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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 28 34
Rank change year-on-year -6 +6 -10
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 4,016 3,313 4,328
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.88% 6.78% 5.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.41% 7.33% 6.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,178 1,614 3,111
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £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 £108,750 £118,750 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -7.89% +6.54% -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 54,175 45,213 65,719
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.32% 92.48% 88.31%
Number of salaries quoted 32,471 22,205 50,855
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,750 £29,440
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,375 £102,500 £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 19 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 19 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 -5 3,407 £65,000 -7.14% 1,775
UK excluding London -1 2,039 £52,500 -7.89% 1,359
London +5 1,600 £80,000 -5.88% 837
Work from Home -3 1,277 £65,000 - 904
South East +11 543 £55,000 -8.33% 546
North of England -19 474 £50,000 -9.09% 275
Midlands -8 382 £52,501 -4.54% 198
Scotland +9 250 £60,000 -4.76% 47
North West -19 238 £55,000 - 155
West Midlands -11 232 £57,500 +2.68% 115
South West -4 189 £55,000 +1.03% 142
Yorkshire -9 186 £50,000 -9.09% 86
East Midlands +9 150 £45,945 -8.11% 83
East of England +33 124 £50,000 -23.08% 129
Northern Ireland +2 51 £45,000 -33.33% 16
North East +18 50 £40,000 -20.79% 37
Wales +14 29 £56,250 +13.52% 34

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
1 102 (2.54%) Apache Airflow
2 100 (2.49%) CMS
3 90 (2.24%) Apache Spark
4 55 (1.37%) WordPress
5 53 (1.32%) Apache
6 47 (1.17%) Confluence
7 45 (1.12%) SharePoint
8 37 (0.92%) SAS
9 23 (0.57%) ArcGIS
10 18 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 17 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
11 17 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
12 15 (0.37%) Drupal
13 9 (0.22%) Umbraco
14 7 (0.17%) Oracle Application Server
15 6 (0.15%) IIS
16 4 (0.100%) Appian
16 4 (0.100%) Documentum
16 4 (0.100%) Sitecore CMS
17 3 (0.075%) Jupyter
Applications
1 471 (11.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 131 (3.26%) Microsoft Office
3 62 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (0.62%) Adobe XD
5 20 (0.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 20 (0.50%) InDesign
5 20 (0.50%) Maya
6 18 (0.45%) Photoshop
7 17 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
8 13 (0.32%) Chatbot
9 12 (0.30%) Adobe Premiere
9 12 (0.30%) SPSS
10 9 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
10 9 (0.22%) Trello
11 8 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
12 7 (0.17%) MS Visio
13 6 (0.15%) UserZoom
14 4 (0.100%) SketchUp
15 3 (0.075%) Final Cut Pro
16 2 (0.050%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 71 (1.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 53 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 34 (0.85%) Oracle ERP
4 28 (0.70%) SAP IBP
5 21 (0.52%) SAP CO
5 21 (0.52%) Shopify
6 19 (0.47%) Magento
7 18 (0.45%) SAP PP
8 16 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
8 16 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
8 16 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
9 15 (0.37%) Oracle Assets
10 14 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
11 13 (0.32%) iTrent
11 13 (0.32%) NetSuite
11 13 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
12 12 (0.30%) SAP FI
12 12 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
13 11 (0.27%) Dynamics GP
13 11 (0.27%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 966 (24.05%) Azure
2 699 (17.41%) Power Platform
3 425 (10.58%) AWS
4 230 (5.73%) SaaS
5 220 (5.48%) GCP
6 217 (5.40%) Azure Data Factory
7 202 (5.03%) Snowflake
8 198 (4.93%) Google Analytics
9 179 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
10 171 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
11 157 (3.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 152 (3.78%) GitHub
13 126 (3.14%) dbt
14 108 (2.69%) Entra ID
15 89 (2.22%) Azure Monitor
16 85 (2.12%) Adobe Analytics
17 84 (2.09%) Figma
17 84 (2.09%) Serverless
18 77 (1.92%) Amazon S3
19 69 (1.72%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 90 (2.24%) Broadband
2 41 (1.02%) VPN
3 36 (0.90%) Firewall
4 20 (0.50%) CHAP
4 20 (0.50%) WAN
5 15 (0.37%) DNS
6 14 (0.35%) Network Security
7 13 (0.32%) Intranet
7 13 (0.32%) Unified Communications
8 10 (0.25%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.15%) HTTPS
10 5 (0.12%) DHCP
10 5 (0.12%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (0.100%) HTTP
11 4 (0.100%) Internet
11 4 (0.100%) SMS
11 4 (0.100%) SNMP
11 4 (0.100%) VoIP
12 3 (0.075%) MQTT
12 3 (0.075%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 662 (16.48%) Power BI
2 409 (10.18%) Tableau
3 327 (8.14%) Data Warehouse
4 212 (5.28%) Data Lake
5 191 (4.76%) Metadata
6 189 (4.71%) Data Mining
7 154 (3.83%) SQL Server
8 107 (2.66%) Azure SQL Database
9 101 (2.51%) Looker
10 78 (1.94%) Big Data
11 73 (1.82%) Relational Database
12 72 (1.79%) BigQuery
13 71 (1.77%) NoSQL
14 68 (1.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 65 (1.62%) Amazon Redshift
16 57 (1.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 56 (1.39%) Power Query
18 53 (1.32%) SAP BW
19 44 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
20 37 (0.92%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 125 (3.11%) Git
2 119 (2.96%) JIRA
3 65 (1.62%) Jenkins
4 29 (0.72%) Oracle Forms
5 27 (0.67%) GitLab
6 23 (0.57%) Axure RP
6 23 (0.57%) Balsamiq
6 23 (0.57%) TeamCity
7 19 (0.47%) ERwin
8 18 (0.45%) Visual Studio
9 16 (0.40%) MLflow
10 11 (0.27%) Selenium
11 9 (0.22%) CircleCI
12 8 (0.20%) PowerDesigner
12 8 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 6 (0.15%) Cypress.io
13 6 (0.15%) ER Studio
14 5 (0.12%) MSI
14 5 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
15 4 (0.100%) Crashlytics
General
1 1,384 (34.46%) Finance
2 1,287 (32.05%) Social Skills
3 1,117 (27.81%) Analytical Skills
4 661 (16.46%) Marketing
5 276 (6.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 247 (6.15%) Public Sector
7 226 (5.63%) Banking
8 219 (5.45%) Law
9 201 (5.00%) Retail
10 151 (3.76%) Manufacturing
11 143 (3.56%) Legal
12 133 (3.31%) Presentation Skills
13 118 (2.94%) Games
14 107 (2.66%) Financial Institution
15 92 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
16 90 (2.24%) Pharmaceutical
17 88 (2.19%) Advertising
18 87 (2.17%) Automotive
19 77 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
20 69 (1.72%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 653 (16.26%) Senior
2 641 (15.96%) Analyst
3 481 (11.98%) Lead
4 368 (9.16%) Data Analyst
4 368 (9.16%) Data Engineer
5 323 (8.04%) Architect
6 229 (5.70%) Developer
7 161 (4.01%) Trainee
7 161 (4.01%) Trainee Analyst
7 161 (4.01%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 143 (3.56%) Data Architect
9 142 (3.54%) Senior Manager
10 118 (2.94%) Consultant
11 98 (2.44%) Designer
12 96 (2.39%) Solutions Architect
13 88 (2.19%) Data Manager
14 84 (2.09%) Senior Analyst
15 83 (2.07%) Support Engineer
16 78 (1.94%) Data Scientist
17 77 (1.92%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (2.47%) HTML
2 88 (2.19%) CSS
3 85 (2.12%) Kafka
4 78 (1.94%) PySpark
5 65 (1.62%) .NET
6 64 (1.59%) React
7 60 (1.49%) OAuth
7 60 (1.49%) PyTorch
8 58 (1.44%) RESTful
9 48 (1.20%) TensorFlow
10 46 (1.15%) REST
11 45 (1.12%) JSON
12 38 (0.95%) OAuth2
13 36 (0.90%) SAP Fiori
14 30 (0.75%) Node.js
14 30 (0.75%) SAML
15 29 (0.72%) .NET Core
16 27 (0.67%) FIX Protocol
17 24 (0.60%) Middleware
18 23 (0.57%) Akka
Miscellaneous
1 200 (4.98%) Social Media
2 182 (4.53%) Product Ownership
3 181 (4.51%) Self-Motivation
4 180 (4.48%) Analytical Mindset
5 168 (4.18%) Cloud Native
6 154 (3.83%) Management Information System
7 122 (3.04%) Algorithms
7 122 (3.04%) Onboarding
8 107 (2.66%) Life Science
9 76 (1.89%) Data Structures
10 72 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
11 67 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
12 52 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
13 51 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
14 46 (1.15%) FMCG
14 46 (1.15%) Mobile App
15 41 (1.02%) Fixed Income
15 41 (1.02%) Virtual Team
16 40 (1.00%) Data Centre
17 36 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 114 (2.84%) Windows
2 60 (1.49%) Windows 10
3 44 (1.10%) Linux
4 29 (0.72%) Unix
5 21 (0.52%) VMS
6 15 (0.37%) Windows Server
7 13 (0.32%) Apple iOS
8 12 (0.30%) Android
9 2 (0.050%) AIX
9 2 (0.050%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.025%) Debian
10 1 (0.025%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,117 (27.81%) AI
2 959 (23.88%) Business Intelligence
3 879 (21.89%) Decision-Making
4 782 (19.47%) Data Analytics
5 780 (19.42%) Problem-Solving
6 776 (19.32%) Agile
7 733 (18.25%) Continuous Improvement
8 634 (15.79%) Data Modelling
9 510 (12.70%) Project Management
10 505 (12.57%) Data Analysis
11 493 (12.28%) Data Governance
11 493 (12.28%) Machine Learning
12 486 (12.10%) Data Science
13 482 (12.00%) Roadmaps
14 479 (11.93%) Data Engineering
15 457 (11.38%) Stakeholder Management
16 438 (10.91%) Data Pipeline
17 432 (10.76%) Visualisation
18 430 (10.71%) ETL
19 424 (10.56%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 1,073 (26.72%) SQL
2 979 (24.38%) Python
3 121 (3.01%) Java
4 117 (2.91%) JavaScript
5 89 (2.22%) C#
5 89 (2.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 80 (1.99%) Scala
7 79 (1.97%) PowerShell
8 69 (1.72%) R
9 49 (1.22%) Bicep
10 46 (1.15%) T-SQL
11 41 (1.02%) C++
12 39 (0.97%) TypeScript
13 32 (0.80%) Bash
14 31 (0.77%) Kusto Query Language
15 25 (0.62%) Go
15 25 (0.62%) PL/SQL
16 22 (0.55%) Shell Script
17 17 (0.42%) VBA
18 14 (0.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 785 (19.55%) Degree
2 270 (6.72%) Security Cleared
3 193 (4.81%) SC Cleared
4 173 (4.31%) Master's Degree
5 122 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 78 (1.94%) PhD
7 60 (1.49%) CISSP
7 60 (1.49%) CTC Cleared
8 54 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
9 53 (1.32%) Azure Certification
10 51 (1.27%) CISA
11 47 (1.17%) Numerate Degree
12 46 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
13 45 (1.12%) CISM
13 45 (1.12%) DBS Check
14 37 (0.92%) PMI Certification
15 36 (0.90%) ACCA
16 31 (0.77%) DV Cleared
16 31 (0.77%) PMP
17 28 (0.70%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 527 (13.12%) Data Quality
2 274 (6.82%) GDPR
3 266 (6.62%) Accessibility
4 99 (2.47%) QA
5 78 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 71 (1.77%) SLA
7 52 (1.29%) NIST
8 46 (1.15%) WCAG
9 43 (1.07%) Actionable Recommendations
10 40 (1.00%) GxP
11 31 (0.77%) COBIT
12 26 (0.65%) ISO 9001
13 25 (0.62%) Solvency II
14 24 (0.60%) IFRS
15 23 (0.57%) EU AI Act
16 22 (0.55%) HIPAA
17 21 (0.52%) PSD2
18 17 (0.42%) GRC
18 17 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 17 (0.42%) SOC 2
System Software
1 130 (3.24%) Docker
2 60 (1.49%) Active Directory
3 36 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.30%) Hyper-V
5 12 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.100%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.050%) vSphere
8 1 (0.025%) Firmware
8 1 (0.025%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.025%) vCloud
8 1 (0.025%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 201 (5.00%) Terraform
2 152 (3.78%) Kubernetes
3 38 (0.95%) Ansible
4 28 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
5 25 (0.62%) Grafana
5 25 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
6 23 (0.57%) Prometheus
7 10 (0.25%) SCCM
8 9 (0.22%) QRadar
9 8 (0.20%) EnCase
9 8 (0.20%) FTK
10 7 (0.17%) Kibana
11 6 (0.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 5 (0.12%) Argo
12 5 (0.12%) SCOM
13 4 (0.100%) RSA Archer
14 3 (0.075%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.075%) ArcSight ESM
14 3 (0.075%) Control-M
14 3 (0.075%) VxRail
Vendors
1 838 (20.87%) Microsoft
2 333 (8.29%) Google
3 261 (6.50%) Databricks
4 211 (5.25%) SAP
5 186 (4.63%) Salesforce
6 171 (4.26%) Adobe
7 138 (3.44%) Cisco
8 134 (3.34%) Oracle
9 68 (1.69%) HubSpot
10 54 (1.34%) Alteryx
11 34 (0.85%) Bloomberg
12 33 (0.82%) ServiceNow
13 31 (0.77%) OpenAI
14 30 (0.75%) Informatica
15 29 (0.72%) YouTube
16 28 (0.70%) Nexthink
16 28 (0.70%) Talend
17 26 (0.65%) Instagram
18 25 (0.62%) Foundry
18 25 (0.62%) Palantir