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

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 24 23
Rank change year-on-year -15 -1 +9
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 5,373 8,920 15,634
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.45% 8.61% 9.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.35% 9.01% 10.45%
Number of salaries quoted 3,353 4,490 6,903
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,725 £49,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,556 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.38% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £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 84,620 99,018 149,592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.90% 95.62% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,724 58,165 83,321
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,500 £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 4 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 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 -9 4,677 £59,556 -11.11% 1,977
UK excluding London -26 3,187 £52,500 -4.55% 1,022
Work from Home -6 2,433 £59,000 -11.34% 898
London 0 1,986 £75,000 - 1,008
North of England -15 896 £50,000 -16.67% 316
South East -17 663 £55,000 -8.33% 227
Midlands -6 571 £55,000 +11.59% 192
North West +12 557 £52,084 -12.50% 212
Scotland -5 446 £60,249 +4.78% 72
West Midlands -7 426 £55,000 +14.49% 115
South West -10 389 £55,000 -6.93% 104
Yorkshire -36 239 £45,249 -30.39% 73
East Midlands +10 144 £48,750 -2.50% 77
East of England -46 128 £47,500 -17.39% 92
North East -1 100 £50,000 -9.09% 33
Wales -9 61 £50,000 +25.00% 24
Northern Ireland +22 33 £85,000 +61.90% 16
Channel Islands - 2 - - 2
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
1 166 (3.09%) SAS
2 146 (2.72%) Apache Spark
3 108 (2.01%) Apache
4 87 (1.62%) Apache Airflow
5 84 (1.56%) CMS
5 84 (1.56%) SharePoint
6 67 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
7 53 (0.99%) WordPress
8 52 (0.97%) Confluence
9 22 (0.41%) IIS
10 18 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2010
11 9 (0.17%) ArcGIS
12 8 (0.15%) Jupyter
12 8 (0.15%) Tomcat
13 7 (0.13%) nginx
13 7 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
14 6 (0.11%) Drupal
14 6 (0.11%) IBM Notes
15 5 (0.093%) Umbraco
15 5 (0.093%) WebSphere
Applications
1 396 (7.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 138 (2.57%) Microsoft Office
3 127 (2.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (0.60%) UserZoom
5 25 (0.47%) SPSS
6 24 (0.45%) Photoshop
7 22 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
8 21 (0.39%) Adobe Illustrator
9 20 (0.37%) Sketch
10 19 (0.35%) Trello
11 16 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 15 (0.28%) MS Visio
13 14 (0.26%) Adobe XD
14 8 (0.15%) InDesign
15 6 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
16 5 (0.093%) Adobe Premiere
17 4 (0.074%) Adobe After Effects
17 4 (0.074%) Microsoft Project
18 3 (0.056%) AutoCAD
19 2 (0.037%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 38 (0.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 35 (0.65%) Shopify
3 27 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
4 20 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
5 18 (0.34%) Unit4 Business World
6 17 (0.32%) Magento
7 10 (0.19%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 9 (0.17%) SAP CX
9 7 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
10 6 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
10 6 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
10 6 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 6 (0.11%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 6 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
10 6 (0.11%) SAP IBP
11 5 (0.093%) NetSuite
11 5 (0.093%) Payment Gateway
12 4 (0.074%) Dynamics NAV
12 4 (0.074%) Oracle Applications
12 4 (0.074%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 1,180 (21.96%) Azure
2 1,006 (18.72%) Power Platform
3 840 (15.63%) AWS
4 409 (7.61%) GCP
5 345 (6.42%) Google Analytics
6 213 (3.96%) Azure DevOps
7 211 (3.93%) Azure Data Factory
8 191 (3.55%) SaaS
9 181 (3.37%) Microsoft 365
10 169 (3.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 163 (3.03%) Snowflake
12 111 (2.07%) dbt
13 107 (1.99%) PowerApps
14 100 (1.86%) Azure Monitor
14 100 (1.86%) Serverless
15 83 (1.54%) GitHub
15 83 (1.54%) Power Automate
16 78 (1.45%) Cloud Computing
17 75 (1.40%) PaaS
18 74 (1.38%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 193 (3.59%) Broadband
2 82 (1.53%) Firewall
3 73 (1.36%) Network Security
4 45 (0.84%) VPN
4 45 (0.84%) WAN
5 40 (0.74%) DNS
5 40 (0.74%) TCP/IP
6 25 (0.47%) LAN
7 23 (0.43%) Internet
7 23 (0.43%) SD-WAN
8 21 (0.39%) DHCP
9 19 (0.35%) HTTP
9 19 (0.35%) Wireless
10 18 (0.34%) Cisco Firepower
10 18 (0.34%) DSL
10 18 (0.34%) MQTT
11 14 (0.26%) WLAN
12 12 (0.22%) VoIP
13 10 (0.19%) SMS
14 9 (0.17%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 957 (17.81%) Power BI
2 616 (11.46%) Tableau
3 604 (11.24%) Data Warehouse
4 340 (6.33%) SQL Server
5 308 (5.73%) Data Lake
6 215 (4.00%) Big Data
7 204 (3.80%) BigQuery
8 154 (2.87%) Relational Database
9 136 (2.53%) Metadata
9 136 (2.53%) NoSQL
10 133 (2.48%) Looker
11 120 (2.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 113 (2.10%) Azure SQL Database
13 100 (1.86%) Data Mining
14 90 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
15 83 (1.54%) MySQL
16 81 (1.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 79 (1.47%) MongoDB
18 76 (1.41%) Hadoop
18 76 (1.41%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 267 (4.97%) Git
2 170 (3.16%) JIRA
3 122 (2.27%) Jenkins
4 89 (1.66%) GitLab
5 35 (0.65%) Visual Studio
6 18 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 17 (0.32%) JUnit
8 15 (0.28%) RStudio
9 14 (0.26%) SonarQube
9 14 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
10 13 (0.24%) CircleCI
10 13 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
11 12 (0.22%) Subversion
12 11 (0.20%) MLflow
12 11 (0.20%) Postman
13 10 (0.19%) Bitbucket
14 9 (0.17%) Eclipse
14 9 (0.17%) IntelliJ
14 9 (0.17%) Jasmine
15 8 (0.15%) Mockito
General
1 1,603 (29.83%) Social Skills
2 1,539 (28.64%) Finance
3 1,152 (21.44%) Analytical Skills
4 1,084 (20.17%) Marketing
5 565 (10.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 482 (8.97%) Retail
7 444 (8.26%) Law
8 404 (7.52%) Banking
9 329 (6.12%) Presentation Skills
10 284 (5.29%) Advertising
11 276 (5.14%) Legal
12 193 (3.59%) Public Sector
13 139 (2.59%) Financial Institution
14 123 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
15 122 (2.27%) Front Office
16 114 (2.12%) Games
17 110 (2.05%) Manufacturing
18 103 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
19 102 (1.90%) Investment Banking
20 74 (1.38%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 963 (17.92%) Analyst
2 929 (17.29%) Senior
3 676 (12.58%) Lead
4 528 (9.83%) Developer
5 501 (9.32%) Architect
6 479 (8.91%) Data Engineer
7 387 (7.20%) Data Analyst
8 239 (4.45%) Solutions Architect
9 233 (4.34%) Senior Analyst
10 218 (4.06%) Consultant
11 206 (3.83%) Software Engineer
12 192 (3.57%) Data Manager
13 191 (3.55%) Data Architect
14 142 (2.64%) Data Scientist
15 140 (2.61%) Product Manager
16 132 (2.46%) Senior Data Analyst
17 130 (2.42%) Senior Manager
18 118 (2.20%) Analytics Manager
19 108 (2.01%) Digital Analyst
20 107 (1.99%) Presales Solution Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 208 (3.87%) .NET
2 193 (3.59%) React
3 176 (3.28%) HTML
4 151 (2.81%) CSS
5 127 (2.36%) Kafka
6 108 (2.01%) Spring
7 99 (1.84%) REST
8 97 (1.81%) AngularJS
9 93 (1.73%) RESTful
10 92 (1.71%) Pandas
11 84 (1.56%) Spring Boot
12 82 (1.53%) Node.js
13 67 (1.25%) NumPy
14 62 (1.15%) .NET Core
15 57 (1.06%) ASP.NET
16 56 (1.04%) PySpark
16 56 (1.04%) Web Services
17 46 (0.86%) HTML5
18 43 (0.80%) Elastic Stack
19 42 (0.78%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 299 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 241 (4.49%) Algorithms
3 228 (4.24%) Product Ownership
4 203 (3.78%) Cloud Native
5 200 (3.72%) Marketing Technology
6 180 (3.35%) Onboarding
7 175 (3.26%) Data Structures
8 163 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
9 132 (2.46%) Social Media
10 105 (1.95%) Public Cloud
11 100 (1.86%) Fixed Income
12 92 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 82 (1.53%) Credit Risk
14 79 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
15 78 (1.45%) Equities
16 74 (1.38%) IoT
17 73 (1.36%) Derivative
18 72 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
19 68 (1.27%) Data Centre
20 67 (1.25%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 191 (3.55%) Linux
2 190 (3.54%) Windows
3 71 (1.32%) Windows Server
4 45 (0.84%) 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%) Mac OS
9 13 (0.24%) Windows 10
10 12 (0.22%) zOS
11 9 (0.17%) CentOS
12 7 (0.13%) AIX
13 6 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
13 6 (0.11%) Windows Vista
14 4 (0.074%) Solaris
14 4 (0.074%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.019%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.019%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,500 (27.92%) Data Analytics
2 1,455 (27.08%) Agile
3 1,269 (23.62%) Business Intelligence
4 1,161 (21.61%) Problem-Solving
5 1,054 (19.62%) Visualisation
6 871 (16.21%) Data Modelling
7 800 (14.89%) Data Analysis
8 783 (14.57%) Machine Learning
9 777 (14.46%) Data Science
10 732 (13.62%) Decision-Making
11 669 (12.45%) ETL
12 646 (12.02%) Artificial Intelligence
13 600 (11.17%) Mentoring
14 558 (10.39%) Actionable Insight
15 556 (10.35%) Software Engineering
16 554 (10.31%) Data Visualisation
16 554 (10.31%) DevOps
17 551 (10.25%) Data Strategy
18 547 (10.18%) Data Engineering
19 524 (9.75%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,710 (31.83%) SQL
2 1,358 (25.27%) Python
3 346 (6.44%) Java
4 319 (5.94%) JavaScript
5 254 (4.73%) R
6 223 (4.15%) C#
7 140 (2.61%) TypeScript
8 137 (2.55%) T-SQL
9 125 (2.33%) PowerShell
10 115 (2.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 82 (1.53%) Scala
12 63 (1.17%) C
13 54 (1.01%) C++
14 51 (0.95%) VBA
15 48 (0.89%) Bash
16 47 (0.87%) PHP
17 42 (0.78%) PL/SQL
18 37 (0.69%) MATLAB
19 34 (0.63%) Go
20 28 (0.52%) VB
Qualifications
1 1,238 (23.04%) Degree
2 359 (6.68%) Security Cleared
3 221 (4.11%) Master's Degree
4 219 (4.08%) SC Cleared
5 187 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 156 (2.90%) DBS Check
7 105 (1.95%) DV Cleared
8 67 (1.25%) Azure Certification
9 66 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
10 58 (1.08%) PhD
11 53 (0.99%) MBA
11 53 (0.99%) Numerate Degree
12 46 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
13 36 (0.67%) PMI Certification
14 34 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
15 30 (0.56%) CIPD
15 30 (0.56%) CISSP
16 27 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
17 23 (0.43%) ACCA
17 23 (0.43%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 461 (8.58%) Data Quality
2 190 (3.54%) QA
3 106 (1.97%) Accessibility
4 91 (1.69%) GDPR
5 77 (1.43%) Actionable Recommendations
6 75 (1.40%) IFRS
7 66 (1.23%) IFRS 9
8 43 (0.80%) PMO
9 39 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 36 (0.67%) WCAG
11 32 (0.60%) NIST
12 31 (0.58%) SLA
13 25 (0.47%) 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 7 (0.13%) HIPAA
18 7 (0.13%) PCI DSS
18 7 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 171 (3.18%) Docker
2 93 (1.73%) Active Directory
3 30 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
4 27 (0.50%) vSphere
5 20 (0.37%) Firmware
6 15 (0.28%) 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
1 215 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 163 (3.03%) Terraform
3 65 (1.21%) Grafana
4 63 (1.17%) Ansible
5 59 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
6 41 (0.76%) Prometheus
7 21 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 20 (0.37%) WSUS
9 19 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
9 19 (0.35%) Stealthwatch
10 16 (0.30%) Puppet
10 16 (0.30%) SCCM
11 14 (0.26%) SCOM
12 13 (0.24%) Progress Chef
13 12 (0.22%) Kibana
14 9 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
15 8 (0.15%) logstash
15 8 (0.15%) Nagios
16 7 (0.13%) SysTrack
16 7 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 878 (16.34%) Microsoft
2 539 (10.03%) Google
3 449 (8.36%) Databricks
4 263 (4.89%) Oracle
5 144 (2.68%) SAP
6 116 (2.16%) Adobe
7 92 (1.71%) Alteryx
8 71 (1.32%) Salesforce
9 65 (1.21%) Informatica
10 62 (1.15%) ServiceNow
11 56 (1.04%) Splunk
12 53 (0.99%) IBM
13 40 (0.74%) Qualtrics
14 39 (0.73%) Sparx
15 37 (0.69%) Cisco
16 36 (0.67%) Apple
17 34 (0.63%) Dynatrace
18 33 (0.61%) Cognos
18 33 (0.61%) YouTube
19 30 (0.56%) Facebook