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 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 23 33
Rank change year-on-year -8 +10 -4
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 5,528 3,854 4,200
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.76% 7.80% 5.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.52% 8.79% 6.61%
Number of salaries quoted 3,346 1,780 2,171
10th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £42,500 £49,461
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,250
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.30% +4.09%

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 84,848 43,853 63,499
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.08% 88.72% 81.26%
Number of salaries quoted 58,707 24,746 35,929
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,585 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 19 September 2026.

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 19 September 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 -7 4,941 £66,805 +8.63% 8,969
UK excluding London -8 2,948 £60,000 +14.29% 3,544
London 0 2,214 £80,000 +3.23% 6,031
Work from Home +6 1,674 £65,000 +8.33% 3,344
North of England +52 960 £60,000 +6.67% 891
Midlands +18 603 £60,000 +14.29% 516
South East -32 574 £57,500 +15.00% 939
North West +59 562 £60,000 +14.29% 533
West Midlands +4 337 £59,250 +7.73% 341
South West -18 323 £60,000 - 341
East Midlands +27 266 £60,000 +26.98% 175
Yorkshire +34 244 £65,000 +8.33% 252
East of England -8 189 £55,000 +37.50% 288
North East +22 156 £55,000 +0.46% 108
Scotland -20 119 £75,000 +40.26% 330
Northern Ireland -10 98 £65,000 +8.33% 185
Wales -6 95 £63,500 +26.69% 85
Isle of Man +3 5 £38,500 - 3

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
1 162 (2.93%) Apache Spark
2 151 (2.73%) CMS
3 92 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
4 86 (1.56%) Apache
4 86 (1.56%) SharePoint
5 72 (1.30%) Confluence
6 70 (1.27%) SAS
7 40 (0.72%) WordPress
8 29 (0.52%) Sitecore CMS
9 20 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
10 18 (0.33%) Headless CMS
11 16 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
12 15 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
13 10 (0.18%) Jupyter
14 6 (0.11%) ArcGIS
14 6 (0.11%) Umbraco
15 3 (0.054%) Adobe Experience Manager
16 2 (0.036%) Appian
16 2 (0.036%) NServiceBus
16 2 (0.036%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 262 (4.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
3 43 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 36 (0.65%) Chatbot
5 30 (0.54%) SPSS
6 28 (0.51%) UserZoom
7 23 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
8 20 (0.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 16 (0.29%) MS Visio
10 15 (0.27%) Adobe XD
11 9 (0.16%) Photoshop
12 7 (0.13%) Sketch
12 7 (0.13%) Trello
13 6 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
14 4 (0.072%) Microsoft Project
15 3 (0.054%) Adobe Premiere
15 3 (0.054%) InDesign
15 3 (0.054%) Zeplin
16 2 (0.036%) CATIA
16 2 (0.036%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 123 (2.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 75 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 53 (0.96%) Shopify
4 32 (0.58%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 28 (0.51%) Dynamics GP
6 21 (0.38%) Adobe Campaign
6 21 (0.38%) Magento
7 15 (0.27%) Workday HCM
8 10 (0.18%) NetSuite
9 8 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
10 7 (0.13%) SAP MDG
11 6 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
11 6 (0.11%) SAP BPC
11 6 (0.11%) SAP PM
11 6 (0.11%) SAP Travel Management
12 5 (0.090%) Oracle ERP
12 5 (0.090%) Oracle Payables
12 5 (0.090%) Oracle Receivables
12 5 (0.090%) Payment Gateway
12 5 (0.090%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 1,080 (19.54%) Azure
2 926 (16.75%) Power Platform
3 805 (14.56%) AWS
4 367 (6.64%) GCP
5 328 (5.93%) SaaS
6 281 (5.08%) Google Analytics
7 255 (4.61%) Snowflake
8 220 (3.98%) Azure Data Factory
9 197 (3.56%) Azure DevOps
10 180 (3.26%) GitHub
11 161 (2.91%) Serverless
12 158 (2.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 144 (2.60%) dbt
14 115 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
15 109 (1.97%) Microsoft Purview
16 108 (1.95%) Amazon S3
17 106 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
18 87 (1.57%) Adobe Analytics
19 83 (1.50%) Figma
19 83 (1.50%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 111 (2.01%) Broadband
2 68 (1.23%) VPN
3 65 (1.18%) Internet
4 62 (1.12%) Firewall
5 45 (0.81%) DNS
6 43 (0.78%) Network Security
7 27 (0.49%) BGP
8 24 (0.43%) SMS
9 23 (0.42%) TCP/IP
10 21 (0.38%) 5G
11 20 (0.36%) VLAN
12 19 (0.34%) OSPF
13 16 (0.29%) DHCP
14 15 (0.27%) VoIP
15 14 (0.25%) CTI
16 13 (0.24%) SSL
17 10 (0.18%) Unified Communications
17 10 (0.18%) VXLAN
18 9 (0.16%) WAN
18 9 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 891 (16.12%) Power BI
2 413 (7.47%) Data Warehouse
3 285 (5.16%) Tableau
4 248 (4.49%) Data Lake
5 244 (4.41%) Metadata
6 174 (3.15%) SQL Server
7 158 (2.86%) Big Data
8 135 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
9 129 (2.33%) Looker
10 119 (2.15%) Amazon Redshift
11 109 (1.97%) BigQuery
12 97 (1.75%) Delta Lake
13 84 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
13 84 (1.52%) Relational Database
13 84 (1.52%) Star Schema
14 78 (1.41%) NoSQL
15 74 (1.34%) MongoDB
16 67 (1.21%) Power Query
17 65 (1.18%) Semantic Layer
18 59 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 178 (3.22%) Git
2 98 (1.77%) JIRA
3 44 (0.80%) Jenkins
4 39 (0.71%) GitLab
5 33 (0.60%) MLflow
6 16 (0.29%) Claude Code
7 12 (0.22%) Crashlytics
8 11 (0.20%) fastlane
9 9 (0.16%) CircleCI
9 9 (0.16%) Octopus Deploy
10 8 (0.14%) Balsamiq
10 8 (0.14%) Xcode
11 7 (0.13%) Gradle
12 6 (0.11%) Axure RP
12 6 (0.11%) ERwin
12 6 (0.11%) Visual Website Optimizer
12 6 (0.11%) XCTest
13 5 (0.090%) Browser DevTools
13 5 (0.090%) Poetry
13 5 (0.090%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,498 (27.10%) Social Skills
2 1,489 (26.94%) Finance
3 1,284 (23.23%) Analytical Skills
4 957 (17.31%) Marketing
5 420 (7.60%) Retail
6 395 (7.15%) Public Sector
7 320 (5.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 318 (5.75%) Legal
9 300 (5.43%) Law
10 219 (3.96%) Banking
11 208 (3.76%) Influencing Skills
12 168 (3.04%) Organisational Skills
13 166 (3.00%) Manufacturing
14 119 (2.15%) Games
14 119 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
15 107 (1.94%) Advertising
16 100 (1.81%) Automotive
17 94 (1.70%) Financial Institution
18 77 (1.39%) Publishing
19 61 (1.10%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,111 (20.10%) Senior
2 691 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 644 (11.65%) Analyst
4 613 (11.09%) Lead
5 510 (9.23%) Architect
6 324 (5.86%) Developer
7 258 (4.67%) Data Analyst
8 251 (4.54%) Senior Data Engineer
9 249 (4.50%) Data Architect
10 246 (4.45%) Analytics Manager
11 189 (3.42%) Consultant
12 188 (3.40%) Data Scientist
13 186 (3.36%) Senior Manager
14 165 (2.98%) Solutions Architect
15 130 (2.35%) Data Manager
15 130 (2.35%) Senior Analyst
16 119 (2.15%) Marketing Manager
17 118 (2.13%) Product Manager
18 100 (1.81%) Senior Architect
19 99 (1.79%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 258 (4.67%) Terraform
2 209 (3.78%) PySpark
3 121 (2.19%) Kafka
4 107 (1.94%) HTML
5 95 (1.72%) .NET
6 89 (1.61%) CSS
7 75 (1.36%) REST
8 69 (1.25%) React
9 59 (1.07%) Node.js
10 54 (0.98%) Pandas
11 50 (0.90%) scikit-learn
12 49 (0.89%) PyTorch
13 44 (0.80%) TensorFlow
14 38 (0.69%) Middleware
15 37 (0.67%) ASP.NET
16 36 (0.65%) .NET Core
16 36 (0.65%) JSON
16 36 (0.65%) LangChain
17 35 (0.63%) ASP.NET Core
18 34 (0.62%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 288 (5.21%) Onboarding
2 285 (5.16%) Cloud Native
3 208 (3.76%) Product Ownership
4 198 (3.58%) Marketing Technology
5 195 (3.53%) Social Media
6 189 (3.42%) Blog
7 186 (3.36%) Management Information System
8 124 (2.24%) Analytical Mindset
9 109 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
10 98 (1.77%) Data Structures
11 88 (1.59%) AI Agents
12 80 (1.45%) Algorithms
13 74 (1.34%) Mobile App
14 68 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
15 61 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
15 61 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
16 60 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
17 53 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
18 46 (0.83%) Virtual Team
19 45 (0.81%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 100 (1.81%) Windows
2 83 (1.50%) Linux
3 24 (0.43%) VMS
4 23 (0.42%) Windows Server
5 20 (0.36%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.16%) Android
7 6 (0.11%) Unix
8 5 (0.090%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.090%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.072%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.054%) Debian
11 1 (0.018%) AIX
11 1 (0.018%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.018%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.018%) SUSE
11 1 (0.018%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.018%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,985 (35.91%) AI
2 1,349 (24.40%) Decision-Making
3 1,236 (22.36%) Business Intelligence
4 954 (17.26%) Problem-Solving
5 912 (16.50%) Agile
6 870 (15.74%) Continuous Improvement
7 857 (15.50%) Roadmaps
8 841 (15.21%) Data Modelling
9 792 (14.33%) Data Engineering
10 757 (13.69%) Machine Learning
11 708 (12.81%) Data Analytics
12 684 (12.37%) Data Pipeline
13 680 (12.30%) CI/CD
14 643 (11.63%) Stakeholder Management
15 638 (11.54%) Mentoring
16 626 (11.32%) Data Science
17 540 (9.77%) ETL
18 536 (9.70%) Data Governance
19 535 (9.68%) Actionable Insight
20 506 (9.15%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1,508 (27.28%) SQL
2 1,225 (22.16%) Python
3 153 (2.77%) Java
4 138 (2.50%) C#
5 137 (2.48%) JavaScript
6 126 (2.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 116 (2.10%) PowerShell
8 95 (1.72%) R
9 88 (1.59%) TypeScript
10 77 (1.39%) Scala
11 75 (1.36%) Bicep
12 67 (1.21%) Bash
13 50 (0.90%) Go
14 49 (0.89%) C++
15 36 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
16 28 (0.51%) T-SQL
17 20 (0.36%) Kotlin
18 17 (0.31%) VBA
19 16 (0.29%) PHP
19 16 (0.29%) Swift
Qualifications
1 677 (12.25%) Degree
2 433 (7.83%) Security Cleared
3 307 (5.55%) SC Cleared
4 122 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 113 (2.04%) Azure Certification
6 106 (1.92%) Master's Degree
7 84 (1.52%) DV Cleared
8 67 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
9 59 (1.07%) DBS Check
10 58 (1.05%) ACCA
11 57 (1.03%) AWS Certification
12 53 (0.96%) CIMA
13 42 (0.76%) CISSP
14 40 (0.72%) PhD
15 34 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
16 30 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
16 30 (0.54%) CISM
17 22 (0.40%) CCNP
17 22 (0.40%) MBA
18 21 (0.38%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 812 (14.69%) Data Quality
2 320 (5.79%) Accessibility
3 250 (4.52%) GDPR
4 164 (2.97%) QA
5 59 (1.07%) WCAG
6 50 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
7 39 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 32 (0.58%) NIST
9 27 (0.49%) SLA
10 25 (0.45%) PMO
11 21 (0.38%) IFRS
12 20 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 20 (0.36%) PCI DSS
13 17 (0.31%) GRC
13 17 (0.31%) ISO 9001
14 13 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
14 13 (0.24%) PERC
15 12 (0.22%) EU AI Act
16 9 (0.16%) SOC 2
17 8 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 152 (2.75%) Docker
2 87 (1.57%) Active Directory
3 28 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (0.29%) vSphere
6 15 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.14%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.090%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.072%) IAG
10 2 (0.036%) Firmware
11 1 (0.018%) Apache Flume
11 1 (0.018%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.018%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 169 (3.06%) Kubernetes
2 46 (0.83%) Ansible
3 31 (0.56%) Grafana
4 30 (0.54%) Prometheus
5 24 (0.43%) EnCase
5 24 (0.43%) FTK
6 17 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (0.24%) FortiGate
8 8 (0.14%) Argo
9 6 (0.11%) Graylog
9 6 (0.11%) Hadoop YARN
9 6 (0.11%) Kibana
9 6 (0.11%) Nagios
9 6 (0.11%) Proxmox
10 5 (0.090%) Packer
10 5 (0.090%) Puppet
11 4 (0.072%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.072%) Control-M
11 4 (0.072%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (0.072%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 854 (15.45%) Microsoft
2 515 (9.32%) Databricks
3 465 (8.41%) Google
4 234 (4.23%) SAP
5 190 (3.44%) Adobe
6 118 (2.13%) Oracle
7 110 (1.99%) Salesforce
8 73 (1.32%) HubSpot
9 63 (1.14%) Workday
10 52 (0.94%) Informatica
11 49 (0.89%) YouTube
12 43 (0.78%) Cisco
13 42 (0.76%) IBM
14 41 (0.74%) TikTok
14 41 (0.74%) VMware
15 39 (0.71%) Alteryx
16 34 (0.62%) OpenAI
17 30 (0.54%) Sitecore
18 29 (0.52%) ServiceNow
19 25 (0.45%) Foundry