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 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 21 34
Rank change year-on-year -7 +13 -4
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 5,395 3,981 4,422
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.93% 7.96% 5.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.75% 8.97% 6.57%
Number of salaries quoted 3,216 1,800 2,476
10th Percentile £37,000 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £44,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,903 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.50% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £101,250 £112,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £56,509
% change year-on-year +14.29% -7.09% +2.74%

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 79,979 44,380 67,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.09% 88.78% 80.65%
Number of salaries quoted 55,459 25,207 42,110
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,055
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.10% -8.99%

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 28 August 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 28 August 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 -6 4,823 £67,500 +9.76% 3,992
UK excluding London -8 2,875 £60,000 +14.29% 1,886
London +2 2,165 £80,000 +3.23% 2,688
Work from Home +7 1,630 £65,000 +8.33% 1,535
North of England +62 942 £60,000 +4.35% 483
Midlands +18 586 £60,000 +14.29% 236
North West +49 555 £60,000 +14.29% 285
South East -37 537 £55,000 +5.26% 582
West Midlands 0 315 £59,250 +7.73% 157
South West -22 297 £60,000 - 258
East Midlands +30 271 £60,000 +23.71% 79
Yorkshire +25 240 £63,076 +0.92% 142
East of England +8 209 £55,000 +37.50% 109
North East +29 147 £52,500 -8.70% 59
Scotland -19 116 £65,000 +1.96% 154
Northern Ireland -16 106 £65,000 +30.00% 44
Wales -11 89 £60,000 +9.09% 38
Isle of Man +2 4 £38,500 - 4

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
1 171 (3.17%) Apache Spark
2 147 (2.72%) CMS
3 113 (2.09%) Apache Airflow
4 86 (1.59%) Apache
5 80 (1.48%) SharePoint
6 68 (1.26%) Confluence
7 66 (1.22%) SAS
8 41 (0.76%) WordPress
9 29 (0.54%) Sitecore CMS
10 24 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
11 16 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
12 15 (0.28%) Headless CMS
13 10 (0.19%) Jupyter
14 8 (0.15%) ArcGIS
15 6 (0.11%) Umbraco
16 5 (0.093%) Oracle Workflow
17 4 (0.074%) Oracle Application Server
18 2 (0.037%) Drupal
18 2 (0.037%) Luigi
18 2 (0.037%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 244 (4.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
3 37 (0.69%) UserZoom
4 34 (0.63%) Chatbot
5 31 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 28 (0.52%) SPSS
7 21 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
8 17 (0.32%) Adobe XD
9 13 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 8 (0.15%) MS Visio
11 7 (0.13%) Sketch
12 6 (0.11%) Trello
13 4 (0.074%) Photoshop
14 3 (0.056%) Adobe Premiere
14 3 (0.056%) Microsoft Project
14 3 (0.056%) Zeplin
15 2 (0.037%) Adobe Illustrator
15 2 (0.037%) CapCut
16 1 (0.019%) InDesign
16 1 (0.019%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 114 (2.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 81 (1.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 50 (0.93%) Shopify
4 34 (0.63%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 30 (0.56%) Dynamics GP
6 28 (0.52%) Adobe Campaign
7 20 (0.37%) Magento
8 13 (0.24%) NetSuite
9 11 (0.20%) Workday HCM
10 8 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
10 8 (0.15%) Relativity
10 8 (0.15%) SAP IBP
11 7 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
11 7 (0.13%) SAP MDG
12 6 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
12 6 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
12 6 (0.11%) SAP PM
12 6 (0.11%) SAP PP
12 6 (0.11%) SAP Travel Management
13 5 (0.093%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 1,043 (19.33%) Azure
2 892 (16.53%) Power Platform
3 796 (14.75%) AWS
4 375 (6.95%) GCP
5 310 (5.75%) SaaS
6 271 (5.02%) Snowflake
7 253 (4.69%) Google Analytics
8 198 (3.67%) Azure Data Factory
9 180 (3.34%) Azure DevOps
10 177 (3.28%) GitHub
11 154 (2.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 152 (2.82%) dbt
12 152 (2.82%) Serverless
13 135 (2.50%) Adobe Analytics
14 104 (1.93%) Amazon S3
14 104 (1.93%) Cloud Computing
15 100 (1.85%) Microsoft Purview
16 99 (1.84%) Microsoft 365
17 96 (1.78%) Figma
18 81 (1.50%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 164 (3.04%) Broadband
2 63 (1.17%) VPN
3 61 (1.13%) Firewall
4 57 (1.06%) Internet
5 47 (0.87%) DNS
6 42 (0.78%) Network Security
7 28 (0.52%) BGP
8 27 (0.50%) TCP/IP
9 25 (0.46%) SMS
10 20 (0.37%) VLAN
11 19 (0.35%) OSPF
12 18 (0.33%) DHCP
13 15 (0.28%) VoIP
14 14 (0.26%) CTI
15 13 (0.24%) SSL
16 12 (0.22%) 5G
17 10 (0.19%) Unified Communications
18 9 (0.17%) VXLAN
18 9 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
19 8 (0.15%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 854 (15.83%) Power BI
2 441 (8.17%) Data Warehouse
3 303 (5.62%) Tableau
4 263 (4.87%) Data Lake
5 220 (4.08%) Metadata
6 172 (3.19%) SQL Server
7 151 (2.80%) Big Data
8 138 (2.56%) Looker
9 126 (2.34%) Azure SQL Database
10 125 (2.32%) Amazon Redshift
11 115 (2.13%) BigQuery
12 89 (1.65%) Relational Database
13 88 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
14 86 (1.59%) Delta Lake
15 81 (1.50%) NoSQL
16 78 (1.45%) Star Schema
17 74 (1.37%) MongoDB
18 64 (1.19%) Power Query
19 57 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
20 56 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 163 (3.02%) Git
2 84 (1.56%) JIRA
3 54 (1.00%) Jenkins
4 45 (0.83%) MLflow
5 33 (0.61%) GitLab
6 18 (0.33%) Crashlytics
7 17 (0.32%) Claude Code
8 13 (0.24%) fastlane
9 11 (0.20%) CircleCI
9 11 (0.20%) XCTest
10 10 (0.19%) Balsamiq
11 9 (0.17%) Xcode
12 8 (0.15%) Axure RP
12 8 (0.15%) ERwin
12 8 (0.15%) Gradle
13 6 (0.11%) Android Studio
13 6 (0.11%) Octopus Deploy
13 6 (0.11%) Selenium
14 5 (0.093%) Bitbucket
14 5 (0.093%) Browser DevTools
General
1 1,497 (27.75%) Finance
2 1,444 (26.77%) Social Skills
3 1,252 (23.21%) Analytical Skills
4 887 (16.44%) Marketing
5 391 (7.25%) Retail
6 364 (6.75%) Public Sector
7 302 (5.60%) Legal
8 296 (5.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 296 (5.49%) Law
9 221 (4.10%) Banking
10 189 (3.50%) Influencing Skills
11 167 (3.10%) Games
12 156 (2.89%) Manufacturing
13 141 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
14 120 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
15 106 (1.96%) Automotive
16 98 (1.82%) Advertising
17 97 (1.80%) Financial Institution
18 69 (1.28%) Publishing
19 54 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,049 (19.44%) Senior
2 636 (11.79%) Data Engineer
3 620 (11.49%) Analyst
4 610 (11.31%) Lead
5 500 (9.27%) Architect
6 338 (6.27%) Developer
7 267 (4.95%) Data Analyst
8 240 (4.45%) Data Architect
9 215 (3.99%) Senior Data Engineer
10 214 (3.97%) Analytics Manager
11 191 (3.54%) Consultant
12 181 (3.35%) Data Scientist
13 169 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
14 162 (3.00%) Senior Manager
15 136 (2.52%) Product Manager
16 126 (2.34%) Senior Analyst
17 118 (2.19%) Data Manager
18 113 (2.09%) Marketing Manager
19 95 (1.76%) Senior Architect
20 88 (1.63%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 262 (4.86%) Terraform
2 170 (3.15%) PySpark
3 140 (2.59%) Kafka
4 102 (1.89%) HTML
5 93 (1.72%) CSS
6 87 (1.61%) .NET
7 73 (1.35%) REST
8 66 (1.22%) React
9 61 (1.13%) Node.js
10 60 (1.11%) scikit-learn
11 58 (1.08%) PyTorch
12 53 (0.98%) TensorFlow
13 50 (0.93%) LangChain
14 49 (0.91%) Pandas
15 42 (0.78%) .NET Core
16 38 (0.70%) ASP.NET
16 38 (0.70%) Middleware
16 38 (0.70%) RESTful
17 36 (0.67%) ASP.NET Core
18 34 (0.63%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 300 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 275 (5.10%) Onboarding
3 225 (4.17%) Social Media
4 204 (3.78%) Product Ownership
5 188 (3.48%) Marketing Technology
6 187 (3.47%) Blog
7 166 (3.08%) Management Information System
8 152 (2.82%) Analytical Mindset
9 106 (1.96%) Data Structures
10 96 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
11 82 (1.52%) Algorithms
12 81 (1.50%) AI Agents
13 78 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
13 78 (1.45%) Mobile App
14 62 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
15 57 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
16 54 (1.00%) Public Cloud
17 47 (0.87%) Virtual Team
18 46 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
19 44 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 90 (1.67%) Windows
2 78 (1.45%) Linux
3 25 (0.46%) VMS
4 24 (0.44%) Apple iOS
5 21 (0.39%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.19%) Android
7 6 (0.11%) Unix
8 5 (0.093%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.074%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.056%) Debian
11 2 (0.037%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.019%) AIX
12 1 (0.019%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.019%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.019%) SUSE
12 1 (0.019%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,917 (35.53%) AI
2 1,305 (24.19%) Decision-Making
3 1,191 (22.08%) Business Intelligence
4 919 (17.03%) Agile
5 879 (16.29%) Problem-Solving
6 870 (16.13%) Roadmaps
7 851 (15.77%) Continuous Improvement
8 828 (15.35%) Data Modelling
9 760 (14.09%) Machine Learning
10 757 (14.03%) Data Engineering
11 691 (12.81%) Data Analytics
12 657 (12.18%) Data Pipeline
13 655 (12.14%) CI/CD
14 632 (11.71%) Data Science
15 587 (10.88%) Mentoring
16 562 (10.42%) Stakeholder Management
17 535 (9.92%) Data Governance
18 530 (9.82%) Actionable Insight
19 514 (9.53%) ETL
20 484 (8.97%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1,440 (26.69%) SQL
2 1,205 (22.34%) Python
3 139 (2.58%) Java
4 126 (2.34%) C#
5 120 (2.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 118 (2.19%) JavaScript
7 106 (1.96%) PowerShell
8 89 (1.65%) R
8 89 (1.65%) TypeScript
9 75 (1.39%) Scala
10 72 (1.33%) Bicep
11 58 (1.08%) Bash
12 47 (0.87%) Go
13 37 (0.69%) C++
14 34 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
15 26 (0.48%) Kotlin
15 26 (0.48%) T-SQL
16 22 (0.41%) Swift
17 18 (0.33%) Julia
17 18 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 658 (12.20%) Degree
2 382 (7.08%) Security Cleared
3 254 (4.71%) SC Cleared
4 123 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 111 (2.06%) Azure Certification
6 101 (1.87%) Master's Degree
7 84 (1.56%) DV Cleared
8 59 (1.09%) AWS Certification
9 56 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
10 51 (0.95%) ACCA
11 48 (0.89%) IRCA
12 46 (0.85%) DBS Check
13 45 (0.83%) CIMA
14 43 (0.80%) CISSP
14 43 (0.80%) PhD
15 35 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
16 32 (0.59%) CISM
17 29 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
18 22 (0.41%) Postgraduate
19 20 (0.37%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 740 (13.72%) Data Quality
2 348 (6.45%) Accessibility
3 280 (5.19%) GDPR
4 186 (3.45%) QA
5 83 (1.54%) WCAG
6 51 (0.95%) ISO 9001
7 44 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
8 38 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 35 (0.65%) NIST
10 32 (0.59%) SLA
11 30 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 24 (0.44%) PMO
13 21 (0.39%) IFRS
13 21 (0.39%) PCI DSS
14 16 (0.30%) GRC
15 14 (0.26%) PERC
16 13 (0.24%) EU AI Act
16 13 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 12 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
18 10 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 150 (2.78%) Docker
2 88 (1.63%) Active Directory
3 25 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (0.30%) vSphere
6 15 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.13%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.074%) Firmware
8 4 (0.074%) IAG
8 4 (0.074%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.019%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.019%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 176 (3.26%) Kubernetes
2 46 (0.85%) Ansible
3 28 (0.52%) Grafana
4 27 (0.50%) Prometheus
5 18 (0.33%) EnCase
5 18 (0.33%) FTK
6 13 (0.24%) FortiGate
6 13 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.15%) Argo
8 6 (0.11%) Graylog
8 6 (0.11%) Hadoop YARN
8 6 (0.11%) Nagios
9 5 (0.093%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.093%) Packer
9 5 (0.093%) Puppet
9 5 (0.093%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.074%) VxRail
11 3 (0.056%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.056%) Kibana
11 3 (0.056%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 807 (14.96%) Microsoft
2 519 (9.62%) Databricks
3 431 (7.99%) Google
4 235 (4.36%) Adobe
5 226 (4.19%) SAP
6 106 (1.96%) Oracle
7 105 (1.95%) Salesforce
8 71 (1.32%) HubSpot
9 58 (1.08%) Informatica
10 56 (1.04%) Workday
11 46 (0.85%) Dell
12 43 (0.80%) IBM
13 41 (0.76%) Cisco
14 36 (0.67%) Alteryx
14 36 (0.67%) YouTube
15 34 (0.63%) OpenAI
15 34 (0.63%) VMware
16 30 (0.56%) Sitecore
17 29 (0.54%) Cognos
17 29 (0.54%) TikTok