Analytical Skills Jobs

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

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 14 21
Rank change year-on-year +3 +7 +8
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 6,011 9,490 9,756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.13% 9.60% 9.50%
As % of the General category 16.17% 16.05% 13.91%
Number of salaries quoted 2,588 5,433 4,917
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -8.90% -0.21%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,967 £45,000 £46,799
% change year-on-year +13.26% -3.84% -2.50%

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 37,181 59,113 70,132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 68.85% 59.80% 68.30%
Number of salaries quoted 18,455 39,631 37,788
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £43,165
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,500 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.38% -9.52% +5.00%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills over the 6 months to 8 May 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 8 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 +3 5,350 £55,000 +10.00% 7,193
UK excluding London +3 3,653 £50,967 +13.26% 4,070
London +3 2,006 £65,000 -3.70% 4,118
Work from Home +2 1,708 £55,000 +4.76% 4,447
North of England +13 1,416 £50,000 +6.38% 922
North West +13 1,075 £50,055 +7.64% 556
South East -16 626 £55,000 +12.24% 1,439
Midlands -11 517 £47,750 +12.35% 591
East of England -2 396 £50,967 +13.26% 396
West Midlands -10 339 £47,500 +9.20% 346
Scotland +64 309 £55,000 +22.22% 247
South West +2 304 £52,500 +16.67% 425
Yorkshire +1 245 £45,000 -5.26% 275
East Midlands -26 178 £48,500 +14.12% 218
North East +10 94 £38,500 -4.05% 109
Wales -18 42 £52,500 +16.67% 78
Northern Ireland +26 36 £55,000 -11.15% 87
Channel Islands +6 6 £80,000 +18.52%
Isle of Man -2 4 £37,000 -17.78% 6

Analytical Skills
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
1 145 (2.41%) SharePoint
2 75 (1.25%) Oracle Application Server
3 68 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 60 (1.00%) CMS
5 50 (0.83%) Confluence
6 44 (0.73%) Apache Spark
7 38 (0.63%) SAS
8 28 (0.47%) IBM Domino
9 22 (0.37%) Apache
10 21 (0.35%) nginx
11 15 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
12 13 (0.22%) Tomcat
13 12 (0.20%) IIS
14 8 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
15 7 (0.12%) Kinematics
15 7 (0.12%) Skype for Business
15 7 (0.12%) WordPress
16 6 (0.100%) Luigi
17 5 (0.083%) ArcGIS
17 5 (0.083%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 556 (9.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 426 (7.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 247 (4.11%) Microsoft Office
4 143 (2.38%) Chatbot
5 142 (2.36%) Abaqus
6 110 (1.83%) Mathcad
7 44 (0.73%) MS Visio
8 36 (0.60%) Maya
9 35 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
10 18 (0.30%) SPSS
11 16 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
11 16 (0.27%) Trello
12 14 (0.23%) AutoCAD
13 10 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 9 (0.15%) Adobe XD
14 9 (0.15%) Photoshop
15 8 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
16 7 (0.12%) Sketch
17 6 (0.100%) InDesign
17 6 (0.100%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 109 (1.81%) NetSuite
2 54 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
3 51 (0.85%) Shopify
4 42 (0.70%) SAP BPC
5 40 (0.67%) Infor LN
6 37 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
7 24 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
8 21 (0.35%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
9 16 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
10 10 (0.17%) Raiser’s Edge
10 10 (0.17%) SAP ERP
10 10 (0.17%) SAP IBP
11 8 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
12 7 (0.12%) Infor M3
12 7 (0.12%) Magento
13 6 (0.100%) Adobe Campaign
14 5 (0.083%) Fidessa
14 5 (0.083%) Maximo
14 5 (0.083%) Oracle Applications
15 4 (0.067%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 773 (12.86%) Azure
2 548 (9.12%) AWS
3 450 (7.49%) Power Platform
4 289 (4.81%) Microsoft 365
5 237 (3.94%) SaaS
6 215 (3.58%) GCP
7 127 (2.11%) Google Analytics
8 105 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
9 79 (1.31%) Azure Data Factory
10 71 (1.18%) Entra ID
10 71 (1.18%) Snowflake
11 69 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
12 68 (1.13%) Google Ads
13 65 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
13 65 (1.08%) GitHub
13 65 (1.08%) PaaS
14 64 (1.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 62 (1.03%) AWS CloudFormation
16 52 (0.87%) Amazon EKS
17 51 (0.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 483 (8.04%) VPN
2 467 (7.77%) DNS
3 148 (2.46%) Firewall
4 83 (1.38%) WAN
5 76 (1.26%) TCP/IP
6 58 (0.96%) LAN
7 48 (0.80%) DHCP
7 48 (0.80%) Intrusion Detection
8 46 (0.77%) Network Security
9 44 (0.73%) VLAN
10 34 (0.57%) SD-WAN
11 33 (0.55%) Wireless
12 30 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
13 28 (0.47%) VoIP
14 25 (0.42%) Internet
15 24 (0.40%) HTTP
15 24 (0.40%) SAN
16 23 (0.38%) BGP
17 22 (0.37%) 5G
17 22 (0.37%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 404 (6.72%) Power BI
2 276 (4.59%) Tableau
3 246 (4.09%) Data Warehouse
4 190 (3.16%) SQL Server
5 112 (1.86%) Data Lake
6 107 (1.78%) Big Data
7 96 (1.60%) Relational Database
8 87 (1.45%) Oracle Reports
9 82 (1.36%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 73 (1.21%) Metadata
11 63 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
12 62 (1.03%) Data Mining
13 57 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
14 55 (0.91%) NoSQL
15 54 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 53 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 41 (0.68%) BigQuery
18 40 (0.67%) MySQL
19 35 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
19 35 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 162 (2.70%) JIRA
2 161 (2.68%) Git
3 86 (1.43%) Jenkins
4 48 (0.80%) Oracle Forms
5 40 (0.67%) Selenium
6 30 (0.50%) Postman
7 25 (0.42%) JMeter
7 25 (0.42%) JUnit
8 24 (0.40%) Visual Studio
9 21 (0.35%) GitLab
9 21 (0.35%) Maven
10 18 (0.30%) Cucumber
11 14 (0.23%) Cypress.io
12 13 (0.22%) Bitbucket
12 13 (0.22%) TestNG
13 12 (0.20%) Mockito
14 11 (0.18%) Subversion
15 10 (0.17%) Artifactory
16 9 (0.15%) SonarQube
17 8 (0.13%) Bazaar
General
1 3,255 (54.15%) Social Skills
2 2,487 (41.37%) Finance
3 1,103 (18.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 736 (12.24%) Banking
5 675 (11.23%) Marketing
6 505 (8.40%) Financial Institution
7 444 (7.39%) French Language
8 427 (7.10%) German Language
9 414 (6.89%) Organisational Skills
10 413 (6.87%) Law
11 392 (6.52%) Manufacturing
12 356 (5.92%) Retail
13 288 (4.79%) Presentation Skills
14 248 (4.13%) Legal
15 226 (3.76%) Electronics
16 205 (3.41%) Influencing Skills
17 175 (2.91%) Advertising
18 167 (2.78%) Public Sector
19 120 (2.00%) Telecoms
20 92 (1.53%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,456 (24.22%) Analyst
2 966 (16.07%) Senior
3 706 (11.75%) Developer
4 457 (7.60%) Software Developer
5 452 (7.52%) Lead
6 424 (7.05%) Credit Analyst
7 415 (6.90%) Research Analyst
8 223 (3.71%) Architect
9 198 (3.29%) Consultant
10 183 (3.04%) Business Analyst
11 159 (2.65%) Product Manager
12 156 (2.60%) Data Analyst
13 150 (2.50%) Senior Analyst
14 142 (2.36%) Trainer
15 127 (2.11%) Senior Manager
16 125 (2.08%) Development Manager
17 123 (2.05%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
18 122 (2.03%) IT Support
19 111 (1.85%) Data Engineer
19 111 (1.85%) Engineering Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (2.21%) .NET
2 126 (2.10%) React
3 110 (1.83%) HTML
4 106 (1.76%) Node.js
5 92 (1.53%) REST
6 79 (1.31%) CSS
7 73 (1.21%) Pandas
8 63 (1.05%) AngularJS
9 59 (0.98%) RESTful
10 52 (0.87%) JSON
11 49 (0.82%) Middleware
12 48 (0.80%) Kafka
12 48 (0.80%) SOAP
13 42 (0.70%) Spring Boot
14 39 (0.65%) Web Services
15 37 (0.62%) Spring
16 34 (0.57%) XML
17 29 (0.48%) PySpark
18 22 (0.37%) Oracle Fusion
19 21 (0.35%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 501 (8.33%) Credit Risk
2 450 (7.49%) Cyberattack
3 419 (6.97%) Fixed Income
4 336 (5.59%) Analytical Mindset
5 282 (4.69%) Management Information System
6 224 (3.73%) Self-Motivation
7 160 (2.66%) Product Ownership
8 157 (2.61%) Social Media
9 148 (2.46%) Algorithms
10 134 (2.23%) FMCG
11 79 (1.31%) Onboarding
12 77 (1.28%) Data Structures
13 76 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
14 75 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
15 65 (1.08%) Security Posture
16 63 (1.05%) Marketing Technology
17 62 (1.03%) Digital Media
18 58 (0.96%) Driving Licence
19 57 (0.95%) Mobile App
20 55 (0.91%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 623 (10.36%) Linux
2 481 (8.00%) Android
3 383 (6.37%) Windows
4 93 (1.55%) Windows Server
5 75 (1.25%) Windows Vista
6 60 (1.00%) Unix
7 42 (0.70%) Windows 10
8 24 (0.40%) Apple iOS
9 22 (0.37%) Mac OS
10 19 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 15 (0.25%) Windows 7
12 11 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
13 8 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
13 8 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
14 6 (0.100%) Windows Server 2019
15 5 (0.083%) Embedded Linux
15 5 (0.083%) Mac OS X
15 5 (0.083%) zOS
16 4 (0.067%) VMS
17 3 (0.050%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,668 (44.39%) Problem-Solving
2 1,462 (24.32%) Agile
3 1,178 (19.60%) Decision-Making
4 1,074 (17.87%) Analytics
5 878 (14.61%) Project Management
6 847 (14.09%) Risk Management
7 720 (11.98%) Continuous Improvement
8 694 (11.55%) Mathematics
9 615 (10.23%) Business Strategy
10 592 (9.85%) Artificial Intelligence
11 573 (9.53%) Collaborative Working
12 572 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
13 558 (9.28%) Business Intelligence
14 543 (9.03%) Line Management
15 529 (8.80%) Asset Management
16 487 (8.10%) OO
17 480 (7.99%) OOP
18 476 (7.92%) Design Patterns
19 464 (7.72%) Financial Modelling
20 453 (7.54%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1,101 (18.32%) Python
2 869 (14.46%) SQL
3 646 (10.75%) Java
4 532 (8.85%) C++
5 453 (7.54%) Go
6 267 (4.44%) JavaScript
7 158 (2.63%) C#
8 94 (1.56%) R
9 93 (1.55%) PowerShell
10 63 (1.05%) T-SQL
11 59 (0.98%) C
12 55 (0.91%) TypeScript
13 49 (0.82%) Rust
14 42 (0.70%) Bash
15 39 (0.65%) PL/SQL
16 38 (0.63%) VBA
17 35 (0.58%) MATLAB
18 34 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 32 (0.53%) Shell Script
20 27 (0.45%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2,189 (36.42%) Degree
2 1,068 (17.77%) Master's Degree
3 635 (10.56%) Security Cleared
4 500 (8.32%) DV Cleared
5 417 (6.94%) CFA
6 338 (5.62%) BPSS Clearance
7 242 (4.03%) DBS Check
8 230 (3.83%) PhD
9 199 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
10 151 (2.51%) HND
10 151 (2.51%) PMI Certification
11 144 (2.40%) Chartered Engineer
12 124 (2.06%) ACCA
13 123 (2.05%) CISSP
14 122 (2.03%) CBAP
15 119 (1.98%) CIMA
16 111 (1.85%) PMP
17 103 (1.71%) SC Cleared
18 78 (1.30%) CISM
19 74 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 384 (6.39%) QA
2 238 (3.96%) Data Quality
3 173 (2.88%) GDPR
4 137 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 101 (1.68%) NIST
6 91 (1.51%) Accessibility
7 80 (1.33%) SLA
8 55 (0.91%) PMO
9 50 (0.83%) PCI DSS
10 48 (0.80%) GAAP
11 47 (0.78%) IFRS
12 46 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 45 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
14 38 (0.63%) GRC
15 37 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
15 37 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 14 (0.23%) GMP
17 13 (0.22%) SOC 2
18 11 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 11 (0.18%) GxP
System Software
1 543 (9.03%) Docker
2 187 (3.11%) Active Directory
3 41 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (0.38%) Firmware
4 23 (0.38%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
6 11 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (0.17%) HDFS
7 10 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (0.15%) vSphere
9 7 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.083%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.050%) KVM
11 3 (0.050%) Postfix
12 2 (0.033%) BitLocker
12 2 (0.033%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.033%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.033%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 2 (0.033%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.017%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 488 (8.12%) Ansible
2 146 (2.43%) Kubernetes
3 110 (1.83%) Terraform
4 48 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
5 31 (0.52%) SCCM
6 22 (0.37%) Grafana
7 14 (0.23%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.23%) SCOM
8 12 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (0.15%) Nagios
10 8 (0.13%) Kustomize
10 8 (0.13%) Packer
11 7 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.12%) Microsoft Clustering
11 7 (0.12%) Nessus
11 7 (0.12%) Progress Chef
11 7 (0.12%) vCenter Server
12 6 (0.100%) CASB
12 6 (0.100%) Oracle RMAN
12 6 (0.100%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 952 (15.84%) Microsoft
2 421 (7.00%) Bloomberg
3 336 (5.59%) Google
4 278 (4.62%) Oracle
5 267 (4.44%) SAP
6 175 (2.91%) Salesforce
7 139 (2.31%) PayPal
8 128 (2.13%) Databricks
9 102 (1.70%) ServiceNow
10 95 (1.58%) Adobe
11 75 (1.25%) Cisco
11 75 (1.25%) VMware
12 61 (1.01%) TikTok
13 55 (0.91%) Facebook
14 53 (0.88%) Infor
15 50 (0.83%) Cognos
16 42 (0.70%) Avaloq
17 40 (0.67%) YouTube
18 30 (0.50%) Dell
18 30 (0.50%) Instagram