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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 22 39
Rank change year-on-year -5 +17 -17
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 4,795 3,806 5,438
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.16% 8.56% 5.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.08% 9.24% 6.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,884 1,685 3,396
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,000 £45,750 £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 £90,000 £82,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £107,478
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 67,701 41,203 88,451
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.85% 92.64% 82.16%
Number of salaries quoted 46,469 21,965 62,595
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,613
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
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 14 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 14 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 4,289 £66,722 +2.65% 1,821
UK excluding London -4 2,587 £60,000 +9.09% 1,216
London +3 1,821 £80,000 - 933
Work from Home +4 1,495 £65,000 +8.33% 819
North of England +31 861 £60,000 +14.29% 320
Midlands +12 563 £57,500 +9.52% 192
North West +29 504 £60,000 +14.29% 195
South East -29 481 £55,000 -8.33% 427
West Midlands -1 324 £57,500 +6.04% 118
Yorkshire +13 250 £60,000 +0.17% 85
East Midlands +33 236 £55,000 +13.40% 74
South West -32 234 £58,750 +2.17% 154
East of England +34 229 £60,000 +20.00% 77
Scotland -3 126 £65,000 -7.14% 30
North East +18 107 £48,000 -6.80% 41
Wales -10 49 £60,000 +23.08% 20
Northern Ireland -13 46 £45,000 +50.00% 20

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
1 149 (3.11%) Apache Airflow
2 148 (3.09%) Apache Spark
3 119 (2.48%) CMS
4 98 (2.04%) Apache
5 64 (1.33%) Confluence
6 49 (1.02%) SAS
7 47 (0.98%) WordPress
8 46 (0.96%) SharePoint
9 35 (0.73%) ArcGIS
10 20 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
11 16 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
12 10 (0.21%) Drupal
13 9 (0.19%) Jupyter
14 7 (0.15%) Oracle Application Server
15 6 (0.13%) Headless CMS
16 5 (0.10%) IIS
16 5 (0.10%) Umbraco
17 4 (0.083%) Documentum
18 3 (0.063%) Oracle Workflow
18 3 (0.063%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 270 (5.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 83 (1.73%) Microsoft Office
3 49 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 38 (0.79%) UserZoom
5 26 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
6 17 (0.35%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.35%) SPSS
7 14 (0.29%) Adobe XD
8 12 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 11 (0.23%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.10%) Trello
11 4 (0.083%) InDesign
11 4 (0.083%) Microsoft Project
11 4 (0.083%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.063%) Adobe Illustrator
12 3 (0.063%) 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 21 (0.44%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 18 (0.38%) Shopify
6 17 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
7 13 (0.27%) iTrent
7 13 (0.27%) Magento
7 13 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
8 12 (0.25%) NetSuite
9 7 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
9 7 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
9 7 (0.15%) SAP CO
10 6 (0.13%) SAP ERP
10 6 (0.13%) SAP PM
10 6 (0.13%) SAP Travel Management
11 5 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
11 5 (0.10%) SAP PS
11 5 (0.10%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 965 (20.13%) Azure
2 749 (15.62%) Power Platform
3 625 (13.03%) AWS
4 302 (6.30%) GCP
5 290 (6.05%) SaaS
6 217 (4.53%) Snowflake
7 203 (4.23%) Adobe Analytics
8 188 (3.92%) Google Analytics
9 178 (3.71%) Azure Data Factory
10 165 (3.44%) Azure DevOps
11 141 (2.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 130 (2.71%) GitHub
13 127 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
14 124 (2.59%) Amazon S3
15 123 (2.57%) dbt
16 121 (2.52%) Serverless
17 115 (2.40%) Figma
18 107 (2.23%) Entra ID
19 83 (1.73%) Azure Monitor
20 73 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 264 (5.51%) Broadband
2 41 (0.86%) Firewall
3 40 (0.83%) VPN
4 34 (0.71%) DNS
5 27 (0.56%) Network Security
6 24 (0.50%) TCP/IP
7 22 (0.46%) 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 14 (0.29%) SMS
11 14 (0.29%) Unified Communications
12 11 (0.23%) Intranet
13 10 (0.21%) SNMP
14 9 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
15 8 (0.17%) 5G
15 8 (0.17%) VXLAN
16 7 (0.15%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 713 (14.87%) Power BI
2 322 (6.72%) Data Warehouse
3 313 (6.53%) Tableau
4 204 (4.25%) Data Lake
5 164 (3.42%) Metadata
6 143 (2.98%) SQL Server
7 120 (2.50%) Looker
8 109 (2.27%) BigQuery
9 107 (2.23%) Amazon Redshift
10 96 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
10 96 (2.00%) Data Mining
11 93 (1.94%) Relational Database
12 92 (1.92%) Big Data
13 86 (1.79%) NoSQL
14 73 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
15 67 (1.40%) Power Query
16 58 (1.21%) MongoDB
17 57 (1.19%) Star Schema
18 53 (1.11%) Delta Lake
19 47 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 164 (3.42%) Git
2 76 (1.58%) Jenkins
3 72 (1.50%) JIRA
4 41 (0.86%) MLflow
5 37 (0.77%) GitLab
6 25 (0.52%) IBM UrbanCode
6 25 (0.52%) TeamCity
7 20 (0.42%) Crashlytics
8 16 (0.33%) 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 1,292 (26.94%) Finance
2 1,176 (24.53%) Social Skills
3 1,068 (22.27%) Analytical Skills
4 651 (13.58%) Marketing
5 270 (5.63%) Retail
6 266 (5.55%) Public Sector
7 261 (5.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 223 (4.65%) Law
9 218 (4.55%) Games
10 210 (4.38%) Banking
11 181 (3.77%) Legal
12 137 (2.86%) Manufacturing
13 130 (2.71%) Influencing Skills
14 125 (2.61%) Automotive
15 116 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
16 109 (2.27%) Advertising
17 90 (1.88%) Financial Institution
18 72 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
19 53 (1.11%) Telecoms
20 47 (0.98%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 864 (18.02%) Senior
2 598 (12.47%) Analyst
3 550 (11.47%) Data Engineer
4 532 (11.09%) Lead
5 351 (7.32%) Architect
6 305 (6.36%) Developer
7 301 (6.28%) Data Analyst
8 193 (4.03%) Consultant
9 185 (3.86%) Data Architect
10 146 (3.04%) Senior Manager
11 145 (3.02%) Senior Data Engineer
12 128 (2.67%) Data Scientist
13 124 (2.59%) Product Manager
14 117 (2.44%) Analytics Manager
15 110 (2.29%) Data Manager
16 107 (2.23%) Senior Analyst
17 103 (2.15%) Solutions Architect
18 102 (2.13%) Designer
19 89 (1.86%) Trainee
19 89 (1.86%) Trainee Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (2.96%) PySpark
2 118 (2.46%) Kafka
3 92 (1.92%) .NET
4 87 (1.81%) HTML
5 83 (1.73%) CSS
6 76 (1.58%) PyTorch
7 54 (1.13%) React
7 54 (1.13%) SAP Fiori
8 53 (1.11%) .NET Core
9 48 (1.00%) TensorFlow
10 47 (0.98%) Pandas
10 47 (0.98%) REST
11 43 (0.90%) RESTful
12 42 (0.88%) LangChain
12 42 (0.88%) scikit-learn
13 35 (0.73%) JSON
14 34 (0.71%) Node.js
15 30 (0.63%) YAML
16 27 (0.56%) OAuth
17 26 (0.54%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 283 (5.90%) Social Media
2 216 (4.50%) Cloud Native
3 192 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 163 (3.40%) Analytical Mindset
5 159 (3.32%) Management Information System
6 117 (2.44%) Onboarding
7 109 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
8 104 (2.17%) Algorithms
9 100 (2.09%) Data Structures
10 83 (1.73%) Mobile App
11 82 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
12 81 (1.69%) Marketing Technology
13 65 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
14 63 (1.31%) Life Science
15 62 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
16 58 (1.21%) Over-the-Top Content
17 48 (1.00%) Public Cloud
18 42 (0.88%) Virtual Team
19 41 (0.86%) e-Learning
20 38 (0.79%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 113 (2.36%) Windows
2 71 (1.48%) Linux
3 40 (0.83%) Windows 10
4 32 (0.67%) VMS
5 27 (0.56%) Apple iOS
6 17 (0.35%) Windows Server
7 13 (0.27%) Unix
8 12 (0.25%) Android
9 3 (0.063%) AIX
10 2 (0.042%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.021%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.021%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,388 (28.95%) AI
2 1,034 (21.56%) Decision-Making
3 1,009 (21.04%) Business Intelligence
4 912 (19.02%) Agile
5 738 (15.39%) Data Modelling
6 723 (15.08%) Roadmaps
7 718 (14.97%) Problem-Solving
8 712 (14.85%) Data Analytics
9 711 (14.83%) Continuous Improvement
10 638 (13.31%) Data Engineering
11 577 (12.03%) Data Pipeline
12 567 (11.82%) CI/CD
13 551 (11.49%) Data Governance
14 521 (10.87%) Customer Experience
15 520 (10.84%) Machine Learning
16 488 (10.18%) ETL
17 487 (10.16%) Data Science
18 446 (9.30%) Actionable Insight
19 436 (9.09%) Mentoring
20 435 (9.07%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1,244 (25.94%) SQL
2 1,084 (22.61%) Python
3 124 (2.59%) C#
4 118 (2.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 106 (2.21%) Java
6 97 (2.02%) PowerShell
7 88 (1.84%) R
8 85 (1.77%) Scala
9 78 (1.63%) JavaScript
10 58 (1.21%) TypeScript
11 46 (0.96%) Bash
12 44 (0.92%) C++
13 43 (0.90%) Bicep
14 36 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
15 33 (0.69%) T-SQL
16 31 (0.65%) Go
17 23 (0.48%) Kotlin
17 23 (0.48%) VBA
18 21 (0.44%) Swift
19 18 (0.38%) Julia
Qualifications
1 561 (11.70%) Degree
2 299 (6.24%) Security Cleared
3 209 (4.36%) SC Cleared
4 99 (2.06%) Master's Degree
5 77 (1.61%) Azure Certification
6 76 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
7 72 (1.50%) IRCA
8 51 (1.06%) ACCA
9 50 (1.04%) DV Cleared
10 49 (1.02%) DBS Check
11 48 (1.00%) CISSP
12 45 (0.94%) CIMA
13 42 (0.88%) CISM
14 41 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
15 40 (0.83%) CTC Cleared
15 40 (0.83%) PhD
16 38 (0.79%) CISA
17 32 (0.67%) AWS Certification
18 30 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
19 25 (0.52%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 614 (12.81%) Data Quality
2 383 (7.99%) Accessibility
3 318 (6.63%) GDPR
4 193 (4.03%) QA
5 97 (2.02%) WCAG
6 76 (1.58%) ISO 9001
7 62 (1.29%) SLA
8 45 (0.94%) NIST
9 43 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 36 (0.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 35 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
12 27 (0.56%) COBIT
13 26 (0.54%) IFRS
14 18 (0.38%) PCI DSS
15 17 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 16 (0.33%) SOC 2
17 15 (0.31%) GAAP
17 15 (0.31%) HIPAA
18 14 (0.29%) GRC
18 14 (0.29%) PERC
System Software
1 156 (3.25%) Docker
2 89 (1.86%) Active Directory
3 20 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.17%) Hyper-V
5 8 (0.17%) vSphere
6 5 (0.10%) 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
1 232 (4.84%) Terraform
2 182 (3.80%) Kubernetes
3 42 (0.88%) Ansible
4 32 (0.67%) Grafana
4 32 (0.67%) Prometheus
5 14 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (0.23%) EnCase
6 11 (0.23%) FTK
7 10 (0.21%) Kibana
8 7 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (0.13%) FortiGate
9 6 (0.13%) Nagios
9 6 (0.13%) VxRail
10 5 (0.10%) Argo
10 5 (0.10%) Control-M
10 5 (0.10%) Graylog
11 3 (0.063%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.063%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.042%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 776 (16.18%) Microsoft
2 412 (8.59%) Databricks
3 329 (6.86%) Google
4 295 (6.15%) Adobe
5 215 (4.48%) SAP
6 142 (2.96%) Salesforce
7 124 (2.59%) Oracle
8 85 (1.77%) Cisco
9 72 (1.50%) HubSpot
10 53 (1.11%) Dell
11 47 (0.98%) Informatica
12 35 (0.73%) Workday
13 27 (0.56%) Cloudera
14 26 (0.54%) IBM
14 26 (0.54%) ServiceNow
14 26 (0.54%) Teradata
15 25 (0.52%) Alteryx
15 25 (0.52%) Braze
15 25 (0.52%) Cognos
15 25 (0.52%) Red Hat