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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 9 16
Rank change year-on-year -16 +7 +3
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,789 5,088 8,283
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.98% 12.44% 9.18%
As % of the General category 11.36% 17.64% 15.14%
Number of salaries quoted 2,804 2,429 5,342
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £68,555
90th Percentile £87,580 £93,778 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,445 £50,890 £45,000
% change year-on-year -4.81% +13.09% -3.23%

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 42,158 28,837 54,713
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 52.64% 70.50% 60.67%
Number of salaries quoted 23,085 15,580 38,580
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £76,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £51,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -6.86% +7.37% -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 3 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Top 19 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 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 -18 4,256 £55,000 - 2,239
UK excluding London -23 2,949 £48,445 -4.81% 1,762
London -6 1,539 £67,500 +3.85% 833
Work from Home -5 1,430 £55,000 - 981
South East -1 794 £50,000 -1.90% 595
North of England -23 774 £46,000 -8.00% 400
Midlands -16 564 £47,500 -1.55% 298
North West -21 425 £42,500 -15.80% 220
West Midlands -19 347 £51,250 +2.50% 175
South West -20 268 £45,000 -13.46% 178
Yorkshire -9 258 £52,500 +16.67% 136
East of England -29 257 £45,000 -11.71% 161
East Midlands -7 215 £42,500 -3.41% 123
Scotland -18 174 £40,000 -23.81% 92
North East -13 91 £48,445 +25.83% 50
Wales +5 80 £40,000 -20.20% 59
Northern Ireland -21 50 £46,250 -15.91% 22
Isle of Man -2 1 £62,500 +68.92%
Channel Islands -6 1 - -

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
1 148 (3.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 92 (1.92%) SharePoint
3 79 (1.65%) Confluence
4 73 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
4 73 (1.52%) Apache Spark
5 48 (1.00%) CMS
6 33 (0.69%) Apache
7 18 (0.38%) SAS
8 17 (0.35%) WordPress
9 16 (0.33%) IIS
10 13 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
11 6 (0.13%) nginx
12 4 (0.084%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.063%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.063%) Drupal
13 3 (0.063%) govService
13 3 (0.063%) JBoss
14 2 (0.042%) Camunda
14 2 (0.042%) MTS
14 2 (0.042%) Tomcat
Applications
1 684 (14.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 280 (5.85%) Microsoft Office
3 120 (2.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 98 (2.05%) MS Visio
5 35 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
6 29 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
7 24 (0.50%) Chatbot
8 15 (0.31%) Adobe XD
9 14 (0.29%) Maya
10 9 (0.19%) CATIA
11 6 (0.13%) AutoCAD
12 5 (0.10%) Trello
13 2 (0.042%) Revit
13 2 (0.042%) Simulink
13 2 (0.042%) Sketch
14 1 (0.021%) Notion
14 1 (0.021%) Photoshop
14 1 (0.021%) SmartSuite
14 1 (0.021%) SPSS
14 1 (0.021%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 63 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 48 (1.00%) NetSuite
3 40 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
4 33 (0.69%) Salesforce CRM
5 25 (0.52%) SAP CO
6 20 (0.42%) Endur
7 17 (0.35%) SAP FI
8 16 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
9 15 (0.31%) SAP PM
9 15 (0.31%) Workday HCM
10 12 (0.25%) Maximo
10 12 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
11 11 (0.23%) Sage X3
11 11 (0.23%) SAP ERP
12 10 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
13 8 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
14 7 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
14 7 (0.15%) Elite 3E
15 6 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
15 6 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 862 (18.00%) Azure
2 665 (13.89%) Power Platform
3 471 (9.84%) AWS
4 321 (6.70%) Microsoft 365
5 275 (5.74%) SaaS
6 206 (4.30%) GCP
7 147 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
8 137 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
9 97 (2.03%) Power Automate
10 96 (2.00%) Entra ID
10 96 (2.00%) GitHub
11 95 (1.98%) Snowflake
12 85 (1.77%) dbt
13 77 (1.61%) Azure Data Factory
14 68 (1.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 66 (1.38%) Amazon S3
16 65 (1.36%) Google Analytics
17 59 (1.23%) Serverless
18 57 (1.19%) PowerApps
19 55 (1.15%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 180 (3.76%) Firewall
2 161 (3.36%) DNS
3 128 (2.67%) DHCP
4 115 (2.40%) VPN
5 76 (1.59%) WAN
6 72 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
7 68 (1.42%) Wireless
8 67 (1.40%) TCP/IP
9 66 (1.38%) LAN
10 62 (1.29%) VLAN
11 48 (1.00%) Broadband
11 48 (1.00%) Network Security
12 42 (0.88%) SAN
13 39 (0.81%) BGP
14 34 (0.71%) OSPF
15 33 (0.69%) Wireshark
16 30 (0.63%) Cisco ASA
16 30 (0.63%) EIGRP
17 26 (0.54%) SD-WAN
18 21 (0.44%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 604 (12.61%) Power BI
2 426 (8.90%) Tableau
3 221 (4.61%) SQL Server
4 185 (3.86%) Data Mining
5 176 (3.68%) Data Warehouse
6 95 (1.98%) Metadata
7 93 (1.94%) Relational Database
8 90 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
9 84 (1.75%) Data Lake
10 72 (1.50%) Looker
11 66 (1.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 64 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
13 55 (1.15%) MySQL
14 54 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
15 48 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
16 47 (0.98%) BigQuery
16 47 (0.98%) NoSQL
17 46 (0.96%) Power Query
18 38 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 37 (0.77%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 190 (3.97%) JIRA
2 138 (2.88%) Git
3 51 (1.06%) GitLab
4 40 (0.84%) Selenium
5 39 (0.81%) Jenkins
6 32 (0.67%) MLflow
7 19 (0.40%) Visual Studio
8 18 (0.38%) Chocolatey
9 15 (0.31%) Balsamiq
10 14 (0.29%) Axure RP
10 14 (0.29%) Subversion
11 13 (0.27%) Bitbucket
11 13 (0.27%) ERwin
11 13 (0.27%) IBM UrbanCode
11 13 (0.27%) Rational DOORS
11 13 (0.27%) Robot Framework
12 12 (0.25%) Cypress.io
13 11 (0.23%) Snyk
14 10 (0.21%) Cucumber
14 10 (0.21%) Postman
General
1 2,387 (49.84%) Social Skills
2 1,805 (37.69%) Finance
3 440 (9.19%) Marketing
4 359 (7.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 307 (6.41%) Banking
6 271 (5.66%) Law
7 267 (5.58%) Legal
8 261 (5.45%) Organisational Skills
9 257 (5.37%) Retail
10 250 (5.22%) Public Sector
11 199 (4.16%) Presentation Skills
12 174 (3.63%) Manufacturing
13 131 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
14 124 (2.59%) Financial Institution
15 113 (2.36%) Telecoms
16 87 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
17 73 (1.52%) Advertising
18 66 (1.38%) Games
19 62 (1.29%) Electronics
20 55 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1,260 (26.31%) Analyst
2 645 (13.47%) Senior
3 369 (7.71%) Data Analyst
4 312 (6.51%) Lead
5 257 (5.37%) Business Analyst
6 237 (4.95%) Developer
7 212 (4.43%) Architect
8 206 (4.30%) Consultant
9 173 (3.61%) Support Analyst
10 160 (3.34%) Trainee
11 151 (3.15%) Trainee Analyst
11 151 (3.15%) Trainee Data Analyst
12 144 (3.01%) Systems Engineer
13 140 (2.92%) Senior Analyst
13 140 (2.92%) Senior Manager
14 132 (2.76%) IT Support
15 120 (2.51%) Financial Analyst
16 106 (2.21%) Data Engineer
17 102 (2.13%) Support Engineer
18 96 (2.00%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (2.80%) HTML
2 125 (2.61%) CSS
3 85 (1.77%) React
4 84 (1.75%) .NET
5 67 (1.40%) REST
6 62 (1.29%) JSON
7 57 (1.19%) PyTorch
7 57 (1.19%) XML
8 54 (1.13%) TensorFlow
9 51 (1.06%) Middleware
10 50 (1.04%) Kafka
11 47 (0.98%) Node.js
12 41 (0.86%) scikit-learn
13 35 (0.73%) PySpark
14 33 (0.69%) LangChain
15 32 (0.67%) SOAP
16 30 (0.63%) Pandas
17 28 (0.58%) FIX Protocol
18 26 (0.54%) Spring
19 25 (0.52%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 506 (10.57%) Analytical Mindset
2 300 (6.26%) Self-Motivation
3 245 (5.12%) Onboarding
4 227 (4.74%) Management Information System
5 192 (4.01%) Product Ownership
6 117 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
7 99 (2.07%) Data Centre
8 97 (2.03%) Cloud Native
9 95 (1.98%) Data Structures
10 88 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
11 76 (1.59%) Algorithms
12 70 (1.46%) Driving Licence
13 60 (1.25%) Security Posture
13 60 (1.25%) Social Media
14 54 (1.13%) Virtual Team
15 50 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 49 (1.02%) Public Cloud
17 48 (1.00%) Low-Code
18 47 (0.98%) FMCG
19 44 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 373 (7.79%) Windows
2 232 (4.84%) Linux
3 153 (3.19%) Windows Server
4 77 (1.61%) Windows Server 2016
5 41 (0.86%) Unix
6 26 (0.54%) Mac OS
7 19 (0.40%) Windows 10
8 17 (0.35%) Android
9 14 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 12 (0.25%) Apple iOS
11 6 (0.13%) CentOS
12 5 (0.10%) Ubuntu
13 4 (0.084%) VMS
13 4 (0.084%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.063%) OpenWrt
15 2 (0.042%) AIX
15 2 (0.042%) Data ONTAP
15 2 (0.042%) Oracle Linux
15 2 (0.042%) Rocky
16 1 (0.021%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,225 (46.46%) Problem-Solving
2 1,160 (24.22%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,158 (24.18%) Analytics
4 982 (20.51%) Decision-Making
5 852 (17.79%) Agile
6 750 (15.66%) Business Intelligence
7 720 (15.03%) AI
8 642 (13.41%) Project Management
9 605 (12.63%) Stakeholder Management
10 567 (11.84%) Data Analysis
11 479 (10.00%) Actionable Insight
12 426 (8.90%) Mentoring
13 416 (8.69%) Process Improvement
14 413 (8.62%) Data Modelling
15 408 (8.52%) Roadmaps
16 404 (8.44%) Analytical Thinking
17 390 (8.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 378 (7.89%) DevOps
19 360 (7.52%) Business Analysis
20 356 (7.43%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,053 (21.99%) SQL
2 888 (18.54%) Python
3 176 (3.68%) JavaScript
4 160 (3.34%) Java
5 154 (3.22%) PowerShell
6 119 (2.48%) C#
7 87 (1.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 68 (1.42%) R
9 57 (1.19%) Bash
10 47 (0.98%) T-SQL
11 46 (0.96%) C++
12 42 (0.88%) VBA
13 39 (0.81%) TypeScript
14 23 (0.48%) MATLAB
15 21 (0.44%) Scala
16 19 (0.40%) C
17 18 (0.38%) Go
18 13 (0.27%) PHP
18 13 (0.27%) PL/SQL
19 11 (0.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,044 (21.80%) Degree
2 405 (8.46%) Security Cleared
3 286 (5.97%) SC Cleared
4 247 (5.16%) ACCA
5 235 (4.91%) CIMA
6 177 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 146 (3.05%) CISSP
8 140 (2.92%) Master's Degree
9 124 (2.59%) DBS Check
10 100 (2.09%) PMI Certification
11 93 (1.94%) DV Cleared
12 91 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
13 88 (1.84%) CISM
14 87 (1.82%) PMP
15 72 (1.50%) IRCA
16 64 (1.34%) Azure Certification
17 63 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
18 59 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
19 50 (1.04%) CISA
20 48 (1.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 399 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 327 (6.83%) GDPR
3 273 (5.70%) QA
4 222 (4.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 184 (3.84%) NIST
6 149 (3.11%) Cyber Essentials
7 117 (2.44%) PCI DSS
8 103 (2.15%) Accessibility
9 93 (1.94%) ISO 9001
10 81 (1.69%) PMO
11 80 (1.67%) SLA
12 70 (1.46%) Actionable Recommendations
13 49 (1.02%) GRC
14 42 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 36 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 34 (0.71%) IFRS
17 30 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 25 (0.52%) COBIT
19 21 (0.44%) WCAG
20 19 (0.40%) SOC 2
System Software
1 261 (5.45%) Active Directory
2 90 (1.88%) Hyper-V
3 73 (1.52%) Docker
4 72 (1.50%) Terminal Server
5 67 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
6 16 (0.33%) ProxySG
7 15 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.23%) vSphere
9 8 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
9 8 (0.17%) VMware NSX
10 7 (0.15%) IAG
11 5 (0.10%) Firmware
12 4 (0.084%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.084%) XenApp
13 3 (0.063%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.063%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.042%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.021%) NFS
15 1 (0.021%) Oracle RAC
15 1 (0.021%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 140 (2.92%) Terraform
2 78 (1.63%) Kubernetes
3 73 (1.52%) Ansible
4 59 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 37 (0.77%) Grafana
6 31 (0.65%) Prometheus
7 30 (0.63%) SCCM
8 25 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
9 17 (0.35%) Nagios
10 7 (0.15%) Control-M
10 7 (0.15%) Kubeflow
10 7 (0.15%) QRadar
11 5 (0.10%) CASB
11 5 (0.10%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 5 (0.10%) RSA Archer
12 4 (0.084%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.084%) Kibana
12 4 (0.084%) Packer
12 4 (0.084%) SolarWinds Orion
12 4 (0.084%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,171 (24.45%) Microsoft
2 209 (4.36%) SAP
3 180 (3.76%) Oracle
4 156 (3.26%) Google
5 149 (3.11%) VMware
6 136 (2.84%) Salesforce
7 121 (2.53%) SolarWinds
8 115 (2.40%) ServiceNow
9 110 (2.30%) Splunk
10 105 (2.19%) Databricks
11 79 (1.65%) Veeam
12 76 (1.59%) Cisco
13 73 (1.52%) Brocade
13 73 (1.52%) Tanium
14 72 (1.50%) Nimble Storage
15 61 (1.27%) Workday
16 48 (1.00%) Dell
17 41 (0.86%) Adobe
18 40 (0.84%) Red Hat
19 37 (0.77%) Bloomberg