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

6 months to
19 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 5,831 6,142 7,964
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.43% 12.31% 9.57%
As % of the General category 11.68% 17.89% 16.76%
Number of salaries quoted 3,566 2,612 3,643
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 49,915 34,337 47,530
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.47% 68.79% 57.11%
Number of salaries quoted 30,540 17,966 27,879
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,266 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% -1.33% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,250 £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 19 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 19 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 5,222 £52,500 - 5,274
UK excluding London -17 3,762 £47,500 - 3,225
Work from Home -10 1,864 £55,000 +10.00% 2,233
London -10 1,787 £67,500 +3.85% 2,799
North of England -19 1,054 £47,500 +5.56% 777
South East -9 888 £50,000 -4.76% 928
Midlands -8 651 £48,000 +6.67% 420
North West -14 643 £47,000 +4.44% 457
South West -9 522 £47,500 +5.56% 426
West Midlands -17 338 £50,000 +11.11% 241
East Midlands -1 311 £46,743 +3.87% 180
Yorkshire -9 291 £47,000 +17.50% 236
East of England -16 260 £47,500 +5.56% 288
Wales -11 145 £51,709 +2.61% 75
Scotland -24 131 £44,000 +3.53% 258
Northern Ireland -14 120 £42,500 -22.73% 126
North East -16 120 £55,000 +34.15% 95

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
1 181 (3.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 168 (2.88%) SharePoint
3 89 (1.53%) Confluence
4 69 (1.18%) Apache Spark
5 66 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
6 48 (0.82%) CMS
7 47 (0.81%) Apache
8 33 (0.57%) IIS
9 26 (0.45%) SAS
10 11 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
10 11 (0.19%) WordPress
11 10 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 9 (0.15%) Headless CMS
12 9 (0.15%) Jupyter
12 9 (0.15%) WebLogic
12 9 (0.15%) WebSphere
13 8 (0.14%) OpenStack
14 3 (0.051%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.051%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.051%) Tomcat
Applications
1 615 (10.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 252 (4.32%) Microsoft Office
3 120 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 83 (1.42%) MS Visio
5 44 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
6 26 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.15%) Adobe XD
8 8 (0.14%) Simulink
9 7 (0.12%) AutoCAD
10 5 (0.086%) Acrobat
10 5 (0.086%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.086%) EPLAN
11 4 (0.069%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.069%) CATIA
11 4 (0.069%) Maya
11 4 (0.069%) Trello
12 3 (0.051%) LaTeX
12 3 (0.051%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.051%) Revit
12 3 (0.051%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 103 (1.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 68 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 40 (0.69%) NetSuite
4 35 (0.60%) Dynamics GP
5 21 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
6 20 (0.34%) SAP PM
7 17 (0.29%) Shopify
8 15 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
9 14 (0.24%) SAP CO
9 14 (0.24%) SAP ERP
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%) Magento
12 10 (0.17%) SAP Business One
13 9 (0.15%) Elite 3E
13 9 (0.15%) Fidessa
13 9 (0.15%) Sage 200
14 8 (0.14%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 993 (17.03%) Azure
2 692 (11.87%) Power Platform
3 616 (10.56%) AWS
4 412 (7.07%) Microsoft 365
5 364 (6.24%) SaaS
6 290 (4.97%) GCP
7 144 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
8 141 (2.42%) Entra ID
9 137 (2.35%) Dynamics 365
10 112 (1.92%) Google Analytics
11 106 (1.82%) Snowflake
12 100 (1.71%) GitHub
13 89 (1.53%) dbt
14 84 (1.44%) Power Automate
15 82 (1.41%) Amazon S3
16 75 (1.29%) PowerApps
17 74 (1.27%) Microsoft Purview
18 69 (1.18%) Google Ads
19 66 (1.13%) Serverless
20 56 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 200 (3.43%) DNS
2 155 (2.66%) DHCP
3 152 (2.61%) Firewall
4 126 (2.16%) VPN
5 100 (1.71%) TCP/IP
6 76 (1.30%) WAN
7 75 (1.29%) LAN
8 60 (1.03%) Network Security
9 56 (0.96%) Wireless
10 55 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
11 54 (0.93%) Broadband
12 45 (0.77%) Internet
13 44 (0.75%) SAN
14 43 (0.74%) VLAN
15 36 (0.62%) HTTP
16 27 (0.46%) VoIP
17 25 (0.43%) BGP
18 21 (0.36%) SD-WAN
19 20 (0.34%) SMS
20 18 (0.31%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 613 (10.51%) Power BI
2 263 (4.51%) Tableau
3 228 (3.91%) SQL Server
4 190 (3.26%) Data Warehouse
5 118 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
6 104 (1.78%) Relational Database
7 94 (1.61%) Looker
8 91 (1.56%) Metadata
9 85 (1.46%) MySQL
10 78 (1.34%) Data Lake
11 76 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
12 66 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 64 (1.10%) BigQuery
14 62 (1.06%) Power Query
15 60 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 55 (0.94%) Big Data
17 54 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
18 47 (0.81%) NoSQL
19 38 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
19 38 (0.65%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 246 (4.22%) JIRA
2 220 (3.77%) Git
3 54 (0.93%) GitLab
4 50 (0.86%) Jenkins
5 32 (0.55%) MLflow
6 31 (0.53%) Rational DOORS
7 29 (0.50%) Selenium
8 22 (0.38%) Cucumber
9 20 (0.34%) Eclipse
9 20 (0.34%) Postman
10 16 (0.27%) Chocolatey
11 14 (0.24%) Bitbucket
11 14 (0.24%) JMeter
12 13 (0.22%) Burp Suite
12 13 (0.22%) Claude Code
12 13 (0.22%) Cypress.io
12 13 (0.22%) ERwin
13 12 (0.21%) IBM UrbanCode
13 12 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
14 11 (0.19%) LabVIEW
General
1 2,811 (48.21%) Social Skills
2 1,909 (32.74%) Finance
3 604 (10.36%) Marketing
4 512 (8.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 414 (7.10%) Organisational Skills
6 387 (6.64%) Retail
7 384 (6.59%) Law
8 355 (6.09%) Public Sector
9 352 (6.04%) Legal
10 283 (4.85%) Influencing Skills
11 281 (4.82%) Manufacturing
12 275 (4.72%) Banking
13 186 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
14 167 (2.86%) Aerospace
15 133 (2.28%) Telecoms
16 109 (1.87%) Electronics
17 106 (1.82%) Advertising
18 94 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
19 73 (1.25%) Financial Institution
20 69 (1.18%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,361 (23.34%) Analyst
2 768 (13.17%) Senior
3 407 (6.98%) Lead
4 302 (5.18%) Data Analyst
5 297 (5.09%) Business Analyst
6 281 (4.82%) Developer
7 231 (3.96%) Architect
8 229 (3.93%) Consultant
9 206 (3.53%) Systems Engineer
10 201 (3.45%) Senior Analyst
11 172 (2.95%) Support Analyst
12 171 (2.93%) Data Engineer
13 133 (2.28%) Support Engineer
14 119 (2.04%) IT Support
15 111 (1.90%) IT Manager
16 107 (1.84%) Security Analyst
16 107 (1.84%) Senior Manager
17 101 (1.73%) Systems Analyst
18 92 (1.58%) Applications Support
18 92 (1.58%) Marketing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (2.59%) .NET
2 128 (2.20%) HTML
3 124 (2.13%) REST
4 120 (2.06%) CSS
5 89 (1.53%) JSON
6 78 (1.34%) Kafka
7 77 (1.32%) Middleware
7 77 (1.32%) React
8 75 (1.29%) XML
9 72 (1.23%) RESTful
10 68 (1.17%) PyTorch
11 61 (1.05%) TensorFlow
12 57 (0.98%) SOAP
13 50 (0.86%) PySpark
14 48 (0.82%) scikit-learn
15 43 (0.74%) Web Services
16 41 (0.70%) EDI
17 40 (0.69%) Node.js
17 40 (0.69%) OAuth
18 39 (0.67%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 532 (9.12%) Analytical Mindset
2 345 (5.92%) Management Information System
3 326 (5.59%) Onboarding
4 273 (4.68%) Self-Motivation
5 269 (4.61%) Product Ownership
6 164 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
7 139 (2.38%) Cloud Native
8 134 (2.30%) Driving Licence
9 120 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
10 119 (2.04%) Blog
11 117 (2.01%) Social Media
12 109 (1.87%) Security Posture
13 106 (1.82%) Data Centre
14 101 (1.73%) Marketing Technology
15 96 (1.65%) Cyber Threat
16 92 (1.58%) Virtual Team
17 81 (1.39%) Data Structures
18 76 (1.30%) Algorithms
19 71 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
20 53 (0.91%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 460 (7.89%) Windows
2 294 (5.04%) Linux
3 222 (3.81%) 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 29 (0.50%) 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 2,774 (47.57%) Problem-Solving
2 1,682 (28.85%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,360 (23.32%) Decision-Making
4 1,274 (21.85%) Analytics
5 1,038 (17.80%) Agile
6 1,020 (17.49%) AI
7 996 (17.08%) Stakeholder Management
8 739 (12.67%) Business Intelligence
9 649 (11.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 604 (10.36%) Roadmaps
11 554 (9.50%) Actionable Insight
11 554 (9.50%) Mentoring
12 528 (9.06%) Project Management
13 507 (8.69%) Data Analysis
14 500 (8.57%) Validation
15 489 (8.39%) Cybersecurity
16 469 (8.04%) Data Modelling
17 457 (7.84%) Process Improvement
18 454 (7.79%) Customer Experience
19 442 (7.58%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 1,158 (19.86%) SQL
2 908 (15.57%) Python
3 222 (3.81%) JavaScript
4 195 (3.34%) Java
5 190 (3.26%) PowerShell
6 186 (3.19%) C#
7 100 (1.71%) C++
8 97 (1.66%) Bash
9 81 (1.39%) R
10 72 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 67 (1.15%) TypeScript
12 47 (0.81%) T-SQL
13 45 (0.77%) MATLAB
14 32 (0.55%) C
15 28 (0.48%) Scala
16 26 (0.45%) PHP
17 23 (0.39%) PL/SQL
18 22 (0.38%) Go
19 19 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
19 19 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,130 (19.38%) Degree
2 642 (11.01%) Security Cleared
3 444 (7.61%) SC Cleared
4 237 (4.06%) ACCA
5 223 (3.82%) CIMA
6 175 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 168 (2.88%) CISSP
8 158 (2.71%) DV Cleared
9 148 (2.54%) DBS Check
10 128 (2.20%) CISM
11 122 (2.09%) Cisco Certification
12 120 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
13 103 (1.77%) Master's Degree
14 79 (1.35%) Azure Certification
15 76 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
16 74 (1.27%) CompTIA Security+
17 61 (1.05%) IRCA
17 61 (1.05%) PMI Certification
18 48 (0.82%) CCNA
18 48 (0.82%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 558 (9.57%) Data Quality
2 397 (6.81%) QA
3 387 (6.64%) GDPR
4 245 (4.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 202 (3.46%) NIST
6 167 (2.86%) Accessibility
7 158 (2.71%) SLA
8 157 (2.69%) Cyber Essentials
9 130 (2.23%) PCI DSS
10 118 (2.02%) ISO 9001
11 71 (1.22%) GRC
12 63 (1.08%) PMO
13 46 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
14 40 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 38 (0.65%) IFRS
16 37 (0.63%) COBIT
16 37 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 28 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 27 (0.46%) NCSC
19 24 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 329 (5.64%) Active Directory
2 141 (2.42%) Docker
3 103 (1.77%) Hyper-V
4 89 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 80 (1.37%) Terminal Server
6 28 (0.48%) Firmware
7 22 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
8 19 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
9 10 (0.17%) 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 (0.051%) DFS Replication
15 3 (0.051%) IAG
15 3 (0.051%) VMware ESXi
15 3 (0.051%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 152 (2.61%) Terraform
2 117 (2.01%) Kubernetes
3 85 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
4 76 (1.30%) Ansible
5 42 (0.72%) Grafana
6 32 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
7 27 (0.46%) SCCM
8 24 (0.41%) Prometheus
9 19 (0.33%) QRadar
10 18 (0.31%) Kibana
11 17 (0.29%) Nagios
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%) Istio
15 7 (0.12%) Puppet
15 7 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 1,269 (21.76%) Microsoft
2 299 (5.13%) Google
3 234 (4.01%) SAP
4 206 (3.53%) Oracle
5 183 (3.14%) VMware
6 150 (2.57%) Splunk
7 142 (2.44%) Databricks
8 128 (2.20%) ServiceNow
9 123 (2.11%) Salesforce
10 112 (1.92%) SolarWinds
11 90 (1.54%) Veeam
12 82 (1.41%) Cisco
13 81 (1.39%) Brocade
13 81 (1.39%) Nimble Storage
13 81 (1.39%) Workday
14 80 (1.37%) Tanium
15 60 (1.03%) Red Hat
16 58 (0.99%) Adobe
17 52 (0.89%) Dell
18 49 (0.84%) HubSpot