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 4 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 22 40
Rank change year-on-year -6 +18 -17
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 4,482 3,389 4,986
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.57% 8.28% 5.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.29% 8.90% 6.35%
Number of salaries quoted 2,501 1,727 3,282
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -8.19%
75th Percentile £85,001 £95,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year -3.51% +4.59% -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 61,485 38,072 78,558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.40% 93.03% 86.34%
Number of salaries quoted 37,986 22,481 58,309
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,241
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +9.09% -11.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,321 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.95% +8.64% -8.41%

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 4 April 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 4 April 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 -11 3,902 £65,000 -6.49% 1,921
UK excluding London -17 2,292 £55,000 -3.51% 1,320
London +3 1,786 £80,000 -5.88% 896
Work from Home -2 1,390 £64,000 +5.36% 858
North of England -17 633 £59,375 +7.95% 331
South East -15 505 £55,000 -8.33% 433
Midlands -16 466 £52,250 -0.48% 212
North West -19 331 £60,000 +9.09% 192
West Midlands -16 282 £55,000 - 110
Yorkshire -4 230 £50,000 -9.09% 91
South West -22 208 £55,000 +3.88% 149
East of England +19 196 £52,500 -19.23% 103
Scotland -9 193 £65,000 -7.14% 53
East Midlands +1 181 £50,000 +5.26% 102
North East +20 72 £40,000 -27.27% 52
Northern Ireland -16 56 £45,000 +50.00% 17
Wales -2 38 £40,000 -27.27% 41

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
1 160 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
2 126 (2.81%) Apache Spark
3 105 (2.34%) CMS
4 79 (1.76%) Apache
5 68 (1.52%) Confluence
6 50 (1.12%) WordPress
7 46 (1.03%) SharePoint
8 35 (0.78%) ArcGIS
8 35 (0.78%) SAS
9 18 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
9 18 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
10 13 (0.29%) Drupal
11 9 (0.20%) Oracle Application Server
12 8 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 6 (0.13%) IIS
14 5 (0.11%) Umbraco
15 4 (0.089%) Appian
15 4 (0.089%) Documentum
15 4 (0.089%) Sitecore CMS
16 3 (0.067%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 407 (9.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 125 (2.79%) Microsoft Office
3 69 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (0.69%) UserZoom
5 28 (0.62%) Adobe XD
6 18 (0.40%) MS Visio
7 17 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
8 14 (0.31%) InDesign
9 11 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 9 (0.20%) SPSS
11 8 (0.18%) Chatbot
11 8 (0.18%) Photoshop
12 7 (0.16%) Trello
13 6 (0.13%) Adobe Premiere
13 6 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
14 4 (0.089%) Adobe Illustrator
15 3 (0.067%) Final Cut Pro
15 3 (0.067%) Sketch
16 2 (0.045%) Maya
16 2 (0.045%) Notion
Business Applications
1 76 (1.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 36 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 34 (0.76%) SAP PP
4 33 (0.74%) SAP IBP
5 27 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
6 21 (0.47%) Adobe Campaign
6 21 (0.47%) Magento
7 17 (0.38%) Shopify
8 16 (0.36%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 15 (0.33%) iTrent
9 15 (0.33%) NetSuite
10 14 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
11 13 (0.29%) Oracle Assets
11 13 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
11 13 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
11 13 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
11 13 (0.29%) SAP CO
12 10 (0.22%) SAP ERP
13 9 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
13 9 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 981 (21.89%) Azure
2 731 (16.31%) Power Platform
3 534 (11.91%) AWS
4 268 (5.98%) GCP
5 260 (5.80%) SaaS
6 258 (5.76%) Snowflake
7 238 (5.31%) Azure Data Factory
8 195 (4.35%) Google Analytics
9 186 (4.15%) Adobe Analytics
10 183 (4.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 164 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
12 156 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
13 150 (3.35%) GitHub
14 145 (3.24%) dbt
15 114 (2.54%) Figma
16 112 (2.50%) Amazon S3
17 101 (2.25%) Serverless
18 82 (1.83%) Entra ID
19 73 (1.63%) Azure Monitor
20 61 (1.36%) Contentsquare
Communications & Networking
1 221 (4.93%) Broadband
2 34 (0.76%) Firewall
3 33 (0.74%) VPN
4 25 (0.56%) CHAP
5 23 (0.51%) WAN
6 19 (0.42%) Network Security
7 16 (0.36%) DNS
7 16 (0.36%) Intranet
8 14 (0.31%) TCP/IP
9 12 (0.27%) DHCP
9 12 (0.27%) Unified Communications
10 6 (0.13%) HTTPS
11 5 (0.11%) SMS
11 5 (0.11%) SNMP
12 4 (0.089%) HTTP
12 4 (0.089%) Intrusion Detection
13 3 (0.067%) LAN
13 3 (0.067%) Modbus
14 2 (0.045%) MQTT
14 2 (0.045%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 694 (15.48%) Power BI
2 419 (9.35%) Tableau
3 368 (8.21%) Data Warehouse
4 242 (5.40%) Data Lake
5 190 (4.24%) Metadata
6 176 (3.93%) Data Mining
7 161 (3.59%) SQL Server
8 131 (2.92%) Looker
9 113 (2.52%) Azure SQL Database
10 105 (2.34%) BigQuery
11 100 (2.23%) Relational Database
12 91 (2.03%) Amazon Redshift
13 76 (1.70%) NoSQL
14 70 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 67 (1.49%) Big Data
16 65 (1.45%) Power Query
17 64 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 58 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
19 50 (1.12%) Snowflake Schema
20 44 (0.98%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 162 (3.61%) Git
2 108 (2.41%) JIRA
3 69 (1.54%) Jenkins
4 40 (0.89%) MLflow
5 33 (0.74%) GitLab
6 25 (0.56%) IBM UrbanCode
7 23 (0.51%) Axure RP
7 23 (0.51%) Balsamiq
7 23 (0.51%) TeamCity
8 20 (0.45%) Visual Studio
9 19 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
10 13 (0.29%) CircleCI
11 12 (0.27%) Crashlytics
11 12 (0.27%) ERwin
12 11 (0.25%) Selenium
13 10 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 9 (0.20%) XCTest
15 8 (0.18%) Cypress.io
16 7 (0.16%) Claude Code
17 5 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,372 (30.61%) Finance
2 1,239 (27.64%) Social Skills
3 1,155 (25.77%) Analytical Skills
4 681 (15.19%) Marketing
5 293 (6.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 253 (5.64%) Banking
7 249 (5.56%) Public Sector
8 238 (5.31%) Retail
9 206 (4.60%) Law
10 194 (4.33%) Games
11 164 (3.66%) Manufacturing
12 161 (3.59%) Legal
13 114 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
14 108 (2.41%) Financial Institution
15 107 (2.39%) Automotive
16 102 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
17 96 (2.14%) Advertising
18 95 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
19 76 (1.70%) Pharmaceutical
20 68 (1.52%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 746 (16.64%) Senior
2 655 (14.61%) Analyst
3 514 (11.47%) Lead
4 462 (10.31%) Data Engineer
5 364 (8.12%) Data Analyst
6 325 (7.25%) Architect
7 246 (5.49%) Developer
8 172 (3.84%) Consultant
9 156 (3.48%) Trainee
9 156 (3.48%) Trainee Analyst
9 156 (3.48%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 151 (3.37%) Data Architect
11 137 (3.06%) Senior Manager
12 114 (2.54%) Designer
13 102 (2.28%) Senior Data Engineer
14 100 (2.23%) Solutions Architect
15 97 (2.16%) Data Manager
16 91 (2.03%) Data Scientist
17 86 (1.92%) Senior Analyst
17 86 (1.92%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (2.77%) PySpark
2 121 (2.70%) Kafka
3 106 (2.37%) HTML
4 99 (2.21%) CSS
5 95 (2.12%) PyTorch
6 69 (1.54%) TensorFlow
7 68 (1.52%) .NET
8 57 (1.27%) React
9 51 (1.14%) RESTful
10 50 (1.12%) SAP Fiori
11 49 (1.09%) OAuth
12 48 (1.07%) JSON
12 48 (1.07%) LangChain
13 47 (1.05%) scikit-learn
14 44 (0.98%) REST
15 39 (0.87%) Pandas
16 38 (0.85%) Node.js
17 37 (0.83%) .NET Core
18 25 (0.56%) FIX Protocol
18 25 (0.56%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 299 (6.67%) Social Media
2 206 (4.60%) Cloud Native
3 182 (4.06%) Product Ownership
4 171 (3.82%) Analytical Mindset
5 153 (3.41%) Management Information System
6 151 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
7 135 (3.01%) Onboarding
8 108 (2.41%) Life Science
9 101 (2.25%) Algorithms
10 83 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
11 77 (1.72%) Data Structures
12 67 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
13 61 (1.36%) Mobile App
14 52 (1.16%) Marketing Technology
15 49 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
16 48 (1.07%) Public Cloud
17 45 (1.00%) Over-the-Top Content
18 44 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
18 44 (0.98%) Virtual Team
19 40 (0.89%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 109 (2.43%) Windows
2 60 (1.34%) Windows 10
3 43 (0.96%) Linux
4 26 (0.58%) VMS
5 22 (0.49%) Unix
6 21 (0.47%) Apple iOS
7 15 (0.33%) Windows Server
8 13 (0.29%) Android
9 2 (0.045%) AIX
9 2 (0.045%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.022%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,302 (29.05%) AI
2 981 (21.89%) Business Intelligence
3 973 (21.71%) Decision-Making
4 890 (19.86%) Agile
5 761 (16.98%) Data Analytics
6 744 (16.60%) Continuous Improvement
7 731 (16.31%) Problem-Solving
8 716 (15.98%) Data Modelling
9 600 (13.39%) Data Engineering
10 586 (13.07%) Roadmaps
11 549 (12.25%) Data Governance
12 532 (11.87%) Data Pipeline
13 524 (11.69%) Data Science
14 511 (11.40%) Customer Experience
15 509 (11.36%) Machine Learning
16 499 (11.13%) ETL
17 497 (11.09%) Data Analysis
18 487 (10.87%) CI/CD
19 440 (9.82%) Project Management
20 421 (9.39%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 1,178 (26.28%) SQL
2 1,053 (23.49%) Python
3 115 (2.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 115 (2.57%) JavaScript
4 97 (2.16%) Java
5 96 (2.14%) C#
6 81 (1.81%) Scala
7 70 (1.56%) R
8 55 (1.23%) PowerShell
9 47 (1.05%) T-SQL
10 45 (1.00%) TypeScript
11 39 (0.87%) Bicep
12 37 (0.83%) C++
13 36 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
14 35 (0.78%) Go
15 18 (0.40%) Bash
16 16 (0.36%) PL/SQL
16 16 (0.36%) VBA
17 14 (0.31%) Shell Script
18 12 (0.27%) PHP
Qualifications
1 710 (15.84%) Degree
2 260 (5.80%) Security Cleared
3 181 (4.04%) SC Cleared
4 142 (3.17%) Master's Degree
5 126 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 72 (1.61%) IRCA
7 60 (1.34%) CTC Cleared
8 55 (1.23%) Azure Certification
9 53 (1.18%) CISSP
10 51 (1.14%) PhD
11 50 (1.12%) DBS Check
12 48 (1.07%) ACCA
13 47 (1.05%) CISA
14 46 (1.03%) CISM
15 40 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
16 38 (0.85%) CIMA
17 35 (0.78%) Numerate Degree
18 34 (0.76%) DV Cleared
19 33 (0.74%) AWS Certification
20 27 (0.60%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 591 (13.19%) Data Quality
2 368 (8.21%) Accessibility
3 367 (8.19%) GDPR
4 168 (3.75%) QA
5 87 (1.94%) WCAG
6 82 (1.83%) ISO 9001
7 80 (1.78%) SLA
8 62 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 51 (1.14%) NIST
10 48 (1.07%) Actionable Recommendations
11 38 (0.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 34 (0.76%) HIPAA
13 30 (0.67%) COBIT
13 30 (0.67%) Solvency II
14 28 (0.62%) EU AI Act
14 28 (0.62%) IFRS
15 23 (0.51%) GxP
16 21 (0.47%) PSD2
17 20 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 18 (0.40%) SOC 2
System Software
1 143 (3.19%) Docker
2 60 (1.34%) Active Directory
3 24 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.16%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.089%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.089%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.045%) Firmware
7 2 (0.045%) vSphere
8 1 (0.022%) Apache Flume
8 1 (0.022%) IAG
8 1 (0.022%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.022%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 195 (4.35%) Terraform
2 170 (3.79%) Kubernetes
3 45 (1.00%) Ansible
4 26 (0.58%) Prometheus
5 25 (0.56%) Grafana
6 18 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (0.16%) EnCase
8 7 (0.16%) FTK
8 7 (0.16%) Kibana
9 5 (0.11%) Argo
9 5 (0.11%) QRadar
10 4 (0.089%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.067%) ArcSight ESM
11 3 (0.067%) Control-M
11 3 (0.067%) RSA Archer
11 3 (0.067%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 3 (0.067%) VxRail
12 2 (0.045%) SCCM
12 2 (0.045%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 851 (18.99%) Microsoft
2 367 (8.19%) Databricks
3 333 (7.43%) Google
4 282 (6.29%) Adobe
5 179 (3.99%) SAP
6 158 (3.53%) Salesforce
7 139 (3.10%) Oracle
8 138 (3.08%) Cisco
9 61 (1.36%) HubSpot
10 58 (1.29%) Dell
11 54 (1.20%) Informatica
12 50 (1.12%) Alteryx
13 29 (0.65%) Bloomberg
14 28 (0.62%) IBM
14 28 (0.62%) Nexthink
14 28 (0.62%) OpenAI
14 28 (0.62%) Palantir
14 28 (0.62%) Red Hat
14 28 (0.62%) ServiceNow
15 27 (0.60%) Talend