Data Analytics
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Data Analytics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Analytics over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 198 159 166
Rank change year-on-year -39 +7 +41
Permanent jobs citing Data Analytics 1,480 2,255 4,113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.47% 2.29% 2.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 2.39% 2.62%
Number of salaries quoted 889 976 1,613
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,318 £39,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -3.70% +12.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,574 £90,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £103,125 £109,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £54,882 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.22% -0.21% +15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data 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 85,549 94,155 156,986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.76% 95.59% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 60,063 55,401 82,663
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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% +10.53%

Data Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analytics in the UK

Data Analytics
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Analytics in the UK

Data Analytics
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Analytics over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Analytics in the UK

Data Analytics
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Analytics within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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 -47 1,236 £60,000 -10.45% 432
UK excluding London -61 918 £55,000 +0.22% 215
Work from Home +14 602 £60,000 -7.69% 200
London -2 507 £72,500 +1.40% 223
Midlands -46 206 £52,500 +5.00% 49
South East -23 181 £55,000 - 39
North of England -89 168 £47,500 -22.45% 60
West Midlands -19 166 £55,000 +10.00% 36
Scotland -26 154 £65,000 +26.54% 18
South West +10 138 £62,500 +19.05% 26
North West -84 96 £50,000 -25.93% 34
Yorkshire -10 45 £42,500 -22.73% 16
East Midlands -25 40 £50,000 - 13
East of England -49 28 £50,000 -20.00% 15
North East -32 27 £50,000 -25.38% 10
Northern Ireland +44 24 £67,500 - 5
Wales +7 17 £50,000 - 6
Channel Islands - 2 - -

Data 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 57 (3.85%) SAS
2 48 (3.24%) Apache Spark
3 29 (1.96%) SharePoint
4 16 (1.08%) Apache
5 15 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
6 14 (0.95%) IIS
7 13 (0.88%) WordPress
8 11 (0.74%) Confluence
9 9 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
10 8 (0.54%) CMS
11 6 (0.41%) IBM Notes
11 6 (0.41%) nginx
12 5 (0.34%) Appian
12 5 (0.34%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2013
13 3 (0.20%) Headless CMS
13 3 (0.20%) Oracle Application Server
14 2 (0.14%) Moodle
15 1 (0.068%) Drupal
15 1 (0.068%) OpenStack
Applications
1 130 (8.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (3.18%) Microsoft Office
3 44 (2.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (2.16%) UserZoom
5 16 (1.08%) SPSS
6 12 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.41%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.14%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.068%) Revit
9 1 (0.068%) Trello
Business Applications
1 31 (2.09%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 17 (1.15%) Unit4 Business World
3 8 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.27%) Relativity
5 3 (0.20%) Raiser’s Edge
6 2 (0.14%) Endur
6 2 (0.14%) Veritas eDiscovery
7 1 (0.068%) Data Workbench
7 1 (0.068%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 1 (0.068%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.068%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.068%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.068%) Ringtail
7 1 (0.068%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.068%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.068%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 370 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 337 (22.77%) Azure
3 190 (12.84%) AWS
4 85 (5.74%) GCP
5 56 (3.78%) Azure Data Factory
5 56 (3.78%) Azure DevOps
6 55 (3.72%) PowerApps
6 55 (3.72%) Snowflake
7 54 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
8 52 (3.51%) SaaS
9 48 (3.24%) Power Automate
10 40 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 34 (2.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 32 (2.16%) Figma
12 32 (2.16%) Matillion
12 32 (2.16%) SurveyMonkey
13 28 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
14 25 (1.69%) dbt
15 23 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
16 22 (1.49%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 39 (2.64%) Network Security
2 18 (1.22%) DSL
3 16 (1.08%) HTTP
3 16 (1.08%) MQTT
4 14 (0.95%) TCP/IP
5 11 (0.74%) Internet
6 6 (0.41%) OpenVPN
7 5 (0.34%) Firewall
7 5 (0.34%) LAN
7 5 (0.34%) VoIP
7 5 (0.34%) WAN
8 4 (0.27%) Broadband
8 4 (0.27%) Ethernet
8 4 (0.27%) FTP
8 4 (0.27%) RS-232
8 4 (0.27%) SAN
8 4 (0.27%) SMS
8 4 (0.27%) Wireless
8 4 (0.27%) WPA
9 3 (0.20%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 360 (24.32%) Power BI
2 243 (16.42%) Data Warehouse
3 228 (15.41%) Tableau
4 131 (8.85%) SQL Server
5 110 (7.43%) Data Lake
6 98 (6.62%) Big Data
7 48 (3.24%) Azure SQL Database
8 43 (2.91%) Relational Database
9 41 (2.77%) Data Vault
10 39 (2.64%) Star Schema
11 36 (2.43%) Elasticsearch
12 35 (2.36%) DB2
13 34 (2.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 31 (2.09%) NoSQL
15 27 (1.82%) MongoDB
16 25 (1.69%) Metadata
17 24 (1.62%) BigQuery
18 21 (1.42%) Data Mining
18 21 (1.42%) Looker
19 20 (1.35%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 59 (3.99%) Git
2 51 (3.45%) Jenkins
3 33 (2.23%) GitLab
4 31 (2.09%) JIRA
5 8 (0.54%) CircleCI
6 7 (0.47%) RStudio
7 4 (0.27%) Jasmine
7 4 (0.27%) Mockito
7 4 (0.27%) Subversion
7 4 (0.27%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.20%) gulp
9 2 (0.14%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.14%) ERwin
10 1 (0.068%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.068%) IBM UrbanCode
10 1 (0.068%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.068%) Maven
10 1 (0.068%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.068%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.068%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 533 (36.01%) Social Skills
2 494 (33.38%) Finance
3 285 (19.26%) Analytical Skills
4 219 (14.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 217 (14.66%) Marketing
6 172 (11.62%) Law
7 126 (8.51%) Banking
8 106 (7.16%) Presentation Skills
9 86 (5.81%) Legal
10 70 (4.73%) Organisational Skills
11 69 (4.66%) Retail
12 67 (4.53%) Manufacturing
13 59 (3.99%) Public Sector
14 49 (3.31%) Military
15 38 (2.57%) Games
16 37 (2.50%) Financial Institution
16 37 (2.50%) Investment Banking
17 27 (1.82%) Aerospace
18 21 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
19 18 (1.22%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 264 (17.84%) Architect
2 224 (15.14%) Senior
3 212 (14.32%) Analyst
4 161 (10.88%) Developer
5 144 (9.73%) Solutions Architect
6 142 (9.59%) Data Engineer
7 116 (7.84%) Data Analyst
8 90 (6.08%) Lead
9 87 (5.88%) Consultant
10 82 (5.54%) Data Architect
11 79 (5.34%) Presales Solution Architect
12 55 (3.72%) Senior Analyst
13 54 (3.65%) Principal Architect
14 52 (3.51%) Data Manager
15 50 (3.38%) Analytics Manager
16 46 (3.11%) Product Manager
17 44 (2.97%) Audit Manager
18 43 (2.91%) Senior Manager
19 40 (2.70%) Senior Data Engineer
19 40 (2.70%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (6.82%) .NET
2 62 (4.19%) HTML
3 55 (3.72%) Kafka
4 49 (3.31%) ASP.NET
5 47 (3.18%) AngularJS
5 47 (3.18%) CSS
6 35 (2.36%) ASP.NET MVC
6 35 (2.36%) React
7 34 (2.30%) .NET Core
8 33 (2.23%) Entity Framework
9 28 (1.89%) Elastic Stack
9 28 (1.89%) Web Services
10 26 (1.76%) CSS3
10 26 (1.76%) HTML5
11 24 (1.62%) REST
12 23 (1.55%) PySpark
13 22 (1.49%) Pandas
14 21 (1.42%) Blazor
14 21 (1.42%) Node.js
15 20 (1.35%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 124 (8.38%) Management Information System
2 78 (5.27%) Product Ownership
3 76 (5.14%) Algorithms
4 69 (4.66%) Data Structures
5 65 (4.39%) Self-Motivation
6 43 (2.91%) Cloud Native
7 42 (2.84%) Onboarding
8 40 (2.70%) IoT
9 32 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
10 29 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
11 26 (1.76%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 25 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
13 23 (1.55%) Public Cloud
14 19 (1.28%) Taxonomies
15 17 (1.15%) Robotics
16 16 (1.08%) Security Operations Centre
17 15 (1.01%) Cyber Defence
17 15 (1.01%) Cybercrime
17 15 (1.01%) FMCG
18 14 (0.95%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 57 (3.85%) Linux
2 41 (2.77%) Windows
3 26 (1.76%) Windows Server
4 20 (1.35%) Unix
5 6 (0.41%) CentOS
6 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.068%) Android
7 1 (0.068%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.068%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,480 (100.00%) Analytics
2 484 (32.70%) Business Intelligence
3 436 (29.46%) Problem-Solving
4 355 (23.99%) Agile
5 339 (22.91%) Data Modelling
6 309 (20.88%) Visualisation
7 286 (19.32%) Data Science
8 284 (19.19%) Data Analysis
9 273 (18.45%) Machine Learning
10 270 (18.24%) Decision-Making
11 259 (17.50%) Artificial Intelligence
12 217 (14.66%) Actionable Insight
13 210 (14.19%) ETL
14 208 (14.05%) Roadmaps
15 197 (13.31%) Data Visualisation
16 186 (12.57%) DevOps
17 175 (11.82%) Computer Science
18 165 (11.15%) User Experience
19 154 (10.41%) Business Case
19 154 (10.41%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 507 (34.26%) SQL
2 382 (25.81%) Python
3 89 (6.01%) C#
4 86 (5.81%) Java
4 86 (5.81%) JavaScript
5 74 (5.00%) R
6 37 (2.50%) Scala
7 36 (2.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 30 (2.03%) TypeScript
9 27 (1.82%) C
10 24 (1.62%) PL/SQL
11 22 (1.49%) C++
12 20 (1.35%) Haskell
13 18 (1.22%) PowerShell
14 16 (1.08%) T-SQL
15 13 (0.88%) VBA
16 12 (0.81%) PHP
17 11 (0.74%) U-SQL
18 9 (0.61%) Clojure
19 7 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 422 (28.51%) Degree
2 185 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 126 (8.51%) SC Cleared
4 111 (7.50%) Master's Degree
5 72 (4.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 53 (3.58%) DV Cleared
7 34 (2.30%) PhD
8 30 (2.03%) TOGAF Certification
9 29 (1.96%) MBA
10 26 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
11 22 (1.49%) DBS Check
12 21 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
13 20 (1.35%) Numerate Degree
14 19 (1.28%) ACCA
14 19 (1.28%) CISA
14 19 (1.28%) CISSP
15 11 (0.74%) CFA
15 11 (0.74%) CIMA
16 6 (0.41%) Azure Certification
16 6 (0.41%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (11.01%) Data Quality
2 45 (3.04%) Actionable Recommendations
3 33 (2.23%) QA
4 31 (2.09%) Accessibility
5 26 (1.76%) NIST
5 26 (1.76%) PMO
6 20 (1.35%) ITGC
7 19 (1.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 19 (1.28%) SLA
8 18 (1.22%) GDPR
9 17 (1.15%) IFRS
10 16 (1.08%) IFRS 9
11 11 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 11 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 5 (0.34%) ISO 9001
13 4 (0.27%) MiFID
14 3 (0.20%) SOC 1
14 3 (0.20%) SOC 2
15 2 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
15 2 (0.14%) SOX 404
System Software
1 29 (1.96%) vSphere
2 27 (1.82%) Docker
3 8 (0.54%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.54%) HDFS
4 7 (0.47%) Firmware
5 6 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.068%) Lustre
7 1 (0.068%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 45 (3.04%) Kubernetes
2 25 (1.69%) Terraform
3 6 (0.41%) Puppet
4 5 (0.34%) Ansible
5 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.068%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.068%) Grafana
6 1 (0.068%) Icinga
6 1 (0.068%) MOM
6 1 (0.068%) Podman
6 1 (0.068%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.068%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.068%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 283 (19.12%) Microsoft
2 94 (6.35%) Databricks
3 92 (6.22%) Google
4 65 (4.39%) Oracle
5 55 (3.72%) Alteryx
6 40 (2.70%) SAP
7 32 (2.16%) Qualtrics
8 31 (2.09%) Sparx
9 26 (1.76%) SolarWinds
9 26 (1.76%) Tanium
9 26 (1.76%) Tripwire
10 24 (1.62%) Salesforce
11 19 (1.28%) Cognos
11 19 (1.28%) IBM
12 18 (1.22%) Sybase
13 17 (1.15%) Sage
14 16 (1.08%) CA
15 15 (1.01%) Pega
16 14 (0.95%) Snow
17 13 (0.88%) Informatica