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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 29 34
Rank change year-on-year -5 +5 -10
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 3,973 3,299 4,356
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.85% 6.71% 5.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.37% 7.26% 6.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2,150 1,603 3,129
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,125 £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 £110,000 £118,750 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,000 £53,250
% change year-on-year -7.89% +7.04% -3.18%

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 53,894 45,456 65,928
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.39% 92.40% 88.33%
Number of salaries quoted 32,246 22,087 51,057
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,750 £29,440
25th Percentile £38,296 £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 £76,250 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £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 18 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 18 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 3,372 £65,000 -7.14% 1,554
UK excluding London -1 2,007 £52,500 -7.89% 1,156
London +5 1,589 £80,000 -5.88% 758
Work from Home -2 1,269 £65,000 - 736
South East +18 541 £56,250 -6.25% 454
North of England -22 458 £50,000 -9.09% 254
Midlands -1 376 £52,501 -4.54% 194
Scotland +7 247 £53,750 -14.68% 43
North West -22 231 £55,000 - 149
West Midlands -11 227 £57,500 +4.55% 113
South West +2 187 £54,750 +0.57% 117
Yorkshire -10 180 £55,000 - 76
East Midlands +10 149 £46,500 -7.00% 80
East of England +40 124 £50,000 -23.08% 79
Northern Ireland -2 49 £45,000 -33.33% 12
North East +17 47 £40,000 -20.79% 31
Wales +15 28 £56,250 +13.52% 24

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
1 100 (2.52%) Apache Airflow
2 98 (2.47%) CMS
3 90 (2.27%) Apache Spark
4 55 (1.38%) WordPress
5 52 (1.31%) Apache
6 47 (1.18%) Confluence
7 44 (1.11%) SharePoint
8 37 (0.93%) SAS
9 22 (0.55%) ArcGIS
10 18 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 17 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
11 17 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
12 15 (0.38%) Drupal
13 9 (0.23%) Umbraco
14 6 (0.15%) IIS
15 5 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
16 4 (0.10%) Appian
16 4 (0.10%) Documentum
16 4 (0.10%) Sitecore CMS
17 3 (0.076%) Jupyter
Applications
1 463 (11.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 131 (3.30%) Microsoft Office
3 63 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (0.63%) 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 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
8 13 (0.33%) Chatbot
9 12 (0.30%) Adobe Premiere
9 12 (0.30%) SPSS
10 9 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
10 9 (0.23%) Trello
11 8 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
12 7 (0.18%) MS Visio
13 6 (0.15%) UserZoom
14 4 (0.10%) SketchUp
15 3 (0.076%) Final Cut Pro
16 2 (0.050%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 70 (1.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 52 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 34 (0.86%) Oracle ERP
4 27 (0.68%) SAP IBP
5 21 (0.53%) SAP CO
5 21 (0.53%) Shopify
6 19 (0.48%) Magento
7 17 (0.43%) SAP PP
8 16 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
8 16 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
8 16 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
9 15 (0.38%) Oracle Assets
10 14 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
11 13 (0.33%) NetSuite
11 13 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
12 12 (0.30%) iTrent
12 12 (0.30%) SAP FI
12 12 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
13 11 (0.28%) Dynamics GP
13 11 (0.28%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 959 (24.14%) Azure
2 694 (17.47%) Power Platform
3 418 (10.52%) AWS
4 227 (5.71%) SaaS
5 219 (5.51%) GCP
6 214 (5.39%) Azure Data Factory
7 198 (4.98%) Google Analytics
8 196 (4.93%) Snowflake
9 178 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
10 170 (4.28%) Microsoft 365
11 157 (3.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 152 (3.83%) GitHub
13 125 (3.15%) dbt
14 108 (2.72%) Entra ID
15 89 (2.24%) Azure Monitor
16 85 (2.14%) Adobe Analytics
17 84 (2.11%) Figma
17 84 (2.11%) Serverless
18 78 (1.96%) Amazon S3
19 69 (1.74%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 89 (2.24%) Broadband
2 41 (1.03%) VPN
3 36 (0.91%) Firewall
4 20 (0.50%) CHAP
4 20 (0.50%) WAN
5 15 (0.38%) DNS
6 14 (0.35%) Network Security
7 13 (0.33%) Intranet
7 13 (0.33%) Unified Communications
8 10 (0.25%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.15%) HTTPS
10 5 (0.13%) DHCP
10 5 (0.13%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (0.10%) HTTP
11 4 (0.10%) Internet
11 4 (0.10%) SMS
11 4 (0.10%) SNMP
11 4 (0.10%) VoIP
12 3 (0.076%) MQTT
12 3 (0.076%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 658 (16.56%) Power BI
2 402 (10.12%) Tableau
3 320 (8.05%) Data Warehouse
4 211 (5.31%) Data Lake
5 192 (4.83%) Metadata
6 182 (4.58%) Data Mining
7 154 (3.88%) SQL Server
8 107 (2.69%) Azure SQL Database
9 101 (2.54%) Looker
10 79 (1.99%) Big Data
11 73 (1.84%) Relational Database
12 72 (1.81%) BigQuery
13 70 (1.76%) NoSQL
14 69 (1.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 66 (1.66%) Amazon Redshift
16 57 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 55 (1.38%) Power Query
18 53 (1.33%) SAP BW
19 44 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
20 36 (0.91%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 125 (3.15%) Git
2 118 (2.97%) JIRA
3 65 (1.64%) Jenkins
4 29 (0.73%) Oracle Forms
5 27 (0.68%) GitLab
6 23 (0.58%) Axure RP
6 23 (0.58%) Balsamiq
6 23 (0.58%) TeamCity
7 19 (0.48%) ERwin
8 18 (0.45%) Visual Studio
9 16 (0.40%) MLflow
10 11 (0.28%) Selenium
11 9 (0.23%) 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 (0.13%) MSI
14 5 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
15 4 (0.10%) Postman
General
1 1,359 (34.21%) Finance
2 1,271 (31.99%) Social Skills
3 1,095 (27.56%) Analytical Skills
4 658 (16.56%) Marketing
5 275 (6.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 246 (6.19%) Public Sector
7 225 (5.66%) Banking
8 217 (5.46%) Law
9 201 (5.06%) Retail
10 152 (3.83%) Manufacturing
11 143 (3.60%) Legal
12 133 (3.35%) Presentation Skills
13 118 (2.97%) Games
14 107 (2.69%) Financial Institution
15 92 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
16 90 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
17 87 (2.19%) Advertising
17 87 (2.19%) Automotive
18 73 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
19 69 (1.74%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 647 (16.28%) Senior
2 634 (15.96%) Analyst
3 480 (12.08%) Lead
4 363 (9.14%) Data Engineer
5 360 (9.06%) Data Analyst
6 319 (8.03%) Architect
7 226 (5.69%) Developer
8 153 (3.85%) Trainee
8 153 (3.85%) Trainee Analyst
8 153 (3.85%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 141 (3.55%) Senior Manager
10 139 (3.50%) Data Architect
11 116 (2.92%) Consultant
12 97 (2.44%) Designer
13 96 (2.42%) Solutions Architect
14 88 (2.21%) Data Manager
15 84 (2.11%) Senior Analyst
16 83 (2.09%) Support Engineer
17 78 (1.96%) Data Scientist
18 75 (1.89%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (2.47%) HTML
2 87 (2.19%) CSS
3 84 (2.11%) Kafka
4 78 (1.96%) PySpark
5 64 (1.61%) .NET
5 64 (1.61%) React
6 60 (1.51%) OAuth
7 59 (1.49%) PyTorch
8 58 (1.46%) RESTful
9 48 (1.21%) TensorFlow
10 46 (1.16%) REST
11 43 (1.08%) JSON
12 38 (0.96%) OAuth2
13 35 (0.88%) SAP Fiori
14 30 (0.76%) Node.js
14 30 (0.76%) SAML
15 29 (0.73%) .NET Core
16 27 (0.68%) FIX Protocol
17 24 (0.60%) Middleware
18 23 (0.58%) Akka
Miscellaneous
1 198 (4.98%) Social Media
2 182 (4.58%) Product Ownership
2 182 (4.58%) Self-Motivation
3 168 (4.23%) Cloud Native
4 167 (4.20%) Analytical Mindset
5 152 (3.83%) Management Information System
6 121 (3.05%) Algorithms
6 121 (3.05%) Onboarding
7 106 (2.67%) Life Science
8 77 (1.94%) Data Structures
9 72 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
10 68 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
11 51 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
11 51 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
12 47 (1.18%) Mobile App
13 46 (1.16%) FMCG
14 41 (1.03%) Fixed Income
14 41 (1.03%) Virtual Team
15 40 (1.01%) Data Centre
16 36 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 114 (2.87%) Windows
2 60 (1.51%) Windows 10
3 44 (1.11%) Linux
4 30 (0.76%) Unix
5 21 (0.53%) VMS
6 15 (0.38%) Windows Server
7 13 (0.33%) 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 1,110 (27.94%) AI
2 955 (24.04%) Business Intelligence
3 873 (21.97%) Decision-Making
4 777 (19.56%) Agile
4 777 (19.56%) Problem-Solving
5 766 (19.28%) Data Analytics
6 718 (18.07%) Continuous Improvement
7 627 (15.78%) Data Modelling
8 499 (12.56%) Project Management
9 494 (12.43%) Data Analysis
10 493 (12.41%) Machine Learning
11 488 (12.28%) Data Governance
12 486 (12.23%) Data Science
13 478 (12.03%) Roadmaps
14 474 (11.93%) Data Engineering
15 454 (11.43%) Stakeholder Management
16 437 (11.00%) Data Pipeline
17 429 (10.80%) Visualisation
18 424 (10.67%) ETL
19 422 (10.62%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 1,062 (26.73%) SQL
2 969 (24.39%) Python
3 120 (3.02%) Java
4 117 (2.94%) JavaScript
5 88 (2.21%) C#
5 88 (2.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 81 (2.04%) Scala
7 79 (1.99%) PowerShell
8 69 (1.74%) R
9 49 (1.23%) Bicep
10 46 (1.16%) T-SQL
11 40 (1.01%) C++
12 39 (0.98%) TypeScript
13 32 (0.81%) Bash
14 31 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
15 25 (0.63%) Go
15 25 (0.63%) PL/SQL
16 22 (0.55%) Shell Script
17 17 (0.43%) VBA
18 14 (0.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 786 (19.78%) Degree
2 269 (6.77%) Security Cleared
3 192 (4.83%) SC Cleared
4 174 (4.38%) Master's Degree
5 122 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 78 (1.96%) PhD
7 60 (1.51%) CTC Cleared
8 59 (1.49%) CISSP
9 54 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
10 53 (1.33%) Azure Certification
11 50 (1.26%) CISA
12 47 (1.18%) Numerate Degree
13 46 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
14 45 (1.13%) DBS Check
15 44 (1.11%) CISM
16 37 (0.93%) PMI Certification
17 35 (0.88%) ACCA
18 31 (0.78%) DV Cleared
18 31 (0.78%) PMP
19 28 (0.70%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 524 (13.19%) Data Quality
2 264 (6.64%) Accessibility
3 260 (6.54%) GDPR
4 87 (2.19%) QA
5 77 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 71 (1.79%) SLA
7 51 (1.28%) NIST
8 46 (1.16%) WCAG
9 43 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
10 40 (1.01%) GxP
11 30 (0.76%) COBIT
12 25 (0.63%) Solvency II
13 24 (0.60%) IFRS
14 23 (0.58%) EU AI Act
15 22 (0.55%) HIPAA
16 21 (0.53%) PSD2
17 17 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 17 (0.43%) SOC 2
18 16 (0.40%) GRC
19 14 (0.35%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 129 (3.25%) Docker
2 60 (1.51%) Active Directory
3 36 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.30%) Hyper-V
5 12 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.10%) 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
1 199 (5.01%) Terraform
2 151 (3.80%) Kubernetes
3 38 (0.96%) Ansible
4 28 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
5 25 (0.63%) Grafana
5 25 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
6 23 (0.58%) Prometheus
7 10 (0.25%) SCCM
8 9 (0.23%) QRadar
9 8 (0.20%) EnCase
9 8 (0.20%) FTK
10 7 (0.18%) Kibana
11 6 (0.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 5 (0.13%) Argo
12 5 (0.13%) SCOM
13 4 (0.10%) RSA Archer
14 3 (0.076%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.076%) ArcSight ESM
14 3 (0.076%) Control-M
14 3 (0.076%) VxRail
Vendors
1 829 (20.87%) Microsoft
2 333 (8.38%) Google
3 261 (6.57%) Databricks
4 212 (5.34%) SAP
5 182 (4.58%) Salesforce
6 169 (4.25%) Adobe
7 138 (3.47%) Cisco
8 133 (3.35%) Oracle
9 68 (1.71%) HubSpot
10 54 (1.36%) Alteryx
11 34 (0.86%) Bloomberg
11 34 (0.86%) ServiceNow
12 31 (0.78%) OpenAI
13 29 (0.73%) Informatica
13 29 (0.73%) YouTube
14 28 (0.70%) Nexthink
14 28 (0.70%) Talend
15 26 (0.65%) Dell
16 25 (0.63%) IBM
16 25 (0.63%) Palantir