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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 22 35
Rank change year-on-year -5 +13 -5
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 5,471 4,004 4,385
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.15% 8.02% 5.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.01% 8.98% 6.48%
Number of salaries quoted 3,206 1,796 2,547
10th Percentile £36,500 £31,625 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,612 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £112,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

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 78,044 44,596 67,662
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.46% 89.30% 81.10%
Number of salaries quoted 53,720 25,240 43,624
10th Percentile £30,773 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,237 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,773 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.13% -4.45% -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 13 August 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 13 August 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 -3 4,915 £67,500 +9.98% 3,896
UK excluding London -9 2,840 £60,000 +9.09% 1,794
London +3 2,236 £80,000 +3.23% 2,557
Work from Home +7 1,668 £65,000 +8.33% 1,478
North of England +55 932 £60,000 +6.67% 470
Midlands +17 609 £60,000 +14.29% 238
North West +50 546 £60,000 +15.94% 271
South East -36 533 £55,000 - 549
West Midlands +4 339 £59,250 +7.73% 157
South West -28 293 £60,000 - 203
East Midlands +35 270 £60,000 +23.71% 81
Yorkshire +34 244 £62,750 -1.95% 145
East of England +13 218 £56,000 +31.76% 132
North East +27 142 £51,250 -10.87% 56
Scotland -13 117 £67,500 -3.57% 137
Wales -2 83 £60,000 +9.09% 40
Northern Ireland -34 62 £65,000 +50.84% 41
Isle of Man -1 1 £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
1 200 (3.66%) Apache Spark
2 144 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
3 121 (2.21%) CMS
4 109 (1.99%) Apache
5 66 (1.21%) Confluence
6 65 (1.19%) SAS
7 50 (0.91%) SharePoint
8 40 (0.73%) WordPress
9 26 (0.48%) ArcGIS
9 26 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
10 15 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
11 13 (0.24%) Headless CMS
12 11 (0.20%) Jupyter
13 6 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
14 5 (0.091%) Oracle Workflow
14 5 (0.091%) Umbraco
15 3 (0.055%) Drupal
16 2 (0.037%) Luigi
16 2 (0.037%) NServiceBus
16 2 (0.037%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 240 (4.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (0.80%) UserZoom
3 40 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 39 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
5 34 (0.62%) Chatbot
6 25 (0.46%) SPSS
7 21 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
8 20 (0.37%) MS Visio
9 17 (0.31%) Adobe XD
10 12 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 7 (0.13%) Sketch
12 6 (0.11%) Trello
13 4 (0.073%) Photoshop
14 3 (0.055%) Adobe Premiere
14 3 (0.055%) Microsoft Project
14 3 (0.055%) Zeplin
15 2 (0.037%) Adobe Illustrator
15 2 (0.037%) CapCut
15 2 (0.037%) InDesign
16 1 (0.018%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 106 (1.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 56 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 34 (0.62%) Adobe Campaign
3 34 (0.62%) Shopify
4 32 (0.58%) Dynamics GP
4 32 (0.58%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 27 (0.49%) SAP IBP
6 25 (0.46%) SAP PP
7 20 (0.37%) Magento
8 14 (0.26%) NetSuite
9 10 (0.18%) Workday HCM
10 9 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
11 8 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
11 8 (0.15%) Relativity
12 7 (0.13%) iTrent
12 7 (0.13%) SAP MDG
13 6 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
13 6 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
13 6 (0.11%) SAP PM
13 6 (0.11%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 1,058 (19.34%) Azure
2 857 (15.66%) Power Platform
3 838 (15.32%) AWS
4 375 (6.85%) GCP
5 318 (5.81%) SaaS
6 285 (5.21%) Snowflake
7 229 (4.19%) Google Analytics
8 194 (3.55%) Azure Data Factory
9 174 (3.18%) Adobe Analytics
10 168 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
11 167 (3.05%) GitHub
12 155 (2.83%) dbt
13 151 (2.76%) Serverless
14 150 (2.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 124 (2.27%) Amazon S3
16 116 (2.12%) Figma
17 108 (1.97%) Cloud Computing
18 95 (1.74%) Microsoft 365
19 89 (1.63%) Microsoft Purview
20 74 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 214 (3.91%) Broadband
2 57 (1.04%) VPN
3 56 (1.02%) Internet
4 55 (1.01%) Firewall
5 44 (0.80%) DNS
6 42 (0.77%) Network Security
7 27 (0.49%) BGP
8 25 (0.46%) TCP/IP
9 21 (0.38%) SMS
10 20 (0.37%) VLAN
11 18 (0.33%) OSPF
12 17 (0.31%) DHCP
13 16 (0.29%) VoIP
14 14 (0.26%) CTI
15 13 (0.24%) 5G
16 11 (0.20%) SSL
17 10 (0.18%) Unified Communications
17 10 (0.18%) WAN
18 9 (0.16%) CHAP
18 9 (0.16%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 816 (14.92%) Power BI
2 446 (8.15%) Data Warehouse
3 336 (6.14%) Tableau
4 263 (4.81%) Data Lake
5 214 (3.91%) Metadata
6 177 (3.24%) SQL Server
7 147 (2.69%) Big Data
8 139 (2.54%) Looker
9 126 (2.30%) Amazon Redshift
10 123 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
11 118 (2.16%) BigQuery
12 98 (1.79%) Relational Database
13 92 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
14 83 (1.52%) NoSQL
15 78 (1.43%) Delta Lake
16 73 (1.33%) Star Schema
17 72 (1.32%) MongoDB
18 70 (1.28%) Power Query
19 59 (1.08%) Data Mining
20 57 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 184 (3.36%) Git
2 78 (1.43%) JIRA
3 59 (1.08%) Jenkins
4 47 (0.86%) MLflow
5 35 (0.64%) GitLab
6 25 (0.46%) IBM UrbanCode
7 20 (0.37%) Crashlytics
8 15 (0.27%) Claude Code
9 13 (0.24%) CircleCI
9 13 (0.24%) fastlane
9 13 (0.24%) XCTest
10 10 (0.18%) Balsamiq
10 10 (0.18%) ERwin
11 9 (0.16%) Xcode
12 8 (0.15%) Axure RP
12 8 (0.15%) Gradle
13 6 (0.11%) Android Studio
13 6 (0.11%) Octopus Deploy
13 6 (0.11%) Selenium
14 5 (0.091%) Bitbucket
General
1 1,546 (28.26%) Finance
2 1,416 (25.88%) Social Skills
3 1,265 (23.12%) Analytical Skills
4 833 (15.23%) Marketing
5 380 (6.95%) Retail
6 362 (6.62%) Public Sector
7 322 (5.89%) Law
8 308 (5.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 286 (5.23%) Legal
10 252 (4.61%) Banking
11 205 (3.75%) Games
12 183 (3.34%) Influencing Skills
13 173 (3.16%) Manufacturing
14 135 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
15 121 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
16 113 (2.07%) Automotive
17 102 (1.86%) Financial Institution
18 96 (1.75%) Advertising
19 60 (1.10%) Telecoms
20 50 (0.91%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,022 (18.68%) Senior
2 644 (11.77%) Analyst
3 633 (11.57%) Data Engineer
4 621 (11.35%) Lead
5 499 (9.12%) Architect
6 334 (6.10%) Developer
7 285 (5.21%) Data Analyst
8 243 (4.44%) Data Architect
9 229 (4.19%) Consultant
10 210 (3.84%) Senior Data Engineer
11 198 (3.62%) Analytics Manager
12 188 (3.44%) Data Scientist
13 164 (3.00%) Solutions Architect
14 159 (2.91%) Senior Manager
15 145 (2.65%) Product Manager
16 122 (2.23%) Senior Analyst
17 117 (2.14%) Data Manager
18 93 (1.70%) Senior Architect
19 89 (1.63%) Marketing Manager
20 86 (1.57%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (3.16%) PySpark
2 146 (2.67%) Kafka
3 95 (1.74%) HTML
4 92 (1.68%) CSS
5 85 (1.55%) .NET
6 74 (1.35%) PyTorch
7 69 (1.26%) REST
8 67 (1.22%) React
9 63 (1.15%) Pandas
10 62 (1.13%) Node.js
10 62 (1.13%) scikit-learn
11 53 (0.97%) TensorFlow
12 50 (0.91%) LangChain
13 47 (0.86%) SAP Fiori
14 46 (0.84%) .NET Core
15 39 (0.71%) RESTful
16 38 (0.69%) JSON
17 37 (0.68%) ASP.NET
18 36 (0.66%) ASP.NET Core
19 34 (0.62%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 301 (5.50%) Cloud Native
2 273 (4.99%) Onboarding
3 269 (4.92%) Social Media
4 205 (3.75%) Product Ownership
5 179 (3.27%) Analytical Mindset
6 146 (2.67%) Management Information System
7 140 (2.56%) Marketing Technology
8 137 (2.50%) Blog
9 115 (2.10%) Data Structures
10 104 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
11 101 (1.85%) Algorithms
12 83 (1.52%) Mobile App
13 77 (1.41%) AI Agents
14 62 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
14 62 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
15 60 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
16 57 (1.04%) Public Cloud
17 50 (0.91%) Life Science
18 45 (0.82%) e-Learning
19 43 (0.79%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 87 (1.59%) Windows
2 77 (1.41%) Linux
3 29 (0.53%) VMS
4 26 (0.48%) Apple iOS
5 19 (0.35%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.18%) Android
7 6 (0.11%) Unix
8 5 (0.091%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.073%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.055%) Debian
11 2 (0.037%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.018%) AIX
12 1 (0.018%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.018%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.018%) SUSE
12 1 (0.018%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,942 (35.50%) AI
2 1,279 (23.38%) Decision-Making
3 1,180 (21.57%) Business Intelligence
4 980 (17.91%) Agile
5 912 (16.67%) Roadmaps
6 862 (15.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 837 (15.30%) Problem-Solving
8 834 (15.24%) Data Modelling
9 774 (14.15%) Machine Learning
10 767 (14.02%) Data Engineering
11 732 (13.38%) Data Analytics
12 685 (12.52%) Data Pipeline
13 657 (12.01%) CI/CD
14 647 (11.83%) Data Science
15 582 (10.64%) Mentoring
16 578 (10.56%) Data Governance
17 555 (10.14%) Stakeholder Management
18 545 (9.96%) Actionable Insight
19 532 (9.72%) ETL
20 512 (9.36%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 1,457 (26.63%) SQL
2 1,260 (23.03%) Python
3 135 (2.47%) Java
4 123 (2.25%) C#
5 119 (2.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 108 (1.97%) JavaScript
7 104 (1.90%) PowerShell
8 90 (1.65%) TypeScript
9 88 (1.61%) R
10 75 (1.37%) Scala
11 65 (1.19%) Bicep
12 51 (0.93%) Bash
13 42 (0.77%) C++
13 42 (0.77%) Go
14 37 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
15 29 (0.53%) T-SQL
16 28 (0.51%) Kotlin
17 24 (0.44%) Swift
18 20 (0.37%) Julia
19 18 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 650 (11.88%) Degree
2 375 (6.85%) Security Cleared
3 246 (4.50%) SC Cleared
4 123 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 104 (1.90%) Azure Certification
6 100 (1.83%) Master's Degree
7 79 (1.44%) DV Cleared
8 72 (1.32%) IRCA
9 60 (1.10%) AWS Certification
10 53 (0.97%) ACCA
11 51 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
12 47 (0.86%) CIMA
12 47 (0.86%) CISSP
13 46 (0.84%) DBS Check
14 43 (0.79%) PhD
15 36 (0.66%) CISM
16 33 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
17 31 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
18 22 (0.40%) CCNP
18 22 (0.40%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 730 (13.34%) Data Quality
2 403 (7.37%) Accessibility
3 319 (5.83%) GDPR
4 221 (4.04%) QA
5 98 (1.79%) WCAG
6 75 (1.37%) ISO 9001
7 43 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
8 39 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 39 (0.71%) NIST
9 37 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 33 (0.60%) SLA
11 23 (0.42%) PCI DSS
11 23 (0.42%) PMO
12 21 (0.38%) IFRS
13 17 (0.31%) GRC
14 16 (0.29%) EU AI Act
14 16 (0.29%) HIPAA
15 14 (0.26%) PERC
16 13 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 12 (0.22%) COBIT
System Software
1 156 (2.85%) Docker
2 87 (1.59%) Active Directory
3 23 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (0.29%) vSphere
6 12 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.091%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.073%) Firmware
8 4 (0.073%) IAG
8 4 (0.073%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.018%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.018%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 252 (4.61%) Terraform
2 179 (3.27%) Kubernetes
3 46 (0.84%) Ansible
4 27 (0.49%) Prometheus
5 26 (0.48%) Grafana
6 16 (0.29%) EnCase
6 16 (0.29%) FTK
7 15 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
8 11 (0.20%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.15%) Argo
10 6 (0.11%) Hadoop YARN
10 6 (0.11%) Nagios
11 5 (0.091%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.091%) Graylog
11 5 (0.091%) Packer
11 5 (0.091%) Puppet
11 5 (0.091%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.073%) VxRail
13 3 (0.055%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.055%) Kibana
Vendors
1 798 (14.59%) Microsoft
2 514 (9.39%) Databricks
3 404 (7.38%) Google
4 278 (5.08%) Adobe
5 253 (4.62%) SAP
6 141 (2.58%) Oracle
7 115 (2.10%) Salesforce
8 72 (1.32%) HubSpot
9 57 (1.04%) Workday
10 56 (1.02%) Informatica
11 49 (0.90%) Dell
12 43 (0.79%) Cisco
13 42 (0.77%) IBM
14 37 (0.68%) Alteryx
15 31 (0.57%) OpenAI
16 30 (0.55%) Cognos
16 30 (0.55%) VMware
17 27 (0.49%) Cloudera
17 27 (0.49%) Teradata
18 26 (0.48%) ServiceNow