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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 20 39
Rank change year-on-year -12 +19 -16
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 4,605 3,544 5,180
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.22% 8.47% 5.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.95% 9.12% 6.35%
Number of salaries quoted 2,565 1,770 3,337
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,750 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -3.51% +5.56% -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 66,274 38,859 81,572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.13% 92.82% 85.77%
Number of salaries quoted 40,927 22,757 59,545
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +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 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 24 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 24 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 -15 4,029 £65,000 -2.89% 1,441
UK excluding London -21 2,405 £55,000 -3.51% 1,152
London +1 1,804 £80,000 -5.88% 614
Work from Home -4 1,423 £65,000 +8.33% 610
North of England -5 720 £60,000 +9.09% 280
South East -23 508 £55,000 -8.33% 393
Midlands -23 468 £50,000 -4.76% 204
North West -1 392 £60,000 +9.09% 174
West Midlands -24 270 £51,000 -7.27% 119
Yorkshire -2 253 £52,500 -7.49% 72
South West -25 220 £60,000 +9.09% 101
East of England +16 211 £52,500 -19.23% 96
East Midlands +1 194 £50,000 +3.09% 85
Scotland -10 189 £65,000 -7.14% 61
North East +5 75 £40,000 -27.27% 38
Northern Ireland -14 54 £45,000 +50.00% 24
Wales -4 37 £40,000 -20.00% 25

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
1 158 (3.43%) Apache Airflow
2 132 (2.87%) Apache Spark
3 120 (2.61%) CMS
4 79 (1.72%) Apache
5 67 (1.45%) Confluence
6 54 (1.17%) WordPress
7 47 (1.02%) SharePoint
8 35 (0.76%) ArcGIS
9 31 (0.67%) SAS
10 20 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
11 16 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
12 12 (0.26%) Drupal
13 9 (0.20%) Oracle Application Server
14 8 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 6 (0.13%) IIS
16 4 (0.087%) Appian
16 4 (0.087%) Documentum
16 4 (0.087%) Umbraco
17 3 (0.065%) Apache Superset
17 3 (0.065%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 382 (8.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 113 (2.45%) Microsoft Office
3 60 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (0.67%) UserZoom
5 28 (0.61%) Adobe XD
6 19 (0.41%) MS Visio
7 15 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
8 11 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 10 (0.22%) Chatbot
9 10 (0.22%) SPSS
10 6 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
11 4 (0.087%) Adobe Illustrator
11 4 (0.087%) InDesign
11 4 (0.087%) Photoshop
11 4 (0.087%) Trello
12 2 (0.043%) Maya
12 2 (0.043%) Notion
12 2 (0.043%) Sketch
13 1 (0.022%) Oracle Smart View
13 1 (0.022%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 82 (1.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 33 (0.72%) SAP IBP
2 33 (0.72%) SAP PP
3 29 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
4 28 (0.61%) Adobe Campaign
5 26 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
6 22 (0.48%) Magento
7 17 (0.37%) Shopify
8 16 (0.35%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 16 (0.35%) NetSuite
9 15 (0.33%) iTrent
10 13 (0.28%) SAP CO
11 12 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
11 12 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
12 11 (0.24%) Oracle Assets
12 11 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
12 11 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
13 10 (0.22%) SAP ERP
14 9 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
15 8 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 979 (21.26%) Azure
2 721 (15.66%) Power Platform
3 563 (12.23%) AWS
4 276 (5.99%) GCP
5 248 (5.39%) Snowflake
6 241 (5.23%) SaaS
7 223 (4.84%) Azure Data Factory
8 214 (4.65%) Google Analytics
9 201 (4.36%) Adobe Analytics
10 173 (3.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 157 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
12 155 (3.37%) Microsoft 365
13 149 (3.24%) GitHub
14 139 (3.02%) dbt
15 132 (2.87%) Figma
16 114 (2.48%) Amazon S3
17 110 (2.39%) Serverless
18 90 (1.95%) Entra ID
19 73 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
20 69 (1.50%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 251 (5.45%) Broadband
2 39 (0.85%) Firewall
3 32 (0.69%) VPN
4 28 (0.61%) CHAP
5 23 (0.50%) WAN
6 21 (0.46%) DNS
7 19 (0.41%) Network Security
8 16 (0.35%) Intranet
9 15 (0.33%) DHCP
9 15 (0.33%) TCP/IP
10 10 (0.22%) Unified Communications
11 6 (0.13%) HTTP
12 5 (0.11%) Intrusion Detection
12 5 (0.11%) SMS
12 5 (0.11%) SNMP
12 5 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (0.087%) HTTPS
14 3 (0.065%) BGP
14 3 (0.065%) LAN
14 3 (0.065%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 688 (14.94%) Power BI
2 378 (8.21%) Tableau
3 346 (7.51%) Data Warehouse
4 237 (5.15%) Data Lake
5 192 (4.17%) Metadata
6 169 (3.67%) Data Mining
7 156 (3.39%) SQL Server
8 126 (2.74%) Looker
9 104 (2.26%) Relational Database
10 103 (2.24%) BigQuery
11 99 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
12 95 (2.06%) Amazon Redshift
13 77 (1.67%) NoSQL
14 66 (1.43%) Big Data
15 64 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
16 61 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 55 (1.19%) Power Query
17 55 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 45 (0.98%) Snowflake Schema
19 44 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 167 (3.63%) Git
2 96 (2.08%) JIRA
3 73 (1.59%) Jenkins
4 43 (0.93%) MLflow
5 35 (0.76%) GitLab
6 25 (0.54%) IBM UrbanCode
7 23 (0.50%) Axure RP
7 23 (0.50%) Balsamiq
7 23 (0.50%) TeamCity
8 18 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
9 14 (0.30%) CircleCI
9 14 (0.30%) Crashlytics
9 14 (0.30%) Visual Studio
10 12 (0.26%) Selenium
11 11 (0.24%) XCTest
12 10 (0.22%) ERwin
12 10 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 7 (0.15%) Claude Code
14 6 (0.13%) Cypress.io
15 5 (0.11%) MSI
General
1 1,365 (29.64%) Finance
2 1,214 (26.36%) Social Skills
3 1,118 (24.28%) Analytical Skills
4 677 (14.70%) Marketing
5 273 (5.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 256 (5.56%) Retail
7 234 (5.08%) Banking
8 226 (4.91%) Public Sector
9 218 (4.73%) Games
10 210 (4.56%) Law
11 160 (3.47%) Legal
12 158 (3.43%) Manufacturing
13 117 (2.54%) Automotive
14 109 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
15 104 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
16 102 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
17 100 (2.17%) Advertising
18 99 (2.15%) Financial Institution
19 71 (1.54%) Back Office
20 68 (1.48%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 765 (16.61%) Senior
2 642 (13.94%) Analyst
3 535 (11.62%) Lead
4 479 (10.40%) Data Engineer
5 343 (7.45%) Data Analyst
6 339 (7.36%) Architect
7 244 (5.30%) Developer
8 170 (3.69%) Consultant
9 158 (3.43%) Data Architect
10 153 (3.32%) Trainee
10 153 (3.32%) Trainee Analyst
10 153 (3.32%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 133 (2.89%) Senior Manager
12 120 (2.61%) Designer
13 109 (2.37%) Senior Data Engineer
14 102 (2.21%) Data Manager
15 101 (2.19%) Data Scientist
16 100 (2.17%) Solutions Architect
17 99 (2.15%) Product Manager
18 90 (1.95%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (2.78%) PySpark
2 124 (2.69%) Kafka
3 100 (2.17%) HTML
4 96 (2.08%) PyTorch
5 92 (2.00%) CSS
6 74 (1.61%) .NET
7 69 (1.50%) TensorFlow
8 54 (1.17%) React
9 51 (1.11%) SAP Fiori
10 50 (1.09%) RESTful
11 49 (1.06%) OAuth
12 48 (1.04%) LangChain
12 48 (1.04%) scikit-learn
13 46 (1.00%) Pandas
14 42 (0.91%) REST
15 41 (0.89%) JSON
16 37 (0.80%) .NET Core
17 36 (0.78%) Node.js
18 25 (0.54%) OAuth2
19 24 (0.52%) LlamaIndex
Miscellaneous
1 292 (6.34%) Social Media
2 211 (4.58%) Cloud Native
3 187 (4.06%) Product Ownership
4 172 (3.74%) Analytical Mindset
5 157 (3.41%) Management Information System
6 129 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
7 115 (2.50%) Onboarding
8 101 (2.19%) Life Science
9 96 (2.08%) Algorithms
10 88 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
11 77 (1.67%) Data Structures
12 72 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
13 66 (1.43%) Marketing Technology
14 62 (1.35%) Mobile App
15 59 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
16 52 (1.13%) Over-the-Top Content
17 45 (0.98%) Public Cloud
17 45 (0.98%) Virtual Team
18 44 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
19 36 (0.78%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 109 (2.37%) Windows
2 60 (1.30%) Windows 10
3 46 (1.00%) Linux
4 25 (0.54%) VMS
5 23 (0.50%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.39%) Unix
7 17 (0.37%) Windows Server
8 13 (0.28%) Android
9 3 (0.065%) AIX
10 1 (0.022%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,324 (28.75%) AI
2 994 (21.59%) Decision-Making
3 973 (21.13%) Business Intelligence
4 903 (19.61%) Agile
5 746 (16.20%) Continuous Improvement
6 732 (15.90%) Data Analytics
7 717 (15.57%) Data Modelling
8 715 (15.53%) Problem-Solving
9 626 (13.59%) Roadmaps
10 612 (13.29%) Data Engineering
11 542 (11.77%) Data Pipeline
12 531 (11.53%) Customer Experience
13 527 (11.44%) Data Governance
14 516 (11.21%) Data Science
15 508 (11.03%) Machine Learning
16 506 (10.99%) CI/CD
17 497 (10.79%) ETL
18 486 (10.55%) Data Analysis
19 434 (9.42%) Actionable Insight
20 428 (9.29%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1,175 (25.52%) SQL
2 1,046 (22.71%) Python
3 116 (2.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 103 (2.24%) C#
5 100 (2.17%) JavaScript
6 97 (2.11%) Java
7 80 (1.74%) Scala
8 65 (1.41%) PowerShell
9 63 (1.37%) R
10 44 (0.96%) Bicep
10 44 (0.96%) TypeScript
11 40 (0.87%) T-SQL
12 37 (0.80%) C++
13 36 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
14 35 (0.76%) Go
15 21 (0.46%) Bash
16 15 (0.33%) Kotlin
16 15 (0.33%) PL/SQL
17 14 (0.30%) Shell Script
17 14 (0.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 666 (14.46%) Degree
2 270 (5.86%) Security Cleared
3 188 (4.08%) SC Cleared
4 139 (3.02%) Master's Degree
5 118 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 72 (1.56%) IRCA
7 63 (1.37%) Azure Certification
8 60 (1.30%) CTC Cleared
9 51 (1.11%) CISSP
10 48 (1.04%) ACCA
11 47 (1.02%) CISM
11 47 (1.02%) PhD
12 46 (1.00%) DBS Check
13 43 (0.93%) CISA
14 39 (0.85%) CIMA
15 35 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
16 34 (0.74%) DV Cleared
17 31 (0.67%) AWS Certification
18 30 (0.65%) SANS
19 29 (0.63%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 589 (12.79%) Data Quality
2 385 (8.36%) Accessibility
3 362 (7.86%) GDPR
4 172 (3.74%) QA
5 97 (2.11%) WCAG
6 81 (1.76%) SLA
7 75 (1.63%) ISO 9001
8 52 (1.13%) NIST
9 46 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
9 46 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 37 (0.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 34 (0.74%) COBIT
11 34 (0.74%) HIPAA
12 28 (0.61%) Solvency II
13 27 (0.59%) EU AI Act
14 26 (0.56%) IFRS
15 20 (0.43%) PSD2
15 20 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 18 (0.39%) SOC 2
17 17 (0.37%) GxP
System Software
1 152 (3.30%) Docker
2 70 (1.52%) Active Directory
3 26 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.15%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.11%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.065%) IAG
7 2 (0.043%) Firmware
7 2 (0.043%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.043%) vSphere
8 1 (0.022%) Apache Flume
8 1 (0.022%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.022%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 208 (4.52%) Terraform
2 174 (3.78%) Kubernetes
3 50 (1.09%) Ansible
4 27 (0.59%) Prometheus
5 26 (0.56%) Grafana
6 18 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (0.20%) EnCase
8 9 (0.20%) FTK
9 7 (0.15%) Kibana
10 6 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.11%) Argo
11 5 (0.11%) QRadar
12 3 (0.065%) ArcSight ESM
12 3 (0.065%) Control-M
12 3 (0.065%) VxRail
13 2 (0.043%) RSA Archer
13 2 (0.043%) SCCM
13 2 (0.043%) Thomson Reuters DACS
13 2 (0.043%) vRealize
Vendors
1 830 (18.02%) Microsoft
2 374 (8.12%) Databricks
3 350 (7.60%) Google
4 295 (6.41%) Adobe
5 183 (3.97%) SAP
6 158 (3.43%) Salesforce
7 133 (2.89%) Oracle
8 129 (2.80%) Cisco
9 59 (1.28%) HubSpot
10 58 (1.26%) Dell
11 48 (1.04%) Informatica
12 39 (0.85%) Alteryx
13 29 (0.63%) OpenAI
14 28 (0.61%) Red Hat
14 28 (0.61%) Talend
15 27 (0.59%) Nexthink
16 26 (0.56%) Palantir
17 25 (0.54%) Cloudera
17 25 (0.54%) ServiceNow
17 25 (0.54%) Workday