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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 21 29
Rank change year-on-year +7 +8 +6
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 9,516 9,587 14,552
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.61% 9.47% 9.16%
As % of the General category 16.06% 13.88% 14.26%
Number of salaries quoted 5,427 4,848 6,603
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,748 £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 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £46,799 £47,500
% change year-on-year -3.84% -1.48% +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 59,246 69,052 102,015
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.83% 68.22% 64.23%
Number of salaries quoted 39,585 37,352 51,252
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,162 £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 £82,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £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 13 May 2024.

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 13 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 +7 8,718 £50,000 -9.09% 3,941
UK excluding London +5 6,245 £45,000 -3.84% 2,634
Work from Home +1 3,289 £52,500 -2.33% 1,467
London +9 2,906 £67,500 +3.85% 1,428
South East +11 1,717 £49,000 +0.64% 595
North of England -4 1,431 £46,066 +7.13% 728
Midlands +6 1,136 £42,500 -15.00% 534
North West +13 788 £46,066 +2.37% 398
South West +9 766 £45,000 -10.00% 352
West Midlands +2 729 £43,735 -12.53% 323
East of England +10 664 £45,000 - 271
Yorkshire -11 485 £47,500 +11.76% 253
East Midlands +21 405 £42,500 -15.42% 212
Scotland -39 321 £45,000 -10.00% 133
North East +13 158 £41,012 -3.50% 83
Wales -4 145 £45,000 +12.50% 65
Northern Ireland +36 40 £61,900 +34.57% 32
Isle of Man - 25 £47,500 - 4
Channel Islands - 1 £67,500 - 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
1 258 (2.71%) SharePoint
2 184 (1.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 177 (1.86%) SAS
4 145 (1.52%) Confluence
5 112 (1.18%) Apache Spark
6 72 (0.76%) WebLogic
7 67 (0.70%) Apache
8 64 (0.67%) CMS
9 44 (0.46%) Oracle Service Bus
10 40 (0.42%) IIS
11 38 (0.40%) WordPress
12 28 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
13 14 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 12 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
15 9 (0.095%) SharePoint 2013
15 9 (0.095%) Umbraco
16 8 (0.084%) nginx
16 8 (0.084%) SharePoint 2010
16 8 (0.084%) Tomcat
17 7 (0.074%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1,562 (16.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 742 (7.80%) Microsoft Office
3 444 (4.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 121 (1.27%) MS Visio
5 73 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
6 62 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
7 41 (0.43%) SPSS
8 32 (0.34%) 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%) Chatbot
12 8 (0.084%) Revit
13 7 (0.074%) GNU Octave
14 6 (0.063%) Sketch
14 6 (0.063%) Stata
14 6 (0.063%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 107 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 65 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 53 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
4 26 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
5 25 (0.26%) NEC Housing
5 25 (0.26%) Shopify
6 24 (0.25%) NetSuite
7 19 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
7 19 (0.20%) Magento
8 15 (0.16%) SAP ERP
9 14 (0.15%) Misys Midas
10 13 (0.14%) Unit4 Business World
11 12 (0.13%) Endur
12 11 (0.12%) SAP MM
13 10 (0.11%) Elite 3E
14 9 (0.095%) SAP BPC
14 9 (0.095%) SAP FI
14 9 (0.095%) SAP IBP
14 9 (0.095%) SAP PP
15 8 (0.084%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 1,473 (15.48%) Azure
2 959 (10.08%) Power Platform
3 948 (9.96%) AWS
4 574 (6.03%) Microsoft 365
5 554 (5.82%) GCP
6 318 (3.34%) Entra ID
7 250 (2.63%) SaaS
8 198 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
9 193 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
10 108 (1.13%) PowerApps
11 99 (1.04%) IaaS
11 99 (1.04%) Power Automate
12 89 (0.94%) Cloud Computing
13 87 (0.91%) Serverless
14 85 (0.89%) Google Analytics
15 79 (0.83%) GitHub
16 73 (0.77%) PaaS
16 73 (0.77%) Snowflake
17 70 (0.74%) WhatsApp
18 66 (0.69%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 729 (7.66%) Broadband
2 297 (3.12%) Firewall
3 273 (2.87%) 5G
4 209 (2.20%) DNS
5 207 (2.18%) WAN
6 179 (1.88%) LAN
7 174 (1.83%) TCP/IP
8 152 (1.60%) Network Security
9 128 (1.35%) DHCP
10 115 (1.21%) Internet
11 106 (1.11%) VPN
12 89 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
13 83 (0.87%) SAN
13 83 (0.87%) Wireless
14 66 (0.69%) Intrusion Detection
15 54 (0.57%) VLAN
16 51 (0.54%) SD-WAN
17 46 (0.48%) MPLS
18 35 (0.37%) NAS
19 34 (0.36%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 856 (9.00%) Power BI
2 517 (5.43%) Tableau
3 443 (4.66%) SQL Server
4 409 (4.30%) Data Warehouse
5 380 (3.99%) Looker
6 375 (3.94%) BigQuery
7 181 (1.90%) Relational Database
8 157 (1.65%) MySQL
9 146 (1.53%) Data Lake
10 124 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
11 111 (1.17%) Big Data
12 105 (1.10%) Power Query
13 98 (1.03%) MongoDB
14 96 (1.01%) Data Mining
15 94 (0.99%) Metadata
15 94 (0.99%) Oracle Database
16 77 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 76 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 73 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
19 68 (0.71%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 351 (3.69%) Git
2 330 (3.47%) JIRA
3 112 (1.18%) Jenkins
4 46 (0.48%) Visual Studio
5 44 (0.46%) Bitbucket
6 36 (0.38%) 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%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 22 (0.23%) Cypress.io
11 22 (0.23%) Selenium
12 20 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
13 16 (0.17%) JMeter
13 16 (0.17%) Maven
14 15 (0.16%) SpecFlow
15 13 (0.14%) Toad
16 12 (0.13%) Gradle
17 11 (0.12%) Eclipse
General
1 5,175 (54.38%) Social Skills
2 2,733 (28.72%) Finance
3 1,102 (11.58%) Retail
4 873 (9.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 800 (8.41%) Marketing
6 782 (8.22%) Influencing Skills
7 601 (6.32%) Organisational Skills
8 554 (5.82%) Legal
9 546 (5.74%) Law
10 541 (5.69%) Presentation Skills
11 427 (4.49%) Banking
12 404 (4.25%) Manufacturing
13 359 (3.77%) Public Sector
14 262 (2.75%) German Language
15 237 (2.49%) Telecoms
16 195 (2.05%) Electronics
17 183 (1.92%) Pharmaceutical
18 153 (1.61%) Investment Banking
19 142 (1.49%) Billing
20 141 (1.48%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 2,825 (29.69%) Analyst
2 1,569 (16.49%) Senior
3 638 (6.70%) Senior Analyst
4 585 (6.15%) Developer
5 564 (5.93%) Lead
6 510 (5.36%) Architect
7 430 (4.52%) Data Analyst
8 419 (4.40%) Business Analyst
9 339 (3.56%) Graduate
10 316 (3.32%) Project Manager
11 302 (3.17%) Consultant
12 281 (2.95%) Data Engineer
13 231 (2.43%) Financial Analyst
14 215 (2.26%) Technical Specialist
15 212 (2.23%) Linux Specialist
16 205 (2.15%) Support Engineer
17 200 (2.10%) Support Analyst
18 195 (2.05%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
19 193 (2.03%) Software Engineer
20 187 (1.97%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 366 (3.85%) .NET
2 222 (2.33%) HTML
3 183 (1.92%) CSS
4 152 (1.60%) React
5 105 (1.10%) AngularJS
6 97 (1.02%) .NET Framework
7 93 (0.98%) JSON
8 89 (0.94%) Spring
9 88 (0.92%) ASP.NET
9 88 (0.92%) Web Services
10 87 (0.91%) Kafka
11 78 (0.82%) REST
12 74 (0.78%) XML
13 70 (0.74%) RESTful
14 65 (0.68%) Vue
15 54 (0.57%) SOAP
16 53 (0.56%) .NET Core
16 53 (0.56%) Spring Boot
17 50 (0.53%) ASP.NET Web API
18 49 (0.51%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1,094 (11.50%) Self-Motivation
2 553 (5.81%) Management Information System
3 453 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
4 414 (4.35%) Product Ownership
5 318 (3.34%) Driving Licence
6 314 (3.30%) Social Media
7 200 (2.10%) Onboarding
8 190 (2.00%) Algorithms
9 148 (1.56%) Data Centre
10 125 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
11 118 (1.24%) IoT
12 101 (1.06%) Data Structures
13 97 (1.02%) Credit Risk
14 96 (1.01%) Cyber Threat
15 87 (0.91%) Life Science
16 82 (0.86%) Virtual Team
17 77 (0.81%) Mobile App
18 72 (0.76%) Security Posture
19 71 (0.75%) Cloud Native
20 70 (0.74%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 855 (8.98%) Windows
2 673 (7.07%) Linux
3 257 (2.70%) Windows Server
4 224 (2.35%) Ubuntu
5 221 (2.32%) Windows 10
6 165 (1.73%) Unix
7 62 (0.65%) Android
8 57 (0.60%) Mac OS
9 53 (0.56%) Apple iOS
10 45 (0.47%) Solaris
11 43 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
12 32 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
13 31 (0.33%) Kali Linux
13 31 (0.33%) Windows 7
14 27 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
15 24 (0.25%) AIX
15 24 (0.25%) Windows 8
16 22 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 20 (0.21%) CentOS
18 16 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,832 (50.78%) Problem-Solving
2 2,293 (24.10%) Agile
3 1,565 (16.45%) Decision-Making
4 1,337 (14.05%) Mentoring
5 1,295 (13.61%) Project Management
6 1,177 (12.37%) Analytics
7 1,121 (11.78%) Continuous Improvement
8 1,028 (10.80%) Business Intelligence
9 928 (9.75%) Customer Service
10 908 (9.54%) Actionable Insight
11 881 (9.26%) Computer Science
12 840 (8.83%) Data Analysis
13 719 (7.56%) Cybersecurity
14 709 (7.45%) DevOps
15 698 (7.34%) Mathematics
16 679 (7.14%) Visualisation
17 644 (6.77%) Data Modelling
18 625 (6.57%) CRM
19 615 (6.46%) Business Case
20 589 (6.19%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,662 (17.47%) SQL
2 1,073 (11.28%) Python
3 431 (4.53%) C#
4 398 (4.18%) Java
5 368 (3.87%) JavaScript
6 332 (3.49%) Bash
7 234 (2.46%) R
8 214 (2.25%) PowerShell
9 203 (2.13%) C++
10 198 (2.08%) C
11 135 (1.42%) T-SQL
12 111 (1.17%) PL/SQL
13 96 (1.01%) TypeScript
14 80 (0.84%) Scala
15 73 (0.77%) VBA
16 70 (0.74%) MATLAB
17 67 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 67 (0.70%) PHP
18 56 (0.59%) VB
19 52 (0.55%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2,919 (30.67%) Degree
2 484 (5.09%) ACCA
2 484 (5.09%) DBS Check
3 465 (4.89%) CIMA
4 444 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 414 (4.35%) Security Cleared
6 311 (3.27%) Master's Degree
7 245 (2.57%) SC Cleared
8 161 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
9 146 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
10 127 (1.33%) PMI Certification
11 116 (1.22%) CISSP
12 105 (1.10%) Azure Certification
13 91 (0.96%) PhD
14 90 (0.95%) CCNA
15 79 (0.83%) DV Cleared
16 77 (0.81%) HND
17 74 (0.78%) MBA
18 63 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
18 63 (0.66%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 525 (5.52%) QA
2 462 (4.85%) GDPR
3 411 (4.32%) Data Quality
4 327 (3.44%) SLA
5 206 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 122 (1.28%) Accessibility
7 105 (1.10%) NIST
8 83 (0.87%) PMO
9 77 (0.81%) IFRS
10 61 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
11 56 (0.59%) IFRS 9
12 42 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 40 (0.42%) ISO 9001
14 39 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
14 39 (0.41%) PCI DSS
15 36 (0.38%) GMP
16 34 (0.36%) GRC
17 33 (0.35%) GLP
18 20 (0.21%) NIST 800
18 20 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 721 (7.58%) Active Directory
2 183 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 138 (1.45%) Docker
4 96 (1.01%) Hyper-V
5 80 (0.84%) Firmware
6 50 (0.53%) Oracle RAC
7 43 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
8 42 (0.44%) vSphere
9 34 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
10 23 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
11 14 (0.15%) XenApp
12 13 (0.14%) Terminal Services
13 8 (0.084%) Virtual Desktop
13 8 (0.084%) Virtual Servers
13 8 (0.084%) XenDesktop
14 5 (0.053%) HDFS
14 5 (0.053%) VMware Workstation
15 4 (0.042%) NFS
15 4 (0.042%) pfSense
16 3 (0.032%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 270 (2.84%) Microsoft Intune
2 215 (2.26%) Jamf Pro
3 145 (1.52%) Kubernetes
4 75 (0.79%) Terraform
5 62 (0.65%) Ansible
5 62 (0.65%) SCCM
6 50 (0.53%) Data Guard
7 48 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
8 46 (0.48%) Oracle RMAN
9 30 (0.32%) Puppet
10 26 (0.27%) OpenSSO
11 20 (0.21%) vCenter Server
12 19 (0.20%) Grafana
12 19 (0.20%) Nagios
12 19 (0.20%) Progress Chef
13 18 (0.19%) Graphite
14 15 (0.16%) Microsoft Clustering
15 13 (0.14%) HAProxy
16 8 (0.084%) Nessus
17 7 (0.074%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2,374 (24.95%) Microsoft
2 640 (6.73%) Google
3 403 (4.23%) Oracle
4 338 (3.55%) SAP
5 276 (2.90%) VMware
6 230 (2.42%) Salesforce
7 222 (2.33%) Databricks
8 210 (2.21%) CyberArk
8 210 (2.21%) Tanium
9 172 (1.81%) Cisco
10 100 (1.05%) ServiceNow
11 93 (0.98%) Alteryx
12 92 (0.97%) IBM
12 92 (0.97%) Remedy
13 90 (0.95%) Dell
14 77 (0.81%) Adobe
15 72 (0.76%) HP
16 65 (0.68%) Juniper
17 55 (0.58%) Fortinet
18 53 (0.56%) Splunk