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

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 206 159 167
Rank change year-on-year -47 +8 +38
Permanent jobs citing Data Analytics 1,477 2,252 4,186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.45% 2.30% 2.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.71% 2.41% 2.63%
Number of salaries quoted 887 972 1,622
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,173 £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 £83,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +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 86,141 93,563 159,256
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.33% 95.54% 95.88%
Number of salaries quoted 60,433 55,405 83,263
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% +9.38%

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 27 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 27 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 -53 1,233 £60,000 -10.45% 568
UK excluding London -63 918 £55,000 - 336
Work from Home +10 601 £60,000 -7.69% 246
London -2 504 £72,500 +0.69% 322
Midlands -45 205 £52,500 +5.00% 58
South East -22 182 £55,000 -1.79% 128
North of England -95 167 £47,500 -18.26% 69
West Midlands -26 165 £55,000 +10.00% 40
Scotland -32 154 £65,000 +26.54% 26
South West +5 139 £62,500 +16.41% 32
North West -79 95 £50,000 -25.93% 40
Yorkshire -24 45 £42,500 -22.73% 14
East Midlands -36 40 £50,000 - 18
East of England -55 28 £50,000 -20.00% 17
North East -29 27 £50,000 -25.38% 15
Northern Ireland +41 24 £67,500 - 4
Wales +5 17 £50,000 - 9
Channel Islands - 2 - - 1

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 (3.86%) SAS
2 47 (3.18%) Apache Spark
3 29 (1.96%) SharePoint
4 15 (1.02%) Apache
5 14 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (0.95%) IIS
6 13 (0.88%) WordPress
7 11 (0.74%) Confluence
8 9 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
9 8 (0.54%) CMS
10 6 (0.41%) IBM Notes
10 6 (0.41%) nginx
11 5 (0.34%) Appian
11 5 (0.34%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2013
12 3 (0.20%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.20%) Oracle Application Server
13 2 (0.14%) Moodle
14 1 (0.068%) Drupal
14 1 (0.068%) OpenStack
Applications
1 130 (8.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (3.18%) Microsoft Office
3 44 (2.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (2.17%) 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 (2.10%) 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%) 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
1 368 (24.92%) Power Platform
2 334 (22.61%) Azure
3 187 (12.66%) AWS
4 84 (5.69%) GCP
5 56 (3.79%) Azure DevOps
6 55 (3.72%) Azure Data Factory
6 55 (3.72%) PowerApps
7 54 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
7 54 (3.66%) Snowflake
8 52 (3.52%) SaaS
9 48 (3.25%) Power Automate
10 40 (2.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 34 (2.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 32 (2.17%) Figma
12 32 (2.17%) Matillion
12 32 (2.17%) SurveyMonkey
13 29 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
14 25 (1.69%) dbt
15 23 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
15 23 (1.56%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 40 (2.71%) Network Security
2 18 (1.22%) DSL
3 17 (1.15%) HTTP
3 17 (1.15%) MQTT
4 15 (1.02%) 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
7 5 (0.34%) Wireless
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%) WPA
9 3 (0.20%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 358 (24.24%) Power BI
2 242 (16.38%) Data Warehouse
3 228 (15.44%) Tableau
4 130 (8.80%) SQL Server
5 107 (7.24%) Data Lake
6 97 (6.57%) Big Data
7 47 (3.18%) Azure SQL Database
8 42 (2.84%) Relational Database
9 41 (2.78%) Data Vault
10 39 (2.64%) Star Schema
11 36 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
12 35 (2.37%) DB2
13 33 (2.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 30 (2.03%) NoSQL
15 27 (1.83%) MongoDB
16 25 (1.69%) BigQuery
16 25 (1.69%) Metadata
17 21 (1.42%) Data Mining
17 21 (1.42%) Looker
18 20 (1.35%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 58 (3.93%) Git
2 50 (3.39%) Jenkins
3 33 (2.23%) GitLab
4 32 (2.17%) JIRA
5 7 (0.47%) CircleCI
5 7 (0.47%) RStudio
6 4 (0.27%) Subversion
6 4 (0.27%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.20%) gulp
7 3 (0.20%) Jasmine
7 3 (0.20%) Mockito
8 2 (0.14%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.14%) ERwin
9 1 (0.068%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.068%) Gradle
9 1 (0.068%) IBM UrbanCode
9 1 (0.068%) Maven
9 1 (0.068%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.068%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.068%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 533 (36.09%) Social Skills
2 495 (33.51%) Finance
3 285 (19.30%) Analytical Skills
4 219 (14.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 218 (14.76%) Marketing
6 172 (11.65%) Law
7 125 (8.46%) Banking
8 106 (7.18%) Presentation Skills
9 87 (5.89%) Legal
10 70 (4.74%) Organisational Skills
11 69 (4.67%) Retail
12 68 (4.60%) Manufacturing
13 60 (4.06%) Public Sector
14 49 (3.32%) Military
15 38 (2.57%) Games
16 37 (2.51%) Financial Institution
16 37 (2.51%) Investment Banking
17 27 (1.83%) Aerospace
18 21 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
19 18 (1.22%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 264 (17.87%) Architect
2 222 (15.03%) Senior
3 213 (14.42%) Analyst
4 159 (10.77%) Developer
5 144 (9.75%) Solutions Architect
6 140 (9.48%) Data Engineer
7 118 (7.99%) Data Analyst
8 91 (6.16%) Lead
9 87 (5.89%) Consultant
10 82 (5.55%) Data Architect
11 79 (5.35%) Presales Solution Architect
12 55 (3.72%) Senior Analyst
13 54 (3.66%) Principal Architect
14 51 (3.45%) Data Manager
15 49 (3.32%) Analytics Manager
16 46 (3.11%) Product Manager
17 43 (2.91%) Audit Manager
17 43 (2.91%) Senior Manager
18 40 (2.71%) Software Engineer
19 39 (2.64%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (6.84%) .NET
2 62 (4.20%) HTML
3 55 (3.72%) Kafka
4 49 (3.32%) ASP.NET
5 47 (3.18%) AngularJS
5 47 (3.18%) CSS
6 35 (2.37%) ASP.NET MVC
7 34 (2.30%) .NET Core
7 34 (2.30%) React
8 33 (2.23%) Entity Framework
9 29 (1.96%) Elastic Stack
9 29 (1.96%) Web Services
10 26 (1.76%) CSS3
10 26 (1.76%) HTML5
11 22 (1.49%) Node.js
11 22 (1.49%) Pandas
11 22 (1.49%) PySpark
11 22 (1.49%) REST
12 21 (1.42%) Blazor
12 21 (1.42%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 124 (8.40%) Management Information System
2 78 (5.28%) Product Ownership
3 76 (5.15%) Algorithms
4 69 (4.67%) Data Structures
5 65 (4.40%) Self-Motivation
6 43 (2.91%) Cloud Native
7 42 (2.84%) IoT
7 42 (2.84%) Onboarding
8 31 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
9 28 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
10 27 (1.83%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 25 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
12 23 (1.56%) Public Cloud
13 19 (1.29%) Taxonomies
14 17 (1.15%) Robotics
15 16 (1.08%) Security Operations Centre
16 15 (1.02%) Cyber Defence
16 15 (1.02%) Cybercrime
16 15 (1.02%) FMCG
17 14 (0.95%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 57 (3.86%) Linux
2 41 (2.78%) 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 1,477 (100.00%) Analytics
2 484 (32.77%) Business Intelligence
3 433 (29.32%) Problem-Solving
4 355 (24.04%) Agile
5 338 (22.88%) Data Modelling
6 308 (20.85%) Visualisation
7 286 (19.36%) Data Analysis
7 286 (19.36%) Data Science
8 271 (18.35%) Decision-Making
9 270 (18.28%) Machine Learning
10 259 (17.54%) Artificial Intelligence
11 217 (14.69%) Actionable Insight
12 210 (14.22%) Roadmaps
13 207 (14.01%) ETL
14 196 (13.27%) Data Visualisation
15 184 (12.46%) DevOps
16 173 (11.71%) Computer Science
17 165 (11.17%) User Experience
18 154 (10.43%) Business Case
18 154 (10.43%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 507 (34.33%) SQL
2 383 (25.93%) Python
3 89 (6.03%) C#
4 85 (5.75%) JavaScript
5 84 (5.69%) Java
6 74 (5.01%) R
7 36 (2.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 35 (2.37%) Scala
9 30 (2.03%) TypeScript
10 27 (1.83%) C
11 24 (1.62%) PL/SQL
12 22 (1.49%) C++
13 19 (1.29%) Haskell
14 18 (1.22%) PowerShell
15 16 (1.08%) T-SQL
16 13 (0.88%) VBA
17 12 (0.81%) PHP
18 11 (0.74%) U-SQL
19 8 (0.54%) Clojure
20 7 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 423 (28.64%) Degree
2 186 (12.59%) Security Cleared
3 126 (8.53%) SC Cleared
4 111 (7.52%) Master's Degree
5 71 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 54 (3.66%) DV Cleared
7 35 (2.37%) 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%) Numerate Degree
13 20 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
14 19 (1.29%) CISA
14 19 (1.29%) CISSP
15 18 (1.22%) ACCA
16 11 (0.74%) CFA
16 11 (0.74%) CIMA
17 6 (0.41%) PMI Certification
18 5 (0.34%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (11.04%) Data Quality
2 45 (3.05%) Actionable Recommendations
3 34 (2.30%) QA
4 31 (2.10%) Accessibility
5 27 (1.83%) NIST
6 26 (1.76%) PMO
7 20 (1.35%) ITGC
7 20 (1.35%) SLA
8 19 (1.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 18 (1.22%) GDPR
10 17 (1.15%) IFRS
11 16 (1.08%) IFRS 9
12 11 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 11 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 5 (0.34%) ISO 9001
14 4 (0.27%) MiFID
15 3 (0.20%) SOC 1
15 3 (0.20%) SOC 2
16 2 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
16 2 (0.14%) SOX 404
System Software
1 30 (2.03%) vSphere
2 26 (1.76%) Docker
3 8 (0.54%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.54%) Firmware
4 7 (0.47%) HDFS
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 44 (2.98%) 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
1 280 (18.96%) Microsoft
2 94 (6.36%) Google
3 90 (6.09%) Databricks
4 65 (4.40%) Oracle
5 55 (3.72%) Alteryx
6 41 (2.78%) SAP
7 32 (2.17%) Qualtrics
8 31 (2.10%) Sparx
9 27 (1.83%) SolarWinds
9 27 (1.83%) Tanium
9 27 (1.83%) Tripwire
10 24 (1.62%) Salesforce
11 19 (1.29%) Cognos
12 18 (1.22%) IBM
12 18 (1.22%) Sybase
13 17 (1.15%) Sage
14 16 (1.08%) CA
15 15 (1.02%) Pega
16 14 (0.95%) Snow
17 13 (0.88%) Dataiku