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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 9 13
Rank change year-on-year -17 +4 +7
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 5,710 6,164 7,994
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.39% 12.35% 9.63%
As % of the General category 11.52% 17.86% 16.79%
Number of salaries quoted 3,545 2,651 3,759
10th Percentile £31,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,375 £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 £48,734
% change year-on-year - -2.53% -2.53%

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 49,568 34,511 47,606
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.82% 69.13% 57.33%
Number of salaries quoted 30,344 18,123 28,474
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £39,487 £35,000 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -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 10 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 10 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 5,157 £52,500 -1.41% 6,199
UK excluding London -18 3,662 £47,500 - 3,296
Work from Home -11 1,820 £55,000 +10.00% 2,496
London -10 1,761 £67,500 +3.85% 3,540
North of England -17 1,041 £47,500 +5.56% 826
South East -8 882 £50,000 -4.76% 912
Midlands -8 645 £48,000 +6.67% 464
North West -17 629 £47,500 +5.56% 479
South West -13 504 £47,500 +4.92% 397
West Midlands -16 337 £50,149 +11.44% 281
East Midlands -1 306 £45,000 -0.43% 183
Yorkshire -12 290 £47,000 +15.53% 271
East of England -21 260 £45,050 +0.11% 304
Wales -10 132 £52,835 +0.64% 88
Scotland -23 125 £44,000 - 244
North East -21 122 £55,000 +37.50% 86
Northern Ireland -26 81 £42,500 -22.73% 140

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
1 180 (3.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 163 (2.85%) SharePoint
3 83 (1.45%) Confluence
4 71 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
5 70 (1.23%) Apache Spark
6 49 (0.86%) Apache
7 47 (0.82%) CMS
8 30 (0.53%) IIS
9 25 (0.44%) SAS
10 12 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 11 (0.19%) WordPress
12 10 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
13 9 (0.16%) Jupyter
13 9 (0.16%) WebLogic
13 9 (0.16%) WebSphere
14 8 (0.14%) OpenStack
15 6 (0.11%) Headless CMS
16 3 (0.053%) Anypoint
16 3 (0.053%) JBoss
16 3 (0.053%) Tomcat
Applications
1 628 (11.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 251 (4.40%) Microsoft Office
3 125 (2.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 82 (1.44%) MS Visio
5 39 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
6 30 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.16%) Adobe XD
8 7 (0.12%) AutoCAD
8 7 (0.12%) CATIA
9 6 (0.11%) Simulink
10 5 (0.088%) Acrobat
10 5 (0.088%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.088%) EPLAN
11 4 (0.070%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.070%) Maya
11 4 (0.070%) Trello
12 3 (0.053%) Blender
12 3 (0.053%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.053%) Revit
12 3 (0.053%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 77 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 71 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 39 (0.68%) NetSuite
4 36 (0.63%) Dynamics GP
5 22 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
6 20 (0.35%) SAP PM
7 15 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
7 15 (0.26%) SAP CO
7 15 (0.26%) SAP ERP
7 15 (0.26%) SAP FI
8 14 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
9 13 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
9 13 (0.23%) Shopify
10 10 (0.18%) Elite 3E
10 10 (0.18%) Magento
10 10 (0.18%) Workday HCM
11 8 (0.14%) Fidessa
11 8 (0.14%) Maximo
11 8 (0.14%) Sage 200
11 8 (0.14%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 980 (17.16%) Azure
2 692 (12.12%) Power Platform
3 598 (10.47%) AWS
4 403 (7.06%) Microsoft 365
5 355 (6.22%) SaaS
6 279 (4.89%) GCP
7 139 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
8 136 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
9 131 (2.29%) Entra ID
10 106 (1.86%) Google Analytics
11 103 (1.80%) Snowflake
12 92 (1.61%) GitHub
13 89 (1.56%) dbt
14 83 (1.45%) Power Automate
15 76 (1.33%) Amazon S3
16 74 (1.30%) PowerApps
17 73 (1.28%) Microsoft Purview
18 63 (1.10%) Serverless
19 58 (1.02%) Google Ads
20 56 (0.98%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 194 (3.40%) DNS
2 150 (2.63%) DHCP
2 150 (2.63%) Firewall
3 125 (2.19%) VPN
4 96 (1.68%) TCP/IP
5 76 (1.33%) WAN
6 74 (1.30%) LAN
7 64 (1.12%) Broadband
8 57 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
8 57 (1.00%) Wireless
9 54 (0.95%) Network Security
10 42 (0.74%) SAN
11 41 (0.72%) Internet
11 41 (0.72%) VLAN
12 35 (0.61%) HTTP
13 27 (0.47%) BGP
14 25 (0.44%) VoIP
15 22 (0.39%) SD-WAN
16 20 (0.35%) OSPF
16 20 (0.35%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 612 (10.72%) Power BI
2 284 (4.97%) Tableau
3 223 (3.91%) SQL Server
4 195 (3.42%) Data Warehouse
5 113 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
6 100 (1.75%) Relational Database
7 94 (1.65%) Metadata
8 93 (1.63%) Looker
9 79 (1.38%) MySQL
10 77 (1.35%) Data Lake
11 74 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
12 66 (1.16%) Power Query
12 66 (1.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 61 (1.07%) BigQuery
13 61 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 56 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
15 50 (0.88%) Data Mining
16 49 (0.86%) Big Data
17 46 (0.81%) NoSQL
18 38 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 231 (4.05%) JIRA
2 214 (3.75%) Git
3 57 (1.00%) GitLab
4 49 (0.86%) Jenkins
5 34 (0.60%) Rational DOORS
6 33 (0.58%) MLflow
7 29 (0.51%) Selenium
8 23 (0.40%) Cucumber
9 21 (0.37%) Postman
10 19 (0.33%) Eclipse
11 16 (0.28%) Chocolatey
12 14 (0.25%) ERwin
12 14 (0.25%) JMeter
13 13 (0.23%) Bitbucket
13 13 (0.23%) Burp Suite
13 13 (0.23%) Cypress.io
13 13 (0.23%) IBM UrbanCode
14 12 (0.21%) Claude Code
14 12 (0.21%) SonarQube
15 11 (0.19%) Metasploit
General
1 2,719 (47.62%) Social Skills
2 1,881 (32.94%) Finance
3 566 (9.91%) Marketing
4 490 (8.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 413 (7.23%) Organisational Skills
6 379 (6.64%) Retail
7 358 (6.27%) Law
8 348 (6.09%) Public Sector
9 324 (5.67%) Legal
10 277 (4.85%) Banking
11 264 (4.62%) Manufacturing
12 259 (4.54%) Influencing Skills
13 172 (3.01%) Presentation Skills
14 147 (2.57%) Aerospace
15 139 (2.43%) Telecoms
16 108 (1.89%) Advertising
17 99 (1.73%) Electronics
18 95 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
19 74 (1.30%) Financial Institution
20 65 (1.14%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,335 (23.38%) Analyst
2 735 (12.87%) Senior
3 405 (7.09%) Lead
4 312 (5.46%) Data Analyst
5 290 (5.08%) Business Analyst
6 274 (4.80%) Developer
7 227 (3.98%) Consultant
8 223 (3.91%) Architect
9 212 (3.71%) Systems Engineer
10 180 (3.15%) Senior Analyst
11 170 (2.98%) Data Engineer
12 151 (2.64%) Support Analyst
13 131 (2.29%) Support Engineer
14 120 (2.10%) IT Support
15 112 (1.96%) IT Manager
16 107 (1.87%) Security Analyst
17 106 (1.86%) Senior Manager
18 97 (1.70%) Systems Analyst
19 96 (1.68%) Financial Analyst
20 87 (1.52%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (2.47%) .NET
2 125 (2.19%) HTML
3 118 (2.07%) REST
4 116 (2.03%) CSS
5 88 (1.54%) JSON
6 77 (1.35%) Kafka
6 77 (1.35%) Middleware
6 77 (1.35%) XML
7 76 (1.33%) React
8 71 (1.24%) RESTful
9 69 (1.21%) PyTorch
10 62 (1.09%) TensorFlow
11 56 (0.98%) SOAP
12 52 (0.91%) PySpark
13 45 (0.79%) scikit-learn
14 42 (0.74%) Web Services
15 39 (0.68%) EDI
16 38 (0.67%) Node.js
16 38 (0.67%) OAuth
17 37 (0.65%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 542 (9.49%) Analytical Mindset
2 324 (5.67%) Management Information System
3 306 (5.36%) Onboarding
4 264 (4.62%) Self-Motivation
5 260 (4.55%) Product Ownership
6 162 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
7 135 (2.36%) Cloud Native
8 132 (2.31%) Driving Licence
9 113 (1.98%) Social Media
10 110 (1.93%) Security Posture
11 105 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
12 100 (1.75%) Data Centre
13 92 (1.61%) Virtual Team
14 89 (1.56%) Blog
14 89 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
15 80 (1.40%) Data Structures
16 77 (1.35%) Algorithms
17 74 (1.30%) Marketing Technology
18 65 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
19 57 (1.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 453 (7.93%) Windows
2 295 (5.17%) Linux
3 220 (3.85%) Windows Server
4 99 (1.73%) Windows Server 2016
5 34 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 33 (0.58%) Windows 10
7 30 (0.53%) Unix
8 29 (0.51%) Mac OS
9 23 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
10 21 (0.37%) Android
11 19 (0.33%) Apple iOS
12 15 (0.26%) CentOS
13 12 (0.21%) Ubuntu
14 7 (0.12%) Debian
15 6 (0.11%) VMS
16 5 (0.088%) OpenVMS
17 4 (0.070%) CoreOS
17 4 (0.070%) Rocky
18 3 (0.053%) AIX
19 2 (0.035%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,695 (47.20%) Problem-Solving
2 1,596 (27.95%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,289 (22.57%) Decision-Making
4 1,259 (22.05%) Analytics
5 1,017 (17.81%) Agile
6 951 (16.65%) AI
7 942 (16.50%) Stakeholder Management
8 733 (12.84%) Business Intelligence
9 623 (10.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 601 (10.53%) Roadmaps
11 553 (9.68%) Actionable Insight
12 547 (9.58%) Mentoring
13 541 (9.47%) Project Management
14 509 (8.91%) Data Analysis
15 485 (8.49%) Cybersecurity
16 475 (8.32%) Validation
17 468 (8.20%) Data Modelling
18 467 (8.18%) Customer Experience
19 452 (7.92%) Process Improvement
20 433 (7.58%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 1,147 (20.09%) SQL
2 920 (16.11%) Python
3 216 (3.78%) JavaScript
4 195 (3.42%) Java
5 185 (3.24%) PowerShell
6 179 (3.13%) C#
7 98 (1.72%) C++
8 92 (1.61%) Bash
9 84 (1.47%) R
10 71 (1.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 63 (1.10%) TypeScript
12 47 (0.82%) MATLAB
12 47 (0.82%) T-SQL
13 30 (0.53%) C
14 27 (0.47%) Scala
15 25 (0.44%) PHP
16 22 (0.39%) Go
17 21 (0.37%) PL/SQL
18 19 (0.33%) Julia
18 19 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,089 (19.07%) Degree
2 595 (10.42%) Security Cleared
3 416 (7.29%) SC Cleared
4 247 (4.33%) ACCA
5 232 (4.06%) CIMA
6 171 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 167 (2.92%) CISSP
8 149 (2.61%) DBS Check
9 141 (2.47%) DV Cleared
10 126 (2.21%) CISM
11 121 (2.12%) Cisco Certification
12 116 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
13 101 (1.77%) Master's Degree
14 73 (1.28%) IRCA
15 72 (1.26%) Azure Certification
15 72 (1.26%) CompTIA Security+
15 72 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
16 62 (1.09%) PMI Certification
17 48 (0.84%) CRISC
18 47 (0.82%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 543 (9.51%) Data Quality
2 404 (7.08%) GDPR
3 396 (6.94%) QA
4 246 (4.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 200 (3.50%) NIST
6 163 (2.85%) Accessibility
7 159 (2.78%) SLA
8 158 (2.77%) Cyber Essentials
9 133 (2.33%) PCI DSS
10 129 (2.26%) ISO 9001
11 74 (1.30%) GRC
12 64 (1.12%) PMO
13 47 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
14 41 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 39 (0.68%) IFRS
16 38 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 36 (0.63%) COBIT
18 28 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
19 24 (0.42%) GMP
19 24 (0.42%) PERC
System Software
1 322 (5.64%) Active Directory
2 139 (2.43%) Docker
3 103 (1.80%) Hyper-V
4 89 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 80 (1.40%) Terminal Server
6 24 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
7 23 (0.40%) Firmware
8 18 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (0.16%) IAG
9 9 (0.16%) VMware NSX
10 8 (0.14%) vSphere
11 7 (0.12%) Ceph
12 6 (0.11%) ProxySG
12 6 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
13 5 (0.088%) KVM
14 4 (0.070%) Embedded Firmware
14 4 (0.070%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.070%) XenApp
15 3 (0.053%) DFS Replication
15 3 (0.053%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 147 (2.57%) Terraform
2 115 (2.01%) Kubernetes
3 85 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
4 75 (1.31%) Ansible
5 43 (0.75%) Grafana
6 30 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
7 25 (0.44%) Prometheus
7 25 (0.44%) SCCM
8 20 (0.35%) Nagios
9 17 (0.30%) QRadar
10 16 (0.28%) Kibana
11 12 (0.21%) Podman
12 11 (0.19%) Nmap
13 9 (0.16%) Argo
13 9 (0.16%) 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 1,260 (22.07%) Microsoft
2 285 (4.99%) Google
3 237 (4.15%) SAP
4 201 (3.52%) Oracle
5 181 (3.17%) VMware
6 148 (2.59%) Splunk
7 139 (2.43%) Databricks
8 128 (2.24%) Salesforce
9 125 (2.19%) ServiceNow
10 117 (2.05%) SolarWinds
11 90 (1.58%) Veeam
12 82 (1.44%) Cisco
13 81 (1.42%) Brocade
13 81 (1.42%) Nimble Storage
13 81 (1.42%) Workday
14 80 (1.40%) Tanium
15 64 (1.12%) Red Hat
16 56 (0.98%) Adobe
17 50 (0.88%) Dell
18 49 (0.86%) HubSpot