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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 24 23
Rank change year-on-year -15 -1 +10
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 5,378 8,729 15,694
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.42% 8.64% 9.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.33% 9.04% 10.43%
Number of salaries quoted 3,346 4,435 6,770
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,725 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,300 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.77% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,435 £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 84,917 96,578 150,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.59% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,883 56,844 82,330
10th Percentile £29,008 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,190 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.12% +1.98% +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 10 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 10 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 4,689 £59,000 -11.42% 1,946
UK excluding London -24 3,185 £52,500 -4.55% 980
Work from Home -6 2,453 £58,500 -10.00% 938
London 0 1,996 £75,000 - 1,010
North of England -15 902 £50,000 -16.67% 304
South East -15 662 £55,000 -4.35% 225
Midlands -5 577 £55,000 +10.00% 188
North West +13 567 £52,084 -12.50% 199
Scotland -8 440 £60,249 +1.21% 69
West Midlands -8 432 £55,000 +13.23% 115
South West -11 385 £55,000 -6.93% 99
Yorkshire -36 236 £45,249 -29.02% 76
East Midlands +3 144 £50,000 - 73
East of England -45 127 £47,500 -17.39% 76
North East -2 99 £50,000 -9.09% 30
Wales -16 59 £50,000 +25.00% 19
Northern Ireland +18 32 £76,250 +45.24% 15
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
1 167 (3.11%) SAS
2 138 (2.57%) Apache Spark
3 105 (1.95%) Apache
4 91 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
5 84 (1.56%) CMS
6 83 (1.54%) SharePoint
7 68 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
8 53 (0.99%) Confluence
8 53 (0.99%) WordPress
9 22 (0.41%) IIS
10 19 (0.35%) 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
1 398 (7.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 140 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
3 134 (2.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (0.60%) UserZoom
5 25 (0.46%) 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 28 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
4 17 (0.32%) 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 1,170 (21.76%) Azure
2 1,001 (18.61%) Power Platform
3 860 (15.99%) AWS
4 405 (7.53%) GCP
5 342 (6.36%) Google Analytics
6 210 (3.90%) Azure Data Factory
7 202 (3.76%) Azure DevOps
8 196 (3.64%) SaaS
9 190 (3.53%) Microsoft 365
10 174 (3.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 158 (2.94%) Snowflake
12 113 (2.10%) dbt
13 104 (1.93%) PowerApps
14 103 (1.92%) Azure Monitor
15 98 (1.82%) Serverless
16 82 (1.52%) Power Automate
17 80 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
18 78 (1.45%) GitHub
19 75 (1.39%) PaaS
20 74 (1.38%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 192 (3.57%) Broadband
2 87 (1.62%) Firewall
3 75 (1.39%) Network Security
4 48 (0.89%) WAN
5 47 (0.87%) VPN
6 41 (0.76%) TCP/IP
7 40 (0.74%) DNS
8 26 (0.48%) SD-WAN
9 25 (0.46%) LAN
10 24 (0.45%) Internet
11 21 (0.39%) Cisco Firepower
11 21 (0.39%) DHCP
12 19 (0.35%) HTTP
12 19 (0.35%) Wireless
13 18 (0.33%) DSL
13 18 (0.33%) MQTT
14 14 (0.26%) WLAN
15 13 (0.24%) VoIP
16 10 (0.19%) SMS
17 9 (0.17%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 953 (17.72%) Power BI
2 623 (11.58%) Tableau
3 607 (11.29%) Data Warehouse
4 340 (6.32%) SQL Server
5 306 (5.69%) Data Lake
6 215 (4.00%) Big Data
7 196 (3.64%) BigQuery
8 150 (2.79%) Relational Database
9 145 (2.70%) Metadata
10 133 (2.47%) NoSQL
11 128 (2.38%) Looker
12 120 (2.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 116 (2.16%) Azure SQL Database
14 100 (1.86%) Data Mining
15 89 (1.65%) Amazon Redshift
16 79 (1.47%) MongoDB
16 79 (1.47%) MySQL
16 79 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 76 (1.41%) Star Schema
18 72 (1.34%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 286 (5.32%) Git
2 170 (3.16%) JIRA
3 108 (2.01%) Jenkins
4 78 (1.45%) GitLab
5 34 (0.63%) Visual Studio
6 18 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 17 (0.32%) JUnit
8 15 (0.28%) RStudio
9 14 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
10 13 (0.24%) CircleCI
10 13 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
11 12 (0.22%) MLflow
11 12 (0.22%) Subversion
12 11 (0.20%) Postman
13 10 (0.19%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.15%) Selenium
15 7 (0.13%) Crashlytics
15 7 (0.13%) Eclipse
15 7 (0.13%) JMeter
15 7 (0.13%) SoapUI
General
1 1,603 (29.81%) Social Skills
2 1,530 (28.45%) Finance
3 1,173 (21.81%) Analytical Skills
4 1,090 (20.27%) Marketing
5 568 (10.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 502 (9.33%) Retail
7 454 (8.44%) Law
8 389 (7.23%) Banking
9 349 (6.49%) Presentation Skills
10 286 (5.32%) Advertising
11 274 (5.09%) Legal
12 189 (3.51%) Public Sector
13 138 (2.57%) Financial Institution
14 129 (2.40%) Front Office
15 119 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
16 113 (2.10%) Games
17 106 (1.97%) Manufacturing
18 104 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
19 103 (1.92%) Investment Banking
20 74 (1.38%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 988 (18.37%) Analyst
2 943 (17.53%) Senior
3 671 (12.48%) Lead
4 521 (9.69%) Developer
5 492 (9.15%) Architect
6 483 (8.98%) Data Engineer
7 402 (7.47%) Data Analyst
8 249 (4.63%) Senior Analyst
9 227 (4.22%) Solutions Architect
10 212 (3.94%) Consultant
11 211 (3.92%) Software Engineer
12 193 (3.59%) Data Architect
12 193 (3.59%) Data Manager
13 149 (2.77%) Senior Data Analyst
14 142 (2.64%) Data Scientist
15 141 (2.62%) Product Manager
16 130 (2.42%) Senior Manager
17 116 (2.16%) Analytics Manager
18 111 (2.06%) Engineering Manager
19 108 (2.01%) Digital Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 214 (3.98%) .NET
2 193 (3.59%) React
3 178 (3.31%) HTML
4 153 (2.84%) CSS
5 126 (2.34%) Kafka
6 109 (2.03%) Spring
7 102 (1.90%) REST
8 96 (1.79%) AngularJS
9 94 (1.75%) RESTful
10 91 (1.69%) Pandas
11 85 (1.58%) Spring Boot
12 79 (1.47%) Node.js
13 66 (1.23%) NumPy
14 64 (1.19%) .NET Core
15 62 (1.15%) PySpark
16 59 (1.10%) Web Services
17 58 (1.08%) ASP.NET
18 49 (0.91%) HTML5
19 42 (0.78%) Redux
20 40 (0.74%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 305 (5.67%) Management Information System
2 245 (4.56%) Algorithms
3 230 (4.28%) Product Ownership
4 202 (3.76%) Cloud Native
5 201 (3.74%) Marketing Technology
6 179 (3.33%) Onboarding
7 176 (3.27%) Data Structures
8 160 (2.98%) Self-Motivation
9 130 (2.42%) Social Media
10 102 (1.90%) Fixed Income
11 97 (1.80%) Public Cloud
12 90 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 83 (1.54%) Credit Risk
14 80 (1.49%) Equities
15 79 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
16 77 (1.43%) Derivative
17 75 (1.39%) IoT
18 73 (1.36%) Hedge funds
19 71 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
19 71 (1.32%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 181 (3.37%) Linux
1 181 (3.37%) Windows
2 72 (1.34%) Windows Server
3 43 (0.80%) Unix
4 34 (0.63%) Android
5 26 (0.48%) Apple iOS
6 20 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
7 15 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
8 13 (0.24%) Windows 10
9 12 (0.22%) Mac OS
9 12 (0.22%) zOS
10 10 (0.19%) CentOS
11 7 (0.13%) AIX
12 6 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
12 6 (0.11%) Windows Vista
13 4 (0.074%) Solaris
13 4 (0.074%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.037%) VMS
15 1 (0.019%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,468 (27.30%) Data Analytics
2 1,443 (26.83%) Agile
3 1,262 (23.47%) Business Intelligence
4 1,167 (21.70%) Problem-Solving
5 1,060 (19.71%) Visualisation
6 873 (16.23%) Data Modelling
7 811 (15.08%) Data Analysis
8 771 (14.34%) Machine Learning
9 768 (14.28%) Data Science
10 721 (13.41%) Decision-Making
11 661 (12.29%) ETL
12 638 (11.86%) Artificial Intelligence
13 592 (11.01%) Mentoring
14 551 (10.25%) Data Visualisation
15 549 (10.21%) Data Engineering
15 549 (10.21%) Data Strategy
15 549 (10.21%) DevOps
16 548 (10.19%) Software Engineering
17 540 (10.04%) Actionable Insight
18 536 (9.97%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,735 (32.26%) SQL
2 1,378 (25.62%) Python
3 353 (6.56%) Java
4 318 (5.91%) JavaScript
5 256 (4.76%) R
6 230 (4.28%) C#
7 142 (2.64%) TypeScript
8 138 (2.57%) T-SQL
9 117 (2.18%) PowerShell
10 112 (2.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 82 (1.52%) Scala
12 63 (1.17%) C
13 53 (0.99%) VBA
14 52 (0.97%) C++
15 47 (0.87%) PHP
16 42 (0.78%) PL/SQL
17 38 (0.71%) Bash
18 36 (0.67%) MATLAB
19 34 (0.63%) Go
20 28 (0.52%) VB
Qualifications
1 1,266 (23.54%) Degree
2 349 (6.49%) Security Cleared
3 226 (4.20%) Master's Degree
4 208 (3.87%) SC Cleared
5 190 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 173 (3.22%) DBS Check
7 106 (1.97%) DV Cleared
8 71 (1.32%) Azure Certification
9 67 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
9 67 (1.25%) PhD
10 55 (1.02%) Numerate Degree
11 52 (0.97%) MBA
12 49 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
13 36 (0.67%) PMI Certification
14 34 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
15 32 (0.60%) CISSP
16 30 (0.56%) CIPD
16 30 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
17 24 (0.45%) ACCA
17 24 (0.45%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 473 (8.80%) Data Quality
2 197 (3.66%) QA
3 106 (1.97%) Accessibility
4 87 (1.62%) GDPR
5 74 (1.38%) IFRS
6 70 (1.30%) Actionable Recommendations
7 66 (1.23%) IFRS 9
8 43 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 40 (0.74%) PMO
10 36 (0.67%) WCAG
11 33 (0.61%) NIST
12 32 (0.60%) SLA
13 24 (0.45%) 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%) PCI DSS
18 8 (0.15%) SOC 2
19 7 (0.13%) HIPAA
System Software
1 157 (2.92%) Docker
2 97 (1.80%) Active Directory
3 30 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
4 28 (0.52%) 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
1 203 (3.77%) Kubernetes
2 145 (2.70%) Terraform
3 61 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 54 (1.00%) Ansible
5 53 (0.99%) Grafana
6 29 (0.54%) Prometheus
7 22 (0.41%) Stealthwatch
8 21 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 20 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
9 20 (0.37%) WSUS
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%) Nagios
14 9 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
15 8 (0.15%) logstash
15 8 (0.15%) ZABBIX
16 7 (0.13%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 880 (16.36%) Microsoft
2 532 (9.89%) Google
3 467 (8.68%) Databricks
4 262 (4.87%) Oracle
5 137 (2.55%) SAP
6 120 (2.23%) Adobe
7 91 (1.69%) Alteryx
8 74 (1.38%) Salesforce
9 64 (1.19%) Informatica
10 59 (1.10%) ServiceNow
11 56 (1.04%) Splunk
12 51 (0.95%) IBM
13 40 (0.74%) Cisco
13 40 (0.74%) Qualtrics
14 39 (0.73%) Apple
14 39 (0.73%) Sparx
15 34 (0.63%) Cognos
15 34 (0.63%) Dynatrace
16 32 (0.60%) Meraki
16 32 (0.60%) YouTube