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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 32 29
Rank change year-on-year +9 -3 -8
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 3,726 3,562 3,922
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 7.08% 5.32% 7.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.24% 6.37% 7.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,886 1,880 2,845
10th Percentile £33,750 £40,450 £36,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% -1.37%
75th Percentile £86,250 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £113,750 £118,750 £114,152
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £57,000 £55,148
% change year-on-year -10.53% +3.36% -0.18%

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 45,214 55,881 49,346
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.89% 83.44% 93.81%
Number of salaries quoted 27,281 28,909 37,851
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,404 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,854 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -

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 18 November 2025.

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 18 November 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 +8 3,175 £62,500 -10.71% 3,587
UK excluding London +20 1,926 £51,000 -10.53% 1,827
London +6 1,498 £75,000 -11.76% 2,028
Work from Home +6 1,120 £60,000 -14.29% 1,655
South East +27 597 £50,205 -12.69% 647
North of England -16 350 £55,000 - 385
Midlands +34 309 £53,475 -2.77% 309
Scotland +8 257 £50,000 -20.00% 106
South West +25 216 £55,200 -15.08% 162
North West -15 196 £52,500 -4.55% 248
West Midlands +14 180 £57,750 +0.43% 179
East of England +36 151 £39,000 -35.00% 160
East Midlands +55 133 £45,000 -10.00% 125
Yorkshire -6 123 £63,750 +9.04% 99
North East +14 32 £46,750 -7.43% 41
Northern Ireland -5 30 £51,546 +8.52% 42
Wales +19 24 £55,062 +1.97% 44
Isle of Man - 1 - -

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
1 114 (3.06%) CMS
2 97 (2.60%) Apache Spark
3 66 (1.77%) WordPress
4 52 (1.40%) Confluence
5 47 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
6 40 (1.07%) SharePoint
7 32 (0.86%) Apache
8 27 (0.72%) SAS
9 14 (0.38%) Drupal
9 14 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 11 (0.30%) Headless CMS
10 11 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
11 10 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 10 (0.27%) SugarCRM
12 9 (0.24%) Umbraco
13 6 (0.16%) Jupyter
14 4 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
14 4 (0.11%) ArcGIS
14 4 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
15 3 (0.081%) Joomla!
Applications
1 511 (13.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 100 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
3 59 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 38 (1.02%) Photoshop
5 30 (0.81%) Maya
6 26 (0.70%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 26 (0.70%) Adobe XD
7 18 (0.48%) Adobe Premiere
7 18 (0.48%) InDesign
7 18 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
8 17 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
9 15 (0.40%) Chatbot
10 13 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
11 11 (0.30%) Trello
12 9 (0.24%) SPSS
13 7 (0.19%) MadCap Flare
14 4 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
14 4 (0.11%) Final Cut Pro
14 4 (0.11%) MS Visio
14 4 (0.11%) SketchUp
Business Applications
1 89 (2.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 59 (1.58%) Shopify
3 56 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
4 33 (0.89%) Oracle ERP
5 28 (0.75%) SAP IBP
6 19 (0.51%) Magento
6 19 (0.51%) SAP CO
6 19 (0.51%) SAP FI
6 19 (0.51%) SAP FI/CO
7 16 (0.43%) Dynamics GP
8 13 (0.35%) NetSuite
8 13 (0.35%) SAP FSCM
8 13 (0.35%) Sprinklr
9 11 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
9 11 (0.30%) SAP IS-U
10 10 (0.27%) Oracle Assets
10 10 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
10 10 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
10 10 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
11 9 (0.24%) Adaptiv
Cloud Services
1 962 (25.82%) Azure
2 785 (21.07%) Power Platform
3 451 (12.10%) AWS
4 289 (7.76%) Google Analytics
5 246 (6.60%) GCP
6 214 (5.74%) SaaS
7 192 (5.15%) Snowflake
8 165 (4.43%) Azure Data Factory
9 149 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 127 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
11 113 (3.03%) GitHub
12 110 (2.95%) Microsoft 365
13 94 (2.52%) Google Ads
14 92 (2.47%) dbt
15 86 (2.31%) Serverless
16 65 (1.74%) Figma
17 64 (1.72%) Entra ID
18 62 (1.66%) Azure Monitor
19 55 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
20 47 (1.26%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 35 (0.94%) SMS
2 29 (0.78%) VPN
3 27 (0.72%) Unified Communications
4 24 (0.64%) Firewall
5 14 (0.38%) Network Security
6 11 (0.30%) DNS
7 8 (0.21%) Broadband
7 8 (0.21%) WAN
8 6 (0.16%) Intrusion Detection
9 5 (0.13%) Intranet
10 4 (0.11%) CHAP
10 4 (0.11%) Internet
10 4 (0.11%) SAN
10 4 (0.11%) VoIP
10 4 (0.11%) Wireshark
11 3 (0.081%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.081%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.081%) TCP/IP
12 2 (0.054%) Kerberos
12 2 (0.054%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 754 (20.24%) Power BI
2 372 (9.98%) Tableau
3 342 (9.18%) Data Warehouse
4 260 (6.98%) Data Lake
5 155 (4.16%) Metadata
6 154 (4.13%) SQL Server
7 113 (3.03%) Data Mining
8 105 (2.82%) Big Data
9 97 (2.60%) SAP BW
10 95 (2.55%) Looker
11 89 (2.39%) NoSQL
12 77 (2.07%) Azure SQL Database
13 70 (1.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 68 (1.83%) BigQuery
15 63 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
16 62 (1.66%) Relational Database
17 57 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
18 53 (1.42%) Power Query
19 50 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
20 44 (1.18%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 131 (3.52%) JIRA
2 79 (2.12%) Git
3 37 (0.99%) Jenkins
4 21 (0.56%) Axure RP
4 21 (0.56%) Balsamiq
5 19 (0.51%) ER Studio
5 19 (0.51%) ERwin
5 19 (0.51%) Oracle Forms
6 16 (0.43%) Cypress.io
7 13 (0.35%) GitLab
7 13 (0.35%) Selenium
8 11 (0.30%) Visual Studio
9 8 (0.21%) Postman
10 7 (0.19%) Maven
10 7 (0.19%) MLflow
10 7 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
11 6 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
12 5 (0.13%) RStudio
13 4 (0.11%) Browser DevTools
13 4 (0.11%) TestNG
General
1 1,382 (37.09%) Social Skills
2 1,350 (36.23%) Finance
3 1,194 (32.05%) Analytical Skills
4 821 (22.03%) Marketing
5 427 (11.46%) Law
6 300 (8.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 278 (7.46%) Retail
8 276 (7.41%) Banking
9 214 (5.74%) Public Sector
10 176 (4.72%) Manufacturing
11 163 (4.37%) Presentation Skills
12 151 (4.05%) Legal
13 107 (2.87%) Advertising
14 105 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
15 100 (2.68%) Financial Institution
16 92 (2.47%) Games
17 82 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
18 79 (2.12%) Front Office
19 75 (2.01%) Pharmaceutical
20 58 (1.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 621 (16.67%) Senior
2 572 (15.35%) Analyst
3 494 (13.26%) Lead
4 301 (8.08%) Architect
5 286 (7.68%) Data Analyst
6 261 (7.00%) Data Engineer
7 229 (6.15%) Developer
8 142 (3.81%) Senior Manager
9 118 (3.17%) Data Architect
10 109 (2.93%) Consultant
11 96 (2.58%) Innovation Manager
12 84 (2.25%) Solutions Architect
13 83 (2.23%) Software Engineer
14 77 (2.07%) Analytics Manager
15 74 (1.99%) Trainee
15 74 (1.99%) Trainee Analyst
15 74 (1.99%) Trainee Data Analyst
16 70 (1.88%) Data Manager
17 69 (1.85%) Data Scientist
18 67 (1.80%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (3.19%) HTML
2 94 (2.52%) CSS
3 90 (2.42%) Kafka
4 70 (1.88%) React
5 66 (1.77%) RESTful
6 63 (1.69%) PySpark
7 49 (1.32%) REST
8 46 (1.23%) OAuth
9 40 (1.07%) .NET
9 40 (1.07%) JSON
9 40 (1.07%) TensorFlow
10 39 (1.05%) PyTorch
11 36 (0.97%) Node.js
12 31 (0.83%) OAuth2
12 31 (0.83%) Pandas
13 28 (0.75%) AngularJS
13 28 (0.75%) Middleware
14 27 (0.72%) scikit-learn
15 26 (0.70%) FIX Protocol
15 26 (0.70%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 228 (6.12%) Analytical Mindset
2 182 (4.88%) Product Ownership
3 181 (4.86%) Self-Motivation
4 178 (4.78%) Cloud Native
5 175 (4.70%) Onboarding
6 165 (4.43%) Social Media
7 154 (4.13%) Algorithms
8 151 (4.05%) Management Information System
9 79 (2.12%) FMCG
10 74 (1.99%) Life Science
11 72 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
12 55 (1.48%) Data Structures
13 51 (1.37%) Data Centre
14 45 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
15 39 (1.05%) Credit Risk
15 39 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
16 38 (1.02%) Reinsurance
17 36 (0.97%) Fixed Income
17 36 (0.97%) Virtual Team
18 35 (0.94%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 68 (1.83%) Windows
2 41 (1.10%) Linux
3 24 (0.64%) Unix
4 19 (0.51%) Windows 10
5 7 (0.19%) Android
5 7 (0.19%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.19%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.11%) VMS
7 2 (0.054%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.027%) AIX
8 1 (0.027%) Debian
8 1 (0.027%) Robot Operating System
8 1 (0.027%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.027%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,028 (27.59%) AI
2 1,002 (26.89%) Business Intelligence
3 918 (24.64%) Problem-Solving
4 879 (23.59%) Decision-Making
5 772 (20.72%) Agile
6 763 (20.48%) Data Analytics
7 690 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
8 574 (15.41%) Data Modelling
9 524 (14.06%) Machine Learning
10 512 (13.74%) Roadmaps
10 512 (13.74%) Stakeholder Management
11 505 (13.55%) Data Science
12 451 (12.10%) Data Analysis
13 450 (12.08%) Visualisation
14 441 (11.84%) Project Management
15 433 (11.62%) Data Governance
16 418 (11.22%) Actionable Insight
17 409 (10.98%) Data Engineering
18 387 (10.39%) CRM
19 386 (10.36%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 997 (26.76%) SQL
2 898 (24.10%) Python
3 158 (4.24%) Java
4 132 (3.54%) JavaScript
5 83 (2.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 82 (2.20%) PowerShell
7 77 (2.07%) R
8 52 (1.40%) C#
9 46 (1.23%) T-SQL
10 42 (1.13%) TypeScript
11 40 (1.07%) Scala
12 39 (1.05%) C++
13 36 (0.97%) Go
14 33 (0.89%) Bicep
15 29 (0.78%) Bash
16 28 (0.75%) PL/SQL
17 22 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
18 18 (0.48%) VBA
19 17 (0.46%) Shell Script
20 16 (0.43%) PHP
Qualifications
1 874 (23.46%) Degree
2 206 (5.53%) Master's Degree
3 169 (4.54%) Security Cleared
4 121 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 119 (3.19%) SC Cleared
6 107 (2.87%) DBS Check
7 95 (2.55%) PhD
8 63 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
9 57 (1.53%) CISSP
10 52 (1.40%) Azure Certification
11 49 (1.32%) Numerate Degree
12 45 (1.21%) CISA
12 45 (1.21%) PMI Certification
13 40 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
14 39 (1.05%) PMP
15 37 (0.99%) ACCA
16 34 (0.91%) CISM
17 32 (0.86%) AWS Certification
18 29 (0.78%) CIMA
19 23 (0.62%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 431 (11.57%) Data Quality
2 249 (6.68%) GDPR
3 197 (5.29%) Accessibility
4 92 (2.47%) QA
5 77 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 44 (1.18%) NIST
7 41 (1.10%) WCAG
8 34 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
9 31 (0.83%) GxP
10 29 (0.78%) SLA
11 24 (0.64%) HIPAA
11 24 (0.64%) Solvency II
12 23 (0.62%) COBIT
13 22 (0.59%) EU AI Act
14 21 (0.56%) PSD2
15 16 (0.43%) IFRS
15 16 (0.43%) PMO
16 15 (0.40%) ITGC
16 15 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 14 (0.38%) GRC
System Software
1 87 (2.33%) Docker
2 38 (1.02%) Active Directory
3 21 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (0.24%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.081%) Firmware
8 1 (0.027%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.027%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.027%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 149 (4.00%) Terraform
2 130 (3.49%) Kubernetes
3 25 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
4 22 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (0.56%) Ansible
6 12 (0.32%) QRadar
7 10 (0.27%) Grafana
7 10 (0.27%) Prometheus
7 10 (0.27%) SCCM
8 8 (0.21%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 6 (0.16%) EnCase
9 6 (0.16%) FTK
9 6 (0.16%) RSA Archer
10 5 (0.13%) SCOM
11 3 (0.081%) ArcSight ESM
11 3 (0.081%) Argo
12 2 (0.054%) Failover Clustering
13 1 (0.027%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 1 (0.027%) Computer Incident Response Team
13 1 (0.027%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 659 (17.69%) Microsoft
2 480 (12.88%) Google
3 266 (7.14%) Databricks
4 254 (6.82%) SAP
5 186 (4.99%) Salesforce
6 161 (4.32%) Oracle
7 139 (3.73%) Adobe
8 74 (1.99%) HubSpot
9 55 (1.48%) Alteryx
10 52 (1.40%) Cisco
11 42 (1.13%) ServiceNow
12 39 (1.05%) OpenAI
13 38 (1.02%) Facebook
13 38 (1.02%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 37 (0.99%) Dell
15 34 (0.91%) Bloomberg
16 32 (0.86%) Ahrefs
16 32 (0.86%) Screaming Frog
17 27 (0.72%) Informatica
18 25 (0.67%) Talend