Trend Analysis
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Trend Analysis skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Trend Analysis over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 721 751 962
Rank change year-on-year +30 +211 -213
Permanent jobs citing Trend Analysis 191 251 254
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.24% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.25% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 134 149 178
10th Percentile £30,480 £32,750 £28,125
25th Percentile £34,201 £35,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £39,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.79% -13.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £62,250 £47,500 £54,531
90th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £39,200 £38,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +3.16% -15.56% +11.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Trend Analysis is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,620 99,018 149,592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.90% 95.62% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,724 58,165 83,321
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Trend Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Trend Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Trend Analysis in the UK

Trend Analysis
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Trend Analysis.

Salary trend for Trend Analysis in the UK

Trend Analysis
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Trend Analysis over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Trend Analysis in the UK

Trend Analysis
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Trend Analysis within the UK over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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 +40 185 £47,000 +20.51% 62
UK excluding London -18 131 £39,200 +3.16% 45
London +70 58 £61,500 -1.60% 26
Work from Home +65 41 £47,500 +5.56% 24
Midlands -12 39 £32,500 -14.47% 6
North of England +47 36 £50,000 +35.14% 12
North West +32 27 £50,000 +42.86% 10
South East +4 26 £32,000 -24.71% 6
East Midlands +8 21 £32,500 +20.37% 4
South West -2 19 £36,000 -20.00% 8
West Midlands -33 18 £32,500 -14.47% 2
Yorkshire +83 7 £30,500 -19.21% 1
East of England +28 7 £42,500 -32.00% 4
Scotland -64 4 £65,000 +71.55% 9
North East -5 2 £33,000 +1.15% 1

Trend Analysis
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 8 (4.19%) JBoss
2 6 (3.14%) Exchange Server 2000
2 6 (3.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.57%) Apache
3 3 (1.57%) GlassFish
3 3 (1.57%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.57%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.05%) SAS
5 1 (0.52%) WordPress
Applications
1 44 (23.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (8.90%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (5.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.05%) SPSS
5 1 (0.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (3.14%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (2.62%) Temenos T24
3 3 (1.57%) Q-Pulse
4 1 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 26 (13.61%) Azure
2 22 (11.52%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (5.76%) Power Platform
4 10 (5.24%) Google Analytics
5 7 (3.66%) Entra ID
6 5 (2.62%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (2.62%) Azure Storage
6 5 (2.62%) Power Automate
6 5 (2.62%) SaaS
7 4 (2.09%) AWS
8 2 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.52%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.52%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.28%) Firewall
2 7 (3.66%) Wireless
3 6 (3.14%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (2.09%) 5G
4 4 (2.09%) DNS
4 4 (2.09%) WAN
5 3 (1.57%) LAN
5 3 (1.57%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (1.57%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (1.05%) DHCP
6 2 (1.05%) HTTP
7 1 (0.52%) IP Telephony
7 1 (0.52%) NAS
7 1 (0.52%) NGFW
7 1 (0.52%) SAN
7 1 (0.52%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.52%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.52%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.76%) Power BI
2 10 (5.24%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.14%) Tableau
4 5 (2.62%) Amazon QuickSight
4 5 (2.62%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.09%) Apache Cassandra
5 4 (2.09%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (1.57%) Data Mining
6 3 (1.57%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.57%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.57%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.57%) Oracle Database 12c
6 3 (1.57%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.52%) MS Access
7 1 (0.52%) MySQL
7 1 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.52%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 4 (2.09%) JIRA
2 2 (1.05%) Cucumber
2 2 (1.05%) REST Assured
3 1 (0.52%) Appium
3 1 (0.52%) Git
3 1 (0.52%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.52%) mountebank
3 1 (0.52%) Subversion
General
1 91 (47.64%) Social Skills
2 77 (40.31%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (20.94%) Finance
4 21 (10.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (6.28%) Law
5 12 (6.28%) Marketing
5 12 (6.28%) Organisational Skills
5 12 (6.28%) Presentation Skills
5 12 (6.28%) Retail
6 7 (3.66%) Games
6 7 (3.66%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (3.14%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.62%) Banking
9 4 (2.09%) Front Office
10 3 (1.57%) Aeronautics
10 3 (1.57%) French Language
10 3 (1.57%) Italian Language
10 3 (1.57%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 64 (33.51%) Analyst
2 16 (8.38%) Problem Manager
3 13 (6.81%) HR Analyst
4 12 (6.28%) IT Support
5 10 (5.24%) Platform Manager
6 9 (4.71%) Data Analyst
6 9 (4.71%) Release Manager
6 9 (4.71%) Web Analyst
7 8 (4.19%) Support Analyst
8 7 (3.66%) Business Manager
8 7 (3.66%) IT Analyst
8 7 (3.66%) IT Engineer
8 7 (3.66%) IT Support Engineer
8 7 (3.66%) Security Manager
8 7 (3.66%) Service Manager
8 7 (3.66%) Support Engineer
8 7 (3.66%) Systems Manager
9 6 (3.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 6 (3.14%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 6 (3.14%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.19%) Web Services
2 7 (3.66%) REST
3 5 (2.62%) Flash
4 3 (1.57%) LDAP
4 3 (1.57%) SAML
5 2 (1.05%) RESTful
6 1 (0.52%) EDI
6 1 (0.52%) HTML
6 1 (0.52%) JSON
6 1 (0.52%) Kafka
6 1 (0.52%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.52%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.90%) Management Information System
1 17 (8.90%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (6.28%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.19%) Onboarding
3 8 (4.19%) Security Posture
4 7 (3.66%) CMDB
4 7 (3.66%) Cyber Threat
4 7 (3.66%) Cyberattack
5 6 (3.14%) Driving Licence
6 5 (2.62%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (2.62%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.62%) iPhone
6 5 (2.62%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (2.62%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.57%) iPad
8 2 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.52%) Digital Media
9 1 (0.52%) FMCG
9 1 (0.52%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.52%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 29 (15.18%) Windows
2 16 (8.38%) Linux
3 9 (4.71%) Windows 10
3 9 (4.71%) Windows Server
4 8 (4.19%) AIX
4 8 (4.19%) Unix
5 3 (1.57%) Solaris
6 1 (0.52%) Android
6 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (33.51%) ITIL
2 61 (31.94%) Problem Management
3 59 (30.89%) Problem-Solving
4 53 (27.75%) Service Delivery
5 42 (21.99%) Decision-Making
6 41 (21.47%) Service Management
7 39 (20.42%) Incident Management
8 37 (19.37%) Continuous Improvement
8 37 (19.37%) Customer Service
9 29 (15.18%) Data Analysis
9 29 (15.18%) Process Improvement
10 28 (14.66%) Root Cause Analysis
11 24 (12.57%) Analytics
12 22 (11.52%) ITSM
13 20 (10.47%) Cybersecurity
14 19 (9.95%) Change Management
15 18 (9.42%) Project Management
15 18 (9.42%) Roadmaps
15 18 (9.42%) Stakeholder Management
16 17 (8.90%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 30 (15.71%) SQL
2 9 (4.71%) Python
3 8 (4.19%) Bash
3 8 (4.19%) Java
4 5 (2.62%) PowerShell
4 5 (2.62%) VB
5 4 (2.09%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.57%) C
6 3 (1.57%) Perl
7 1 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.52%) Go
7 1 (0.52%) R
Qualifications
1 31 (16.23%) Degree
2 11 (5.76%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 6 (3.14%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.62%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.62%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (2.09%) CIMA
6 3 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.57%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.05%) CCNA
7 2 (1.05%) ISEB
7 2 (1.05%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.05%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.05%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.52%) ACCA
8 1 (0.52%) CCNP
8 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.52%) MBA
8 1 (0.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (15.18%) SLA
2 13 (6.81%) GDPR
3 10 (5.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (3.66%) Actionable Recommendations
4 7 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 7 (3.66%) NIST
5 6 (3.14%) QA
6 5 (2.62%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (1.05%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 24 (12.57%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.05%) Docker
3 2 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.52%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (5.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (2.62%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.57%) Oracle Statspack
3 3 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.52%) Ansible
4 1 (0.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 49 (25.65%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.81%) Sage
3 12 (6.28%) Cisco
3 12 (6.28%) Oracle
4 11 (5.76%) Google
5 6 (3.14%) BMC
5 6 (3.14%) Draytek
5 6 (3.14%) Remedy
6 5 (2.62%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.62%) SolarWinds
6 5 (2.62%) Temenos
7 4 (2.09%) VMware
8 3 (1.57%) Bomgar
8 3 (1.57%) New Relic
8 3 (1.57%) NGA Human Resources
8 3 (1.57%) Northgate
9 2 (1.05%) Kofax
9 2 (1.05%) Nexthink
10 1 (0.52%) Citrix
10 1 (0.52%) Nokia