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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 24 38
Rank change year-on-year -9 +14 -14
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 4,251 3,301 4,645
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.74% 7.57% 5.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.35% 8.09% 6.32%
Number of salaries quoted 2,354 1,645 3,271
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £48,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -7.88%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -3.51% +5.56% -1.82%

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 57,853 40,823 73,554
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.06% 93.60% 87.34%
Number of salaries quoted 35,092 22,156 55,922
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,366 £29,000
25th Percentile £39,911 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.86%
75th Percentile £76,674 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
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 14 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 14 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 -8 3,657 £65,000 -7.14% 2,164
UK excluding London -12 2,126 £55,000 -3.51% 1,536
London +5 1,721 £80,000 -5.88% 1,076
Work from Home -3 1,357 £63,288 +1.26% 1,092
North of England -16 554 £52,250 -5.00% 358
South East 0 492 £55,000 -8.33% 561
Midlands -12 433 £52,500 -4.55% 219
North West -22 277 £56,250 +2.27% 197
West Midlands -11 272 £57,500 +4.55% 121
Yorkshire -7 216 £50,000 -9.09% 114
Scotland -4 204 £65,000 -7.14% 63
South West -4 194 £55,000 +4.76% 165
East of England +45 161 £50,000 -23.08% 135
East Midlands -1 159 £48,500 +1.04% 98
North East +19 61 £40,000 -27.27% 50
Northern Ireland -6 56 £45,000 +50.00% 15
Wales +15 34 £52,500 +5.00% 42

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
1 144 (3.39%) Apache Airflow
2 117 (2.75%) Apache Spark
3 109 (2.56%) CMS
4 79 (1.86%) Apache
5 58 (1.36%) Confluence
6 53 (1.25%) WordPress
7 45 (1.06%) SharePoint
8 40 (0.94%) SAS
9 34 (0.80%) ArcGIS
10 22 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
11 17 (0.40%) Drupal
11 17 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
12 12 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 9 (0.21%) Oracle Application Server
14 8 (0.19%) Umbraco
15 6 (0.14%) IIS
16 4 (0.094%) Appian
16 4 (0.094%) Documentum
16 4 (0.094%) Sitecore CMS
17 3 (0.071%) Jupyter
Applications
1 432 (10.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 125 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
3 64 (1.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 27 (0.64%) Adobe XD
5 20 (0.47%) UserZoom
6 19 (0.45%) MS Visio
7 17 (0.40%) InDesign
8 16 (0.38%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 16 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
9 13 (0.31%) Photoshop
10 11 (0.26%) Adobe Premiere
10 11 (0.26%) SPSS
11 8 (0.19%) Chatbot
11 8 (0.19%) Maya
12 7 (0.16%) Trello
13 6 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
14 5 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
15 3 (0.071%) Final Cut Pro
15 3 (0.071%) SketchUp
16 2 (0.047%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 78 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 47 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 35 (0.82%) SAP IBP
4 34 (0.80%) SAP PP
5 30 (0.71%) Oracle ERP
6 18 (0.42%) Magento
7 17 (0.40%) Shopify
8 16 (0.38%) NetSuite
8 16 (0.38%) SAP CO
9 15 (0.35%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 15 (0.35%) iTrent
10 13 (0.31%) Adobe Campaign
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
11 12 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
11 12 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
11 12 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
12 11 (0.26%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 955 (22.47%) Azure
2 678 (15.95%) Power Platform
3 494 (11.62%) AWS
4 247 (5.81%) SaaS
5 233 (5.48%) Snowflake
6 227 (5.34%) GCP
7 225 (5.29%) Azure Data Factory
8 190 (4.47%) Google Analytics
9 171 (4.02%) Azure DevOps
10 167 (3.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 162 (3.81%) Microsoft 365
12 154 (3.62%) GitHub
13 148 (3.48%) Adobe Analytics
14 129 (3.03%) dbt
15 112 (2.63%) Amazon S3
15 112 (2.63%) Figma
16 95 (2.23%) Serverless
17 94 (2.21%) Entra ID
18 87 (2.05%) Azure Monitor
19 65 (1.53%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 166 (3.90%) Broadband
2 38 (0.89%) VPN
3 37 (0.87%) Firewall
4 24 (0.56%) CHAP
5 23 (0.54%) WAN
6 19 (0.45%) DNS
7 17 (0.40%) Network Security
8 14 (0.33%) Intranet
8 14 (0.33%) TCP/IP
9 13 (0.31%) Unified Communications
10 9 (0.21%) DHCP
11 6 (0.14%) HTTPS
12 5 (0.12%) SNMP
13 4 (0.094%) HTTP
13 4 (0.094%) SMS
14 3 (0.071%) Internet
14 3 (0.071%) Intrusion Detection
14 3 (0.071%) LAN
14 3 (0.071%) Modbus
14 3 (0.071%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 643 (15.13%) Power BI
2 428 (10.07%) Tableau
3 348 (8.19%) Data Warehouse
4 219 (5.15%) Data Lake
5 201 (4.73%) Data Mining
6 188 (4.42%) Metadata
7 160 (3.76%) SQL Server
8 112 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
9 110 (2.59%) Looker
10 85 (2.00%) Relational Database
11 81 (1.91%) Amazon Redshift
12 77 (1.81%) BigQuery
13 74 (1.74%) NoSQL
14 71 (1.67%) Big Data
15 67 (1.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 62 (1.46%) Power Query
17 55 (1.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 50 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
19 43 (1.01%) Snowflake Schema
20 42 (0.99%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 152 (3.58%) Git
2 110 (2.59%) JIRA
3 71 (1.67%) Jenkins
4 33 (0.78%) GitLab
5 27 (0.64%) MLflow
6 25 (0.59%) Axure RP
6 25 (0.59%) Balsamiq
6 25 (0.59%) IBM UrbanCode
7 23 (0.54%) TeamCity
8 22 (0.52%) Oracle Forms
9 19 (0.45%) Visual Studio
10 13 (0.31%) ERwin
11 11 (0.26%) CircleCI
12 10 (0.24%) Crashlytics
13 9 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 8 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
14 8 (0.19%) Selenium
15 7 (0.16%) Cypress.io
15 7 (0.16%) XCTest
16 5 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,393 (32.77%) Finance
2 1,232 (28.98%) Social Skills
3 1,099 (25.85%) Analytical Skills
4 659 (15.50%) Marketing
5 283 (6.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 261 (6.14%) Public Sector
7 256 (6.02%) Banking
8 215 (5.06%) Law
9 204 (4.80%) Retail
10 170 (4.00%) Legal
11 166 (3.90%) Games
12 164 (3.86%) Manufacturing
13 124 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
14 110 (2.59%) Financial Institution
15 96 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
16 93 (2.19%) Advertising
16 93 (2.19%) Automotive
17 87 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
18 73 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
19 69 (1.62%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 695 (16.35%) Senior
2 659 (15.50%) Analyst
3 470 (11.06%) Lead
4 402 (9.46%) Data Engineer
5 382 (8.99%) Data Analyst
6 319 (7.50%) Architect
7 234 (5.50%) Developer
8 179 (4.21%) Trainee
8 179 (4.21%) Trainee Analyst
8 179 (4.21%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 163 (3.83%) Consultant
10 149 (3.51%) Senior Manager
11 144 (3.39%) Data Architect
12 109 (2.56%) Designer
13 97 (2.28%) Solutions Architect
14 91 (2.14%) Data Manager
15 86 (2.02%) Senior Analyst
15 86 (2.02%) Support Engineer
16 84 (1.98%) Data Scientist
17 81 (1.91%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (2.59%) PySpark
2 101 (2.38%) Kafka
3 99 (2.33%) HTML
4 91 (2.14%) CSS
5 76 (1.79%) PyTorch
6 69 (1.62%) .NET
7 61 (1.43%) React
8 56 (1.32%) TensorFlow
9 55 (1.29%) OAuth
10 54 (1.27%) RESTful
11 49 (1.15%) SAP Fiori
12 48 (1.13%) REST
13 44 (1.04%) JSON
14 36 (0.85%) .NET Core
15 34 (0.80%) LangChain
15 34 (0.80%) Node.js
16 32 (0.75%) OAuth2
16 32 (0.75%) Pandas
17 28 (0.66%) scikit-learn
18 26 (0.61%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 265 (6.23%) Social Media
2 195 (4.59%) Cloud Native
3 192 (4.52%) Product Ownership
4 176 (4.14%) Self-Motivation
5 154 (3.62%) Analytical Mindset
6 151 (3.55%) Management Information System
7 129 (3.03%) Onboarding
8 116 (2.73%) Algorithms
9 111 (2.61%) Life Science
10 80 (1.88%) Data Structures
11 77 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
12 64 (1.51%) Distributed Systems
13 58 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
13 58 (1.36%) Mobile App
14 43 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
15 42 (0.99%) Virtual Team
16 39 (0.92%) Web Conferencing
17 38 (0.89%) Fixed Income
18 36 (0.85%) Over-the-Top Content
19 33 (0.78%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 110 (2.59%) Windows
2 60 (1.41%) Windows 10
3 42 (0.99%) Linux
4 25 (0.59%) VMS
5 24 (0.56%) Unix
6 19 (0.45%) Apple iOS
7 15 (0.35%) Windows Server
8 13 (0.31%) Android
9 2 (0.047%) AIX
9 2 (0.047%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.024%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,198 (28.18%) AI
2 932 (21.92%) Business Intelligence
3 897 (21.10%) Decision-Making
4 854 (20.09%) Agile
5 795 (18.70%) Data Analytics
6 733 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
7 717 (16.87%) Problem-Solving
8 654 (15.38%) Data Modelling
9 543 (12.77%) Roadmaps
10 532 (12.51%) Data Governance
11 524 (12.33%) Data Engineering
12 518 (12.19%) Data Analysis
13 499 (11.74%) Data Science
14 487 (11.46%) Machine Learning
15 486 (11.43%) Data Pipeline
16 475 (11.17%) CI/CD
17 474 (11.15%) Project Management
18 465 (10.94%) ETL
19 439 (10.33%) Customer Experience
20 420 (9.88%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1,141 (26.84%) SQL
2 1,042 (24.51%) Python
3 114 (2.68%) JavaScript
4 103 (2.42%) Java
5 97 (2.28%) C#
6 94 (2.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 74 (1.74%) Scala
8 70 (1.65%) PowerShell
9 69 (1.62%) R
10 49 (1.15%) Bicep
11 44 (1.04%) T-SQL
12 43 (1.01%) TypeScript
13 41 (0.96%) C++
14 36 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
15 32 (0.75%) Go
16 26 (0.61%) Bash
17 20 (0.47%) PL/SQL
18 17 (0.40%) Shell Script
19 16 (0.38%) VBA
20 13 (0.31%) PHP
Qualifications
1 715 (16.82%) Degree
2 269 (6.33%) Security Cleared
3 190 (4.47%) SC Cleared
4 152 (3.58%) Master's Degree
5 124 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 60 (1.41%) CTC Cleared
6 60 (1.41%) PhD
7 56 (1.32%) Azure Certification
7 56 (1.32%) CISSP
8 51 (1.20%) CISA
9 48 (1.13%) CISM
9 48 (1.13%) IRCA
9 48 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
10 45 (1.06%) DBS Check
11 44 (1.04%) Numerate Degree
12 39 (0.92%) ACCA
13 37 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
14 36 (0.85%) DV Cleared
15 31 (0.73%) PMI Certification
16 30 (0.71%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 569 (13.39%) Data Quality
2 347 (8.16%) Accessibility
3 319 (7.50%) GDPR
4 141 (3.32%) QA
5 80 (1.88%) SLA
6 76 (1.79%) WCAG
7 70 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 59 (1.39%) ISO 9001
9 52 (1.22%) NIST
10 48 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
11 34 (0.80%) HIPAA
12 30 (0.71%) COBIT
13 28 (0.66%) GxP
13 28 (0.66%) IFRS
14 27 (0.64%) Solvency II
15 26 (0.61%) EU AI Act
16 24 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 21 (0.49%) PSD2
17 21 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 17 (0.40%) SOC 2
System Software
1 142 (3.34%) Docker
2 63 (1.48%) Active Directory
3 31 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (0.28%) Hyper-V
5 11 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
6 10 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.094%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.047%) Firmware
8 2 (0.047%) vSphere
9 1 (0.024%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.024%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 204 (4.80%) Terraform
2 166 (3.90%) Kubernetes
3 46 (1.08%) Ansible
4 26 (0.61%) Grafana
5 25 (0.59%) Prometheus
6 20 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (0.19%) EnCase
8 8 (0.19%) FTK
9 7 (0.16%) Kibana
10 6 (0.14%) QRadar
10 6 (0.14%) SCCM
11 5 (0.12%) Argo
11 5 (0.12%) SCOM
11 5 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 4 (0.094%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.094%) RSA Archer
13 3 (0.071%) ArcSight ESM
13 3 (0.071%) Control-M
13 3 (0.071%) VxRail
Vendors
1 869 (20.44%) Microsoft
2 323 (7.60%) Google
3 296 (6.96%) Databricks
4 243 (5.72%) Adobe
5 183 (4.30%) SAP
6 177 (4.16%) Salesforce
7 147 (3.46%) Oracle
8 136 (3.20%) Cisco
9 64 (1.51%) HubSpot
10 55 (1.29%) Alteryx
11 42 (0.99%) Informatica
12 41 (0.96%) Dell
13 32 (0.75%) Bloomberg
13 32 (0.75%) Palantir
13 32 (0.75%) ServiceNow
14 29 (0.68%) Instagram
15 28 (0.66%) Foundry
15 28 (0.66%) Nexthink
15 28 (0.66%) OpenAI
15 28 (0.66%) Talend