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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 9 13
Rank change year-on-year -17 +4 +8
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 5,333 6,149 8,636
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.27% 12.47% 9.70%
As % of the General category 11.24% 17.98% 16.87%
Number of salaries quoted 3,386 2,628 4,229
10th Percentile £31,938 £30,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -7.99%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,148 £87,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500

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 47,428 34,194 51,190
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.91% 69.35% 57.51%
Number of salaries quoted 29,068 17,842 32,065
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £39,243 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -16 4,834 £54,150 -1.55% 2,498
UK excluding London -19 3,413 £47,500 - 1,698
Work from Home -9 1,702 £55,000 +7.61% 960
London -10 1,633 £67,500 +3.85% 1,119
North of England -19 984 £47,500 +2.15% 445
South East -8 840 £50,000 -4.76% 550
Midlands -11 606 £48,250 +6.30% 274
North West -18 588 £46,750 -0.53% 237
South West -15 465 £47,000 -1.05% 200
West Midlands -18 324 £50,000 +11.11% 155
Yorkshire -12 284 £47,500 +5.56% 147
East Midlands -7 280 £46,743 +2.29% 119
East of England -21 241 £45,000 - 154
North East -24 112 £55,000 +37.50% 65
Scotland -33 110 £44,000 - 66
Wales -13 109 £52,440 -4.66% 29
Northern Ireland -30 68 £41,250 -25.00% 26

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
1 192 (3.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 145 (2.72%) SharePoint
3 74 (1.39%) Confluence
4 70 (1.31%) Apache Airflow
4 70 (1.31%) Apache Spark
5 46 (0.86%) Apache
6 39 (0.73%) CMS
7 26 (0.49%) IIS
8 24 (0.45%) SAS
9 14 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 14 (0.26%) WordPress
10 11 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
11 9 (0.17%) Jupyter
11 9 (0.17%) WebLogic
11 9 (0.17%) WebSphere
12 6 (0.11%) OpenStack
13 3 (0.056%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.056%) JBoss
13 3 (0.056%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.056%) Tomcat
Applications
1 583 (10.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 220 (4.13%) Microsoft Office
3 112 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 83 (1.56%) MS Visio
5 30 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
6 28 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.17%) CATIA
8 7 (0.13%) Adobe XD
9 5 (0.094%) Acrobat
9 5 (0.094%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.075%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 4 (0.075%) Maya
11 3 (0.056%) AutoCAD
11 3 (0.056%) Blender
11 3 (0.056%) LaTeX
11 3 (0.056%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.056%) Simulink
11 3 (0.056%) Trello
12 2 (0.038%) Siemens NX
12 2 (0.038%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 73 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 69 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 37 (0.69%) NetSuite
4 36 (0.68%) Dynamics GP
5 20 (0.38%) SAP PM
6 19 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
7 16 (0.30%) SAP CO
8 15 (0.28%) SAP ERP
8 15 (0.28%) SAP FI
9 14 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
10 13 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
11 10 (0.19%) Magento
12 9 (0.17%) Maximo
13 8 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
14 7 (0.13%) Elite 3E
14 7 (0.13%) Fidessa
14 7 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
14 7 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
14 7 (0.13%) Sage 200
14 7 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 944 (17.70%) Azure
2 675 (12.66%) Power Platform
3 534 (10.01%) AWS
4 410 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
5 332 (6.23%) SaaS
6 244 (4.58%) GCP
7 134 (2.51%) Dynamics 365
8 128 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
9 117 (2.19%) Entra ID
10 94 (1.76%) Google Analytics
11 88 (1.65%) Snowflake
12 83 (1.56%) GitHub
13 79 (1.48%) dbt
14 76 (1.43%) Power Automate
15 73 (1.37%) Microsoft Purview
15 73 (1.37%) PowerApps
16 70 (1.31%) Amazon S3
17 59 (1.11%) Serverless
18 58 (1.09%) Azure Data Factory
19 55 (1.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 201 (3.77%) DNS
2 157 (2.94%) Firewall
3 156 (2.93%) DHCP
4 124 (2.33%) VPN
5 93 (1.74%) TCP/IP
6 79 (1.48%) WAN
7 76 (1.43%) LAN
8 69 (1.29%) Broadband
9 58 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
10 54 (1.01%) Wireless
11 48 (0.90%) Network Security
12 41 (0.77%) Internet
12 41 (0.77%) SAN
12 41 (0.77%) VLAN
13 35 (0.66%) HTTP
14 30 (0.56%) BGP
15 24 (0.45%) SD-WAN
16 21 (0.39%) Cisco ASA
16 21 (0.39%) OSPF
17 20 (0.38%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 599 (11.23%) Power BI
2 289 (5.42%) Tableau
3 209 (3.92%) SQL Server
4 191 (3.58%) Data Warehouse
5 126 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
6 96 (1.80%) Metadata
7 84 (1.58%) Relational Database
8 74 (1.39%) Data Lake
9 73 (1.37%) Looker
10 71 (1.33%) MySQL
10 71 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
11 69 (1.29%) Power Query
12 67 (1.26%) Data Mining
13 66 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 57 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 56 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
16 54 (1.01%) BigQuery
17 44 (0.83%) Big Data
18 38 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
18 38 (0.71%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 207 (3.88%) JIRA
2 185 (3.47%) Git
3 59 (1.11%) GitLab
4 46 (0.86%) Jenkins
5 36 (0.68%) Rational DOORS
6 32 (0.60%) MLflow
7 27 (0.51%) Selenium
8 22 (0.41%) Cucumber
9 18 (0.34%) Postman
10 17 (0.32%) Eclipse
11 16 (0.30%) Chocolatey
12 15 (0.28%) ERwin
13 14 (0.26%) JMeter
14 13 (0.24%) IBM UrbanCode
14 13 (0.24%) Visual Studio
15 12 (0.23%) Bitbucket
15 12 (0.23%) Cypress.io
15 12 (0.23%) SonarQube
16 9 (0.17%) Burp Suite
16 9 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2,527 (47.38%) Social Skills
2 1,779 (33.36%) Finance
3 464 (8.70%) Marketing
4 405 (7.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 354 (6.64%) Organisational Skills
6 341 (6.39%) Retail
7 322 (6.04%) Public Sector
8 307 (5.76%) Legal
9 304 (5.70%) Law
10 253 (4.74%) Banking
11 220 (4.13%) Influencing Skills
12 215 (4.03%) Manufacturing
13 143 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
14 132 (2.48%) Telecoms
15 105 (1.97%) Aerospace
16 96 (1.80%) Advertising
17 94 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
18 85 (1.59%) Electronics
19 67 (1.26%) Financial Institution
20 59 (1.11%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,320 (24.75%) Analyst
2 675 (12.66%) Senior
3 367 (6.88%) Lead
4 315 (5.91%) Data Analyst
5 282 (5.29%) Business Analyst
6 256 (4.80%) Developer
7 232 (4.35%) Consultant
8 228 (4.28%) Systems Engineer
9 204 (3.83%) Architect
10 160 (3.00%) Senior Analyst
11 154 (2.89%) Data Engineer
12 153 (2.87%) Support Analyst
13 124 (2.33%) Support Engineer
14 117 (2.19%) IT Support
15 110 (2.06%) IT Manager
16 103 (1.93%) Security Analyst
17 102 (1.91%) Financial Analyst
18 98 (1.84%) Systems Analyst
19 93 (1.74%) Senior Manager
20 91 (1.71%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (2.38%) .NET
2 113 (2.12%) HTML
3 111 (2.08%) REST
4 102 (1.91%) CSS
5 93 (1.74%) JSON
6 85 (1.59%) XML
7 80 (1.50%) Middleware
7 80 (1.50%) React
8 72 (1.35%) Kafka
9 68 (1.28%) PyTorch
10 62 (1.16%) TensorFlow
11 60 (1.13%) RESTful
12 53 (0.99%) SOAP
13 49 (0.92%) PySpark
14 44 (0.83%) scikit-learn
15 41 (0.77%) Node.js
15 41 (0.77%) Web Services
16 36 (0.68%) Pandas
17 32 (0.60%) EDI
17 32 (0.60%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 536 (10.05%) Analytical Mindset
2 290 (5.44%) Management Information System
3 242 (4.54%) Onboarding
4 235 (4.41%) Product Ownership
5 222 (4.16%) Self-Motivation
6 162 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
7 123 (2.31%) Cloud Native
8 107 (2.01%) Security Posture
9 106 (1.99%) Driving Licence
10 92 (1.73%) Data Centre
11 91 (1.71%) Virtual Team
12 86 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
13 83 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
14 82 (1.54%) Data Structures
15 80 (1.50%) Social Media
16 75 (1.41%) Algorithms
17 71 (1.33%) Blog
18 60 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
19 57 (1.07%) Marketing Technology
20 56 (1.05%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 441 (8.27%) Windows
2 301 (5.64%) Linux
3 221 (4.14%) Windows Server
4 116 (2.18%) Windows Server 2016
5 35 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 30 (0.56%) Unix
7 27 (0.51%) Windows 10
8 25 (0.47%) Mac OS
9 22 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
10 20 (0.38%) Android
11 15 (0.28%) Apple iOS
11 15 (0.28%) CentOS
12 11 (0.21%) Ubuntu
13 8 (0.15%) VMS
14 6 (0.11%) Debian
15 5 (0.094%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.075%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.075%) Rocky
17 3 (0.056%) AIX
18 1 (0.019%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,467 (46.26%) Problem-Solving
2 1,443 (27.06%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,201 (22.52%) Decision-Making
4 1,176 (22.05%) Analytics
5 923 (17.31%) Agile
6 793 (14.87%) AI
7 785 (14.72%) Stakeholder Management
8 692 (12.98%) Business Intelligence
9 580 (10.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 553 (10.37%) Roadmaps
11 505 (9.47%) Actionable Insight
12 504 (9.45%) Mentoring
13 503 (9.43%) Project Management
14 465 (8.72%) Data Analysis
15 462 (8.66%) Data Modelling
16 453 (8.49%) Cybersecurity
17 447 (8.38%) Customer Experience
18 440 (8.25%) Process Improvement
19 412 (7.73%) CI/CD
20 410 (7.69%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1,092 (20.48%) SQL
2 886 (16.61%) Python
3 194 (3.64%) JavaScript
4 188 (3.53%) Java
5 177 (3.32%) PowerShell
6 167 (3.13%) C#
7 92 (1.73%) C++
8 87 (1.63%) Bash
9 85 (1.59%) R
10 75 (1.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 56 (1.05%) TypeScript
12 52 (0.98%) T-SQL
13 44 (0.83%) MATLAB
14 25 (0.47%) C
15 24 (0.45%) PHP
15 24 (0.45%) Scala
16 23 (0.43%) Go
16 23 (0.43%) PL/SQL
17 21 (0.39%) VBA
18 19 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 968 (18.15%) Degree
2 547 (10.26%) Security Cleared
3 395 (7.41%) SC Cleared
4 263 (4.93%) ACCA
5 247 (4.63%) CIMA
6 155 (2.91%) CISSP
7 151 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 145 (2.72%) DBS Check
9 116 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
10 113 (2.12%) CISM
11 107 (2.01%) DV Cleared
12 97 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
13 94 (1.76%) Master's Degree
14 72 (1.35%) IRCA
15 71 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
16 70 (1.31%) CompTIA Security+
17 64 (1.20%) Azure Certification
18 54 (1.01%) PMI Certification
19 46 (0.86%) CRISC
20 45 (0.84%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 506 (9.49%) Data Quality
2 383 (7.18%) GDPR
3 360 (6.75%) QA
4 250 (4.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 196 (3.68%) NIST
6 177 (3.32%) Cyber Essentials
7 154 (2.89%) SLA
8 150 (2.81%) PCI DSS
9 140 (2.63%) Accessibility
10 124 (2.33%) ISO 9001
11 76 (1.43%) GRC
12 63 (1.18%) PMO
13 46 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
14 41 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 40 (0.75%) IFRS
16 39 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 35 (0.66%) COBIT
18 28 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
19 24 (0.45%) SOC 2
20 23 (0.43%) ITGC
System Software
1 319 (5.98%) Active Directory
2 120 (2.25%) Docker
3 115 (2.16%) Hyper-V
4 96 (1.80%) Terminal Server
5 78 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
6 25 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
7 19 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (0.21%) Firmware
9 9 (0.17%) VMware NSX
10 8 (0.15%) IAG
10 8 (0.15%) ProxySG
10 8 (0.15%) vSphere
11 5 (0.094%) Ceph
12 4 (0.075%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.075%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.075%) XenApp
13 3 (0.056%) DFS Replication
13 3 (0.056%) Embedded Firmware
14 2 (0.038%) KVM
14 2 (0.038%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 140 (2.63%) Terraform
2 105 (1.97%) Kubernetes
3 78 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
4 65 (1.22%) Ansible
5 45 (0.84%) Grafana
6 28 (0.53%) Prometheus
7 25 (0.47%) SCCM
8 22 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
9 21 (0.39%) Nagios
10 16 (0.30%) Kibana
10 16 (0.30%) QRadar
11 10 (0.19%) Kubeflow
11 10 (0.19%) Podman
12 8 (0.15%) logstash
13 7 (0.13%) Nmap
13 7 (0.13%) Packer
14 6 (0.11%) Graylog
14 6 (0.11%) Red Hat Satellite
15 5 (0.094%) Check_MK
15 5 (0.094%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1,185 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 226 (4.24%) Google
3 223 (4.18%) SAP
4 183 (3.43%) VMware
5 177 (3.32%) Oracle
6 157 (2.94%) Splunk
7 137 (2.57%) Salesforce
8 136 (2.55%) SolarWinds
9 129 (2.42%) Databricks
10 113 (2.12%) ServiceNow
11 107 (2.01%) Veeam
12 97 (1.82%) Brocade
12 97 (1.82%) Nimble Storage
13 96 (1.80%) Tanium
14 77 (1.44%) Cisco
15 76 (1.43%) Workday
16 64 (1.20%) Red Hat
17 49 (0.92%) IBM
18 48 (0.90%) Dell
19 46 (0.86%) HubSpot