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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 9 13
Rank change year-on-year -16 +4 +7
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 5,859 6,108 7,944
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.43% 12.26% 9.56%
As % of the General category 11.70% 17.88% 16.78%
Number of salaries quoted 3,570 2,606 3,592
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year +1.06% -4.08% -2.00%

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 50,070 34,160 47,340
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.39% 68.54% 56.98%
Number of salaries quoted 30,652 17,900 27,568
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,250 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%

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 22 August 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 22 August 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 5,243 £52,500 - 5,716
UK excluding London -16 3,790 £47,500 +1.06% 3,476
Work from Home -10 1,899 £55,000 +10.00% 2,412
London -11 1,791 £67,500 +3.85% 3,003
North of England -19 1,049 £47,500 +5.56% 854
South East -8 906 £50,000 -4.76% 949
Midlands -8 656 £47,500 +5.56% 461
North West -16 646 £46,500 +3.33% 501
South West -8 525 £47,500 +5.56% 502
West Midlands -16 337 £50,000 +11.11% 261
East Midlands -3 316 £46,113 +2.47% 201
Yorkshire -12 282 £47,000 +17.50% 273
East of England -19 257 £47,500 +5.56% 317
Wales -10 151 £51,709 +2.61% 80
Scotland -22 134 £45,000 +10.43% 261
North East -14 121 £55,000 +17.65% 92
Northern Ireland -13 120 £42,500 -22.73% 136

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
1 181 (3.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 172 (2.94%) SharePoint
3 93 (1.59%) Confluence
4 67 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
4 67 (1.14%) Apache Spark
5 47 (0.80%) Apache
6 46 (0.79%) CMS
7 33 (0.56%) IIS
8 26 (0.44%) SAS
9 11 (0.19%) WordPress
10 10 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 10 (0.17%) Jupyter
10 10 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
11 9 (0.15%) Headless CMS
11 9 (0.15%) WebLogic
11 9 (0.15%) WebSphere
12 8 (0.14%) OpenStack
13 3 (0.051%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.051%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.051%) Tomcat
Applications
1 613 (10.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 255 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
3 122 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 83 (1.42%) MS Visio
5 44 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
6 26 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.17%) Adobe XD
8 8 (0.14%) Simulink
9 7 (0.12%) AutoCAD
10 5 (0.085%) Acrobat
10 5 (0.085%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.085%) EPLAN
11 4 (0.068%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.068%) CATIA
11 4 (0.068%) Maya
11 4 (0.068%) Trello
12 3 (0.051%) LaTeX
12 3 (0.051%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.051%) Revit
12 3 (0.051%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 104 (1.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 68 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
3 40 (0.68%) NetSuite
4 34 (0.58%) Dynamics GP
5 21 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
6 20 (0.34%) SAP PM
7 17 (0.29%) Shopify
8 15 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
9 14 (0.24%) SAP ERP
10 13 (0.22%) SAP CO
10 13 (0.22%) SAP FI
10 13 (0.22%) Workday HCM
11 12 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
12 11 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
13 10 (0.17%) Elite 3E
13 10 (0.17%) Magento
13 10 (0.17%) SAP Business One
14 9 (0.15%) Fidessa
14 9 (0.15%) Sage 200
15 8 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 996 (17.00%) Azure
2 701 (11.96%) Power Platform
3 611 (10.43%) AWS
4 416 (7.10%) Microsoft 365
5 368 (6.28%) SaaS
6 292 (4.98%) GCP
7 147 (2.51%) Azure DevOps
8 142 (2.42%) Entra ID
9 139 (2.37%) Dynamics 365
10 114 (1.95%) Google Analytics
11 102 (1.74%) GitHub
11 102 (1.74%) Snowflake
12 91 (1.55%) dbt
13 85 (1.45%) Power Automate
14 81 (1.38%) Amazon S3
15 77 (1.31%) PowerApps
16 74 (1.26%) Google Ads
16 74 (1.26%) Microsoft Purview
17 64 (1.09%) Serverless
18 59 (1.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 200 (3.41%) DNS
2 155 (2.65%) DHCP
3 151 (2.58%) Firewall
4 126 (2.15%) VPN
5 100 (1.71%) TCP/IP
6 77 (1.31%) WAN
7 76 (1.30%) LAN
8 61 (1.04%) Network Security
9 57 (0.97%) Wireless
10 55 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
11 54 (0.92%) Broadband
12 45 (0.77%) Internet
12 45 (0.77%) VLAN
13 43 (0.73%) SAN
14 36 (0.61%) HTTP
15 28 (0.48%) VoIP
16 24 (0.41%) BGP
17 21 (0.36%) SD-WAN
18 20 (0.34%) SMS
19 17 (0.29%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 621 (10.60%) Power BI
2 254 (4.34%) Tableau
3 229 (3.91%) SQL Server
4 193 (3.29%) Data Warehouse
5 118 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
6 104 (1.78%) Relational Database
7 95 (1.62%) Looker
7 95 (1.62%) Metadata
8 85 (1.45%) MySQL
9 79 (1.35%) Data Lake
10 75 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
11 68 (1.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 67 (1.14%) BigQuery
13 64 (1.09%) Power Query
14 60 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 54 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
15 54 (0.92%) Big Data
16 46 (0.79%) NoSQL
17 38 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
18 37 (0.63%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 251 (4.28%) JIRA
2 224 (3.82%) Git
3 52 (0.89%) GitLab
4 49 (0.84%) Jenkins
5 31 (0.53%) Rational DOORS
6 30 (0.51%) MLflow
7 28 (0.48%) Selenium
8 21 (0.36%) Cucumber
9 20 (0.34%) Eclipse
9 20 (0.34%) Postman
10 16 (0.27%) Chocolatey
11 14 (0.24%) Bitbucket
11 14 (0.24%) Claude Code
11 14 (0.24%) JMeter
12 13 (0.22%) Burp Suite
13 12 (0.20%) Cypress.io
13 12 (0.20%) ERwin
13 12 (0.20%) IBM UrbanCode
13 12 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
14 11 (0.19%) Metasploit
General
1 2,838 (48.44%) Social Skills
2 1,915 (32.68%) Finance
3 616 (10.51%) Marketing
4 520 (8.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 421 (7.19%) Organisational Skills
6 391 (6.67%) Law
7 385 (6.57%) Retail
8 359 (6.13%) Public Sector
9 352 (6.01%) Legal
10 285 (4.86%) Influencing Skills
11 281 (4.80%) Manufacturing
12 269 (4.59%) Banking
13 191 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
14 171 (2.92%) Aerospace
15 132 (2.25%) Telecoms
16 111 (1.89%) Electronics
17 107 (1.83%) Advertising
18 95 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
19 70 (1.19%) Financial Institution
19 70 (1.19%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,368 (23.35%) Analyst
2 771 (13.16%) Senior
3 408 (6.96%) Lead
4 303 (5.17%) Business Analyst
5 296 (5.05%) Data Analyst
6 285 (4.86%) Developer
7 231 (3.94%) Architect
8 223 (3.81%) Consultant
9 207 (3.53%) Systems Engineer
10 204 (3.48%) Senior Analyst
11 172 (2.94%) Data Engineer
12 171 (2.92%) Support Analyst
13 131 (2.24%) Support Engineer
14 116 (1.98%) IT Support
15 111 (1.89%) Senior Manager
16 109 (1.86%) IT Manager
17 108 (1.84%) Security Analyst
18 102 (1.74%) Systems Analyst
19 94 (1.60%) Applications Support
20 93 (1.59%) Marketing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (2.59%) .NET
2 151 (2.58%) Terraform
3 131 (2.24%) HTML
4 124 (2.12%) REST
5 122 (2.08%) CSS
6 87 (1.48%) JSON
7 77 (1.31%) Middleware
8 76 (1.30%) Kafka
9 75 (1.28%) React
9 75 (1.28%) XML
10 72 (1.23%) RESTful
11 66 (1.13%) PyTorch
12 59 (1.01%) TensorFlow
13 58 (0.99%) SOAP
14 53 (0.90%) PySpark
15 46 (0.79%) scikit-learn
16 45 (0.77%) Web Services
17 43 (0.73%) EDI
18 42 (0.72%) LDAP
19 40 (0.68%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 526 (8.98%) Analytical Mindset
2 346 (5.91%) Management Information System
3 334 (5.70%) Onboarding
4 274 (4.68%) Product Ownership
4 274 (4.68%) Self-Motivation
5 164 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
6 139 (2.37%) Cloud Native
7 133 (2.27%) Driving Licence
8 123 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
9 120 (2.05%) Social Media
10 119 (2.03%) Blog
11 107 (1.83%) Data Centre
11 107 (1.83%) Security Posture
12 102 (1.74%) Marketing Technology
13 97 (1.66%) Cyber Threat
14 92 (1.57%) Virtual Team
15 82 (1.40%) Data Structures
16 76 (1.30%) Algorithms
17 71 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
18 53 (0.90%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 460 (7.85%) Windows
2 291 (4.97%) Linux
3 222 (3.79%) Windows Server
4 99 (1.69%) Windows Server 2016
5 34 (0.58%) Windows 10
6 32 (0.55%) Unix
7 31 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 29 (0.49%) Mac OS
9 22 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
10 21 (0.36%) Apple iOS
11 19 (0.32%) Android
12 12 (0.20%) CentOS
13 9 (0.15%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.10%) Debian
14 6 (0.10%) VMS
15 5 (0.085%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.068%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.068%) Rocky
17 2 (0.034%) AIX
17 2 (0.034%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,803 (47.84%) Problem-Solving
2 1,690 (28.84%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,362 (23.25%) Decision-Making
4 1,264 (21.57%) Analytics
5 1,051 (17.94%) Agile
6 1,023 (17.46%) AI
7 1,014 (17.31%) Stakeholder Management
8 749 (12.78%) Business Intelligence
9 654 (11.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 605 (10.33%) Roadmaps
11 566 (9.66%) Actionable Insight
12 555 (9.47%) Mentoring
13 521 (8.89%) Project Management
14 508 (8.67%) Validation
15 503 (8.59%) Data Analysis
16 490 (8.36%) Cybersecurity
17 474 (8.09%) Data Modelling
18 454 (7.75%) Customer Experience
19 453 (7.73%) Process Improvement
20 444 (7.58%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 1,157 (19.75%) SQL
2 900 (15.36%) Python
3 224 (3.82%) JavaScript
4 193 (3.29%) PowerShell
5 192 (3.28%) Java
6 186 (3.17%) C#
7 101 (1.72%) C++
8 95 (1.62%) Bash
9 82 (1.40%) R
10 74 (1.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 67 (1.14%) TypeScript
12 50 (0.85%) T-SQL
13 45 (0.77%) MATLAB
14 33 (0.56%) C
15 28 (0.48%) Scala
16 27 (0.46%) PHP
17 23 (0.39%) PL/SQL
18 22 (0.38%) Go
19 19 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
19 19 (0.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,138 (19.42%) Degree
2 648 (11.06%) Security Cleared
3 448 (7.65%) SC Cleared
4 233 (3.98%) ACCA
5 219 (3.74%) CIMA
6 175 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 163 (2.78%) CISSP
8 157 (2.68%) DV Cleared
9 144 (2.46%) DBS Check
10 123 (2.10%) CISM
11 121 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
12 117 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
13 99 (1.69%) Master's Degree
14 80 (1.37%) Azure Certification
15 79 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
16 74 (1.26%) CompTIA Security+
17 63 (1.08%) PMI Certification
18 61 (1.04%) IRCA
19 48 (0.82%) CCNA
20 47 (0.80%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 565 (9.64%) Data Quality
2 396 (6.76%) QA
3 388 (6.62%) GDPR
4 241 (4.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 197 (3.36%) NIST
6 169 (2.88%) Accessibility
7 157 (2.68%) Cyber Essentials
7 157 (2.68%) SLA
8 129 (2.20%) PCI DSS
9 119 (2.03%) ISO 9001
10 70 (1.19%) GRC
11 63 (1.08%) PMO
12 46 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
13 40 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 37 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 36 (0.61%) IFRS
16 35 (0.60%) COBIT
17 28 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 27 (0.46%) NCSC
19 24 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 332 (5.67%) Active Directory
2 137 (2.34%) Docker
3 103 (1.76%) Hyper-V
4 90 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
5 80 (1.37%) Terminal Server
6 30 (0.51%) Firmware
7 22 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
8 19 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (0.15%) vSphere
10 8 (0.14%) VMware NSX
11 7 (0.12%) Ceph
11 7 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
12 6 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
13 4 (0.068%) KVM
13 4 (0.068%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.068%) ProxySG
14 3 (0.051%) DFS Replication
14 3 (0.051%) IAG
14 3 (0.051%) VMware ESXi
14 3 (0.051%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 115 (1.96%) Kubernetes
2 85 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
3 76 (1.30%) Ansible
4 42 (0.72%) Grafana
5 35 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
6 27 (0.46%) SCCM
7 23 (0.39%) Prometheus
8 19 (0.32%) QRadar
9 18 (0.31%) Kibana
10 17 (0.29%) Nagios
11 11 (0.19%) Nmap
11 11 (0.19%) Podman
12 9 (0.15%) Argo
12 9 (0.15%) Kubeflow
13 8 (0.14%) logstash
14 7 (0.12%) Check_MK
14 7 (0.12%) Istio
14 7 (0.12%) Packer
14 7 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
15 6 (0.10%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1,284 (21.92%) Microsoft
2 308 (5.26%) Google
3 235 (4.01%) SAP
4 202 (3.45%) Oracle
5 184 (3.14%) VMware
6 150 (2.56%) Splunk
7 144 (2.46%) Databricks
8 131 (2.24%) ServiceNow
9 124 (2.12%) Salesforce
10 111 (1.89%) SolarWinds
11 90 (1.54%) Veeam
12 83 (1.42%) Cisco
13 81 (1.38%) Brocade
13 81 (1.38%) Nimble Storage
14 80 (1.37%) Tanium
15 76 (1.30%) Workday
16 63 (1.08%) Adobe
17 58 (0.99%) Red Hat
18 51 (0.87%) Dell
19 50 (0.85%) HubSpot