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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 23 37
Rank change year-on-year -3 +14 -13
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 5,121 3,943 5,188
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.19% 8.01% 5.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.03% 8.87% 6.24%
Number of salaries quoted 3,092 1,805 3,237
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £86,923 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £112,500 £110,000
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 72,820 44,444 83,107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.76% 90.26% 82.20%
Number of salaries quoted 50,274 24,878 58,156
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 July 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 July 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 -2 4,599 £67,500 +6.93% 2,710
UK excluding London -7 2,713 £60,000 +9.09% 1,379
London +8 1,994 £80,000 +3.23% 1,660
Work from Home +2 1,572 £65,000 +8.33% 1,167
North of England +41 918 £60,000 +5.26% 344
Midlands +17 595 £59,527 +13.38% 212
North West +36 546 £60,000 +14.29% 186
South East -31 497 £55,000 - 454
West Midlands +6 348 £59,527 +13.38% 123
South West -33 251 £60,000 - 142
Yorkshire +17 249 £62,500 +2.89% 106
East Midlands +33 246 £57,500 +18.56% 89
East of England +24 234 £60,000 +20.00% 99
Scotland -9 129 £62,500 -10.71% 77
North East +23 123 £50,000 -3.85% 52
Wales -14 54 £61,750 +2.92% 33
Northern Ireland -39 40 £45,000 +4.43% 37

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
1 168 (3.28%) Apache Spark
2 145 (2.83%) Apache Airflow
3 120 (2.34%) CMS
4 100 (1.95%) Apache
5 69 (1.35%) SAS
6 65 (1.27%) Confluence
7 47 (0.92%) SharePoint
8 45 (0.88%) WordPress
9 37 (0.72%) ArcGIS
10 27 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
11 16 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
12 9 (0.18%) Drupal
12 9 (0.18%) Jupyter
13 6 (0.12%) Headless CMS
14 5 (0.098%) Oracle Application Server
14 5 (0.098%) Oracle Workflow
14 5 (0.098%) Umbraco
15 4 (0.078%) Documentum
16 3 (0.059%) Sitecore CMS
17 2 (0.039%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 243 (4.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 75 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
3 47 (0.92%) UserZoom
4 39 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 28 (0.55%) Chatbot
5 28 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
6 20 (0.39%) SPSS
7 18 (0.35%) MS Visio
8 13 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 13 (0.25%) Adobe XD
9 6 (0.12%) Sketch
9 6 (0.12%) Trello
10 5 (0.098%) Photoshop
11 4 (0.078%) InDesign
11 4 (0.078%) Microsoft Project
12 3 (0.059%) Adobe Illustrator
13 1 (0.020%) Adobe Premiere
13 1 (0.020%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 115 (2.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (0.68%) SAP IBP
3 34 (0.66%) Adobe Campaign
4 33 (0.64%) SAP PP
5 28 (0.55%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 20 (0.39%) Shopify
7 17 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
7 17 (0.33%) Magento
8 15 (0.29%) NetSuite
9 11 (0.21%) iTrent
9 11 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
10 7 (0.14%) Workday HCM
11 6 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
11 6 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
11 6 (0.12%) Relativity
11 6 (0.12%) SAP ERP
11 6 (0.12%) SAP PM
11 6 (0.12%) SAP Travel Management
12 5 (0.098%) SAP PS
12 5 (0.098%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 1,007 (19.66%) Azure
2 786 (15.35%) Power Platform
3 777 (15.17%) AWS
4 328 (6.40%) GCP
5 324 (6.33%) SaaS
6 235 (4.59%) Snowflake
7 210 (4.10%) Adobe Analytics
8 202 (3.94%) Google Analytics
9 189 (3.69%) Azure Data Factory
10 156 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
11 149 (2.91%) Serverless
12 147 (2.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 144 (2.81%) GitHub
14 124 (2.42%) dbt
15 123 (2.40%) Amazon S3
16 122 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
17 117 (2.28%) Figma
18 115 (2.25%) Cloud Computing
19 104 (2.03%) Entra ID
20 80 (1.56%) Contentsquare
Communications & Networking
1 250 (4.88%) Broadband
2 59 (1.15%) VPN
3 56 (1.09%) Internet
4 50 (0.98%) Firewall
5 43 (0.84%) DNS
6 37 (0.72%) Network Security
7 27 (0.53%) BGP
8 25 (0.49%) TCP/IP
9 20 (0.39%) VLAN
10 18 (0.35%) OSPF
10 18 (0.35%) SMS
11 16 (0.31%) VoIP
12 15 (0.29%) CHAP
12 15 (0.29%) DHCP
13 14 (0.27%) CTI
13 14 (0.27%) WAN
14 13 (0.25%) Unified Communications
15 11 (0.21%) 5G
15 11 (0.21%) Intranet
16 10 (0.20%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 751 (14.67%) Power BI
2 391 (7.64%) Data Warehouse
3 298 (5.82%) Tableau
4 228 (4.45%) Data Lake
5 183 (3.57%) Metadata
6 165 (3.22%) SQL Server
7 131 (2.56%) Big Data
8 123 (2.40%) Looker
9 122 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
10 118 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
11 109 (2.13%) BigQuery
12 94 (1.84%) Relational Database
13 90 (1.76%) NoSQL
14 86 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
15 74 (1.45%) MongoDB
16 70 (1.37%) Power Query
17 69 (1.35%) Data Mining
18 62 (1.21%) Star Schema
19 60 (1.17%) Delta Lake
20 56 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 175 (3.42%) Git
2 77 (1.50%) JIRA
3 60 (1.17%) Jenkins
4 42 (0.82%) MLflow
5 35 (0.68%) GitLab
6 25 (0.49%) IBM UrbanCode
7 21 (0.41%) Crashlytics
8 14 (0.27%) CircleCI
8 14 (0.27%) XCTest
9 13 (0.25%) Claude Code
9 13 (0.25%) fastlane
10 10 (0.20%) ERwin
11 9 (0.18%) Xcode
12 8 (0.16%) Gradle
12 8 (0.16%) Selenium
13 7 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 6 (0.12%) Android Studio
15 5 (0.098%) Axure RP
15 5 (0.098%) Balsamiq
15 5 (0.098%) Bitbucket
General
1 1,341 (26.19%) Finance
2 1,289 (25.17%) Social Skills
3 1,103 (21.54%) Analytical Skills
4 668 (13.04%) Marketing
5 340 (6.64%) Public Sector
6 316 (6.17%) Retail
7 247 (4.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 240 (4.69%) Games
9 233 (4.55%) Law
10 208 (4.06%) Banking
11 196 (3.83%) Legal
12 170 (3.32%) Manufacturing
13 144 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
14 123 (2.40%) Automotive
15 119 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
16 105 (2.05%) Advertising
17 92 (1.80%) Financial Institution
18 91 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
19 59 (1.15%) Telecoms
20 46 (0.90%) Military
Job Titles
1 965 (18.84%) Senior
2 609 (11.89%) Analyst
3 582 (11.36%) Data Engineer
4 552 (10.78%) Lead
5 469 (9.16%) Architect
6 325 (6.35%) Developer
7 287 (5.60%) Data Analyst
8 221 (4.32%) Data Architect
9 218 (4.26%) Consultant
10 185 (3.61%) Senior Data Engineer
11 162 (3.16%) Solutions Architect
12 149 (2.91%) Data Scientist
13 146 (2.85%) Senior Manager
14 137 (2.68%) Analytics Manager
15 133 (2.60%) Product Manager
16 115 (2.25%) Data Manager
17 106 (2.07%) Senior Analyst
18 105 (2.05%) Designer
19 97 (1.89%) Senior Architect
20 87 (1.70%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (3.05%) PySpark
2 138 (2.69%) Kafka
3 99 (1.93%) HTML
4 98 (1.91%) .NET
5 96 (1.87%) CSS
6 74 (1.45%) PyTorch
7 65 (1.27%) REST
8 59 (1.15%) Node.js
8 59 (1.15%) React
8 59 (1.15%) SAP Fiori
9 55 (1.07%) .NET Core
10 52 (1.02%) Pandas
11 48 (0.94%) scikit-learn
12 46 (0.90%) TensorFlow
13 42 (0.82%) RESTful
14 38 (0.74%) LangChain
15 36 (0.70%) ASP.NET
15 36 (0.70%) ASP.NET Core
16 35 (0.68%) AngularJS
16 35 (0.68%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 299 (5.84%) Social Media
2 287 (5.60%) Cloud Native
3 229 (4.47%) Onboarding
4 202 (3.94%) Product Ownership
5 171 (3.34%) Analytical Mindset
6 155 (3.03%) Management Information System
7 120 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
8 115 (2.25%) Data Structures
9 97 (1.89%) Algorithms
10 92 (1.80%) Mobile App
11 86 (1.68%) Marketing Technology
12 75 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
13 72 (1.41%) Blog
14 66 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
15 65 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
16 57 (1.11%) Public Cloud
17 54 (1.05%) Life Science
18 51 (1.00%) AI Agents
19 47 (0.92%) IoT
20 44 (0.86%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 120 (2.34%) Windows
2 87 (1.70%) Linux
3 36 (0.70%) VMS
3 36 (0.70%) Windows 10
4 27 (0.53%) Apple iOS
5 19 (0.37%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.23%) Android
6 12 (0.23%) Unix
7 4 (0.078%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.059%) AIX
9 2 (0.039%) Debian
9 2 (0.039%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.020%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,641 (32.04%) AI
2 1,103 (21.54%) Decision-Making
3 1,073 (20.95%) Business Intelligence
4 953 (18.61%) Agile
5 858 (16.75%) Roadmaps
6 796 (15.54%) Data Modelling
7 776 (15.15%) Continuous Improvement
8 755 (14.74%) Problem-Solving
9 717 (14.00%) Data Analytics
10 682 (13.32%) Data Engineering
11 619 (12.09%) Data Pipeline
12 614 (11.99%) Machine Learning
13 612 (11.95%) CI/CD
14 567 (11.07%) Data Governance
15 547 (10.68%) Customer Experience
16 526 (10.27%) Mentoring
17 510 (9.96%) ETL
18 497 (9.71%) Data Science
19 464 (9.06%) DevOps
20 456 (8.90%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 1,314 (25.66%) SQL
2 1,122 (21.91%) Python
3 135 (2.64%) C#
4 123 (2.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 122 (2.38%) Java
6 113 (2.21%) PowerShell
7 92 (1.80%) JavaScript
8 80 (1.56%) R
9 78 (1.52%) TypeScript
10 63 (1.23%) Scala
11 57 (1.11%) Bicep
12 53 (1.03%) Bash
13 45 (0.88%) C++
14 43 (0.84%) Kusto Query Language
15 40 (0.78%) Go
16 31 (0.61%) T-SQL
17 23 (0.45%) Kotlin
18 21 (0.41%) Swift
19 19 (0.37%) ABAP
20 18 (0.35%) Julia
Qualifications
1 608 (11.87%) Degree
2 345 (6.74%) Security Cleared
3 229 (4.47%) SC Cleared
4 116 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 92 (1.80%) Master's Degree
6 87 (1.70%) Azure Certification
7 72 (1.41%) IRCA
8 57 (1.11%) DV Cleared
9 56 (1.09%) AWS Certification
10 51 (1.00%) ACCA
10 51 (1.00%) DBS Check
10 51 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
11 45 (0.88%) CIMA
12 43 (0.84%) CISSP
13 36 (0.70%) CISM
14 35 (0.68%) CTC Cleared
15 34 (0.66%) PhD
16 32 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
17 25 (0.49%) CISA
18 22 (0.43%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 659 (12.87%) Data Quality
2 409 (7.99%) Accessibility
3 326 (6.37%) GDPR
4 217 (4.24%) QA
5 96 (1.87%) WCAG
6 74 (1.45%) ISO 9001
7 65 (1.27%) SLA
8 44 (0.86%) NIST
9 38 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 36 (0.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 32 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
12 27 (0.53%) PCI DSS
13 20 (0.39%) IFRS
14 19 (0.37%) COBIT
15 17 (0.33%) PMO
16 15 (0.29%) HIPAA
17 14 (0.27%) PERC
17 14 (0.27%) SOC 2
18 13 (0.25%) GAAP
18 13 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 156 (3.05%) Docker
2 93 (1.82%) Active Directory
3 24 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (0.31%) vSphere
5 13 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.14%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.098%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.078%) IAG
9 2 (0.039%) Firmware
10 1 (0.020%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 249 (4.86%) Terraform
2 180 (3.51%) Kubernetes
3 47 (0.92%) Ansible
4 30 (0.59%) Prometheus
5 26 (0.51%) Grafana
6 13 (0.25%) EnCase
6 13 (0.25%) FTK
6 13 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.16%) FortiGate
7 8 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.12%) Hadoop YARN
8 6 (0.12%) Nagios
8 6 (0.12%) VxRail
9 5 (0.098%) Argo
9 5 (0.098%) Graylog
9 5 (0.098%) Kibana
10 4 (0.078%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.078%) Packer
11 3 (0.059%) Puppet
11 3 (0.059%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 802 (15.66%) Microsoft
2 441 (8.61%) Databricks
3 362 (7.07%) Google
4 302 (5.90%) Adobe
5 265 (5.17%) SAP
6 140 (2.73%) Oracle
7 123 (2.40%) Salesforce
8 81 (1.58%) Cisco
9 70 (1.37%) HubSpot
10 55 (1.07%) Informatica
11 53 (1.03%) Dell
12 43 (0.84%) Workday
13 39 (0.76%) IBM
14 31 (0.61%) VMware
15 30 (0.59%) Cognos
15 30 (0.59%) ServiceNow
16 27 (0.53%) Alteryx
16 27 (0.53%) Cloudera
16 27 (0.53%) Teradata
17 25 (0.49%) Red Hat