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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 22 38
Rank change year-on-year -5 +16 -16
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 4,807 3,797 5,442
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.14% 8.52% 5.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.05% 9.20% 6.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2,905 1,686 3,393
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,000 £45,750 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +6.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,250 £90,000 £81,450
90th Percentile £101,250 £115,000 £107,491
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 68,162 41,264 88,785
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.90% 92.57% 81.89%
Number of salaries quoted 46,887 22,044 62,842
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,607
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £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 £91,991
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 17 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 17 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 4,302 £67,500 +3.85% 3,298
UK excluding London -5 2,580 £60,000 +9.09% 3,009
London +3 1,839 £80,000 - 1,140
Work from Home +4 1,497 £65,000 +8.33% 2,705
North of England +35 867 £60,000 +14.29% 652
Midlands +11 566 £57,500 +12.20% 384
North West +33 508 £60,000 +14.29% 339
South East -32 470 £55,000 -8.33% 800
West Midlands -1 325 £57,500 +7.58% 197
Yorkshire +19 251 £60,000 - 209
East Midlands +33 238 £55,000 +13.40% 187
East of England +30 229 £60,000 +20.00% 336
South West -31 229 £60,000 +2.13% 258
Scotland -7 128 £65,000 -7.14% 294
North East +20 108 £48,000 -6.80% 106
Northern Ireland -10 47 £45,000 +50.00% 170
Wales -12 46 £60,000 +23.08% 164

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
1 150 (3.12%) Apache Airflow
1 150 (3.12%) Apache Spark
2 120 (2.50%) CMS
3 100 (2.08%) Apache
4 64 (1.33%) Confluence
5 49 (1.02%) SAS
6 46 (0.96%) WordPress
7 45 (0.94%) SharePoint
8 35 (0.73%) ArcGIS
9 22 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
10 16 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
11 10 (0.21%) Drupal
12 9 (0.19%) Jupyter
13 7 (0.15%) Oracle Application Server
14 6 (0.12%) Headless CMS
15 5 (0.10%) Umbraco
16 4 (0.083%) Documentum
16 4 (0.083%) Oracle Workflow
17 3 (0.062%) IIS
17 3 (0.062%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 265 (5.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 77 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
3 46 (0.96%) UserZoom
4 45 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 27 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
6 17 (0.35%) MS Visio
7 16 (0.33%) SPSS
8 14 (0.29%) Adobe XD
9 12 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 12 (0.25%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.10%) Trello
11 4 (0.083%) InDesign
11 4 (0.083%) Microsoft Project
11 4 (0.083%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.062%) Adobe Illustrator
12 3 (0.062%) Sketch
13 1 (0.021%) Adobe Premiere
13 1 (0.021%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 85 (1.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (0.71%) Adobe Campaign
2 34 (0.71%) SAP IBP
3 33 (0.69%) SAP PP
4 22 (0.46%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 18 (0.37%) Shopify
6 16 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
7 13 (0.27%) iTrent
7 13 (0.27%) Magento
7 13 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
8 12 (0.25%) NetSuite
9 6 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
9 6 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.12%) SAP CO
9 6 (0.12%) SAP ERP
9 6 (0.12%) SAP PM
9 6 (0.12%) SAP Travel Management
10 5 (0.10%) SAP PS
10 5 (0.10%) SAP SD
11 4 (0.083%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 968 (20.14%) Azure
2 751 (15.62%) Power Platform
3 635 (13.21%) AWS
4 306 (6.37%) GCP
5 291 (6.05%) SaaS
6 217 (4.51%) Snowflake
7 211 (4.39%) Adobe Analytics
8 192 (3.99%) Google Analytics
9 177 (3.68%) Azure Data Factory
10 164 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
11 141 (2.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 132 (2.75%) GitHub
13 123 (2.56%) dbt
13 123 (2.56%) Serverless
14 122 (2.54%) Amazon S3
15 121 (2.52%) Microsoft 365
16 114 (2.37%) Figma
17 106 (2.21%) Entra ID
18 84 (1.75%) Azure Monitor
19 79 (1.64%) Contentsquare
Communications & Networking
1 270 (5.62%) Broadband
2 42 (0.87%) VPN
3 41 (0.85%) Firewall
4 34 (0.71%) DNS
5 28 (0.58%) Network Security
6 24 (0.50%) TCP/IP
7 20 (0.42%) CHAP
8 19 (0.40%) BGP
9 17 (0.35%) VLAN
9 17 (0.35%) WAN
10 16 (0.33%) DHCP
10 16 (0.33%) OSPF
11 15 (0.31%) SMS
12 14 (0.29%) Unified Communications
13 11 (0.23%) Intranet
14 10 (0.21%) SNMP
15 9 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
16 8 (0.17%) 5G
16 8 (0.17%) VXLAN
17 7 (0.15%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 717 (14.92%) Power BI
2 326 (6.78%) Data Warehouse
3 311 (6.47%) Tableau
4 203 (4.22%) Data Lake
5 163 (3.39%) Metadata
6 142 (2.95%) SQL Server
7 122 (2.54%) Looker
8 112 (2.33%) BigQuery
9 108 (2.25%) Amazon Redshift
10 97 (2.02%) Azure SQL Database
11 94 (1.96%) Relational Database
12 93 (1.93%) Data Mining
13 90 (1.87%) Big Data
14 84 (1.75%) NoSQL
15 73 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
16 66 (1.37%) Power Query
17 57 (1.19%) MongoDB
17 57 (1.19%) Star Schema
18 52 (1.08%) Delta Lake
19 48 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 166 (3.45%) Git
2 77 (1.60%) Jenkins
3 72 (1.50%) JIRA
4 43 (0.89%) MLflow
5 38 (0.79%) GitLab
6 25 (0.52%) IBM UrbanCode
6 25 (0.52%) TeamCity
7 20 (0.42%) Crashlytics
8 17 (0.35%) CircleCI
9 14 (0.29%) XCTest
10 13 (0.27%) Claude Code
10 13 (0.27%) fastlane
11 11 (0.23%) ERwin
12 9 (0.19%) Axure RP
12 9 (0.19%) Balsamiq
12 9 (0.19%) Selenium
12 9 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 9 (0.19%) Xcode
13 8 (0.17%) Gradle
13 8 (0.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,284 (26.71%) Finance
2 1,173 (24.40%) Social Skills
3 1,061 (22.07%) Analytical Skills
4 650 (13.52%) Marketing
5 273 (5.68%) Retail
6 269 (5.60%) Public Sector
7 262 (5.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 225 (4.68%) Games
8 225 (4.68%) Law
9 208 (4.33%) Banking
10 182 (3.79%) Legal
11 137 (2.85%) Manufacturing
12 130 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
13 129 (2.68%) Automotive
14 116 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
15 107 (2.23%) Advertising
16 87 (1.81%) Financial Institution
17 69 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
18 53 (1.10%) Telecoms
19 39 (0.81%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 858 (17.85%) Senior
2 606 (12.61%) Analyst
3 550 (11.44%) Data Engineer
4 541 (11.25%) Lead
5 356 (7.41%) Architect
6 305 (6.34%) Data Analyst
6 305 (6.34%) Developer
7 196 (4.08%) Consultant
8 190 (3.95%) Data Architect
9 144 (3.00%) Senior Data Engineer
10 142 (2.95%) Senior Manager
11 127 (2.64%) Data Scientist
12 124 (2.58%) Product Manager
13 117 (2.43%) Analytics Manager
14 110 (2.29%) Data Manager
15 108 (2.25%) Senior Analyst
16 104 (2.16%) Solutions Architect
17 101 (2.10%) Designer
18 89 (1.85%) Trainee
18 89 (1.85%) Trainee Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (2.91%) PySpark
2 120 (2.50%) Kafka
3 90 (1.87%) .NET
4 88 (1.83%) HTML
5 84 (1.75%) CSS
6 73 (1.52%) PyTorch
7 54 (1.12%) React
7 54 (1.12%) SAP Fiori
8 53 (1.10%) .NET Core
9 48 (1.00%) Pandas
10 47 (0.98%) REST
11 44 (0.92%) RESTful
11 44 (0.92%) TensorFlow
12 43 (0.89%) scikit-learn
13 42 (0.87%) LangChain
14 35 (0.73%) JSON
15 34 (0.71%) Node.js
16 30 (0.62%) YAML
17 27 (0.56%) gRPC
17 27 (0.56%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 292 (6.07%) Social Media
2 225 (4.68%) Cloud Native
3 194 (4.04%) Product Ownership
4 163 (3.39%) Analytical Mindset
5 155 (3.22%) Management Information System
6 113 (2.35%) Onboarding
7 109 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
8 102 (2.12%) Data Structures
9 101 (2.10%) Algorithms
10 84 (1.75%) Mobile App
11 81 (1.69%) Marketing Technology
12 79 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
13 63 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
14 60 (1.25%) Life Science
15 59 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
16 58 (1.21%) Over-the-Top Content
17 50 (1.04%) Public Cloud
18 42 (0.87%) Virtual Team
19 41 (0.85%) e-Learning
20 39 (0.81%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 107 (2.23%) Windows
2 71 (1.48%) Linux
3 34 (0.71%) VMS
4 33 (0.69%) Windows 10
5 27 (0.56%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.33%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.25%) Android
7 12 (0.25%) Unix
8 3 (0.062%) AIX
9 2 (0.042%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.021%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.021%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,404 (29.21%) AI
2 1,032 (21.47%) Decision-Making
3 1,011 (21.03%) Business Intelligence
4 903 (18.79%) Agile
5 737 (15.33%) Data Modelling
6 732 (15.23%) Roadmaps
7 712 (14.81%) Data Analytics
8 706 (14.69%) Continuous Improvement
9 703 (14.62%) Problem-Solving
10 639 (13.29%) Data Engineering
11 574 (11.94%) Data Pipeline
12 571 (11.88%) CI/CD
13 547 (11.38%) Data Governance
14 520 (10.82%) Customer Experience
14 520 (10.82%) Machine Learning
15 483 (10.05%) ETL
16 480 (9.99%) Data Science
17 441 (9.17%) Actionable Insight
17 441 (9.17%) Mentoring
18 431 (8.97%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1,247 (25.94%) SQL
2 1,079 (22.45%) Python
3 123 (2.56%) C#
4 117 (2.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 101 (2.10%) Java
6 99 (2.06%) PowerShell
7 87 (1.81%) R
8 82 (1.71%) Scala
9 79 (1.64%) JavaScript
10 58 (1.21%) TypeScript
11 48 (1.00%) Bash
12 46 (0.96%) Bicep
13 44 (0.92%) C++
14 38 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
15 32 (0.67%) Go
15 32 (0.67%) T-SQL
16 23 (0.48%) Kotlin
16 23 (0.48%) VBA
17 21 (0.44%) Swift
18 18 (0.37%) Julia
Qualifications
1 543 (11.30%) Degree
2 297 (6.18%) Security Cleared
3 205 (4.26%) SC Cleared
4 95 (1.98%) Master's Degree
5 81 (1.69%) Azure Certification
6 76 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
7 72 (1.50%) IRCA
8 51 (1.06%) ACCA
8 51 (1.06%) DV Cleared
9 49 (1.02%) DBS Check
10 47 (0.98%) CISSP
11 45 (0.94%) CIMA
12 44 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
13 41 (0.85%) CISM
14 37 (0.77%) PhD
15 36 (0.75%) CISA
16 35 (0.73%) AWS Certification
17 33 (0.69%) CTC Cleared
18 31 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
19 23 (0.48%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 616 (12.81%) Data Quality
2 395 (8.22%) Accessibility
3 317 (6.59%) GDPR
4 195 (4.06%) QA
5 97 (2.02%) WCAG
6 76 (1.58%) ISO 9001
7 55 (1.14%) SLA
8 44 (0.92%) NIST
9 43 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 36 (0.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 34 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
12 26 (0.54%) IFRS
13 24 (0.50%) COBIT
14 18 (0.37%) PCI DSS
15 17 (0.35%) SOC 2
16 16 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 15 (0.31%) GAAP
17 15 (0.31%) HIPAA
18 14 (0.29%) GRC
18 14 (0.29%) PERC
System Software
1 159 (3.31%) Docker
2 89 (1.85%) Active Directory
3 20 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (0.21%) vSphere
6 7 (0.15%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.083%) IAG
7 4 (0.083%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.042%) Firmware
9 1 (0.021%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 235 (4.89%) Terraform
2 184 (3.83%) Kubernetes
3 43 (0.89%) Ansible
4 33 (0.69%) Prometheus
5 31 (0.64%) Grafana
6 14 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (0.23%) EnCase
7 11 (0.23%) FTK
8 9 (0.19%) Kibana
9 7 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (0.12%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.12%) Nagios
10 6 (0.12%) VxRail
11 5 (0.10%) Argo
11 5 (0.10%) Graylog
12 3 (0.062%) Control-M
12 3 (0.062%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.062%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.042%) SCCM
Vendors
1 779 (16.21%) Microsoft
2 418 (8.70%) Databricks
3 333 (6.93%) Google
4 302 (6.28%) Adobe
5 215 (4.47%) SAP
6 139 (2.89%) Salesforce
7 124 (2.58%) Oracle
8 79 (1.64%) Cisco
9 71 (1.48%) HubSpot
10 53 (1.10%) Dell
11 47 (0.98%) Informatica
12 35 (0.73%) Workday
13 27 (0.56%) Alteryx
13 27 (0.56%) Cloudera
13 27 (0.56%) ServiceNow
14 26 (0.54%) Teradata
15 25 (0.52%) Braze
15 25 (0.52%) Cognos
15 25 (0.52%) IBM
15 25 (0.52%) Red Hat