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 19 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 8 14
Rank change year-on-year -18 +6 +7
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,859 6,053 9,936
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.18% 13.50% 9.12%
As % of the General category 10.97% 18.56% 16.00%
Number of salaries quoted 3,152 2,429 5,433
10th Percentile £32,611 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,735 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,885 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -2.23% +11.11% -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 44,305 32,615 62,108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 47.19% 72.72% 57.01%
Number of salaries quoted 27,175 15,975 41,170
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £77,424 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £97,564 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £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 19 June 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 19 June 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 4,427 £55,000 - 1,921
UK excluding London -20 3,060 £48,885 -2.23% 1,518
London -12 1,528 £67,500 +3.85% 769
Work from Home -11 1,500 £55,000 - 896
North of England -19 948 £48,000 +1.05% 344
South East -7 766 £50,000 -9.09% 529
Midlands -9 560 £48,750 +2.63% 256
North West -17 556 £46,500 -7.00% 197
South West -25 331 £48,750 -2.50% 170
West Midlands -13 312 £51,250 +7.89% 140
Yorkshire -15 295 £50,000 +11.11% 99
East Midlands +1 247 £45,000 -5.26% 116
East of England -18 234 £45,050 -3.82% 125
Scotland -19 110 £40,000 -20.71% 70
North East -26 97 £52,500 +35.31% 57
Wales -7 83 £53,171 -3.33% 32
Northern Ireland -21 39 £40,000 -27.27% 51

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
1 171 (3.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 116 (2.39%) SharePoint
3 75 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
4 70 (1.44%) Apache Spark
4 70 (1.44%) Confluence
5 43 (0.88%) Apache
6 38 (0.78%) CMS
7 22 (0.45%) IIS
8 20 (0.41%) SAS
9 16 (0.33%) WordPress
10 14 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 13 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
12 6 (0.12%) Jupyter
13 5 (0.10%) WebLogic
13 5 (0.10%) WebSphere
14 3 (0.062%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.062%) govService
14 3 (0.062%) JBoss
14 3 (0.062%) nginx
14 3 (0.062%) Tomcat
Applications
1 532 (10.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 185 (3.81%) Microsoft Office
3 99 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 85 (1.75%) MS Visio
5 34 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
6 29 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
7 9 (0.19%) CATIA
8 8 (0.16%) Adobe XD
9 6 (0.12%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.10%) Acrobat
11 4 (0.082%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.082%) Maya
12 3 (0.062%) Blender
12 3 (0.062%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.062%) Trello
13 2 (0.041%) AutoCAD
13 2 (0.041%) Lectora
13 2 (0.041%) Siemens NX
13 2 (0.041%) Simulink
13 2 (0.041%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 70 (1.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 33 (0.68%) NetSuite
4 32 (0.66%) Salesforce CRM
5 17 (0.35%) SAP CO
6 16 (0.33%) SAP PM
7 15 (0.31%) SAP ERP
8 14 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
9 11 (0.23%) Maximo
9 11 (0.23%) SAP FI
10 10 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
11 9 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
11 9 (0.19%) Workday HCM
12 8 (0.16%) Fidessa
13 7 (0.14%) Elite 3E
14 6 (0.12%) Endur
14 6 (0.12%) Magento
14 6 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
14 6 (0.12%) SAP PP
14 6 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 879 (18.09%) Azure
2 642 (13.21%) Power Platform
3 477 (9.82%) AWS
4 371 (7.64%) Microsoft 365
5 302 (6.22%) SaaS
6 204 (4.20%) GCP
7 125 (2.57%) Dynamics 365
8 114 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
9 113 (2.33%) Entra ID
10 81 (1.67%) Google Analytics
11 79 (1.63%) GitHub
12 76 (1.56%) Power Automate
13 75 (1.54%) Microsoft Purview
14 72 (1.48%) Amazon S3
14 72 (1.48%) Snowflake
15 69 (1.42%) dbt
16 65 (1.34%) Serverless
17 64 (1.32%) PowerApps
18 53 (1.09%) Azure Data Factory
19 49 (1.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 197 (4.05%) Firewall
2 176 (3.62%) DNS
3 135 (2.78%) DHCP
4 119 (2.45%) VPN
5 83 (1.71%) WAN
6 78 (1.61%) TCP/IP
7 75 (1.54%) Broadband
7 75 (1.54%) LAN
8 63 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
9 52 (1.07%) Wireless
10 51 (1.05%) VLAN
11 44 (0.91%) Network Security
12 42 (0.86%) SAN
13 34 (0.70%) BGP
14 33 (0.68%) HTTP
15 30 (0.62%) Internet
16 28 (0.58%) Cisco ASA
17 26 (0.54%) SD-WAN
18 25 (0.51%) OSPF
18 25 (0.51%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 573 (11.79%) Power BI
2 299 (6.15%) Tableau
3 185 (3.81%) SQL Server
4 160 (3.29%) Data Warehouse
5 105 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
6 89 (1.83%) Metadata
7 82 (1.69%) Data Mining
8 71 (1.46%) Relational Database
9 69 (1.42%) Data Lake
10 60 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
11 59 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
12 58 (1.19%) Looker
13 57 (1.17%) Power Query
13 57 (1.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 51 (1.05%) MySQL
15 46 (0.95%) BigQuery
16 45 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 39 (0.80%) Big Data
18 36 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
19 35 (0.72%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 163 (3.35%) JIRA
2 140 (2.88%) Git
3 52 (1.07%) GitLab
4 33 (0.68%) Rational DOORS
5 30 (0.62%) Jenkins
5 30 (0.62%) MLflow
6 19 (0.39%) Selenium
7 18 (0.37%) Chocolatey
8 16 (0.33%) Cucumber
9 15 (0.31%) ERwin
10 13 (0.27%) IBM UrbanCode
10 13 (0.27%) Postman
11 12 (0.25%) Cypress.io
11 12 (0.25%) Visual Studio
12 11 (0.23%) Eclipse
12 11 (0.23%) SonarQube
13 9 (0.19%) Bitbucket
13 9 (0.19%) JMeter
13 9 (0.19%) Oracle APEX
14 8 (0.16%) Balsamiq
General
1 2,246 (46.22%) Social Skills
2 1,672 (34.41%) Finance
3 420 (8.64%) Marketing
4 360 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 291 (5.99%) Organisational Skills
6 287 (5.91%) Public Sector
7 270 (5.56%) Law
8 267 (5.49%) Legal
9 265 (5.45%) Retail
10 242 (4.98%) Banking
11 178 (3.66%) Manufacturing
12 174 (3.58%) Influencing Skills
13 130 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
14 116 (2.39%) Telecoms
15 89 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
16 88 (1.81%) Advertising
17 80 (1.65%) Aerospace
18 77 (1.58%) Financial Institution
19 72 (1.48%) Electronics
20 53 (1.09%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1,252 (25.77%) Analyst
2 625 (12.86%) Senior
3 341 (7.02%) Lead
4 310 (6.38%) Data Analyst
5 277 (5.70%) Business Analyst
6 240 (4.94%) Developer
7 212 (4.36%) Consultant
8 207 (4.26%) Architect
9 190 (3.91%) Systems Engineer
10 145 (2.98%) Senior Analyst
11 125 (2.57%) Data Engineer
12 116 (2.39%) Support Analyst
13 114 (2.35%) IT Manager
14 107 (2.20%) Support Engineer
15 106 (2.18%) IT Support
16 105 (2.16%) Senior Manager
17 101 (2.08%) Systems Analyst
18 96 (1.98%) Financial Analyst
19 94 (1.93%) Security Analyst
20 84 (1.73%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (2.53%) HTML
2 112 (2.31%) CSS
3 107 (2.20%) .NET
4 99 (2.04%) REST
5 89 (1.83%) JSON
6 88 (1.81%) Middleware
7 84 (1.73%) React
8 79 (1.63%) XML
9 69 (1.42%) PyTorch
10 63 (1.30%) TensorFlow
11 51 (1.05%) Kafka
11 51 (1.05%) Node.js
12 49 (1.01%) SOAP
13 43 (0.88%) RESTful
14 42 (0.86%) scikit-learn
15 40 (0.82%) PySpark
16 36 (0.74%) Web Services
17 33 (0.68%) Pandas
18 32 (0.66%) LangChain
19 29 (0.60%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 519 (10.68%) Analytical Mindset
2 239 (4.92%) Management Information System
3 206 (4.24%) Onboarding
4 194 (3.99%) Product Ownership
5 186 (3.83%) Self-Motivation
6 137 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
7 104 (2.14%) Data Centre
8 96 (1.98%) Cloud Native
8 96 (1.98%) Security Posture
9 86 (1.77%) Data Structures
10 80 (1.65%) Algorithms
11 79 (1.63%) Driving Licence
12 78 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
13 61 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
14 58 (1.19%) Social Media
15 56 (1.15%) Public Cloud
16 54 (1.11%) Virtual Team
17 46 (0.95%) Cyber Defence
18 45 (0.93%) FMCG
19 43 (0.88%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 380 (7.82%) Windows
2 241 (4.96%) Linux
3 193 (3.97%) Windows Server
4 95 (1.96%) Windows Server 2016
5 34 (0.70%) Unix
6 27 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 26 (0.54%) Windows 10
8 17 (0.35%) Mac OS
8 17 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
9 16 (0.33%) Android
10 14 (0.29%) Apple iOS
11 11 (0.23%) CentOS
11 11 (0.23%) Ubuntu
12 8 (0.16%) VMS
13 4 (0.082%) AIX
13 4 (0.082%) Debian
13 4 (0.082%) OpenVMS
13 4 (0.082%) Rocky
13 4 (0.082%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.021%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,185 (44.97%) Problem-Solving
2 1,193 (24.55%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,063 (21.88%) Analytics
3 1,063 (21.88%) Decision-Making
4 838 (17.25%) Agile
5 653 (13.44%) Business Intelligence
6 637 (13.11%) AI
7 634 (13.05%) Stakeholder Management
8 505 (10.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 488 (10.04%) Roadmaps
10 475 (9.78%) Actionable Insight
10 475 (9.78%) Mentoring
11 466 (9.59%) Project Management
12 446 (9.18%) Cybersecurity
13 444 (9.14%) Data Modelling
14 440 (9.06%) Data Analysis
15 404 (8.31%) Data Governance
16 397 (8.17%) Process Improvement
17 367 (7.55%) Analytical Thinking
18 358 (7.37%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1,026 (21.12%) SQL
2 866 (17.82%) Python
3 174 (3.58%) JavaScript
4 168 (3.46%) PowerShell
5 166 (3.42%) Java
6 145 (2.98%) C#
7 80 (1.65%) R
8 71 (1.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 68 (1.40%) Bash
9 68 (1.40%) C++
10 48 (0.99%) TypeScript
11 47 (0.97%) T-SQL
12 39 (0.80%) MATLAB
13 34 (0.70%) VBA
14 22 (0.45%) Go
14 22 (0.45%) PHP
15 18 (0.37%) Julia
15 18 (0.37%) Scala
16 17 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
16 17 (0.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 888 (18.28%) Degree
2 444 (9.14%) Security Cleared
3 325 (6.69%) SC Cleared
4 256 (5.27%) ACCA
5 241 (4.96%) CIMA
6 154 (3.17%) DBS Check
7 153 (3.15%) CISSP
8 146 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 114 (2.35%) Cisco Certification
10 108 (2.22%) CISM
11 89 (1.83%) Master's Degree
12 86 (1.77%) DV Cleared
13 81 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
14 72 (1.48%) Azure Certification
14 72 (1.48%) IRCA
15 71 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
16 67 (1.38%) CompTIA Security+
17 60 (1.23%) PMI Certification
18 54 (1.11%) PMP
19 48 (0.99%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 460 (9.47%) Data Quality
2 382 (7.86%) GDPR
3 319 (6.57%) QA
4 263 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 224 (4.61%) NIST
6 170 (3.50%) Cyber Essentials
7 141 (2.90%) SLA
8 138 (2.84%) PCI DSS
9 129 (2.65%) Accessibility
10 118 (2.43%) ISO 9001
11 72 (1.48%) GRC
12 57 (1.17%) PMO
13 51 (1.05%) Actionable Recommendations
14 44 (0.91%) IFRS
15 40 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 39 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 33 (0.68%) COBIT
18 28 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
19 24 (0.49%) ITGC
19 24 (0.49%) NCSC
System Software
1 278 (5.72%) Active Directory
2 97 (2.00%) Hyper-V
3 86 (1.77%) Docker
4 80 (1.65%) Terminal Server
5 76 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
6 26 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (0.25%) ProxySG
7 12 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
7 12 (0.25%) vSphere
8 8 (0.16%) IAG
8 8 (0.16%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.082%) Firmware
9 4 (0.082%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 4 (0.082%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.082%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.082%) XenApp
10 3 (0.062%) DFS Replication
11 2 (0.041%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.041%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.021%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 129 (2.65%) Terraform
2 80 (1.65%) Kubernetes
3 64 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
4 59 (1.21%) Ansible
5 36 (0.74%) Grafana
6 27 (0.56%) SCCM
7 24 (0.49%) Prometheus
8 21 (0.43%) Nagios
9 16 (0.33%) QRadar
10 15 (0.31%) Kibana
10 15 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
11 12 (0.25%) Kubeflow
12 9 (0.19%) Control-M
13 7 (0.14%) logstash
13 7 (0.14%) Packer
14 6 (0.12%) Graylog
15 5 (0.10%) Docker Swarm
15 5 (0.10%) Podman
16 4 (0.082%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 4 (0.082%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,087 (22.37%) Microsoft
2 206 (4.24%) SAP
3 190 (3.91%) Google
4 166 (3.42%) Oracle
4 166 (3.42%) VMware
5 151 (3.11%) Salesforce
6 134 (2.76%) Splunk
7 126 (2.59%) SolarWinds
8 112 (2.31%) Databricks
9 93 (1.91%) Veeam
10 84 (1.73%) ServiceNow
11 81 (1.67%) Nimble Storage
12 80 (1.65%) Brocade
12 80 (1.65%) Tanium
13 74 (1.52%) Workday
14 71 (1.46%) Cisco
15 50 (1.03%) IBM
16 49 (1.01%) Red Hat
17 46 (0.95%) Adobe
18 44 (0.91%) HubSpot