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 12 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 11 16
Rank change year-on-year -12 +5 +5
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,930 5,323 7,691
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 6.70% 12.18% 9.19%
As % of the General category 12.39% 17.31% 15.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2,675 2,389 5,133
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,886 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,778 £88,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,967 £45,000
% change year-on-year -11.71% +13.26% -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 39,795 30,743 51,257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 54.11% 70.36% 61.22%
Number of salaries quoted 21,730 15,437 37,303
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -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 12 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Top 19 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 12 March 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 -12 4,365 £52,500 -4.55% 2,334
UK excluding London -16 3,097 £45,000 -11.71% 1,839
Work from Home +3 1,687 £55,000 - 977
London -5 1,523 £67,500 +3.85% 858
North of England -18 841 £45,000 -10.00% 425
South East +8 818 £50,000 -1.90% 606
Midlands -15 595 £45,000 -6.25% 331
North West -17 433 £42,500 -19.05% 249
West Midlands -16 363 £51,900 +3.80% 205
Yorkshire +3 294 £47,722 +6.05% 139
South West -14 286 £45,000 -12.98% 196
East of England -23 261 £40,000 -21.52% 163
East Midlands -1 231 £40,000 -5.88% 126
Scotland -17 202 £40,000 -25.98% 97
North East -3 114 £43,000 +8.91% 42
Wales +10 72 £40,000 -20.20% 49
Northern Ireland -16 49 £52,500 -4.55% 18
Isle of Man -5 1 £62,500 +123.21% 4
Channel Islands -7 1 - -

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
1 136 (2.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 86 (1.74%) SharePoint
3 83 (1.68%) Confluence
4 59 (1.20%) Apache Spark
5 58 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
6 48 (0.97%) CMS
7 32 (0.65%) Apache
8 18 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
8 18 (0.37%) WordPress
9 16 (0.32%) SAS
10 13 (0.26%) IIS
11 5 (0.10%) nginx
12 4 (0.081%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.061%) Drupal
13 3 (0.061%) govService
14 2 (0.041%) ArcGIS
14 2 (0.041%) Camunda
14 2 (0.041%) JBoss
14 2 (0.041%) Jupyter
14 2 (0.041%) MTS
Applications
1 705 (14.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 320 (6.49%) Chatbot
3 293 (5.94%) Microsoft Office
4 120 (2.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 92 (1.87%) MS Visio
6 35 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
7 30 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
8 25 (0.51%) Maya
9 15 (0.30%) Adobe XD
10 9 (0.18%) AutoCAD
10 9 (0.18%) CATIA
11 3 (0.061%) Sketch
11 3 (0.061%) Trello
12 2 (0.041%) Revit
12 2 (0.041%) Simulink
13 1 (0.020%) OrCAD
13 1 (0.020%) Siemens NX
13 1 (0.020%) SmartSuite
13 1 (0.020%) SOLIDWORKS
13 1 (0.020%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 77 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 44 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 42 (0.85%) NetSuite
4 29 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
5 28 (0.57%) SAP CO
6 21 (0.43%) Endur
7 20 (0.41%) SAP FI
8 19 (0.39%) SAP FI/CO
9 18 (0.37%) Workday HCM
10 17 (0.34%) SAP MDG
11 16 (0.32%) SAP ERP
12 13 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
13 11 (0.22%) Sage X3
14 10 (0.20%) Maximo
14 10 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
14 10 (0.20%) SAP PM
15 8 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
16 7 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
16 7 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
16 7 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 820 (16.63%) Azure
2 620 (12.58%) Power Platform
3 432 (8.76%) AWS
4 296 (6.00%) Microsoft 365
5 270 (5.48%) SaaS
6 164 (3.33%) GCP
7 149 (3.02%) Azure DevOps
8 123 (2.49%) Dynamics 365
9 95 (1.93%) GitHub
10 94 (1.91%) Entra ID
11 86 (1.74%) Power Automate
12 78 (1.58%) Snowflake
13 67 (1.36%) Azure Data Factory
14 64 (1.30%) dbt
15 62 (1.26%) Amazon S3
16 57 (1.16%) Google Analytics
16 57 (1.16%) Serverless
17 51 (1.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 51 (1.03%) PowerApps
18 50 (1.01%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 179 (3.63%) Firewall
2 157 (3.18%) DNS
3 119 (2.41%) DHCP
4 102 (2.07%) VPN
5 79 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
6 71 (1.44%) WAN
7 66 (1.34%) LAN
8 65 (1.32%) TCP/IP
9 59 (1.20%) Wireless
10 57 (1.16%) VLAN
11 46 (0.93%) Network Security
12 43 (0.87%) Broadband
13 35 (0.71%) Wireshark
14 34 (0.69%) BGP
14 34 (0.69%) SAN
15 32 (0.65%) OSPF
16 30 (0.61%) Remote Desktop
17 29 (0.59%) EIGRP
18 27 (0.55%) Cisco ASA
18 27 (0.55%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 559 (11.34%) Power BI
2 421 (8.54%) Tableau
3 214 (4.34%) SQL Server
4 206 (4.18%) Data Mining
5 162 (3.29%) Data Warehouse
6 105 (2.13%) Metadata
7 93 (1.89%) Relational Database
8 88 (1.78%) Amazon RDS
9 77 (1.56%) Data Lake
10 60 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 57 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
12 54 (1.10%) Looker
13 52 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
13 52 (1.05%) MySQL
14 47 (0.95%) NoSQL
15 44 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
16 42 (0.85%) Power Query
17 34 (0.69%) Big Data
18 33 (0.67%) GIS
19 32 (0.65%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 193 (3.91%) JIRA
2 130 (2.64%) Git
3 50 (1.01%) GitLab
4 42 (0.85%) Selenium
5 37 (0.75%) Jenkins
6 18 (0.37%) Visual Studio
7 15 (0.30%) MLflow
7 15 (0.30%) Robot Framework
8 14 (0.28%) Balsamiq
8 14 (0.28%) ERwin
8 14 (0.28%) Subversion
9 13 (0.26%) Axure RP
9 13 (0.26%) Chocolatey
9 13 (0.26%) IBM UrbanCode
9 13 (0.26%) Snyk
10 11 (0.22%) Bitbucket
10 11 (0.22%) Cypress.io
11 10 (0.20%) LabVIEW
11 10 (0.20%) Postman
12 8 (0.16%) ER Studio
General
1 2,411 (48.90%) Social Skills
2 1,784 (36.19%) Finance
3 426 (8.64%) Marketing
4 332 (6.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 302 (6.13%) Banking
6 276 (5.60%) Legal
7 273 (5.54%) Organisational Skills
8 269 (5.46%) Law
9 255 (5.17%) Public Sector
10 254 (5.15%) Retail
11 203 (4.12%) Presentation Skills
12 160 (3.25%) Manufacturing
13 131 (2.66%) Financial Institution
14 120 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
15 100 (2.03%) Telecoms
16 91 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
17 80 (1.62%) Games
18 71 (1.44%) Advertising
19 59 (1.20%) Electronics
20 49 (0.99%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1,237 (25.09%) Analyst
2 604 (12.25%) Senior
3 392 (7.95%) Data Analyst
4 316 (6.41%) Trainer
5 313 (6.35%) Lead
6 241 (4.89%) Business Analyst
7 237 (4.81%) Developer
8 223 (4.52%) Architect
9 195 (3.96%) Consultant
10 182 (3.69%) Trainee
11 173 (3.51%) Trainee Analyst
11 173 (3.51%) Trainee Data Analyst
12 171 (3.47%) Support Analyst
13 141 (2.86%) IT Support
14 139 (2.82%) Senior Analyst
15 131 (2.66%) Senior Manager
16 112 (2.27%) Financial Analyst
17 106 (2.15%) Support Engineer
17 106 (2.15%) Systems Engineer
18 91 (1.85%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (2.54%) HTML
2 115 (2.33%) CSS
3 88 (1.78%) React
4 80 (1.62%) .NET
5 58 (1.18%) REST
6 51 (1.03%) JSON
7 50 (1.01%) Middleware
8 48 (0.97%) XML
9 42 (0.85%) Node.js
10 37 (0.75%) Kafka
11 36 (0.73%) TensorFlow
12 33 (0.67%) PyTorch
13 32 (0.65%) PySpark
14 29 (0.59%) Spring
15 27 (0.55%) SOAP
16 26 (0.53%) FIX Protocol
17 24 (0.49%) EDI
18 23 (0.47%) Pandas
19 22 (0.45%) AngularJS
20 18 (0.37%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 472 (9.57%) Analytical Mindset
2 343 (6.96%) Self-Motivation
3 269 (5.46%) Onboarding
4 234 (4.75%) Management Information System
5 183 (3.71%) Product Ownership
6 117 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
7 102 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
8 95 (1.93%) Data Structures
9 92 (1.87%) Data Centre
10 84 (1.70%) Cloud Native
11 78 (1.58%) Driving Licence
12 76 (1.54%) Algorithms
13 57 (1.16%) Social Media
14 55 (1.12%) Security Posture
15 52 (1.05%) FMCG
16 49 (0.99%) Virtual Team
17 47 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 47 (0.95%) Low-Code
18 46 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
19 37 (0.75%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 349 (7.08%) Windows
2 230 (4.67%) Linux
3 142 (2.88%) Windows Server
4 76 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
5 40 (0.81%) Unix
6 27 (0.55%) Mac OS
7 18 (0.37%) Android
8 16 (0.32%) Windows 10
9 13 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (0.14%) Apple iOS
11 5 (0.10%) CentOS
11 5 (0.10%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.10%) VMS
12 4 (0.081%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.061%) OpenWrt
14 2 (0.041%) AIX
14 2 (0.041%) Data ONTAP
14 2 (0.041%) Oracle Linux
15 1 (0.020%) Debian
15 1 (0.020%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,173 (44.08%) Problem-Solving
2 1,096 (22.23%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,088 (22.07%) Analytics
4 973 (19.74%) AI
5 927 (18.80%) Decision-Making
6 861 (17.46%) Agile
7 715 (14.50%) Business Intelligence
8 679 (13.77%) Project Management
9 589 (11.95%) Data Analysis
10 581 (11.78%) Stakeholder Management
11 442 (8.97%) Actionable Insight
12 429 (8.70%) Mentoring
13 412 (8.36%) Analytical Thinking
14 401 (8.13%) Process Improvement
15 388 (7.87%) Roadmaps
16 374 (7.59%) DevOps
17 371 (7.53%) Data Modelling
18 370 (7.51%) Business Analysis
19 356 (7.22%) Cybersecurity
20 352 (7.14%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1,037 (21.03%) SQL
2 867 (17.59%) Python
3 164 (3.33%) JavaScript
4 143 (2.90%) Java
4 143 (2.90%) PowerShell
5 120 (2.43%) C#
6 76 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 70 (1.42%) R
8 56 (1.14%) Bash
9 47 (0.95%) C++
9 47 (0.95%) T-SQL
10 43 (0.87%) VBA
11 37 (0.75%) TypeScript
12 21 (0.43%) C
13 20 (0.41%) Scala
14 19 (0.39%) MATLAB
15 16 (0.32%) Go
16 14 (0.28%) PL/SQL
17 12 (0.24%) Bicep
17 12 (0.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,379 (27.97%) Degree
2 446 (9.05%) Master's Degree
3 411 (8.34%) Security Cleared
4 328 (6.65%) PhD
5 293 (5.94%) SC Cleared
6 215 (4.36%) ACCA
7 207 (4.20%) CIMA
8 177 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
9 140 (2.84%) CISSP
10 107 (2.17%) DBS Check
11 93 (1.89%) DV Cleared
12 91 (1.85%) PMI Certification
13 81 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
14 80 (1.62%) PMP
15 78 (1.58%) CISM
16 68 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
17 63 (1.28%) Azure Certification
18 61 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
19 48 (0.97%) CISA
19 48 (0.97%) IRCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 353 (7.16%) Data Quality
2 260 (5.27%) QA
3 251 (5.09%) GDPR
4 204 (4.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 161 (3.27%) NIST
6 146 (2.96%) Cyber Essentials
7 113 (2.29%) PCI DSS
8 104 (2.11%) Accessibility
9 80 (1.62%) PMO
10 69 (1.40%) Actionable Recommendations
11 63 (1.28%) ISO 9001
12 61 (1.24%) SLA
13 44 (0.89%) GRC
14 39 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 33 (0.67%) IFRS
16 26 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 22 (0.45%) WCAG
18 18 (0.37%) COBIT
18 18 (0.37%) NCSC
19 17 (0.34%) GMP
System Software
1 242 (4.91%) Active Directory
2 97 (1.97%) Hyper-V
3 75 (1.52%) Docker
4 72 (1.46%) Terminal Server
5 56 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
6 14 (0.28%) ProxySG
7 13 (0.26%) vSphere
8 11 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (0.16%) Firmware
11 7 (0.14%) IAG
12 5 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
13 4 (0.081%) VMware NSX
14 3 (0.061%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.061%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.061%) XenApp
15 2 (0.041%) XenDesktop
16 1 (0.020%) KVM
16 1 (0.020%) NFS
16 1 (0.020%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 138 (2.80%) Terraform
2 75 (1.52%) Kubernetes
3 68 (1.38%) Ansible
4 49 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
5 35 (0.71%) Grafana
6 34 (0.69%) Prometheus
7 25 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
8 23 (0.47%) SCCM
9 15 (0.30%) Nagios
10 7 (0.14%) Control-M
10 7 (0.14%) SCOM
11 5 (0.10%) CASB
11 5 (0.10%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 4 (0.081%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.081%) Backup Exec
12 4 (0.081%) Kubeflow
12 4 (0.081%) Nessus
12 4 (0.081%) QRadar
12 4 (0.081%) SolarWinds Orion
12 4 (0.081%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,181 (23.96%) Microsoft
2 318 (6.45%) PayPal
3 228 (4.62%) SAP
4 187 (3.79%) Oracle
5 139 (2.82%) Salesforce
5 139 (2.82%) VMware
6 130 (2.64%) Google
7 121 (2.45%) SolarWinds
8 113 (2.29%) ServiceNow
9 103 (2.09%) Splunk
10 78 (1.58%) Veeam
11 73 (1.48%) Brocade
11 73 (1.48%) Cisco
11 73 (1.48%) Tanium
12 72 (1.46%) Nimble Storage
13 69 (1.40%) Databricks
14 55 (1.12%) Workday
15 52 (1.05%) Adobe
16 43 (0.87%) Alteryx
17 41 (0.83%) Bloomberg