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 30 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 8 14
Rank change year-on-year -17 +6 +7
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,964 6,097 9,816
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.16% 13.13% 9.30%
As % of the General category 10.92% 18.35% 16.15%
Number of salaries quoted 3,246 2,486 5,321
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,808 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.35% +10.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,445 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.11% +11.11% -5.26%

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 45,453 33,226 60,779
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 47.23% 71.57% 57.61%
Number of salaries quoted 27,972 16,508 40,198
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £71,744
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £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 30 June 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 30 June 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 -17 4,530 £55,000 - 1,862
UK excluding London -19 3,116 £48,445 -3.11% 1,454
London -11 1,563 £70,000 +7.69% 744
Work from Home -11 1,545 £55,000 - 765
North of England -19 959 £48,350 +1.79% 313
South East -10 796 £50,000 -8.78% 500
Midlands -10 565 £47,500 - 250
North West -19 559 £47,500 -5.00% 176
South West -25 339 £47,500 +2.40% 156
West Midlands -15 314 £49,000 +3.16% 143
Yorkshire -9 297 £50,000 +11.11% 100
East Midlands -2 250 £45,000 -6.25% 106
East of England -18 241 £45,000 - 134
Scotland -26 105 £40,000 -12.35% 63
North East -24 103 £55,000 +41.75% 44
Wales -13 83 £53,171 -3.33% 31
Northern Ireland -18 39 £40,000 -27.27% 54

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
1 164 (3.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 124 (2.50%) SharePoint
3 72 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
4 71 (1.43%) Confluence
5 68 (1.37%) Apache Spark
6 44 (0.89%) Apache
7 37 (0.75%) CMS
8 22 (0.44%) IIS
8 22 (0.44%) SAS
9 16 (0.32%) WordPress
10 14 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 13 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
12 8 (0.16%) WebLogic
12 8 (0.16%) WebSphere
13 6 (0.12%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.060%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.060%) JBoss
14 3 (0.060%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.060%) Tomcat
15 2 (0.040%) Camunda
Applications
1 540 (10.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 196 (3.95%) Microsoft Office
3 104 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 83 (1.67%) MS Visio
5 33 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
6 27 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
7 9 (0.18%) CATIA
8 7 (0.14%) Adobe XD
9 6 (0.12%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.10%) Acrobat
11 4 (0.081%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.081%) Maya
12 3 (0.060%) Blender
12 3 (0.060%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.060%) Simulink
12 3 (0.060%) Trello
13 2 (0.040%) AutoCAD
13 2 (0.040%) Lectora
13 2 (0.040%) Siemens NX
13 2 (0.040%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 75 (1.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 39 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 35 (0.71%) NetSuite
4 27 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
5 17 (0.34%) SAP CO
6 16 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
6 16 (0.32%) SAP PM
7 15 (0.30%) SAP ERP
8 12 (0.24%) SAP FI
9 11 (0.22%) Maximo
9 11 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
10 9 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
10 9 (0.18%) Workday HCM
11 8 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
12 7 (0.14%) Elite 3E
12 7 (0.14%) Fidessa
12 7 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
12 7 (0.14%) Shopify
13 6 (0.12%) Magento
13 6 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 884 (17.81%) Azure
2 650 (13.09%) Power Platform
3 485 (9.77%) AWS
4 363 (7.31%) Microsoft 365
5 313 (6.31%) SaaS
6 216 (4.35%) GCP
7 129 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
8 120 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
9 118 (2.38%) Entra ID
10 84 (1.69%) Google Analytics
11 80 (1.61%) Microsoft Purview
11 80 (1.61%) Power Automate
12 79 (1.59%) GitHub
13 70 (1.41%) Amazon S3
14 68 (1.37%) dbt
14 68 (1.37%) PowerApps
15 67 (1.35%) Snowflake
16 60 (1.21%) Serverless
17 55 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
18 52 (1.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 202 (4.07%) Firewall
2 171 (3.44%) DNS
3 129 (2.60%) DHCP
4 120 (2.42%) VPN
5 86 (1.73%) WAN
6 82 (1.65%) TCP/IP
7 78 (1.57%) LAN
8 76 (1.53%) Broadband
9 63 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
10 55 (1.11%) Wireless
11 51 (1.03%) VLAN
12 50 (1.01%) Network Security
13 42 (0.85%) SAN
14 35 (0.71%) BGP
15 33 (0.66%) HTTP
16 32 (0.64%) Internet
17 28 (0.56%) SD-WAN
18 26 (0.52%) Cisco ASA
19 25 (0.50%) Wireshark
20 24 (0.48%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 582 (11.72%) Power BI
2 288 (5.80%) Tableau
3 191 (3.85%) SQL Server
4 175 (3.53%) Data Warehouse
5 98 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
6 90 (1.81%) Metadata
7 75 (1.51%) Data Mining
8 73 (1.47%) Relational Database
9 71 (1.43%) Data Lake
10 62 (1.25%) Looker
11 61 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
11 61 (1.23%) Power Query
12 57 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
12 57 (1.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 54 (1.09%) MySQL
14 49 (0.99%) BigQuery
15 48 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 37 (0.75%) Big Data
16 37 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
16 37 (0.75%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 175 (3.53%) JIRA
2 147 (2.96%) Git
3 55 (1.11%) GitLab
4 36 (0.73%) Rational DOORS
5 33 (0.66%) Jenkins
6 31 (0.62%) MLflow
7 20 (0.40%) Selenium
8 18 (0.36%) Chocolatey
8 18 (0.36%) Cucumber
9 15 (0.30%) Eclipse
10 14 (0.28%) ERwin
11 13 (0.26%) IBM UrbanCode
11 13 (0.26%) Postman
12 12 (0.24%) Cypress.io
12 12 (0.24%) SonarQube
12 12 (0.24%) Visual Studio
13 10 (0.20%) JMeter
13 10 (0.20%) Oracle APEX
14 9 (0.18%) Bitbucket
14 9 (0.18%) LabVIEW
General
1 2,319 (46.72%) Social Skills
2 1,701 (34.27%) Finance
3 411 (8.28%) Marketing
4 361 (7.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 315 (6.35%) Organisational Skills
6 305 (6.14%) Public Sector
7 276 (5.56%) Retail
8 270 (5.44%) Law
9 269 (5.42%) Legal
10 241 (4.85%) Banking
11 193 (3.89%) Manufacturing
12 176 (3.55%) Influencing Skills
13 138 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
14 118 (2.38%) Telecoms
15 88 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
16 87 (1.75%) Advertising
17 85 (1.71%) Aerospace
18 77 (1.55%) Electronics
19 74 (1.49%) Financial Institution
20 55 (1.11%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,270 (25.58%) Analyst
2 642 (12.93%) Senior
3 351 (7.07%) Lead
4 306 (6.16%) Data Analyst
5 279 (5.62%) Business Analyst
6 236 (4.75%) Developer
7 223 (4.49%) Consultant
8 200 (4.03%) Architect
9 192 (3.87%) Systems Engineer
10 150 (3.02%) Senior Analyst
11 136 (2.74%) Data Engineer
12 127 (2.56%) Support Analyst
13 117 (2.36%) Support Engineer
14 115 (2.32%) IT Support
15 113 (2.28%) IT Manager
16 105 (2.12%) Senior Manager
16 105 (2.12%) Systems Analyst
17 99 (1.99%) Financial Analyst
18 96 (1.93%) Security Analyst
19 86 (1.73%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (2.36%) HTML
2 111 (2.24%) .NET
3 106 (2.14%) CSS
4 100 (2.01%) REST
5 91 (1.83%) Middleware
6 88 (1.77%) JSON
7 82 (1.65%) React
8 80 (1.61%) XML
9 68 (1.37%) PyTorch
10 62 (1.25%) TensorFlow
11 54 (1.09%) Kafka
12 48 (0.97%) RESTful
13 47 (0.95%) SOAP
14 45 (0.91%) Node.js
15 44 (0.89%) PySpark
16 42 (0.85%) scikit-learn
17 39 (0.79%) Web Services
18 34 (0.68%) Pandas
19 33 (0.66%) LangChain
20 29 (0.58%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 531 (10.70%) Analytical Mindset
2 245 (4.94%) Management Information System
3 218 (4.39%) Onboarding
4 205 (4.13%) Product Ownership
5 191 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
6 131 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
7 106 (2.14%) Data Centre
8 105 (2.12%) Cloud Native
9 99 (1.99%) Security Posture
10 87 (1.75%) Driving Licence
11 85 (1.71%) Data Structures
12 78 (1.57%) Cyber Threat
13 77 (1.55%) Algorithms
14 68 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
15 61 (1.23%) Social Media
16 57 (1.15%) Virtual Team
17 56 (1.13%) Public Cloud
18 47 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
19 45 (0.91%) Cyber Defence
20 44 (0.89%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 381 (7.68%) Windows
2 237 (4.77%) Linux
3 192 (3.87%) Windows Server
4 89 (1.79%) Windows Server 2016
5 33 (0.66%) Unix
6 29 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 28 (0.56%) Windows 10
8 18 (0.36%) Android
8 18 (0.36%) Mac OS
8 18 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
9 14 (0.28%) Apple iOS
10 11 (0.22%) CentOS
10 11 (0.22%) Ubuntu
11 8 (0.16%) VMS
12 5 (0.10%) Debian
12 5 (0.10%) OpenVMS
13 4 (0.081%) AIX
13 4 (0.081%) Rocky
14 3 (0.060%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.020%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,247 (45.27%) Problem-Solving
2 1,248 (25.14%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,107 (22.30%) Decision-Making
4 1,087 (21.90%) Analytics
5 852 (17.16%) Agile
6 660 (13.30%) Business Intelligence
7 659 (13.28%) AI
7 659 (13.28%) Stakeholder Management
8 529 (10.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 513 (10.33%) Roadmaps
10 491 (9.89%) Mentoring
11 477 (9.61%) Actionable Insight
12 466 (9.39%) Project Management
13 457 (9.21%) Cybersecurity
14 452 (9.11%) Data Modelling
15 436 (8.78%) Data Analysis
16 407 (8.20%) Data Governance
17 403 (8.12%) Process Improvement
18 367 (7.39%) Analytical Thinking
19 366 (7.37%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1,047 (21.09%) SQL
2 868 (17.49%) Python
3 174 (3.51%) JavaScript
4 172 (3.46%) Java
5 168 (3.38%) PowerShell
6 152 (3.06%) C#
7 77 (1.55%) R
8 73 (1.47%) C++
8 73 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 72 (1.45%) Bash
10 52 (1.05%) TypeScript
11 50 (1.01%) T-SQL
12 45 (0.91%) MATLAB
13 33 (0.66%) VBA
14 23 (0.46%) PHP
15 22 (0.44%) Go
16 19 (0.38%) PL/SQL
17 18 (0.36%) C
17 18 (0.36%) Julia
17 18 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 904 (18.21%) Degree
2 464 (9.35%) Security Cleared
3 330 (6.65%) SC Cleared
4 261 (5.26%) ACCA
5 246 (4.96%) CIMA
6 158 (3.18%) CISSP
7 156 (3.14%) DBS Check
8 145 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
9 117 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
10 113 (2.28%) CISM
11 91 (1.83%) Master's Degree
12 90 (1.81%) DV Cleared
13 86 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
14 72 (1.45%) IRCA
14 72 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
15 71 (1.43%) Azure Certification
16 67 (1.35%) CompTIA Security+
17 56 (1.13%) PMI Certification
18 50 (1.01%) PMP
19 49 (0.99%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 471 (9.49%) Data Quality
2 386 (7.78%) GDPR
3 328 (6.61%) QA
4 275 (5.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 227 (4.57%) NIST
6 166 (3.34%) Cyber Essentials
7 145 (2.92%) SLA
8 131 (2.64%) PCI DSS
9 130 (2.62%) Accessibility
10 122 (2.46%) ISO 9001
11 77 (1.55%) GRC
12 61 (1.23%) PMO
13 48 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
14 44 (0.89%) IFRS
15 43 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 41 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 37 (0.75%) COBIT
18 28 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
19 24 (0.48%) ITGC
20 23 (0.46%) NCSC
System Software
1 277 (5.58%) Active Directory
2 94 (1.89%) Docker
3 88 (1.77%) Hyper-V
4 77 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 72 (1.45%) Terminal Server
6 26 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
7 14 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
8 12 (0.24%) ProxySG
9 11 (0.22%) vSphere
10 9 (0.18%) VMware NSX
11 8 (0.16%) IAG
12 5 (0.10%) Firmware
13 4 (0.081%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.081%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.081%) XenApp
14 3 (0.060%) DFS Replication
14 3 (0.060%) VMware ESXi
15 2 (0.040%) Embedded Firmware
15 2 (0.040%) Oracle RAC
16 1 (0.020%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 137 (2.76%) Terraform
2 85 (1.71%) Kubernetes
3 63 (1.27%) Ansible
4 62 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
5 37 (0.75%) Grafana
6 27 (0.54%) SCCM
7 23 (0.46%) Prometheus
8 21 (0.42%) Nagios
9 16 (0.32%) Kibana
9 16 (0.32%) QRadar
9 16 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
10 12 (0.24%) Kubeflow
11 8 (0.16%) logstash
12 7 (0.14%) Control-M
12 7 (0.14%) Packer
13 6 (0.12%) Graylog
14 5 (0.10%) Docker Swarm
14 5 (0.10%) Podman
14 5 (0.10%) Red Hat Satellite
15 4 (0.081%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,104 (22.24%) Microsoft
2 214 (4.31%) SAP
3 199 (4.01%) Google
4 169 (3.40%) Oracle
5 159 (3.20%) VMware
6 145 (2.92%) Salesforce
7 127 (2.56%) Splunk
8 118 (2.38%) Databricks
8 118 (2.38%) SolarWinds
9 94 (1.89%) ServiceNow
10 85 (1.71%) Veeam
11 75 (1.51%) Cisco
11 75 (1.51%) Workday
12 73 (1.47%) Nimble Storage
13 72 (1.45%) Brocade
13 72 (1.45%) Tanium
14 52 (1.05%) IBM
15 51 (1.03%) Red Hat
16 46 (0.93%) Adobe
17 45 (0.91%) HubSpot