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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 23 37
Rank change year-on-year -3 +14 -13
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 5,115 3,935 5,065
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.17% 8.01% 5.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.02% 8.89% 6.28%
Number of salaries quoted 3,082 1,796 3,134
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,750 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £87,500 £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 72,896 44,261 80,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.68% 90.09% 82.12%
Number of salaries quoted 50,426 24,863 55,989
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +3.64% -8.84%
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 17 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 17 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 -3 4,598 £67,500 +6.30% 1,683
UK excluding London -8 2,710 £60,000 +9.09% 947
London +6 1,999 £80,000 +3.23% 993
Work from Home +3 1,559 £66,722 +11.20% 695
North of England +44 909 £60,000 +4.35% 225
Midlands +14 598 £59,527 +13.38% 141
North West +41 544 £60,000 +14.29% 111
South East -33 498 £55,000 - 342
West Midlands +2 348 £57,500 +7.58% 84
South West -29 259 £60,000 - 106
East Midlands +40 249 £59,866 +23.44% 57
Yorkshire +20 245 £62,500 -2.34% 75
East of England +30 232 £60,000 +20.00% 64
North East +19 120 £50,000 -2.91% 39
Scotland -14 114 £62,500 -10.71% 43
Wales -16 56 £64,250 +7.08% 29
Northern Ireland -32 50 £45,000 +4.43% 14

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
1 172 (3.36%) Apache Spark
2 141 (2.76%) Apache Airflow
3 117 (2.29%) CMS
4 100 (1.96%) Apache
5 70 (1.37%) SAS
6 62 (1.21%) Confluence
7 47 (0.92%) SharePoint
8 42 (0.82%) WordPress
9 37 (0.72%) ArcGIS
10 26 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
11 16 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
12 9 (0.18%) Jupyter
13 8 (0.16%) Drupal
14 6 (0.12%) Headless CMS
15 5 (0.098%) Oracle Application Server
15 5 (0.098%) Oracle Workflow
15 5 (0.098%) Umbraco
16 3 (0.059%) Sitecore CMS
17 2 (0.039%) Apache Pulsar
17 2 (0.039%) Documentum
Applications
1 248 (4.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
3 45 (0.88%) UserZoom
4 38 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 28 (0.55%) Chatbot
6 26 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
7 21 (0.41%) SPSS
8 17 (0.33%) MS Visio
9 13 (0.25%) Adobe XD
10 12 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 6 (0.12%) Sketch
11 6 (0.12%) Trello
12 4 (0.078%) Microsoft Project
12 4 (0.078%) Photoshop
13 3 (0.059%) InDesign
14 2 (0.039%) Adobe Illustrator
15 1 (0.020%) Adobe Premiere
15 1 (0.020%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 116 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (0.68%) SAP IBP
3 34 (0.66%) Adobe Campaign
4 33 (0.65%) SAP PP
5 31 (0.61%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 29 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
7 21 (0.41%) Shopify
8 19 (0.37%) Dynamics GP
8 19 (0.37%) Magento
9 16 (0.31%) NetSuite
10 11 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
11 10 (0.20%) iTrent
12 7 (0.14%) Workday HCM
13 6 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
13 6 (0.12%) Relativity
13 6 (0.12%) SAP ERP
13 6 (0.12%) SAP PM
13 6 (0.12%) SAP Travel Management
14 5 (0.098%) SAP PS
14 5 (0.098%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 999 (19.53%) Azure
2 789 (15.43%) Power Platform
3 768 (15.01%) AWS
4 325 (6.35%) GCP
5 320 (6.26%) SaaS
6 234 (4.57%) Snowflake
7 208 (4.07%) Adobe Analytics
8 202 (3.95%) Google Analytics
9 189 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
10 158 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
11 150 (2.93%) Serverless
12 142 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 141 (2.76%) GitHub
14 121 (2.37%) Amazon S3
15 120 (2.35%) dbt
16 118 (2.31%) Figma
17 114 (2.23%) Cloud Computing
18 104 (2.03%) Microsoft 365
19 86 (1.68%) Entra ID
20 77 (1.51%) Contentsquare
Communications & Networking
1 248 (4.85%) Broadband
2 57 (1.11%) VPN
3 56 (1.09%) Internet
4 48 (0.94%) 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
11 17 (0.33%) SMS
12 16 (0.31%) VoIP
13 15 (0.29%) CHAP
13 15 (0.29%) DHCP
14 14 (0.27%) CTI
15 12 (0.23%) Unified Communications
15 12 (0.23%) WAN
16 11 (0.22%) 5G
17 10 (0.20%) Intranet
18 9 (0.18%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 753 (14.72%) Power BI
2 397 (7.76%) Data Warehouse
3 305 (5.96%) Tableau
4 232 (4.54%) Data Lake
5 183 (3.58%) Metadata
6 165 (3.23%) SQL Server
7 134 (2.62%) Big Data
8 122 (2.39%) Amazon Redshift
8 122 (2.39%) Looker
9 117 (2.29%) Azure SQL Database
10 108 (2.11%) BigQuery
11 91 (1.78%) Relational Database
12 87 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
13 86 (1.68%) NoSQL
14 70 (1.37%) MongoDB
14 70 (1.37%) Power Query
15 67 (1.31%) Data Mining
16 64 (1.25%) Delta Lake
16 64 (1.25%) Star Schema
17 55 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 171 (3.34%) Git
2 74 (1.45%) JIRA
3 60 (1.17%) Jenkins
4 44 (0.86%) MLflow
5 37 (0.72%) 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
13 7 (0.14%) Selenium
13 7 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 6 (0.12%) Android Studio
15 5 (0.098%) Balsamiq
15 5 (0.098%) Bitbucket
15 5 (0.098%) Browser DevTools
General
1 1,350 (26.39%) Finance
2 1,277 (24.97%) Social Skills
3 1,118 (21.86%) Analytical Skills
4 683 (13.35%) Marketing
5 327 (6.39%) Public Sector
6 324 (6.33%) Retail
7 241 (4.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 238 (4.65%) Games
9 237 (4.63%) Law
10 216 (4.22%) Legal
11 212 (4.14%) Banking
12 171 (3.34%) Manufacturing
13 144 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
14 121 (2.37%) Automotive
15 117 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
16 102 (1.99%) Advertising
17 95 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
18 94 (1.84%) Financial Institution
19 57 (1.11%) Telecoms
20 48 (0.94%) Military
Job Titles
1 966 (18.89%) Senior
2 606 (11.85%) Analyst
3 581 (11.36%) Data Engineer
4 560 (10.95%) Lead
5 468 (9.15%) Architect
6 323 (6.31%) Developer
7 288 (5.63%) Data Analyst
8 225 (4.40%) Consultant
9 223 (4.36%) Data Architect
10 190 (3.71%) Senior Data Engineer
11 159 (3.11%) Solutions Architect
12 150 (2.93%) Data Scientist
13 142 (2.78%) Analytics Manager
14 138 (2.70%) Senior Manager
15 131 (2.56%) Product Manager
16 105 (2.05%) Designer
16 105 (2.05%) Senior Analyst
17 104 (2.03%) Data Manager
18 96 (1.88%) Senior Architect
19 87 (1.70%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (3.05%) PySpark
2 133 (2.60%) Kafka
3 97 (1.90%) HTML
4 96 (1.88%) .NET
5 95 (1.86%) CSS
6 75 (1.47%) PyTorch
7 66 (1.29%) REST
8 60 (1.17%) Node.js
8 60 (1.17%) React
8 60 (1.17%) SAP Fiori
9 54 (1.06%) .NET Core
9 54 (1.06%) Pandas
10 49 (0.96%) scikit-learn
11 47 (0.92%) TensorFlow
12 42 (0.82%) RESTful
13 38 (0.74%) LangChain
14 36 (0.70%) AngularJS
14 36 (0.70%) ASP.NET
14 36 (0.70%) ASP.NET Core
15 35 (0.68%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 298 (5.83%) Social Media
2 288 (5.63%) Cloud Native
3 233 (4.56%) Onboarding
4 199 (3.89%) Product Ownership
5 171 (3.34%) Analytical Mindset
6 160 (3.13%) Management Information System
7 121 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
8 114 (2.23%) Data Structures
9 101 (1.97%) Marketing Technology
10 96 (1.88%) Algorithms
11 91 (1.78%) Mobile App
12 86 (1.68%) Blog
13 71 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
14 66 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
15 65 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
16 55 (1.08%) Life Science
16 55 (1.08%) Public Cloud
17 51 (1.00%) AI Agents
18 46 (0.90%) IoT
19 43 (0.84%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 103 (2.01%) Windows
2 82 (1.60%) Linux
3 35 (0.68%) VMS
4 25 (0.49%) Apple iOS
5 20 (0.39%) Windows 10
6 19 (0.37%) Windows Server
7 10 (0.20%) Android
8 8 (0.16%) Unix
9 4 (0.078%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.059%) AIX
11 2 (0.039%) Debian
11 2 (0.039%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.020%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,668 (32.61%) AI
2 1,122 (21.94%) Decision-Making
3 1,074 (21.00%) Business Intelligence
4 942 (18.42%) Agile
5 858 (16.77%) Roadmaps
6 790 (15.44%) Data Modelling
7 782 (15.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 749 (14.64%) Problem-Solving
9 718 (14.04%) Data Analytics
10 684 (13.37%) Data Engineering
11 618 (12.08%) Data Pipeline
12 616 (12.04%) Machine Learning
13 605 (11.83%) CI/CD
14 555 (10.85%) Data Governance
15 529 (10.34%) Customer Experience
16 522 (10.21%) Mentoring
17 500 (9.78%) ETL
18 499 (9.76%) Data Science
19 456 (8.91%) DevOps
20 455 (8.90%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 1,316 (25.73%) SQL
2 1,115 (21.80%) Python
3 130 (2.54%) C#
4 122 (2.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 116 (2.27%) Java
6 112 (2.19%) PowerShell
7 94 (1.84%) JavaScript
8 79 (1.54%) TypeScript
9 78 (1.52%) R
10 64 (1.25%) Scala
11 57 (1.11%) Bicep
12 52 (1.02%) Bash
13 43 (0.84%) Kusto Query Language
14 42 (0.82%) C++
15 41 (0.80%) Go
16 30 (0.59%) T-SQL
17 23 (0.45%) Kotlin
18 21 (0.41%) Swift
19 20 (0.39%) ABAP
20 18 (0.35%) Julia
Qualifications
1 600 (11.73%) Degree
2 332 (6.49%) Security Cleared
3 219 (4.28%) SC Cleared
4 116 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 90 (1.76%) Azure Certification
6 89 (1.74%) Master's Degree
7 72 (1.41%) IRCA
8 57 (1.11%) DV Cleared
9 55 (1.08%) AWS Certification
10 53 (1.04%) ACCA
11 51 (1.00%) DBS Check
12 48 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
13 47 (0.92%) CIMA
14 42 (0.82%) CISSP
15 35 (0.68%) CISM
16 34 (0.66%) PhD
17 30 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
18 24 (0.47%) CISA
19 22 (0.43%) Postgraduate
20 19 (0.37%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 651 (12.73%) Data Quality
2 410 (8.02%) Accessibility
3 321 (6.28%) GDPR
4 216 (4.22%) QA
5 97 (1.90%) WCAG
6 74 (1.45%) ISO 9001
7 50 (0.98%) SLA
8 43 (0.84%) NIST
9 36 (0.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 36 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 30 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
11 25 (0.49%) PCI DSS
12 20 (0.39%) IFRS
13 18 (0.35%) COBIT
13 18 (0.35%) PMO
14 15 (0.29%) HIPAA
15 14 (0.27%) PERC
16 13 (0.25%) GAAP
16 13 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 13 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 150 (2.93%) Docker
2 91 (1.78%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.29%) vSphere
5 14 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.14%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.078%) IAG
9 3 (0.059%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.039%) Firmware
11 1 (0.020%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 242 (4.73%) Terraform
2 173 (3.38%) Kubernetes
3 44 (0.86%) Ansible
4 29 (0.57%) Prometheus
5 23 (0.45%) Grafana
6 14 (0.27%) EnCase
6 14 (0.27%) FTK
7 13 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (0.16%) FortiGate
8 8 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.12%) Hadoop YARN
9 6 (0.12%) Nagios
9 6 (0.12%) VxRail
10 5 (0.098%) Argo
10 5 (0.098%) Graylog
10 5 (0.098%) Packer
11 4 (0.078%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.078%) Kibana
12 3 (0.059%) Control-M
12 3 (0.059%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 790 (15.44%) Microsoft
2 447 (8.74%) Databricks
3 360 (7.04%) Google
4 299 (5.85%) Adobe
5 266 (5.20%) SAP
6 138 (2.70%) Oracle
7 119 (2.33%) Salesforce
8 71 (1.39%) HubSpot
9 60 (1.17%) Cisco
10 53 (1.04%) Dell
10 53 (1.04%) Informatica
11 45 (0.88%) Workday
12 42 (0.82%) IBM
13 32 (0.63%) Cognos
14 29 (0.57%) VMware
15 28 (0.55%) ServiceNow
16 27 (0.53%) Cloudera
16 27 (0.53%) Teradata
17 25 (0.49%) Alteryx
17 25 (0.49%) Red Hat