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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 28 31
Rank change year-on-year -6 +3 -7
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 3,743 3,402 4,218
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.97% 6.46% 6.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.44% 7.08% 7.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,963 1,673 2,972
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £118,750 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year -7.89% +4.59% -0.91%

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 50,302 48,021 60,136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.24% 91.22% 88.90%
Number of salaries quoted 29,664 23,067 46,526
10th Percentile £28,675 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 26 January 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 26 January 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 -7 3,203 £65,000 -7.14% 2,953
UK excluding London 0 1,901 £52,500 -7.89% 2,667
London +4 1,531 £75,000 -11.76% 809
Work from Home -1 1,147 £65,000 - 1,397
South East +16 559 £52,500 -12.50% 1,016
North of England -14 393 £53,500 -2.73% 450
Midlands 0 336 £55,000 -1.79% 343
Scotland +6 243 £53,750 -11.51% 102
North West -22 200 £53,000 -3.64% 210
West Midlands -7 198 £58,764 +3.09% 141
South West +8 185 £55,000 +1.03% 275
Yorkshire -10 152 £55,117 +6.50% 168
East Midlands +15 139 £47,500 -5.00% 198
East of England +35 114 £40,000 -36.00% 372
Northern Ireland +2 45 £45,000 -34.55% 55
North East +18 42 £41,250 -21.80% 75
Wales +27 29 £47,500 -4.14% 121

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 86 (2.30%) Apache Spark
2 80 (2.14%) CMS
3 77 (2.06%) Apache Airflow
4 51 (1.36%) WordPress
5 47 (1.26%) Confluence
6 45 (1.20%) Apache
7 44 (1.18%) SharePoint
8 27 (0.72%) SAS
9 20 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 17 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
11 12 (0.32%) Drupal
12 9 (0.24%) Umbraco
13 6 (0.16%) ArcGIS
13 6 (0.16%) IIS
14 5 (0.13%) SugarCRM
15 4 (0.11%) Apache Superset
15 4 (0.11%) Appian
15 4 (0.11%) Documentum
15 4 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
16 3 (0.080%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 505 (13.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 129 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
3 60 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 29 (0.77%) Maya
5 26 (0.69%) Adobe XD
6 23 (0.61%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 19 (0.51%) InDesign
7 19 (0.51%) Photoshop
8 15 (0.40%) Chatbot
9 14 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
10 12 (0.32%) Adobe Premiere
10 12 (0.32%) SPSS
11 10 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
11 10 (0.27%) Trello
12 9 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
13 7 (0.19%) MS Visio
14 4 (0.11%) SketchUp
14 4 (0.11%) UserZoom
15 3 (0.080%) Final Cut Pro
15 3 (0.080%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 64 (1.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 60 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 34 (0.91%) Oracle ERP
4 24 (0.64%) SAP CO
5 23 (0.61%) Shopify
6 22 (0.59%) SAP IBP
7 21 (0.56%) Magento
8 16 (0.43%) Oracle Assets
8 16 (0.43%) Oracle General Ledger
8 16 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
8 16 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
8 16 (0.43%) SAP FI
8 16 (0.43%) SAP FI/CO
9 15 (0.40%) Oracle Financials
10 13 (0.35%) Dynamics GP
10 13 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
11 11 (0.29%) IBM Planning Analytics
12 10 (0.27%) NetSuite
12 10 (0.27%) SAP FSCM
13 9 (0.24%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 964 (25.75%) Azure
2 751 (20.06%) Power Platform
3 383 (10.23%) AWS
4 211 (5.64%) SaaS
5 206 (5.50%) GCP
6 196 (5.24%) Snowflake
7 193 (5.16%) Azure Data Factory
8 182 (4.86%) Azure DevOps
9 175 (4.68%) Google Analytics
10 169 (4.52%) Microsoft 365
11 157 (4.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 152 (4.06%) GitHub
13 115 (3.07%) dbt
14 104 (2.78%) Entra ID
15 87 (2.32%) Azure Monitor
16 72 (1.92%) Serverless
17 69 (1.84%) Amazon S3
18 65 (1.74%) Figma
19 64 (1.71%) Google Ads
20 59 (1.58%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 44 (1.18%) Broadband
2 41 (1.10%) VPN
3 34 (0.91%) Firewall
4 17 (0.45%) CHAP
4 17 (0.45%) WAN
5 15 (0.40%) DNS
6 14 (0.37%) Unified Communications
7 12 (0.32%) SMS
8 11 (0.29%) Intranet
8 11 (0.29%) Network Security
9 9 (0.24%) TCP/IP
10 6 (0.16%) HTTPS
11 5 (0.13%) DHCP
11 5 (0.13%) Intrusion Detection
11 5 (0.13%) Wireshark
12 4 (0.11%) HTTP
12 4 (0.11%) Internet
12 4 (0.11%) SNMP
12 4 (0.11%) VoIP
13 3 (0.080%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 717 (19.16%) Power BI
2 390 (10.42%) Tableau
3 322 (8.60%) Data Warehouse
4 249 (6.65%) Data Lake
5 173 (4.62%) Metadata
6 154 (4.11%) Data Mining
7 147 (3.93%) SQL Server
8 99 (2.64%) Azure SQL Database
9 96 (2.56%) SAP BW
10 93 (2.48%) Looker
11 85 (2.27%) Big Data
12 69 (1.84%) NoSQL
12 69 (1.84%) Relational Database
13 67 (1.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 64 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
15 58 (1.55%) BigQuery
16 54 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 50 (1.34%) Power Query
18 43 (1.15%) Hadoop
19 37 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 122 (3.26%) Git
2 117 (3.13%) JIRA
3 61 (1.63%) Jenkins
4 31 (0.83%) Oracle Forms
5 24 (0.64%) Axure RP
5 24 (0.64%) Balsamiq
6 23 (0.61%) TeamCity
7 22 (0.59%) GitLab
8 19 (0.51%) ERwin
9 17 (0.45%) Visual Studio
10 14 (0.37%) Selenium
11 13 (0.35%) MLflow
12 8 (0.21%) PowerDesigner
13 7 (0.19%) Postman
14 6 (0.16%) CircleCI
14 6 (0.16%) Cypress.io
14 6 (0.16%) ER Studio
14 6 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 5 (0.13%) MSI
15 5 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,316 (35.16%) Finance
2 1,263 (33.74%) Social Skills
3 1,054 (28.16%) Analytical Skills
4 647 (17.29%) Marketing
5 259 (6.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 225 (6.01%) Law
7 216 (5.77%) Banking
7 216 (5.77%) Public Sector
8 194 (5.18%) Retail
9 154 (4.11%) Manufacturing
10 134 (3.58%) Legal
11 133 (3.55%) Presentation Skills
12 104 (2.78%) Financial Institution
13 103 (2.75%) Games
14 93 (2.48%) Pharmaceutical
15 77 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
16 76 (2.03%) Automotive
17 75 (2.00%) Advertising
18 70 (1.87%) Back Office
18 70 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 611 (16.32%) Analyst
2 596 (15.92%) Senior
3 462 (12.34%) Lead
4 333 (8.90%) Data Engineer
5 329 (8.79%) Data Analyst
6 292 (7.80%) Architect
7 217 (5.80%) Developer
8 142 (3.79%) Senior Manager
9 126 (3.37%) Data Architect
10 123 (3.29%) Trainee
10 123 (3.29%) Trainee Analyst
10 123 (3.29%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 90 (2.40%) Solutions Architect
12 85 (2.27%) Consultant
13 84 (2.24%) Data Manager
14 77 (2.06%) Support Engineer
15 76 (2.03%) Data Scientist
15 76 (2.03%) Senior Analyst
16 70 (1.87%) Lead Data Engineer
16 70 (1.87%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (2.16%) HTML
2 76 (2.03%) PySpark
3 73 (1.95%) Kafka
4 71 (1.90%) CSS
5 62 (1.66%) OAuth
6 58 (1.55%) React
6 58 (1.55%) RESTful
7 54 (1.44%) .NET
8 52 (1.39%) PyTorch
8 52 (1.39%) REST
9 48 (1.28%) TensorFlow
10 43 (1.15%) JSON
11 39 (1.04%) OAuth2
12 32 (0.85%) SAML
13 27 (0.72%) Node.js
13 27 (0.72%) scikit-learn
14 26 (0.69%) FIX Protocol
14 26 (0.69%) Middleware
15 25 (0.67%) Pandas
16 24 (0.64%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 178 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
2 174 (4.65%) Analytical Mindset
3 168 (4.49%) Product Ownership
4 153 (4.09%) Management Information System
5 152 (4.06%) Cloud Native
6 143 (3.82%) Social Media
7 141 (3.77%) Onboarding
8 110 (2.94%) Algorithms
9 87 (2.32%) Life Science
10 83 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
11 65 (1.74%) Data Structures
12 64 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
13 57 (1.52%) FMCG
14 50 (1.34%) Data Centre
15 47 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
16 42 (1.12%) Virtual Team
17 41 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
18 40 (1.07%) Fixed Income
19 28 (0.75%) Blog
20 27 (0.72%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 113 (3.02%) Windows
2 60 (1.60%) Windows 10
3 42 (1.12%) Linux
4 30 (0.80%) Unix
5 17 (0.45%) VMS
6 13 (0.35%) Android
7 12 (0.32%) Apple iOS
7 12 (0.32%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.053%) AIX
8 2 (0.053%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.027%) Debian
9 1 (0.027%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,009 (26.96%) Business Intelligence
2 1,006 (26.88%) AI
3 846 (22.60%) Decision-Making
4 818 (21.85%) Problem-Solving
5 735 (19.64%) Data Analytics
6 716 (19.13%) Agile
7 690 (18.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 611 (16.32%) Data Modelling
9 498 (13.30%) Data Governance
10 473 (12.64%) Machine Learning
11 465 (12.42%) Data Science
12 459 (12.26%) Data Analysis
13 458 (12.24%) Project Management
14 448 (11.97%) Stakeholder Management
15 443 (11.84%) Data Engineering
16 437 (11.68%) Roadmaps
17 421 (11.25%) Visualisation
18 416 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
19 413 (11.03%) CI/CD
20 408 (10.90%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 992 (26.50%) SQL
2 907 (24.23%) Python
3 117 (3.13%) Java
4 114 (3.05%) JavaScript
5 84 (2.24%) C#
6 83 (2.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 77 (2.06%) Scala
8 74 (1.98%) PowerShell
9 61 (1.63%) R
10 51 (1.36%) Bicep
11 43 (1.15%) T-SQL
12 35 (0.94%) C++
13 33 (0.88%) Bash
14 30 (0.80%) TypeScript
15 26 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
16 25 (0.67%) PL/SQL
17 21 (0.56%) Go
17 21 (0.56%) Shell Script
18 17 (0.45%) VBA
19 13 (0.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 870 (23.24%) Degree
2 237 (6.33%) Security Cleared
3 202 (5.40%) Master's Degree
4 174 (4.65%) SC Cleared
5 121 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 99 (2.64%) PhD
7 66 (1.76%) DBS Check
8 60 (1.60%) CTC Cleared
9 58 (1.55%) CISSP
10 54 (1.44%) CISA
11 51 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
12 47 (1.26%) Azure Certification
13 46 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
13 46 (1.23%) Numerate Degree
14 41 (1.10%) CISM
15 39 (1.04%) PMI Certification
16 35 (0.94%) ACCA
17 31 (0.83%) PMP
18 27 (0.72%) DV Cleared
19 24 (0.64%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 537 (14.35%) Data Quality
2 253 (6.76%) GDPR
3 212 (5.66%) Accessibility
4 79 (2.11%) QA
5 78 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 71 (1.90%) SLA
7 52 (1.39%) NIST
8 43 (1.15%) GxP
9 42 (1.12%) WCAG
10 37 (0.99%) Actionable Recommendations
11 32 (0.85%) COBIT
12 25 (0.67%) Solvency II
13 23 (0.61%) HIPAA
14 22 (0.59%) EU AI Act
15 21 (0.56%) IFRS
15 21 (0.56%) PSD2
16 18 (0.48%) GRC
17 16 (0.43%) PMO
17 16 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 16 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 119 (3.18%) Docker
2 54 (1.44%) Active Directory
3 34 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (0.24%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.11%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.053%) Firmware
8 2 (0.053%) vSphere
9 1 (0.027%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.027%) vCloud
9 1 (0.027%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 188 (5.02%) Terraform
2 134 (3.58%) Kubernetes
3 35 (0.94%) Ansible
4 27 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
5 25 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
6 23 (0.61%) Grafana
7 17 (0.45%) Prometheus
8 11 (0.29%) QRadar
8 11 (0.29%) SCCM
9 8 (0.21%) EnCase
9 8 (0.21%) FTK
10 7 (0.19%) Kibana
11 6 (0.16%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 5 (0.13%) Argo
12 5 (0.13%) RSA Archer
12 5 (0.13%) SCOM
13 3 (0.080%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.080%) ArcSight ESM
13 3 (0.080%) Control-M
14 1 (0.027%) MOM
Vendors
1 759 (20.28%) Microsoft
2 304 (8.12%) Google
3 253 (6.76%) Databricks
4 244 (6.52%) SAP
5 190 (5.08%) Salesforce
6 139 (3.71%) Oracle
7 135 (3.61%) Adobe
8 134 (3.58%) Cisco
9 67 (1.79%) HubSpot
10 56 (1.50%) Alteryx
11 35 (0.94%) ServiceNow
12 34 (0.91%) Bloomberg
12 34 (0.91%) Dell
13 32 (0.85%) Talend
14 31 (0.83%) OpenAI
15 29 (0.77%) Informatica
15 29 (0.77%) YouTube
16 25 (0.67%) IBM
16 25 (0.67%) Nexthink
17 24 (0.64%) Palantir