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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 23 37
Rank change year-on-year -2 +14 -14
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 4,989 3,842 5,370
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.16% 8.19% 5.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.02% 8.97% 6.19%
Number of salaries quoted 3,041 1,752 3,382
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,775 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,750 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.60% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,250 £88,056 £82,958
90th Percentile £101,250 £115,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +0.92% -0.91%

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 71,035 42,845 86,740
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.51% 91.34% 82.14%
Number of salaries quoted 49,086 23,535 61,317
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.00% - -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 2 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 2 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 -2 4,475 £67,500 +3.85% 2,739
UK excluding London -5 2,664 £60,000 +9.09% 1,477
London +3 1,925 £80,000 - 1,586
Work from Home +3 1,535 £65,000 +8.33% 1,221
North of England +41 901 £60,000 +9.09% 357
Midlands +11 580 £59,866 +14.03% 229
North West +37 537 £60,000 +14.29% 213
South East -34 482 £55,000 -4.35% 497
West Midlands +3 339 £59,764 +13.84% 139
Yorkshire +19 249 £60,000 - 94
South West -30 249 £60,000 - 153
East Midlands +35 240 £59,732 +23.16% 89
East of England +25 231 £60,000 +20.00% 122
Scotland -7 128 £65,000 -7.14% 68
North East +16 115 £50,000 -3.85% 50
Wales -12 52 £60,000 +9.09% 35
Northern Ireland -24 45 £45,000 +23.13% 37

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
1 157 (3.15%) Apache Spark
2 147 (2.95%) Apache Airflow
3 120 (2.41%) CMS
4 102 (2.04%) Apache
5 65 (1.30%) Confluence
6 61 (1.22%) SAS
7 47 (0.94%) WordPress
8 45 (0.90%) SharePoint
9 35 (0.70%) ArcGIS
10 28 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
11 17 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
12 9 (0.18%) Drupal
12 9 (0.18%) Jupyter
13 7 (0.14%) Oracle Application Server
14 6 (0.12%) Headless CMS
15 5 (0.10%) Oracle Workflow
15 5 (0.10%) Umbraco
16 4 (0.080%) Documentum
17 3 (0.060%) Sitecore CMS
18 2 (0.040%) Apache Qpid
Applications
1 250 (5.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 76 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
3 47 (0.94%) UserZoom
4 39 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 28 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
6 23 (0.46%) Chatbot
7 19 (0.38%) SPSS
8 18 (0.36%) MS Visio
9 13 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 13 (0.26%) Adobe XD
10 6 (0.12%) Trello
11 5 (0.10%) Photoshop
11 5 (0.10%) Sketch
12 4 (0.080%) InDesign
12 4 (0.080%) Microsoft Project
13 3 (0.060%) Adobe Illustrator
14 1 (0.020%) Adobe Premiere
14 1 (0.020%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 99 (1.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (0.70%) SAP IBP
3 34 (0.68%) Adobe Campaign
4 33 (0.66%) SAP PP
5 27 (0.54%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 20 (0.40%) Shopify
7 17 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
8 15 (0.30%) Magento
9 14 (0.28%) NetSuite
10 12 (0.24%) iTrent
11 11 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
12 7 (0.14%) Workday HCM
13 6 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
13 6 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
13 6 (0.12%) SAP ERP
13 6 (0.12%) SAP PM
13 6 (0.12%) SAP Travel Management
14 5 (0.10%) SAP CO
14 5 (0.10%) SAP PS
14 5 (0.10%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 1,003 (20.10%) Azure
2 781 (15.65%) Power Platform
3 696 (13.95%) AWS
4 317 (6.35%) GCP
5 303 (6.07%) SaaS
6 223 (4.47%) Snowflake
7 212 (4.25%) Adobe Analytics
8 198 (3.97%) Google Analytics
9 181 (3.63%) Azure Data Factory
10 162 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
11 144 (2.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 140 (2.81%) GitHub
13 138 (2.77%) Serverless
14 126 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
15 122 (2.45%) dbt
16 121 (2.43%) Amazon S3
17 116 (2.33%) Figma
18 107 (2.14%) Entra ID
19 82 (1.64%) Azure Monitor
20 80 (1.60%) Contentsquare
Communications & Networking
1 260 (5.21%) Broadband
2 54 (1.08%) VPN
3 44 (0.88%) Firewall
4 36 (0.72%) DNS
5 32 (0.64%) Network Security
6 25 (0.50%) TCP/IP
7 23 (0.46%) BGP
8 21 (0.42%) Internet
9 20 (0.40%) VLAN
10 18 (0.36%) OSPF
10 18 (0.36%) SMS
11 17 (0.34%) CHAP
12 15 (0.30%) DHCP
12 15 (0.30%) WAN
13 14 (0.28%) Unified Communications
14 11 (0.22%) Intranet
14 11 (0.22%) VoIP
15 10 (0.20%) SNMP
15 10 (0.20%) VXLAN
15 10 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 747 (14.97%) Power BI
2 366 (7.34%) Data Warehouse
3 300 (6.01%) Tableau
4 214 (4.29%) Data Lake
5 173 (3.47%) Metadata
6 155 (3.11%) SQL Server
7 123 (2.47%) Looker
8 113 (2.26%) Amazon Redshift
9 112 (2.24%) Azure SQL Database
10 111 (2.22%) BigQuery
11 106 (2.12%) Big Data
12 94 (1.88%) Relational Database
13 84 (1.68%) NoSQL
14 80 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
15 76 (1.52%) Data Mining
16 67 (1.34%) MongoDB
16 67 (1.34%) Power Query
17 59 (1.18%) Star Schema
18 56 (1.12%) Delta Lake
19 55 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 171 (3.43%) Git
2 74 (1.48%) JIRA
3 68 (1.36%) Jenkins
4 45 (0.90%) MLflow
5 37 (0.74%) GitLab
6 25 (0.50%) IBM UrbanCode
7 20 (0.40%) Crashlytics
8 16 (0.32%) CircleCI
9 14 (0.28%) TeamCity
9 14 (0.28%) XCTest
10 13 (0.26%) Claude Code
10 13 (0.26%) fastlane
11 11 (0.22%) ERwin
12 9 (0.18%) Selenium
12 9 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 9 (0.18%) Xcode
13 8 (0.16%) Gradle
13 8 (0.16%) Visual Studio
14 6 (0.12%) Android Studio
14 6 (0.12%) Balsamiq
General
1 1,320 (26.46%) Finance
2 1,251 (25.08%) Social Skills
3 1,085 (21.75%) Analytical Skills
4 658 (13.19%) Marketing
5 312 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 293 (5.87%) Retail
7 258 (5.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 236 (4.73%) Games
9 231 (4.63%) Law
10 204 (4.09%) Banking
11 190 (3.81%) Legal
12 151 (3.03%) Manufacturing
13 137 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
14 122 (2.45%) Automotive
15 121 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
16 108 (2.16%) Advertising
17 88 (1.76%) Financial Institution
18 78 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
19 53 (1.06%) Telecoms
20 41 (0.82%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 923 (18.50%) Senior
2 614 (12.31%) Analyst
3 567 (11.37%) Data Engineer
4 550 (11.02%) Lead
5 410 (8.22%) Architect
6 319 (6.39%) Developer
7 296 (5.93%) Data Analyst
8 208 (4.17%) Data Architect
9 205 (4.11%) Consultant
10 169 (3.39%) Senior Data Engineer
11 144 (2.89%) Senior Manager
12 140 (2.81%) Data Scientist
13 130 (2.61%) Product Manager
14 129 (2.59%) Solutions Architect
15 127 (2.55%) Analytics Manager
16 114 (2.29%) Data Manager
17 111 (2.22%) Senior Analyst
18 104 (2.08%) Designer
19 84 (1.68%) Azure Engineer
20 77 (1.54%) Trainee Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (2.89%) PySpark
2 123 (2.47%) Kafka
3 99 (1.98%) .NET
4 93 (1.86%) HTML
5 90 (1.80%) CSS
6 74 (1.48%) PyTorch
7 60 (1.20%) React
8 59 (1.18%) .NET Core
9 57 (1.14%) SAP Fiori
10 55 (1.10%) REST
11 48 (0.96%) Pandas
12 47 (0.94%) Node.js
13 45 (0.90%) TensorFlow
14 43 (0.86%) LangChain
15 42 (0.84%) RESTful
15 42 (0.84%) scikit-learn
16 35 (0.70%) JSON
17 32 (0.64%) ASP.NET
17 32 (0.64%) ASP.NET Core
18 30 (0.60%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 299 (5.99%) Social Media
2 258 (5.17%) Cloud Native
3 199 (3.99%) Product Ownership
4 168 (3.37%) Analytical Mindset
5 162 (3.25%) Onboarding
6 150 (3.01%) Management Information System
7 116 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
8 110 (2.20%) Data Structures
9 95 (1.90%) Algorithms
10 90 (1.80%) Mobile App
11 83 (1.66%) Marketing Technology
12 74 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
13 67 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
14 58 (1.16%) Life Science
15 57 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
16 56 (1.12%) Public Cloud
17 47 (0.94%) Over-the-Top Content
18 45 (0.90%) Blog
19 43 (0.86%) Virtual Team
20 42 (0.84%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 117 (2.35%) Windows
2 79 (1.58%) Linux
3 38 (0.76%) VMS
4 35 (0.70%) Windows 10
5 27 (0.54%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.36%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.24%) Android
8 11 (0.22%) Unix
9 3 (0.060%) AIX
9 3 (0.060%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.040%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.020%) Debian
11 1 (0.020%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,542 (30.91%) AI
2 1,077 (21.59%) Decision-Making
3 1,054 (21.13%) Business Intelligence
4 946 (18.96%) Agile
5 802 (16.08%) Roadmaps
6 771 (15.45%) Data Modelling
7 753 (15.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 734 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
9 720 (14.43%) Data Analytics
10 661 (13.25%) Data Engineering
11 610 (12.23%) Data Pipeline
12 599 (12.01%) CI/CD
13 571 (11.45%) Machine Learning
14 570 (11.43%) Data Governance
15 540 (10.82%) Customer Experience
16 502 (10.06%) ETL
17 484 (9.70%) Data Science
18 482 (9.66%) Mentoring
19 449 (9.00%) Actionable Insight
20 444 (8.90%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1,290 (25.86%) SQL
2 1,096 (21.97%) Python
3 131 (2.63%) C#
4 122 (2.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 113 (2.26%) PowerShell
6 108 (2.16%) Java
7 82 (1.64%) JavaScript
8 81 (1.62%) R
9 71 (1.42%) Scala
9 71 (1.42%) TypeScript
10 56 (1.12%) Bicep
11 54 (1.08%) Bash
12 45 (0.90%) C++
13 44 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
14 36 (0.72%) Go
15 31 (0.62%) T-SQL
16 23 (0.46%) Kotlin
17 21 (0.42%) Swift
17 21 (0.42%) VBA
18 18 (0.36%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 573 (11.49%) Degree
2 324 (6.49%) Security Cleared
3 218 (4.37%) SC Cleared
4 94 (1.88%) Master's Degree
5 91 (1.82%) Azure Certification
5 91 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 72 (1.44%) IRCA
7 55 (1.10%) DV Cleared
8 52 (1.04%) DBS Check
8 52 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
9 51 (1.02%) ACCA
10 46 (0.92%) AWS Certification
11 45 (0.90%) CIMA
12 43 (0.86%) CISSP
13 37 (0.74%) CISM
13 37 (0.74%) PhD
14 35 (0.70%) CTC Cleared
15 32 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
16 31 (0.62%) CISA
17 22 (0.44%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 643 (12.89%) Data Quality
2 406 (8.14%) Accessibility
3 323 (6.47%) GDPR
4 207 (4.15%) QA
5 96 (1.92%) WCAG
6 75 (1.50%) ISO 9001
7 62 (1.24%) SLA
8 45 (0.90%) NIST
9 42 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 36 (0.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 32 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
12 23 (0.46%) PCI DSS
13 22 (0.44%) IFRS
14 21 (0.42%) COBIT
15 16 (0.32%) PMO
15 16 (0.32%) SOC 2
16 15 (0.30%) HIPAA
17 14 (0.28%) PERC
18 13 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
18 13 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 160 (3.21%) Docker
2 94 (1.88%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.32%) vSphere
6 13 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.14%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.10%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.080%) IAG
10 2 (0.040%) Firmware
11 1 (0.020%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 246 (4.93%) Terraform
2 185 (3.71%) Kubernetes
3 47 (0.94%) Ansible
4 30 (0.60%) Prometheus
5 26 (0.52%) Grafana
6 13 (0.26%) EnCase
6 13 (0.26%) FTK
6 13 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (0.14%) FortiGate
7 7 (0.14%) Kibana
8 6 (0.12%) Nagios
8 6 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.12%) VxRail
9 5 (0.10%) Argo
9 5 (0.10%) Graylog
10 4 (0.080%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.060%) Control-M
11 3 (0.060%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.060%) Packer
11 3 (0.060%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 799 (16.02%) Microsoft
2 434 (8.70%) Databricks
3 353 (7.08%) Google
4 304 (6.09%) Adobe
5 241 (4.83%) SAP
6 135 (2.71%) Oracle
7 131 (2.63%) Salesforce
8 82 (1.64%) Cisco
9 70 (1.40%) HubSpot
10 53 (1.06%) Dell
11 50 (1.00%) Informatica
12 42 (0.84%) Workday
13 32 (0.64%) IBM
14 29 (0.58%) VMware
15 28 (0.56%) Alteryx
15 28 (0.56%) Cognos
15 28 (0.56%) ServiceNow
16 27 (0.54%) Cloudera
17 26 (0.52%) Teradata
18 25 (0.50%) Red Hat