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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 9 15
Rank change year-on-year -15 +6 +4
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 6,478 6,238 7,155
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.48% 12.59% 9.76%
As % of the General category 11.84% 18.41% 16.94%
Number of salaries quoted 3,690 2,492 2,708
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,375 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,356 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.71% -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 54,720 33,883 42,236
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.25% 68.39% 57.61%
Number of salaries quoted 33,342 17,485 20,913
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,265 £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 £96,250 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £43,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.94% -13.00% -1.38%

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 6 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 6 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 5,670 £51,375 +2.75% 10,191
UK excluding London -14 4,384 £47,500 +5.56% 5,786
Work from Home -6 2,178 £55,000 +10.00% 4,428
London -12 1,795 £65,000 - 5,202
North of England -18 1,171 £47,500 +5.56% 1,316
South East -11 996 £48,500 +2.06% 1,501
Midlands -10 768 £45,000 +2.27% 889
North West -16 704 £46,000 +1.13% 714
South West -8 618 £47,500 +5.56% 603
West Midlands -18 389 £47,500 +5.56% 528
East Midlands -6 377 £42,500 +6.47% 361
Yorkshire -7 316 £47,000 +17.50% 465
East of England -12 284 £47,500 +21.79% 595
Northern Ireland +6 215 £43,750 -18.60% 233
Wales -4 207 £45,000 -10.40% 224
North East -20 160 £51,962 +29.91% 144
Scotland -24 148 £48,500 +42.10% 491

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
1 192 (2.96%) SharePoint
2 177 (2.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 111 (1.71%) Confluence
4 43 (0.66%) CMS
5 41 (0.63%) Apache Spark
6 38 (0.59%) Apache
7 36 (0.56%) IIS
8 32 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
9 28 (0.43%) SAS
10 17 (0.26%) WordPress
11 14 (0.22%) Jupyter
12 12 (0.19%) 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 3 (0.046%) Office Communications Server
18 3 (0.046%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 767 (11.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 349 (5.39%) Microsoft Office
3 136 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 67 (1.03%) 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%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 10 (0.15%) Chatbot
9 10 (0.15%) SOLIDWORKS
10 7 (0.11%) Adobe XD
10 7 (0.11%) EPLAN
10 7 (0.11%) Photoshop
11 6 (0.093%) Acrobat
11 6 (0.093%) Siemens NX
12 5 (0.077%) InDesign
12 5 (0.077%) Notion
12 5 (0.077%) Revit
13 4 (0.062%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 104 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 60 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
3 34 (0.52%) Dynamics GP
3 34 (0.52%) NetSuite
4 28 (0.43%) Shopify
5 19 (0.29%) Workday HCM
6 15 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
7 13 (0.20%) Magento
7 13 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
8 12 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
8 12 (0.19%) SAP CO
8 12 (0.19%) SAP FI
9 11 (0.17%) Infor M3
9 11 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
10 10 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
10 10 (0.15%) SAP Business One
11 9 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
11 9 (0.14%) Elite 3E
11 9 (0.14%) Sage 200
11 9 (0.14%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,020 (15.75%) Azure
2 724 (11.18%) Power Platform
3 660 (10.19%) AWS
4 453 (6.99%) Microsoft 365
5 404 (6.24%) SaaS
6 301 (4.65%) GCP
7 213 (3.29%) Entra ID
8 157 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
9 135 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
10 131 (2.02%) Google Ads
11 125 (1.93%) Google Analytics
12 101 (1.56%) GitHub
13 92 (1.42%) Meta Ads
13 92 (1.42%) Serverless
14 81 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
15 77 (1.19%) Amazon S3
16 74 (1.14%) Cloud Computing
16 74 (1.14%) PowerApps
17 72 (1.11%) Power Automate
18 70 (1.08%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 205 (3.16%) DNS
2 160 (2.47%) DHCP
3 145 (2.24%) Firewall
4 132 (2.04%) VPN
5 118 (1.82%) TCP/IP
6 91 (1.40%) Internet
7 79 (1.22%) WAN
8 72 (1.11%) LAN
9 69 (1.07%) Network Security
10 58 (0.90%) Wireless
11 56 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
12 51 (0.79%) VLAN
13 46 (0.71%) Broadband
14 38 (0.59%) HTTP
15 33 (0.51%) SAN
16 30 (0.46%) VoIP
17 27 (0.42%) BGP
18 26 (0.40%) 5G
19 25 (0.39%) SMS
20 24 (0.37%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 651 (10.05%) Power BI
2 207 (3.20%) SQL Server
3 175 (2.70%) Tableau
4 172 (2.66%) Data Warehouse
5 122 (1.88%) Relational Database
6 112 (1.73%) Metadata
7 111 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
8 90 (1.39%) MySQL
9 85 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
10 82 (1.27%) Looker
11 80 (1.23%) Power Query
12 71 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 64 (0.99%) Data Lake
14 54 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 53 (0.82%) Big Data
16 52 (0.80%) NoSQL
17 44 (0.68%) BigQuery
18 39 (0.60%) MongoDB
19 38 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
20 36 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 272 (4.20%) Git
2 266 (4.11%) JIRA
3 59 (0.91%) GitLab
4 57 (0.88%) Jenkins
5 32 (0.49%) Selenium
6 26 (0.40%) Eclipse
7 23 (0.36%) Claude Code
7 23 (0.36%) Rational DOORS
8 21 (0.32%) Cucumber
8 21 (0.32%) LabVIEW
8 21 (0.32%) Postman
9 20 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
10 15 (0.23%) Burp Suite
10 15 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
11 14 (0.22%) Bitbucket
11 14 (0.22%) JMeter
12 12 (0.19%) Metasploit
13 11 (0.17%) Chocolatey
14 10 (0.15%) Cypress.io
15 9 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 3,309 (51.08%) Social Skills
2 2,083 (32.15%) Finance
3 753 (11.62%) Marketing
4 556 (8.58%) Organisational Skills
5 555 (8.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 463 (7.15%) Retail
7 437 (6.75%) Public Sector
8 430 (6.64%) Legal
9 411 (6.34%) Law
10 402 (6.21%) Manufacturing
11 330 (5.09%) Influencing Skills
12 305 (4.71%) Presentation Skills
13 245 (3.78%) Banking
14 215 (3.32%) Aerospace
15 168 (2.59%) Electronics
16 161 (2.49%) Telecoms
17 120 (1.85%) Advertising
18 105 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
19 87 (1.34%) Automotive
20 70 (1.08%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,496 (23.09%) Analyst
2 861 (13.29%) Senior
3 422 (6.51%) Lead
4 318 (4.91%) Developer
5 297 (4.58%) Data Analyst
6 286 (4.41%) Business Analyst
7 259 (4.00%) Senior Analyst
8 243 (3.75%) Consultant
9 237 (3.66%) Support Analyst
10 230 (3.55%) Architect
11 186 (2.87%) Data Engineer
12 154 (2.38%) Systems Engineer
13 126 (1.95%) Support Engineer
14 117 (1.81%) Applications Support
14 117 (1.81%) IT Support
15 113 (1.74%) Administrator
16 109 (1.68%) Marketing Manager
16 109 (1.68%) Senior Manager
17 107 (1.65%) ITSM Analyst
17 107 (1.65%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (2.66%) .NET
2 160 (2.47%) Terraform
3 131 (2.02%) REST
4 116 (1.79%) HTML
5 106 (1.64%) CSS
6 86 (1.33%) RESTful
7 78 (1.20%) JSON
8 76 (1.17%) React
9 75 (1.16%) PySpark
10 71 (1.10%) XML
11 68 (1.05%) Middleware
12 64 (0.99%) Kafka
13 58 (0.90%) SOAP
14 46 (0.71%) LDAP
15 45 (0.69%) EDI
15 45 (0.69%) Spring Boot
15 45 (0.69%) Web Services
16 44 (0.68%) Spring
17 40 (0.62%) ASP.NET
18 38 (0.59%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 480 (7.41%) Management Information System
2 443 (6.84%) Analytical Mindset
3 412 (6.36%) Onboarding
4 327 (5.05%) Self-Motivation
5 287 (4.43%) Product Ownership
6 183 (2.82%) Driving Licence
7 153 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
8 147 (2.27%) Cloud Native
8 147 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
9 130 (2.01%) Social Media
10 121 (1.87%) Blog
11 112 (1.73%) Cyber Threat
11 112 (1.73%) Data Centre
12 104 (1.61%) Marketing Technology
13 102 (1.57%) Security Posture
14 98 (1.51%) Virtual Team
15 89 (1.37%) Data Structures
16 81 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
17 71 (1.10%) AI Agents
18 63 (0.97%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 462 (7.13%) Windows
2 321 (4.96%) Linux
3 221 (3.41%) Windows Server
4 93 (1.44%) Windows Server 2016
5 47 (0.73%) Windows 10
6 37 (0.57%) Mac OS
7 31 (0.48%) Unix
8 26 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 25 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
10 20 (0.31%) Apple iOS
11 19 (0.29%) Android
12 9 (0.14%) CentOS
13 8 (0.12%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.093%) Debian
14 6 (0.093%) VMS
15 5 (0.077%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.062%) CoreOS
17 2 (0.031%) AIX
17 2 (0.031%) Rocky
17 2 (0.031%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,167 (48.89%) Problem-Solving
2 1,985 (30.64%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,550 (23.93%) Decision-Making
4 1,341 (20.70%) Stakeholder Management
5 1,265 (19.53%) Analytics
6 1,197 (18.48%) AI
7 1,112 (17.17%) Agile
8 828 (12.78%) Business Intelligence
9 709 (10.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 649 (10.02%) Mentoring
11 613 (9.46%) Validation
12 611 (9.43%) Roadmaps
13 578 (8.92%) Actionable Insight
14 563 (8.69%) Process Improvement
15 556 (8.58%) Data Analysis
16 549 (8.47%) CRM
17 544 (8.40%) Risk Management
18 542 (8.37%) Project Management
19 531 (8.20%) CI/CD
20 530 (8.18%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 1,208 (18.65%) SQL
2 884 (13.65%) Python
3 229 (3.54%) JavaScript
4 210 (3.24%) Java
5 207 (3.20%) C#
6 193 (2.98%) PowerShell
7 120 (1.85%) C++
8 96 (1.48%) Bash
9 89 (1.37%) R
10 79 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 76 (1.17%) TypeScript
12 53 (0.82%) MATLAB
13 52 (0.80%) T-SQL
14 46 (0.71%) Shell Script
15 42 (0.65%) C
16 33 (0.51%) 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 1,353 (20.89%) Degree
2 733 (11.32%) Security Cleared
3 511 (7.89%) SC Cleared
4 250 (3.86%) ACCA
5 237 (3.66%) CIMA
6 179 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 161 (2.49%) DV Cleared
8 139 (2.15%) CISSP
9 137 (2.11%) DBS Check
10 129 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
11 111 (1.71%) Master's Degree
12 108 (1.67%) CISM
13 105 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
14 86 (1.33%) HND
15 80 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
16 76 (1.17%) Azure Certification
17 66 (1.02%) HNC
18 65 (1.00%) CompTIA Security+
19 56 (0.86%) PMI Certification
20 51 (0.79%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 634 (9.79%) Data Quality
2 373 (5.76%) QA
3 309 (4.77%) GDPR
4 214 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 204 (3.15%) Accessibility
6 161 (2.49%) NIST
7 144 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
8 135 (2.08%) SLA
9 117 (1.81%) PCI DSS
10 70 (1.08%) GRC
11 62 (0.96%) PMO
12 59 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
13 52 (0.80%) ISO 9001
14 41 (0.63%) IFRS
15 34 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 32 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 30 (0.46%) NCSC
18 28 (0.43%) DO-254
19 25 (0.39%) GAAP
20 24 (0.37%) COBIT
System Software
1 362 (5.59%) Active Directory
2 189 (2.92%) Docker
3 107 (1.65%) Hyper-V
4 80 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 72 (1.11%) Terminal Server
6 54 (0.83%) Firmware
7 23 (0.36%) 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 6 (0.093%) VMware NSX
13 4 (0.062%) KVM
13 4 (0.062%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.046%) DFS Replication
14 3 (0.046%) ISA Server
15 2 (0.031%) IAG
15 2 (0.031%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 1 (0.015%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 128 (1.98%) Kubernetes
2 85 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
3 74 (1.14%) Ansible
4 49 (0.76%) Grafana
5 40 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
6 29 (0.45%) Prometheus
7 21 (0.32%) Kibana
7 21 (0.32%) QRadar
8 20 (0.31%) SCCM
9 13 (0.20%) Nagios
10 12 (0.19%) 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%) Istio
14 7 (0.11%) logstash
15 6 (0.093%) EnCase
15 6 (0.093%) FTK
15 6 (0.093%) Graylog
Vendors
1 1,572 (24.27%) Microsoft
2 404 (6.24%) Google
3 243 (3.75%) SAP
4 201 (3.10%) Oracle
5 173 (2.67%) VMware
6 156 (2.41%) Splunk
7 153 (2.36%) Salesforce
8 145 (2.24%) ServiceNow
9 125 (1.93%) Databricks
10 96 (1.48%) SolarWinds
11 92 (1.42%) Cisco
12 80 (1.23%) Veeam
13 73 (1.13%) Brocade
13 73 (1.13%) Nimble Storage
14 72 (1.11%) Tanium
15 71 (1.10%) Adobe
15 71 (1.10%) YouTube
16 70 (1.08%) HubSpot
17 55 (0.85%) Workday
18 46 (0.71%) TikTok