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 20 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 13 17
Rank change year-on-year -2 +4 +3
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 5,317 6,035 4,514
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 9.01% 10.69% 9.27%
As % of the General category 14.85% 16.35% 14.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2,602 2,607 3,204
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £56,409
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -2.50% +2.56%
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.71% +1.93% -

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 common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 35,799 36,913 31,879
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 60.68% 65.37% 65.49%
Number of salaries quoted 19,340 17,486 23,616
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £44,425 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £101,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -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 20 December 2025.

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 20 December 2025. 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 -4 4,591 £50,000 -9.09% 3,556
UK excluding London -9 3,418 £45,000 -11.71% 3,147
Work from Home +6 1,867 £50,000 -12.28% 2,912
London +2 1,568 £67,500 +3.85% 816
South East +3 874 £50,000 - 892
North of England -9 802 £43,000 -18.10% 884
Midlands -10 626 £44,543 -10.91% 494
North West -11 415 £45,000 -14.29% 395
South West +3 396 £45,000 -14.29% 330
West Midlands -12 371 £52,500 +5.00% 275
Scotland +5 343 £34,750 -42.08% 44
East of England -18 289 £40,000 -21.52% 458
Yorkshire +2 275 £40,000 -20.00% 399
East Midlands +3 252 £37,500 -11.76% 219
North East +18 112 £41,500 +3.75% 96
Wales +8 77 £48,122 -2.00% 88
Northern Ireland -3 44 £52,500 +0.55% 10
Isle of Man -1 1 £62,500 +150.00% 1
Channel Islands -6 1 - - 2

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
1 135 (2.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 93 (1.75%) Confluence
3 86 (1.62%) SharePoint
4 50 (0.94%) CMS
5 49 (0.92%) Apache Spark
6 20 (0.38%) WordPress
7 19 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
7 19 (0.36%) SAS
8 17 (0.32%) Apache
9 15 (0.28%) IIS
10 6 (0.11%) nginx
10 6 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.094%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 4 (0.075%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.075%) Camunda
12 4 (0.075%) Drupal
12 4 (0.075%) Skype for Business
13 3 (0.056%) Apache Synapse
13 3 (0.056%) HCL Notes
14 2 (0.038%) MTS
Applications
1 791 (14.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 446 (8.39%) Chatbot
3 367 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
4 137 (2.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 64 (1.20%) MS Visio
6 60 (1.13%) Maya
7 36 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
8 34 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
9 21 (0.39%) AutoCAD
10 14 (0.26%) Adobe XD
11 8 (0.15%) SOLIDWORKS
12 6 (0.11%) Simulink
13 5 (0.094%) CATIA
14 4 (0.075%) Oracle Smart View
14 4 (0.075%) Photoshop
14 4 (0.075%) PlantUML
14 4 (0.075%) Sketch
15 3 (0.056%) Adobe Creative Suite
15 3 (0.056%) Stata
16 2 (0.038%) Revit
Business Applications
1 156 (2.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 68 (1.28%) SAP MDG
3 56 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
4 49 (0.92%) NetSuite
5 39 (0.73%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 38 (0.71%) Shopify
7 35 (0.66%) SAP CO
8 33 (0.62%) SAP FI
9 32 (0.60%) SAP FI/CO
10 31 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
11 24 (0.45%) SAP IBP
12 21 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
13 17 (0.32%) Endur
13 17 (0.32%) Oracle Assets
14 16 (0.30%) Workday HCM
15 13 (0.24%) Sage X3
15 13 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
16 12 (0.23%) SAP FSCM
17 11 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
17 11 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 802 (15.08%) Azure
2 621 (11.68%) Power Platform
3 427 (8.03%) AWS
4 259 (4.87%) Microsoft 365
5 245 (4.61%) SaaS
6 159 (2.99%) GCP
7 143 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
8 103 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
9 80 (1.50%) GitHub
10 77 (1.45%) Google Analytics
11 76 (1.43%) Snowflake
12 71 (1.34%) Azure Data Factory
12 71 (1.34%) Entra ID
13 57 (1.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 52 (0.98%) Cloud Computing
15 51 (0.96%) Power Automate
16 48 (0.90%) dbt
17 46 (0.87%) Serverless
18 39 (0.73%) Microsoft Purview
18 39 (0.73%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 158 (2.97%) DNS
2 129 (2.43%) Firewall
3 127 (2.39%) DHCP
4 83 (1.56%) VPN
5 80 (1.50%) Network Security
6 73 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
7 67 (1.26%) LAN
8 64 (1.20%) WAN
9 48 (0.90%) TCP/IP
10 47 (0.88%) Wireless
11 44 (0.83%) Remote Desktop
12 37 (0.70%) VLAN
13 32 (0.60%) SMS
13 32 (0.60%) VoIP
14 26 (0.49%) OSPF
15 23 (0.43%) BGP
16 22 (0.41%) Broadband
16 22 (0.41%) Internet
16 22 (0.41%) SAN
17 21 (0.39%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 572 (10.76%) Power BI
2 354 (6.66%) Tableau
3 185 (3.48%) SQL Server
4 174 (3.27%) Data Warehouse
5 158 (2.97%) Data Mining
6 113 (2.13%) Metadata
7 111 (2.09%) Data Lake
8 102 (1.92%) Relational Database
9 98 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
10 66 (1.24%) NoSQL
11 58 (1.09%) MySQL
12 57 (1.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 55 (1.03%) Looker
14 50 (0.94%) SAP BW
15 49 (0.92%) Big Data
16 42 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
16 42 (0.79%) GIS
16 42 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
17 40 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
18 37 (0.70%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 233 (4.38%) JIRA
2 100 (1.88%) Git
3 48 (0.90%) Selenium
4 47 (0.88%) Jenkins
5 43 (0.81%) GitLab
6 19 (0.36%) Bitbucket
7 18 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
8 16 (0.30%) Subversion
9 15 (0.28%) Cypress.io
9 15 (0.28%) Postman
9 15 (0.28%) Robot Framework
9 15 (0.28%) WebDriver
10 14 (0.26%) ERwin
11 13 (0.24%) ER Studio
11 13 (0.24%) Snyk
12 12 (0.23%) Balsamiq
13 11 (0.21%) Axure RP
14 10 (0.19%) Maven
14 10 (0.19%) Visual Studio
14 10 (0.19%) webpack
General
1 2,700 (50.78%) Social Skills
2 1,782 (33.52%) Finance
3 580 (10.91%) Marketing
4 363 (6.83%) Law
5 341 (6.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 319 (6.00%) Retail
7 294 (5.53%) Legal
8 249 (4.68%) Public Sector
9 247 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
10 242 (4.55%) Banking
11 229 (4.31%) Presentation Skills
12 221 (4.16%) Manufacturing
13 143 (2.69%) Telecoms
14 136 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
15 127 (2.39%) Financial Institution
16 126 (2.37%) Games
17 98 (1.84%) Electronics
18 82 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
19 81 (1.52%) Advertising
20 63 (1.18%) German Language
Job Titles
1 1,153 (21.69%) Analyst
2 678 (12.75%) Senior
3 444 (8.35%) Trainer
4 368 (6.92%) Lead
5 331 (6.23%) Data Analyst
6 316 (5.94%) Architect
7 218 (4.10%) Consultant
7 218 (4.10%) Developer
8 205 (3.86%) Business Analyst
9 173 (3.25%) Support Analyst
10 148 (2.78%) Senior Analyst
11 144 (2.71%) Trainee
12 141 (2.65%) IT Support
13 131 (2.46%) Solutions Architect
14 122 (2.29%) Systems Engineer
15 110 (2.07%) Trainee Analyst
15 110 (2.07%) Trainee Data Analyst
16 107 (2.01%) Business Manager
17 106 (1.99%) Senior Manager
18 104 (1.96%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (2.24%) HTML
2 103 (1.94%) CSS
3 82 (1.54%) React
4 75 (1.41%) REST
5 65 (1.22%) .NET
6 54 (1.02%) Middleware
7 42 (0.79%) Kafka
8 40 (0.75%) JSON
9 36 (0.68%) EDI
10 34 (0.64%) AngularJS
10 34 (0.64%) XML
11 31 (0.58%) SOAP
12 30 (0.56%) Node.js
13 29 (0.55%) Spring
14 28 (0.53%) LangChain
14 28 (0.53%) PySpark
15 26 (0.49%) Oracle Fusion
16 24 (0.45%) Web Services
17 22 (0.41%) Flash
18 21 (0.39%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 547 (10.29%) Analytical Mindset
2 393 (7.39%) Onboarding
3 385 (7.24%) Self-Motivation
4 286 (5.38%) Management Information System
5 211 (3.97%) Product Ownership
6 158 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
7 137 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
8 95 (1.79%) Data Centre
9 86 (1.62%) Driving Licence
10 83 (1.56%) FMCG
11 72 (1.35%) Cloud Native
12 62 (1.17%) Data Structures
13 55 (1.03%) Algorithms
14 54 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 52 (0.98%) Robotics
16 51 (0.96%) Social Media
16 51 (0.96%) Virtual Team
17 50 (0.94%) Security Posture
18 40 (0.75%) NHS
19 37 (0.70%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 335 (6.30%) Windows
2 224 (4.21%) Linux
3 144 (2.71%) Windows Server
4 89 (1.67%) Windows Server 2016
5 31 (0.58%) Unix
6 22 (0.41%) Mac OS
7 11 (0.21%) Android
8 10 (0.19%) Windows 10
9 8 (0.15%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.094%) Mac OS X
11 4 (0.075%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.056%) OpenWrt
13 2 (0.038%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.038%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.019%) AIX
14 1 (0.019%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.019%) OpenVMS
14 1 (0.019%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.019%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.019%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,362 (44.42%) Problem-Solving
2 1,206 (22.68%) AI
3 1,145 (21.53%) Analytics
4 1,128 (21.21%) Continuous Improvement
5 1,031 (19.39%) Decision-Making
6 905 (17.02%) Agile
7 828 (15.57%) Project Management
8 775 (14.58%) Business Intelligence
9 666 (12.53%) Stakeholder Management
10 548 (10.31%) Data Analysis
11 457 (8.60%) Risk Management
12 455 (8.56%) Chemistry
13 448 (8.43%) Conversational UI
14 440 (8.28%) ERP
15 434 (8.16%) Cybersecurity
16 433 (8.14%) Roadmaps
17 422 (7.94%) Analytical Thinking
17 422 (7.94%) CRM
18 421 (7.92%) Business Strategy
19 415 (7.81%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 998 (18.77%) SQL
2 668 (12.56%) Python
3 153 (2.88%) Java
4 139 (2.61%) JavaScript
5 115 (2.16%) C#
6 113 (2.13%) PowerShell
7 71 (1.34%) R
8 56 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 50 (0.94%) C++
10 45 (0.85%) T-SQL
11 42 (0.79%) Bash
11 42 (0.79%) VBA
12 31 (0.58%) TypeScript
13 30 (0.56%) Scala
14 23 (0.43%) C
15 21 (0.39%) PL/SQL
16 20 (0.38%) Go
17 16 (0.30%) Kotlin
18 15 (0.28%) ABAP
19 14 (0.26%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1,771 (33.31%) Degree
2 623 (11.72%) Master's Degree
3 459 (8.63%) PhD
4 450 (8.46%) Security Cleared
5 322 (6.06%) SC Cleared
6 204 (3.84%) Computer Science Degree
7 185 (3.48%) ACCA
8 177 (3.33%) CIMA
9 174 (3.27%) CISSP
10 110 (2.07%) DBS Check
11 100 (1.88%) PMI Certification
12 91 (1.71%) DV Cleared
13 87 (1.64%) CISM
14 81 (1.52%) PMP
15 75 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
16 66 (1.24%) CompTIA Security+
17 61 (1.15%) Azure Certification
18 59 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
19 57 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
20 48 (0.90%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 302 (5.68%) Data Quality
2 268 (5.04%) QA
3 200 (3.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 191 (3.59%) GDPR
5 143 (2.69%) PCI DSS
6 140 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
7 129 (2.43%) NIST
8 109 (2.05%) Accessibility
9 106 (1.99%) PMO
10 53 (1.00%) SLA
11 46 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
12 40 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 36 (0.68%) GRC
14 23 (0.43%) IFRS
15 18 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 17 (0.32%) WCAG
17 16 (0.30%) ISO 9001
18 15 (0.28%) COBIT
19 14 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
20 11 (0.21%) NCSC
System Software
1 233 (4.38%) Active Directory
2 112 (2.11%) Hyper-V
3 88 (1.66%) Terminal Server
4 55 (1.03%) Docker
5 49 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
6 20 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (0.32%) Firmware
8 9 (0.17%) ProxySG
8 9 (0.17%) vSphere
9 7 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.038%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.038%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.019%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.019%) NFS
11 1 (0.019%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.019%) zsh
Systems Management
1 88 (1.66%) Terraform
2 62 (1.17%) Kubernetes
3 57 (1.07%) Ansible
4 45 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (0.34%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.26%) Grafana
8 11 (0.21%) SCCM
9 7 (0.13%) QRadar
10 6 (0.11%) SCOM
11 5 (0.094%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 5 (0.094%) Nagios
12 4 (0.075%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.075%) Nessus
12 4 (0.075%) Rancher
12 4 (0.075%) vRealize
13 3 (0.056%) CASB
13 3 (0.056%) CSIRT
14 2 (0.038%) Argo
14 2 (0.038%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 1,199 (22.55%) Microsoft
2 443 (8.33%) PayPal
3 410 (7.71%) SAP
4 215 (4.04%) Oracle
5 185 (3.48%) Google
6 164 (3.08%) Salesforce
7 148 (2.78%) VMware
8 117 (2.20%) Splunk
9 116 (2.18%) SolarWinds
10 103 (1.94%) ServiceNow
11 97 (1.82%) Databricks
12 89 (1.67%) Brocade
12 89 (1.67%) Tanium
12 89 (1.67%) Veeam
13 88 (1.66%) Nimble Storage
14 87 (1.64%) Cisco
15 75 (1.41%) Adobe
16 54 (1.02%) Workday
17 49 (0.92%) Alteryx
18 43 (0.81%) Ariba