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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 24 35
Rank change year-on-year -9 +11 -10
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 4,172 3,317 4,447
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.81% 7.26% 5.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.39% 7.77% 6.45%
Number of salaries quoted 2,256 1,624 3,159
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,250 £33,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £49,140 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -9.91%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £108,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%

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 56,435 42,676 68,967
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.59% 93.36% 87.81%
Number of salaries quoted 33,915 21,866 52,740
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,500 £29,329
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,463 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 5 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 5 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 -5 3,575 £65,000 -7.14% 2,420
UK excluding London -8 2,080 £55,000 - 1,785
London +5 1,692 £80,000 -5.88% 1,089
Work from Home -3 1,329 £63,076 +0.70% 1,296
South East +19 526 £57,500 -4.17% 622
North of England -20 515 £50,000 -9.09% 395
Midlands -10 410 £52,501 -4.54% 263
North West -21 258 £56,250 +2.27% 207
West Midlands -13 255 £59,527 +8.23% 149
Scotland -5 209 £65,000 -7.14% 70
Yorkshire -6 201 £50,000 -9.09% 132
South West -8 193 £55,000 +1.03% 203
East Midlands +2 153 £47,500 -2.56% 111
East of England +30 145 £50,000 -23.08% 193
North East +14 56 £40,000 -20.79% 58
Northern Ireland -4 54 £45,000 +50.00% 19
Wales +6 31 £65,000 +31.18% 50

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
1 131 (3.14%) Apache Airflow
2 112 (2.68%) Apache Spark
3 105 (2.52%) CMS
4 75 (1.80%) Apache
5 54 (1.29%) WordPress
6 53 (1.27%) Confluence
7 43 (1.03%) SharePoint
8 40 (0.96%) SAS
9 33 (0.79%) ArcGIS
10 18 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
11 17 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
12 16 (0.38%) Drupal
13 15 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 8 (0.19%) Umbraco
15 7 (0.17%) Oracle Application Server
16 6 (0.14%) IIS
17 4 (0.096%) Appian
17 4 (0.096%) Documentum
17 4 (0.096%) Sitecore CMS
18 3 (0.072%) Jupyter
Applications
1 440 (10.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 128 (3.07%) Microsoft Office
3 64 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (0.62%) Adobe XD
5 20 (0.48%) InDesign
6 18 (0.43%) MS Visio
7 17 (0.41%) Photoshop
7 17 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
8 16 (0.38%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 15 (0.36%) UserZoom
10 13 (0.31%) Maya
11 11 (0.26%) Adobe Premiere
11 11 (0.26%) SPSS
12 9 (0.22%) Chatbot
12 9 (0.22%) Trello
13 8 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
14 6 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
15 3 (0.072%) Final Cut Pro
15 3 (0.072%) SketchUp
16 2 (0.048%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 82 (1.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 48 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 38 (0.91%) SAP IBP
4 34 (0.81%) SAP PP
5 32 (0.77%) Oracle ERP
6 19 (0.46%) Shopify
7 17 (0.41%) SAP CO
8 16 (0.38%) Magento
9 15 (0.36%) NetSuite
10 14 (0.34%) iTrent
10 14 (0.34%) Oracle General Ledger
10 14 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
10 14 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
11 13 (0.31%) IBM Planning Analytics
11 13 (0.31%) Oracle Assets
11 13 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
11 13 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
12 12 (0.29%) Dynamics GP
13 11 (0.26%) SAP ERP
14 8 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 947 (22.70%) Azure
2 682 (16.35%) Power Platform
3 473 (11.34%) AWS
4 244 (5.85%) SaaS
5 224 (5.37%) GCP
6 222 (5.32%) Snowflake
7 216 (5.18%) Azure Data Factory
8 186 (4.46%) Google Analytics
9 172 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
10 169 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
11 159 (3.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 150 (3.60%) GitHub
13 124 (2.97%) dbt
14 122 (2.92%) Adobe Analytics
15 104 (2.49%) Amazon S3
16 101 (2.42%) Entra ID
17 96 (2.30%) Figma
18 90 (2.16%) Azure Monitor
19 84 (2.01%) Serverless
20 67 (1.61%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 133 (3.19%) Broadband
2 39 (0.93%) VPN
3 36 (0.86%) Firewall
4 23 (0.55%) WAN
5 22 (0.53%) CHAP
6 17 (0.41%) DNS
7 16 (0.38%) Network Security
8 14 (0.34%) Intranet
9 13 (0.31%) Unified Communications
10 12 (0.29%) TCP/IP
11 7 (0.17%) DHCP
12 6 (0.14%) HTTPS
13 5 (0.12%) SNMP
14 4 (0.096%) HTTP
14 4 (0.096%) Intrusion Detection
14 4 (0.096%) VoIP
15 3 (0.072%) Internet
15 3 (0.072%) LAN
15 3 (0.072%) MQTT
16 2 (0.048%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 645 (15.46%) Power BI
2 419 (10.04%) Tableau
3 334 (8.01%) Data Warehouse
4 206 (4.94%) Data Lake
5 193 (4.63%) Metadata
6 187 (4.48%) Data Mining
7 153 (3.67%) SQL Server
8 110 (2.64%) Azure SQL Database
9 102 (2.44%) Looker
10 82 (1.97%) Relational Database
11 75 (1.80%) BigQuery
12 74 (1.77%) Amazon Redshift
12 74 (1.77%) Big Data
13 70 (1.68%) NoSQL
14 66 (1.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 59 (1.41%) Power Query
16 52 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 44 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
18 42 (1.01%) Oracle Database
19 41 (0.98%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 149 (3.57%) Git
2 115 (2.76%) JIRA
3 66 (1.58%) Jenkins
4 29 (0.70%) GitLab
5 25 (0.60%) Oracle Forms
6 24 (0.58%) Axure RP
6 24 (0.58%) Balsamiq
7 23 (0.55%) IBM UrbanCode
7 23 (0.55%) TeamCity
8 20 (0.48%) MLflow
9 19 (0.46%) ERwin
9 19 (0.46%) Visual Studio
10 10 (0.24%) CircleCI
11 9 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 8 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
12 8 (0.19%) Selenium
13 6 (0.14%) Cypress.io
14 5 (0.12%) Crashlytics
14 5 (0.12%) MSI
14 5 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,424 (34.13%) Finance
2 1,264 (30.30%) Social Skills
3 1,112 (26.65%) Analytical Skills
4 673 (16.13%) Marketing
5 285 (6.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 253 (6.06%) Public Sector
7 252 (6.04%) Banking
8 220 (5.27%) Law
9 213 (5.11%) Retail
10 171 (4.10%) Manufacturing
11 167 (4.00%) Legal
12 138 (3.31%) Games
13 127 (3.04%) Presentation Skills
14 108 (2.59%) Financial Institution
15 92 (2.21%) Automotive
16 91 (2.18%) Advertising
17 90 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
18 89 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
19 84 (2.01%) Pharmaceutical
20 69 (1.65%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 692 (16.59%) Senior
2 650 (15.58%) Analyst
3 488 (11.70%) Lead
4 391 (9.37%) Data Engineer
5 375 (8.99%) Data Analyst
6 326 (7.81%) Architect
7 228 (5.47%) Developer
8 162 (3.88%) Trainee
8 162 (3.88%) Trainee Analyst
8 162 (3.88%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 151 (3.62%) Data Architect
10 149 (3.57%) Consultant
11 148 (3.55%) Senior Manager
12 102 (2.44%) Designer
13 96 (2.30%) Solutions Architect
14 91 (2.18%) Data Manager
15 85 (2.04%) Data Scientist
15 85 (2.04%) Senior Analyst
15 85 (2.04%) Support Engineer
16 83 (1.99%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (2.44%) PySpark
2 98 (2.35%) HTML
3 92 (2.21%) Kafka
4 89 (2.13%) CSS
5 73 (1.75%) PyTorch
6 65 (1.56%) .NET
7 61 (1.46%) React
8 59 (1.41%) OAuth
9 55 (1.32%) RESTful
10 53 (1.27%) TensorFlow
11 51 (1.22%) SAP Fiori
12 46 (1.10%) JSON
12 46 (1.10%) REST
13 36 (0.86%) OAuth2
14 32 (0.77%) .NET Core
14 32 (0.77%) Pandas
15 29 (0.70%) LangChain
15 29 (0.70%) Node.js
16 27 (0.65%) FIX Protocol
16 27 (0.65%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 242 (5.80%) Social Media
2 195 (4.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 185 (4.43%) Product Ownership
4 181 (4.34%) Self-Motivation
5 180 (4.31%) Cloud Native
6 154 (3.69%) Management Information System
7 125 (3.00%) Onboarding
8 122 (2.92%) Algorithms
9 120 (2.88%) Life Science
10 81 (1.94%) Data Structures
11 71 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
12 65 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
13 64 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
14 49 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
14 49 (1.17%) Mobile App
15 42 (1.01%) FMCG
15 42 (1.01%) Virtual Team
16 39 (0.93%) Fixed Income
17 38 (0.91%) Web Conferencing
18 34 (0.81%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 111 (2.66%) Windows
2 60 (1.44%) Windows 10
3 41 (0.98%) Linux
4 29 (0.70%) Unix
5 24 (0.58%) VMS
6 14 (0.34%) Apple iOS
6 14 (0.34%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.29%) Android
8 2 (0.048%) AIX
8 2 (0.048%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,167 (27.97%) AI
2 942 (22.58%) Business Intelligence
3 882 (21.14%) Decision-Making
4 832 (19.94%) Agile
5 796 (19.08%) Data Analytics
6 741 (17.76%) Problem-Solving
7 734 (17.59%) Continuous Improvement
8 632 (15.15%) Data Modelling
9 522 (12.51%) Roadmaps
10 520 (12.46%) Data Governance
11 516 (12.37%) Data Analysis
12 511 (12.25%) Data Engineering
13 508 (12.18%) Data Science
14 500 (11.98%) Machine Learning
14 500 (11.98%) Project Management
15 467 (11.19%) Data Pipeline
16 456 (10.93%) ETL
17 447 (10.71%) CI/CD
18 432 (10.35%) Visualisation
19 426 (10.21%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1,110 (26.61%) SQL
2 1,018 (24.40%) Python
3 114 (2.73%) JavaScript
4 110 (2.64%) Java
5 91 (2.18%) C#
5 91 (2.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 76 (1.82%) Scala
7 75 (1.80%) PowerShell
8 71 (1.70%) R
9 50 (1.20%) Bicep
10 44 (1.05%) T-SQL
11 42 (1.01%) C++
12 40 (0.96%) TypeScript
13 34 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
14 28 (0.67%) Bash
15 27 (0.65%) Go
16 22 (0.53%) PL/SQL
17 20 (0.48%) Shell Script
18 16 (0.38%) VBA
19 12 (0.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 751 (18.00%) Degree
2 278 (6.66%) Security Cleared
3 196 (4.70%) SC Cleared
4 161 (3.86%) Master's Degree
5 119 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 67 (1.61%) PhD
7 60 (1.44%) CTC Cleared
8 58 (1.39%) CISSP
9 54 (1.29%) Azure Certification
10 52 (1.25%) CISA
11 50 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
12 48 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
13 46 (1.10%) CISM
13 46 (1.10%) Numerate Degree
14 42 (1.01%) ACCA
14 42 (1.01%) DBS Check
15 36 (0.86%) IRCA
16 34 (0.81%) PMI Certification
17 32 (0.77%) DV Cleared
18 29 (0.70%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 546 (13.09%) Data Quality
2 310 (7.43%) Accessibility
3 308 (7.38%) GDPR
4 128 (3.07%) QA
5 76 (1.82%) SLA
6 74 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 68 (1.63%) WCAG
8 50 (1.20%) NIST
9 49 (1.17%) ISO 9001
10 45 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
11 37 (0.89%) GxP
12 33 (0.79%) HIPAA
13 30 (0.72%) COBIT
14 25 (0.60%) EU AI Act
14 25 (0.60%) IFRS
14 25 (0.60%) Solvency II
15 21 (0.50%) PSD2
16 18 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 18 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 17 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 135 (3.24%) Docker
2 61 (1.46%) Active Directory
3 33 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.29%) Hyper-V
5 12 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.096%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.048%) vSphere
8 1 (0.024%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.024%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 196 (4.70%) Terraform
2 156 (3.74%) Kubernetes
3 40 (0.96%) Ansible
4 25 (0.60%) Grafana
5 24 (0.58%) Prometheus
5 24 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
6 23 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.19%) EnCase
7 8 (0.19%) FTK
7 8 (0.19%) SCCM
8 7 (0.17%) Kibana
9 6 (0.14%) QRadar
9 6 (0.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 5 (0.12%) Argo
10 5 (0.12%) RSA Archer
10 5 (0.12%) SCOM
11 3 (0.072%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.072%) ArcSight ESM
11 3 (0.072%) Control-M
11 3 (0.072%) VxRail
Vendors
1 841 (20.16%) Microsoft
2 327 (7.84%) Google
3 273 (6.54%) Databricks
4 212 (5.08%) Adobe
5 201 (4.82%) SAP
6 187 (4.48%) Salesforce
7 153 (3.67%) Oracle
8 139 (3.33%) Cisco
9 65 (1.56%) HubSpot
10 58 (1.39%) Alteryx
11 37 (0.89%) Informatica
12 35 (0.84%) Dell
13 33 (0.79%) Bloomberg
14 32 (0.77%) ServiceNow
15 30 (0.72%) Instagram
16 29 (0.70%) OpenAI
16 29 (0.70%) YouTube
17 28 (0.67%) Nexthink
18 27 (0.65%) Talend
19 26 (0.62%) Palantir