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 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 24 37
Rank change year-on-year -9 +13 -12
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 4,202 3,277 4,637
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.71% 7.50% 5.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.32% 8.01% 6.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2,316 1,637 3,276
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,750 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -8.19%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -3.51% +5.56% -1.82%

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 57,440 40,902 73,209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.10% 93.61% 87.44%
Number of salaries quoted 34,676 22,163 55,834
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £39,750 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.31%
75th Percentile £76,299 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 12 March 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 12 March 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 -6 3,614 £65,000 -7.14% 2,239
UK excluding London -11 2,100 £55,000 -3.51% 1,567
London +5 1,703 £80,000 -5.88% 1,098
Work from Home -3 1,334 £63,076 +0.92% 1,176
North of England -14 543 £52,250 -5.00% 359
South East 0 491 £57,500 -4.17% 574
Midlands -10 428 £52,500 -2.33% 227
West Midlands -11 271 £57,500 +4.55% 130
North West -20 269 £56,250 +2.27% 201
Yorkshire -3 213 £50,000 -9.09% 116
Scotland -8 200 £65,000 -7.14% 59
South West -5 195 £55,000 +4.76% 156
East of England +37 157 £50,000 -23.08% 156
East Midlands -1 155 £48,500 +2.11% 97
North East +20 61 £40,000 -20.40% 44
Northern Ireland -3 56 £45,000 +50.00% 16
Wales +9 33 £52,500 +5.00% 39

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
1 140 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
2 116 (2.76%) Apache Spark
3 108 (2.57%) CMS
4 77 (1.83%) Apache
5 58 (1.38%) Confluence
6 54 (1.29%) WordPress
7 43 (1.02%) SharePoint
8 40 (0.95%) SAS
9 34 (0.81%) ArcGIS
10 22 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
11 17 (0.40%) Drupal
11 17 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
12 12 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 8 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
13 8 (0.19%) Umbraco
14 6 (0.14%) IIS
15 4 (0.095%) Appian
15 4 (0.095%) Documentum
15 4 (0.095%) Sitecore CMS
16 3 (0.071%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 428 (10.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 124 (2.95%) Microsoft Office
3 63 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (0.62%) Adobe XD
5 19 (0.45%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.40%) InDesign
7 16 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
7 16 (0.38%) UserZoom
8 15 (0.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 13 (0.31%) Photoshop
10 11 (0.26%) Adobe Premiere
10 11 (0.26%) SPSS
11 8 (0.19%) Chatbot
11 8 (0.19%) Maya
12 7 (0.17%) Trello
13 6 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
14 5 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
15 3 (0.071%) Final Cut Pro
15 3 (0.071%) SketchUp
16 2 (0.048%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 77 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 47 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 35 (0.83%) SAP IBP
4 34 (0.81%) SAP PP
5 29 (0.69%) Oracle ERP
6 17 (0.40%) Shopify
7 16 (0.38%) Magento
7 16 (0.38%) NetSuite
7 16 (0.38%) SAP CO
8 15 (0.36%) iTrent
9 14 (0.33%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 13 (0.31%) Dynamics GP
10 13 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
10 13 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
10 13 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
11 12 (0.29%) Oracle Assets
11 12 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
11 12 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
12 11 (0.26%) SAP ERP
13 7 (0.17%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 939 (22.35%) Azure
2 670 (15.94%) Power Platform
3 484 (11.52%) AWS
4 245 (5.83%) SaaS
5 232 (5.52%) Snowflake
6 223 (5.31%) GCP
7 219 (5.21%) Azure Data Factory
8 185 (4.40%) Google Analytics
9 166 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
9 166 (3.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 162 (3.86%) Microsoft 365
11 151 (3.59%) GitHub
12 143 (3.40%) Adobe Analytics
13 127 (3.02%) dbt
14 111 (2.64%) Figma
15 110 (2.62%) Amazon S3
16 94 (2.24%) Entra ID
17 91 (2.17%) Serverless
18 87 (2.07%) Azure Monitor
19 64 (1.52%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 156 (3.71%) Broadband
2 38 (0.90%) VPN
3 37 (0.88%) Firewall
4 24 (0.57%) CHAP
5 23 (0.55%) WAN
6 19 (0.45%) DNS
7 17 (0.40%) Network Security
8 14 (0.33%) Intranet
9 13 (0.31%) TCP/IP
9 13 (0.31%) Unified Communications
10 9 (0.21%) DHCP
11 6 (0.14%) HTTPS
12 5 (0.12%) SNMP
13 4 (0.095%) HTTP
14 3 (0.071%) Internet
14 3 (0.071%) Intrusion Detection
14 3 (0.071%) LAN
14 3 (0.071%) MQTT
14 3 (0.071%) SMS
15 2 (0.048%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 637 (15.16%) Power BI
2 424 (10.09%) Tableau
3 341 (8.12%) Data Warehouse
4 215 (5.12%) Data Lake
5 202 (4.81%) Data Mining
6 189 (4.50%) Metadata
7 157 (3.74%) SQL Server
8 113 (2.69%) Azure SQL Database
9 105 (2.50%) Looker
10 84 (2.00%) Relational Database
11 79 (1.88%) Amazon Redshift
12 76 (1.81%) BigQuery
13 71 (1.69%) Big Data
14 70 (1.67%) NoSQL
15 66 (1.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 62 (1.48%) Power Query
17 54 (1.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 47 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
19 42 (1.00%) Oracle Database
19 42 (1.00%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 152 (3.62%) Git
2 111 (2.64%) JIRA
3 69 (1.64%) Jenkins
4 32 (0.76%) GitLab
5 26 (0.62%) MLflow
6 25 (0.59%) IBM UrbanCode
7 24 (0.57%) Axure RP
7 24 (0.57%) Balsamiq
8 23 (0.55%) TeamCity
9 22 (0.52%) Oracle Forms
10 19 (0.45%) Visual Studio
11 13 (0.31%) ERwin
12 11 (0.26%) CircleCI
13 9 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 8 (0.19%) Crashlytics
14 8 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
14 8 (0.19%) Selenium
15 7 (0.17%) Cypress.io
16 6 (0.14%) XCTest
17 5 (0.12%) MSI
General
1 1,387 (33.01%) Finance
2 1,216 (28.94%) Social Skills
3 1,088 (25.89%) Analytical Skills
4 645 (15.35%) Marketing
5 281 (6.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 256 (6.09%) Public Sector
7 254 (6.04%) Banking
8 213 (5.07%) Law
9 205 (4.88%) Retail
10 168 (4.00%) Legal
11 165 (3.93%) Manufacturing
12 161 (3.83%) Games
13 122 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
14 109 (2.59%) Financial Institution
15 93 (2.21%) Automotive
15 93 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
16 91 (2.17%) Advertising
17 86 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
18 75 (1.78%) Pharmaceutical
19 69 (1.64%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 683 (16.25%) Senior
2 657 (15.64%) Analyst
3 461 (10.97%) Lead
4 395 (9.40%) Data Engineer
5 381 (9.07%) Data Analyst
6 316 (7.52%) Architect
7 228 (5.43%) Developer
8 178 (4.24%) Trainee
8 178 (4.24%) Trainee Analyst
8 178 (4.24%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 161 (3.83%) Consultant
10 147 (3.50%) Senior Manager
11 143 (3.40%) Data Architect
12 108 (2.57%) Designer
13 96 (2.28%) Solutions Architect
14 90 (2.14%) Data Manager
15 86 (2.05%) Senior Analyst
15 86 (2.05%) Support Engineer
16 83 (1.98%) Data Scientist
17 81 (1.93%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (2.55%) PySpark
2 98 (2.33%) HTML
2 98 (2.33%) Kafka
3 90 (2.14%) CSS
4 76 (1.81%) PyTorch
5 67 (1.59%) .NET
6 59 (1.40%) React
7 56 (1.33%) TensorFlow
8 54 (1.29%) OAuth
9 51 (1.21%) RESTful
10 49 (1.17%) SAP Fiori
11 46 (1.09%) REST
12 43 (1.02%) JSON
13 34 (0.81%) .NET Core
14 33 (0.79%) LangChain
15 32 (0.76%) OAuth2
15 32 (0.76%) Pandas
16 30 (0.71%) Node.js
17 27 (0.64%) scikit-learn
18 26 (0.62%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 253 (6.02%) Social Media
2 189 (4.50%) Cloud Native
3 179 (4.26%) Product Ownership
4 177 (4.21%) Self-Motivation
5 154 (3.66%) Analytical Mindset
6 150 (3.57%) Management Information System
7 126 (3.00%) Onboarding
8 118 (2.81%) Algorithms
9 113 (2.69%) Life Science
10 77 (1.83%) Data Structures
11 75 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
12 63 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
13 58 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
14 55 (1.31%) Mobile App
15 43 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
16 40 (0.95%) Virtual Team
17 38 (0.90%) Fixed Income
17 38 (0.90%) Web Conferencing
18 33 (0.79%) Low-Code
19 32 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 110 (2.62%) Windows
2 60 (1.43%) Windows 10
3 42 (1.00%) Linux
4 25 (0.59%) VMS
5 24 (0.57%) Unix
6 17 (0.40%) Apple iOS
7 15 (0.36%) Windows Server
8 12 (0.29%) Android
9 2 (0.048%) AIX
9 2 (0.048%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.024%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,189 (28.30%) AI
2 924 (21.99%) Business Intelligence
3 880 (20.94%) Decision-Making
4 847 (20.16%) Agile
5 795 (18.92%) Data Analytics
6 728 (17.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 709 (16.87%) Problem-Solving
8 641 (15.25%) Data Modelling
9 530 (12.61%) Roadmaps
10 527 (12.54%) Data Governance
11 519 (12.35%) Data Analysis
12 516 (12.28%) Data Engineering
13 498 (11.85%) Data Science
14 487 (11.59%) Machine Learning
15 479 (11.40%) Data Pipeline
16 474 (11.28%) Project Management
17 460 (10.95%) CI/CD
18 458 (10.90%) ETL
19 424 (10.09%) Customer Experience
20 412 (9.80%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1,130 (26.89%) SQL
2 1,036 (24.65%) Python
3 112 (2.67%) JavaScript
4 103 (2.45%) Java
5 95 (2.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 94 (2.24%) C#
7 74 (1.76%) Scala
8 71 (1.69%) R
9 69 (1.64%) PowerShell
10 49 (1.17%) Bicep
11 44 (1.05%) T-SQL
12 42 (1.00%) C++
13 41 (0.98%) TypeScript
14 36 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
15 31 (0.74%) Go
16 26 (0.62%) Bash
17 19 (0.45%) PL/SQL
18 17 (0.40%) Shell Script
19 16 (0.38%) VBA
20 12 (0.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 717 (17.06%) Degree
2 269 (6.40%) Security Cleared
3 192 (4.57%) SC Cleared
4 155 (3.69%) Master's Degree
5 124 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 62 (1.48%) PhD
7 60 (1.43%) CTC Cleared
8 56 (1.33%) Azure Certification
9 55 (1.31%) CISSP
10 51 (1.21%) CISA
11 49 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
12 48 (1.14%) IRCA
13 47 (1.12%) CISM
14 44 (1.05%) Numerate Degree
15 42 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
15 42 (1.00%) DBS Check
16 38 (0.90%) ACCA
17 35 (0.83%) DV Cleared
18 31 (0.74%) PMI Certification
19 29 (0.69%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 560 (13.33%) Data Quality
2 340 (8.09%) Accessibility
3 313 (7.45%) GDPR
4 141 (3.36%) QA
5 79 (1.88%) SLA
6 74 (1.76%) WCAG
7 68 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 59 (1.40%) ISO 9001
9 51 (1.21%) NIST
10 47 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
11 34 (0.81%) HIPAA
12 30 (0.71%) COBIT
12 30 (0.71%) GxP
13 27 (0.64%) IFRS
14 26 (0.62%) EU AI Act
15 25 (0.59%) Solvency II
16 23 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 21 (0.50%) PSD2
18 20 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 17 (0.40%) SOC 2
System Software
1 141 (3.36%) Docker
2 63 (1.50%) Active Directory
3 31 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (0.29%) Hyper-V
5 11 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
6 10 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.095%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.048%) vSphere
9 1 (0.024%) Firmware
9 1 (0.024%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.024%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 202 (4.81%) Terraform
2 164 (3.90%) Kubernetes
3 46 (1.09%) Ansible
4 26 (0.62%) Grafana
5 25 (0.59%) Prometheus
6 20 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (0.19%) EnCase
8 8 (0.19%) FTK
9 7 (0.17%) Kibana
10 6 (0.14%) QRadar
10 6 (0.14%) SCCM
11 5 (0.12%) Argo
11 5 (0.12%) SCOM
11 5 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 4 (0.095%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.095%) RSA Archer
13 3 (0.071%) ArcSight ESM
13 3 (0.071%) Control-M
13 3 (0.071%) VxRail
Vendors
1 858 (20.42%) Microsoft
2 317 (7.54%) Google
3 290 (6.90%) Databricks
4 229 (5.45%) Adobe
5 183 (4.36%) SAP
6 176 (4.19%) Salesforce
7 145 (3.45%) Oracle
8 136 (3.24%) Cisco
9 64 (1.52%) HubSpot
10 55 (1.31%) Alteryx
11 41 (0.98%) Dell
11 41 (0.98%) Informatica
12 33 (0.79%) Bloomberg
13 32 (0.76%) ServiceNow
14 31 (0.74%) Palantir
15 30 (0.71%) OpenAI
16 29 (0.69%) Instagram
17 28 (0.67%) Nexthink
17 28 (0.67%) Red Hat
17 28 (0.67%) Talend