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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 9 13
Rank change year-on-year -17 +4 +7
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 5,548 6,171 8,069
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.36% 12.43% 9.63%
As % of the General category 11.42% 17.97% 16.84%
Number of salaries quoted 3,483 2,661 3,766
10th Percentile £31,735 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £39,266
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £51,126
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.58% -6.52%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £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 48,576 34,335 47,914
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.94% 69.16% 57.18%
Number of salaries quoted 29,774 18,056 29,103
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £29,500
25th Percentile £39,875 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,201 £75,000 £73,975
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £49,070
% change year-on-year +11.11% -8.29% -6.53%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 -15 5,027 £53,000 -3.64% 3,536
UK excluding London -18 3,564 £47,500 - 2,227
Work from Home -10 1,764 £55,000 +7.61% 1,560
London -10 1,694 £67,500 +3.85% 1,711
North of England -16 1,024 £47,500 +5.56% 552
South East -9 867 £50,000 -4.76% 666
Midlands -10 635 £48,000 +5.75% 364
North West -17 618 £46,750 -0.53% 305
South West -13 488 £47,500 - 283
West Midlands -17 334 £50,149 +11.44% 216
East Midlands -2 299 £45,000 -2.17% 148
Yorkshire -13 285 £47,500 +5.91% 177
East of England -23 254 £45,000 - 200
North East -21 121 £53,750 +34.38% 75
Wales -14 117 £53,171 -3.33% 48
Scotland -29 114 £42,068 -4.93% 105
Northern Ireland -34 75 £42,500 -22.73% 59

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
1 191 (3.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 157 (2.83%) SharePoint
3 80 (1.44%) Confluence
4 70 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
4 70 (1.26%) Apache Spark
5 48 (0.87%) Apache
6 45 (0.81%) CMS
7 27 (0.49%) IIS
8 24 (0.43%) SAS
9 13 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 12 (0.22%) WordPress
11 10 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
12 9 (0.16%) Jupyter
12 9 (0.16%) WebLogic
12 9 (0.16%) WebSphere
13 8 (0.14%) OpenStack
14 4 (0.072%) Headless CMS
15 3 (0.054%) Anypoint
15 3 (0.054%) JBoss
15 3 (0.054%) Tomcat
Applications
1 609 (10.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 228 (4.11%) Microsoft Office
3 120 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 82 (1.48%) MS Visio
5 34 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
6 28 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.16%) Adobe XD
8 7 (0.13%) CATIA
9 5 (0.090%) Acrobat
9 5 (0.090%) AutoCAD
9 5 (0.090%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.072%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 4 (0.072%) Maya
11 3 (0.054%) Blender
11 3 (0.054%) EPLAN
11 3 (0.054%) LaTeX
11 3 (0.054%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.054%) Simulink
11 3 (0.054%) Trello
11 3 (0.054%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 74 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 70 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 37 (0.67%) NetSuite
4 36 (0.65%) Dynamics GP
5 20 (0.36%) SAP PM
6 18 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
7 17 (0.31%) SAP CO
8 16 (0.29%) SAP FI
9 15 (0.27%) SAP ERP
9 15 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
10 13 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
11 10 (0.18%) Magento
12 9 (0.16%) Elite 3E
12 9 (0.16%) Maximo
12 9 (0.16%) Workday HCM
13 8 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
13 8 (0.14%) Sage 200
13 8 (0.14%) Shopify
14 7 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
14 7 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 966 (17.41%) Azure
2 691 (12.45%) Power Platform
3 573 (10.33%) AWS
4 408 (7.35%) Microsoft 365
5 343 (6.18%) SaaS
6 258 (4.65%) GCP
7 139 (2.51%) Dynamics 365
8 132 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
9 125 (2.25%) Entra ID
10 98 (1.77%) Snowflake
11 96 (1.73%) Google Analytics
12 86 (1.55%) GitHub
13 81 (1.46%) dbt
13 81 (1.46%) Power Automate
14 74 (1.33%) Amazon S3
15 73 (1.32%) PowerApps
16 71 (1.28%) Microsoft Purview
17 59 (1.06%) Serverless
18 56 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
19 55 (0.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 199 (3.59%) DNS
2 155 (2.79%) DHCP
3 153 (2.76%) Firewall
4 128 (2.31%) VPN
5 96 (1.73%) TCP/IP
6 79 (1.42%) WAN
7 78 (1.41%) LAN
8 63 (1.14%) Broadband
9 60 (1.08%) Wireless
10 58 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
11 54 (0.97%) Network Security
12 43 (0.78%) VLAN
13 42 (0.76%) SAN
14 41 (0.74%) Internet
15 37 (0.67%) HTTP
16 30 (0.54%) BGP
17 23 (0.41%) VoIP
18 22 (0.40%) OSPF
18 22 (0.40%) SD-WAN
19 21 (0.38%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 610 (10.99%) Power BI
2 284 (5.12%) Tableau
3 214 (3.86%) SQL Server
4 194 (3.50%) Data Warehouse
5 120 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
6 92 (1.66%) Metadata
6 92 (1.66%) Relational Database
7 80 (1.44%) Looker
8 75 (1.35%) MySQL
9 74 (1.33%) Data Lake
10 73 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
11 71 (1.28%) Power Query
12 66 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 60 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 58 (1.05%) Data Mining
15 57 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
15 57 (1.03%) BigQuery
16 46 (0.83%) Big Data
17 42 (0.76%) NoSQL
18 38 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 223 (4.02%) JIRA
2 205 (3.70%) Git
3 59 (1.06%) GitLab
4 50 (0.90%) Jenkins
5 34 (0.61%) Rational DOORS
6 32 (0.58%) MLflow
7 31 (0.56%) Selenium
8 23 (0.41%) Cucumber
9 20 (0.36%) Postman
10 18 (0.32%) Eclipse
11 16 (0.29%) Chocolatey
12 15 (0.27%) ERwin
13 14 (0.25%) JMeter
14 13 (0.23%) Bitbucket
14 13 (0.23%) Cypress.io
14 13 (0.23%) IBM UrbanCode
15 12 (0.22%) SonarQube
16 11 (0.20%) Burp Suite
16 11 (0.20%) Visual Studio
17 10 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2,641 (47.60%) Social Skills
2 1,827 (32.93%) Finance
3 506 (9.12%) Marketing
4 449 (8.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 392 (7.07%) Organisational Skills
6 360 (6.49%) Retail
7 335 (6.04%) Public Sector
8 330 (5.95%) Law
9 313 (5.64%) Legal
10 263 (4.74%) Banking
11 242 (4.36%) Manufacturing
12 237 (4.27%) Influencing Skills
13 159 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
14 137 (2.47%) Telecoms
15 128 (2.31%) Aerospace
16 100 (1.80%) Advertising
17 95 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
18 89 (1.60%) Electronics
19 74 (1.33%) Financial Institution
20 62 (1.12%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,332 (24.01%) Analyst
2 710 (12.80%) Senior
3 387 (6.98%) Lead
4 314 (5.66%) Data Analyst
5 285 (5.14%) Business Analyst
6 270 (4.87%) Developer
7 232 (4.18%) Consultant
8 220 (3.97%) Systems Engineer
9 213 (3.84%) Architect
10 170 (3.06%) Senior Analyst
11 163 (2.94%) Data Engineer
12 154 (2.78%) Support Analyst
13 130 (2.34%) Support Engineer
14 120 (2.16%) IT Support
15 110 (1.98%) IT Manager
16 105 (1.89%) Security Analyst
17 101 (1.82%) Financial Analyst
18 100 (1.80%) Systems Analyst
19 98 (1.77%) Senior Manager
20 88 (1.59%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (2.42%) .NET
2 122 (2.20%) HTML
3 115 (2.07%) REST
4 112 (2.02%) CSS
5 93 (1.68%) JSON
6 83 (1.50%) XML
7 79 (1.42%) Middleware
7 79 (1.42%) React
8 75 (1.35%) Kafka
9 67 (1.21%) RESTful
10 65 (1.17%) PyTorch
11 59 (1.06%) TensorFlow
12 54 (0.97%) SOAP
13 50 (0.90%) PySpark
14 43 (0.78%) scikit-learn
15 41 (0.74%) Node.js
15 41 (0.74%) Web Services
16 35 (0.63%) EDI
16 35 (0.63%) Pandas
17 34 (0.61%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 547 (9.86%) Analytical Mindset
2 312 (5.62%) Management Information System
3 271 (4.88%) Onboarding
4 251 (4.52%) Self-Motivation
5 243 (4.38%) Product Ownership
6 165 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
7 129 (2.33%) Cloud Native
8 119 (2.14%) Driving Licence
9 109 (1.96%) Security Posture
10 101 (1.82%) Data Centre
11 96 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
12 95 (1.71%) Social Media
13 91 (1.64%) Virtual Team
14 87 (1.57%) Cyber Threat
15 84 (1.51%) Data Structures
16 78 (1.41%) Algorithms
17 77 (1.39%) Blog
18 64 (1.15%) Marketing Technology
19 62 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
20 57 (1.03%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 447 (8.06%) Windows
2 303 (5.46%) Linux
3 221 (3.98%) Windows Server
4 108 (1.95%) Windows Server 2016
5 36 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 32 (0.58%) Unix
6 32 (0.58%) Windows 10
7 29 (0.52%) Mac OS
8 23 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
9 22 (0.40%) Android
10 18 (0.32%) Apple iOS
11 15 (0.27%) CentOS
12 12 (0.22%) Ubuntu
13 7 (0.13%) Debian
13 7 (0.13%) VMS
14 5 (0.090%) OpenVMS
15 4 (0.072%) CoreOS
15 4 (0.072%) Rocky
16 3 (0.054%) AIX
17 2 (0.036%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,599 (46.85%) Problem-Solving
2 1,530 (27.58%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,241 (22.37%) Decision-Making
4 1,216 (21.92%) Analytics
5 976 (17.59%) Agile
6 868 (15.65%) AI
7 856 (15.43%) Stakeholder Management
8 720 (12.98%) Business Intelligence
9 611 (11.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 570 (10.27%) Roadmaps
11 525 (9.46%) Mentoring
11 525 (9.46%) Project Management
12 518 (9.34%) Actionable Insight
13 488 (8.80%) Data Analysis
14 473 (8.53%) Data Modelling
15 470 (8.47%) Cybersecurity
16 455 (8.20%) Customer Experience
17 452 (8.15%) Validation
18 447 (8.06%) Process Improvement
19 430 (7.75%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 1,123 (20.24%) SQL
2 913 (16.46%) Python
3 214 (3.86%) JavaScript
4 193 (3.48%) Java
5 184 (3.32%) PowerShell
6 175 (3.15%) C#
7 97 (1.75%) C++
8 93 (1.68%) Bash
9 86 (1.55%) R
10 76 (1.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 63 (1.14%) TypeScript
12 50 (0.90%) T-SQL
13 43 (0.78%) MATLAB
14 30 (0.54%) C
15 25 (0.45%) PHP
15 25 (0.45%) Scala
16 23 (0.41%) Go
17 22 (0.40%) PL/SQL
18 20 (0.36%) VBA
19 19 (0.34%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,033 (18.62%) Degree
2 580 (10.45%) Security Cleared
3 413 (7.44%) SC Cleared
4 255 (4.60%) ACCA
5 240 (4.33%) CIMA
6 162 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 158 (2.85%) CISSP
8 148 (2.67%) DBS Check
9 127 (2.29%) DV Cleared
10 122 (2.20%) Cisco Certification
11 117 (2.11%) CISM
12 107 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
13 97 (1.75%) Master's Degree
14 73 (1.32%) IRCA
14 73 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
15 71 (1.28%) CompTIA Security+
16 67 (1.21%) Azure Certification
17 61 (1.10%) PMI Certification
18 49 (0.88%) PMP
19 46 (0.83%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 531 (9.57%) Data Quality
2 391 (7.05%) GDPR
3 384 (6.92%) QA
4 243 (4.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 194 (3.50%) NIST
6 167 (3.01%) Cyber Essentials
7 158 (2.85%) Accessibility
8 156 (2.81%) SLA
9 143 (2.58%) PCI DSS
10 124 (2.24%) ISO 9001
11 75 (1.35%) GRC
12 66 (1.19%) PMO
13 46 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
14 41 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 39 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 39 (0.70%) IFRS
16 35 (0.63%) COBIT
17 28 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 24 (0.43%) NCSC
18 24 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 324 (5.84%) Active Directory
2 130 (2.34%) Docker
3 110 (1.98%) Hyper-V
4 88 (1.59%) Terminal Server
5 87 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
6 25 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
7 19 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
8 16 (0.29%) Firmware
9 9 (0.16%) IAG
9 9 (0.16%) VMware NSX
9 9 (0.16%) vSphere
10 8 (0.14%) ProxySG
11 7 (0.13%) Ceph
12 5 (0.090%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.072%) KVM
13 4 (0.072%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.072%) XenApp
14 3 (0.054%) DFS Replication
14 3 (0.054%) Embedded Firmware
14 3 (0.054%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 147 (2.65%) Terraform
2 112 (2.02%) Kubernetes
3 84 (1.51%) Microsoft Intune
4 72 (1.30%) Ansible
5 43 (0.78%) Grafana
6 28 (0.50%) Prometheus
7 25 (0.45%) SCCM
8 24 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
9 22 (0.40%) Nagios
10 17 (0.31%) QRadar
11 16 (0.29%) Kibana
12 12 (0.22%) Podman
13 9 (0.16%) Kubeflow
13 9 (0.16%) Nmap
14 8 (0.14%) Argo
14 8 (0.14%) logstash
15 7 (0.13%) Check_MK
15 7 (0.13%) Istio
15 7 (0.13%) Packer
15 7 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 1,213 (21.86%) Microsoft
2 247 (4.45%) Google
3 233 (4.20%) SAP
4 186 (3.35%) Oracle
5 185 (3.33%) VMware
6 154 (2.78%) Splunk
7 132 (2.38%) Databricks
8 131 (2.36%) Salesforce
9 130 (2.34%) SolarWinds
10 120 (2.16%) ServiceNow
11 99 (1.78%) Veeam
12 89 (1.60%) Brocade
12 89 (1.60%) Nimble Storage
13 88 (1.59%) Tanium
14 84 (1.51%) Cisco
15 78 (1.41%) Workday
16 68 (1.23%) Red Hat
17 52 (0.94%) Adobe
18 51 (0.92%) Dell
19 46 (0.83%) IBM