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

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 11 16
Rank change year-on-year -14 +5 +3
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,834 5,098 8,178
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 6.17% 12.40% 9.17%
As % of the General category 11.65% 17.58% 15.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2,796 2,432 5,299
10th Percentile £31,500 £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 £73,886 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £93,778 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,967 £45,000
% change year-on-year -6.80% +13.26% -3.60%

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 41,498 29,003 54,214
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 52.95% 70.54% 60.76%
Number of salaries quoted 22,808 15,706 38,349
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,333 £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 £75,790 £80,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,357 £51,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -9.99% +8.42% -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 29 March 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 29 March 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 4,295 £53,784 -2.21% 2,239
UK excluding London -21 2,975 £47,500 -6.80% 1,762
London -5 1,565 £67,500 +3.85% 833
Work from Home -4 1,471 £55,000 - 981
South East 0 801 £50,000 -1.90% 595
North of England -21 773 £45,000 -10.00% 400
Midlands -17 574 £47,500 -2.06% 298
North West -21 421 £42,500 -17.39% 220
West Midlands -19 353 £51,300 +2.60% 175
South West -22 266 £45,000 -14.29% 178
East of England -28 258 £45,000 -11.71% 161
Yorkshire -6 256 £49,222 +9.38% 136
East Midlands -3 219 £42,500 -4.49% 123
Scotland -18 184 £40,000 -21.40% 92
North East -13 96 £48,445 +25.83% 50
Wales +13 80 £40,000 -20.20% 59
Northern Ireland -22 51 £52,500 -4.55% 22
Isle of Man -2 1 £62,500 +68.92%
Channel Islands -5 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
1 142 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 91 (1.88%) SharePoint
3 80 (1.65%) Confluence
4 73 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
5 72 (1.49%) Apache Spark
6 52 (1.08%) CMS
7 30 (0.62%) Apache
8 18 (0.37%) SAS
8 18 (0.37%) WordPress
9 14 (0.29%) IIS
10 13 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
11 6 (0.12%) nginx
12 4 (0.083%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.062%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.062%) Drupal
13 3 (0.062%) govService
13 3 (0.062%) JBoss
14 2 (0.041%) Camunda
14 2 (0.041%) Jupyter
14 2 (0.041%) MTS
Applications
1 691 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 285 (5.90%) Microsoft Office
3 124 (2.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 94 (1.94%) MS Visio
5 65 (1.34%) Chatbot
6 35 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
7 29 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
8 21 (0.43%) Maya
9 15 (0.31%) Adobe XD
10 10 (0.21%) CATIA
11 8 (0.17%) AutoCAD
12 5 (0.10%) Trello
13 2 (0.041%) Revit
13 2 (0.041%) Simulink
13 2 (0.041%) Sketch
14 1 (0.021%) Notion
14 1 (0.021%) OrCAD
14 1 (0.021%) SmartSuite
14 1 (0.021%) SOLIDWORKS
14 1 (0.021%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 71 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 47 (0.97%) NetSuite
3 42 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
4 32 (0.66%) Salesforce CRM
5 27 (0.56%) SAP CO
6 20 (0.41%) Endur
7 19 (0.39%) SAP FI
8 18 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
9 16 (0.33%) Workday HCM
10 15 (0.31%) SAP PM
11 13 (0.27%) SAP ERP
12 12 (0.25%) Maximo
12 12 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
13 11 (0.23%) Sage X3
13 11 (0.23%) SAP MDG
14 10 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
15 7 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
15 7 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
15 7 (0.14%) Elite 3E
15 7 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 866 (17.91%) Azure
2 649 (13.43%) Power Platform
3 472 (9.76%) AWS
4 316 (6.54%) Microsoft 365
5 284 (5.88%) SaaS
6 201 (4.16%) GCP
7 148 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
8 130 (2.69%) Dynamics 365
9 96 (1.99%) Entra ID
9 96 (1.99%) GitHub
10 95 (1.97%) Snowflake
11 89 (1.84%) Power Automate
12 84 (1.74%) dbt
13 73 (1.51%) Azure Data Factory
14 66 (1.37%) Amazon S3
14 66 (1.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 60 (1.24%) Serverless
16 58 (1.20%) Google Analytics
17 53 (1.10%) Microsoft Purview
18 51 (1.06%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 184 (3.81%) Firewall
2 162 (3.35%) DNS
3 127 (2.63%) DHCP
4 112 (2.32%) VPN
5 81 (1.68%) Wi-Fi
6 75 (1.55%) WAN
7 68 (1.41%) LAN
8 67 (1.39%) TCP/IP
8 67 (1.39%) Wireless
9 63 (1.30%) VLAN
10 52 (1.08%) Broadband
11 48 (0.99%) Network Security
12 41 (0.85%) SAN
13 38 (0.79%) BGP
14 34 (0.70%) OSPF
14 34 (0.70%) Wireshark
15 30 (0.62%) Cisco ASA
15 30 (0.62%) EIGRP
16 26 (0.54%) SD-WAN
17 23 (0.48%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 588 (12.16%) Power BI
2 429 (8.87%) Tableau
3 224 (4.63%) SQL Server
4 197 (4.08%) Data Mining
5 178 (3.68%) Data Warehouse
6 99 (2.05%) Metadata
7 94 (1.94%) Relational Database
8 89 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
9 86 (1.78%) Data Lake
10 76 (1.57%) Looker
11 63 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
12 62 (1.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 57 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
14 56 (1.16%) MySQL
15 46 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
15 46 (0.95%) NoSQL
16 44 (0.91%) BigQuery
17 43 (0.89%) Power Query
18 35 (0.72%) Big Data
18 35 (0.72%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 188 (3.89%) JIRA
2 138 (2.85%) Git
3 49 (1.01%) GitLab
4 43 (0.89%) Selenium
5 38 (0.79%) Jenkins
6 32 (0.66%) MLflow
7 19 (0.39%) Visual Studio
8 18 (0.37%) Chocolatey
9 15 (0.31%) Balsamiq
9 15 (0.31%) Robot Framework
10 14 (0.29%) Axure RP
10 14 (0.29%) ERwin
10 14 (0.29%) Subversion
11 13 (0.27%) IBM UrbanCode
11 13 (0.27%) Snyk
12 12 (0.25%) Bitbucket
12 12 (0.25%) Cypress.io
12 12 (0.25%) Rational DOORS
13 10 (0.21%) LabVIEW
13 10 (0.21%) Postman
General
1 2,421 (50.08%) Social Skills
2 1,818 (37.61%) Finance
3 439 (9.08%) Marketing
4 353 (7.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 311 (6.43%) Banking
6 276 (5.71%) Legal
7 271 (5.61%) Law
8 268 (5.54%) Organisational Skills
9 256 (5.30%) Public Sector
10 249 (5.15%) Retail
11 206 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
12 170 (3.52%) Manufacturing
13 129 (2.67%) Financial Institution
14 126 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
15 106 (2.19%) Telecoms
16 89 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
17 73 (1.51%) Games
18 71 (1.47%) Advertising
19 64 (1.32%) Electronics
20 51 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1,246 (25.78%) Analyst
2 647 (13.38%) Senior
3 378 (7.82%) Data Analyst
4 319 (6.60%) Lead
5 246 (5.09%) Business Analyst
6 239 (4.94%) Developer
7 219 (4.53%) Architect
8 206 (4.26%) Consultant
9 171 (3.54%) Trainee
10 170 (3.52%) Support Analyst
11 162 (3.35%) Trainee Analyst
11 162 (3.35%) Trainee Data Analyst
12 141 (2.92%) Senior Analyst
13 140 (2.90%) Senior Manager
13 140 (2.90%) Systems Engineer
14 138 (2.85%) IT Support
15 118 (2.44%) Financial Analyst
16 104 (2.15%) Support Engineer
17 99 (2.05%) Data Engineer
18 96 (1.99%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (2.71%) HTML
2 121 (2.50%) CSS
3 89 (1.84%) .NET
4 87 (1.80%) React
5 60 (1.24%) REST
6 54 (1.12%) JSON
6 54 (1.12%) PyTorch
6 54 (1.12%) TensorFlow
7 52 (1.08%) XML
8 50 (1.03%) Kafka
9 47 (0.97%) Node.js
10 45 (0.93%) Middleware
11 38 (0.79%) scikit-learn
12 33 (0.68%) LangChain
12 33 (0.68%) PySpark
13 28 (0.58%) FIX Protocol
14 27 (0.56%) Pandas
14 27 (0.56%) SOAP
14 27 (0.56%) Spring
15 24 (0.50%) LlamaIndex
Miscellaneous
1 503 (10.41%) Analytical Mindset
2 320 (6.62%) Self-Motivation
3 256 (5.30%) Onboarding
4 225 (4.65%) Management Information System
5 192 (3.97%) Product Ownership
6 121 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
7 101 (2.09%) Cloud Native
8 97 (2.01%) Data Centre
8 97 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
9 95 (1.97%) Data Structures
10 76 (1.57%) Algorithms
11 75 (1.55%) Driving Licence
12 60 (1.24%) Security Posture
13 58 (1.20%) Social Media
14 52 (1.08%) Virtual Team
15 49 (1.01%) Public Cloud
16 47 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 47 (0.97%) Low-Code
17 46 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
17 46 (0.95%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 372 (7.70%) Windows
2 236 (4.88%) Linux
3 152 (3.14%) Windows Server
4 76 (1.57%) Windows Server 2016
5 41 (0.85%) Unix
6 27 (0.56%) Mac OS
7 19 (0.39%) Windows 10
8 17 (0.35%) Android
9 14 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 10 (0.21%) Apple iOS
11 6 (0.12%) CentOS
12 5 (0.10%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.10%) VMS
13 4 (0.083%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.062%) OpenWrt
15 2 (0.041%) AIX
15 2 (0.041%) Data ONTAP
15 2 (0.041%) Oracle Linux
15 2 (0.041%) Rocky
16 1 (0.021%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,229 (46.11%) Problem-Solving
2 1,160 (24.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,153 (23.85%) Analytics
4 956 (19.78%) Decision-Making
5 857 (17.73%) Agile
6 762 (15.76%) AI
7 746 (15.43%) Business Intelligence
8 662 (13.69%) Project Management
9 599 (12.39%) Stakeholder Management
10 580 (12.00%) Data Analysis
11 472 (9.76%) Actionable Insight
12 427 (8.83%) Mentoring
13 414 (8.56%) Process Improvement
14 411 (8.50%) Analytical Thinking
15 409 (8.46%) Roadmaps
16 406 (8.40%) Data Modelling
17 390 (8.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 382 (7.90%) DevOps
19 365 (7.55%) Business Analysis
20 359 (7.43%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,055 (21.82%) SQL
2 900 (18.62%) Python
3 170 (3.52%) JavaScript
4 155 (3.21%) Java
5 151 (3.12%) PowerShell
6 123 (2.54%) C#
7 82 (1.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 69 (1.43%) R
9 56 (1.16%) Bash
10 46 (0.95%) C++
11 45 (0.93%) T-SQL
12 43 (0.89%) VBA
13 39 (0.81%) TypeScript
14 22 (0.46%) MATLAB
15 20 (0.41%) C
15 20 (0.41%) Scala
16 17 (0.35%) Go
17 13 (0.27%) PL/SQL
18 12 (0.25%) PHP
18 12 (0.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,116 (23.09%) Degree
2 406 (8.40%) Security Cleared
3 290 (6.00%) SC Cleared
4 241 (4.99%) ACCA
5 230 (4.76%) CIMA
6 186 (3.85%) Master's Degree
7 181 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 147 (3.04%) CISSP
9 124 (2.57%) DBS Check
10 97 (2.01%) PMI Certification
11 94 (1.94%) DV Cleared
12 89 (1.84%) Cisco Certification
13 87 (1.80%) CISM
14 85 (1.76%) PMP
15 75 (1.55%) PhD
16 72 (1.49%) IRCA
17 66 (1.37%) Azure Certification
18 62 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
19 59 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
20 50 (1.03%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 391 (8.09%) Data Quality
2 317 (6.56%) GDPR
3 281 (5.81%) QA
4 220 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 181 (3.74%) NIST
6 150 (3.10%) Cyber Essentials
7 116 (2.40%) PCI DSS
8 100 (2.07%) Accessibility
9 90 (1.86%) ISO 9001
10 78 (1.61%) PMO
11 76 (1.57%) SLA
12 69 (1.43%) Actionable Recommendations
13 48 (0.99%) GRC
14 42 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 35 (0.72%) IFRS
16 34 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 31 (0.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 23 (0.48%) COBIT
19 21 (0.43%) WCAG
20 18 (0.37%) NCSC
System Software
1 261 (5.40%) Active Directory
2 91 (1.88%) Hyper-V
3 76 (1.57%) Docker
4 72 (1.49%) Terminal Server
5 66 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
6 16 (0.33%) ProxySG
7 15 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
8 12 (0.25%) vSphere
9 8 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
10 7 (0.14%) IAG
10 7 (0.14%) VMware NSX
11 6 (0.12%) Firmware
12 4 (0.083%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.083%) XenApp
13 3 (0.062%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.062%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.041%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.021%) KVM
15 1 (0.021%) NFS
15 1 (0.021%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 140 (2.90%) Terraform
2 80 (1.65%) Kubernetes
3 73 (1.51%) Ansible
4 58 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
5 36 (0.74%) Grafana
6 32 (0.66%) Prometheus
7 30 (0.62%) SCCM
8 24 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
9 17 (0.35%) Nagios
10 7 (0.14%) Control-M
10 7 (0.14%) Kubeflow
11 6 (0.12%) QRadar
12 5 (0.10%) CASB
12 5 (0.10%) Computer Incident Response Team
13 4 (0.083%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.083%) Backup Exec
13 4 (0.083%) Packer
13 4 (0.083%) RSA Archer
13 4 (0.083%) SolarWinds Orion
13 4 (0.083%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,184 (24.49%) Microsoft
2 219 (4.53%) SAP
3 185 (3.83%) Oracle
4 148 (3.06%) VMware
5 145 (3.00%) Google
6 136 (2.81%) Salesforce
7 122 (2.52%) SolarWinds
8 117 (2.42%) ServiceNow
9 109 (2.25%) Splunk
10 98 (2.03%) Databricks
11 79 (1.63%) Veeam
12 76 (1.57%) Cisco
13 73 (1.51%) Brocade
13 73 (1.51%) Tanium
14 72 (1.49%) Nimble Storage
15 64 (1.32%) PayPal
16 63 (1.30%) Workday
17 49 (1.01%) Dell
18 44 (0.91%) Adobe
19 42 (0.87%) Bloomberg