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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 13 19
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 +3
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 5,050 5,881 4,858
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 8.38% 10.97% 8.76%
As % of the General category 14.30% 16.49% 14.14%
Number of salaries quoted 2,498 2,471 3,333
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,967 £48,710
% change year-on-year -11.71% +4.63% -2.58%

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 35,326 35,665 34,352
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 58.59% 66.54% 61.95%
Number of salaries quoted 19,174 16,260 25,067
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,725 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +3.45% -6.45%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £96,375 £103,750 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -4.76%

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 15 January 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 15 January 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 -6 4,419 £51,058 -7.17% 2,418
UK excluding London -10 3,205 £45,000 -11.71% 2,224
Work from Home +6 1,731 £52,500 -6.25% 954
London +2 1,548 £67,500 +3.85% 564
South East +5 854 £50,000 - 761
North of England -16 770 £42,500 -15.00% 437
Midlands -12 589 £42,500 -11.46% 320
North West -14 405 £42,500 -19.05% 216
South West +3 359 £45,000 -11.76% 264
West Midlands -16 345 £52,000 +4.00% 162
Scotland -1 276 £40,000 -34.29% 80
Yorkshire +3 267 £40,000 -20.00% 168
East of England -19 262 £40,000 -21.52% 291
East Midlands +3 242 £37,500 -11.76% 156
North East 0 98 £41,500 -5.68% 61
Wales +15 79 £42,500 -13.45% 87
Northern Ireland -3 44 £52,500 -11.66% 46
Isle of Man -2 1 £62,500 +150.00% 1
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
1 141 (2.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 88 (1.74%) Confluence
3 84 (1.66%) SharePoint
4 42 (0.83%) Apache Spark
5 37 (0.73%) CMS
6 22 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
7 20 (0.40%) SAS
8 18 (0.36%) WordPress
9 16 (0.32%) IIS
10 15 (0.30%) Apache
11 6 (0.12%) nginx
11 6 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 4 (0.079%) Camunda
12 4 (0.079%) Drupal
13 3 (0.059%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.059%) govService
13 3 (0.059%) HCL Notes
14 2 (0.040%) FactoryTalk
14 2 (0.040%) MTS
14 2 (0.040%) WinCC
Applications
1 757 (14.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 384 (7.60%) Chatbot
3 331 (6.55%) Microsoft Office
4 128 (2.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 72 (1.43%) MS Visio
6 56 (1.11%) Maya
7 41 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
8 37 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
9 21 (0.42%) AutoCAD
10 15 (0.30%) Adobe XD
11 8 (0.16%) SOLIDWORKS
12 5 (0.099%) CATIA
13 4 (0.079%) Oracle Smart View
13 4 (0.079%) PlantUML
13 4 (0.079%) Sketch
14 3 (0.059%) Stata
15 2 (0.040%) Photoshop
15 2 (0.040%) Revit
15 2 (0.040%) Trello
16 1 (0.020%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 143 (2.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 67 (1.33%) SAP MDG
3 55 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
4 43 (0.85%) NetSuite
5 39 (0.77%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 34 (0.67%) SAP CO
7 30 (0.59%) Oracle Payables
8 28 (0.55%) SAP FI
9 27 (0.53%) SAP FI/CO
10 25 (0.50%) Shopify
11 21 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
12 20 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
12 20 (0.40%) SAP IBP
13 18 (0.36%) Endur
14 17 (0.34%) Oracle Assets
15 16 (0.32%) Workday HCM
16 13 (0.26%) Sage X3
17 11 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
17 11 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
17 11 (0.22%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 810 (16.04%) Azure
2 614 (12.16%) Power Platform
3 436 (8.63%) AWS
4 273 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
5 246 (4.87%) SaaS
6 152 (3.01%) GCP
7 148 (2.93%) Azure DevOps
8 101 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
9 84 (1.66%) GitHub
10 76 (1.50%) Snowflake
11 70 (1.39%) Azure Data Factory
12 66 (1.31%) Entra ID
13 60 (1.19%) Power Automate
14 54 (1.07%) Serverless
15 53 (1.05%) Google Analytics
16 51 (1.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 50 (0.99%) Cloud Computing
18 46 (0.91%) dbt
19 42 (0.83%) PowerApps
20 39 (0.77%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 163 (3.23%) DNS
2 131 (2.59%) DHCP
3 130 (2.57%) Firewall
4 80 (1.58%) VPN
5 70 (1.39%) Wi-Fi
6 63 (1.25%) WAN
7 60 (1.19%) LAN
7 60 (1.19%) Network Security
8 49 (0.97%) Wireless
9 42 (0.83%) Remote Desktop
10 41 (0.81%) TCP/IP
11 39 (0.77%) VLAN
12 32 (0.63%) SMS
13 29 (0.57%) OSPF
13 29 (0.57%) VoIP
14 27 (0.53%) BGP
15 25 (0.50%) Broadband
15 25 (0.50%) EIGRP
16 23 (0.46%) SAN
17 20 (0.40%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 562 (11.13%) Power BI
2 371 (7.35%) Tableau
3 184 (3.64%) SQL Server
4 167 (3.31%) Data Mining
4 167 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
5 112 (2.22%) Data Lake
6 111 (2.20%) Metadata
7 110 (2.18%) Amazon RDS
8 96 (1.90%) Relational Database
9 62 (1.23%) NoSQL
10 57 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 53 (1.05%) Looker
12 51 (1.01%) MySQL
13 47 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
14 45 (0.89%) SAP BW
15 43 (0.85%) GIS
15 43 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
16 42 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
17 41 (0.81%) Big Data
18 35 (0.69%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 212 (4.20%) JIRA
2 95 (1.88%) Git
3 46 (0.91%) Selenium
4 42 (0.83%) Jenkins
5 38 (0.75%) GitLab
6 18 (0.36%) Bitbucket
6 18 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
7 15 (0.30%) Postman
7 15 (0.30%) Robot Framework
8 14 (0.28%) Cypress.io
8 14 (0.28%) WebDriver
9 13 (0.26%) Balsamiq
9 13 (0.26%) ER Studio
9 13 (0.26%) ERwin
9 13 (0.26%) Snyk
9 13 (0.26%) Subversion
10 12 (0.24%) Axure RP
11 10 (0.20%) TestRail
12 9 (0.18%) LabVIEW
12 9 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2,605 (51.58%) Social Skills
2 1,756 (34.77%) Finance
3 492 (9.74%) Marketing
4 328 (6.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 327 (6.48%) Law
6 291 (5.76%) Legal
7 289 (5.72%) Retail
8 251 (4.97%) Banking
9 244 (4.83%) Organisational Skills
10 235 (4.65%) Public Sector
11 220 (4.36%) Presentation Skills
12 190 (3.76%) Manufacturing
13 137 (2.71%) Influencing Skills
14 129 (2.55%) Financial Institution
15 115 (2.28%) Games
15 115 (2.28%) Telecoms
16 80 (1.58%) Electronics
17 77 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
18 70 (1.39%) Advertising
19 53 (1.05%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1,161 (22.99%) Analyst
2 662 (13.11%) Senior
3 381 (7.54%) Trainer
4 349 (6.91%) Data Analyst
5 334 (6.61%) Lead
6 319 (6.32%) Architect
7 227 (4.50%) Developer
8 219 (4.34%) Business Analyst
9 195 (3.86%) Consultant
10 167 (3.31%) Support Analyst
11 142 (2.81%) Senior Analyst
12 141 (2.79%) IT Support
13 136 (2.69%) Trainee
14 125 (2.48%) Solutions Architect
15 123 (2.44%) Trainee Analyst
15 123 (2.44%) Trainee Data Analyst
16 121 (2.40%) Systems Engineer
17 113 (2.24%) Senior Manager
18 110 (2.18%) Business Manager
19 104 (2.06%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (2.28%) HTML
2 106 (2.10%) CSS
3 86 (1.70%) React
4 76 (1.50%) REST
5 63 (1.25%) .NET
6 59 (1.17%) Middleware
7 41 (0.81%) JSON
8 36 (0.71%) SOAP
9 34 (0.67%) AngularJS
9 34 (0.67%) EDI
9 34 (0.67%) Node.js
10 33 (0.65%) XML
11 30 (0.59%) Kafka
12 29 (0.57%) LangChain
13 27 (0.53%) Spring
14 23 (0.46%) FIX Protocol
14 23 (0.46%) PySpark
15 22 (0.44%) Oracle Fusion
16 20 (0.40%) OAuth
16 20 (0.40%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 517 (10.24%) Analytical Mindset
2 383 (7.58%) Self-Motivation
3 349 (6.91%) Onboarding
4 272 (5.39%) Management Information System
5 208 (4.12%) Product Ownership
6 161 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
7 134 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
8 94 (1.86%) Data Centre
9 86 (1.70%) FMCG
10 81 (1.60%) Driving Licence
11 72 (1.43%) Cloud Native
11 72 (1.43%) Data Structures
12 53 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 52 (1.03%) Algorithms
13 52 (1.03%) Robotics
14 50 (0.99%) Virtual Team
15 44 (0.87%) Social Media
16 41 (0.81%) Low-Code
17 40 (0.79%) Security Posture
18 37 (0.73%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 352 (6.97%) Windows
2 236 (4.67%) Linux
3 157 (3.11%) Windows Server
4 98 (1.94%) Windows Server 2016
5 39 (0.77%) Unix
6 24 (0.48%) Mac OS
7 14 (0.28%) Windows 10
8 11 (0.22%) Android
9 7 (0.14%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.099%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.059%) Mac OS X
11 3 (0.059%) OpenWrt
11 3 (0.059%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (0.040%) VMS
12 2 (0.040%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.020%) AIX
13 1 (0.020%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.020%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.020%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.020%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,255 (44.65%) Problem-Solving
2 1,096 (21.70%) AI
3 1,085 (21.49%) Analytics
4 1,058 (20.95%) Continuous Improvement
5 976 (19.33%) Decision-Making
6 896 (17.74%) Agile
7 803 (15.90%) Project Management
8 741 (14.67%) Business Intelligence
9 623 (12.34%) Stakeholder Management
10 539 (10.67%) Data Analysis
11 448 (8.87%) Risk Management
12 441 (8.73%) Roadmaps
13 418 (8.28%) ERP
14 415 (8.22%) Business Strategy
15 409 (8.10%) Analytical Thinking
16 395 (7.82%) Actionable Insight
16 395 (7.82%) Customer Service
16 395 (7.82%) Cybersecurity
16 395 (7.82%) Process Improvement
17 394 (7.80%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 980 (19.41%) SQL
2 688 (13.62%) Python
3 148 (2.93%) Java
4 138 (2.73%) JavaScript
5 117 (2.32%) PowerShell
6 110 (2.18%) C#
7 61 (1.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 59 (1.17%) R
9 46 (0.91%) C++
10 45 (0.89%) T-SQL
10 45 (0.89%) VBA
11 38 (0.75%) Bash
12 30 (0.59%) Scala
13 28 (0.55%) TypeScript
14 21 (0.42%) Go
15 20 (0.40%) C
15 20 (0.40%) PL/SQL
16 16 (0.32%) Kotlin
17 15 (0.30%) MATLAB
18 13 (0.26%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 1,612 (31.92%) Degree
2 527 (10.44%) Master's Degree
3 437 (8.65%) Security Cleared
4 393 (7.78%) PhD
5 325 (6.44%) SC Cleared
6 212 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 180 (3.56%) ACCA
8 172 (3.41%) CIMA
9 155 (3.07%) CISSP
10 112 (2.22%) DBS Check
11 100 (1.98%) PMI Certification
12 86 (1.70%) DV Cleared
13 83 (1.64%) PMP
14 77 (1.52%) CISM
15 72 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
16 64 (1.27%) Azure Certification
17 61 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
18 56 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
19 50 (0.99%) AWS Certification
20 49 (0.97%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 328 (6.50%) Data Quality
2 256 (5.07%) QA
3 186 (3.68%) GDPR
4 183 (3.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 149 (2.95%) Cyber Essentials
6 137 (2.71%) PCI DSS
7 120 (2.38%) NIST
8 110 (2.18%) Accessibility
9 105 (2.08%) PMO
10 53 (1.05%) SLA
11 52 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
12 39 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 35 (0.69%) GRC
14 28 (0.55%) IFRS
15 21 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 19 (0.38%) WCAG
17 16 (0.32%) COBIT
17 16 (0.32%) ISO 9001
18 14 (0.28%) NCSC
19 13 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 248 (4.91%) Active Directory
2 121 (2.40%) Hyper-V
3 96 (1.90%) Terminal Server
4 55 (1.09%) Docker
5 52 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
6 14 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
7 13 (0.26%) Firmware
8 12 (0.24%) ProxySG
8 12 (0.24%) vSphere
9 8 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.059%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.059%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.040%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.020%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.020%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.020%) NFS
12 1 (0.020%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.020%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 92 (1.82%) Terraform
2 62 (1.23%) Kubernetes
3 57 (1.13%) Ansible
4 48 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
6 20 (0.40%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.30%) SCCM
8 14 (0.28%) Grafana
9 6 (0.12%) SCOM
10 5 (0.099%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 5 (0.099%) Control-M
10 5 (0.099%) Nagios
11 4 (0.079%) CSIRT
11 4 (0.079%) Nessus
11 4 (0.079%) Rancher
11 4 (0.079%) vRealize
12 3 (0.059%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.059%) QRadar
13 2 (0.040%) Data Guard
13 2 (0.040%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 1,154 (22.85%) Microsoft
2 381 (7.54%) PayPal
3 374 (7.41%) SAP
4 211 (4.18%) Oracle
5 176 (3.49%) Salesforce
6 160 (3.17%) VMware
7 144 (2.85%) Google
8 130 (2.57%) SolarWinds
9 123 (2.44%) Splunk
10 100 (1.98%) ServiceNow
11 97 (1.92%) Brocade
11 97 (1.92%) Tanium
11 97 (1.92%) Veeam
12 96 (1.90%) Nimble Storage
13 82 (1.62%) Cisco
14 76 (1.50%) Databricks
15 62 (1.23%) Adobe
16 44 (0.87%) Alteryx
16 44 (0.87%) Bloomberg
17 42 (0.83%) Ariba