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Analytical or scientific software

Technology category · O*NET

Analytical or scientific software is a technology category in the O*NET database. Across U.S. occupations, 372 report using software or tools in this category. The named products below are the specific examples O*NET records for those jobs. The occupations that use it sit, on average, at the 58th percentile of AI task-exposure ( moderate) — how much that work overlaps with what AI can do, not a sign the tool is being replaced. See where every tool category sits.

A Hot tag marks technologies O*NET sees frequently in employer job postings; In demand marks tools an occupation specifically requires.

Example software & tools

Ranked by how many occupations list each product. Each number is an occupation count — a job is counted once per product — so the product rows overlap and do not sum to the category total.

Software / tool Occupations Tags
SAS 119 Hot In demand
The MathWorks MATLAB 111 Hot In demand
IBM SPSS Statistics 92 Hot In demand
Minitab 70
StataCorp Stata 54 In demand
Statistical software 40 In demand
Wolfram Research Mathematica 30
Data visualization software 22
Insightful S-PLUS 19
MathWorks Simulink 19 In demand
Laboratory information management system LIMS 18
Maplesoft Maple 15
Simulation software 13
ANSYS simulation software 12 In demand
STATISTICA 12
Finite element method FEM software 11
Data acquisition software 10
Statistical analysis software 10
HEC-RAS 9 In demand
SAS JMP 9 In demand
Simulation program with integrated circuit emphasis SPICE 9 In demand
Ansys Fluent 8
Aptech Systems GAUSS 7
Dassault Systemes Abaqus 7
Finite element analysis FEA software 7
Image analysis software 7
Procore software 6 Hot In demand
Basic Local Alignment Search Tool BLAST 6
Cadence PSpice 6
Computational fluid dynamics CFD software 6
Construction Management Software ProEst 6
Desmos 6
Root cause analysis software 6
Systat Software SigmaPlot 6
Google Analytics 5 Hot In demand
TensorFlow 5 Hot In demand
Analyse-it 5
Calibration software 5
Circuit simulation software 5
ClustalW 5

Showing the top 40 of 1,687 products in this category.

Occupations that use Analytical or scientific software

Showing 40 of 372 occupations.

Exposure quadrant: AI task-overlap percentile vs Median pay AI task-overlap (horizontal) versus median pay (vertical), each as a percentile across all scored occupations, for 37 occupations in occupations that use Analytical or scientific software. Overlap measures shared tasks with AI, not automation. Lower overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · lower pay Lower overlap · lower pay Automotive Body and Related Repairers Aircraft Service Attendants Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians Athletes and Sports Competitors Bakers Bailiffs Art Therapists Administrative Services Managers Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers Agricultural Technicians Aviation Inspectors Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses Automotive Engineering Technicians Aerospace Engineering and Operations Technologists and Technicians Anthropologists and Archeologists Architectural and Engineering Managers Biochemists and Biophysicists Advertising and Promotions Managers Art Directors Advertising Sales Agents AI task-overlap percentile → ↑ Median pay
Occupations that use Analytical or scientific software, by AI task-overlap and median pay

How AI is used by roles that use Analytical or scientific software

A software category is not itself "being automated" — but we can look at the roles that report using Analytical or scientific software and ask how those people actually use AI. This rolls the Anthropic Economic Index per-role signal up across those roles, weighted by how much observed AI activity each one has. 61.8% of the 372 roles that use this category carry observed AI-usage data (230 roles).

Across those roles, 60.8% of AI conversations are people working with AI and 33.7% hand a task to AI , with an average autonomy of 3.69 / 5.

Collaboration pattern Share What it means
task iteration 32.8% you and AI go back and forth
directive 31.2% AI does it; you give the instruction
learning 19.3% you ask AI to explain or teach
validation 8.8% you do it; AI checks your work
feedback loop 2.5% AI does it, then adjusts from your feedback

Roles behind this signal

The roles using this category that have the most AEI data. "Works with AI" is the role's share of conversations that augment rather than automate.

Occupation Works with AI Autonomy
Biological Science Teachers, Postsecondary 63.2% 4.0/5
Educational, Guidance, School, and Vocational Counselors 70.6% 4.0/5
Technical Writers 54.2% 4.0/5
Philosophy and Religion Teachers, Postsecondary 66.8% 3.3/5
Education Teachers, Postsecondary 65.3% 3.5/5
Geography Teachers, Postsecondary 65.7% 3.3/5
Political Science Teachers, Postsecondary 65.7% 3.3/5
Economics Teachers, Postsecondary 65.7% 3.3/5
Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary 66.2% 3.5/5
Communications Teachers, Postsecondary 65.7% 3.0/5
Sociology Teachers, Postsecondary 66.2% 3.5/5
Atmospheric, Earth, Marine, and Space Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary 66.3% 4.0/5

Source: Anthropic Economic Index (2026-01-15-v4-plus-2025-03-27-v2) over a sample of Claude.ai Free and Pro conversations — not all AI tools and not the whole workforce. Roles list software categories in O*NET; this does not mean AI is used inside Analytical or scientific software, only that people in those roles use AI. Some conversations are left unclassified, so shares need not sum to 100.

Industries that concentrate this

Where Analytical or scientific software matters most across the economy. Employment reach is the share of an industry's workers in occupations that significantly use Analytical or scientific software (O*NET importance ≥ 3 of 5, or report using the tool category). Concentration compares that reach to the national average industry, so a value above 1× means the requirement is more pervasive here than across the economy as a whole.

Nationally, about 37.5% of workers are in occupations that significantly use Analytical or scientific software (measured across 67 industries).

Sectors with the most such workers

Sector Workers Employment reach
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services 8,328,020 77.3%
Health Care and Social Assistance 6,785,860 29.4%
Educational Services 5,873,290 43.1%
Manufacturing 5,413,060 42.4%
Construction 4,182,250 51.5%
Finance and Insurance 3,561,450 57.2%
Retail Trade 3,193,050 20.5%
Wholesale Trade 3,100,950 51.4%
Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services 2,549,060 28.2%
Transportation and Warehousing 2,416,780 32.7%
Information 2,095,660 72.1%
Management of Companies and Enterprises 1,989,070 70.8%

Industries where it is most concentrated

Industry Level Concentration Employment reach
Wind Electric Power Generation National industry 2.36× 88.6%
Engineering Services National industry 2.31× 86.7%
Painting and Wall Covering Contractors National industry 2.31× 86.7%
Testing Laboratories and Services National industry 2.29× 86.0%
Roofing Contractors National industry 2.19× 82.3%
Electrical Contractors and Other Wiring Installation Contractors National industry 2.07× 77.6%
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services Sector 2.06× 77.3%
Radio Broadcasting Stations National industry 2.06× 77.2%
Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities National industry 2.05× 76.7%
Information Sector 1.92× 72.1%
Management of Companies and Enterprises Sector 1.89× 70.8%
Machine Shops National industry 1.87× 70.0%

Reach is a measure of how widespread a requirement is across an industry's workforce, not how intensively any individual uses it. Sector worker counts come from BLS OEWS employment; the significance threshold and tool use come from O*NET. Industries shown by concentration are filtered to a real worker base so a tiny specialty cannot top the list on rounding.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

Data compiled June 3, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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Singulariki. "Analytical or scientific software." Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Built from O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; Census NAICS 2022; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans. Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/tools/analytical-or-scientific-software

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Singulariki. (2026). Analytical or scientific software. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/tools/analytical-or-scientific-software

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  title  = {Analytical or scientific software},
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  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; Census NAICS 2022; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tools/analytical-or-scientific-software}
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