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

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 32 29
Rank change year-on-year +8 -3 -8
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 3,750 3,595 3,851
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 7.07% 5.35% 7.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.25% 6.40% 7.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,901 1,909 2,791
10th Percentile £34,000 £40,400 £37,000
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% -1.37%
75th Percentile £86,250 £93,778 £87,500
90th Percentile £113,750 £118,750 £114,152
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,410 £57,000 £55,574
% change year-on-year -11.56% +2.57% +0.50%

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 45,477 56,157 48,569
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.69% 83.58% 93.82%
Number of salaries quoted 27,500 29,119 37,204
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,404 £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 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -

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 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 20 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 +8 3,195 £62,500 -10.71% 3,597
UK excluding London +22 1,936 £50,410 -11.56% 1,809
London +5 1,508 £75,000 -11.76% 2,042
Work from Home +6 1,130 £60,000 -14.29% 1,633
South East +31 600 £50,410 -12.33% 625
North of England -14 355 £55,000 - 367
Midlands +33 309 £53,450 -2.82% 327
Scotland +12 259 £50,000 -20.00% 95
South West +25 215 £55,400 -14.77% 174
North West -15 197 £52,500 -4.55% 225
West Midlands +7 181 £57,500 - 188
East of England +40 151 £39,000 -35.00% 166
East Midlands +56 132 £45,000 -10.00% 133
Yorkshire -6 124 £60,000 +2.63% 96
North East +17 35 £41,250 -21.80% 51
Northern Ireland -4 31 £60,000 +26.32% 42
Wales +16 24 £55,062 +1.97% 50
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 (3.07%) CMS
2 99 (2.64%) Apache Spark
3 66 (1.76%) WordPress
4 52 (1.39%) Confluence
5 50 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
6 40 (1.07%) SharePoint
7 33 (0.88%) Apache
8 27 (0.72%) SAS
9 14 (0.37%) Drupal
9 14 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 11 (0.29%) Headless CMS
10 11 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
11 10 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 10 (0.27%) SugarCRM
12 9 (0.24%) Umbraco
13 6 (0.16%) Jupyter
14 4 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
14 4 (0.11%) ArcGIS
14 4 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
15 3 (0.080%) Joomla!
Applications
1 517 (13.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 102 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
3 58 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 38 (1.01%) Photoshop
5 30 (0.80%) Maya
6 27 (0.72%) Adobe XD
7 26 (0.69%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 18 (0.48%) Adobe Premiere
8 18 (0.48%) InDesign
8 18 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
9 17 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
10 14 (0.37%) Chatbot
11 13 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
12 11 (0.29%) 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 89 (2.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 59 (1.57%) Shopify
3 56 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
4 33 (0.88%) 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 13 (0.35%) NetSuite
9 13 (0.35%) SAP FSCM
9 13 (0.35%) Sprinklr
10 11 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
10 11 (0.29%) SAP IS-U
11 10 (0.27%) Oracle Assets
11 10 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
11 10 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
11 10 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
12 9 (0.24%) Adaptiv
Cloud Services
1 967 (25.79%) Azure
2 785 (20.93%) Power Platform
3 455 (12.13%) AWS
4 292 (7.79%) Google Analytics
5 248 (6.61%) GCP
6 215 (5.73%) SaaS
7 193 (5.15%) Snowflake
8 167 (4.45%) Azure Data Factory
9 151 (4.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 132 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
11 116 (3.09%) GitHub
12 111 (2.96%) Microsoft 365
13 96 (2.56%) dbt
14 94 (2.51%) Google Ads
15 88 (2.35%) Serverless
16 66 (1.76%) Figma
17 65 (1.73%) Entra ID
18 64 (1.71%) Azure Monitor
19 56 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
20 48 (1.28%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 35 (0.93%) SMS
2 30 (0.80%) VPN
3 27 (0.72%) Unified Communications
4 25 (0.67%) Firewall
5 15 (0.40%) Network Security
6 12 (0.32%) DNS
7 8 (0.21%) Broadband
7 8 (0.21%) WAN
8 6 (0.16%) CHAP
8 6 (0.16%) Intrusion Detection
9 5 (0.13%) Intranet
10 4 (0.11%) Internet
10 4 (0.11%) SAN
10 4 (0.11%) VoIP
10 4 (0.11%) Wireshark
11 3 (0.080%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.080%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.080%) TCP/IP
12 2 (0.053%) Hyperconnected
12 2 (0.053%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 754 (20.11%) Power BI
2 373 (9.95%) Tableau
3 342 (9.12%) Data Warehouse
4 264 (7.04%) Data Lake
5 157 (4.19%) Metadata
6 154 (4.11%) SQL Server
7 118 (3.15%) Data Mining
8 104 (2.77%) Big Data
9 97 (2.59%) SAP BW
10 95 (2.53%) Looker
11 90 (2.40%) NoSQL
12 79 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
13 70 (1.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 68 (1.81%) BigQuery
15 64 (1.71%) Relational Database
16 63 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
17 58 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
18 52 (1.39%) Power Query
19 49 (1.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
20 44 (1.17%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 130 (3.47%) JIRA
2 83 (2.21%) Git
3 38 (1.01%) Jenkins
4 22 (0.59%) Axure RP
4 22 (0.59%) Balsamiq
5 19 (0.51%) ER Studio
5 19 (0.51%) Oracle Forms
6 18 (0.48%) ERwin
7 16 (0.43%) Cypress.io
8 13 (0.35%) GitLab
8 13 (0.35%) Selenium
9 11 (0.29%) Visual Studio
10 8 (0.21%) MLflow
10 8 (0.21%) Postman
11 7 (0.19%) Maven
11 7 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
12 6 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
13 5 (0.13%) RStudio
14 4 (0.11%) Browser DevTools
14 4 (0.11%) WebDriver
General
1 1,389 (37.04%) Social Skills
2 1,356 (36.16%) Finance
3 1,199 (31.97%) Analytical Skills
4 820 (21.87%) Marketing
5 428 (11.41%) Law
6 301 (8.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 280 (7.47%) Banking
8 278 (7.41%) Retail
9 214 (5.71%) Public Sector
10 174 (4.64%) Manufacturing
11 163 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
12 150 (4.00%) Legal
13 106 (2.83%) Advertising
13 106 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
14 102 (2.72%) Financial Institution
15 93 (2.48%) Games
16 82 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
17 79 (2.11%) Front Office
18 75 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
19 58 (1.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 626 (16.69%) Senior
2 580 (15.47%) Analyst
3 491 (13.09%) Lead
4 303 (8.08%) Architect
5 293 (7.81%) Data Analyst
6 263 (7.01%) Data Engineer
7 229 (6.11%) Developer
8 142 (3.79%) Senior Manager
9 120 (3.20%) Data Architect
10 109 (2.91%) Consultant
11 96 (2.56%) Innovation Manager
12 84 (2.24%) Software Engineer
12 84 (2.24%) Solutions Architect
13 80 (2.13%) Trainee
13 80 (2.13%) Trainee Analyst
13 80 (2.13%) Trainee Data Analyst
14 78 (2.08%) Analytics Manager
15 72 (1.92%) Data Manager
16 70 (1.87%) Data Scientist
17 67 (1.79%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (3.23%) HTML
2 96 (2.56%) CSS
3 91 (2.43%) Kafka
4 73 (1.95%) React
5 66 (1.76%) RESTful
6 64 (1.71%) PySpark
7 50 (1.33%) REST
8 47 (1.25%) OAuth
9 42 (1.12%) .NET
10 41 (1.09%) TensorFlow
11 40 (1.07%) JSON
11 40 (1.07%) PyTorch
12 39 (1.04%) Node.js
13 31 (0.83%) OAuth2
13 31 (0.83%) Pandas
14 29 (0.77%) AngularJS
15 28 (0.75%) Middleware
15 28 (0.75%) scikit-learn
16 27 (0.72%) GraphQL
17 26 (0.69%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 230 (6.13%) Analytical Mindset
2 184 (4.91%) Product Ownership
3 180 (4.80%) Cloud Native
4 179 (4.77%) Self-Motivation
5 174 (4.64%) Onboarding
6 163 (4.35%) Social Media
7 154 (4.11%) Algorithms
8 152 (4.05%) Management Information System
9 78 (2.08%) FMCG
10 74 (1.97%) Life Science
11 72 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
12 54 (1.44%) Data Structures
13 51 (1.36%) Data Centre
14 44 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
15 41 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
16 39 (1.04%) Credit Risk
17 38 (1.01%) Reinsurance
18 36 (0.96%) Fixed Income
18 36 (0.96%) Virtual Team
19 35 (0.93%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 69 (1.84%) Windows
2 41 (1.09%) Linux
3 24 (0.64%) Unix
4 20 (0.53%) Windows 10
5 8 (0.21%) Android
5 8 (0.21%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.19%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.13%) VMS
8 2 (0.053%) 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 1,030 (27.47%) AI
2 1,002 (26.72%) Business Intelligence
3 918 (24.48%) Problem-Solving
4 883 (23.55%) Decision-Making
5 774 (20.64%) Agile
6 766 (20.43%) Data Analytics
7 692 (18.45%) Continuous Improvement
8 578 (15.41%) Data Modelling
9 523 (13.95%) Machine Learning
10 514 (13.71%) Roadmaps
11 512 (13.65%) Stakeholder Management
12 505 (13.47%) Data Science
13 459 (12.24%) Data Analysis
14 450 (12.00%) Visualisation
15 448 (11.95%) Project Management
16 433 (11.55%) Data Governance
17 420 (11.20%) Actionable Insight
18 415 (11.07%) Data Engineering
19 388 (10.35%) CRM
20 385 (10.27%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 1,005 (26.80%) SQL
2 909 (24.24%) Python
3 161 (4.29%) Java
4 136 (3.63%) JavaScript
5 83 (2.21%) PowerShell
6 82 (2.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 76 (2.03%) R
8 54 (1.44%) C#
9 46 (1.23%) T-SQL
9 46 (1.23%) TypeScript
10 40 (1.07%) Scala
11 38 (1.01%) C++
12 37 (0.99%) Go
13 35 (0.93%) Bicep
14 28 (0.75%) Bash
14 28 (0.75%) PL/SQL
15 23 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
16 17 (0.45%) Shell Script
16 17 (0.45%) VBA
17 16 (0.43%) PHP
Qualifications
1 874 (23.31%) Degree
2 206 (5.49%) Master's Degree
3 171 (4.56%) Security Cleared
4 122 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 121 (3.23%) SC Cleared
6 108 (2.88%) DBS Check
7 95 (2.53%) PhD
8 62 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
9 59 (1.57%) CISSP
10 52 (1.39%) Azure Certification
11 49 (1.31%) Numerate Degree
12 47 (1.25%) CISA
13 46 (1.23%) PMI Certification
14 40 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
14 40 (1.07%) PMP
15 38 (1.01%) ACCA
16 36 (0.96%) CISM
17 32 (0.85%) AWS Certification
18 29 (0.77%) CIMA
19 23 (0.61%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 432 (11.52%) Data Quality
2 250 (6.67%) GDPR
3 198 (5.28%) Accessibility
4 90 (2.40%) QA
5 77 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 46 (1.23%) NIST
7 42 (1.12%) WCAG
8 35 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
9 31 (0.83%) GxP
9 31 (0.83%) SLA
10 25 (0.67%) COBIT
11 24 (0.64%) HIPAA
11 24 (0.64%) Solvency II
12 22 (0.59%) EU AI Act
13 21 (0.56%) PSD2
14 16 (0.43%) IFRS
14 16 (0.43%) PMO
15 15 (0.40%) ITGC
15 15 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 14 (0.37%) GRC
System Software
1 90 (2.40%) Docker
2 39 (1.04%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
6 10 (0.27%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.080%) 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
1 155 (4.13%) Terraform
2 135 (3.60%) Kubernetes
3 26 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
4 25 (0.67%) Ansible
5 22 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (0.32%) QRadar
7 10 (0.27%) Grafana
7 10 (0.27%) Prometheus
7 10 (0.27%) SCCM
8 8 (0.21%) 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 (0.080%) ArcSight ESM
12 2 (0.053%) Failover Clustering
13 1 (0.027%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 1 (0.027%) Computer Incident Response Team
13 1 (0.027%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 673 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 483 (12.88%) Google
3 268 (7.15%) Databricks
4 253 (6.75%) SAP
5 186 (4.96%) Salesforce
6 161 (4.29%) Oracle
7 140 (3.73%) Adobe
8 73 (1.95%) HubSpot
9 56 (1.49%) Alteryx
10 53 (1.41%) Cisco
11 42 (1.12%) ServiceNow
12 40 (1.07%) OpenAI
13 38 (1.01%) Facebook
13 38 (1.01%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 37 (0.99%) Dell
15 34 (0.91%) Bloomberg
16 32 (0.85%) Ahrefs
16 32 (0.85%) Screaming Frog
17 26 (0.69%) Informatica
18 25 (0.67%) Talend