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 7 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 21 35
Rank change year-on-year -9 +14 -5
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 5,427 3,922 4,233
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.84% 7.91% 5.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.64% 8.94% 6.59%
Number of salaries quoted 3,274 1,784 2,293
10th Percentile £37,150 £31,325 £37,000
25th Percentile £48,000 £44,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -7.89% +3.64%

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 81,751 43,862 64,233
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.96% 88.49% 80.62%
Number of salaries quoted 56,872 24,813 38,457
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,585 £36,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,475 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -8.65% -4.59%

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 7 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Top 18 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 7 September 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 4,846 £67,000 +8.06% 5,490
UK excluding London -6 2,906 £60,000 +14.29% 2,228
London -1 2,158 £80,000 +1.59% 3,905
Work from Home +8 1,635 £65,000 +8.33% 2,104
North of England +58 949 £60,000 +4.35% 517
Midlands +16 596 £60,000 +14.29% 293
North West +65 554 £60,000 +14.29% 318
South East -37 544 £55,000 +5.77% 633
West Midlands +4 329 £59,250 +7.73% 184
South West -20 305 £60,000 - 276
East Midlands +30 267 £60,000 +23.71% 109
Yorkshire +28 244 £63,076 +0.92% 147
East of England -7 205 £55,000 +37.50% 184
North East +20 151 £50,000 -13.04% 55
Scotland -19 119 £70,000 +16.67% 209
Northern Ireland -15 104 £65,000 +30.00% 88
Wales -3 93 £60,000 +14.15% 53
Isle of Man +3 5 £38,500 - 1

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
1 162 (2.99%) Apache Spark
2 151 (2.78%) CMS
3 104 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
4 89 (1.64%) Apache
5 85 (1.57%) SharePoint
6 70 (1.29%) Confluence
7 68 (1.25%) SAS
8 40 (0.74%) WordPress
9 29 (0.53%) Sitecore CMS
10 24 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
11 18 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
12 16 (0.29%) Headless CMS
13 10 (0.18%) Jupyter
14 7 (0.13%) ArcGIS
15 6 (0.11%) Umbraco
16 5 (0.092%) Oracle Workflow
17 3 (0.055%) Oracle Application Server
18 2 (0.037%) Apache Pulsar
18 2 (0.037%) Appian
18 2 (0.037%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 244 (4.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
3 37 (0.68%) Chatbot
4 36 (0.66%) UserZoom
5 32 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 29 (0.53%) SPSS
7 21 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
8 17 (0.31%) Adobe XD
9 15 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 8 (0.15%) MS Visio
10 8 (0.15%) Sketch
11 6 (0.11%) Trello
12 5 (0.092%) Photoshop
13 3 (0.055%) Adobe Illustrator
13 3 (0.055%) Adobe Premiere
13 3 (0.055%) Microsoft Project
13 3 (0.055%) Zeplin
14 2 (0.037%) CapCut
14 2 (0.037%) InDesign
15 1 (0.018%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 114 (2.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 75 (1.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 52 (0.96%) Shopify
4 32 (0.59%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 28 (0.52%) Dynamics GP
6 27 (0.50%) Adobe Campaign
7 21 (0.39%) Magento
8 12 (0.22%) NetSuite
8 12 (0.22%) Workday HCM
9 8 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
10 7 (0.13%) SAP MDG
11 6 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
11 6 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
11 6 (0.11%) SAP PM
11 6 (0.11%) SAP Travel Management
12 5 (0.092%) iTrent
12 5 (0.092%) Oracle Payables
12 5 (0.092%) Oracle Receivables
12 5 (0.092%) SAP BPC
12 5 (0.092%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 1,054 (19.42%) Azure
2 895 (16.49%) Power Platform
3 812 (14.96%) AWS
4 363 (6.69%) GCP
5 310 (5.71%) SaaS
6 261 (4.81%) Google Analytics
7 251 (4.63%) Snowflake
8 206 (3.80%) Azure Data Factory
9 188 (3.46%) Azure DevOps
10 184 (3.39%) GitHub
11 163 (3.00%) Serverless
12 151 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 142 (2.62%) dbt
14 125 (2.30%) Adobe Analytics
15 108 (1.99%) Amazon S3
16 107 (1.97%) Microsoft 365
17 104 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
17 104 (1.92%) Microsoft Purview
18 94 (1.73%) Figma
19 88 (1.62%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 154 (2.84%) Broadband
2 65 (1.20%) VPN
3 62 (1.14%) Firewall
4 57 (1.05%) Internet
5 47 (0.87%) DNS
6 41 (0.76%) Network Security
7 28 (0.52%) BGP
8 25 (0.46%) SMS
8 25 (0.46%) TCP/IP
9 20 (0.37%) VLAN
10 19 (0.35%) OSPF
11 18 (0.33%) DHCP
12 15 (0.28%) VoIP
13 14 (0.26%) CTI
14 13 (0.24%) SSL
15 12 (0.22%) 5G
16 10 (0.18%) Unified Communications
17 9 (0.17%) VXLAN
17 9 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
18 8 (0.15%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 857 (15.79%) Power BI
2 422 (7.78%) Data Warehouse
3 296 (5.45%) Tableau
4 253 (4.66%) Data Lake
5 228 (4.20%) Metadata
6 172 (3.17%) SQL Server
7 152 (2.80%) Big Data
8 131 (2.41%) Looker
9 129 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
10 118 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
11 107 (1.97%) BigQuery
12 91 (1.68%) Delta Lake
13 87 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
14 85 (1.57%) Relational Database
15 81 (1.49%) NoSQL
15 81 (1.49%) Star Schema
16 74 (1.36%) MongoDB
17 66 (1.22%) Power Query
18 60 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 58 (1.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 170 (3.13%) Git
2 87 (1.60%) JIRA
3 52 (0.96%) Jenkins
4 36 (0.66%) GitLab
4 36 (0.66%) MLflow
5 17 (0.31%) Crashlytics
6 16 (0.29%) Claude Code
7 13 (0.24%) fastlane
8 11 (0.20%) CircleCI
9 10 (0.18%) XCTest
10 9 (0.17%) Balsamiq
10 9 (0.17%) Xcode
11 8 (0.15%) ERwin
11 8 (0.15%) Gradle
11 8 (0.15%) Octopus Deploy
12 7 (0.13%) Axure RP
13 6 (0.11%) Android Studio
13 6 (0.11%) Selenium
14 5 (0.092%) Bitbucket
14 5 (0.092%) Poetry
General
1 1,495 (27.55%) Finance
2 1,458 (26.87%) Social Skills
3 1,260 (23.22%) Analytical Skills
4 897 (16.53%) Marketing
5 397 (7.32%) Retail
6 376 (6.93%) Public Sector
7 308 (5.68%) Legal
8 296 (5.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 288 (5.31%) Law
10 221 (4.07%) Banking
11 195 (3.59%) Influencing Skills
12 156 (2.87%) Games
13 151 (2.78%) Manufacturing
14 150 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
15 121 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
16 103 (1.90%) Automotive
17 98 (1.81%) Financial Institution
18 97 (1.79%) Advertising
19 73 (1.35%) Publishing
20 52 (0.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,063 (19.59%) Senior
2 656 (12.09%) Data Engineer
3 634 (11.68%) Analyst
4 621 (11.44%) Lead
5 501 (9.23%) Architect
6 332 (6.12%) Developer
7 269 (4.96%) Data Analyst
8 242 (4.46%) Data Architect
9 227 (4.18%) Analytics Manager
10 226 (4.16%) Senior Data Engineer
11 188 (3.46%) Consultant
12 184 (3.39%) Data Scientist
13 168 (3.10%) Senior Manager
14 164 (3.02%) Solutions Architect
15 128 (2.36%) Product Manager
15 128 (2.36%) Senior Analyst
16 123 (2.27%) Data Manager
17 114 (2.10%) Marketing Manager
18 97 (1.79%) Senior Architect
19 94 (1.73%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 267 (4.92%) Terraform
2 190 (3.50%) PySpark
3 132 (2.43%) Kafka
4 102 (1.88%) HTML
5 95 (1.75%) .NET
6 90 (1.66%) CSS
7 72 (1.33%) REST
8 67 (1.23%) React
9 63 (1.16%) Node.js
10 52 (0.96%) scikit-learn
11 51 (0.94%) PyTorch
12 48 (0.88%) Pandas
13 46 (0.85%) TensorFlow
14 41 (0.76%) LangChain
15 40 (0.74%) .NET Core
16 39 (0.72%) RESTful
17 38 (0.70%) ASP.NET
17 38 (0.70%) Middleware
18 36 (0.66%) ASP.NET Core
19 34 (0.63%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 290 (5.34%) Cloud Native
2 281 (5.18%) Onboarding
3 216 (3.98%) Social Media
4 210 (3.87%) Product Ownership
5 191 (3.52%) Marketing Technology
6 186 (3.43%) Blog
7 169 (3.11%) Management Information System
8 142 (2.62%) Analytical Mindset
9 104 (1.92%) Data Structures
10 101 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
11 82 (1.51%) AI Agents
12 79 (1.46%) Algorithms
13 78 (1.44%) Mobile App
14 72 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
15 60 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
16 56 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
17 54 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
18 50 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
19 46 (0.85%) Public Cloud
20 45 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 95 (1.75%) Windows
2 80 (1.47%) Linux
3 25 (0.46%) VMS
4 23 (0.42%) Apple iOS
5 21 (0.39%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.18%) Android
7 6 (0.11%) Unix
8 5 (0.092%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.074%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.055%) Debian
11 2 (0.037%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.018%) AIX
12 1 (0.018%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.018%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.018%) SUSE
12 1 (0.018%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,932 (35.60%) AI
2 1,321 (24.34%) Decision-Making
3 1,196 (22.04%) Business Intelligence
4 920 (16.95%) Agile
5 904 (16.66%) Problem-Solving
6 871 (16.05%) Roadmaps
7 860 (15.85%) Continuous Improvement
8 834 (15.37%) Data Modelling
9 765 (14.10%) Data Engineering
10 752 (13.86%) Machine Learning
11 697 (12.84%) Data Analytics
12 679 (12.51%) CI/CD
13 656 (12.09%) Data Pipeline
14 625 (11.52%) Data Science
15 610 (11.24%) Mentoring
16 591 (10.89%) Stakeholder Management
17 536 (9.88%) Data Governance
18 522 (9.62%) Actionable Insight
19 519 (9.56%) ETL
20 490 (9.03%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1,462 (26.94%) SQL
2 1,206 (22.22%) Python
3 147 (2.71%) Java
4 136 (2.51%) C#
5 129 (2.38%) JavaScript
6 124 (2.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 112 (2.06%) PowerShell
8 91 (1.68%) R
8 91 (1.68%) TypeScript
9 76 (1.40%) Scala
10 73 (1.35%) Bicep
11 63 (1.16%) Bash
12 51 (0.94%) Go
13 45 (0.83%) C++
14 35 (0.64%) Kusto Query Language
15 26 (0.48%) T-SQL
16 25 (0.46%) Kotlin
17 21 (0.39%) Swift
18 18 (0.33%) Julia
18 18 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 651 (12.00%) Degree
2 393 (7.24%) Security Cleared
3 265 (4.88%) SC Cleared
4 122 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 111 (2.05%) Azure Certification
6 100 (1.84%) Master's Degree
7 86 (1.58%) DV Cleared
8 61 (1.12%) AWS Certification
8 61 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
9 48 (0.88%) ACCA
10 47 (0.87%) DBS Check
11 46 (0.85%) CISSP
12 43 (0.79%) CIMA
13 41 (0.76%) PhD
14 36 (0.66%) IRCA
15 35 (0.64%) CISM
16 33 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
17 29 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
18 20 (0.37%) CCNP
18 20 (0.37%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 776 (14.30%) Data Quality
2 343 (6.32%) Accessibility
3 270 (4.98%) GDPR
4 185 (3.41%) QA
5 75 (1.38%) WCAG
6 43 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
7 39 (0.72%) ISO 9001
7 39 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 35 (0.64%) NIST
9 31 (0.57%) SLA
10 24 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 24 (0.44%) PMO
11 21 (0.39%) PCI DSS
12 20 (0.37%) IFRS
13 17 (0.31%) GRC
14 14 (0.26%) PERC
15 13 (0.24%) EU AI Act
16 12 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
17 11 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 9 (0.17%) GAAP
System Software
1 152 (2.80%) Docker
2 90 (1.66%) Active Directory
3 26 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (0.29%) vSphere
6 15 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.15%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.074%) Firmware
8 4 (0.074%) IAG
8 4 (0.074%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.018%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.018%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 175 (3.22%) Kubernetes
2 46 (0.85%) Ansible
3 31 (0.57%) Grafana
4 30 (0.55%) Prometheus
5 19 (0.35%) EnCase
5 19 (0.35%) FTK
6 17 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (0.24%) FortiGate
8 8 (0.15%) Argo
9 6 (0.11%) Graylog
9 6 (0.11%) Hadoop YARN
9 6 (0.11%) Nagios
10 5 (0.092%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.092%) Jamf Pro
10 5 (0.092%) Packer
10 5 (0.092%) Proxmox
10 5 (0.092%) Puppet
10 5 (0.092%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.074%) VxRail
12 3 (0.055%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 830 (15.29%) Microsoft
2 516 (9.51%) Databricks
3 439 (8.09%) Google
4 228 (4.20%) Adobe
5 223 (4.11%) SAP
6 100 (1.84%) Salesforce
7 99 (1.82%) Oracle
8 70 (1.29%) HubSpot
9 55 (1.01%) Workday
10 53 (0.98%) Informatica
11 42 (0.77%) Cisco
12 41 (0.76%) IBM
13 38 (0.70%) VMware
14 37 (0.68%) YouTube
15 36 (0.66%) Alteryx
16 33 (0.61%) OpenAI
17 32 (0.59%) TikTok
18 30 (0.55%) Dell
18 30 (0.55%) Sitecore
19 27 (0.50%) ServiceNow