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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 23 37
Rank change year-on-year -4 +14 -13
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 5,114 3,961 4,999
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.12% 8.03% 5.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.96% 8.92% 6.34%
Number of salaries quoted 3,089 1,807 3,079
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,563 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £112,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

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 73,502 44,419 78,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.60% 90.05% 82.05%
Number of salaries quoted 50,918 25,002 54,550
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% +2.73% -8.79%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 20 July 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 20 July 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 -3 4,606 £67,500 +7.57% 2,018
UK excluding London -9 2,701 £60,000 +9.09% 1,038
London +6 2,001 £80,000 +3.23% 1,259
Work from Home +6 1,547 £65,000 +8.33% 830
North of England +44 910 £60,000 +4.35% 263
Midlands +13 600 £59,732 +13.78% 149
North West +43 545 £60,000 +14.29% 143
South East -33 499 £55,000 - 367
West Midlands +1 349 £57,500 +7.58% 90
South West -31 260 £60,000 - 102
East Midlands +37 250 £59,866 +23.44% 59
Yorkshire +26 244 £62,500 -2.34% 78
East of England +25 233 £58,000 +16.00% 59
North East +29 121 £50,000 -2.91% 43
Scotland -28 97 £62,500 -10.71% 60
Wales -18 58 £64,250 +7.08% 35
Northern Ireland -34 50 £45,000 +4.43% 19

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
1 172 (3.36%) Apache Spark
2 140 (2.74%) Apache Airflow
3 117 (2.29%) CMS
4 99 (1.94%) Apache
5 70 (1.37%) SAS
6 62 (1.21%) Confluence
7 47 (0.92%) SharePoint
8 42 (0.82%) WordPress
9 34 (0.66%) ArcGIS
10 27 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
11 15 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
12 9 (0.18%) Jupyter
13 8 (0.16%) Drupal
14 6 (0.12%) Headless CMS
15 5 (0.098%) Oracle Application Server
15 5 (0.098%) Oracle Workflow
15 5 (0.098%) Umbraco
16 3 (0.059%) Sitecore CMS
17 2 (0.039%) Luigi
17 2 (0.039%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 252 (4.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (0.86%) UserZoom
3 42 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
4 38 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 28 (0.55%) Chatbot
6 26 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
7 21 (0.41%) SPSS
8 17 (0.33%) MS Visio
9 13 (0.25%) Adobe XD
10 12 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 6 (0.12%) Sketch
11 6 (0.12%) Trello
12 5 (0.098%) Microsoft Project
13 4 (0.078%) Photoshop
14 3 (0.059%) InDesign
15 2 (0.039%) Adobe Illustrator
16 1 (0.020%) Adobe Premiere
16 1 (0.020%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 118 (2.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (0.68%) SAP IBP
3 34 (0.66%) Adobe Campaign
4 33 (0.65%) SAP PP
5 31 (0.61%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 29 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
7 21 (0.41%) Shopify
8 19 (0.37%) Dynamics GP
8 19 (0.37%) Magento
9 16 (0.31%) NetSuite
10 11 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
11 10 (0.20%) iTrent
12 7 (0.14%) Workday HCM
13 6 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
13 6 (0.12%) Relativity
13 6 (0.12%) SAP ERP
13 6 (0.12%) SAP MDG
13 6 (0.12%) SAP PM
13 6 (0.12%) SAP Travel Management
14 5 (0.098%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 998 (19.52%) Azure
2 794 (15.53%) Power Platform
3 766 (14.98%) AWS
4 326 (6.37%) GCP
5 321 (6.28%) SaaS
6 234 (4.58%) Snowflake
7 207 (4.05%) Google Analytics
8 206 (4.03%) Adobe Analytics
9 189 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
10 159 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
11 148 (2.89%) Serverless
12 142 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 141 (2.76%) GitHub
14 121 (2.37%) dbt
15 120 (2.35%) Amazon S3
16 118 (2.31%) Figma
17 113 (2.21%) Cloud Computing
18 87 (1.70%) Microsoft 365
19 76 (1.49%) Contentsquare
20 74 (1.45%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 242 (4.73%) Broadband
2 58 (1.13%) VPN
3 56 (1.10%) Internet
4 48 (0.94%) Firewall
5 43 (0.84%) DNS
6 38 (0.74%) Network Security
7 27 (0.53%) BGP
8 25 (0.49%) TCP/IP
9 20 (0.39%) VLAN
10 18 (0.35%) OSPF
11 17 (0.33%) SMS
12 16 (0.31%) VoIP
13 15 (0.29%) CHAP
13 15 (0.29%) DHCP
14 14 (0.27%) CTI
15 12 (0.23%) Unified Communications
15 12 (0.23%) WAN
16 11 (0.22%) 5G
17 10 (0.20%) Intranet
18 9 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 757 (14.80%) Power BI
2 399 (7.80%) Data Warehouse
3 307 (6.00%) Tableau
4 231 (4.52%) Data Lake
5 179 (3.50%) Metadata
6 166 (3.25%) SQL Server
7 135 (2.64%) Big Data
8 126 (2.46%) Looker
9 122 (2.39%) Amazon Redshift
10 119 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
11 107 (2.09%) BigQuery
12 91 (1.78%) Relational Database
13 88 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
14 84 (1.64%) NoSQL
15 70 (1.37%) MongoDB
15 70 (1.37%) Power Query
16 67 (1.31%) Data Mining
17 64 (1.25%) Delta Lake
17 64 (1.25%) Star Schema
18 55 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 168 (3.29%) Git
2 76 (1.49%) JIRA
3 59 (1.15%) Jenkins
4 44 (0.86%) MLflow
5 37 (0.72%) GitLab
6 25 (0.49%) IBM UrbanCode
7 21 (0.41%) Crashlytics
8 14 (0.27%) CircleCI
8 14 (0.27%) XCTest
9 13 (0.25%) Claude Code
9 13 (0.25%) fastlane
10 10 (0.20%) ERwin
11 9 (0.18%) Xcode
12 8 (0.16%) Gradle
13 7 (0.14%) Selenium
14 6 (0.12%) Android Studio
14 6 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 5 (0.098%) Balsamiq
15 5 (0.098%) Bitbucket
15 5 (0.098%) Browser DevTools
General
1 1,358 (26.55%) Finance
2 1,270 (24.83%) Social Skills
3 1,126 (22.02%) Analytical Skills
4 685 (13.39%) Marketing
5 330 (6.45%) Retail
6 327 (6.39%) Public Sector
7 242 (4.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 237 (4.63%) Law
9 234 (4.58%) Games
10 216 (4.22%) Legal
11 213 (4.17%) Banking
12 170 (3.32%) Manufacturing
13 148 (2.89%) Influencing Skills
14 120 (2.35%) Automotive
15 119 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
16 101 (1.97%) Advertising
17 98 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
18 94 (1.84%) Financial Institution
19 57 (1.11%) Telecoms
20 48 (0.94%) Military
Job Titles
1 971 (18.99%) Senior
2 612 (11.97%) Analyst
3 585 (11.44%) Data Engineer
4 563 (11.01%) Lead
5 467 (9.13%) Architect
6 325 (6.36%) Developer
7 290 (5.67%) Data Analyst
8 226 (4.42%) Consultant
9 223 (4.36%) Data Architect
10 191 (3.73%) Senior Data Engineer
11 158 (3.09%) Solutions Architect
12 150 (2.93%) Data Scientist
13 145 (2.84%) Analytics Manager
14 137 (2.68%) Senior Manager
15 132 (2.58%) Product Manager
16 109 (2.13%) Senior Analyst
17 106 (2.07%) Data Manager
18 104 (2.03%) Designer
19 96 (1.88%) Senior Architect
20 87 (1.70%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (3.03%) PySpark
2 132 (2.58%) Kafka
3 97 (1.90%) HTML
4 95 (1.86%) CSS
5 94 (1.84%) .NET
6 69 (1.35%) PyTorch
7 67 (1.31%) REST
8 60 (1.17%) Node.js
8 60 (1.17%) SAP Fiori
9 59 (1.15%) React
10 54 (1.06%) Pandas
11 53 (1.04%) .NET Core
12 49 (0.96%) scikit-learn
13 43 (0.84%) TensorFlow
14 41 (0.80%) RESTful
15 38 (0.74%) LangChain
16 36 (0.70%) AngularJS
16 36 (0.70%) ASP.NET
16 36 (0.70%) ASP.NET Core
16 36 (0.70%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 295 (5.77%) Social Media
2 288 (5.63%) Cloud Native
3 233 (4.56%) Onboarding
4 199 (3.89%) Product Ownership
5 173 (3.38%) Analytical Mindset
6 158 (3.09%) Management Information System
7 121 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
8 114 (2.23%) Data Structures
9 102 (1.99%) Marketing Technology
10 96 (1.88%) Algorithms
11 91 (1.78%) Mobile App
12 86 (1.68%) Blog
13 70 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
14 66 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
15 63 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
16 55 (1.08%) Life Science
16 55 (1.08%) Public Cloud
17 51 (1.00%) AI Agents
18 46 (0.90%) IoT
19 43 (0.84%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 87 (1.70%) Windows
2 79 (1.54%) Linux
3 34 (0.66%) VMS
4 24 (0.47%) Apple iOS
5 19 (0.37%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.18%) Android
7 8 (0.16%) Unix
8 4 (0.078%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.078%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.059%) AIX
10 2 (0.039%) Debian
10 2 (0.039%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.020%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,671 (32.68%) AI
2 1,127 (22.04%) Decision-Making
3 1,081 (21.14%) Business Intelligence
4 942 (18.42%) Agile
5 857 (16.76%) Roadmaps
6 792 (15.49%) Data Modelling
7 770 (15.06%) Continuous Improvement
8 753 (14.72%) Problem-Solving
9 716 (14.00%) Data Analytics
10 686 (13.41%) Data Engineering
11 615 (12.03%) Data Pipeline
12 612 (11.97%) Machine Learning
13 603 (11.79%) CI/CD
14 554 (10.83%) Data Governance
15 520 (10.17%) Mentoring
16 512 (10.01%) Customer Experience
17 502 (9.82%) Data Science
18 499 (9.76%) ETL
19 458 (8.96%) DevOps
20 456 (8.92%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 1,317 (25.75%) SQL
2 1,111 (21.72%) Python
3 128 (2.50%) C#
4 122 (2.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 115 (2.25%) Java
6 111 (2.17%) PowerShell
7 93 (1.82%) JavaScript
8 78 (1.53%) R
8 78 (1.53%) TypeScript
9 63 (1.23%) Scala
10 58 (1.13%) Bicep
11 51 (1.00%) Bash
12 42 (0.82%) C++
12 42 (0.82%) Kusto Query Language
13 40 (0.78%) Go
14 30 (0.59%) T-SQL
15 23 (0.45%) Kotlin
16 21 (0.41%) Swift
17 20 (0.39%) ABAP
18 18 (0.35%) Julia
Qualifications
1 583 (11.40%) Degree
2 315 (6.16%) Security Cleared
3 202 (3.95%) SC Cleared
4 114 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 90 (1.76%) Azure Certification
6 84 (1.64%) Master's Degree
7 72 (1.41%) IRCA
8 59 (1.15%) DV Cleared
9 55 (1.08%) AWS Certification
10 53 (1.04%) ACCA
11 50 (0.98%) DBS Check
12 48 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
13 47 (0.92%) CIMA
14 43 (0.84%) CISSP
15 36 (0.70%) CISM
16 33 (0.65%) PhD
17 31 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
18 24 (0.47%) CISA
19 22 (0.43%) Postgraduate
20 19 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 649 (12.69%) Data Quality
2 408 (7.98%) Accessibility
3 323 (6.32%) GDPR
4 218 (4.26%) QA
5 96 (1.88%) WCAG
6 74 (1.45%) ISO 9001
7 44 (0.86%) NIST
8 36 (0.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 36 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 34 (0.66%) SLA
10 31 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
11 26 (0.51%) PCI DSS
12 21 (0.41%) PMO
13 20 (0.39%) IFRS
14 18 (0.35%) COBIT
15 15 (0.29%) HIPAA
16 14 (0.27%) PERC
17 13 (0.25%) GAAP
17 13 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 13 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 150 (2.93%) Docker
2 90 (1.76%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.29%) vSphere
5 13 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.14%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.078%) IAG
8 3 (0.059%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.039%) Firmware
10 1 (0.020%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 242 (4.73%) Terraform
2 173 (3.38%) Kubernetes
3 44 (0.86%) Ansible
4 29 (0.57%) Prometheus
5 23 (0.45%) Grafana
6 14 (0.27%) EnCase
6 14 (0.27%) FTK
7 13 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (0.16%) FortiGate
8 8 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.12%) Hadoop YARN
9 6 (0.12%) Nagios
9 6 (0.12%) VxRail
10 5 (0.098%) Argo
10 5 (0.098%) Graylog
10 5 (0.098%) Packer
11 4 (0.078%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.078%) Kibana
12 3 (0.059%) Puppet
12 3 (0.059%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 775 (15.15%) Microsoft
2 443 (8.66%) Databricks
3 366 (7.16%) Google
4 297 (5.81%) Adobe
5 268 (5.24%) SAP
6 139 (2.72%) Oracle
7 120 (2.35%) Salesforce
8 71 (1.39%) HubSpot
9 53 (1.04%) Informatica
10 49 (0.96%) Dell
11 45 (0.88%) Cisco
11 45 (0.88%) Workday
12 42 (0.82%) IBM
13 32 (0.63%) Cognos
14 29 (0.57%) ServiceNow
14 29 (0.57%) VMware
15 27 (0.53%) Cloudera
15 27 (0.53%) Teradata
16 25 (0.49%) Alteryx
16 25 (0.49%) Red Hat