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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 9 16
Rank change year-on-year -16 +7 +4
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,813 5,124 8,333
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.89% 12.50% 9.17%
As % of the General category 11.25% 17.70% 15.12%
Number of salaries quoted 2,835 2,456 5,343
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,568 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,445 £50,124 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.35% +11.39% -3.23%

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 42,786 28,947 55,111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 52.38% 70.62% 60.67%
Number of salaries quoted 23,340 15,763 38,691
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,000 £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 £76,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,967 £47,500
% change year-on-year -6.80% +7.30% -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 6 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 6 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 -18 4,279 £55,000 - 2,239
UK excluding London -22 2,970 £48,445 -3.35% 1,762
London -7 1,542 £67,500 +3.85% 833
Work from Home -5 1,431 £55,000 - 981
North of England -23 794 £46,000 -8.00% 400
South East 0 793 £50,000 -1.90% 595
Midlands -18 566 £47,500 -1.04% 298
North West -20 442 £44,000 -12.00% 220
West Midlands -20 349 £51,275 +2.55% 175
South West -21 266 £46,250 -9.69% 178
Yorkshire -7 261 £51,750 +15.00% 136
East of England -30 258 £45,000 -11.71% 161
East Midlands -10 215 £42,500 -3.41% 123
Scotland -17 176 £40,000 -23.81% 92
North East -18 91 £50,000 +29.87% 50
Wales +6 80 £40,000 -20.20% 59
Northern Ireland -22 49 £40,000 -27.27% 22
Isle of Man -2 1 £62,500 +68.92%
Channel Islands -6 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
1 149 (3.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 90 (1.87%) SharePoint
3 78 (1.62%) Confluence
4 73 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
5 72 (1.50%) Apache Spark
6 50 (1.04%) CMS
7 34 (0.71%) Apache
8 18 (0.37%) WordPress
9 17 (0.35%) SAS
10 16 (0.33%) IIS
11 12 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
12 6 (0.12%) nginx
13 4 (0.083%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 3 (0.062%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.062%) Drupal
14 3 (0.062%) govService
14 3 (0.062%) JBoss
15 2 (0.042%) Camunda
15 2 (0.042%) MTS
15 2 (0.042%) Tomcat
Applications
1 686 (14.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 279 (5.80%) Microsoft Office
3 119 (2.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 100 (2.08%) MS Visio
5 34 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
6 29 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
7 24 (0.50%) Chatbot
8 15 (0.31%) Adobe XD
9 12 (0.25%) Maya
10 9 (0.19%) CATIA
11 6 (0.12%) AutoCAD
12 5 (0.10%) Trello
13 2 (0.042%) Revit
13 2 (0.042%) Simulink
13 2 (0.042%) Sketch
14 1 (0.021%) Notion
14 1 (0.021%) Photoshop
14 1 (0.021%) SmartSuite
14 1 (0.021%) SPSS
14 1 (0.021%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 63 (1.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 48 (1.00%) NetSuite
3 41 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
4 34 (0.71%) Salesforce CRM
5 25 (0.52%) SAP CO
6 19 (0.39%) Endur
7 17 (0.35%) SAP FI
8 16 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
9 15 (0.31%) SAP PM
9 15 (0.31%) Workday HCM
10 13 (0.27%) Maximo
10 13 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
11 11 (0.23%) Sage X3
11 11 (0.23%) SAP ERP
12 10 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
13 8 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
13 8 (0.17%) Elite 3E
14 7 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
14 7 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
15 6 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 863 (17.93%) Azure
2 668 (13.88%) Power Platform
3 469 (9.74%) AWS
4 322 (6.69%) Microsoft 365
5 276 (5.73%) SaaS
6 206 (4.28%) GCP
7 148 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
8 139 (2.89%) Dynamics 365
9 100 (2.08%) Power Automate
10 98 (2.04%) GitHub
11 96 (1.99%) Snowflake
12 95 (1.97%) Entra ID
13 86 (1.79%) dbt
14 78 (1.62%) Azure Data Factory
15 68 (1.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 67 (1.39%) Amazon S3
16 67 (1.39%) Google Analytics
17 59 (1.23%) Serverless
18 58 (1.21%) PowerApps
19 55 (1.14%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 181 (3.76%) Firewall
2 160 (3.32%) DNS
3 128 (2.66%) DHCP
4 114 (2.37%) VPN
5 75 (1.56%) WAN
6 71 (1.48%) Wi-Fi
7 68 (1.41%) Wireless
8 66 (1.37%) LAN
8 66 (1.37%) TCP/IP
9 61 (1.27%) VLAN
10 48 (1.00%) Broadband
11 47 (0.98%) Network Security
12 43 (0.89%) SAN
13 39 (0.81%) BGP
14 34 (0.71%) OSPF
15 33 (0.69%) Wireshark
16 30 (0.62%) Cisco ASA
16 30 (0.62%) EIGRP
17 25 (0.52%) SD-WAN
18 21 (0.44%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 607 (12.61%) Power BI
2 421 (8.75%) Tableau
3 221 (4.59%) SQL Server
4 183 (3.80%) Data Mining
5 174 (3.62%) Data Warehouse
6 95 (1.97%) Metadata
7 94 (1.95%) Relational Database
8 90 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
9 82 (1.70%) Data Lake
10 73 (1.52%) Looker
11 67 (1.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 63 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
13 55 (1.14%) MySQL
13 55 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
14 49 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
15 47 (0.98%) BigQuery
15 47 (0.98%) NoSQL
16 46 (0.96%) Power Query
17 39 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 37 (0.77%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 188 (3.91%) JIRA
2 137 (2.85%) Git
3 51 (1.06%) GitLab
4 39 (0.81%) Jenkins
5 38 (0.79%) Selenium
6 32 (0.66%) MLflow
7 19 (0.39%) Visual Studio
8 18 (0.37%) Chocolatey
9 16 (0.33%) Rational DOORS
10 15 (0.31%) Balsamiq
11 14 (0.29%) Axure RP
11 14 (0.29%) Subversion
12 13 (0.27%) Bitbucket
12 13 (0.27%) ERwin
12 13 (0.27%) IBM UrbanCode
13 12 (0.25%) Robot Framework
14 11 (0.23%) Cypress.io
15 10 (0.21%) Cucumber
15 10 (0.21%) LabVIEW
15 10 (0.21%) Postman
General
1 2,392 (49.70%) Social Skills
2 1,816 (37.73%) Finance
3 447 (9.29%) Marketing
4 360 (7.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 307 (6.38%) Banking
6 271 (5.63%) Legal
7 268 (5.57%) Law
8 259 (5.38%) Organisational Skills
9 258 (5.36%) Retail
10 248 (5.15%) Public Sector
11 197 (4.09%) Presentation Skills
12 172 (3.57%) Manufacturing
13 135 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
14 122 (2.53%) Financial Institution
15 112 (2.33%) Telecoms
16 86 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
17 75 (1.56%) Advertising
18 66 (1.37%) Electronics
19 62 (1.29%) Games
20 57 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1,265 (26.28%) Analyst
2 651 (13.53%) Senior
3 372 (7.73%) Data Analyst
4 310 (6.44%) Lead
5 260 (5.40%) Business Analyst
6 239 (4.97%) Developer
7 212 (4.40%) Architect
8 206 (4.28%) Consultant
9 172 (3.57%) Support Analyst
10 159 (3.30%) Trainee
11 150 (3.12%) Trainee Analyst
11 150 (3.12%) Trainee Data Analyst
12 148 (3.08%) Systems Engineer
13 140 (2.91%) Senior Analyst
14 139 (2.89%) Senior Manager
15 130 (2.70%) IT Support
16 121 (2.51%) Financial Analyst
17 104 (2.16%) Data Engineer
18 102 (2.12%) Support Engineer
19 96 (1.99%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (2.83%) HTML
2 126 (2.62%) CSS
3 86 (1.79%) .NET
4 85 (1.77%) React
5 69 (1.43%) REST
6 65 (1.35%) JSON
7 58 (1.21%) XML
8 57 (1.18%) PyTorch
9 55 (1.14%) Middleware
10 54 (1.12%) TensorFlow
11 51 (1.06%) Kafka
12 47 (0.98%) Node.js
13 42 (0.87%) scikit-learn
14 36 (0.75%) PySpark
15 33 (0.69%) LangChain
15 33 (0.69%) SOAP
16 31 (0.64%) Pandas
17 28 (0.58%) FIX Protocol
18 26 (0.54%) EDI
18 26 (0.54%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 510 (10.60%) Analytical Mindset
2 295 (6.13%) Self-Motivation
3 248 (5.15%) Onboarding
4 228 (4.74%) Management Information System
5 193 (4.01%) Product Ownership
6 118 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
7 99 (2.06%) Data Centre
8 96 (1.99%) Cloud Native
9 94 (1.95%) Data Structures
10 83 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
11 75 (1.56%) Algorithms
12 70 (1.45%) Driving Licence
13 60 (1.25%) Security Posture
13 60 (1.25%) Social Media
14 54 (1.12%) Virtual Team
15 50 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 49 (1.02%) Public Cloud
17 48 (1.00%) Low-Code
18 47 (0.98%) FMCG
19 43 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 372 (7.73%) Windows
2 232 (4.82%) Linux
3 154 (3.20%) Windows Server
4 77 (1.60%) Windows Server 2016
5 41 (0.85%) Unix
6 26 (0.54%) Mac OS
7 18 (0.37%) Windows 10
8 17 (0.35%) Android
9 14 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 12 (0.25%) Apple iOS
11 6 (0.12%) CentOS
12 5 (0.10%) Ubuntu
13 4 (0.083%) VMS
13 4 (0.083%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.062%) OpenWrt
15 2 (0.042%) AIX
15 2 (0.042%) Data ONTAP
15 2 (0.042%) Oracle Linux
15 2 (0.042%) Rocky
16 1 (0.021%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,231 (46.35%) Problem-Solving
2 1,172 (24.35%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,156 (24.02%) Analytics
4 998 (20.74%) Decision-Making
5 848 (17.62%) Agile
6 753 (15.65%) Business Intelligence
7 721 (14.98%) AI
8 635 (13.19%) Project Management
9 618 (12.84%) Stakeholder Management
10 569 (11.82%) Data Analysis
11 485 (10.08%) Actionable Insight
12 420 (8.73%) Mentoring
13 418 (8.68%) Data Modelling
13 418 (8.68%) Process Improvement
14 410 (8.52%) Roadmaps
15 405 (8.41%) Analytical Thinking
16 392 (8.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 379 (7.87%) DevOps
18 360 (7.48%) Business Analysis
19 356 (7.40%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,057 (21.96%) SQL
2 887 (18.43%) Python
3 176 (3.66%) JavaScript
4 159 (3.30%) Java
5 156 (3.24%) PowerShell
6 118 (2.45%) C#
7 89 (1.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 66 (1.37%) R
9 57 (1.18%) Bash
10 47 (0.98%) C++
10 47 (0.98%) T-SQL
11 42 (0.87%) VBA
12 39 (0.81%) TypeScript
13 23 (0.48%) MATLAB
14 20 (0.42%) C
14 20 (0.42%) Scala
15 18 (0.37%) Go
16 13 (0.27%) PHP
16 13 (0.27%) PL/SQL
17 11 (0.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,034 (21.48%) Degree
2 399 (8.29%) Security Cleared
3 283 (5.88%) SC Cleared
4 248 (5.15%) ACCA
5 236 (4.90%) CIMA
6 175 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 143 (2.97%) CISSP
8 140 (2.91%) Master's Degree
9 130 (2.70%) DBS Check
10 99 (2.06%) PMI Certification
11 90 (1.87%) Cisco Certification
11 90 (1.87%) DV Cleared
12 87 (1.81%) CISM
13 86 (1.79%) PMP
14 72 (1.50%) IRCA
15 68 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
16 64 (1.33%) Azure Certification
17 57 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
18 50 (1.04%) CISA
19 48 (1.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 411 (8.54%) Data Quality
2 330 (6.86%) GDPR
3 272 (5.65%) QA
4 222 (4.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 184 (3.82%) NIST
6 148 (3.08%) Cyber Essentials
7 118 (2.45%) PCI DSS
8 103 (2.14%) Accessibility
9 94 (1.95%) ISO 9001
10 84 (1.75%) SLA
11 79 (1.64%) PMO
12 70 (1.45%) Actionable Recommendations
13 49 (1.02%) GRC
14 41 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 35 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 32 (0.66%) IFRS
17 30 (0.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 25 (0.52%) COBIT
19 21 (0.44%) WCAG
20 20 (0.42%) SOC 2
System Software
1 261 (5.42%) Active Directory
2 90 (1.87%) Hyper-V
3 73 (1.52%) Docker
4 72 (1.50%) Terminal Server
5 67 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
6 16 (0.33%) ProxySG
7 15 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.23%) vSphere
9 8 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
9 8 (0.17%) VMware NSX
10 7 (0.15%) IAG
11 5 (0.10%) Firmware
12 4 (0.083%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.083%) XenApp
13 3 (0.062%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.062%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.042%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.021%) KVM
15 1 (0.021%) Oracle RAC
15 1 (0.021%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 139 (2.89%) Terraform
2 78 (1.62%) Kubernetes
3 72 (1.50%) Ansible
4 58 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
5 37 (0.77%) Grafana
6 31 (0.64%) Prometheus
7 30 (0.62%) SCCM
8 25 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
9 17 (0.35%) Nagios
10 7 (0.15%) Control-M
10 7 (0.15%) Kubeflow
10 7 (0.15%) QRadar
11 5 (0.10%) CASB
11 5 (0.10%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 5 (0.10%) RSA Archer
12 4 (0.083%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.083%) Kibana
12 4 (0.083%) Packer
12 4 (0.083%) SolarWinds Orion
12 4 (0.083%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,176 (24.43%) Microsoft
2 207 (4.30%) SAP
3 180 (3.74%) Oracle
4 160 (3.32%) Google
5 149 (3.10%) VMware
6 137 (2.85%) Salesforce
7 121 (2.51%) SolarWinds
8 115 (2.39%) ServiceNow
9 111 (2.31%) Splunk
10 107 (2.22%) Databricks
11 79 (1.64%) Veeam
12 74 (1.54%) Cisco
13 73 (1.52%) Brocade
13 73 (1.52%) Tanium
14 72 (1.50%) Nimble Storage
15 67 (1.39%) Workday
16 47 (0.98%) Dell
17 41 (0.85%) Adobe
17 41 (0.85%) IBM
18 40 (0.83%) Red Hat