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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 20 39
Rank change year-on-year -7 +19 -16
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 4,581 3,829 5,251
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.07% 8.76% 5.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.86% 9.38% 6.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,681 1,767 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 £57,443 £53,500
% change year-on-year +0.10% +7.37% -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 66,794 40,810 82,365
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.89% 93.32% 85.22%
Number of salaries quoted 42,940 22,598 59,746
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £79,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £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 12 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 12 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 -6 4,058 £65,000 - 1,956
UK excluding London -18 2,437 £57,500 +0.10% 1,250
London 0 1,763 £80,000 -5.88% 1,036
Work from Home +2 1,417 £65,000 +8.33% 849
North of England +9 761 £60,000 +5.73% 335
Midlands -14 496 £55,000 +4.76% 190
South East -26 493 £55,000 -8.33% 436
North West +9 437 £60,000 +9.09% 192
West Midlands -21 290 £55,200 +0.36% 96
Yorkshire -3 243 £60,000 +2.30% 89
South West -31 228 £57,500 +4.55% 110
East of England +42 220 £60,000 -7.69% 84
East Midlands +26 202 £50,000 +3.09% 94
Scotland -7 154 £65,000 -16.24% 62
North East +11 81 £47,000 -16.44% 59
Northern Ireland -14 47 £45,000 +50.00% 15
Wales -5 40 £55,000 - 38

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 (3.62%) Apache Airflow
2 137 (2.99%) Apache Spark
3 117 (2.55%) CMS
4 82 (1.79%) Apache
5 62 (1.35%) Confluence
6 52 (1.14%) 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
1 304 (6.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 97 (2.12%) Microsoft Office
3 50 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (0.68%) 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 84 (1.83%) 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
10 10 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
11 9 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
11 9 (0.20%) SAP CO
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
13 6 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 939 (20.50%) Azure
2 706 (15.41%) Power Platform
3 575 (12.55%) AWS
4 288 (6.29%) GCP
5 262 (5.72%) SaaS
6 225 (4.91%) Snowflake
7 202 (4.41%) Adobe Analytics
8 198 (4.32%) Google Analytics
9 191 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
10 156 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
11 148 (3.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 146 (3.19%) Microsoft 365
13 137 (2.99%) dbt
13 137 (2.99%) GitHub
14 125 (2.73%) Figma
15 117 (2.55%) Amazon S3
16 113 (2.47%) Serverless
17 99 (2.16%) Entra ID
18 70 (1.53%) Azure Monitor
19 69 (1.51%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 258 (5.63%) Broadband
2 37 (0.81%) Firewall
3 35 (0.76%) VPN
4 26 (0.57%) DNS
5 25 (0.55%) CHAP
6 22 (0.48%) Network Security
7 21 (0.46%) WAN
8 17 (0.37%) TCP/IP
9 15 (0.33%) DHCP
10 14 (0.31%) 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%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 667 (14.56%) Power BI
2 341 (7.44%) Tableau
3 321 (7.01%) Data Warehouse
4 225 (4.91%) Data Lake
5 169 (3.69%) Metadata
6 143 (3.12%) SQL Server
7 139 (3.03%) Data Mining
8 121 (2.64%) Looker
9 111 (2.42%) BigQuery
10 103 (2.25%) Amazon Redshift
11 101 (2.20%) Relational Database
12 84 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
13 82 (1.79%) NoSQL
14 71 (1.55%) Big Data
15 68 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
16 57 (1.24%) Power Query
17 54 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 47 (1.03%) Star Schema
19 45 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
20 44 (0.96%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 171 (3.73%) Git
2 79 (1.72%) JIRA
3 77 (1.68%) Jenkins
4 43 (0.94%) MLflow
5 36 (0.79%) GitLab
6 25 (0.55%) IBM UrbanCode
7 24 (0.52%) TeamCity
8 18 (0.39%) Axure RP
8 18 (0.39%) Balsamiq
9 16 (0.35%) CircleCI
9 16 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
10 15 (0.33%) Crashlytics
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 1,257 (27.44%) Finance
2 1,121 (24.47%) Social Skills
3 1,035 (22.59%) Analytical Skills
4 645 (14.08%) Marketing
5 260 (5.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 247 (5.39%) Retail
7 230 (5.02%) Public Sector
8 220 (4.80%) Games
9 213 (4.65%) Law
10 199 (4.34%) Banking
11 148 (3.23%) Legal
12 140 (3.06%) Manufacturing
13 127 (2.77%) Influencing Skills
14 118 (2.58%) Automotive
15 104 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
16 101 (2.20%) Advertising
17 90 (1.96%) Financial Institution
18 64 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
19 61 (1.33%) Back Office
20 49 (1.07%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 811 (17.70%) Senior
2 600 (13.10%) Analyst
3 514 (11.22%) Data Engineer
4 499 (10.89%) Lead
5 336 (7.33%) Architect
6 308 (6.72%) Data Analyst
7 272 (5.94%) Developer
8 177 (3.86%) Consultant
9 165 (3.60%) Data Architect
10 135 (2.95%) Senior Manager
11 129 (2.82%) Senior Data Engineer
12 123 (2.69%) Trainee
12 123 (2.69%) Trainee Analyst
12 123 (2.69%) Trainee Data Analyst
13 111 (2.42%) Designer
14 109 (2.38%) Data Scientist
15 108 (2.36%) Product Manager
16 106 (2.31%) Data Manager
17 102 (2.23%) Solutions Architect
18 98 (2.14%) Analytics Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (2.93%) PySpark
2 122 (2.66%) Kafka
3 93 (2.03%) HTML
4 87 (1.90%) CSS
4 87 (1.90%) PyTorch
5 85 (1.86%) .NET
6 59 (1.29%) TensorFlow
7 56 (1.22%) React
8 51 (1.11%) SAP Fiori
9 47 (1.03%) RESTful
10 46 (1.00%) .NET Core
11 45 (0.98%) scikit-learn
12 43 (0.94%) LangChain
12 43 (0.94%) Pandas
12 43 (0.94%) REST
13 41 (0.90%) OAuth
14 35 (0.76%) Node.js
15 34 (0.74%) JSON
16 24 (0.52%) LlamaIndex
17 23 (0.50%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 282 (6.16%) Social Media
2 208 (4.54%) Cloud Native
3 183 (3.99%) Product Ownership
4 148 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
5 147 (3.21%) Management Information System
6 104 (2.27%) Algorithms
6 104 (2.27%) Onboarding
7 100 (2.18%) Greenfield Project
8 87 (1.90%) Data Structures
9 80 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
10 79 (1.72%) Marketing Technology
11 70 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
11 70 (1.53%) Life Science
12 68 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
13 66 (1.44%) Mobile App
14 57 (1.24%) Over-the-Top Content
15 45 (0.98%) Public Cloud
15 45 (0.98%) Virtual Team
16 39 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
17 37 (0.81%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 109 (2.38%) Windows
2 53 (1.16%) Linux
3 51 (1.11%) Windows 10
4 26 (0.57%) VMS
5 24 (0.52%) Apple iOS
6 17 (0.37%) Unix
6 17 (0.37%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.26%) Android
8 3 (0.065%) AIX
9 1 (0.022%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,280 (27.94%) AI
2 958 (20.91%) Decision-Making
3 949 (20.72%) Business Intelligence
4 880 (19.21%) Agile
5 706 (15.41%) Data Modelling
6 705 (15.39%) Data Analytics
7 696 (15.19%) Continuous Improvement
8 667 (14.56%) Problem-Solving
9 645 (14.08%) Roadmaps
10 607 (13.25%) Data Engineering
11 562 (12.27%) Data Pipeline
12 541 (11.81%) CI/CD
13 510 (11.13%) Data Governance
14 496 (10.83%) Machine Learning
15 494 (10.78%) Customer Experience
16 491 (10.72%) ETL
17 487 (10.63%) Data Science
18 428 (9.34%) DevOps
19 425 (9.28%) Mentoring
20 420 (9.17%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1,174 (25.63%) SQL
2 1,041 (22.72%) Python
3 117 (2.55%) C#
4 108 (2.36%) Java
5 106 (2.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 89 (1.94%) JavaScript
7 83 (1.81%) Scala
8 75 (1.64%) R
9 70 (1.53%) PowerShell
10 52 (1.14%) TypeScript
11 43 (0.94%) Bicep
12 39 (0.85%) T-SQL
13 37 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
14 36 (0.79%) C++
15 35 (0.76%) Go
16 24 (0.52%) Bash
17 18 (0.39%) Kotlin
17 18 (0.39%) VBA
18 15 (0.33%) Swift
19 14 (0.31%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 583 (12.73%) Degree
2 278 (6.07%) Security Cleared
3 192 (4.19%) SC Cleared
4 104 (2.27%) Master's Degree
5 84 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 72 (1.57%) IRCA
7 60 (1.31%) Azure Certification
8 52 (1.14%) ACCA
9 51 (1.11%) CTC Cleared
10 45 (0.98%) CIMA
10 45 (0.98%) DBS Check
11 44 (0.96%) PhD
12 43 (0.94%) CISM
12 43 (0.94%) CISSP
13 40 (0.87%) CISA
14 37 (0.81%) DV Cleared
15 30 (0.65%) AWS Certification
15 30 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
16 27 (0.59%) SANS
17 26 (0.57%) CGEIT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 583 (12.73%) Data Quality
2 366 (7.99%) Accessibility
3 324 (7.07%) GDPR
4 180 (3.93%) QA
5 96 (2.10%) WCAG
6 76 (1.66%) ISO 9001
7 74 (1.62%) SLA
8 45 (0.98%) NIST
9 42 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 37 (0.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 31 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
12 30 (0.65%) COBIT
13 24 (0.52%) IFRS
14 20 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 17 (0.37%) SOC 2
16 16 (0.35%) GRC
17 15 (0.33%) GAAP
17 15 (0.33%) HIPAA
18 14 (0.31%) PCI DSS
19 12 (0.26%) GxP
System Software
1 153 (3.34%) Docker
2 82 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.48%) 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 (4.87%) Terraform
2 179 (3.91%) Kubernetes
3 50 (1.09%) 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%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.044%) RSA Archer
13 2 (0.044%) Thomson Reuters DACS
13 2 (0.044%) vRealize
Vendors
1 790 (17.25%) Microsoft
2 383 (8.36%) Databricks
3 320 (6.99%) Google
4 301 (6.57%) Adobe
5 205 (4.48%) SAP
6 153 (3.34%) Salesforce
7 127 (2.77%) Oracle
8 111 (2.42%) Cisco
9 61 (1.33%) HubSpot
10 54 (1.18%) Dell
11 47 (1.03%) Informatica
12 32 (0.70%) Alteryx
13 28 (0.61%) Red Hat
13 28 (0.61%) Workday
14 26 (0.57%) OpenAI
14 26 (0.57%) Palantir
15 25 (0.55%) Cloudera
15 25 (0.55%) Denodo
15 25 (0.55%) Nexthink
15 25 (0.55%) ServiceNow