Analytics Job Trends

Analytics
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Analytics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 26 28
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 3,693 3,599 3,529
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 6.27% 6.33% 7.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.55% 7.09% 7.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,931 1,875 2,494
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% -1.37%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £113,750 £118,750 £113,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £57,250 £56,525
% change year-on-year -9.17% +1.28% +2.59%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,883 50,789 45,720
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.99% 89.40% 93.70%
Number of salaries quoted 28,699 25,691 35,102
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.60%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,720 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.42% +4.76% -2.78%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Analytics job vacancy trend in the UK

Analytics
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Analytics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Analytics

Analytics
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytics over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Top 17 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 19 December 2025. 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 3,151 £62,500 -10.71% 3,474
UK excluding London +6 1,916 £52,000 -9.17% 3,270
London +3 1,480 £75,000 -11.76% 705
Work from Home -2 1,110 £60,000 -11.11% 1,719
South East +20 583 £52,500 -9.48% 926
North of England -15 370 £55,000 - 712
Midlands -4 313 £55,000 -3.51% 611
Scotland +10 255 £50,000 -17.18% 142
South West +15 206 £55,000 -8.33% 346
North West -22 193 £47,500 -13.64% 375
West Midlands -14 184 £57,468 +0.82% 334
Yorkshire -6 145 £63,750 +15.91% 270
East of England +38 133 £40,000 -33.33% 460
East Midlands +19 132 £47,500 -5.00% 248
Northern Ireland +5 34 £45,000 -34.55% 46
North East +15 33 £40,000 -27.27% 71
Wales +13 26 £60,000 +20.00% 94

Analytics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 96 (2.60%) CMS
2 92 (2.49%) Apache Spark
3 61 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
4 53 (1.44%) WordPress
5 49 (1.33%) Confluence
6 43 (1.16%) SharePoint
7 32 (0.87%) Apache
8 23 (0.62%) SAS
9 19 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 15 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
11 11 (0.30%) Umbraco
12 10 (0.27%) Drupal
12 10 (0.27%) Headless CMS
12 10 (0.27%) SugarCRM
13 9 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 4 (0.11%) Appian
14 4 (0.11%) IIS
15 3 (0.081%) ArcGIS
15 3 (0.081%) Joomla!
15 3 (0.081%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 518 (14.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 99 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
3 55 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (0.87%) Maya
5 29 (0.79%) Photoshop
6 28 (0.76%) Adobe XD
7 24 (0.65%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 18 (0.49%) InDesign
9 16 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
10 15 (0.41%) Chatbot
11 13 (0.35%) Adobe Premiere
12 11 (0.30%) SPSS
13 10 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
13 10 (0.27%) Trello
14 9 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
15 7 (0.19%) MadCap Flare
16 6 (0.16%) MS Visio
17 4 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
17 4 (0.11%) SketchUp
18 3 (0.081%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 92 (2.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 62 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 48 (1.30%) Shopify
4 33 (0.89%) Oracle ERP
5 28 (0.76%) SAP IBP
6 22 (0.60%) Magento
7 21 (0.57%) SAP CO
8 18 (0.49%) SAP FI
8 18 (0.49%) SAP FI/CO
9 15 (0.41%) Dynamics GP
9 15 (0.41%) Oracle Assets
9 15 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
9 15 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
9 15 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
10 14 (0.38%) Oracle Financials
11 13 (0.35%) NetSuite
12 12 (0.32%) SAP FSCM
13 11 (0.30%) SAP IS-U
14 9 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
15 8 (0.22%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 945 (25.59%) Azure
2 765 (20.71%) Power Platform
3 380 (10.29%) AWS
4 242 (6.55%) Google Analytics
5 227 (6.15%) GCP
6 222 (6.01%) SaaS
7 196 (5.31%) Snowflake
8 183 (4.96%) Azure Data Factory
9 158 (4.28%) Azure DevOps
9 158 (4.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 146 (3.95%) GitHub
11 135 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
12 111 (3.01%) dbt
13 82 (2.22%) Serverless
14 76 (2.06%) Azure Monitor
15 71 (1.92%) Figma
16 69 (1.87%) Google Ads
17 64 (1.73%) Entra ID
18 61 (1.65%) Dynamics 365
19 59 (1.60%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 36 (0.97%) VPN
2 34 (0.92%) SMS
3 30 (0.81%) Firewall
4 25 (0.68%) Unified Communications
5 19 (0.51%) Network Security
6 15 (0.41%) Broadband
7 13 (0.35%) DNS
8 11 (0.30%) WAN
9 10 (0.27%) CHAP
10 9 (0.24%) Intranet
11 7 (0.19%) TCP/IP
12 6 (0.16%) Intrusion Detection
13 4 (0.11%) HTTPS
13 4 (0.11%) Internet
13 4 (0.11%) VoIP
13 4 (0.11%) Wireshark
14 3 (0.081%) DHCP
14 3 (0.081%) MQTT
14 3 (0.081%) SD-WAN
15 2 (0.054%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 731 (19.79%) Power BI
2 394 (10.67%) Tableau
3 330 (8.94%) Data Warehouse
4 254 (6.88%) Data Lake
5 167 (4.52%) Metadata
6 150 (4.06%) SQL Server
7 142 (3.85%) Data Mining
8 98 (2.65%) Big Data
8 98 (2.65%) SAP BW
9 94 (2.55%) Looker
10 90 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
11 76 (2.06%) NoSQL
12 74 (2.00%) BigQuery
13 70 (1.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 67 (1.81%) Relational Database
15 60 (1.62%) Amazon Redshift
16 55 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 48 (1.30%) Hadoop
17 48 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
18 44 (1.19%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 131 (3.55%) JIRA
2 100 (2.71%) Git
3 38 (1.03%) Jenkins
4 29 (0.79%) Oracle Forms
5 25 (0.68%) Axure RP
5 25 (0.68%) Balsamiq
6 18 (0.49%) ERwin
7 16 (0.43%) GitLab
8 14 (0.38%) ER Studio
9 13 (0.35%) Cypress.io
9 13 (0.35%) Visual Studio
10 12 (0.32%) Selenium
11 11 (0.30%) MLflow
12 7 (0.19%) Postman
12 7 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
13 5 (0.14%) MSI
13 5 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
14 4 (0.11%) Browser DevTools
14 4 (0.11%) Maven
14 4 (0.11%) TestNG
General
1 1,292 (34.99%) Finance
2 1,284 (34.77%) Social Skills
3 1,146 (31.03%) Analytical Skills
4 735 (19.90%) Marketing
5 294 (7.96%) Law
6 233 (6.31%) Retail
7 228 (6.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 209 (5.66%) Public Sector
9 198 (5.36%) Banking
10 179 (4.85%) Manufacturing
11 156 (4.22%) Presentation Skills
12 131 (3.55%) Legal
13 101 (2.73%) Games
14 97 (2.63%) Financial Institution
15 92 (2.49%) Pharmaceutical
16 75 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
17 73 (1.98%) Advertising
18 72 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
19 67 (1.81%) Front Office
20 62 (1.68%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 588 (15.92%) Analyst
2 584 (15.81%) Senior
3 464 (12.56%) Lead
4 319 (8.64%) Data Analyst
5 300 (8.12%) Architect
6 288 (7.80%) Data Engineer
7 214 (5.79%) Developer
8 147 (3.98%) Senior Manager
9 122 (3.30%) Data Architect
10 110 (2.98%) Trainee
10 110 (2.98%) Trainee Analyst
10 110 (2.98%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 99 (2.68%) Consultant
12 96 (2.60%) Innovation Manager
13 81 (2.19%) Analytics Manager
14 79 (2.14%) Solutions Architect
15 73 (1.98%) Data Manager
15 73 (1.98%) Data Scientist
15 73 (1.98%) Senior Analyst
16 71 (1.92%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (2.87%) HTML
2 88 (2.38%) CSS
3 72 (1.95%) PySpark
4 70 (1.90%) Kafka
5 69 (1.87%) RESTful
6 61 (1.65%) React
7 56 (1.52%) REST
8 53 (1.44%) OAuth
9 47 (1.27%) JSON
9 47 (1.27%) PyTorch
10 46 (1.25%) TensorFlow
11 39 (1.06%) .NET
12 37 (1.00%) Node.js
13 36 (0.97%) OAuth2
14 28 (0.76%) Middleware
14 28 (0.76%) scikit-learn
15 27 (0.73%) GraphQL
15 27 (0.73%) SAML
16 25 (0.68%) Pandas
17 23 (0.62%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 190 (5.14%) Analytical Mindset
2 176 (4.77%) Product Ownership
3 173 (4.68%) Self-Motivation
4 167 (4.52%) Onboarding
5 164 (4.44%) Cloud Native
6 149 (4.03%) Management Information System
7 147 (3.98%) Social Media
8 121 (3.28%) Algorithms
9 84 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
10 81 (2.19%) Life Science
11 68 (1.84%) FMCG
12 60 (1.62%) Data Structures
13 54 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
14 51 (1.38%) Data Centre
15 48 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
16 38 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
16 38 (1.03%) Virtual Team
17 36 (0.97%) Reinsurance
18 35 (0.95%) Fixed Income
19 32 (0.87%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 80 (2.17%) Windows
2 37 (1.00%) Linux
3 28 (0.76%) Windows 10
4 27 (0.73%) Unix
5 11 (0.30%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.27%) VMS
7 9 (0.24%) Android
8 8 (0.22%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.054%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.027%) AIX
10 1 (0.027%) Debian
10 1 (0.027%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,007 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
2 1,000 (27.08%) AI
3 859 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
4 850 (23.02%) Decision-Making
5 710 (19.23%) Data Analytics
6 698 (18.90%) Continuous Improvement
7 696 (18.85%) Agile
8 599 (16.22%) Data Modelling
9 502 (13.59%) Stakeholder Management
10 484 (13.11%) Roadmaps
11 474 (12.84%) Data Science
12 463 (12.54%) Data Analysis
13 460 (12.46%) Machine Learning
14 453 (12.27%) Data Governance
15 439 (11.89%) Project Management
16 416 (11.26%) Visualisation
17 398 (10.78%) ETL
18 397 (10.75%) Data Engineering
19 391 (10.59%) DevOps
20 374 (10.13%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 998 (27.02%) SQL
2 924 (25.02%) Python
3 132 (3.57%) JavaScript
4 126 (3.41%) Java
5 82 (2.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 82 (2.22%) PowerShell
6 67 (1.81%) R
7 61 (1.65%) C#
8 52 (1.41%) Scala
9 48 (1.30%) T-SQL
10 46 (1.25%) Bicep
11 38 (1.03%) TypeScript
12 33 (0.89%) Go
13 31 (0.84%) PL/SQL
14 29 (0.79%) Bash
14 29 (0.79%) C++
15 25 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
16 18 (0.49%) Shell Script
17 16 (0.43%) VBA
18 13 (0.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 842 (22.80%) Degree
2 204 (5.52%) Master's Degree
3 189 (5.12%) Security Cleared
4 135 (3.66%) SC Cleared
5 119 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 98 (2.65%) PhD
7 92 (2.49%) DBS Check
8 58 (1.57%) CISSP
9 50 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
10 48 (1.30%) CISA
10 48 (1.30%) Numerate Degree
11 47 (1.27%) Azure Certification
12 46 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
13 42 (1.14%) ACCA
14 40 (1.08%) CISM
15 35 (0.95%) PMI Certification
16 30 (0.81%) CIMA
17 29 (0.79%) PMP
18 28 (0.76%) CTC Cleared
19 25 (0.68%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 469 (12.70%) Data Quality
2 262 (7.09%) GDPR
3 204 (5.52%) Accessibility
4 88 (2.38%) QA
5 84 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 51 (1.38%) NIST
7 45 (1.22%) WCAG
8 44 (1.19%) SLA
9 38 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
10 37 (1.00%) GxP
11 28 (0.76%) COBIT
12 24 (0.65%) Solvency II
13 23 (0.62%) HIPAA
14 22 (0.60%) EU AI Act
15 21 (0.57%) PSD2
16 18 (0.49%) GRC
16 18 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 16 (0.43%) IFRS
17 16 (0.43%) PMO
18 15 (0.41%) ITGC
System Software
1 87 (2.36%) Docker
2 48 (1.30%) Active Directory
3 28 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.30%) Hyper-V
5 11 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.081%) Firmware
7 2 (0.054%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.027%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.027%) vCloud
8 1 (0.027%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.027%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 169 (4.58%) Terraform
2 115 (3.11%) Kubernetes
3 32 (0.87%) Ansible
4 29 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
5 25 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (0.35%) Grafana
7 12 (0.32%) QRadar
8 10 (0.27%) Prometheus
8 10 (0.27%) SCCM
9 7 (0.19%) EnCase
9 7 (0.19%) FTK
9 7 (0.19%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 6 (0.16%) RSA Archer
11 5 (0.14%) Argo
11 5 (0.14%) SCOM
12 3 (0.081%) ArcSight ESM
12 3 (0.081%) Control-M
13 2 (0.054%) Failover Clustering
13 2 (0.054%) Kibana
14 1 (0.027%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 681 (18.44%) Microsoft
2 377 (10.21%) Google
3 263 (7.12%) SAP
4 258 (6.99%) Databricks
5 197 (5.33%) Salesforce
6 142 (3.85%) Oracle
7 136 (3.68%) Adobe
8 76 (2.06%) Cisco
9 66 (1.79%) HubSpot
10 56 (1.52%) Alteryx
11 42 (1.14%) ServiceNow
12 38 (1.03%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 35 (0.95%) Bloomberg
14 33 (0.89%) Dell
15 30 (0.81%) Talend
16 26 (0.70%) Informatica
16 26 (0.70%) OpenAI
17 24 (0.65%) Screaming Frog
18 23 (0.62%) Ahrefs
18 23 (0.62%) Sage