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

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 22 37
Rank change year-on-year -7 +15 -13
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 4,428 3,361 4,977
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.65% 8.16% 5.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.35% 8.77% 6.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,449 1,706 3,296
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £32,550
25th Percentile £44,500 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,509 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.12% +14.18% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £94,694 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year -3.51% +4.59% -0.91%

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 60,236 38,342 77,370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.83% 93.07% 86.53%
Number of salaries quoted 37,103 22,499 57,686
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.26%

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 30 March 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 30 March 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 -11 3,833 £65,000 -7.14% 1,921
UK excluding London -16 2,248 £55,000 -3.51% 1,320
London +4 1,771 £80,000 -5.88% 896
Work from Home -4 1,389 £64,000 +5.36% 858
North of England -13 612 £52,500 -4.55% 331
South East -15 505 £55,000 -8.33% 433
Midlands -17 450 £52,500 - 212
North West -18 318 £60,000 +9.09% 192
West Midlands -17 282 £57,500 +4.55% 110
Yorkshire -1 225 £50,000 -9.09% 91
South West -23 200 £55,100 +4.95% 149
Scotland -6 199 £65,000 -7.14% 53
East of England +28 188 £52,500 -19.23% 103
East Midlands -1 165 £49,500 +4.21% 102
North East +22 69 £40,000 -27.27% 52
Northern Ireland -14 59 £45,000 +50.00% 17
Wales +1 38 £40,000 -27.27% 41

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
1 158 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
2 128 (2.89%) Apache Spark
3 108 (2.44%) CMS
4 79 (1.78%) Apache
5 67 (1.51%) Confluence
6 53 (1.20%) WordPress
7 46 (1.04%) SharePoint
8 39 (0.88%) SAS
9 34 (0.77%) ArcGIS
10 19 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
11 18 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
12 14 (0.32%) Drupal
13 9 (0.20%) Oracle Application Server
13 9 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 8 (0.18%) Umbraco
15 6 (0.14%) IIS
16 4 (0.090%) Appian
16 4 (0.090%) Documentum
16 4 (0.090%) Sitecore CMS
17 3 (0.068%) Jupyter
Applications
1 419 (9.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 126 (2.85%) Microsoft Office
3 71 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (0.63%) Adobe XD
5 24 (0.54%) UserZoom
6 18 (0.41%) MS Visio
7 17 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
8 16 (0.36%) InDesign
9 14 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 11 (0.25%) SPSS
11 10 (0.23%) Photoshop
12 8 (0.18%) Adobe Premiere
12 8 (0.18%) Chatbot
13 7 (0.16%) Trello
14 6 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
15 5 (0.11%) Maya
16 4 (0.090%) Adobe Illustrator
17 3 (0.068%) Final Cut Pro
17 3 (0.068%) Sketch
18 2 (0.045%) Notion
Business Applications
1 77 (1.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 41 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
3 35 (0.79%) SAP IBP
4 34 (0.77%) SAP PP
5 29 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
6 21 (0.47%) Adobe Campaign
6 21 (0.47%) Magento
7 17 (0.38%) Shopify
8 16 (0.36%) NetSuite
9 15 (0.34%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 15 (0.34%) iTrent
9 15 (0.34%) SAP CO
10 14 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
11 13 (0.29%) Oracle Assets
11 13 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
11 13 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
11 13 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
12 11 (0.25%) Dynamics GP
13 10 (0.23%) SAP ERP
14 9 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 982 (22.18%) Azure
2 709 (16.01%) Power Platform
3 532 (12.01%) AWS
4 258 (5.83%) GCP
4 258 (5.83%) Snowflake
5 256 (5.78%) SaaS
6 232 (5.24%) Azure Data Factory
7 189 (4.27%) Google Analytics
8 184 (4.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 178 (4.02%) Adobe Analytics
10 165 (3.73%) Microsoft 365
11 163 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
12 153 (3.46%) GitHub
13 146 (3.30%) dbt
14 114 (2.57%) Figma
15 112 (2.53%) Amazon S3
16 101 (2.28%) Serverless
17 85 (1.92%) Entra ID
18 76 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
19 63 (1.42%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 214 (4.83%) Broadband
2 33 (0.75%) Firewall
2 33 (0.75%) VPN
3 25 (0.56%) CHAP
4 23 (0.52%) WAN
5 19 (0.43%) Network Security
6 16 (0.36%) DNS
6 16 (0.36%) Intranet
7 13 (0.29%) TCP/IP
7 13 (0.29%) Unified Communications
8 11 (0.25%) DHCP
9 6 (0.14%) HTTPS
10 5 (0.11%) SMS
10 5 (0.11%) SNMP
11 4 (0.090%) HTTP
11 4 (0.090%) Intrusion Detection
12 3 (0.068%) LAN
12 3 (0.068%) Modbus
13 2 (0.045%) Kerberos
13 2 (0.045%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 676 (15.27%) Power BI
2 430 (9.71%) Tableau
3 375 (8.47%) Data Warehouse
4 244 (5.51%) Data Lake
5 192 (4.34%) Data Mining
6 191 (4.31%) Metadata
7 159 (3.59%) SQL Server
8 133 (3.00%) Looker
9 113 (2.55%) Azure SQL Database
10 98 (2.21%) BigQuery
11 94 (2.12%) Relational Database
12 90 (2.03%) Amazon Redshift
13 74 (1.67%) NoSQL
14 68 (1.54%) Big Data
15 65 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 64 (1.45%) Power Query
17 56 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
18 55 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 53 (1.20%) Snowflake Schema
20 43 (0.97%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 153 (3.46%) Git
2 108 (2.44%) JIRA
3 70 (1.58%) Jenkins
4 40 (0.90%) MLflow
5 33 (0.75%) GitLab
6 25 (0.56%) IBM UrbanCode
7 24 (0.54%) Axure RP
7 24 (0.54%) Balsamiq
8 23 (0.52%) TeamCity
9 20 (0.45%) Oracle Forms
10 19 (0.43%) Visual Studio
11 16 (0.36%) ERwin
12 12 (0.27%) CircleCI
12 12 (0.27%) Crashlytics
12 12 (0.27%) Selenium
13 9 (0.20%) PowerDesigner
13 9 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 9 (0.20%) XCTest
14 8 (0.18%) Cypress.io
15 5 (0.11%) ER Studio
General
1 1,383 (31.23%) Finance
2 1,247 (28.16%) Social Skills
3 1,148 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
4 675 (15.24%) Marketing
5 290 (6.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 253 (5.71%) Banking
7 249 (5.62%) Public Sector
8 224 (5.06%) Retail
9 208 (4.70%) Law
10 196 (4.43%) Games
11 167 (3.77%) Legal
12 164 (3.70%) Manufacturing
13 119 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
14 112 (2.53%) Financial Institution
15 100 (2.26%) Automotive
15 100 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
16 96 (2.17%) Advertising
17 94 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
18 72 (1.63%) Pharmaceutical
19 68 (1.54%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 735 (16.60%) Senior
2 658 (14.86%) Analyst
3 500 (11.29%) Lead
4 444 (10.03%) Data Engineer
5 374 (8.45%) Data Analyst
6 324 (7.32%) Architect
7 234 (5.28%) Developer
8 168 (3.79%) Trainee
8 168 (3.79%) Trainee Analyst
8 168 (3.79%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 166 (3.75%) Consultant
10 148 (3.34%) Data Architect
11 141 (3.18%) Senior Manager
12 115 (2.60%) Designer
13 99 (2.24%) Data Manager
13 99 (2.24%) Solutions Architect
14 96 (2.17%) Senior Data Engineer
15 91 (2.06%) Data Scientist
16 86 (1.94%) Senior Analyst
16 86 (1.94%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (2.69%) Kafka
1 119 (2.69%) PySpark
2 101 (2.28%) HTML
3 93 (2.10%) CSS
4 92 (2.08%) PyTorch
5 69 (1.56%) TensorFlow
6 68 (1.54%) .NET
7 59 (1.33%) React
8 52 (1.17%) OAuth
9 51 (1.15%) RESTful
10 49 (1.11%) SAP Fiori
11 48 (1.08%) LangChain
12 46 (1.04%) JSON
13 44 (0.99%) scikit-learn
14 42 (0.95%) REST
15 37 (0.84%) .NET Core
15 37 (0.84%) Node.js
16 35 (0.79%) Pandas
17 28 (0.63%) OAuth2
18 26 (0.59%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 297 (6.71%) Social Media
2 208 (4.70%) Cloud Native
3 194 (4.38%) Product Ownership
4 173 (3.91%) Analytical Mindset
5 162 (3.66%) Self-Motivation
6 152 (3.43%) Management Information System
7 131 (2.96%) Onboarding
8 108 (2.44%) Life Science
9 106 (2.39%) Algorithms
10 81 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
11 77 (1.74%) Data Structures
12 64 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
13 60 (1.36%) Mobile App
14 51 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
15 47 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
15 47 (1.06%) Public Cloud
16 45 (1.02%) Over-the-Top Content
17 44 (0.99%) Marketing Technology
17 44 (0.99%) Virtual Team
18 40 (0.90%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 107 (2.42%) Windows
2 60 (1.36%) Windows 10
3 41 (0.93%) Linux
4 26 (0.59%) VMS
5 23 (0.52%) Unix
6 21 (0.47%) Apple iOS
7 14 (0.32%) Windows Server
8 13 (0.29%) Android
9 2 (0.045%) AIX
9 2 (0.045%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.023%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,290 (29.13%) AI
2 975 (22.02%) Business Intelligence
3 945 (21.34%) Decision-Making
4 886 (20.01%) Agile
5 771 (17.41%) Data Analytics
6 739 (16.69%) Continuous Improvement
7 715 (16.15%) Problem-Solving
8 707 (15.97%) Data Modelling
9 591 (13.35%) Roadmaps
10 574 (12.96%) Data Engineering
11 552 (12.47%) Data Governance
12 523 (11.81%) Data Pipeline
13 521 (11.77%) Data Science
14 514 (11.61%) Data Analysis
15 510 (11.52%) Machine Learning
16 509 (11.50%) Customer Experience
17 489 (11.04%) ETL
18 484 (10.93%) CI/CD
19 454 (10.25%) Project Management
20 416 (9.39%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1,167 (26.36%) SQL
2 1,058 (23.89%) Python
3 112 (2.53%) JavaScript
4 106 (2.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 97 (2.19%) Java
6 96 (2.17%) C#
7 79 (1.78%) Scala
8 72 (1.63%) R
9 58 (1.31%) PowerShell
10 44 (0.99%) TypeScript
11 43 (0.97%) T-SQL
12 40 (0.90%) Bicep
13 38 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
14 36 (0.81%) C++
15 33 (0.75%) Go
16 20 (0.45%) Bash
17 17 (0.38%) PL/SQL
18 15 (0.34%) Shell Script
18 15 (0.34%) VBA
19 12 (0.27%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 724 (16.35%) Degree
2 257 (5.80%) Security Cleared
3 179 (4.04%) SC Cleared
4 151 (3.41%) Master's Degree
5 128 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 72 (1.63%) IRCA
7 60 (1.36%) CTC Cleared
8 54 (1.22%) Azure Certification
8 54 (1.22%) PhD
9 52 (1.17%) CISSP
10 50 (1.13%) DBS Check
11 47 (1.06%) CISA
12 45 (1.02%) CISM
13 43 (0.97%) ACCA
14 41 (0.93%) Numerate Degree
15 40 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
16 34 (0.77%) DV Cleared
17 33 (0.75%) AWS Certification
18 32 (0.72%) CIMA
19 30 (0.68%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 583 (13.17%) Data Quality
2 369 (8.33%) Accessibility
3 359 (8.11%) GDPR
4 168 (3.79%) QA
5 90 (2.03%) WCAG
6 83 (1.87%) ISO 9001
7 80 (1.81%) SLA
8 65 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 52 (1.17%) NIST
10 47 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
11 38 (0.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 34 (0.77%) HIPAA
13 30 (0.68%) COBIT
14 29 (0.65%) Solvency II
15 28 (0.63%) EU AI Act
15 28 (0.63%) IFRS
16 24 (0.54%) GxP
17 21 (0.47%) PSD2
18 20 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 18 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 140 (3.16%) Docker
2 60 (1.36%) Active Directory
3 25 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.16%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.090%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.045%) Firmware
7 2 (0.045%) vSphere
8 1 (0.023%) Apache Flume
8 1 (0.023%) IAG
8 1 (0.023%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.023%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 195 (4.40%) Terraform
2 164 (3.70%) Kubernetes
3 45 (1.02%) Ansible
4 25 (0.56%) Grafana
4 25 (0.56%) Prometheus
5 19 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.18%) EnCase
7 8 (0.18%) FTK
8 7 (0.16%) Kibana
9 5 (0.11%) Argo
9 5 (0.11%) QRadar
10 3 (0.068%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.068%) ArcSight ESM
10 3 (0.068%) Control-M
10 3 (0.068%) RSA Archer
10 3 (0.068%) SCCM
10 3 (0.068%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 3 (0.068%) VxRail
11 2 (0.045%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 868 (19.60%) Microsoft
2 352 (7.95%) Databricks
3 324 (7.32%) Google
4 280 (6.32%) Adobe
5 184 (4.16%) SAP
6 160 (3.61%) Salesforce
7 142 (3.21%) Oracle
8 137 (3.09%) Cisco
9 62 (1.40%) Dell
10 59 (1.33%) HubSpot
11 55 (1.24%) Alteryx
12 54 (1.22%) Informatica
13 34 (0.77%) Bloomberg
14 29 (0.65%) Talend
15 28 (0.63%) IBM
15 28 (0.63%) Instagram
15 28 (0.63%) Nexthink
15 28 (0.63%) Palantir
15 28 (0.63%) Red Hat
16 27 (0.61%) OpenAI