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

6 months to
17 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 5,813 6,194 7,891
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.43% 12.35% 9.53%
As % of the General category 11.66% 17.93% 16.70%
Number of salaries quoted 3,561 2,642 3,646
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,444 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £37,500 £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 £47,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year - -3.06% -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 49,875 34,541 47,255
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.56% 68.84% 57.07%
Number of salaries quoted 30,520 18,093 27,895
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,750 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%

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 17 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 17 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 5,224 £52,500 - 5,690
UK excluding London -17 3,745 £47,500 - 3,386
Work from Home -10 1,843 £55,000 +10.00% 2,438
London -10 1,786 £67,500 +3.85% 3,000
North of England -20 1,056 £47,500 +5.56% 851
South East -9 895 £50,000 -4.76% 940
Midlands -9 649 £47,750 +6.11% 456
North West -16 640 £47,000 +4.44% 508
South West -12 519 £47,500 +5.56% 445
West Midlands -15 337 £50,000 +11.11% 268
East Midlands -1 310 £45,483 +1.07% 189
Yorkshire -9 294 £47,000 +17.50% 258
East of England -19 259 £47,500 +5.56% 317
Wales -13 143 £52,105 +3.40% 78
Scotland -23 133 £44,000 +3.53% 260
North East -20 122 £53,750 +32.72% 93
Northern Ireland -23 100 £42,500 -22.73% 120

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
1 179 (3.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 166 (2.86%) SharePoint
3 88 (1.51%) Confluence
4 70 (1.20%) Apache Spark
5 69 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
6 49 (0.84%) Apache
7 48 (0.83%) CMS
8 33 (0.57%) IIS
9 26 (0.45%) SAS
10 11 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 11 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
10 11 (0.19%) WordPress
11 9 (0.15%) Headless CMS
11 9 (0.15%) Jupyter
11 9 (0.15%) WebLogic
11 9 (0.15%) WebSphere
12 8 (0.14%) OpenStack
13 3 (0.052%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.052%) JBoss
13 3 (0.052%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 619 (10.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 252 (4.34%) Microsoft Office
3 120 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 83 (1.43%) MS Visio
5 43 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
6 27 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.15%) Adobe XD
8 7 (0.12%) AutoCAD
8 7 (0.12%) Simulink
9 5 (0.086%) Acrobat
9 5 (0.086%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.086%) EPLAN
10 4 (0.069%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 4 (0.069%) CATIA
10 4 (0.069%) Maya
10 4 (0.069%) Trello
11 3 (0.052%) Blender
11 3 (0.052%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.052%) Revit
11 3 (0.052%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 92 (1.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 69 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
3 40 (0.69%) NetSuite
4 35 (0.60%) Dynamics GP
5 22 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
6 20 (0.34%) SAP PM
7 17 (0.29%) Shopify
8 15 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
8 15 (0.26%) SAP ERP
9 14 (0.24%) SAP CO
9 14 (0.24%) SAP FI
10 13 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
11 12 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
11 12 (0.21%) Workday HCM
12 10 (0.17%) Elite 3E
12 10 (0.17%) Magento
13 9 (0.15%) Fidessa
13 9 (0.15%) Sage 200
13 9 (0.15%) SAP Business One
14 8 (0.14%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 992 (17.07%) Azure
2 695 (11.96%) Power Platform
3 611 (10.51%) AWS
4 407 (7.00%) Microsoft 365
5 366 (6.30%) SaaS
6 291 (5.01%) GCP
7 143 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
8 141 (2.43%) Dynamics 365
9 135 (2.32%) Entra ID
10 111 (1.91%) Google Analytics
11 109 (1.88%) Snowflake
12 98 (1.69%) GitHub
13 90 (1.55%) dbt
14 87 (1.50%) Power Automate
15 81 (1.39%) Amazon S3
16 78 (1.34%) PowerApps
17 73 (1.26%) Microsoft Purview
18 68 (1.17%) Google Ads
19 67 (1.15%) Serverless
20 58 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 195 (3.35%) DNS
2 152 (2.61%) DHCP
3 150 (2.58%) Firewall
4 123 (2.12%) VPN
5 99 (1.70%) TCP/IP
6 76 (1.31%) WAN
7 75 (1.29%) LAN
8 57 (0.98%) Broadband
8 57 (0.98%) Network Security
9 55 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
9 55 (0.95%) Wireless
10 44 (0.76%) Internet
11 43 (0.74%) SAN
12 40 (0.69%) VLAN
13 36 (0.62%) HTTP
14 26 (0.45%) VoIP
15 25 (0.43%) BGP
16 21 (0.36%) SD-WAN
17 20 (0.34%) SMS
18 18 (0.31%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 615 (10.58%) Power BI
2 270 (4.64%) Tableau
3 229 (3.94%) SQL Server
4 197 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
5 118 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
6 106 (1.82%) Relational Database
7 92 (1.58%) Looker
7 92 (1.58%) Metadata
8 84 (1.45%) MySQL
9 78 (1.34%) Data Lake
10 77 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
11 66 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 64 (1.10%) Power Query
13 63 (1.08%) BigQuery
14 61 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 54 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
15 54 (0.93%) Big Data
16 47 (0.81%) NoSQL
17 42 (0.72%) Data Mining
18 38 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 241 (4.15%) JIRA
2 220 (3.78%) Git
3 55 (0.95%) GitLab
4 50 (0.86%) Jenkins
5 32 (0.55%) MLflow
6 31 (0.53%) Rational DOORS
7 29 (0.50%) Selenium
8 23 (0.40%) Cucumber
9 20 (0.34%) Eclipse
9 20 (0.34%) Postman
10 15 (0.26%) Chocolatey
11 14 (0.24%) Cypress.io
11 14 (0.24%) JMeter
12 13 (0.22%) Bitbucket
12 13 (0.22%) Burp Suite
12 13 (0.22%) Claude Code
12 13 (0.22%) ERwin
12 13 (0.22%) IBM UrbanCode
13 12 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
13 12 (0.21%) SonarQube
General
1 2,784 (47.89%) Social Skills
2 1,908 (32.82%) Finance
3 598 (10.29%) Marketing
4 511 (8.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 416 (7.16%) Organisational Skills
6 387 (6.66%) Retail
7 373 (6.42%) Law
8 355 (6.11%) Public Sector
9 337 (5.80%) Legal
10 280 (4.82%) Manufacturing
11 277 (4.77%) Influencing Skills
12 275 (4.73%) Banking
13 177 (3.04%) Presentation Skills
14 163 (2.80%) Aerospace
15 133 (2.29%) Telecoms
16 107 (1.84%) Advertising
17 106 (1.82%) Electronics
18 94 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
19 71 (1.22%) Financial Institution
20 67 (1.15%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,352 (23.26%) Analyst
2 758 (13.04%) Senior
3 405 (6.97%) Lead
4 308 (5.30%) Data Analyst
5 297 (5.11%) Business Analyst
6 284 (4.89%) Developer
7 229 (3.94%) Architect
8 223 (3.84%) Consultant
9 209 (3.60%) Systems Engineer
10 189 (3.25%) Senior Analyst
11 172 (2.96%) Data Engineer
12 159 (2.74%) Support Analyst
13 132 (2.27%) Support Engineer
14 120 (2.06%) IT Support
15 113 (1.94%) IT Manager
16 109 (1.88%) Senior Manager
17 108 (1.86%) Security Analyst
18 100 (1.72%) Systems Analyst
19 91 (1.57%) Applications Support
19 91 (1.57%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (2.56%) .NET
2 128 (2.20%) HTML
3 123 (2.12%) REST
4 120 (2.06%) CSS
5 88 (1.51%) JSON
6 78 (1.34%) Kafka
6 78 (1.34%) Middleware
6 78 (1.34%) React
7 74 (1.27%) XML
8 71 (1.22%) RESTful
9 67 (1.15%) PyTorch
10 60 (1.03%) TensorFlow
11 56 (0.96%) SOAP
12 51 (0.88%) PySpark
13 48 (0.83%) scikit-learn
14 42 (0.72%) Web Services
15 41 (0.71%) EDI
15 41 (0.71%) OAuth
16 40 (0.69%) Node.js
17 39 (0.67%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 548 (9.43%) Analytical Mindset
2 335 (5.76%) Management Information System
3 326 (5.61%) Onboarding
4 272 (4.68%) Self-Motivation
5 269 (4.63%) Product Ownership
6 164 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
7 139 (2.39%) Cloud Native
8 133 (2.29%) Driving Licence
9 117 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
9 117 (2.01%) Social Media
10 109 (1.88%) Security Posture
11 108 (1.86%) Blog
12 105 (1.81%) Data Centre
13 93 (1.60%) Virtual Team
14 92 (1.58%) Cyber Threat
15 90 (1.55%) Marketing Technology
16 79 (1.36%) Data Structures
17 77 (1.32%) Algorithms
18 70 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
19 55 (0.95%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 455 (7.83%) Windows
2 295 (5.07%) Linux
3 221 (3.80%) Windows Server
4 99 (1.70%) Windows Server 2016
5 33 (0.57%) Unix
5 33 (0.57%) Windows 10
6 31 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 28 (0.48%) Mac OS
8 22 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
9 21 (0.36%) Apple iOS
10 20 (0.34%) Android
11 13 (0.22%) CentOS
12 10 (0.17%) Ubuntu
13 7 (0.12%) Debian
14 6 (0.10%) VMS
15 5 (0.086%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.069%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.069%) Rocky
17 2 (0.034%) AIX
17 2 (0.034%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,760 (47.48%) Problem-Solving
2 1,665 (28.64%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,328 (22.85%) Decision-Making
4 1,280 (22.02%) Analytics
5 1,035 (17.80%) Agile
6 1,005 (17.29%) AI
7 994 (17.10%) Stakeholder Management
8 744 (12.80%) Business Intelligence
9 640 (11.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 610 (10.49%) Roadmaps
11 560 (9.63%) Actionable Insight
12 553 (9.51%) Mentoring
13 540 (9.29%) Project Management
14 511 (8.79%) Data Analysis
15 497 (8.55%) Validation
16 493 (8.48%) Cybersecurity
17 474 (8.15%) Data Modelling
18 470 (8.09%) Customer Experience
19 457 (7.86%) Process Improvement
20 443 (7.62%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 1,164 (20.02%) SQL
2 916 (15.76%) Python
3 222 (3.82%) JavaScript
4 198 (3.41%) Java
5 186 (3.20%) PowerShell
6 183 (3.15%) C#
7 99 (1.70%) C++
8 98 (1.69%) Bash
9 79 (1.36%) R
10 73 (1.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 67 (1.15%) TypeScript
12 48 (0.83%) T-SQL
13 44 (0.76%) MATLAB
14 32 (0.55%) C
15 28 (0.48%) Scala
16 25 (0.43%) PHP
17 22 (0.38%) Go
17 22 (0.38%) PL/SQL
18 19 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
18 19 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,104 (18.99%) Degree
2 631 (10.85%) Security Cleared
3 436 (7.50%) SC Cleared
4 240 (4.13%) ACCA
5 226 (3.89%) CIMA
6 174 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 167 (2.87%) CISSP
8 155 (2.67%) DV Cleared
9 149 (2.56%) DBS Check
10 127 (2.18%) CISM
11 124 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
12 119 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
13 103 (1.77%) Master's Degree
14 75 (1.29%) Azure Certification
14 75 (1.29%) CompTIA Security+
15 74 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
16 73 (1.26%) IRCA
17 61 (1.05%) PMI Certification
18 48 (0.83%) CCNA
18 48 (0.83%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 555 (9.55%) Data Quality
2 403 (6.93%) QA
3 400 (6.88%) GDPR
4 243 (4.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 201 (3.46%) NIST
6 168 (2.89%) Accessibility
7 157 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials
7 157 (2.70%) SLA
8 131 (2.25%) PCI DSS
9 129 (2.22%) ISO 9001
10 72 (1.24%) GRC
11 63 (1.08%) PMO
12 45 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
13 41 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 38 (0.65%) COBIT
14 38 (0.65%) IFRS
15 37 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 28 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 26 (0.45%) NCSC
18 24 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 326 (5.61%) Active Directory
2 143 (2.46%) Docker
3 103 (1.77%) Hyper-V
4 88 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 80 (1.38%) Terminal Server
6 28 (0.48%) Firmware
7 22 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
8 19 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (0.15%) vSphere
10 8 (0.14%) VMware NSX
11 7 (0.12%) Ceph
12 6 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
13 5 (0.086%) Embedded Firmware
14 4 (0.069%) KVM
14 4 (0.069%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.069%) ProxySG
15 3 (0.052%) DFS Replication
15 3 (0.052%) IAG
15 3 (0.052%) VMware ESXi
15 3 (0.052%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 155 (2.67%) Terraform
2 117 (2.01%) Kubernetes
3 82 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 76 (1.31%) Ansible
5 42 (0.72%) Grafana
6 32 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
7 25 (0.43%) SCCM
8 24 (0.41%) Prometheus
9 19 (0.33%) QRadar
10 18 (0.31%) Nagios
11 17 (0.29%) Kibana
12 11 (0.19%) Nmap
12 11 (0.19%) Podman
13 9 (0.15%) Argo
13 9 (0.15%) Kubeflow
14 8 (0.14%) logstash
15 7 (0.12%) Check_MK
15 7 (0.12%) Packer
15 7 (0.12%) Puppet
15 7 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 1,278 (21.99%) Microsoft
2 299 (5.14%) Google
3 235 (4.04%) SAP
4 207 (3.56%) Oracle
5 181 (3.11%) VMware
6 150 (2.58%) Splunk
7 143 (2.46%) Databricks
8 127 (2.18%) ServiceNow
9 125 (2.15%) Salesforce
10 113 (1.94%) SolarWinds
11 90 (1.55%) Veeam
12 83 (1.43%) Cisco
13 82 (1.41%) Workday
14 81 (1.39%) Brocade
14 81 (1.39%) Nimble Storage
15 80 (1.38%) Tanium
16 61 (1.05%) Red Hat
17 59 (1.01%) Adobe
18 52 (0.89%) Dell
19 49 (0.84%) HubSpot