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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 21 35
Rank change year-on-year -9 +14 -5
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 5,467 3,930 4,209
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.84% 7.91% 5.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.63% 8.93% 6.64%
Number of salaries quoted 3,307 1,784 2,227
10th Percentile £36,500 £31,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £44,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,650 £113,750 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -7.89% +3.64%

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 82,520 44,009 63,385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.04% 88.59% 80.80%
Number of salaries quoted 57,449 24,888 36,814
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,875
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,288 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 10 September 2026.

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 10 September 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 -7 4,879 £66,763 +6.82% 6,812
UK excluding London -8 2,925 £60,000 +14.29% 2,790
London -1 2,172 £80,000 +1.59% 4,795
Work from Home +6 1,651 £65,000 +8.33% 2,773
North of England +61 955 £60,000 +4.35% 705
Midlands +17 594 £60,000 +14.29% 359
North West +67 563 £60,000 +14.29% 430
South East -37 556 £55,000 +10.00% 703
West Midlands +4 326 £59,250 +7.73% 223
South West -20 313 £60,000 +2.13% 345
East Midlands +30 268 £60,000 +23.71% 136
Yorkshire +30 243 £63,076 +0.92% 208
East of England -6 203 £55,000 +37.50% 202
North East +30 149 £50,000 -13.04% 73
Scotland -17 117 £70,000 +16.67% 323
Northern Ireland -14 102 £65,000 +30.00% 117
Wales -11 95 £61,750 +17.48% 61
Isle of Man +3 5 £38,500 - 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
1 163 (2.98%) Apache Spark
2 153 (2.80%) CMS
3 103 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
4 87 (1.59%) Apache
5 85 (1.55%) SharePoint
6 71 (1.30%) Confluence
7 68 (1.24%) SAS
8 41 (0.75%) WordPress
9 29 (0.53%) Sitecore CMS
10 22 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
11 17 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
12 16 (0.29%) Headless CMS
13 10 (0.18%) Jupyter
14 7 (0.13%) ArcGIS
15 6 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
15 6 (0.11%) Umbraco
16 3 (0.055%) Oracle Application Server
17 2 (0.037%) Apache Pulsar
17 2 (0.037%) Appian
17 2 (0.037%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 256 (4.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
3 37 (0.68%) Chatbot
3 37 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 36 (0.66%) UserZoom
5 29 (0.53%) SPSS
6 22 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
7 18 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 17 (0.31%) Adobe XD
9 8 (0.15%) MS Visio
9 8 (0.15%) Sketch
10 7 (0.13%) Photoshop
11 6 (0.11%) Trello
12 4 (0.073%) Adobe Illustrator
13 3 (0.055%) Adobe Premiere
13 3 (0.055%) Microsoft Project
13 3 (0.055%) Zeplin
14 2 (0.037%) CapCut
14 2 (0.037%) Elementor
14 2 (0.037%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 117 (2.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 74 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 52 (0.95%) Shopify
4 33 (0.60%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 28 (0.51%) Dynamics GP
6 27 (0.49%) Adobe Campaign
7 21 (0.38%) Magento
8 12 (0.22%) NetSuite
8 12 (0.22%) Workday HCM
9 8 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
10 7 (0.13%) SAP MDG
11 6 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
11 6 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
11 6 (0.11%) SAP PM
11 6 (0.11%) SAP Travel Management
12 5 (0.091%) Oracle Payables
12 5 (0.091%) Oracle Receivables
12 5 (0.091%) Payment Gateway
12 5 (0.091%) SAP BPC
12 5 (0.091%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 1,065 (19.48%) Azure
2 907 (16.59%) Power Platform
3 812 (14.85%) AWS
4 363 (6.64%) GCP
5 314 (5.74%) SaaS
6 271 (4.96%) Google Analytics
7 250 (4.57%) Snowflake
8 211 (3.86%) Azure Data Factory
9 189 (3.46%) Azure DevOps
10 185 (3.38%) GitHub
11 165 (3.02%) Serverless
12 154 (2.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 143 (2.62%) dbt
14 111 (2.03%) Microsoft 365
15 110 (2.01%) Adobe Analytics
16 108 (1.98%) Amazon S3
17 105 (1.92%) Microsoft Purview
18 103 (1.88%) Cloud Computing
19 89 (1.63%) Figma
20 88 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 138 (2.52%) Broadband
2 65 (1.19%) VPN
3 63 (1.15%) Firewall
4 57 (1.04%) Internet
5 46 (0.84%) DNS
6 43 (0.79%) Network Security
7 28 (0.51%) BGP
8 25 (0.46%) SMS
8 25 (0.46%) TCP/IP
9 20 (0.37%) VLAN
10 19 (0.35%) 5G
10 19 (0.35%) OSPF
11 17 (0.31%) DHCP
12 15 (0.27%) VoIP
13 14 (0.26%) CTI
14 13 (0.24%) SSL
15 10 (0.18%) Unified Communications
15 10 (0.18%) VXLAN
16 9 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
17 8 (0.15%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 870 (15.91%) Power BI
2 419 (7.66%) Data Warehouse
3 297 (5.43%) Tableau
4 255 (4.66%) Data Lake
5 228 (4.17%) Metadata
6 173 (3.16%) SQL Server
7 154 (2.82%) Big Data
8 132 (2.41%) Looker
9 130 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
10 121 (2.21%) Amazon Redshift
11 108 (1.98%) BigQuery
12 90 (1.65%) Delta Lake
13 85 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
14 84 (1.54%) Relational Database
15 81 (1.48%) Star Schema
16 80 (1.46%) NoSQL
17 74 (1.35%) MongoDB
18 67 (1.23%) Power Query
19 59 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
20 58 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 173 (3.16%) Git
2 90 (1.65%) JIRA
3 49 (0.90%) Jenkins
4 37 (0.68%) MLflow
5 36 (0.66%) GitLab
6 17 (0.31%) Claude Code
6 17 (0.31%) Crashlytics
7 13 (0.24%) fastlane
8 10 (0.18%) CircleCI
8 10 (0.18%) XCTest
9 9 (0.16%) Balsamiq
9 9 (0.16%) Xcode
10 8 (0.15%) Gradle
10 8 (0.15%) Octopus Deploy
11 7 (0.13%) Axure RP
11 7 (0.13%) ERwin
12 6 (0.11%) Android Studio
12 6 (0.11%) Selenium
13 5 (0.091%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.091%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,502 (27.47%) Finance
2 1,473 (26.94%) Social Skills
3 1,279 (23.39%) Analytical Skills
4 927 (16.96%) Marketing
5 403 (7.37%) Retail
6 381 (6.97%) Public Sector
7 310 (5.67%) Legal
8 304 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 292 (5.34%) Law
10 221 (4.04%) Banking
11 199 (3.64%) Influencing Skills
12 160 (2.93%) Organisational Skills
13 155 (2.84%) Manufacturing
14 143 (2.62%) Games
15 121 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
16 103 (1.88%) Automotive
17 100 (1.83%) Advertising
18 96 (1.76%) Financial Institution
19 75 (1.37%) Publishing
20 57 (1.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,081 (19.77%) Senior
2 662 (12.11%) Data Engineer
3 642 (11.74%) Analyst
4 619 (11.32%) Lead
5 499 (9.13%) Architect
6 328 (6.00%) Developer
7 273 (4.99%) Data Analyst
8 240 (4.39%) Data Architect
9 235 (4.30%) Analytics Manager
10 232 (4.24%) Senior Data Engineer
11 191 (3.49%) Consultant
12 185 (3.38%) Data Scientist
13 174 (3.18%) Senior Manager
14 164 (3.00%) Solutions Architect
15 129 (2.36%) Senior Analyst
16 126 (2.30%) Product Manager
17 125 (2.29%) Data Manager
18 115 (2.10%) Marketing Manager
19 96 (1.76%) Senior Architect
19 96 (1.76%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 265 (4.85%) Terraform
2 193 (3.53%) PySpark
3 129 (2.36%) Kafka
4 107 (1.96%) HTML
5 97 (1.77%) .NET
6 92 (1.68%) CSS
7 71 (1.30%) REST
8 68 (1.24%) React
9 63 (1.15%) Node.js
10 54 (0.99%) PyTorch
10 54 (0.99%) scikit-learn
11 51 (0.93%) Pandas
12 49 (0.90%) TensorFlow
13 41 (0.75%) LangChain
14 40 (0.73%) .NET Core
15 38 (0.70%) ASP.NET
15 38 (0.70%) Middleware
15 38 (0.70%) RESTful
16 36 (0.66%) ASP.NET Core
17 34 (0.62%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 288 (5.27%) Cloud Native
2 283 (5.18%) Onboarding
3 217 (3.97%) Product Ownership
4 209 (3.82%) Social Media
5 197 (3.60%) Marketing Technology
6 187 (3.42%) Blog
7 171 (3.13%) Management Information System
8 133 (2.43%) Analytical Mindset
9 104 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
10 103 (1.88%) Data Structures
11 84 (1.54%) AI Agents
12 80 (1.46%) Algorithms
13 78 (1.43%) Mobile App
14 71 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
15 59 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
16 56 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
16 56 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
17 52 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
18 48 (0.88%) Virtual Team
19 47 (0.86%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 94 (1.72%) Windows
2 80 (1.46%) Linux
3 25 (0.46%) VMS
4 23 (0.42%) Apple iOS
5 21 (0.38%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.18%) Android
7 6 (0.11%) Unix
8 5 (0.091%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.073%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.055%) Debian
11 2 (0.037%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.018%) AIX
12 1 (0.018%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.018%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.018%) SUSE
12 1 (0.018%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,948 (35.63%) AI
2 1,339 (24.49%) Decision-Making
3 1,209 (22.11%) Business Intelligence
4 920 (16.83%) Problem-Solving
5 909 (16.63%) Agile
6 865 (15.82%) Continuous Improvement
7 859 (15.71%) Roadmaps
8 833 (15.24%) Data Modelling
9 772 (14.12%) Data Engineering
10 753 (13.77%) Machine Learning
11 706 (12.91%) Data Analytics
12 681 (12.46%) CI/CD
13 662 (12.11%) Data Pipeline
14 628 (11.49%) Data Science
15 621 (11.36%) Mentoring
16 606 (11.08%) Stakeholder Management
17 533 (9.75%) Data Governance
18 528 (9.66%) ETL
19 521 (9.53%) Actionable Insight
20 495 (9.05%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1,481 (27.09%) SQL
2 1,215 (22.22%) Python
3 153 (2.80%) Java
4 140 (2.56%) C#
5 133 (2.43%) JavaScript
6 125 (2.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 114 (2.09%) PowerShell
8 93 (1.70%) R
9 91 (1.66%) TypeScript
10 76 (1.39%) Scala
11 74 (1.35%) Bicep
12 63 (1.15%) Bash
13 51 (0.93%) Go
14 48 (0.88%) C++
15 37 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
16 27 (0.49%) T-SQL
17 25 (0.46%) Kotlin
18 21 (0.38%) Swift
19 18 (0.33%) Julia
19 18 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 664 (12.15%) Degree
2 409 (7.48%) Security Cleared
3 278 (5.09%) SC Cleared
4 121 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 111 (2.03%) Azure Certification
6 103 (1.88%) Master's Degree
7 86 (1.57%) DV Cleared
8 60 (1.10%) AWS Certification
8 60 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
9 55 (1.01%) DBS Check
10 53 (0.97%) ACCA
11 48 (0.88%) CIMA
12 45 (0.82%) CISSP
13 43 (0.79%) PhD
14 33 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
14 33 (0.60%) CISM
15 31 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
16 24 (0.44%) IRCA
17 21 (0.38%) CCNP
18 20 (0.37%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 786 (14.38%) Data Quality
2 336 (6.15%) Accessibility
3 257 (4.70%) GDPR
4 175 (3.20%) QA
5 75 (1.37%) WCAG
6 45 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
7 40 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 34 (0.62%) NIST
9 31 (0.57%) SLA
10 27 (0.49%) ISO 9001
11 24 (0.44%) PMO
12 23 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 22 (0.40%) IFRS
14 21 (0.38%) PCI DSS
15 17 (0.31%) GRC
16 14 (0.26%) PERC
17 12 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
17 12 (0.22%) EU AI Act
18 11 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 10 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 148 (2.71%) Docker
2 89 (1.63%) Active Directory
3 27 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (0.29%) vSphere
6 15 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.15%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.091%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.073%) Firmware
9 4 (0.073%) IAG
10 1 (0.018%) Apache Flume
10 1 (0.018%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 169 (3.09%) Kubernetes
2 45 (0.82%) Ansible
3 31 (0.57%) Grafana
4 29 (0.53%) Prometheus
5 21 (0.38%) EnCase
5 21 (0.38%) FTK
6 17 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (0.24%) FortiGate
8 8 (0.15%) Argo
9 6 (0.11%) Graylog
9 6 (0.11%) Hadoop YARN
9 6 (0.11%) Nagios
10 5 (0.091%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.091%) Jamf Pro
10 5 (0.091%) Packer
10 5 (0.091%) Proxmox
10 5 (0.091%) Puppet
10 5 (0.091%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.073%) Kibana
11 4 (0.073%) VxRail
Vendors
1 845 (15.46%) Microsoft
2 515 (9.42%) Databricks
3 452 (8.27%) Google
4 225 (4.12%) SAP
5 216 (3.95%) Adobe
6 103 (1.88%) Salesforce
7 101 (1.85%) Oracle
8 72 (1.32%) HubSpot
9 59 (1.08%) Workday
10 53 (0.97%) Informatica
11 43 (0.79%) Cisco
12 42 (0.77%) IBM
13 41 (0.75%) YouTube
14 39 (0.71%) VMware
15 37 (0.68%) Alteryx
16 36 (0.66%) TikTok
17 33 (0.60%) OpenAI
18 30 (0.55%) Dell
18 30 (0.55%) Sitecore
19 28 (0.51%) ServiceNow