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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 8 14
Rank change year-on-year -18 +6 +6
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,809 5,773 9,484
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.17% 13.58% 9.56%
As % of the General category 10.55% 18.56% 16.13%
Number of salaries quoted 3,046 2,317 5,392
10th Percentile £33,000 £30,900 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,150 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.55% +10.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £68,335
90th Percentile £89,000 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -2.00% +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 45,582 31,109 58,791
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 49.03% 73.19% 59.27%
Number of salaries quoted 25,987 14,853 39,808
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £38,500 £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 £77,500 £78,750 £72,433
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 27 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 27 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 4,355 £55,000 - 2,515
UK excluding London -20 3,010 £49,000 -2.00% 1,613
London -8 1,515 £67,500 +3.85% 1,187
Work from Home -11 1,449 £55,000 - 1,186
North of England -28 930 £47,750 -4.50% 421
South East -3 761 £50,000 -8.26% 501
Midlands -23 560 £48,500 +2.11% 255
North West -29 542 £46,500 -7.00% 244
West Midlands -28 325 £51,250 +7.89% 164
Yorkshire -14 298 £50,000 +11.11% 128
South West -24 296 £50,000 -0.99% 164
East of England -23 237 £45,000 -11.71% 151
East Midlands +1 233 £45,000 -6.25% 91
Scotland -28 118 £40,000 -18.79% 71
North East -28 90 £48,445 +25.83% 58
Wales -3 81 £47,105 -12.36% 37
Northern Ireland -23 40 £46,250 -15.91% 50

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
1 144 (2.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 103 (2.14%) SharePoint
3 74 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
4 71 (1.48%) Apache Spark
5 64 (1.33%) Confluence
6 40 (0.83%) CMS
7 38 (0.79%) Apache
8 23 (0.48%) IIS
9 19 (0.40%) SAS
10 16 (0.33%) WordPress
11 13 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
12 12 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 6 (0.12%) nginx
14 5 (0.10%) Jupyter
15 3 (0.062%) Anypoint
15 3 (0.062%) govService
15 3 (0.062%) JBoss
15 3 (0.062%) Tomcat
16 2 (0.042%) Appian
16 2 (0.042%) Camunda
Applications
1 552 (11.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 201 (4.18%) Microsoft Office
3 95 (1.98%) MS Visio
4 94 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 28 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
6 27 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
7 10 (0.21%) Adobe XD
7 10 (0.21%) CATIA
8 7 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.15%) Maya
9 4 (0.083%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.062%) Acrobat
10 3 (0.062%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.062%) Trello
11 2 (0.042%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.042%) Blender
11 2 (0.042%) Lectora
11 2 (0.042%) Simulink
11 2 (0.042%) SOLIDWORKS
12 1 (0.021%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 69 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 36 (0.75%) NetSuite
4 33 (0.69%) Salesforce CRM
5 21 (0.44%) SAP CO
6 16 (0.33%) SAP PM
7 14 (0.29%) SAP ERP
8 12 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
8 12 (0.25%) SAP FI
9 11 (0.23%) Maximo
9 11 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
10 9 (0.19%) Endur
11 8 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
11 8 (0.17%) Workday HCM
12 7 (0.15%) Elite 3E
12 7 (0.15%) Fidessa
12 7 (0.15%) Magento
12 7 (0.15%) SAP PP
12 7 (0.15%) Shopify
13 6 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 865 (17.99%) Azure
2 656 (13.64%) Power Platform
3 490 (10.19%) AWS
4 343 (7.13%) Microsoft 365
5 284 (5.91%) SaaS
6 207 (4.30%) GCP
7 128 (2.66%) Azure DevOps
8 124 (2.58%) Dynamics 365
9 111 (2.31%) Entra ID
10 93 (1.93%) GitHub
11 86 (1.79%) Snowflake
12 85 (1.77%) Power Automate
13 77 (1.60%) Google Analytics
14 75 (1.56%) dbt
15 72 (1.50%) Microsoft Purview
16 71 (1.48%) Amazon S3
17 64 (1.33%) PowerApps
18 61 (1.27%) Serverless
19 55 (1.14%) Azure Data Factory
20 48 (1.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 204 (4.24%) Firewall
2 158 (3.29%) DNS
3 129 (2.68%) VPN
4 113 (2.35%) DHCP
5 82 (1.71%) WAN
6 72 (1.50%) TCP/IP
7 71 (1.48%) LAN
8 61 (1.27%) Broadband
8 61 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
9 59 (1.23%) VLAN
9 59 (1.23%) Wireless
10 48 (1.00%) Network Security
10 48 (1.00%) SAN
11 39 (0.81%) BGP
12 32 (0.67%) Cisco ASA
13 30 (0.62%) OSPF
14 29 (0.60%) SD-WAN
15 27 (0.56%) HTTP
15 27 (0.56%) Wireshark
16 24 (0.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 581 (12.08%) Power BI
2 344 (7.15%) Tableau
3 188 (3.91%) SQL Server
4 164 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
5 122 (2.54%) Data Mining
6 84 (1.75%) Metadata
7 78 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
8 74 (1.54%) Data Lake
9 65 (1.35%) Relational Database
10 61 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 60 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
12 59 (1.23%) Looker
13 57 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
14 50 (1.04%) Power Query
15 48 (1.00%) BigQuery
16 47 (0.98%) MySQL
17 43 (0.89%) Big Data
18 42 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 41 (0.85%) NoSQL
20 35 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 168 (3.49%) JIRA
2 136 (2.83%) Git
3 48 (1.00%) GitLab
4 34 (0.71%) Jenkins
5 32 (0.67%) MLflow
6 30 (0.62%) Rational DOORS
7 23 (0.48%) Selenium
8 21 (0.44%) Chocolatey
9 15 (0.31%) Cucumber
10 14 (0.29%) ERwin
10 14 (0.29%) Visual Studio
11 13 (0.27%) Bitbucket
11 13 (0.27%) IBM UrbanCode
12 11 (0.23%) Balsamiq
13 10 (0.21%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.21%) Oracle APEX
13 10 (0.21%) SonarQube
13 10 (0.21%) Subversion
14 9 (0.19%) Maven
14 9 (0.19%) Postman
General
1 2,187 (45.48%) Social Skills
2 1,707 (35.50%) Finance
3 433 (9.00%) Marketing
4 388 (8.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 278 (5.78%) Law
6 272 (5.66%) Public Sector
7 270 (5.61%) Organisational Skills
8 256 (5.32%) Legal
8 256 (5.32%) Retail
9 254 (5.28%) Banking
10 169 (3.51%) Manufacturing
11 164 (3.41%) Influencing Skills
12 153 (3.18%) Presentation Skills
13 109 (2.27%) Telecoms
14 92 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
15 87 (1.81%) Financial Institution
16 76 (1.58%) Advertising
16 76 (1.58%) Electronics
17 74 (1.54%) Aerospace
18 57 (1.19%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,222 (25.41%) Analyst
2 653 (13.58%) Senior
3 318 (6.61%) Lead
4 317 (6.59%) Data Analyst
5 272 (5.66%) Business Analyst
6 245 (5.09%) Developer
7 226 (4.70%) Architect
8 210 (4.37%) Consultant
9 166 (3.45%) Systems Engineer
10 133 (2.77%) Senior Analyst
11 131 (2.72%) Senior Manager
12 118 (2.45%) Data Engineer
12 118 (2.45%) Support Analyst
13 114 (2.37%) IT Manager
14 113 (2.35%) Trainee
15 105 (2.18%) Support Engineer
16 104 (2.16%) IT Support
17 101 (2.10%) Trainee Analyst
17 101 (2.10%) Trainee Data Analyst
18 90 (1.87%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (2.68%) HTML
2 121 (2.52%) CSS
3 98 (2.04%) .NET
4 95 (1.98%) REST
5 84 (1.75%) JSON
5 84 (1.75%) Middleware
6 83 (1.73%) React
7 76 (1.58%) XML
8 62 (1.29%) PyTorch
9 57 (1.19%) TensorFlow
10 52 (1.08%) SOAP
11 51 (1.06%) Kafka
12 49 (1.02%) Node.js
13 42 (0.87%) scikit-learn
14 38 (0.79%) PySpark
15 37 (0.77%) RESTful
16 34 (0.71%) EDI
16 34 (0.71%) Pandas
17 33 (0.69%) LangChain
18 28 (0.58%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 506 (10.52%) Analytical Mindset
2 231 (4.80%) Management Information System
3 204 (4.24%) Onboarding
4 194 (4.03%) Product Ownership
5 188 (3.91%) Self-Motivation
6 115 (2.39%) Data Centre
7 109 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
8 92 (1.91%) Cloud Native
9 86 (1.79%) Data Structures
10 83 (1.73%) Algorithms
11 81 (1.68%) Security Posture
12 73 (1.52%) Driving Licence
13 72 (1.50%) Cyber Threat
14 61 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
15 55 (1.14%) Virtual Team
16 54 (1.12%) Public Cloud
17 50 (1.04%) FMCG
17 50 (1.04%) Social Media
18 46 (0.96%) Cyber Defence
19 43 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 357 (7.42%) Windows
2 215 (4.47%) Linux
3 162 (3.37%) Windows Server
4 69 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
5 35 (0.73%) Unix
6 23 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 23 (0.48%) Windows 10
7 18 (0.37%) Mac OS
8 16 (0.33%) Android
9 15 (0.31%) Apple iOS
10 13 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
11 10 (0.21%) CentOS
12 9 (0.19%) Ubuntu
13 8 (0.17%) VMS
14 4 (0.083%) AIX
14 4 (0.083%) Rocky
14 4 (0.083%) Windows Server 2012
15 3 (0.062%) Debian
16 1 (0.021%) OpenBSD
16 1 (0.021%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,142 (44.54%) Problem-Solving
2 1,147 (23.85%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,067 (22.19%) Analytics
4 1,026 (21.33%) Decision-Making
5 842 (17.51%) Agile
6 672 (13.97%) Business Intelligence
7 643 (13.37%) AI
8 615 (12.79%) Stakeholder Management
9 513 (10.67%) Project Management
10 472 (9.81%) Actionable Insight
11 469 (9.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 466 (9.69%) Roadmaps
13 464 (9.65%) Mentoring
14 450 (9.36%) Data Analysis
15 445 (9.25%) Data Modelling
16 434 (9.02%) Cybersecurity
17 382 (7.94%) Data Governance
18 375 (7.80%) Analytical Thinking
19 365 (7.59%) DevOps
20 362 (7.53%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,022 (21.25%) SQL
2 888 (18.47%) Python
3 178 (3.70%) PowerShell
4 174 (3.62%) JavaScript
5 172 (3.58%) Java
6 131 (2.72%) C#
7 76 (1.58%) R
8 70 (1.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 66 (1.37%) C++
10 65 (1.35%) Bash
11 44 (0.91%) T-SQL
11 44 (0.91%) TypeScript
12 39 (0.81%) MATLAB
13 38 (0.79%) VBA
14 24 (0.50%) Scala
15 20 (0.42%) Go
15 20 (0.42%) PHP
16 16 (0.33%) C
16 16 (0.33%) PL/SQL
17 15 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 930 (19.34%) Degree
2 396 (8.23%) Security Cleared
3 276 (5.74%) SC Cleared
4 224 (4.66%) ACCA
5 210 (4.37%) CIMA
6 163 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 158 (3.29%) DBS Check
8 148 (3.08%) CISSP
9 117 (2.43%) Cisco Certification
10 103 (2.14%) Master's Degree
11 101 (2.10%) CISM
12 93 (1.93%) PMI Certification
13 88 (1.83%) DV Cleared
14 82 (1.71%) PMP
15 73 (1.52%) Azure Certification
16 72 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
16 72 (1.50%) IRCA
17 69 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
18 62 (1.29%) CompTIA Security+
19 54 (1.12%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 447 (9.30%) Data Quality
2 361 (7.51%) GDPR
3 294 (6.11%) QA
4 249 (5.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 219 (4.55%) NIST
6 138 (2.87%) Cyber Essentials
7 124 (2.58%) SLA
8 112 (2.33%) PCI DSS
9 110 (2.29%) Accessibility
9 110 (2.29%) ISO 9001
10 67 (1.39%) GRC
11 61 (1.27%) PMO
12 57 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
13 39 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 36 (0.75%) IFRS
15 35 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 32 (0.67%) COBIT
17 28 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 25 (0.52%) NCSC
19 23 (0.48%) ITGC
System Software
1 249 (5.18%) Active Directory
2 77 (1.60%) Docker
2 77 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 72 (1.50%) Hyper-V
4 56 (1.16%) Terminal Server
5 26 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
6 16 (0.33%) ProxySG
7 12 (0.25%) vSphere
8 10 (0.21%) VMware NSX
9 9 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
10 8 (0.17%) IAG
11 5 (0.10%) Firmware
12 4 (0.083%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.083%) XenApp
13 3 (0.062%) DFS Replication
13 3 (0.062%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.062%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.042%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.042%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.021%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 126 (2.62%) Terraform
2 80 (1.66%) Kubernetes
3 68 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 58 (1.21%) Ansible
5 33 (0.69%) Grafana
6 30 (0.62%) SCCM
7 25 (0.52%) Prometheus
8 24 (0.50%) Nagios
9 22 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
10 14 (0.29%) QRadar
11 12 (0.25%) Kibana
12 10 (0.21%) Kubeflow
13 6 (0.12%) Control-M
13 6 (0.12%) logstash
13 6 (0.12%) Packer
14 5 (0.10%) CASB
14 5 (0.10%) Graylog
15 4 (0.083%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.083%) Docker Swarm
15 4 (0.083%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,091 (22.69%) Microsoft
2 203 (4.22%) SAP
3 182 (3.78%) Google
4 169 (3.51%) Oracle
5 152 (3.16%) Salesforce
6 147 (3.06%) VMware
7 111 (2.31%) ServiceNow
8 108 (2.25%) Databricks
9 107 (2.22%) SolarWinds
10 103 (2.14%) Splunk
11 77 (1.60%) Cisco
12 74 (1.54%) Workday
13 68 (1.41%) Veeam
14 57 (1.19%) Tanium
15 56 (1.16%) Brocade
15 56 (1.16%) Nimble Storage
16 53 (1.10%) IBM
17 46 (0.96%) Dell
17 46 (0.96%) Red Hat
18 44 (0.91%) HubSpot