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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 24 37
Rank change year-on-year -8 +13 -12
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 4,224 3,290 4,633
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.73% 7.54% 5.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.34% 8.05% 6.32%
Number of salaries quoted 2,334 1,635 3,274
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,813 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -8.19%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -3.51% +5.56% -1.82%

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 57,551 40,867 73,360
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.05% 93.60% 87.39%
Number of salaries quoted 34,815 22,139 55,867
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £39,860 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.41%
75th Percentile £76,299 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £94,006
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 13 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 13 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 -7 3,633 £65,000 -7.14% 2,230
UK excluding London -12 2,110 £55,000 -3.51% 1,560
London +5 1,713 £80,000 -5.88% 1,104
Work from Home -3 1,341 £63,076 +0.92% 1,087
North of England -17 547 £52,250 -5.00% 377
South East +2 491 £55,000 -8.33% 561
Midlands -10 429 £52,500 -4.55% 224
North West -21 272 £57,500 +4.55% 206
West Midlands -10 271 £57,500 +4.55% 127
Yorkshire -5 214 £50,000 -9.09% 122
Scotland -6 203 £65,000 -7.14% 57
South West -4 194 £55,000 +4.76% 163
East of England +36 159 £50,000 -23.08% 137
East Midlands 0 156 £47,500 - 97
North East +16 61 £40,000 -27.27% 52
Northern Ireland -4 56 £45,000 +50.00% 16
Wales +10 33 £52,500 +5.00% 43

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
1 141 (3.34%) Apache Airflow
2 115 (2.72%) Apache Spark
3 107 (2.53%) CMS
4 78 (1.85%) Apache
5 58 (1.37%) Confluence
6 54 (1.28%) WordPress
7 45 (1.07%) SharePoint
8 40 (0.95%) SAS
9 34 (0.80%) ArcGIS
10 22 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
11 17 (0.40%) Drupal
11 17 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
12 12 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 9 (0.21%) Oracle Application Server
14 8 (0.19%) Umbraco
15 6 (0.14%) IIS
16 4 (0.095%) Appian
16 4 (0.095%) Documentum
16 4 (0.095%) Sitecore CMS
17 3 (0.071%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 430 (10.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 125 (2.96%) Microsoft Office
3 64 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 27 (0.64%) Adobe XD
5 19 (0.45%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.40%) InDesign
7 16 (0.38%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 16 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
7 16 (0.38%) UserZoom
8 13 (0.31%) Photoshop
9 11 (0.26%) Adobe Premiere
9 11 (0.26%) SPSS
10 8 (0.19%) Chatbot
10 8 (0.19%) Maya
11 7 (0.17%) Trello
12 6 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
13 5 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
14 3 (0.071%) Final Cut Pro
14 3 (0.071%) SketchUp
15 2 (0.047%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 77 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 47 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 35 (0.83%) SAP IBP
4 34 (0.80%) SAP PP
5 30 (0.71%) Oracle ERP
6 17 (0.40%) Shopify
7 16 (0.38%) Magento
7 16 (0.38%) NetSuite
7 16 (0.38%) SAP CO
8 15 (0.36%) iTrent
9 14 (0.33%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 13 (0.31%) Adobe Campaign
10 13 (0.31%) Dynamics GP
10 13 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
10 13 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
10 13 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
11 12 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
11 12 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
11 12 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
12 11 (0.26%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 948 (22.44%) Azure
2 674 (15.96%) Power Platform
3 486 (11.51%) AWS
4 245 (5.80%) SaaS
5 232 (5.49%) Snowflake
6 225 (5.33%) GCP
7 223 (5.28%) Azure Data Factory
8 187 (4.43%) Google Analytics
9 171 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
10 166 (3.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 162 (3.84%) Microsoft 365
12 153 (3.62%) GitHub
13 143 (3.39%) Adobe Analytics
14 128 (3.03%) dbt
15 112 (2.65%) Figma
16 111 (2.63%) Amazon S3
17 94 (2.23%) Entra ID
17 94 (2.23%) Serverless
18 87 (2.06%) Azure Monitor
19 64 (1.52%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 162 (3.84%) Broadband
2 38 (0.90%) VPN
3 37 (0.88%) Firewall
4 24 (0.57%) CHAP
5 23 (0.54%) WAN
6 19 (0.45%) DNS
7 17 (0.40%) Network Security
8 14 (0.33%) Intranet
9 13 (0.31%) TCP/IP
9 13 (0.31%) Unified Communications
10 9 (0.21%) DHCP
11 6 (0.14%) HTTPS
12 5 (0.12%) SNMP
13 4 (0.095%) HTTP
13 4 (0.095%) SMS
14 3 (0.071%) Internet
14 3 (0.071%) Intrusion Detection
14 3 (0.071%) LAN
14 3 (0.071%) MQTT
15 2 (0.047%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 639 (15.13%) Power BI
2 425 (10.06%) Tableau
3 344 (8.14%) Data Warehouse
4 216 (5.11%) Data Lake
5 201 (4.76%) Data Mining
6 188 (4.45%) Metadata
7 159 (3.76%) SQL Server
8 112 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
9 105 (2.49%) Looker
10 84 (1.99%) Relational Database
11 80 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
12 76 (1.80%) BigQuery
13 72 (1.70%) NoSQL
14 69 (1.63%) Big Data
15 66 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 62 (1.47%) Power Query
17 54 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 49 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
19 42 (0.99%) Oracle Database
19 42 (0.99%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 151 (3.57%) Git
2 110 (2.60%) JIRA
3 71 (1.68%) Jenkins
4 32 (0.76%) GitLab
5 26 (0.62%) MLflow
6 25 (0.59%) Axure RP
6 25 (0.59%) Balsamiq
6 25 (0.59%) IBM UrbanCode
7 23 (0.54%) TeamCity
8 22 (0.52%) Oracle Forms
9 19 (0.45%) Visual Studio
10 13 (0.31%) ERwin
11 11 (0.26%) CircleCI
12 9 (0.21%) Crashlytics
12 9 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 8 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
13 8 (0.19%) Selenium
14 7 (0.17%) Cypress.io
15 6 (0.14%) XCTest
16 5 (0.12%) ER Studio
General
1 1,388 (32.86%) Finance
2 1,222 (28.93%) Social Skills
3 1,092 (25.85%) Analytical Skills
4 652 (15.44%) Marketing
5 283 (6.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 259 (6.13%) Public Sector
7 255 (6.04%) Banking
8 214 (5.07%) Law
9 206 (4.88%) Retail
10 168 (3.98%) Legal
11 163 (3.86%) Manufacturing
12 162 (3.84%) Games
13 122 (2.89%) Presentation Skills
14 109 (2.58%) Financial Institution
15 95 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
16 93 (2.20%) Automotive
17 91 (2.15%) Advertising
18 87 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
19 75 (1.78%) Pharmaceutical
20 69 (1.63%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 688 (16.29%) Senior
2 657 (15.55%) Analyst
3 466 (11.03%) Lead
4 400 (9.47%) Data Engineer
5 382 (9.04%) Data Analyst
6 317 (7.50%) Architect
7 232 (5.49%) Developer
8 179 (4.24%) Trainee
8 179 (4.24%) Trainee Analyst
8 179 (4.24%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 161 (3.81%) Consultant
10 149 (3.53%) Senior Manager
11 144 (3.41%) Data Architect
12 109 (2.58%) Designer
13 96 (2.27%) Solutions Architect
14 90 (2.13%) Data Manager
15 86 (2.04%) Support Engineer
16 85 (2.01%) Senior Analyst
17 83 (1.96%) Data Scientist
18 81 (1.92%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (2.58%) PySpark
2 100 (2.37%) Kafka
3 99 (2.34%) HTML
4 91 (2.15%) CSS
5 75 (1.78%) PyTorch
6 68 (1.61%) .NET
7 59 (1.40%) React
8 55 (1.30%) TensorFlow
9 54 (1.28%) OAuth
9 54 (1.28%) RESTful
10 49 (1.16%) SAP Fiori
11 47 (1.11%) REST
12 44 (1.04%) JSON
13 35 (0.83%) .NET Core
14 33 (0.78%) LangChain
15 32 (0.76%) Node.js
15 32 (0.76%) OAuth2
15 32 (0.76%) Pandas
16 27 (0.64%) scikit-learn
17 26 (0.62%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 259 (6.13%) Social Media
2 191 (4.52%) Cloud Native
3 190 (4.50%) Product Ownership
4 176 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
5 154 (3.65%) Analytical Mindset
6 149 (3.53%) Management Information System
7 129 (3.05%) Onboarding
8 116 (2.75%) Algorithms
9 113 (2.68%) Life Science
10 79 (1.87%) Data Structures
11 75 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
12 64 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
13 58 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
14 57 (1.35%) Mobile App
15 43 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
16 42 (0.99%) Virtual Team
17 38 (0.90%) Fixed Income
17 38 (0.90%) Web Conferencing
18 36 (0.85%) Over-the-Top Content
19 33 (0.78%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 110 (2.60%) Windows
2 60 (1.42%) Windows 10
3 42 (0.99%) Linux
4 25 (0.59%) VMS
5 24 (0.57%) Unix
6 18 (0.43%) Apple iOS
7 15 (0.36%) Windows Server
8 13 (0.31%) Android
9 2 (0.047%) AIX
9 2 (0.047%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.024%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,191 (28.20%) AI
2 928 (21.97%) Business Intelligence
3 890 (21.07%) Decision-Making
4 850 (20.12%) Agile
5 795 (18.82%) Data Analytics
6 730 (17.28%) Continuous Improvement
7 710 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
8 649 (15.36%) Data Modelling
9 536 (12.69%) Roadmaps
10 531 (12.57%) Data Governance
11 519 (12.29%) Data Engineering
12 518 (12.26%) Data Analysis
13 497 (11.77%) Data Science
14 486 (11.51%) Machine Learning
15 483 (11.43%) Data Pipeline
16 473 (11.20%) Project Management
17 469 (11.10%) CI/CD
18 461 (10.91%) ETL
19 431 (10.20%) Customer Experience
20 417 (9.87%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1,138 (26.94%) SQL
2 1,036 (24.53%) Python
3 114 (2.70%) JavaScript
4 103 (2.44%) Java
5 95 (2.25%) C#
6 94 (2.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 73 (1.73%) Scala
8 70 (1.66%) PowerShell
9 69 (1.63%) R
10 49 (1.16%) Bicep
11 44 (1.04%) T-SQL
12 41 (0.97%) C++
12 41 (0.97%) TypeScript
13 36 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
14 31 (0.73%) Go
15 26 (0.62%) Bash
16 20 (0.47%) PL/SQL
17 17 (0.40%) Shell Script
18 16 (0.38%) VBA
19 13 (0.31%) PHP
Qualifications
1 719 (17.02%) Degree
2 267 (6.32%) Security Cleared
3 190 (4.50%) SC Cleared
4 156 (3.69%) Master's Degree
5 124 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 62 (1.47%) PhD
7 60 (1.42%) CTC Cleared
8 56 (1.33%) Azure Certification
8 56 (1.33%) CISSP
9 51 (1.21%) CISA
10 48 (1.14%) CISM
10 48 (1.14%) IRCA
10 48 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
11 44 (1.04%) Numerate Degree
12 43 (1.02%) DBS Check
13 38 (0.90%) ACCA
13 38 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
14 36 (0.85%) DV Cleared
15 31 (0.73%) PMI Certification
16 29 (0.69%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 564 (13.35%) Data Quality
2 343 (8.12%) Accessibility
3 316 (7.48%) GDPR
4 141 (3.34%) QA
5 80 (1.89%) SLA
6 77 (1.82%) WCAG
7 70 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 59 (1.40%) ISO 9001
9 52 (1.23%) NIST
10 47 (1.11%) Actionable Recommendations
11 34 (0.80%) HIPAA
12 30 (0.71%) COBIT
12 30 (0.71%) GxP
13 28 (0.66%) IFRS
14 27 (0.64%) Solvency II
15 26 (0.62%) EU AI Act
16 23 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 21 (0.50%) PSD2
17 21 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 17 (0.40%) SOC 2
System Software
1 141 (3.34%) Docker
2 63 (1.49%) Active Directory
3 31 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (0.28%) Hyper-V
5 11 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
6 10 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.095%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.047%) vSphere
9 1 (0.024%) Firmware
9 1 (0.024%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.024%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 203 (4.81%) Terraform
2 164 (3.88%) Kubernetes
3 46 (1.09%) Ansible
4 26 (0.62%) Grafana
5 25 (0.59%) Prometheus
6 20 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (0.19%) EnCase
8 8 (0.19%) FTK
9 7 (0.17%) Kibana
10 6 (0.14%) QRadar
10 6 (0.14%) SCCM
11 5 (0.12%) Argo
11 5 (0.12%) SCOM
11 5 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 4 (0.095%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.095%) RSA Archer
13 3 (0.071%) ArcSight ESM
13 3 (0.071%) Control-M
13 3 (0.071%) VxRail
Vendors
1 864 (20.45%) Microsoft
2 317 (7.50%) Google
3 291 (6.89%) Databricks
4 237 (5.61%) Adobe
5 182 (4.31%) SAP
6 177 (4.19%) Salesforce
7 147 (3.48%) Oracle
8 136 (3.22%) Cisco
9 64 (1.52%) HubSpot
10 55 (1.30%) Alteryx
11 41 (0.97%) Informatica
12 40 (0.95%) Dell
13 32 (0.76%) Bloomberg
13 32 (0.76%) ServiceNow
14 31 (0.73%) Palantir
15 30 (0.71%) OpenAI
16 29 (0.69%) Instagram
17 28 (0.66%) Nexthink
17 28 (0.66%) Red Hat
17 28 (0.66%) Talend