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 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 22 39
Rank change year-on-year -4 +17 -17
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 4,733 3,745 5,348
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.11% 8.45% 5.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.99% 9.11% 6.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,821 1,670 3,349
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,725 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,750 £46,000 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.85% -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 67,714 41,116 86,975
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.17% 92.78% 82.65%
Number of salaries quoted 45,466 21,844 61,953
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,490
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,890 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.16% +1.78% -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 8 June 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 8 June 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 -3 4,223 £65,000 - 2,519
UK excluding London -4 2,551 £60,000 +9.09% 1,446
London +1 1,804 £80,000 - 1,404
Work from Home +7 1,481 £65,000 +8.33% 1,133
North of England +29 846 £60,000 +9.09% 398
Midlands +5 544 £57,500 +9.52% 221
North West +29 491 £60,000 +14.29% 239
South East -29 473 £55,000 -8.33% 457
West Midlands -9 311 £57,500 +4.55% 135
Yorkshire +14 254 £60,000 +0.33% 106
South West -28 238 £60,000 +4.35% 160
East Midlands +32 230 £52,500 +8.25% 86
East of England +28 226 £60,000 +14.29% 80
Scotland -7 129 £65,000 -7.14% 69
North East +18 101 £48,000 -5.88% 55
Wales -6 49 £60,000 +41.18% 28
Northern Ireland -13 48 £45,000 +50.00% 56

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
1 151 (3.19%) Apache Airflow
2 143 (3.02%) Apache Spark
3 117 (2.47%) CMS
4 96 (2.03%) Apache
5 63 (1.33%) Confluence
6 48 (1.01%) SAS
6 48 (1.01%) SharePoint
7 45 (0.95%) WordPress
8 35 (0.74%) ArcGIS
9 20 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
10 17 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
11 10 (0.21%) Drupal
12 9 (0.19%) Jupyter
13 7 (0.15%) Oracle Application Server
14 6 (0.13%) IIS
15 5 (0.11%) Umbraco
16 4 (0.085%) Documentum
17 3 (0.063%) Headless CMS
17 3 (0.063%) Oracle Workflow
17 3 (0.063%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 277 (5.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 90 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
3 52 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 39 (0.82%) UserZoom
5 23 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
6 18 (0.38%) MS Visio
7 17 (0.36%) SPSS
8 14 (0.30%) Adobe XD
9 11 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 11 (0.23%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.11%) Trello
11 4 (0.085%) InDesign
11 4 (0.085%) Microsoft Project
11 4 (0.085%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.063%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.042%) Sketch
14 1 (0.021%) Adobe Premiere
14 1 (0.021%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 82 (1.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (0.72%) Adobe Campaign
2 34 (0.72%) SAP IBP
3 33 (0.70%) SAP PP
4 22 (0.46%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 18 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
5 18 (0.38%) Shopify
6 16 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
7 14 (0.30%) Magento
8 13 (0.27%) iTrent
9 10 (0.21%) NetSuite
10 9 (0.19%) SAP CO
11 8 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
12 7 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
13 6 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
13 6 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
13 6 (0.13%) SAP ERP
13 6 (0.13%) SAP PM
13 6 (0.13%) SAP Travel Management
14 5 (0.11%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 944 (19.95%) Azure
2 730 (15.42%) Power Platform
3 613 (12.95%) AWS
4 298 (6.30%) GCP
5 283 (5.98%) SaaS
6 213 (4.50%) Snowflake
7 207 (4.37%) Adobe Analytics
8 184 (3.89%) Google Analytics
9 175 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
10 159 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
11 135 (2.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 135 (2.85%) Microsoft 365
12 125 (2.64%) Amazon S3
13 124 (2.62%) dbt
14 123 (2.60%) GitHub
15 119 (2.51%) Serverless
16 116 (2.45%) Figma
17 106 (2.24%) Entra ID
18 83 (1.75%) Azure Monitor
19 73 (1.54%) Contentsquare
Communications & Networking
1 267 (5.64%) Broadband
2 39 (0.82%) Firewall
3 36 (0.76%) VPN
4 32 (0.68%) DNS
5 24 (0.51%) Network Security
5 24 (0.51%) TCP/IP
6 23 (0.49%) CHAP
7 18 (0.38%) WAN
8 16 (0.34%) BGP
8 16 (0.34%) DHCP
9 14 (0.30%) Unified Communications
9 14 (0.30%) VLAN
10 13 (0.27%) OSPF
10 13 (0.27%) SMS
11 11 (0.23%) Intranet
12 10 (0.21%) SNMP
13 8 (0.17%) 5G
14 7 (0.15%) VXLAN
14 7 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
15 6 (0.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 694 (14.66%) Power BI
2 322 (6.80%) Tableau
3 313 (6.61%) Data Warehouse
4 205 (4.33%) Data Lake
5 163 (3.44%) Metadata
6 142 (3.00%) SQL Server
7 120 (2.54%) Looker
8 111 (2.35%) BigQuery
9 108 (2.28%) Amazon Redshift
9 108 (2.28%) Data Mining
10 95 (2.01%) Relational Database
11 91 (1.92%) Big Data
12 90 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
13 85 (1.80%) NoSQL
14 70 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
15 61 (1.29%) Power Query
16 55 (1.16%) Star Schema
17 49 (1.04%) Delta Lake
17 49 (1.04%) MongoDB
18 47 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 163 (3.44%) Git
2 75 (1.58%) Jenkins
3 68 (1.44%) JIRA
4 41 (0.87%) MLflow
5 37 (0.78%) GitLab
6 25 (0.53%) IBM UrbanCode
7 24 (0.51%) TeamCity
8 20 (0.42%) Crashlytics
9 16 (0.34%) CircleCI
10 14 (0.30%) XCTest
11 12 (0.25%) fastlane
12 10 (0.21%) Axure RP
12 10 (0.21%) Balsamiq
12 10 (0.21%) Claude Code
12 10 (0.21%) ERwin
12 10 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 9 (0.19%) Selenium
14 8 (0.17%) Visual Studio
15 6 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
15 6 (0.13%) Xcode
General
1 1,293 (27.32%) Finance
2 1,155 (24.40%) Social Skills
3 1,060 (22.40%) Analytical Skills
4 648 (13.69%) Marketing
5 272 (5.75%) Retail
6 260 (5.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 260 (5.49%) Public Sector
7 219 (4.63%) Games
8 218 (4.61%) Law
9 210 (4.44%) Banking
10 174 (3.68%) Legal
11 137 (2.89%) Manufacturing
12 130 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
13 122 (2.58%) Automotive
14 111 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
15 110 (2.32%) Advertising
16 88 (1.86%) Financial Institution
17 73 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
18 55 (1.16%) Back Office
19 54 (1.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 858 (18.13%) Senior
2 594 (12.55%) Analyst
3 545 (11.51%) Data Engineer
4 525 (11.09%) Lead
5 339 (7.16%) Architect
6 304 (6.42%) Data Analyst
7 292 (6.17%) Developer
8 188 (3.97%) Consultant
9 175 (3.70%) Data Architect
10 147 (3.11%) Senior Data Engineer
11 145 (3.06%) Senior Manager
12 130 (2.75%) Data Scientist
13 124 (2.62%) Product Manager
14 111 (2.35%) Analytics Manager
15 109 (2.30%) Data Manager
16 107 (2.26%) Senior Analyst
17 102 (2.16%) Designer
18 101 (2.13%) Solutions Architect
19 98 (2.07%) Trainee
19 98 (2.07%) Trainee Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (2.98%) PySpark
2 117 (2.47%) Kafka
3 88 (1.86%) .NET
4 83 (1.75%) HTML
5 81 (1.71%) CSS
6 77 (1.63%) PyTorch
7 51 (1.08%) SAP Fiori
8 50 (1.06%) React
9 49 (1.04%) TensorFlow
10 48 (1.01%) .NET Core
11 46 (0.97%) Pandas
12 45 (0.95%) RESTful
13 43 (0.91%) REST
14 41 (0.87%) LangChain
14 41 (0.87%) scikit-learn
15 32 (0.68%) JSON
16 31 (0.65%) Node.js
17 30 (0.63%) YAML
18 28 (0.59%) OAuth
19 26 (0.55%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 286 (6.04%) Social Media
2 205 (4.33%) Cloud Native
3 189 (3.99%) Product Ownership
4 158 (3.34%) Analytical Mindset
5 157 (3.32%) Management Information System
6 109 (2.30%) Onboarding
7 106 (2.24%) Algorithms
7 106 (2.24%) Greenfield Project
8 96 (2.03%) Data Structures
9 81 (1.71%) Mobile App
9 81 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
10 78 (1.65%) Marketing Technology
11 68 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
12 66 (1.39%) Life Science
13 60 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
14 58 (1.23%) Over-the-Top Content
15 46 (0.97%) Public Cloud
16 42 (0.89%) e-Learning
17 41 (0.87%) Virtual Team
18 38 (0.80%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 113 (2.39%) Windows
2 64 (1.35%) Linux
3 48 (1.01%) Windows 10
4 32 (0.68%) VMS
5 26 (0.55%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.34%) Windows Server
7 15 (0.32%) Unix
8 12 (0.25%) Android
9 3 (0.063%) AIX
10 2 (0.042%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.021%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,351 (28.54%) AI
2 1,020 (21.55%) Decision-Making
3 986 (20.83%) Business Intelligence
4 894 (18.89%) Agile
5 730 (15.42%) Data Modelling
6 708 (14.96%) Continuous Improvement
7 703 (14.85%) Data Analytics
8 702 (14.83%) Problem-Solving
8 702 (14.83%) Roadmaps
9 622 (13.14%) Data Engineering
10 566 (11.96%) Data Pipeline
11 548 (11.58%) CI/CD
12 541 (11.43%) Data Governance
13 529 (11.18%) Customer Experience
14 515 (10.88%) Machine Learning
15 493 (10.42%) Data Science
16 488 (10.31%) ETL
17 442 (9.34%) Actionable Insight
18 436 (9.21%) Mentoring
19 430 (9.09%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1,233 (26.05%) SQL
2 1,083 (22.88%) Python
3 119 (2.51%) C#
4 114 (2.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 104 (2.20%) Java
6 88 (1.86%) PowerShell
6 88 (1.86%) R
7 86 (1.82%) Scala
8 78 (1.65%) JavaScript
9 51 (1.08%) TypeScript
10 44 (0.93%) C++
11 40 (0.85%) Bash
12 38 (0.80%) Bicep
13 35 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
14 34 (0.72%) T-SQL
15 30 (0.63%) Go
16 23 (0.49%) Kotlin
17 21 (0.44%) VBA
18 20 (0.42%) Swift
19 17 (0.36%) Julia
Qualifications
1 568 (12.00%) Degree
2 300 (6.34%) Security Cleared
3 208 (4.39%) SC Cleared
4 103 (2.18%) Master's Degree
5 77 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 72 (1.52%) IRCA
7 70 (1.48%) Azure Certification
8 52 (1.10%) ACCA
9 48 (1.01%) CTC Cleared
9 48 (1.01%) DV Cleared
10 46 (0.97%) CIMA
10 46 (0.97%) CISSP
11 45 (0.95%) DBS Check
12 42 (0.89%) PhD
13 40 (0.85%) CISM
14 39 (0.82%) CISA
15 35 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
16 31 (0.65%) AWS Certification
17 27 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
18 26 (0.55%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 602 (12.72%) Data Quality
2 376 (7.94%) Accessibility
3 316 (6.68%) GDPR
4 186 (3.93%) QA
5 98 (2.07%) WCAG
6 76 (1.61%) ISO 9001
7 72 (1.52%) SLA
8 44 (0.93%) NIST
9 43 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 36 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 33 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
12 28 (0.59%) COBIT
13 25 (0.53%) IFRS
14 18 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 16 (0.34%) SOC 2
16 15 (0.32%) GAAP
16 15 (0.32%) HIPAA
17 14 (0.30%) GRC
17 14 (0.30%) PCI DSS
17 14 (0.30%) PERC
System Software
1 150 (3.17%) Docker
2 88 (1.86%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.15%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.11%) vSphere
7 4 (0.085%) IAG
7 4 (0.085%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.063%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.042%) Firmware
10 1 (0.021%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 226 (4.77%) Terraform
2 174 (3.68%) Kubernetes
3 38 (0.80%) Ansible
4 32 (0.68%) Grafana
5 31 (0.65%) Prometheus
6 14 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (0.23%) EnCase
7 11 (0.23%) FTK
8 10 (0.21%) Kibana
9 8 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (0.13%) Nagios
11 5 (0.11%) Control-M
11 5 (0.11%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.11%) VxRail
12 4 (0.085%) Graylog
13 3 (0.063%) Argo
13 3 (0.063%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.042%) RSA Archer
14 2 (0.042%) vRealize
Vendors
1 762 (16.10%) Microsoft
2 400 (8.45%) Databricks
3 325 (6.87%) Google
4 299 (6.32%) Adobe
5 214 (4.52%) SAP
6 143 (3.02%) Salesforce
7 124 (2.62%) Oracle
8 95 (2.01%) Cisco
9 70 (1.48%) HubSpot
10 53 (1.12%) Dell
11 45 (0.95%) Informatica
12 31 (0.65%) Workday
13 28 (0.59%) IBM
14 27 (0.57%) Cloudera
15 26 (0.55%) Cognos
15 26 (0.55%) Teradata
16 25 (0.53%) Braze
16 25 (0.53%) Red Hat
16 25 (0.53%) ServiceNow
17 24 (0.51%) Denodo