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 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 20 40
Rank change year-on-year -10 +20 -17
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 4,580 3,516 5,151
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.32% 8.45% 5.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.05% 9.10% 6.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2,553 1,764 3,341
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,250 £32,600
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,231 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £54,198
% change year-on-year -3.51% +5.17% -1.46%

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 64,999 38,652 81,347
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.50% 92.94% 86.02%
Number of salaries quoted 40,056 22,591 59,648
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,757
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.20%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.94% +5.20% -8.26%

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 17 April 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 17 April 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 -15 4,003 £65,000 -3.70% 1,836
UK excluding London -22 2,376 £55,000 -3.51% 1,287
London +3 1,806 £80,000 -5.88% 843
Work from Home -5 1,413 £64,000 +6.67% 761
North of England -8 692 £57,500 +4.55% 340
South East -24 501 £55,000 -8.33% 428
Midlands -20 471 £51,000 -2.86% 207
North West +1 369 £60,000 +9.09% 211
West Midlands -26 276 £52,250 -5.00% 111
Yorkshire -6 250 £52,500 -5.41% 86
South West -22 222 £57,500 +6.10% 130
East of England +19 204 £55,000 -15.38% 106
Scotland -9 197 £65,000 -7.14% 46
East Midlands +3 191 £50,000 +3.09% 96
North East +9 73 £40,000 -27.27% 47
Northern Ireland -17 53 £45,000 +50.00% 18
Wales -3 38 £40,000 -27.27% 33

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
1 163 (3.56%) Apache Airflow
2 131 (2.86%) Apache Spark
3 113 (2.47%) CMS
4 82 (1.79%) Apache
5 68 (1.48%) Confluence
6 52 (1.14%) WordPress
7 47 (1.03%) SharePoint
8 35 (0.76%) SAS
9 34 (0.74%) ArcGIS
10 20 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
11 16 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
12 11 (0.24%) Drupal
13 9 (0.20%) Oracle Application Server
14 8 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 6 (0.13%) IIS
16 4 (0.087%) Appian
16 4 (0.087%) Documentum
16 4 (0.087%) Umbraco
17 3 (0.066%) Apache Superset
17 3 (0.066%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 392 (8.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 114 (2.49%) Microsoft Office
3 63 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (0.68%) UserZoom
5 29 (0.63%) Adobe XD
6 19 (0.41%) MS Visio
7 16 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
8 13 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 10 (0.22%) Chatbot
10 9 (0.20%) SPSS
11 7 (0.15%) InDesign
12 6 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
12 6 (0.13%) Trello
13 4 (0.087%) Adobe Illustrator
13 4 (0.087%) Photoshop
14 3 (0.066%) Adobe Premiere
14 3 (0.066%) Final Cut Pro
14 3 (0.066%) Sketch
15 2 (0.044%) Maya
15 2 (0.044%) Notion
Business Applications
1 81 (1.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
3 34 (0.74%) SAP PP
4 33 (0.72%) SAP IBP
5 28 (0.61%) Adobe Campaign
6 27 (0.59%) Oracle ERP
7 22 (0.48%) Magento
8 17 (0.37%) Shopify
9 16 (0.35%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 16 (0.35%) NetSuite
10 15 (0.33%) iTrent
11 14 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
12 13 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
12 13 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
12 13 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
12 13 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
12 13 (0.28%) SAP CO
13 10 (0.22%) SAP ERP
14 9 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
14 9 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 984 (21.48%) Azure
2 730 (15.94%) Power Platform
3 550 (12.01%) AWS
4 274 (5.98%) GCP
5 256 (5.59%) Snowflake
6 249 (5.44%) SaaS
7 233 (5.09%) Azure Data Factory
8 211 (4.61%) Google Analytics
9 192 (4.19%) Adobe Analytics
10 182 (3.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 160 (3.49%) Microsoft 365
12 155 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
13 151 (3.30%) GitHub
14 144 (3.14%) dbt
15 125 (2.73%) Figma
16 113 (2.47%) Amazon S3
17 108 (2.36%) Serverless
18 89 (1.94%) Entra ID
19 75 (1.64%) Azure Monitor
20 67 (1.46%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 239 (5.22%) Broadband
2 38 (0.83%) Firewall
3 33 (0.72%) VPN
4 27 (0.59%) CHAP
5 23 (0.50%) WAN
6 20 (0.44%) DNS
7 19 (0.41%) Network Security
8 16 (0.35%) DHCP
8 16 (0.35%) Intranet
8 16 (0.35%) TCP/IP
9 7 (0.15%) Unified Communications
10 6 (0.13%) HTTP
10 6 (0.13%) HTTPS
11 5 (0.11%) Intrusion Detection
11 5 (0.11%) SMS
11 5 (0.11%) SNMP
12 4 (0.087%) Wi-Fi
13 3 (0.066%) BGP
13 3 (0.066%) LAN
13 3 (0.066%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 695 (15.17%) Power BI
2 393 (8.58%) Tableau
3 359 (7.84%) Data Warehouse
4 242 (5.28%) Data Lake
5 194 (4.24%) Metadata
6 171 (3.73%) Data Mining
7 160 (3.49%) SQL Server
8 122 (2.66%) Looker
9 105 (2.29%) Azure SQL Database
10 103 (2.25%) BigQuery
10 103 (2.25%) Relational Database
11 94 (2.05%) Amazon Redshift
12 75 (1.64%) NoSQL
13 66 (1.44%) Big Data
13 66 (1.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 62 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
14 62 (1.35%) Power Query
15 61 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 49 (1.07%) Snowflake Schema
17 44 (0.96%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 160 (3.49%) Git
2 103 (2.25%) JIRA
3 71 (1.55%) Jenkins
4 43 (0.94%) MLflow
5 34 (0.74%) GitLab
6 25 (0.55%) IBM UrbanCode
7 23 (0.50%) Axure RP
7 23 (0.50%) Balsamiq
7 23 (0.50%) TeamCity
8 19 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
9 16 (0.35%) Visual Studio
10 13 (0.28%) CircleCI
10 13 (0.28%) Crashlytics
11 12 (0.26%) Selenium
12 10 (0.22%) ERwin
12 10 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 10 (0.22%) XCTest
13 7 (0.15%) Claude Code
14 6 (0.13%) Cypress.io
15 5 (0.11%) MSI
General
1 1,373 (29.98%) Finance
2 1,234 (26.94%) Social Skills
3 1,140 (24.89%) Analytical Skills
4 688 (15.02%) Marketing
5 284 (6.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 250 (5.46%) Retail
7 244 (5.33%) Public Sector
8 237 (5.17%) Banking
9 208 (4.54%) Law
10 206 (4.50%) Games
11 161 (3.52%) Manufacturing
12 158 (3.45%) Legal
13 115 (2.51%) Automotive
14 106 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
15 104 (2.27%) Financial Institution
15 104 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
16 101 (2.21%) Advertising
16 101 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
17 71 (1.55%) Back Office
18 70 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 763 (16.66%) Senior
2 659 (14.39%) Analyst
3 521 (11.38%) Lead
4 475 (10.37%) Data Engineer
5 357 (7.79%) Data Analyst
6 341 (7.45%) Architect
7 243 (5.31%) Developer
8 172 (3.76%) Consultant
9 159 (3.47%) Data Architect
10 155 (3.38%) Trainee
10 155 (3.38%) Trainee Analyst
10 155 (3.38%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 134 (2.93%) Senior Manager
12 120 (2.62%) Designer
13 110 (2.40%) Senior Data Engineer
14 103 (2.25%) Solutions Architect
15 100 (2.18%) Data Manager
16 94 (2.05%) Data Scientist
17 90 (1.97%) Support Engineer
18 87 (1.90%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (2.77%) PySpark
2 121 (2.64%) Kafka
3 103 (2.25%) HTML
4 96 (2.10%) CSS
4 96 (2.10%) PyTorch
5 71 (1.55%) .NET
6 69 (1.51%) TensorFlow
7 55 (1.20%) React
8 51 (1.11%) OAuth
9 50 (1.09%) SAP Fiori
10 49 (1.07%) RESTful
11 48 (1.05%) LangChain
11 48 (1.05%) scikit-learn
12 45 (0.98%) JSON
13 44 (0.96%) Pandas
14 43 (0.94%) REST
15 37 (0.81%) .NET Core
15 37 (0.81%) Node.js
16 26 (0.57%) OAuth2
17 24 (0.52%) LlamaIndex
Miscellaneous
1 300 (6.55%) Social Media
2 211 (4.61%) Cloud Native
3 194 (4.24%) Product Ownership
4 172 (3.76%) Analytical Mindset
5 153 (3.34%) Management Information System
6 137 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
7 124 (2.71%) Onboarding
8 103 (2.25%) Life Science
9 100 (2.18%) Algorithms
10 87 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
11 76 (1.66%) Data Structures
12 69 (1.51%) Distributed Systems
13 64 (1.40%) Marketing Technology
14 61 (1.33%) Mobile App
15 56 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
16 52 (1.14%) Over-the-Top Content
17 47 (1.03%) Public Cloud
18 45 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
18 45 (0.98%) Virtual Team
19 37 (0.81%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 106 (2.31%) Windows
2 60 (1.31%) Windows 10
3 41 (0.90%) Linux
4 25 (0.55%) VMS
5 22 (0.48%) Apple iOS
6 19 (0.41%) Unix
7 17 (0.37%) Windows Server
8 13 (0.28%) Android
9 3 (0.066%) AIX
10 2 (0.044%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.022%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,320 (28.82%) AI
2 994 (21.70%) Decision-Making
3 983 (21.46%) Business Intelligence
4 907 (19.80%) Agile
5 750 (16.38%) Data Analytics
6 745 (16.27%) Continuous Improvement
7 731 (15.96%) Problem-Solving
8 728 (15.90%) Data Modelling
9 614 (13.41%) Data Engineering
10 613 (13.38%) Roadmaps
11 537 (11.72%) Data Pipeline
12 533 (11.64%) Data Governance
13 522 (11.40%) Customer Experience
14 513 (11.20%) Data Science
15 505 (11.03%) Machine Learning
16 504 (11.00%) ETL
17 500 (10.92%) Data Analysis
18 499 (10.90%) CI/CD
19 446 (9.74%) Project Management
20 435 (9.50%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 1,182 (25.81%) SQL
2 1,049 (22.90%) Python
3 116 (2.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 106 (2.31%) JavaScript
5 98 (2.14%) C#
6 96 (2.10%) Java
7 79 (1.72%) Scala
8 64 (1.40%) R
9 61 (1.33%) PowerShell
10 45 (0.98%) Bicep
11 43 (0.94%) TypeScript
12 42 (0.92%) T-SQL
13 36 (0.79%) C++
14 35 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
15 34 (0.74%) Go
16 21 (0.46%) Bash
17 15 (0.33%) PL/SQL
18 14 (0.31%) Kotlin
18 14 (0.31%) Shell Script
18 14 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 680 (14.85%) Degree
2 266 (5.81%) Security Cleared
3 186 (4.06%) SC Cleared
4 139 (3.03%) Master's Degree
5 118 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 72 (1.57%) IRCA
7 60 (1.31%) Azure Certification
7 60 (1.31%) CTC Cleared
8 49 (1.07%) CISSP
9 47 (1.03%) ACCA
9 47 (1.03%) PhD
10 45 (0.98%) CISM
10 45 (0.98%) DBS Check
11 42 (0.92%) CISA
12 38 (0.83%) CIMA
13 37 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
14 31 (0.68%) AWS Certification
14 31 (0.68%) DV Cleared
15 29 (0.63%) SANS
16 28 (0.61%) CGEIT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 600 (13.10%) Data Quality
2 374 (8.17%) Accessibility
3 367 (8.01%) GDPR
4 170 (3.71%) QA
5 93 (2.03%) WCAG
6 81 (1.77%) SLA
7 77 (1.68%) ISO 9001
8 51 (1.11%) NIST
9 50 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 47 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
11 38 (0.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 35 (0.76%) HIPAA
13 32 (0.70%) COBIT
14 31 (0.68%) Solvency II
15 28 (0.61%) EU AI Act
16 27 (0.59%) IFRS
17 21 (0.46%) PSD2
17 21 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 19 (0.41%) SOC 2
19 17 (0.37%) GxP
System Software
1 149 (3.25%) Docker
2 70 (1.53%) Active Directory
3 26 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.15%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.11%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.066%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.044%) Firmware
7 2 (0.044%) vSphere
8 1 (0.022%) Apache Flume
8 1 (0.022%) IAG
8 1 (0.022%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.022%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 210 (4.59%) Terraform
2 174 (3.80%) Kubernetes
3 50 (1.09%) Ansible
4 26 (0.57%) Grafana
4 26 (0.57%) Prometheus
5 19 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
6 14 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.17%) EnCase
7 8 (0.17%) FTK
8 7 (0.15%) Kibana
9 6 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.11%) Argo
10 5 (0.11%) QRadar
11 3 (0.066%) ArcSight ESM
11 3 (0.066%) Control-M
11 3 (0.066%) VxRail
12 2 (0.044%) RSA Archer
12 2 (0.044%) SCCM
12 2 (0.044%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 2 (0.044%) vRealize
Vendors
1 845 (18.45%) Microsoft
2 375 (8.19%) Databricks
3 347 (7.58%) Google
4 293 (6.40%) Adobe
5 184 (4.02%) SAP
6 159 (3.47%) Salesforce
7 136 (2.97%) Oracle
8 133 (2.90%) Cisco
9 60 (1.31%) HubSpot
10 58 (1.27%) Dell
11 50 (1.09%) Informatica
12 44 (0.96%) Alteryx
13 29 (0.63%) OpenAI
14 28 (0.61%) Red Hat
14 28 (0.61%) Talend
15 27 (0.59%) Nexthink
15 27 (0.59%) Workday
16 26 (0.57%) Palantir
16 26 (0.57%) ServiceNow
17 25 (0.55%) Cloudera