Analytics Jobs

Analytics
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Analytics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Analytics over the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 38 24
Rank change year-on-year +12 -14 -1
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 3,472 5,138 9,902
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.87% 5.53% 9.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.34% 6.38% 9.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,787 3,317 4,667
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,725 £49,150
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £107,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% +3.72%

All Process and 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 47,277 80,571 105,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.52% 86.76% 95.68%
Number of salaries quoted 25,823 58,144 61,428
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.51% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £99,404 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year +5.20% -8.26% +3.81%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Analytics.

Salary trend for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytics over the 6 months to 3 April 2025.

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 3 April 2025. 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 +8 3,045 £70,000 +16.67% 6,689
UK excluding London +18 1,868 £55,000 +2.33% 2,431
London +5 1,445 £85,000 +13.33% 4,729
Work from Home +6 1,302 £60,743 +1.99% 3,102
North of England -6 487 £60,000 +20.00% 621
South East +25 464 £57,500 - 721
Midlands +1 341 £52,500 -4.55% 402
North West -7 333 £66,367 +27.42% 387
West Midlands -5 255 £55,000 +0.64% 256
Scotland +22 237 £52,000 -12.69% 183
South West +16 206 £51,500 -6.36% 214
Yorkshire +3 139 £55,000 +21.55% 176
East of England +32 88 £65,000 +36.84% 210
East Midlands +28 86 £47,500 -13.64% 141
Northern Ireland +35 32 £30,000 -52.00% 59
North East -17 19 £55,000 +10.00% 62
Wales -5 14 £50,000 +5.26% 49
Channel Islands +6 4 £78,750 -

Analytics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 116 (3.34%) CMS
2 88 (2.53%) SAS
3 76 (2.19%) SharePoint
4 75 (2.16%) Apache Airflow
4 75 (2.16%) Oracle Application Server
5 64 (1.84%) Apache Spark
6 55 (1.58%) Apache
7 54 (1.56%) WordPress
8 25 (0.72%) Confluence
9 23 (0.66%) Drupal
10 20 (0.58%) Umbraco
11 12 (0.35%) IBM Domino
11 12 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
12 9 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 8 (0.23%) IIS
14 7 (0.20%) Luigi
14 7 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
15 4 (0.12%) ArcGIS
15 4 (0.12%) Jupyter
15 4 (0.12%) Mule
Applications
1 395 (11.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 95 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
3 82 (2.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (0.81%) Photoshop
5 24 (0.69%) Adobe Premiere
6 18 (0.52%) Trello
7 14 (0.40%) Chatbot
8 10 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 10 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
8 10 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
9 9 (0.26%) InDesign
9 9 (0.26%) SPSS
10 8 (0.23%) Maya
11 6 (0.17%) MS Visio
12 5 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
13 4 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
13 4 (0.12%) Weka
14 3 (0.086%) Adobe XD
15 2 (0.058%) Notion
15 2 (0.058%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 64 (1.84%) Shopify
2 39 (1.12%) NetSuite
3 31 (0.89%) Aladdin
4 21 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
5 20 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
6 19 (0.55%) Dynamics AX
7 16 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
8 11 (0.32%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 9 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
10 6 (0.17%) Infor M3
10 6 (0.17%) Oracle Retail
10 6 (0.17%) PeopleSoft HCM
10 6 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
11 5 (0.14%) CiviCRM
11 5 (0.14%) Relativity
12 4 (0.12%) Infor LN
12 4 (0.12%) iTrent
13 3 (0.086%) Payment Gateway
13 3 (0.086%) Raiser’s Edge
13 3 (0.086%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 790 (22.75%) Azure
2 661 (19.04%) Power Platform
3 508 (14.63%) AWS
4 275 (7.92%) Google Analytics
5 274 (7.89%) GCP
6 152 (4.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 144 (4.15%) Snowflake
8 142 (4.09%) Azure Data Factory
9 125 (3.60%) SaaS
10 110 (3.17%) Google Ads
11 106 (3.05%) Serverless
12 84 (2.42%) dbt
13 83 (2.39%) Azure DevOps
14 77 (2.22%) Amazon S3
14 77 (2.22%) GitHub
15 75 (2.16%) Microsoft 365
16 69 (1.99%) AWS Lambda
17 55 (1.58%) Google Tag Manager
18 54 (1.56%) PaaS
19 49 (1.41%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 36 (1.04%) Firewall
2 34 (0.98%) Internet
3 32 (0.92%) DNS
4 23 (0.66%) Broadband
5 22 (0.63%) VPN
6 18 (0.52%) Network Security
7 16 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
8 12 (0.35%) HTTP
9 11 (0.32%) Intranet
9 11 (0.32%) TCP/IP
10 10 (0.29%) Intrusion Detection
11 9 (0.26%) SMS
12 6 (0.17%) Bluetooth
12 6 (0.17%) DHCP
12 6 (0.17%) LAN
13 5 (0.14%) SSL
14 4 (0.12%) Kerberos
14 4 (0.12%) SAN
14 4 (0.12%) WAN
15 3 (0.086%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 650 (18.72%) Power BI
2 369 (10.63%) Data Warehouse
3 358 (10.31%) Tableau
4 208 (5.99%) Data Lake
5 203 (5.85%) Big Data
6 132 (3.80%) SQL Server
7 95 (2.74%) Oracle Reports
8 92 (2.65%) NoSQL
9 90 (2.59%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 73 (2.10%) BigQuery
10 73 (2.10%) Relational Database
10 73 (2.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 67 (1.93%) Amazon Redshift
12 66 (1.90%) Data Mining
13 65 (1.87%) Metadata
14 56 (1.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 55 (1.58%) Amazon Athena
16 54 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
17 50 (1.44%) Looker
18 45 (1.30%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 162 (4.67%) Git
2 110 (3.17%) JIRA
3 72 (2.07%) Jenkins
4 33 (0.95%) GitLab
5 29 (0.84%) Eclipse
5 29 (0.84%) Eclipse RCP
6 19 (0.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 18 (0.52%) JUnit
8 16 (0.46%) Maven
9 15 (0.43%) Cucumber
10 14 (0.40%) Mockito
11 13 (0.37%) IntelliJ
11 13 (0.37%) MLflow
12 12 (0.35%) Selenium
13 10 (0.29%) CircleCI
13 10 (0.29%) Visual Studio
13 10 (0.29%) webpack
14 9 (0.26%) ERwin
15 6 (0.17%) Babel
15 6 (0.17%) Terragrunt
General
1 1,345 (38.74%) Finance
2 1,312 (37.79%) Social Skills
3 973 (28.02%) Analytical Skills
4 544 (15.67%) Marketing
5 392 (11.29%) Banking
6 343 (9.88%) Law
7 324 (9.33%) Retail
8 230 (6.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 200 (5.76%) Organisational Skills
10 160 (4.61%) Legal
11 145 (4.18%) Presentation Skills
12 131 (3.77%) Front Office
13 128 (3.69%) Advertising
14 124 (3.57%) Public Sector
15 118 (3.40%) Manufacturing
16 98 (2.82%) Games
17 95 (2.74%) Telecoms
18 87 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
19 78 (2.25%) Military
20 46 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 667 (19.21%) Analyst
2 658 (18.95%) Senior
3 462 (13.31%) Lead
4 258 (7.43%) Data Analyst
5 252 (7.26%) Data Engineer
6 231 (6.65%) Developer
7 217 (6.25%) Architect
8 150 (4.32%) Data Scientist
9 148 (4.26%) Senior Analyst
10 113 (3.25%) Software Engineer
11 102 (2.94%) Data Manager
11 102 (2.94%) Solutions Architect
12 100 (2.88%) Product Manager
13 98 (2.82%) Senior Manager
14 82 (2.36%) Consultant
15 81 (2.33%) Analytics Manager
16 79 (2.28%) Digital Analyst
17 69 (1.99%) Business Analyst
18 68 (1.96%) Data Architect
19 63 (1.81%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (4.29%) CSS
2 142 (4.09%) HTML
3 103 (2.97%) NumPy
4 101 (2.91%) Pandas
5 92 (2.65%) PySpark
6 90 (2.59%) React
7 89 (2.56%) Kafka
8 65 (1.87%) RESTful
9 59 (1.70%) PyTorch
10 55 (1.58%) SciPy
11 53 (1.53%) Middleware
12 47 (1.35%) TensorFlow
13 41 (1.18%) .NET
14 39 (1.12%) AngularJS
14 39 (1.12%) scikit-learn
15 36 (1.04%) Node.js
16 33 (0.95%) JSON
17 30 (0.86%) OAuth
18 29 (0.84%) JSP
19 28 (0.81%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 244 (7.03%) Algorithms
2 228 (6.57%) Product Ownership
3 202 (5.82%) Management Information System
4 193 (5.56%) Social Media
5 88 (2.53%) Robotics
6 83 (2.39%) Fixed Income
7 75 (2.16%) Hedge funds
8 73 (2.10%) Cloud Native
9 67 (1.93%) Blockchain
10 65 (1.87%) Credit Risk
10 65 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
11 63 (1.81%) Derivative
12 61 (1.76%) Data Structures
13 58 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
14 52 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
15 50 (1.44%) Equities
16 47 (1.35%) Blog
16 47 (1.35%) Mobile App
17 46 (1.32%) FMCG
18 44 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 124 (3.57%) Windows
2 113 (3.25%) Linux
3 38 (1.09%) Apple iOS
4 29 (0.84%) Windows Server
5 16 (0.46%) Windows Vista
6 11 (0.32%) Android
6 11 (0.32%) Ubuntu
7 10 (0.29%) Unix
7 10 (0.29%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.20%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.12%) AIX
10 4 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.086%) VMS
12 2 (0.058%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.058%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.029%) CentOS
13 1 (0.029%) Rocky
13 1 (0.029%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 874 (25.17%) Data Analytics
2 846 (24.37%) Business Intelligence
3 842 (24.25%) Agile
4 753 (21.69%) Problem-Solving
5 729 (21.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 678 (19.53%) Decision-Making
7 651 (18.75%) Visualisation
8 546 (15.73%) Data Science
9 482 (13.88%) Data Management
10 477 (13.74%) Roadmaps
11 467 (13.45%) Data Modelling
11 467 (13.45%) Machine Learning
12 439 (12.64%) Data Analysis
13 425 (12.24%) Mentoring
14 419 (12.07%) DevOps
15 392 (11.29%) Computer Science
16 387 (11.15%) Data Engineering
17 376 (10.83%) Stakeholder Management
18 357 (10.28%) ETL
19 341 (9.82%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,021 (29.41%) SQL
2 985 (28.37%) Python
3 235 (6.77%) Java
4 150 (4.32%) JavaScript
5 137 (3.95%) R
6 124 (3.57%) C#
7 71 (2.04%) PowerShell
8 66 (1.90%) C++
9 64 (1.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 62 (1.79%) T-SQL
11 47 (1.35%) Scala
12 42 (1.21%) TypeScript
13 34 (0.98%) Bash
14 29 (0.84%) C
15 25 (0.72%) Rust
16 24 (0.69%) PHP
17 23 (0.66%) Ada
18 22 (0.63%) VBA
19 18 (0.52%) Go
20 17 (0.49%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1,081 (31.13%) Degree
2 222 (6.39%) Master's Degree
3 186 (5.36%) DBS Check
4 151 (4.35%) Security Cleared
5 135 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 106 (3.05%) PhD
7 88 (2.53%) SC Cleared
8 62 (1.79%) Numerate Degree
9 59 (1.70%) Azure Certification
10 58 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
11 54 (1.56%) DV Cleared
12 43 (1.24%) CISA
13 36 (1.04%) CIMA
14 35 (1.01%) ACCA
14 35 (1.01%) AWS Certification
15 21 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
16 20 (0.58%) CISSP
17 19 (0.55%) ISACA
17 19 (0.55%) MBA
18 14 (0.40%) ICAEW
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 343 (9.88%) Data Quality
2 140 (4.03%) Accessibility
3 113 (3.25%) GDPR
4 60 (1.73%) QA
5 44 (1.27%) ITGC
6 30 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
7 24 (0.69%) IFRS
8 22 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 22 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 20 (0.58%) IFRS 9
10 19 (0.55%) SLA
11 18 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 17 (0.49%) HIPAA
12 17 (0.49%) SOC 2
13 13 (0.37%) MiFID
13 13 (0.37%) PCI DSS
14 10 (0.29%) Basel III
15 9 (0.26%) EMIR
15 9 (0.26%) NIST
15 9 (0.26%) PMO
System Software
1 118 (3.40%) Docker
2 45 (1.30%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.35%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.12%) HDFS
7 4 (0.12%) vSphere
8 2 (0.058%) BitLocker
8 2 (0.058%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.029%) Firmware
9 1 (0.029%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 1 (0.029%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.029%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.029%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.029%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.029%) XenApp
9 1 (0.029%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 158 (4.55%) Kubernetes
2 142 (4.09%) Terraform
3 53 (1.53%) Ansible
4 25 (0.72%) Prometheus
5 20 (0.58%) Grafana
6 19 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (0.26%) SCCM
9 8 (0.23%) ZABBIX
10 6 (0.17%) Graylog
11 4 (0.12%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.12%) Kubeflow
11 4 (0.12%) Matomo
11 4 (0.12%) QRadar
12 3 (0.086%) Argo
12 3 (0.086%) Istio
12 3 (0.086%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 2 (0.058%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.058%) FTK
13 2 (0.058%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 664 (19.12%) Microsoft
2 439 (12.64%) Google
3 294 (8.47%) Databricks
4 191 (5.50%) Oracle
5 177 (5.10%) SAP
6 144 (4.15%) Salesforce
7 95 (2.74%) Adobe
8 92 (2.65%) Alteryx
9 63 (1.81%) ServiceNow
10 62 (1.79%) Facebook
11 60 (1.73%) Instagram
12 48 (1.38%) TikTok
13 46 (1.32%) IBM
14 36 (1.04%) Pinterest
15 30 (0.86%) VMware
16 27 (0.78%) Ahrefs
17 26 (0.75%) Informatica
17 26 (0.75%) YouTube
18 25 (0.72%) OpenAI
19 21 (0.60%) BISAM