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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 23 33
Rank change year-on-year -8 +10 -5
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 5,539 3,654 3,852
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.69% 7.40% 5.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.40% 8.32% 6.48%
Number of salaries quoted 3,322 1,698 2,021
10th Percentile £38,500 £31,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £93,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -13.04% +4.55%

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 86,578 43,908 59,440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.25% 88.94% 82.23%
Number of salaries quoted 59,120 24,542 31,807
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,054 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £78,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +17.02% -10.48% -2.78%

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 -7 4,969 £67,500 +12.50% 11,297
UK excluding London -6 2,930 £60,000 +20.00% 4,450
London -1 2,255 £80,000 +6.67% 7,461
Work from Home +8 1,673 £66,805 +11.34% 4,375
North of England +54 943 £62,500 +13.64% 1,168
Midlands +30 622 £60,000 +12.20% 621
South East -29 587 £60,000 +20.00% 1,053
North West +58 523 £60,000 +20.00% 708
West Midlands +13 353 £60,000 +9.09% 400
South West -23 315 £60,000 - 411
East Midlands +30 269 £60,000 +33.33% 221
Yorkshire +44 265 £66,805 +6.89% 322
East of England -15 179 £51,878 +54.86% 401
North East +25 161 £57,500 +11.65% 144
Scotland -17 113 £75,000 +46.34% 461
Northern Ireland -15 97 £65,000 +8.33% 251
Wales -9 92 £63,500 +30.09% 116
Isle of Man +2 5 £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
1 155 (2.80%) Apache Spark
2 140 (2.53%) CMS
3 93 (1.68%) Apache
4 90 (1.62%) SharePoint
5 89 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
6 72 (1.30%) SAS
7 61 (1.10%) Confluence
8 38 (0.69%) WordPress
9 28 (0.51%) Sitecore CMS
10 21 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
11 18 (0.32%) Headless CMS
11 18 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
12 16 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
13 11 (0.20%) Jupyter
14 5 (0.090%) ArcGIS
14 5 (0.090%) Umbraco
15 3 (0.054%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 3 (0.054%) Appian
15 3 (0.054%) IIS
16 2 (0.036%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 281 (5.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
3 45 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 38 (0.69%) Chatbot
5 33 (0.60%) SPSS
6 25 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
7 23 (0.42%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 20 (0.36%) UserZoom
9 17 (0.31%) MS Visio
10 12 (0.22%) Adobe XD
10 12 (0.22%) Photoshop
11 9 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
12 7 (0.13%) Notion
12 7 (0.13%) Sketch
13 6 (0.11%) Trello
14 4 (0.072%) Microsoft Project
15 3 (0.054%) Adobe Premiere
15 3 (0.054%) Elementor
15 3 (0.054%) InDesign
15 3 (0.054%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 126 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 71 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 50 (0.90%) Shopify
4 31 (0.56%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 28 (0.51%) Dynamics GP
6 18 (0.32%) Workday HCM
7 17 (0.31%) Magento
8 10 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
9 9 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
9 9 (0.16%) SAP BPC
10 8 (0.14%) NetSuite
11 7 (0.13%) SAP MDG
12 6 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
12 6 (0.11%) FastStats
13 5 (0.090%) Oracle Payables
13 5 (0.090%) Oracle Receivables
13 5 (0.090%) SAP Travel Management
14 4 (0.072%) Oracle ERP
14 4 (0.072%) SAP HR
14 4 (0.072%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 1,075 (19.41%) Azure
2 909 (16.41%) Power Platform
3 784 (14.15%) AWS
4 367 (6.63%) SaaS
5 345 (6.23%) GCP
6 277 (5.00%) Google Analytics
7 239 (4.31%) Snowflake
8 219 (3.95%) Azure Data Factory
9 212 (3.83%) Azure DevOps
10 190 (3.43%) GitHub
11 159 (2.87%) Serverless
12 152 (2.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 141 (2.55%) dbt
14 115 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
15 110 (1.99%) Microsoft Purview
16 108 (1.95%) Amazon S3
17 105 (1.90%) Cloud Computing
18 91 (1.64%) Azure Monitor
19 90 (1.62%) Entra ID
20 89 (1.61%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 74 (1.34%) VPN
2 71 (1.28%) Internet
3 64 (1.16%) Firewall
4 62 (1.12%) Broadband
5 45 (0.81%) Network Security
6 44 (0.79%) DNS
7 26 (0.47%) BGP
8 24 (0.43%) SMS
9 23 (0.42%) TCP/IP
10 21 (0.38%) 5G
11 20 (0.36%) VLAN
12 19 (0.34%) OSPF
13 15 (0.27%) VoIP
14 14 (0.25%) CTI
15 13 (0.23%) DHCP
15 13 (0.23%) SSL
16 11 (0.20%) Unified Communications
17 10 (0.18%) VXLAN
17 10 (0.18%) WAN
18 9 (0.16%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 879 (15.87%) Power BI
2 405 (7.31%) Data Warehouse
3 265 (4.78%) Tableau
4 262 (4.73%) Metadata
5 223 (4.03%) Data Lake
6 172 (3.11%) SQL Server
7 157 (2.83%) Big Data
8 138 (2.49%) Azure SQL Database
9 114 (2.06%) Amazon Redshift
10 110 (1.99%) Looker
11 95 (1.72%) Delta Lake
12 91 (1.64%) BigQuery
13 89 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
13 89 (1.61%) Relational Database
14 81 (1.46%) Star Schema
15 76 (1.37%) NoSQL
16 73 (1.32%) MongoDB
17 72 (1.30%) Power Query
17 72 (1.30%) Semantic Layer
18 61 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 187 (3.38%) Git
2 90 (1.62%) JIRA
3 47 (0.85%) GitLab
4 44 (0.79%) Jenkins
5 23 (0.42%) MLflow
6 20 (0.36%) Claude Code
7 11 (0.20%) fastlane
8 10 (0.18%) Crashlytics
9 9 (0.16%) Octopus Deploy
10 8 (0.14%) Balsamiq
10 8 (0.14%) CircleCI
10 8 (0.14%) Xcode
11 7 (0.13%) Gradle
11 7 (0.13%) Visual Website Optimizer
12 6 (0.11%) Axure RP
12 6 (0.11%) ERwin
13 5 (0.090%) Android Studio
13 5 (0.090%) Poetry
13 5 (0.090%) Visual Studio
13 5 (0.090%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,584 (28.60%) Social Skills
2 1,548 (27.95%) Finance
3 1,293 (23.34%) Analytical Skills
4 973 (17.57%) Marketing
5 441 (7.96%) Retail
6 423 (7.64%) Public Sector
7 377 (6.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 339 (6.12%) Legal
9 290 (5.24%) Law
10 237 (4.28%) Influencing Skills
11 233 (4.21%) Banking
12 188 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
13 161 (2.91%) Manufacturing
14 124 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
15 109 (1.97%) Advertising
16 98 (1.77%) Financial Institution
17 86 (1.55%) Automotive
18 83 (1.50%) Games
19 76 (1.37%) Publishing
20 62 (1.12%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,139 (20.56%) Senior
2 689 (12.44%) Data Engineer
3 656 (11.84%) Analyst
4 607 (10.96%) Lead
5 537 (9.69%) Architect
6 314 (5.67%) Developer
7 276 (4.98%) Analytics Manager
8 258 (4.66%) Data Analyst
9 252 (4.55%) Data Architect
10 241 (4.35%) Senior Data Engineer
11 210 (3.79%) Senior Manager
12 198 (3.57%) Data Scientist
13 189 (3.41%) Consultant
14 168 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
15 142 (2.56%) Data Manager
16 139 (2.51%) Senior Analyst
17 130 (2.35%) Marketing Manager
18 109 (1.97%) Senior Architect
19 106 (1.91%) Software Engineer
20 104 (1.88%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 262 (4.73%) Terraform
2 204 (3.68%) PySpark
3 110 (1.99%) Kafka
4 100 (1.81%) HTML
5 93 (1.68%) .NET
6 91 (1.64%) REST
7 83 (1.50%) CSS
8 80 (1.44%) React
9 55 (0.99%) Node.js
10 52 (0.94%) Pandas
11 41 (0.74%) Middleware
12 37 (0.67%) AngularJS
12 37 (0.67%) ASP.NET
12 37 (0.67%) JSON
13 35 (0.63%) ASP.NET Core
13 35 (0.63%) scikit-learn
14 34 (0.61%) .NET Core
15 32 (0.58%) TensorFlow
16 31 (0.56%) PyTorch
16 31 (0.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 331 (5.98%) Onboarding
2 273 (4.93%) Cloud Native
3 216 (3.90%) Management Information System
4 209 (3.77%) Marketing Technology
5 190 (3.43%) Blog
6 187 (3.38%) Product Ownership
7 161 (2.91%) Social Media
8 122 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
9 106 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
10 103 (1.86%) AI Agents
11 98 (1.77%) Data Structures
12 77 (1.39%) Algorithms
13 73 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
13 73 (1.32%) Mobile App
14 65 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
15 61 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
16 58 (1.05%) Virtual Team
17 49 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
17 49 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
18 44 (0.79%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 104 (1.88%) Windows
2 85 (1.53%) Linux
3 23 (0.42%) VMS
3 23 (0.42%) Windows Server
4 19 (0.34%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.14%) Android
6 7 (0.13%) macOS
7 6 (0.11%) Unix
7 6 (0.11%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.072%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.054%) Debian
10 1 (0.018%) AIX
10 1 (0.018%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.018%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.018%) SUSE
10 1 (0.018%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.018%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,032 (36.69%) AI
2 1,327 (23.96%) Decision-Making
3 1,218 (21.99%) Business Intelligence
4 954 (17.22%) Problem-Solving
5 896 (16.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 871 (15.72%) Agile
7 849 (15.33%) Roadmaps
8 846 (15.27%) Data Modelling
9 773 (13.96%) Data Engineering
10 764 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
11 747 (13.49%) Machine Learning
12 738 (13.32%) Data Analytics
13 700 (12.64%) CI/CD
14 692 (12.49%) Data Pipeline
15 649 (11.72%) Mentoring
16 623 (11.25%) Data Science
17 558 (10.07%) Data Governance
18 539 (9.73%) Actionable Insight
19 533 (9.62%) ETL
20 512 (9.24%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1,534 (27.69%) SQL
2 1,269 (22.91%) Python
3 163 (2.94%) Java
4 143 (2.58%) C#
4 143 (2.58%) JavaScript
5 122 (2.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 122 (2.20%) PowerShell
6 109 (1.97%) R
7 93 (1.68%) TypeScript
8 86 (1.55%) Bicep
9 75 (1.35%) Scala
10 70 (1.26%) Bash
11 52 (0.94%) Go
12 50 (0.90%) C++
13 34 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
14 28 (0.51%) T-SQL
15 20 (0.36%) PHP
16 18 (0.32%) Kotlin
17 16 (0.29%) VBA
18 14 (0.25%) Swift
Qualifications
1 671 (12.11%) Degree
2 457 (8.25%) Security Cleared
3 332 (5.99%) SC Cleared
4 123 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 118 (2.13%) Azure Certification
6 111 (2.00%) Master's Degree
7 83 (1.50%) DV Cleared
8 69 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 61 (1.10%) AWS Certification
10 51 (0.92%) ACCA
11 49 (0.88%) DBS Check
12 47 (0.85%) PhD
13 46 (0.83%) CIMA
14 41 (0.74%) CISSP
15 36 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
16 28 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
16 28 (0.51%) Postgraduate
17 27 (0.49%) CISM
18 25 (0.45%) Numerate Degree
19 23 (0.42%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 876 (15.82%) Data Quality
2 295 (5.33%) Accessibility
3 226 (4.08%) GDPR
4 147 (2.65%) QA
5 73 (1.32%) Actionable Recommendations
6 46 (0.83%) WCAG
7 38 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 35 (0.63%) NIST
9 29 (0.52%) SLA
10 23 (0.42%) PMO
11 22 (0.40%) PCI DSS
12 18 (0.32%) GRC
13 16 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
14 14 (0.25%) IFRS
15 12 (0.22%) EU AI Act
16 10 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 9 (0.16%) ISO 9001
18 8 (0.14%) PERC
18 8 (0.14%) SOC 2
19 6 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 165 (2.98%) Docker
2 86 (1.55%) Active Directory
3 28 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
5 18 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (0.29%) vSphere
7 8 (0.14%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.090%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.054%) Firmware
9 3 (0.054%) IAG
10 1 (0.018%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.018%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 172 (3.11%) Kubernetes
2 45 (0.81%) Ansible
3 39 (0.70%) Grafana
4 29 (0.52%) EnCase
4 29 (0.52%) FTK
4 29 (0.52%) Prometheus
5 19 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (0.23%) FortiGate
7 8 (0.14%) Argo
8 7 (0.13%) Kibana
9 6 (0.11%) Graylog
9 6 (0.11%) Hadoop YARN
9 6 (0.11%) Nagios
9 6 (0.11%) Packer
9 6 (0.11%) Proxmox
10 5 (0.090%) Puppet
10 5 (0.090%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.072%) Control-M
11 4 (0.072%) VxRail
12 3 (0.054%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 874 (15.78%) Microsoft
2 475 (8.58%) Databricks
3 473 (8.54%) Google
4 231 (4.17%) SAP
5 137 (2.47%) Adobe
6 122 (2.20%) Oracle
7 113 (2.04%) Salesforce
8 77 (1.39%) TikTok
9 71 (1.28%) HubSpot
10 64 (1.16%) Workday
11 53 (0.96%) YouTube
12 43 (0.78%) IBM
12 43 (0.78%) Informatica
13 42 (0.76%) Cisco
14 41 (0.74%) VMware
15 39 (0.70%) Alteryx
16 36 (0.65%) OpenAI
17 33 (0.60%) Samsung
18 32 (0.58%) ServiceNow
19 31 (0.56%) Foundry