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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 29 33
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 -9
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 3,893 3,292 4,410
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.93% 6.58% 5.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.43% 7.16% 6.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,064 1,612 3,151
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,806 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £118,750 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,000 £53,034
% change year-on-year -7.89% +7.48% -3.58%

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 52,411 45,996 65,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.77% 91.99% 88.32%
Number of salaries quoted 31,090 22,202 50,938
10th Percentile £28,809 £35,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,000 £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 £76,250 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,375 £101,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 10 February 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 10 February 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 3,319 £65,000 -7.14% 1,590
UK excluding London -2 1,984 £52,500 -7.89% 1,171
London +5 1,569 £77,500 -8.82% 803
Work from Home +2 1,206 £65,000 - 810
South East +15 575 £55,000 -8.33% 475
North of England -20 436 £52,000 -5.45% 248
Midlands -4 352 £55,000 - 173
Scotland +13 250 £57,500 -4.76% 51
North West -18 225 £52,500 -4.55% 141
West Midlands -11 209 £58,514 +2.66% 100
South West +1 183 £54,500 +0.11% 120
Yorkshire -18 167 £55,000 - 76
East Midlands +15 143 £46,500 -7.00% 72
East of England +34 114 £47,500 -25.49% 90
Northern Ireland -2 48 £45,000 -34.55% 10
North East +20 45 £40,000 -20.79% 33
Wales +20 28 £56,250 +13.52% 26

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 93 (2.39%) CMS
2 87 (2.23%) Apache Spark
3 86 (2.21%) Apache Airflow
4 56 (1.44%) WordPress
5 48 (1.23%) Apache
6 46 (1.18%) Confluence
7 45 (1.16%) SharePoint
8 30 (0.77%) SAS
9 20 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 18 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
11 17 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
12 14 (0.36%) Drupal
13 10 (0.26%) ArcGIS
14 9 (0.23%) Umbraco
15 6 (0.15%) IIS
16 5 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
17 4 (0.10%) Appian
17 4 (0.10%) Documentum
17 4 (0.10%) Sitecore CMS
18 3 (0.077%) Moodle
Applications
1 499 (12.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 127 (3.26%) Microsoft Office
3 59 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (0.67%) Adobe XD
5 25 (0.64%) Maya
6 21 (0.54%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 19 (0.49%) InDesign
7 19 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
8 18 (0.46%) Photoshop
9 13 (0.33%) Chatbot
10 12 (0.31%) Adobe Premiere
10 12 (0.31%) SPSS
11 9 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
11 9 (0.23%) Trello
12 8 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
13 6 (0.15%) MS Visio
14 5 (0.13%) UserZoom
15 4 (0.10%) SketchUp
16 3 (0.077%) Final Cut Pro
17 2 (0.051%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 68 (1.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 54 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 35 (0.90%) Oracle ERP
4 22 (0.57%) SAP CO
4 22 (0.57%) SAP IBP
4 22 (0.57%) Shopify
5 20 (0.51%) Magento
6 16 (0.41%) Oracle Assets
6 16 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
6 16 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
6 16 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
7 15 (0.39%) Oracle Financials
8 13 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
8 13 (0.33%) SAP FI
8 13 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
9 12 (0.31%) Dynamics GP
9 12 (0.31%) NetSuite
10 11 (0.28%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 11 (0.28%) iTrent
11 8 (0.21%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 982 (25.22%) Azure
2 738 (18.96%) Power Platform
3 389 (9.99%) AWS
4 222 (5.70%) SaaS
5 208 (5.34%) Azure Data Factory
6 204 (5.24%) GCP
7 191 (4.91%) Snowflake
8 189 (4.85%) Google Analytics
9 180 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
10 170 (4.37%) Microsoft 365
11 154 (3.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 148 (3.80%) GitHub
13 115 (2.95%) dbt
14 107 (2.75%) Entra ID
15 86 (2.21%) Azure Monitor
16 76 (1.95%) Adobe Analytics
16 76 (1.95%) Figma
16 76 (1.95%) Serverless
17 74 (1.90%) Amazon S3
18 68 (1.75%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 73 (1.88%) Broadband
2 40 (1.03%) VPN
3 35 (0.90%) Firewall
4 19 (0.49%) CHAP
4 19 (0.49%) WAN
5 14 (0.36%) DNS
5 14 (0.36%) Unified Communications
6 12 (0.31%) Intranet
6 12 (0.31%) Network Security
7 9 (0.23%) TCP/IP
8 6 (0.15%) HTTPS
9 5 (0.13%) DHCP
9 5 (0.13%) Intrusion Detection
10 4 (0.10%) HTTP
10 4 (0.10%) Internet
10 4 (0.10%) SMS
10 4 (0.10%) SNMP
10 4 (0.10%) VoIP
10 4 (0.10%) Wireshark
11 3 (0.077%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 703 (18.06%) Power BI
2 396 (10.17%) Tableau
3 320 (8.22%) Data Warehouse
4 252 (6.47%) Data Lake
5 179 (4.60%) Metadata
6 172 (4.42%) Data Mining
7 152 (3.90%) SQL Server
8 102 (2.62%) Azure SQL Database
9 96 (2.47%) SAP BW
10 91 (2.34%) Looker
11 84 (2.16%) Big Data
12 72 (1.85%) Relational Database
13 69 (1.77%) NoSQL
14 68 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 62 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
16 57 (1.46%) Power Query
17 56 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 54 (1.39%) BigQuery
19 41 (1.05%) Hadoop
20 39 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 120 (3.08%) Git
1 120 (3.08%) JIRA
2 62 (1.59%) Jenkins
3 31 (0.80%) Oracle Forms
4 24 (0.62%) Axure RP
4 24 (0.62%) Balsamiq
4 24 (0.62%) GitLab
5 23 (0.59%) TeamCity
6 18 (0.46%) ERwin
6 18 (0.46%) Visual Studio
7 15 (0.39%) MLflow
8 13 (0.33%) Selenium
9 8 (0.21%) CircleCI
9 8 (0.21%) PowerDesigner
10 7 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 6 (0.15%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.15%) ER Studio
11 6 (0.15%) Postman
12 5 (0.13%) MSI
12 5 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,348 (34.63%) Finance
2 1,275 (32.75%) Social Skills
3 1,094 (28.10%) Analytical Skills
4 648 (16.65%) Marketing
5 265 (6.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 224 (5.75%) Banking
7 220 (5.65%) Public Sector
8 213 (5.47%) Law
9 197 (5.06%) Retail
10 154 (3.96%) Manufacturing
11 138 (3.54%) Legal
12 133 (3.42%) Presentation Skills
13 119 (3.06%) Games
14 107 (2.75%) Financial Institution
15 91 (2.34%) Pharmaceutical
16 90 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
17 85 (2.18%) Advertising
18 84 (2.16%) Automotive
19 77 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
20 68 (1.75%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 632 (16.23%) Analyst
2 628 (16.13%) Senior
3 493 (12.66%) Lead
4 348 (8.94%) Data Engineer
5 345 (8.86%) Data Analyst
6 307 (7.89%) Architect
7 225 (5.78%) Developer
8 141 (3.62%) Trainee
8 141 (3.62%) Trainee Analyst
8 141 (3.62%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 138 (3.54%) Senior Manager
10 132 (3.39%) Data Architect
11 94 (2.41%) Solutions Architect
12 91 (2.34%) Consultant
13 87 (2.23%) Designer
14 85 (2.18%) Data Manager
15 83 (2.13%) Senior Analyst
16 81 (2.08%) Support Engineer
17 79 (2.03%) Data Scientist
18 74 (1.90%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (2.44%) HTML
2 84 (2.16%) CSS
3 77 (1.98%) Kafka
3 77 (1.98%) PySpark
4 62 (1.59%) OAuth
5 61 (1.57%) .NET
5 61 (1.57%) React
6 60 (1.54%) RESTful
7 53 (1.36%) PyTorch
8 50 (1.28%) REST
9 49 (1.26%) TensorFlow
10 44 (1.13%) JSON
11 39 (1.00%) OAuth2
12 32 (0.82%) SAML
13 29 (0.74%) Node.js
14 27 (0.69%) .NET Core
15 26 (0.67%) FIX Protocol
16 25 (0.64%) Middleware
17 23 (0.59%) Akka
17 23 (0.59%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 188 (4.83%) Self-Motivation
2 184 (4.73%) Product Ownership
3 181 (4.65%) Social Media
4 171 (4.39%) Analytical Mindset
5 165 (4.24%) Cloud Native
6 159 (4.08%) Management Information System
7 126 (3.24%) Onboarding
8 114 (2.93%) Algorithms
9 96 (2.47%) Life Science
10 78 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
11 68 (1.75%) Data Structures
11 68 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
12 52 (1.34%) FMCG
13 49 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
14 44 (1.13%) Data Centre
15 42 (1.08%) Virtual Team
16 41 (1.05%) Fixed Income
17 40 (1.03%) Mobile App
18 38 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
19 37 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 113 (2.90%) Windows
2 60 (1.54%) Windows 10
3 42 (1.08%) Linux
4 30 (0.77%) Unix
5 19 (0.49%) VMS
6 13 (0.33%) Android
6 13 (0.33%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.31%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.051%) AIX
8 2 (0.051%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.026%) Debian
9 1 (0.026%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,073 (27.56%) AI
2 1,000 (25.69%) Business Intelligence
3 873 (22.42%) Decision-Making
4 817 (20.99%) Problem-Solving
5 751 (19.29%) Agile
6 750 (19.27%) Data Analytics
7 709 (18.21%) Continuous Improvement
8 651 (16.72%) Data Modelling
9 507 (13.02%) Data Governance
10 483 (12.41%) Machine Learning
11 477 (12.25%) Project Management
12 472 (12.12%) Data Science
13 468 (12.02%) Data Analysis
13 468 (12.02%) Data Engineering
14 459 (11.79%) Roadmaps
15 450 (11.56%) Stakeholder Management
16 427 (10.97%) CI/CD
17 423 (10.87%) Data Pipeline
17 423 (10.87%) Visualisation
18 418 (10.74%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 1,025 (26.33%) SQL
2 932 (23.94%) Python
3 117 (3.01%) Java
3 117 (3.01%) JavaScript
4 90 (2.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 85 (2.18%) C#
6 78 (2.00%) PowerShell
7 76 (1.95%) Scala
8 67 (1.72%) R
9 50 (1.28%) Bicep
10 43 (1.10%) T-SQL
11 34 (0.87%) Bash
11 34 (0.87%) C++
11 34 (0.87%) TypeScript
12 29 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
13 25 (0.64%) PL/SQL
14 23 (0.59%) Go
15 22 (0.57%) Shell Script
16 17 (0.44%) VBA
17 14 (0.36%) PHP
Qualifications
1 859 (22.07%) Degree
2 248 (6.37%) Security Cleared
3 185 (4.75%) Master's Degree
4 183 (4.70%) SC Cleared
5 123 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 87 (2.23%) PhD
7 60 (1.54%) CISSP
7 60 (1.54%) CTC Cleared
8 54 (1.39%) CISA
9 53 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
10 50 (1.28%) Azure Certification
11 49 (1.26%) DBS Check
12 47 (1.21%) Numerate Degree
13 46 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
14 44 (1.13%) CISM
15 38 (0.98%) PMI Certification
16 33 (0.85%) ACCA
17 31 (0.80%) PMP
18 27 (0.69%) DV Cleared
19 26 (0.67%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 554 (14.23%) Data Quality
2 256 (6.58%) GDPR
3 244 (6.27%) Accessibility
4 80 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 80 (2.05%) QA
5 71 (1.82%) SLA
6 54 (1.39%) NIST
7 45 (1.16%) WCAG
8 43 (1.10%) GxP
9 41 (1.05%) Actionable Recommendations
10 32 (0.82%) COBIT
11 25 (0.64%) Solvency II
12 23 (0.59%) IFRS
13 22 (0.57%) EU AI Act
13 22 (0.57%) HIPAA
14 21 (0.54%) PSD2
15 18 (0.46%) GRC
16 17 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 17 (0.44%) SOC 2
17 15 (0.39%) PMO
System Software
1 119 (3.06%) Docker
2 58 (1.49%) Active Directory
3 35 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
6 10 (0.26%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.10%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.051%) Firmware
8 2 (0.051%) vSphere
9 1 (0.026%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.026%) vCloud
9 1 (0.026%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 188 (4.83%) Terraform
2 137 (3.52%) Kubernetes
3 36 (0.92%) Ansible
4 29 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
5 25 (0.64%) Grafana
5 25 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
6 21 (0.54%) Prometheus
7 11 (0.28%) SCCM
8 10 (0.26%) QRadar
9 8 (0.21%) EnCase
9 8 (0.21%) FTK
10 7 (0.18%) Kibana
11 6 (0.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 5 (0.13%) Argo
12 5 (0.13%) RSA Archer
12 5 (0.13%) SCOM
13 3 (0.077%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.077%) ArcSight ESM
13 3 (0.077%) Control-M
14 1 (0.026%) MOM
Vendors
1 806 (20.70%) Microsoft
2 322 (8.27%) Google
3 256 (6.58%) Databricks
4 251 (6.45%) SAP
5 184 (4.73%) Salesforce
6 161 (4.14%) Adobe
7 137 (3.52%) Cisco
8 135 (3.47%) Oracle
9 68 (1.75%) HubSpot
10 55 (1.41%) Alteryx
11 36 (0.92%) ServiceNow
12 34 (0.87%) Bloomberg
13 32 (0.82%) Informatica
14 31 (0.80%) Dell
15 30 (0.77%) OpenAI
15 30 (0.77%) Talend
16 29 (0.74%) YouTube
17 28 (0.72%) Nexthink
18 26 (0.67%) IBM
19 24 (0.62%) Instagram