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 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 20 39
Rank change year-on-year -7 +19 -16
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 4,593 3,839 5,248
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.08% 8.74% 5.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.87% 9.37% 6.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2,693 1,779 3,315
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £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 £92,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,471 £53,500
% change year-on-year +0.05% +7.42% -2.73%

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 66,871 40,971 82,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.97% 93.32% 85.23%
Number of salaries quoted 42,937 22,765 59,727
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -8 4,072 £65,000 - 1,964
UK excluding London -20 2,438 £57,500 +0.05% 1,266
London 0 1,777 £80,000 -5.88% 1,039
Work from Home +2 1,421 £65,000 +8.33% 897
North of England +8 764 £60,000 +8.11% 334
South East -27 496 £55,000 -8.33% 438
Midlands -15 492 £55,000 +4.76% 192
North West +10 438 £60,000 +9.09% 199
West Midlands -22 287 £55,000 - 102
Yorkshire -3 245 £59,375 +4.63% 90
South West -28 226 £57,500 +4.55% 115
East of England +41 220 £60,000 -7.69% 89
East Midlands +23 201 £50,000 +3.09% 90
Scotland -9 155 £65,000 -16.24% 65
North East +7 81 £47,000 -16.44% 50
Northern Ireland -15 47 £45,000 +50.00% 13
Wales -6 40 £55,000 +4.76% 41

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
1 166 (3.61%) Apache Airflow
2 139 (3.03%) Apache Spark
3 117 (2.55%) CMS
4 82 (1.79%) Apache
5 62 (1.35%) Confluence
6 52 (1.13%) SharePoint
7 51 (1.11%) WordPress
8 37 (0.81%) SAS
9 35 (0.76%) ArcGIS
10 20 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
11 17 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
12 10 (0.22%) Drupal
13 7 (0.15%) Oracle Application Server
13 7 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 6 (0.13%) IIS
15 4 (0.087%) Appian
15 4 (0.087%) Documentum
15 4 (0.087%) Moodle
15 4 (0.087%) Umbraco
16 3 (0.065%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 307 (6.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 97 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
3 50 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (0.67%) UserZoom
5 23 (0.50%) Adobe XD
6 20 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
7 18 (0.39%) MS Visio
8 11 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 10 (0.22%) SPSS
10 9 (0.20%) Chatbot
11 4 (0.087%) Adobe Illustrator
11 4 (0.087%) InDesign
11 4 (0.087%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.065%) Sketch
13 2 (0.044%) Maya
13 2 (0.044%) Microsoft Project
13 2 (0.044%) Notion
14 1 (0.022%) Adobe Premiere
14 1 (0.022%) Siemens NX
14 1 (0.022%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 87 (1.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (0.74%) Adobe Campaign
2 34 (0.74%) SAP IBP
3 33 (0.72%) SAP PP
4 24 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
4 24 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
5 21 (0.46%) Magento
6 17 (0.37%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 16 (0.35%) Shopify
8 15 (0.33%) iTrent
9 11 (0.24%) NetSuite
9 11 (0.24%) SAP CO
10 10 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
11 9 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
12 8 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
12 8 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
12 8 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
12 8 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
12 8 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
12 8 (0.17%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 944 (20.55%) Azure
2 708 (15.41%) Power Platform
3 574 (12.50%) AWS
4 289 (6.29%) GCP
5 261 (5.68%) SaaS
6 224 (4.88%) Snowflake
7 202 (4.40%) Adobe Analytics
8 198 (4.31%) Google Analytics
9 194 (4.22%) Azure Data Factory
10 160 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
11 150 (3.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 146 (3.18%) Microsoft 365
13 140 (3.05%) GitHub
14 137 (2.98%) dbt
15 127 (2.77%) Figma
16 118 (2.57%) Amazon S3
17 114 (2.48%) Serverless
18 100 (2.18%) Entra ID
19 70 (1.52%) Azure Monitor
19 70 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 258 (5.62%) Broadband
2 39 (0.85%) Firewall
3 36 (0.78%) VPN
4 29 (0.63%) CHAP
5 26 (0.57%) DNS
6 23 (0.50%) Network Security
7 22 (0.48%) WAN
8 17 (0.37%) TCP/IP
9 15 (0.33%) DHCP
10 14 (0.30%) Intranet
11 12 (0.26%) Unified Communications
12 8 (0.17%) 5G
13 7 (0.15%) SMS
14 6 (0.13%) HTTP
15 5 (0.11%) BGP
15 5 (0.11%) SSL
15 5 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
16 4 (0.087%) SNMP
16 4 (0.087%) VXLAN
17 3 (0.065%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 669 (14.57%) Power BI
2 344 (7.49%) Tableau
3 323 (7.03%) Data Warehouse
4 227 (4.94%) Data Lake
5 170 (3.70%) Metadata
6 142 (3.09%) Data Mining
6 142 (3.09%) SQL Server
7 121 (2.63%) Looker
8 112 (2.44%) BigQuery
9 103 (2.24%) Amazon Redshift
10 102 (2.22%) Relational Database
11 86 (1.87%) Azure SQL Database
12 81 (1.76%) NoSQL
13 71 (1.55%) Big Data
14 68 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
15 57 (1.24%) Power Query
16 54 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 47 (1.02%) Star Schema
18 46 (1.00%) Delta Lake
19 45 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 172 (3.74%) Git
2 82 (1.79%) JIRA
3 77 (1.68%) Jenkins
4 43 (0.94%) MLflow
5 36 (0.78%) GitLab
6 25 (0.54%) IBM UrbanCode
7 24 (0.52%) TeamCity
8 18 (0.39%) Axure RP
8 18 (0.39%) Balsamiq
9 17 (0.37%) Crashlytics
10 16 (0.35%) CircleCI
10 16 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
11 12 (0.26%) Selenium
11 12 (0.26%) XCTest
12 11 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 10 (0.22%) ERwin
14 9 (0.20%) Visual Studio
15 7 (0.15%) Claude Code
16 6 (0.13%) fastlane
17 5 (0.11%) MSI
General
1 1,267 (27.59%) Finance
2 1,128 (24.56%) Social Skills
3 1,040 (22.64%) Analytical Skills
4 647 (14.09%) Marketing
5 262 (5.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 248 (5.40%) Retail
7 229 (4.99%) Public Sector
8 220 (4.79%) Games
9 213 (4.64%) Law
10 205 (4.46%) Banking
11 148 (3.22%) Legal
12 140 (3.05%) Manufacturing
13 127 (2.77%) Influencing Skills
14 117 (2.55%) Automotive
15 104 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
16 101 (2.20%) Advertising
17 94 (2.05%) Financial Institution
18 64 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
19 61 (1.33%) Back Office
20 49 (1.07%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 811 (17.66%) Senior
2 604 (13.15%) Analyst
3 515 (11.21%) Data Engineer
4 504 (10.97%) Lead
5 336 (7.32%) Architect
6 312 (6.79%) Data Analyst
7 273 (5.94%) Developer
8 179 (3.90%) Consultant
9 164 (3.57%) Data Architect
10 133 (2.90%) Senior Manager
11 130 (2.83%) Senior Data Engineer
12 126 (2.74%) Trainee
12 126 (2.74%) Trainee Analyst
12 126 (2.74%) Trainee Data Analyst
13 111 (2.42%) Designer
14 109 (2.37%) Data Scientist
15 105 (2.29%) Data Manager
15 105 (2.29%) Product Manager
16 102 (2.22%) Solutions Architect
17 99 (2.16%) Analytics Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (2.96%) PySpark
2 124 (2.70%) Kafka
3 94 (2.05%) HTML
4 87 (1.89%) CSS
4 87 (1.89%) PyTorch
5 85 (1.85%) .NET
6 59 (1.28%) TensorFlow
7 55 (1.20%) React
8 52 (1.13%) SAP Fiori
9 49 (1.07%) RESTful
10 46 (1.00%) .NET Core
10 46 (1.00%) scikit-learn
11 44 (0.96%) LangChain
11 44 (0.96%) Pandas
12 43 (0.94%) REST
13 42 (0.91%) OAuth
14 36 (0.78%) JSON
15 35 (0.76%) Node.js
16 24 (0.52%) LlamaIndex
17 23 (0.50%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 282 (6.14%) Social Media
2 208 (4.53%) Cloud Native
3 182 (3.96%) Product Ownership
4 151 (3.29%) Management Information System
5 150 (3.27%) Analytical Mindset
6 104 (2.26%) Onboarding
7 103 (2.24%) Algorithms
8 100 (2.18%) Greenfield Project
9 87 (1.89%) Data Structures
10 80 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
11 79 (1.72%) Marketing Technology
12 70 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
12 70 (1.52%) Life Science
13 69 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
14 68 (1.48%) Mobile App
15 57 (1.24%) Over-the-Top Content
16 46 (1.00%) Public Cloud
17 45 (0.98%) Virtual Team
18 41 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
19 37 (0.81%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 108 (2.35%) Windows
2 53 (1.15%) Linux
3 51 (1.11%) Windows 10
4 27 (0.59%) VMS
5 25 (0.54%) Apple iOS
6 17 (0.37%) Unix
6 17 (0.37%) Windows Server
7 13 (0.28%) Android
8 3 (0.065%) AIX
9 1 (0.022%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,284 (27.96%) AI
2 961 (20.92%) Decision-Making
3 953 (20.75%) Business Intelligence
4 890 (19.38%) Agile
5 715 (15.57%) Data Analytics
6 705 (15.35%) Data Modelling
7 698 (15.20%) Continuous Improvement
8 674 (14.67%) Problem-Solving
9 640 (13.93%) Roadmaps
10 613 (13.35%) Data Engineering
11 564 (12.28%) Data Pipeline
12 545 (11.87%) CI/CD
13 512 (11.15%) Data Governance
14 496 (10.80%) Machine Learning
15 494 (10.76%) ETL
16 492 (10.71%) Customer Experience
17 490 (10.67%) Data Science
18 434 (9.45%) DevOps
19 424 (9.23%) Mentoring
20 423 (9.21%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1,180 (25.69%) SQL
2 1,048 (22.82%) Python
3 117 (2.55%) C#
4 108 (2.35%) Java
5 106 (2.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 89 (1.94%) JavaScript
7 83 (1.81%) Scala
8 75 (1.63%) R
9 69 (1.50%) PowerShell
10 51 (1.11%) TypeScript
11 43 (0.94%) Bicep
12 39 (0.85%) T-SQL
13 38 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
14 36 (0.78%) C++
15 35 (0.76%) Go
16 24 (0.52%) Bash
17 19 (0.41%) Kotlin
18 18 (0.39%) VBA
19 16 (0.35%) Swift
20 14 (0.30%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 585 (12.74%) Degree
2 278 (6.05%) Security Cleared
3 191 (4.16%) SC Cleared
4 104 (2.26%) Master's Degree
5 85 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 72 (1.57%) IRCA
7 61 (1.33%) Azure Certification
8 54 (1.18%) ACCA
9 51 (1.11%) CTC Cleared
10 47 (1.02%) CISM
10 47 (1.02%) CISSP
10 47 (1.02%) DBS Check
11 46 (1.00%) CIMA
12 44 (0.96%) CISA
12 44 (0.96%) PhD
13 37 (0.81%) DV Cleared
14 33 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
15 31 (0.67%) SANS
16 30 (0.65%) CGEIT
16 30 (0.65%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 583 (12.69%) Data Quality
2 369 (8.03%) Accessibility
3 332 (7.23%) GDPR
4 180 (3.92%) QA
5 96 (2.09%) WCAG
6 76 (1.65%) ISO 9001
7 74 (1.61%) SLA
8 50 (1.09%) NIST
9 44 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 37 (0.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 34 (0.74%) COBIT
12 31 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
13 26 (0.57%) IFRS
14 20 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 18 (0.39%) SOC 2
16 17 (0.37%) GAAP
17 16 (0.35%) GRC
18 15 (0.33%) HIPAA
19 14 (0.30%) PCI DSS
20 12 (0.26%) GxP
System Software
1 154 (3.35%) Docker
2 83 (1.81%) Active Directory
3 23 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.17%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.087%) IAG
6 4 (0.087%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.087%) vSphere
7 2 (0.044%) Firmware
8 1 (0.022%) Apache Flume
8 1 (0.022%) vCloud
8 1 (0.022%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 223 (4.86%) Terraform
2 181 (3.94%) Kubernetes
3 51 (1.11%) Ansible
4 26 (0.57%) Grafana
4 26 (0.57%) Prometheus
5 17 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
6 13 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (0.20%) EnCase
7 9 (0.20%) FTK
8 7 (0.15%) Kibana
9 6 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.11%) Control-M
11 4 (0.087%) Argo
11 4 (0.087%) VxRail
12 3 (0.065%) Graylog
13 2 (0.044%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.044%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.044%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.044%) SCCM
13 2 (0.044%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 798 (17.37%) Microsoft
2 385 (8.38%) Databricks
3 320 (6.97%) Google
4 301 (6.55%) Adobe
5 207 (4.51%) SAP
6 153 (3.33%) Salesforce
7 127 (2.77%) Oracle
8 111 (2.42%) Cisco
9 61 (1.33%) HubSpot
10 54 (1.18%) Dell
11 47 (1.02%) Informatica
12 32 (0.70%) Alteryx
13 28 (0.61%) Red Hat
13 28 (0.61%) Workday
14 26 (0.57%) Nexthink
14 26 (0.57%) OpenAI
14 26 (0.57%) Palantir
15 25 (0.54%) Cloudera
15 25 (0.54%) Denodo
15 25 (0.54%) ServiceNow