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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 23 37
Rank change year-on-year -4 +14 -14
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 4,950 3,816 5,392
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.16% 8.25% 5.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.02% 9.00% 6.20%
Number of salaries quoted 3,009 1,726 3,393
10th Percentile £36,000 £31,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,500 £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 £86,250 £88,169 £83,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £115,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +0.92% -0.91%

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 70,466 42,382 86,929
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.43% 91.66% 82.23%
Number of salaries quoted 48,630 23,044 61,478
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.12%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,171 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.34% - -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 29 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 29 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 -1 4,442 £67,500 +3.85% 1,858
UK excluding London -6 2,644 £60,000 +9.09% 1,183
London +3 1,910 £80,000 - 1,027
Work from Home +3 1,532 £65,000 +8.33% 794
North of England +35 893 £60,000 +9.09% 293
Midlands +10 579 £59,630 +13.58% 180
North West +39 534 £60,000 +14.29% 182
South East -31 480 £55,000 -4.35% 427
West Midlands +1 339 £57,500 +9.52% 114
Yorkshire +20 245 £60,000 - 73
South West -32 241 £60,000 - 112
East Midlands +31 238 £59,732 +23.16% 65
East of England +29 232 £60,000 +20.00% 84
Scotland -8 128 £65,000 -7.14% 41
North East +21 114 £50,000 -3.85% 38
Wales -8 49 £60,000 +19.70% 34
Northern Ireland -10 45 £45,000 +50.00% 35

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
1 158 (3.19%) Apache Spark
2 148 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
3 120 (2.42%) CMS
4 102 (2.06%) Apache
5 65 (1.31%) Confluence
6 57 (1.15%) SAS
7 47 (0.95%) WordPress
8 45 (0.91%) SharePoint
9 35 (0.71%) ArcGIS
10 28 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
11 17 (0.34%) 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 (0.10%) Umbraco
16 4 (0.081%) Documentum
16 4 (0.081%) Oracle Workflow
17 3 (0.061%) Sitecore CMS
18 2 (0.040%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 250 (5.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 77 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
3 46 (0.93%) UserZoom
4 39 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 28 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
6 22 (0.44%) Chatbot
7 18 (0.36%) MS Visio
8 17 (0.34%) SPSS
9 13 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 12 (0.24%) Adobe XD
11 6 (0.12%) Trello
12 5 (0.10%) Photoshop
13 4 (0.081%) InDesign
13 4 (0.081%) Microsoft Project
13 4 (0.081%) Sketch
14 3 (0.061%) Adobe Illustrator
15 1 (0.020%) Adobe Premiere
15 1 (0.020%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 97 (1.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (0.71%) SAP IBP
3 34 (0.69%) Adobe Campaign
4 33 (0.67%) SAP PP
5 24 (0.48%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 20 (0.40%) Shopify
7 17 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
8 15 (0.30%) Magento
9 13 (0.26%) NetSuite
10 12 (0.24%) iTrent
11 11 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
12 6 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
12 6 (0.12%) SAP ERP
12 6 (0.12%) SAP PM
12 6 (0.12%) SAP Travel Management
12 6 (0.12%) Workday HCM
13 5 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
13 5 (0.10%) SAP CO
13 5 (0.10%) SAP PS
13 5 (0.10%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 999 (20.18%) Azure
2 775 (15.66%) Power Platform
3 691 (13.96%) AWS
4 315 (6.36%) GCP
5 299 (6.04%) SaaS
6 221 (4.46%) Snowflake
7 211 (4.26%) Adobe Analytics
8 198 (4.00%) Google Analytics
9 179 (3.62%) Azure Data Factory
10 164 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
11 146 (2.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 140 (2.83%) GitHub
13 139 (2.81%) Serverless
14 126 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
15 122 (2.46%) Amazon S3
16 121 (2.44%) dbt
17 114 (2.30%) Figma
18 106 (2.14%) Entra ID
19 84 (1.70%) Azure Monitor
20 79 (1.60%) Contentsquare
Communications & Networking
1 270 (5.45%) Broadband
2 53 (1.07%) VPN
3 44 (0.89%) Firewall
4 37 (0.75%) DNS
5 32 (0.65%) Network Security
6 25 (0.51%) TCP/IP
7 23 (0.46%) BGP
8 21 (0.42%) Internet
9 20 (0.40%) VLAN
10 19 (0.38%) CHAP
11 18 (0.36%) OSPF
11 18 (0.36%) SMS
12 16 (0.32%) DHCP
13 15 (0.30%) WAN
14 14 (0.28%) Unified Communications
15 11 (0.22%) Intranet
15 11 (0.22%) VoIP
16 10 (0.20%) SNMP
16 10 (0.20%) VXLAN
16 10 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 741 (14.97%) Power BI
2 357 (7.21%) Data Warehouse
3 297 (6.00%) Tableau
4 213 (4.30%) Data Lake
5 174 (3.52%) Metadata
6 153 (3.09%) SQL Server
7 122 (2.46%) Looker
8 115 (2.32%) Azure SQL Database
9 112 (2.26%) Amazon Redshift
10 111 (2.24%) BigQuery
11 105 (2.12%) Big Data
12 94 (1.90%) Relational Database
13 84 (1.70%) NoSQL
14 79 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
15 76 (1.54%) Data Mining
16 67 (1.35%) MongoDB
16 67 (1.35%) Power Query
17 59 (1.19%) Star Schema
18 56 (1.13%) Delta Lake
19 54 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 171 (3.45%) Git
2 79 (1.60%) Jenkins
3 74 (1.49%) JIRA
4 45 (0.91%) MLflow
5 37 (0.75%) GitLab
6 25 (0.51%) IBM UrbanCode
6 25 (0.51%) TeamCity
7 20 (0.40%) Crashlytics
8 16 (0.32%) CircleCI
9 14 (0.28%) XCTest
10 13 (0.26%) Claude Code
10 13 (0.26%) fastlane
11 11 (0.22%) ERwin
12 9 (0.18%) Selenium
12 9 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 9 (0.18%) Xcode
13 8 (0.16%) Gradle
13 8 (0.16%) Visual Studio
14 6 (0.12%) Android Studio
14 6 (0.12%) Balsamiq
General
1 1,313 (26.53%) Finance
2 1,237 (24.99%) Social Skills
3 1,084 (21.90%) Analytical Skills
4 654 (13.21%) Marketing
5 306 (6.18%) Public Sector
6 288 (5.82%) Retail
7 254 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 235 (4.75%) Games
9 230 (4.65%) Law
10 206 (4.16%) Banking
11 189 (3.82%) Legal
12 146 (2.95%) Manufacturing
13 134 (2.71%) Influencing Skills
14 121 (2.44%) Automotive
15 120 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
16 107 (2.16%) Advertising
17 89 (1.80%) Financial Institution
18 77 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
19 53 (1.07%) Telecoms
20 40 (0.81%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 910 (18.38%) Senior
2 612 (12.36%) Analyst
3 556 (11.23%) Data Engineer
4 546 (11.03%) Lead
5 405 (8.18%) Architect
6 320 (6.46%) Developer
7 294 (5.94%) Data Analyst
8 207 (4.18%) Data Architect
9 202 (4.08%) Consultant
10 155 (3.13%) Senior Data Engineer
11 143 (2.89%) Senior Manager
12 136 (2.75%) Data Scientist
13 129 (2.61%) Product Manager
14 126 (2.55%) Solutions Architect
15 124 (2.51%) Analytics Manager
16 111 (2.24%) Data Manager
17 110 (2.22%) Senior Analyst
18 102 (2.06%) Designer
19 83 (1.68%) Azure Engineer
20 76 (1.54%) Trainee Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (2.91%) PySpark
2 122 (2.46%) Kafka
3 100 (2.02%) .NET
4 92 (1.86%) HTML
5 89 (1.80%) CSS
6 74 (1.49%) PyTorch
7 59 (1.19%) .NET Core
7 59 (1.19%) React
8 57 (1.15%) SAP Fiori
9 55 (1.11%) REST
10 49 (0.99%) Pandas
11 45 (0.91%) Node.js
11 45 (0.91%) TensorFlow
12 43 (0.87%) LangChain
12 43 (0.87%) scikit-learn
13 42 (0.85%) RESTful
14 35 (0.71%) JSON
15 32 (0.65%) ASP.NET
15 32 (0.65%) ASP.NET Core
16 29 (0.59%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 297 (6.00%) Social Media
2 251 (5.07%) Cloud Native
3 198 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 166 (3.35%) Analytical Mindset
5 163 (3.29%) Onboarding
6 152 (3.07%) Management Information System
7 114 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
8 109 (2.20%) Data Structures
9 96 (1.94%) Algorithms
10 88 (1.78%) Mobile App
11 83 (1.68%) Marketing Technology
12 74 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
13 66 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
14 58 (1.17%) Life Science
14 58 (1.17%) Over-the-Top Content
15 56 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
15 56 (1.13%) Public Cloud
16 45 (0.91%) Blog
17 43 (0.87%) Virtual Team
18 41 (0.83%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 117 (2.36%) Windows
2 78 (1.58%) Linux
3 38 (0.77%) VMS
4 35 (0.71%) Windows 10
5 27 (0.55%) Apple iOS
6 17 (0.34%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.24%) Android
8 11 (0.22%) Unix
9 3 (0.061%) AIX
10 2 (0.040%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.040%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.020%) Debian
11 1 (0.020%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,512 (30.55%) AI
2 1,066 (21.54%) Decision-Making
3 1,043 (21.07%) Business Intelligence
4 949 (19.17%) Agile
5 791 (15.98%) Roadmaps
6 766 (15.47%) Data Modelling
7 738 (14.91%) Continuous Improvement
8 729 (14.73%) Problem-Solving
9 728 (14.71%) Data Analytics
10 654 (13.21%) Data Engineering
11 606 (12.24%) Data Pipeline
12 591 (11.94%) CI/CD
13 563 (11.37%) Data Governance
14 560 (11.31%) Machine Learning
15 535 (10.81%) Customer Experience
16 498 (10.06%) ETL
17 481 (9.72%) Data Science
18 476 (9.62%) Mentoring
19 443 (8.95%) Actionable Insight
20 441 (8.91%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1,293 (26.12%) SQL
2 1,090 (22.02%) Python
3 133 (2.69%) C#
4 123 (2.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 111 (2.24%) PowerShell
6 109 (2.20%) Java
7 84 (1.70%) Scala
8 81 (1.64%) R
9 80 (1.62%) JavaScript
10 69 (1.39%) TypeScript
11 55 (1.11%) Bicep
12 53 (1.07%) Bash
13 45 (0.91%) C++
14 44 (0.89%) Kusto Query Language
15 35 (0.71%) Go
16 31 (0.63%) T-SQL
17 25 (0.51%) VBA
18 23 (0.46%) Kotlin
19 21 (0.42%) Swift
20 18 (0.36%) Julia
Qualifications
1 566 (11.43%) Degree
2 321 (6.48%) Security Cleared
3 215 (4.34%) SC Cleared
4 93 (1.88%) Master's Degree
5 90 (1.82%) Azure Certification
5 90 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 72 (1.45%) IRCA
7 54 (1.09%) DV Cleared
8 53 (1.07%) DBS Check
8 53 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
9 50 (1.01%) ACCA
10 46 (0.93%) AWS Certification
10 46 (0.93%) CISSP
11 45 (0.91%) CIMA
12 40 (0.81%) CISM
13 36 (0.73%) PhD
14 35 (0.71%) CTC Cleared
15 34 (0.69%) CISA
16 33 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
17 22 (0.44%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 638 (12.89%) Data Quality
2 402 (8.12%) Accessibility
3 324 (6.55%) GDPR
4 205 (4.14%) QA
5 95 (1.92%) WCAG
6 76 (1.54%) ISO 9001
7 59 (1.19%) SLA
8 46 (0.93%) NIST
9 42 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 36 (0.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 32 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
12 24 (0.48%) IFRS
13 23 (0.46%) COBIT
14 22 (0.44%) PCI DSS
15 16 (0.32%) SOC 2
16 15 (0.30%) HIPAA
16 15 (0.30%) PMO
17 14 (0.28%) GAAP
17 14 (0.28%) PERC
17 14 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 168 (3.39%) Docker
2 93 (1.88%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.32%) vSphere
6 13 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.14%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.10%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.081%) IAG
10 2 (0.040%) Firmware
11 1 (0.020%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 246 (4.97%) Terraform
2 194 (3.92%) Kubernetes
3 44 (0.89%) Ansible
4 31 (0.63%) Prometheus
5 28 (0.57%) Grafana
6 14 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (0.24%) EnCase
7 12 (0.24%) FTK
8 8 (0.16%) Kibana
9 7 (0.14%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.12%) Nagios
10 6 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.12%) VxRail
11 5 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.10%) Argo
11 5 (0.10%) Graylog
12 3 (0.061%) Control-M
12 3 (0.061%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.061%) Packer
12 3 (0.061%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 798 (16.12%) Microsoft
2 432 (8.73%) Databricks
3 350 (7.07%) Google
4 302 (6.10%) Adobe
5 236 (4.77%) SAP
6 131 (2.65%) Salesforce
7 130 (2.63%) Oracle
8 82 (1.66%) Cisco
9 70 (1.41%) HubSpot
10 53 (1.07%) Dell
11 49 (0.99%) Informatica
12 39 (0.79%) Workday
13 30 (0.61%) VMware
14 29 (0.59%) IBM
15 28 (0.57%) ServiceNow
16 27 (0.55%) Cloudera
17 26 (0.53%) Alteryx
17 26 (0.53%) Cognos
17 26 (0.53%) Teradata
18 25 (0.51%) Red Hat