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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 20 38
Rank change year-on-year -7 +18 -15
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 4,573 3,780 5,245
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.09% 8.71% 5.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.88% 9.33% 6.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,670 1,729 3,305
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,443 £53,500
% change year-on-year +0.10% +7.37% -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 66,447 40,520 82,162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.89% 93.32% 85.21%
Number of salaries quoted 42,708 22,234 59,552
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,938 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -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 May 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 May 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 -6 4,048 £65,000 - 1,924
UK excluding London -17 2,434 £57,500 +0.10% 1,238
London 0 1,760 £80,000 -3.03% 1,014
Work from Home +3 1,411 £65,000 +8.33% 833
North of England +16 754 £60,000 +8.11% 329
Midlands -15 499 £55,000 +4.76% 182
South East -29 492 £55,000 -8.33% 438
North West +14 434 £60,000 +9.09% 191
West Midlands -22 290 £55,200 +0.36% 93
Yorkshire -7 241 £60,000 +4.35% 87
South West -29 227 £60,000 +9.09% 114
East of England +37 221 £60,000 -7.69% 82
East Midlands +26 205 £50,000 +3.09% 89
Scotland -9 153 £65,000 -7.14% 60
North East +11 79 £47,000 -14.55% 56
Northern Ireland -17 48 £45,000 +50.00% 13
Wales -5 42 £56,250 -2.17% 40

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
1 161 (3.52%) Apache Airflow
2 139 (3.04%) Apache Spark
3 116 (2.54%) CMS
4 84 (1.84%) Apache
5 62 (1.36%) Confluence
6 53 (1.16%) SharePoint
7 50 (1.09%) WordPress
8 37 (0.81%) SAS
9 35 (0.77%) ArcGIS
10 20 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
11 17 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
12 10 (0.22%) Drupal
13 7 (0.15%) Oracle Application Server
13 7 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 6 (0.13%) IIS
15 4 (0.087%) Documentum
15 4 (0.087%) Jupyter
15 4 (0.087%) Moodle
15 4 (0.087%) Umbraco
16 3 (0.066%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 296 (6.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 96 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
3 50 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (0.68%) UserZoom
5 21 (0.46%) Adobe XD
6 20 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
7 18 (0.39%) MS Visio
8 11 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 10 (0.22%) SPSS
10 9 (0.20%) Chatbot
11 4 (0.087%) Adobe Illustrator
11 4 (0.087%) InDesign
12 3 (0.066%) Microsoft Project
12 3 (0.066%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.066%) Sketch
13 2 (0.044%) Maya
14 1 (0.022%) Abaqus
14 1 (0.022%) Adobe Premiere
14 1 (0.022%) Siemens NX
14 1 (0.022%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 85 (1.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (0.74%) Adobe Campaign
2 34 (0.74%) SAP IBP
3 33 (0.72%) SAP PP
4 24 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
5 23 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
6 20 (0.44%) Magento
7 16 (0.35%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 16 (0.35%) Shopify
8 15 (0.33%) iTrent
9 11 (0.24%) NetSuite
10 10 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
11 9 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
11 9 (0.20%) SAP CO
12 8 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
12 8 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
12 8 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
12 8 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
13 7 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
14 6 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 937 (20.49%) Azure
2 702 (15.35%) Power Platform
3 573 (12.53%) AWS
4 286 (6.25%) GCP
5 262 (5.73%) SaaS
6 223 (4.88%) Snowflake
7 202 (4.42%) Adobe Analytics
8 194 (4.24%) Google Analytics
9 189 (4.13%) Azure Data Factory
10 160 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
11 146 (3.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 144 (3.15%) Microsoft 365
13 136 (2.97%) GitHub
14 135 (2.95%) dbt
15 123 (2.69%) Figma
16 117 (2.56%) Amazon S3
17 113 (2.47%) Serverless
18 101 (2.21%) Entra ID
19 73 (1.60%) Azure Monitor
20 71 (1.55%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 258 (5.64%) Broadband
2 38 (0.83%) Firewall
3 36 (0.79%) VPN
4 27 (0.59%) DNS
5 25 (0.55%) CHAP
6 23 (0.50%) Network Security
7 22 (0.48%) WAN
8 17 (0.37%) TCP/IP
9 15 (0.33%) DHCP
10 14 (0.31%) Intranet
11 12 (0.26%) Unified Communications
12 8 (0.17%) 5G
13 7 (0.15%) SMS
14 6 (0.13%) BGP
14 6 (0.13%) HTTP
14 6 (0.13%) SSL
15 5 (0.11%) VXLAN
15 5 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
16 4 (0.087%) SNMP
17 3 (0.066%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 664 (14.52%) Power BI
2 334 (7.30%) Tableau
3 314 (6.87%) Data Warehouse
4 220 (4.81%) Data Lake
5 164 (3.59%) Metadata
6 144 (3.15%) SQL Server
7 133 (2.91%) Data Mining
8 123 (2.69%) Looker
9 110 (2.41%) BigQuery
10 102 (2.23%) Amazon Redshift
11 100 (2.19%) Relational Database
12 83 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
13 81 (1.77%) NoSQL
14 72 (1.57%) Big Data
15 67 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
16 55 (1.20%) Power Query
17 53 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 49 (1.07%) Star Schema
19 46 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
20 45 (0.98%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 172 (3.76%) Git
2 80 (1.75%) JIRA
3 77 (1.68%) Jenkins
4 43 (0.94%) MLflow
5 36 (0.79%) GitLab
6 25 (0.55%) IBM UrbanCode
7 24 (0.52%) TeamCity
8 16 (0.35%) Axure RP
8 16 (0.35%) Balsamiq
8 16 (0.35%) CircleCI
8 16 (0.35%) Crashlytics
8 16 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
9 13 (0.28%) XCTest
10 12 (0.26%) Selenium
11 11 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 10 (0.22%) ERwin
12 10 (0.22%) Visual Studio
13 7 (0.15%) Claude Code
14 6 (0.13%) fastlane
14 6 (0.13%) MSI
General
1 1,261 (27.57%) Finance
2 1,116 (24.40%) Social Skills
3 1,034 (22.61%) Analytical Skills
4 642 (14.04%) Marketing
5 256 (5.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 250 (5.47%) Retail
7 226 (4.94%) Public Sector
8 220 (4.81%) Games
9 213 (4.66%) Law
10 199 (4.35%) Banking
11 150 (3.28%) Legal
12 142 (3.11%) Manufacturing
13 127 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
14 120 (2.62%) Automotive
15 104 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
16 99 (2.16%) Advertising
17 91 (1.99%) Financial Institution
18 65 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
19 60 (1.31%) Back Office
20 50 (1.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 817 (17.87%) Senior
2 593 (12.97%) Analyst
3 513 (11.22%) Data Engineer
4 500 (10.93%) Lead
5 336 (7.35%) Architect
6 303 (6.63%) Data Analyst
7 272 (5.95%) Developer
8 175 (3.83%) Consultant
9 163 (3.56%) Data Architect
10 135 (2.95%) Senior Manager
11 133 (2.91%) Senior Data Engineer
12 117 (2.56%) Trainee
12 117 (2.56%) Trainee Analyst
12 117 (2.56%) Trainee Data Analyst
13 109 (2.38%) Data Scientist
13 109 (2.38%) Designer
13 109 (2.38%) Product Manager
14 104 (2.27%) Data Manager
15 103 (2.25%) Solutions Architect
16 99 (2.16%) Analytics Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (2.93%) PySpark
2 120 (2.62%) Kafka
3 92 (2.01%) HTML
4 86 (1.88%) .NET
4 86 (1.88%) CSS
4 86 (1.88%) PyTorch
5 58 (1.27%) TensorFlow
6 53 (1.16%) React
7 51 (1.12%) SAP Fiori
8 47 (1.03%) RESTful
9 46 (1.01%) .NET Core
10 44 (0.96%) REST
10 44 (0.96%) scikit-learn
11 43 (0.94%) LangChain
11 43 (0.94%) Pandas
12 41 (0.90%) OAuth
13 35 (0.77%) JSON
14 34 (0.74%) Node.js
15 24 (0.52%) LlamaIndex
16 23 (0.50%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 281 (6.14%) Social Media
2 206 (4.50%) Cloud Native
3 183 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 149 (3.26%) Analytical Mindset
4 149 (3.26%) Management Information System
5 106 (2.32%) Algorithms
6 105 (2.30%) Onboarding
7 102 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
8 87 (1.90%) Data Structures
9 80 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
10 78 (1.71%) Marketing Technology
11 70 (1.53%) Life Science
12 68 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
13 67 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
13 67 (1.47%) Mobile App
14 57 (1.25%) Over-the-Top Content
15 45 (0.98%) Public Cloud
15 45 (0.98%) Virtual Team
16 39 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
17 37 (0.81%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 111 (2.43%) Windows
2 55 (1.20%) Linux
3 50 (1.09%) Windows 10
4 26 (0.57%) VMS
5 25 (0.55%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.39%) Unix
6 18 (0.39%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.26%) Android
8 3 (0.066%) AIX
9 1 (0.022%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,280 (27.99%) AI
2 957 (20.93%) Decision-Making
3 947 (20.71%) Business Intelligence
4 885 (19.35%) Agile
5 706 (15.44%) Data Modelling
6 702 (15.35%) Data Analytics
7 694 (15.18%) Continuous Improvement
8 672 (14.69%) Problem-Solving
9 650 (14.21%) Roadmaps
10 606 (13.25%) Data Engineering
11 560 (12.25%) Data Pipeline
12 540 (11.81%) CI/CD
13 510 (11.15%) Data Governance
14 494 (10.80%) Customer Experience
14 494 (10.80%) Machine Learning
15 487 (10.65%) ETL
16 485 (10.61%) Data Science
17 430 (9.40%) DevOps
18 422 (9.23%) Mentoring
19 421 (9.21%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 1,166 (25.50%) SQL
2 1,037 (22.68%) Python
3 118 (2.58%) C#
4 107 (2.34%) Java
5 105 (2.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 87 (1.90%) JavaScript
7 84 (1.84%) Scala
8 75 (1.64%) R
9 71 (1.55%) PowerShell
10 52 (1.14%) TypeScript
11 42 (0.92%) Bicep
12 38 (0.83%) T-SQL
13 37 (0.81%) C++
14 36 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
15 34 (0.74%) Go
16 26 (0.57%) Bash
17 19 (0.42%) Kotlin
18 18 (0.39%) VBA
19 16 (0.35%) Swift
20 15 (0.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 580 (12.68%) Degree
2 275 (6.01%) Security Cleared
3 187 (4.09%) SC Cleared
4 104 (2.27%) Master's Degree
5 82 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 72 (1.57%) IRCA
7 60 (1.31%) Azure Certification
8 51 (1.12%) ACCA
9 50 (1.09%) CTC Cleared
10 45 (0.98%) DBS Check
11 44 (0.96%) CIMA
11 44 (0.96%) PhD
12 43 (0.94%) CISM
12 43 (0.94%) CISSP
13 40 (0.87%) CISA
14 37 (0.81%) DV Cleared
15 30 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
16 29 (0.63%) AWS Certification
17 27 (0.59%) SANS
18 26 (0.57%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 583 (12.75%) Data Quality
2 363 (7.94%) Accessibility
3 325 (7.11%) GDPR
4 180 (3.94%) QA
5 94 (2.06%) WCAG
6 76 (1.66%) ISO 9001
7 72 (1.57%) SLA
8 45 (0.98%) NIST
9 42 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 37 (0.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 32 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
12 30 (0.66%) COBIT
13 24 (0.52%) IFRS
14 20 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 17 (0.37%) SOC 2
16 16 (0.35%) GRC
17 15 (0.33%) GAAP
17 15 (0.33%) HIPAA
18 14 (0.31%) PCI DSS
19 12 (0.26%) GxP
System Software
1 150 (3.28%) Docker
2 83 (1.82%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (0.20%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.11%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.087%) IAG
7 4 (0.087%) vSphere
8 2 (0.044%) Firmware
9 1 (0.022%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.022%) vCloud
9 1 (0.022%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 227 (4.96%) Terraform
2 176 (3.85%) Kubernetes
3 48 (1.05%) Ansible
4 27 (0.59%) Grafana
4 27 (0.59%) Prometheus
5 16 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
6 13 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (0.20%) EnCase
7 9 (0.20%) FTK
8 8 (0.17%) Kibana
9 6 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.11%) Control-M
10 5 (0.11%) VxRail
11 4 (0.087%) Argo
11 4 (0.087%) Graylog
12 3 (0.066%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.044%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.044%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.044%) SCCM
13 2 (0.044%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 781 (17.08%) Microsoft
2 385 (8.42%) Databricks
3 317 (6.93%) Google
4 299 (6.54%) Adobe
5 203 (4.44%) SAP
6 148 (3.24%) Salesforce
7 125 (2.73%) Oracle
8 106 (2.32%) Cisco
9 62 (1.36%) HubSpot
10 54 (1.18%) Dell
11 46 (1.01%) Informatica
12 31 (0.68%) Alteryx
13 28 (0.61%) Workday
14 27 (0.59%) Red Hat
15 26 (0.57%) Palantir
16 25 (0.55%) Cloudera
16 25 (0.55%) Denodo
16 25 (0.55%) Nexthink
16 25 (0.55%) Teradata
17 24 (0.52%) OpenAI