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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 9 13
Rank change year-on-year -16 +4 +7
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 5,871 6,078 7,792
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.34% 12.13% 9.58%
As % of the General category 11.61% 17.77% 16.84%
Number of salaries quoted 3,579 2,609 3,395
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £40,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
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 50,548 34,202 46,280
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 45.97% 68.26% 56.89%
Number of salaries quoted 31,027 18,075 25,942
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,441 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.03% -1.02% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -3.05%

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 31 August 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 31 August 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 5,249 £52,500 - 3,948
UK excluding London -16 3,823 £47,500 +5.56% 2,551
Work from Home -7 1,929 £55,000 +10.00% 1,741
London -10 1,776 £67,500 +3.85% 2,022
North of England -19 1,043 £47,500 +5.56% 576
South East -8 921 £49,536 -5.65% 800
Midlands -8 663 £47,500 +5.56% 399
North West -16 639 £46,500 +3.33% 323
South West -10 533 £47,500 +5.56% 383
West Midlands -17 340 £48,750 +8.33% 234
East Midlands -4 320 £46,113 +2.47% 163
Yorkshire -14 281 £47,000 +17.50% 200
East of England -16 255 £47,500 +5.56% 210
Wales -12 165 £47,500 -5.58% 59
Scotland -21 134 £44,000 +10.00% 136
North East -16 123 £55,000 +34.15% 60
Northern Ireland -12 117 £42,500 -22.73% 54

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
1 186 (3.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 178 (3.03%) SharePoint
3 97 (1.65%) Confluence
4 55 (0.94%) Apache Spark
5 54 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
6 42 (0.72%) CMS
7 35 (0.60%) Apache
7 35 (0.60%) IIS
8 26 (0.44%) SAS
9 11 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
9 11 (0.19%) WordPress
10 10 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 10 (0.17%) Jupyter
11 9 (0.15%) Headless CMS
11 9 (0.15%) WebLogic
11 9 (0.15%) WebSphere
12 8 (0.14%) OpenStack
13 3 (0.051%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.051%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.051%) Tomcat
Applications
1 617 (10.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 257 (4.38%) Microsoft Office
3 118 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 72 (1.23%) MS Visio
5 44 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
6 28 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.20%) Simulink
8 9 (0.15%) Adobe XD
9 7 (0.12%) AutoCAD
10 5 (0.085%) Acrobat
10 5 (0.085%) CATIA
10 5 (0.085%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.085%) EPLAN
11 4 (0.068%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.068%) Maya
11 4 (0.068%) SOLIDWORKS
11 4 (0.068%) Trello
12 3 (0.051%) Blender
12 3 (0.051%) LaTeX
12 3 (0.051%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 105 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 64 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
3 40 (0.68%) NetSuite
4 35 (0.60%) Dynamics GP
5 22 (0.37%) Shopify
6 19 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
7 15 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
7 15 (0.26%) SAP PM
8 13 (0.22%) Workday HCM
9 12 (0.20%) SAP CO
9 12 (0.20%) SAP ERP
9 12 (0.20%) SAP FI
10 11 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
10 11 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
11 10 (0.17%) Elite 3E
11 10 (0.17%) Magento
11 10 (0.17%) SAP Business One
12 9 (0.15%) Fidessa
12 9 (0.15%) Sage 200
13 8 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 993 (16.91%) Azure
2 699 (11.91%) Power Platform
3 613 (10.44%) AWS
4 423 (7.20%) Microsoft 365
5 374 (6.37%) SaaS
6 290 (4.94%) GCP
7 149 (2.54%) Entra ID
8 148 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
9 142 (2.42%) Dynamics 365
10 119 (2.03%) Google Analytics
11 102 (1.74%) GitHub
12 98 (1.67%) Snowflake
13 89 (1.52%) dbt
14 87 (1.48%) Google Ads
15 82 (1.40%) Power Automate
16 78 (1.33%) Microsoft Purview
17 77 (1.31%) PowerApps
18 71 (1.21%) Serverless
19 68 (1.16%) Amazon S3
20 62 (1.06%) Meta Ads
Communications & Networking
1 203 (3.46%) DNS
2 159 (2.71%) DHCP
3 154 (2.62%) Firewall
4 130 (2.21%) VPN
5 102 (1.74%) TCP/IP
6 77 (1.31%) WAN
7 75 (1.28%) LAN
8 65 (1.11%) Network Security
9 60 (1.02%) Wireless
10 56 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
11 52 (0.89%) Broadband
12 49 (0.83%) VLAN
13 45 (0.77%) Internet
14 40 (0.68%) SAN
15 35 (0.60%) HTTP
16 31 (0.53%) VoIP
17 27 (0.46%) BGP
18 22 (0.37%) SMS
19 21 (0.36%) SD-WAN
20 20 (0.34%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 619 (10.54%) Power BI
2 234 (3.99%) Tableau
3 220 (3.75%) SQL Server
4 194 (3.30%) Data Warehouse
5 119 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
6 101 (1.72%) Relational Database
7 99 (1.69%) Looker
8 93 (1.58%) Metadata
9 86 (1.46%) MySQL
10 78 (1.33%) Data Lake
11 74 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
12 70 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 67 (1.14%) BigQuery
14 65 (1.11%) Power Query
15 59 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 54 (0.92%) Big Data
17 53 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
18 48 (0.82%) NoSQL
19 38 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
20 37 (0.63%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 255 (4.34%) JIRA
2 206 (3.51%) Git
3 49 (0.83%) Jenkins
4 48 (0.82%) GitLab
5 31 (0.53%) MLflow
5 31 (0.53%) Rational DOORS
6 29 (0.49%) Selenium
7 23 (0.39%) Cucumber
8 22 (0.37%) Eclipse
9 20 (0.34%) Postman
10 16 (0.27%) Chocolatey
10 16 (0.27%) Claude Code
11 15 (0.26%) Bitbucket
12 14 (0.24%) JMeter
12 14 (0.24%) LabVIEW
12 14 (0.24%) Oracle Forms
13 13 (0.22%) Burp Suite
14 12 (0.20%) Cypress.io
15 11 (0.19%) ERwin
15 11 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2,854 (48.61%) Social Skills
2 1,904 (32.43%) Finance
3 628 (10.70%) Marketing
4 527 (8.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 434 (7.39%) Organisational Skills
6 402 (6.85%) Law
7 398 (6.78%) Retail
8 364 (6.20%) Public Sector
9 354 (6.03%) Legal
10 295 (5.02%) Influencing Skills
11 293 (4.99%) Manufacturing
12 253 (4.31%) Banking
13 197 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
14 175 (2.98%) Aerospace
15 131 (2.23%) Telecoms
16 120 (2.04%) Electronics
17 106 (1.81%) Advertising
18 94 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
19 71 (1.21%) Financial Institution
20 66 (1.12%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,352 (23.03%) Analyst
2 766 (13.05%) Senior
3 414 (7.05%) Lead
4 299 (5.09%) Data Analyst
5 294 (5.01%) Business Analyst
6 284 (4.84%) Developer
7 230 (3.92%) Architect
8 226 (3.85%) Consultant
9 208 (3.54%) Systems Engineer
10 202 (3.44%) Senior Analyst
11 176 (3.00%) Support Analyst
12 173 (2.95%) Data Engineer
13 128 (2.18%) Support Engineer
14 119 (2.03%) IT Support
15 110 (1.87%) IT Manager
16 108 (1.84%) Senior Manager
17 106 (1.81%) Security Analyst
18 98 (1.67%) Systems Analyst
19 97 (1.65%) Applications Support
20 94 (1.60%) Marketing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (2.69%) .NET
2 146 (2.49%) Terraform
3 126 (2.15%) HTML
4 125 (2.13%) REST
5 117 (1.99%) CSS
6 88 (1.50%) JSON
7 78 (1.33%) Middleware
8 77 (1.31%) Kafka
8 77 (1.31%) XML
9 74 (1.26%) RESTful
10 71 (1.21%) React
11 66 (1.12%) PyTorch
12 59 (1.00%) SOAP
12 59 (1.00%) TensorFlow
13 49 (0.83%) PySpark
14 46 (0.78%) scikit-learn
15 45 (0.77%) EDI
15 45 (0.77%) Web Services
16 43 (0.73%) LDAP
17 40 (0.68%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 493 (8.40%) Analytical Mindset
2 354 (6.03%) Onboarding
3 353 (6.01%) Management Information System
4 286 (4.87%) Product Ownership
5 285 (4.85%) Self-Motivation
6 164 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
7 139 (2.37%) Cloud Native
8 135 (2.30%) Driving Licence
9 130 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
10 120 (2.04%) Social Media
11 119 (2.03%) Blog
12 105 (1.79%) Security Posture
13 104 (1.77%) Marketing Technology
14 103 (1.75%) Data Centre
15 102 (1.74%) Cyber Threat
16 95 (1.62%) Virtual Team
17 84 (1.43%) Data Structures
18 72 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
19 70 (1.19%) Algorithms
20 53 (0.90%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 462 (7.87%) Windows
2 286 (4.87%) Linux
3 223 (3.80%) Windows Server
4 99 (1.69%) Windows Server 2016
5 37 (0.63%) Windows 10
6 33 (0.56%) Unix
7 30 (0.51%) Mac OS
8 28 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 22 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
10 21 (0.36%) Apple iOS
11 18 (0.31%) Android
12 11 (0.19%) CentOS
13 8 (0.14%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.10%) Debian
14 6 (0.10%) VMS
15 5 (0.085%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.068%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.068%) Rocky
17 2 (0.034%) AIX
17 2 (0.034%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,834 (48.27%) Problem-Solving
2 1,686 (28.72%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,373 (23.39%) Decision-Making
4 1,240 (21.12%) Analytics
5 1,059 (18.04%) Stakeholder Management
6 1,056 (17.99%) Agile
7 1,033 (17.59%) AI
8 762 (12.98%) Business Intelligence
9 629 (10.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 608 (10.36%) Roadmaps
11 574 (9.78%) Mentoring
12 557 (9.49%) Actionable Insight
13 524 (8.93%) Project Management
14 510 (8.69%) Validation
15 496 (8.45%) Cybersecurity
15 496 (8.45%) Data Analysis
16 474 (8.07%) Data Modelling
17 463 (7.89%) Process Improvement
18 448 (7.63%) ERP
19 446 (7.60%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 1,158 (19.72%) SQL
2 872 (14.85%) Python
3 226 (3.85%) JavaScript
4 200 (3.41%) Java
5 191 (3.25%) C#
6 189 (3.22%) PowerShell
7 106 (1.81%) C++
8 90 (1.53%) Bash
9 79 (1.35%) R
10 74 (1.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 67 (1.14%) TypeScript
12 49 (0.83%) MATLAB
12 49 (0.83%) T-SQL
13 34 (0.58%) C
14 28 (0.48%) Scala
15 27 (0.46%) PHP
16 24 (0.41%) PL/SQL
17 21 (0.36%) Go
18 20 (0.34%) Perl
19 19 (0.32%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,164 (19.83%) Degree
2 658 (11.21%) Security Cleared
3 456 (7.77%) SC Cleared
4 229 (3.90%) ACCA
5 214 (3.65%) CIMA
6 179 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 166 (2.83%) CISSP
8 159 (2.71%) DV Cleared
9 141 (2.40%) DBS Check
10 125 (2.13%) CISM
11 117 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
12 116 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
13 99 (1.69%) Master's Degree
14 82 (1.40%) Azure Certification
15 78 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
16 74 (1.26%) CompTIA Security+
17 64 (1.09%) PMI Certification
18 48 (0.82%) HND
19 47 (0.80%) AWS Certification
19 47 (0.80%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 558 (9.50%) Data Quality
2 384 (6.54%) QA
3 359 (6.11%) GDPR
4 245 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 197 (3.36%) NIST
6 173 (2.95%) Accessibility
7 156 (2.66%) Cyber Essentials
8 152 (2.59%) SLA
9 127 (2.16%) PCI DSS
10 97 (1.65%) ISO 9001
11 69 (1.18%) GRC
12 59 (1.00%) PMO
13 46 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
14 41 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 36 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 36 (0.61%) IFRS
16 33 (0.56%) COBIT
17 28 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 27 (0.46%) NCSC
19 24 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 335 (5.71%) Active Directory
2 131 (2.23%) Docker
3 106 (1.81%) Hyper-V
4 91 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 80 (1.36%) Terminal Server
6 33 (0.56%) Firmware
7 22 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
8 20 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
10 8 (0.14%) VMware NSX
10 8 (0.14%) vSphere
11 7 (0.12%) Ceph
12 4 (0.068%) KVM
12 4 (0.068%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.068%) ProxySG
13 3 (0.051%) DFS Replication
13 3 (0.051%) IAG
13 3 (0.051%) VMware ESXi
14 2 (0.034%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 110 (1.87%) Kubernetes
2 86 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
3 76 (1.29%) Ansible
4 40 (0.68%) Grafana
5 38 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
6 26 (0.44%) SCCM
7 21 (0.36%) Prometheus
8 19 (0.32%) QRadar
9 18 (0.31%) Kibana
10 15 (0.26%) Nagios
11 11 (0.19%) Nmap
11 11 (0.19%) Podman
12 9 (0.15%) Argo
12 9 (0.15%) Kubeflow
13 8 (0.14%) logstash
14 7 (0.12%) Check_MK
14 7 (0.12%) Istio
14 7 (0.12%) Packer
14 7 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
15 6 (0.10%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1,297 (22.09%) Microsoft
2 319 (5.43%) Google
3 236 (4.02%) SAP
4 188 (3.20%) Oracle
5 184 (3.13%) VMware
6 151 (2.57%) Splunk
7 144 (2.45%) Databricks
8 133 (2.27%) ServiceNow
9 127 (2.16%) Salesforce
10 111 (1.89%) SolarWinds
11 90 (1.53%) Veeam
12 87 (1.48%) Cisco
13 81 (1.38%) Brocade
13 81 (1.38%) Nimble Storage
14 80 (1.36%) Tanium
15 70 (1.19%) Workday
16 66 (1.12%) Adobe
17 55 (0.94%) HubSpot
18 49 (0.83%) Dell
19 45 (0.77%) YouTube