Analytics Job Trends

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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 31 28
Rank change year-on-year +6 -3 -6
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 3,663 3,699 3,711
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 6.76% 5.70% 7.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.06% 6.67% 7.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,871 1,983 2,692
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £37,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% 0.00%
75th Percentile £85,500 £93,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £113,750 £118,750 £114,152
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,000 £56,525
% change year-on-year -7.89% +0.84% +2.41%

All Process and 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 45,446 55,486 47,554
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.93% 85.56% 93.75%
Number of salaries quoted 27,712 28,853 36,694
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -0.94%

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 1 December 2025.

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 1 December 2025. 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 3,120 £62,500 -10.71% 1,914
UK excluding London +16 1,881 £52,500 -7.89% 1,685
London +5 1,485 £75,000 -11.76% 874
Work from Home +2 1,086 £60,000 -11.11% 886
South East +31 582 £52,500 -8.70% 767
North of England -18 342 £55,000 - 244
Midlands +18 307 £55,000 -3.51% 246
Scotland +13 258 £50,000 -18.86% 73
South West +15 201 £55,000 -15.38% 163
North West -18 181 £52,500 -4.55% 140
West Midlands +1 180 £58,500 +2.63% 132
East of England +35 145 £40,000 -32.20% 148
East Midlands +46 131 £45,390 -9.22% 111
Yorkshire -10 129 £62,500 +13.64% 71
North East +18 33 £40,000 -27.27% 37
Northern Ireland -1 31 £60,000 +28.34% 23
Wales +14 21 £60,000 +15.38% 53

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
1 108 (2.95%) CMS
2 94 (2.57%) Apache Spark
3 62 (1.69%) WordPress
4 55 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
5 50 (1.37%) Confluence
6 43 (1.17%) SharePoint
7 32 (0.87%) Apache
8 23 (0.63%) SAS
9 17 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 13 (0.35%) Drupal
10 13 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
11 11 (0.30%) Umbraco
12 10 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 10 (0.27%) Headless CMS
12 10 (0.27%) SugarCRM
13 5 (0.14%) Apache Synapse
14 3 (0.082%) Appian
14 3 (0.082%) Joomla!
14 3 (0.082%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.082%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 501 (13.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 98 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
3 51 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 34 (0.93%) Photoshop
5 32 (0.87%) Maya
6 27 (0.74%) Adobe XD
7 26 (0.71%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 18 (0.49%) InDesign
9 16 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
10 15 (0.41%) Adobe Premiere
11 14 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
12 13 (0.35%) Chatbot
13 11 (0.30%) Trello
14 10 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
15 9 (0.25%) SPSS
16 7 (0.19%) MadCap Flare
17 5 (0.14%) MS Visio
18 4 (0.11%) SketchUp
19 3 (0.082%) Final Cut Pro
19 3 (0.082%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 94 (2.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 58 (1.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 57 (1.56%) Shopify
4 29 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
5 28 (0.76%) SAP IBP
6 20 (0.55%) Magento
7 19 (0.52%) SAP CO
7 19 (0.52%) SAP FI
7 19 (0.52%) SAP FI/CO
8 15 (0.41%) Dynamics GP
9 13 (0.35%) Oracle Assets
9 13 (0.35%) Oracle General Ledger
9 13 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
9 13 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
9 13 (0.35%) SAP FSCM
10 12 (0.33%) NetSuite
10 12 (0.33%) Sprinklr
11 11 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
11 11 (0.30%) SAP IS-U
12 9 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 942 (25.72%) Azure
2 769 (20.99%) Power Platform
3 415 (11.33%) AWS
4 271 (7.40%) Google Analytics
5 239 (6.52%) GCP
6 211 (5.76%) SaaS
7 194 (5.30%) Snowflake
8 167 (4.56%) Azure Data Factory
9 151 (4.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 144 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
11 125 (3.41%) GitHub
12 119 (3.25%) Microsoft 365
13 101 (2.76%) dbt
14 88 (2.40%) Google Ads
15 79 (2.16%) Serverless
16 68 (1.86%) Figma
17 67 (1.83%) Entra ID
18 66 (1.80%) Azure Monitor
19 59 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
20 50 (1.37%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (0.93%) SMS
2 33 (0.90%) VPN
3 27 (0.74%) Firewall
3 27 (0.74%) Unified Communications
4 18 (0.49%) Network Security
5 13 (0.35%) DNS
6 10 (0.27%) WAN
7 8 (0.22%) Broadband
8 7 (0.19%) Intranet
9 6 (0.16%) CHAP
9 6 (0.16%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (0.14%) TCP/IP
11 4 (0.11%) HTTPS
11 4 (0.11%) VoIP
11 4 (0.11%) Wireshark
12 3 (0.082%) DHCP
12 3 (0.082%) Internet
12 3 (0.082%) SAN
12 3 (0.082%) SD-WAN
13 2 (0.055%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 739 (20.17%) Power BI
2 373 (10.18%) Tableau
3 333 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
4 249 (6.80%) Data Lake
5 157 (4.29%) Metadata
6 147 (4.01%) SQL Server
7 123 (3.36%) Data Mining
8 99 (2.70%) SAP BW
9 93 (2.54%) Looker
10 92 (2.51%) Big Data
11 79 (2.16%) Azure SQL Database
12 77 (2.10%) NoSQL
13 70 (1.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 69 (1.88%) BigQuery
15 62 (1.69%) Relational Database
16 59 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
17 53 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 49 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
19 48 (1.31%) Power Query
20 38 (1.04%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 131 (3.58%) JIRA
2 85 (2.32%) Git
3 38 (1.04%) Jenkins
4 25 (0.68%) Oracle Forms
5 24 (0.66%) Axure RP
5 24 (0.66%) Balsamiq
6 18 (0.49%) ERwin
7 16 (0.44%) ER Studio
8 13 (0.35%) Cypress.io
8 13 (0.35%) GitLab
9 12 (0.33%) Selenium
9 12 (0.33%) Visual Studio
10 9 (0.25%) MLflow
11 7 (0.19%) Postman
11 7 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
12 6 (0.16%) Maven
13 5 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
14 4 (0.11%) Browser DevTools
14 4 (0.11%) TestNG
15 3 (0.082%) Charles Proxy
General
1 1,320 (36.04%) Social Skills
2 1,293 (35.30%) Finance
3 1,157 (31.59%) Analytical Skills
4 789 (21.54%) Marketing
5 360 (9.83%) Law
6 265 (7.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 263 (7.18%) Retail
8 226 (6.17%) Banking
9 215 (5.87%) Public Sector
10 172 (4.70%) Manufacturing
11 161 (4.40%) Presentation Skills
12 140 (3.82%) Legal
13 99 (2.70%) Financial Institution
14 98 (2.68%) Games
15 94 (2.57%) Advertising
16 84 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
17 78 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
18 76 (2.07%) Pharmaceutical
19 69 (1.88%) Front Office
20 59 (1.61%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 601 (16.41%) Senior
2 565 (15.42%) Analyst
3 477 (13.02%) Lead
4 305 (8.33%) Architect
5 297 (8.11%) Data Analyst
6 264 (7.21%) Data Engineer
7 202 (5.51%) Developer
8 139 (3.79%) Senior Manager
9 119 (3.25%) Data Architect
10 105 (2.87%) Consultant
11 96 (2.62%) Innovation Manager
12 84 (2.29%) Trainee
12 84 (2.29%) Trainee Analyst
12 84 (2.29%) Trainee Data Analyst
13 81 (2.21%) Solutions Architect
14 79 (2.16%) Analytics Manager
15 73 (1.99%) Data Manager
16 70 (1.91%) Senior Analyst
17 69 (1.88%) Data Scientist
18 67 (1.83%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (3.08%) HTML
2 88 (2.40%) CSS
3 76 (2.07%) Kafka
4 65 (1.77%) RESTful
5 64 (1.75%) React
6 61 (1.67%) PySpark
7 50 (1.37%) REST
8 49 (1.34%) OAuth
9 43 (1.17%) JSON
9 43 (1.17%) TensorFlow
10 42 (1.15%) PyTorch
11 38 (1.04%) .NET
12 37 (1.01%) Node.js
13 34 (0.93%) OAuth2
14 30 (0.82%) scikit-learn
15 29 (0.79%) Pandas
16 28 (0.76%) Middleware
17 26 (0.71%) GraphQL
17 26 (0.71%) SAML
18 24 (0.66%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 204 (5.57%) Analytical Mindset
2 184 (5.02%) Product Ownership
3 175 (4.78%) Onboarding
3 175 (4.78%) Self-Motivation
4 174 (4.75%) Cloud Native
5 156 (4.26%) Social Media
6 146 (3.99%) Algorithms
7 144 (3.93%) Management Information System
8 79 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
9 74 (2.02%) FMCG
9 74 (2.02%) Life Science
10 54 (1.47%) Data Structures
11 51 (1.39%) Data Centre
12 49 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
13 43 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
14 38 (1.04%) Reinsurance
14 38 (1.04%) Virtual Team
15 36 (0.98%) Blog
16 35 (0.96%) Fixed Income
16 35 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 70 (1.91%) Windows
2 36 (0.98%) Linux
3 23 (0.63%) Unix
4 20 (0.55%) Windows 10
5 9 (0.25%) Android
5 9 (0.25%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.22%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.16%) VMS
8 2 (0.055%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.027%) AIX
9 1 (0.027%) Debian
9 1 (0.027%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.027%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.027%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,023 (27.93%) AI
2 998 (27.25%) Business Intelligence
3 868 (23.70%) Problem-Solving
4 844 (23.04%) Decision-Making
5 734 (20.04%) Data Analytics
6 722 (19.71%) Agile
7 677 (18.48%) Continuous Improvement
8 572 (15.62%) Data Modelling
9 502 (13.70%) Stakeholder Management
10 500 (13.65%) Roadmaps
11 480 (13.10%) Machine Learning
12 475 (12.97%) Data Science
13 448 (12.23%) Data Analysis
14 439 (11.98%) Data Governance
15 429 (11.71%) Visualisation
16 427 (11.66%) Project Management
17 407 (11.11%) Data Engineering
18 394 (10.76%) Actionable Insight
19 385 (10.51%) CRM
20 376 (10.26%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 957 (26.13%) SQL
2 888 (24.24%) Python
3 134 (3.66%) Java
4 127 (3.47%) JavaScript
5 83 (2.27%) PowerShell
6 79 (2.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 69 (1.88%) R
8 55 (1.50%) C#
9 43 (1.17%) T-SQL
10 40 (1.09%) Bicep
11 39 (1.06%) TypeScript
12 37 (1.01%) Scala
13 34 (0.93%) Go
14 33 (0.90%) C++
15 30 (0.82%) PL/SQL
16 28 (0.76%) Bash
17 24 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
18 17 (0.46%) Shell Script
19 14 (0.38%) VBA
20 11 (0.30%) PHP
Qualifications
1 843 (23.01%) Degree
2 202 (5.51%) Master's Degree
3 173 (4.72%) Security Cleared
4 124 (3.39%) SC Cleared
5 113 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 104 (2.84%) DBS Check
7 98 (2.68%) PhD
8 57 (1.56%) CISSP
9 55 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
10 49 (1.34%) Azure Certification
10 49 (1.34%) Numerate Degree
11 46 (1.26%) CISA
12 42 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
13 40 (1.09%) PMI Certification
14 38 (1.04%) ACCA
14 38 (1.04%) CISM
15 34 (0.93%) PMP
16 28 (0.76%) CIMA
17 25 (0.68%) SAP Certification
18 24 (0.66%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 442 (12.07%) Data Quality
2 256 (6.99%) GDPR
3 197 (5.38%) Accessibility
4 90 (2.46%) QA
5 79 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 47 (1.28%) NIST
7 44 (1.20%) WCAG
8 34 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
9 33 (0.90%) SLA
10 31 (0.85%) GxP
11 24 (0.66%) Solvency II
12 23 (0.63%) COBIT
12 23 (0.63%) HIPAA
13 22 (0.60%) EU AI Act
14 21 (0.57%) PSD2
15 16 (0.44%) IFRS
15 16 (0.44%) PMO
15 16 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 15 (0.41%) GRC
16 15 (0.41%) ITGC
System Software
1 82 (2.24%) Docker
2 39 (1.06%) Active Directory
3 23 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
6 10 (0.27%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.082%) Firmware
8 1 (0.027%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.027%) vCloud
8 1 (0.027%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.027%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 154 (4.20%) Terraform
2 122 (3.33%) Kubernetes
3 28 (0.76%) Ansible
3 28 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
4 24 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (0.33%) QRadar
6 10 (0.27%) SCCM
7 9 (0.25%) Grafana
7 9 (0.25%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 6 (0.16%) EnCase
9 6 (0.16%) FTK
9 6 (0.16%) RSA Archer
10 5 (0.14%) Argo
10 5 (0.14%) SCOM
11 3 (0.082%) ArcSight ESM
12 2 (0.055%) Failover Clustering
13 1 (0.027%) Computer Incident Response Team
13 1 (0.027%) Fluentd
13 1 (0.027%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 676 (18.45%) Microsoft
2 444 (12.12%) Google
3 258 (7.04%) SAP
4 256 (6.99%) Databricks
5 186 (5.08%) Salesforce
6 144 (3.93%) Oracle
7 138 (3.77%) Adobe
8 69 (1.88%) HubSpot
9 62 (1.69%) Cisco
10 60 (1.64%) Alteryx
11 42 (1.15%) ServiceNow
12 39 (1.06%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 38 (1.04%) OpenAI
14 36 (0.98%) Bloomberg
15 34 (0.93%) Dell
16 30 (0.82%) Facebook
17 29 (0.79%) Ahrefs
18 28 (0.76%) Screaming Frog
19 26 (0.71%) Informatica
20 25 (0.68%) Talend