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

6 months to
25 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 4,900 5,098 8,090
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 6.37% 12.39% 9.25%
As % of the General category 11.96% 17.51% 15.17%
Number of salaries quoted 2,757 2,393 5,263
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,312 £28,500
25th Percentile £38,553 £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 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,967 £45,000
% change year-on-year -6.80% +13.26% -4.26%

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 40,959 29,113 53,320
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 53.24% 70.75% 61.00%
Number of salaries quoted 22,371 15,489 37,996
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £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 £75,000 £80,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £51,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -12.62% +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 25 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 25 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 -16 4,355 £52,500 -4.55% 2,212
UK excluding London -20 3,031 £47,500 -6.80% 1,747
London -4 1,571 £67,500 +3.85% 815
Work from Home +1 1,551 £55,000 - 982
South East +1 816 £50,000 -1.90% 586
North of England -22 802 £45,000 -10.00% 399
Midlands -17 581 £47,500 -1.04% 293
North West -19 431 £42,750 -18.57% 220
West Midlands -17 359 £51,300 +2.60% 170
Yorkshire 0 267 £49,222 +9.38% 136
South West -17 267 £45,000 -14.29% 181
East of England -28 263 £44,250 -13.18% 160
East Midlands -3 221 £42,500 -2.86% 123
Scotland -17 189 £40,000 -21.40% 90
North East -10 104 £45,497 +16.36% 49
Wales +13 77 £40,000 -20.20% 59
Northern Ireland -18 51 £52,500 -4.55% 21
Isle of Man -3 1 £62,500 +101.61%
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
1 142 (2.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 92 (1.88%) SharePoint
3 77 (1.57%) Confluence
4 72 (1.47%) Apache Spark
5 71 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
6 51 (1.04%) CMS
7 30 (0.61%) Apache
8 18 (0.37%) WordPress
9 17 (0.35%) SAS
10 13 (0.27%) IIS
10 13 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
11 6 (0.12%) nginx
12 4 (0.082%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.061%) Drupal
13 3 (0.061%) govService
14 2 (0.041%) Anypoint
14 2 (0.041%) Camunda
14 2 (0.041%) JBoss
14 2 (0.041%) Jupyter
14 2 (0.041%) MTS
Applications
1 684 (13.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 291 (5.94%) Microsoft Office
3 157 (3.20%) Chatbot
4 121 (2.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 93 (1.90%) MS Visio
6 35 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
7 28 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
8 25 (0.51%) Maya
9 15 (0.31%) Adobe XD
10 7 (0.14%) AutoCAD
10 7 (0.14%) CATIA
11 5 (0.10%) Trello
12 2 (0.041%) Revit
12 2 (0.041%) Simulink
12 2 (0.041%) Sketch
13 1 (0.020%) Notion
13 1 (0.020%) OrCAD
13 1 (0.020%) SmartSuite
13 1 (0.020%) SOLIDWORKS
13 1 (0.020%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 76 (1.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 46 (0.94%) NetSuite
3 43 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
4 31 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
5 27 (0.55%) SAP CO
6 21 (0.43%) Endur
7 19 (0.39%) SAP FI
8 18 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
9 17 (0.35%) SAP MDG
10 16 (0.33%) Workday HCM
11 13 (0.27%) SAP ERP
12 12 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
13 11 (0.22%) Maximo
13 11 (0.22%) Sage X3
14 10 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
14 10 (0.20%) SAP PM
15 7 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
15 7 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
15 7 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
16 6 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 867 (17.69%) Azure
2 647 (13.20%) Power Platform
3 470 (9.59%) AWS
4 312 (6.37%) Microsoft 365
5 278 (5.67%) SaaS
6 202 (4.12%) GCP
7 150 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
8 129 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
9 95 (1.94%) Entra ID
9 95 (1.94%) GitHub
10 91 (1.86%) Snowflake
11 89 (1.82%) Power Automate
12 81 (1.65%) dbt
13 72 (1.47%) Azure Data Factory
14 66 (1.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 62 (1.27%) Amazon S3
16 58 (1.18%) Serverless
17 57 (1.16%) Google Analytics
18 53 (1.08%) Microsoft Purview
19 51 (1.04%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 182 (3.71%) Firewall
2 161 (3.29%) DNS
3 126 (2.57%) DHCP
4 111 (2.27%) VPN
5 85 (1.73%) Wi-Fi
6 74 (1.51%) WAN
7 71 (1.45%) LAN
8 67 (1.37%) TCP/IP
8 67 (1.37%) Wireless
9 62 (1.27%) VLAN
10 52 (1.06%) Broadband
11 47 (0.96%) Network Security
12 40 (0.82%) SAN
13 38 (0.78%) BGP
14 35 (0.71%) Wireshark
15 34 (0.69%) OSPF
16 30 (0.61%) Cisco ASA
16 30 (0.61%) EIGRP
17 28 (0.57%) VoIP
18 26 (0.53%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 584 (11.92%) Power BI
2 427 (8.71%) Tableau
3 222 (4.53%) SQL Server
4 196 (4.00%) Data Mining
5 172 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
6 100 (2.04%) Metadata
7 97 (1.98%) Relational Database
8 88 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
8 88 (1.80%) Data Lake
9 71 (1.45%) Looker
10 62 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
11 61 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 58 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
13 56 (1.14%) MySQL
14 48 (0.98%) NoSQL
15 45 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
16 44 (0.90%) BigQuery
17 43 (0.88%) Power Query
18 35 (0.71%) Big Data
19 34 (0.69%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 187 (3.82%) JIRA
2 136 (2.78%) Git
3 49 (1.00%) GitLab
4 42 (0.86%) Selenium
5 38 (0.78%) Jenkins
6 32 (0.65%) MLflow
7 19 (0.39%) Visual Studio
8 17 (0.35%) 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 (0.24%) Bitbucket
13 11 (0.22%) Cypress.io
14 10 (0.20%) LabVIEW
14 10 (0.20%) Postman
15 8 (0.16%) webpack
General
1 2,415 (49.29%) Social Skills
2 1,817 (37.08%) Finance
3 439 (8.96%) Marketing
4 353 (7.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 312 (6.37%) Banking
6 278 (5.67%) Law
7 277 (5.65%) Legal
8 269 (5.49%) Organisational Skills
9 254 (5.18%) Public Sector
10 250 (5.10%) Retail
11 207 (4.22%) Presentation Skills
12 166 (3.39%) Manufacturing
13 133 (2.71%) Financial Institution
14 128 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
15 102 (2.08%) Telecoms
16 90 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
17 80 (1.63%) Games
18 70 (1.43%) Advertising
19 63 (1.29%) Electronics
20 49 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1,248 (25.47%) Analyst
2 643 (13.12%) Senior
3 378 (7.71%) Data Analyst
4 323 (6.59%) Lead
5 246 (5.02%) Business Analyst
6 233 (4.76%) Developer
7 221 (4.51%) Architect
8 203 (4.14%) Consultant
9 171 (3.49%) Support Analyst
9 171 (3.49%) Trainee
10 162 (3.31%) Trainee Analyst
10 162 (3.31%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 153 (3.12%) Trainer
12 143 (2.92%) Senior Analyst
13 140 (2.86%) IT Support
14 135 (2.76%) Senior Manager
15 132 (2.69%) Systems Engineer
16 117 (2.39%) Financial Analyst
17 103 (2.10%) Support Engineer
18 93 (1.90%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (2.65%) HTML
2 120 (2.45%) CSS
3 90 (1.84%) .NET
4 89 (1.82%) React
5 61 (1.24%) REST
6 54 (1.10%) TensorFlow
7 53 (1.08%) JSON
7 53 (1.08%) PyTorch
8 51 (1.04%) XML
9 50 (1.02%) Kafka
10 46 (0.94%) Node.js
11 45 (0.92%) Middleware
12 36 (0.73%) scikit-learn
13 33 (0.67%) LangChain
14 32 (0.65%) PySpark
15 28 (0.57%) FIX Protocol
16 27 (0.55%) Spring
17 26 (0.53%) SOAP
18 25 (0.51%) Pandas
19 24 (0.49%) LlamaIndex
Miscellaneous
1 505 (10.31%) Analytical Mindset
2 332 (6.78%) Self-Motivation
3 256 (5.22%) Onboarding
4 226 (4.61%) Management Information System
5 190 (3.88%) Product Ownership
6 121 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
7 104 (2.12%) Cloud Native
7 104 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
8 97 (1.98%) Data Centre
9 95 (1.94%) Data Structures
10 76 (1.55%) Driving Licence
11 74 (1.51%) Algorithms
12 58 (1.18%) Social Media
13 57 (1.16%) Security Posture
14 53 (1.08%) Virtual Team
15 47 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 47 (0.96%) Low-Code
16 46 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
16 46 (0.94%) FMCG
16 46 (0.94%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 366 (7.47%) Windows
2 235 (4.80%) Linux
3 149 (3.04%) Windows Server
4 76 (1.55%) Windows Server 2016
5 41 (0.84%) Unix
6 27 (0.55%) Mac OS
7 19 (0.39%) Windows 10
8 17 (0.35%) Android
9 13 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 10 (0.20%) Apple iOS
11 6 (0.12%) CentOS
12 5 (0.10%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.10%) VMS
13 4 (0.082%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.061%) 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 (0.020%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,214 (45.18%) Problem-Solving
2 1,153 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,147 (23.41%) Analytics
4 948 (19.35%) Decision-Making
5 870 (17.76%) Agile
6 859 (17.53%) AI
7 743 (15.16%) Business Intelligence
8 667 (13.61%) Project Management
9 600 (12.24%) Stakeholder Management
10 572 (11.67%) Data Analysis
11 463 (9.45%) Actionable Insight
12 432 (8.82%) Mentoring
13 413 (8.43%) Analytical Thinking
14 409 (8.35%) Process Improvement
15 402 (8.20%) Roadmaps
16 394 (8.04%) Data Modelling
17 383 (7.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 382 (7.80%) DevOps
19 365 (7.45%) Business Analysis
20 360 (7.35%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 1,045 (21.33%) SQL
2 888 (18.12%) Python
3 170 (3.47%) JavaScript
4 152 (3.10%) Java
5 147 (3.00%) PowerShell
6 122 (2.49%) C#
7 78 (1.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 69 (1.41%) R
9 57 (1.16%) Bash
10 45 (0.92%) C++
11 44 (0.90%) T-SQL
12 43 (0.88%) VBA
13 38 (0.78%) TypeScript
14 21 (0.43%) C
15 20 (0.41%) Scala
16 19 (0.39%) MATLAB
17 17 (0.35%) Go
18 13 (0.27%) PL/SQL
19 12 (0.24%) PHP
19 12 (0.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,219 (24.88%) Degree
2 402 (8.20%) Security Cleared
3 286 (5.84%) SC Cleared
4 281 (5.73%) Master's Degree
5 235 (4.80%) ACCA
6 225 (4.59%) CIMA
7 181 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 167 (3.41%) PhD
9 142 (2.90%) CISSP
10 123 (2.51%) DBS Check
11 97 (1.98%) PMI Certification
12 94 (1.92%) DV Cleared
13 86 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
13 86 (1.76%) PMP
14 83 (1.69%) CISM
15 72 (1.47%) IRCA
16 65 (1.33%) Azure Certification
17 60 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
18 59 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
19 50 (1.02%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 382 (7.80%) Data Quality
2 316 (6.45%) GDPR
3 278 (5.67%) QA
4 217 (4.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 178 (3.63%) NIST
6 149 (3.04%) Cyber Essentials
7 117 (2.39%) PCI DSS
8 104 (2.12%) Accessibility
9 89 (1.82%) ISO 9001
10 83 (1.69%) PMO
11 75 (1.53%) SLA
12 69 (1.41%) Actionable Recommendations
13 47 (0.96%) GRC
14 41 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 35 (0.71%) IFRS
16 32 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 32 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 21 (0.43%) COBIT
17 21 (0.43%) WCAG
18 19 (0.39%) NCSC
System Software
1 254 (5.18%) Active Directory
2 91 (1.86%) Hyper-V
3 76 (1.55%) Docker
4 72 (1.47%) Terminal Server
5 62 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
6 16 (0.33%) ProxySG
7 14 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
8 12 (0.24%) vSphere
9 7 (0.14%) IAG
9 7 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
9 7 (0.14%) VMware NSX
10 6 (0.12%) Firmware
11 4 (0.082%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.082%) XenApp
12 3 (0.061%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.061%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.041%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.020%) KVM
14 1 (0.020%) NFS
14 1 (0.020%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 139 (2.84%) Terraform
2 80 (1.63%) Kubernetes
3 73 (1.49%) Ansible
4 56 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
5 37 (0.76%) Grafana
6 33 (0.67%) Prometheus
7 29 (0.59%) SCCM
8 24 (0.49%) 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 (0.082%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.082%) Backup Exec
13 4 (0.082%) RSA Archer
13 4 (0.082%) SolarWinds Orion
13 4 (0.082%) vCenter Server
14 3 (0.061%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1,180 (24.08%) Microsoft
2 222 (4.53%) SAP
3 187 (3.82%) Oracle
4 156 (3.18%) PayPal
5 144 (2.94%) VMware
6 142 (2.90%) Google
7 141 (2.88%) Salesforce
8 122 (2.49%) SolarWinds
9 115 (2.35%) ServiceNow
10 108 (2.20%) Splunk
11 94 (1.92%) Databricks
12 79 (1.61%) Veeam
13 76 (1.55%) Cisco
14 73 (1.49%) Brocade
14 73 (1.49%) Tanium
15 72 (1.47%) Nimble Storage
16 63 (1.29%) Workday
17 51 (1.04%) Dell
18 50 (1.02%) Adobe
19 42 (0.86%) Bloomberg