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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 9 13
Rank change year-on-year -16 +4 +7
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 5,908 5,987 7,599
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.36% 12.20% 9.56%
As % of the General category 11.68% 17.89% 16.88%
Number of salaries quoted 3,588 2,528 3,255
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £40,962
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 £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 50,598 33,465 45,023
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 45.87% 68.21% 56.64%
Number of salaries quoted 31,152 17,505 24,882
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 £75,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -2.91%

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 4 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 4 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 5,280 £52,500 - 7,659
UK excluding London -16 3,881 £47,500 +5.56% 4,113
Work from Home -8 1,950 £55,000 +10.00% 3,197
London -12 1,754 £67,500 +3.85% 4,526
North of England -18 1,072 £47,500 +6.15% 890
South East -7 924 £49,536 -5.65% 1,081
Midlands -8 675 £47,744 +6.10% 584
North West -16 658 £46,500 +3.33% 554
South West -10 548 £48,938 +8.75% 571
West Midlands -17 349 £49,000 +8.89% 342
East Midlands -3 323 £45,483 +4.56% 242
Yorkshire -13 285 £47,250 +18.13% 261
East of England -15 248 £47,500 +5.56% 396
Wales -11 172 £47,500 -5.33% 85
Scotland -26 132 £44,000 +11.39% 372
North East -15 129 £50,500 +23.17% 86
Northern Ireland -14 117 £42,500 -22.73% 201

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
1 185 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 179 (3.03%) SharePoint
3 102 (1.73%) Confluence
4 46 (0.78%) Apache Spark
5 44 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
6 41 (0.69%) CMS
7 37 (0.63%) IIS
8 34 (0.58%) Apache
9 28 (0.47%) SAS
10 11 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
10 11 (0.19%) WordPress
11 10 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 10 (0.17%) Headless CMS
11 10 (0.17%) Jupyter
12 9 (0.15%) WebLogic
12 9 (0.15%) WebSphere
13 8 (0.14%) OpenStack
14 3 (0.051%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.051%) Appian
14 3 (0.051%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 628 (10.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 257 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
3 118 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 70 (1.18%) MS Visio
5 45 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
6 29 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.22%) Simulink
8 8 (0.14%) Adobe XD
9 7 (0.12%) AutoCAD
10 5 (0.085%) Acrobat
10 5 (0.085%) CATIA
10 5 (0.085%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.085%) EPLAN
11 4 (0.068%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.068%) Revit
12 3 (0.051%) Blender
12 3 (0.051%) LaTeX
12 3 (0.051%) Siemens NX
12 3 (0.051%) Trello
12 3 (0.051%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 105 (1.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 63 (1.07%) SAP S/4HANA
3 40 (0.68%) NetSuite
4 35 (0.59%) Dynamics GP
5 23 (0.39%) Shopify
6 19 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
7 15 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
7 15 (0.25%) SAP PM
8 14 (0.24%) Workday HCM
9 12 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
9 12 (0.20%) SAP CO
9 12 (0.20%) SAP FI
10 11 (0.19%) Magento
10 11 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
11 10 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
11 10 (0.17%) SAP Business One
11 10 (0.17%) SAP ERP
12 9 (0.15%) Elite 3E
12 9 (0.15%) Fidessa
12 9 (0.15%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 987 (16.71%) Azure
2 696 (11.78%) Power Platform
3 610 (10.32%) AWS
4 427 (7.23%) Microsoft 365
5 382 (6.47%) SaaS
6 279 (4.72%) GCP
7 155 (2.62%) Entra ID
8 152 (2.57%) Azure DevOps
9 147 (2.49%) Dynamics 365
10 120 (2.03%) Google Analytics
11 102 (1.73%) GitHub
12 90 (1.52%) Snowflake
13 89 (1.51%) Google Ads
14 80 (1.35%) dbt
14 80 (1.35%) Power Automate
15 79 (1.34%) Microsoft Purview
16 78 (1.32%) Serverless
17 77 (1.30%) PowerApps
18 69 (1.17%) Amazon S3
19 65 (1.10%) Meta Ads
Communications & Networking
1 207 (3.50%) DNS
2 163 (2.76%) DHCP
3 154 (2.61%) Firewall
4 133 (2.25%) VPN
5 102 (1.73%) TCP/IP
6 77 (1.30%) WAN
7 74 (1.25%) LAN
8 67 (1.13%) Network Security
9 62 (1.05%) Wireless
10 55 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
11 52 (0.88%) Broadband
12 49 (0.83%) VLAN
13 45 (0.76%) Internet
14 38 (0.64%) SAN
15 35 (0.59%) HTTP
16 32 (0.54%) VoIP
17 28 (0.47%) BGP
18 22 (0.37%) SD-WAN
18 22 (0.37%) SMS
19 21 (0.36%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 617 (10.44%) Power BI
2 225 (3.81%) Tableau
3 217 (3.67%) SQL Server
4 184 (3.11%) Data Warehouse
5 119 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
6 105 (1.78%) Relational Database
7 95 (1.61%) Metadata
8 92 (1.56%) Looker
9 83 (1.40%) MySQL
10 72 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
11 70 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 69 (1.17%) Data Lake
12 69 (1.17%) Power Query
13 59 (1.00%) BigQuery
14 58 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 53 (0.90%) Big Data
16 45 (0.76%) NoSQL
17 44 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
18 36 (0.61%) MongoDB
19 34 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 259 (4.38%) JIRA
2 201 (3.40%) Git
3 50 (0.85%) Jenkins
4 49 (0.83%) GitLab
5 31 (0.52%) Rational DOORS
6 29 (0.49%) Selenium
7 23 (0.39%) Cucumber
7 23 (0.39%) Eclipse
7 23 (0.39%) MLflow
8 20 (0.34%) Postman
9 18 (0.30%) Claude Code
10 16 (0.27%) Bitbucket
10 16 (0.27%) Chocolatey
11 15 (0.25%) Oracle Forms
12 14 (0.24%) JMeter
12 14 (0.24%) LabVIEW
13 13 (0.22%) Burp Suite
14 12 (0.20%) Cypress.io
14 12 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
15 11 (0.19%) ERwin
General
1 2,879 (48.73%) Social Skills
2 1,916 (32.43%) Finance
3 634 (10.73%) Marketing
4 524 (8.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 441 (7.46%) Organisational Skills
6 401 (6.79%) Retail
7 399 (6.75%) Law
8 375 (6.35%) Public Sector
9 353 (5.97%) Legal
10 300 (5.08%) Influencing Skills
11 296 (5.01%) Manufacturing
12 239 (4.05%) Banking
13 198 (3.35%) Presentation Skills
14 179 (3.03%) Aerospace
15 132 (2.23%) Telecoms
16 125 (2.12%) Electronics
17 106 (1.79%) Advertising
18 92 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
19 70 (1.18%) Financial Institution
20 66 (1.12%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,353 (22.90%) Analyst
2 757 (12.81%) Senior
3 411 (6.96%) Lead
4 304 (5.15%) Data Analyst
5 288 (4.87%) Business Analyst
6 281 (4.76%) Developer
7 230 (3.89%) Architect
8 226 (3.83%) Consultant
9 200 (3.39%) Senior Analyst
10 199 (3.37%) Systems Engineer
11 177 (3.00%) Data Engineer
11 177 (3.00%) Support Analyst
12 129 (2.18%) Support Engineer
13 117 (1.98%) IT Support
14 113 (1.91%) IT Manager
15 107 (1.81%) Security Analyst
16 106 (1.79%) Senior Manager
17 101 (1.71%) Applications Support
18 97 (1.64%) Systems Analyst
19 95 (1.61%) Marketing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (2.73%) .NET
2 143 (2.42%) Terraform
3 127 (2.15%) REST
4 125 (2.12%) HTML
5 116 (1.96%) CSS
6 87 (1.47%) JSON
7 79 (1.34%) XML
8 78 (1.32%) Middleware
9 74 (1.25%) RESTful
10 69 (1.17%) Kafka
11 66 (1.12%) React
12 61 (1.03%) SOAP
13 58 (0.98%) PyTorch
14 54 (0.91%) PySpark
15 51 (0.86%) TensorFlow
16 46 (0.78%) EDI
16 46 (0.78%) Web Services
17 43 (0.73%) LDAP
18 39 (0.66%) ASP.NET
19 38 (0.64%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 490 (8.29%) Analytical Mindset
2 362 (6.13%) Management Information System
3 358 (6.06%) Onboarding
4 290 (4.91%) Product Ownership
5 288 (4.87%) Self-Motivation
6 163 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
7 138 (2.34%) Driving Licence
8 137 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
9 131 (2.22%) Cloud Native
10 118 (2.00%) Blog
11 115 (1.95%) Social Media
12 105 (1.78%) Cyber Threat
13 104 (1.76%) Marketing Technology
13 104 (1.76%) Security Posture
14 101 (1.71%) Data Centre
15 95 (1.61%) Virtual Team
16 84 (1.42%) Data Structures
17 70 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
18 66 (1.12%) Algorithms
19 52 (0.88%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 467 (7.90%) Windows
2 286 (4.84%) Linux
3 226 (3.83%) Windows Server
4 100 (1.69%) Windows Server 2016
5 38 (0.64%) Windows 10
6 32 (0.54%) Unix
7 30 (0.51%) Mac OS
8 27 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 23 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
10 21 (0.36%) Apple iOS
11 17 (0.29%) Android
12 10 (0.17%) CentOS
13 8 (0.14%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.10%) Debian
14 6 (0.10%) VMS
15 5 (0.085%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.068%) CoreOS
17 3 (0.051%) Rocky
18 2 (0.034%) AIX
18 2 (0.034%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,864 (48.48%) Problem-Solving
2 1,723 (29.16%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,387 (23.48%) Decision-Making
4 1,249 (21.14%) Analytics
5 1,095 (18.53%) Stakeholder Management
6 1,058 (17.91%) Agile
7 1,046 (17.70%) AI
8 764 (12.93%) Business Intelligence
9 635 (10.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 609 (10.31%) Roadmaps
11 578 (9.78%) Mentoring
12 568 (9.61%) Actionable Insight
13 524 (8.87%) Project Management
14 517 (8.75%) Validation
15 504 (8.53%) Data Analysis
16 496 (8.40%) Cybersecurity
17 474 (8.02%) Data Modelling
18 468 (7.92%) Process Improvement
19 456 (7.72%) CRM
20 455 (7.70%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1,157 (19.58%) SQL
2 859 (14.54%) Python
3 228 (3.86%) JavaScript
4 208 (3.52%) Java
5 193 (3.27%) C#
6 190 (3.22%) PowerShell
7 111 (1.88%) C++
8 88 (1.49%) Bash
9 81 (1.37%) R
10 75 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 68 (1.15%) TypeScript
12 50 (0.85%) MATLAB
13 48 (0.81%) T-SQL
14 35 (0.59%) C
15 29 (0.49%) Scala
16 27 (0.46%) PHP
17 26 (0.44%) PL/SQL
18 20 (0.34%) Perl
18 20 (0.34%) VB.NET
19 19 (0.32%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,167 (19.75%) Degree
2 667 (11.29%) Security Cleared
3 463 (7.84%) SC Cleared
4 233 (3.94%) ACCA
5 218 (3.69%) CIMA
6 176 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 164 (2.78%) CISSP
8 161 (2.73%) DV Cleared
9 140 (2.37%) DBS Check
10 126 (2.13%) CISM
11 118 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
12 115 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
13 97 (1.64%) Master's Degree
14 80 (1.35%) Azure Certification
15 76 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
16 72 (1.22%) CompTIA Security+
17 64 (1.08%) PMI Certification
18 58 (0.98%) HND
19 49 (0.83%) CRISC
20 45 (0.76%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 574 (9.72%) Data Quality
2 387 (6.55%) QA
3 360 (6.09%) GDPR
4 246 (4.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 195 (3.30%) NIST
6 175 (2.96%) Accessibility
7 158 (2.67%) Cyber Essentials
8 150 (2.54%) SLA
9 129 (2.18%) PCI DSS
10 96 (1.62%) ISO 9001
11 70 (1.18%) GRC
12 61 (1.03%) PMO
13 47 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
14 41 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 37 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 37 (0.63%) IFRS
16 32 (0.54%) COBIT
17 29 (0.49%) NCSC
18 26 (0.44%) DO-254
19 24 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 338 (5.72%) Active Directory
2 132 (2.23%) Docker
3 107 (1.81%) Hyper-V
4 89 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 80 (1.35%) Terminal Server
6 35 (0.59%) Firmware
7 23 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
8 22 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
9 10 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
10 9 (0.15%) vSphere
11 8 (0.14%) VMware NSX
12 7 (0.12%) Ceph
13 4 (0.068%) KVM
13 4 (0.068%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.068%) ProxySG
14 3 (0.051%) DFS Replication
15 2 (0.034%) IAG
15 2 (0.034%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 2 (0.034%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 112 (1.90%) Kubernetes
2 86 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
3 75 (1.27%) Ansible
4 40 (0.68%) Grafana
5 39 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
6 25 (0.42%) SCCM
7 21 (0.36%) Prometheus
8 20 (0.34%) QRadar
9 18 (0.30%) Kibana
10 13 (0.22%) 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
15 6 (0.10%) Functional Safety
15 6 (0.10%) Graylog
Vendors
1 1,316 (22.27%) Microsoft
2 323 (5.47%) Google
3 234 (3.96%) SAP
4 187 (3.17%) Oracle
5 185 (3.13%) VMware
6 153 (2.59%) Splunk
7 138 (2.34%) Databricks
8 135 (2.29%) ServiceNow
9 128 (2.17%) Salesforce
10 108 (1.83%) SolarWinds
11 89 (1.51%) Veeam
12 87 (1.47%) Cisco
13 81 (1.37%) Brocade
13 81 (1.37%) Nimble Storage
14 80 (1.35%) Tanium
15 71 (1.20%) Workday
16 65 (1.10%) Adobe
17 56 (0.95%) HubSpot
17 56 (0.95%) YouTube
18 41 (0.69%) IBM