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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 8 14
Rank change year-on-year -18 +6 +7
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,943 6,087 9,825
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.19% 13.36% 9.31%
As % of the General category 10.98% 18.47% 16.16%
Number of salaries quoted 3,235 2,456 5,350
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 45,036 32,957 60,792
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 47.29% 72.36% 57.60%
Number of salaries quoted 27,702 16,253 40,311
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 £76,750 £77,500 £71,991
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £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 27 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 27 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 4,512 £55,000 - 1,876
UK excluding London -20 3,113 £48,445 -3.11% 1,450
London -11 1,552 £70,000 +7.69% 764
Work from Home -10 1,539 £55,000 - 790
North of England -18 960 £48,350 +1.79% 305
South East -7 789 £50,000 -9.09% 505
Midlands -9 569 £47,500 - 257
North West -19 559 £47,500 -5.00% 171
South West -25 338 £47,500 +4.92% 158
West Midlands -17 316 £49,000 +3.16% 149
Yorkshire -11 297 £50,000 +11.11% 99
East Midlands -3 252 £46,743 -2.11% 107
East of England -17 240 £45,025 -1.95% 127
Scotland -25 105 £40,000 -20.35% 62
North East -23 104 £55,000 +41.75% 41
Wales -10 84 £53,171 -3.33% 30
Northern Ireland -21 39 £40,000 -27.27% 56

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
1 163 (3.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 122 (2.47%) SharePoint
3 72 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
4 71 (1.44%) Confluence
5 68 (1.38%) Apache Spark
6 44 (0.89%) Apache
7 37 (0.75%) CMS
8 22 (0.45%) IIS
9 21 (0.42%) SAS
10 16 (0.32%) WordPress
11 14 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 13 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
13 8 (0.16%) WebLogic
13 8 (0.16%) WebSphere
14 6 (0.12%) Jupyter
15 3 (0.061%) Anypoint
15 3 (0.061%) JBoss
15 3 (0.061%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 3 (0.061%) Tomcat
16 2 (0.040%) nginx
Applications
1 538 (10.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 193 (3.90%) Microsoft Office
3 102 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 84 (1.70%) MS Visio
5 33 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
6 26 (0.53%) 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 (0.061%) Blender
12 3 (0.061%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.061%) Simulink
12 3 (0.061%) 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 73 (1.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 39 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 35 (0.71%) NetSuite
4 28 (0.57%) 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
1 881 (17.82%) Azure
2 650 (13.15%) Power Platform
3 486 (9.83%) AWS
4 363 (7.34%) Microsoft 365
5 312 (6.31%) SaaS
6 214 (4.33%) GCP
7 129 (2.61%) Dynamics 365
8 117 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
9 116 (2.35%) Entra ID
10 83 (1.68%) Google Analytics
11 79 (1.60%) GitHub
11 79 (1.60%) Microsoft Purview
11 79 (1.60%) Power Automate
12 72 (1.46%) Amazon S3
13 68 (1.38%) dbt
13 68 (1.38%) PowerApps
14 67 (1.36%) Snowflake
15 62 (1.25%) Serverless
16 55 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
17 52 (1.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 202 (4.09%) Firewall
2 171 (3.46%) DNS
3 129 (2.61%) DHCP
4 120 (2.43%) VPN
5 86 (1.74%) WAN
6 82 (1.66%) TCP/IP
7 78 (1.58%) LAN
8 76 (1.54%) 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 (0.67%) HTTP
16 31 (0.63%) Internet
17 28 (0.57%) SD-WAN
18 26 (0.53%) Cisco ASA
19 25 (0.51%) Wireshark
20 24 (0.49%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 579 (11.71%) Power BI
2 291 (5.89%) Tableau
3 188 (3.80%) SQL Server
4 173 (3.50%) Data Warehouse
5 98 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
6 89 (1.80%) Metadata
7 78 (1.58%) Data Mining
8 73 (1.48%) Relational Database
9 71 (1.44%) Data Lake
10 61 (1.23%) Looker
10 61 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
11 60 (1.21%) Power Query
12 59 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
13 56 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 54 (1.09%) MySQL
15 48 (0.97%) BigQuery
16 46 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 37 (0.75%) Big Data
17 37 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
17 37 (0.75%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 171 (3.46%) JIRA
2 146 (2.95%) Git
3 55 (1.11%) GitLab
4 36 (0.73%) Rational DOORS
5 33 (0.67%) Jenkins
6 31 (0.63%) MLflow
7 19 (0.38%) Selenium
8 18 (0.36%) Chocolatey
9 17 (0.34%) Cucumber
10 15 (0.30%) Eclipse
11 14 (0.28%) ERwin
12 13 (0.26%) IBM UrbanCode
12 13 (0.26%) Postman
13 12 (0.24%) Cypress.io
13 12 (0.24%) SonarQube
13 12 (0.24%) Visual Studio
14 10 (0.20%) Oracle APEX
15 9 (0.18%) Bitbucket
15 9 (0.18%) JMeter
15 9 (0.18%) LabVIEW
General
1 2,308 (46.69%) Social Skills
2 1,698 (34.35%) Finance
3 411 (8.31%) Marketing
4 359 (7.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 310 (6.27%) Organisational Skills
6 302 (6.11%) Public Sector
7 277 (5.60%) Retail
8 269 (5.44%) Law
9 267 (5.40%) Legal
10 241 (4.88%) Banking
11 189 (3.82%) Manufacturing
12 174 (3.52%) Influencing Skills
13 136 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
14 118 (2.39%) Telecoms
15 88 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
16 87 (1.76%) Advertising
17 84 (1.70%) Aerospace
18 77 (1.56%) Electronics
19 74 (1.50%) Financial Institution
20 55 (1.11%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,267 (25.63%) Analyst
2 636 (12.87%) Senior
3 350 (7.08%) Lead
4 308 (6.23%) Data Analyst
5 278 (5.62%) Business Analyst
6 239 (4.84%) Developer
7 221 (4.47%) Consultant
8 200 (4.05%) Architect
9 191 (3.86%) Systems Engineer
10 149 (3.01%) Senior Analyst
11 134 (2.71%) Data Engineer
12 126 (2.55%) Support Analyst
13 116 (2.35%) Support Engineer
14 113 (2.29%) IT Support
15 112 (2.27%) IT Manager
16 105 (2.12%) Systems Analyst
17 103 (2.08%) Senior Manager
18 98 (1.98%) Financial Analyst
19 96 (1.94%) Security Analyst
20 86 (1.74%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (2.41%) HTML
2 110 (2.23%) .NET
3 108 (2.18%) CSS
4 100 (2.02%) REST
5 91 (1.84%) Middleware
6 88 (1.78%) JSON
7 84 (1.70%) React
8 80 (1.62%) XML
9 67 (1.36%) PyTorch
10 61 (1.23%) TensorFlow
11 54 (1.09%) Kafka
12 48 (0.97%) RESTful
13 47 (0.95%) Node.js
14 46 (0.93%) SOAP
15 43 (0.87%) PySpark
16 41 (0.83%) scikit-learn
17 39 (0.79%) Web Services
18 33 (0.67%) Pandas
19 32 (0.65%) LangChain
20 29 (0.59%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 530 (10.72%) Analytical Mindset
2 243 (4.92%) Management Information System
3 217 (4.39%) Onboarding
4 201 (4.07%) Product Ownership
5 190 (3.84%) Self-Motivation
6 130 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
7 106 (2.14%) Data Centre
8 103 (2.08%) Cloud Native
9 99 (2.00%) Security Posture
10 86 (1.74%) Driving Licence
11 85 (1.72%) Data Structures
12 78 (1.58%) Algorithms
12 78 (1.58%) Cyber Threat
13 68 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
14 60 (1.21%) Social Media
15 56 (1.13%) Public Cloud
15 56 (1.13%) Virtual Team
16 47 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
17 45 (0.91%) Cyber Defence
18 43 (0.87%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 379 (7.67%) Windows
2 236 (4.77%) Linux
3 190 (3.84%) Windows Server
4 88 (1.78%) Windows Server 2016
5 33 (0.67%) Unix
6 29 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 28 (0.57%) 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 (0.061%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.020%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,230 (45.11%) Problem-Solving
2 1,234 (24.96%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,096 (22.17%) Decision-Making
4 1,083 (21.91%) Analytics
5 848 (17.16%) Agile
6 658 (13.31%) Stakeholder Management
7 657 (13.29%) Business Intelligence
8 654 (13.23%) AI
9 522 (10.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 507 (10.26%) Roadmaps
11 490 (9.91%) Mentoring
12 476 (9.63%) Actionable Insight
13 467 (9.45%) Project Management
14 455 (9.20%) Cybersecurity
15 452 (9.14%) Data Modelling
16 437 (8.84%) Data Analysis
17 407 (8.23%) Data Governance
18 404 (8.17%) Process Improvement
19 364 (7.36%) Analytical Thinking
19 364 (7.36%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1,050 (21.24%) SQL
2 871 (17.62%) Python
3 177 (3.58%) JavaScript
4 172 (3.48%) Java
5 167 (3.38%) PowerShell
6 151 (3.05%) C#
7 77 (1.56%) R
8 73 (1.48%) C++
8 73 (1.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 71 (1.44%) Bash
10 52 (1.05%) TypeScript
11 49 (0.99%) T-SQL
12 45 (0.91%) MATLAB
13 33 (0.67%) VBA
14 23 (0.47%) PHP
15 22 (0.45%) Go
16 19 (0.38%) PL/SQL
17 18 (0.36%) C
17 18 (0.36%) Julia
18 17 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 905 (18.31%) Degree
2 460 (9.31%) Security Cleared
3 328 (6.64%) SC Cleared
4 260 (5.26%) ACCA
5 245 (4.96%) CIMA
6 156 (3.16%) CISSP
6 156 (3.16%) DBS Check
7 146 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
8 117 (2.37%) Cisco Certification
9 112 (2.27%) CISM
10 92 (1.86%) Master's Degree
11 90 (1.82%) DV Cleared
12 87 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
13 73 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
14 72 (1.46%) IRCA
15 71 (1.44%) Azure Certification
16 67 (1.36%) CompTIA Security+
17 56 (1.13%) PMI Certification
18 50 (1.01%) PMP
19 47 (0.95%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 470 (9.51%) Data Quality
2 385 (7.79%) GDPR
3 323 (6.53%) QA
4 272 (5.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 226 (4.57%) NIST
6 166 (3.36%) Cyber Essentials
7 145 (2.93%) SLA
8 130 (2.63%) PCI DSS
9 127 (2.57%) Accessibility
10 122 (2.47%) ISO 9001
11 76 (1.54%) GRC
12 59 (1.19%) 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 36 (0.73%) COBIT
18 28 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
19 24 (0.49%) ITGC
20 23 (0.47%) NCSC
System Software
1 274 (5.54%) Active Directory
2 92 (1.86%) Docker
3 88 (1.78%) Hyper-V
4 76 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
5 72 (1.46%) Terminal Server
6 26 (0.53%) 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 (0.061%) DFS Replication
14 3 (0.061%) VMware ESXi
15 2 (0.040%) Embedded Firmware
15 2 (0.040%) Oracle RAC
16 1 (0.020%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 136 (2.75%) Terraform
2 83 (1.68%) Kubernetes
3 62 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 61 (1.23%) Ansible
5 37 (0.75%) Grafana
6 27 (0.55%) SCCM
7 23 (0.47%) 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%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 1,100 (22.25%) Microsoft
2 210 (4.25%) SAP
3 197 (3.99%) Google
4 169 (3.42%) Oracle
5 158 (3.20%) VMware
6 146 (2.95%) Salesforce
7 127 (2.57%) Splunk
8 118 (2.39%) SolarWinds
9 117 (2.37%) Databricks
10 91 (1.84%) ServiceNow
11 85 (1.72%) Veeam
12 75 (1.52%) Cisco
12 75 (1.52%) Workday
13 73 (1.48%) Nimble Storage
14 72 (1.46%) Brocade
14 72 (1.46%) Tanium
15 52 (1.05%) IBM
16 51 (1.03%) Red Hat
17 46 (0.93%) Adobe
18 45 (0.91%) HubSpot