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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 23 38
Rank change year-on-year -4 +15 -16
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 4,735 3,758 5,312
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.08% 8.56% 5.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.87% 9.19% 6.26%
Number of salaries quoted 2,827 1,657 3,327
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £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 £90,822 £82,375
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £106,732
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 68,914 40,901 84,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.88% 93.19% 83.44%
Number of salaries quoted 45,055 21,599 60,884
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,500 £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 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.01% +1.93% -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 1 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 1 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 -4 4,215 £65,000 - 2,109
UK excluding London -14 2,544 £60,000 +9.09% 1,244
London 0 1,804 £80,000 -0.90% 1,255
Work from Home +5 1,481 £65,000 +8.33% 922
North of England +18 842 £60,000 +14.29% 335
Midlands -4 534 £57,500 +9.52% 142
North West +21 488 £60,000 +14.29% 202
South East -28 477 £55,000 -8.33% 448
West Midlands -19 310 £57,500 +4.55% 87
Yorkshire +9 256 £58,750 +0.17% 84
South West -26 236 £58,750 +2.28% 111
East of England +34 226 £61,250 +14.55% 73
East Midlands +32 220 £50,000 +5.26% 55
Scotland -6 134 £65,000 -7.14% 67
North East +15 98 £48,000 -4.95% 53
Wales -4 49 £60,000 +41.18% 28
Northern Ireland -14 48 £45,000 +50.00% 56

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
1 153 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
2 144 (3.04%) Apache Spark
3 117 (2.47%) CMS
4 96 (2.03%) Apache
5 62 (1.31%) Confluence
6 49 (1.03%) SharePoint
7 47 (0.99%) SAS
8 46 (0.97%) WordPress
9 35 (0.74%) ArcGIS
10 19 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
11 17 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
12 10 (0.21%) Drupal
12 10 (0.21%) Jupyter
13 7 (0.15%) Oracle Application Server
14 6 (0.13%) IIS
15 5 (0.11%) Umbraco
16 4 (0.084%) Documentum
17 3 (0.063%) Oracle SOA Suite
17 3 (0.063%) Oracle Workflow
17 3 (0.063%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 286 (6.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 91 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
3 52 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 39 (0.82%) UserZoom
5 23 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
6 18 (0.38%) MS Visio
7 16 (0.34%) Adobe XD
7 16 (0.34%) SPSS
8 13 (0.27%) Chatbot
9 11 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 5 (0.11%) Trello
11 4 (0.084%) InDesign
11 4 (0.084%) Microsoft Project
11 4 (0.084%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.063%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.042%) Sketch
14 1 (0.021%) Adobe Premiere
14 1 (0.021%) Notion
14 1 (0.021%) Oracle Smart View
14 1 (0.021%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 82 (1.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (0.72%) Adobe Campaign
2 34 (0.72%) SAP IBP
3 33 (0.70%) SAP PP
4 21 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
5 20 (0.42%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 19 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
7 18 (0.38%) Shopify
8 16 (0.34%) Magento
9 14 (0.30%) iTrent
10 11 (0.23%) NetSuite
11 9 (0.19%) SAP CO
12 8 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
13 7 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
13 7 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
14 6 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
14 6 (0.13%) Oracle Financials
14 6 (0.13%) SAP ERP
14 6 (0.13%) SAP PM
14 6 (0.13%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 953 (20.13%) Azure
2 734 (15.50%) Power Platform
3 613 (12.95%) AWS
4 298 (6.29%) GCP
5 279 (5.89%) SaaS
6 212 (4.48%) Snowflake
7 210 (4.44%) Adobe Analytics
8 190 (4.01%) Google Analytics
9 184 (3.89%) Azure Data Factory
10 156 (3.29%) Azure DevOps
11 141 (2.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 138 (2.91%) Microsoft 365
13 128 (2.70%) Amazon S3
14 126 (2.66%) dbt
14 126 (2.66%) GitHub
15 119 (2.51%) Serverless
16 118 (2.49%) Figma
17 106 (2.24%) Entra ID
18 81 (1.71%) Azure Monitor
19 74 (1.56%) Contentsquare
Communications & Networking
1 268 (5.66%) Broadband
2 39 (0.82%) Firewall
3 35 (0.74%) VPN
4 32 (0.68%) DNS
5 25 (0.53%) Network Security
5 25 (0.53%) TCP/IP
6 23 (0.49%) CHAP
7 19 (0.40%) WAN
8 16 (0.34%) BGP
8 16 (0.34%) DHCP
9 14 (0.30%) Unified Communications
9 14 (0.30%) VLAN
10 13 (0.27%) OSPF
10 13 (0.27%) SMS
11 11 (0.23%) Intranet
12 10 (0.21%) SNMP
13 8 (0.17%) 5G
14 7 (0.15%) VXLAN
14 7 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
15 6 (0.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 697 (14.72%) Power BI
2 329 (6.95%) Tableau
3 317 (6.69%) Data Warehouse
4 212 (4.48%) Data Lake
5 161 (3.40%) Metadata
6 148 (3.13%) SQL Server
7 124 (2.62%) Looker
8 121 (2.56%) Data Mining
9 113 (2.39%) BigQuery
10 110 (2.32%) Amazon Redshift
11 94 (1.99%) Big Data
12 93 (1.96%) Relational Database
13 89 (1.88%) Azure SQL Database
14 87 (1.84%) NoSQL
15 70 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
16 61 (1.29%) Power Query
17 55 (1.16%) Star Schema
18 50 (1.06%) MongoDB
19 49 (1.03%) Delta Lake
19 49 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 167 (3.53%) Git
2 74 (1.56%) Jenkins
3 69 (1.46%) JIRA
4 41 (0.87%) MLflow
5 39 (0.82%) GitLab
6 25 (0.53%) IBM UrbanCode
7 24 (0.51%) TeamCity
8 18 (0.38%) Crashlytics
9 17 (0.36%) CircleCI
10 13 (0.27%) XCTest
11 12 (0.25%) Axure RP
11 12 (0.25%) Balsamiq
12 10 (0.21%) Claude Code
12 10 (0.21%) ERwin
12 10 (0.21%) fastlane
12 10 (0.21%) Selenium
12 10 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 9 (0.19%) Visual Studio
14 8 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
15 6 (0.13%) MSI
General
1 1,300 (27.46%) Finance
2 1,147 (24.22%) Social Skills
3 1,065 (22.49%) Analytical Skills
4 659 (13.92%) Marketing
5 270 (5.70%) Retail
6 257 (5.43%) Public Sector
7 255 (5.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 220 (4.65%) Games
9 219 (4.63%) Law
10 206 (4.35%) Banking
11 167 (3.53%) Legal
12 135 (2.85%) Manufacturing
13 131 (2.77%) Influencing Skills
14 121 (2.56%) Automotive
15 110 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
16 109 (2.30%) Advertising
17 88 (1.86%) Financial Institution
18 74 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
19 55 (1.16%) Back Office
20 53 (1.12%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 849 (17.93%) Senior
2 597 (12.61%) Analyst
3 552 (11.66%) Data Engineer
4 522 (11.02%) Lead
5 335 (7.07%) Architect
6 304 (6.42%) Data Analyst
7 293 (6.19%) Developer
8 189 (3.99%) Consultant
9 170 (3.59%) Data Architect
10 149 (3.15%) Senior Data Engineer
11 141 (2.98%) Senior Manager
12 128 (2.70%) Data Scientist
13 120 (2.53%) Product Manager
14 109 (2.30%) Analytics Manager
15 107 (2.26%) Trainee
15 107 (2.26%) Trainee Analyst
15 107 (2.26%) Trainee Data Analyst
16 106 (2.24%) Data Manager
17 104 (2.20%) Designer
18 102 (2.15%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (3.10%) PySpark
2 121 (2.56%) Kafka
3 88 (1.86%) .NET
4 85 (1.80%) HTML
5 83 (1.75%) CSS
6 80 (1.69%) PyTorch
7 52 (1.10%) React
7 52 (1.10%) TensorFlow
8 51 (1.08%) SAP Fiori
9 47 (0.99%) .NET Core
9 47 (0.99%) REST
10 46 (0.97%) Pandas
10 46 (0.97%) RESTful
11 42 (0.89%) LangChain
12 41 (0.87%) scikit-learn
13 33 (0.70%) JSON
14 32 (0.68%) Node.js
14 32 (0.68%) OAuth
15 28 (0.59%) gRPC
15 28 (0.59%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 290 (6.12%) Social Media
2 204 (4.31%) Cloud Native
3 187 (3.95%) Product Ownership
4 160 (3.38%) Analytical Mindset
5 155 (3.27%) Management Information System
6 108 (2.28%) Algorithms
6 108 (2.28%) Onboarding
7 105 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
8 98 (2.07%) Data Structures
9 83 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
10 78 (1.65%) Marketing Technology
11 77 (1.63%) Mobile App
12 68 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
13 67 (1.41%) Life Science
14 63 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
15 58 (1.22%) Over-the-Top Content
16 44 (0.93%) Public Cloud
17 42 (0.89%) Virtual Team
18 41 (0.87%) e-Learning
19 39 (0.82%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 111 (2.34%) Windows
2 62 (1.31%) Linux
3 48 (1.01%) Windows 10
4 29 (0.61%) VMS
5 24 (0.51%) Apple iOS
6 17 (0.36%) Windows Server
7 16 (0.34%) Unix
8 11 (0.23%) Android
9 3 (0.063%) AIX
10 2 (0.042%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.021%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,347 (28.45%) AI
2 1,015 (21.44%) Decision-Making
3 991 (20.93%) Business Intelligence
4 898 (18.97%) Agile
5 733 (15.48%) Data Modelling
6 718 (15.16%) Continuous Improvement
7 707 (14.93%) Data Analytics
8 699 (14.76%) Roadmaps
9 694 (14.66%) Problem-Solving
10 627 (13.24%) Data Engineering
11 579 (12.23%) Data Pipeline
12 555 (11.72%) CI/CD
13 540 (11.40%) Data Governance
14 523 (11.05%) Machine Learning
15 521 (11.00%) Customer Experience
16 503 (10.62%) ETL
17 502 (10.60%) Data Science
18 436 (9.21%) DevOps
18 436 (9.21%) Mentoring
19 430 (9.08%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 1,242 (26.23%) SQL
2 1,092 (23.06%) Python
3 118 (2.49%) C#
4 114 (2.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 106 (2.24%) Java
6 88 (1.86%) R
7 85 (1.80%) Scala
8 82 (1.73%) PowerShell
9 80 (1.69%) JavaScript
10 53 (1.12%) TypeScript
11 42 (0.89%) C++
12 37 (0.78%) Bash
13 36 (0.76%) T-SQL
14 35 (0.74%) Bicep
15 33 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
16 32 (0.68%) Go
17 21 (0.44%) Kotlin
17 21 (0.44%) VBA
18 18 (0.38%) Swift
19 15 (0.32%) Julia
Qualifications
1 572 (12.08%) Degree
2 301 (6.36%) Security Cleared
3 209 (4.41%) SC Cleared
4 105 (2.22%) Master's Degree
5 79 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 72 (1.52%) IRCA
7 65 (1.37%) Azure Certification
8 51 (1.08%) ACCA
9 48 (1.01%) CTC Cleared
10 46 (0.97%) DV Cleared
11 45 (0.95%) DBS Check
12 44 (0.93%) CIMA
12 44 (0.93%) CISSP
13 42 (0.89%) PhD
14 39 (0.82%) CISM
15 38 (0.80%) CISA
16 32 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
17 31 (0.65%) AWS Certification
18 26 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
18 26 (0.55%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 608 (12.84%) Data Quality
2 377 (7.96%) Accessibility
3 321 (6.78%) GDPR
4 186 (3.93%) QA
5 98 (2.07%) WCAG
6 76 (1.61%) ISO 9001
7 73 (1.54%) SLA
8 44 (0.93%) NIST
9 43 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 37 (0.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 33 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
12 28 (0.59%) COBIT
13 24 (0.51%) IFRS
14 19 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 17 (0.36%) SOC 2
16 16 (0.34%) GRC
17 15 (0.32%) GAAP
17 15 (0.32%) HIPAA
18 14 (0.30%) PERC
19 13 (0.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 154 (3.25%) Docker
2 87 (1.84%) Active Directory
3 25 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.15%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.084%) IAG
6 4 (0.084%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.063%) vSphere
8 2 (0.042%) Firmware
9 1 (0.021%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.021%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 227 (4.79%) Terraform
2 178 (3.76%) Kubernetes
3 39 (0.82%) Ansible
4 32 (0.68%) Grafana
4 32 (0.68%) Prometheus
5 14 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (0.23%) EnCase
6 11 (0.23%) FTK
7 10 (0.21%) Kibana
7 10 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 6 (0.13%) Nagios
9 5 (0.11%) Control-M
9 5 (0.11%) FortiGate
9 5 (0.11%) VxRail
10 4 (0.084%) Graylog
11 3 (0.063%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.042%) RSA Archer
12 2 (0.042%) Thomson Reuters DACS
12 2 (0.042%) vRealize
Vendors
1 781 (16.49%) Microsoft
2 400 (8.45%) Databricks
3 327 (6.91%) Google
4 304 (6.42%) Adobe
5 214 (4.52%) SAP
6 148 (3.13%) Salesforce
7 127 (2.68%) Oracle
8 99 (2.09%) Cisco
9 70 (1.48%) HubSpot
10 53 (1.12%) Dell
11 45 (0.95%) Informatica
12 31 (0.65%) Workday
13 27 (0.57%) Cloudera
14 26 (0.55%) Alteryx
14 26 (0.55%) IBM
14 26 (0.55%) Teradata
15 25 (0.53%) Red Hat
16 24 (0.51%) Cognos
16 24 (0.51%) Palantir
16 24 (0.51%) ServiceNow