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 26 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 12 19
Rank change year-on-year -5 +7 +3
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 5,014 5,849 5,892
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 8.00% 11.11% 8.71%
As % of the General category 13.92% 16.55% 14.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,490 2,406 4,169
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £71,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,750 £89,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,967 £47,500
% change year-on-year -11.71% +7.30% -5.00%

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 36,015 35,349 41,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 57.45% 67.15% 61.57%
Number of salaries quoted 19,419 15,847 30,943
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £27,965
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -11.41%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,875 £76,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.14% -6.67%

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 26 January 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 26 January 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 -6 4,409 £52,500 -4.55% 2,745
UK excluding London -11 3,174 £45,000 -11.71% 2,502
Work from Home +5 1,706 £52,500 -6.25% 1,307
London +1 1,550 £67,500 +3.85% 688
South East +7 858 £50,000 - 883
North of England -15 793 £45,000 -14.29% 436
Midlands -13 582 £44,000 -8.81% 369
North West -16 414 £42,500 -19.05% 218
West Midlands -12 348 £52,500 +5.00% 186
South West 0 335 £45,000 -11.76% 316
Yorkshire +3 278 £45,000 -10.00% 164
Scotland -7 260 £40,000 -38.46% 85
East of England -20 256 £40,000 -21.52% 334
East Midlands +7 232 £37,500 -11.76% 181
North East -3 101 £43,500 +8.75% 59
Wales +20 76 £42,500 -13.45% 106
Northern Ireland -8 42 £52,500 -11.66% 42
Isle of Man -2 1 £62,500 +150.00% 1
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
1 144 (2.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 94 (1.87%) Confluence
3 84 (1.68%) SharePoint
4 40 (0.80%) Apache Spark
5 35 (0.70%) CMS
6 22 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
7 19 (0.38%) SAS
8 18 (0.36%) WordPress
9 14 (0.28%) Apache
9 14 (0.28%) IIS
10 6 (0.12%) nginx
11 4 (0.080%) Drupal
11 4 (0.080%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.060%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.060%) govService
13 2 (0.040%) FactoryTalk
13 2 (0.040%) HCL Notes
13 2 (0.040%) MTS
13 2 (0.040%) WinCC
14 1 (0.020%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 729 (14.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 385 (7.68%) Chatbot
3 324 (6.46%) Microsoft Office
4 134 (2.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 77 (1.54%) MS Visio
6 56 (1.12%) Maya
7 41 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
8 34 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
9 20 (0.40%) AutoCAD
10 13 (0.26%) Adobe XD
11 8 (0.16%) SOLIDWORKS
12 5 (0.100%) CATIA
13 4 (0.080%) Oracle Smart View
13 4 (0.080%) PlantUML
14 3 (0.060%) Sketch
15 2 (0.040%) Revit
15 2 (0.040%) Stata
15 2 (0.040%) Trello
16 1 (0.020%) Photoshop
16 1 (0.020%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 143 (2.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 67 (1.34%) SAP MDG
3 54 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
4 40 (0.80%) NetSuite
5 38 (0.76%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 33 (0.66%) SAP CO
7 29 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
8 26 (0.52%) SAP FI
9 25 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
9 25 (0.50%) SAP FI/CO
10 22 (0.44%) Shopify
10 22 (0.44%) Workday HCM
11 20 (0.40%) SAP IBP
12 19 (0.38%) Endur
12 19 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
13 17 (0.34%) Oracle Assets
14 13 (0.26%) Sage X3
15 11 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
15 11 (0.22%) SAP ERP
16 10 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 834 (16.63%) Azure
2 620 (12.37%) Power Platform
3 442 (8.82%) AWS
4 279 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
5 242 (4.83%) SaaS
6 156 (3.11%) GCP
7 151 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
8 100 (1.99%) Dynamics 365
9 83 (1.66%) Entra ID
9 83 (1.66%) GitHub
10 75 (1.50%) Snowflake
11 67 (1.34%) Azure Data Factory
12 63 (1.26%) Power Automate
13 54 (1.08%) Serverless
14 53 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
15 50 (1.00%) Microsoft Purview
16 48 (0.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 47 (0.94%) Google Analytics
17 47 (0.94%) OCI
18 44 (0.88%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 166 (3.31%) DNS
2 161 (3.21%) Firewall
3 135 (2.69%) DHCP
4 80 (1.60%) VPN
5 73 (1.46%) Wi-Fi
6 60 (1.20%) WAN
7 56 (1.12%) LAN
8 49 (0.98%) Wireless
9 45 (0.90%) Network Security
9 45 (0.90%) TCP/IP
10 43 (0.86%) VLAN
11 38 (0.76%) Remote Desktop
12 30 (0.60%) Wireshark
13 29 (0.58%) VoIP
14 28 (0.56%) Broadband
15 27 (0.54%) BGP
15 27 (0.54%) OSPF
16 24 (0.48%) SAN
17 23 (0.46%) EIGRP
18 20 (0.40%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 567 (11.31%) Power BI
2 369 (7.36%) Tableau
3 193 (3.85%) SQL Server
4 167 (3.33%) Data Mining
4 167 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
5 111 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
6 109 (2.17%) Data Lake
7 107 (2.13%) Metadata
8 96 (1.91%) Relational Database
9 60 (1.20%) NoSQL
10 57 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 51 (1.02%) Looker
12 49 (0.98%) MySQL
13 46 (0.92%) SAP BW
14 45 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
14 45 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
15 43 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
15 43 (0.86%) Big Data
15 43 (0.86%) GIS
16 34 (0.68%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 217 (4.33%) JIRA
2 92 (1.83%) Git
3 43 (0.86%) Selenium
4 37 (0.74%) Jenkins
5 36 (0.72%) GitLab
6 18 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
7 15 (0.30%) Robot Framework
8 14 (0.28%) ERwin
8 14 (0.28%) WebDriver
9 13 (0.26%) Bitbucket
9 13 (0.26%) ER Studio
9 13 (0.26%) Postman
9 13 (0.26%) Snyk
9 13 (0.26%) Subversion
10 12 (0.24%) Balsamiq
11 11 (0.22%) Axure RP
11 11 (0.22%) Cypress.io
11 11 (0.22%) Visual Studio
12 10 (0.20%) LabVIEW
13 8 (0.16%) TestRail
General
1 2,608 (52.01%) Social Skills
2 1,752 (34.94%) Finance
3 455 (9.07%) Marketing
4 327 (6.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 322 (6.42%) Law
6 288 (5.74%) Legal
7 284 (5.66%) Retail
8 252 (5.03%) Banking
9 245 (4.89%) Organisational Skills
10 235 (4.69%) Public Sector
11 222 (4.43%) Presentation Skills
12 175 (3.49%) Manufacturing
13 137 (2.73%) Financial Institution
14 135 (2.69%) Influencing Skills
15 115 (2.29%) Games
16 100 (1.99%) Telecoms
17 80 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
18 71 (1.42%) Advertising
19 67 (1.34%) Electronics
20 52 (1.04%) French Language
Job Titles
1 1,176 (23.45%) Analyst
2 640 (12.76%) Senior
3 381 (7.60%) Trainer
4 355 (7.08%) Data Analyst
5 351 (7.00%) Lead
6 314 (6.26%) Architect
7 229 (4.57%) Business Analyst
8 224 (4.47%) Developer
9 180 (3.59%) Consultant
10 166 (3.31%) Support Analyst
11 146 (2.91%) IT Support
12 144 (2.87%) Senior Analyst
13 136 (2.71%) Trainee
14 123 (2.45%) Trainee Analyst
14 123 (2.45%) Trainee Data Analyst
15 120 (2.39%) Senior Manager
15 120 (2.39%) Solutions Architect
16 115 (2.29%) Systems Engineer
17 111 (2.21%) Business Manager
18 104 (2.07%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (2.27%) HTML
2 109 (2.17%) CSS
3 82 (1.64%) React
4 72 (1.44%) REST
5 66 (1.32%) Middleware
6 65 (1.30%) .NET
7 39 (0.78%) JSON
8 34 (0.68%) Node.js
8 34 (0.68%) SOAP
9 33 (0.66%) AngularJS
9 33 (0.66%) EDI
9 33 (0.66%) XML
10 28 (0.56%) Kafka
11 27 (0.54%) LangChain
11 27 (0.54%) Spring
12 23 (0.46%) PySpark
13 22 (0.44%) FIX Protocol
13 22 (0.44%) Oracle Fusion
14 19 (0.38%) GraphQL
15 18 (0.36%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 504 (10.05%) Analytical Mindset
2 382 (7.62%) Self-Motivation
3 324 (6.46%) Onboarding
4 274 (5.46%) Management Information System
5 212 (4.23%) Product Ownership
6 160 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
7 137 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
8 101 (2.01%) Data Centre
9 86 (1.72%) FMCG
10 80 (1.60%) Driving Licence
11 78 (1.56%) Data Structures
12 74 (1.48%) Cloud Native
13 55 (1.10%) Algorithms
14 52 (1.04%) Robotics
15 51 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
15 51 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 51 (1.02%) Virtual Team
16 44 (0.88%) Social Media
17 43 (0.86%) Low-Code
18 42 (0.84%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 357 (7.12%) Windows
2 235 (4.69%) Linux
3 159 (3.17%) Windows Server
4 98 (1.95%) Windows Server 2016
5 37 (0.74%) Unix
6 26 (0.52%) Mac OS
7 16 (0.32%) Windows 10
8 14 (0.28%) Android
9 9 (0.18%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.100%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.060%) OpenWrt
11 3 (0.060%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.060%) VMS
12 2 (0.040%) AIX
12 2 (0.040%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.020%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.020%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.020%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.020%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.020%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,254 (44.95%) Problem-Solving
2 1,089 (21.72%) AI
3 1,057 (21.08%) Continuous Improvement
4 1,054 (21.02%) Analytics
5 971 (19.37%) Decision-Making
6 897 (17.89%) Agile
7 800 (15.96%) Project Management
8 735 (14.66%) Business Intelligence
9 634 (12.64%) Stakeholder Management
10 536 (10.69%) Data Analysis
11 464 (9.25%) Risk Management
12 425 (8.48%) Roadmaps
13 418 (8.34%) ERP
14 416 (8.30%) Business Strategy
15 405 (8.08%) Mentoring
16 403 (8.04%) Analytical Thinking
16 403 (8.04%) Cybersecurity
17 396 (7.90%) Actionable Insight
18 395 (7.88%) Computer Science
19 391 (7.80%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 971 (19.37%) SQL
2 707 (14.10%) Python
3 140 (2.79%) Java
4 139 (2.77%) JavaScript
5 123 (2.45%) PowerShell
6 109 (2.17%) C#
7 63 (1.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 51 (1.02%) R
9 48 (0.96%) C++
10 45 (0.90%) T-SQL
11 44 (0.88%) VBA
12 41 (0.82%) Bash
13 28 (0.56%) Scala
14 25 (0.50%) TypeScript
15 21 (0.42%) C
15 21 (0.42%) Go
16 17 (0.34%) PL/SQL
17 15 (0.30%) MATLAB
18 14 (0.28%) Kotlin
19 12 (0.24%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 1,601 (31.93%) Degree
2 525 (10.47%) Master's Degree
3 421 (8.40%) Security Cleared
4 392 (7.82%) PhD
5 320 (6.38%) SC Cleared
6 209 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 172 (3.43%) ACCA
8 164 (3.27%) CIMA
9 145 (2.89%) CISSP
10 102 (2.03%) DBS Check
11 99 (1.97%) PMI Certification
12 84 (1.68%) DV Cleared
13 82 (1.64%) PMP
14 81 (1.62%) CISM
15 68 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
16 65 (1.30%) Azure Certification
17 58 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
18 53 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
19 50 (1.00%) AWS Certification
20 48 (0.96%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 332 (6.62%) Data Quality
2 246 (4.91%) QA
3 196 (3.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 191 (3.81%) GDPR
5 166 (3.31%) Cyber Essentials
6 134 (2.67%) NIST
7 132 (2.63%) PCI DSS
8 111 (2.21%) Accessibility
9 100 (1.99%) PMO
10 53 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
10 53 (1.06%) SLA
11 39 (0.78%) GRC
12 38 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 27 (0.54%) IFRS
14 21 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 18 (0.36%) WCAG
16 17 (0.34%) COBIT
16 17 (0.34%) NCSC
17 15 (0.30%) ISO 9001
18 13 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 254 (5.07%) Active Directory
2 122 (2.43%) Hyper-V
3 96 (1.91%) Terminal Server
4 53 (1.06%) Docker
5 49 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
6 13 (0.26%) Firmware
6 13 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (0.26%) vSphere
7 10 (0.20%) ProxySG
8 8 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.080%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.060%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.060%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.060%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.040%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.020%) NFS
Systems Management
1 103 (2.05%) Terraform
2 67 (1.34%) Ansible
3 58 (1.16%) Kubernetes
4 49 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (0.42%) Prometheus
6 20 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (0.32%) Grafana
7 16 (0.32%) SCCM
8 6 (0.12%) Computer Incident Response Team
8 6 (0.12%) SCOM
9 5 (0.100%) Control-M
9 5 (0.100%) Nagios
10 4 (0.080%) CASB
10 4 (0.080%) CSIRT
10 4 (0.080%) Nessus
10 4 (0.080%) QRadar
10 4 (0.080%) Rancher
10 4 (0.080%) vRealize
11 3 (0.060%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.060%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 1,158 (23.10%) Microsoft
2 381 (7.60%) PayPal
3 357 (7.12%) SAP
4 207 (4.13%) Oracle
5 156 (3.11%) Salesforce
5 156 (3.11%) VMware
6 138 (2.75%) Google
7 129 (2.57%) SolarWinds
8 124 (2.47%) Splunk
9 103 (2.05%) ServiceNow
10 99 (1.97%) Veeam
11 97 (1.93%) Brocade
11 97 (1.93%) Tanium
12 96 (1.91%) Nimble Storage
13 80 (1.60%) Cisco
14 72 (1.44%) Databricks
15 64 (1.28%) Adobe
16 44 (0.88%) Alteryx
16 44 (0.88%) Workday
17 43 (0.86%) Bloomberg