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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 22 37
Rank change year-on-year -5 +15 -15
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 4,853 3,788 5,477
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.16% 8.44% 5.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.06% 9.13% 6.14%
Number of salaries quoted 2,934 1,691 3,433
10th Percentile £35,150 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,250 £45,429 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +6.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £86,000 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £115,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.85% -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 68,746 41,496 89,251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.03% 92.46% 81.73%
Number of salaries quoted 47,319 22,262 63,244
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £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 20 June 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 20 June 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 -3 4,355 £67,500 +3.85% 1,742
UK excluding London -3 2,592 £60,000 +9.09% 1,161
London +3 1,872 £80,000 - 931
Work from Home +3 1,497 £65,000 +8.33% 824
North of England +38 874 £60,000 +9.09% 298
Midlands +13 571 £57,500 +12.20% 178
North West +35 515 £60,000 +14.29% 194
South East -30 476 £55,000 -8.33% 414
West Midlands -2 328 £57,500 +9.52% 118
Yorkshire +13 247 £60,000 - 68
East Midlands +31 240 £57,500 +18.56% 59
East of England +26 232 £60,000 +20.00% 69
South West -32 228 £60,000 - 120
Scotland -11 121 £65,000 -7.14% 50
North East +19 112 £50,000 -2.91% 38
Northern Ireland -10 46 £45,000 +50.00% 31
Wales -15 46 £60,000 +19.70% 24

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
1 154 (3.17%) Apache Spark
2 147 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
3 119 (2.45%) CMS
4 102 (2.10%) Apache
5 65 (1.34%) Confluence
6 54 (1.11%) SAS
7 46 (0.95%) WordPress
8 45 (0.93%) SharePoint
9 35 (0.72%) ArcGIS
10 24 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
11 17 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
12 10 (0.21%) Drupal
13 9 (0.19%) Jupyter
14 7 (0.14%) Oracle Application Server
15 6 (0.12%) Headless CMS
16 5 (0.10%) Umbraco
17 4 (0.082%) Documentum
17 4 (0.082%) Oracle Workflow
18 3 (0.062%) Sitecore CMS
19 2 (0.041%) Moodle
Applications
1 257 (5.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 76 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
3 46 (0.95%) UserZoom
4 41 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 28 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
6 17 (0.35%) MS Visio
7 16 (0.33%) SPSS
8 13 (0.27%) Chatbot
9 12 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 12 (0.25%) Adobe XD
10 6 (0.12%) Trello
11 5 (0.10%) Photoshop
12 4 (0.082%) InDesign
12 4 (0.082%) Microsoft Project
13 3 (0.062%) Adobe Illustrator
13 3 (0.062%) Sketch
14 1 (0.021%) Adobe Premiere
14 1 (0.021%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 94 (1.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (0.72%) SAP IBP
3 34 (0.70%) Adobe Campaign
4 33 (0.68%) SAP PP
5 23 (0.47%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 19 (0.39%) Shopify
7 15 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
8 14 (0.29%) Magento
9 13 (0.27%) iTrent
10 12 (0.25%) NetSuite
11 11 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
12 7 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
13 6 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
13 6 (0.12%) SAP CO
13 6 (0.12%) SAP ERP
13 6 (0.12%) SAP PM
13 6 (0.12%) SAP Travel Management
14 5 (0.10%) SAP PS
14 5 (0.10%) SAP SD
15 4 (0.082%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 979 (20.17%) Azure
2 755 (15.56%) Power Platform
3 665 (13.70%) AWS
4 311 (6.41%) GCP
5 295 (6.08%) SaaS
6 217 (4.47%) Snowflake
7 212 (4.37%) Adobe Analytics
8 196 (4.04%) Google Analytics
9 175 (3.61%) Azure Data Factory
10 165 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
11 143 (2.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 131 (2.70%) GitHub
12 131 (2.70%) Serverless
13 123 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
14 122 (2.51%) dbt
15 119 (2.45%) Amazon S3
16 112 (2.31%) Figma
17 105 (2.16%) Entra ID
18 84 (1.73%) Azure Monitor
19 79 (1.63%) Contentsquare
Communications & Networking
1 270 (5.56%) Broadband
2 45 (0.93%) VPN
3 41 (0.84%) Firewall
4 35 (0.72%) DNS
5 28 (0.58%) Network Security
6 24 (0.49%) TCP/IP
7 20 (0.41%) BGP
8 19 (0.39%) CHAP
9 17 (0.35%) SMS
9 17 (0.35%) VLAN
10 16 (0.33%) DHCP
10 16 (0.33%) Internet
10 16 (0.33%) OSPF
10 16 (0.33%) WAN
11 14 (0.29%) Unified Communications
12 11 (0.23%) Intranet
13 10 (0.21%) SNMP
14 9 (0.19%) 5G
14 9 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
15 8 (0.16%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 721 (14.86%) Power BI
2 338 (6.96%) Data Warehouse
3 304 (6.26%) Tableau
4 206 (4.24%) Data Lake
5 165 (3.40%) Metadata
6 143 (2.95%) SQL Server
7 122 (2.51%) Looker
8 113 (2.33%) BigQuery
9 109 (2.25%) Amazon Redshift
10 103 (2.12%) Azure SQL Database
11 99 (2.04%) Big Data
12 93 (1.92%) Relational Database
13 85 (1.75%) NoSQL
14 83 (1.71%) Data Mining
15 74 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
16 66 (1.36%) Power Query
17 60 (1.24%) MongoDB
18 59 (1.22%) Star Schema
19 53 (1.09%) Delta Lake
20 51 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 164 (3.38%) Git
2 75 (1.55%) Jenkins
3 73 (1.50%) JIRA
4 45 (0.93%) MLflow
5 37 (0.76%) GitLab
6 25 (0.52%) IBM UrbanCode
6 25 (0.52%) TeamCity
7 20 (0.41%) Crashlytics
8 16 (0.33%) CircleCI
9 14 (0.29%) XCTest
10 13 (0.27%) Claude Code
10 13 (0.27%) fastlane
11 11 (0.23%) ERwin
12 9 (0.19%) Selenium
12 9 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 9 (0.19%) Xcode
13 8 (0.16%) Gradle
13 8 (0.16%) Visual Studio
14 7 (0.14%) Axure RP
14 7 (0.14%) Balsamiq
General
1 1,296 (26.71%) Finance
2 1,193 (24.58%) Social Skills
3 1,071 (22.07%) Analytical Skills
4 662 (13.64%) Marketing
5 281 (5.79%) Public Sector
6 277 (5.71%) Retail
7 258 (5.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 229 (4.72%) Games
9 224 (4.62%) Law
10 206 (4.24%) Banking
11 185 (3.81%) Legal
12 141 (2.91%) Manufacturing
13 129 (2.66%) Automotive
13 129 (2.66%) Influencing Skills
14 118 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
15 107 (2.20%) Advertising
16 88 (1.81%) Financial Institution
17 73 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
18 53 (1.09%) Telecoms
19 40 (0.82%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 872 (17.97%) Senior
2 607 (12.51%) Analyst
3 546 (11.25%) Data Engineer
4 540 (11.13%) Lead
5 382 (7.87%) Architect
6 310 (6.39%) Developer
7 299 (6.16%) Data Analyst
8 198 (4.08%) Consultant
8 198 (4.08%) Data Architect
9 145 (2.99%) Senior Data Engineer
10 142 (2.93%) Senior Manager
11 130 (2.68%) Data Scientist
12 124 (2.56%) Product Manager
13 122 (2.51%) Solutions Architect
14 120 (2.47%) Analytics Manager
15 112 (2.31%) Data Manager
16 108 (2.23%) Senior Analyst
17 100 (2.06%) Designer
18 82 (1.69%) Azure Engineer
19 81 (1.67%) Trainee Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (2.91%) PySpark
2 119 (2.45%) Kafka
3 93 (1.92%) .NET
4 90 (1.85%) HTML
5 86 (1.77%) CSS
6 74 (1.52%) PyTorch
7 56 (1.15%) SAP Fiori
8 55 (1.13%) .NET Core
9 54 (1.11%) React
10 49 (1.01%) Pandas
11 47 (0.97%) REST
12 45 (0.93%) TensorFlow
13 43 (0.89%) scikit-learn
14 42 (0.87%) LangChain
14 42 (0.87%) RESTful
15 39 (0.80%) Node.js
16 32 (0.66%) JSON
17 28 (0.58%) YAML
18 26 (0.54%) gRPC
19 25 (0.52%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 293 (6.04%) Social Media
2 236 (4.86%) Cloud Native
3 194 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 163 (3.36%) Analytical Mindset
5 152 (3.13%) Management Information System
6 141 (2.91%) Onboarding
7 111 (2.29%) Greenfield Project
8 106 (2.18%) Data Structures
9 101 (2.08%) Algorithms
10 84 (1.73%) Mobile App
11 82 (1.69%) Marketing Technology
12 76 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
13 63 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
14 61 (1.26%) Life Science
15 58 (1.20%) Over-the-Top Content
16 57 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
17 52 (1.07%) Public Cloud
18 42 (0.87%) Virtual Team
19 41 (0.84%) Blog
19 41 (0.84%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 110 (2.27%) Windows
2 72 (1.48%) Linux
3 35 (0.72%) VMS
4 33 (0.68%) Windows 10
5 27 (0.56%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.33%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.25%) Android
8 11 (0.23%) Unix
9 3 (0.062%) AIX
10 2 (0.041%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.021%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.021%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,447 (29.82%) AI
2 1,043 (21.49%) Decision-Making
3 1,017 (20.96%) Business Intelligence
4 910 (18.75%) Agile
5 755 (15.56%) Roadmaps
6 748 (15.41%) Data Modelling
7 713 (14.69%) Data Analytics
8 710 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
9 707 (14.57%) Continuous Improvement
10 644 (13.27%) Data Engineering
11 586 (12.08%) Data Pipeline
12 573 (11.81%) CI/CD
13 552 (11.37%) Data Governance
14 541 (11.15%) Machine Learning
15 527 (10.86%) Customer Experience
16 484 (9.97%) Data Science
17 483 (9.95%) ETL
18 460 (9.48%) Mentoring
19 444 (9.15%) Actionable Insight
20 437 (9.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1,255 (25.86%) SQL
2 1,080 (22.25%) Python
3 127 (2.62%) C#
4 120 (2.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 105 (2.16%) Java
6 103 (2.12%) PowerShell
7 86 (1.77%) R
8 82 (1.69%) Scala
9 81 (1.67%) JavaScript
10 60 (1.24%) TypeScript
11 50 (1.03%) Bicep
12 49 (1.01%) Bash
13 44 (0.91%) C++
14 39 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
15 33 (0.68%) Go
16 31 (0.64%) T-SQL
17 23 (0.47%) Kotlin
17 23 (0.47%) VBA
18 21 (0.43%) Swift
19 18 (0.37%) Julia
Qualifications
1 559 (11.52%) Degree
2 303 (6.24%) Security Cleared
3 206 (4.24%) SC Cleared
4 96 (1.98%) Master's Degree
5 85 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 84 (1.73%) Azure Certification
7 72 (1.48%) IRCA
8 52 (1.07%) DV Cleared
9 51 (1.05%) ACCA
10 48 (0.99%) DBS Check
11 47 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
12 46 (0.95%) CISSP
13 45 (0.93%) CIMA
14 43 (0.89%) AWS Certification
15 40 (0.82%) CISM
16 37 (0.76%) PhD
17 35 (0.72%) CISA
18 33 (0.68%) CTC Cleared
19 31 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
20 22 (0.45%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 624 (12.86%) Data Quality
2 393 (8.10%) Accessibility
3 324 (6.68%) GDPR
4 195 (4.02%) QA
5 96 (1.98%) WCAG
6 76 (1.57%) ISO 9001
7 56 (1.15%) SLA
8 44 (0.91%) NIST
9 43 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 36 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 33 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
12 26 (0.54%) IFRS
13 23 (0.47%) COBIT
14 20 (0.41%) PCI DSS
15 16 (0.33%) SOC 2
16 15 (0.31%) GAAP
16 15 (0.31%) HIPAA
16 15 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 14 (0.29%) GRC
17 14 (0.29%) PERC
System Software
1 161 (3.32%) Docker
2 90 (1.85%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.25%) vSphere
6 9 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.14%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.082%) IAG
8 4 (0.082%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.041%) Firmware
10 1 (0.021%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 237 (4.88%) Terraform
2 187 (3.85%) Kubernetes
3 42 (0.87%) Ansible
4 32 (0.66%) Prometheus
5 30 (0.62%) Grafana
6 15 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (0.23%) EnCase
7 11 (0.23%) FTK
8 9 (0.19%) Kibana
9 6 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (0.12%) FortiGate
9 6 (0.12%) Nagios
9 6 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.12%) VxRail
10 5 (0.10%) Argo
10 5 (0.10%) Graylog
11 3 (0.062%) Control-M
11 3 (0.062%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.062%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.041%) vRealize
Vendors
1 777 (16.01%) Microsoft
2 422 (8.70%) Databricks
3 343 (7.07%) Google
4 301 (6.20%) Adobe
5 229 (4.72%) SAP
6 136 (2.80%) Salesforce
7 123 (2.53%) Oracle
8 76 (1.57%) Cisco
9 71 (1.46%) HubSpot
10 53 (1.09%) Dell
11 48 (0.99%) Informatica
12 34 (0.70%) Workday
13 28 (0.58%) ServiceNow
14 27 (0.56%) Alteryx
14 27 (0.56%) Cloudera
14 27 (0.56%) IBM
15 26 (0.54%) Teradata
15 26 (0.54%) VMware
16 25 (0.52%) Cognos
16 25 (0.52%) Red Hat