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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 9 14
Rank change year-on-year -15 +5 +5
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 6,494 6,191 7,282
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.50% 12.56% 9.76%
As % of the General category 11.86% 18.38% 16.98%
Number of salaries quoted 3,743 2,461 2,765
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -
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 54,736 33,684 42,875
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.39% 68.32% 57.48%
Number of salaries quoted 33,328 17,367 21,391
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,320 £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 £96,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £44,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% -12.00% -1.83%

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 30 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 30 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 5,709 £52,500 +1.45% 8,161
UK excluding London -14 4,368 £47,500 +5.56% 4,501
Work from Home -5 2,189 £55,000 +10.00% 3,341
London -12 1,829 £66,000 +1.54% 4,148
North of England -18 1,187 £47,500 +5.56% 1,073
South East -11 990 £49,425 +1.91% 1,124
Midlands -9 762 £46,743 +4.94% 721
North West -15 721 £46,500 +2.23% 606
South West -9 616 £47,500 +5.56% 524
West Midlands -17 388 £47,500 +5.56% 450
East Midlands -5 372 £43,173 +7.93% 271
Yorkshire -7 321 £47,000 +17.50% 368
East of England -13 282 £47,500 +21.79% 439
Wales -4 206 £45,000 -10.40% 120
Northern Ireland +5 194 £43,750 -20.45% 205
North East -18 151 £50,500 +26.25% 105
Scotland -19 150 £48,500 +24.36% 356

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 (2.97%) SharePoint
2 181 (2.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 112 (1.72%) Confluence
4 44 (0.68%) CMS
5 41 (0.63%) Apache Spark
6 39 (0.60%) Apache
7 37 (0.57%) IIS
8 30 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
9 27 (0.42%) SAS
10 15 (0.23%) WordPress
11 12 (0.18%) Jupyter
12 11 (0.17%) Headless CMS
12 11 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
13 10 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 9 (0.14%) WebLogic
14 9 (0.14%) WebSphere
15 8 (0.12%) OpenStack
16 4 (0.062%) nginx
17 3 (0.046%) Appian
17 3 (0.046%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 765 (11.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 337 (5.19%) Microsoft Office
3 135 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 74 (1.14%) MS Visio
5 51 (0.79%) 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 (0.092%) Acrobat
13 6 (0.092%) EPLAN
13 6 (0.092%) 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 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 65 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 36 (0.55%) NetSuite
4 34 (0.52%) 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 (0.18%) Magento
9 12 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
9 12 (0.18%) SAP CO
9 12 (0.18%) 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 1,032 (15.89%) Azure
2 756 (11.64%) Power Platform
3 657 (10.12%) AWS
4 453 (6.98%) Microsoft 365
5 391 (6.02%) SaaS
6 305 (4.70%) GCP
7 201 (3.10%) Entra ID
8 162 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
9 148 (2.28%) Dynamics 365
10 131 (2.02%) Google Analytics
11 128 (1.97%) Google Ads
12 104 (1.60%) GitHub
13 91 (1.40%) Meta Ads
13 91 (1.40%) Serverless
14 84 (1.29%) Microsoft Purview
14 84 (1.29%) Power Automate
15 82 (1.26%) PowerApps
16 77 (1.19%) Amazon S3
17 73 (1.12%) Snowflake
18 70 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 200 (3.08%) DNS
2 155 (2.39%) DHCP
3 144 (2.22%) Firewall
4 130 (2.00%) VPN
5 111 (1.71%) TCP/IP
6 93 (1.43%) Internet
7 78 (1.20%) WAN
8 71 (1.09%) LAN
9 69 (1.06%) Network Security
10 56 (0.86%) Wireless
11 54 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
12 48 (0.74%) VLAN
13 45 (0.69%) Broadband
14 38 (0.59%) HTTP
15 34 (0.52%) SAN
16 28 (0.43%) VoIP
17 25 (0.38%) 5G
17 25 (0.38%) SMS
18 24 (0.37%) BGP
19 22 (0.34%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 679 (10.46%) Power BI
2 208 (3.20%) SQL Server
3 192 (2.96%) Tableau
4 177 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
5 119 (1.83%) Relational Database
6 112 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
7 109 (1.68%) Metadata
8 88 (1.36%) MySQL
9 84 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
10 81 (1.25%) Power Query
11 79 (1.22%) Looker
12 76 (1.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 65 (1.00%) Data Lake
14 59 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 56 (0.86%) 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 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 273 (4.20%) Git
2 270 (4.16%) JIRA
3 57 (0.88%) Jenkins
4 56 (0.86%) GitLab
5 32 (0.49%) Selenium
6 27 (0.42%) Rational DOORS
7 26 (0.40%) Eclipse
8 23 (0.35%) Cucumber
9 22 (0.34%) Claude Code
10 21 (0.32%) 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 3,282 (50.54%) Social Skills
2 2,104 (32.40%) Finance
3 750 (11.55%) Marketing
4 548 (8.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 547 (8.42%) Organisational Skills
6 464 (7.15%) Retail
7 430 (6.62%) Public Sector
8 427 (6.58%) Law
9 417 (6.42%) Legal
10 384 (5.91%) Manufacturing
11 336 (5.17%) Influencing Skills
12 284 (4.37%) Presentation Skills
13 245 (3.77%) Banking
14 213 (3.28%) Aerospace
15 161 (2.48%) Electronics
16 160 (2.46%) Telecoms
17 117 (1.80%) Advertising
18 104 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
19 82 (1.26%) Automotive
20 70 (1.08%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,514 (23.31%) Analyst
2 862 (13.27%) Senior
3 426 (6.56%) Lead
4 316 (4.87%) Developer
5 310 (4.77%) Data Analyst
6 304 (4.68%) Business Analyst
7 254 (3.91%) Senior Analyst
8 250 (3.85%) Consultant
9 235 (3.62%) Architect
10 225 (3.46%) Support Analyst
11 189 (2.91%) Data Engineer
12 161 (2.48%) Systems Engineer
13 126 (1.94%) Support Engineer
14 116 (1.79%) IT Support
15 115 (1.77%) Applications Support
16 113 (1.74%) Administrator
17 110 (1.69%) Security Analyst
18 107 (1.65%) Marketing Manager
18 107 (1.65%) Senior Manager
19 105 (1.62%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (2.60%) .NET
2 156 (2.40%) Terraform
3 139 (2.14%) REST
4 123 (1.89%) HTML
5 112 (1.72%) CSS
6 90 (1.39%) JSON
7 85 (1.31%) RESTful
8 81 (1.25%) Middleware
9 79 (1.22%) XML
10 76 (1.17%) PySpark
10 76 (1.17%) React
11 64 (0.99%) SOAP
12 63 (0.97%) Kafka
13 49 (0.75%) EDI
14 46 (0.71%) LDAP
14 46 (0.71%) Web Services
15 43 (0.66%) Spring Boot
16 42 (0.65%) Spring
17 39 (0.60%) ASP.NET
18 38 (0.59%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 478 (7.36%) Management Information System
2 456 (7.02%) Analytical Mindset
3 396 (6.10%) Onboarding
4 324 (4.99%) Self-Motivation
5 287 (4.42%) Product Ownership
6 174 (2.68%) Driving Licence
7 148 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
7 148 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
8 140 (2.16%) Cloud Native
9 132 (2.03%) Social Media
10 120 (1.85%) Blog
11 112 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
12 106 (1.63%) Data Centre
12 106 (1.63%) Marketing Technology
13 99 (1.52%) Security Posture
14 98 (1.51%) Virtual Team
15 88 (1.36%) Data Structures
16 80 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
17 69 (1.06%) AI Agents
18 64 (0.99%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 462 (7.11%) Windows
2 318 (4.90%) Linux
3 221 (3.40%) Windows Server
4 93 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
5 43 (0.66%) Windows 10
6 36 (0.55%) Mac OS
7 32 (0.49%) 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 (0.092%) Debian
14 6 (0.092%) 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 3,160 (48.66%) Problem-Solving
2 1,964 (30.24%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,570 (24.18%) Decision-Making
4 1,341 (20.65%) Stakeholder Management
5 1,287 (19.82%) Analytics
6 1,180 (18.17%) AI
7 1,123 (17.29%) Agile
8 846 (13.03%) Business Intelligence
9 709 (10.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 653 (10.06%) Mentoring
11 624 (9.61%) Roadmaps
12 612 (9.42%) Validation
13 593 (9.13%) Actionable Insight
14 566 (8.72%) Process Improvement
15 563 (8.67%) Data Analysis
16 550 (8.47%) Project Management
17 546 (8.41%) CRM
18 530 (8.16%) Risk Management
19 529 (8.15%) Customer Service
19 529 (8.15%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1,231 (18.96%) SQL
2 881 (13.57%) Python
3 238 (3.66%) JavaScript
4 215 (3.31%) Java
5 206 (3.17%) C#
6 194 (2.99%) PowerShell
7 119 (1.83%) C++
8 96 (1.48%) Bash
9 85 (1.31%) R
10 83 (1.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 75 (1.15%) TypeScript
12 53 (0.82%) T-SQL
13 52 (0.80%) MATLAB
14 46 (0.71%) Shell Script
15 41 (0.63%) C
16 33 (0.51%) PL/SQL
17 29 (0.45%) Scala
18 28 (0.43%) Go
19 25 (0.38%) Perl
20 24 (0.37%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,329 (20.47%) Degree
2 727 (11.19%) Security Cleared
3 500 (7.70%) SC Cleared
4 256 (3.94%) ACCA
5 242 (3.73%) CIMA
6 180 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 161 (2.48%) DV Cleared
8 142 (2.19%) CISSP
9 141 (2.17%) DBS Check
10 131 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
11 112 (1.72%) CISM
12 103 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
13 101 (1.56%) Master's Degree
14 80 (1.23%) HND
14 80 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
15 73 (1.12%) Azure Certification
16 67 (1.03%) CompTIA Security+
17 61 (0.94%) PMI Certification
18 60 (0.92%) HNC
19 49 (0.75%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 644 (9.92%) Data Quality
2 372 (5.73%) QA
3 322 (4.96%) GDPR
4 221 (3.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 207 (3.19%) Accessibility
6 167 (2.57%) NIST
7 146 (2.25%) Cyber Essentials
8 142 (2.19%) SLA
9 120 (1.85%) PCI DSS
10 70 (1.08%) GRC
11 67 (1.03%) PMO
12 58 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
13 54 (0.83%) ISO 9001
14 41 (0.63%) IFRS
15 37 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 34 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 30 (0.46%) NCSC
18 26 (0.40%) COBIT
18 26 (0.40%) DO-254
19 25 (0.38%) GAAP
System Software
1 353 (5.44%) Active Directory
2 184 (2.83%) Docker
3 106 (1.63%) Hyper-V
4 81 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
5 72 (1.11%) Terminal Server
6 50 (0.77%) Firmware
7 23 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
8 18 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
10 11 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
11 8 (0.12%) vSphere
12 7 (0.11%) Ceph
13 6 (0.092%) VMware NSX
14 4 (0.062%) KVM
14 4 (0.062%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.046%) DFS Replication
16 2 (0.031%) IAG
16 2 (0.031%) Slurm Workload Manager
17 1 (0.015%) HDFS
17 1 (0.015%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 125 (1.92%) Kubernetes
2 84 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 71 (1.09%) Ansible
4 48 (0.74%) Grafana
5 40 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
6 26 (0.40%) Prometheus
7 23 (0.35%) Kibana
8 21 (0.32%) QRadar
9 19 (0.29%) SCCM
10 12 (0.18%) 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 (0.092%) Graylog
14 6 (0.092%) Nessus
14 6 (0.092%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1,565 (24.10%) Microsoft
2 410 (6.31%) Google
3 248 (3.82%) SAP
4 202 (3.11%) Oracle
5 173 (2.66%) VMware
6 156 (2.40%) Splunk
7 153 (2.36%) Salesforce
8 142 (2.19%) ServiceNow
9 134 (2.06%) Databricks
10 94 (1.45%) SolarWinds
11 86 (1.32%) Cisco
12 80 (1.23%) Veeam
13 73 (1.12%) Brocade
13 73 (1.12%) Nimble Storage
14 72 (1.11%) Tanium
15 71 (1.09%) Adobe
15 71 (1.09%) YouTube
16 70 (1.08%) HubSpot
17 61 (0.94%) Workday
18 43 (0.66%) Sage