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 28 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 11 16
Rank change year-on-year -10 +5 +5
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,981 5,571 6,899
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 7.11% 11.79% 9.10%
As % of the General category 12.82% 17.03% 14.74%
Number of salaries quoted 2,632 2,364 4,748
10th Percentile £30,750 £32,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £74,014 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,967 £45,000
% change year-on-year -11.71% +13.26% -5.26%

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 38,863 32,720 46,820
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 55.50% 69.23% 61.74%
Number of salaries quoted 21,173 15,296 34,429
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £44,590 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -9.84%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £106,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -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 28 February 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 28 February 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 -9 4,415 £52,500 -4.55% 1,769
UK excluding London -13 3,158 £45,000 -11.71% 1,563
Work from Home +5 1,690 £52,500 -6.25% 692
London -5 1,509 £67,500 +3.85% 569
South East +10 872 £50,000 -1.90% 566
North of England -18 841 £45,000 -14.29% 340
Midlands -14 589 £44,000 -8.33% 280
North West -16 431 £42,500 -19.05% 195
West Midlands -17 348 £51,250 +2.50% 180
Yorkshire +4 297 £45,000 -5.26% 108
South West -8 297 £45,000 -14.29% 164
East of England -18 260 £40,000 -21.52% 146
East Midlands +1 239 £40,000 -5.88% 100
Scotland -17 210 £40,000 -33.33% 61
North East -3 113 £40,000 +2.30% 42
Wales +18 69 £40,000 -18.54% 36
Northern Ireland -18 46 £52,500 -4.55% 16
Isle of Man -4 1 £62,500 +150.00% 4
Channel Islands -8 1 - - 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 (2.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 86 (1.73%) Confluence
3 84 (1.69%) SharePoint
4 52 (1.04%) Apache Spark
5 47 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
6 43 (0.86%) CMS
7 30 (0.60%) Apache
8 18 (0.36%) WordPress
9 16 (0.32%) SAS
10 14 (0.28%) IIS
10 14 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
11 5 (0.10%) nginx
12 4 (0.080%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.060%) Drupal
13 3 (0.060%) govService
14 2 (0.040%) ArcGIS
14 2 (0.040%) Camunda
14 2 (0.040%) JBoss
14 2 (0.040%) Jupyter
14 2 (0.040%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 730 (14.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 320 (6.42%) Chatbot
3 302 (6.06%) Microsoft Office
4 124 (2.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 87 (1.75%) MS Visio
6 38 (0.76%) Maya
7 36 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
8 34 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
9 14 (0.28%) Adobe XD
10 13 (0.26%) AutoCAD
11 10 (0.20%) CATIA
12 4 (0.080%) SOLIDWORKS
13 3 (0.060%) Sketch
14 2 (0.040%) Revit
14 2 (0.040%) Simulink
14 2 (0.040%) Trello
15 1 (0.020%) Oracle Smart View
15 1 (0.020%) OrCAD
15 1 (0.020%) Siemens NX
15 1 (0.020%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 105 (2.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 49 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 41 (0.82%) NetSuite
4 40 (0.80%) SAP MDG
5 29 (0.58%) SAP CO
6 28 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
7 22 (0.44%) Endur
8 21 (0.42%) SAP FI
9 20 (0.40%) SAP FI/CO
9 20 (0.40%) Workday HCM
10 18 (0.36%) OpenText VIM for SAP
10 18 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
11 13 (0.26%) SAP ERP
12 11 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
12 11 (0.22%) Sage X3
13 10 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
13 10 (0.20%) Shopify
14 9 (0.18%) Maximo
15 8 (0.16%) Oracle Assets
15 8 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 832 (16.70%) Azure
2 640 (12.85%) Power Platform
3 421 (8.45%) AWS
4 300 (6.02%) Microsoft 365
5 254 (5.10%) SaaS
6 159 (3.19%) GCP
7 153 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
8 120 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
9 96 (1.93%) Entra ID
10 91 (1.83%) GitHub
11 83 (1.67%) Power Automate
12 72 (1.45%) Snowflake
13 71 (1.43%) Azure Data Factory
14 59 (1.18%) Amazon S3
15 58 (1.16%) Google Analytics
16 57 (1.14%) Serverless
17 55 (1.10%) dbt
18 51 (1.02%) PowerApps
19 50 (1.00%) Microsoft Purview
20 45 (0.90%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 180 (3.61%) Firewall
2 159 (3.19%) DNS
3 124 (2.49%) DHCP
4 99 (1.99%) VPN
5 77 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
6 69 (1.39%) WAN
7 63 (1.26%) LAN
8 60 (1.20%) TCP/IP
9 58 (1.16%) Wireless
10 55 (1.10%) VLAN
11 44 (0.88%) Network Security
12 42 (0.84%) Broadband
13 34 (0.68%) Wireshark
14 33 (0.66%) BGP
14 33 (0.66%) Remote Desktop
15 31 (0.62%) OSPF
15 31 (0.62%) SAN
16 29 (0.58%) VoIP
17 27 (0.54%) EIGRP
18 26 (0.52%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 577 (11.58%) Power BI
2 419 (8.41%) Tableau
3 211 (4.24%) SQL Server
4 205 (4.12%) Data Mining
5 165 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
6 110 (2.21%) Metadata
7 99 (1.99%) Relational Database
8 95 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
9 76 (1.53%) Data Lake
10 63 (1.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 52 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
12 48 (0.96%) MySQL
12 48 (0.96%) NoSQL
13 47 (0.94%) Looker
14 46 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
14 46 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
15 44 (0.88%) Power Query
16 36 (0.72%) Big Data
17 32 (0.64%) GIS
18 30 (0.60%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 194 (3.89%) JIRA
2 118 (2.37%) Git
3 46 (0.92%) GitLab
4 42 (0.84%) Selenium
5 36 (0.72%) Jenkins
6 17 (0.34%) Visual Studio
7 15 (0.30%) ERwin
7 15 (0.30%) Robot Framework
8 14 (0.28%) Subversion
9 13 (0.26%) Balsamiq
9 13 (0.26%) Snyk
10 12 (0.24%) Axure RP
10 12 (0.24%) Chocolatey
10 12 (0.24%) IBM UrbanCode
11 11 (0.22%) Cypress.io
11 11 (0.22%) Postman
12 10 (0.20%) Bitbucket
12 10 (0.20%) ER Studio
12 10 (0.20%) LabVIEW
13 9 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
General
1 2,509 (50.37%) Social Skills
2 1,825 (36.64%) Finance
3 442 (8.87%) Marketing
4 330 (6.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 289 (5.80%) Law
6 288 (5.78%) Banking
7 286 (5.74%) Retail
8 278 (5.58%) Legal
9 264 (5.30%) Organisational Skills
10 247 (4.96%) Public Sector
11 215 (4.32%) Presentation Skills
12 159 (3.19%) Manufacturing
13 139 (2.79%) Financial Institution
14 124 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
15 105 (2.11%) Telecoms
16 92 (1.85%) Games
17 91 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
18 69 (1.39%) Advertising
19 58 (1.16%) Electronics
20 49 (0.98%) German Language
Job Titles
1 1,222 (24.53%) Analyst
2 610 (12.25%) Senior
3 397 (7.97%) Data Analyst
4 342 (6.87%) Lead
5 316 (6.34%) Trainer
6 262 (5.26%) Architect
7 238 (4.78%) Business Analyst
8 237 (4.76%) Developer
9 187 (3.75%) Consultant
10 180 (3.61%) Trainee
11 171 (3.43%) Support Analyst
12 169 (3.39%) Trainee Analyst
12 169 (3.39%) Trainee Data Analyst
13 145 (2.91%) IT Support
14 130 (2.61%) Senior Analyst
15 123 (2.47%) Senior Manager
16 109 (2.19%) Financial Analyst
17 107 (2.15%) Business Manager
18 106 (2.13%) Support Engineer
19 101 (2.03%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (2.45%) HTML
2 115 (2.31%) CSS
3 84 (1.69%) React
4 75 (1.51%) .NET
5 59 (1.18%) REST
6 58 (1.16%) Middleware
7 49 (0.98%) JSON
8 46 (0.92%) XML
9 39 (0.78%) Node.js
10 31 (0.62%) PySpark
11 30 (0.60%) SOAP
12 29 (0.58%) EDI
13 28 (0.56%) Spring
14 27 (0.54%) Kafka
14 27 (0.54%) TensorFlow
15 25 (0.50%) AngularJS
15 25 (0.50%) FIX Protocol
16 24 (0.48%) PyTorch
17 22 (0.44%) Pandas
18 19 (0.38%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 494 (9.92%) Analytical Mindset
2 365 (7.33%) Self-Motivation
3 283 (5.68%) Onboarding
4 254 (5.10%) Management Information System
5 185 (3.71%) Product Ownership
6 123 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
7 115 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
8 106 (2.13%) Data Centre
9 92 (1.85%) Data Structures
10 79 (1.59%) Cloud Native
11 77 (1.55%) Driving Licence
12 76 (1.53%) FMCG
13 71 (1.43%) Algorithms
14 53 (1.06%) Virtual Team
15 51 (1.02%) Social Media
16 50 (1.00%) Low-Code
16 50 (1.00%) Robotics
16 50 (1.00%) Security Posture
17 47 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
18 46 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 359 (7.21%) Windows
2 234 (4.70%) Linux
3 146 (2.93%) Windows Server
4 84 (1.69%) Windows Server 2016
5 38 (0.76%) Unix
6 27 (0.54%) Mac OS
7 17 (0.34%) Android
8 15 (0.30%) Windows 10
9 11 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (0.14%) Apple iOS
11 5 (0.10%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.10%) VMS
12 4 (0.080%) CentOS
12 4 (0.080%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.060%) OpenWrt
14 2 (0.040%) AIX
14 2 (0.040%) Data ONTAP
14 2 (0.040%) Oracle Linux
15 1 (0.020%) Debian
15 1 (0.020%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,225 (44.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1,100 (22.08%) Analytics
3 1,090 (21.88%) Continuous Improvement
4 998 (20.04%) AI
5 931 (18.69%) Decision-Making
6 875 (17.57%) Agile
7 778 (15.62%) Project Management
8 741 (14.88%) Business Intelligence
9 600 (12.05%) Stakeholder Management
10 593 (11.91%) Data Analysis
11 429 (8.61%) Actionable Insight
12 420 (8.43%) Mentoring
13 416 (8.35%) Process Improvement
13 416 (8.35%) Roadmaps
14 409 (8.21%) Analytical Thinking
15 398 (7.99%) ERP
16 393 (7.89%) Risk Management
17 380 (7.63%) Computer Science
18 376 (7.55%) Cybersecurity
19 371 (7.45%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1,045 (20.98%) SQL
2 847 (17.00%) Python
3 153 (3.07%) JavaScript
4 143 (2.87%) PowerShell
5 140 (2.81%) Java
6 118 (2.37%) C#
7 77 (1.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 68 (1.37%) R
9 57 (1.14%) Bash
10 50 (1.00%) T-SQL
11 48 (0.96%) VBA
12 47 (0.94%) C++
13 34 (0.68%) TypeScript
14 23 (0.46%) C
15 20 (0.40%) Scala
16 19 (0.38%) MATLAB
17 15 (0.30%) Go
17 15 (0.30%) PL/SQL
18 12 (0.24%) Bicep
18 12 (0.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,437 (28.85%) Degree
2 455 (9.13%) Master's Degree
3 424 (8.51%) Security Cleared
4 325 (6.52%) PhD
5 314 (6.30%) SC Cleared
6 210 (4.22%) ACCA
7 200 (4.02%) CIMA
8 187 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
9 140 (2.81%) CISSP
10 99 (1.99%) DBS Check
11 98 (1.97%) PMI Certification
12 85 (1.71%) DV Cleared
13 84 (1.69%) PMP
14 80 (1.61%) CISM
15 79 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
16 69 (1.39%) Azure Certification
16 69 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
17 62 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
18 48 (0.96%) AWS Certification
19 46 (0.92%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 341 (6.85%) Data Quality
2 244 (4.90%) QA
3 221 (4.44%) GDPR
4 201 (4.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 151 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
6 146 (2.93%) NIST
7 120 (2.41%) PCI DSS
8 105 (2.11%) Accessibility
9 87 (1.75%) PMO
10 68 (1.37%) Actionable Recommendations
11 53 (1.06%) SLA
12 43 (0.86%) GRC
13 36 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 35 (0.70%) ISO 9001
15 31 (0.62%) IFRS
16 24 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 21 (0.42%) WCAG
18 18 (0.36%) NCSC
19 17 (0.34%) COBIT
20 14 (0.28%) GMP
System Software
1 248 (4.98%) Active Directory
2 107 (2.15%) Hyper-V
3 80 (1.61%) Terminal Server
4 66 (1.33%) Docker
5 55 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
6 14 (0.28%) vSphere
7 12 (0.24%) ProxySG
7 12 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (0.16%) Firmware
8 8 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.12%) IAG
10 5 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.080%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.060%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.060%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.040%) XenApp
13 2 (0.040%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.020%) KVM
14 1 (0.020%) NFS
14 1 (0.020%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 127 (2.55%) Terraform
2 72 (1.45%) Kubernetes
3 68 (1.37%) Ansible
4 49 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
5 32 (0.64%) Grafana
6 31 (0.62%) Prometheus
7 25 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (0.42%) SCCM
9 13 (0.26%) Nagios
10 6 (0.12%) Control-M
10 6 (0.12%) SCOM
11 5 (0.10%) CASB
11 5 (0.10%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 4 (0.080%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.080%) Backup Exec
12 4 (0.080%) Nessus
12 4 (0.080%) QRadar
12 4 (0.080%) SolarWinds Orion
12 4 (0.080%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.060%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 1,199 (24.07%) Microsoft
2 318 (6.38%) PayPal
3 275 (5.52%) SAP
4 197 (3.96%) Oracle
5 154 (3.09%) Salesforce
6 146 (2.93%) VMware
7 130 (2.61%) Google
8 125 (2.51%) SolarWinds
9 110 (2.21%) Splunk
10 108 (2.17%) ServiceNow
11 85 (1.71%) Veeam
12 81 (1.63%) Brocade
12 81 (1.63%) Tanium
13 80 (1.61%) Nimble Storage
14 78 (1.57%) Cisco
15 65 (1.30%) Databricks
16 58 (1.16%) Adobe
17 51 (1.02%) Workday
18 45 (0.90%) Alteryx
19 42 (0.84%) Bloomberg