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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 22 40
Rank change year-on-year -6 +18 -16
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 4,481 3,364 4,980
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.60% 8.22% 5.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.31% 8.84% 6.39%
Number of salaries quoted 2,489 1,710 3,288
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +13.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,500 £95,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year -3.51% +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 61,258 38,052 77,913
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.49% 93.03% 86.40%
Number of salaries quoted 37,754 22,305 57,991
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,079
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,410
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.26%

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 3 April 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 3 April 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 -11 3,899 £65,000 -7.14% 1,921
UK excluding London -16 2,295 £55,000 -3.51% 1,320
London +4 1,784 £80,000 -5.88% 896
Work from Home -3 1,386 £65,000 +7.01% 858
North of England -17 629 £58,750 +6.82% 331
South East -15 511 £55,000 -8.33% 433
Midlands -14 465 £52,000 -0.95% 212
North West -20 328 £60,000 +9.09% 192
West Midlands -18 282 £55,000 - 110
Yorkshire -8 229 £50,000 -9.09% 91
South West -20 207 £55,000 +4.76% 149
East of England +23 197 £51,500 -20.77% 103
Scotland -11 193 £65,000 -7.14% 53
East Midlands +3 180 £49,500 +4.21% 102
North East +22 72 £40,000 -27.27% 52
Northern Ireland -15 57 £45,000 +50.00% 17
Wales +2 39 £40,000 -27.27% 41

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
1 160 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
2 126 (2.81%) Apache Spark
3 105 (2.34%) CMS
4 79 (1.76%) Apache
5 68 (1.52%) Confluence
6 50 (1.12%) WordPress
7 46 (1.03%) SharePoint
8 36 (0.80%) SAS
9 34 (0.76%) ArcGIS
10 18 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
10 18 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
11 13 (0.29%) Drupal
12 9 (0.20%) Oracle Application Server
13 8 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 6 (0.13%) IIS
15 5 (0.11%) Umbraco
16 4 (0.089%) Appian
16 4 (0.089%) Documentum
16 4 (0.089%) Sitecore CMS
17 3 (0.067%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 407 (9.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 126 (2.81%) Microsoft Office
3 71 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (0.69%) UserZoom
5 28 (0.62%) Adobe XD
6 18 (0.40%) MS Visio
7 17 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
8 15 (0.33%) InDesign
9 11 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 9 (0.20%) SPSS
11 8 (0.18%) Chatbot
11 8 (0.18%) Photoshop
12 7 (0.16%) Trello
13 6 (0.13%) Adobe Premiere
13 6 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
14 4 (0.089%) Adobe Illustrator
15 3 (0.067%) Final Cut Pro
15 3 (0.067%) Sketch
16 2 (0.045%) Maya
16 2 (0.045%) Notion
Business Applications
1 75 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 36 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 34 (0.76%) SAP PP
4 33 (0.74%) SAP IBP
5 27 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
6 21 (0.47%) Adobe Campaign
6 21 (0.47%) Magento
7 17 (0.38%) Shopify
8 15 (0.33%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 15 (0.33%) iTrent
8 15 (0.33%) NetSuite
9 14 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
10 13 (0.29%) Oracle Assets
10 13 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
10 13 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
10 13 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
10 13 (0.29%) SAP CO
11 10 (0.22%) SAP ERP
12 9 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
12 9 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 990 (22.09%) Azure
2 728 (16.25%) Power Platform
3 537 (11.98%) AWS
4 269 (6.00%) GCP
5 260 (5.80%) SaaS
6 257 (5.74%) Snowflake
7 238 (5.31%) Azure Data Factory
8 194 (4.33%) Google Analytics
9 186 (4.15%) Adobe Analytics
10 184 (4.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 165 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
12 156 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
13 150 (3.35%) GitHub
14 145 (3.24%) dbt
15 114 (2.54%) Figma
16 112 (2.50%) Amazon S3
17 102 (2.28%) Serverless
18 82 (1.83%) Entra ID
19 73 (1.63%) Azure Monitor
20 61 (1.36%) Contentsquare
Communications & Networking
1 221 (4.93%) Broadband
2 34 (0.76%) Firewall
3 33 (0.74%) VPN
4 25 (0.56%) CHAP
5 23 (0.51%) WAN
6 19 (0.42%) Network Security
7 16 (0.36%) DNS
7 16 (0.36%) Intranet
8 14 (0.31%) TCP/IP
9 13 (0.29%) Unified Communications
10 12 (0.27%) DHCP
11 6 (0.13%) HTTPS
12 5 (0.11%) SMS
12 5 (0.11%) SNMP
13 4 (0.089%) HTTP
13 4 (0.089%) Intrusion Detection
14 3 (0.067%) LAN
14 3 (0.067%) Modbus
15 2 (0.045%) MQTT
15 2 (0.045%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 691 (15.42%) Power BI
2 422 (9.42%) Tableau
3 372 (8.30%) Data Warehouse
4 242 (5.40%) Data Lake
5 193 (4.31%) Metadata
6 180 (4.02%) Data Mining
7 161 (3.59%) SQL Server
8 131 (2.92%) Looker
9 114 (2.54%) Azure SQL Database
10 105 (2.34%) BigQuery
11 99 (2.21%) Relational Database
12 91 (2.03%) Amazon Redshift
13 76 (1.70%) NoSQL
14 69 (1.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 67 (1.50%) Big Data
16 65 (1.45%) Power Query
17 63 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 58 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
19 50 (1.12%) Snowflake Schema
20 44 (0.98%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 162 (3.62%) Git
2 108 (2.41%) JIRA
3 69 (1.54%) Jenkins
4 40 (0.89%) MLflow
5 33 (0.74%) GitLab
6 25 (0.56%) IBM UrbanCode
7 23 (0.51%) Axure RP
7 23 (0.51%) Balsamiq
7 23 (0.51%) TeamCity
8 20 (0.45%) Visual Studio
9 19 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
10 15 (0.33%) ERwin
11 13 (0.29%) CircleCI
12 12 (0.27%) Crashlytics
13 11 (0.25%) Selenium
14 10 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 9 (0.20%) XCTest
16 8 (0.18%) Cypress.io
16 8 (0.18%) PowerDesigner
17 7 (0.16%) Claude Code
General
1 1,376 (30.71%) Finance
2 1,243 (27.74%) Social Skills
3 1,158 (25.84%) Analytical Skills
4 679 (15.15%) Marketing
5 294 (6.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 254 (5.67%) Banking
7 249 (5.56%) Public Sector
8 238 (5.31%) Retail
9 206 (4.60%) Law
10 196 (4.37%) Games
11 164 (3.66%) Manufacturing
12 160 (3.57%) Legal
13 116 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
14 109 (2.43%) Financial Institution
15 106 (2.37%) Automotive
16 102 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
17 96 (2.14%) Advertising
18 95 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
19 75 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
20 68 (1.52%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 748 (16.69%) Senior
2 656 (14.64%) Analyst
3 514 (11.47%) Lead
4 460 (10.27%) Data Engineer
5 366 (8.17%) Data Analyst
6 324 (7.23%) Architect
7 244 (5.45%) Developer
8 172 (3.84%) Consultant
9 157 (3.50%) Trainee
9 157 (3.50%) Trainee Analyst
9 157 (3.50%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 150 (3.35%) Data Architect
11 138 (3.08%) Senior Manager
12 114 (2.54%) Designer
13 102 (2.28%) Senior Data Engineer
14 100 (2.23%) Data Manager
15 99 (2.21%) Solutions Architect
16 91 (2.03%) Data Scientist
17 86 (1.92%) Senior Analyst
17 86 (1.92%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (2.72%) PySpark
2 121 (2.70%) Kafka
3 106 (2.37%) HTML
4 99 (2.21%) CSS
5 95 (2.12%) PyTorch
6 69 (1.54%) TensorFlow
7 68 (1.52%) .NET
8 57 (1.27%) React
9 51 (1.14%) RESTful
10 50 (1.12%) SAP Fiori
11 49 (1.09%) OAuth
12 48 (1.07%) JSON
12 48 (1.07%) LangChain
13 47 (1.05%) scikit-learn
14 44 (0.98%) REST
15 38 (0.85%) Node.js
15 38 (0.85%) Pandas
16 37 (0.83%) .NET Core
17 25 (0.56%) FIX Protocol
17 25 (0.56%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 300 (6.69%) Social Media
2 205 (4.57%) Cloud Native
3 188 (4.20%) Product Ownership
4 171 (3.82%) Analytical Mindset
5 155 (3.46%) Management Information System
6 154 (3.44%) Self-Motivation
7 134 (2.99%) Onboarding
8 108 (2.41%) Life Science
9 103 (2.30%) Algorithms
10 83 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
11 77 (1.72%) Data Structures
12 67 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
13 61 (1.36%) Mobile App
14 51 (1.14%) Marketing Technology
15 48 (1.07%) Public Cloud
16 47 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
17 46 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
18 45 (1.00%) Over-the-Top Content
19 44 (0.98%) Virtual Team
20 40 (0.89%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 109 (2.43%) Windows
2 60 (1.34%) Windows 10
3 43 (0.96%) Linux
4 26 (0.58%) VMS
5 22 (0.49%) Unix
6 21 (0.47%) Apple iOS
7 15 (0.33%) Windows Server
8 13 (0.29%) Android
9 2 (0.045%) AIX
9 2 (0.045%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.022%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,305 (29.12%) AI
2 982 (21.91%) Business Intelligence
3 968 (21.60%) Decision-Making
4 894 (19.95%) Agile
5 763 (17.03%) Data Analytics
6 740 (16.51%) Continuous Improvement
7 732 (16.34%) Problem-Solving
8 719 (16.05%) Data Modelling
9 599 (13.37%) Data Engineering
10 587 (13.10%) Roadmaps
11 551 (12.30%) Data Governance
12 530 (11.83%) Data Pipeline
12 530 (11.83%) Data Science
13 511 (11.40%) Customer Experience
13 511 (11.40%) Machine Learning
14 501 (11.18%) Data Analysis
14 501 (11.18%) ETL
15 486 (10.85%) CI/CD
16 445 (9.93%) Project Management
17 425 (9.48%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1,179 (26.31%) SQL
2 1,056 (23.57%) Python
3 115 (2.57%) JavaScript
4 114 (2.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 97 (2.16%) Java
6 96 (2.14%) C#
7 81 (1.81%) Scala
8 72 (1.61%) R
9 55 (1.23%) PowerShell
10 47 (1.05%) T-SQL
11 45 (1.00%) TypeScript
12 39 (0.87%) Bicep
13 37 (0.83%) C++
14 36 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
15 35 (0.78%) Go
16 18 (0.40%) Bash
17 16 (0.36%) PL/SQL
18 15 (0.33%) VBA
19 14 (0.31%) Shell Script
20 12 (0.27%) PHP
Qualifications
1 716 (15.98%) Degree
2 261 (5.82%) Security Cleared
3 182 (4.06%) SC Cleared
4 146 (3.26%) Master's Degree
5 130 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 72 (1.61%) IRCA
7 60 (1.34%) CTC Cleared
8 54 (1.21%) Azure Certification
9 53 (1.18%) CISSP
10 52 (1.16%) PhD
11 50 (1.12%) DBS Check
12 48 (1.07%) ACCA
13 47 (1.05%) CISA
14 46 (1.03%) CISM
15 40 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
16 38 (0.85%) CIMA
17 36 (0.80%) Numerate Degree
18 34 (0.76%) DV Cleared
19 33 (0.74%) AWS Certification
20 31 (0.69%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 591 (13.19%) Data Quality
2 370 (8.26%) Accessibility
3 366 (8.17%) GDPR
4 168 (3.75%) QA
5 87 (1.94%) WCAG
6 83 (1.85%) ISO 9001
7 80 (1.79%) SLA
8 63 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 51 (1.14%) NIST
10 48 (1.07%) Actionable Recommendations
11 38 (0.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 34 (0.76%) HIPAA
13 30 (0.67%) COBIT
13 30 (0.67%) Solvency II
14 28 (0.62%) EU AI Act
14 28 (0.62%) IFRS
15 23 (0.51%) GxP
16 21 (0.47%) PSD2
16 21 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 18 (0.40%) SOC 2
System Software
1 143 (3.19%) Docker
2 60 (1.34%) Active Directory
3 24 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.16%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.089%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.089%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.045%) Firmware
7 2 (0.045%) vSphere
8 1 (0.022%) Apache Flume
8 1 (0.022%) IAG
8 1 (0.022%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.022%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 195 (4.35%) Terraform
2 170 (3.79%) Kubernetes
3 45 (1.00%) Ansible
4 26 (0.58%) Prometheus
5 25 (0.56%) Grafana
6 18 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (0.16%) EnCase
8 7 (0.16%) FTK
8 7 (0.16%) Kibana
9 5 (0.11%) Argo
9 5 (0.11%) QRadar
10 4 (0.089%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.067%) ArcSight ESM
11 3 (0.067%) Control-M
11 3 (0.067%) RSA Archer
11 3 (0.067%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 3 (0.067%) VxRail
12 2 (0.045%) SCCM
12 2 (0.045%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 856 (19.10%) Microsoft
2 364 (8.12%) Databricks
3 332 (7.41%) Google
4 283 (6.32%) Adobe
5 184 (4.11%) SAP
6 157 (3.50%) Salesforce
7 139 (3.10%) Cisco
7 139 (3.10%) Oracle
8 61 (1.36%) HubSpot
9 58 (1.29%) Dell
10 54 (1.21%) Informatica
11 51 (1.14%) Alteryx
12 30 (0.67%) Bloomberg
13 28 (0.62%) Nexthink
13 28 (0.62%) OpenAI
13 28 (0.62%) Palantir
13 28 (0.62%) Red Hat
13 28 (0.62%) ServiceNow
14 27 (0.60%) IBM
14 27 (0.60%) Talend