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 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 21 39
Rank change year-on-year -11 +18 -16
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 4,582 3,579 5,220
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.10% 8.44% 5.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.83% 9.09% 6.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2,591 1,776 3,339
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,652 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -3.51% +5.56% -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 67,118 39,358 81,956
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.74% 92.84% 85.64%
Number of salaries quoted 41,692 22,603 59,642
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,946 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.42% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £78,344 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -16 4,040 £65,000 -2.06% 1,450
UK excluding London -21 2,400 £55,000 -3.51% 1,031
London +2 1,794 £80,000 -5.88% 714
Work from Home -3 1,400 £65,000 +8.33% 606
North of England -4 718 £60,000 +9.09% 262
South East -24 516 £55,000 -8.33% 358
Midlands -21 479 £51,000 -2.86% 176
North West +4 397 £60,000 +9.09% 162
West Midlands -22 277 £53,500 -2.73% 113
Yorkshire -6 251 £56,875 +2.48% 63
South West -23 226 £60,000 +9.09% 96
East of England +30 215 £60,000 -7.69% 67
East Midlands +15 198 £50,000 +3.09% 63
Scotland -15 164 £65,000 -7.14% 44
North East +7 70 £45,000 -18.18% 41
Northern Ireland -22 47 £45,000 +50.00% 23
Wales -7 37 £40,000 -20.00% 29

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
1 161 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
2 133 (2.90%) Apache Spark
3 119 (2.60%) CMS
4 80 (1.75%) Apache
5 66 (1.44%) Confluence
6 54 (1.18%) WordPress
7 49 (1.07%) SharePoint
8 35 (0.76%) ArcGIS
9 31 (0.68%) SAS
10 20 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
11 16 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
12 12 (0.26%) Drupal
13 9 (0.20%) Oracle Application Server
14 8 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 6 (0.13%) IIS
16 4 (0.087%) Appian
16 4 (0.087%) Documentum
16 4 (0.087%) Umbraco
17 3 (0.065%) Apache Superset
17 3 (0.065%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 335 (7.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 113 (2.47%) Microsoft Office
3 59 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (0.68%) UserZoom
5 26 (0.57%) Adobe XD
6 19 (0.41%) MS Visio
7 17 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
8 12 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 10 (0.22%) Chatbot
9 10 (0.22%) SPSS
10 6 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
11 4 (0.087%) Adobe Illustrator
11 4 (0.087%) InDesign
11 4 (0.087%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.065%) Trello
13 2 (0.044%) Maya
13 2 (0.044%) Notion
13 2 (0.044%) Sketch
14 1 (0.022%) Oracle Smart View
14 1 (0.022%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 88 (1.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (0.74%) Adobe Campaign
3 33 (0.72%) SAP IBP
3 33 (0.72%) SAP PP
4 27 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
5 25 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
6 22 (0.48%) Magento
7 16 (0.35%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 16 (0.35%) Shopify
8 15 (0.33%) iTrent
8 15 (0.33%) NetSuite
9 13 (0.28%) SAP CO
10 11 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
11 10 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
11 10 (0.22%) SAP ERP
12 9 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
12 9 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
12 9 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
12 9 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
13 8 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 960 (20.95%) Azure
2 692 (15.10%) Power Platform
3 571 (12.46%) AWS
4 284 (6.20%) GCP
5 244 (5.33%) Snowflake
6 243 (5.30%) SaaS
7 214 (4.67%) Google Analytics
8 201 (4.39%) Adobe Analytics
9 195 (4.26%) Azure Data Factory
10 156 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
10 156 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
11 150 (3.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 148 (3.23%) GitHub
13 137 (2.99%) dbt
14 130 (2.84%) Figma
15 115 (2.51%) Amazon S3
16 113 (2.47%) Serverless
17 98 (2.14%) Entra ID
18 71 (1.55%) GitHub Actions
19 69 (1.51%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 257 (5.61%) Broadband
2 40 (0.87%) Firewall
3 36 (0.79%) VPN
4 29 (0.63%) CHAP
5 25 (0.55%) DNS
6 23 (0.50%) WAN
7 21 (0.46%) Network Security
8 16 (0.35%) TCP/IP
9 15 (0.33%) DHCP
9 15 (0.33%) Intranet
10 10 (0.22%) Unified Communications
11 7 (0.15%) HTTP
12 5 (0.11%) Intrusion Detection
12 5 (0.11%) SMS
12 5 (0.11%) SNMP
12 5 (0.11%) SSL
12 5 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (0.087%) BGP
13 4 (0.087%) HTTPS
14 3 (0.065%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 656 (14.32%) Power BI
2 358 (7.81%) Tableau
3 341 (7.44%) Data Warehouse
4 232 (5.06%) Data Lake
5 186 (4.06%) Metadata
6 156 (3.40%) Data Mining
7 132 (2.88%) SQL Server
8 128 (2.79%) Looker
9 106 (2.31%) BigQuery
10 104 (2.27%) Relational Database
11 97 (2.12%) Amazon Redshift
12 79 (1.72%) NoSQL
13 75 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
14 67 (1.46%) Big Data
15 66 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
16 56 (1.22%) Power Query
17 55 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 45 (0.98%) Delta Lake
18 45 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
18 45 (0.98%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 166 (3.62%) Git
2 95 (2.07%) JIRA
3 74 (1.62%) Jenkins
4 44 (0.96%) MLflow
5 36 (0.79%) GitLab
6 25 (0.55%) IBM UrbanCode
7 23 (0.50%) TeamCity
8 21 (0.46%) Axure RP
8 21 (0.46%) Balsamiq
9 17 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
10 15 (0.33%) CircleCI
10 15 (0.33%) Crashlytics
11 12 (0.26%) Selenium
11 12 (0.26%) Visual Studio
11 12 (0.26%) XCTest
12 10 (0.22%) ERwin
12 10 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 7 (0.15%) Claude Code
14 5 (0.11%) Cypress.io
14 5 (0.11%) MSI
General
1 1,302 (28.42%) Finance
2 1,179 (25.73%) Social Skills
3 1,057 (23.07%) Analytical Skills
4 672 (14.67%) Marketing
5 273 (5.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 252 (5.50%) Retail
7 225 (4.91%) Banking
8 218 (4.76%) Games
9 210 (4.58%) Law
10 209 (4.56%) Public Sector
11 154 (3.36%) Legal
12 152 (3.32%) Manufacturing
13 124 (2.71%) Influencing Skills
14 119 (2.60%) Automotive
15 101 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
16 100 (2.18%) Advertising
17 96 (2.10%) Financial Institution
18 77 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
19 70 (1.53%) Back Office
20 60 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 784 (17.11%) Senior
2 617 (13.47%) Analyst
3 530 (11.57%) Lead
4 492 (10.74%) Data Engineer
5 337 (7.35%) Architect
6 324 (7.07%) Data Analyst
7 250 (5.46%) Developer
8 169 (3.69%) Consultant
9 168 (3.67%) Data Architect
10 140 (3.06%) Trainee
10 140 (3.06%) Trainee Analyst
10 140 (3.06%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 139 (3.03%) Senior Manager
12 113 (2.47%) Designer
13 112 (2.44%) Senior Data Engineer
14 107 (2.34%) Product Manager
15 104 (2.27%) Data Scientist
16 102 (2.23%) Data Manager
17 91 (1.99%) Analytics Manager
17 91 (1.99%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (2.82%) PySpark
2 125 (2.73%) Kafka
3 96 (2.10%) HTML
4 92 (2.01%) PyTorch
5 88 (1.92%) CSS
6 74 (1.62%) .NET
7 65 (1.42%) TensorFlow
8 54 (1.18%) React
9 53 (1.16%) SAP Fiori
10 49 (1.07%) RESTful
11 48 (1.05%) LangChain
11 48 (1.05%) OAuth
11 48 (1.05%) scikit-learn
12 46 (1.00%) Pandas
13 43 (0.94%) REST
14 39 (0.85%) JSON
15 37 (0.81%) .NET Core
16 36 (0.79%) Node.js
17 24 (0.52%) LlamaIndex
17 24 (0.52%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 295 (6.44%) Social Media
2 209 (4.56%) Cloud Native
3 186 (4.06%) Product Ownership
4 153 (3.34%) Management Information System
5 148 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
6 114 (2.49%) Onboarding
7 99 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
8 95 (2.07%) Algorithms
9 93 (2.03%) Life Science
10 91 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
11 84 (1.83%) Data Structures
12 75 (1.64%) Marketing Technology
13 72 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
14 62 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
14 62 (1.35%) Mobile App
15 58 (1.27%) Over-the-Top Content
16 46 (1.00%) Public Cloud
17 44 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
18 37 (0.81%) e-Learning
19 35 (0.76%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 113 (2.47%) Windows
2 60 (1.31%) Windows 10
3 49 (1.07%) Linux
4 25 (0.55%) VMS
5 23 (0.50%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.39%) Unix
6 18 (0.39%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.26%) Android
8 3 (0.065%) AIX
9 1 (0.022%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,273 (27.78%) AI
2 956 (20.86%) Decision-Making
3 941 (20.54%) Business Intelligence
4 901 (19.66%) Agile
5 725 (15.82%) Continuous Improvement
6 716 (15.63%) Data Analytics
7 711 (15.52%) Data Modelling
8 681 (14.86%) Problem-Solving
9 647 (14.12%) Roadmaps
10 621 (13.55%) Data Engineering
11 553 (12.07%) Data Pipeline
12 523 (11.41%) Customer Experience
13 522 (11.39%) CI/CD
14 517 (11.28%) Data Governance
15 513 (11.20%) Data Science
16 500 (10.91%) Machine Learning
17 496 (10.82%) ETL
18 448 (9.78%) Data Analysis
19 427 (9.32%) Mentoring
20 424 (9.25%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1,148 (25.05%) SQL
2 1,039 (22.68%) Python
3 104 (2.27%) C#
4 100 (2.18%) Java
5 95 (2.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 95 (2.07%) JavaScript
6 82 (1.79%) Scala
7 65 (1.42%) PowerShell
7 65 (1.42%) R
8 45 (0.98%) Bicep
9 44 (0.96%) TypeScript
10 40 (0.87%) T-SQL
11 38 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
12 37 (0.81%) Go
13 35 (0.76%) C++
14 22 (0.48%) Bash
15 17 (0.37%) Kotlin
16 15 (0.33%) PL/SQL
17 14 (0.31%) Shell Script
17 14 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 638 (13.92%) Degree
2 278 (6.07%) Security Cleared
3 192 (4.19%) SC Cleared
4 126 (2.75%) Master's Degree
5 106 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 72 (1.57%) IRCA
7 61 (1.33%) Azure Certification
8 60 (1.31%) CTC Cleared
9 53 (1.16%) CISSP
10 49 (1.07%) ACCA
11 48 (1.05%) CISM
11 48 (1.05%) PhD
12 47 (1.03%) DBS Check
13 45 (0.98%) CISA
14 41 (0.89%) CIMA
15 34 (0.74%) DV Cleared
16 32 (0.70%) AWS Certification
16 32 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
17 31 (0.68%) SANS
18 30 (0.65%) CGEIT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 577 (12.59%) Data Quality
2 381 (8.32%) Accessibility
3 354 (7.73%) GDPR
4 179 (3.91%) QA
5 95 (2.07%) WCAG
6 83 (1.81%) SLA
7 76 (1.66%) ISO 9001
8 54 (1.18%) NIST
9 49 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 37 (0.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 35 (0.76%) COBIT
12 34 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
13 27 (0.59%) HIPAA
14 26 (0.57%) IFRS
15 21 (0.46%) Solvency II
16 20 (0.44%) EU AI Act
16 20 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 18 (0.39%) SOC 2
18 17 (0.37%) GxP
19 16 (0.35%) GAAP
System Software
1 151 (3.30%) Docker
2 80 (1.75%) Active Directory
3 24 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.17%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.11%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.087%) IAG
8 2 (0.044%) Firmware
8 2 (0.044%) vSphere
9 1 (0.022%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.022%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.022%) vCloud
9 1 (0.022%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 214 (4.67%) Terraform
2 177 (3.86%) Kubernetes
3 50 (1.09%) Ansible
4 28 (0.61%) Prometheus
5 26 (0.57%) Grafana
6 18 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (0.20%) EnCase
8 9 (0.20%) FTK
9 7 (0.15%) Kibana
10 6 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.11%) Argo
12 4 (0.087%) QRadar
12 4 (0.087%) VxRail
13 3 (0.065%) ArcSight ESM
13 3 (0.065%) Control-M
13 3 (0.065%) Graylog
14 2 (0.044%) Jamf Pro
14 2 (0.044%) SCCM
14 2 (0.044%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 828 (18.07%) Microsoft
2 376 (8.21%) Databricks
3 347 (7.57%) Google
4 301 (6.57%) Adobe
5 197 (4.30%) SAP
6 157 (3.43%) Salesforce
7 132 (2.88%) Oracle
8 129 (2.82%) Cisco
9 57 (1.24%) HubSpot
10 54 (1.18%) Dell
11 48 (1.05%) Informatica
12 36 (0.79%) Alteryx
13 29 (0.63%) OpenAI
14 28 (0.61%) Red Hat
15 27 (0.59%) Nexthink
15 27 (0.59%) Talend
15 27 (0.59%) Workday
16 26 (0.57%) Palantir
16 26 (0.57%) ServiceNow
17 25 (0.55%) Cloudera