Analytics Job Trends

Analytics
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Analytics skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 35 30
Rank change year-on-year +13 -5 -7
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 3,877 4,186 4,598
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.87% 5.38% 7.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.87% 6.64% 7.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,742 2,166 3,362
10th Percentile £31,250 £38,750 £37,879
25th Percentile £42,750 £49,209 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -
75th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £113,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.89% +3.64% -

All Process and 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 43,694 63,053 58,074
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.68% 81.08% 94.39%
Number of salaries quoted 24,544 35,778 43,624
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +2.86%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Analytics 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 16 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Top 19 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 16 September 2025. 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 +9 3,383 £62,500 -3.85% 3,395
UK excluding London +20 2,149 £52,500 -7.89% 2,324
London +7 1,455 £77,500 -7.19% 1,859
Work from Home -15 1,032 £60,000 -11.11% 1,463
South East +36 908 £50,000 -9.09% 1,098
North of England -51 317 £57,500 +4.55% 474
Midlands +9 279 £52,500 -8.70% 275
South West +24 233 £60,000 -4.00% 167
Scotland +24 219 £57,500 -11.54% 80
North West -60 198 £52,500 -6.25% 316
West Midlands +10 178 £55,000 -8.33% 149
East of England +34 174 £39,500 -28.18% 165
Yorkshire -17 101 £61,250 +11.36% 127
East Midlands +11 100 £48,500 -3.00% 121
Wales +14 19 £50,124 -7.18% 54
North East +1 19 £57,500 - 37
Northern Ireland -13 14 £55,000 -4.35% 34
Channel Islands +2 2 £78,750 +27.02% 1
Isle of Man - 1 - -

Analytics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 105 (2.71%) Apache Spark
2 104 (2.68%) CMS
3 69 (1.78%) SharePoint
4 59 (1.52%) WordPress
5 29 (0.75%) Apache
5 29 (0.75%) Confluence
6 28 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
7 17 (0.44%) SAS
8 13 (0.34%) Headless CMS
9 11 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 11 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
10 10 (0.26%) SugarCRM
11 9 (0.23%) Drupal
12 8 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 8 (0.21%) Umbraco
13 5 (0.13%) ArcGIS
13 5 (0.13%) Jupyter
13 5 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
14 4 (0.10%) Apache Synapse
15 1 (0.026%) MTS
Applications
1 386 (9.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 91 (2.35%) Microsoft Office
3 51 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 40 (1.03%) Maya
5 32 (0.83%) Photoshop
6 21 (0.54%) Adobe XD
6 21 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
7 15 (0.39%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 15 (0.39%) Chatbot
8 13 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
9 11 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
10 9 (0.23%) Adobe Premiere
11 7 (0.18%) MadCap Flare
12 6 (0.15%) MS Visio
13 4 (0.10%) Adobe After Effects
13 4 (0.10%) InDesign
13 4 (0.10%) Trello
14 3 (0.077%) Final Cut Pro
14 3 (0.077%) SPSS
15 2 (0.052%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 83 (2.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 54 (1.39%) Shopify
3 42 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
4 35 (0.90%) SAP IBP
5 24 (0.62%) Oracle ERP
6 16 (0.41%) SAP CO
6 16 (0.41%) SAP FI
6 16 (0.41%) SAP FI/CO
7 15 (0.39%) SAP FSCM
8 14 (0.36%) Magento
9 13 (0.34%) Sprinklr
10 12 (0.31%) NetSuite
10 12 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
10 12 (0.31%) SAP IS-U
11 11 (0.28%) Dynamics GP
11 11 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
12 10 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
13 9 (0.23%) Adaptiv
14 7 (0.18%) SAP MM
15 6 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 978 (25.23%) Azure
2 780 (20.12%) Power Platform
3 560 (14.44%) AWS
4 353 (9.10%) Google Analytics
5 309 (7.97%) GCP
6 210 (5.42%) SaaS
7 178 (4.59%) Snowflake
8 149 (3.84%) Azure Data Factory
9 130 (3.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 114 (2.94%) Google Ads
11 111 (2.86%) Serverless
12 106 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
13 92 (2.37%) Power Automate
14 75 (1.93%) Entra ID
14 75 (1.93%) Microsoft 365
15 73 (1.88%) AWS Lambda
16 67 (1.73%) Azure Monitor
17 61 (1.57%) PowerApps
18 57 (1.47%) dbt
18 57 (1.47%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 37 (0.95%) VPN
2 36 (0.93%) SMS
3 32 (0.83%) Firewall
4 27 (0.70%) WAN
5 23 (0.59%) Unified Communications
6 22 (0.57%) DNS
7 20 (0.52%) SD-WAN
8 9 (0.23%) Network Security
8 9 (0.23%) SAN
9 7 (0.18%) Internet
10 6 (0.15%) 5G
11 5 (0.13%) 4G
11 5 (0.13%) VoIP
12 4 (0.10%) Intranet
12 4 (0.10%) NAS
12 4 (0.10%) Wireshark
13 3 (0.077%) DHCP
13 3 (0.077%) HTTP
13 3 (0.077%) Intrusion Detection
13 3 (0.077%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 762 (19.65%) Power BI
2 344 (8.87%) Data Lake
3 332 (8.56%) Tableau
4 315 (8.12%) Data Warehouse
5 162 (4.18%) Big Data
6 144 (3.71%) Metadata
7 142 (3.66%) SQL Server
8 100 (2.58%) NoSQL
9 94 (2.42%) SAP BW
10 75 (1.93%) Looker
11 73 (1.88%) BigQuery
12 71 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
13 69 (1.78%) MySQL
14 68 (1.75%) Data Mining
15 65 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
16 64 (1.65%) Relational Database
17 63 (1.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 58 (1.50%) MongoDB
19 54 (1.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
20 53 (1.37%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 100 (2.58%) Git
2 90 (2.32%) JIRA
3 49 (1.26%) Jenkins
4 20 (0.52%) Selenium
5 19 (0.49%) GitLab
6 17 (0.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 16 (0.41%) Axure RP
7 16 (0.41%) Balsamiq
7 16 (0.41%) ER Studio
7 16 (0.41%) ERwin
8 15 (0.39%) Postman
9 12 (0.31%) Bazaar
9 12 (0.31%) Cypress.io
9 12 (0.31%) Maven
10 10 (0.26%) Oracle Forms
11 9 (0.23%) JMeter
11 9 (0.23%) JUnit
12 8 (0.21%) MLflow
13 7 (0.18%) Subversion
14 6 (0.15%) Browser DevTools
General
1 1,635 (42.17%) Social Skills
2 1,427 (36.81%) Finance
3 1,144 (29.51%) Analytical Skills
4 834 (21.51%) Marketing
5 720 (18.57%) Law
6 348 (8.98%) Retail
7 262 (6.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 219 (5.65%) Banking
9 162 (4.18%) Public Sector
10 159 (4.10%) Manufacturing
11 149 (3.84%) Advertising
12 135 (3.48%) Legal
13 133 (3.43%) Games
13 133 (3.43%) Influencing Skills
14 132 (3.40%) Presentation Skills
15 86 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
16 78 (2.01%) Front Office
16 78 (2.01%) Telecoms
17 68 (1.75%) Financial Institution
18 46 (1.19%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 691 (17.82%) Senior
2 626 (16.15%) Lead
3 475 (12.25%) Analyst
4 270 (6.96%) Architect
5 246 (6.35%) Data Engineer
6 233 (6.01%) Developer
7 228 (5.88%) Systems Manager
8 215 (5.55%) Resource Manager
9 189 (4.87%) Data Analyst
10 122 (3.15%) Senior Manager
11 97 (2.50%) Consultant
12 94 (2.42%) Data Manager
13 90 (2.32%) Software Engineer
14 86 (2.22%) Analytics Manager
14 86 (2.22%) Data Scientist
15 82 (2.12%) Data Architect
16 80 (2.06%) Innovation Manager
17 64 (1.65%) Senior Data Engineer
18 61 (1.57%) Product Manager
18 61 (1.57%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (2.73%) HTML
2 100 (2.58%) Kafka
3 85 (2.19%) CSS
4 74 (1.91%) React
5 69 (1.78%) RESTful
6 68 (1.75%) PySpark
7 47 (1.21%) REST
8 43 (1.11%) OAuth
9 39 (1.01%) .NET
10 38 (0.98%) Pandas
11 33 (0.85%) PyTorch
11 33 (0.85%) TensorFlow
12 32 (0.83%) AngularJS
12 32 (0.83%) Middleware
12 32 (0.83%) Node.js
13 31 (0.80%) scikit-learn
14 28 (0.72%) Spring
14 28 (0.72%) Vue
15 27 (0.70%) JSON
16 24 (0.62%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 204 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
2 199 (5.13%) Product Ownership
3 193 (4.98%) Algorithms
4 177 (4.57%) Management Information System
5 162 (4.18%) Cloud Native
6 159 (4.10%) Social Media
7 120 (3.10%) Onboarding
8 116 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
9 108 (2.79%) FMCG
10 95 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
11 67 (1.73%) Data Centre
12 65 (1.68%) Data Structures
13 49 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
14 40 (1.03%) Reinsurance
15 37 (0.95%) Credit Risk
15 37 (0.95%) Equities
16 36 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 35 (0.90%) NHS
18 33 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
18 33 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 73 (1.88%) Windows
2 47 (1.21%) Linux
3 18 (0.46%) Windows Server
4 17 (0.44%) Windows 10
5 15 (0.39%) Unix
6 5 (0.13%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.10%) Android
7 4 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.10%) VMS
7 4 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.026%) AIX
8 1 (0.026%) Debian
8 1 (0.026%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.026%) Robot Operating System
8 1 (0.026%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.026%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 957 (24.68%) Artificial Intelligence
2 955 (24.63%) Business Intelligence
3 916 (23.63%) Problem-Solving
4 811 (20.92%) Data Analytics
5 793 (20.45%) Agile
6 779 (20.09%) Decision-Making
7 767 (19.78%) Continuous Improvement
8 617 (15.91%) Data Management
9 597 (15.40%) Roadmaps
10 588 (15.17%) Data Science
11 549 (14.16%) Machine Learning
12 529 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
13 509 (13.13%) Data Modelling
14 491 (12.66%) ERP
15 453 (11.68%) Visualisation
16 425 (10.96%) Actionable Insight
17 422 (10.88%) Project Management
18 420 (10.83%) Data Governance
19 417 (10.76%) Data Engineering
20 416 (10.73%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 980 (25.28%) SQL
2 851 (21.95%) Python
3 201 (5.18%) Java
4 139 (3.59%) JavaScript
5 101 (2.61%) R
6 95 (2.45%) PowerShell
7 69 (1.78%) T-SQL
8 65 (1.68%) C#
9 60 (1.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 52 (1.34%) Scala
11 43 (1.11%) C++
12 41 (1.06%) TypeScript
13 36 (0.93%) Go
14 32 (0.83%) Bicep
15 24 (0.62%) PL/SQL
16 23 (0.59%) Bash
17 22 (0.57%) VBA
18 19 (0.49%) PHP
19 16 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
20 14 (0.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 944 (24.35%) Degree
2 219 (5.65%) Master's Degree
3 153 (3.95%) Security Cleared
4 146 (3.77%) DBS Check
5 101 (2.61%) SC Cleared
6 99 (2.55%) PhD
7 96 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 77 (1.99%) Azure Certification
9 62 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
10 51 (1.32%) PMI Certification
11 42 (1.08%) CISSP
12 39 (1.01%) CISA
13 38 (0.98%) ACCA
13 38 (0.98%) PMP
14 33 (0.85%) CIMA
15 30 (0.77%) AWS Certification
16 25 (0.64%) CISM
17 21 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
18 20 (0.52%) CFA
18 20 (0.52%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 406 (10.47%) Data Quality
2 213 (5.49%) GDPR
3 158 (4.08%) Accessibility
4 127 (3.28%) QA
5 48 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 35 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
7 32 (0.83%) NIST
8 30 (0.77%) ITGC
8 30 (0.77%) WCAG
9 27 (0.70%) SLA
10 25 (0.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 20 (0.52%) COBIT
12 19 (0.49%) MiFID
13 18 (0.46%) EMIR
14 16 (0.41%) GxP
15 14 (0.36%) PMO
16 13 (0.34%) GRC
17 12 (0.31%) SOC 2
18 9 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
19 8 (0.21%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 88 (2.27%) Docker
2 33 (0.85%) Active Directory
3 30 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.15%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.10%) Firmware
8 3 (0.077%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.077%) vSphere
9 1 (0.026%) HDFS
9 1 (0.026%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 1 (0.026%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.026%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 142 (3.66%) Terraform
2 129 (3.33%) Kubernetes
3 37 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
4 23 (0.59%) Ansible
5 17 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (0.31%) Prometheus
7 11 (0.28%) Grafana
8 10 (0.26%) QRadar
9 6 (0.15%) SCCM
10 4 (0.10%) RSA Archer
10 4 (0.10%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 3 (0.077%) Puppet
11 3 (0.077%) SmoothWall
12 2 (0.052%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.052%) Nessus
13 1 (0.026%) CASB
13 1 (0.026%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 1 (0.026%) Computer Incident Response Team
13 1 (0.026%) Istio
13 1 (0.026%) Matomo
Vendors
1 611 (15.76%) Microsoft
2 590 (15.22%) Google
3 274 (7.07%) SAP
4 271 (6.99%) Databricks
5 189 (4.87%) Salesforce
6 143 (3.69%) Oracle
7 130 (3.35%) Adobe
8 85 (2.19%) ServiceNow
9 53 (1.37%) OpenAI
10 52 (1.34%) Facebook
11 51 (1.32%) HubSpot
11 51 (1.32%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 48 (1.24%) Ahrefs
13 45 (1.16%) Informatica
14 36 (0.93%) Cisco
15 35 (0.90%) MuleSoft
16 34 (0.88%) TikTok
17 33 (0.85%) Dell
18 32 (0.83%) Alteryx
18 32 (0.83%) Screaming Frog