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 have cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 21 29
Rank change year-on-year +7 +8 +5
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 9,505 9,899 14,176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.64% 9.54% 9.06%
As % of the General category 16.10% 13.97% 14.19%
Number of salaries quoted 5,441 4,968 6,550
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,355 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,882 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.90% -0.21% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,125 £70,577
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £46,715 £47,500
% change year-on-year -3.67% -1.65% +5.56%

All General Skills
UK

Analytical Skills is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 59,028 70,875 99,909
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.86% 68.29% 63.83%
Number of salaries quoted 39,629 38,205 51,280
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,269 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £101,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%

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 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Top 18 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 3 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 +6 8,693 £50,000 -9.09% 3,675
UK excluding London +4 6,268 £45,000 -3.67% 2,455
Work from Home 0 3,258 £52,500 - 1,414
London +9 2,869 £67,500 +3.85% 1,351
South East +11 1,729 £49,000 +0.64% 559
North of England -4 1,432 £47,250 +10.53% 658
Midlands +3 1,128 £42,500 -15.00% 470
North West +12 785 £47,000 +5.23% 353
South West +9 765 £45,000 -10.00% 346
West Midlands 0 722 £43,735 -12.53% 275
East of England +10 670 £45,000 -5.26% 257
Yorkshire -10 492 £47,500 +11.76% 236
East Midlands +13 406 £42,500 -15.84% 195
Scotland -41 326 £45,000 -10.00% 143
North East +10 155 £40,000 -5.88% 75
Wales -4 151 £45,000 +12.50% 67
Northern Ireland +40 44 £58,800 +27.83% 32
Isle of Man - 26 £45,000 - 4

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
1 259 (2.72%) SharePoint
2 185 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 178 (1.87%) SAS
4 157 (1.65%) Confluence
5 115 (1.21%) Apache Spark
6 77 (0.81%) WebLogic
7 65 (0.68%) CMS
8 63 (0.66%) Apache
9 45 (0.47%) Oracle Service Bus
10 40 (0.42%) IIS
11 38 (0.40%) WordPress
12 24 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
13 14 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 12 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
14 12 (0.13%) Tomcat
15 9 (0.095%) nginx
15 9 (0.095%) Umbraco
16 7 (0.074%) SharePoint 2013
16 7 (0.074%) WebSphere
17 6 (0.063%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1,558 (16.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 744 (7.83%) Microsoft Office
3 443 (4.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 121 (1.27%) MS Visio
5 73 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
6 62 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
7 39 (0.41%) SPSS
8 33 (0.35%) AutoCAD
9 13 (0.14%) OrCAD
10 10 (0.11%) Adobe XD
10 10 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
10 10 (0.11%) Trello
11 9 (0.095%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 8 (0.084%) Adobe Illustrator
12 8 (0.084%) Revit
13 7 (0.074%) Chatbot
14 6 (0.063%) GNU Octave
14 6 (0.063%) Simulink
14 6 (0.063%) Stata
14 6 (0.063%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 108 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 63 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 52 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
4 25 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
4 25 (0.26%) Shopify
5 24 (0.25%) NetSuite
6 19 (0.20%) Magento
6 19 (0.20%) NEC Housing
7 18 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
8 15 (0.16%) SAP ERP
9 13 (0.14%) Unit4 Business World
10 12 (0.13%) Endur
10 12 (0.13%) Misys Midas
11 11 (0.12%) SAP MM
12 10 (0.11%) Elite 3E
13 9 (0.095%) Sage 200
13 9 (0.095%) SAP BPC
13 9 (0.095%) SAP FI
13 9 (0.095%) SAP IBP
13 9 (0.095%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 1,471 (15.48%) Azure
2 959 (10.09%) Power Platform
3 925 (9.73%) AWS
4 571 (6.01%) Microsoft 365
5 558 (5.87%) GCP
6 316 (3.32%) Entra ID
7 248 (2.61%) SaaS
8 194 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
9 189 (1.99%) Dynamics 365
10 106 (1.12%) PowerApps
11 99 (1.04%) IaaS
12 97 (1.02%) Power Automate
13 90 (0.95%) Cloud Computing
13 90 (0.95%) Serverless
14 86 (0.90%) Google Analytics
15 82 (0.86%) GitHub
16 76 (0.80%) Snowflake
17 72 (0.76%) WhatsApp
18 69 (0.73%) PaaS
19 65 (0.68%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 730 (7.68%) Broadband
2 299 (3.15%) Firewall
3 275 (2.89%) 5G
4 214 (2.25%) DNS
5 212 (2.23%) WAN
6 181 (1.90%) LAN
7 180 (1.89%) TCP/IP
8 155 (1.63%) Network Security
9 130 (1.37%) DHCP
10 115 (1.21%) Internet
11 112 (1.18%) VPN
12 90 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
13 86 (0.90%) Wireless
14 84 (0.88%) SAN
15 66 (0.69%) Intrusion Detection
16 55 (0.58%) VLAN
17 52 (0.55%) SD-WAN
18 48 (0.50%) MPLS
19 38 (0.40%) HTTP
20 35 (0.37%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 858 (9.03%) Power BI
2 500 (5.26%) Tableau
3 433 (4.56%) SQL Server
4 401 (4.22%) Data Warehouse
5 383 (4.03%) Looker
6 378 (3.98%) BigQuery
7 180 (1.89%) Relational Database
8 163 (1.71%) MySQL
9 149 (1.57%) Data Lake
10 123 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
11 107 (1.13%) Big Data
11 107 (1.13%) Power Query
12 104 (1.09%) Data Mining
12 104 (1.09%) MongoDB
13 92 (0.97%) Metadata
14 90 (0.95%) Oracle Database
15 80 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
16 76 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 75 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 68 (0.72%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 342 (3.60%) JIRA
2 327 (3.44%) Git
3 117 (1.23%) Jenkins
4 47 (0.49%) Bitbucket
5 46 (0.48%) Visual Studio
6 37 (0.39%) LabVIEW
7 35 (0.37%) Cucumber
8 28 (0.29%) Burp Suite
8 28 (0.29%) Metasploit
9 25 (0.26%) GitLab
10 24 (0.25%) Selenium
10 24 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 22 (0.23%) Cypress.io
12 20 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
13 17 (0.18%) JMeter
14 16 (0.17%) Maven
15 14 (0.15%) SpecFlow
16 13 (0.14%) Gradle
16 13 (0.14%) Toad
17 11 (0.12%) Eclipse
General
1 5,155 (54.23%) Social Skills
2 2,739 (28.82%) Finance
3 1,081 (11.37%) Retail
4 872 (9.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 792 (8.33%) Marketing
6 779 (8.20%) Influencing Skills
7 604 (6.35%) Organisational Skills
8 556 (5.85%) Legal
9 536 (5.64%) Law
10 517 (5.44%) Presentation Skills
11 442 (4.65%) Banking
12 416 (4.38%) Manufacturing
13 353 (3.71%) Public Sector
14 261 (2.75%) German Language
15 242 (2.55%) Telecoms
16 192 (2.02%) Electronics
17 175 (1.84%) Pharmaceutical
18 155 (1.63%) Investment Banking
19 144 (1.51%) Billing
20 142 (1.49%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 2,811 (29.57%) Analyst
2 1,561 (16.42%) Senior
3 618 (6.50%) Senior Analyst
4 588 (6.19%) Developer
5 565 (5.94%) Lead
6 522 (5.49%) Architect
7 427 (4.49%) Business Analyst
8 405 (4.26%) Data Analyst
9 339 (3.57%) Graduate
10 322 (3.39%) Project Manager
11 305 (3.21%) Consultant
12 277 (2.91%) Data Engineer
13 233 (2.45%) Financial Analyst
14 214 (2.25%) Technical Specialist
15 212 (2.23%) Linux Specialist
16 206 (2.17%) Support Engineer
17 205 (2.16%) Support Analyst
18 194 (2.04%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
19 191 (2.01%) Data Architect
20 188 (1.98%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 360 (3.79%) .NET
2 224 (2.36%) HTML
3 182 (1.91%) CSS
4 156 (1.64%) React
5 107 (1.13%) AngularJS
6 94 (0.99%) Kafka
6 94 (0.99%) Spring
7 92 (0.97%) .NET Framework
7 92 (0.97%) JSON
8 90 (0.95%) ASP.NET
9 84 (0.88%) Web Services
10 77 (0.81%) REST
11 74 (0.78%) XML
12 70 (0.74%) RESTful
13 65 (0.68%) Vue
14 55 (0.58%) SOAP
15 54 (0.57%) Spring Boot
16 52 (0.55%) .NET Core
16 52 (0.55%) Node.js
17 50 (0.53%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 1,093 (11.50%) Self-Motivation
2 557 (5.86%) Management Information System
3 450 (4.73%) Analytical Mindset
4 415 (4.37%) Product Ownership
5 314 (3.30%) Social Media
6 310 (3.26%) Driving Licence
7 196 (2.06%) Onboarding
8 184 (1.94%) Algorithms
9 148 (1.56%) Data Centre
10 127 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
11 117 (1.23%) IoT
12 101 (1.06%) Data Structures
13 98 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
14 94 (0.99%) Credit Risk
15 81 (0.85%) Virtual Team
16 79 (0.83%) Life Science
17 76 (0.80%) Security Posture
18 75 (0.79%) Mobile App
19 72 (0.76%) Cloud Native
20 69 (0.73%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 862 (9.07%) Windows
2 681 (7.16%) Linux
3 259 (2.72%) Windows Server
4 223 (2.35%) Ubuntu
4 223 (2.35%) Windows 10
5 165 (1.74%) Unix
6 60 (0.63%) Android
6 60 (0.63%) Mac OS
7 52 (0.55%) Apple iOS
8 46 (0.48%) Solaris
9 44 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
10 34 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
11 32 (0.34%) Windows 7
12 31 (0.33%) Kali Linux
13 28 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
14 24 (0.25%) AIX
14 24 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 24 (0.25%) Windows 8
15 19 (0.20%) CentOS
16 14 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,822 (50.73%) Problem-Solving
2 2,301 (24.21%) Agile
3 1,572 (16.54%) Decision-Making
4 1,343 (14.13%) Mentoring
5 1,304 (13.72%) Project Management
6 1,151 (12.11%) Analytics
7 1,123 (11.81%) Continuous Improvement
8 1,039 (10.93%) Business Intelligence
9 917 (9.65%) Customer Service
10 903 (9.50%) Actionable Insight
11 857 (9.02%) Computer Science
12 818 (8.61%) Data Analysis
13 715 (7.52%) Cybersecurity
13 715 (7.52%) DevOps
14 667 (7.02%) Visualisation
15 666 (7.01%) Mathematics
16 639 (6.72%) Data Modelling
17 624 (6.56%) CRM
18 618 (6.50%) Business Case
19 601 (6.32%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,636 (17.21%) SQL
2 1,054 (11.09%) Python
3 422 (4.44%) C#
4 397 (4.18%) Java
5 370 (3.89%) JavaScript
6 335 (3.52%) Bash
7 231 (2.43%) R
8 215 (2.26%) PowerShell
9 199 (2.09%) C++
10 197 (2.07%) C
11 137 (1.44%) T-SQL
12 111 (1.17%) PL/SQL
13 97 (1.02%) TypeScript
14 81 (0.85%) Scala
15 76 (0.80%) VBA
16 72 (0.76%) MATLAB
17 69 (0.73%) PHP
18 67 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 56 (0.59%) VB
20 54 (0.57%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2,893 (30.44%) Degree
2 482 (5.07%) ACCA
3 465 (4.89%) CIMA
4 460 (4.84%) DBS Check
5 438 (4.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 419 (4.41%) Security Cleared
7 304 (3.20%) Master's Degree
8 255 (2.68%) SC Cleared
9 157 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
10 146 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
11 129 (1.36%) PMI Certification
12 121 (1.27%) CISSP
13 102 (1.07%) Azure Certification
14 93 (0.98%) CCNA
15 84 (0.88%) DV Cleared
16 83 (0.87%) PhD
17 78 (0.82%) HND
18 74 (0.78%) MBA
19 62 (0.65%) PMP
20 61 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 524 (5.51%) QA
2 460 (4.84%) GDPR
3 398 (4.19%) Data Quality
4 330 (3.47%) SLA
5 205 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 123 (1.29%) Accessibility
7 107 (1.13%) NIST
8 88 (0.93%) PMO
9 75 (0.79%) IFRS
10 62 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
11 56 (0.59%) IFRS 9
12 47 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
13 45 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 40 (0.42%) PCI DSS
15 39 (0.41%) ISO 9001
16 36 (0.38%) GMP
17 33 (0.35%) GRC
18 32 (0.34%) GLP
19 20 (0.21%) NIST 800
19 20 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 722 (7.60%) Active Directory
2 190 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 141 (1.48%) Docker
4 96 (1.01%) Hyper-V
5 76 (0.80%) Firmware
6 51 (0.54%) Oracle RAC
7 46 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
8 45 (0.47%) vSphere
9 36 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
10 23 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
11 13 (0.14%) Terminal Services
12 12 (0.13%) XenApp
13 9 (0.095%) Virtual Desktop
13 9 (0.095%) Virtual Servers
14 6 (0.063%) XenDesktop
15 5 (0.053%) HDFS
15 5 (0.053%) VMware Workstation
16 4 (0.042%) NFS
16 4 (0.042%) pfSense
17 3 (0.032%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 269 (2.83%) Microsoft Intune
2 215 (2.26%) Jamf Pro
3 146 (1.54%) Kubernetes
4 76 (0.80%) Terraform
5 64 (0.67%) SCCM
6 60 (0.63%) Ansible
7 51 (0.54%) Data Guard
7 51 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
8 47 (0.49%) Oracle RMAN
9 30 (0.32%) Puppet
10 29 (0.31%) OpenSSO
11 20 (0.21%) vCenter Server
12 19 (0.20%) Grafana
12 19 (0.20%) Progress Chef
13 18 (0.19%) Nagios
14 17 (0.18%) Graphite
15 14 (0.15%) Microsoft Clustering
16 13 (0.14%) HAProxy
17 9 (0.095%) Nessus
18 7 (0.074%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2,353 (24.76%) Microsoft
2 648 (6.82%) Google
3 401 (4.22%) Oracle
4 336 (3.53%) SAP
5 285 (3.00%) VMware
6 228 (2.40%) Salesforce
7 211 (2.22%) CyberArk
8 210 (2.21%) Tanium
9 196 (2.06%) Databricks
10 174 (1.83%) Cisco
11 99 (1.04%) ServiceNow
12 95 (1.00%) Alteryx
13 94 (0.99%) Remedy
14 92 (0.97%) IBM
15 89 (0.94%) Dell
16 76 (0.80%) Adobe
17 71 (0.75%) HP
18 67 (0.70%) Juniper
19 56 (0.59%) Fortinet
20 55 (0.58%) Splunk