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

6 months to
2 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 5,904 6,036 7,788
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.37% 12.11% 9.57%
As % of the General category 11.67% 17.77% 16.84%
Number of salaries quoted 3,590 2,587 3,394
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,363 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £40,125
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 50,576 33,964 46,238
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 45.97% 68.15% 56.83%
Number of salaries quoted 31,121 17,918 25,917
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,375 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,125 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.62% -1.59% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £96,750 £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 2 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 2 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 -15 5,279 £52,500 - 7,538
UK excluding London -16 3,857 £47,500 +5.56% 4,024
Work from Home -7 1,942 £55,000 +10.00% 3,125
London -11 1,771 £67,500 +3.85% 4,498
North of England -19 1,064 £47,500 +6.74% 906
South East -7 922 £49,480 -5.75% 1,079
Midlands -8 666 £47,500 +5.56% 534
North West -15 653 £46,500 +3.33% 551
South West -10 544 £48,938 +8.75% 561
West Midlands -16 345 £49,000 +8.89% 316
East Midlands -5 318 £45,483 +1.07% 218
Yorkshire -13 284 £47,000 +17.50% 275
East of England -17 249 £47,750 +6.11% 359
Wales -12 169 £47,500 -5.58% 84
Scotland -21 132 £44,000 +10.00% 372
North East -17 127 £51,500 +25.61% 91
Northern Ireland -14 117 £42,500 -22.73% 195

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
1 184 (3.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 178 (3.01%) SharePoint
3 102 (1.73%) Confluence
4 52 (0.88%) Apache Spark
5 49 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
6 40 (0.68%) CMS
7 36 (0.61%) IIS
8 35 (0.59%) Apache
9 27 (0.46%) SAS
10 11 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
10 11 (0.19%) WordPress
11 10 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 10 (0.17%) Jupyter
12 9 (0.15%) Headless CMS
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
1 622 (10.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 257 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
3 118 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 71 (1.20%) MS Visio
5 44 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
6 29 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.20%) 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%) Maya
11 4 (0.068%) Revit
11 4 (0.068%) SOLIDWORKS
12 3 (0.051%) LaTeX
12 3 (0.051%) Siemens NX
12 3 (0.051%) Trello
Business Applications
1 106 (1.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 64 (1.08%) 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 13 (0.22%) 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 ERP
10 11 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
11 10 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
11 10 (0.17%) SAP Business One
12 9 (0.15%) Elite 3E
12 9 (0.15%) Fidessa
12 9 (0.15%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 991 (16.79%) Azure
2 700 (11.86%) Power Platform
3 618 (10.47%) AWS
4 425 (7.20%) Microsoft 365
5 380 (6.44%) SaaS
6 284 (4.81%) GCP
7 152 (2.57%) Azure DevOps
8 151 (2.56%) Entra ID
9 148 (2.51%) Dynamics 365
10 120 (2.03%) Google Analytics
11 103 (1.74%) GitHub
12 94 (1.59%) Snowflake
13 89 (1.51%) Google Ads
14 85 (1.44%) dbt
15 82 (1.39%) Power Automate
16 78 (1.32%) Microsoft Purview
17 77 (1.30%) PowerApps
17 77 (1.30%) Serverless
18 69 (1.17%) Amazon S3
19 65 (1.10%) Meta Ads
Communications & Networking
1 206 (3.49%) DNS
2 161 (2.73%) DHCP
3 154 (2.61%) Firewall
4 130 (2.20%) VPN
5 99 (1.68%) TCP/IP
6 77 (1.30%) WAN
7 75 (1.27%) LAN
8 66 (1.12%) Network Security
9 61 (1.03%) Wireless
10 55 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
11 52 (0.88%) Broadband
12 49 (0.83%) VLAN
13 45 (0.76%) Internet
14 39 (0.66%) SAN
15 35 (0.59%) HTTP
16 31 (0.53%) 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
1 619 (10.48%) Power BI
2 230 (3.90%) Tableau
3 218 (3.69%) SQL Server
4 190 (3.22%) Data Warehouse
5 119 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
6 103 (1.74%) Relational Database
7 96 (1.63%) Looker
8 93 (1.58%) Metadata
9 84 (1.42%) MySQL
10 74 (1.25%) Data Lake
11 73 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
12 70 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 68 (1.15%) Power Query
14 63 (1.07%) BigQuery
15 59 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 54 (0.91%) Big Data
17 48 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
18 46 (0.78%) NoSQL
19 37 (0.63%) MongoDB
20 34 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 257 (4.35%) JIRA
2 207 (3.51%) Git
3 51 (0.86%) Jenkins
4 50 (0.85%) GitLab
5 31 (0.53%) Rational DOORS
6 29 (0.49%) Selenium
7 27 (0.46%) MLflow
8 23 (0.39%) Cucumber
9 22 (0.37%) Eclipse
10 20 (0.34%) Postman
11 17 (0.29%) Claude Code
12 16 (0.27%) Chocolatey
13 15 (0.25%) Bitbucket
14 14 (0.24%) JMeter
14 14 (0.24%) LabVIEW
14 14 (0.24%) Oracle Forms
15 13 (0.22%) Burp Suite
16 12 (0.20%) Cypress.io
17 11 (0.19%) Metasploit
17 11 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2,871 (48.63%) Social Skills
2 1,918 (32.49%) Finance
3 631 (10.69%) Marketing
4 528 (8.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 436 (7.38%) Organisational Skills
6 400 (6.78%) Law
6 400 (6.78%) Retail
7 373 (6.32%) Public Sector
8 352 (5.96%) Legal
9 300 (5.08%) Influencing Skills
10 294 (4.98%) Manufacturing
11 248 (4.20%) Banking
12 199 (3.37%) Presentation Skills
13 176 (2.98%) Aerospace
14 132 (2.24%) Telecoms
15 120 (2.03%) Electronics
16 105 (1.78%) Advertising
17 94 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
18 71 (1.20%) Financial Institution
19 66 (1.12%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,356 (22.97%) Analyst
2 763 (12.92%) Senior
3 413 (7.00%) Lead
4 301 (5.10%) Data Analyst
5 292 (4.95%) Business Analyst
6 283 (4.79%) Developer
7 229 (3.88%) Consultant
8 228 (3.86%) Architect
9 205 (3.47%) Systems Engineer
10 201 (3.40%) Senior Analyst
11 178 (3.01%) Support Analyst
12 177 (3.00%) Data Engineer
13 128 (2.17%) Support Engineer
14 116 (1.96%) IT Support
15 113 (1.91%) IT Manager
16 107 (1.81%) Security Analyst
16 107 (1.81%) Senior Manager
17 101 (1.71%) Applications Support
18 98 (1.66%) Systems Analyst
19 95 (1.61%) Marketing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (2.76%) .NET
2 146 (2.47%) Terraform
3 126 (2.13%) REST
4 124 (2.10%) HTML
5 115 (1.95%) CSS
6 87 (1.47%) JSON
7 78 (1.32%) Middleware
7 78 (1.32%) XML
8 74 (1.25%) Kafka
8 74 (1.25%) RESTful
9 68 (1.15%) React
10 62 (1.05%) PyTorch
11 59 (1.00%) SOAP
12 55 (0.93%) PySpark
12 55 (0.93%) TensorFlow
13 46 (0.78%) EDI
14 45 (0.76%) Web Services
15 43 (0.73%) LDAP
16 42 (0.71%) scikit-learn
17 40 (0.68%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 492 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
2 361 (6.11%) Management Information System
3 357 (6.05%) Onboarding
4 290 (4.91%) Product Ownership
5 288 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
6 163 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
7 138 (2.34%) Driving Licence
8 137 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
9 135 (2.29%) Cloud Native
10 119 (2.02%) Blog
11 116 (1.96%) Social Media
12 104 (1.76%) Cyber Threat
12 104 (1.76%) Marketing Technology
13 103 (1.74%) Data Centre
13 103 (1.74%) Security Posture
14 95 (1.61%) Virtual Team
15 85 (1.44%) Data Structures
16 72 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
17 67 (1.13%) Algorithms
18 52 (0.88%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 463 (7.84%) Windows
2 287 (4.86%) Linux
3 223 (3.78%) Windows Server
4 99 (1.68%) Windows Server 2016
5 38 (0.64%) Windows 10
6 33 (0.56%) Unix
7 30 (0.51%) Mac OS
8 28 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 22 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
10 21 (0.36%) Apple iOS
11 17 (0.29%) Android
12 11 (0.19%) 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
16 4 (0.068%) Rocky
17 2 (0.034%) AIX
17 2 (0.034%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,848 (48.24%) Problem-Solving
2 1,711 (28.98%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,382 (23.41%) Decision-Making
4 1,254 (21.24%) Analytics
5 1,088 (18.43%) Stakeholder Management
6 1,067 (18.07%) Agile
7 1,047 (17.73%) AI
8 766 (12.97%) Business Intelligence
9 632 (10.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 609 (10.32%) Roadmaps
11 582 (9.86%) Mentoring
12 564 (9.55%) Actionable Insight
13 524 (8.88%) Project Management
14 514 (8.71%) Validation
15 501 (8.49%) Data Analysis
16 498 (8.43%) Cybersecurity
17 477 (8.08%) Data Modelling
18 468 (7.93%) Process Improvement
19 457 (7.74%) CRM
20 456 (7.72%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1,166 (19.75%) SQL
2 871 (14.75%) Python
3 232 (3.93%) JavaScript
4 209 (3.54%) Java
5 195 (3.30%) C#
6 189 (3.20%) PowerShell
7 112 (1.90%) C++
8 90 (1.52%) Bash
9 79 (1.34%) R
10 75 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 67 (1.13%) TypeScript
12 49 (0.83%) MATLAB
12 49 (0.83%) T-SQL
13 34 (0.58%) C
14 29 (0.49%) Scala
15 27 (0.46%) PHP
16 25 (0.42%) PL/SQL
17 20 (0.34%) Go
17 20 (0.34%) Perl
18 19 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1,163 (19.70%) Degree
2 665 (11.26%) Security Cleared
3 460 (7.79%) SC Cleared
4 231 (3.91%) ACCA
5 216 (3.66%) CIMA
6 176 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 167 (2.83%) CISSP
8 161 (2.73%) DV Cleared
9 141 (2.39%) DBS Check
10 128 (2.17%) CISM
11 116 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
12 115 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
13 98 (1.66%) Master's Degree
14 81 (1.37%) Azure Certification
15 75 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
16 72 (1.22%) CompTIA Security+
17 64 (1.08%) PMI Certification
18 50 (0.85%) CRISC
19 49 (0.83%) HND
20 47 (0.80%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 570 (9.65%) Data Quality
2 390 (6.61%) QA
3 361 (6.11%) GDPR
4 247 (4.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 197 (3.34%) NIST
6 174 (2.95%) Accessibility
7 157 (2.66%) Cyber Essentials
8 149 (2.52%) SLA
9 128 (2.17%) PCI DSS
10 98 (1.66%) ISO 9001
11 69 (1.17%) GRC
12 60 (1.02%) 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 33 (0.56%) COBIT
17 29 (0.49%) NCSC
18 24 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 24 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 335 (5.67%) Active Directory
2 133 (2.25%) Docker
3 106 (1.80%) Hyper-V
4 91 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
5 80 (1.36%) Terminal Server
6 34 (0.58%) Firmware
7 22 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
8 20 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
9 10 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.15%) vSphere
11 8 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
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
14 3 (0.051%) IAG
14 3 (0.051%) VMware ESXi
15 2 (0.034%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 112 (1.90%) Kubernetes
2 85 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
3 77 (1.30%) Ansible
4 40 (0.68%) Grafana
5 39 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
6 27 (0.46%) SCCM
7 21 (0.36%) Prometheus
8 19 (0.32%) QRadar
9 18 (0.30%) Kibana
10 15 (0.25%) 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
14 7 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
15 6 (0.10%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 1,311 (22.21%) Microsoft
2 323 (5.47%) Google
3 235 (3.98%) SAP
4 187 (3.17%) Oracle
5 186 (3.15%) VMware
6 152 (2.57%) Splunk
7 141 (2.39%) Databricks
8 135 (2.29%) ServiceNow
9 129 (2.18%) Salesforce
10 110 (1.86%) SolarWinds
11 90 (1.52%) Veeam
12 88 (1.49%) Cisco
13 81 (1.37%) Brocade
13 81 (1.37%) Nimble Storage
14 80 (1.36%) Tanium
15 70 (1.19%) Workday
16 65 (1.10%) Adobe
17 56 (0.95%) HubSpot
18 52 (0.88%) YouTube
19 44 (0.75%) Dell