Analytics Jobs

Analytics
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Analytics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Analytics over the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 39 24
Rank change year-on-year +13 -15 -1
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 3,627 5,353 9,356
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.03% 5.45% 8.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.54% 6.34% 9.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,835 3,367 4,585
10th Percentile £37,250 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,750 £42,725 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £80,343 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £105,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +0.22%

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 48,105 84,479 100,577
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.22% 86.05% 95.64%
Number of salaries quoted 26,550 59,789 58,948
10th Percentile £30,750 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.71% +2.67%
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Analytics.

Salary trend for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytics over the 6 months to 26 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Top 18 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 26 April 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 +9 3,172 £66,367 +10.61% 7,241
UK excluding London +16 1,962 £55,000 +4.76% 2,465
London +5 1,474 £85,000 +13.33% 5,303
Work from Home +8 1,324 £60,000 +1.18% 3,180
South East +26 516 £60,000 +9.09% 748
North of England -16 509 £57,500 +15.00% 650
Midlands 0 353 £52,500 -4.55% 386
North West -33 334 £57,500 +10.40% 410
West Midlands +1 265 £55,000 - 213
Scotland +26 231 £52,000 -12.69% 216
South West +20 211 £52,945 -3.74% 236
Yorkshire +9 157 £55,000 +21.55% 174
East of England +34 95 £65,000 +36.84% 186
East Midlands +16 86 £48,500 +2.11% 159
Northern Ireland +30 32 £30,000 -55.56% 50
North East -9 22 £55,000 +10.00% 70
Wales -3 16 £49,552 -0.90% 45
Channel Islands +3 4 £78,750 -

Analytics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 121 (3.34%) CMS
2 83 (2.29%) SharePoint
3 77 (2.12%) SAS
4 75 (2.07%) Oracle Application Server
5 74 (2.04%) Apache Spark
6 60 (1.65%) WordPress
7 58 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
8 54 (1.49%) Apache
9 22 (0.61%) Drupal
9 22 (0.61%) Umbraco
10 20 (0.55%) Confluence
11 12 (0.33%) IBM Domino
12 9 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 8 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
14 7 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
15 5 (0.14%) IIS
15 5 (0.14%) Luigi
16 4 (0.11%) ArcGIS
16 4 (0.11%) Jupyter
16 4 (0.11%) Mule
Applications
1 371 (10.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 90 (2.48%) Microsoft Office
3 78 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 27 (0.74%) Photoshop
5 22 (0.61%) Adobe Premiere
6 17 (0.47%) Maya
7 16 (0.44%) Trello
8 15 (0.41%) Chatbot
9 14 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
10 11 (0.30%) SPSS
11 9 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 9 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
12 7 (0.19%) Adobe XD
12 7 (0.19%) MS Visio
13 6 (0.17%) InDesign
14 5 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
15 4 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
16 3 (0.083%) Sketch
17 2 (0.055%) Final Cut Pro
17 2 (0.055%) Notion
Business Applications
1 57 (1.57%) Shopify
2 37 (1.02%) NetSuite
3 31 (0.85%) Aladdin
4 24 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
5 22 (0.61%) Dynamics AX
6 18 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
7 15 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
8 10 (0.28%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 10 (0.28%) SAP IBP
9 8 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
9 8 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
10 6 (0.17%) Infor M3
11 5 (0.14%) CiviCRM
11 5 (0.14%) iTrent
11 5 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
11 5 (0.14%) PeopleSoft HCM
11 5 (0.14%) Relativity
12 4 (0.11%) Infor LN
12 4 (0.11%) Magento
12 4 (0.11%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 846 (23.33%) Azure
2 690 (19.02%) Power Platform
3 543 (14.97%) AWS
4 323 (8.91%) Google Analytics
5 303 (8.35%) GCP
6 172 (4.74%) Snowflake
7 152 (4.19%) Azure Data Factory
8 148 (4.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 145 (4.00%) SaaS
10 116 (3.20%) Google Ads
11 112 (3.09%) Serverless
12 87 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
13 75 (2.07%) Amazon S3
14 74 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
15 72 (1.99%) Microsoft 365
16 71 (1.96%) dbt
17 68 (1.87%) Power Automate
18 63 (1.74%) GitHub
19 58 (1.60%) PaaS
20 52 (1.43%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 36 (0.99%) Firewall
2 31 (0.85%) DNS
3 30 (0.83%) Internet
4 23 (0.63%) VPN
5 16 (0.44%) Network Security
6 15 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
7 11 (0.30%) HTTP
7 11 (0.30%) Intranet
7 11 (0.30%) TCP/IP
8 10 (0.28%) Intrusion Detection
9 9 (0.25%) SMS
9 9 (0.25%) WAN
10 8 (0.22%) 5G
11 7 (0.19%) DHCP
12 6 (0.17%) Bluetooth
12 6 (0.17%) LAN
12 6 (0.17%) SAN
13 5 (0.14%) Broadband
13 5 (0.14%) Kerberos
13 5 (0.14%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 682 (18.80%) Power BI
2 377 (10.39%) Tableau
3 376 (10.37%) Data Warehouse
4 229 (6.31%) Data Lake
5 213 (5.87%) Big Data
6 139 (3.83%) SQL Server
7 89 (2.45%) Oracle Reports
8 88 (2.43%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 85 (2.34%) NoSQL
10 84 (2.32%) Metadata
11 79 (2.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 73 (2.01%) Relational Database
13 71 (1.96%) BigQuery
14 65 (1.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 60 (1.65%) Amazon Redshift
16 57 (1.57%) Data Mining
17 56 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
17 56 (1.54%) Looker
18 51 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
19 50 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 166 (4.58%) Git
2 110 (3.03%) JIRA
3 79 (2.18%) Jenkins
4 36 (0.99%) GitLab
5 26 (0.72%) Eclipse
5 26 (0.72%) Eclipse RCP
6 23 (0.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 19 (0.52%) JUnit
8 17 (0.47%) Maven
9 14 (0.39%) Cucumber
9 14 (0.39%) IntelliJ
9 14 (0.39%) Mockito
10 12 (0.33%) Selenium
11 10 (0.28%) CircleCI
12 9 (0.25%) ERwin
12 9 (0.25%) Visual Studio
13 8 (0.22%) Bazaar
13 8 (0.22%) MLflow
13 8 (0.22%) webpack
14 7 (0.19%) Postman
General
1 1,381 (38.08%) Social Skills
2 1,356 (37.39%) Finance
3 1,043 (28.76%) Analytical Skills
4 603 (16.63%) Marketing
5 428 (11.80%) Law
6 385 (10.61%) Banking
7 361 (9.95%) Retail
8 243 (6.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 216 (5.96%) Organisational Skills
10 159 (4.38%) Legal
11 152 (4.19%) Public Sector
12 151 (4.16%) Presentation Skills
13 149 (4.11%) Advertising
14 137 (3.78%) Manufacturing
15 122 (3.36%) Front Office
15 122 (3.36%) Games
16 103 (2.84%) Telecoms
17 88 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
18 83 (2.29%) Military
19 46 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 676 (18.64%) Analyst
2 667 (18.39%) Senior
3 497 (13.70%) Lead
4 260 (7.17%) Data Analyst
5 247 (6.81%) Data Engineer
6 239 (6.59%) Architect
7 223 (6.15%) Developer
8 151 (4.16%) Data Scientist
9 131 (3.61%) Senior Analyst
10 112 (3.09%) Software Engineer
11 111 (3.06%) Data Manager
12 107 (2.95%) Solutions Architect
13 100 (2.76%) Product Manager
14 96 (2.65%) Senior Manager
15 87 (2.40%) Consultant
16 78 (2.15%) Digital Analyst
17 75 (2.07%) Business Analyst
18 73 (2.01%) Analytics Manager
19 68 (1.87%) Data Architect
20 64 (1.76%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (3.92%) CSS
2 137 (3.78%) HTML
3 95 (2.62%) React
4 92 (2.54%) Kafka
5 89 (2.45%) Pandas
6 87 (2.40%) PySpark
7 86 (2.37%) NumPy
8 66 (1.82%) RESTful
9 57 (1.57%) PyTorch
10 53 (1.46%) Middleware
11 48 (1.32%) SciPy
12 44 (1.21%) TensorFlow
13 41 (1.13%) scikit-learn
14 40 (1.10%) AngularJS
15 38 (1.05%) .NET
16 37 (1.02%) Node.js
17 34 (0.94%) OAuth
18 31 (0.85%) JSON
19 30 (0.83%) ARM Templates
20 29 (0.80%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 248 (6.84%) Product Ownership
2 247 (6.81%) Algorithms
3 220 (6.07%) Management Information System
4 204 (5.62%) Social Media
5 92 (2.54%) Robotics
6 88 (2.43%) Cloud Native
6 88 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
7 82 (2.26%) Fixed Income
8 73 (2.01%) Hedge funds
9 68 (1.87%) Blockchain
10 67 (1.85%) Data Structures
11 63 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
11 63 (1.74%) Derivative
12 61 (1.68%) Credit Risk
12 61 (1.68%) FMCG
13 56 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
14 51 (1.41%) Equities
14 51 (1.41%) Mobile App
15 50 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 48 (1.32%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 118 (3.25%) Windows
2 108 (2.98%) Linux
3 39 (1.08%) Apple iOS
4 32 (0.88%) Windows Server
5 14 (0.39%) Windows Vista
6 12 (0.33%) Android
7 9 (0.25%) Ubuntu
7 9 (0.25%) Unix
8 7 (0.19%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.17%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.11%) AIX
10 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.083%) VMS
12 2 (0.055%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.055%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.028%) CentOS
13 1 (0.028%) SUSE
13 1 (0.028%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 946 (26.08%) Data Analytics
2 883 (24.35%) Agile
2 883 (24.35%) Business Intelligence
3 831 (22.91%) Artificial Intelligence
4 801 (22.08%) Problem-Solving
5 681 (18.78%) Decision-Making
6 653 (18.00%) Visualisation
7 588 (16.21%) Data Science
8 511 (14.09%) Data Management
9 488 (13.45%) Machine Learning
10 486 (13.40%) Roadmaps
11 474 (13.07%) Data Modelling
12 450 (12.41%) Data Analysis
13 444 (12.24%) Mentoring
14 440 (12.13%) DevOps
15 397 (10.95%) Data Engineering
16 390 (10.75%) Computer Science
17 387 (10.67%) Stakeholder Management
18 367 (10.12%) ETL
19 359 (9.90%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,070 (29.50%) SQL
2 987 (27.21%) Python
3 235 (6.48%) Java
4 163 (4.49%) JavaScript
5 128 (3.53%) R
6 119 (3.28%) C#
7 77 (2.12%) PowerShell
8 73 (2.01%) T-SQL
9 67 (1.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 63 (1.74%) C++
11 53 (1.46%) Scala
12 42 (1.16%) TypeScript
13 34 (0.94%) Bash
14 30 (0.83%) Rust
15 27 (0.74%) C
16 24 (0.66%) PHP
17 23 (0.63%) Ada
18 18 (0.50%) Go
19 17 (0.47%) Bicep
20 14 (0.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,142 (31.49%) Degree
2 234 (6.45%) Master's Degree
3 206 (5.68%) DBS Check
4 168 (4.63%) Security Cleared
5 132 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 110 (3.03%) PhD
7 96 (2.65%) SC Cleared
8 68 (1.87%) Azure Certification
9 61 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
10 60 (1.65%) Numerate Degree
11 55 (1.52%) DV Cleared
12 45 (1.24%) CISA
13 43 (1.19%) ACCA
14 39 (1.08%) CIMA
15 31 (0.85%) AWS Certification
16 27 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
17 24 (0.66%) MBA
18 22 (0.61%) ISACA
18 22 (0.61%) PMI Certification
19 19 (0.52%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 389 (10.73%) Data Quality
2 156 (4.30%) Accessibility
3 132 (3.64%) GDPR
4 83 (2.29%) QA
5 48 (1.32%) ITGC
6 40 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
7 23 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 21 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 21 (0.58%) IFRS
8 21 (0.58%) MiFID
9 19 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 18 (0.50%) EMIR
11 17 (0.47%) HIPAA
11 17 (0.47%) SOC 2
12 16 (0.44%) IFRS 9
12 16 (0.44%) SLA
13 14 (0.39%) PCI DSS
14 13 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
15 10 (0.28%) Basel III
15 10 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 122 (3.36%) Docker
2 39 (1.08%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.36%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.14%) vSphere
8 4 (0.11%) HDFS
9 3 (0.083%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.055%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.028%) Firmware
11 1 (0.028%) Job Entry Subsystem
11 1 (0.028%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.028%) Time Sharing Option
11 1 (0.028%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.028%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 161 (4.44%) Kubernetes
2 152 (4.19%) Terraform
3 59 (1.63%) Ansible
4 27 (0.74%) Prometheus
5 21 (0.58%) Grafana
5 21 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
6 14 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (0.19%) ZABBIX
8 5 (0.14%) QRadar
8 5 (0.14%) SCCM
9 4 (0.11%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.11%) Graylog
9 4 (0.11%) Kubeflow
9 4 (0.11%) Matomo
9 4 (0.11%) Puppet
10 3 (0.083%) Argo
10 3 (0.083%) Istio
10 3 (0.083%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 2 (0.055%) EnCase
11 2 (0.055%) FTK
Vendors
1 709 (19.55%) Microsoft
2 505 (13.92%) Google
3 304 (8.38%) Databricks
4 193 (5.32%) SAP
5 187 (5.16%) Oracle
6 146 (4.03%) Salesforce
7 112 (3.09%) Adobe
8 97 (2.67%) Alteryx
9 74 (2.04%) ServiceNow
10 71 (1.96%) Facebook
11 64 (1.76%) Instagram
12 61 (1.68%) TikTok
13 44 (1.21%) IBM
14 36 (0.99%) Informatica
15 35 (0.96%) Pinterest
15 35 (0.96%) VMware
16 34 (0.94%) Ahrefs
17 32 (0.88%) YouTube
18 27 (0.74%) OpenAI
19 25 (0.69%) MuleSoft