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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 8 14
Rank change year-on-year -16 +6 +5
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 6,459 6,146 7,349
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.49% 12.52% 9.79%
As % of the General category 11.85% 18.28% 17.03%
Number of salaries quoted 3,726 2,459 2,807
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,125 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £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 54,512 33,622 43,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.33% 68.50% 57.51%
Number of salaries quoted 33,206 17,344 21,586
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £96,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £43,970 £50,000
% change year-on-year +13.72% -12.06% -1.38%

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 29 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 29 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 5,678 £52,500 +3.11% 7,861
UK excluding London -15 4,341 £47,500 +5.56% 4,342
Work from Home -6 2,172 £55,000 +10.00% 3,216
London -12 1,820 £66,000 +1.54% 4,039
North of England -18 1,177 £47,500 +5.56% 1,020
South East -10 989 £49,425 +1.91% 1,112
Midlands -12 755 £46,743 +4.94% 686
North West -15 715 £46,500 +3.33% 579
South West -8 613 £47,500 +5.56% 504
West Midlands -19 385 £47,500 +5.56% 421
East Midlands -5 368 £43,173 +8.04% 265
Yorkshire -10 319 £47,000 +17.50% 347
East of England -15 281 £47,500 +21.79% 417
Wales -4 207 £45,000 -10.20% 116
Northern Ireland +7 189 £43,750 -20.45% 206
Scotland -18 149 £49,250 +26.28% 341
North East -20 149 £50,500 +26.25% 98

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
1 193 (2.99%) SharePoint
2 181 (2.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 111 (1.72%) Confluence
4 44 (0.68%) CMS
5 39 (0.60%) Apache Spark
6 37 (0.57%) Apache
6 37 (0.57%) IIS
7 30 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
8 27 (0.42%) SAS
9 15 (0.23%) WordPress
10 12 (0.19%) Jupyter
11 11 (0.17%) Headless CMS
12 10 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 9 (0.14%) WebLogic
13 9 (0.14%) WebSphere
14 8 (0.12%) OpenStack
14 8 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
15 4 (0.062%) nginx
16 3 (0.046%) Appian
16 3 (0.046%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 761 (11.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 335 (5.19%) Microsoft Office
3 133 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 73 (1.13%) MS Visio
5 50 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
6 46 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
7 18 (0.28%) Simulink
8 17 (0.26%) AutoCAD
9 10 (0.15%) Chatbot
10 9 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 9 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
11 8 (0.12%) Photoshop
12 7 (0.11%) Adobe XD
13 6 (0.093%) Acrobat
13 6 (0.093%) EPLAN
13 6 (0.093%) Siemens NX
14 5 (0.077%) InDesign
14 5 (0.077%) Revit
15 4 (0.062%) Adobe Illustrator
16 3 (0.046%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 110 (1.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 65 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
3 36 (0.56%) NetSuite
4 35 (0.54%) Dynamics GP
5 28 (0.43%) Shopify
6 19 (0.29%) Workday HCM
7 15 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
8 14 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
9 12 (0.19%) Magento
9 12 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
9 12 (0.19%) SAP CO
9 12 (0.19%) SAP FI
10 11 (0.17%) Infor M3
10 11 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
11 10 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
11 10 (0.15%) Elite 3E
11 10 (0.15%) SAP Business One
12 9 (0.14%) Fidessa
12 9 (0.14%) Sage 200
12 9 (0.14%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,026 (15.88%) Azure
2 754 (11.67%) Power Platform
3 653 (10.11%) AWS
4 452 (7.00%) Microsoft 365
5 390 (6.04%) SaaS
6 301 (4.66%) GCP
7 200 (3.10%) Entra ID
8 160 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
9 149 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
10 131 (2.03%) Google Analytics
11 128 (1.98%) Google Ads
12 104 (1.61%) GitHub
13 91 (1.41%) Meta Ads
13 91 (1.41%) Serverless
14 84 (1.30%) Microsoft Purview
14 84 (1.30%) Power Automate
15 82 (1.27%) PowerApps
16 77 (1.19%) Amazon S3
17 73 (1.13%) Snowflake
18 70 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 201 (3.11%) DNS
2 156 (2.42%) DHCP
3 145 (2.24%) Firewall
4 131 (2.03%) VPN
5 111 (1.72%) TCP/IP
6 93 (1.44%) Internet
7 78 (1.21%) WAN
8 72 (1.11%) LAN
9 68 (1.05%) Network Security
10 56 (0.87%) Wireless
11 53 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
12 48 (0.74%) VLAN
13 44 (0.68%) Broadband
14 38 (0.59%) HTTP
15 34 (0.53%) SAN
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
1 676 (10.47%) Power BI
2 208 (3.22%) SQL Server
3 192 (2.97%) Tableau
4 177 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
5 117 (1.81%) Relational Database
6 112 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
7 105 (1.63%) Metadata
8 88 (1.36%) MySQL
9 82 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
10 80 (1.24%) Power Query
11 79 (1.22%) Looker
12 76 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 65 (1.01%) Data Lake
14 59 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 56 (0.87%) Big Data
16 50 (0.77%) NoSQL
17 44 (0.68%) BigQuery
18 39 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
19 38 (0.59%) MongoDB
20 36 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 269 (4.16%) Git
2 268 (4.15%) JIRA
3 56 (0.87%) Jenkins
4 55 (0.85%) GitLab
5 32 (0.50%) Selenium
6 27 (0.42%) Rational DOORS
7 26 (0.40%) Eclipse
8 23 (0.36%) Cucumber
9 22 (0.34%) Claude Code
10 21 (0.33%) Postman
11 19 (0.29%) LabVIEW
11 19 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
12 15 (0.23%) Bitbucket
13 14 (0.22%) Burp Suite
13 14 (0.22%) JMeter
13 14 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
14 11 (0.17%) Chocolatey
14 11 (0.17%) Metasploit
15 10 (0.15%) Cypress.io
15 10 (0.15%) SonarQube
General
1 3,258 (50.44%) Social Skills
2 2,094 (32.42%) Finance
3 748 (11.58%) Marketing
4 546 (8.45%) Organisational Skills
5 544 (8.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 461 (7.14%) Retail
7 429 (6.64%) Public Sector
8 424 (6.56%) Law
9 415 (6.43%) Legal
10 383 (5.93%) Manufacturing
11 334 (5.17%) Influencing Skills
12 278 (4.30%) Presentation Skills
13 243 (3.76%) Banking
14 212 (3.28%) Aerospace
15 160 (2.48%) Electronics
16 157 (2.43%) Telecoms
17 117 (1.81%) Advertising
18 104 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
19 82 (1.27%) Automotive
20 70 (1.08%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,504 (23.29%) Analyst
2 856 (13.25%) Senior
3 424 (6.56%) Lead
4 316 (4.89%) Developer
5 311 (4.81%) Data Analyst
6 304 (4.71%) Business Analyst
7 251 (3.89%) Senior Analyst
8 250 (3.87%) Consultant
9 234 (3.62%) Architect
10 221 (3.42%) Support Analyst
11 185 (2.86%) Data Engineer
12 162 (2.51%) Systems Engineer
13 126 (1.95%) Support Engineer
14 116 (1.80%) IT Support
15 115 (1.78%) Applications Support
16 113 (1.75%) Administrator
17 109 (1.69%) Security Analyst
18 107 (1.66%) Marketing Manager
19 106 (1.64%) Senior Manager
20 103 (1.59%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (2.62%) .NET
2 152 (2.35%) Terraform
3 137 (2.12%) REST
4 123 (1.90%) HTML
5 112 (1.73%) CSS
6 90 (1.39%) JSON
7 85 (1.32%) RESTful
8 81 (1.25%) Middleware
9 79 (1.22%) XML
10 75 (1.16%) PySpark
11 74 (1.15%) React
12 64 (0.99%) SOAP
13 63 (0.98%) Kafka
14 49 (0.76%) EDI
15 46 (0.71%) LDAP
15 46 (0.71%) Web Services
16 43 (0.67%) Spring Boot
17 42 (0.65%) Spring
18 39 (0.60%) ASP.NET
19 38 (0.59%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 476 (7.37%) Management Information System
2 455 (7.04%) Analytical Mindset
3 396 (6.13%) Onboarding
4 325 (5.03%) Self-Motivation
5 287 (4.44%) Product Ownership
6 173 (2.68%) Driving Licence
7 148 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
8 147 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
9 137 (2.12%) Cloud Native
10 131 (2.03%) Social Media
11 120 (1.86%) Blog
12 112 (1.73%) Cyber Threat
13 106 (1.64%) Data Centre
13 106 (1.64%) Marketing Technology
14 99 (1.53%) Security Posture
15 98 (1.52%) Virtual Team
16 88 (1.36%) Data Structures
17 80 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
18 68 (1.05%) AI Agents
19 63 (0.98%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 462 (7.15%) Windows
2 317 (4.91%) Linux
3 221 (3.42%) Windows Server
4 93 (1.44%) Windows Server 2016
5 43 (0.67%) Windows 10
6 36 (0.56%) Mac OS
7 32 (0.50%) Unix
8 26 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 24 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
10 22 (0.34%) Apple iOS
11 19 (0.29%) Android
12 9 (0.14%) CentOS
13 8 (0.12%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.093%) Debian
14 6 (0.093%) VMS
15 5 (0.077%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.062%) CoreOS
17 2 (0.031%) AIX
17 2 (0.031%) Rocky
17 2 (0.031%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,143 (48.66%) Problem-Solving
2 1,952 (30.22%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,558 (24.12%) Decision-Making
4 1,332 (20.62%) Stakeholder Management
5 1,278 (19.79%) Analytics
6 1,172 (18.15%) AI
7 1,118 (17.31%) Agile
8 843 (13.05%) Business Intelligence
9 703 (10.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 647 (10.02%) Mentoring
11 622 (9.63%) Roadmaps
12 605 (9.37%) Validation
13 590 (9.13%) Actionable Insight
14 565 (8.75%) Process Improvement
15 559 (8.65%) Data Analysis
16 549 (8.50%) Project Management
17 543 (8.41%) CRM
18 523 (8.10%) Customer Service
18 523 (8.10%) Project Delivery
18 523 (8.10%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 1,223 (18.93%) SQL
2 872 (13.50%) Python
3 237 (3.67%) JavaScript
4 214 (3.31%) Java
5 206 (3.19%) C#
6 196 (3.03%) PowerShell
7 119 (1.84%) C++
8 94 (1.46%) Bash
9 84 (1.30%) R
10 82 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 73 (1.13%) TypeScript
12 53 (0.82%) T-SQL
13 52 (0.81%) MATLAB
14 46 (0.71%) Shell Script
15 41 (0.63%) C
16 33 (0.51%) PL/SQL
17 29 (0.45%) Scala
18 26 (0.40%) Go
19 25 (0.39%) Perl
20 24 (0.37%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,321 (20.45%) Degree
2 725 (11.22%) Security Cleared
3 499 (7.73%) SC Cleared
4 256 (3.96%) ACCA
5 242 (3.75%) CIMA
6 179 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 162 (2.51%) DV Cleared
8 142 (2.20%) CISSP
9 141 (2.18%) DBS Check
10 131 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
11 112 (1.73%) CISM
12 104 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
13 101 (1.56%) Master's Degree
14 80 (1.24%) HND
14 80 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
15 73 (1.13%) Azure Certification
16 67 (1.04%) CompTIA Security+
17 61 (0.94%) PMI Certification
18 60 (0.93%) HNC
19 49 (0.76%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 639 (9.89%) Data Quality
2 372 (5.76%) QA
3 321 (4.97%) GDPR
4 222 (3.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 207 (3.20%) Accessibility
6 167 (2.59%) NIST
7 146 (2.26%) Cyber Essentials
8 142 (2.20%) SLA
9 119 (1.84%) PCI DSS
10 69 (1.07%) GRC
11 67 (1.04%) PMO
12 58 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
13 54 (0.84%) ISO 9001
14 41 (0.63%) IFRS
15 37 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 34 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 30 (0.46%) NCSC
18 26 (0.40%) COBIT
18 26 (0.40%) DO-254
19 25 (0.39%) GAAP
System Software
1 352 (5.45%) Active Directory
2 182 (2.82%) Docker
3 106 (1.64%) Hyper-V
4 82 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 72 (1.11%) Terminal Server
6 50 (0.77%) Firmware
7 22 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
8 18 (0.28%) 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 (0.046%) DFS Replication
15 2 (0.031%) IAG
15 2 (0.031%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 1 (0.015%) VirtualBox
16 1 (0.015%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 122 (1.89%) Kubernetes
2 84 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
3 72 (1.11%) Ansible
4 48 (0.74%) Grafana
5 40 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
6 26 (0.40%) Prometheus
7 23 (0.36%) Kibana
8 21 (0.33%) QRadar
9 19 (0.29%) SCCM
10 12 (0.19%) Nagios
11 11 (0.17%) Nmap
11 11 (0.17%) Podman
12 9 (0.14%) Argo
12 9 (0.14%) Functional Safety
12 9 (0.14%) logstash
13 7 (0.11%) Check_MK
13 7 (0.11%) Istio
14 6 (0.093%) Graylog
14 6 (0.093%) Nessus
14 6 (0.093%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1,560 (24.15%) Microsoft
2 408 (6.32%) Google
3 248 (3.84%) SAP
4 201 (3.11%) Oracle
5 174 (2.69%) VMware
6 156 (2.42%) Splunk
7 150 (2.32%) Salesforce
8 140 (2.17%) ServiceNow
9 131 (2.03%) Databricks
10 94 (1.46%) SolarWinds
11 87 (1.35%) Cisco
12 80 (1.24%) Veeam
13 73 (1.13%) Brocade
13 73 (1.13%) Nimble Storage
14 72 (1.11%) Tanium
15 71 (1.10%) Adobe
16 70 (1.08%) HubSpot
17 68 (1.05%) YouTube
18 61 (0.94%) Workday
19 43 (0.67%) Sage