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 8 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 9 15
Rank change year-on-year -14 +6 +3
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 6,476 6,231 7,117
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.50% 12.55% 9.71%
As % of the General category 11.91% 18.38% 16.84%
Number of salaries quoted 3,679 2,492 2,713
10th Percentile £31,016 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,375 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,300 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.60% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £70,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £90,000
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 54,372 33,906 42,265
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.18% 68.28% 57.68%
Number of salaries quoted 33,306 17,533 20,947
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,250 £34,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,500 £96,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £43,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.94% -13.00% -0.99%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 5,665 £51,356 +2.71% 9,091
UK excluding London -13 4,403 £47,500 +5.56% 4,661
Work from Home -6 2,176 £55,000 +10.00% 3,580
London -12 1,781 £65,000 - 4,869
North of England -19 1,174 £47,500 +5.56% 1,109
South East -12 998 £48,000 +1.03% 1,188
Midlands -9 767 £45,000 +1.03% 712
North West -15 702 £46,500 +1.14% 594
South West -8 618 £47,500 +5.56% 496
West Midlands -18 391 £47,500 +5.56% 447
East Midlands -4 374 £42,500 +6.47% 265
Yorkshire -10 321 £47,000 +17.50% 401
East of England -13 290 £47,500 +21.79% 466
Northern Ireland +11 224 £43,750 -18.60% 212
Wales -4 207 £45,000 -10.40% 147
North East -21 160 £51,962 +29.91% 121
Scotland -22 148 £50,000 +46.50% 388

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
1 190 (2.93%) SharePoint
2 179 (2.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 111 (1.71%) Confluence
4 43 (0.66%) CMS
5 42 (0.65%) Apache Spark
6 38 (0.59%) Apache
7 37 (0.57%) IIS
8 32 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
9 29 (0.45%) SAS
10 16 (0.25%) WordPress
11 14 (0.22%) Jupyter
12 13 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
13 11 (0.17%) Headless CMS
14 10 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 9 (0.14%) WebLogic
15 9 (0.14%) WebSphere
16 8 (0.12%) OpenStack
17 5 (0.077%) nginx
18 4 (0.062%) Appian
19 3 (0.046%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 771 (11.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 352 (5.44%) Microsoft Office
3 135 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 66 (1.02%) MS Visio
5 56 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
6 45 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
7 19 (0.29%) Simulink
8 17 (0.26%) AutoCAD
9 10 (0.15%) Chatbot
9 10 (0.15%) SOLIDWORKS
10 9 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 7 (0.11%) Adobe XD
11 7 (0.11%) EPLAN
11 7 (0.11%) Photoshop
12 6 (0.093%) Acrobat
12 6 (0.093%) Siemens NX
13 5 (0.077%) InDesign
13 5 (0.077%) Notion
13 5 (0.077%) Revit
14 4 (0.062%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 102 (1.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 59 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
3 34 (0.53%) Dynamics GP
4 32 (0.49%) NetSuite
5 27 (0.42%) Shopify
6 19 (0.29%) Workday HCM
7 15 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
8 13 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
9 11 (0.17%) Magento
9 11 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
9 11 (0.17%) SAP CO
9 11 (0.17%) SAP FI
9 11 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
10 10 (0.15%) Distributed Ledger
10 10 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
10 10 (0.15%) Infor M3
10 10 (0.15%) SAP Business One
11 9 (0.14%) Elite 3E
11 9 (0.14%) Sage 200
11 9 (0.14%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,019 (15.74%) Azure
2 727 (11.23%) Power Platform
3 652 (10.07%) AWS
4 456 (7.04%) Microsoft 365
5 399 (6.16%) SaaS
6 299 (4.62%) GCP
7 228 (3.52%) Entra ID
8 156 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
9 131 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
10 129 (1.99%) Google Ads
11 121 (1.87%) Google Analytics
12 97 (1.50%) GitHub
13 91 (1.41%) Meta Ads
13 91 (1.41%) Serverless
14 81 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
15 76 (1.17%) Amazon S3
16 75 (1.16%) Cloud Computing
17 72 (1.11%) PowerApps
18 70 (1.08%) Power Automate
18 70 (1.08%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 205 (3.17%) DNS
2 160 (2.47%) DHCP
3 143 (2.21%) Firewall
4 130 (2.01%) VPN
5 117 (1.81%) TCP/IP
6 97 (1.50%) Internet
7 79 (1.22%) WAN
8 72 (1.11%) LAN
9 67 (1.03%) Network Security
10 56 (0.86%) Wireless
11 55 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
12 52 (0.80%) VLAN
13 46 (0.71%) Broadband
14 38 (0.59%) HTTP
15 34 (0.53%) SAN
16 29 (0.45%) VoIP
17 26 (0.40%) 5G
17 26 (0.40%) BGP
18 25 (0.39%) SMS
19 23 (0.36%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 655 (10.11%) Power BI
2 208 (3.21%) SQL Server
3 175 (2.70%) Tableau
4 172 (2.66%) Data Warehouse
5 123 (1.90%) Relational Database
6 112 (1.73%) Metadata
7 111 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
8 90 (1.39%) MySQL
9 86 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
10 81 (1.25%) Looker
10 81 (1.25%) Power Query
11 69 (1.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 64 (0.99%) Data Lake
13 54 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 53 (0.82%) Big Data
15 52 (0.80%) NoSQL
16 44 (0.68%) BigQuery
17 39 (0.60%) MongoDB
18 38 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
19 36 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 271 (4.18%) Git
2 265 (4.09%) JIRA
3 59 (0.91%) GitLab
4 55 (0.85%) Jenkins
5 31 (0.48%) Selenium
6 26 (0.40%) Eclipse
7 23 (0.36%) Claude Code
7 23 (0.36%) Rational DOORS
8 22 (0.34%) LabVIEW
9 21 (0.32%) Postman
10 20 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
11 19 (0.29%) Cucumber
12 16 (0.25%) Burp Suite
13 15 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
14 13 (0.20%) Bitbucket
14 13 (0.20%) JMeter
14 13 (0.20%) Metasploit
15 11 (0.17%) Chocolatey
16 9 (0.14%) Cypress.io
16 9 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 3,310 (51.11%) Social Skills
2 2,081 (32.13%) Finance
3 755 (11.66%) Marketing
4 559 (8.63%) Organisational Skills
5 554 (8.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 464 (7.16%) Retail
7 436 (6.73%) Legal
8 434 (6.70%) Public Sector
9 411 (6.35%) Law
9 411 (6.35%) Manufacturing
10 326 (5.03%) Influencing Skills
11 311 (4.80%) Presentation Skills
12 246 (3.80%) Banking
13 215 (3.32%) Aerospace
14 172 (2.66%) Electronics
15 159 (2.46%) Telecoms
16 118 (1.82%) Advertising
17 106 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
18 86 (1.33%) Automotive
19 71 (1.10%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,495 (23.09%) Analyst
2 853 (13.17%) Senior
3 423 (6.53%) Lead
4 314 (4.85%) Developer
5 299 (4.62%) Data Analyst
6 282 (4.35%) Business Analyst
7 258 (3.98%) Senior Analyst
8 245 (3.78%) Consultant
9 236 (3.64%) Support Analyst
10 224 (3.46%) Architect
11 187 (2.89%) Data Engineer
12 153 (2.36%) Systems Engineer
13 125 (1.93%) Support Engineer
14 117 (1.81%) Applications Support
15 116 (1.79%) IT Support
16 112 (1.73%) Administrator
17 110 (1.70%) Marketing Manager
18 107 (1.65%) ITSM Analyst
19 105 (1.62%) Senior Manager
20 103 (1.59%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (2.64%) .NET
2 158 (2.44%) Terraform
3 127 (1.96%) REST
4 115 (1.78%) HTML
5 105 (1.62%) CSS
6 84 (1.30%) RESTful
7 76 (1.17%) JSON
7 76 (1.17%) PySpark
7 76 (1.17%) React
8 69 (1.07%) XML
9 65 (1.00%) Middleware
10 62 (0.96%) Kafka
11 54 (0.83%) SOAP
12 46 (0.71%) LDAP
13 45 (0.69%) Spring Boot
14 44 (0.68%) Spring
15 43 (0.66%) EDI
15 43 (0.66%) Web Services
16 40 (0.62%) ASP.NET
17 37 (0.57%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 482 (7.44%) Management Information System
2 435 (6.72%) Analytical Mindset
3 421 (6.50%) Onboarding
4 329 (5.08%) Self-Motivation
5 285 (4.40%) Product Ownership
6 188 (2.90%) Driving Licence
7 152 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
8 148 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
9 145 (2.24%) Cloud Native
10 135 (2.08%) Social Media
11 119 (1.84%) Blog
12 112 (1.73%) Data Centre
13 110 (1.70%) Cyber Threat
14 105 (1.62%) Marketing Technology
15 97 (1.50%) Security Posture
15 97 (1.50%) Virtual Team
16 90 (1.39%) Data Structures
17 77 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
18 72 (1.11%) AI Agents
19 63 (0.97%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 463 (7.15%) Windows
2 320 (4.94%) Linux
3 223 (3.44%) Windows Server
4 95 (1.47%) Windows Server 2016
5 47 (0.73%) Windows 10
6 37 (0.57%) Mac OS
7 30 (0.46%) Unix
8 27 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
9 26 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 19 (0.29%) Android
10 19 (0.29%) Apple iOS
11 9 (0.14%) CentOS
12 8 (0.12%) Ubuntu
13 6 (0.093%) Debian
13 6 (0.093%) VMS
14 5 (0.077%) OpenVMS
15 4 (0.062%) CoreOS
16 2 (0.031%) AIX
16 2 (0.031%) Rocky
16 2 (0.031%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,178 (49.07%) Problem-Solving
2 1,990 (30.73%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,557 (24.04%) Decision-Making
4 1,348 (20.82%) Stakeholder Management
5 1,261 (19.47%) Analytics
6 1,205 (18.61%) AI
7 1,096 (16.92%) Agile
8 829 (12.80%) Business Intelligence
9 701 (10.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 647 (9.99%) Mentoring
11 617 (9.53%) Validation
12 606 (9.36%) Roadmaps
13 574 (8.86%) Actionable Insight
14 567 (8.76%) Process Improvement
15 553 (8.54%) CRM
15 553 (8.54%) Data Analysis
16 538 (8.31%) Project Management
17 536 (8.28%) Risk Management
18 535 (8.26%) Customer Service
19 526 (8.12%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 1,210 (18.68%) SQL
2 889 (13.73%) Python
3 226 (3.49%) JavaScript
4 205 (3.17%) Java
5 203 (3.13%) C#
6 194 (3.00%) PowerShell
7 121 (1.87%) C++
8 96 (1.48%) Bash
9 90 (1.39%) R
10 80 (1.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 75 (1.16%) TypeScript
12 53 (0.82%) MATLAB
13 52 (0.80%) T-SQL
14 46 (0.71%) Shell Script
15 41 (0.63%) C
16 32 (0.49%) PL/SQL
17 28 (0.43%) Scala
18 26 (0.40%) Go
18 26 (0.40%) Perl
19 25 (0.39%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,367 (21.11%) Degree
2 729 (11.26%) Security Cleared
3 508 (7.84%) SC Cleared
4 246 (3.80%) ACCA
5 233 (3.60%) CIMA
6 176 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 162 (2.50%) DV Cleared
8 139 (2.15%) DBS Check
9 137 (2.12%) CISSP
10 131 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
11 118 (1.82%) Master's Degree
12 108 (1.67%) CISM
13 102 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
14 86 (1.33%) HND
15 81 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
16 78 (1.20%) Azure Certification
17 66 (1.02%) HNC
18 63 (0.97%) CompTIA Security+
19 53 (0.82%) PMI Certification
20 51 (0.79%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 638 (9.85%) Data Quality
2 374 (5.78%) QA
3 309 (4.77%) GDPR
4 211 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 203 (3.13%) Accessibility
6 157 (2.42%) NIST
7 145 (2.24%) Cyber Essentials
8 136 (2.10%) SLA
9 115 (1.78%) PCI DSS
10 69 (1.07%) GRC
11 60 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
12 59 (0.91%) PMO
13 52 (0.80%) ISO 9001
14 39 (0.60%) IFRS
15 32 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 32 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 30 (0.46%) NCSC
17 28 (0.43%) DO-254
18 24 (0.37%) COBIT
18 24 (0.37%) GAAP
System Software
1 375 (5.79%) Active Directory
2 186 (2.87%) Docker
3 110 (1.70%) Hyper-V
4 79 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 72 (1.11%) Terminal Server
6 54 (0.83%) Firmware
7 24 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
8 18 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
9 12 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.12%) vSphere
11 7 (0.11%) Ceph
12 5 (0.077%) VMware NSX
13 4 (0.062%) DFS Replication
13 4 (0.062%) ISA Server
13 4 (0.062%) KVM
13 4 (0.062%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.031%) IAG
14 2 (0.031%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 1 (0.015%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 126 (1.95%) Kubernetes
2 89 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
3 72 (1.11%) Ansible
4 47 (0.73%) Grafana
5 41 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
6 29 (0.45%) Prometheus
7 22 (0.34%) SCCM
8 21 (0.32%) QRadar
9 19 (0.29%) Kibana
10 13 (0.20%) Nagios
10 13 (0.20%) Nmap
11 11 (0.17%) Podman
12 10 (0.15%) Functional Safety
13 9 (0.14%) Argo
14 7 (0.11%) Check_MK
14 7 (0.11%) EnCase
14 7 (0.11%) FortiGate
14 7 (0.11%) FTK
14 7 (0.11%) Istio
15 6 (0.093%) logstash
Vendors
1 1,572 (24.27%) Microsoft
2 405 (6.25%) Google
3 243 (3.75%) SAP
4 201 (3.10%) Oracle
5 172 (2.66%) VMware
6 158 (2.44%) Salesforce
7 156 (2.41%) Splunk
8 142 (2.19%) ServiceNow
9 127 (1.96%) Databricks
10 99 (1.53%) SolarWinds
11 92 (1.42%) Cisco
12 80 (1.24%) Veeam
13 73 (1.13%) Brocade
13 73 (1.13%) Nimble Storage
13 73 (1.13%) Tanium
14 71 (1.10%) YouTube
15 69 (1.07%) Adobe
15 69 (1.07%) HubSpot
16 56 (0.86%) Workday
17 53 (0.82%) TikTok