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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 22 34
Rank change year-on-year -9 +12 -4
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 5,436 3,866 4,190
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.76% 7.83% 5.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.53% 8.82% 6.63%
Number of salaries quoted 3,288 1,766 2,173
10th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £42,500 £49,461
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,805 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.34% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £115,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +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 83,236 43,812 63,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.95% 88.75% 81.16%
Number of salaries quoted 57,755 24,707 35,897
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 16 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Top 18 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 16 September 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 4,856 £66,805 +8.63% 11,051
UK excluding London -9 2,900 £60,000 +14.29% 4,307
London +1 2,174 £80,000 +3.23% 7,567
Work from Home +8 1,649 £65,000 +8.33% 4,294
North of England +58 950 £60,000 +7.14% 1,115
Midlands +19 588 £60,000 +14.29% 611
South East -32 559 £55,000 +10.00% 991
North West +60 557 £60,000 +14.29% 670
West Midlands +3 327 £59,625 +8.41% 413
South West -20 318 £60,000 - 448
East Midlands +29 261 £60,000 +23.71% 198
Yorkshire +33 239 £65,000 +8.33% 326
East of England -7 188 £55,000 +37.50% 359
North East +25 154 £55,000 +0.46% 125
Scotland -19 118 £75,000 +37.06% 467
Northern Ireland -14 98 £65,000 +18.18% 244
Wales -8 93 £63,500 +26.69% 102
Isle of Man +3 5 £38,500 - 4

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 (2.98%) Apache Spark
2 145 (2.67%) CMS
3 96 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
4 87 (1.60%) SharePoint
5 84 (1.55%) Apache
6 70 (1.29%) Confluence
7 69 (1.27%) SAS
8 39 (0.72%) WordPress
9 29 (0.53%) Sitecore CMS
10 21 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
11 16 (0.29%) Headless CMS
12 15 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
13 14 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
14 10 (0.18%) Jupyter
15 6 (0.11%) ArcGIS
15 6 (0.11%) Umbraco
16 3 (0.055%) Adobe Experience Manager
17 2 (0.037%) Apache Pulsar
17 2 (0.037%) Appian
17 2 (0.037%) Luigi
Applications
1 248 (4.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
3 40 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 37 (0.68%) Chatbot
5 30 (0.55%) SPSS
6 28 (0.52%) UserZoom
7 21 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
8 19 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 15 (0.28%) Adobe XD
10 12 (0.22%) MS Visio
11 9 (0.17%) Photoshop
12 7 (0.13%) Sketch
12 7 (0.13%) Trello
13 6 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
14 3 (0.055%) Adobe Premiere
14 3 (0.055%) InDesign
14 3 (0.055%) Microsoft Project
14 3 (0.055%) Zeplin
15 2 (0.037%) CATIA
15 2 (0.037%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 123 (2.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 74 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 52 (0.96%) Shopify
4 32 (0.59%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 28 (0.52%) Dynamics GP
6 22 (0.40%) Adobe Campaign
7 20 (0.37%) Magento
8 14 (0.26%) Workday HCM
9 11 (0.20%) NetSuite
10 8 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
11 7 (0.13%) SAP MDG
12 6 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
12 6 (0.11%) SAP PM
12 6 (0.11%) SAP Travel Management
13 5 (0.092%) Oracle ERP
13 5 (0.092%) Oracle Payables
13 5 (0.092%) Oracle Receivables
13 5 (0.092%) Payment Gateway
13 5 (0.092%) SAP BPC
13 5 (0.092%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 1,060 (19.50%) Azure
2 917 (16.87%) Power Platform
3 801 (14.74%) AWS
4 365 (6.71%) GCP
5 321 (5.91%) SaaS
6 270 (4.97%) Google Analytics
7 253 (4.65%) Snowflake
8 212 (3.90%) Azure Data Factory
9 189 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
10 178 (3.27%) GitHub
11 161 (2.96%) Serverless
12 156 (2.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 145 (2.67%) dbt
14 114 (2.10%) Microsoft 365
15 109 (2.01%) Amazon S3
16 105 (1.93%) Cloud Computing
17 103 (1.89%) Microsoft Purview
18 86 (1.58%) Adobe Analytics
19 83 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
20 82 (1.51%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 113 (2.08%) Broadband
2 66 (1.21%) VPN
3 63 (1.16%) Internet
4 61 (1.12%) Firewall
5 45 (0.83%) DNS
6 43 (0.79%) Network Security
7 27 (0.50%) BGP
8 24 (0.44%) SMS
9 23 (0.42%) TCP/IP
10 21 (0.39%) 5G
11 20 (0.37%) VLAN
12 19 (0.35%) OSPF
13 16 (0.29%) DHCP
14 15 (0.28%) VoIP
15 14 (0.26%) CTI
16 13 (0.24%) SSL
17 10 (0.18%) Unified Communications
17 10 (0.18%) VXLAN
18 9 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
19 8 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 882 (16.23%) Power BI
2 416 (7.65%) Data Warehouse
3 282 (5.19%) Tableau
4 252 (4.64%) Data Lake
5 237 (4.36%) Metadata
6 170 (3.13%) SQL Server
7 154 (2.83%) Big Data
8 131 (2.41%) Azure SQL Database
9 127 (2.34%) Looker
10 123 (2.26%) Amazon Redshift
11 110 (2.02%) BigQuery
12 92 (1.69%) Delta Lake
13 83 (1.53%) Relational Database
13 83 (1.53%) Star Schema
14 81 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
15 78 (1.43%) NoSQL
16 74 (1.36%) MongoDB
17 64 (1.18%) Power Query
18 62 (1.14%) Semantic Layer
19 57 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 177 (3.26%) Git
2 93 (1.71%) JIRA
3 44 (0.81%) Jenkins
4 37 (0.68%) MLflow
5 35 (0.64%) GitLab
6 15 (0.28%) Claude Code
7 12 (0.22%) Crashlytics
8 11 (0.20%) fastlane
9 10 (0.18%) CircleCI
10 8 (0.15%) Balsamiq
10 8 (0.15%) Octopus Deploy
10 8 (0.15%) Xcode
11 7 (0.13%) ERwin
11 7 (0.13%) Gradle
12 6 (0.11%) Axure RP
12 6 (0.11%) XCTest
13 5 (0.092%) Android Studio
13 5 (0.092%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.092%) Browser DevTools
13 5 (0.092%) Poetry
General
1 1,474 (27.12%) Finance
2 1,463 (26.91%) Social Skills
3 1,262 (23.22%) Analytical Skills
4 929 (17.09%) Marketing
5 410 (7.54%) Retail
6 387 (7.12%) Public Sector
7 315 (5.79%) Legal
8 310 (5.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 298 (5.48%) Law
10 218 (4.01%) Banking
11 200 (3.68%) Influencing Skills
12 161 (2.96%) Organisational Skills
13 159 (2.92%) Manufacturing
14 118 (2.17%) Games
15 117 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
16 101 (1.86%) Advertising
17 99 (1.82%) Automotive
18 94 (1.73%) Financial Institution
19 76 (1.40%) Publishing
20 61 (1.12%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,095 (20.14%) Senior
2 678 (12.47%) Data Engineer
3 630 (11.59%) Analyst
4 606 (11.15%) Lead
5 508 (9.35%) Architect
6 319 (5.87%) Developer
7 254 (4.67%) Data Analyst
8 248 (4.56%) Senior Data Engineer
9 247 (4.54%) Data Architect
10 243 (4.47%) Analytics Manager
11 186 (3.42%) Consultant
12 184 (3.38%) Data Scientist
13 182 (3.35%) Senior Manager
14 165 (3.04%) Solutions Architect
15 127 (2.34%) Senior Analyst
16 126 (2.32%) Data Manager
17 120 (2.21%) Product Manager
18 117 (2.15%) Marketing Manager
19 99 (1.82%) Senior Architect
20 95 (1.75%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 254 (4.67%) Terraform
2 202 (3.72%) PySpark
3 126 (2.32%) Kafka
4 104 (1.91%) HTML
5 94 (1.73%) .NET
6 86 (1.58%) CSS
7 74 (1.36%) REST
8 65 (1.20%) React
9 58 (1.07%) Node.js
10 54 (0.99%) Pandas
10 54 (0.99%) scikit-learn
11 53 (0.97%) PyTorch
12 48 (0.88%) TensorFlow
13 40 (0.74%) LangChain
14 38 (0.70%) Middleware
15 37 (0.68%) .NET Core
15 37 (0.68%) ASP.NET
16 35 (0.64%) ASP.NET Core
16 35 (0.64%) JSON
17 34 (0.63%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 286 (5.26%) Cloud Native
2 281 (5.17%) Onboarding
3 206 (3.79%) Product Ownership
4 194 (3.57%) Marketing Technology
5 191 (3.51%) Social Media
6 187 (3.44%) Blog
7 182 (3.35%) Management Information System
8 120 (2.21%) Analytical Mindset
9 106 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
10 99 (1.82%) Data Structures
11 87 (1.60%) AI Agents
12 80 (1.47%) Algorithms
13 73 (1.34%) Mobile App
14 67 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
15 60 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
15 60 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
15 60 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
16 53 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
17 46 (0.85%) Virtual Team
18 45 (0.83%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 99 (1.82%) Windows
2 82 (1.51%) Linux
3 24 (0.44%) VMS
4 22 (0.40%) Windows Server
5 20 (0.37%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.17%) Android
7 6 (0.11%) Unix
8 5 (0.092%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.092%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.074%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.055%) Debian
11 1 (0.018%) AIX
11 1 (0.018%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.018%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.018%) SUSE
11 1 (0.018%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.018%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,954 (35.95%) AI
2 1,341 (24.67%) Decision-Making
3 1,228 (22.59%) Business Intelligence
4 927 (17.05%) Problem-Solving
5 894 (16.45%) Agile
6 849 (15.62%) Continuous Improvement
7 843 (15.51%) Roadmaps
8 829 (15.25%) Data Modelling
9 778 (14.31%) Data Engineering
10 748 (13.76%) Machine Learning
11 696 (12.80%) Data Analytics
12 673 (12.38%) Data Pipeline
13 666 (12.25%) CI/CD
14 626 (11.52%) Mentoring
15 625 (11.50%) Stakeholder Management
16 622 (11.44%) Data Science
17 531 (9.77%) ETL
18 529 (9.73%) Data Governance
19 518 (9.53%) Actionable Insight
20 495 (9.11%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1,473 (27.10%) SQL
2 1,201 (22.09%) Python
3 151 (2.78%) Java
4 135 (2.48%) C#
5 132 (2.43%) JavaScript
6 124 (2.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 113 (2.08%) PowerShell
8 92 (1.69%) R
9 87 (1.60%) TypeScript
10 75 (1.38%) Scala
11 74 (1.36%) Bicep
12 66 (1.21%) Bash
13 51 (0.94%) Go
14 48 (0.88%) C++
15 35 (0.64%) Kusto Query Language
16 26 (0.48%) T-SQL
17 20 (0.37%) Kotlin
18 17 (0.31%) VBA
19 16 (0.29%) Swift
20 15 (0.28%) Julia
Qualifications
1 675 (12.42%) Degree
2 427 (7.86%) Security Cleared
3 302 (5.56%) SC Cleared
4 121 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 110 (2.02%) Azure Certification
6 105 (1.93%) Master's Degree
7 84 (1.55%) DV Cleared
8 64 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
9 57 (1.05%) DBS Check
10 56 (1.03%) AWS Certification
11 54 (0.99%) ACCA
12 49 (0.90%) CIMA
13 42 (0.77%) CISSP
14 41 (0.75%) PhD
15 33 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
16 31 (0.57%) CISM
17 30 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
18 22 (0.40%) CCNP
18 22 (0.40%) MBA
19 20 (0.37%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 795 (14.62%) Data Quality
2 318 (5.85%) Accessibility
3 246 (4.53%) GDPR
4 162 (2.98%) QA
5 59 (1.09%) WCAG
6 45 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
7 37 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 32 (0.59%) NIST
9 28 (0.52%) SLA
10 25 (0.46%) PMO
11 24 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 20 (0.37%) IFRS
13 19 (0.35%) PCI DSS
14 17 (0.31%) GRC
15 16 (0.29%) ISO 9001
16 13 (0.24%) PERC
17 11 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
17 11 (0.20%) EU AI Act
18 9 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 8 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 150 (2.76%) Docker
2 88 (1.62%) Active Directory
3 28 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.29%) vSphere
6 8 (0.15%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.092%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.074%) IAG
9 2 (0.037%) Firmware
10 1 (0.018%) Apache Flume
10 1 (0.018%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.018%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 169 (3.11%) Kubernetes
2 45 (0.83%) Ansible
3 30 (0.55%) Grafana
3 30 (0.55%) Prometheus
4 23 (0.42%) EnCase
4 23 (0.42%) FTK
5 16 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (0.24%) FortiGate
7 8 (0.15%) Argo
8 6 (0.11%) Graylog
8 6 (0.11%) Hadoop YARN
8 6 (0.11%) Nagios
8 6 (0.11%) Proxmox
9 5 (0.092%) Kibana
9 5 (0.092%) Packer
9 5 (0.092%) Puppet
10 4 (0.074%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.074%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.074%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.074%) VxRail
Vendors
1 831 (15.29%) Microsoft
2 507 (9.33%) Databricks
3 451 (8.30%) Google
4 230 (4.23%) SAP
5 189 (3.48%) Adobe
6 115 (2.12%) Oracle
7 107 (1.97%) Salesforce
8 71 (1.31%) HubSpot
9 59 (1.09%) Workday
10 55 (1.01%) Informatica
11 48 (0.88%) YouTube
12 43 (0.79%) Cisco
13 42 (0.77%) IBM
14 41 (0.75%) VMware
15 38 (0.70%) Alteryx
15 38 (0.70%) TikTok
16 33 (0.61%) OpenAI
17 30 (0.55%) Sitecore
18 29 (0.53%) Dell
18 29 (0.53%) ServiceNow