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 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 24 35
Rank change year-on-year -9 +11 -10
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 4,175 3,349 4,487
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.78% 7.31% 5.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.36% 7.82% 6.46%
Number of salaries quoted 2,266 1,632 3,192
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,275 £33,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £49,140 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -9.77%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%

All Process & 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 56,699 42,799 69,454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.53% 93.38% 87.82%
Number of salaries quoted 34,103 21,982 53,104
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,500 £29,288
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,350 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.86% +9.73% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

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 6 March 2026.

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 6 March 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
England -5 3,578 £65,000 -7.14% 2,342
UK excluding London -8 2,074 £55,000 - 1,664
London +5 1,698 £80,000 -5.88% 1,126
Work from Home -2 1,324 £63,500 +1.15% 1,254
North of England -17 519 £51,000 -7.27% 379
South East +6 513 £57,500 -4.17% 597
Midlands -12 409 £52,500 -4.55% 233
North West -23 260 £57,500 +4.55% 201
West Midlands -13 256 £59,527 +8.23% 140
Scotland -3 209 £65,000 -16.24% 64
Yorkshire -5 203 £49,500 -10.00% 124
South West -7 197 £55,000 +1.03% 183
East Midlands +1 151 £47,500 -2.56% 92
East of England +30 145 £50,000 -23.08% 178
North East +20 56 £40,000 -20.79% 56
Northern Ireland -2 54 £45,000 +50.00% 15
Wales +6 31 £65,000 +31.18% 45

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
1 135 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
2 117 (2.80%) Apache Spark
3 106 (2.54%) CMS
4 75 (1.80%) Apache
5 54 (1.29%) WordPress
6 53 (1.27%) Confluence
7 44 (1.05%) SharePoint
8 40 (0.96%) SAS
9 33 (0.79%) ArcGIS
10 18 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
11 17 (0.41%) Drupal
11 17 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
12 15 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 8 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
13 8 (0.19%) Umbraco
14 6 (0.14%) IIS
15 4 (0.096%) Appian
15 4 (0.096%) Documentum
15 4 (0.096%) Sitecore CMS
16 3 (0.072%) Jupyter
Applications
1 434 (10.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 129 (3.09%) Microsoft Office
3 64 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (0.62%) Adobe XD
5 20 (0.48%) InDesign
6 18 (0.43%) MS Visio
7 17 (0.41%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 17 (0.41%) Photoshop
7 17 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
8 15 (0.36%) UserZoom
9 13 (0.31%) Maya
10 11 (0.26%) Adobe Premiere
10 11 (0.26%) SPSS
11 9 (0.22%) Chatbot
12 8 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
12 8 (0.19%) Trello
13 6 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
14 3 (0.072%) Final Cut Pro
14 3 (0.072%) SketchUp
15 2 (0.048%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 81 (1.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 48 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 38 (0.91%) SAP IBP
4 34 (0.81%) SAP PP
5 33 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
6 19 (0.46%) Shopify
7 17 (0.41%) SAP CO
8 16 (0.38%) Magento
9 15 (0.36%) NetSuite
10 14 (0.34%) iTrent
10 14 (0.34%) Oracle General Ledger
10 14 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
10 14 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
11 13 (0.31%) Dynamics GP
11 13 (0.31%) IBM Planning Analytics
11 13 (0.31%) Oracle Assets
11 13 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
11 13 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
12 11 (0.26%) SAP ERP
13 8 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 953 (22.83%) Azure
2 682 (16.34%) Power Platform
3 475 (11.38%) AWS
4 245 (5.87%) SaaS
5 231 (5.53%) Snowflake
6 228 (5.46%) GCP
7 217 (5.20%) Azure Data Factory
8 186 (4.46%) Google Analytics
9 171 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
10 169 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
11 164 (3.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 150 (3.59%) GitHub
13 128 (3.07%) dbt
14 120 (2.87%) Adobe Analytics
15 104 (2.49%) Amazon S3
16 101 (2.42%) Entra ID
17 97 (2.32%) Figma
18 90 (2.16%) Azure Monitor
19 84 (2.01%) Serverless
20 67 (1.60%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 133 (3.19%) Broadband
2 40 (0.96%) VPN
3 37 (0.89%) Firewall
4 23 (0.55%) WAN
5 22 (0.53%) CHAP
6 17 (0.41%) DNS
7 16 (0.38%) Network Security
8 14 (0.34%) Intranet
9 13 (0.31%) Unified Communications
10 12 (0.29%) TCP/IP
11 7 (0.17%) DHCP
12 6 (0.14%) HTTPS
13 5 (0.12%) SNMP
14 4 (0.096%) HTTP
14 4 (0.096%) Intrusion Detection
14 4 (0.096%) VoIP
15 3 (0.072%) Internet
15 3 (0.072%) LAN
15 3 (0.072%) MQTT
16 2 (0.048%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 645 (15.45%) Power BI
2 418 (10.01%) Tableau
3 344 (8.24%) Data Warehouse
4 216 (5.17%) Data Lake
5 191 (4.57%) Metadata
6 187 (4.48%) Data Mining
7 155 (3.71%) SQL Server
8 110 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
9 107 (2.56%) Looker
10 83 (1.99%) Relational Database
11 79 (1.89%) BigQuery
12 77 (1.84%) Amazon Redshift
13 74 (1.77%) Big Data
14 70 (1.68%) NoSQL
15 66 (1.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 59 (1.41%) Power Query
17 52 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 45 (1.08%) Snowflake Schema
19 44 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
20 42 (1.01%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 149 (3.57%) Git
2 115 (2.75%) JIRA
3 66 (1.58%) Jenkins
4 29 (0.69%) GitLab
5 25 (0.60%) MLflow
5 25 (0.60%) Oracle Forms
6 24 (0.57%) Axure RP
6 24 (0.57%) Balsamiq
7 23 (0.55%) IBM UrbanCode
7 23 (0.55%) TeamCity
8 19 (0.46%) ERwin
8 19 (0.46%) Visual Studio
9 10 (0.24%) CircleCI
10 9 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 8 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
11 8 (0.19%) Selenium
12 6 (0.14%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.12%) Crashlytics
13 5 (0.12%) MSI
13 5 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,407 (33.70%) Finance
2 1,246 (29.84%) Social Skills
3 1,093 (26.18%) Analytical Skills
4 666 (15.95%) Marketing
5 283 (6.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 253 (6.06%) Banking
7 252 (6.04%) Public Sector
8 217 (5.20%) Law
9 213 (5.10%) Retail
10 171 (4.10%) Manufacturing
11 165 (3.95%) Legal
12 139 (3.33%) Games
13 127 (3.04%) Presentation Skills
14 107 (2.56%) Financial Institution
15 92 (2.20%) Automotive
16 90 (2.16%) Advertising
16 90 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
17 89 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
18 82 (1.96%) Pharmaceutical
19 69 (1.65%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 689 (16.50%) Senior
2 645 (15.45%) Analyst
3 474 (11.35%) Lead
4 394 (9.44%) Data Engineer
5 371 (8.89%) Data Analyst
6 330 (7.90%) Architect
7 229 (5.49%) Developer
8 163 (3.90%) Trainee
8 163 (3.90%) Trainee Analyst
8 163 (3.90%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 151 (3.62%) Data Architect
10 150 (3.59%) Consultant
11 147 (3.52%) Senior Manager
12 101 (2.42%) Designer
13 99 (2.37%) Solutions Architect
14 92 (2.20%) Data Manager
15 86 (2.06%) Data Scientist
16 85 (2.04%) Senior Analyst
16 85 (2.04%) Support Engineer
17 81 (1.94%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (2.47%) PySpark
2 98 (2.35%) HTML
3 95 (2.28%) Kafka
4 89 (2.13%) CSS
5 77 (1.84%) PyTorch
6 65 (1.56%) .NET
7 59 (1.41%) OAuth
7 59 (1.41%) React
8 57 (1.37%) TensorFlow
9 54 (1.29%) RESTful
10 51 (1.22%) SAP Fiori
11 45 (1.08%) JSON
11 45 (1.08%) REST
12 36 (0.86%) OAuth2
13 33 (0.79%) LangChain
14 32 (0.77%) .NET Core
14 32 (0.77%) Pandas
15 29 (0.69%) scikit-learn
16 28 (0.67%) Node.js
17 27 (0.65%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 241 (5.77%) Social Media
2 187 (4.48%) Cloud Native
3 185 (4.43%) Product Ownership
4 180 (4.31%) Self-Motivation
5 177 (4.24%) Analytical Mindset
6 153 (3.66%) Management Information System
7 126 (3.02%) Onboarding
8 122 (2.92%) Algorithms
9 118 (2.83%) Life Science
10 83 (1.99%) Data Structures
11 72 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
12 65 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
13 64 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
14 52 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
15 50 (1.20%) Mobile App
16 41 (0.98%) Virtual Team
17 40 (0.96%) Fixed Income
18 37 (0.89%) Web Conferencing
19 35 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
20 33 (0.79%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 111 (2.66%) Windows
2 60 (1.44%) Windows 10
3 41 (0.98%) Linux
4 29 (0.69%) Unix
5 24 (0.57%) VMS
6 14 (0.34%) Apple iOS
6 14 (0.34%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.29%) Android
8 2 (0.048%) AIX
8 2 (0.048%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,175 (28.14%) AI
2 946 (22.66%) Business Intelligence
3 880 (21.08%) Decision-Making
4 832 (19.93%) Agile
5 790 (18.92%) Data Analytics
6 730 (17.49%) Problem-Solving
7 725 (17.37%) Continuous Improvement
8 637 (15.26%) Data Modelling
9 529 (12.67%) Data Governance
10 523 (12.53%) Roadmaps
11 519 (12.43%) Data Engineering
12 515 (12.34%) Data Analysis
13 512 (12.26%) Data Science
14 496 (11.88%) Machine Learning
15 489 (11.71%) Project Management
16 473 (11.33%) Data Pipeline
17 461 (11.04%) ETL
18 446 (10.68%) CI/CD
19 424 (10.16%) Visualisation
20 421 (10.08%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1,112 (26.63%) SQL
2 1,017 (24.36%) Python
3 114 (2.73%) JavaScript
4 109 (2.61%) Java
5 92 (2.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 91 (2.18%) C#
7 75 (1.80%) Scala
8 74 (1.77%) PowerShell
9 71 (1.70%) R
10 51 (1.22%) Bicep
11 44 (1.05%) T-SQL
12 42 (1.01%) C++
13 39 (0.93%) TypeScript
14 34 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
15 28 (0.67%) Bash
16 27 (0.65%) Go
17 23 (0.55%) PL/SQL
18 20 (0.48%) Shell Script
19 16 (0.38%) VBA
20 12 (0.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 740 (17.72%) Degree
2 277 (6.63%) Security Cleared
3 196 (4.69%) SC Cleared
4 157 (3.76%) Master's Degree
5 120 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 65 (1.56%) PhD
7 60 (1.44%) CTC Cleared
8 57 (1.37%) CISSP
9 55 (1.32%) Azure Certification
10 51 (1.22%) CISA
10 51 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
11 48 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
12 46 (1.10%) Numerate Degree
13 45 (1.08%) CISM
14 42 (1.01%) ACCA
14 42 (1.01%) DBS Check
15 36 (0.86%) IRCA
16 33 (0.79%) PMI Certification
17 31 (0.74%) DV Cleared
18 29 (0.69%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 545 (13.05%) Data Quality
2 313 (7.50%) Accessibility
3 311 (7.45%) GDPR
4 128 (3.07%) QA
5 77 (1.84%) SLA
6 72 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 69 (1.65%) WCAG
8 49 (1.17%) ISO 9001
8 49 (1.17%) NIST
9 46 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
10 35 (0.84%) GxP
11 33 (0.79%) HIPAA
12 29 (0.69%) COBIT
13 26 (0.62%) IFRS
14 25 (0.60%) EU AI Act
14 25 (0.60%) Solvency II
15 22 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 21 (0.50%) PSD2
17 19 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 16 (0.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 137 (3.28%) Docker
2 62 (1.49%) Active Directory
3 33 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.29%) Hyper-V
5 12 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.096%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.048%) vSphere
8 1 (0.024%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.024%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 199 (4.77%) Terraform
2 156 (3.74%) Kubernetes
3 42 (1.01%) Ansible
4 25 (0.60%) Grafana
5 24 (0.57%) Prometheus
5 24 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
6 23 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.19%) EnCase
7 8 (0.19%) FTK
7 8 (0.19%) SCCM
8 7 (0.17%) Kibana
9 6 (0.14%) QRadar
9 6 (0.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 5 (0.12%) Argo
10 5 (0.12%) RSA Archer
10 5 (0.12%) SCOM
11 3 (0.072%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.072%) ArcSight ESM
11 3 (0.072%) Control-M
11 3 (0.072%) VxRail
Vendors
1 849 (20.34%) Microsoft
2 326 (7.81%) Google
3 281 (6.73%) Databricks
4 211 (5.05%) Adobe
5 197 (4.72%) SAP
6 184 (4.41%) Salesforce
7 154 (3.69%) Oracle
8 139 (3.33%) Cisco
9 65 (1.56%) HubSpot
10 57 (1.37%) Alteryx
11 43 (1.03%) Dell
12 42 (1.01%) Informatica
13 33 (0.79%) Bloomberg
14 32 (0.77%) ServiceNow
15 29 (0.69%) Instagram
15 29 (0.69%) OpenAI
16 28 (0.67%) Nexthink
16 28 (0.67%) Talend
16 28 (0.67%) YouTube
17 26 (0.62%) Palantir