Head of Analytics Jobs

Head of Analytics
UK

The median Head of Analytics salary in the UK is £90,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 869 912 1199
Rank change year-on-year +43 +287 -305
Permanent jobs requiring a Head of Analytics 38 35 62
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.036% 0.037% 0.037%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.038% 0.041% 0.038%
Number of salaries quoted 23 16 28
10th Percentile £50,963 £73,750 £72,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £83,699 £73,184
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £100,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +25.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £104,978 £108,125 £104,688
90th Percentile £120,000 £114,375 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £99,472 £82,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year +20.57% -8.33% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

Head of Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Head of Analytics in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Head of Analytics in the UK

Head of Analytics
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Head of Analytics in the UK

Head of Analytics
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Head of Analytics over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Head of Analytics in the UK

Head of Analytics
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Head of Analytics within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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 +39 35 £99,472 -0.53% 23
Work from Home +43 21 £90,000 -10.00% 11
UK excluding London -26 20 £99,472 +20.57% 5
London +112 17 £90,000 -11.11% 18
East of England - 9 £100,000 -
Midlands - 5 £115,000 -
West Midlands - 5 £115,000 -
North of England +35 3 £75,000 -6.25% 1
North West -3 2 £75,000 -6.25% 1
Scotland -64 2 £62,055 -
South West -27 1 £65,000 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - -

Head of Analytics Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Head of Analytics job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Head of Analytics in the job title.

1 38 (100.00%) Analytics
2 17 (44.74%) Social Skills
3 16 (42.11%) Business Intelligence
4 14 (36.84%) Finance
5 13 (34.21%) Visualisation
5 13 (34.21%) Data Analytics
6 12 (31.58%) Data Analysis
7 11 (28.95%) Artificial Intelligence
7 11 (28.95%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (28.95%) Power Platform
7 11 (28.95%) Power BI
7 11 (28.95%) Decision-Making
8 10 (26.32%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 10 (26.32%) Data Science
8 10 (26.32%) Azure
9 9 (23.68%) Machine Learning
9 9 (23.68%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (23.68%) Budget Management
9 9 (23.68%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (21.05%) Roadmaps
10 8 (21.05%) SQL
10 8 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (18.42%) Microsoft
11 7 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (15.79%) Budgeting and Forecasting
12 6 (15.79%) Budgeting
12 6 (15.79%) Customer Service
12 6 (15.79%) Python
12 6 (15.79%) Data Modelling
12 6 (15.79%) Banking

Head of Analytics Skill Set
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 3 (7.89%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 11 (28.95%) Power Platform
2 10 (26.32%) Azure
3 3 (7.89%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (7.89%) Fivetran
3 3 (7.89%) SaaS
4 2 (5.26%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (28.95%) Power BI
2 9 (23.68%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (10.53%) Data Vault
3 4 (10.53%) Tableau
4 3 (7.89%) Delta Lake
4 3 (7.89%) Hadoop
4 3 (7.89%) Star Schema
5 2 (5.26%) Amazon QuickSight
5 2 (5.26%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.63%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.63%) BigQuery
6 1 (2.63%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.63%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Git
General
1 17 (44.74%) Social Skills
2 14 (36.84%) Finance
3 9 (23.68%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (15.79%) Banking
5 3 (7.89%) Manufacturing
5 3 (7.89%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (5.26%) Games
7 1 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.63%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (100.00%) Analytics
2 16 (42.11%) Business Intelligence
3 13 (34.21%) Data Analytics
3 13 (34.21%) Visualisation
4 12 (31.58%) Data Analysis
5 11 (28.95%) Artificial Intelligence
5 11 (28.95%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (28.95%) Decision-Making
6 10 (26.32%) Data Science
6 10 (26.32%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 9 (23.68%) Budget Management
7 9 (23.68%) Machine Learning
8 8 (21.05%) Roadmaps
8 8 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (15.79%) Budgeting
10 6 (15.79%) Budgeting and Forecasting
10 6 (15.79%) Customer Service
10 6 (15.79%) Data Engineering
10 6 (15.79%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 8 (21.05%) SQL
2 6 (15.79%) Python
3 3 (7.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (5.26%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (15.79%) Degree
2 3 (7.89%) ACCA
2 3 (7.89%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (2.63%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 7 (18.42%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.89%) Databricks
3 2 (5.26%) Cognos