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

6 months to
24 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 4,776 5,814 9,495
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.14% 13.56% 9.67%
As % of the General category 10.54% 18.49% 16.19%
Number of salaries quoted 3,021 2,344 5,403
10th Percentile £33,000 £31,075 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,438 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,191 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% +10.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £72,625 £73,750 £68,473
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% -4.76%

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 45,305 31,439 58,646
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 48.78% 73.30% 59.70%
Number of salaries quoted 25,764 15,008 39,723
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £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 £72,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £105,000 £93,250
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 24 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 24 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 4,324 £55,000 - 2,395
UK excluding London -20 2,971 £49,000 -2.00% 1,616
London -10 1,519 £67,500 +3.85% 1,092
Work from Home -11 1,415 £55,000 - 1,208
North of England -29 916 £47,500 -5.00% 419
South East -4 760 £50,000 -8.26% 511
Midlands -23 548 £48,500 +1.04% 249
North West -30 536 £46,500 -7.00% 242
West Midlands -27 324 £50,774 +5.78% 159
Yorkshire -11 292 £52,500 +16.67% 131
South West -29 286 £48,750 -3.47% 157
East of England -22 239 £45,000 -11.71% 149
East Midlands +1 222 £45,000 -7.22% 89
Scotland -29 118 £40,000 -17.54% 71
North East -26 88 £49,222 +27.85% 56
Wales -2 79 £47,105 -10.28% 31
Northern Ireland -25 39 £52,500 -4.55% 72

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
1 136 (2.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 104 (2.18%) SharePoint
3 77 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
4 74 (1.55%) Apache Spark
5 64 (1.34%) Confluence
6 41 (0.86%) CMS
7 39 (0.82%) Apache
8 21 (0.44%) IIS
9 19 (0.40%) SAS
10 16 (0.34%) WordPress
11 13 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
12 11 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 6 (0.13%) nginx
14 5 (0.10%) Jupyter
15 3 (0.063%) Anypoint
15 3 (0.063%) govService
15 3 (0.063%) JBoss
15 3 (0.063%) Tomcat
16 2 (0.042%) Appian
16 2 (0.042%) Umbraco
Applications
1 556 (11.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 202 (4.23%) Microsoft Office
3 95 (1.99%) MS Visio
4 88 (1.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 30 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
6 26 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
7 13 (0.27%) Maya
8 10 (0.21%) Adobe XD
8 10 (0.21%) CATIA
9 6 (0.13%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.084%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.063%) Acrobat
11 3 (0.063%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.063%) Trello
12 2 (0.042%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.042%) Lectora
12 2 (0.042%) Simulink
12 2 (0.042%) SOLIDWORKS
13 1 (0.021%) PlantUML
13 1 (0.021%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 67 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 41 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 37 (0.77%) NetSuite
4 32 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
5 20 (0.42%) SAP CO
6 15 (0.31%) SAP PM
7 14 (0.29%) SAP ERP
8 11 (0.23%) Maximo
8 11 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
8 11 (0.23%) SAP FI
9 10 (0.21%) Endur
9 10 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
10 9 (0.19%) Workday HCM
11 7 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
11 7 (0.15%) Elite 3E
11 7 (0.15%) Fidessa
11 7 (0.15%) Magento
11 7 (0.15%) SAP PP
12 6 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
12 6 (0.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 853 (17.86%) Azure
2 657 (13.76%) Power Platform
3 485 (10.15%) AWS
4 336 (7.04%) Microsoft 365
5 281 (5.88%) SaaS
6 204 (4.27%) GCP
7 128 (2.68%) Dynamics 365
8 127 (2.66%) Azure DevOps
9 110 (2.30%) Entra ID
10 93 (1.95%) GitHub
11 89 (1.86%) Power Automate
12 88 (1.84%) Snowflake
13 76 (1.59%) dbt
13 76 (1.59%) Google Analytics
14 73 (1.53%) Microsoft Purview
15 70 (1.47%) Amazon S3
16 65 (1.36%) PowerApps
17 60 (1.26%) Serverless
18 54 (1.13%) Azure Data Factory
19 49 (1.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 198 (4.15%) Firewall
2 149 (3.12%) DNS
3 127 (2.66%) VPN
4 103 (2.16%) DHCP
5 78 (1.63%) WAN
6 71 (1.49%) TCP/IP
7 68 (1.42%) LAN
8 60 (1.26%) Broadband
9 58 (1.21%) VLAN
9 58 (1.21%) Wi-Fi
10 56 (1.17%) Wireless
11 53 (1.11%) SAN
12 47 (0.98%) Network Security
13 39 (0.82%) BGP
14 32 (0.67%) Cisco ASA
15 29 (0.61%) OSPF
16 27 (0.57%) HTTP
16 27 (0.57%) SD-WAN
16 27 (0.57%) Wireshark
17 24 (0.50%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 584 (12.23%) Power BI
2 346 (7.24%) Tableau
3 187 (3.92%) SQL Server
4 161 (3.37%) Data Warehouse
5 126 (2.64%) Data Mining
6 85 (1.78%) Metadata
7 75 (1.57%) Data Lake
8 69 (1.44%) Relational Database
9 68 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
10 62 (1.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 60 (1.26%) Looker
11 60 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
12 58 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
13 49 (1.03%) BigQuery
14 48 (1.01%) Power Query
15 47 (0.98%) MySQL
16 43 (0.90%) NoSQL
16 43 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 37 (0.77%) Big Data
18 35 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 167 (3.50%) JIRA
2 136 (2.85%) Git
3 48 (1.01%) GitLab
4 37 (0.77%) Jenkins
5 31 (0.65%) MLflow
6 29 (0.61%) Rational DOORS
7 24 (0.50%) Selenium
8 21 (0.44%) Chocolatey
9 15 (0.31%) Cucumber
9 15 (0.31%) Visual Studio
10 14 (0.29%) ERwin
11 13 (0.27%) IBM UrbanCode
12 12 (0.25%) Bitbucket
13 11 (0.23%) Balsamiq
14 10 (0.21%) Maven
14 10 (0.21%) Oracle APEX
14 10 (0.21%) SonarQube
15 9 (0.19%) Axure RP
15 9 (0.19%) Postman
15 9 (0.19%) Subversion
General
1 2,178 (45.60%) Social Skills
2 1,705 (35.70%) Finance
3 431 (9.02%) Marketing
4 386 (8.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 283 (5.93%) Law
6 276 (5.78%) Public Sector
7 264 (5.53%) Organisational Skills
8 256 (5.36%) Legal
9 255 (5.34%) Banking
9 255 (5.34%) Retail
10 170 (3.56%) Manufacturing
11 159 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
12 151 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
13 109 (2.28%) Telecoms
14 92 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
15 85 (1.78%) Financial Institution
16 74 (1.55%) Electronics
17 73 (1.53%) Advertising
18 70 (1.47%) Aerospace
19 67 (1.40%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,229 (25.73%) Analyst
2 653 (13.67%) Senior
3 321 (6.72%) Data Analyst
4 316 (6.62%) Lead
5 274 (5.74%) Business Analyst
6 246 (5.15%) Developer
7 227 (4.75%) Architect
8 208 (4.36%) Consultant
9 153 (3.20%) Systems Engineer
10 133 (2.78%) Senior Analyst
11 131 (2.74%) Senior Manager
12 117 (2.45%) Support Analyst
13 116 (2.43%) Trainee
14 113 (2.37%) IT Manager
15 111 (2.32%) Data Engineer
16 104 (2.18%) Trainee Analyst
16 104 (2.18%) Trainee Data Analyst
17 103 (2.16%) Support Engineer
18 101 (2.11%) IT Support
19 89 (1.86%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (2.68%) HTML
2 119 (2.49%) CSS
3 99 (2.07%) .NET
4 93 (1.95%) REST
5 85 (1.78%) JSON
6 81 (1.70%) Middleware
6 81 (1.70%) React
7 76 (1.59%) XML
8 61 (1.28%) PyTorch
9 56 (1.17%) TensorFlow
10 53 (1.11%) SOAP
11 52 (1.09%) Kafka
12 46 (0.96%) Node.js
13 41 (0.86%) scikit-learn
14 38 (0.80%) PySpark
15 35 (0.73%) RESTful
16 34 (0.71%) EDI
17 33 (0.69%) LangChain
17 33 (0.69%) Pandas
18 26 (0.54%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 505 (10.57%) Analytical Mindset
2 235 (4.92%) Management Information System
3 203 (4.25%) Onboarding
4 195 (4.08%) Product Ownership
5 190 (3.98%) Self-Motivation
6 119 (2.49%) Data Centre
7 100 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
8 93 (1.95%) Cloud Native
9 85 (1.78%) Data Structures
10 82 (1.72%) Security Posture
11 79 (1.65%) Algorithms
12 72 (1.51%) Cyber Threat
12 72 (1.51%) Driving Licence
13 71 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
14 54 (1.13%) Virtual Team
15 53 (1.11%) Public Cloud
16 50 (1.05%) FMCG
16 50 (1.05%) Social Media
17 46 (0.96%) Cyber Defence
18 44 (0.92%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 344 (7.20%) Windows
2 207 (4.33%) Linux
3 149 (3.12%) Windows Server
4 59 (1.24%) Windows Server 2016
5 34 (0.71%) Unix
6 23 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 22 (0.46%) Windows 10
8 18 (0.38%) Mac OS
9 16 (0.34%) Android
10 15 (0.31%) Apple iOS
11 10 (0.21%) CentOS
12 9 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
13 8 (0.17%) Ubuntu
13 8 (0.17%) VMS
14 4 (0.084%) AIX
14 4 (0.084%) Rocky
14 4 (0.084%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.042%) Debian
16 1 (0.021%) OpenBSD
16 1 (0.021%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,112 (44.22%) Problem-Solving
2 1,134 (23.74%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,056 (22.11%) Analytics
4 1,011 (21.17%) Decision-Making
5 835 (17.48%) Agile
6 679 (14.22%) Business Intelligence
7 638 (13.36%) AI
8 611 (12.79%) Stakeholder Management
9 523 (10.95%) Project Management
10 469 (9.82%) Mentoring
11 468 (9.80%) Actionable Insight
12 466 (9.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 457 (9.57%) Roadmaps
14 444 (9.30%) Cybersecurity
15 443 (9.28%) Data Analysis
16 442 (9.25%) Data Modelling
17 381 (7.98%) Data Governance
18 366 (7.66%) Analytical Thinking
19 365 (7.64%) DevOps
20 359 (7.52%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,004 (21.02%) SQL
2 870 (18.22%) Python
3 179 (3.75%) PowerShell
4 170 (3.56%) Java
5 169 (3.54%) JavaScript
6 131 (2.74%) C#
7 74 (1.55%) R
8 69 (1.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 64 (1.34%) Bash
10 63 (1.32%) C++
11 43 (0.90%) T-SQL
12 41 (0.86%) TypeScript
13 40 (0.84%) VBA
14 36 (0.75%) MATLAB
15 23 (0.48%) Scala
16 20 (0.42%) Go
17 19 (0.40%) PHP
18 17 (0.36%) PL/SQL
19 15 (0.31%) C
19 15 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 938 (19.64%) Degree
2 375 (7.85%) Security Cleared
3 261 (5.46%) SC Cleared
4 229 (4.79%) ACCA
5 215 (4.50%) CIMA
6 167 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 157 (3.29%) DBS Check
8 150 (3.14%) CISSP
9 119 (2.49%) Cisco Certification
10 104 (2.18%) Master's Degree
11 103 (2.16%) CISM
12 94 (1.97%) PMI Certification
13 84 (1.76%) DV Cleared
14 83 (1.74%) PMP
15 76 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
16 72 (1.51%) Azure Certification
16 72 (1.51%) IRCA
16 72 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
17 61 (1.28%) CompTIA Security+
18 54 (1.13%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 442 (9.25%) Data Quality
2 361 (7.56%) GDPR
3 292 (6.11%) QA
4 249 (5.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 218 (4.56%) NIST
6 128 (2.68%) Cyber Essentials
7 122 (2.55%) SLA
8 108 (2.26%) ISO 9001
9 107 (2.24%) Accessibility
10 103 (2.16%) PCI DSS
11 66 (1.38%) GRC
12 61 (1.28%) PMO
13 58 (1.21%) Actionable Recommendations
14 39 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 37 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 36 (0.75%) IFRS
17 32 (0.67%) COBIT
18 28 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
19 25 (0.52%) NCSC
20 23 (0.48%) ITGC
System Software
1 237 (4.96%) Active Directory
2 78 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 75 (1.57%) Docker
4 64 (1.34%) Hyper-V
5 48 (1.01%) Terminal Server
6 26 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.34%) ProxySG
8 12 (0.25%) vSphere
9 10 (0.21%) VMware NSX
10 8 (0.17%) IAG
10 8 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
11 5 (0.10%) Firmware
12 4 (0.084%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.084%) XenApp
13 3 (0.063%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.063%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.042%) DFS Replication
14 2 (0.042%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.042%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.021%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 129 (2.70%) Terraform
2 79 (1.65%) Kubernetes
3 70 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 59 (1.24%) Ansible
5 32 (0.67%) Grafana
6 30 (0.63%) SCCM
7 24 (0.50%) Nagios
7 24 (0.50%) Prometheus
8 22 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (0.29%) QRadar
10 12 (0.25%) Kibana
11 9 (0.19%) Kubeflow
12 6 (0.13%) Control-M
12 6 (0.13%) logstash
12 6 (0.13%) Packer
13 5 (0.10%) CASB
13 5 (0.10%) Graylog
14 4 (0.084%) Docker Swarm
14 4 (0.084%) RSA Archer
14 4 (0.084%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,090 (22.82%) Microsoft
2 204 (4.27%) SAP
3 180 (3.77%) Google
4 175 (3.66%) Oracle
5 152 (3.18%) Salesforce
6 139 (2.91%) VMware
7 110 (2.30%) Databricks
7 110 (2.30%) ServiceNow
8 98 (2.05%) SolarWinds
9 97 (2.03%) Splunk
10 76 (1.59%) Workday
11 73 (1.53%) Cisco
12 59 (1.24%) Veeam
13 52 (1.09%) Dell
13 52 (1.09%) IBM
14 49 (1.03%) Tanium
15 48 (1.01%) Brocade
15 48 (1.01%) Nimble Storage
16 47 (0.98%) Red Hat
17 44 (0.92%) Adobe