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

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 31 29
Rank change year-on-year +6 -2 -8
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 3,720 3,716 3,839
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 7.00% 5.41% 7.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.22% 6.44% 7.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,891 2,005 2,786
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £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% -0.01%
75th Percentile £85,500 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £113,750 £118,750 £114,152
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,750 £57,000 £55,574
% change year-on-year -10.96% +2.57% +0.68%

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 45,242 57,727 48,781
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.14% 83.98% 93.81%
Number of salaries quoted 27,567 30,431 37,438
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £32,500
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% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.04% +2.86% -

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 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 23 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 +6 3,168 £62,500 -10.71% 1,958
UK excluding London +21 1,923 £50,750 -10.96% 1,545
London +4 1,491 £75,000 -11.76% 759
Work from Home +4 1,125 £60,000 -11.11% 902
South East +30 594 £50,205 -12.69% 615
North of England -17 352 £55,000 - 268
Midlands +23 310 £54,250 -1.36% 257
Scotland +13 259 £50,000 -20.00% 74
South West +21 210 £55,000 -15.38% 152
North West -19 194 £52,500 -4.55% 157
West Midlands +10 179 £57,750 +0.87% 145
East of England +42 152 £39,000 -32.76% 134
East Midlands +54 135 £45,000 -10.00% 105
Yorkshire -8 124 £60,000 +2.63% 73
North East +23 35 £41,250 -25.00% 42
Northern Ireland -1 31 £60,000 +26.32% 32
Wales +17 22 £60,000 +20.00% 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
1 115 (3.09%) CMS
2 95 (2.55%) Apache Spark
3 66 (1.77%) WordPress
4 51 (1.37%) Confluence
5 49 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
6 42 (1.13%) SharePoint
7 32 (0.86%) Apache
8 25 (0.67%) SAS
9 15 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 14 (0.38%) Drupal
11 11 (0.30%) Headless CMS
11 11 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
11 11 (0.30%) Umbraco
12 10 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 10 (0.27%) SugarCRM
13 4 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
13 4 (0.11%) ArcGIS
13 4 (0.11%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
14 3 (0.081%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 517 (13.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 102 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
3 56 (1.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 38 (1.02%) Photoshop
5 30 (0.81%) Maya
6 28 (0.75%) Adobe XD
7 26 (0.70%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 18 (0.48%) Adobe Premiere
8 18 (0.48%) InDesign
9 17 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
9 17 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
10 14 (0.38%) Chatbot
11 13 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
12 11 (0.30%) Trello
13 9 (0.24%) SPSS
14 7 (0.19%) MadCap Flare
15 4 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
15 4 (0.11%) Final Cut Pro
15 4 (0.11%) MS Visio
15 4 (0.11%) SketchUp
Business Applications
1 90 (2.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 58 (1.56%) Shopify
3 57 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
4 31 (0.83%) Oracle ERP
5 28 (0.75%) SAP IBP
6 21 (0.56%) Magento
7 19 (0.51%) SAP CO
7 19 (0.51%) SAP FI
7 19 (0.51%) SAP FI/CO
8 16 (0.43%) Dynamics GP
9 14 (0.38%) NetSuite
10 13 (0.35%) SAP FSCM
10 13 (0.35%) Sprinklr
11 11 (0.30%) Oracle Assets
11 11 (0.30%) Oracle General Ledger
11 11 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
11 11 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
11 11 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
11 11 (0.30%) SAP IS-U
12 9 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 960 (25.81%) Azure
2 789 (21.21%) Power Platform
3 436 (11.72%) AWS
4 289 (7.77%) Google Analytics
5 242 (6.51%) GCP
6 213 (5.73%) SaaS
7 195 (5.24%) Snowflake
8 169 (4.54%) Azure Data Factory
9 151 (4.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 135 (3.63%) Azure DevOps
11 119 (3.20%) GitHub
12 115 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
13 97 (2.61%) dbt
14 93 (2.50%) Google Ads
15 85 (2.28%) Serverless
16 67 (1.80%) Figma
17 66 (1.77%) Entra ID
18 63 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
19 57 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
20 48 (1.29%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (0.94%) SMS
2 29 (0.78%) VPN
3 27 (0.73%) Unified Communications
4 24 (0.65%) Firewall
5 15 (0.40%) Network Security
6 12 (0.32%) DNS
7 8 (0.22%) Broadband
8 7 (0.19%) WAN
9 6 (0.16%) CHAP
9 6 (0.16%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (0.13%) Intranet
11 4 (0.11%) VoIP
11 4 (0.11%) Wireshark
12 3 (0.081%) HTTPS
12 3 (0.081%) Internet
12 3 (0.081%) SAN
12 3 (0.081%) TCP/IP
13 2 (0.054%) Kerberos
13 2 (0.054%) SD-WAN
13 2 (0.054%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 756 (20.32%) Power BI
2 375 (10.08%) Tableau
3 346 (9.30%) Data Warehouse
4 259 (6.96%) Data Lake
5 157 (4.22%) Metadata
5 157 (4.22%) SQL Server
6 118 (3.17%) Data Mining
7 100 (2.69%) Big Data
8 97 (2.61%) SAP BW
9 95 (2.55%) Looker
10 84 (2.26%) NoSQL
11 80 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
12 71 (1.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 68 (1.83%) BigQuery
14 62 (1.67%) Relational Database
15 60 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
16 55 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
17 52 (1.40%) Power Query
18 51 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 41 (1.10%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 131 (3.52%) JIRA
2 84 (2.26%) Git
3 38 (1.02%) Jenkins
4 23 (0.62%) Axure RP
4 23 (0.62%) Balsamiq
5 21 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
6 18 (0.48%) ERwin
7 17 (0.46%) ER Studio
8 15 (0.40%) Cypress.io
9 13 (0.35%) GitLab
9 13 (0.35%) Selenium
10 11 (0.30%) Visual Studio
11 8 (0.22%) MLflow
11 8 (0.22%) Postman
12 7 (0.19%) Maven
12 7 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
13 6 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
14 5 (0.13%) RStudio
15 4 (0.11%) TestNG
15 4 (0.11%) WebDriver
General
1 1,370 (36.83%) Social Skills
2 1,324 (35.59%) Finance
3 1,188 (31.94%) Analytical Skills
4 806 (21.67%) Marketing
5 396 (10.65%) Law
6 286 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 269 (7.23%) Retail
8 262 (7.04%) Banking
9 215 (5.78%) Public Sector
10 176 (4.73%) Manufacturing
11 162 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
12 147 (3.95%) Legal
13 103 (2.77%) Financial Institution
14 102 (2.74%) Advertising
15 99 (2.66%) Influencing Skills
16 92 (2.47%) Games
17 82 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
18 77 (2.07%) Front Office
19 76 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
20 58 (1.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 611 (16.42%) Senior
2 583 (15.67%) Analyst
3 483 (12.98%) Lead
4 301 (8.09%) Architect
5 295 (7.93%) Data Analyst
6 260 (6.99%) Data Engineer
7 228 (6.13%) Developer
8 142 (3.82%) Senior Manager
9 122 (3.28%) Data Architect
10 107 (2.88%) Consultant
11 96 (2.58%) Innovation Manager
12 81 (2.18%) Solutions Architect
13 80 (2.15%) Trainee
13 80 (2.15%) Trainee Analyst
13 80 (2.15%) Trainee Data Analyst
14 78 (2.10%) Analytics Manager
15 72 (1.94%) Data Manager
16 70 (1.88%) Software Engineer
17 69 (1.85%) Data Scientist
18 68 (1.83%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (3.23%) HTML
2 95 (2.55%) CSS
3 84 (2.26%) Kafka
4 70 (1.88%) React
5 66 (1.77%) RESTful
6 61 (1.64%) PySpark
7 49 (1.32%) REST
8 47 (1.26%) OAuth
9 41 (1.10%) .NET
9 41 (1.10%) JSON
10 40 (1.08%) TensorFlow
11 38 (1.02%) Node.js
11 38 (1.02%) PyTorch
12 32 (0.86%) OAuth2
13 29 (0.78%) Pandas
14 27 (0.73%) AngularJS
14 27 (0.73%) Middleware
14 27 (0.73%) scikit-learn
15 26 (0.70%) GraphQL
16 25 (0.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 223 (5.99%) Analytical Mindset
2 182 (4.89%) Product Ownership
3 180 (4.84%) Self-Motivation
4 177 (4.76%) Onboarding
5 174 (4.68%) Cloud Native
6 161 (4.33%) Social Media
7 148 (3.98%) Management Information System
8 147 (3.95%) Algorithms
9 79 (2.12%) FMCG
10 74 (1.99%) Life Science
11 73 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
12 53 (1.42%) Data Structures
13 51 (1.37%) Data Centre
14 46 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
15 40 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
16 39 (1.05%) Reinsurance
17 37 (0.99%) Virtual Team
18 36 (0.97%) Fixed Income
19 35 (0.94%) Blog
19 35 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 69 (1.85%) Windows
2 38 (1.02%) Linux
3 23 (0.62%) Unix
4 20 (0.54%) Windows 10
5 8 (0.22%) Android
5 8 (0.22%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.16%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.13%) VMS
8 2 (0.054%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.027%) AIX
9 1 (0.027%) Debian
9 1 (0.027%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.027%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.027%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,028 (27.63%) AI
2 1,011 (27.18%) Business Intelligence
3 897 (24.11%) Problem-Solving
4 879 (23.63%) Decision-Making
5 755 (20.30%) Agile
6 752 (20.22%) Data Analytics
7 687 (18.47%) Continuous Improvement
8 580 (15.59%) Data Modelling
9 510 (13.71%) Stakeholder Management
10 505 (13.58%) Roadmaps
11 501 (13.47%) Machine Learning
12 492 (13.23%) Data Science
13 456 (12.26%) Data Analysis
14 442 (11.88%) Visualisation
15 435 (11.69%) Project Management
16 431 (11.59%) Data Governance
17 416 (11.18%) Actionable Insight
18 415 (11.16%) Data Engineering
19 394 (10.59%) CRM
20 386 (10.38%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 992 (26.67%) SQL
2 895 (24.06%) Python
3 148 (3.98%) Java
4 134 (3.60%) JavaScript
5 82 (2.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 82 (2.20%) PowerShell
6 75 (2.02%) R
7 54 (1.45%) C#
8 44 (1.18%) T-SQL
9 43 (1.16%) TypeScript
10 38 (1.02%) Scala
11 37 (0.99%) Bicep
12 36 (0.97%) Go
13 35 (0.94%) C++
14 29 (0.78%) PL/SQL
15 28 (0.75%) Bash
16 23 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
17 17 (0.46%) VBA
18 16 (0.43%) Shell Script
19 15 (0.40%) PHP
Qualifications
1 865 (23.25%) Degree
2 205 (5.51%) Master's Degree
3 170 (4.57%) Security Cleared
4 122 (3.28%) SC Cleared
5 121 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 109 (2.93%) DBS Check
7 95 (2.55%) PhD
8 61 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
9 58 (1.56%) CISSP
10 51 (1.37%) Azure Certification
10 51 (1.37%) Numerate Degree
11 46 (1.24%) CISA
12 41 (1.10%) PMI Certification
13 40 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
14 38 (1.02%) ACCA
15 36 (0.97%) CISM
16 35 (0.94%) PMP
17 29 (0.78%) AWS Certification
17 29 (0.78%) CIMA
18 23 (0.62%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 435 (11.69%) Data Quality
2 248 (6.67%) GDPR
3 199 (5.35%) Accessibility
4 93 (2.50%) QA
5 77 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 46 (1.24%) NIST
7 43 (1.16%) WCAG
8 34 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
9 32 (0.86%) SLA
10 31 (0.83%) GxP
11 25 (0.67%) COBIT
12 24 (0.65%) HIPAA
12 24 (0.65%) Solvency II
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 82 (2.20%) Docker
2 39 (1.05%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (0.24%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.081%) Firmware
8 1 (0.027%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.027%) vCloud
8 1 (0.027%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.027%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 151 (4.06%) Terraform
2 123 (3.31%) Kubernetes
3 26 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
4 25 (0.67%) Ansible
5 24 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (0.32%) QRadar
7 10 (0.27%) Grafana
7 10 (0.27%) Prometheus
7 10 (0.27%) SCCM
8 8 (0.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 6 (0.16%) EnCase
9 6 (0.16%) FTK
9 6 (0.16%) RSA Archer
10 5 (0.13%) Argo
10 5 (0.13%) SCOM
11 3 (0.081%) ArcSight ESM
12 1 (0.027%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 1 (0.027%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.027%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.027%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 678 (18.23%) Microsoft
2 472 (12.69%) Google
3 260 (6.99%) Databricks
4 254 (6.83%) SAP
5 189 (5.08%) Salesforce
6 153 (4.11%) Oracle
7 140 (3.76%) Adobe
8 74 (1.99%) HubSpot
9 58 (1.56%) Alteryx
10 57 (1.53%) Cisco
11 43 (1.16%) ServiceNow
12 39 (1.05%) OpenAI
13 38 (1.02%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 36 (0.97%) Bloomberg
15 35 (0.94%) Dell
16 34 (0.91%) Facebook
17 31 (0.83%) Ahrefs
18 29 (0.78%) Screaming Frog
19 26 (0.70%) Informatica
20 25 (0.67%) Talend