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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 8 14
Rank change year-on-year -18 +6 +7
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,952 6,084 9,846
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.19% 13.16% 9.31%
As % of the General category 10.96% 18.35% 16.16%
Number of salaries quoted 3,240 2,481 5,351
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,808 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.35% +10.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,445 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.11% +11.11% -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 45,175 33,151 60,940
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 47.31% 71.70% 57.65%
Number of salaries quoted 27,784 16,455 40,334
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £76,750 £77,500 £71,788
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,800 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -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 June 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 28 June 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 -17 4,518 £55,000 - 1,855
UK excluding London -20 3,116 £48,445 -3.11% 1,451
London -11 1,553 £70,000 +7.69% 746
Work from Home -11 1,542 £55,000 - 774
North of England -18 958 £48,350 +2.33% 308
South East -9 793 £50,000 -9.09% 510
Midlands -8 568 £47,750 +0.53% 256
North West -19 558 £47,500 -5.00% 173
South West -26 339 £47,500 +2.40% 156
West Midlands -16 315 £49,500 +4.21% 147
Yorkshire -9 297 £50,000 +11.48% 99
East Midlands -2 252 £46,743 -2.62% 108
East of England -17 241 £45,000 - 123
Scotland -25 105 £40,000 -12.35% 62
North East -25 103 £55,000 +41.75% 42
Wales -5 84 £53,171 -3.33% 31
Northern Ireland -20 39 £40,000 -27.27% 56

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
1 163 (3.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 123 (2.48%) SharePoint
3 72 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
4 71 (1.43%) Confluence
5 68 (1.37%) Apache Spark
6 44 (0.89%) Apache
7 37 (0.75%) CMS
8 22 (0.44%) IIS
9 21 (0.42%) SAS
10 16 (0.32%) WordPress
11 14 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 13 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
13 8 (0.16%) WebLogic
13 8 (0.16%) WebSphere
14 6 (0.12%) Jupyter
15 3 (0.061%) Anypoint
15 3 (0.061%) JBoss
15 3 (0.061%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 3 (0.061%) Tomcat
16 2 (0.040%) nginx
Applications
1 536 (10.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 194 (3.92%) Microsoft Office
3 103 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 84 (1.70%) MS Visio
5 33 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
6 26 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
7 9 (0.18%) CATIA
8 7 (0.14%) Adobe XD
9 6 (0.12%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.10%) Acrobat
11 4 (0.081%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.081%) Maya
12 3 (0.061%) Blender
12 3 (0.061%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.061%) Simulink
12 3 (0.061%) Trello
13 2 (0.040%) AutoCAD
13 2 (0.040%) Lectora
13 2 (0.040%) Siemens NX
13 2 (0.040%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 73 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 39 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 35 (0.71%) NetSuite
4 27 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
5 17 (0.34%) SAP CO
6 16 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
6 16 (0.32%) SAP PM
7 15 (0.30%) SAP ERP
8 12 (0.24%) SAP FI
9 11 (0.22%) Maximo
9 11 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
10 9 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
10 9 (0.18%) Workday HCM
11 8 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
12 7 (0.14%) Elite 3E
12 7 (0.14%) Fidessa
12 7 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
12 7 (0.14%) Shopify
13 6 (0.12%) Magento
13 6 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 883 (17.83%) Azure
2 651 (13.15%) Power Platform
3 487 (9.83%) AWS
4 364 (7.35%) Microsoft 365
5 311 (6.28%) SaaS
6 216 (4.36%) GCP
7 129 (2.61%) Dynamics 365
8 119 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
9 116 (2.34%) Entra ID
10 84 (1.70%) Google Analytics
11 80 (1.62%) Microsoft Purview
11 80 (1.62%) Power Automate
12 79 (1.60%) GitHub
13 72 (1.45%) Amazon S3
14 68 (1.37%) dbt
14 68 (1.37%) PowerApps
15 67 (1.35%) Snowflake
16 62 (1.25%) Serverless
17 55 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
18 52 (1.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 202 (4.08%) Firewall
2 171 (3.45%) DNS
3 129 (2.61%) DHCP
4 120 (2.42%) VPN
5 86 (1.74%) WAN
6 82 (1.66%) TCP/IP
7 78 (1.58%) LAN
8 76 (1.53%) Broadband
9 63 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
10 55 (1.11%) Wireless
11 51 (1.03%) VLAN
12 50 (1.01%) Network Security
13 42 (0.85%) SAN
14 35 (0.71%) BGP
15 33 (0.67%) HTTP
16 31 (0.63%) Internet
17 28 (0.57%) SD-WAN
18 26 (0.53%) Cisco ASA
19 25 (0.50%) Wireshark
20 24 (0.48%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 581 (11.73%) Power BI
2 288 (5.82%) Tableau
3 189 (3.82%) SQL Server
4 174 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
5 98 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
6 90 (1.82%) Metadata
7 75 (1.51%) Data Mining
8 73 (1.47%) Relational Database
9 71 (1.43%) Data Lake
10 62 (1.25%) Looker
11 61 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
12 60 (1.21%) Power Query
13 59 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
14 57 (1.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 54 (1.09%) MySQL
16 49 (0.99%) BigQuery
17 47 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 37 (0.75%) Big Data
18 37 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
18 37 (0.75%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 173 (3.49%) JIRA
2 147 (2.97%) Git
3 55 (1.11%) GitLab
4 36 (0.73%) Rational DOORS
5 33 (0.67%) Jenkins
6 31 (0.63%) MLflow
7 20 (0.40%) Selenium
8 18 (0.36%) Chocolatey
8 18 (0.36%) Cucumber
9 15 (0.30%) Eclipse
10 14 (0.28%) ERwin
11 13 (0.26%) IBM UrbanCode
11 13 (0.26%) Postman
12 12 (0.24%) Cypress.io
12 12 (0.24%) SonarQube
12 12 (0.24%) Visual Studio
13 10 (0.20%) JMeter
13 10 (0.20%) Oracle APEX
14 9 (0.18%) Bitbucket
14 9 (0.18%) LabVIEW
General
1 2,315 (46.75%) Social Skills
2 1,699 (34.31%) Finance
3 410 (8.28%) Marketing
4 360 (7.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 312 (6.30%) Organisational Skills
6 305 (6.16%) Public Sector
7 277 (5.59%) Retail
8 270 (5.45%) Law
9 269 (5.43%) Legal
10 241 (4.87%) Banking
11 190 (3.84%) Manufacturing
12 176 (3.55%) Influencing Skills
13 138 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
14 118 (2.38%) Telecoms
15 88 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
16 87 (1.76%) Advertising
17 84 (1.70%) Aerospace
18 77 (1.55%) Electronics
19 74 (1.49%) Financial Institution
20 55 (1.11%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,267 (25.59%) Analyst
2 640 (12.92%) Senior
3 353 (7.13%) Lead
4 305 (6.16%) Data Analyst
5 279 (5.63%) Business Analyst
6 239 (4.83%) Developer
7 221 (4.46%) Consultant
8 200 (4.04%) Architect
9 192 (3.88%) Systems Engineer
10 150 (3.03%) Senior Analyst
11 135 (2.73%) Data Engineer
12 127 (2.56%) Support Analyst
13 116 (2.34%) Support Engineer
14 114 (2.30%) IT Support
15 112 (2.26%) IT Manager
16 105 (2.12%) Systems Analyst
17 103 (2.08%) Senior Manager
18 98 (1.98%) Financial Analyst
19 96 (1.94%) Security Analyst
20 86 (1.74%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (2.40%) HTML
2 111 (2.24%) .NET
3 108 (2.18%) CSS
4 100 (2.02%) REST
5 91 (1.84%) Middleware
6 88 (1.78%) JSON
7 84 (1.70%) React
8 80 (1.62%) XML
9 68 (1.37%) PyTorch
10 62 (1.25%) TensorFlow
11 54 (1.09%) Kafka
12 48 (0.97%) RESTful
13 47 (0.95%) Node.js
13 47 (0.95%) SOAP
14 44 (0.89%) PySpark
15 42 (0.85%) scikit-learn
16 39 (0.79%) Web Services
17 34 (0.69%) Pandas
18 33 (0.67%) LangChain
19 29 (0.59%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 530 (10.70%) Analytical Mindset
2 242 (4.89%) Management Information System
3 217 (4.38%) Onboarding
4 204 (4.12%) Product Ownership
5 190 (3.84%) Self-Motivation
6 131 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
7 106 (2.14%) Data Centre
8 103 (2.08%) Cloud Native
9 99 (2.00%) Security Posture
10 87 (1.76%) Driving Licence
11 85 (1.72%) Data Structures
12 78 (1.58%) Algorithms
12 78 (1.58%) Cyber Threat
13 68 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
14 61 (1.23%) Social Media
15 56 (1.13%) Public Cloud
15 56 (1.13%) Virtual Team
16 47 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
17 45 (0.91%) Cyber Defence
18 43 (0.87%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 379 (7.65%) Windows
2 236 (4.77%) Linux
3 190 (3.84%) Windows Server
4 88 (1.78%) Windows Server 2016
5 33 (0.67%) Unix
6 29 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 28 (0.57%) Windows 10
8 18 (0.36%) Android
8 18 (0.36%) Mac OS
8 18 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
9 14 (0.28%) Apple iOS
10 11 (0.22%) CentOS
10 11 (0.22%) Ubuntu
11 8 (0.16%) VMS
12 5 (0.10%) Debian
12 5 (0.10%) OpenVMS
13 4 (0.081%) AIX
13 4 (0.081%) Rocky
14 3 (0.061%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.020%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,240 (45.23%) Problem-Solving
2 1,239 (25.02%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,101 (22.23%) Decision-Making
4 1,083 (21.87%) Analytics
5 852 (17.21%) Agile
6 658 (13.29%) AI
6 658 (13.29%) Business Intelligence
6 658 (13.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 523 (10.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 511 (10.32%) Roadmaps
9 492 (9.94%) Mentoring
10 476 (9.61%) Actionable Insight
11 464 (9.37%) Project Management
12 456 (9.21%) Cybersecurity
13 452 (9.13%) Data Modelling
14 436 (8.80%) Data Analysis
15 408 (8.24%) Data Governance
16 403 (8.14%) Process Improvement
17 366 (7.39%) Analytical Thinking
18 364 (7.35%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1,050 (21.20%) SQL
2 870 (17.57%) Python
3 177 (3.57%) JavaScript
4 172 (3.47%) Java
5 167 (3.37%) PowerShell
6 153 (3.09%) C#
7 77 (1.55%) R
8 73 (1.47%) C++
8 73 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 71 (1.43%) Bash
10 52 (1.05%) TypeScript
11 50 (1.01%) T-SQL
12 45 (0.91%) MATLAB
13 33 (0.67%) VBA
14 23 (0.46%) PHP
15 22 (0.44%) Go
16 19 (0.38%) PL/SQL
17 18 (0.36%) C
17 18 (0.36%) Julia
17 18 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 907 (18.32%) Degree
2 463 (9.35%) Security Cleared
3 330 (6.66%) SC Cleared
4 260 (5.25%) ACCA
5 245 (4.95%) CIMA
6 156 (3.15%) CISSP
6 156 (3.15%) DBS Check
7 147 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 117 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
9 112 (2.26%) CISM
10 92 (1.86%) Master's Degree
11 90 (1.82%) DV Cleared
12 87 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
13 73 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
14 72 (1.45%) IRCA
15 71 (1.43%) Azure Certification
16 67 (1.35%) CompTIA Security+
17 55 (1.11%) PMI Certification
18 49 (0.99%) PMP
19 47 (0.95%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 471 (9.51%) Data Quality
2 385 (7.77%) GDPR
3 328 (6.62%) QA
4 272 (5.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 226 (4.56%) NIST
6 166 (3.35%) Cyber Essentials
7 145 (2.93%) SLA
8 130 (2.63%) Accessibility
8 130 (2.63%) PCI DSS
9 122 (2.46%) ISO 9001
10 76 (1.53%) GRC
11 59 (1.19%) PMO
12 48 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
13 44 (0.89%) IFRS
14 43 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 41 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 36 (0.73%) COBIT
17 28 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 24 (0.48%) ITGC
19 23 (0.46%) NCSC
System Software
1 274 (5.53%) Active Directory
2 93 (1.88%) Docker
3 88 (1.78%) Hyper-V
4 77 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 72 (1.45%) Terminal Server
6 26 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
7 14 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
8 12 (0.24%) ProxySG
9 11 (0.22%) vSphere
10 9 (0.18%) VMware NSX
11 8 (0.16%) IAG
12 5 (0.10%) Firmware
13 4 (0.081%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.081%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.081%) XenApp
14 3 (0.061%) DFS Replication
14 3 (0.061%) VMware ESXi
15 2 (0.040%) Embedded Firmware
15 2 (0.040%) Oracle RAC
16 1 (0.020%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 136 (2.75%) Terraform
2 84 (1.70%) Kubernetes
3 62 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 61 (1.23%) Ansible
5 37 (0.75%) Grafana
6 27 (0.55%) SCCM
7 23 (0.46%) Prometheus
8 21 (0.42%) Nagios
9 16 (0.32%) Kibana
9 16 (0.32%) QRadar
9 16 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
10 12 (0.24%) Kubeflow
11 8 (0.16%) logstash
12 7 (0.14%) Control-M
12 7 (0.14%) Packer
13 6 (0.12%) Graylog
14 5 (0.10%) Docker Swarm
14 5 (0.10%) Podman
14 5 (0.10%) Red Hat Satellite
15 4 (0.081%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 1,102 (22.25%) Microsoft
2 211 (4.26%) SAP
3 199 (4.02%) Google
4 169 (3.41%) Oracle
5 159 (3.21%) VMware
6 145 (2.93%) Salesforce
7 127 (2.56%) Splunk
8 118 (2.38%) SolarWinds
9 117 (2.36%) Databricks
10 94 (1.90%) ServiceNow
11 85 (1.72%) Veeam
12 75 (1.51%) Cisco
12 75 (1.51%) Workday
13 73 (1.47%) Nimble Storage
14 72 (1.45%) Brocade
14 72 (1.45%) Tanium
15 52 (1.05%) IBM
16 51 (1.03%) Red Hat
17 46 (0.93%) Adobe
18 45 (0.91%) HubSpot