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 21 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 9 15
Rank change year-on-year -16 +6 +4
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,889 5,710 9,250
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.57% 13.65% 9.79%
As % of the General category 10.82% 19.24% 16.20%
Number of salaries quoted 2,918 2,501 5,424
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,750 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £92,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £50,445 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.86% +12.10% -2.91%

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 45,184 29,681 57,092
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 51.51% 70.95% 60.43%
Number of salaries quoted 24,210 15,950 39,242
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,500 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +11.43% -12.50%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +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 21 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Top 18 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 21 April 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 -19 4,350 £54,500 -0.91% 2,292
UK excluding London -26 3,038 £48,500 -3.86% 1,762
London -8 1,538 £67,500 +3.85% 888
Work from Home -8 1,430 £55,000 - 1,017
North of England -31 850 £45,497 -9.01% 410
South East -4 794 £50,000 -4.76% 529
Midlands -25 576 £48,000 - 336
North West -25 479 £45,000 -10.00% 233
West Midlands -25 347 £51,300 +6.88% 201
Yorkshire -13 279 £51,000 +13.33% 126
South West -24 268 £48,750 -4.34% 183
East of England -37 257 £42,879 -15.87% 172
East Midlands -12 227 £45,000 - 134
Scotland -19 169 £40,000 -23.81% 67
North East -20 92 £48,445 +25.83% 56
Wales +3 85 £42,500 -15.21% 56
Northern Ireland -24 50 £40,000 -27.27% 44
Isle of Man -2 1 £62,500 +68.92%

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
1 149 (3.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 96 (1.96%) SharePoint
3 74 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
3 74 (1.51%) Apache Spark
3 74 (1.51%) Confluence
4 50 (1.02%) CMS
5 35 (0.72%) Apache
6 20 (0.41%) WordPress
7 18 (0.37%) IIS
8 12 (0.25%) SAS
9 11 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.12%) nginx
11 4 (0.082%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.082%) Drupal
12 3 (0.061%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.061%) govService
12 3 (0.061%) JBoss
13 2 (0.041%) MTS
13 2 (0.041%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.041%) Umbraco
Applications
1 651 (13.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 279 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
3 101 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 98 (2.00%) MS Visio
5 32 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
6 30 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
7 24 (0.49%) Chatbot
8 15 (0.31%) Adobe XD
9 12 (0.25%) Maya
10 10 (0.20%) CATIA
11 5 (0.10%) AutoCAD
12 4 (0.082%) Trello
13 3 (0.061%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 3 (0.061%) Photoshop
14 2 (0.041%) Simulink
14 2 (0.041%) Sketch
15 1 (0.020%) Lectora
15 1 (0.020%) Notion
15 1 (0.020%) SmartSuite
15 1 (0.020%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 66 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 41 (0.84%) NetSuite
3 40 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
4 35 (0.72%) Salesforce CRM
5 23 (0.47%) SAP CO
6 15 (0.31%) SAP ERP
6 15 (0.31%) SAP FI
6 15 (0.31%) SAP PM
6 15 (0.31%) Workday HCM
7 14 (0.29%) Endur
7 14 (0.29%) Maximo
8 13 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
9 11 (0.22%) Sage X3
10 10 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
11 9 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
12 8 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
12 8 (0.16%) Elite 3E
12 8 (0.16%) SAP PP
13 7 (0.14%) Magento
13 7 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 877 (17.94%) Azure
2 673 (13.77%) Power Platform
3 474 (9.70%) AWS
4 337 (6.89%) Microsoft 365
5 268 (5.48%) SaaS
6 210 (4.30%) GCP
7 148 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
7 148 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
8 109 (2.23%) GitHub
9 105 (2.15%) Entra ID
10 100 (2.05%) Power Automate
11 95 (1.94%) Snowflake
12 90 (1.84%) dbt
13 78 (1.60%) Azure Data Factory
14 72 (1.47%) Google Analytics
15 70 (1.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 67 (1.37%) Amazon S3
17 61 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
18 60 (1.23%) Serverless
19 59 (1.21%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 184 (3.76%) Firewall
2 155 (3.17%) DNS
3 126 (2.58%) DHCP
4 118 (2.41%) VPN
5 80 (1.64%) WAN
6 68 (1.39%) TCP/IP
7 67 (1.37%) Wireless
8 66 (1.35%) LAN
9 61 (1.25%) VLAN
9 61 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
10 50 (1.02%) Network Security
11 46 (0.94%) SAN
12 45 (0.92%) Broadband
13 39 (0.80%) BGP
14 33 (0.67%) OSPF
14 33 (0.67%) Wireshark
15 29 (0.59%) EIGRP
16 28 (0.57%) Cisco ASA
17 26 (0.53%) SD-WAN
18 23 (0.47%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 609 (12.46%) Power BI
2 397 (8.12%) Tableau
3 221 (4.52%) SQL Server
4 172 (3.52%) Data Mining
5 171 (3.50%) Data Warehouse
6 96 (1.96%) Metadata
7 91 (1.86%) Relational Database
8 82 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
9 79 (1.62%) Data Lake
10 74 (1.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 67 (1.37%) Looker
12 62 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
13 54 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
14 51 (1.04%) MySQL
15 48 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
16 47 (0.96%) Power Query
17 46 (0.94%) BigQuery
17 46 (0.94%) NoSQL
18 39 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 38 (0.78%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 185 (3.78%) JIRA
2 130 (2.66%) Git
3 47 (0.96%) GitLab
4 38 (0.78%) Jenkins
5 32 (0.65%) MLflow
6 29 (0.59%) Selenium
7 23 (0.47%) Rational DOORS
8 18 (0.37%) Chocolatey
9 17 (0.35%) Visual Studio
10 16 (0.33%) Balsamiq
11 15 (0.31%) Bitbucket
12 14 (0.29%) Axure RP
12 14 (0.29%) ERwin
12 14 (0.29%) Subversion
13 13 (0.27%) Cucumber
13 13 (0.27%) IBM UrbanCode
14 10 (0.20%) Cypress.io
14 10 (0.20%) Postman
14 10 (0.20%) SonarQube
15 8 (0.16%) Maven
General
1 2,401 (49.11%) Social Skills
2 1,817 (37.17%) Finance
3 437 (8.94%) Marketing
4 355 (7.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 294 (6.01%) Banking
6 269 (5.50%) Law
7 264 (5.40%) Organisational Skills
8 260 (5.32%) Retail
9 258 (5.28%) Legal
10 251 (5.13%) Public Sector
11 199 (4.07%) Presentation Skills
12 173 (3.54%) Manufacturing
13 128 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
14 116 (2.37%) Telecoms
15 107 (2.19%) Financial Institution
16 84 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
17 74 (1.51%) Advertising
18 67 (1.37%) Electronics
19 62 (1.27%) Games
20 58 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1,314 (26.88%) Analyst
2 670 (13.70%) Senior
3 364 (7.45%) Data Analyst
4 306 (6.26%) Lead
5 282 (5.77%) Business Analyst
6 245 (5.01%) Developer
7 223 (4.56%) Architect
8 207 (4.23%) Consultant
9 161 (3.29%) Support Analyst
10 160 (3.27%) Trainee
11 150 (3.07%) Systems Engineer
12 148 (3.03%) Trainee Analyst
12 148 (3.03%) Trainee Data Analyst
13 141 (2.88%) Senior Manager
14 136 (2.78%) Senior Analyst
15 120 (2.45%) IT Support
16 119 (2.43%) Financial Analyst
17 107 (2.19%) Data Engineer
18 103 (2.11%) Support Engineer
19 98 (2.00%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (2.97%) HTML
2 132 (2.70%) CSS
3 92 (1.88%) .NET
4 83 (1.70%) React
4 83 (1.70%) REST
5 77 (1.57%) JSON
6 74 (1.51%) Middleware
7 64 (1.31%) XML
8 57 (1.17%) PyTorch
9 53 (1.08%) Kafka
9 53 (1.08%) TensorFlow
10 47 (0.96%) Node.js
11 45 (0.92%) SOAP
12 42 (0.86%) scikit-learn
13 36 (0.74%) PySpark
14 33 (0.67%) LangChain
14 33 (0.67%) Pandas
15 30 (0.61%) EDI
16 29 (0.59%) FIX Protocol
16 29 (0.59%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 525 (10.74%) Analytical Mindset
2 268 (5.48%) Self-Motivation
3 238 (4.87%) Management Information System
4 229 (4.68%) Onboarding
5 208 (4.25%) Product Ownership
6 109 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
7 100 (2.05%) Data Centre
8 98 (2.00%) Cloud Native
9 89 (1.82%) Data Structures
10 80 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
11 78 (1.60%) Security Posture
12 74 (1.51%) Algorithms
13 63 (1.29%) Driving Licence
14 57 (1.17%) Social Media
15 54 (1.10%) Virtual Team
16 49 (1.00%) Public Cloud
17 47 (0.96%) Low-Code
18 46 (0.94%) FMCG
19 45 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
20 42 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 362 (7.40%) Windows
2 208 (4.25%) Linux
3 158 (3.23%) Windows Server
4 70 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
5 34 (0.70%) Unix
6 24 (0.49%) Mac OS
7 22 (0.45%) Windows 10
8 21 (0.43%) Android
9 16 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 15 (0.31%) Apple iOS
11 7 (0.14%) CentOS
12 5 (0.10%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.10%) VMS
13 4 (0.082%) AIX
13 4 (0.082%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.041%) Data ONTAP
14 2 (0.041%) Debian
14 2 (0.041%) OpenWrt
14 2 (0.041%) Oracle Linux
14 2 (0.041%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,212 (45.24%) Problem-Solving
2 1,189 (24.32%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,128 (23.07%) Analytics
4 1,027 (21.01%) Decision-Making
5 863 (17.65%) Agile
6 745 (15.24%) Business Intelligence
7 721 (14.75%) AI
8 626 (12.80%) Stakeholder Management
9 625 (12.78%) Project Management
10 549 (11.23%) Data Analysis
11 481 (9.84%) Actionable Insight
12 443 (9.06%) Mentoring
13 434 (8.88%) Data Modelling
14 427 (8.73%) Analytical Thinking
15 421 (8.61%) Roadmaps
16 413 (8.45%) Process Improvement
17 409 (8.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 400 (8.18%) Cybersecurity
19 384 (7.85%) DevOps
20 364 (7.45%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1,052 (21.52%) SQL
2 867 (17.73%) Python
3 183 (3.74%) JavaScript
4 173 (3.54%) Java
5 166 (3.40%) PowerShell
6 119 (2.43%) C#
7 91 (1.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 60 (1.23%) R
9 56 (1.15%) Bash
10 46 (0.94%) T-SQL
11 45 (0.92%) C++
11 45 (0.92%) TypeScript
12 42 (0.86%) VBA
13 26 (0.53%) MATLAB
14 23 (0.47%) Scala
15 20 (0.41%) Go
16 17 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
17 15 (0.31%) C
17 15 (0.31%) PHP
17 15 (0.31%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1,032 (21.11%) Degree
2 387 (7.92%) Security Cleared
3 278 (5.69%) SC Cleared
4 248 (5.07%) ACCA
5 238 (4.87%) CIMA
6 176 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 153 (3.13%) CISSP
8 143 (2.92%) Master's Degree
9 136 (2.78%) DBS Check
10 104 (2.13%) PMI Certification
11 97 (1.98%) CISM
12 96 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
13 91 (1.86%) PMP
14 83 (1.70%) DV Cleared
15 74 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
16 72 (1.47%) IRCA
17 65 (1.33%) Azure Certification
18 62 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
19 56 (1.15%) CISA
20 51 (1.04%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 427 (8.73%) Data Quality
2 338 (6.91%) GDPR
3 283 (5.79%) QA
4 235 (4.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 203 (4.15%) NIST
6 139 (2.84%) Cyber Essentials
7 113 (2.31%) PCI DSS
8 100 (2.05%) SLA
9 94 (1.92%) ISO 9001
10 93 (1.90%) Accessibility
11 82 (1.68%) PMO
12 71 (1.45%) Actionable Recommendations
13 59 (1.21%) GRC
14 40 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 39 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 33 (0.67%) IFRS
17 30 (0.61%) COBIT
18 29 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
19 25 (0.51%) SOC 2
20 21 (0.43%) ITGC
System Software
1 263 (5.38%) Active Directory
2 82 (1.68%) Hyper-V
3 73 (1.49%) Docker
4 72 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 64 (1.31%) Terminal Server
6 18 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.33%) ProxySG
8 12 (0.25%) vSphere
9 9 (0.18%) VMware NSX
10 8 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
11 7 (0.14%) IAG
12 5 (0.10%) Firmware
13 4 (0.082%) VMware ESXi
13 4 (0.082%) XenApp
14 3 (0.061%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.061%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.041%) Oracle RAC
15 2 (0.041%) XenDesktop
16 1 (0.020%) Embedded Firmware
16 1 (0.020%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 135 (2.76%) Terraform
2 78 (1.60%) Kubernetes
3 68 (1.39%) Ansible
4 63 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
5 36 (0.74%) Grafana
6 29 (0.59%) SCCM
7 28 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
8 27 (0.55%) Prometheus
9 17 (0.35%) Nagios
10 9 (0.18%) QRadar
11 7 (0.14%) Control-M
11 7 (0.14%) Kibana
11 7 (0.14%) Kubeflow
12 5 (0.10%) CASB
12 5 (0.10%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 5 (0.10%) logstash
13 4 (0.082%) Backup Exec
13 4 (0.082%) Packer
13 4 (0.082%) RSA Archer
13 4 (0.082%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 1,201 (24.57%) Microsoft
2 208 (4.25%) SAP
3 174 (3.56%) Oracle
4 168 (3.44%) Google
5 147 (3.01%) VMware
6 145 (2.97%) Salesforce
7 117 (2.39%) ServiceNow
8 110 (2.25%) SolarWinds
9 104 (2.13%) Databricks
10 102 (2.09%) Splunk
11 77 (1.57%) Workday
12 71 (1.45%) Cisco
13 70 (1.43%) Veeam
14 65 (1.33%) Brocade
14 65 (1.33%) Tanium
15 64 (1.31%) Nimble Storage
16 51 (1.04%) IBM
17 48 (0.98%) Dell
18 41 (0.84%) Red Hat
19 39 (0.80%) Adobe