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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 9 13
Rank change year-on-year -15 +4 +7
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 5,870 6,082 8,019
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.37% 12.15% 9.60%
As % of the General category 11.65% 17.76% 16.88%
Number of salaries quoted 3,574 2,597 3,562
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £40,000
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 £49,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% -8.16% -2.00%

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 50,377 34,239 47,493
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.05% 68.39% 56.87%
Number of salaries quoted 30,943 18,049 27,298
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -3.85%

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 27 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 27 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 -15 5,252 £52,500 - 2,226
UK excluding London -16 3,812 £47,500 +5.56% 1,641
Work from Home -10 1,919 £55,000 +10.00% 958
London -10 1,781 £67,500 +3.85% 807
North of England -19 1,050 £47,500 +5.56% 419
South East -7 907 £49,768 -5.20% 379
Midlands -8 665 £48,000 +6.67% 279
North West -16 645 £46,500 +3.33% 224
South West -9 531 £47,500 +5.56% 359
West Midlands -16 343 £50,000 +11.11% 164
East Midlands -3 319 £46,743 +5.63% 116
Yorkshire -14 285 £47,000 +17.50% 152
East of England -17 259 £47,500 +5.56% 140
Wales -13 159 £48,750 -3.09% 38
Scotland -22 131 £45,000 +5.88% 74
North East -17 120 £55,000 +4.76% 50
Northern Ireland -9 118 £42,500 -22.73% 23

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
1 185 (3.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 174 (2.96%) SharePoint
3 96 (1.64%) Confluence
4 56 (0.95%) Apache Spark
5 55 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
6 46 (0.78%) CMS
7 36 (0.61%) Apache
8 35 (0.60%) IIS
9 26 (0.44%) SAS
10 11 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
10 11 (0.19%) WordPress
11 10 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 10 (0.17%) Jupyter
12 9 (0.15%) Headless CMS
12 9 (0.15%) WebLogic
12 9 (0.15%) WebSphere
13 8 (0.14%) OpenStack
14 3 (0.051%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.051%) Appian
14 3 (0.051%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 618 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 254 (4.33%) Microsoft Office
3 122 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 73 (1.24%) MS Visio
5 43 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
6 27 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.19%) Simulink
8 9 (0.15%) Adobe XD
9 7 (0.12%) AutoCAD
10 5 (0.085%) Acrobat
10 5 (0.085%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.085%) EPLAN
11 4 (0.068%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.068%) CATIA
11 4 (0.068%) Maya
11 4 (0.068%) Trello
12 3 (0.051%) LaTeX
12 3 (0.051%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.051%) SOLIDWORKS
12 3 (0.051%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 104 (1.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 64 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
3 40 (0.68%) NetSuite
4 35 (0.60%) Dynamics GP
5 21 (0.36%) Shopify
6 20 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
7 15 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
7 15 (0.26%) SAP PM
8 13 (0.22%) SAP CO
8 13 (0.22%) SAP FI
8 13 (0.22%) Workday HCM
9 12 (0.20%) SAP ERP
9 12 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
10 11 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
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
1 991 (16.88%) Azure
2 695 (11.84%) Power Platform
3 609 (10.37%) AWS
4 418 (7.12%) Microsoft 365
5 371 (6.32%) SaaS
6 292 (4.97%) GCP
7 147 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
7 147 (2.50%) Entra ID
8 140 (2.39%) Dynamics 365
9 117 (1.99%) Google Analytics
10 102 (1.74%) GitHub
11 101 (1.72%) Snowflake
12 89 (1.52%) dbt
13 81 (1.38%) Power Automate
14 79 (1.35%) Google Ads
15 77 (1.31%) Microsoft Purview
15 77 (1.31%) PowerApps
16 69 (1.18%) Serverless
17 68 (1.16%) Amazon S3
18 59 (1.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 202 (3.44%) DNS
2 158 (2.69%) DHCP
3 153 (2.61%) Firewall
4 128 (2.18%) VPN
5 102 (1.74%) TCP/IP
6 76 (1.29%) WAN
7 74 (1.26%) LAN
8 64 (1.09%) Network Security
9 58 (0.99%) Wireless
10 55 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
11 52 (0.89%) Broadband
12 48 (0.82%) VLAN
13 46 (0.78%) Internet
14 41 (0.70%) SAN
15 35 (0.60%) HTTP
16 30 (0.51%) VoIP
17 26 (0.44%) BGP
18 21 (0.36%) SMS
19 20 (0.34%) SD-WAN
20 19 (0.32%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 615 (10.48%) Power BI
2 236 (4.02%) Tableau
3 223 (3.80%) SQL Server
4 192 (3.27%) Data Warehouse
5 118 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
6 102 (1.74%) Relational Database
7 96 (1.64%) Looker
8 95 (1.62%) Metadata
9 87 (1.48%) MySQL
10 78 (1.33%) Data Lake
11 76 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
12 67 (1.14%) BigQuery
12 67 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 64 (1.09%) Power Query
14 59 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 54 (0.92%) Big Data
16 53 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
17 48 (0.82%) NoSQL
18 38 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
18 38 (0.65%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 253 (4.31%) JIRA
2 209 (3.56%) Git
3 49 (0.83%) GitLab
3 49 (0.83%) Jenkins
4 31 (0.53%) MLflow
4 31 (0.53%) Rational DOORS
5 29 (0.49%) Selenium
6 23 (0.39%) Cucumber
7 21 (0.36%) Eclipse
8 20 (0.34%) Postman
9 16 (0.27%) Chocolatey
9 16 (0.27%) Claude Code
10 15 (0.26%) Bitbucket
11 14 (0.24%) JMeter
11 14 (0.24%) Oracle Forms
12 13 (0.22%) Burp Suite
12 13 (0.22%) LabVIEW
13 12 (0.20%) Cypress.io
13 12 (0.20%) ERwin
14 11 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2,850 (48.55%) Social Skills
2 1,905 (32.45%) Finance
3 620 (10.56%) Marketing
4 526 (8.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 427 (7.27%) Organisational Skills
6 398 (6.78%) Retail
7 393 (6.70%) Law
8 363 (6.18%) Public Sector
9 360 (6.13%) Legal
10 291 (4.96%) Influencing Skills
11 289 (4.92%) Manufacturing
12 258 (4.40%) Banking
13 194 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
14 174 (2.96%) Aerospace
15 130 (2.21%) Telecoms
16 119 (2.03%) Electronics
17 106 (1.81%) Advertising
18 94 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
19 71 (1.21%) Financial Institution
20 67 (1.14%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,348 (22.96%) Analyst
2 770 (13.12%) Senior
3 410 (6.98%) Lead
4 298 (5.08%) Data Analyst
5 292 (4.97%) Business Analyst
6 285 (4.86%) Developer
7 231 (3.94%) Architect
8 227 (3.87%) Consultant
9 206 (3.51%) Systems Engineer
10 204 (3.48%) Senior Analyst
11 174 (2.96%) Data Engineer
12 172 (2.93%) Support Analyst
13 131 (2.23%) Support Engineer
14 117 (1.99%) IT Support
15 112 (1.91%) IT Manager
16 109 (1.86%) Senior Manager
17 107 (1.82%) Security Analyst
18 99 (1.69%) Systems Analyst
19 94 (1.60%) Marketing Manager
20 93 (1.58%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (2.73%) .NET
2 146 (2.49%) Terraform
3 129 (2.20%) HTML
4 124 (2.11%) REST
5 120 (2.04%) 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 73 (1.24%) React
11 66 (1.12%) PyTorch
12 59 (1.01%) TensorFlow
13 58 (0.99%) SOAP
14 49 (0.83%) PySpark
15 46 (0.78%) scikit-learn
15 46 (0.78%) Web Services
16 45 (0.77%) EDI
17 42 (0.72%) LDAP
18 40 (0.68%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 508 (8.65%) Analytical Mindset
2 347 (5.91%) Management Information System
3 344 (5.86%) Onboarding
4 283 (4.82%) Product Ownership
5 282 (4.80%) Self-Motivation
6 164 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
7 138 (2.35%) Cloud Native
8 133 (2.27%) Driving Licence
9 129 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
10 119 (2.03%) Blog
10 119 (2.03%) Social Media
11 104 (1.77%) Security Posture
12 103 (1.75%) Marketing Technology
13 101 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
13 101 (1.72%) Data Centre
14 95 (1.62%) Virtual Team
15 83 (1.41%) Data Structures
16 74 (1.26%) Algorithms
17 72 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
18 54 (0.92%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 458 (7.80%) Windows
2 289 (4.92%) Linux
3 223 (3.80%) Windows Server
4 99 (1.69%) Windows Server 2016
5 35 (0.60%) Windows 10
6 33 (0.56%) Unix
7 30 (0.51%) Mac OS
8 29 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 22 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
10 21 (0.36%) Apple iOS
11 19 (0.32%) 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 2,824 (48.11%) Problem-Solving
2 1,693 (28.84%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,374 (23.41%) Decision-Making
4 1,256 (21.40%) Analytics
5 1,052 (17.92%) Agile
6 1,046 (17.82%) Stakeholder Management
7 1,029 (17.53%) AI
8 751 (12.79%) Business Intelligence
9 643 (10.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 610 (10.39%) Roadmaps
11 569 (9.69%) Mentoring
12 562 (9.57%) Actionable Insight
13 519 (8.84%) Project Management
14 508 (8.65%) Validation
15 495 (8.43%) Data Analysis
16 494 (8.42%) Cybersecurity
17 471 (8.02%) Data Modelling
18 457 (7.79%) Process Improvement
19 448 (7.63%) Customer Experience
20 444 (7.56%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 1,152 (19.63%) SQL
2 882 (15.03%) Python
3 229 (3.90%) JavaScript
4 201 (3.42%) Java
5 192 (3.27%) C#
6 191 (3.25%) PowerShell
7 106 (1.81%) C++
8 89 (1.52%) Bash
9 82 (1.40%) R
10 73 (1.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 67 (1.14%) TypeScript
12 49 (0.83%) T-SQL
13 48 (0.82%) MATLAB
14 33 (0.56%) C
15 28 (0.48%) Scala
16 27 (0.46%) PHP
17 24 (0.41%) PL/SQL
18 22 (0.37%) Go
19 20 (0.34%) Perl
20 19 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1,154 (19.66%) Degree
2 658 (11.21%) Security Cleared
3 456 (7.77%) SC Cleared
4 231 (3.94%) ACCA
5 216 (3.68%) CIMA
6 175 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 166 (2.83%) CISSP
8 162 (2.76%) DV Cleared
9 146 (2.49%) DBS Check
10 126 (2.15%) CISM
11 119 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
12 115 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
13 100 (1.70%) Master's Degree
14 81 (1.38%) Azure Certification
15 77 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
16 74 (1.26%) CompTIA Security+
17 62 (1.06%) PMI Certification
18 49 (0.83%) IRCA
19 48 (0.82%) CRISC
20 47 (0.80%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 558 (9.51%) Data Quality
2 395 (6.73%) QA
3 374 (6.37%) GDPR
4 242 (4.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 197 (3.36%) NIST
6 171 (2.91%) Accessibility
7 156 (2.66%) Cyber Essentials
8 154 (2.62%) SLA
9 127 (2.16%) PCI DSS
10 110 (1.87%) ISO 9001
11 69 (1.18%) GRC
12 61 (1.04%) PMO
13 45 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
14 42 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 37 (0.63%) IFRS
16 36 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 34 (0.58%) COBIT
18 28 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
19 27 (0.46%) NCSC
20 24 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 331 (5.64%) Active Directory
2 133 (2.27%) Docker
3 105 (1.79%) Hyper-V
4 89 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 80 (1.36%) Terminal Server
6 32 (0.55%) Firmware
7 22 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
8 20 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (0.15%) vSphere
10 8 (0.14%) VMware NSX
11 7 (0.12%) Ceph
11 7 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
11 7 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
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%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 112 (1.91%) Kubernetes
2 84 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
3 75 (1.28%) Ansible
4 41 (0.70%) Grafana
5 37 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
6 26 (0.44%) SCCM
7 22 (0.37%) 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%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1,285 (21.89%) Microsoft
2 314 (5.35%) Google
3 230 (3.92%) SAP
4 193 (3.29%) Oracle
5 183 (3.12%) VMware
6 151 (2.57%) Splunk
7 145 (2.47%) Databricks
8 132 (2.25%) ServiceNow
9 126 (2.15%) Salesforce
10 110 (1.87%) SolarWinds
11 90 (1.53%) Veeam
12 83 (1.41%) Cisco
13 81 (1.38%) Brocade
13 81 (1.38%) Nimble Storage
14 80 (1.36%) Tanium
15 76 (1.29%) Workday
16 64 (1.09%) Adobe
17 53 (0.90%) HubSpot
18 49 (0.83%) Dell
19 45 (0.77%) Red Hat