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 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 26 28
Rank change year-on-year -6 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 3,695 3,603 3,526
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 6.23% 6.41% 7.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.55% 7.15% 7.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,920 1,863 2,480
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £86,063 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £113,750 £118,750 £112,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £57,500 £55,148
% change year-on-year -9.57% +4.27% -0.27%

All Process and 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 48,916 50,426 45,704
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.53% 89.77% 92.89%
Number of salaries quoted 28,716 25,356 34,915
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,871
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +4.76% -3.67%

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 24 December 2025.

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 24 December 2025. 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 -9 3,153 £62,500 -10.71% 3,770
UK excluding London +6 1,925 £52,000 -9.57% 2,855
London +3 1,473 £75,000 -11.76% 1,303
Work from Home -2 1,104 £60,000 -11.11% 1,681
South East +19 585 £52,500 -12.50% 855
North of England -15 373 £55,000 - 657
Midlands -2 312 £54,250 -4.82% 508
Scotland +10 257 £50,000 -17.18% 106
South West +12 207 £55,000 -8.33% 304
North West -21 192 £47,500 -13.64% 345
West Midlands -14 183 £57,500 +0.44% 261
Yorkshire 0 149 £63,750 +15.91% 254
East of England +36 133 £40,000 -33.33% 374
East Midlands +17 131 £45,000 -10.00% 228
Northern Ireland +4 34 £45,000 -34.55% 35
North East +13 33 £40,000 -27.27% 62
Wales +11 27 £60,000 +20.00% 62

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 94 (2.54%) CMS
2 93 (2.52%) Apache Spark
3 63 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
4 53 (1.43%) WordPress
5 47 (1.27%) Confluence
6 44 (1.19%) SharePoint
7 35 (0.95%) Apache
8 22 (0.60%) SAS
9 20 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 15 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
11 11 (0.30%) Umbraco
12 10 (0.27%) Drupal
12 10 (0.27%) SugarCRM
13 9 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 8 (0.22%) Headless CMS
15 5 (0.14%) IIS
16 4 (0.11%) Apache Superset
16 4 (0.11%) Appian
17 3 (0.081%) Apache Synapse
17 3 (0.081%) Joomla!
Applications
1 520 (14.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 98 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
3 56 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (0.87%) Maya
5 27 (0.73%) Adobe XD
6 26 (0.70%) Photoshop
7 23 (0.62%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 18 (0.49%) InDesign
9 16 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
10 15 (0.41%) Chatbot
11 12 (0.32%) Adobe Premiere
12 11 (0.30%) SPSS
13 10 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
13 10 (0.27%) Trello
14 9 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
15 7 (0.19%) MadCap Flare
16 6 (0.16%) MS Visio
17 4 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
17 4 (0.11%) SketchUp
18 3 (0.081%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 89 (2.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 63 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 45 (1.22%) Shopify
4 35 (0.95%) Oracle ERP
5 28 (0.76%) SAP IBP
6 22 (0.60%) Magento
7 21 (0.57%) SAP CO
8 18 (0.49%) SAP FI
8 18 (0.49%) SAP FI/CO
9 16 (0.43%) Oracle Assets
9 16 (0.43%) Oracle General Ledger
9 16 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
9 16 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
10 15 (0.41%) Dynamics GP
10 15 (0.41%) Oracle Financials
11 12 (0.32%) NetSuite
11 12 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
11 12 (0.32%) SAP FSCM
12 11 (0.30%) SAP IS-U
13 7 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 948 (25.66%) Azure
2 763 (20.65%) Power Platform
3 373 (10.09%) AWS
4 234 (6.33%) Google Analytics
5 228 (6.17%) GCP
6 225 (6.09%) SaaS
7 195 (5.28%) Snowflake
8 187 (5.06%) Azure Data Factory
9 160 (4.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 156 (4.22%) Azure DevOps
11 148 (4.01%) GitHub
12 134 (3.63%) Microsoft 365
13 114 (3.09%) dbt
14 78 (2.11%) Serverless
15 75 (2.03%) Azure Monitor
16 70 (1.89%) Figma
17 69 (1.87%) Google Ads
18 64 (1.73%) Dynamics 365
18 64 (1.73%) Entra ID
19 57 (1.54%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 36 (0.97%) VPN
2 34 (0.92%) SMS
3 31 (0.84%) Firewall
4 21 (0.57%) Unified Communications
5 17 (0.46%) Network Security
6 15 (0.41%) Broadband
7 13 (0.35%) DNS
8 12 (0.32%) WAN
9 10 (0.27%) CHAP
10 9 (0.24%) Intranet
11 7 (0.19%) TCP/IP
12 5 (0.14%) Intrusion Detection
13 4 (0.11%) HTTPS
13 4 (0.11%) Internet
13 4 (0.11%) VoIP
13 4 (0.11%) Wireshark
14 3 (0.081%) DHCP
14 3 (0.081%) MQTT
14 3 (0.081%) SD-WAN
15 2 (0.054%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 729 (19.73%) Power BI
2 391 (10.58%) Tableau
3 328 (8.88%) Data Warehouse
4 255 (6.90%) Data Lake
5 168 (4.55%) Metadata
6 152 (4.11%) SQL Server
7 143 (3.87%) Data Mining
8 98 (2.65%) SAP BW
9 97 (2.63%) Big Data
10 93 (2.52%) Looker
11 91 (2.46%) Azure SQL Database
12 76 (2.06%) NoSQL
13 73 (1.98%) BigQuery
14 71 (1.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 68 (1.84%) Relational Database
16 60 (1.62%) Amazon Redshift
17 55 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 50 (1.35%) Hadoop
19 46 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
20 45 (1.22%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 130 (3.52%) JIRA
2 104 (2.81%) Git
3 39 (1.06%) Jenkins
4 31 (0.84%) Oracle Forms
5 24 (0.65%) Axure RP
5 24 (0.65%) Balsamiq
6 18 (0.49%) ERwin
7 17 (0.46%) GitLab
8 13 (0.35%) Cypress.io
8 13 (0.35%) Visual Studio
9 12 (0.32%) Selenium
10 11 (0.30%) ER Studio
10 11 (0.30%) MLflow
11 7 (0.19%) Postman
11 7 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
12 5 (0.14%) MSI
12 5 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
13 4 (0.11%) Browser DevTools
13 4 (0.11%) Maven
13 4 (0.11%) TestNG
General
1 1,299 (35.16%) Finance
2 1,284 (34.75%) Social Skills
3 1,136 (30.74%) Analytical Skills
4 730 (19.76%) Marketing
5 289 (7.82%) Law
6 228 (6.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 228 (6.17%) Retail
7 205 (5.55%) Public Sector
8 198 (5.36%) Banking
9 178 (4.82%) Manufacturing
10 156 (4.22%) Presentation Skills
11 132 (3.57%) Legal
12 101 (2.73%) Games
13 97 (2.63%) Financial Institution
14 96 (2.60%) Pharmaceutical
15 77 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
16 71 (1.92%) Advertising
17 70 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
18 68 (1.84%) Front Office
19 64 (1.73%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 587 (15.89%) Senior
2 583 (15.78%) Analyst
3 462 (12.50%) Lead
4 313 (8.47%) Data Analyst
5 299 (8.09%) Architect
6 291 (7.88%) Data Engineer
7 217 (5.87%) Developer
8 150 (4.06%) Senior Manager
9 121 (3.27%) Data Architect
10 110 (2.98%) Trainee
10 110 (2.98%) Trainee Analyst
10 110 (2.98%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 97 (2.63%) Consultant
12 96 (2.60%) Innovation Manager
13 83 (2.25%) Analytics Manager
14 81 (2.19%) Solutions Architect
15 73 (1.98%) Data Manager
16 72 (1.95%) Data Scientist
17 71 (1.92%) Senior Analyst
18 70 (1.89%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (2.71%) HTML
2 84 (2.27%) CSS
3 72 (1.95%) PySpark
4 71 (1.92%) RESTful
5 70 (1.89%) Kafka
6 61 (1.65%) React
7 56 (1.52%) OAuth
7 56 (1.52%) REST
8 49 (1.33%) PyTorch
9 48 (1.30%) TensorFlow
10 47 (1.27%) JSON
11 38 (1.03%) .NET
11 38 (1.03%) OAuth2
12 37 (1.00%) Node.js
13 30 (0.81%) scikit-learn
14 29 (0.78%) SAML
15 28 (0.76%) Middleware
16 27 (0.73%) GraphQL
16 27 (0.73%) Pandas
17 23 (0.62%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 184 (4.98%) Analytical Mindset
2 174 (4.71%) Self-Motivation
3 170 (4.60%) Product Ownership
4 167 (4.52%) Onboarding
5 163 (4.41%) Cloud Native
6 152 (4.11%) Management Information System
7 145 (3.92%) Social Media
8 126 (3.41%) Algorithms
9 86 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
10 81 (2.19%) Life Science
11 66 (1.79%) FMCG
12 60 (1.62%) Data Structures
13 56 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
14 51 (1.38%) Data Centre
15 49 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
16 38 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
16 38 (1.03%) Virtual Team
17 36 (0.97%) Reinsurance
18 35 (0.95%) Fixed Income
19 31 (0.84%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 79 (2.14%) Windows
2 36 (0.97%) Linux
3 28 (0.76%) Windows 10
4 27 (0.73%) Unix
5 11 (0.30%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.27%) VMS
7 9 (0.24%) Android
8 8 (0.22%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.054%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.027%) AIX
10 1 (0.027%) Debian
10 1 (0.027%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,006 (27.23%) AI
1 1,006 (27.23%) Business Intelligence
2 864 (23.38%) Problem-Solving
3 858 (23.22%) Decision-Making
4 711 (19.24%) Data Analytics
5 703 (19.03%) Continuous Improvement
6 694 (18.78%) Agile
7 605 (16.37%) Data Modelling
8 501 (13.56%) Stakeholder Management
9 480 (12.99%) Roadmaps
10 479 (12.96%) Data Science
11 462 (12.50%) Machine Learning
12 459 (12.42%) Data Analysis
13 457 (12.37%) Data Governance
14 436 (11.80%) Project Management
15 419 (11.34%) Visualisation
16 403 (10.91%) Data Engineering
17 397 (10.74%) ETL
18 386 (10.45%) DevOps
19 370 (10.01%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 991 (26.82%) SQL
2 926 (25.06%) Python
3 128 (3.46%) Java
4 127 (3.44%) JavaScript
5 84 (2.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 80 (2.17%) PowerShell
7 69 (1.87%) R
8 62 (1.68%) C#
9 53 (1.43%) Scala
10 49 (1.33%) T-SQL
11 47 (1.27%) Bicep
12 38 (1.03%) TypeScript
13 33 (0.89%) Go
14 32 (0.87%) PL/SQL
15 29 (0.78%) Bash
15 29 (0.78%) C++
16 25 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
17 19 (0.51%) Shell Script
18 15 (0.41%) VBA
19 13 (0.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 841 (22.76%) Degree
2 202 (5.47%) Master's Degree
3 185 (5.01%) Security Cleared
4 132 (3.57%) SC Cleared
5 119 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 96 (2.60%) PhD
7 93 (2.52%) DBS Check
8 59 (1.60%) CISSP
9 50 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
10 49 (1.33%) CISA
11 48 (1.30%) Numerate Degree
12 46 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
13 45 (1.22%) Azure Certification
14 41 (1.11%) ACCA
15 40 (1.08%) CISM
16 35 (0.95%) PMI Certification
17 29 (0.78%) CIMA
17 29 (0.78%) PMP
18 28 (0.76%) CTC Cleared
19 25 (0.68%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 484 (13.10%) Data Quality
2 264 (7.14%) GDPR
3 204 (5.52%) Accessibility
4 86 (2.33%) QA
5 82 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 49 (1.33%) NIST
7 44 (1.19%) SLA
8 43 (1.16%) WCAG
9 39 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
10 37 (1.00%) GxP
11 28 (0.76%) COBIT
12 24 (0.65%) Solvency II
13 23 (0.62%) HIPAA
14 22 (0.60%) EU AI Act
15 21 (0.57%) PSD2
16 19 (0.51%) GRC
17 18 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 16 (0.43%) IFRS
18 16 (0.43%) PMO
19 15 (0.41%) ITGC
System Software
1 87 (2.35%) Docker
2 49 (1.33%) Active Directory
3 29 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.30%) Hyper-V
5 11 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.081%) Firmware
7 2 (0.054%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.027%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.027%) vCloud
8 1 (0.027%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.027%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 168 (4.55%) Terraform
2 115 (3.11%) Kubernetes
3 33 (0.89%) Ansible
4 30 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
5 24 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (0.32%) Grafana
6 12 (0.32%) QRadar
7 10 (0.27%) Prometheus
7 10 (0.27%) SCCM
8 7 (0.19%) EnCase
8 7 (0.19%) FTK
8 7 (0.19%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 6 (0.16%) RSA Archer
10 5 (0.14%) Argo
10 5 (0.14%) SCOM
11 3 (0.081%) ArcSight ESM
11 3 (0.081%) Control-M
12 2 (0.054%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.054%) Kibana
13 1 (0.027%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 689 (18.65%) Microsoft
2 363 (9.82%) Google
3 260 (7.04%) Databricks
4 259 (7.01%) SAP
5 203 (5.49%) Salesforce
6 140 (3.79%) Oracle
7 130 (3.52%) Adobe
8 81 (2.19%) Cisco
9 68 (1.84%) HubSpot
10 56 (1.52%) Alteryx
11 39 (1.06%) ServiceNow
12 38 (1.03%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 35 (0.95%) Bloomberg
14 33 (0.89%) Dell
15 30 (0.81%) Talend
16 26 (0.70%) Informatica
16 26 (0.70%) OpenAI
17 23 (0.62%) Sage
17 23 (0.62%) Screaming Frog
17 23 (0.62%) YouTube