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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 8 13
Rank change year-on-year -17 +5 +6
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 6,194 6,135 7,489
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.39% 12.43% 9.62%
As % of the General category 11.67% 18.12% 16.87%
Number of salaries quoted 3,673 2,536 2,977
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £88,750
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 53,096 33,854 44,392
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.21% 68.58% 57.02%
Number of salaries quoted 32,390 17,642 23,013
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £55,655
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -2.97% -7.24%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -1.93%

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 5,512 £52,500 - 10,754
UK excluding London -16 4,102 £47,500 +5.56% 5,454
Work from Home -6 2,090 £55,000 +10.00% 4,336
London -11 1,805 £67,500 +3.85% 6,239
North of England -20 1,119 £47,500 +10.47% 1,259
South East -10 968 £49,536 +0.07% 1,435
Midlands -9 714 £47,500 +5.56% 794
North West -16 684 £46,500 +3.33% 764
South West -11 587 £47,500 +5.56% 667
West Midlands -17 363 £48,000 +6.67% 482
East Midlands -5 348 £45,000 +5.88% 311
Yorkshire -10 303 £47,000 +17.50% 383
East of England -16 266 £47,500 +18.75% 508
Wales -8 198 £45,000 -10.40% 136
Scotland -23 144 £45,000 +12.50% 464
North East -20 132 £50,500 +26.25% 122
Northern Ireland -8 117 £43,750 -20.45% 268

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
1 189 (3.05%) SharePoint
2 178 (2.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 108 (1.74%) Confluence
4 48 (0.77%) Apache Spark
5 42 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
6 40 (0.65%) CMS
7 37 (0.60%) IIS
8 35 (0.57%) Apache
9 28 (0.45%) SAS
10 12 (0.19%) WordPress
11 11 (0.18%) Headless CMS
12 10 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 10 (0.16%) Jupyter
13 9 (0.15%) WebLogic
13 9 (0.15%) WebSphere
14 8 (0.13%) OpenStack
15 7 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
16 3 (0.048%) Appian
16 3 (0.048%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 3 (0.048%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 701 (11.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 298 (4.81%) Microsoft Office
3 121 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 68 (1.10%) MS Visio
5 45 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
6 43 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
7 17 (0.27%) Simulink
8 14 (0.23%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.13%) Chatbot
9 8 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
10 7 (0.11%) Adobe XD
11 6 (0.097%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 6 (0.097%) CATIA
11 6 (0.097%) Photoshop
11 6 (0.097%) Siemens NX
12 5 (0.081%) Acrobat
12 5 (0.081%) EPLAN
12 5 (0.081%) Revit
13 3 (0.048%) LaTeX
13 3 (0.048%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 109 (1.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 63 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
3 40 (0.65%) NetSuite
4 35 (0.57%) Dynamics GP
5 26 (0.42%) Shopify
6 16 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
6 16 (0.26%) Workday HCM
7 15 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
8 12 (0.19%) Magento
8 12 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
8 12 (0.19%) SAP CO
8 12 (0.19%) SAP FI
9 11 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
10 10 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
10 10 (0.16%) SAP Business One
10 10 (0.16%) SAP PM
11 9 (0.15%) Fidessa
11 9 (0.15%) Infor M3
11 9 (0.15%) Sage 200
11 9 (0.15%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,002 (16.18%) Azure
2 749 (12.09%) Power Platform
3 626 (10.11%) AWS
4 446 (7.20%) Microsoft 365
5 393 (6.34%) SaaS
6 285 (4.60%) GCP
7 165 (2.66%) Entra ID
8 154 (2.49%) Dynamics 365
9 153 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
10 126 (2.03%) Google Analytics
11 119 (1.92%) Google Ads
12 103 (1.66%) GitHub
13 92 (1.49%) Serverless
14 88 (1.42%) Meta Ads
15 87 (1.40%) Snowflake
16 85 (1.37%) Power Automate
17 83 (1.34%) Microsoft Purview
18 81 (1.31%) PowerApps
19 79 (1.28%) Amazon S3
20 75 (1.21%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 202 (3.26%) DNS
2 156 (2.52%) DHCP
3 150 (2.42%) Firewall
4 131 (2.11%) VPN
5 105 (1.70%) TCP/IP
6 76 (1.23%) WAN
7 71 (1.15%) LAN
8 68 (1.10%) Network Security
9 59 (0.95%) Internet
10 57 (0.92%) Wireless
11 56 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
12 51 (0.82%) VLAN
13 45 (0.73%) Broadband
14 39 (0.63%) SAN
15 36 (0.58%) HTTP
16 31 (0.50%) VoIP
17 25 (0.40%) 5G
17 25 (0.40%) BGP
18 24 (0.39%) SD-WAN
18 24 (0.39%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 672 (10.85%) Power BI
2 217 (3.50%) SQL Server
3 208 (3.36%) Tableau
4 187 (3.02%) Data Warehouse
5 112 (1.81%) Amazon RDS
6 110 (1.78%) Relational Database
7 100 (1.61%) Metadata
8 92 (1.49%) Looker
9 86 (1.39%) MySQL
10 78 (1.26%) Data Lake
11 76 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
12 75 (1.21%) Power Query
13 71 (1.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 61 (0.98%) BigQuery
15 57 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 55 (0.89%) Big Data
17 52 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
18 49 (0.79%) NoSQL
19 39 (0.63%) MongoDB
20 35 (0.57%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 264 (4.26%) JIRA
2 223 (3.60%) Git
3 53 (0.86%) Jenkins
4 47 (0.76%) GitLab
5 31 (0.50%) Rational DOORS
5 31 (0.50%) Selenium
6 25 (0.40%) Eclipse
7 24 (0.39%) Cucumber
8 22 (0.36%) MLflow
9 20 (0.32%) Claude Code
9 20 (0.32%) Postman
10 18 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
11 17 (0.27%) LabVIEW
12 16 (0.26%) Chocolatey
13 15 (0.24%) Bitbucket
13 15 (0.24%) JMeter
14 14 (0.23%) Burp Suite
15 13 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
16 11 (0.18%) Cypress.io
16 11 (0.18%) SonarQube
General
1 3,048 (49.21%) Social Skills
2 2,046 (33.03%) Finance
3 706 (11.40%) Marketing
4 540 (8.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 502 (8.10%) Organisational Skills
6 435 (7.02%) Retail
7 413 (6.67%) Law
8 401 (6.47%) Public Sector
9 389 (6.28%) Legal
10 346 (5.59%) Manufacturing
11 325 (5.25%) Influencing Skills
12 247 (3.99%) Banking
13 217 (3.50%) Presentation Skills
14 198 (3.20%) Aerospace
15 151 (2.44%) Telecoms
16 148 (2.39%) Electronics
17 113 (1.82%) Advertising
18 97 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
19 75 (1.21%) Automotive
20 70 (1.13%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,387 (22.39%) Analyst
2 810 (13.08%) Senior
3 424 (6.85%) Lead
4 301 (4.86%) Data Analyst
5 297 (4.79%) Business Analyst
6 296 (4.78%) Developer
7 236 (3.81%) Architect
8 232 (3.75%) Consultant
9 199 (3.21%) Senior Analyst
10 190 (3.07%) Support Analyst
11 189 (3.05%) Data Engineer
12 188 (3.04%) Systems Engineer
13 128 (2.07%) Support Engineer
14 119 (1.92%) IT Support
15 112 (1.81%) Applications Support
16 110 (1.78%) Security Analyst
17 108 (1.74%) Senior Manager
18 107 (1.73%) IT Manager
19 105 (1.70%) Accountant
20 102 (1.65%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (2.68%) .NET
2 145 (2.34%) Terraform
3 133 (2.15%) REST
4 126 (2.03%) HTML
5 115 (1.86%) CSS
6 91 (1.47%) JSON
7 82 (1.32%) RESTful
8 80 (1.29%) XML
9 79 (1.28%) Middleware
10 73 (1.18%) Kafka
11 71 (1.15%) PySpark
11 71 (1.15%) React
12 64 (1.03%) SOAP
13 55 (0.89%) PyTorch
14 48 (0.77%) EDI
14 48 (0.77%) TensorFlow
14 48 (0.77%) Web Services
15 45 (0.73%) LDAP
16 41 (0.66%) Spring Boot
17 39 (0.63%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 471 (7.60%) Analytical Mindset
2 431 (6.96%) Management Information System
3 390 (6.30%) Onboarding
4 310 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
5 292 (4.71%) Product Ownership
6 154 (2.49%) Driving Licence
7 149 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
8 146 (2.36%) Cloud Native
9 141 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
10 121 (1.95%) Social Media
11 119 (1.92%) Blog
12 112 (1.81%) Cyber Threat
13 105 (1.70%) Marketing Technology
14 103 (1.66%) Data Centre
14 103 (1.66%) Security Posture
15 99 (1.60%) Virtual Team
16 85 (1.37%) Data Structures
17 74 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
18 65 (1.05%) Algorithms
19 63 (1.02%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 470 (7.59%) Windows
2 285 (4.60%) Linux
3 220 (3.55%) Windows Server
4 93 (1.50%) Windows Server 2016
5 41 (0.66%) Windows 10
6 35 (0.57%) Mac OS
7 32 (0.52%) Unix
8 27 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 24 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
10 23 (0.37%) Apple iOS
11 19 (0.31%) Android
12 10 (0.16%) CentOS
13 8 (0.13%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.097%) Debian
14 6 (0.097%) VMS
15 5 (0.081%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.065%) CoreOS
17 3 (0.048%) Rocky
18 2 (0.032%) AIX
18 2 (0.032%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,025 (48.84%) Problem-Solving
2 1,819 (29.37%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,467 (23.68%) Decision-Making
4 1,274 (20.57%) Analytics
5 1,233 (19.91%) Stakeholder Management
6 1,136 (18.34%) AI
7 1,084 (17.50%) Agile
8 834 (13.46%) Business Intelligence
9 645 (10.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 629 (10.15%) Roadmaps
11 601 (9.70%) Mentoring
12 588 (9.49%) Actionable Insight
13 572 (9.23%) Validation
14 541 (8.73%) Data Analysis
15 533 (8.61%) Project Management
16 529 (8.54%) Process Improvement
17 499 (8.06%) ERP
18 498 (8.04%) CRM
19 497 (8.02%) Cybersecurity
20 492 (7.94%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 1,206 (19.47%) SQL
2 863 (13.93%) Python
3 231 (3.73%) JavaScript
4 218 (3.52%) Java
5 202 (3.26%) C#
6 194 (3.13%) PowerShell
7 117 (1.89%) C++
8 91 (1.47%) Bash
9 84 (1.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 78 (1.26%) R
11 72 (1.16%) TypeScript
12 54 (0.87%) MATLAB
13 50 (0.81%) T-SQL
14 40 (0.65%) C
15 31 (0.50%) PL/SQL
16 29 (0.47%) Scala
17 24 (0.39%) Go
17 24 (0.39%) PHP
18 22 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
18 22 (0.36%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,240 (20.02%) Degree
2 698 (11.27%) Security Cleared
3 481 (7.77%) SC Cleared
4 258 (4.17%) ACCA
5 240 (3.87%) CIMA
6 181 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 159 (2.57%) DV Cleared
8 153 (2.47%) CISSP
9 146 (2.36%) DBS Check
10 128 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
11 121 (1.95%) CISM
12 113 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
13 99 (1.60%) Master's Degree
14 81 (1.31%) Azure Certification
14 81 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
15 71 (1.15%) HND
16 67 (1.08%) CompTIA Security+
17 62 (1.00%) PMI Certification
18 52 (0.84%) HNC
19 49 (0.79%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 615 (9.93%) Data Quality
2 376 (6.07%) QA
3 342 (5.52%) GDPR
4 234 (3.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 199 (3.21%) Accessibility
6 177 (2.86%) NIST
7 149 (2.41%) SLA
8 147 (2.37%) Cyber Essentials
9 121 (1.95%) PCI DSS
10 70 (1.13%) GRC
11 69 (1.11%) ISO 9001
12 60 (0.97%) PMO
13 52 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
14 40 (0.65%) IFRS
14 40 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 34 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 30 (0.48%) NCSC
17 28 (0.45%) COBIT
18 26 (0.42%) DO-254
18 26 (0.42%) GAAP
System Software
1 331 (5.34%) Active Directory
2 142 (2.29%) Docker
3 103 (1.66%) Hyper-V
4 89 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 72 (1.16%) Terminal Server
6 43 (0.69%) Firmware
7 23 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
7 23 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
8 11 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
9 9 (0.15%) vSphere
10 8 (0.13%) VMware NSX
11 7 (0.11%) Ceph
12 4 (0.065%) KVM
12 4 (0.065%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.048%) DFS Replication
14 2 (0.032%) IAG
14 2 (0.032%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 1 (0.016%) HDFS
15 1 (0.016%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 117 (1.89%) Kubernetes
2 87 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
3 73 (1.18%) Ansible
4 41 (0.66%) Grafana
5 40 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
6 25 (0.40%) SCCM
7 22 (0.36%) Prometheus
8 21 (0.34%) Kibana
9 19 (0.31%) QRadar
10 12 (0.19%) Nagios
11 11 (0.18%) Nmap
11 11 (0.18%) Podman
12 9 (0.15%) Argo
12 9 (0.15%) logstash
13 7 (0.11%) Check_MK
13 7 (0.11%) Istio
13 7 (0.11%) Kubeflow
14 6 (0.097%) Functional Safety
14 6 (0.097%) Graylog
14 6 (0.097%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1,438 (23.22%) Microsoft
2 364 (5.88%) Google
3 247 (3.99%) SAP
4 195 (3.15%) Oracle
5 178 (2.87%) VMware
6 155 (2.50%) Splunk
7 144 (2.32%) Databricks
8 138 (2.23%) ServiceNow
9 137 (2.21%) Salesforce
10 95 (1.53%) SolarWinds
11 86 (1.39%) Cisco
12 81 (1.31%) Veeam
13 73 (1.18%) Brocade
13 73 (1.18%) Nimble Storage
14 72 (1.16%) Tanium
15 70 (1.13%) Adobe
16 64 (1.03%) HubSpot
17 63 (1.02%) Workday
17 63 (1.02%) YouTube
18 44 (0.71%) Sage