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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 20 39
Rank change year-on-year -12 +19 -16
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 4,575 3,600 5,222
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.07% 8.38% 5.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.79% 9.02% 6.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2,604 1,784 3,322
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,438 £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 £93,750 £80,389
90th Percentile £102,500 £115,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,800 £57,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -0.35% +6.54% -2.73%

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 67,342 39,928 81,978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.57% 92.95% 85.54%
Number of salaries quoted 41,961 22,681 59,568
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,625 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £78,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.86% +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 4 May 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 4 May 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 -15 4,040 £65,000 - 2,079
UK excluding London -20 2,427 £56,800 -0.35% 1,277
London +2 1,766 £80,000 -5.88% 1,054
Work from Home -2 1,413 £65,000 +8.33% 919
North of England -2 732 £60,000 +9.09% 339
South East -22 517 £55,000 -8.33% 421
Midlands -21 482 £51,500 -1.90% 234
North West +5 412 £60,000 +9.09% 207
West Midlands -20 280 £55,000 - 122
Yorkshire -7 249 £58,750 +5.86% 89
South West -25 229 £60,000 +6.72% 121
East of England +37 220 £56,000 -13.85% 95
East Midlands +12 198 £50,000 +3.09% 112
Scotland -11 164 £65,000 -7.14% 55
North East +3 71 £45,000 -18.18% 47
Northern Ireland -17 47 £45,000 +50.00% 9
Wales -7 38 £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
1 160 (3.50%) Apache Airflow
2 135 (2.95%) Apache Spark
3 117 (2.56%) CMS
4 80 (1.75%) Apache
5 63 (1.38%) Confluence
6 53 (1.16%) WordPress
7 50 (1.09%) SharePoint
8 35 (0.77%) ArcGIS
9 31 (0.68%) SAS
10 20 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
11 16 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
12 11 (0.24%) Drupal
13 8 (0.17%) Oracle Application Server
13 8 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 6 (0.13%) IIS
15 4 (0.087%) Appian
15 4 (0.087%) Documentum
15 4 (0.087%) Umbraco
16 3 (0.066%) Apache Superset
16 3 (0.066%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 325 (7.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 112 (2.45%) Microsoft Office
3 55 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (0.68%) UserZoom
5 25 (0.55%) Adobe XD
6 19 (0.42%) MS Visio
7 17 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
8 11 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 10 (0.22%) SPSS
10 9 (0.20%) Chatbot
11 4 (0.087%) Adobe Illustrator
11 4 (0.087%) InDesign
11 4 (0.087%) Microsoft Project
11 4 (0.087%) Photoshop
12 2 (0.044%) Maya
12 2 (0.044%) Notion
12 2 (0.044%) Sketch
13 1 (0.022%) Abaqus
13 1 (0.022%) Siemens NX
13 1 (0.022%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 83 (1.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (0.74%) Adobe Campaign
3 33 (0.72%) SAP IBP
4 32 (0.70%) SAP PP
5 25 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
5 25 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
6 21 (0.46%) Magento
7 16 (0.35%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 16 (0.35%) Shopify
8 15 (0.33%) iTrent
9 13 (0.28%) NetSuite
10 11 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
10 11 (0.24%) SAP CO
11 10 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
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
13 8 (0.17%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 944 (20.63%) Azure
2 693 (15.15%) Power Platform
3 562 (12.28%) AWS
4 277 (6.05%) GCP
5 246 (5.38%) SaaS
6 243 (5.31%) Snowflake
7 203 (4.44%) Google Analytics
8 201 (4.39%) Adobe Analytics
9 196 (4.28%) Azure Data Factory
10 157 (3.43%) Azure DevOps
11 155 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
12 151 (3.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 145 (3.17%) GitHub
14 137 (2.99%) dbt
15 130 (2.84%) Figma
16 118 (2.58%) Amazon S3
17 115 (2.51%) Serverless
18 99 (2.16%) Entra ID
19 70 (1.53%) Azure Monitor
19 70 (1.53%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 255 (5.57%) Broadband
2 40 (0.87%) Firewall
3 35 (0.77%) 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
10 14 (0.31%) Intranet
11 11 (0.24%) Unified Communications
12 7 (0.15%) HTTP
13 5 (0.11%) Intrusion Detection
13 5 (0.11%) SMS
13 5 (0.11%) SNMP
13 5 (0.11%) SSL
13 5 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
14 4 (0.087%) BGP
14 4 (0.087%) HTTPS
15 3 (0.066%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 656 (14.34%) Power BI
2 352 (7.69%) Tableau
3 342 (7.48%) Data Warehouse
4 232 (5.07%) Data Lake
5 184 (4.02%) Metadata
6 153 (3.34%) Data Mining
7 131 (2.86%) SQL Server
8 125 (2.73%) Looker
9 108 (2.36%) BigQuery
10 105 (2.30%) Relational Database
11 99 (2.16%) Amazon Redshift
12 81 (1.77%) NoSQL
13 74 (1.62%) Azure SQL Database
14 69 (1.51%) Big Data
15 66 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
16 55 (1.20%) Power Query
17 52 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 45 (0.98%) Delta Lake
18 45 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
18 45 (0.98%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 167 (3.65%) Git
2 88 (1.92%) JIRA
3 74 (1.62%) Jenkins
4 44 (0.96%) MLflow
5 36 (0.79%) GitLab
6 25 (0.55%) IBM UrbanCode
7 22 (0.48%) TeamCity
8 20 (0.44%) Axure RP
8 20 (0.44%) Balsamiq
9 17 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
10 16 (0.35%) CircleCI
11 15 (0.33%) Crashlytics
12 12 (0.26%) Selenium
12 12 (0.26%) XCTest
13 10 (0.22%) ERwin
13 10 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 10 (0.22%) Visual Studio
14 7 (0.15%) Claude Code
15 5 (0.11%) MSI
16 4 (0.087%) Browser DevTools
General
1 1,281 (28.00%) Finance
2 1,157 (25.29%) Social Skills
3 1,045 (22.84%) Analytical Skills
4 651 (14.23%) Marketing
5 266 (5.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 244 (5.33%) Retail
7 220 (4.81%) Public Sector
8 217 (4.74%) Games
9 212 (4.63%) Banking
10 206 (4.50%) Law
11 147 (3.21%) Manufacturing
12 144 (3.15%) Legal
13 123 (2.69%) Influencing Skills
14 115 (2.51%) Automotive
15 100 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
16 98 (2.14%) Advertising
17 92 (2.01%) Financial Institution
18 77 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
19 70 (1.53%) Back Office
20 53 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 788 (17.22%) Senior
2 616 (13.46%) Analyst
3 514 (11.23%) Lead
4 499 (10.91%) Data Engineer
5 348 (7.61%) Architect
6 319 (6.97%) Data Analyst
7 251 (5.49%) Developer
8 174 (3.80%) Data Architect
9 168 (3.67%) Consultant
10 137 (2.99%) Trainee
10 137 (2.99%) Trainee Analyst
10 137 (2.99%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 134 (2.93%) Senior Manager
12 118 (2.58%) Senior Data Engineer
13 113 (2.47%) Designer
14 109 (2.38%) Data Manager
15 105 (2.30%) Data Scientist
15 105 (2.30%) Product Manager
16 101 (2.21%) Solutions Architect
17 98 (2.14%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (2.82%) PySpark
2 126 (2.75%) Kafka
3 91 (1.99%) HTML
4 90 (1.97%) PyTorch
5 84 (1.84%) CSS
6 75 (1.64%) .NET
7 63 (1.38%) TensorFlow
8 53 (1.16%) React
9 52 (1.14%) SAP Fiori
10 49 (1.07%) RESTful
11 47 (1.03%) OAuth
11 47 (1.03%) scikit-learn
12 46 (1.01%) LangChain
13 45 (0.98%) Pandas
14 43 (0.94%) REST
15 38 (0.83%) .NET Core
15 38 (0.83%) JSON
16 35 (0.77%) Node.js
17 24 (0.52%) LlamaIndex
18 23 (0.50%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 288 (6.30%) Social Media
2 211 (4.61%) Cloud Native
3 180 (3.93%) Product Ownership
4 151 (3.30%) Management Information System
5 147 (3.21%) Analytical Mindset
6 114 (2.49%) Onboarding
7 97 (2.12%) Algorithms
8 95 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
9 91 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
10 85 (1.86%) Life Science
11 83 (1.81%) Data Structures
12 76 (1.66%) Marketing Technology
13 72 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
14 66 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
15 62 (1.36%) Mobile App
16 57 (1.25%) Over-the-Top Content
17 45 (0.98%) Public Cloud
17 45 (0.98%) Virtual Team
18 44 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
19 37 (0.81%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 114 (2.49%) 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 11 (0.24%) Android
8 3 (0.066%) AIX
9 1 (0.022%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,278 (27.93%) AI
2 952 (20.81%) Decision-Making
3 935 (20.44%) Business Intelligence
4 894 (19.54%) Agile
5 715 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
6 708 (15.48%) Data Analytics
6 708 (15.48%) Data Modelling
7 675 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
8 647 (14.14%) Roadmaps
9 627 (13.70%) Data Engineering
10 555 (12.13%) Data Pipeline
11 524 (11.45%) CI/CD
12 517 (11.30%) Customer Experience
12 517 (11.30%) Data Governance
13 500 (10.93%) Data Science
14 499 (10.91%) Machine Learning
15 498 (10.89%) ETL
16 434 (9.49%) Data Analysis
17 425 (9.29%) DevOps
18 419 (9.16%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1,146 (25.05%) SQL
2 1,037 (22.67%) Python
3 106 (2.32%) C#
4 99 (2.16%) Java
5 96 (2.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 91 (1.99%) JavaScript
7 83 (1.81%) Scala
8 68 (1.49%) R
9 66 (1.44%) PowerShell
10 46 (1.01%) Bicep
11 43 (0.94%) TypeScript
12 38 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
12 38 (0.83%) T-SQL
13 37 (0.81%) Go
14 36 (0.79%) C++
15 23 (0.50%) Bash
16 16 (0.35%) Kotlin
16 16 (0.35%) VBA
17 15 (0.33%) PL/SQL
18 14 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 619 (13.53%) Degree
2 280 (6.12%) Security Cleared
3 194 (4.24%) SC Cleared
4 117 (2.56%) Master's Degree
5 96 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 72 (1.57%) IRCA
7 62 (1.36%) Azure Certification
8 60 (1.31%) CTC Cleared
9 50 (1.09%) ACCA
10 48 (1.05%) CISSP
10 48 (1.05%) PhD
11 47 (1.03%) CISM
12 46 (1.01%) DBS Check
13 44 (0.96%) CISA
14 42 (0.92%) CIMA
15 35 (0.77%) DV Cleared
16 32 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
17 31 (0.68%) SANS
18 30 (0.66%) CGEIT
18 30 (0.66%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 580 (12.68%) Data Quality
2 385 (8.42%) Accessibility
3 338 (7.39%) GDPR
4 177 (3.87%) QA
5 95 (2.08%) WCAG
6 83 (1.81%) SLA
7 76 (1.66%) ISO 9001
8 52 (1.14%) NIST
9 47 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 37 (0.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 34 (0.74%) COBIT
12 32 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
13 25 (0.55%) IFRS
14 20 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 19 (0.42%) HIPAA
16 18 (0.39%) SOC 2
17 17 (0.37%) GxP
18 16 (0.35%) GAAP
19 14 (0.31%) GRC
19 14 (0.31%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 152 (3.32%) Docker
2 81 (1.77%) 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%) vCloud
9 1 (0.022%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 221 (4.83%) Terraform
2 177 (3.87%) Kubernetes
3 51 (1.11%) 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 (0.066%) ArcSight ESM
13 3 (0.066%) Control-M
13 3 (0.066%) Graylog
14 2 (0.044%) Jamf Pro
14 2 (0.044%) SCCM
14 2 (0.044%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 815 (17.81%) Microsoft
2 379 (8.28%) Databricks
3 326 (7.13%) Google
4 300 (6.56%) Adobe
5 197 (4.31%) SAP
6 154 (3.37%) Salesforce
7 130 (2.84%) Oracle
8 125 (2.73%) Cisco
9 56 (1.22%) HubSpot
10 54 (1.18%) Dell
11 48 (1.05%) Informatica
12 34 (0.74%) Alteryx
13 28 (0.61%) OpenAI
13 28 (0.61%) Red Hat
14 27 (0.59%) Workday
15 26 (0.57%) Nexthink
15 26 (0.57%) Palantir
15 26 (0.57%) ServiceNow
15 26 (0.57%) Talend
16 25 (0.55%) Denodo