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 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 14 19
Rank change year-on-year +3 +5 +1
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 5,433 6,341 4,641
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 9.73% 10.10% 9.23%
As % of the General category 15.89% 16.22% 14.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,607 2,679 3,337
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,412 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -3.51% +3.64%
75th Percentile £71,375 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +4.17%

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 common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 34,187 39,096 32,797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 61.24% 62.25% 65.21%
Number of salaries quoted 19,211 18,886 24,623
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.46% +4.00% -4.76%

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 +3 4,702 £51,058 -7.17% 11,435
UK excluding London +3 3,477 £45,000 -10.00% 11,467
Work from Home +6 1,923 £50,000 -9.09% 11,735
London +3 1,624 £67,500 +3.85% 1,101
South East +4 878 £49,000 -2.00% 2,844
North of England -9 830 £45,000 -12.20% 2,512
Midlands +2 641 £45,000 -6.25% 2,196
North West -11 417 £45,000 -14.29% 1,260
South West +5 391 £45,000 -14.69% 1,330
West Midlands -4 382 £52,500 +5.00% 1,167
Scotland +1 345 £33,500 -43.93% 478
East of England 0 305 £40,000 -27.27% 1,783
Yorkshire -1 299 £40,500 -19.00% 1,070
East Midlands +6 256 £37,500 -11.76% 893
North East +16 114 £41,500 +3.75% 191
Wales +7 78 £48,122 -2.00% 322
Northern Ireland -2 42 £52,500 -28.54% 193
Isle of Man -1 1 £62,500 +150.00% 1
Channel Islands -5 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
1 134 (2.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 96 (1.77%) Confluence
3 88 (1.62%) SharePoint
4 63 (1.16%) CMS
5 54 (0.99%) Apache Spark
6 21 (0.39%) WordPress
7 20 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
8 18 (0.33%) Apache
9 17 (0.31%) SAS
10 7 (0.13%) IIS
11 6 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 6 (0.11%) Camunda
11 6 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 5 (0.092%) Apache Synapse
12 5 (0.092%) Skype for Business
13 4 (0.074%) ArcGIS
13 4 (0.074%) Drupal
14 3 (0.055%) HCL Notes
14 3 (0.055%) Moodle
14 3 (0.055%) Umbraco
Applications
1 792 (14.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 498 (9.17%) Chatbot
3 375 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
4 137 (2.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 59 (1.09%) Maya
6 53 (0.98%) MS Visio
7 40 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
8 38 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
9 21 (0.39%) AutoCAD
10 14 (0.26%) Adobe XD
11 8 (0.15%) SOLIDWORKS
12 6 (0.11%) Simulink
13 4 (0.074%) CATIA
13 4 (0.074%) Oracle Smart View
13 4 (0.074%) Photoshop
13 4 (0.074%) PlantUML
14 3 (0.055%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 3 (0.055%) Blender
14 3 (0.055%) Sketch
14 3 (0.055%) Stata
Business Applications
1 164 (3.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 68 (1.25%) SAP MDG
3 62 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
4 51 (0.94%) NetSuite
5 40 (0.74%) SAP FI
6 39 (0.72%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 39 (0.72%) SAP CO
6 39 (0.72%) SAP FI/CO
6 39 (0.72%) Shopify
7 30 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
8 24 (0.44%) SAP IBP
9 20 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
10 16 (0.29%) Endur
10 16 (0.29%) Oracle Assets
10 16 (0.29%) Workday HCM
11 13 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
11 13 (0.24%) Sage X3
11 13 (0.24%) SAP FSCM
12 11 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
12 11 (0.20%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 799 (14.71%) Azure
2 626 (11.52%) Power Platform
3 420 (7.73%) AWS
4 262 (4.82%) Microsoft 365
5 251 (4.62%) SaaS
6 159 (2.93%) GCP
7 131 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
8 101 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
9 95 (1.75%) Google Analytics
10 72 (1.33%) Entra ID
11 71 (1.31%) GitHub
12 69 (1.27%) Azure Data Factory
12 69 (1.27%) Snowflake
13 60 (1.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 53 (0.98%) PaaS
15 52 (0.96%) Cloud Computing
16 51 (0.94%) Serverless
17 49 (0.90%) Power Automate
18 45 (0.83%) dbt
19 42 (0.77%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 155 (2.85%) DNS
2 126 (2.32%) DHCP
3 116 (2.14%) Firewall
4 74 (1.36%) Network Security
5 72 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
6 63 (1.16%) VPN
7 61 (1.12%) LAN
8 57 (1.05%) WAN
9 42 (0.77%) TCP/IP
10 41 (0.75%) Remote Desktop
11 38 (0.70%) Wireless
12 32 (0.59%) SMS
12 32 (0.59%) VoIP
13 30 (0.55%) VLAN
14 22 (0.40%) Broadband
14 22 (0.40%) Internet
14 22 (0.40%) SAN
15 19 (0.35%) Intrusion Detection
16 18 (0.33%) OSPF
17 17 (0.31%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 580 (10.68%) Power BI
2 327 (6.02%) Tableau
3 191 (3.52%) SQL Server
4 172 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
5 147 (2.71%) Data Mining
6 118 (2.17%) Metadata
7 108 (1.99%) Data Lake
8 107 (1.97%) Relational Database
9 98 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
10 63 (1.16%) Looker
11 60 (1.10%) NoSQL
12 57 (1.05%) SAP BW
13 56 (1.03%) MySQL
13 56 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 47 (0.87%) Big Data
15 45 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
16 41 (0.75%) GIS
17 38 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
18 37 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
19 34 (0.63%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 235 (4.33%) JIRA
2 99 (1.82%) Git
3 50 (0.92%) Jenkins
3 50 (0.92%) Selenium
4 44 (0.81%) GitLab
5 19 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
6 17 (0.31%) Bitbucket
7 15 (0.28%) Postman
8 14 (0.26%) Cypress.io
8 14 (0.26%) Robot Framework
8 14 (0.26%) Subversion
8 14 (0.26%) WebDriver
9 13 (0.24%) Maven
10 12 (0.22%) ERwin
10 12 (0.22%) Snyk
11 11 (0.20%) Axure RP
11 11 (0.20%) Balsamiq
11 11 (0.20%) ER Studio
11 11 (0.20%) TestRail
12 10 (0.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 2,792 (51.39%) Social Skills
2 1,819 (33.48%) Finance
3 635 (11.69%) Marketing
4 393 (7.23%) Law
5 350 (6.44%) Retail
6 336 (6.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 317 (5.83%) Legal
8 274 (5.04%) Banking
9 260 (4.79%) Organisational Skills
10 249 (4.58%) Public Sector
11 244 (4.49%) Presentation Skills
12 230 (4.23%) Manufacturing
13 146 (2.69%) Telecoms
14 144 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
15 133 (2.45%) Financial Institution
16 123 (2.26%) Games
17 107 (1.97%) Advertising
18 98 (1.80%) Electronics
19 78 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
20 59 (1.09%) German Language
Job Titles
1 1,142 (21.02%) Analyst
2 682 (12.55%) Senior
3 497 (9.15%) Trainer
4 405 (7.45%) Lead
5 317 (5.83%) Architect
6 316 (5.82%) Data Analyst
7 219 (4.03%) Consultant
7 219 (4.03%) Developer
8 197 (3.63%) Business Analyst
9 179 (3.29%) Support Analyst
10 156 (2.87%) Senior Analyst
11 141 (2.60%) IT Support
12 132 (2.43%) Solutions Architect
13 125 (2.30%) Systems Engineer
13 125 (2.30%) Trainee
14 108 (1.99%) Business Manager
15 105 (1.93%) Financial Analyst
16 104 (1.91%) IT Manager
17 102 (1.88%) Innovation Manager
18 101 (1.86%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (2.34%) HTML
2 106 (1.95%) CSS
3 85 (1.56%) React
4 81 (1.49%) REST
5 61 (1.12%) .NET
6 51 (0.94%) Middleware
7 47 (0.87%) Kafka
8 43 (0.79%) JSON
9 35 (0.64%) AngularJS
9 35 (0.64%) Spring
9 35 (0.64%) XML
10 32 (0.59%) EDI
11 30 (0.55%) SOAP
12 27 (0.50%) LangChain
12 27 (0.50%) Oracle Fusion
12 27 (0.50%) PySpark
13 26 (0.48%) Node.js
14 25 (0.46%) Web Services
15 22 (0.40%) Flash
16 21 (0.39%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 568 (10.45%) Analytical Mindset
2 393 (7.23%) Self-Motivation
3 390 (7.18%) Onboarding
4 288 (5.30%) Management Information System
5 209 (3.85%) Product Ownership
6 164 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
7 135 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
8 102 (1.88%) Driving Licence
9 87 (1.60%) FMCG
10 86 (1.58%) Data Centre
11 83 (1.53%) Algorithms
12 74 (1.36%) Cloud Native
13 65 (1.20%) Data Structures
14 62 (1.14%) Social Media
15 58 (1.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 53 (0.98%) Security Posture
17 52 (0.96%) Robotics
17 52 (0.96%) Virtual Team
18 40 (0.74%) e-Learning
19 38 (0.70%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 320 (5.89%) Windows
2 215 (3.96%) Linux
3 140 (2.58%) Windows Server
4 89 (1.64%) Windows Server 2016
5 29 (0.53%) Unix
6 21 (0.39%) Mac OS
7 12 (0.22%) Android
8 9 (0.17%) Windows 10
9 8 (0.15%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.092%) Mac OS X
11 4 (0.074%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.074%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.055%) OpenWrt
12 3 (0.055%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (0.055%) VMS
13 2 (0.037%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.018%) AIX
14 1 (0.018%) OpenVMS
14 1 (0.018%) Robot Operating System
14 1 (0.018%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,412 (44.40%) Problem-Solving
2 1,262 (23.23%) AI
3 1,170 (21.54%) Analytics
4 1,124 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
5 1,039 (19.12%) Decision-Making
6 963 (17.73%) Agile
7 846 (15.57%) Project Management
8 790 (14.54%) Business Intelligence
9 660 (12.15%) Stakeholder Management
10 534 (9.83%) Data Analysis
11 510 (9.39%) Chemistry
12 500 (9.20%) Conversational UI
13 481 (8.85%) Risk Management
14 466 (8.58%) ERP
15 457 (8.41%) Roadmaps
16 452 (8.32%) Cybersecurity
17 435 (8.01%) Mentoring
18 425 (7.82%) Customer Service
19 424 (7.80%) Business Strategy
19 424 (7.80%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 982 (18.07%) SQL
2 643 (11.84%) Python
3 157 (2.89%) Java
4 149 (2.74%) JavaScript
5 115 (2.12%) C#
6 92 (1.69%) PowerShell
7 77 (1.42%) R
8 51 (0.94%) C++
8 51 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 44 (0.81%) T-SQL
10 41 (0.75%) Bash
10 41 (0.75%) VBA
11 30 (0.55%) TypeScript
12 25 (0.46%) C
12 25 (0.46%) PL/SQL
13 22 (0.40%) Scala
14 17 (0.31%) Go
14 17 (0.31%) Kotlin
15 15 (0.28%) ABAP
16 14 (0.26%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1,844 (33.94%) Degree
2 679 (12.50%) Master's Degree
3 516 (9.50%) PhD
4 449 (8.26%) Security Cleared
5 320 (5.89%) SC Cleared
6 199 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 189 (3.48%) ACCA
8 181 (3.33%) CIMA
9 179 (3.29%) CISSP
10 106 (1.95%) DBS Check
11 95 (1.75%) DV Cleared
12 91 (1.67%) PMI Certification
13 87 (1.60%) CISM
14 74 (1.36%) PMP
15 64 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
16 62 (1.14%) CompTIA Security+
17 58 (1.07%) Azure Certification
17 58 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
18 57 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
19 48 (0.88%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 300 (5.52%) Data Quality
2 270 (4.97%) QA
3 200 (3.68%) GDPR
4 195 (3.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 144 (2.65%) PCI DSS
6 137 (2.52%) Cyber Essentials
7 119 (2.19%) NIST
8 115 (2.12%) PMO
9 110 (2.02%) Accessibility
10 53 (0.98%) SLA
11 40 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
12 39 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 36 (0.66%) GRC
14 23 (0.42%) IFRS
15 21 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 19 (0.35%) ISO 9001
17 16 (0.29%) WCAG
18 15 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
19 14 (0.26%) COBIT
20 10 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 234 (4.31%) Active Directory
2 115 (2.12%) Hyper-V
3 88 (1.62%) Terminal Server
4 55 (1.01%) Docker
5 45 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
6 27 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (0.31%) Firmware
8 9 (0.17%) vSphere
9 7 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.092%) ProxySG
11 3 (0.055%) zsh
12 2 (0.037%) HDFS
13 1 (0.018%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.018%) Embedded Firmware
13 1 (0.018%) NFS
13 1 (0.018%) Virtual Desktop
13 1 (0.018%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.018%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 82 (1.51%) Terraform
2 64 (1.18%) Kubernetes
3 54 (0.99%) Ansible
4 42 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (0.28%) Grafana
6 15 (0.28%) Prometheus
7 10 (0.18%) SCCM
8 7 (0.13%) QRadar
9 6 (0.11%) SCOM
10 5 (0.092%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 4 (0.074%) Nessus
11 4 (0.074%) Rancher
11 4 (0.074%) vRealize
12 3 (0.055%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.055%) Nagios
13 2 (0.037%) AssetCenter
13 2 (0.037%) EMC NetWorker
13 2 (0.037%) Kibana
13 2 (0.037%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 1,208 (22.23%) Microsoft
2 496 (9.13%) PayPal
3 424 (7.80%) SAP
4 223 (4.10%) Google
5 218 (4.01%) Oracle
6 168 (3.09%) Salesforce
7 145 (2.67%) VMware
8 117 (2.15%) Splunk
9 110 (2.02%) Databricks
10 107 (1.97%) SolarWinds
11 91 (1.67%) Veeam
12 89 (1.64%) Brocade
12 89 (1.64%) Tanium
13 88 (1.62%) Nimble Storage
13 88 (1.62%) ServiceNow
14 83 (1.53%) Adobe
15 78 (1.44%) Cisco
16 59 (1.09%) Workday
17 52 (0.96%) Alteryx
18 43 (0.79%) Ariba