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

6 months to
3 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 5,902 6,055 7,721
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.36% 12.17% 9.54%
As % of the General category 11.67% 17.86% 16.80%
Number of salaries quoted 3,589 2,591 3,354
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £40,765
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 50,557 33,894 45,955
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 45.92% 68.12% 56.78%
Number of salaries quoted 31,117 17,880 25,664
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,284 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% -1.30% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,026 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,250 £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 3 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 3 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 5,276 £52,500 - 7,667
UK excluding London -16 3,864 £47,500 +5.56% 4,078
Work from Home -8 1,948 £55,000 +10.00% 3,141
London -11 1,763 £67,500 +3.85% 4,580
North of England -19 1,069 £47,500 +6.74% 907
South East -7 922 £49,536 -5.65% 1,085
Midlands -8 666 £47,500 +5.56% 541
North West -15 658 £46,500 +3.33% 554
South West -10 547 £48,938 +8.75% 567
West Midlands -16 345 £48,750 +8.33% 316
East Midlands -5 318 £45,483 +1.07% 225
Yorkshire -13 283 £47,250 +18.13% 270
East of England -17 248 £47,750 +6.11% 383
Wales -12 169 £47,500 -5.58% 80
Scotland -21 132 £44,000 +10.00% 381
North East -16 128 £50,500 +23.17% 92
Northern Ireland -14 117 £42,500 -22.73% 197

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
2 179 (3.03%) SharePoint
3 102 (1.73%) Confluence
4 47 (0.80%) Apache Spark
5 45 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
6 41 (0.69%) CMS
7 37 (0.63%) 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%) 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
1 625 (10.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 257 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
3 118 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 71 (1.20%) MS Visio
5 45 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
6 30 (0.51%) 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%) 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 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 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
1 985 (16.69%) Azure
2 697 (11.81%) Power Platform
3 610 (10.34%) AWS
4 426 (7.22%) Microsoft 365
5 382 (6.47%) SaaS
6 277 (4.69%) GCP
7 152 (2.58%) Entra ID
8 151 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
9 147 (2.49%) Dynamics 365
10 120 (2.03%) Google Analytics
11 102 (1.73%) GitHub
12 91 (1.54%) Snowflake
13 89 (1.51%) Google Ads
14 80 (1.36%) dbt
14 80 (1.36%) 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
1 206 (3.49%) DNS
2 163 (2.76%) DHCP
3 153 (2.59%) Firewall
4 132 (2.24%) VPN
5 100 (1.69%) TCP/IP
6 77 (1.30%) WAN
7 74 (1.25%) LAN
8 66 (1.12%) 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 39 (0.66%) SAN
15 34 (0.58%) 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 (10.45%) Power BI
2 226 (3.83%) Tableau
3 217 (3.68%) SQL Server
4 185 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
5 119 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
6 104 (1.76%) Relational Database
7 94 (1.59%) Metadata
8 92 (1.56%) Looker
9 83 (1.41%) MySQL
10 72 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
11 70 (1.19%) 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 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
18 36 (0.61%) MongoDB
19 34 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 257 (4.35%) JIRA
2 203 (3.44%) Git
3 50 (0.85%) Jenkins
4 49 (0.83%) GitLab
5 31 (0.53%) Rational DOORS
6 29 (0.49%) Selenium
7 23 (0.39%) Cucumber
7 23 (0.39%) MLflow
8 22 (0.37%) Eclipse
9 20 (0.34%) Postman
10 18 (0.30%) Claude Code
11 16 (0.27%) Chocolatey
12 15 (0.25%) Bitbucket
12 15 (0.25%) Oracle Forms
13 14 (0.24%) JMeter
13 14 (0.24%) LabVIEW
14 13 (0.22%) Burp Suite
15 12 (0.20%) Cypress.io
15 12 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
16 11 (0.19%) ERwin
General
1 2,872 (48.66%) Social Skills
2 1,918 (32.50%) Finance
3 633 (10.73%) Marketing
4 528 (8.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 441 (7.47%) Organisational Skills
6 401 (6.79%) Retail
7 400 (6.78%) Law
8 373 (6.32%) Public Sector
9 354 (6.00%) Legal
10 300 (5.08%) Influencing Skills
11 293 (4.96%) Manufacturing
12 244 (4.13%) Banking
13 199 (3.37%) Presentation Skills
14 179 (3.03%) Aerospace
15 131 (2.22%) Telecoms
16 122 (2.07%) Electronics
17 106 (1.80%) Advertising
18 91 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
19 71 (1.20%) Financial Institution
20 66 (1.12%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,356 (22.98%) Analyst
2 758 (12.84%) Senior
3 411 (6.96%) Lead
4 302 (5.12%) Data Analyst
5 291 (4.93%) Business Analyst
6 282 (4.78%) Developer
7 229 (3.88%) Architect
7 229 (3.88%) Consultant
8 200 (3.39%) Senior Analyst
8 200 (3.39%) Systems Engineer
9 178 (3.02%) Support Analyst
10 177 (3.00%) Data Engineer
11 128 (2.17%) Support Engineer
12 116 (1.97%) IT Support
13 113 (1.91%) IT Manager
14 107 (1.81%) Security Analyst
14 107 (1.81%) Senior Manager
15 101 (1.71%) Applications Support
16 97 (1.64%) Systems Analyst
17 95 (1.61%) Marketing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (2.73%) .NET
2 144 (2.44%) Terraform
3 126 (2.13%) REST
4 125 (2.12%) HTML
5 116 (1.97%) CSS
6 87 (1.47%) JSON
7 78 (1.32%) Middleware
7 78 (1.32%) XML
8 74 (1.25%) RESTful
9 69 (1.17%) Kafka
10 67 (1.14%) React
11 60 (1.02%) SOAP
12 58 (0.98%) PyTorch
13 55 (0.93%) PySpark
14 51 (0.86%) TensorFlow
15 46 (0.78%) EDI
15 46 (0.78%) Web Services
16 43 (0.73%) LDAP
17 39 (0.66%) ASP.NET
18 38 (0.64%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 490 (8.30%) Analytical Mindset
2 363 (6.15%) Management Information System
3 358 (6.07%) Onboarding
4 289 (4.90%) Product Ownership
5 288 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
6 163 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
7 138 (2.34%) Driving Licence
8 136 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
9 132 (2.24%) Cloud Native
10 119 (2.02%) Blog
11 115 (1.95%) Social Media
12 105 (1.78%) Cyber Threat
13 104 (1.76%) Marketing Technology
14 103 (1.75%) Security Posture
15 101 (1.71%) Data Centre
16 95 (1.61%) Virtual Team
17 85 (1.44%) Data Structures
18 71 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
19 67 (1.14%) Algorithms
20 52 (0.88%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 464 (7.86%) Windows
2 285 (4.83%) Linux
3 224 (3.80%) Windows Server
4 99 (1.68%) 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 22 (0.37%) 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 2,854 (48.36%) Problem-Solving
2 1,712 (29.01%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,386 (23.48%) Decision-Making
4 1,250 (21.18%) Analytics
5 1,089 (18.45%) Stakeholder Management
6 1,061 (17.98%) Agile
7 1,049 (17.77%) AI
8 763 (12.93%) Business Intelligence
9 635 (10.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 608 (10.30%) Roadmaps
11 580 (9.83%) Mentoring
12 567 (9.61%) Actionable Insight
13 524 (8.88%) Project Management
14 514 (8.71%) Validation
15 503 (8.52%) Data Analysis
16 496 (8.40%) Cybersecurity
17 473 (8.01%) Data Modelling
18 467 (7.91%) Process Improvement
19 456 (7.73%) CRM
20 455 (7.71%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1,158 (19.62%) SQL
2 864 (14.64%) Python
3 229 (3.88%) JavaScript
4 207 (3.51%) Java
5 193 (3.27%) C#
6 189 (3.20%) PowerShell
7 111 (1.88%) C++
8 88 (1.49%) Bash
9 79 (1.34%) R
10 75 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 69 (1.17%) TypeScript
12 49 (0.83%) MATLAB
13 48 (0.81%) T-SQL
14 34 (0.58%) C
15 29 (0.49%) Scala
16 27 (0.46%) PHP
17 25 (0.42%) PL/SQL
18 20 (0.34%) Perl
18 20 (0.34%) VB.NET
19 19 (0.32%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,166 (19.76%) Degree
2 664 (11.25%) Security Cleared
3 460 (7.79%) SC Cleared
4 232 (3.93%) ACCA
5 217 (3.68%) CIMA
6 176 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 166 (2.81%) CISSP
8 161 (2.73%) DV Cleared
9 140 (2.37%) DBS Check
10 128 (2.17%) CISM
11 118 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
12 115 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
13 97 (1.64%) Master's Degree
14 80 (1.36%) Azure Certification
15 75 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
16 71 (1.20%) CompTIA Security+
17 64 (1.08%) PMI Certification
18 52 (0.88%) HND
19 50 (0.85%) CRISC
20 46 (0.78%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 571 (9.67%) Data Quality
2 389 (6.59%) QA
3 358 (6.07%) GDPR
4 247 (4.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 196 (3.32%) NIST
6 174 (2.95%) Accessibility
7 158 (2.68%) Cyber Essentials
8 148 (2.51%) SLA
9 128 (2.17%) PCI DSS
10 98 (1.66%) ISO 9001
11 69 (1.17%) 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 33 (0.56%) COBIT
17 29 (0.49%) NCSC
18 26 (0.44%) DO-254
19 24 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 336 (5.69%) Active Directory
2 133 (2.25%) Docker
3 107 (1.81%) Hyper-V
4 90 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 80 (1.36%) Terminal Server
6 34 (0.58%) Firmware
7 23 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
8 21 (0.36%) 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 86 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
3 76 (1.29%) Ansible
4 40 (0.68%) Grafana
5 39 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
6 26 (0.44%) SCCM
7 21 (0.36%) Prometheus
8 19 (0.32%) 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 1,312 (22.23%) Microsoft
2 323 (5.47%) Google
3 234 (3.96%) SAP
4 187 (3.17%) Oracle
5 185 (3.13%) VMware
6 152 (2.58%) Splunk
7 137 (2.32%) Databricks
8 136 (2.30%) ServiceNow
9 129 (2.19%) 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 (1.36%) Tanium
15 70 (1.19%) Workday
16 65 (1.10%) Adobe
17 56 (0.95%) HubSpot
17 56 (0.95%) YouTube
18 41 (0.69%) Dynatrace