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 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 21 39
Rank change year-on-year -7 +18 -16
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 4,551 3,422 5,029
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.49% 8.37% 5.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.22% 9.00% 6.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2,538 1,736 3,298
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -8.19%
75th Percentile £85,000 £94,083 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year -3.51% +4.59% -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 63,076 38,012 79,454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.08% 92.99% 86.12%
Number of salaries quoted 38,955 22,518 58,781
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,035
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -8.26%

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 9 April 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 9 April 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 -11 3,965 £65,000 -3.70% 1,921
UK excluding London -17 2,348 £55,000 -3.51% 1,320
London +3 1,800 £80,000 -5.88% 896
Work from Home -3 1,409 £64,000 +6.67% 858
North of England -12 675 £57,500 +4.55% 331
South East -18 503 £55,000 -8.33% 433
Midlands -18 469 £51,000 -2.86% 212
North West -18 360 £60,000 +9.09% 192
West Midlands -19 282 £55,000 - 110
Yorkshire -9 241 £50,000 -9.91% 91
South West -19 212 £56,350 +6.43% 149
East of England +16 199 £52,500 -19.23% 103
Scotland -6 198 £65,000 -11.93% 53
East Midlands +1 184 £50,000 +3.09% 102
North East +11 74 £40,000 -27.27% 52
Northern Ireland -15 56 £45,000 +50.00% 17
Wales -2 39 £40,000 -27.27% 41

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
1 161 (3.54%) Apache Airflow
2 128 (2.81%) Apache Spark
3 110 (2.42%) CMS
4 80 (1.76%) Apache
5 72 (1.58%) Confluence
6 53 (1.16%) WordPress
7 47 (1.03%) SharePoint
8 36 (0.79%) SAS
9 35 (0.77%) ArcGIS
10 19 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
11 16 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
12 12 (0.26%) Drupal
13 9 (0.20%) Oracle Application Server
14 8 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 6 (0.13%) IIS
16 5 (0.11%) Umbraco
17 4 (0.088%) Appian
17 4 (0.088%) Documentum
17 4 (0.088%) Sitecore CMS
18 3 (0.066%) Jupyter
Applications
1 403 (8.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 121 (2.66%) Microsoft Office
3 67 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (0.68%) UserZoom
5 29 (0.64%) Adobe XD
6 19 (0.42%) MS Visio
7 18 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
8 13 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 10 (0.22%) Chatbot
9 10 (0.22%) InDesign
9 10 (0.22%) SPSS
10 8 (0.18%) Trello
11 6 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
12 5 (0.11%) Photoshop
13 4 (0.088%) Adobe Illustrator
13 4 (0.088%) Adobe Premiere
14 3 (0.066%) Final Cut Pro
14 3 (0.066%) Sketch
15 2 (0.044%) Maya
15 2 (0.044%) Notion
Business Applications
1 79 (1.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
3 34 (0.75%) SAP PP
4 33 (0.73%) SAP IBP
5 27 (0.59%) Oracle ERP
6 21 (0.46%) Adobe Campaign
6 21 (0.46%) Magento
7 17 (0.37%) Shopify
8 16 (0.35%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 15 (0.33%) iTrent
9 15 (0.33%) NetSuite
10 14 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
11 13 (0.29%) Oracle Assets
11 13 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
11 13 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
11 13 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
11 13 (0.29%) SAP CO
12 10 (0.22%) SAP ERP
13 9 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
13 9 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 989 (21.73%) Azure
2 737 (16.19%) Power Platform
3 546 (12.00%) AWS
4 276 (6.06%) GCP
5 258 (5.67%) Snowflake
6 257 (5.65%) SaaS
7 237 (5.21%) Azure Data Factory
8 204 (4.48%) Google Analytics
9 191 (4.20%) Adobe Analytics
10 184 (4.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 160 (3.52%) Microsoft 365
12 152 (3.34%) Azure DevOps
13 149 (3.27%) GitHub
14 144 (3.16%) dbt
15 125 (2.75%) Figma
16 113 (2.48%) Amazon S3
17 104 (2.29%) Serverless
18 84 (1.85%) Entra ID
19 74 (1.63%) Azure Monitor
20 62 (1.36%) Contentsquare
Communications & Networking
1 226 (4.97%) Broadband
2 36 (0.79%) Firewall
3 33 (0.73%) VPN
4 26 (0.57%) CHAP
5 23 (0.51%) WAN
6 20 (0.44%) Network Security
7 18 (0.40%) DNS
8 16 (0.35%) Intranet
9 15 (0.33%) TCP/IP
10 14 (0.31%) DHCP
11 9 (0.20%) Unified Communications
12 6 (0.13%) HTTPS
13 5 (0.11%) HTTP
13 5 (0.11%) Intrusion Detection
13 5 (0.11%) SMS
13 5 (0.11%) SNMP
14 4 (0.088%) Wi-Fi
15 3 (0.066%) BGP
15 3 (0.066%) LAN
15 3 (0.066%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 700 (15.38%) Power BI
2 415 (9.12%) Tableau
3 365 (8.02%) Data Warehouse
4 241 (5.30%) Data Lake
5 189 (4.15%) Metadata
6 175 (3.85%) Data Mining
7 164 (3.60%) SQL Server
8 126 (2.77%) Looker
9 112 (2.46%) Azure SQL Database
10 105 (2.31%) BigQuery
11 100 (2.20%) Relational Database
12 92 (2.02%) Amazon Redshift
13 75 (1.65%) NoSQL
14 70 (1.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 67 (1.47%) Big Data
15 67 (1.47%) Power Query
16 65 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 59 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
18 50 (1.10%) Snowflake Schema
19 43 (0.94%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 164 (3.60%) Git
2 113 (2.48%) JIRA
3 69 (1.52%) Jenkins
4 41 (0.90%) MLflow
5 34 (0.75%) GitLab
6 25 (0.55%) IBM UrbanCode
7 23 (0.51%) Axure RP
7 23 (0.51%) Balsamiq
7 23 (0.51%) TeamCity
8 19 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
9 18 (0.40%) Visual Studio
10 13 (0.29%) CircleCI
11 12 (0.26%) Crashlytics
11 12 (0.26%) Selenium
12 10 (0.22%) ERwin
12 10 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 9 (0.20%) XCTest
14 7 (0.15%) Claude Code
15 6 (0.13%) Cypress.io
16 5 (0.11%) MSI
General
1 1,389 (30.52%) Finance
2 1,251 (27.49%) Social Skills
3 1,156 (25.40%) Analytical Skills
4 684 (15.03%) Marketing
5 294 (6.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 252 (5.54%) Public Sector
7 248 (5.45%) Banking
8 240 (5.27%) Retail
9 209 (4.59%) Law
10 198 (4.35%) Games
11 166 (3.65%) Manufacturing
12 159 (3.49%) Legal
13 111 (2.44%) Automotive
14 109 (2.40%) Financial Institution
14 109 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
15 106 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
16 97 (2.13%) Advertising
17 96 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
18 75 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
19 69 (1.52%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 759 (16.68%) Senior
2 665 (14.61%) Analyst
3 512 (11.25%) Lead
4 467 (10.26%) Data Engineer
5 363 (7.98%) Data Analyst
6 332 (7.30%) Architect
7 248 (5.45%) Developer
8 171 (3.76%) Consultant
9 156 (3.43%) Trainee
9 156 (3.43%) Trainee Analyst
9 156 (3.43%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 155 (3.41%) Data Architect
11 140 (3.08%) Senior Manager
12 118 (2.59%) Designer
13 106 (2.33%) Senior Data Engineer
14 103 (2.26%) Data Manager
15 100 (2.20%) Solutions Architect
16 92 (2.02%) Data Scientist
17 89 (1.96%) Support Engineer
18 85 (1.87%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (2.77%) PySpark
2 121 (2.66%) Kafka
3 105 (2.31%) HTML
4 98 (2.15%) CSS
5 96 (2.11%) PyTorch
6 70 (1.54%) .NET
6 70 (1.54%) TensorFlow
7 56 (1.23%) React
8 51 (1.12%) OAuth
9 50 (1.10%) SAP Fiori
10 49 (1.08%) JSON
11 48 (1.05%) LangChain
11 48 (1.05%) RESTful
11 48 (1.05%) scikit-learn
12 44 (0.97%) REST
13 40 (0.88%) Pandas
14 37 (0.81%) .NET Core
14 37 (0.81%) Node.js
15 26 (0.57%) OAuth2
16 24 (0.53%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 297 (6.53%) Social Media
2 211 (4.64%) Cloud Native
3 188 (4.13%) Product Ownership
4 171 (3.76%) Analytical Mindset
5 155 (3.41%) Management Information System
6 142 (3.12%) Self-Motivation
7 123 (2.70%) Onboarding
8 107 (2.35%) Life Science
9 101 (2.22%) Algorithms
10 83 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
11 77 (1.69%) Data Structures
12 69 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
13 62 (1.36%) Mobile App
14 54 (1.19%) Marketing Technology
15 51 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
16 48 (1.05%) Public Cloud
17 47 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
18 45 (0.99%) Over-the-Top Content
18 45 (0.99%) Virtual Team
19 38 (0.83%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 108 (2.37%) Windows
2 60 (1.32%) Windows 10
3 41 (0.90%) Linux
4 25 (0.55%) VMS
5 22 (0.48%) Apple iOS
6 20 (0.44%) Unix
7 16 (0.35%) Windows Server
8 14 (0.31%) Android
9 2 (0.044%) AIX
9 2 (0.044%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.022%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,325 (29.11%) AI
2 991 (21.78%) Business Intelligence
3 978 (21.49%) Decision-Making
4 905 (19.89%) Agile
5 766 (16.83%) Data Analytics
6 746 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
7 743 (16.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 724 (15.91%) Data Modelling
9 611 (13.43%) Data Engineering
10 600 (13.18%) Roadmaps
11 544 (11.95%) Data Governance
12 531 (11.67%) Data Pipeline
13 522 (11.47%) Data Science
14 517 (11.36%) Machine Learning
15 513 (11.27%) Customer Experience
16 505 (11.10%) Data Analysis
17 500 (10.99%) ETL
18 488 (10.72%) CI/CD
19 454 (9.98%) Project Management
20 428 (9.40%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 1,186 (26.06%) SQL
2 1,054 (23.16%) Python
3 117 (2.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 111 (2.44%) JavaScript
5 99 (2.18%) C#
6 96 (2.11%) Java
7 79 (1.74%) Scala
8 68 (1.49%) R
9 57 (1.25%) PowerShell
10 48 (1.05%) T-SQL
11 44 (0.97%) TypeScript
12 42 (0.92%) Bicep
13 38 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
14 37 (0.81%) C++
15 34 (0.75%) Go
16 18 (0.40%) Bash
17 16 (0.35%) PL/SQL
17 16 (0.35%) VBA
18 14 (0.31%) Shell Script
19 13 (0.29%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 704 (15.47%) Degree
2 260 (5.71%) Security Cleared
3 183 (4.02%) SC Cleared
4 141 (3.10%) Master's Degree
5 124 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 72 (1.58%) IRCA
7 60 (1.32%) CTC Cleared
8 56 (1.23%) Azure Certification
9 50 (1.10%) CISSP
9 50 (1.10%) DBS Check
9 50 (1.10%) PhD
10 49 (1.08%) ACCA
11 44 (0.97%) CISA
11 44 (0.97%) CISM
12 39 (0.86%) CIMA
12 39 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
13 34 (0.75%) Numerate Degree
14 33 (0.73%) AWS Certification
15 31 (0.68%) DV Cleared
16 28 (0.62%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 598 (13.14%) Data Quality
2 376 (8.26%) Accessibility
3 368 (8.09%) GDPR
4 170 (3.74%) QA
5 90 (1.98%) WCAG
6 80 (1.76%) SLA
7 79 (1.74%) ISO 9001
8 58 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 53 (1.16%) NIST
10 46 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
11 38 (0.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 35 (0.77%) HIPAA
13 31 (0.68%) COBIT
14 30 (0.66%) Solvency II
15 28 (0.62%) EU AI Act
15 28 (0.62%) IFRS
16 21 (0.46%) GxP
16 21 (0.46%) PSD2
16 21 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 19 (0.42%) SOC 2
System Software
1 147 (3.23%) Docker
2 64 (1.41%) Active Directory
3 25 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.15%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.088%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.088%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.044%) Firmware
7 2 (0.044%) vSphere
8 1 (0.022%) Apache Flume
8 1 (0.022%) IAG
8 1 (0.022%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.022%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 200 (4.39%) Terraform
2 173 (3.80%) Kubernetes
3 47 (1.03%) Ansible
4 26 (0.57%) Grafana
4 26 (0.57%) Prometheus
5 19 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
6 14 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.18%) EnCase
7 8 (0.18%) FTK
8 7 (0.15%) Kibana
9 5 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.11%) Argo
9 5 (0.11%) QRadar
10 3 (0.066%) ArcSight ESM
10 3 (0.066%) Control-M
10 3 (0.066%) RSA Archer
10 3 (0.066%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 3 (0.066%) VxRail
11 2 (0.044%) SCCM
11 2 (0.044%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 860 (18.90%) Microsoft
2 370 (8.13%) Databricks
3 341 (7.49%) Google
4 288 (6.33%) Adobe
5 185 (4.07%) SAP
6 159 (3.49%) Salesforce
7 140 (3.08%) Oracle
8 135 (2.97%) Cisco
9 61 (1.34%) HubSpot
10 58 (1.27%) Dell
11 52 (1.14%) Informatica
12 50 (1.10%) Alteryx
13 29 (0.64%) OpenAI
14 28 (0.62%) Bloomberg
14 28 (0.62%) Nexthink
14 28 (0.62%) Red Hat
14 28 (0.62%) ServiceNow
15 27 (0.59%) Talend
15 27 (0.59%) Workday
16 26 (0.57%) Palantir