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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 12 16
Rank change year-on-year -7 +4 +5
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 5,055 5,633 6,858
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 7.35% 11.61% 9.10%
As % of the General category 13.10% 16.95% 14.77%
Number of salaries quoted 2,614 2,333 4,754
10th Percentile £30,370 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,838 £42,500 £36,351
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,375 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.59% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £74,014 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,967 £45,000
% change year-on-year -11.71% +13.26% -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 38,588 33,237 46,426
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 56.07% 68.49% 61.62%
Number of salaries quoted 21,042 15,318 34,335
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,211 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.31% +9.09% -10.10%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £106,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -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 21 February 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 21 February 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 -7 4,469 £52,500 -4.55% 1,898
UK excluding London -13 3,233 £45,000 -11.71% 1,655
Work from Home +5 1,714 £52,500 -5.29% 827
London -4 1,509 £67,500 +3.85% 629
South East +12 897 £50,000 - 580
North of England -17 838 £45,000 -14.29% 352
Midlands -11 592 £44,000 -8.33% 301
North West -18 423 £42,500 -19.05% 218
West Midlands -17 344 £52,500 +5.00% 191
South West -5 325 £45,000 -14.29% 183
Yorkshire 0 305 £45,000 -10.00% 102
East of England -17 262 £40,000 -21.52% 149
East Midlands +5 246 £40,000 -5.88% 110
Scotland -11 232 £40,000 -33.74% 74
North East -3 110 £40,000 +0.34% 38
Wales +19 71 £40,000 -18.54% 42
Northern Ireland -19 44 £52,500 -4.55% 18
Isle of Man -4 1 £62,500 +150.00% 2
Channel Islands -8 1 - - 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
1 172 (3.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 89 (1.76%) Confluence
3 88 (1.74%) SharePoint
4 42 (0.83%) Apache Spark
4 42 (0.83%) CMS
5 34 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
6 18 (0.36%) Apache
6 18 (0.36%) WordPress
7 15 (0.30%) SAS
8 14 (0.28%) IIS
8 14 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
9 6 (0.12%) nginx
10 4 (0.079%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.059%) Drupal
11 3 (0.059%) govService
12 2 (0.040%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.040%) FactoryTalk
12 2 (0.040%) JBoss
12 2 (0.040%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.040%) MTS
Applications
1 737 (14.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 338 (6.69%) Chatbot
3 301 (5.95%) Microsoft Office
4 127 (2.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 81 (1.60%) MS Visio
6 42 (0.83%) Maya
7 37 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
8 36 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
9 17 (0.34%) AutoCAD
10 14 (0.28%) Adobe XD
11 10 (0.20%) CATIA
12 8 (0.16%) SOLIDWORKS
13 3 (0.059%) Sketch
14 2 (0.040%) Oracle Smart View
14 2 (0.040%) Revit
14 2 (0.040%) Simulink
14 2 (0.040%) Trello
15 1 (0.020%) OrCAD
15 1 (0.020%) Siemens NX
15 1 (0.020%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 118 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 52 (1.03%) SAP MDG
3 51 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
4 41 (0.81%) NetSuite
5 31 (0.61%) SAP CO
6 27 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
7 24 (0.47%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 23 (0.45%) SAP FI
9 22 (0.44%) Endur
9 22 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
9 22 (0.44%) SAP FI/CO
10 21 (0.42%) Workday HCM
11 14 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
11 14 (0.28%) Shopify
12 12 (0.24%) Sage X3
13 11 (0.22%) SAP ERP
14 10 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
14 10 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
14 10 (0.20%) SAP IBP
15 8 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 865 (17.11%) Azure
2 639 (12.64%) Power Platform
3 415 (8.21%) AWS
4 330 (6.53%) Microsoft 365
5 257 (5.08%) SaaS
6 160 (3.17%) GCP
7 155 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
8 116 (2.29%) Dynamics 365
9 96 (1.90%) Entra ID
10 91 (1.80%) GitHub
11 79 (1.56%) Power Automate
12 72 (1.42%) Azure Data Factory
12 72 (1.42%) Snowflake
13 60 (1.19%) Google Analytics
14 58 (1.15%) Serverless
15 54 (1.07%) dbt
16 51 (1.01%) Microsoft Purview
17 50 (0.99%) PowerApps
18 47 (0.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 46 (0.91%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 189 (3.74%) DNS
2 179 (3.54%) Firewall
3 155 (3.07%) DHCP
4 97 (1.92%) VPN
5 80 (1.58%) Wi-Fi
6 66 (1.31%) WAN
7 60 (1.19%) LAN
8 58 (1.15%) Wireless
9 56 (1.11%) TCP/IP
10 54 (1.07%) VLAN
11 44 (0.87%) Network Security
12 41 (0.81%) Broadband
13 35 (0.69%) Remote Desktop
14 33 (0.65%) BGP
14 33 (0.65%) Wireshark
15 31 (0.61%) OSPF
16 29 (0.57%) VoIP
17 28 (0.55%) SAN
18 27 (0.53%) EIGRP
19 24 (0.47%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 575 (11.37%) Power BI
2 407 (8.05%) Tableau
3 207 (4.09%) SQL Server
4 205 (4.06%) Data Mining
5 171 (3.38%) Data Warehouse
6 127 (2.51%) Amazon RDS
7 111 (2.20%) Metadata
8 98 (1.94%) Relational Database
9 85 (1.68%) Data Lake
10 63 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 53 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
12 51 (1.01%) MySQL
12 51 (1.01%) NoSQL
13 50 (0.99%) Looker
14 47 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
15 46 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
16 41 (0.81%) Power Query
17 38 (0.75%) Big Data
18 32 (0.63%) GIS
19 30 (0.59%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 201 (3.98%) JIRA
2 101 (2.00%) Git
3 43 (0.85%) Selenium
4 42 (0.83%) GitLab
5 35 (0.69%) Jenkins
6 15 (0.30%) ERwin
6 15 (0.30%) Robot Framework
6 15 (0.30%) Visual Studio
7 14 (0.28%) Subversion
8 13 (0.26%) Balsamiq
8 13 (0.26%) Postman
8 13 (0.26%) Snyk
9 12 (0.24%) Axure RP
9 12 (0.24%) Oracle Forms
10 11 (0.22%) Chocolatey
10 11 (0.22%) Cypress.io
10 11 (0.22%) ER Studio
11 10 (0.20%) Bitbucket
11 10 (0.20%) LabVIEW
11 10 (0.20%) WebDriver
General
1 2,586 (51.16%) Social Skills
2 1,818 (35.96%) Finance
3 451 (8.92%) Marketing
4 331 (6.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 297 (5.88%) Law
6 288 (5.70%) Retail
7 280 (5.54%) Legal
8 270 (5.34%) Banking
9 261 (5.16%) Organisational Skills
10 244 (4.83%) Public Sector
11 219 (4.33%) Presentation Skills
12 159 (3.15%) Manufacturing
13 138 (2.73%) Financial Institution
14 125 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
15 102 (2.02%) Telecoms
16 93 (1.84%) Games
17 90 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
18 72 (1.42%) Advertising
19 64 (1.27%) Electronics
20 50 (0.99%) German Language
Job Titles
1 1,213 (24.00%) Analyst
2 615 (12.17%) Senior
3 395 (7.81%) Data Analyst
4 356 (7.04%) Lead
5 334 (6.61%) Trainer
6 283 (5.60%) Architect
7 235 (4.65%) Developer
8 229 (4.53%) Business Analyst
9 185 (3.66%) Consultant
10 180 (3.56%) Trainee
11 176 (3.48%) Support Analyst
12 167 (3.30%) Trainee Analyst
12 167 (3.30%) Trainee Data Analyst
13 151 (2.99%) IT Support
14 132 (2.61%) Senior Analyst
14 132 (2.61%) Systems Engineer
15 120 (2.37%) Senior Manager
16 110 (2.18%) Business Manager
17 106 (2.10%) Financial Analyst
18 103 (2.04%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (2.41%) HTML
2 119 (2.35%) CSS
3 85 (1.68%) React
4 72 (1.42%) .NET
5 63 (1.25%) REST
6 62 (1.23%) Middleware
7 51 (1.01%) JSON
8 46 (0.91%) XML
9 41 (0.81%) Node.js
10 31 (0.61%) EDI
10 31 (0.61%) SOAP
11 28 (0.55%) Kafka
11 28 (0.55%) Spring
12 27 (0.53%) AngularJS
12 27 (0.53%) TensorFlow
13 24 (0.47%) FIX Protocol
13 24 (0.47%) PyTorch
14 22 (0.44%) Oracle Fusion
15 21 (0.42%) PySpark
16 18 (0.36%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 489 (9.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 365 (7.22%) Self-Motivation
3 294 (5.82%) Onboarding
4 260 (5.14%) Management Information System
5 193 (3.82%) Product Ownership
6 159 (3.15%) Legacy Systems
7 119 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
8 107 (2.12%) Data Centre
9 91 (1.80%) Data Structures
10 81 (1.60%) Cloud Native
11 80 (1.58%) FMCG
12 76 (1.50%) Driving Licence
13 69 (1.36%) Algorithms
14 53 (1.05%) Robotics
14 53 (1.05%) Virtual Team
15 52 (1.03%) Social Media
16 49 (0.97%) Low-Code
17 47 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
18 46 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 46 (0.91%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 388 (7.68%) Windows
2 262 (5.18%) Linux
3 177 (3.50%) Windows Server
4 116 (2.29%) Windows Server 2016
5 38 (0.75%) Unix
6 28 (0.55%) Mac OS
7 16 (0.32%) Android
7 16 (0.32%) Windows 10
8 9 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (0.16%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.099%) VMS
11 4 (0.079%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.079%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.059%) CentOS
12 3 (0.059%) OpenWrt
13 2 (0.040%) AIX
13 2 (0.040%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.040%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.020%) Robot Operating System
14 1 (0.020%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,267 (44.85%) Problem-Solving
2 1,109 (21.94%) Analytics
3 1,088 (21.52%) Continuous Improvement
4 1,030 (20.38%) AI
5 940 (18.60%) Decision-Making
6 869 (17.19%) Agile
7 809 (16.00%) Project Management
8 746 (14.76%) Business Intelligence
9 617 (12.21%) Stakeholder Management
10 584 (11.55%) Data Analysis
11 428 (8.47%) Mentoring
12 424 (8.39%) Actionable Insight
13 422 (8.35%) Roadmaps
14 420 (8.31%) Process Improvement
15 417 (8.25%) Analytical Thinking
16 413 (8.17%) Risk Management
17 410 (8.11%) ERP
18 399 (7.89%) Customer Service
18 399 (7.89%) Migration
19 391 (7.73%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 1,034 (20.45%) SQL
2 825 (16.32%) Python
3 153 (3.03%) JavaScript
4 142 (2.81%) Java
5 137 (2.71%) PowerShell
6 117 (2.31%) C#
7 75 (1.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 65 (1.29%) R
9 51 (1.01%) Bash
10 50 (0.99%) T-SQL
11 46 (0.91%) C++
12 43 (0.85%) VBA
13 31 (0.61%) TypeScript
14 24 (0.47%) Scala
15 23 (0.45%) C
16 19 (0.38%) MATLAB
17 18 (0.36%) Go
18 15 (0.30%) PL/SQL
19 12 (0.24%) Bicep
19 12 (0.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,482 (29.32%) Degree
2 480 (9.50%) Master's Degree
3 451 (8.92%) Security Cleared
4 344 (6.81%) PhD
5 343 (6.79%) SC Cleared
6 204 (4.04%) ACCA
7 193 (3.82%) CIMA
8 191 (3.78%) Computer Science Degree
9 143 (2.83%) CISSP
10 99 (1.96%) PMI Certification
11 93 (1.84%) DBS Check
12 84 (1.66%) PMP
13 83 (1.64%) DV Cleared
14 82 (1.62%) CISM
15 77 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
16 69 (1.36%) Azure Certification
17 67 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
18 59 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
19 49 (0.97%) AWS Certification
20 47 (0.93%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 326 (6.45%) Data Quality
2 246 (4.87%) QA
3 208 (4.11%) GDPR
3 208 (4.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 182 (3.60%) Cyber Essentials
5 151 (2.99%) PCI DSS
6 143 (2.83%) NIST
7 107 (2.12%) Accessibility
8 87 (1.72%) PMO
9 68 (1.35%) Actionable Recommendations
10 51 (1.01%) SLA
11 44 (0.87%) GRC
12 36 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 32 (0.63%) IFRS
14 26 (0.51%) ISO 9001
15 22 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 21 (0.42%) WCAG
17 17 (0.34%) NCSC
18 15 (0.30%) COBIT
19 12 (0.24%) MiFID
System Software
1 282 (5.58%) Active Directory
2 140 (2.77%) Hyper-V
3 112 (2.22%) Terminal Server
4 60 (1.19%) Docker
5 53 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
6 15 (0.30%) vSphere
7 13 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
8 12 (0.24%) ProxySG
9 9 (0.18%) Firmware
10 7 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.12%) IAG
11 6 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.079%) VMware NSX
13 3 (0.059%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.059%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.040%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.020%) KVM
15 1 (0.020%) NFS
15 1 (0.020%) Oracle RAC
15 1 (0.020%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 120 (2.37%) Terraform
2 67 (1.33%) Kubernetes
3 66 (1.31%) Ansible
4 50 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
5 29 (0.57%) Grafana
6 28 (0.55%) Prometheus
7 25 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
8 20 (0.40%) SCCM
9 11 (0.22%) Nagios
10 6 (0.12%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 6 (0.12%) Control-M
10 6 (0.12%) SCOM
11 5 (0.099%) CASB
12 4 (0.079%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.079%) Backup Exec
12 4 (0.079%) Nessus
12 4 (0.079%) QRadar
12 4 (0.079%) SolarWinds Orion
12 4 (0.079%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.059%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 1,229 (24.31%) Microsoft
2 336 (6.65%) PayPal
3 296 (5.86%) SAP
4 188 (3.72%) Oracle
5 177 (3.50%) VMware
6 161 (3.18%) Salesforce
7 156 (3.09%) SolarWinds
8 141 (2.79%) Splunk
9 134 (2.65%) Google
10 117 (2.31%) Veeam
11 113 (2.24%) Brocade
11 113 (2.24%) Tanium
12 112 (2.22%) Nimble Storage
13 108 (2.14%) ServiceNow
14 83 (1.64%) Cisco
15 67 (1.33%) Databricks
16 60 (1.19%) Adobe
17 47 (0.93%) Workday
18 43 (0.85%) Alteryx
19 42 (0.83%) Bloomberg