Analytical Thinking Jobs

Analytical Thinking
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Analytical Thinking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Thinking over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 388 433 407
Rank change year-on-year +45 -26 +84
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Thinking 351 564 810
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.64% 0.57% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.66% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 145 349 335
10th Percentile £25,750 £30,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year - -13.46% +9.47%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Analytical Thinking falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,302 84,920 96,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.76% 85.59% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 27,015 59,883 56,845
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,008 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £98,474 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Analytical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Analytical Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Thinking in the UK

Analytical Thinking
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Analytical Thinking.

Salary trend for Analytical Thinking in the UK

Analytical Thinking
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytical Thinking over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Analytical Thinking in the UK

Analytical Thinking
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Analytical Thinking within the UK over the 6 months to 11 May 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 +22 328 £52,500 +5.00% 718
UK excluding London +45 207 £45,000 - 431
Work from Home +94 160 £52,500 +7.56% 322
London +74 121 £64,000 +6.67% 366
North of England +34 75 £42,500 -15.00% 102
North West -6 52 £50,000 +11.11% 63
South East +54 46 £52,500 +5.00% 127
South West +54 27 £62,500 +30.21% 55
Midlands +50 26 £45,000 +42.86% 64
East of England +51 23 £32,500 -29.35% 77
Yorkshire +51 23 £26,500 -49.52% 29
West Midlands +54 20 £45,000 +6.64% 45
Scotland +99 6 - - 24
East Midlands +35 6 £43,500 +40.32% 14
Northern Ireland +43 4 - - 3

Analytical Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (4.27%) IBM Domino
2 12 (3.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (3.13%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.42%) CMS
4 5 (1.42%) Moodle
5 4 (1.14%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.14%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.85%) Confluence
7 2 (0.57%) SAS
8 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.28%) IIS
8 1 (0.28%) Umbraco
Applications
1 45 (12.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (7.98%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (3.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.99%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.57%) SPSS
7 1 (0.28%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (3.42%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.14%) Shopify
3 3 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.57%) Adobe Campaign
4 2 (0.57%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.57%) Raiser’s Edge
4 2 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.28%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 47 (13.39%) AWS
2 40 (11.40%) Azure
3 31 (8.83%) Power Platform
4 24 (6.84%) SaaS
5 20 (5.70%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (3.13%) GCP
6 11 (3.13%) Google Analytics
7 9 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (1.99%) Snowflake
9 6 (1.71%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (1.71%) Google Tag Manager
10 4 (1.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (1.14%) Contentstack
10 4 (1.14%) Google Ads
10 4 (1.14%) Google Workspace
10 4 (1.14%) OneDrive
10 4 (1.14%) Power Automate
11 3 (0.85%) Entra ID
11 3 (0.85%) Figma
11 3 (0.85%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.99%) Firewall
2 9 (2.56%) DNS
3 8 (2.28%) VPN
4 6 (1.71%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (1.42%) DHCP
5 5 (1.42%) LAN
5 5 (1.42%) Network Security
5 5 (1.42%) SSH
5 5 (1.42%) WAN
6 4 (1.14%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (1.14%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.85%) HTTP
7 3 (0.85%) Internet
7 3 (0.85%) NAS
7 3 (0.85%) SAN
7 3 (0.85%) SMTP
8 2 (0.57%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (0.57%) MPLS
8 2 (0.57%) NetScaler
8 2 (0.57%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (15.10%) Big Data
2 32 (9.12%) SQL Server
3 28 (7.98%) Power BI
4 21 (5.98%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (3.13%) Tableau
6 6 (1.71%) Data Lake
6 6 (1.71%) Metadata
7 5 (1.42%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.42%) SAP BW
8 4 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (1.14%) Apache Hive
8 4 (1.14%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.14%) BigQuery
8 4 (1.14%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.14%) Hadoop
8 4 (1.14%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.85%) Data Mining
9 3 (0.85%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 8 (2.28%) JIRA
2 5 (1.42%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.14%) GitLab
4 3 (0.85%) JUnit
4 3 (0.85%) Mockito
5 2 (0.57%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.57%) Git
6 1 (0.28%) Axure RP
6 1 (0.28%) Balsamiq
6 1 (0.28%) JMeter
6 1 (0.28%) Log4Net
6 1 (0.28%) Selenium
6 1 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio
General
1 351 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 212 (60.40%) Social Skills
3 90 (25.64%) Finance
4 84 (23.93%) Marketing
5 56 (15.95%) Advertising
6 24 (6.84%) Organisational Skills
6 24 (6.84%) Presentation Skills
7 22 (6.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (4.84%) Manufacturing
9 16 (4.56%) Pharmaceutical
10 15 (4.27%) Retail
11 11 (3.13%) Legal
12 10 (2.85%) Electronics
13 9 (2.56%) Banking
13 9 (2.56%) Public Sector
14 7 (1.99%) Law
15 5 (1.42%) Automotive
16 4 (1.14%) Billing
16 4 (1.14%) Local Government
17 3 (0.85%) Games
Job Titles
1 86 (24.50%) Analyst
2 84 (23.93%) Senior
3 52 (14.81%) Senior Manager
4 49 (13.96%) Account Manager
4 49 (13.96%) Senior Account Manager
5 24 (6.84%) Business Analyst
6 22 (6.27%) IT Support
6 22 (6.27%) Lead
7 21 (5.98%) Software Support Engineer
7 21 (5.98%) Support Engineer
8 19 (5.41%) Project Manager
9 16 (4.56%) IT Engineer
9 16 (4.56%) IT Support Engineer
9 16 (4.56%) QA Manager
10 15 (4.27%) Financial Analyst
10 15 (4.27%) Quality Manager
11 13 (3.70%) Architect
11 13 (3.70%) Developer
11 13 (3.70%) Finance Business Analyst
11 13 (3.70%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.42%) AngularJS
2 9 (2.56%) HTML
2 9 (2.56%) React
3 7 (1.99%) .NET
4 6 (1.71%) .NET Framework
4 6 (1.71%) REST
5 5 (1.42%) ASP.NET
5 5 (1.42%) CSS
5 5 (1.42%) Hibernate
5 5 (1.42%) Spring
6 4 (1.14%) .NET Core
6 4 (1.14%) Django
6 4 (1.14%) Entity Framework
6 4 (1.14%) Express.js
6 4 (1.14%) Flask
6 4 (1.14%) MACH
6 4 (1.14%) Next.js
6 4 (1.14%) Node.js
6 4 (1.14%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (1.14%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 50 (14.25%) Marketing Technology
2 49 (13.96%) Digital Media
3 25 (7.12%) Algorithms
3 25 (7.12%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (4.56%) Life Science
4 16 (4.56%) Mobile App
5 15 (4.27%) FMCG
5 15 (4.27%) Management Information System
6 13 (3.70%) Data Structures
6 13 (3.70%) Social Media
7 12 (3.42%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (3.42%) Taxonomies
8 8 (2.28%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.99%) Product Ownership
10 6 (1.71%) Hackathon
10 6 (1.71%) Learning Management System
10 6 (1.71%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.71%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.42%) Driving Licence
11 5 (1.42%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 49 (13.96%) Windows
2 16 (4.56%) Android
3 11 (3.13%) Linux
4 9 (2.56%) Apple iOS
5 8 (2.28%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.57%) Unix
8 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (51.00%) Problem-Solving
2 115 (32.76%) Project Management
3 101 (28.77%) Process Improvement
4 96 (27.35%) Strategic Thinking
5 77 (21.94%) Analytics
6 61 (17.38%) Decision-Making
7 60 (17.09%) Collaborative Working
8 58 (16.52%) Artificial Intelligence
9 57 (16.24%) Agile
9 57 (16.24%) Digital Marketing
10 54 (15.38%) Time Management
11 53 (15.10%) Marketing Strategy
12 52 (14.81%) Customer Retention
13 51 (14.53%) Epics
14 49 (13.96%) CRM
15 48 (13.68%) Mentoring
16 46 (13.11%) Computer Science
17 43 (12.25%) Business Intelligence
18 40 (11.40%) Continuous Improvement
19 36 (10.26%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 45 (12.82%) SQL
2 25 (7.12%) Python
3 21 (5.98%) Java
4 16 (4.56%) JavaScript
5 11 (3.13%) C#
6 9 (2.56%) C++
6 9 (2.56%) TypeScript
7 5 (1.42%) PL/SQL
8 4 (1.14%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.57%) Bash
9 2 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.57%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.57%) R
9 2 (0.57%) Scala
9 2 (0.57%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 88 (25.07%) Degree
2 39 (11.11%) Master's Degree
3 17 (4.84%) PhD
4 13 (3.70%) MBA
5 12 (3.42%) Security Cleared
6 10 (2.85%) DBS Check
7 8 (2.28%) SC Cleared
8 7 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.71%) PMI Certification
10 5 (1.42%) MOS
10 5 (1.42%) PMP
11 4 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.85%) A+ Certification
12 3 (0.85%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.85%) CISM
12 3 (0.85%) CISSP
12 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.57%) CCAB
13 2 (0.57%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (7.98%) QA
2 19 (5.41%) Data Quality
3 15 (4.27%) Accessibility
4 12 (3.42%) GDPR
5 7 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (1.71%) SLA
7 4 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (1.14%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.14%) PMO
8 3 (0.85%) NIST
9 2 (0.57%) JTAG
10 1 (0.28%) IFRS
10 1 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (2.56%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.42%) Hyper-V
2 5 (1.42%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (1.14%) Docker
3 4 (1.14%) HDFS
4 3 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.85%) vSphere
5 2 (0.57%) Firmware
6 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (1.42%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.14%) Matomo
2 4 (1.14%) Terraform
3 3 (0.85%) vCenter Server
4 2 (0.57%) Ansible
4 2 (0.57%) Grafana
4 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.57%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.57%) SCCM
4 2 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.28%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 86 (24.50%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.12%) Google
3 22 (6.27%) Salesforce
4 16 (4.56%) Zoho
5 12 (3.42%) SAP
6 11 (3.13%) Capita
7 10 (2.85%) Adobe
8 9 (2.56%) Databricks
9 8 (2.28%) Facebook
10 7 (1.99%) TikTok
11 6 (1.71%) Oracle
11 6 (1.71%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.42%) Cisco
12 5 (1.42%) VMware
13 4 (1.14%) Fortinet
13 4 (1.14%) SolarWinds
13 4 (1.14%) Teradata
13 4 (1.14%) Veeam
14 3 (0.85%) YouTube
15 2 (0.57%) Zscaler