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

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 29 34
Rank change year-on-year -5 +5 -10
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 4,021 3,281 4,379
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.83% 6.82% 5.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.38% 7.36% 6.56%
Number of salaries quoted 2,176 1,588 3,154
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,000 £53,159
% change year-on-year -7.89% +7.23% -3.35%

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 54,457 44,608 66,712
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.02% 92.69% 88.37%
Number of salaries quoted 32,644 22,001 51,499
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,797 £29,429
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.97%

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 23 February 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 23 February 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 -5 3,427 £65,000 -7.14% 1,763
UK excluding London -2 2,036 £52,500 -7.89% 1,328
London +5 1,602 £80,000 -5.88% 864
Work from Home -3 1,272 £64,000 -1.54% 921
South East +16 545 £57,500 -4.17% 537
North of England -13 490 £48,552 -11.72% 278
Midlands -3 387 £52,500 -4.55% 205
North West -17 243 £52,500 -4.55% 158
West Midlands -10 237 £56,350 +2.45% 127
Scotland +4 228 £60,000 -14.29% 47
Yorkshire -5 195 £49,500 -10.00% 87
South West -2 185 £55,000 +1.03% 132
East Midlands +12 149 £46,500 -7.00% 77
East of England +28 125 £51,500 -20.77% 109
North East +14 52 £40,000 -20.79% 36
Northern Ireland -3 50 £45,000 -7.69% 12
Wales +21 29 £56,250 +13.52% 29

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
1 103 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
2 101 (2.51%) CMS
3 88 (2.19%) Apache Spark
4 55 (1.37%) WordPress
5 52 (1.29%) Apache
6 46 (1.14%) Confluence
7 43 (1.07%) SharePoint
8 38 (0.95%) SAS
9 27 (0.67%) ArcGIS
10 18 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
11 17 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
11 17 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 15 (0.37%) Drupal
13 9 (0.22%) Umbraco
14 7 (0.17%) Oracle Application Server
15 6 (0.15%) IIS
16 4 (0.099%) Appian
16 4 (0.099%) Documentum
16 4 (0.099%) Sitecore CMS
17 3 (0.075%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 472 (11.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 130 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
3 63 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 24 (0.60%) Adobe XD
5 20 (0.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 20 (0.50%) InDesign
6 19 (0.47%) Maya
7 18 (0.45%) Photoshop
8 17 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
9 13 (0.32%) Chatbot
10 12 (0.30%) Adobe Premiere
10 12 (0.30%) SPSS
11 9 (0.22%) Trello
12 8 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
12 8 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
13 7 (0.17%) MS Visio
14 6 (0.15%) UserZoom
15 4 (0.099%) SketchUp
16 3 (0.075%) Final Cut Pro
17 2 (0.050%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 72 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 53 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 32 (0.80%) Oracle ERP
4 31 (0.77%) SAP IBP
5 22 (0.55%) SAP PP
6 21 (0.52%) Shopify
7 20 (0.50%) SAP CO
8 18 (0.45%) Magento
9 15 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
9 15 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
9 15 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
10 14 (0.35%) Oracle Assets
11 13 (0.32%) iTrent
11 13 (0.32%) NetSuite
11 13 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
11 13 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
12 12 (0.30%) Dynamics GP
13 11 (0.27%) IBM Planning Analytics
13 11 (0.27%) SAP FI
13 11 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 957 (23.80%) Azure
2 689 (17.14%) Power Platform
3 429 (10.67%) AWS
4 233 (5.79%) SaaS
5 220 (5.47%) GCP
6 212 (5.27%) Azure Data Factory
7 204 (5.07%) Snowflake
8 196 (4.87%) Google Analytics
9 176 (4.38%) Azure DevOps
10 167 (4.15%) Microsoft 365
11 153 (3.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 152 (3.78%) GitHub
13 122 (3.03%) dbt
14 103 (2.56%) Entra ID
15 92 (2.29%) Adobe Analytics
16 90 (2.24%) Azure Monitor
17 89 (2.21%) Figma
18 83 (2.06%) Serverless
19 76 (1.89%) Amazon S3
20 68 (1.69%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 97 (2.41%) Broadband
2 40 (0.99%) VPN
3 35 (0.87%) Firewall
4 21 (0.52%) WAN
5 20 (0.50%) CHAP
6 16 (0.40%) DNS
7 14 (0.35%) Network Security
8 13 (0.32%) Intranet
8 13 (0.32%) Unified Communications
9 10 (0.25%) TCP/IP
10 6 (0.15%) DHCP
10 6 (0.15%) HTTPS
11 5 (0.12%) Intrusion Detection
11 5 (0.12%) SNMP
11 5 (0.12%) VoIP
12 4 (0.099%) HTTP
13 3 (0.075%) Internet
13 3 (0.075%) LAN
13 3 (0.075%) SMS
13 3 (0.075%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 652 (16.21%) Power BI
2 413 (10.27%) Tableau
3 325 (8.08%) Data Warehouse
4 209 (5.20%) Data Lake
5 198 (4.92%) Data Mining
6 191 (4.75%) Metadata
7 151 (3.76%) SQL Server
8 108 (2.69%) Azure SQL Database
9 98 (2.44%) Looker
10 78 (1.94%) Big Data
11 75 (1.87%) Relational Database
12 72 (1.79%) BigQuery
12 72 (1.79%) NoSQL
13 68 (1.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 64 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
15 56 (1.39%) Power Query
16 55 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 52 (1.29%) SAP BW
18 44 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
19 36 (0.90%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 125 (3.11%) Git
2 116 (2.88%) JIRA
3 65 (1.62%) Jenkins
4 27 (0.67%) GitLab
4 27 (0.67%) Oracle Forms
5 23 (0.57%) TeamCity
6 22 (0.55%) Axure RP
6 22 (0.55%) Balsamiq
7 20 (0.50%) ERwin
8 19 (0.47%) Visual Studio
9 18 (0.45%) MLflow
10 11 (0.27%) Selenium
11 9 (0.22%) CircleCI
11 9 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 8 (0.20%) PowerDesigner
13 6 (0.15%) Cypress.io
14 5 (0.12%) Crashlytics
14 5 (0.12%) ER Studio
14 5 (0.12%) MSI
14 5 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,387 (34.49%) Finance
2 1,265 (31.46%) Social Skills
3 1,107 (27.53%) Analytical Skills
4 663 (16.49%) Marketing
5 279 (6.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 244 (6.07%) Public Sector
7 226 (5.62%) Banking
8 219 (5.45%) Law
9 207 (5.15%) Retail
10 154 (3.83%) Manufacturing
11 146 (3.63%) Legal
12 132 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
13 123 (3.06%) Games
14 108 (2.69%) Financial Institution
15 92 (2.29%) Automotive
16 90 (2.24%) Advertising
17 89 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
18 88 (2.19%) Pharmaceutical
19 77 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
20 69 (1.72%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 657 (16.34%) Senior
2 646 (16.07%) Analyst
3 483 (12.01%) Lead
4 380 (9.45%) Data Analyst
5 370 (9.20%) Data Engineer
6 325 (8.08%) Architect
7 223 (5.55%) Developer
8 170 (4.23%) Trainee
8 170 (4.23%) Trainee Analyst
8 170 (4.23%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 145 (3.61%) Data Architect
10 141 (3.51%) Senior Manager
11 129 (3.21%) Consultant
12 99 (2.46%) Designer
13 95 (2.36%) Solutions Architect
14 88 (2.19%) Data Manager
15 84 (2.09%) Support Engineer
16 81 (2.01%) Senior Analyst
17 80 (1.99%) Data Scientist
18 78 (1.94%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (2.39%) HTML
2 86 (2.14%) Kafka
3 85 (2.11%) CSS
4 77 (1.91%) PySpark
5 67 (1.67%) PyTorch
6 64 (1.59%) .NET
7 63 (1.57%) React
8 59 (1.47%) OAuth
9 56 (1.39%) RESTful
10 50 (1.24%) TensorFlow
11 46 (1.14%) REST
12 45 (1.12%) JSON
13 38 (0.95%) SAP Fiori
14 37 (0.92%) OAuth2
15 29 (0.72%) .NET Core
15 29 (0.72%) Node.js
15 29 (0.72%) SAML
16 26 (0.65%) FIX Protocol
17 23 (0.57%) Akka
17 23 (0.57%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 213 (5.30%) Social Media
2 182 (4.53%) Analytical Mindset
3 181 (4.50%) Self-Motivation
4 180 (4.48%) Product Ownership
5 166 (4.13%) Cloud Native
6 155 (3.85%) Management Information System
7 124 (3.08%) Algorithms
8 123 (3.06%) Onboarding
9 109 (2.71%) Life Science
10 81 (2.01%) Data Structures
11 70 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
12 66 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
13 57 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
14 52 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
15 47 (1.17%) FMCG
16 46 (1.14%) Mobile App
17 41 (1.02%) Virtual Team
18 40 (0.99%) Data Centre
19 39 (0.97%) Fixed Income
20 37 (0.92%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 112 (2.79%) Windows
2 60 (1.49%) Windows 10
3 43 (1.07%) Linux
4 29 (0.72%) Unix
5 23 (0.57%) VMS
6 14 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 14 (0.35%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.30%) Android
8 2 (0.050%) AIX
8 2 (0.050%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,108 (27.56%) AI
2 945 (23.50%) Business Intelligence
3 861 (21.41%) Decision-Making
4 781 (19.42%) Data Analytics
5 773 (19.22%) Agile
6 772 (19.20%) Problem-Solving
7 716 (17.81%) Continuous Improvement
8 633 (15.74%) Data Modelling
9 523 (13.01%) Project Management
10 515 (12.81%) Data Analysis
11 493 (12.26%) Machine Learning
12 491 (12.21%) Data Governance
12 491 (12.21%) Data Science
13 484 (12.04%) Roadmaps
14 481 (11.96%) Data Engineering
15 442 (10.99%) Stakeholder Management
16 435 (10.82%) Data Pipeline
17 430 (10.69%) Visualisation
18 423 (10.52%) ETL
19 422 (10.49%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 1,084 (26.96%) SQL
2 986 (24.52%) Python
3 116 (2.88%) Java
4 114 (2.84%) JavaScript
5 90 (2.24%) C#
6 87 (2.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 77 (1.91%) PowerShell
8 76 (1.89%) Scala
9 69 (1.72%) R
10 49 (1.22%) Bicep
11 44 (1.09%) T-SQL
12 40 (0.99%) C++
12 40 (0.99%) TypeScript
13 33 (0.82%) Kusto Query Language
14 30 (0.75%) Bash
15 26 (0.65%) Go
16 23 (0.57%) PL/SQL
17 21 (0.52%) Shell Script
18 16 (0.40%) VBA
19 12 (0.30%) PHP
Qualifications
1 773 (19.22%) Degree
2 268 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 189 (4.70%) SC Cleared
4 170 (4.23%) Master's Degree
5 119 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 75 (1.87%) PhD
7 60 (1.49%) CTC Cleared
8 58 (1.44%) CISSP
9 54 (1.34%) Azure Certification
10 52 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
11 49 (1.22%) CISA
12 47 (1.17%) Numerate Degree
13 46 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
14 45 (1.12%) CISM
15 41 (1.02%) DBS Check
16 38 (0.95%) PMI Certification
17 37 (0.92%) ACCA
18 32 (0.80%) DV Cleared
19 31 (0.77%) PMP
20 29 (0.72%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 528 (13.13%) Data Quality
2 277 (6.89%) Accessibility
3 268 (6.67%) GDPR
4 104 (2.59%) QA
5 76 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 71 (1.77%) SLA
7 51 (1.27%) NIST
8 44 (1.09%) WCAG
9 42 (1.04%) Actionable Recommendations
10 39 (0.97%) GxP
11 30 (0.75%) COBIT
12 25 (0.62%) ISO 9001
12 25 (0.62%) Solvency II
13 24 (0.60%) EU AI Act
13 24 (0.60%) IFRS
14 22 (0.55%) HIPAA
15 21 (0.52%) PSD2
16 18 (0.45%) GRC
17 17 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 17 (0.42%) SOC 2
System Software
1 131 (3.26%) Docker
2 60 (1.49%) Active Directory
3 35 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.30%) Hyper-V
5 12 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.099%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.050%) vSphere
8 1 (0.025%) Firmware
8 1 (0.025%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.025%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 198 (4.92%) Terraform
2 152 (3.78%) Kubernetes
3 38 (0.95%) Ansible
4 26 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
5 25 (0.62%) Grafana
6 24 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
7 23 (0.57%) Prometheus
8 9 (0.22%) SCCM
9 8 (0.20%) EnCase
9 8 (0.20%) FTK
9 8 (0.20%) QRadar
10 7 (0.17%) Kibana
11 6 (0.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 5 (0.12%) Argo
12 5 (0.12%) SCOM
13 4 (0.099%) RSA Archer
14 3 (0.075%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.075%) ArcSight ESM
14 3 (0.075%) Control-M
14 3 (0.075%) VxRail
Vendors
1 837 (20.82%) Microsoft
2 333 (8.28%) Google
3 256 (6.37%) Databricks
4 211 (5.25%) SAP
5 185 (4.60%) Salesforce
6 179 (4.45%) Adobe
7 138 (3.43%) Cisco
8 130 (3.23%) Oracle
9 68 (1.69%) HubSpot
10 54 (1.34%) Alteryx
11 34 (0.85%) Bloomberg
12 33 (0.82%) ServiceNow
13 31 (0.77%) OpenAI
14 30 (0.75%) Informatica
14 30 (0.75%) YouTube
15 29 (0.72%) Instagram
16 28 (0.70%) Nexthink
17 27 (0.67%) Talend
18 26 (0.65%) Foundry
18 26 (0.65%) Palantir