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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 9 14
Rank change year-on-year -20 +5 +5
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,720 5,684 9,439
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.21% 13.09% 9.82%
As % of the General category 10.41% 18.11% 16.28%
Number of salaries quoted 2,895 2,517 5,430
10th Percentile £32,750 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,055 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,150 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.55% +10.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £90,750 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -2.00% +11.11% -3.84%

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 45,361 31,378 57,995
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 50.05% 72.25% 60.31%
Number of salaries quoted 24,616 15,859 39,552
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £77,424 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £99,011 £105,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £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 8 May 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 8 May 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 -20 4,255 £55,000 - 2,197
UK excluding London -28 2,908 £49,000 -2.00% 1,615
London -8 1,513 £67,500 +3.85% 870
Work from Home -8 1,401 £55,000 - 920
North of England -31 869 £47,500 -4.04% 371
South East -4 756 £50,000 -8.78% 541
Midlands -27 546 £47,750 +0.53% 283
North West -27 495 £45,000 -10.00% 220
West Midlands -29 332 £50,000 +5.26% 180
Yorkshire -12 285 £52,500 +16.67% 116
South West -29 257 £50,000 -0.99% 161
East of England -30 253 £45,000 -11.71% 160
East Midlands -2 212 £45,000 -5.26% 103
Scotland -28 131 £40,400 -23.05% 71
North East -20 89 £50,000 +29.87% 41
Wales -5 76 £42,500 -15.66% 47
Northern Ireland -31 34 £55,000 - 24

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
1 137 (2.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 100 (2.12%) SharePoint
3 74 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
4 73 (1.55%) Apache Spark
5 62 (1.31%) Confluence
6 47 (1.00%) CMS
7 36 (0.76%) Apache
8 18 (0.38%) IIS
9 17 (0.36%) SAS
9 17 (0.36%) WordPress
10 12 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
11 6 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 6 (0.13%) nginx
12 3 (0.064%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.064%) govService
12 3 (0.064%) JBoss
12 3 (0.064%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.042%) Appian
13 2 (0.042%) Camunda
13 2 (0.042%) MTS
Applications
1 574 (12.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 249 (5.28%) Microsoft Office
3 96 (2.03%) MS Visio
4 89 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 30 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
6 24 (0.51%) Chatbot
6 24 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
7 12 (0.25%) Adobe XD
7 12 (0.25%) Maya
8 10 (0.21%) CATIA
9 4 (0.085%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.085%) Trello
10 3 (0.064%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.042%) Lectora
11 2 (0.042%) Simulink
12 1 (0.021%) Acrobat
12 1 (0.021%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.021%) Notion
12 1 (0.021%) Sketch
12 1 (0.021%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 69 (1.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 40 (0.85%) NetSuite
3 36 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
4 33 (0.70%) Salesforce CRM
5 22 (0.47%) SAP CO
6 15 (0.32%) SAP ERP
6 15 (0.32%) SAP PM
7 14 (0.30%) SAP FI
8 12 (0.25%) Endur
8 12 (0.25%) Maximo
8 12 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
9 11 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
10 10 (0.21%) Workday HCM
11 7 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
11 7 (0.15%) Elite 3E
11 7 (0.15%) Magento
11 7 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
11 7 (0.15%) SAP PP
12 6 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
12 6 (0.13%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 835 (17.69%) Azure
2 641 (13.58%) Power Platform
3 469 (9.94%) AWS
4 334 (7.08%) Microsoft 365
5 264 (5.59%) SaaS
6 210 (4.45%) GCP
7 141 (2.99%) Dynamics 365
8 140 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
9 110 (2.33%) Entra ID
10 97 (2.06%) GitHub
11 92 (1.95%) Snowflake
12 91 (1.93%) Power Automate
13 83 (1.76%) dbt
14 73 (1.55%) Google Analytics
14 73 (1.55%) Microsoft Purview
15 67 (1.42%) Amazon S3
16 61 (1.29%) Serverless
17 60 (1.27%) PowerApps
18 53 (1.12%) Azure Data Factory
19 48 (1.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 196 (4.15%) Firewall
2 149 (3.16%) DNS
3 124 (2.63%) VPN
4 106 (2.25%) DHCP
5 81 (1.72%) WAN
6 74 (1.57%) TCP/IP
7 68 (1.44%) LAN
8 62 (1.31%) Wireless
9 61 (1.29%) VLAN
10 56 (1.19%) Broadband
11 54 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
12 48 (1.02%) Network Security
12 48 (1.02%) SAN
13 39 (0.83%) BGP
14 32 (0.68%) OSPF
15 30 (0.64%) Wireshark
16 29 (0.61%) Cisco ASA
17 27 (0.57%) EIGRP
17 27 (0.57%) SD-WAN
18 24 (0.51%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 575 (12.18%) Power BI
2 362 (7.67%) Tableau
3 188 (3.98%) SQL Server
4 163 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
5 142 (3.01%) Data Mining
6 85 (1.80%) Metadata
7 77 (1.63%) Data Lake
8 75 (1.59%) Relational Database
9 69 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
10 66 (1.40%) Looker
11 60 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
12 56 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
13 54 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 48 (1.02%) BigQuery
14 48 (1.02%) MySQL
15 45 (0.95%) Power Query
16 44 (0.93%) NoSQL
17 40 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 37 (0.78%) Big Data
19 35 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 168 (3.56%) JIRA
2 134 (2.84%) Git
3 47 (1.00%) GitLab
4 38 (0.81%) Jenkins
5 32 (0.68%) MLflow
6 26 (0.55%) Rational DOORS
7 25 (0.53%) Selenium
8 20 (0.42%) Chocolatey
9 16 (0.34%) Visual Studio
10 15 (0.32%) Cucumber
11 14 (0.30%) Bitbucket
11 14 (0.30%) ERwin
12 13 (0.28%) Balsamiq
12 13 (0.28%) IBM UrbanCode
13 11 (0.23%) Axure RP
13 11 (0.23%) Cypress.io
13 11 (0.23%) Subversion
14 10 (0.21%) Maven
14 10 (0.21%) SonarQube
15 9 (0.19%) Postman
General
1 2,198 (46.57%) Social Skills
2 1,716 (36.36%) Finance
3 428 (9.07%) Marketing
4 364 (7.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 267 (5.66%) Banking
6 262 (5.55%) Law
6 262 (5.55%) Organisational Skills
7 255 (5.40%) Public Sector
8 243 (5.15%) Retail
9 233 (4.94%) Legal
10 170 (3.60%) Manufacturing
11 161 (3.41%) Presentation Skills
12 138 (2.92%) Influencing Skills
13 114 (2.42%) Telecoms
14 98 (2.08%) Financial Institution
15 85 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
16 74 (1.57%) Advertising
17 73 (1.55%) Electronics
18 66 (1.40%) Games
19 59 (1.25%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,244 (26.36%) Analyst
2 657 (13.92%) Senior
3 330 (6.99%) Data Analyst
4 304 (6.44%) Lead
5 268 (5.68%) Business Analyst
6 244 (5.17%) Developer
7 226 (4.79%) Architect
8 199 (4.22%) Consultant
9 142 (3.01%) Systems Engineer
10 132 (2.80%) Senior Analyst
10 132 (2.80%) Support Analyst
11 131 (2.78%) Trainee
12 130 (2.75%) Senior Manager
13 119 (2.52%) Trainee Analyst
13 119 (2.52%) Trainee Data Analyst
14 106 (2.25%) Data Engineer
15 104 (2.20%) Financial Analyst
15 104 (2.20%) IT Support
16 100 (2.12%) Support Engineer
17 99 (2.10%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (2.71%) HTML
2 116 (2.46%) CSS
3 99 (2.10%) .NET
4 89 (1.89%) REST
5 81 (1.72%) JSON
6 80 (1.69%) React
7 79 (1.67%) Middleware
8 73 (1.55%) XML
9 56 (1.19%) PyTorch
10 55 (1.17%) Kafka
11 52 (1.10%) TensorFlow
12 50 (1.06%) SOAP
13 44 (0.93%) Node.js
14 40 (0.85%) scikit-learn
15 37 (0.78%) PySpark
16 34 (0.72%) RESTful
17 33 (0.70%) LangChain
17 33 (0.70%) Pandas
18 30 (0.64%) EDI
19 27 (0.57%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 489 (10.36%) Analytical Mindset
2 233 (4.94%) Management Information System
3 217 (4.60%) Onboarding
3 217 (4.60%) Self-Motivation
4 200 (4.24%) Product Ownership
5 107 (2.27%) Data Centre
6 97 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
7 95 (2.01%) Cloud Native
8 83 (1.76%) Data Structures
9 76 (1.61%) Algorithms
10 75 (1.59%) Security Posture
11 74 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
12 66 (1.40%) Driving Licence
13 62 (1.31%) Virtual Team
14 60 (1.27%) Cyber Threat
15 53 (1.12%) Public Cloud
16 52 (1.10%) Social Media
17 44 (0.93%) FMCG
18 42 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
19 41 (0.87%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 346 (7.33%) Windows
2 203 (4.30%) Linux
3 148 (3.14%) Windows Server
4 55 (1.17%) Windows Server 2016
5 35 (0.74%) Unix
6 22 (0.47%) Windows 10
7 20 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 19 (0.40%) Mac OS
9 18 (0.38%) Android
10 15 (0.32%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.17%) CentOS
12 7 (0.15%) VMS
13 6 (0.13%) Ubuntu
14 4 (0.085%) AIX
14 4 (0.085%) Windows Server 2012
15 3 (0.064%) Rocky
15 3 (0.064%) Windows Server 2019
16 2 (0.042%) Debian
17 1 (0.021%) OpenBSD
17 1 (0.021%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,095 (44.39%) Problem-Solving
2 1,119 (23.71%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,054 (22.33%) Analytics
4 971 (20.57%) Decision-Making
5 828 (17.54%) Agile
6 683 (14.47%) AI
7 679 (14.39%) Business Intelligence
8 605 (12.82%) Stakeholder Management
9 555 (11.76%) Project Management
10 463 (9.81%) Data Analysis
11 455 (9.64%) Actionable Insight
12 437 (9.26%) Mentoring
13 430 (9.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 428 (9.07%) Data Modelling
14 428 (9.07%) Roadmaps
15 409 (8.67%) Cybersecurity
16 395 (8.37%) Analytical Thinking
17 371 (7.86%) DevOps
18 362 (7.67%) Data Governance
19 360 (7.63%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 988 (20.93%) SQL
2 848 (17.97%) Python
3 172 (3.64%) PowerShell
4 170 (3.60%) Java
5 166 (3.52%) JavaScript
6 122 (2.58%) C#
7 64 (1.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 63 (1.33%) R
9 62 (1.31%) Bash
10 55 (1.17%) C++
11 46 (0.97%) T-SQL
12 40 (0.85%) TypeScript
13 39 (0.83%) VBA
14 29 (0.61%) MATLAB
15 25 (0.53%) Scala
16 20 (0.42%) Go
17 18 (0.38%) PL/SQL
18 15 (0.32%) PHP
19 14 (0.30%) C
19 14 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 966 (20.47%) Degree
2 356 (7.54%) Security Cleared
3 248 (5.25%) ACCA
4 243 (5.15%) SC Cleared
5 236 (5.00%) CIMA
6 169 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
7 154 (3.26%) DBS Check
8 144 (3.05%) CISSP
9 126 (2.67%) Master's Degree
10 102 (2.16%) Cisco Certification
11 96 (2.03%) PMI Certification
12 95 (2.01%) CISM
13 84 (1.78%) PMP
14 82 (1.74%) DV Cleared
15 72 (1.53%) IRCA
16 70 (1.48%) Azure Certification
16 70 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
17 64 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
18 58 (1.23%) CompTIA Security+
19 56 (1.19%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 430 (9.11%) Data Quality
2 340 (7.20%) GDPR
3 279 (5.91%) QA
4 241 (5.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 204 (4.32%) NIST
6 126 (2.67%) Cyber Essentials
7 115 (2.44%) SLA
8 100 (2.12%) ISO 9001
9 99 (2.10%) PCI DSS
10 95 (2.01%) Accessibility
11 68 (1.44%) PMO
12 58 (1.23%) GRC
13 54 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
14 39 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 38 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 35 (0.74%) IFRS
17 31 (0.66%) COBIT
18 28 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
19 23 (0.49%) SOC 2
20 22 (0.47%) ITGC
System Software
1 246 (5.21%) Active Directory
2 78 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 70 (1.48%) Docker
4 65 (1.38%) Hyper-V
5 48 (1.02%) Terminal Server
6 25 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.34%) ProxySG
8 12 (0.25%) vSphere
9 10 (0.21%) VMware NSX
10 8 (0.17%) IAG
10 8 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
11 5 (0.11%) Firmware
12 4 (0.085%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.085%) XenApp
13 3 (0.064%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.064%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.042%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.042%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.021%) KVM
15 1 (0.021%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 130 (2.75%) Terraform
2 81 (1.72%) Kubernetes
3 68 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
4 60 (1.27%) Ansible
5 34 (0.72%) Grafana
6 29 (0.61%) SCCM
7 26 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
8 25 (0.53%) Prometheus
9 21 (0.44%) Nagios
10 11 (0.23%) Kibana
11 10 (0.21%) QRadar
12 8 (0.17%) Kubeflow
13 6 (0.13%) Control-M
13 6 (0.13%) logstash
13 6 (0.13%) Packer
14 5 (0.11%) CASB
15 4 (0.085%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.085%) Graylog
15 4 (0.085%) SolarWinds Orion
15 4 (0.085%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,125 (23.83%) Microsoft
2 202 (4.28%) SAP
3 176 (3.73%) Oracle
4 174 (3.69%) Google
5 147 (3.11%) Salesforce
6 137 (2.90%) VMware
7 112 (2.37%) ServiceNow
8 110 (2.33%) Databricks
9 97 (2.06%) SolarWinds
10 91 (1.93%) Splunk
11 78 (1.65%) Workday
12 73 (1.55%) Cisco
13 57 (1.21%) Veeam
14 52 (1.10%) IBM
15 49 (1.04%) Dell
15 49 (1.04%) Tanium
16 48 (1.02%) Brocade
16 48 (1.02%) Nimble Storage
17 46 (0.97%) Red Hat
18 38 (0.81%) Adobe