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 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 29 29
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -7
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 3,686 3,740 3,665
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 6.54% 6.02% 7.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.77% 6.94% 7.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,894 1,981 2,647
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £37,119
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% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £93,778 £88,023
90th Percentile £113,750 £118,750 £114,152
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,000 £56,525
% change year-on-year -7.89% +0.84% +2.41%

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 47,424 53,892 47,309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.09% 86.75% 93.74%
Number of salaries quoted 28,060 28,022 36,472
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
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% - -0.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -1.87%

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 13 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 13 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 -7 3,142 £62,500 -10.71% 4,727
UK excluding London +7 1,874 £52,500 -7.89% 4,433
London +3 1,507 £75,000 -11.76% 954
Work from Home -1 1,109 £60,000 -10.36% 2,542
South East +28 576 £52,500 -8.70% 1,283
North of England -20 351 £55,000 - 954
Midlands +6 309 £55,000 - 780
Scotland +10 256 £50,000 -16.67% 223
South West +12 198 £55,000 -12.00% 470
North West -23 185 £52,500 -4.55% 497
West Midlands -11 179 £57,750 +1.32% 401
East of England +28 138 £40,000 -33.33% 583
Yorkshire -17 134 £61,250 +11.36% 373
East Midlands +38 133 £47,500 -5.00% 338
North East +13 33 £40,000 -27.27% 91
Northern Ireland -3 30 £60,000 +28.34% 96
Wales +8 22 £60,000 +15.38% 121

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
1 108 (2.93%) CMS
2 97 (2.63%) Apache Spark
3 60 (1.63%) WordPress
4 57 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
5 49 (1.33%) Confluence
6 41 (1.11%) SharePoint
7 32 (0.87%) Apache
8 23 (0.62%) SAS
9 18 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 14 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
11 11 (0.30%) Drupal
11 11 (0.30%) Umbraco
12 10 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 10 (0.27%) Headless CMS
12 10 (0.27%) SugarCRM
13 5 (0.14%) Apache Synapse
14 4 (0.11%) Appian
15 3 (0.081%) Joomla!
15 3 (0.081%) Jupyter
15 3 (0.081%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 500 (13.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 97 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
3 50 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 33 (0.90%) Photoshop
5 32 (0.87%) Maya
6 28 (0.76%) Adobe XD
7 26 (0.71%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 18 (0.49%) InDesign
9 16 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
10 15 (0.41%) Adobe Premiere
10 15 (0.41%) Chatbot
11 13 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
12 11 (0.30%) Trello
13 10 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
14 9 (0.24%) SPSS
15 7 (0.19%) MadCap Flare
16 5 (0.14%) MS Visio
17 4 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
17 4 (0.11%) SketchUp
18 3 (0.081%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 95 (2.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 60 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 55 (1.49%) Shopify
4 32 (0.87%) Oracle ERP
5 28 (0.76%) SAP IBP
6 22 (0.60%) Magento
7 19 (0.52%) SAP CO
7 19 (0.52%) SAP FI
7 19 (0.52%) SAP FI/CO
8 15 (0.41%) Dynamics GP
9 14 (0.38%) Oracle Assets
9 14 (0.38%) Oracle General Ledger
9 14 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
9 14 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
10 13 (0.35%) NetSuite
10 13 (0.35%) SAP FSCM
11 12 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
12 11 (0.30%) SAP IS-U
12 11 (0.30%) Sprinklr
13 9 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 933 (25.31%) Azure
2 765 (20.75%) Power Platform
3 407 (11.04%) AWS
4 271 (7.35%) Google Analytics
5 239 (6.48%) GCP
6 217 (5.89%) SaaS
7 197 (5.34%) Snowflake
8 173 (4.69%) Azure Data Factory
9 154 (4.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 149 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
11 135 (3.66%) GitHub
12 121 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
13 104 (2.82%) dbt
14 84 (2.28%) Google Ads
15 81 (2.20%) Serverless
16 70 (1.90%) Figma
17 69 (1.87%) Azure Monitor
18 68 (1.84%) Entra ID
19 61 (1.65%) Dynamics 365
20 51 (1.38%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (0.92%) SMS
1 34 (0.92%) VPN
2 29 (0.79%) Firewall
3 27 (0.73%) Unified Communications
4 19 (0.52%) Network Security
5 13 (0.35%) DNS
6 11 (0.30%) WAN
7 9 (0.24%) Broadband
8 8 (0.22%) Intranet
9 6 (0.16%) CHAP
9 6 (0.16%) Intrusion Detection
9 6 (0.16%) TCP/IP
10 4 (0.11%) HTTPS
10 4 (0.11%) Internet
10 4 (0.11%) VoIP
10 4 (0.11%) Wireshark
11 3 (0.081%) DHCP
11 3 (0.081%) SAN
11 3 (0.081%) SD-WAN
12 2 (0.054%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 733 (19.89%) Power BI
2 382 (10.36%) Tableau
3 329 (8.93%) Data Warehouse
4 247 (6.70%) Data Lake
5 160 (4.34%) Metadata
6 149 (4.04%) SQL Server
7 134 (3.64%) Data Mining
8 98 (2.66%) SAP BW
9 96 (2.60%) Big Data
10 95 (2.58%) Looker
11 84 (2.28%) Azure SQL Database
12 75 (2.03%) NoSQL
13 70 (1.90%) BigQuery
14 69 (1.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 66 (1.79%) Relational Database
16 59 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
17 54 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 51 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
19 46 (1.25%) Power Query
20 42 (1.14%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 131 (3.55%) JIRA
2 91 (2.47%) Git
3 38 (1.03%) Jenkins
4 27 (0.73%) Oracle Forms
5 25 (0.68%) Axure RP
5 25 (0.68%) Balsamiq
6 18 (0.49%) ERwin
7 16 (0.43%) ER Studio
8 14 (0.38%) GitLab
9 13 (0.35%) Cypress.io
9 13 (0.35%) Visual Studio
10 12 (0.33%) Selenium
11 10 (0.27%) MLflow
12 7 (0.19%) Postman
12 7 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
13 5 (0.14%) Maven
13 5 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
14 4 (0.11%) Browser DevTools
14 4 (0.11%) TestNG
15 3 (0.081%) Fiddler
General
1 1,320 (35.81%) Social Skills
2 1,304 (35.38%) Finance
3 1,165 (31.61%) Analytical Skills
4 780 (21.16%) Marketing
5 339 (9.20%) Law
6 258 (7.00%) Retail
7 255 (6.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 217 (5.89%) Public Sector
9 213 (5.78%) Banking
10 176 (4.77%) Manufacturing
11 162 (4.40%) Presentation Skills
12 139 (3.77%) Legal
13 100 (2.71%) Games
14 98 (2.66%) Financial Institution
15 92 (2.50%) Advertising
16 79 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
17 77 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
17 77 (2.09%) Pharmaceutical
18 67 (1.82%) Front Office
19 61 (1.65%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 594 (16.12%) Senior
2 572 (15.52%) Analyst
3 478 (12.97%) Lead
4 308 (8.36%) Architect
5 307 (8.33%) Data Analyst
6 271 (7.35%) Data Engineer
7 207 (5.62%) Developer
8 141 (3.83%) Senior Manager
9 120 (3.26%) Data Architect
10 106 (2.88%) Consultant
11 96 (2.60%) Innovation Manager
12 92 (2.50%) Trainee
12 92 (2.50%) Trainee Analyst
12 92 (2.50%) Trainee Data Analyst
13 83 (2.25%) Solutions Architect
14 78 (2.12%) Analytics Manager
15 74 (2.01%) Data Manager
16 73 (1.98%) Data Scientist
16 73 (1.98%) Senior Analyst
17 68 (1.84%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (3.01%) HTML
2 87 (2.36%) CSS
3 74 (2.01%) Kafka
4 66 (1.79%) RESTful
5 65 (1.76%) PySpark
5 65 (1.76%) React
6 54 (1.47%) REST
7 51 (1.38%) OAuth
8 45 (1.22%) JSON
8 45 (1.22%) TensorFlow
9 44 (1.19%) PyTorch
10 37 (1.00%) Node.js
11 35 (0.95%) .NET
11 35 (0.95%) OAuth2
12 31 (0.84%) scikit-learn
13 29 (0.79%) Middleware
13 29 (0.79%) Pandas
14 27 (0.73%) GraphQL
14 27 (0.73%) SAML
15 23 (0.62%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 198 (5.37%) Analytical Mindset
2 186 (5.05%) Product Ownership
3 177 (4.80%) Self-Motivation
4 176 (4.77%) Onboarding
5 172 (4.67%) Cloud Native
6 157 (4.26%) Social Media
7 146 (3.96%) Algorithms
8 145 (3.93%) Management Information System
9 81 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
10 76 (2.06%) Life Science
11 74 (2.01%) FMCG
12 57 (1.55%) Data Structures
13 51 (1.38%) Data Centre
14 47 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
15 46 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
16 39 (1.06%) Virtual Team
17 38 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
17 38 (1.03%) Reinsurance
18 37 (1.00%) Credit Risk
19 36 (0.98%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 72 (1.95%) Windows
2 37 (1.00%) Linux
3 24 (0.65%) Unix
4 20 (0.54%) Windows 10
5 10 (0.27%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.24%) Android
7 8 (0.22%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.22%) VMS
8 2 (0.054%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.027%) AIX
9 1 (0.027%) Debian
9 1 (0.027%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.027%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.027%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,027 (27.86%) AI
2 1,001 (27.16%) Business Intelligence
3 861 (23.36%) Problem-Solving
4 850 (23.06%) Decision-Making
5 722 (19.59%) Data Analytics
6 710 (19.26%) Agile
7 686 (18.61%) Continuous Improvement
8 577 (15.65%) Data Modelling
9 504 (13.67%) Roadmaps
10 500 (13.56%) Stakeholder Management
11 480 (13.02%) Machine Learning
12 476 (12.91%) Data Science
13 449 (12.18%) Data Analysis
13 449 (12.18%) Data Governance
14 433 (11.75%) Project Management
15 424 (11.50%) Visualisation
16 409 (11.10%) Data Engineering
17 389 (10.55%) DevOps
18 383 (10.39%) Actionable Insight
19 382 (10.36%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 981 (26.61%) SQL
2 905 (24.55%) Python
3 130 (3.53%) Java
3 130 (3.53%) JavaScript
4 82 (2.22%) PowerShell
5 77 (2.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 69 (1.87%) R
7 55 (1.49%) C#
8 44 (1.19%) T-SQL
9 41 (1.11%) Bicep
10 40 (1.09%) TypeScript
11 39 (1.06%) Scala
12 34 (0.92%) Go
13 31 (0.84%) C++
13 31 (0.84%) PL/SQL
14 28 (0.76%) Bash
15 24 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
16 17 (0.46%) Shell Script
17 15 (0.41%) VBA
18 11 (0.30%) PHP
Qualifications
1 841 (22.82%) Degree
2 205 (5.56%) Master's Degree
3 177 (4.80%) Security Cleared
4 128 (3.47%) SC Cleared
5 115 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 99 (2.69%) PhD
7 98 (2.66%) DBS Check
8 57 (1.55%) CISSP
9 52 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
10 49 (1.33%) Azure Certification
10 49 (1.33%) Numerate Degree
11 46 (1.25%) CISA
12 43 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
13 41 (1.11%) PMI Certification
14 39 (1.06%) ACCA
15 38 (1.03%) CISM
16 35 (0.95%) PMP
17 28 (0.76%) CIMA
18 25 (0.68%) SAP Certification
19 24 (0.65%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 457 (12.40%) Data Quality
2 257 (6.97%) GDPR
3 204 (5.53%) Accessibility
4 88 (2.39%) QA
5 79 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 48 (1.30%) NIST
7 46 (1.25%) WCAG
8 34 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
8 34 (0.92%) SLA
9 32 (0.87%) GxP
10 24 (0.65%) Solvency II
11 23 (0.62%) COBIT
11 23 (0.62%) HIPAA
12 22 (0.60%) EU AI Act
13 21 (0.57%) PSD2
14 17 (0.46%) GRC
14 17 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 16 (0.43%) IFRS
15 16 (0.43%) PMO
16 15 (0.41%) ITGC
System Software
1 85 (2.31%) Docker
2 42 (1.14%) Active Directory
3 26 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
6 10 (0.27%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.081%) Firmware
8 2 (0.054%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.027%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.027%) vCloud
9 1 (0.027%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.027%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 160 (4.34%) Terraform
2 120 (3.26%) Kubernetes
3 32 (0.87%) Ansible
4 29 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
5 25 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (0.33%) QRadar
7 10 (0.27%) SCCM
8 9 (0.24%) Grafana
8 9 (0.24%) Prometheus
9 8 (0.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 6 (0.16%) EnCase
10 6 (0.16%) FTK
10 6 (0.16%) RSA Archer
11 5 (0.14%) Argo
11 5 (0.14%) SCOM
12 3 (0.081%) ArcSight ESM
13 2 (0.054%) Failover Clustering
14 1 (0.027%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 1 (0.027%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
14 1 (0.027%) Computer Incident Response Team
Vendors
1 687 (18.64%) Microsoft
2 438 (11.88%) Google
3 261 (7.08%) SAP
4 258 (7.00%) Databricks
5 191 (5.18%) Salesforce
6 146 (3.96%) Oracle
7 140 (3.80%) Adobe
8 69 (1.87%) HubSpot
9 66 (1.79%) Cisco
10 62 (1.68%) Alteryx
11 42 (1.14%) ServiceNow
12 39 (1.06%) OpenAI
12 39 (1.06%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 36 (0.98%) Bloomberg
14 34 (0.92%) Dell
15 28 (0.76%) Facebook
15 28 (0.76%) Informatica
16 27 (0.73%) Ahrefs
16 27 (0.73%) Screaming Frog
16 27 (0.73%) Talend