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

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 26 29
Rank change year-on-year -9 +3 -5
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 3,672 3,598 3,547
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 6.27% 6.27% 7.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.53% 7.05% 7.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,920 1,879 2,524
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,965
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% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £118,750 £113,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £56,525
% change year-on-year -8.70% +1.72% +2.77%

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 48,781 51,056 45,908
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.30% 89.04% 93.74%
Number of salaries quoted 28,561 26,014 35,209
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,074
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.93%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,924 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.05% +4.76% -2.51%

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 16 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 16 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 3,127 £62,500 -10.71% 2,623
UK excluding London +6 1,907 £52,500 -8.70% 2,414
London +2 1,465 £75,000 -11.76% 649
Work from Home -1 1,111 £60,000 -11.11% 1,342
South East +19 581 £52,500 -9.48% 727
North of England -16 363 £55,000 - 536
Midlands -3 313 £55,000 - 420
Scotland +8 254 £50,000 -16.67% 108
South West +18 205 £55,000 -12.00% 261
North West -23 188 £50,000 -9.91% 285
West Midlands -15 182 £57,750 +1.32% 215
Yorkshire -5 144 £63,750 +15.91% 193
East of England +34 136 £40,000 -33.33% 309
East Midlands +19 134 £47,500 -5.00% 188
Northern Ireland +3 33 £52,500 -22.22% 44
North East +8 32 £40,000 -27.27% 62
Wales +10 26 £55,062 +10.12% 58

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 99 (2.70%) CMS
2 94 (2.56%) Apache Spark
3 58 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
4 53 (1.44%) WordPress
5 49 (1.33%) Confluence
6 44 (1.20%) SharePoint
7 32 (0.87%) Apache
8 23 (0.63%) SAS
9 19 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 15 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
11 11 (0.30%) Drupal
11 11 (0.30%) Umbraco
12 10 (0.27%) Headless CMS
12 10 (0.27%) SugarCRM
13 9 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 4 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
14 4 (0.11%) Appian
15 3 (0.082%) IIS
15 3 (0.082%) Joomla!
15 3 (0.082%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 507 (13.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 100 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
3 52 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (0.87%) Maya
5 30 (0.82%) Photoshop
6 27 (0.74%) Adobe XD
7 24 (0.65%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 18 (0.49%) InDesign
9 16 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
10 15 (0.41%) Chatbot
11 13 (0.35%) Adobe Premiere
12 11 (0.30%) SPSS
13 10 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
13 10 (0.27%) Trello
14 9 (0.25%) 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 (0.082%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 92 (2.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 61 (1.66%) Dynamics CRM
3 48 (1.31%) Shopify
4 34 (0.93%) Oracle ERP
5 28 (0.76%) SAP IBP
6 22 (0.60%) Magento
7 20 (0.54%) SAP CO
8 18 (0.49%) SAP FI
8 18 (0.49%) SAP FI/CO
9 15 (0.41%) Dynamics GP
9 15 (0.41%) Oracle Assets
9 15 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
9 15 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
9 15 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
10 14 (0.38%) Oracle Financials
11 13 (0.35%) NetSuite
12 12 (0.33%) SAP FSCM
13 11 (0.30%) SAP IS-U
14 10 (0.27%) Sprinklr
15 8 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 941 (25.63%) Azure
2 765 (20.83%) Power Platform
3 381 (10.38%) AWS
4 245 (6.67%) Google Analytics
5 228 (6.21%) GCP
6 219 (5.96%) SaaS
7 195 (5.31%) Snowflake
8 182 (4.96%) Azure Data Factory
9 158 (4.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 156 (4.25%) Azure DevOps
11 144 (3.92%) GitHub
12 136 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
13 109 (2.97%) dbt
14 79 (2.15%) Serverless
15 74 (2.02%) Azure Monitor
16 71 (1.93%) Google Ads
17 70 (1.91%) Figma
18 62 (1.69%) Entra ID
19 61 (1.66%) Dynamics 365
20 53 (1.44%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 36 (0.98%) VPN
2 34 (0.93%) SMS
3 30 (0.82%) Firewall
4 26 (0.71%) Unified Communications
5 19 (0.52%) Network Security
6 13 (0.35%) DNS
7 12 (0.33%) Broadband
8 11 (0.30%) WAN
9 9 (0.25%) Intranet
10 7 (0.19%) CHAP
10 7 (0.19%) TCP/IP
11 6 (0.16%) Intrusion Detection
12 4 (0.11%) HTTPS
12 4 (0.11%) Internet
12 4 (0.11%) VoIP
12 4 (0.11%) Wireshark
13 3 (0.082%) DHCP
13 3 (0.082%) MQTT
13 3 (0.082%) SD-WAN
14 2 (0.054%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 732 (19.93%) Power BI
2 387 (10.54%) Tableau
3 333 (9.07%) Data Warehouse
4 255 (6.94%) Data Lake
5 167 (4.55%) Metadata
6 151 (4.11%) SQL Server
7 136 (3.70%) Data Mining
8 98 (2.67%) SAP BW
9 96 (2.61%) Big Data
10 92 (2.51%) Looker
11 88 (2.40%) Azure SQL Database
12 74 (2.02%) NoSQL
13 72 (1.96%) BigQuery
14 70 (1.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 66 (1.80%) Relational Database
16 58 (1.58%) Amazon Redshift
17 55 (1.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 48 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
19 47 (1.28%) Hadoop
20 43 (1.17%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 131 (3.57%) JIRA
2 98 (2.67%) Git
3 38 (1.03%) Jenkins
4 29 (0.79%) Oracle Forms
5 24 (0.65%) Axure RP
5 24 (0.65%) Balsamiq
6 18 (0.49%) ERwin
7 16 (0.44%) GitLab
8 14 (0.38%) ER Studio
9 13 (0.35%) Cypress.io
9 13 (0.35%) Visual Studio
10 12 (0.33%) Selenium
11 10 (0.27%) MLflow
12 7 (0.19%) Postman
12 7 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
13 5 (0.14%) MSI
13 5 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
14 4 (0.11%) Browser DevTools
14 4 (0.11%) Maven
14 4 (0.11%) TestNG
General
1 1,286 (35.02%) Finance
2 1,284 (34.97%) Social Skills
3 1,141 (31.07%) Analytical Skills
4 737 (20.07%) Marketing
5 293 (7.98%) Law
6 235 (6.40%) Retail
7 231 (6.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 212 (5.77%) Public Sector
9 193 (5.26%) Banking
10 179 (4.87%) Manufacturing
11 157 (4.28%) Presentation Skills
12 130 (3.54%) Legal
13 99 (2.70%) Games
14 95 (2.59%) Financial Institution
15 89 (2.42%) Pharmaceutical
16 77 (2.10%) Organisational Skills
17 75 (2.04%) Advertising
18 72 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
19 65 (1.77%) Front Office
20 62 (1.69%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 581 (15.82%) Analyst
1 581 (15.82%) Senior
2 461 (12.55%) Lead
3 313 (8.52%) Data Analyst
4 306 (8.33%) Architect
5 282 (7.68%) Data Engineer
6 208 (5.66%) Developer
7 144 (3.92%) Senior Manager
8 123 (3.35%) Data Architect
9 102 (2.78%) Consultant
9 102 (2.78%) Trainee
9 102 (2.78%) Trainee Analyst
9 102 (2.78%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 96 (2.61%) Innovation Manager
11 81 (2.21%) Solutions Architect
12 79 (2.15%) Analytics Manager
13 74 (2.02%) Data Manager
14 73 (1.99%) Data Scientist
14 73 (1.99%) Senior Analyst
15 71 (1.93%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (2.94%) HTML
2 89 (2.42%) CSS
3 71 (1.93%) PySpark
4 68 (1.85%) Kafka
4 68 (1.85%) RESTful
5 62 (1.69%) React
6 55 (1.50%) REST
7 52 (1.42%) OAuth
8 45 (1.23%) JSON
9 44 (1.20%) PyTorch
9 44 (1.20%) TensorFlow
10 39 (1.06%) .NET
11 38 (1.03%) Node.js
12 35 (0.95%) OAuth2
13 30 (0.82%) scikit-learn
14 29 (0.79%) Middleware
15 27 (0.74%) GraphQL
15 27 (0.74%) Pandas
15 27 (0.74%) SAML
16 23 (0.63%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 190 (5.17%) Analytical Mindset
2 176 (4.79%) Product Ownership
3 172 (4.68%) Onboarding
3 172 (4.68%) Self-Motivation
4 167 (4.55%) Cloud Native
5 148 (4.03%) Social Media
6 145 (3.95%) Management Information System
7 123 (3.35%) Algorithms
8 84 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
9 82 (2.23%) Life Science
10 68 (1.85%) FMCG
11 58 (1.58%) Data Structures
12 51 (1.39%) Data Centre
12 51 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
13 49 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
14 38 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
14 38 (1.03%) Virtual Team
15 37 (1.01%) Reinsurance
16 35 (0.95%) Fixed Income
17 34 (0.93%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 80 (2.18%) Windows
2 37 (1.01%) Linux
3 28 (0.76%) Windows 10
4 25 (0.68%) Unix
5 11 (0.30%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.27%) VMS
7 9 (0.25%) 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%) Robot Operating System
10 1 (0.027%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,007 (27.42%) Business Intelligence
2 1,005 (27.37%) AI
3 856 (23.31%) Problem-Solving
4 850 (23.15%) Decision-Making
5 705 (19.20%) Data Analytics
6 696 (18.95%) Continuous Improvement
7 695 (18.93%) Agile
8 593 (16.15%) Data Modelling
9 503 (13.70%) Stakeholder Management
10 486 (13.24%) Roadmaps
11 471 (12.83%) Data Science
12 462 (12.58%) Machine Learning
13 456 (12.42%) Data Analysis
14 452 (12.31%) Data Governance
15 426 (11.60%) Project Management
16 414 (11.27%) Visualisation
17 397 (10.81%) Data Engineering
18 393 (10.70%) ETL
19 389 (10.59%) DevOps
20 379 (10.32%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 987 (26.88%) SQL
2 909 (24.75%) Python
3 131 (3.57%) JavaScript
4 124 (3.38%) Java
5 82 (2.23%) PowerShell
6 80 (2.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 67 (1.82%) R
8 60 (1.63%) C#
9 50 (1.36%) Scala
10 49 (1.33%) T-SQL
11 46 (1.25%) Bicep
12 38 (1.03%) TypeScript
13 32 (0.87%) Go
13 32 (0.87%) PL/SQL
14 30 (0.82%) C++
15 28 (0.76%) Bash
16 25 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
17 18 (0.49%) Shell Script
18 16 (0.44%) VBA
19 13 (0.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 838 (22.82%) Degree
2 204 (5.56%) Master's Degree
3 186 (5.07%) Security Cleared
4 133 (3.62%) SC Cleared
5 120 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 98 (2.67%) PhD
7 92 (2.51%) DBS Check
8 55 (1.50%) CISSP
9 50 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
10 48 (1.31%) Azure Certification
10 48 (1.31%) Numerate Degree
11 46 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
12 45 (1.23%) CISA
13 42 (1.14%) ACCA
14 37 (1.01%) CISM
15 36 (0.98%) PMI Certification
16 30 (0.82%) CIMA
16 30 (0.82%) PMP
17 28 (0.76%) CTC Cleared
18 25 (0.68%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 466 (12.69%) Data Quality
2 260 (7.08%) GDPR
3 201 (5.47%) Accessibility
4 85 (2.31%) QA
5 84 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 48 (1.31%) NIST
7 45 (1.23%) WCAG
8 44 (1.20%) SLA
9 37 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
9 37 (1.01%) GxP
10 25 (0.68%) COBIT
11 24 (0.65%) Solvency II
12 23 (0.63%) HIPAA
13 22 (0.60%) EU AI Act
14 21 (0.57%) PSD2
15 18 (0.49%) GRC
16 17 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 16 (0.44%) IFRS
17 16 (0.44%) PMO
18 15 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 85 (2.31%) Docker
2 46 (1.25%) Active Directory
3 28 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.30%) Hyper-V
5 11 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.082%) 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
1 167 (4.55%) Terraform
2 115 (3.13%) Kubernetes
3 32 (0.87%) Ansible
4 29 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
5 25 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (0.33%) QRadar
7 11 (0.30%) Grafana
8 10 (0.27%) SCCM
9 9 (0.25%) Prometheus
10 7 (0.19%) EnCase
10 7 (0.19%) FTK
10 7 (0.19%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 6 (0.16%) RSA Archer
12 5 (0.14%) Argo
12 5 (0.14%) SCOM
13 3 (0.082%) ArcSight ESM
13 3 (0.082%) Control-M
14 2 (0.054%) Failover Clustering
15 1 (0.027%) Computer Incident Response Team
15 1 (0.027%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 676 (18.41%) Microsoft
2 386 (10.51%) Google
3 260 (7.08%) SAP
4 254 (6.92%) Databricks
5 195 (5.31%) Salesforce
6 142 (3.87%) Oracle
7 135 (3.68%) Adobe
8 76 (2.07%) Cisco
9 67 (1.82%) HubSpot
10 58 (1.58%) Alteryx
11 42 (1.14%) ServiceNow
12 39 (1.06%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 36 (0.98%) Bloomberg
14 33 (0.90%) Dell
15 30 (0.82%) Talend
16 26 (0.71%) Informatica
16 26 (0.71%) OpenAI
17 25 (0.68%) Ahrefs
17 25 (0.68%) Screaming Frog
18 24 (0.65%) Facebook