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 8 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 24 37
Rank change year-on-year -9 +13 -12
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 4,142 3,338 4,610
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.74% 7.36% 5.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.33% 7.85% 6.35%
Number of salaries quoted 2,262 1,647 3,274
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £48,750 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -9.43%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year - +0.92% -0.91%

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 56,516 42,516 72,551
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.36% 93.70% 87.81%
Number of salaries quoted 34,044 22,349 55,477
10th Percentile £29,270 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,262 £80,000 £74,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 8 March 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 8 March 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 3,558 £65,000 -7.14% 2,134
UK excluding London -10 2,053 £55,000 - 1,552
London +5 1,693 £80,000 -5.88% 1,011
Work from Home -2 1,318 £64,000 +2.40% 1,122
North of England -18 517 £50,000 -9.09% 359
South East +5 503 £57,500 -4.17% 561
Midlands -7 407 £52,500 +0.00% 224
North West -24 257 £57,500 +4.55% 191
West Midlands -14 256 £57,500 +4.55% 136
Yorkshire -4 204 £49,500 -10.00% 120
Scotland -4 202 £65,000 -7.14% 63
South West -6 196 £55,000 +1.03% 158
East Midlands +4 149 £48,500 +4.86% 88
East of England +35 147 £50,000 -23.08% 153
North East +16 56 £40,000 -20.79% 50
Northern Ireland -8 53 £45,000 +50.00% 16
Wales +12 31 £65,000 +31.18% 40

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
1 137 (3.31%) Apache Airflow
2 118 (2.85%) Apache Spark
3 104 (2.51%) CMS
4 77 (1.86%) Apache
5 53 (1.28%) WordPress
6 52 (1.26%) Confluence
7 44 (1.06%) SharePoint
8 40 (0.97%) SAS
9 33 (0.80%) ArcGIS
10 18 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
11 17 (0.41%) Drupal
11 17 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
12 14 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 8 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
13 8 (0.19%) Umbraco
14 6 (0.14%) IIS
15 4 (0.097%) Appian
15 4 (0.097%) Documentum
15 4 (0.097%) Sitecore CMS
16 3 (0.072%) Jupyter
Applications
1 429 (10.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 127 (3.07%) Microsoft Office
3 63 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (0.63%) Adobe XD
5 19 (0.46%) InDesign
5 19 (0.46%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.39%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 16 (0.39%) Photoshop
6 16 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
7 15 (0.36%) UserZoom
8 11 (0.27%) Adobe Premiere
8 11 (0.27%) SPSS
9 8 (0.19%) Chatbot
9 8 (0.19%) Maya
9 8 (0.19%) Trello
10 7 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
11 6 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
12 3 (0.072%) Final Cut Pro
12 3 (0.072%) SketchUp
13 2 (0.048%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 76 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 47 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 35 (0.85%) SAP IBP
4 34 (0.82%) SAP PP
5 31 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
6 19 (0.46%) Shopify
7 16 (0.39%) Magento
7 16 (0.39%) SAP CO
8 15 (0.36%) NetSuite
9 14 (0.34%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 14 (0.34%) iTrent
10 13 (0.31%) Dynamics GP
10 13 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
10 13 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
10 13 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
10 13 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
11 12 (0.29%) Oracle Assets
11 12 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
12 11 (0.27%) SAP ERP
13 7 (0.17%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 939 (22.67%) Azure
2 674 (16.27%) Power Platform
3 475 (11.47%) AWS
4 241 (5.82%) SaaS
5 230 (5.55%) Snowflake
6 224 (5.41%) GCP
7 214 (5.17%) Azure Data Factory
8 184 (4.44%) Google Analytics
9 166 (4.01%) Azure DevOps
10 165 (3.98%) Microsoft 365
11 163 (3.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 149 (3.60%) GitHub
13 127 (3.07%) Adobe Analytics
14 126 (3.04%) dbt
15 107 (2.58%) Amazon S3
16 104 (2.51%) Figma
17 98 (2.37%) Entra ID
18 89 (2.15%) Azure Monitor
19 84 (2.03%) Serverless
20 65 (1.57%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 140 (3.38%) Broadband
2 39 (0.94%) VPN
3 36 (0.87%) Firewall
4 23 (0.56%) WAN
5 22 (0.53%) CHAP
6 18 (0.43%) DNS
7 16 (0.39%) Network Security
8 14 (0.34%) Intranet
9 13 (0.31%) Unified Communications
10 12 (0.29%) TCP/IP
11 8 (0.19%) DHCP
12 6 (0.14%) HTTPS
13 5 (0.12%) SNMP
14 4 (0.097%) HTTP
14 4 (0.097%) Intrusion Detection
15 3 (0.072%) Internet
15 3 (0.072%) LAN
15 3 (0.072%) MQTT
15 3 (0.072%) VoIP
16 2 (0.048%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 639 (15.43%) Power BI
2 415 (10.02%) Tableau
3 338 (8.16%) Data Warehouse
4 214 (5.17%) Data Lake
5 189 (4.56%) Metadata
6 187 (4.51%) Data Mining
7 153 (3.69%) SQL Server
8 109 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
9 106 (2.56%) Looker
10 83 (2.00%) Relational Database
11 79 (1.91%) BigQuery
12 76 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
13 72 (1.74%) Big Data
14 69 (1.67%) NoSQL
15 65 (1.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 59 (1.42%) Power Query
17 51 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 44 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
19 43 (1.04%) Oracle Database
19 43 (1.04%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 151 (3.65%) Git
2 112 (2.70%) JIRA
3 65 (1.57%) Jenkins
4 29 (0.70%) GitLab
5 25 (0.60%) IBM UrbanCode
5 25 (0.60%) MLflow
6 24 (0.58%) Axure RP
6 24 (0.58%) Balsamiq
7 23 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
7 23 (0.56%) TeamCity
8 19 (0.46%) Visual Studio
9 14 (0.34%) ERwin
10 10 (0.24%) CircleCI
11 9 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 8 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
12 8 (0.19%) Selenium
13 6 (0.14%) Crashlytics
13 6 (0.14%) Cypress.io
14 5 (0.12%) ER Studio
14 5 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,370 (33.08%) Finance
2 1,209 (29.19%) Social Skills
3 1,071 (25.86%) Analytical Skills
4 656 (15.84%) Marketing
5 283 (6.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 251 (6.06%) Banking
7 249 (6.01%) Public Sector
8 210 (5.07%) Law
9 205 (4.95%) Retail
10 166 (4.01%) Legal
10 166 (4.01%) Manufacturing
11 142 (3.43%) Games
12 123 (2.97%) Presentation Skills
13 106 (2.56%) Financial Institution
14 91 (2.20%) Advertising
14 91 (2.20%) Automotive
15 90 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
16 87 (2.10%) Organisational Skills
17 80 (1.93%) Pharmaceutical
18 69 (1.67%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 674 (16.27%) Senior
2 644 (15.55%) Analyst
3 457 (11.03%) Lead
4 390 (9.42%) Data Engineer
5 371 (8.96%) Data Analyst
6 318 (7.68%) Architect
7 229 (5.53%) Developer
8 163 (3.94%) Trainee
8 163 (3.94%) Trainee Analyst
8 163 (3.94%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 151 (3.65%) Consultant
10 147 (3.55%) Senior Manager
11 145 (3.50%) Data Architect
12 104 (2.51%) Designer
13 97 (2.34%) Solutions Architect
14 92 (2.22%) Data Manager
15 85 (2.05%) Data Scientist
15 85 (2.05%) Support Engineer
16 84 (2.03%) Senior Analyst
17 79 (1.91%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (2.58%) PySpark
2 98 (2.37%) HTML
3 95 (2.29%) Kafka
4 89 (2.15%) CSS
5 77 (1.86%) PyTorch
6 65 (1.57%) .NET
7 59 (1.42%) OAuth
7 59 (1.42%) React
8 57 (1.38%) TensorFlow
9 53 (1.28%) RESTful
10 49 (1.18%) SAP Fiori
11 45 (1.09%) JSON
11 45 (1.09%) REST
12 35 (0.85%) OAuth2
13 33 (0.80%) LangChain
13 33 (0.80%) Pandas
14 32 (0.77%) .NET Core
15 29 (0.70%) Node.js
15 29 (0.70%) scikit-learn
16 27 (0.65%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 246 (5.94%) Social Media
2 184 (4.44%) Cloud Native
3 180 (4.35%) Product Ownership
4 179 (4.32%) Self-Motivation
5 156 (3.77%) Analytical Mindset
6 149 (3.60%) Management Information System
7 124 (2.99%) Onboarding
8 123 (2.97%) Algorithms
9 117 (2.82%) Life Science
10 77 (1.86%) Data Structures
11 72 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
12 65 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
13 59 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
14 51 (1.23%) Mobile App
15 45 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
16 41 (0.99%) Virtual Team
17 39 (0.94%) Fixed Income
18 37 (0.89%) Web Conferencing
19 33 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
19 33 (0.80%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 110 (2.66%) Windows
2 60 (1.45%) Windows 10
3 42 (1.01%) Linux
4 29 (0.70%) Unix
5 24 (0.58%) VMS
6 15 (0.36%) Apple iOS
7 14 (0.34%) Windows Server
8 12 (0.29%) Android
9 2 (0.048%) AIX
9 2 (0.048%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,177 (28.42%) AI
2 929 (22.43%) Business Intelligence
3 870 (21.00%) Decision-Making
4 828 (19.99%) Agile
5 789 (19.05%) Data Analytics
6 711 (17.17%) Problem-Solving
7 706 (17.04%) Continuous Improvement
8 630 (15.21%) Data Modelling
9 523 (12.63%) Data Governance
10 512 (12.36%) Data Engineering
11 511 (12.34%) Roadmaps
12 509 (12.29%) Data Analysis
13 506 (12.22%) Data Science
14 493 (11.90%) Machine Learning
15 473 (11.42%) Data Pipeline
16 471 (11.37%) Project Management
17 457 (11.03%) ETL
18 445 (10.74%) CI/CD
19 421 (10.16%) Visualisation
20 403 (9.73%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1,109 (26.77%) SQL
2 1,022 (24.67%) Python
3 114 (2.75%) JavaScript
4 108 (2.61%) Java
5 93 (2.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 92 (2.22%) C#
7 76 (1.83%) Scala
8 71 (1.71%) PowerShell
8 71 (1.71%) R
9 50 (1.21%) Bicep
10 43 (1.04%) C++
10 43 (1.04%) T-SQL
11 40 (0.97%) TypeScript
12 35 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
13 27 (0.65%) Go
14 26 (0.63%) Bash
15 21 (0.51%) PL/SQL
16 19 (0.46%) Shell Script
17 16 (0.39%) VBA
18 12 (0.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 727 (17.55%) Degree
2 273 (6.59%) Security Cleared
3 193 (4.66%) SC Cleared
4 155 (3.74%) Master's Degree
5 119 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 64 (1.55%) PhD
7 60 (1.45%) CTC Cleared
8 55 (1.33%) CISSP
9 53 (1.28%) Azure Certification
10 50 (1.21%) CISA
11 49 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
12 46 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
13 45 (1.09%) Numerate Degree
14 44 (1.06%) CISM
15 42 (1.01%) DBS Check
16 41 (0.99%) ACCA
17 36 (0.87%) IRCA
18 31 (0.75%) DV Cleared
18 31 (0.75%) PMI Certification
19 28 (0.68%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 544 (13.13%) Data Quality
2 320 (7.73%) Accessibility
3 305 (7.36%) GDPR
4 125 (3.02%) QA
5 77 (1.86%) SLA
6 70 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 69 (1.67%) WCAG
8 48 (1.16%) ISO 9001
8 48 (1.16%) NIST
9 47 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
10 34 (0.82%) HIPAA
11 33 (0.80%) GxP
12 28 (0.68%) COBIT
13 26 (0.63%) IFRS
14 25 (0.60%) EU AI Act
14 25 (0.60%) Solvency II
15 23 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 21 (0.51%) PSD2
17 19 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 16 (0.39%) SOC 2
System Software
1 137 (3.31%) Docker
2 62 (1.50%) Active Directory
3 32 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (0.29%) Hyper-V
4 12 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.097%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.048%) vSphere
7 1 (0.024%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.024%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 195 (4.71%) Terraform
2 156 (3.77%) Kubernetes
3 43 (1.04%) Ansible
4 24 (0.58%) Grafana
4 24 (0.58%) Prometheus
5 23 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
6 21 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.19%) EnCase
7 8 (0.19%) FTK
8 7 (0.17%) Kibana
8 7 (0.17%) SCCM
9 6 (0.14%) QRadar
9 6 (0.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 5 (0.12%) Argo
10 5 (0.12%) SCOM
11 4 (0.097%) RSA Archer
12 3 (0.072%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.072%) ArcSight ESM
12 3 (0.072%) Control-M
12 3 (0.072%) VxRail
Vendors
1 841 (20.30%) Microsoft
2 322 (7.77%) Google
3 282 (6.81%) Databricks
4 215 (5.19%) Adobe
5 185 (4.47%) SAP
6 179 (4.32%) Salesforce
7 148 (3.57%) Oracle
8 138 (3.33%) Cisco
9 64 (1.55%) HubSpot
10 57 (1.38%) Alteryx
11 41 (0.99%) Dell
11 41 (0.99%) Informatica
12 33 (0.80%) Bloomberg
13 31 (0.75%) ServiceNow
14 29 (0.70%) Instagram
14 29 (0.70%) OpenAI
15 28 (0.68%) Nexthink
15 28 (0.68%) Red Hat
15 28 (0.68%) YouTube
16 27 (0.65%) IBM