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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 26 29
Rank change year-on-year -6 +3 -4
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 3,660 3,583 3,552
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 6.19% 6.49% 6.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.55% 7.21% 7.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,884 1,810 2,470
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,700
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £114,625 £118,750 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,148
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.27% -1.88%

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 48,455 49,716 46,950
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.91% 90.02% 91.47%
Number of salaries quoted 28,359 24,660 35,854
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,552
25th Percentile £36,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.91% +4.76% -4.50%

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 1 January 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 1 January 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 -8 3,136 £62,500 -10.71% 1,820
UK excluding London +5 1,901 £50,000 -13.04% 1,168
London +3 1,475 £75,000 -11.76% 886
Work from Home -3 1,086 £60,000 -11.11% 833
South East +24 581 £52,500 -12.50% 439
North of England -15 372 £52,500 -4.55% 285
Midlands -4 315 £52,500 -7.89% 175
Scotland +11 254 £49,500 -18.51% 43
South West +10 196 £52,500 -8.70% 107
North West -23 188 £46,250 -15.91% 171
West Midlands -16 183 £57,468 +0.82% 109
Yorkshire +3 150 £65,000 +18.18% 89
East Midlands +15 133 £45,000 -10.00% 62
East of England +35 127 £40,000 -37.25% 107
North East +18 35 £40,000 -27.27% 28
Northern Ireland 0 33 £45,000 -35.71% 15
Wales +17 26 £47,500 -5.00% 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 89 (2.43%) Apache Spark
2 85 (2.32%) CMS
3 65 (1.78%) Apache Airflow
4 50 (1.37%) WordPress
5 45 (1.23%) Confluence
6 42 (1.15%) SharePoint
7 34 (0.93%) Apache
8 23 (0.63%) SAS
9 20 (0.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 15 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
11 10 (0.27%) Drupal
11 10 (0.27%) SugarCRM
12 9 (0.25%) Umbraco
13 6 (0.16%) Headless CMS
14 5 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 5 (0.14%) IIS
15 4 (0.11%) Apache Superset
15 4 (0.11%) Appian
16 3 (0.082%) Moodle
16 3 (0.082%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 520 (14.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 98 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
3 58 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (0.85%) Maya
5 28 (0.77%) Adobe XD
6 23 (0.63%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 22 (0.60%) Photoshop
8 18 (0.49%) InDesign
9 15 (0.41%) Chatbot
9 15 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
10 12 (0.33%) Adobe Premiere
11 11 (0.30%) SPSS
12 10 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
12 10 (0.27%) Trello
13 9 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
14 5 (0.14%) MS Visio
15 4 (0.11%) MadCap Flare
15 4 (0.11%) SketchUp
16 3 (0.082%) Final Cut Pro
16 3 (0.082%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 82 (2.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 60 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 37 (1.01%) Shopify
4 34 (0.93%) Oracle ERP
5 26 (0.71%) SAP IBP
6 21 (0.57%) Magento
6 21 (0.57%) SAP CO
7 17 (0.46%) SAP FI
7 17 (0.46%) SAP FI/CO
8 16 (0.44%) Oracle Assets
8 16 (0.44%) Oracle General Ledger
8 16 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
8 16 (0.44%) Oracle Receivables
9 15 (0.41%) Oracle Financials
10 14 (0.38%) Dynamics GP
11 13 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
12 11 (0.30%) SAP FSCM
13 10 (0.27%) NetSuite
13 10 (0.27%) SAP IS-U
14 8 (0.22%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 944 (25.79%) Azure
2 746 (20.38%) Power Platform
3 370 (10.11%) AWS
4 229 (6.26%) GCP
5 225 (6.15%) SaaS
6 211 (5.77%) Google Analytics
7 195 (5.33%) Snowflake
8 181 (4.95%) Azure Data Factory
9 167 (4.56%) Azure DevOps
10 157 (4.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 146 (3.99%) GitHub
12 133 (3.63%) Microsoft 365
13 114 (3.11%) dbt
14 78 (2.13%) Azure Monitor
15 75 (2.05%) Serverless
16 69 (1.89%) Figma
17 65 (1.78%) Entra ID
18 62 (1.69%) Google Ads
19 61 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
20 59 (1.61%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 35 (0.96%) VPN
2 33 (0.90%) SMS
3 30 (0.82%) Firewall
4 26 (0.71%) Broadband
5 18 (0.49%) Unified Communications
6 15 (0.41%) DNS
7 13 (0.36%) Network Security
8 12 (0.33%) CHAP
9 11 (0.30%) WAN
10 9 (0.25%) Intranet
11 7 (0.19%) TCP/IP
12 5 (0.14%) DHCP
12 5 (0.14%) Intrusion Detection
13 4 (0.11%) HTTPS
13 4 (0.11%) Internet
13 4 (0.11%) VoIP
13 4 (0.11%) Wireshark
14 3 (0.082%) MQTT
15 2 (0.055%) HTTP
15 2 (0.055%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 712 (19.45%) Power BI
2 394 (10.77%) Tableau
3 318 (8.69%) Data Warehouse
4 250 (6.83%) Data Lake
5 162 (4.43%) Metadata
6 145 (3.96%) Data Mining
6 145 (3.96%) SQL Server
7 97 (2.65%) SAP BW
8 93 (2.54%) Azure SQL Database
8 93 (2.54%) Big Data
9 92 (2.51%) Looker
10 76 (2.08%) BigQuery
11 71 (1.94%) NoSQL
12 68 (1.86%) Relational Database
13 66 (1.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 60 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
15 50 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 48 (1.31%) Hadoop
17 46 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
17 46 (1.26%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 123 (3.36%) JIRA
2 108 (2.95%) Git
3 49 (1.34%) Jenkins
4 31 (0.85%) Oracle Forms
5 25 (0.68%) Axure RP
5 25 (0.68%) Balsamiq
6 18 (0.49%) ERwin
6 18 (0.49%) GitLab
7 14 (0.38%) Visual Studio
8 12 (0.33%) TeamCity
9 11 (0.30%) Cypress.io
9 11 (0.30%) MLflow
9 11 (0.30%) Selenium
10 7 (0.19%) ER Studio
10 7 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
11 6 (0.16%) Postman
12 5 (0.14%) MSI
12 5 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
13 4 (0.11%) Maven
13 4 (0.11%) TestNG
General
1 1,292 (35.30%) Finance
2 1,266 (34.59%) Social Skills
3 1,121 (30.63%) Analytical Skills
4 710 (19.40%) Marketing
5 276 (7.54%) Law
6 232 (6.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 215 (5.87%) Retail
8 205 (5.60%) Banking
9 201 (5.49%) Public Sector
10 169 (4.62%) Manufacturing
11 150 (4.10%) Presentation Skills
12 133 (3.63%) Legal
13 98 (2.68%) Games
14 97 (2.65%) Financial Institution
15 94 (2.57%) Pharmaceutical
16 76 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
17 69 (1.89%) Automotive
18 67 (1.83%) Front Office
19 66 (1.80%) Advertising
19 66 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 583 (15.93%) Analyst
2 568 (15.52%) Senior
3 456 (12.46%) Lead
4 315 (8.61%) Data Analyst
5 290 (7.92%) Data Engineer
6 289 (7.90%) Architect
7 218 (5.96%) Developer
8 135 (3.69%) Senior Manager
9 117 (3.20%) Data Architect
10 116 (3.17%) Trainee
10 116 (3.17%) Trainee Analyst
10 116 (3.17%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 96 (2.62%) Innovation Manager
12 93 (2.54%) Consultant
13 79 (2.16%) Solutions Architect
14 71 (1.94%) Data Scientist
15 70 (1.91%) Report Analyst
15 70 (1.91%) Senior Analyst
16 69 (1.89%) Data Manager
17 66 (1.80%) Analytics Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (2.49%) HTML
2 79 (2.16%) CSS
3 69 (1.89%) RESTful
4 68 (1.86%) PySpark
5 65 (1.78%) Kafka
6 57 (1.56%) OAuth
6 57 (1.56%) React
7 52 (1.42%) REST
8 49 (1.34%) PyTorch
9 48 (1.31%) TensorFlow
10 46 (1.26%) JSON
11 39 (1.07%) .NET
12 37 (1.01%) OAuth2
13 34 (0.93%) Node.js
14 31 (0.85%) scikit-learn
15 30 (0.82%) SAML
16 28 (0.77%) Pandas
17 27 (0.74%) Middleware
18 25 (0.68%) GraphQL
19 24 (0.66%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 177 (4.84%) Analytical Mindset
1 177 (4.84%) Self-Motivation
2 166 (4.54%) Onboarding
3 165 (4.51%) Product Ownership
4 164 (4.48%) Cloud Native
5 150 (4.10%) Management Information System
6 142 (3.88%) Social Media
7 120 (3.28%) Algorithms
8 85 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
9 83 (2.27%) Life Science
10 64 (1.75%) FMCG
11 60 (1.64%) Data Structures
12 57 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
13 50 (1.37%) Data Centre
14 47 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
15 40 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
16 37 (1.01%) Virtual Team
17 36 (0.98%) Fixed Income
18 33 (0.90%) Reinsurance
19 30 (0.82%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 81 (2.21%) Windows
2 35 (0.96%) Linux
3 28 (0.77%) Windows 10
4 27 (0.74%) Unix
5 12 (0.33%) Windows Server
6 11 (0.30%) VMS
7 9 (0.25%) Android
8 8 (0.22%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.055%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.027%) AIX
10 1 (0.027%) Debian
10 1 (0.027%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 993 (27.13%) AI
2 989 (27.02%) Business Intelligence
3 846 (23.11%) Decision-Making
4 833 (22.76%) Problem-Solving
5 723 (19.75%) Data Analytics
6 704 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
7 682 (18.63%) Agile
8 595 (16.26%) Data Modelling
9 495 (13.52%) Stakeholder Management
10 475 (12.98%) Data Science
11 467 (12.76%) Roadmaps
12 461 (12.60%) Data Analysis
13 459 (12.54%) Machine Learning
14 457 (12.49%) Data Governance
15 434 (11.86%) Project Management
16 413 (11.28%) Visualisation
17 400 (10.93%) Data Engineering
18 384 (10.49%) ETL
19 381 (10.41%) DevOps
20 373 (10.19%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 976 (26.67%) SQL
2 917 (25.05%) Python
3 129 (3.52%) Java
4 122 (3.33%) JavaScript
5 82 (2.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 75 (2.05%) PowerShell
7 71 (1.94%) R
8 66 (1.80%) Scala
9 65 (1.78%) C#
10 51 (1.39%) Bicep
11 47 (1.28%) T-SQL
12 35 (0.96%) TypeScript
13 34 (0.93%) Go
14 30 (0.82%) PL/SQL
15 29 (0.79%) Bash
15 29 (0.79%) C++
16 24 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
17 20 (0.55%) Shell Script
18 16 (0.44%) VBA
19 13 (0.36%) PHP
Qualifications
1 836 (22.84%) Degree
2 202 (5.52%) Master's Degree
3 185 (5.05%) Security Cleared
4 134 (3.66%) SC Cleared
5 117 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 96 (2.62%) PhD
7 94 (2.57%) DBS Check
8 62 (1.69%) CISSP
9 52 (1.42%) CISA
10 48 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
10 48 (1.31%) Numerate Degree
11 46 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
12 45 (1.23%) Azure Certification
13 42 (1.15%) ACCA
13 42 (1.15%) CISM
14 37 (1.01%) PMI Certification
15 29 (0.79%) CIMA
15 29 (0.79%) PMP
16 28 (0.77%) CTC Cleared
17 24 (0.66%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 488 (13.33%) Data Quality
2 261 (7.13%) GDPR
3 200 (5.46%) Accessibility
4 83 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 81 (2.21%) QA
6 50 (1.37%) NIST
7 43 (1.17%) SLA
8 42 (1.15%) WCAG
9 39 (1.07%) Actionable Recommendations
9 39 (1.07%) GxP
10 29 (0.79%) COBIT
11 24 (0.66%) Solvency II
12 23 (0.63%) HIPAA
13 22 (0.60%) EU AI Act
14 21 (0.57%) PSD2
15 20 (0.55%) GRC
16 19 (0.52%) IFRS
17 18 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 15 (0.41%) ITGC
18 15 (0.41%) PMO
System Software
1 101 (2.76%) Docker
2 51 (1.39%) Active Directory
3 30 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
6 10 (0.27%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.055%) Firmware
7 2 (0.055%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.027%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.027%) vCloud
8 1 (0.027%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.027%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 174 (4.75%) Terraform
2 130 (3.55%) Kubernetes
3 33 (0.90%) Ansible
4 30 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
5 25 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
6 16 (0.44%) Grafana
7 13 (0.36%) Prometheus
8 12 (0.33%) SCCM
9 11 (0.30%) QRadar
10 7 (0.19%) EnCase
10 7 (0.19%) FTK
11 6 (0.16%) RSA Archer
11 6 (0.16%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 5 (0.14%) Argo
12 5 (0.14%) SCOM
13 3 (0.082%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.082%) ArcSight ESM
13 3 (0.082%) Control-M
13 3 (0.082%) Kibana
14 1 (0.027%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 690 (18.85%) Microsoft
2 339 (9.26%) Google
3 251 (6.86%) SAP
4 248 (6.78%) Databricks
5 201 (5.49%) Salesforce
6 138 (3.77%) Oracle
7 124 (3.39%) Adobe
8 85 (2.32%) Cisco
9 67 (1.83%) HubSpot
10 55 (1.50%) Alteryx
11 40 (1.09%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 34 (0.93%) Bloomberg
13 33 (0.90%) ServiceNow
14 32 (0.87%) Dell
15 30 (0.82%) Talend
16 26 (0.71%) Informatica
17 25 (0.68%) OpenAI
18 23 (0.63%) YouTube
19 22 (0.60%) Sage
20 21 (0.57%) IBM