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 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 26 29
Rank change year-on-year -6 +3 -4
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 3,675 3,575 3,548
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 6.20% 6.47% 6.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.55% 7.19% 7.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,897 1,813 2,474
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £113,750 £118,750 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,410 £57,500 £55,148
% change year-on-year -12.33% +4.27% -0.27%

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 48,662 49,693 47,075
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.06% 89.92% 91.48%
Number of salaries quoted 28,549 24,753 35,968
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £36,565 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -3.83%

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 30 December 2025.

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 30 December 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 3,142 £62,500 -10.71% 7,308
UK excluding London +6 1,912 £50,410 -12.33% 6,524
London +3 1,472 £75,000 -11.76% 1,448
Work from Home -2 1,104 £60,000 -8.54% 3,361
South East +20 581 £55,000 -8.33% 1,755
North of England -12 375 £55,000 - 1,451
Midlands -5 314 £53,500 -6.14% 1,171
Scotland +9 254 £49,750 -18.10% 296
South West +11 201 £55,000 -4.35% 716
North West -22 191 £47,500 -13.64% 740
West Midlands -18 182 £58,764 +2.20% 609
Yorkshire +2 150 £63,750 +15.91% 607
East Midlands +13 134 £45,000 -10.00% 491
East of England +33 128 £40,000 -33.33% 963
North East +14 35 £40,000 -27.27% 107
Northern Ireland +3 35 £45,000 -35.71% 89
Wales +14 27 £60,000 +20.00% 184

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 87 (2.37%) Apache Spark
1 87 (2.37%) CMS
2 63 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
3 50 (1.36%) WordPress
4 46 (1.25%) Confluence
5 42 (1.14%) SharePoint
6 34 (0.93%) Apache
7 23 (0.63%) SAS
8 20 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 15 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
10 10 (0.27%) Drupal
10 10 (0.27%) SugarCRM
11 9 (0.24%) Umbraco
12 6 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 6 (0.16%) Headless CMS
13 5 (0.14%) IIS
14 4 (0.11%) Apache Superset
14 4 (0.11%) Appian
15 3 (0.082%) Moodle
15 3 (0.082%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 518 (14.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 97 (2.64%) Microsoft Office
3 58 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (0.84%) Maya
5 28 (0.76%) Adobe XD
6 23 (0.63%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 23 (0.63%) Photoshop
7 18 (0.49%) InDesign
8 15 (0.41%) Chatbot
8 15 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
9 12 (0.33%) Adobe Premiere
10 11 (0.30%) SPSS
11 10 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
11 10 (0.27%) Trello
12 9 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
13 5 (0.14%) MadCap Flare
13 5 (0.14%) MS Visio
14 4 (0.11%) SketchUp
15 3 (0.082%) Final Cut Pro
15 3 (0.082%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 83 (2.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 61 (1.66%) Dynamics CRM
3 39 (1.06%) Shopify
4 34 (0.93%) Oracle ERP
5 26 (0.71%) SAP IBP
6 21 (0.57%) Magento
6 21 (0.57%) SAP CO
7 17 (0.46%) SAP FI
7 17 (0.46%) SAP FI/CO
8 16 (0.44%) Oracle Assets
8 16 (0.44%) Oracle General Ledger
8 16 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
8 16 (0.44%) Oracle Receivables
9 15 (0.41%) Dynamics GP
9 15 (0.41%) Oracle Financials
10 13 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
11 11 (0.30%) SAP FSCM
12 10 (0.27%) NetSuite
12 10 (0.27%) SAP IS-U
13 8 (0.22%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 941 (25.61%) Azure
2 746 (20.30%) Power Platform
3 370 (10.07%) AWS
4 229 (6.23%) GCP
5 225 (6.12%) SaaS
6 215 (5.85%) Google Analytics
7 194 (5.28%) Snowflake
8 183 (4.98%) Azure Data Factory
9 164 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
10 156 (4.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 147 (4.00%) GitHub
12 133 (3.62%) Microsoft 365
13 114 (3.10%) dbt
14 76 (2.07%) Azure Monitor
15 74 (2.01%) Serverless
16 69 (1.88%) Figma
17 65 (1.77%) Entra ID
18 62 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
18 62 (1.69%) Google Ads
19 58 (1.58%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 35 (0.95%) VPN
2 34 (0.93%) SMS
3 30 (0.82%) Firewall
4 26 (0.71%) Broadband
5 18 (0.49%) Unified Communications
6 14 (0.38%) DNS
6 14 (0.38%) Network Security
7 11 (0.30%) WAN
8 10 (0.27%) CHAP
9 9 (0.24%) Intranet
10 7 (0.19%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.14%) Intrusion Detection
12 4 (0.11%) DHCP
12 4 (0.11%) HTTPS
12 4 (0.11%) Internet
12 4 (0.11%) VoIP
12 4 (0.11%) Wireshark
13 3 (0.082%) MQTT
14 2 (0.054%) HTTP
14 2 (0.054%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 712 (19.37%) Power BI
2 393 (10.69%) Tableau
3 322 (8.76%) Data Warehouse
4 251 (6.83%) Data Lake
5 163 (4.44%) Metadata
6 145 (3.95%) Data Mining
6 145 (3.95%) SQL Server
7 97 (2.64%) SAP BW
8 92 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
8 92 (2.50%) Big Data
8 92 (2.50%) Looker
9 75 (2.04%) BigQuery
10 71 (1.93%) NoSQL
11 68 (1.85%) Relational Database
11 68 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 60 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
13 53 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 47 (1.28%) Hadoop
15 46 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
16 45 (1.22%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 125 (3.40%) JIRA
2 106 (2.88%) Git
3 49 (1.33%) Jenkins
4 31 (0.84%) Oracle Forms
5 25 (0.68%) Axure RP
5 25 (0.68%) Balsamiq
6 18 (0.49%) ERwin
6 18 (0.49%) GitLab
7 14 (0.38%) Visual Studio
8 12 (0.33%) TeamCity
9 11 (0.30%) Cypress.io
9 11 (0.30%) MLflow
9 11 (0.30%) Selenium
10 8 (0.22%) ER Studio
11 7 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
12 6 (0.16%) Postman
13 5 (0.14%) MSI
13 5 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
14 4 (0.11%) Maven
14 4 (0.11%) TestNG
General
1 1,292 (35.16%) Finance
2 1,266 (34.45%) Social Skills
3 1,119 (30.45%) Analytical Skills
4 720 (19.59%) Marketing
5 278 (7.56%) Law
6 233 (6.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 217 (5.90%) Retail
8 202 (5.50%) Banking
9 201 (5.47%) Public Sector
10 170 (4.63%) Manufacturing
11 150 (4.08%) Presentation Skills
12 131 (3.56%) Legal
13 98 (2.67%) Games
14 96 (2.61%) Financial Institution
15 95 (2.59%) Pharmaceutical
16 75 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
17 70 (1.90%) Automotive
18 67 (1.82%) Advertising
18 67 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
19 66 (1.80%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 581 (15.81%) Senior
2 578 (15.73%) Analyst
3 457 (12.44%) Lead
4 313 (8.52%) Data Analyst
5 292 (7.95%) Architect
5 292 (7.95%) Data Engineer
6 217 (5.90%) Developer
7 151 (4.11%) Senior Manager
8 118 (3.21%) Data Architect
9 116 (3.16%) Trainee
9 116 (3.16%) Trainee Analyst
9 116 (3.16%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 96 (2.61%) Innovation Manager
11 94 (2.56%) Consultant
12 84 (2.29%) Analytics Manager
13 79 (2.15%) Solutions Architect
14 71 (1.93%) Data Scientist
15 70 (1.90%) Data Manager
15 70 (1.90%) Report Analyst
16 69 (1.88%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (2.53%) HTML
2 80 (2.18%) CSS
3 70 (1.90%) PySpark
4 69 (1.88%) RESTful
5 64 (1.74%) Kafka
6 57 (1.55%) OAuth
6 57 (1.55%) React
7 54 (1.47%) REST
8 49 (1.33%) PyTorch
9 48 (1.31%) TensorFlow
10 46 (1.25%) JSON
11 38 (1.03%) .NET
12 37 (1.01%) OAuth2
13 34 (0.93%) Node.js
14 30 (0.82%) SAML
14 30 (0.82%) scikit-learn
15 28 (0.76%) Middleware
16 27 (0.73%) Pandas
17 25 (0.68%) GraphQL
18 23 (0.63%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 178 (4.84%) Analytical Mindset
2 175 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
3 167 (4.54%) Product Ownership
4 165 (4.49%) Onboarding
5 164 (4.46%) Cloud Native
6 149 (4.05%) Management Information System
7 142 (3.86%) Social Media
8 119 (3.24%) Algorithms
9 85 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
10 83 (2.26%) Life Science
11 65 (1.77%) FMCG
12 60 (1.63%) Data Structures
13 58 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
14 51 (1.39%) Data Centre
15 48 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
16 39 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
17 37 (1.01%) Virtual Team
18 35 (0.95%) Fixed Income
18 35 (0.95%) Reinsurance
19 30 (0.82%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 79 (2.15%) Windows
2 35 (0.95%) Linux
3 28 (0.76%) Windows 10
4 27 (0.73%) Unix
5 11 (0.30%) VMS
5 11 (0.30%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.24%) Android
7 8 (0.22%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.054%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.027%) AIX
9 1 (0.027%) Debian
9 1 (0.027%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 994 (27.05%) AI
2 990 (26.94%) Business Intelligence
3 852 (23.18%) Problem-Solving
4 847 (23.05%) Decision-Making
5 719 (19.56%) Data Analytics
6 700 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
7 684 (18.61%) Agile
8 596 (16.22%) Data Modelling
9 497 (13.52%) Stakeholder Management
10 477 (12.98%) Data Science
11 470 (12.79%) Roadmaps
12 462 (12.57%) Machine Learning
13 459 (12.49%) Data Analysis
14 454 (12.35%) Data Governance
15 433 (11.78%) Project Management
16 412 (11.21%) Visualisation
17 399 (10.86%) Data Engineering
18 386 (10.50%) ETL
19 385 (10.48%) DevOps
20 371 (10.10%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 975 (26.53%) SQL
2 920 (25.03%) Python
3 127 (3.46%) Java
4 122 (3.32%) JavaScript
5 82 (2.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 77 (2.10%) PowerShell
7 70 (1.90%) R
8 64 (1.74%) Scala
9 63 (1.71%) C#
10 50 (1.36%) Bicep
11 48 (1.31%) T-SQL
12 36 (0.98%) TypeScript
13 34 (0.93%) Go
14 31 (0.84%) PL/SQL
15 30 (0.82%) Bash
16 29 (0.79%) C++
17 24 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
18 20 (0.54%) Shell Script
19 13 (0.35%) PHP
19 13 (0.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 839 (22.83%) Degree
2 203 (5.52%) Master's Degree
3 184 (5.01%) Security Cleared
4 133 (3.62%) SC Cleared
5 118 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 96 (2.61%) PhD
7 93 (2.53%) DBS Check
8 59 (1.61%) CISSP
9 49 (1.33%) CISA
9 49 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 48 (1.31%) Numerate Degree
11 46 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
12 45 (1.22%) Azure Certification
13 42 (1.14%) ACCA
14 39 (1.06%) CISM
15 36 (0.98%) PMI Certification
16 30 (0.82%) PMP
17 29 (0.79%) CIMA
18 28 (0.76%) CTC Cleared
19 24 (0.65%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 484 (13.17%) Data Quality
2 262 (7.13%) GDPR
3 201 (5.47%) Accessibility
4 83 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 83 (2.26%) QA
5 48 (1.31%) NIST
6 43 (1.17%) SLA
6 43 (1.17%) WCAG
7 39 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
7 39 (1.06%) GxP
8 27 (0.73%) COBIT
9 24 (0.65%) Solvency II
10 23 (0.63%) HIPAA
11 22 (0.60%) EU AI Act
12 21 (0.57%) PSD2
13 19 (0.52%) GRC
14 18 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 17 (0.46%) IFRS
16 16 (0.44%) PMO
17 15 (0.41%) ITGC
System Software
1 101 (2.75%) Docker
2 50 (1.36%) Active Directory
3 30 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
6 10 (0.27%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.054%) Firmware
7 2 (0.054%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.027%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.027%) vCloud
8 1 (0.027%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.027%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 172 (4.68%) Terraform
2 130 (3.54%) Kubernetes
3 33 (0.90%) Ansible
4 30 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
5 24 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
6 14 (0.38%) Grafana
7 12 (0.33%) Prometheus
8 11 (0.30%) QRadar
8 11 (0.30%) SCCM
9 7 (0.19%) EnCase
9 7 (0.19%) FTK
10 6 (0.16%) RSA Archer
10 6 (0.16%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 5 (0.14%) Argo
11 5 (0.14%) SCOM
12 3 (0.082%) ArcSight ESM
12 3 (0.082%) Control-M
13 2 (0.054%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.054%) Kibana
14 1 (0.027%) CASB
Vendors
1 688 (18.72%) Microsoft
2 343 (9.33%) Google
3 253 (6.88%) SAP
4 251 (6.83%) Databricks
5 203 (5.52%) Salesforce
6 138 (3.76%) Oracle
7 125 (3.40%) Adobe
8 85 (2.31%) Cisco
9 67 (1.82%) HubSpot
10 56 (1.52%) Alteryx
11 39 (1.06%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 35 (0.95%) ServiceNow
13 34 (0.93%) Bloomberg
14 33 (0.90%) Dell
15 30 (0.82%) Talend
16 26 (0.71%) Informatica
17 25 (0.68%) OpenAI
18 23 (0.63%) Sage
18 23 (0.63%) YouTube
19 21 (0.57%) IBM