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 28 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 8 14
Rank change year-on-year -16 +6 +5
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 6,421 6,163 7,404
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.47% 12.50% 9.76%
As % of the General category 11.81% 18.26% 16.98%
Number of salaries quoted 3,702 2,487 2,844
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -

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 54,387 33,756 43,602
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.30% 68.45% 57.47%
Number of salaries quoted 33,151 17,480 21,903
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,966 £34,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £96,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £44,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% -12.00% -1.93%

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 28 September 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 28 September 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 5,643 £52,500 +1.94% 7,620
UK excluding London -15 4,321 £47,500 +5.56% 4,271
Work from Home -6 2,150 £55,000 +10.00% 3,070
London -12 1,804 £66,000 +1.54% 3,868
North of England -18 1,168 £47,500 +6.15% 994
South East -11 988 £49,425 +1.91% 1,105
Midlands -11 750 £46,743 +4.94% 673
North West -16 710 £46,500 +3.33% 567
South West -8 611 £47,500 +5.56% 497
West Midlands -18 382 £47,500 +5.56% 411
East Midlands -4 366 £43,173 +7.93% 262
Yorkshire -9 316 £47,000 +17.50% 330
East of England -14 279 £47,500 +21.79% 410
Wales -3 206 £45,000 -10.20% 113
Northern Ireland +4 189 £43,750 -20.45% 204
Scotland -20 149 £49,250 +26.28% 343
North East -21 148 £50,500 +26.25% 100

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 (2.99%) SharePoint
2 179 (2.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 111 (1.73%) Confluence
4 44 (0.69%) CMS
5 37 (0.58%) Apache
5 37 (0.58%) Apache Spark
5 37 (0.58%) IIS
6 29 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
7 27 (0.42%) SAS
8 15 (0.23%) WordPress
9 12 (0.19%) Jupyter
10 11 (0.17%) Headless CMS
11 10 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 9 (0.14%) WebLogic
12 9 (0.14%) WebSphere
13 8 (0.12%) OpenStack
14 7 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
15 3 (0.047%) Appian
15 3 (0.047%) nginx
15 3 (0.047%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 757 (11.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 335 (5.22%) Microsoft Office
3 131 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 73 (1.14%) MS Visio
5 50 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
6 46 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
7 18 (0.28%) Simulink
8 17 (0.26%) AutoCAD
9 10 (0.16%) Chatbot
10 9 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 9 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
11 8 (0.12%) Photoshop
12 7 (0.11%) Adobe XD
13 6 (0.093%) Acrobat
13 6 (0.093%) EPLAN
13 6 (0.093%) Siemens NX
14 5 (0.078%) InDesign
14 5 (0.078%) Revit
15 4 (0.062%) Adobe Illustrator
16 3 (0.047%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 110 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 65 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
3 37 (0.58%) NetSuite
4 35 (0.55%) Dynamics GP
5 28 (0.44%) Shopify
6 19 (0.30%) Workday HCM
7 15 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
8 14 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
9 13 (0.20%) Magento
10 12 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
10 12 (0.19%) SAP CO
10 12 (0.19%) SAP FI
11 11 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
12 10 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
12 10 (0.16%) Elite 3E
12 10 (0.16%) Infor M3
12 10 (0.16%) SAP Business One
13 9 (0.14%) Fidessa
13 9 (0.14%) Sage 200
13 9 (0.14%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,015 (15.81%) Azure
2 743 (11.57%) Power Platform
3 641 (9.98%) AWS
4 449 (6.99%) Microsoft 365
5 388 (6.04%) SaaS
6 297 (4.63%) GCP
7 198 (3.08%) Entra ID
8 159 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
9 149 (2.32%) Dynamics 365
10 132 (2.06%) Google Analytics
11 128 (1.99%) Google Ads
12 104 (1.62%) GitHub
13 91 (1.42%) Meta Ads
14 88 (1.37%) Serverless
15 84 (1.31%) Microsoft Purview
16 83 (1.29%) Power Automate
17 81 (1.26%) PowerApps
18 75 (1.17%) Amazon S3
19 71 (1.11%) Snowflake
20 70 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 199 (3.10%) DNS
2 154 (2.40%) DHCP
3 143 (2.23%) Firewall
4 128 (1.99%) VPN
5 110 (1.71%) TCP/IP
6 93 (1.45%) Internet
7 77 (1.20%) WAN
8 72 (1.12%) LAN
9 67 (1.04%) Network Security
10 56 (0.87%) Wireless
11 52 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
12 47 (0.73%) VLAN
13 44 (0.69%) Broadband
14 38 (0.59%) HTTP
15 34 (0.53%) SAN
16 29 (0.45%) VoIP
17 25 (0.39%) 5G
17 25 (0.39%) BGP
17 25 (0.39%) SMS
18 23 (0.36%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 665 (10.36%) Power BI
2 207 (3.22%) SQL Server
3 190 (2.96%) Tableau
4 172 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
5 115 (1.79%) Relational Database
6 111 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
7 103 (1.60%) Metadata
8 88 (1.37%) MySQL
9 80 (1.25%) Looker
9 80 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
10 79 (1.23%) Power Query
11 74 (1.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 64 (1.00%) Data Lake
13 58 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 56 (0.87%) Big Data
15 48 (0.75%) NoSQL
16 44 (0.69%) BigQuery
17 38 (0.59%) MongoDB
18 37 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
19 36 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 267 (4.16%) JIRA
2 263 (4.10%) Git
3 54 (0.84%) GitLab
3 54 (0.84%) Jenkins
4 32 (0.50%) Selenium
5 28 (0.44%) Rational DOORS
6 26 (0.40%) Eclipse
7 23 (0.36%) Cucumber
8 22 (0.34%) Claude Code
9 21 (0.33%) Postman
10 19 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
11 18 (0.28%) LabVIEW
12 15 (0.23%) Bitbucket
13 14 (0.22%) Burp Suite
13 14 (0.22%) JMeter
13 14 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
14 11 (0.17%) Chocolatey
14 11 (0.17%) Metasploit
15 10 (0.16%) Cypress.io
15 10 (0.16%) SonarQube
General
1 3,239 (50.44%) Social Skills
2 2,088 (32.52%) Finance
3 747 (11.63%) Marketing
4 544 (8.47%) Organisational Skills
5 542 (8.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 460 (7.16%) Retail
7 425 (6.62%) Public Sector
8 420 (6.54%) Law
9 411 (6.40%) Legal
10 382 (5.95%) Manufacturing
11 331 (5.15%) Influencing Skills
12 274 (4.27%) Presentation Skills
13 241 (3.75%) Banking
14 213 (3.32%) Aerospace
15 160 (2.49%) Electronics
16 157 (2.45%) Telecoms
17 117 (1.82%) Advertising
18 103 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
19 82 (1.28%) Automotive
20 70 (1.09%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,495 (23.28%) Analyst
2 849 (13.22%) Senior
3 421 (6.56%) Lead
4 311 (4.84%) Developer
5 307 (4.78%) Data Analyst
6 303 (4.72%) Business Analyst
7 250 (3.89%) Senior Analyst
8 247 (3.85%) Consultant
9 233 (3.63%) Architect
10 219 (3.41%) Support Analyst
11 181 (2.82%) Data Engineer
12 163 (2.54%) Systems Engineer
13 125 (1.95%) Support Engineer
14 115 (1.79%) IT Support
15 113 (1.76%) Administrator
15 113 (1.76%) Applications Support
16 109 (1.70%) Security Analyst
17 107 (1.67%) Marketing Manager
18 106 (1.65%) Senior Manager
19 103 (1.60%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (2.60%) .NET
2 148 (2.30%) Terraform
3 136 (2.12%) REST
4 123 (1.92%) HTML
5 112 (1.74%) CSS
6 89 (1.39%) JSON
7 83 (1.29%) RESTful
8 81 (1.26%) Middleware
9 78 (1.21%) XML
10 73 (1.14%) PySpark
11 71 (1.11%) React
12 64 (1.00%) SOAP
13 62 (0.97%) Kafka
14 49 (0.76%) EDI
15 46 (0.72%) LDAP
16 45 (0.70%) Web Services
17 42 (0.65%) Spring Boot
18 41 (0.64%) Spring
19 39 (0.61%) ASP.NET
20 37 (0.58%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 470 (7.32%) Management Information System
2 455 (7.09%) Analytical Mindset
3 394 (6.14%) Onboarding
4 324 (5.05%) Self-Motivation
5 287 (4.47%) Product Ownership
6 172 (2.68%) Driving Licence
7 148 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
8 147 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
9 136 (2.12%) Cloud Native
10 131 (2.04%) Social Media
11 120 (1.87%) Blog
12 110 (1.71%) Cyber Threat
13 106 (1.65%) Marketing Technology
14 104 (1.62%) Data Centre
15 99 (1.54%) Security Posture
16 98 (1.53%) Virtual Team
17 87 (1.35%) Data Structures
18 79 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
19 67 (1.04%) AI Agents
20 63 (0.98%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 457 (7.12%) Windows
2 315 (4.91%) Linux
3 218 (3.40%) Windows Server
4 93 (1.45%) Windows Server 2016
5 43 (0.67%) Windows 10
6 36 (0.56%) Mac OS
7 32 (0.50%) Unix
8 26 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 24 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
10 22 (0.34%) Apple iOS
11 19 (0.30%) Android
12 9 (0.14%) CentOS
13 8 (0.12%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.093%) Debian
14 6 (0.093%) VMS
15 5 (0.078%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.062%) CoreOS
17 2 (0.031%) AIX
17 2 (0.031%) Rocky
17 2 (0.031%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,125 (48.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1,935 (30.14%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,550 (24.14%) Decision-Making
4 1,324 (20.62%) Stakeholder Management
5 1,269 (19.76%) Analytics
6 1,156 (18.00%) AI
7 1,111 (17.30%) Agile
8 832 (12.96%) Business Intelligence
9 698 (10.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 643 (10.01%) Mentoring
11 621 (9.67%) Roadmaps
12 596 (9.28%) Validation
13 585 (9.11%) Actionable Insight
14 560 (8.72%) Process Improvement
15 555 (8.64%) Data Analysis
16 546 (8.50%) Project Management
17 540 (8.41%) CRM
18 521 (8.11%) Project Delivery
19 520 (8.10%) Customer Service
20 519 (8.08%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1,210 (18.84%) SQL
2 861 (13.41%) Python
3 234 (3.64%) JavaScript
4 213 (3.32%) Java
5 203 (3.16%) C#
6 194 (3.02%) PowerShell
7 119 (1.85%) C++
8 94 (1.46%) Bash
9 83 (1.29%) R
10 81 (1.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 71 (1.11%) TypeScript
12 52 (0.81%) MATLAB
12 52 (0.81%) T-SQL
13 46 (0.72%) Shell Script
14 41 (0.64%) C
15 33 (0.51%) PL/SQL
16 29 (0.45%) Scala
17 26 (0.40%) Go
18 25 (0.39%) Perl
19 24 (0.37%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,315 (20.48%) Degree
2 715 (11.14%) Security Cleared
3 493 (7.68%) SC Cleared
4 259 (4.03%) ACCA
5 245 (3.82%) CIMA
6 178 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 158 (2.46%) DV Cleared
8 141 (2.20%) CISSP
9 139 (2.16%) DBS Check
10 131 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
11 111 (1.73%) CISM
12 104 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
13 100 (1.56%) Master's Degree
14 80 (1.25%) HND
14 80 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
15 73 (1.14%) Azure Certification
16 67 (1.04%) CompTIA Security+
17 59 (0.92%) HNC
17 59 (0.92%) PMI Certification
18 48 (0.75%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 631 (9.83%) Data Quality
2 372 (5.79%) QA
3 318 (4.95%) GDPR
4 221 (3.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 207 (3.22%) Accessibility
6 166 (2.59%) NIST
7 145 (2.26%) Cyber Essentials
8 141 (2.20%) SLA
9 119 (1.85%) PCI DSS
10 68 (1.06%) GRC
11 67 (1.04%) PMO
12 58 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
13 54 (0.84%) ISO 9001
14 42 (0.65%) IFRS
15 36 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 33 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 29 (0.45%) NCSC
18 26 (0.40%) DO-254
18 26 (0.40%) GAAP
19 25 (0.39%) COBIT
System Software
1 348 (5.42%) Active Directory
2 177 (2.76%) Docker
3 106 (1.65%) Hyper-V
4 82 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 72 (1.12%) Terminal Server
6 50 (0.78%) Firmware
7 22 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
8 17 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
10 11 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
11 8 (0.12%) vSphere
12 7 (0.11%) Ceph
12 7 (0.11%) VMware NSX
13 4 (0.062%) KVM
13 4 (0.062%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.047%) DFS Replication
15 2 (0.031%) IAG
15 2 (0.031%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 1 (0.016%) VirtualBox
16 1 (0.016%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 119 (1.85%) Kubernetes
2 83 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 70 (1.09%) Ansible
4 47 (0.73%) Grafana
5 40 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
6 26 (0.40%) Prometheus
7 21 (0.33%) Kibana
7 21 (0.33%) QRadar
8 19 (0.30%) SCCM
9 12 (0.19%) Nagios
10 11 (0.17%) Nmap
10 11 (0.17%) Podman
11 9 (0.14%) Argo
11 9 (0.14%) Functional Safety
11 9 (0.14%) logstash
12 7 (0.11%) Check_MK
12 7 (0.11%) Istio
13 6 (0.093%) Graylog
13 6 (0.093%) Nessus
13 6 (0.093%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1,550 (24.14%) Microsoft
2 409 (6.37%) Google
3 248 (3.86%) SAP
4 201 (3.13%) Oracle
5 172 (2.68%) VMware
6 156 (2.43%) Splunk
7 149 (2.32%) Salesforce
8 138 (2.15%) ServiceNow
9 126 (1.96%) Databricks
10 94 (1.46%) SolarWinds
11 87 (1.35%) Cisco
12 80 (1.25%) Veeam
13 73 (1.14%) Brocade
13 73 (1.14%) Nimble Storage
14 72 (1.12%) Adobe
14 72 (1.12%) Tanium
15 70 (1.09%) HubSpot
16 66 (1.03%) YouTube
17 61 (0.95%) Workday
18 43 (0.67%) Sage