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

6 months to
7 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 5,662 6,158 8,016
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.39% 12.42% 9.60%
As % of the General category 11.50% 17.95% 16.78%
Number of salaries quoted 3,540 2,645 3,726
10th Percentile £31,500 £29,789 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,682 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,500 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% +2.88% -5.45%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%

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 49,223 34,304 47,784
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.89% 69.16% 57.24%
Number of salaries quoted 30,156 17,993 28,697
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £39,750 £35,000 £39,134
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,751 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,906 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £49,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -9.09% -5.71%

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 7 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 7 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 5,125 £52,500 -4.55% 3,809
UK excluding London -18 3,629 £47,500 - 2,275
Work from Home -11 1,804 £55,000 +9.03% 1,452
London -10 1,746 £67,500 +3.85% 1,898
North of England -18 1,034 £47,500 +5.56% 563
South East -8 884 £50,000 -4.76% 688
Midlands -10 642 £47,500 +5.56% 368
North West -17 624 £47,500 +2.15% 301
South West -14 497 £47,500 +4.92% 296
West Midlands -19 332 £50,000 +11.11% 223
East Midlands -2 308 £45,000 - 145
Yorkshire -10 288 £47,250 +5.70% 197
East of England -22 258 £45,050 +0.11% 216
Wales -12 122 £53,171 +1.28% 51
North East -19 122 £55,000 +37.50% 69
Scotland -27 120 £44,000 - 113
Northern Ireland -28 81 £42,500 -22.73% 45

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
1 178 (3.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 159 (2.81%) SharePoint
3 81 (1.43%) Confluence
4 68 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
4 68 (1.20%) Apache Spark
5 47 (0.83%) Apache
6 46 (0.81%) CMS
7 29 (0.51%) IIS
8 25 (0.44%) SAS
9 12 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 12 (0.21%) WordPress
10 10 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
11 9 (0.16%) Jupyter
11 9 (0.16%) WebLogic
11 9 (0.16%) WebSphere
12 8 (0.14%) OpenStack
13 6 (0.11%) Headless CMS
14 3 (0.053%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.053%) JBoss
14 3 (0.053%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 623 (11.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 246 (4.34%) Microsoft Office
3 122 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 84 (1.48%) MS Visio
5 37 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
6 32 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.16%) Adobe XD
8 7 (0.12%) CATIA
9 6 (0.11%) AutoCAD
10 5 (0.088%) Acrobat
10 5 (0.088%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.088%) EPLAN
11 4 (0.071%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.071%) Maya
11 4 (0.071%) Simulink
12 3 (0.053%) LaTeX
12 3 (0.053%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.053%) SOLIDWORKS
12 3 (0.053%) Trello
12 3 (0.053%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 76 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 73 (1.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 38 (0.67%) NetSuite
4 36 (0.64%) Dynamics GP
5 23 (0.41%) 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
10 10 (0.18%) Elite 3E
10 10 (0.18%) Magento
10 10 (0.18%) Shopify
10 10 (0.18%) Workday HCM
11 9 (0.16%) Maximo
12 8 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
12 8 (0.14%) Fidessa
12 8 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 979 (17.29%) Azure
2 698 (12.33%) Power Platform
3 590 (10.42%) AWS
4 402 (7.10%) Microsoft 365
5 353 (6.23%) SaaS
6 272 (4.80%) GCP
7 139 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
8 138 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
9 127 (2.24%) Entra ID
10 101 (1.78%) Snowflake
11 100 (1.77%) Google Analytics
12 93 (1.64%) GitHub
13 84 (1.48%) dbt
13 84 (1.48%) Power Automate
14 76 (1.34%) Amazon S3
15 74 (1.31%) PowerApps
16 72 (1.27%) Microsoft Purview
17 63 (1.11%) Serverless
18 56 (0.99%) Azure Data Factory
19 55 (0.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 192 (3.39%) DNS
2 153 (2.70%) Firewall
3 148 (2.61%) DHCP
4 128 (2.26%) VPN
5 95 (1.68%) TCP/IP
6 79 (1.40%) WAN
7 76 (1.34%) LAN
8 63 (1.11%) Broadband
9 59 (1.04%) Wireless
10 57 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
11 56 (0.99%) Network Security
12 43 (0.76%) SAN
12 43 (0.76%) VLAN
13 40 (0.71%) Internet
14 35 (0.62%) HTTP
15 29 (0.51%) BGP
16 24 (0.42%) VoIP
17 23 (0.41%) SD-WAN
18 22 (0.39%) OSPF
19 20 (0.35%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 618 (10.91%) Power BI
2 283 (5.00%) Tableau
3 223 (3.94%) SQL Server
4 197 (3.48%) Data Warehouse
5 113 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
6 97 (1.71%) Relational Database
7 92 (1.62%) Metadata
8 88 (1.55%) Looker
9 78 (1.38%) MySQL
10 76 (1.34%) Data Lake
11 73 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
12 69 (1.22%) Power Query
13 67 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 61 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 60 (1.06%) BigQuery
16 56 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
17 50 (0.88%) Data Mining
18 46 (0.81%) Big Data
19 43 (0.76%) NoSQL
20 38 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 230 (4.06%) JIRA
2 216 (3.81%) Git
3 58 (1.02%) GitLab
4 49 (0.87%) Jenkins
5 34 (0.60%) Rational DOORS
6 33 (0.58%) MLflow
7 30 (0.53%) Selenium
8 23 (0.41%) Cucumber
9 20 (0.35%) Postman
10 18 (0.32%) Eclipse
11 17 (0.30%) Chocolatey
12 14 (0.25%) ERwin
12 14 (0.25%) JMeter
13 13 (0.23%) Bitbucket
13 13 (0.23%) Cypress.io
13 13 (0.23%) IBM UrbanCode
14 12 (0.21%) SonarQube
15 11 (0.19%) Burp Suite
15 11 (0.19%) Claude Code
15 11 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 2,694 (47.58%) Social Skills
2 1,863 (32.90%) Finance
3 547 (9.66%) Marketing
4 472 (8.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 409 (7.22%) Organisational Skills
6 373 (6.59%) Retail
7 348 (6.15%) Law
8 340 (6.00%) Public Sector
9 324 (5.72%) Legal
10 275 (4.86%) Banking
11 263 (4.65%) Manufacturing
12 254 (4.49%) Influencing Skills
13 167 (2.95%) Presentation Skills
14 141 (2.49%) Aerospace
15 133 (2.35%) Telecoms
16 104 (1.84%) Advertising
17 96 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
18 92 (1.62%) Electronics
19 73 (1.29%) Financial Institution
20 64 (1.13%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,335 (23.58%) Analyst
2 725 (12.80%) Senior
3 399 (7.05%) Lead
4 310 (5.48%) Data Analyst
5 289 (5.10%) Business Analyst
6 273 (4.82%) Developer
7 227 (4.01%) Consultant
8 219 (3.87%) Architect
9 213 (3.76%) Systems Engineer
10 175 (3.09%) Senior Analyst
11 164 (2.90%) Data Engineer
12 156 (2.76%) Support Analyst
13 131 (2.31%) Support Engineer
14 122 (2.15%) IT Support
15 114 (2.01%) IT Manager
16 107 (1.89%) Security Analyst
17 104 (1.84%) Senior Manager
18 99 (1.75%) Financial Analyst
19 98 (1.73%) Systems Analyst
20 90 (1.59%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (2.45%) .NET
2 122 (2.15%) HTML
3 116 (2.05%) REST
4 113 (2.00%) CSS
5 88 (1.55%) JSON
6 78 (1.38%) Middleware
7 77 (1.36%) XML
8 76 (1.34%) React
9 75 (1.32%) Kafka
10 69 (1.22%) RESTful
11 66 (1.17%) PyTorch
12 59 (1.04%) TensorFlow
13 55 (0.97%) SOAP
14 52 (0.92%) PySpark
15 44 (0.78%) scikit-learn
16 41 (0.72%) Web Services
17 39 (0.69%) Node.js
18 38 (0.67%) EDI
19 37 (0.65%) OAuth
20 36 (0.64%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 544 (9.61%) Analytical Mindset
2 323 (5.70%) Management Information System
3 297 (5.25%) Onboarding
4 262 (4.63%) Self-Motivation
5 255 (4.50%) Product Ownership
6 162 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
7 129 (2.28%) Driving Licence
8 127 (2.24%) Cloud Native
9 107 (1.89%) Security Posture
10 103 (1.82%) Social Media
11 102 (1.80%) Data Centre
12 101 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
13 92 (1.62%) Virtual Team
14 91 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
15 86 (1.52%) Blog
16 83 (1.47%) Data Structures
17 77 (1.36%) Algorithms
18 74 (1.31%) Marketing Technology
19 63 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
20 57 (1.01%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 448 (7.91%) Windows
2 297 (5.25%) Linux
3 217 (3.83%) Windows Server
4 99 (1.75%) Windows Server 2016
5 34 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 32 (0.57%) Windows 10
7 31 (0.55%) Unix
8 28 (0.49%) Mac OS
9 23 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
10 21 (0.37%) Android
11 19 (0.34%) 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 (0.071%) CoreOS
17 4 (0.071%) Rocky
18 3 (0.053%) AIX
19 2 (0.035%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,672 (47.19%) Problem-Solving
2 1,586 (28.01%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,279 (22.59%) Decision-Making
4 1,239 (21.88%) Analytics
5 1,004 (17.73%) Agile
6 923 (16.30%) AI
7 912 (16.11%) Stakeholder Management
8 735 (12.98%) Business Intelligence
9 623 (11.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 586 (10.35%) Roadmaps
11 539 (9.52%) Mentoring
12 535 (9.45%) Actionable Insight
13 532 (9.40%) Project Management
14 498 (8.80%) Data Analysis
15 475 (8.39%) Cybersecurity
16 470 (8.30%) Data Modelling
17 467 (8.25%) Customer Experience
18 466 (8.23%) Validation
19 452 (7.98%) Process Improvement
20 434 (7.67%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 1,136 (20.06%) SQL
2 912 (16.11%) Python
3 213 (3.76%) JavaScript
4 193 (3.41%) Java
5 186 (3.29%) PowerShell
6 177 (3.13%) C#
7 98 (1.73%) C++
8 93 (1.64%) Bash
9 83 (1.47%) R
10 73 (1.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 64 (1.13%) TypeScript
12 49 (0.87%) T-SQL
13 45 (0.79%) MATLAB
14 29 (0.51%) C
15 26 (0.46%) Scala
16 25 (0.44%) PHP
17 22 (0.39%) Go
17 22 (0.39%) PL/SQL
18 21 (0.37%) VBA
19 19 (0.34%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,082 (19.11%) Degree
2 586 (10.35%) Security Cleared
3 414 (7.31%) SC Cleared
4 255 (4.50%) ACCA
5 240 (4.24%) CIMA
6 173 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 164 (2.90%) CISSP
8 148 (2.61%) DBS Check
9 137 (2.42%) DV Cleared
10 123 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
10 123 (2.17%) CISM
11 113 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
12 99 (1.75%) Master's Degree
13 73 (1.29%) IRCA
14 72 (1.27%) CompTIA Security+
14 72 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
15 70 (1.24%) Azure Certification
16 61 (1.08%) PMI Certification
17 48 (0.85%) CRISC
18 47 (0.83%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 541 (9.55%) Data Quality
2 403 (7.12%) GDPR
3 398 (7.03%) QA
4 246 (4.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 198 (3.50%) NIST
6 162 (2.86%) Accessibility
7 158 (2.79%) Cyber Essentials
8 157 (2.77%) SLA
9 134 (2.37%) PCI DSS
10 128 (2.26%) ISO 9001
11 74 (1.31%) GRC
12 66 (1.17%) PMO
13 46 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
14 41 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 39 (0.69%) IFRS
16 38 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 36 (0.64%) COBIT
18 28 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
19 25 (0.44%) GMP
20 24 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 318 (5.62%) Active Directory
2 136 (2.40%) Docker
3 103 (1.82%) Hyper-V
4 89 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 80 (1.41%) Terminal Server
6 25 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
7 21 (0.37%) Firmware
8 18 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (0.16%) IAG
9 9 (0.16%) VMware NSX
10 8 (0.14%) ProxySG
10 8 (0.14%) vSphere
11 7 (0.12%) Ceph
12 6 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
13 5 (0.088%) KVM
14 4 (0.071%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.071%) XenApp
15 3 (0.053%) DFS Replication
15 3 (0.053%) Embedded Firmware
15 3 (0.053%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 148 (2.61%) Terraform
2 112 (1.98%) Kubernetes
3 86 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 76 (1.34%) Ansible
5 43 (0.76%) Grafana
6 26 (0.46%) Prometheus
6 26 (0.46%) SCCM
7 25 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
8 20 (0.35%) Nagios
9 17 (0.30%) QRadar
10 16 (0.28%) Kibana
11 12 (0.21%) Podman
12 9 (0.16%) Kubeflow
12 9 (0.16%) Nmap
13 8 (0.14%) Argo
13 8 (0.14%) logstash
14 7 (0.12%) Check_MK
14 7 (0.12%) Packer
14 7 (0.12%) Puppet
14 7 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 1,244 (21.97%) Microsoft
2 266 (4.70%) Google
3 238 (4.20%) SAP
4 198 (3.50%) Oracle
5 179 (3.16%) VMware
6 148 (2.61%) Splunk
7 138 (2.44%) Databricks
8 134 (2.37%) Salesforce
9 122 (2.15%) ServiceNow
10 119 (2.10%) SolarWinds
11 90 (1.59%) Veeam
12 84 (1.48%) Cisco
13 81 (1.43%) Brocade
13 81 (1.43%) Nimble Storage
14 80 (1.41%) Tanium
15 79 (1.40%) Workday
16 65 (1.15%) Red Hat
17 53 (0.94%) Adobe
18 51 (0.90%) HubSpot
19 50 (0.88%) Dell