (0.87%) scikit-learn
15 41 (0.85%) PySpark
16 35 (0.72%) Web Services
17 33 (0.68%) Pandas
18 32 (0.66%) LangChain
19 28 (0.58%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 520 (10.73%) Analytical Mindset
2 239 (4.93%) Management Information System
3 202 (4.17%) Onboarding
4 194 (4.00%) Product Ownership
5 185 (3.82%) Self-Motivation
6 135 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
7 104 (2.15%) Data Centre
8 95 (1.96%) Cloud Native
9 94 (1.94%) Security Posture
10 86 (1.78%) Data Structures
11 80 (1.65%) Algorithms
12 78 (1.61%) Driving Licence
13 76 (1.57%) Cyber Threat
14 59 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
14 59 (1.22%) Social Media
15 56 (1.16%) Public Cloud
16 54 (1.11%) Virtual Team
17 46 (0.95%) Cyber Defence
18 45 (0.93%) FMCG
19 43 (0.89%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 382 (7.88%) Windows
2 240 (4.95%) Linux
3 193 (3.98%) Windows Server
4 95 (1.96%) Windows Server 2016
5 34 (0.70%) Unix
6 26 (0.54%) Windows 10
7 25 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 17 (0.35%) Mac OS
8 17 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
9 16 (0.33%) Android
10 14 (0.29%) Apple iOS
11 11 (0.23%) CentOS
11 11 (0.23%) Ubuntu
12 8 (0.17%) VMS
13 4 (0.083%) AIX
13 4 (0.083%) Debian
13 4 (0.083%) Rocky
13 4 (0.083%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.041%) OpenVMS
15 1 (0.021%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,179 (44.97%) Problem-Solving
2 1,185 (24.46%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,061 (21.90%) Analytics
4 1,056 (21.80%) Decision-Making
5 838 (17.30%) Agile
6 649 (13.40%) Business Intelligence
7 631 (13.02%) AI
8 629 (12.98%) Stakeholder Management
9 502 (10.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 486 (10.03%) Roadmaps
11 475 (9.80%) Mentoring
12 472 (9.74%) Actionable Insight
13 471 (9.72%) Project Management
14 444 (9.16%) Data Modelling
15 443 (9.14%) Data Analysis
16 440 (9.08%) Cybersecurity
17 401 (8.28%) Data Governance
18 395 (8.15%) Process Improvement
19 366 (7.55%) Analytical Thinking
20 351 (7.24%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 1,028 (21.22%) SQL
2 869 (17.94%) Python
3 172 (3.55%) JavaScript
4 167 (3.45%) Java
5 165 (3.41%) PowerShell
6 145 (2.99%) C#
7 80 (1.65%) R
8 71 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 69 (1.42%) C++
10 68 (1.40%) Bash
11 48 (0.99%) TypeScript
12 47 (0.97%) T-SQL
13 38 (0.78%) MATLAB
14 34 (0.70%) VBA
15 22 (0.45%) Go
15 22 (0.45%) PHP
16 19 (0.39%) Scala
17 18 (0.37%) Julia
18 17 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
18 17 (0.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 880 (18.16%) Degree
2 441 (9.10%) Security Cleared
3 322 (6.65%) SC Cleared
4 254 (5.24%) ACCA
5 239 (4.93%) CIMA
6 155 (3.20%) DBS Check
7 152 (3.14%) CISSP
8 146 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
9 114 (2.35%) Cisco Certification
10 107 (2.21%) CISM
11 85 (1.75%) DV Cleared
11 85 (1.75%) Master's Degree
12 81 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
13 73 (1.51%) Azure Certification
14 72 (1.49%) IRCA
15 71 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
16 66 (1.36%) CompTIA Security+
17 60 (1.24%) PMI Certification
18 54 (1.11%) PMP
19 48 (0.99%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 458 (9.45%) Data Quality
2 380 (7.84%) GDPR
3 314 (6.48%) QA
4 259 (5.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 222 (4.58%) NIST
6 166 (3.43%) Cyber Essentials
7 141 (2.91%) SLA
8 137 (2.83%) PCI DSS
9 129 (2.66%) Accessibility
10 118 (2.44%) ISO 9001
11 71 (1.47%) GRC
12 57 (1.18%) PMO
13 51 (1.05%) Actionable Recommendations
14 44 (0.91%) IFRS
15 39 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 39 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 33 (0.68%) COBIT
17 28 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 24 (0.50%) ITGC
18 24 (0.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 278 (5.74%) Active Directory
2 97 (2.00%) Hyper-V
3 85 (1.75%) Docker
4 80 (1.65%) Terminal Server
5 76 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
6 26 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (0.25%) ProxySG
7 12 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
7 12 (0.25%) vSphere
8 8 (0.17%) IAG
8 8 (0.17%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.083%) Firmware
9 4 (0.083%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 4 (0.083%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.083%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.083%) XenApp
10 3 (0.062%) DFS Replication
11 2 (0.041%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.041%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.021%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 130 (2.68%) Terraform
2 78 (1.61%) Kubernetes
3 63 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 58 (1.20%) Ansible
5 36 (0.74%) Grafana
6 27 (0.56%) SCCM
7 25 (0.52%) Prometheus
8 21 (0.43%) Nagios
9 16 (0.33%) QRadar
9 16 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
10 15 (0.31%) Kibana
11 12 (0.25%) Kubeflow
12 9 (0.19%) Control-M
13 7 (0.14%) logstash
13 7 (0.14%) Packer
14 6 (0.12%) Graylog
15 5 (0.10%) Docker Swarm
15 5 (0.10%) Podman
16 4 (0.083%) CASB
16 4 (0.083%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,086 (22.41%) Microsoft
2 202 (4.17%) SAP
3 188 (3.88%) Google
4 167 (3.45%) Oracle
5 166 (3.43%) VMware
6 151 (3.12%) Salesforce
7 133 (2.75%) Splunk
8 125 (2.58%) SolarWinds
9 112 (2.31%) Databricks
10 93 (1.92%) Veeam
11 83 (1.71%) ServiceNow
12 81 (1.67%) Nimble Storage
13 80 (1.65%) Brocade
13 80 (1.65%) Tanium
14 72 (1.49%) Workday
15 71 (1.47%) Cisco
16 50 (1.03%) IBM
17 47 (0.97%) Red Hat
18 46 (0.95%) Adobe
19 44 (0.91%) HubSpot