Analytics Job Trends in Dorset

Analytics
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring Analytics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 32 40
Rank change year-on-year -6 +8 +25
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 9 18 14
As % of all permanent jobs in Dorset 1.95% 4.96% 3.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.52% 5.44% 3.58%
Number of salaries quoted 4 15 11
10th Percentile - £51,250 £34,187
25th Percentile - £54,095 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £54,439 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% -5.32% +51.32%
75th Percentile - - £63,750
90th Percentile - £58,526 £80,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £54,439 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.03% -9.27% +4.35%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Dorset

Analytics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Dorset.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 357 331 391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Dorset 77.44% 91.18% 88.46%
Number of salaries quoted 259 167 326
10th Percentile £27,707 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £42,625 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £56,250 £58,125 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £64,250 £73,750
South West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +2.94%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Analytics relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Dorset.

Analytics job vacancy trend in Dorset

Analytics
Salary Trend in Dorset

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Analytics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Analytics

Analytics
Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Analytics within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 20 January 2026. 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
Poole -6 3 £35,000 -33.33% 4
Bournemouth -6 2 - - 40
Analytics
South West

Analytics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark
1 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) GCP
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (11.11%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Big Data
1 1 (11.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Banking
2 4 (44.44%) Finance
3 3 (33.33%) Esports
3 3 (33.33%) Games
4 2 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (22.22%) Investment Banking
4 2 (22.22%) Law
4 2 (22.22%) Marketing
5 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
5 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) IT Technician
2 1 (11.11%) Analytics Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Assistant Product Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) E-Commerce Specialist
2 1 (11.11%) Operations Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Portfolio Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Product Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Site Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) NumPy
1 1 (11.11%) Pandas
1 1 (11.11%) PyTorch
1 1 (11.11%) scikit-learn
1 1 (11.11%) Spring
1 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
1 1 (11.11%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) AI Agents
1 2 (22.22%) Algorithms
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
2 3 (33.33%) Data Science
2 3 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 3 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 2 (22.22%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) AI
3 2 (22.22%) Data Governance
3 2 (22.22%) Machine Learning
3 2 (22.22%) Observability
3 2 (22.22%) Visualisation
4 1 (11.11%) E-Commerce
4 1 (11.11%) ETL
4 1 (11.11%) Migration
4 1 (11.11%) Neural Network
4 1 (11.11%) Programme Management
4 1 (11.11%) Project Management
4 1 (11.11%) SEO
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Python
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Grafana
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Google
1 1 (11.11%) Splunk