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

6 months to
4 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 9,494 9,854 14,175
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.64% 9.52% 9.06%
As % of the General category 16.11% 13.94% 14.18%
Number of salaries quoted 5,434 4,948 6,552
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,500 £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 £70,063
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 58,949 70,703 99,941
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.84% 68.28% 63.87%
Number of salaries quoted 39,565 38,111 51,326
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,318 £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 4 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 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 +7 8,682 £50,000 -9.09% 3,804
UK excluding London +3 6,262 £45,000 -3.84% 2,564
Work from Home 0 3,257 £52,500 -0.10% 1,420
London +9 2,864 £67,500 +3.85% 1,374
South East +11 1,726 £49,000 +0.64% 575
North of England -4 1,430 £47,250 +9.88% 685
Midlands +4 1,128 £42,500 -15.00% 488
North West +11 785 £47,000 +4.83% 367
South West +10 765 £45,000 -10.00% 380
West Midlands 0 723 £43,735 -12.53% 286
East of England +10 669 £45,000 -5.26% 269
Yorkshire -9 490 £47,500 +11.76% 249
East Midlands +14 405 £42,500 -15.84% 202
Scotland -39 325 £45,000 -10.00% 145
North East +10 155 £40,000 -5.88% 76
Wales -2 152 £45,000 +12.50% 70
Northern Ireland +37 44 £58,800 +27.83% 33
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 (2.73%) SharePoint
2 183 (1.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 178 (1.87%) SAS
4 155 (1.63%) Confluence
5 112 (1.18%) 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 39 (0.41%) 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%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 1,558 (16.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 744 (7.84%) Microsoft Office
3 443 (4.67%) 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%) Sketch
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 22 (0.23%) NEC Housing
7 19 (0.20%) Magento
8 18 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
9 15 (0.16%) SAP ERP
10 13 (0.14%) Unit4 Business World
11 12 (0.13%) Endur
11 12 (0.13%) Misys Midas
12 11 (0.12%) SAP MM
13 10 (0.11%) Elite 3E
14 9 (0.095%) Oracle General Ledger
14 9 (0.095%) Sage 200
14 9 (0.095%) SAP FI
14 9 (0.095%) SAP IBP
14 9 (0.095%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 1,466 (15.44%) Azure
2 958 (10.09%) Power Platform
3 922 (9.71%) AWS
4 569 (5.99%) Microsoft 365
5 554 (5.84%) GCP
6 316 (3.33%) 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
14 89 (0.94%) Serverless
15 86 (0.91%) Google Analytics
16 82 (0.86%) GitHub
17 76 (0.80%) Snowflake
18 71 (0.75%) WhatsApp
19 69 (0.73%) PaaS
20 65 (0.68%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 730 (7.69%) Broadband
2 299 (3.15%) Firewall
3 275 (2.90%) 5G
4 214 (2.25%) DNS
5 210 (2.21%) WAN
6 180 (1.90%) LAN
6 180 (1.90%) TCP/IP
7 155 (1.63%) Network Security
8 130 (1.37%) DHCP
9 115 (1.21%) Internet
10 112 (1.18%) VPN
11 90 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
12 86 (0.91%) Wireless
13 84 (0.88%) SAN
14 66 (0.70%) Intrusion Detection
15 55 (0.58%) VLAN
16 52 (0.55%) SD-WAN
17 47 (0.50%) MPLS
18 38 (0.40%) HTTP
19 35 (0.37%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 857 (9.03%) Power BI
2 501 (5.28%) Tableau
3 435 (4.58%) SQL Server
4 401 (4.22%) Data Warehouse
5 383 (4.03%) Looker
6 378 (3.98%) BigQuery
7 178 (1.87%) Relational Database
8 162 (1.71%) MySQL
9 147 (1.55%) Data Lake
10 125 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
11 107 (1.13%) Big Data
11 107 (1.13%) Power Query
12 102 (1.07%) MongoDB
13 101 (1.06%) Data Mining
14 93 (0.98%) Oracle Database
15 91 (0.96%) Metadata
16 77 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
17 76 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 75 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 68 (0.72%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 341 (3.59%) JIRA
2 327 (3.44%) Git
3 117 (1.23%) Jenkins
4 47 (0.50%) 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 5,152 (54.27%) Social Skills
2 2,739 (28.85%) Finance
3 1,079 (11.37%) Retail
4 872 (9.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 791 (8.33%) Marketing
6 779 (8.21%) Influencing Skills
7 602 (6.34%) Organisational Skills
8 555 (5.85%) Legal
9 535 (5.64%) Law
10 518 (5.46%) Presentation Skills
11 441 (4.65%) Banking
12 416 (4.38%) Manufacturing
13 354 (3.73%) Public Sector
14 261 (2.75%) German Language
15 242 (2.55%) Telecoms
16 192 (2.02%) Electronics
17 176 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
18 155 (1.63%) Investment Banking
19 144 (1.52%) Billing
20 141 (1.49%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 2,810 (29.60%) Analyst
2 1,558 (16.41%) Senior
3 620 (6.53%) Senior Analyst
4 587 (6.18%) Developer
5 566 (5.96%) Lead
6 519 (5.47%) Architect
7 427 (4.50%) Business Analyst
8 405 (4.27%) Data Analyst
9 339 (3.57%) Graduate
10 321 (3.38%) Project Manager
11 305 (3.21%) Consultant
12 277 (2.92%) 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
1 358 (3.77%) .NET
2 223 (2.35%) HTML
3 181 (1.91%) CSS
4 155 (1.63%) React
5 105 (1.11%) AngularJS
6 94 (0.99%) Spring
7 92 (0.97%) .NET Framework
8 91 (0.96%) JSON
8 91 (0.96%) Kafka
9 90 (0.95%) ASP.NET
10 84 (0.88%) Web Services
11 77 (0.81%) REST
12 74 (0.78%) XML
13 69 (0.73%) RESTful
14 65 (0.68%) Vue
15 55 (0.58%) SOAP
16 54 (0.57%) Spring Boot
17 51 (0.54%) .NET Core
17 51 (0.54%) Node.js
18 50 (0.53%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 1,095 (11.53%) Self-Motivation
2 554 (5.84%) Management Information System
3 450 (4.74%) Analytical Mindset
4 415 (4.37%) Product Ownership
5 314 (3.31%) Social Media
6 312 (3.29%) Driving Licence
7 195 (2.05%) Onboarding
8 184 (1.94%) Algorithms
9 147 (1.55%) 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 80 (0.84%) Life Science
15 80 (0.84%) Virtual Team
16 75 (0.79%) Mobile App
16 75 (0.79%) Security Posture
17 71 (0.75%) Cloud Native
18 69 (0.73%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 859 (9.05%) Windows
2 679 (7.15%) Linux
3 257 (2.71%) Windows Server
4 223 (2.35%) Ubuntu
5 222 (2.34%) Windows 10
6 168 (1.77%) Unix
7 60 (0.63%) Android
7 60 (0.63%) Mac OS
8 52 (0.55%) Apple iOS
9 46 (0.48%) Solaris
10 43 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
11 33 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
12 32 (0.34%) Windows 7
13 31 (0.33%) Kali Linux
14 28 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
15 24 (0.25%) AIX
15 24 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 24 (0.25%) Windows 8
16 19 (0.20%) CentOS
17 14 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,815 (50.72%) Problem-Solving
2 2,297 (24.19%) Agile
3 1,571 (16.55%) Decision-Making
4 1,340 (14.11%) Mentoring
5 1,300 (13.69%) Project Management
6 1,152 (12.13%) Analytics
7 1,122 (11.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 1,038 (10.93%) Business Intelligence
9 920 (9.69%) Customer Service
10 904 (9.52%) Actionable Insight
11 857 (9.03%) Computer Science
12 817 (8.61%) Data Analysis
13 714 (7.52%) Cybersecurity
13 714 (7.52%) DevOps
14 665 (7.00%) Visualisation
15 664 (6.99%) Mathematics
16 639 (6.73%) Data Modelling
17 624 (6.57%) CRM
18 618 (6.51%) Business Case
19 602 (6.34%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,634 (17.21%) SQL
2 1,052 (11.08%) Python
3 420 (4.42%) C#
4 397 (4.18%) Java
5 369 (3.89%) JavaScript
6 334 (3.52%) Bash
7 231 (2.43%) R
8 214 (2.25%) PowerShell
9 199 (2.10%) 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 75 (0.79%) VBA
16 72 (0.76%) MATLAB
17 69 (0.73%) PHP
18 67 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 56 (0.59%) VB
20 54 (0.57%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2,888 (30.42%) Degree
2 482 (5.08%) ACCA
3 465 (4.90%) CIMA
4 461 (4.86%) DBS Check
5 438 (4.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 421 (4.43%) Security Cleared
7 304 (3.20%) Master's Degree
8 254 (2.68%) SC Cleared
9 157 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
10 146 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
11 128 (1.35%) PMI Certification
12 120 (1.26%) CISSP
13 102 (1.07%) Azure Certification
14 93 (0.98%) CCNA
15 83 (0.87%) DV Cleared
15 83 (0.87%) PhD
16 78 (0.82%) HND
17 74 (0.78%) MBA
18 61 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
18 61 (0.64%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 524 (5.52%) QA
2 460 (4.85%) GDPR
3 397 (4.18%) Data Quality
4 329 (3.47%) SLA
5 204 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 126 (1.33%) Accessibility
7 107 (1.13%) NIST
8 88 (0.93%) PMO
9 76 (0.80%) IFRS
10 60 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
11 56 (0.59%) IFRS 9
12 47 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
13 45 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 39 (0.41%) ISO 9001
14 39 (0.41%) PCI DSS
15 36 (0.38%) GMP
16 33 (0.35%) GLP
16 33 (0.35%) GRC
17 20 (0.21%) NIST 800
17 20 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 720 (7.58%) Active Directory
2 188 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 140 (1.47%) 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 44 (0.46%) 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
14 8 (0.084%) Virtual Servers
15 6 (0.063%) XenDesktop
16 5 (0.053%) HDFS
16 5 (0.053%) VMware Workstation
17 4 (0.042%) NFS
17 4 (0.042%) pfSense
18 3 (0.032%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 269 (2.83%) Microsoft Intune
2 215 (2.26%) Jamf Pro
3 146 (1.54%) Kubernetes
4 75 (0.79%) Terraform
5 63 (0.66%) SCCM
6 60 (0.63%) Ansible
7 51 (0.54%) Data Guard
7 51 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
8 47 (0.50%) 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 8 (0.084%) Nessus
18 7 (0.074%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2,348 (24.73%) Microsoft
2 644 (6.78%) Google
3 405 (4.27%) Oracle
4 337 (3.55%) SAP
5 283 (2.98%) 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 91 (0.96%) IBM
15 88 (0.93%) Dell
16 76 (0.80%) Adobe
17 70 (0.74%) HP
18 67 (0.71%) Juniper
19 56 (0.59%) Fortinet
20 55 (0.58%) Splunk