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 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 19 39
Rank change year-on-year -11 +20 -16
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 4,606 3,798 5,225
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.08% 8.75% 5.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.83% 9.37% 6.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2,645 1,767 3,323
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £93,750 £80,777
90th Percentile £101,250 £115,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,221 £53,500
% change year-on-year +0.49% +6.96% -2.73%

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 67,484 40,549 82,082
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.46% 93.37% 85.36%
Number of salaries quoted 42,329 22,500 59,656
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -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 8 May 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 8 May 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 4,075 £65,000 - 1,920
UK excluding London -21 2,446 £57,500 +0.49% 1,235
London +2 1,778 £80,000 -5.88% 992
Work from Home +1 1,431 £65,000 +8.33% 841
North of England 0 740 £60,000 +9.09% 319
South East -33 517 £55,000 -8.33% 415
Midlands -12 494 £55,000 +4.76% 214
North West +11 424 £60,000 +9.09% 191
West Midlands -21 290 £55,100 +0.18% 111
Yorkshire -10 241 £58,750 +3.52% 78
South West -27 232 £57,500 +2.27% 115
East of England +30 219 £60,000 -7.69% 79
East Midlands +28 200 £50,000 +3.09% 103
Scotland -9 156 £65,000 -16.24% 63
North East +10 75 £45,497 -19.12% 53
Northern Ireland -14 49 £45,000 +50.00% 13
Wales -4 41 £47,500 -9.52% 39

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
1 162 (3.52%) Apache Airflow
2 139 (3.02%) Apache Spark
3 116 (2.52%) CMS
4 81 (1.76%) Apache
5 64 (1.39%) Confluence
6 52 (1.13%) SharePoint
7 51 (1.11%) WordPress
8 37 (0.80%) SAS
9 35 (0.76%) ArcGIS
10 20 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
11 17 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
12 10 (0.22%) Drupal
13 7 (0.15%) Oracle Application Server
13 7 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 6 (0.13%) IIS
15 4 (0.087%) Appian
15 4 (0.087%) Documentum
15 4 (0.087%) Moodle
15 4 (0.087%) Umbraco
16 3 (0.065%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 311 (6.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 107 (2.32%) Microsoft Office
3 52 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (0.67%) UserZoom
5 23 (0.50%) Adobe XD
6 19 (0.41%) MS Visio
7 18 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
8 11 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 10 (0.22%) SPSS
10 9 (0.20%) Chatbot
11 4 (0.087%) Adobe Illustrator
11 4 (0.087%) InDesign
11 4 (0.087%) Microsoft Project
11 4 (0.087%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.065%) Sketch
13 2 (0.043%) Maya
13 2 (0.043%) Notion
14 1 (0.022%) Adobe Premiere
14 1 (0.022%) Siemens NX
14 1 (0.022%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 87 (1.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (0.74%) Adobe Campaign
2 34 (0.74%) SAP IBP
3 33 (0.72%) SAP PP
4 24 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
4 24 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
5 21 (0.46%) Magento
6 17 (0.37%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 15 (0.33%) iTrent
7 15 (0.33%) Shopify
8 11 (0.24%) NetSuite
8 11 (0.24%) SAP CO
9 10 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
10 9 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
11 8 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
11 8 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
11 8 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
11 8 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
11 8 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
11 8 (0.17%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 937 (20.34%) Azure
2 698 (15.15%) Power Platform
3 574 (12.46%) AWS
4 286 (6.21%) GCP
5 260 (5.64%) SaaS
6 234 (5.08%) Snowflake
7 202 (4.39%) Adobe Analytics
8 199 (4.32%) Google Analytics
9 192 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
10 154 (3.34%) Microsoft 365
11 152 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
12 151 (3.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 137 (2.97%) GitHub
14 135 (2.93%) dbt
15 129 (2.80%) Figma
16 118 (2.56%) Amazon S3
17 114 (2.48%) Serverless
18 99 (2.15%) Entra ID
19 70 (1.52%) Azure Monitor
20 68 (1.48%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 261 (5.67%) Broadband
2 39 (0.85%) Firewall
3 36 (0.78%) VPN
4 29 (0.63%) CHAP
5 26 (0.56%) DNS
6 23 (0.50%) Network Security
6 23 (0.50%) WAN
7 17 (0.37%) TCP/IP
8 15 (0.33%) DHCP
9 14 (0.30%) Intranet
10 11 (0.24%) Unified Communications
11 8 (0.17%) 5G
12 7 (0.15%) HTTP
12 7 (0.15%) SMS
13 5 (0.11%) BGP
13 5 (0.11%) SNMP
13 5 (0.11%) SSL
13 5 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
14 4 (0.087%) HTTPS
14 4 (0.087%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 661 (14.35%) Power BI
2 342 (7.43%) Tableau
3 327 (7.10%) Data Warehouse
4 229 (4.97%) Data Lake
5 176 (3.82%) Metadata
6 142 (3.08%) Data Mining
7 137 (2.97%) SQL Server
8 125 (2.71%) Looker
9 109 (2.37%) BigQuery
10 102 (2.21%) Amazon Redshift
10 102 (2.21%) Relational Database
11 82 (1.78%) NoSQL
12 81 (1.76%) Azure SQL Database
13 74 (1.61%) Big Data
14 67 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
15 56 (1.22%) Power Query
16 52 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 47 (1.02%) Delta Lake
18 46 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
18 46 (1.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 172 (3.73%) Git
2 86 (1.87%) JIRA
3 73 (1.58%) Jenkins
4 43 (0.93%) MLflow
5 36 (0.78%) GitLab
6 25 (0.54%) IBM UrbanCode
7 23 (0.50%) TeamCity
8 18 (0.39%) Axure RP
8 18 (0.39%) Balsamiq
9 16 (0.35%) CircleCI
9 16 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
10 15 (0.33%) Crashlytics
11 12 (0.26%) Selenium
11 12 (0.26%) XCTest
12 11 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 10 (0.22%) ERwin
13 10 (0.22%) Visual Studio
14 7 (0.15%) Claude Code
15 5 (0.11%) MSI
16 4 (0.087%) Browser DevTools
General
1 1,280 (27.79%) Finance
2 1,159 (25.16%) Social Skills
3 1,054 (22.88%) Analytical Skills
4 652 (14.16%) Marketing
5 262 (5.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 247 (5.36%) Retail
7 235 (5.10%) Public Sector
8 218 (4.73%) Games
9 207 (4.49%) Law
10 206 (4.47%) Banking
11 146 (3.17%) Legal
12 142 (3.08%) Manufacturing
13 125 (2.71%) Influencing Skills
14 116 (2.52%) Automotive
15 105 (2.28%) Organisational Skills
16 101 (2.19%) Advertising
17 94 (2.04%) Financial Institution
18 75 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
19 69 (1.50%) Back Office
20 50 (1.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 808 (17.54%) Senior
2 602 (13.07%) Analyst
3 511 (11.09%) Data Engineer
4 510 (11.07%) Lead
5 350 (7.60%) Architect
6 311 (6.75%) Data Analyst
7 261 (5.67%) Developer
8 177 (3.84%) Consultant
9 165 (3.58%) Data Architect
10 136 (2.95%) Senior Manager
11 126 (2.74%) Senior Data Engineer
11 126 (2.74%) Trainee
11 126 (2.74%) Trainee Analyst
11 126 (2.74%) Trainee Data Analyst
12 114 (2.48%) Solutions Architect
13 112 (2.43%) Designer
14 109 (2.37%) Data Scientist
15 106 (2.30%) Data Manager
16 105 (2.28%) Product Manager
17 99 (2.15%) Analytics Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (2.95%) PySpark
2 125 (2.71%) Kafka
3 93 (2.02%) HTML
4 87 (1.89%) PyTorch
5 86 (1.87%) CSS
6 80 (1.74%) .NET
7 60 (1.30%) TensorFlow
8 53 (1.15%) React
9 52 (1.13%) SAP Fiori
10 47 (1.02%) RESTful
11 46 (1.00%) scikit-learn
12 44 (0.96%) LangChain
12 44 (0.96%) Pandas
12 44 (0.96%) REST
13 42 (0.91%) OAuth
14 41 (0.89%) .NET Core
15 37 (0.80%) JSON
16 34 (0.74%) Node.js
17 24 (0.52%) LlamaIndex
18 23 (0.50%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 285 (6.19%) Social Media
2 208 (4.52%) Cloud Native
3 179 (3.89%) Product Ownership
4 153 (3.32%) Management Information System
5 149 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
6 114 (2.48%) Onboarding
7 104 (2.26%) Algorithms
8 96 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
9 92 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
10 85 (1.85%) Data Structures
11 80 (1.74%) Life Science
12 78 (1.69%) Marketing Technology
13 70 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
14 68 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
15 63 (1.37%) Mobile App
16 57 (1.24%) Over-the-Top Content
16 57 (1.24%) Virtual Team
17 46 (1.00%) Public Cloud
18 42 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
19 37 (0.80%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 115 (2.50%) Windows
2 59 (1.28%) Windows 10
3 52 (1.13%) Linux
4 27 (0.59%) VMS
5 23 (0.50%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.39%) Unix
7 17 (0.37%) Windows Server
8 11 (0.24%) Android
9 3 (0.065%) AIX
10 1 (0.022%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,298 (28.18%) AI
2 969 (21.04%) Decision-Making
3 948 (20.58%) Business Intelligence
4 901 (19.56%) Agile
5 720 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
6 711 (15.44%) Data Modelling
7 704 (15.28%) Data Analytics
8 688 (14.94%) Problem-Solving
9 648 (14.07%) Roadmaps
10 618 (13.42%) Data Engineering
11 563 (12.22%) Data Pipeline
12 534 (11.59%) CI/CD
13 522 (11.33%) Customer Experience
14 513 (11.14%) Data Governance
15 504 (10.94%) Machine Learning
16 501 (10.88%) Data Science
17 495 (10.75%) ETL
18 429 (9.31%) Data Analysis
19 425 (9.23%) DevOps
20 422 (9.16%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1,165 (25.29%) SQL
2 1,044 (22.67%) Python
3 110 (2.39%) C#
4 103 (2.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 103 (2.24%) Java
5 90 (1.95%) JavaScript
6 82 (1.78%) Scala
7 71 (1.54%) R
8 68 (1.48%) PowerShell
9 47 (1.02%) TypeScript
10 43 (0.93%) Bicep
11 39 (0.85%) T-SQL
12 38 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
13 36 (0.78%) C++
13 36 (0.78%) Go
14 23 (0.50%) Bash
15 18 (0.39%) VBA
16 16 (0.35%) Kotlin
17 14 (0.30%) PL/SQL
17 14 (0.30%) Swift
Qualifications
1 610 (13.24%) Degree
2 284 (6.17%) Security Cleared
3 197 (4.28%) SC Cleared
4 111 (2.41%) Master's Degree
5 85 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 72 (1.56%) IRCA
7 62 (1.35%) Azure Certification
8 59 (1.28%) CTC Cleared
9 51 (1.11%) ACCA
10 47 (1.02%) CISM
10 47 (1.02%) CISSP
10 47 (1.02%) PhD
11 46 (1.00%) DBS Check
12 44 (0.96%) CISA
13 43 (0.93%) CIMA
14 36 (0.78%) DV Cleared
15 32 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
16 31 (0.67%) SANS
17 30 (0.65%) CGEIT
17 30 (0.65%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 584 (12.68%) Data Quality
2 372 (8.08%) Accessibility
3 333 (7.23%) GDPR
4 177 (3.84%) QA
5 93 (2.02%) WCAG
6 82 (1.78%) SLA
7 76 (1.65%) ISO 9001
8 50 (1.09%) NIST
9 44 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 37 (0.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 34 (0.74%) COBIT
12 32 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
13 26 (0.56%) IFRS
14 20 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 18 (0.39%) SOC 2
16 17 (0.37%) GAAP
17 16 (0.35%) GRC
18 15 (0.33%) GxP
18 15 (0.33%) HIPAA
19 14 (0.30%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 151 (3.28%) Docker
2 81 (1.76%) Active Directory
3 23 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.17%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.087%) IAG
6 4 (0.087%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.065%) vSphere
8 2 (0.043%) Firmware
9 1 (0.022%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.022%) vCloud
9 1 (0.022%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 222 (4.82%) Terraform
2 179 (3.89%) Kubernetes
3 50 (1.09%) Ansible
4 26 (0.56%) Prometheus
5 25 (0.54%) Grafana
6 17 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (0.20%) EnCase
8 9 (0.20%) FTK
9 7 (0.15%) Kibana
10 6 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.087%) Argo
11 4 (0.087%) Control-M
11 4 (0.087%) VxRail
12 3 (0.065%) Graylog
13 2 (0.043%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.043%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.043%) SCCM
13 2 (0.043%) Thomson Reuters DACS
13 2 (0.043%) vRealize
Vendors
1 791 (17.17%) Microsoft
2 386 (8.38%) Databricks
3 318 (6.90%) Google
4 302 (6.56%) Adobe
5 206 (4.47%) SAP
6 149 (3.23%) Salesforce
7 127 (2.76%) Oracle
8 120 (2.61%) Cisco
9 60 (1.30%) HubSpot
10 54 (1.17%) Dell
11 48 (1.04%) Informatica
12 32 (0.69%) Alteryx
13 28 (0.61%) Red Hat
13 28 (0.61%) Workday
14 26 (0.56%) Nexthink
14 26 (0.56%) OpenAI
14 26 (0.56%) Palantir
15 25 (0.54%) Cloudera
15 25 (0.54%) Denodo
15 25 (0.54%) Talend