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 17 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 11 16
Rank change year-on-year -14 +5 +4
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,868 5,235 7,867
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 6.51% 12.17% 9.27%
As % of the General category 12.12% 17.28% 15.17%
Number of salaries quoted 2,703 2,410 5,189
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,731 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,886 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,778 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,894 £50,967 £45,000
% change year-on-year -9.95% +13.26% -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 40,161 30,303 51,875
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 53.71% 70.47% 61.13%
Number of salaries quoted 21,969 15,577 37,499
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £36,705
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +12.15% -10.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,387 £47,500
% change year-on-year -14.10% +10.29% -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 17 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Top 19 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 17 March 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 4,311 £52,500 -4.55% 2,243
UK excluding London -18 3,028 £45,894 -9.95% 1,786
Work from Home +2 1,595 £52,500 -4.55% 948
London -5 1,528 £67,500 +3.85% 824
North of England -20 814 £45,000 -10.00% 397
South East +5 808 £50,000 -1.90% 613
Midlands -16 579 £46,000 -4.17% 312
North West -18 428 £42,500 -19.05% 230
West Midlands -16 354 £51,300 +2.60% 198
Yorkshire +1 276 £48,445 +7.65% 131
South West -14 274 £45,000 -12.98% 182
East of England -25 256 £42,175 -17.25% 151
East Midlands -3 224 £41,750 -4.02% 113
Scotland -18 191 £40,000 -23.81% 103
North East -7 110 £45,000 +15.09% 42
Wales +12 75 £40,000 -20.20% 51
Northern Ireland -18 50 £52,500 -4.55% 16
Isle of Man -3 1 £62,500 +101.61% 1
Channel Islands -7 1 - -

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
1 139 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 89 (1.83%) SharePoint
3 81 (1.66%) Confluence
4 60 (1.23%) Apache Spark
5 59 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
6 51 (1.05%) CMS
7 32 (0.66%) Apache
8 18 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
8 18 (0.37%) WordPress
9 16 (0.33%) SAS
10 14 (0.29%) IIS
11 5 (0.10%) nginx
12 4 (0.082%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.062%) Drupal
13 3 (0.062%) govService
14 2 (0.041%) ArcGIS
14 2 (0.041%) Camunda
14 2 (0.041%) JBoss
14 2 (0.041%) Jupyter
14 2 (0.041%) MTS
Applications
1 691 (14.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 294 (6.04%) Microsoft Office
3 220 (4.52%) Chatbot
4 122 (2.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 94 (1.93%) MS Visio
6 36 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
7 28 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
8 25 (0.51%) Maya
9 16 (0.33%) Adobe XD
10 9 (0.18%) AutoCAD
11 8 (0.16%) CATIA
12 4 (0.082%) Trello
13 3 (0.062%) Sketch
14 2 (0.041%) Revit
14 2 (0.041%) Simulink
15 1 (0.021%) Notion
15 1 (0.021%) OrCAD
15 1 (0.021%) SmartSuite
15 1 (0.021%) SOLIDWORKS
15 1 (0.021%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 77 (1.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 45 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
3 43 (0.88%) NetSuite
4 31 (0.64%) Salesforce CRM
5 27 (0.55%) SAP CO
6 21 (0.43%) Endur
7 19 (0.39%) SAP FI
8 18 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
8 18 (0.37%) Workday HCM
9 17 (0.35%) SAP MDG
10 14 (0.29%) SAP ERP
11 12 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
12 11 (0.23%) Sage X3
13 10 (0.21%) Maximo
13 10 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
13 10 (0.21%) SAP PM
14 8 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
15 7 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
15 7 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
16 6 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 843 (17.32%) Azure
2 621 (12.76%) Power Platform
3 452 (9.29%) AWS
4 303 (6.22%) Microsoft 365
5 271 (5.57%) SaaS
6 179 (3.68%) GCP
7 153 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
8 125 (2.57%) Dynamics 365
9 98 (2.01%) GitHub
10 96 (1.97%) Entra ID
11 88 (1.81%) Power Automate
12 78 (1.60%) Snowflake
13 68 (1.40%) Azure Data Factory
13 68 (1.40%) dbt
14 62 (1.27%) Amazon S3
15 59 (1.21%) Serverless
16 58 (1.19%) Google Analytics
17 52 (1.07%) PowerApps
18 51 (1.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 51 (1.05%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 183 (3.76%) Firewall
2 160 (3.29%) DNS
3 122 (2.51%) DHCP
4 110 (2.26%) VPN
5 80 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
6 75 (1.54%) WAN
7 70 (1.44%) LAN
8 67 (1.38%) TCP/IP
9 66 (1.36%) Wireless
10 58 (1.19%) VLAN
11 50 (1.03%) Broadband
12 48 (0.99%) Network Security
13 38 (0.78%) BGP
14 36 (0.74%) SAN
15 35 (0.72%) OSPF
15 35 (0.72%) Wireshark
16 31 (0.64%) EIGRP
17 30 (0.62%) Cisco ASA
18 28 (0.58%) VoIP
19 27 (0.55%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 558 (11.46%) Power BI
2 409 (8.40%) Tableau
3 215 (4.42%) SQL Server
4 195 (4.01%) Data Mining
5 163 (3.35%) Data Warehouse
6 102 (2.10%) Metadata
7 95 (1.95%) Relational Database
8 89 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
9 77 (1.58%) Data Lake
10 60 (1.23%) Looker
10 60 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 59 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
12 55 (1.13%) MySQL
13 52 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
14 48 (0.99%) NoSQL
15 44 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
16 43 (0.88%) Power Query
17 34 (0.70%) Big Data
18 33 (0.68%) GIS
19 32 (0.66%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 192 (3.94%) JIRA
2 133 (2.73%) Git
3 50 (1.03%) GitLab
4 42 (0.86%) Selenium
5 38 (0.78%) Jenkins
6 20 (0.41%) Visual Studio
7 17 (0.35%) MLflow
8 15 (0.31%) Balsamiq
8 15 (0.31%) Robot Framework
9 14 (0.29%) Axure RP
9 14 (0.29%) ERwin
9 14 (0.29%) Subversion
10 13 (0.27%) Chocolatey
10 13 (0.27%) IBM UrbanCode
10 13 (0.27%) Snyk
11 12 (0.25%) Bitbucket
12 11 (0.23%) Cypress.io
12 11 (0.23%) Postman
13 10 (0.21%) LabVIEW
14 8 (0.16%) TestRail
General
1 2,412 (49.55%) Social Skills
2 1,784 (36.65%) Finance
3 431 (8.85%) Marketing
4 340 (6.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 305 (6.27%) Banking
6 276 (5.67%) Organisational Skills
7 275 (5.65%) Legal
8 271 (5.57%) Law
9 258 (5.30%) Public Sector
10 249 (5.12%) Retail
11 204 (4.19%) Presentation Skills
12 162 (3.33%) Manufacturing
13 131 (2.69%) Financial Institution
14 118 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
15 101 (2.07%) Telecoms
16 92 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
17 79 (1.62%) Games
18 71 (1.46%) Advertising
19 59 (1.21%) Electronics
20 47 (0.97%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1,230 (25.27%) Analyst
2 613 (12.59%) Senior
3 377 (7.74%) Data Analyst
4 315 (6.47%) Lead
5 241 (4.95%) Business Analyst
6 236 (4.85%) Developer
7 222 (4.56%) Architect
8 216 (4.44%) Trainer
9 202 (4.15%) Consultant
10 171 (3.51%) Trainee
11 170 (3.49%) Support Analyst
12 162 (3.33%) Trainee Analyst
12 162 (3.33%) Trainee Data Analyst
13 142 (2.92%) IT Support
14 139 (2.86%) Senior Analyst
15 132 (2.71%) Senior Manager
16 116 (2.38%) Financial Analyst
17 112 (2.30%) Systems Engineer
18 107 (2.20%) Support Engineer
19 90 (1.85%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (2.65%) HTML
2 119 (2.44%) CSS
3 89 (1.83%) React
4 85 (1.75%) .NET
5 61 (1.25%) REST
6 53 (1.09%) JSON
7 50 (1.03%) Middleware
7 50 (1.03%) XML
8 45 (0.92%) Node.js
9 38 (0.78%) TensorFlow
10 37 (0.76%) Kafka
11 35 (0.72%) PyTorch
12 32 (0.66%) PySpark
13 28 (0.58%) Spring
14 27 (0.55%) FIX Protocol
14 27 (0.55%) SOAP
15 23 (0.47%) EDI
15 23 (0.47%) Pandas
16 21 (0.43%) AngularJS
17 19 (0.39%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 486 (9.98%) Analytical Mindset
2 340 (6.98%) Self-Motivation
3 268 (5.51%) Onboarding
4 230 (4.72%) Management Information System
5 186 (3.82%) Product Ownership
6 122 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
7 103 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
8 97 (1.99%) Data Structures
9 95 (1.95%) Data Centre
10 90 (1.85%) Cloud Native
11 76 (1.56%) Driving Licence
12 75 (1.54%) Algorithms
13 59 (1.21%) Social Media
14 57 (1.17%) Security Posture
15 50 (1.03%) Virtual Team
16 49 (1.01%) FMCG
17 47 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 47 (0.97%) Low-Code
18 46 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
19 34 (0.70%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 358 (7.35%) Windows
2 233 (4.79%) Linux
3 146 (3.00%) Windows Server
4 76 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
5 41 (0.84%) Unix
6 27 (0.55%) Mac OS
7 19 (0.39%) Windows 10
8 18 (0.37%) Android
9 13 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 9 (0.18%) Apple iOS
11 5 (0.10%) CentOS
11 5 (0.10%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.10%) VMS
12 4 (0.082%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.062%) OpenWrt
14 2 (0.041%) AIX
14 2 (0.041%) Data ONTAP
14 2 (0.041%) Oracle Linux
15 1 (0.021%) Debian
15 1 (0.021%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,189 (44.97%) Problem-Solving
2 1,119 (22.99%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,101 (22.62%) Analytics
4 931 (19.12%) Decision-Making
5 882 (18.12%) AI
6 872 (17.91%) Agile
7 716 (14.71%) Business Intelligence
8 665 (13.66%) Project Management
9 587 (12.06%) Stakeholder Management
10 571 (11.73%) Data Analysis
11 451 (9.26%) Actionable Insight
12 434 (8.92%) Mentoring
13 415 (8.53%) Analytical Thinking
14 398 (8.18%) Process Improvement
15 394 (8.09%) Roadmaps
16 383 (7.87%) DevOps
17 377 (7.74%) Data Modelling
18 361 (7.42%) Business Analysis
18 361 (7.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 357 (7.33%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 1,026 (21.08%) SQL
2 868 (17.83%) Python
3 169 (3.47%) JavaScript
4 148 (3.04%) Java
4 148 (3.04%) PowerShell
5 121 (2.49%) C#
6 76 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 69 (1.42%) R
8 57 (1.17%) Bash
9 46 (0.94%) T-SQL
10 43 (0.88%) C++
10 43 (0.88%) VBA
11 37 (0.76%) TypeScript
12 20 (0.41%) C
12 20 (0.41%) Scala
13 19 (0.39%) MATLAB
14 16 (0.33%) Go
15 14 (0.29%) PL/SQL
16 12 (0.25%) Bicep
16 12 (0.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,275 (26.19%) Degree
2 400 (8.22%) Security Cleared
3 343 (7.05%) Master's Degree
4 282 (5.79%) SC Cleared
5 228 (4.68%) PhD
6 220 (4.52%) ACCA
7 212 (4.35%) CIMA
8 179 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
9 145 (2.98%) CISSP
10 115 (2.36%) DBS Check
11 96 (1.97%) PMI Certification
12 95 (1.95%) DV Cleared
13 85 (1.75%) PMP
14 84 (1.73%) Cisco Certification
15 83 (1.71%) CISM
16 66 (1.36%) Azure Certification
17 62 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
17 62 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
18 60 (1.23%) IRCA
19 50 (1.03%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 362 (7.44%) Data Quality
2 277 (5.69%) GDPR
3 270 (5.55%) QA
4 210 (4.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 169 (3.47%) NIST
6 147 (3.02%) Cyber Essentials
7 114 (2.34%) PCI DSS
8 106 (2.18%) Accessibility
9 82 (1.68%) PMO
10 75 (1.54%) ISO 9001
11 69 (1.42%) Actionable Recommendations
12 65 (1.34%) SLA
13 43 (0.88%) GRC
14 40 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 34 (0.70%) IFRS
16 29 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 22 (0.45%) WCAG
18 20 (0.41%) COBIT
19 18 (0.37%) NCSC
20 17 (0.35%) GMP
System Software
1 249 (5.12%) Active Directory
2 97 (1.99%) Hyper-V
3 78 (1.60%) Docker
4 72 (1.48%) Terminal Server
5 61 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
6 16 (0.33%) ProxySG
7 12 (0.25%) vSphere
8 11 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.14%) Firmware
10 7 (0.14%) IAG
11 6 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
12 5 (0.10%) VMware NSX
13 4 (0.082%) XenApp
14 3 (0.062%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.062%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.041%) XenDesktop
16 1 (0.021%) KVM
16 1 (0.021%) NFS
16 1 (0.021%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 142 (2.92%) Terraform
2 79 (1.62%) Kubernetes
3 71 (1.46%) Ansible
4 51 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
5 37 (0.76%) Grafana
6 35 (0.72%) Prometheus
7 24 (0.49%) SCCM
7 24 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
8 16 (0.33%) Nagios
9 8 (0.16%) SCOM
10 7 (0.14%) Control-M
11 6 (0.12%) QRadar
12 5 (0.10%) CASB
12 5 (0.10%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 5 (0.10%) Kubeflow
13 4 (0.082%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.082%) Backup Exec
13 4 (0.082%) Nessus
13 4 (0.082%) SolarWinds Orion
13 4 (0.082%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,178 (24.20%) Microsoft
2 225 (4.62%) SAP
3 218 (4.48%) PayPal
4 187 (3.84%) Oracle
5 144 (2.96%) VMware
6 143 (2.94%) Salesforce
7 140 (2.88%) Google
8 123 (2.53%) SolarWinds
9 114 (2.34%) ServiceNow
10 107 (2.20%) Splunk
11 78 (1.60%) Cisco
11 78 (1.60%) Veeam
12 73 (1.50%) Brocade
12 73 (1.50%) Tanium
13 72 (1.48%) Nimble Storage
14 69 (1.42%) Databricks
15 61 (1.25%) Workday
16 53 (1.09%) Adobe
17 41 (0.84%) Alteryx
18 40 (0.82%) Bloomberg