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

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 9 15
Rank change year-on-year -16 +6 +4
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,891 5,271 8,553
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.80% 12.82% 9.24%
As % of the General category 11.16% 18.14% 15.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2,899 2,480 5,406
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,561 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,459 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.80% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,811 £93,750 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £50,419 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.81% +12.04% -3.60%

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 43,814 29,053 55,945
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 51.93% 70.67% 60.44%
Number of salaries quoted 23,778 15,781 39,160
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,445 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.84% +6.20% -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 April 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 April 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 -19 4,346 £55,000 - 2,105
UK excluding London -23 3,027 £48,500 -3.81% 1,641
London -8 1,553 £67,500 +3.85% 757
Work from Home -7 1,434 £55,000 - 903
North of England -25 821 £45,497 -9.01% 386
South East -1 809 £50,000 -4.76% 522
Midlands -23 568 £47,750 -0.52% 307
North West -22 463 £45,000 -10.00% 214
West Midlands -21 344 £51,250 +2.50% 188
South West -21 275 £50,000 -2.76% 177
Yorkshire -11 267 £50,500 +12.22% 124
East of England -31 258 £43,500 -14.65% 163
East Midlands -8 222 £45,000 - 120
Scotland -15 174 £40,000 -23.81% 57
North East -16 91 £49,222 +27.85% 52
Wales +3 84 £42,500 -15.21% 49
Northern Ireland -23 49 £40,000 -27.27% 20
Isle of Man -2 1 £62,500 +68.92%
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
1 153 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 94 (1.92%) SharePoint
3 76 (1.55%) Confluence
4 73 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
5 72 (1.47%) Apache Spark
6 51 (1.04%) CMS
7 34 (0.70%) Apache
8 19 (0.39%) WordPress
9 17 (0.35%) IIS
9 17 (0.35%) SAS
10 11 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
11 6 (0.12%) nginx
12 4 (0.082%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.061%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.061%) Drupal
13 3 (0.061%) govService
13 3 (0.061%) JBoss
14 2 (0.041%) MTS
14 2 (0.041%) Tomcat
14 2 (0.041%) Umbraco
Applications
1 673 (13.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 279 (5.70%) Microsoft Office
3 108 (2.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 100 (2.04%) MS Visio
5 34 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
6 31 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
7 24 (0.49%) Chatbot
8 15 (0.31%) Adobe XD
9 12 (0.25%) Maya
10 10 (0.20%) CATIA
11 6 (0.12%) AutoCAD
12 5 (0.10%) Trello
13 2 (0.041%) Revit
13 2 (0.041%) Simulink
13 2 (0.041%) Sketch
14 1 (0.020%) Lectora
14 1 (0.020%) Notion
14 1 (0.020%) Photoshop
14 1 (0.020%) SmartSuite
14 1 (0.020%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 65 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 46 (0.94%) NetSuite
3 43 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
4 35 (0.72%) Salesforce CRM
5 25 (0.51%) SAP CO
6 17 (0.35%) Endur
6 17 (0.35%) SAP FI
7 15 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
7 15 (0.31%) SAP PM
7 15 (0.31%) Workday HCM
8 13 (0.27%) Maximo
9 12 (0.25%) SAP ERP
10 11 (0.22%) Sage X3
11 10 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
12 9 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
12 9 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
13 8 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
13 8 (0.16%) Elite 3E
14 7 (0.14%) Magento
14 7 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 876 (17.91%) Azure
2 681 (13.92%) Power Platform
3 478 (9.77%) AWS
4 333 (6.81%) Microsoft 365
5 275 (5.62%) SaaS
6 209 (4.27%) GCP
7 149 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
8 145 (2.96%) Dynamics 365
9 106 (2.17%) GitHub
10 104 (2.13%) Power Automate
11 98 (2.00%) Entra ID
12 94 (1.92%) Snowflake
13 87 (1.78%) dbt
14 77 (1.57%) Azure Data Factory
15 70 (1.43%) Google Analytics
16 68 (1.39%) Amazon S3
16 68 (1.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 61 (1.25%) PowerApps
18 59 (1.21%) Microsoft Purview
18 59 (1.21%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 185 (3.78%) Firewall
2 166 (3.39%) DNS
3 134 (2.74%) DHCP
4 117 (2.39%) VPN
5 76 (1.55%) WAN
6 70 (1.43%) TCP/IP
7 69 (1.41%) Wireless
8 65 (1.33%) LAN
9 64 (1.31%) Wi-Fi
10 61 (1.25%) VLAN
11 50 (1.02%) Network Security
12 45 (0.92%) SAN
13 43 (0.88%) Broadband
14 40 (0.82%) BGP
15 34 (0.70%) OSPF
16 32 (0.65%) Wireshark
17 30 (0.61%) Cisco ASA
17 30 (0.61%) EIGRP
18 26 (0.53%) SD-WAN
19 24 (0.49%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 618 (12.64%) Power BI
2 414 (8.46%) Tableau
3 224 (4.58%) SQL Server
4 178 (3.64%) Data Mining
5 173 (3.54%) Data Warehouse
6 95 (1.94%) Metadata
6 95 (1.94%) Relational Database
7 91 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
8 80 (1.64%) Data Lake
9 73 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 66 (1.35%) Looker
11 63 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
12 53 (1.08%) MySQL
12 53 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
13 49 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
14 48 (0.98%) NoSQL
15 47 (0.96%) Power Query
16 46 (0.94%) BigQuery
17 41 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 38 (0.78%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 188 (3.84%) JIRA
2 137 (2.80%) Git
3 50 (1.02%) GitLab
4 40 (0.82%) Jenkins
5 38 (0.78%) Selenium
6 32 (0.65%) MLflow
7 21 (0.43%) Rational DOORS
8 19 (0.39%) Visual Studio
9 18 (0.37%) Chocolatey
10 16 (0.33%) Balsamiq
11 14 (0.29%) Axure RP
11 14 (0.29%) Bitbucket
11 14 (0.29%) Subversion
12 13 (0.27%) ERwin
12 13 (0.27%) IBM UrbanCode
13 12 (0.25%) Cucumber
13 12 (0.25%) Cypress.io
14 10 (0.20%) Postman
14 10 (0.20%) Robot Framework
15 9 (0.18%) TestRail
General
1 2,423 (49.54%) Social Skills
2 1,834 (37.50%) Finance
3 442 (9.04%) Marketing
4 364 (7.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 308 (6.30%) Banking
6 267 (5.46%) Law
7 265 (5.42%) Legal
8 262 (5.36%) Organisational Skills
9 258 (5.27%) Retail
10 252 (5.15%) Public Sector
11 202 (4.13%) Presentation Skills
12 172 (3.52%) Manufacturing
13 133 (2.72%) Influencing Skills
14 119 (2.43%) Telecoms
15 117 (2.39%) Financial Institution
16 87 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
17 74 (1.51%) Advertising
18 68 (1.39%) Electronics
19 62 (1.27%) Games
20 56 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1,307 (26.72%) Analyst
2 666 (13.62%) Senior
3 374 (7.65%) Data Analyst
4 308 (6.30%) Lead
5 271 (5.54%) Business Analyst
6 248 (5.07%) Developer
7 217 (4.44%) Architect
8 208 (4.25%) Consultant
9 168 (3.43%) Support Analyst
10 161 (3.29%) Trainee
11 156 (3.19%) Systems Engineer
12 149 (3.05%) Trainee Analyst
12 149 (3.05%) Trainee Data Analyst
13 142 (2.90%) Senior Manager
14 141 (2.88%) Senior Analyst
15 125 (2.56%) IT Support
16 121 (2.47%) Financial Analyst
17 105 (2.15%) Data Engineer
17 105 (2.15%) Support Engineer
18 94 (1.92%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (2.88%) HTML
2 129 (2.64%) CSS
3 89 (1.82%) .NET
4 84 (1.72%) React
5 75 (1.53%) REST
6 72 (1.47%) JSON
7 64 (1.31%) XML
8 61 (1.25%) Middleware
9 57 (1.17%) PyTorch
10 53 (1.08%) Kafka
10 53 (1.08%) TensorFlow
11 48 (0.98%) Node.js
12 42 (0.86%) scikit-learn
13 39 (0.80%) SOAP
14 36 (0.74%) PySpark
15 33 (0.67%) LangChain
16 31 (0.63%) Pandas
17 29 (0.59%) FIX Protocol
18 28 (0.57%) EDI
19 26 (0.53%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 513 (10.49%) Analytical Mindset
2 283 (5.79%) Self-Motivation
3 237 (4.85%) Onboarding
4 233 (4.76%) Management Information System
5 198 (4.05%) Product Ownership
6 115 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
7 102 (2.09%) Data Centre
8 98 (2.00%) Cloud Native
9 92 (1.88%) Data Structures
10 82 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
11 76 (1.55%) Algorithms
12 71 (1.45%) Security Posture
13 64 (1.31%) Driving Licence
14 59 (1.21%) Social Media
15 54 (1.10%) Virtual Team
16 49 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 49 (1.00%) Low-Code
17 48 (0.98%) Public Cloud
18 46 (0.94%) FMCG
19 43 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 371 (7.59%) Windows
2 226 (4.62%) Linux
3 158 (3.23%) Windows Server
4 78 (1.59%) Windows Server 2016
5 40 (0.82%) Unix
6 25 (0.51%) Mac OS
7 19 (0.39%) Android
7 19 (0.39%) Windows 10
8 14 (0.29%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.12%) CentOS
10 5 (0.10%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.082%) VMS
11 4 (0.082%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.041%) AIX
12 2 (0.041%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.041%) OpenWrt
12 2 (0.041%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.041%) Rocky
13 1 (0.020%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,256 (46.13%) Problem-Solving
2 1,182 (24.17%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,152 (23.55%) Analytics
4 1,023 (20.92%) Decision-Making
5 864 (17.67%) Agile
6 764 (15.62%) Business Intelligence
7 726 (14.84%) AI
8 627 (12.82%) Project Management
9 625 (12.78%) Stakeholder Management
10 566 (11.57%) Data Analysis
11 485 (9.92%) Actionable Insight
12 433 (8.85%) Mentoring
13 428 (8.75%) Data Modelling
14 420 (8.59%) Roadmaps
15 416 (8.51%) Analytical Thinking
16 410 (8.38%) Process Improvement
17 398 (8.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 386 (7.89%) DevOps
19 382 (7.81%) Cybersecurity
20 366 (7.48%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1,060 (21.67%) SQL
2 886 (18.11%) Python
3 181 (3.70%) JavaScript
4 170 (3.48%) Java
5 164 (3.35%) PowerShell
6 122 (2.49%) C#
7 91 (1.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 64 (1.31%) R
9 57 (1.17%) Bash
10 49 (1.00%) T-SQL
11 46 (0.94%) C++
12 41 (0.84%) TypeScript
12 41 (0.84%) VBA
13 25 (0.51%) MATLAB
14 20 (0.41%) Scala
15 19 (0.39%) C
15 19 (0.39%) Go
16 15 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
17 14 (0.29%) PL/SQL
18 13 (0.27%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,043 (21.32%) Degree
2 407 (8.32%) Security Cleared
3 292 (5.97%) SC Cleared
4 250 (5.11%) ACCA
5 240 (4.91%) CIMA
6 184 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 148 (3.03%) CISSP
8 141 (2.88%) Master's Degree
9 130 (2.66%) DBS Check
10 103 (2.11%) PMI Certification
11 95 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
12 91 (1.86%) CISM
12 91 (1.86%) DV Cleared
13 90 (1.84%) PMP
14 72 (1.47%) IRCA
15 71 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
16 66 (1.35%) Azure Certification
17 59 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
18 50 (1.02%) CISA
18 50 (1.02%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 422 (8.63%) Data Quality
2 341 (6.97%) GDPR
3 277 (5.66%) QA
4 233 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 198 (4.05%) NIST
6 148 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
7 120 (2.45%) PCI DSS
8 99 (2.02%) Accessibility
9 95 (1.94%) ISO 9001
10 93 (1.90%) SLA
11 82 (1.68%) PMO
12 69 (1.41%) Actionable Recommendations
13 57 (1.17%) GRC
14 41 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 37 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 33 (0.67%) IFRS
17 29 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 27 (0.55%) COBIT
19 24 (0.49%) SOC 2
20 21 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 263 (5.38%) Active Directory
2 91 (1.86%) Hyper-V
3 75 (1.53%) Docker
4 72 (1.47%) Terminal Server
4 72 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (0.33%) ProxySG
6 15 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
7 11 (0.22%) vSphere
8 9 (0.18%) VMware NSX
9 8 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
10 7 (0.14%) IAG
11 4 (0.082%) Firmware
11 4 (0.082%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.082%) XenApp
12 3 (0.061%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.061%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.041%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.020%) KVM
14 1 (0.020%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.020%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 138 (2.82%) Terraform
2 79 (1.62%) Kubernetes
3 71 (1.45%) Ansible
4 60 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 38 (0.78%) Grafana
6 30 (0.61%) Prometheus
6 30 (0.61%) SCCM
7 27 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
8 17 (0.35%) Nagios
9 7 (0.14%) Control-M
9 7 (0.14%) Kubeflow
9 7 (0.14%) QRadar
10 6 (0.12%) Kibana
11 5 (0.10%) CASB
11 5 (0.10%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 5 (0.10%) RSA Archer
12 4 (0.082%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.082%) logstash
12 4 (0.082%) Packer
12 4 (0.082%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,198 (24.49%) Microsoft
2 209 (4.27%) SAP
3 180 (3.68%) Oracle
4 164 (3.35%) Google
5 154 (3.15%) VMware
6 142 (2.90%) Salesforce
7 121 (2.47%) SolarWinds
8 117 (2.39%) ServiceNow
9 110 (2.25%) Splunk
10 106 (2.17%) Databricks
11 79 (1.62%) Veeam
12 74 (1.51%) Cisco
13 73 (1.49%) Brocade
13 73 (1.49%) Tanium
13 73 (1.49%) Workday
14 72 (1.47%) Nimble Storage
15 47 (0.96%) Dell
15 47 (0.96%) IBM
16 40 (0.82%) Red Hat
17 39 (0.80%) Adobe