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 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 21 35
Rank change year-on-year -8 +14 -5
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 5,368 3,965 4,346
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.88% 7.91% 5.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.68% 8.92% 6.61%
Number of salaries quoted 3,208 1,816 2,399
10th Percentile £36,750 £31,375 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £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 £101,625 £112,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £56,509
% change year-on-year +14.29% -7.09% +2.74%

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 80,366 44,460 65,769
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.09% 88.73% 80.84%
Number of salaries quoted 55,743 25,365 40,240
10th Percentile £31,125 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -6.67%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -6.86% -7.07%

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 31 August 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 31 August 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 4,804 £67,500 +10.33% 3,622
UK excluding London -7 2,856 £60,000 +14.29% 1,752
London +1 2,161 £80,000 +3.23% 2,435
Work from Home +8 1,614 £65,000 +8.33% 1,419
North of England +56 934 £60,000 +6.67% 448
Midlands +17 582 £60,000 +14.29% 210
North West +60 547 £60,000 +15.94% 264
South East -39 538 £55,000 +5.77% 552
West Midlands 0 314 £57,500 +4.55% 150
South West -20 295 £60,000 - 249
East Midlands +34 268 £60,000 +23.71% 60
Yorkshire +21 240 £63,076 +0.92% 133
East of England +7 207 £55,000 +37.50% 91
North East +25 147 £52,500 -8.70% 53
Scotland -19 116 £65,000 +8.33% 141
Northern Ireland -19 104 £65,000 +30.00% 36
Wales -6 88 £60,000 +9.09% 39
Isle of Man +2 4 £38,500 - 4

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
1 171 (3.19%) Apache Spark
2 148 (2.76%) CMS
3 113 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
4 86 (1.60%) Apache
5 81 (1.51%) SharePoint
6 67 (1.25%) Confluence
7 65 (1.21%) SAS
8 41 (0.76%) WordPress
9 29 (0.54%) Sitecore CMS
10 24 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
11 16 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
12 15 (0.28%) Headless CMS
13 10 (0.19%) Jupyter
14 7 (0.13%) ArcGIS
15 6 (0.11%) Umbraco
16 5 (0.093%) Oracle Workflow
17 4 (0.075%) Oracle Application Server
18 2 (0.037%) Apache Pulsar
18 2 (0.037%) Drupal
18 2 (0.037%) Luigi
Applications
1 242 (4.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
3 36 (0.67%) UserZoom
4 35 (0.65%) Chatbot
5 31 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 28 (0.52%) SPSS
7 22 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
8 17 (0.32%) Adobe XD
9 14 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 8 (0.15%) MS Visio
11 7 (0.13%) Sketch
12 6 (0.11%) Trello
13 4 (0.075%) Photoshop
14 3 (0.056%) Adobe Premiere
14 3 (0.056%) Microsoft Project
14 3 (0.056%) Zeplin
15 2 (0.037%) Adobe Illustrator
15 2 (0.037%) CapCut
16 1 (0.019%) InDesign
16 1 (0.019%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 114 (2.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 76 (1.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 51 (0.95%) Shopify
4 33 (0.61%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 29 (0.54%) Dynamics GP
6 28 (0.52%) Adobe Campaign
7 20 (0.37%) Magento
8 13 (0.24%) NetSuite
9 11 (0.20%) Workday HCM
10 8 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
11 7 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
11 7 (0.13%) SAP MDG
12 6 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
12 6 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
12 6 (0.11%) SAP PM
12 6 (0.11%) SAP Travel Management
13 5 (0.093%) Oracle Payables
13 5 (0.093%) Oracle Receivables
13 5 (0.093%) SAP BPC
13 5 (0.093%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 1,047 (19.50%) Azure
2 888 (16.54%) Power Platform
3 802 (14.94%) AWS
4 373 (6.95%) GCP
5 307 (5.72%) SaaS
6 272 (5.07%) Snowflake
7 257 (4.79%) Google Analytics
8 199 (3.71%) Azure Data Factory
9 181 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
10 177 (3.30%) GitHub
11 154 (2.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 152 (2.83%) dbt
12 152 (2.83%) Serverless
13 126 (2.35%) Adobe Analytics
14 104 (1.94%) Amazon S3
14 104 (1.94%) Cloud Computing
15 103 (1.92%) Microsoft Purview
16 100 (1.86%) Microsoft 365
17 97 (1.81%) Figma
18 80 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 155 (2.89%) Broadband
2 63 (1.17%) VPN
3 61 (1.14%) Firewall
4 57 (1.06%) Internet
5 47 (0.88%) DNS
6 42 (0.78%) Network Security
7 28 (0.52%) BGP
8 27 (0.50%) TCP/IP
9 25 (0.47%) SMS
10 20 (0.37%) VLAN
11 19 (0.35%) OSPF
12 18 (0.34%) DHCP
13 15 (0.28%) VoIP
14 14 (0.26%) CTI
15 13 (0.24%) SSL
16 12 (0.22%) 5G
17 10 (0.19%) Unified Communications
18 9 (0.17%) VXLAN
18 9 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
19 8 (0.15%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 851 (15.85%) Power BI
2 439 (8.18%) Data Warehouse
3 302 (5.63%) Tableau
4 265 (4.94%) Data Lake
5 221 (4.12%) Metadata
6 170 (3.17%) SQL Server
7 151 (2.81%) Big Data
8 140 (2.61%) Looker
9 125 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
9 125 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
10 115 (2.14%) BigQuery
11 88 (1.64%) Delta Lake
11 88 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
11 88 (1.64%) Relational Database
12 81 (1.51%) NoSQL
13 77 (1.43%) Star Schema
14 74 (1.38%) MongoDB
15 63 (1.17%) Power Query
16 56 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
16 56 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 164 (3.06%) Git
2 83 (1.55%) JIRA
3 53 (0.99%) Jenkins
4 45 (0.84%) MLflow
5 33 (0.61%) GitLab
6 18 (0.34%) Crashlytics
7 17 (0.32%) Claude Code
8 13 (0.24%) fastlane
9 11 (0.20%) CircleCI
9 11 (0.20%) XCTest
10 10 (0.19%) Balsamiq
11 9 (0.17%) Xcode
12 8 (0.15%) Axure RP
12 8 (0.15%) ERwin
12 8 (0.15%) Gradle
13 7 (0.13%) Octopus Deploy
14 6 (0.11%) Android Studio
14 6 (0.11%) Selenium
15 5 (0.093%) Bitbucket
15 5 (0.093%) Browser DevTools
General
1 1,482 (27.61%) Finance
2 1,434 (26.71%) Social Skills
3 1,240 (23.10%) Analytical Skills
4 893 (16.64%) Marketing
5 392 (7.30%) Retail
6 360 (6.71%) Public Sector
7 300 (5.59%) Legal
8 293 (5.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 292 (5.44%) Law
10 220 (4.10%) Banking
11 186 (3.46%) Influencing Skills
12 158 (2.94%) Games
13 152 (2.83%) Manufacturing
14 143 (2.66%) Organisational Skills
15 122 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
16 105 (1.96%) Automotive
17 99 (1.84%) Advertising
18 97 (1.81%) Financial Institution
19 70 (1.30%) Publishing
20 54 (1.01%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,040 (19.37%) Senior
2 635 (11.83%) Data Engineer
3 620 (11.55%) Analyst
4 605 (11.27%) Lead
5 500 (9.31%) Architect
6 341 (6.35%) Developer
7 265 (4.94%) Data Analyst
8 241 (4.49%) Data Architect
9 217 (4.04%) Analytics Manager
10 212 (3.95%) Senior Data Engineer
11 189 (3.52%) Consultant
12 180 (3.35%) Data Scientist
13 169 (3.15%) Solutions Architect
14 164 (3.06%) Senior Manager
15 134 (2.50%) Product Manager
16 126 (2.35%) Senior Analyst
17 120 (2.24%) Data Manager
18 114 (2.12%) Marketing Manager
19 96 (1.79%) Senior Architect
20 88 (1.64%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 263 (4.90%) Terraform
2 172 (3.20%) PySpark
3 140 (2.61%) Kafka
4 102 (1.90%) HTML
5 92 (1.71%) CSS
6 87 (1.62%) .NET
7 73 (1.36%) REST
8 66 (1.23%) React
9 61 (1.14%) Node.js
10 60 (1.12%) scikit-learn
11 58 (1.08%) PyTorch
12 53 (0.99%) TensorFlow
13 50 (0.93%) LangChain
14 49 (0.91%) Pandas
15 42 (0.78%) .NET Core
16 38 (0.71%) ASP.NET
16 38 (0.71%) Middleware
16 38 (0.71%) RESTful
17 36 (0.67%) ASP.NET Core
18 34 (0.63%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 302 (5.63%) Cloud Native
2 277 (5.16%) Onboarding
3 215 (4.01%) Social Media
4 204 (3.80%) Product Ownership
5 189 (3.52%) Marketing Technology
6 186 (3.46%) Blog
7 167 (3.11%) Management Information System
8 138 (2.57%) Analytical Mindset
9 106 (1.97%) Data Structures
10 97 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
11 81 (1.51%) AI Agents
11 81 (1.51%) Algorithms
12 78 (1.45%) Mobile App
13 74 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
14 60 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
15 57 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
16 53 (0.99%) Public Cloud
17 46 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
18 45 (0.84%) Virtual Team
19 44 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 89 (1.66%) Windows
2 78 (1.45%) Linux
3 25 (0.47%) VMS
4 24 (0.45%) Apple iOS
5 21 (0.39%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.19%) Android
7 6 (0.11%) Unix
8 5 (0.093%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.075%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.056%) Debian
11 2 (0.037%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.019%) AIX
12 1 (0.019%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.019%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.019%) SUSE
12 1 (0.019%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,913 (35.64%) AI
2 1,307 (24.35%) Decision-Making
3 1,186 (22.09%) Business Intelligence
4 903 (16.82%) Agile
5 882 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
6 860 (16.02%) Roadmaps
7 836 (15.57%) Continuous Improvement
8 828 (15.42%) Data Modelling
9 760 (14.16%) Data Engineering
10 759 (14.14%) Machine Learning
11 693 (12.91%) Data Analytics
12 659 (12.28%) Data Pipeline
13 657 (12.24%) CI/CD
14 631 (11.75%) Data Science
15 588 (10.95%) Mentoring
16 560 (10.43%) Stakeholder Management
17 536 (9.99%) Data Governance
18 518 (9.65%) Actionable Insight
19 513 (9.56%) ETL
20 483 (9.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1,439 (26.81%) SQL
2 1,204 (22.43%) Python
3 139 (2.59%) Java
4 127 (2.37%) C#
5 120 (2.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 117 (2.18%) JavaScript
7 107 (1.99%) PowerShell
8 89 (1.66%) TypeScript
9 87 (1.62%) R
10 76 (1.42%) Scala
11 73 (1.36%) Bicep
12 58 (1.08%) Bash
13 47 (0.88%) Go
14 37 (0.69%) C++
15 36 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
16 26 (0.48%) Kotlin
17 25 (0.47%) T-SQL
18 22 (0.41%) Swift
19 18 (0.34%) Julia
19 18 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 657 (12.24%) Degree
2 379 (7.06%) Security Cleared
3 252 (4.69%) SC Cleared
4 124 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 112 (2.09%) Azure Certification
6 101 (1.88%) Master's Degree
7 84 (1.56%) DV Cleared
8 60 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
9 59 (1.10%) AWS Certification
10 48 (0.89%) ACCA
11 45 (0.84%) DBS Check
12 43 (0.80%) CIMA
12 43 (0.80%) CISSP
12 43 (0.80%) PhD
13 36 (0.67%) IRCA
14 34 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
15 32 (0.60%) CISM
16 29 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
17 22 (0.41%) Postgraduate
18 20 (0.37%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 744 (13.86%) Data Quality
2 339 (6.32%) Accessibility
3 267 (4.97%) GDPR
4 175 (3.26%) QA
5 76 (1.42%) WCAG
6 44 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
7 39 (0.73%) ISO 9001
8 38 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 35 (0.65%) NIST
10 30 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 30 (0.56%) SLA
11 24 (0.45%) PMO
12 21 (0.39%) IFRS
12 21 (0.39%) PCI DSS
13 17 (0.32%) GRC
14 14 (0.26%) PERC
15 13 (0.24%) EU AI Act
16 12 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
16 12 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 10 (0.19%) GAAP
System Software
1 149 (2.78%) Docker
2 87 (1.62%) Active Directory
3 25 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (0.30%) vSphere
6 15 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.13%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.075%) Firmware
8 4 (0.075%) IAG
8 4 (0.075%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.019%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.019%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 174 (3.24%) Kubernetes
2 46 (0.86%) Ansible
3 28 (0.52%) Grafana
4 27 (0.50%) Prometheus
5 18 (0.34%) EnCase
5 18 (0.34%) FTK
6 14 (0.26%) 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 (0.093%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.093%) Packer
10 5 (0.093%) Puppet
10 5 (0.093%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.075%) VxRail
12 3 (0.056%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.056%) Kibana
12 3 (0.056%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 810 (15.09%) Microsoft
2 520 (9.69%) Databricks
3 433 (8.07%) Google
4 228 (4.25%) Adobe
5 222 (4.14%) SAP
6 105 (1.96%) Salesforce
7 103 (1.92%) Oracle
8 70 (1.30%) HubSpot
9 57 (1.06%) Informatica
10 56 (1.04%) Workday
11 46 (0.86%) Dell
12 42 (0.78%) IBM
13 41 (0.76%) Cisco
14 36 (0.67%) YouTube
15 35 (0.65%) Alteryx
16 34 (0.63%) OpenAI
16 34 (0.63%) VMware
17 30 (0.56%) Sitecore
17 30 (0.56%) TikTok
18 28 (0.52%) Cognos