Analytics
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Analytics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Analytics over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 24 23
Rank change year-on-year -15 -1 +10
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 5,379 8,556 16,205
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.38% 8.63% 10.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.32% 9.03% 10.53%
Number of salaries quoted 3,331 4,361 6,753
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,725 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.23% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £81,250 £86,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Analytics is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Analytics.

Salary trend for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytics over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Analytics within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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 -9 4,698 £59,000 -11.94% 2,286
UK excluding London -24 3,180 £52,500 -4.55% 1,255
Work from Home -6 2,466 £58,500 -10.00% 1,053
London +1 2,003 £75,000 - 1,239
North of England -14 902 £50,000 -16.67% 361
South East -14 662 £54,500 -9.17% 376
Midlands -4 584 £55,000 +14.49% 199
North West +18 573 £52,084 -13.19% 228
West Midlands -5 435 £55,000 +15.79% 119
Scotland -8 435 £60,249 +1.21% 81
South West -14 381 £55,000 -2.06% 113
Yorkshire -38 230 £45,249 -27.60% 102
East Midlands +15 147 £51,250 +5.13% 80
East of England -50 126 £47,500 -17.39% 98
North East +1 99 £50,000 -9.09% 34
Wales -19 57 £50,000 +25.00% 25
Northern Ireland +14 32 £76,250 +45.24% 18
Channel Islands - 3 £67,500 - 1
Isle of Man - 2 £82,500 -

Analytics
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
1 165 (3.07%) SAS
2 140 (2.60%) Apache Spark
3 109 (2.03%) Apache
4 88 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
5 85 (1.58%) CMS
6 82 (1.52%) SharePoint
7 67 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
8 55 (1.02%) Confluence
9 53 (0.99%) WordPress
10 22 (0.41%) IIS
11 19 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2010
12 9 (0.17%) ArcGIS
13 8 (0.15%) Tomcat
14 7 (0.13%) Jupyter
14 7 (0.13%) nginx
15 6 (0.11%) Drupal
15 6 (0.11%) IBM Notes
15 6 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
16 5 (0.093%) Joomla!
16 5 (0.093%) WebSphere
Applications
1 406 (7.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 140 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 136 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
4 32 (0.59%) UserZoom
5 25 (0.46%) SPSS
6 24 (0.45%) Photoshop
7 22 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
8 21 (0.39%) Adobe Illustrator
9 19 (0.35%) Sketch
9 19 (0.35%) Trello
10 16 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 15 (0.28%) MS Visio
12 14 (0.26%) Adobe XD
13 8 (0.15%) InDesign
14 6 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
15 5 (0.093%) Adobe Premiere
16 4 (0.074%) Adobe After Effects
16 4 (0.074%) Microsoft Project
17 3 (0.056%) AutoCAD
18 2 (0.037%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 36 (0.67%) Shopify
1 36 (0.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 29 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.33%) Magento
4 17 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
4 17 (0.32%) Unit4 Business World
5 11 (0.20%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 9 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
6 9 (0.17%) SAP CX
7 6 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
7 6 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
7 6 (0.11%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 6 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.11%) SAP IBP
8 5 (0.093%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.093%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 5 (0.093%) Payment Gateway
9 4 (0.074%) Dynamics NAV
9 4 (0.074%) Oracle Applications
9 4 (0.074%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 1,174 (21.83%) Azure
2 1,006 (18.70%) Power Platform
3 891 (16.56%) AWS
4 403 (7.49%) GCP
5 339 (6.30%) Google Analytics
6 208 (3.87%) Azure Data Factory
7 201 (3.74%) Azure DevOps
8 193 (3.59%) SaaS
9 191 (3.55%) Microsoft 365
10 175 (3.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 155 (2.88%) Snowflake
12 114 (2.12%) dbt
13 104 (1.93%) Azure Monitor
13 104 (1.93%) PowerApps
14 97 (1.80%) Serverless
15 83 (1.54%) Power Automate
16 82 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
17 79 (1.47%) GitHub
18 75 (1.39%) PaaS
19 73 (1.36%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 191 (3.55%) Broadband
2 88 (1.64%) Firewall
3 77 (1.43%) Network Security
4 51 (0.95%) WAN
5 47 (0.87%) VPN
6 42 (0.78%) TCP/IP
7 40 (0.74%) DNS
8 29 (0.54%) SD-WAN
9 25 (0.46%) LAN
10 24 (0.45%) Cisco Firepower
11 23 (0.43%) Internet
12 21 (0.39%) DHCP
13 20 (0.37%) HTTP
14 19 (0.35%) MQTT
14 19 (0.35%) Wireless
15 18 (0.33%) DSL
16 14 (0.26%) WLAN
17 13 (0.24%) VoIP
18 10 (0.19%) SMS
19 9 (0.17%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 958 (17.81%) Power BI
2 633 (11.77%) Tableau
3 613 (11.40%) Data Warehouse
4 343 (6.38%) SQL Server
5 310 (5.76%) Data Lake
6 222 (4.13%) Big Data
7 194 (3.61%) BigQuery
8 150 (2.79%) Relational Database
9 146 (2.71%) NoSQL
10 144 (2.68%) Metadata
11 126 (2.34%) Looker
12 123 (2.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 115 (2.14%) Azure SQL Database
14 93 (1.73%) Data Mining
15 90 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
16 80 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 79 (1.47%) MongoDB
18 78 (1.45%) MySQL
19 77 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
20 73 (1.36%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 305 (5.67%) Git
2 168 (3.12%) JIRA
3 107 (1.99%) Jenkins
4 78 (1.45%) GitLab
5 35 (0.65%) Visual Studio
6 18 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 16 (0.30%) JUnit
8 14 (0.26%) RStudio
9 13 (0.24%) CircleCI
9 13 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
9 13 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
10 12 (0.22%) MLflow
10 12 (0.22%) Subversion
11 11 (0.20%) Postman
12 10 (0.19%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.15%) Selenium
14 7 (0.13%) Crashlytics
14 7 (0.13%) Gatling
14 7 (0.13%) JMeter
14 7 (0.13%) SoapUI
General
1 1,604 (29.82%) Social Skills
2 1,519 (28.24%) Finance
3 1,193 (22.18%) Analytical Skills
4 1,094 (20.34%) Marketing
5 565 (10.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 520 (9.67%) Retail
7 455 (8.46%) Law
8 392 (7.29%) Banking
9 374 (6.95%) Presentation Skills
10 285 (5.30%) Advertising
11 275 (5.11%) Legal
12 189 (3.51%) Public Sector
13 138 (2.57%) Financial Institution
14 132 (2.45%) Front Office
15 113 (2.10%) Games
16 112 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
17 108 (2.01%) Investment Banking
17 108 (2.01%) Manufacturing
18 105 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
19 73 (1.36%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 997 (18.54%) Analyst
2 960 (17.85%) Senior
3 672 (12.49%) Lead
4 517 (9.61%) Developer
5 489 (9.09%) Data Engineer
6 482 (8.96%) Architect
7 414 (7.70%) Data Analyst
8 265 (4.93%) Senior Analyst
9 214 (3.98%) Software Engineer
10 213 (3.96%) Consultant
10 213 (3.96%) Solutions Architect
11 192 (3.57%) Data Architect
12 191 (3.55%) Data Manager
13 165 (3.07%) Senior Data Analyst
14 142 (2.64%) Product Manager
15 139 (2.58%) Data Scientist
16 130 (2.42%) Senior Manager
17 115 (2.14%) Analytics Manager
18 112 (2.08%) Engineering Manager
19 110 (2.04%) Digital Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 222 (4.13%) .NET
2 196 (3.64%) React
3 180 (3.35%) HTML
4 156 (2.90%) CSS
5 126 (2.34%) Kafka
6 109 (2.03%) Spring
7 108 (2.01%) REST
8 99 (1.84%) AngularJS
9 95 (1.77%) RESTful
10 89 (1.65%) Pandas
11 85 (1.58%) Spring Boot
12 79 (1.47%) Node.js
13 67 (1.25%) .NET Core
14 66 (1.23%) PySpark
15 65 (1.21%) Web Services
16 64 (1.19%) NumPy
17 59 (1.10%) ASP.NET
18 50 (0.93%) HTML5
19 42 (0.78%) Vue
20 40 (0.74%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 309 (5.74%) Management Information System
2 253 (4.70%) Algorithms
3 233 (4.33%) Product Ownership
4 201 (3.74%) Marketing Technology
5 198 (3.68%) Cloud Native
6 176 (3.27%) Onboarding
7 175 (3.25%) Data Structures
8 159 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
9 130 (2.42%) Social Media
10 105 (1.95%) Fixed Income
11 94 (1.75%) Public Cloud
12 92 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 84 (1.56%) Equities
14 82 (1.52%) Credit Risk
15 79 (1.47%) Derivative
15 79 (1.47%) Hedge funds
16 78 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
16 78 (1.45%) IoT
17 75 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
18 74 (1.38%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 182 (3.38%) Windows
2 179 (3.33%) Linux
3 72 (1.34%) Windows Server
4 43 (0.80%) Unix
5 34 (0.63%) Android
6 26 (0.48%) Apple iOS
7 20 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
8 15 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
9 13 (0.24%) Windows 10
10 12 (0.22%) zOS
11 11 (0.20%) Mac OS
12 10 (0.19%) CentOS
13 7 (0.13%) AIX
14 6 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
14 6 (0.11%) Windows Vista
15 4 (0.074%) Solaris
15 4 (0.074%) Windows Server 2012
16 2 (0.037%) VMS
17 1 (0.019%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,457 (27.09%) Data Analytics
2 1,429 (26.57%) Agile
3 1,254 (23.31%) Business Intelligence
4 1,175 (21.84%) Problem-Solving
5 1,074 (19.97%) Visualisation
6 863 (16.04%) Data Modelling
7 824 (15.32%) Data Analysis
8 761 (14.15%) Data Science
9 759 (14.11%) Machine Learning
10 723 (13.44%) Decision-Making
11 660 (12.27%) ETL
12 624 (11.60%) Artificial Intelligence
13 581 (10.80%) Mentoring
14 557 (10.36%) Software Engineering
15 556 (10.34%) Computer Science
15 556 (10.34%) Data Engineering
15 556 (10.34%) DevOps
16 551 (10.24%) Data Visualisation
17 550 (10.22%) Data Strategy
18 549 (10.21%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 1,752 (32.57%) SQL
2 1,386 (25.77%) Python
3 357 (6.64%) Java
4 320 (5.95%) JavaScript
5 254 (4.72%) R
6 241 (4.48%) C#
7 142 (2.64%) TypeScript
8 133 (2.47%) T-SQL
9 119 (2.21%) PowerShell
10 117 (2.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 82 (1.52%) Scala
12 63 (1.17%) C
13 51 (0.95%) VBA
14 50 (0.93%) C++
15 46 (0.86%) PHP
16 39 (0.73%) PL/SQL
17 37 (0.69%) Bash
18 34 (0.63%) Go
19 33 (0.61%) MATLAB
20 28 (0.52%) VB
Qualifications
1 1,303 (24.22%) Degree
2 331 (6.15%) Security Cleared
3 233 (4.33%) Master's Degree
4 201 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 193 (3.59%) DBS Check
6 191 (3.55%) SC Cleared
7 107 (1.99%) DV Cleared
8 73 (1.36%) PhD
9 72 (1.34%) Azure Certification
10 65 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
11 52 (0.97%) MBA
11 52 (0.97%) Numerate Degree
12 48 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
13 36 (0.67%) PMI Certification
14 33 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
15 32 (0.59%) CISSP
15 32 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
16 31 (0.58%) CIPD
17 27 (0.50%) CCNP
18 25 (0.46%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 479 (8.91%) Data Quality
2 197 (3.66%) QA
3 107 (1.99%) Accessibility
4 83 (1.54%) GDPR
5 74 (1.38%) IFRS
6 71 (1.32%) Actionable Recommendations
7 66 (1.23%) IFRS 9
8 44 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 37 (0.69%) PMO
10 36 (0.67%) WCAG
11 34 (0.63%) NIST
12 33 (0.61%) SLA
13 23 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 20 (0.37%) ITGC
15 16 (0.30%) ISO 9001
16 15 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 12 (0.22%) CRD IV
18 8 (0.15%) Good Clinical Practice
18 8 (0.15%) PCI DSS
18 8 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 157 (2.92%) Docker
2 98 (1.82%) Active Directory
3 30 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
4 29 (0.54%) vSphere
5 20 (0.37%) Firmware
6 16 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
7 14 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (0.19%) Hyper-V
9 9 (0.17%) HDFS
10 3 (0.056%) VirtualBox
11 1 (0.019%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.019%) Lustre
11 1 (0.019%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 202 (3.76%) Kubernetes
2 146 (2.71%) Terraform
3 61 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 53 (0.99%) Ansible
4 53 (0.99%) Grafana
5 29 (0.54%) Prometheus
6 25 (0.46%) Stealthwatch
7 21 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 20 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
8 20 (0.37%) WSUS
9 16 (0.30%) Puppet
9 16 (0.30%) SCCM
10 14 (0.26%) SCOM
11 13 (0.24%) Progress Chef
12 12 (0.22%) Kibana
13 9 (0.17%) Nagios
13 9 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
14 8 (0.15%) logstash
14 8 (0.15%) ZABBIX
15 7 (0.13%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 886 (16.47%) Microsoft
2 530 (9.85%) Google
3 488 (9.07%) Databricks
4 259 (4.82%) Oracle
5 137 (2.55%) SAP
6 122 (2.27%) Adobe
7 90 (1.67%) Alteryx
8 74 (1.38%) Salesforce
9 60 (1.12%) Informatica
10 56 (1.04%) ServiceNow
11 55 (1.02%) Splunk
12 51 (0.95%) IBM
13 43 (0.80%) Cisco
14 42 (0.78%) Apple
15 40 (0.74%) Qualtrics
16 38 (0.71%) Sparx
17 35 (0.65%) Meraki
18 34 (0.63%) Cognos
18 34 (0.63%) Dynatrace
19 30 (0.56%) Facebook