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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 23 37
Rank change year-on-year -3 +14 -14
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 5,127 3,931 5,191
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.21% 8.02% 5.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.06% 8.88% 6.22%
Number of salaries quoted 3,107 1,791 3,251
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £112,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

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 72,639 44,292 83,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.85% 90.34% 82.30%
Number of salaries quoted 50,181 24,710 58,516
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.72%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,777 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 11 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 11 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 -3 4,604 £67,500 +5.47% 2,029
UK excluding London -6 2,721 £60,000 +9.09% 1,191
London +6 1,990 £80,000 +3.23% 1,142
Work from Home +4 1,582 £65,000 +8.33% 890
North of England +43 920 £60,000 +5.26% 282
Midlands +16 594 £58,514 +11.45% 189
North West +41 546 £60,000 +14.29% 154
South East -32 500 £55,000 - 420
West Midlands +5 349 £58,514 +11.45% 103
South West -32 252 £60,000 - 123
Yorkshire +21 251 £62,500 +2.89% 80
East Midlands +29 244 £57,500 +18.56% 86
East of England +23 235 £60,000 +20.00% 90
Scotland -10 130 £62,500 -10.71% 44
North East +26 123 £50,000 -3.85% 48
Wales -11 55 £63,500 +5.83% 30
Northern Ireland -41 40 £45,000 +4.43% 33

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
1 168 (3.28%) Apache Spark
2 146 (2.85%) Apache Airflow
3 120 (2.34%) CMS
4 101 (1.97%) Apache
5 66 (1.29%) SAS
6 65 (1.27%) Confluence
7 46 (0.90%) SharePoint
8 45 (0.88%) WordPress
9 37 (0.72%) ArcGIS
10 27 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
11 16 (0.31%) 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 (0.098%) Oracle Workflow
15 5 (0.098%) Umbraco
16 4 (0.078%) Documentum
17 3 (0.059%) Sitecore CMS
18 2 (0.039%) Apache Qpid
Applications
1 249 (4.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 76 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
3 47 (0.92%) UserZoom
4 39 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 29 (0.57%) Chatbot
6 28 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
7 20 (0.39%) SPSS
8 18 (0.35%) MS Visio
9 13 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 13 (0.25%) Adobe XD
10 6 (0.12%) Sketch
10 6 (0.12%) Trello
11 5 (0.098%) Photoshop
12 4 (0.078%) InDesign
12 4 (0.078%) Microsoft Project
13 3 (0.059%) Adobe Illustrator
14 1 (0.020%) Adobe Premiere
14 1 (0.020%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 109 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (0.68%) SAP IBP
3 34 (0.66%) Adobe Campaign
4 33 (0.64%) SAP PP
5 28 (0.55%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 20 (0.39%) Shopify
7 17 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
7 17 (0.33%) Magento
8 15 (0.29%) NetSuite
9 11 (0.21%) iTrent
9 11 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
10 7 (0.14%) Workday HCM
11 6 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
11 6 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
11 6 (0.12%) Relativity
11 6 (0.12%) SAP ERP
11 6 (0.12%) SAP PM
11 6 (0.12%) SAP Travel Management
12 5 (0.098%) SAP PS
12 5 (0.098%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 1,013 (19.76%) Azure
2 793 (15.47%) Power Platform
3 756 (14.75%) AWS
4 329 (6.42%) GCP
5 321 (6.26%) SaaS
6 237 (4.62%) Snowflake
7 210 (4.10%) Adobe Analytics
8 201 (3.92%) Google Analytics
9 191 (3.73%) Azure Data Factory
10 158 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
11 149 (2.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 147 (2.87%) Serverless
13 145 (2.83%) GitHub
14 125 (2.44%) Amazon S3
15 124 (2.42%) dbt
16 122 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
17 117 (2.28%) Figma
18 104 (2.03%) Entra ID
19 95 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
20 80 (1.56%) Contentsquare
Communications & Networking
1 259 (5.05%) Broadband
2 58 (1.13%) VPN
3 48 (0.94%) Firewall
4 42 (0.82%) DNS
5 40 (0.78%) Internet
6 36 (0.70%) Network Security
7 26 (0.51%) BGP
8 25 (0.49%) TCP/IP
9 20 (0.39%) VLAN
10 18 (0.35%) OSPF
10 18 (0.35%) SMS
11 16 (0.31%) VoIP
12 15 (0.29%) CHAP
12 15 (0.29%) DHCP
13 14 (0.27%) CTI
13 14 (0.27%) WAN
14 13 (0.25%) Unified Communications
15 11 (0.21%) Intranet
16 10 (0.20%) SNMP
16 10 (0.20%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 759 (14.80%) Power BI
2 396 (7.72%) Data Warehouse
3 303 (5.91%) Tableau
4 228 (4.45%) Data Lake
5 182 (3.55%) Metadata
6 166 (3.24%) SQL Server
7 127 (2.48%) Big Data
8 122 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
8 122 (2.38%) Looker
9 119 (2.32%) Azure SQL Database
10 110 (2.15%) BigQuery
11 95 (1.85%) Relational Database
12 88 (1.72%) NoSQL
13 87 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
14 74 (1.44%) MongoDB
15 72 (1.40%) Data Mining
16 70 (1.37%) Power Query
17 64 (1.25%) Star Schema
18 60 (1.17%) Delta Lake
19 56 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 175 (3.41%) Git
2 77 (1.50%) JIRA
3 70 (1.37%) Jenkins
4 43 (0.84%) MLflow
5 36 (0.70%) GitLab
6 25 (0.49%) IBM UrbanCode
7 21 (0.41%) Crashlytics
8 15 (0.29%) CircleCI
9 14 (0.27%) XCTest
10 13 (0.25%) Claude Code
10 13 (0.25%) fastlane
10 13 (0.25%) TeamCity
11 10 (0.20%) ERwin
12 9 (0.18%) Xcode
13 8 (0.16%) Gradle
13 8 (0.16%) Selenium
13 8 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 6 (0.12%) Android Studio
14 6 (0.12%) Visual Studio
15 5 (0.098%) Bitbucket
General
1 1,345 (26.23%) Finance
2 1,289 (25.14%) Social Skills
3 1,111 (21.67%) Analytical Skills
4 666 (12.99%) Marketing
5 336 (6.55%) Public Sector
6 314 (6.12%) Retail
7 246 (4.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 239 (4.66%) Games
9 236 (4.60%) Law
10 210 (4.10%) Banking
11 197 (3.84%) Legal
12 164 (3.20%) Manufacturing
13 142 (2.77%) Influencing Skills
14 121 (2.36%) Automotive
15 119 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
16 105 (2.05%) Advertising
17 91 (1.77%) Financial Institution
18 89 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
19 57 (1.11%) Telecoms
20 41 (0.80%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 964 (18.80%) Senior
2 613 (11.96%) Analyst
3 591 (11.53%) Data Engineer
4 561 (10.94%) Lead
5 455 (8.87%) Architect
6 328 (6.40%) Developer
7 291 (5.68%) Data Analyst
8 219 (4.27%) Data Architect
9 217 (4.23%) Consultant
10 188 (3.67%) Senior Data Engineer
11 149 (2.91%) Solutions Architect
12 146 (2.85%) Senior Manager
13 145 (2.83%) Data Scientist
14 138 (2.69%) Analytics Manager
15 134 (2.61%) Product Manager
16 116 (2.26%) Data Manager
17 108 (2.11%) Senior Analyst
18 105 (2.05%) Designer
19 87 (1.70%) Azure Engineer
19 87 (1.70%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (3.04%) PySpark
2 137 (2.67%) Kafka
3 99 (1.93%) HTML
4 98 (1.91%) .NET
5 96 (1.87%) CSS
6 75 (1.46%) PyTorch
7 65 (1.27%) REST
8 60 (1.17%) React
9 59 (1.15%) SAP Fiori
10 57 (1.11%) Node.js
11 56 (1.09%) .NET Core
12 52 (1.01%) Pandas
13 48 (0.94%) scikit-learn
14 47 (0.92%) TensorFlow
15 43 (0.84%) RESTful
16 39 (0.76%) LangChain
17 36 (0.70%) ASP.NET
17 36 (0.70%) ASP.NET Core
18 35 (0.68%) AngularJS
18 35 (0.68%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 298 (5.81%) Social Media
2 282 (5.50%) Cloud Native
3 203 (3.96%) Onboarding
4 202 (3.94%) Product Ownership
5 171 (3.34%) Analytical Mindset
6 155 (3.02%) Management Information System
7 120 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
8 115 (2.24%) Data Structures
9 97 (1.89%) Algorithms
10 91 (1.77%) Mobile App
11 86 (1.68%) Marketing Technology
12 75 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
13 67 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
14 65 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
15 60 (1.17%) Blog
16 57 (1.11%) Life Science
16 57 (1.11%) Public Cloud
17 47 (0.92%) AI Agents
18 46 (0.90%) Over-the-Top Content
19 44 (0.86%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 119 (2.32%) Windows
2 87 (1.70%) Linux
3 36 (0.70%) VMS
4 35 (0.68%) Windows 10
5 27 (0.53%) Apple iOS
6 19 (0.37%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.23%) Android
7 12 (0.23%) Unix
8 4 (0.078%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.059%) AIX
10 2 (0.039%) Debian
10 2 (0.039%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.020%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,624 (31.68%) AI
2 1,111 (21.67%) Decision-Making
3 1,082 (21.10%) Business Intelligence
4 969 (18.90%) Agile
5 848 (16.54%) Roadmaps
6 797 (15.55%) Data Modelling
7 778 (15.17%) Continuous Improvement
8 756 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
9 732 (14.28%) Data Analytics
10 688 (13.42%) Data Engineering
11 628 (12.25%) Data Pipeline
12 617 (12.03%) CI/CD
13 604 (11.78%) Machine Learning
14 571 (11.14%) Data Governance
15 547 (10.67%) Customer Experience
16 516 (10.06%) ETL
17 515 (10.04%) Mentoring
18 498 (9.71%) Data Science
19 462 (9.01%) DevOps
20 456 (8.89%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 1,324 (25.82%) SQL
2 1,131 (22.06%) Python
3 135 (2.63%) C#
4 123 (2.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 121 (2.36%) Java
6 113 (2.20%) PowerShell
7 92 (1.79%) JavaScript
8 80 (1.56%) R
9 78 (1.52%) TypeScript
10 72 (1.40%) Scala
11 58 (1.13%) Bicep
12 53 (1.03%) Bash
13 46 (0.90%) C++
14 43 (0.84%) Kusto Query Language
15 40 (0.78%) Go
16 32 (0.62%) T-SQL
17 23 (0.45%) Kotlin
18 21 (0.41%) Swift
19 19 (0.37%) ABAP
20 18 (0.35%) Julia
Qualifications
1 597 (11.64%) Degree
2 343 (6.69%) Security Cleared
3 229 (4.47%) SC Cleared
4 106 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 95 (1.85%) Master's Degree
6 90 (1.76%) Azure Certification
7 72 (1.40%) IRCA
8 56 (1.09%) DV Cleared
9 52 (1.01%) AWS Certification
9 52 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
10 51 (0.99%) ACCA
10 51 (0.99%) DBS Check
11 45 (0.88%) CIMA
12 43 (0.84%) CISSP
13 36 (0.70%) CISM
13 36 (0.70%) PhD
14 35 (0.68%) CTC Cleared
15 32 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
16 25 (0.49%) CISA
17 22 (0.43%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 666 (12.99%) Data Quality
2 411 (8.02%) Accessibility
3 326 (6.36%) GDPR
4 215 (4.19%) QA
5 96 (1.87%) WCAG
6 74 (1.44%) ISO 9001
7 64 (1.25%) SLA
8 44 (0.86%) NIST
9 39 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 36 (0.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 32 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
12 27 (0.53%) PCI DSS
13 21 (0.41%) IFRS
14 19 (0.37%) COBIT
15 17 (0.33%) PMO
16 15 (0.29%) HIPAA
17 14 (0.27%) PERC
17 14 (0.27%) SOC 2
18 13 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
18 13 (0.25%) GRC
System Software
1 167 (3.26%) Docker
2 92 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 23 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (0.31%) vSphere
5 13 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.14%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.098%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.078%) IAG
9 2 (0.039%) Firmware
10 1 (0.020%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 250 (4.88%) Terraform
2 191 (3.73%) Kubernetes
3 47 (0.92%) Ansible
4 31 (0.60%) Prometheus
5 26 (0.51%) Grafana
6 13 (0.25%) EnCase
6 13 (0.25%) FTK
6 13 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.16%) FortiGate
7 8 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.12%) Nagios
8 6 (0.12%) VxRail
9 5 (0.098%) Argo
9 5 (0.098%) Graylog
9 5 (0.098%) Hadoop YARN
9 5 (0.098%) Kibana
10 4 (0.078%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.078%) Packer
11 3 (0.059%) Puppet
11 3 (0.059%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 807 (15.74%) Microsoft
2 445 (8.68%) Databricks
3 362 (7.06%) Google
4 302 (5.89%) Adobe
5 257 (5.01%) SAP
6 140 (2.73%) Oracle
7 124 (2.42%) Salesforce
8 79 (1.54%) Cisco
9 71 (1.38%) HubSpot
10 55 (1.07%) Informatica
11 53 (1.03%) Dell
12 43 (0.84%) Workday
13 37 (0.72%) IBM
14 31 (0.60%) ServiceNow
15 30 (0.59%) Cognos
15 30 (0.59%) VMware
16 27 (0.53%) Alteryx
16 27 (0.53%) Cloudera
16 27 (0.53%) Teradata
17 25 (0.49%) Hotjar