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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 33 29
Rank change year-on-year +9 -4 -8
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 3,746 3,572 3,877
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 7.08% 5.33% 7.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.25% 6.38% 7.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,900 1,889 2,814
10th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £36,810
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% -1.52%
75th Percentile £86,250 £93,778 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,625 £118,750 £114,152
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £57,000 £55,148
% change year-on-year -10.53% +3.36% -0.27%

All Process and 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 45,394 56,021 48,891
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.81% 83.52% 93.81%
Number of salaries quoted 27,423 29,005 37,472
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,404 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,128 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,475
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -

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 19 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Top 18 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 19 November 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 +7 3,188 £62,500 -10.71% 3,673
UK excluding London +20 1,937 £51,000 -10.53% 1,847
London +5 1,502 £75,000 -11.76% 2,101
Work from Home +7 1,131 £60,000 -14.29% 1,627
South East +31 598 £50,205 -12.69% 646
North of England -16 352 £55,000 - 389
Midlands +32 311 £53,450 -2.82% 322
Scotland +9 261 £50,000 -20.00% 101
South West +26 217 £55,400 -14.77% 170
North West -18 197 £52,500 -4.55% 244
West Midlands +10 182 £57,468 -0.06% 184
East of England +38 151 £39,000 -35.00% 163
East Midlands +57 133 £45,000 -10.00% 132
Yorkshire -6 123 £63,750 +9.04% 104
North East +12 33 £46,750 -11.37% 44
Northern Ireland -4 31 £60,000 +26.32% 42
Wales +15 24 £55,062 +1.97% 47
Isle of Man - 1 - -

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
1 115 (3.07%) CMS
2 99 (2.64%) Apache Spark
3 66 (1.76%) WordPress
4 52 (1.39%) Confluence
5 49 (1.31%) Apache Airflow
6 40 (1.07%) SharePoint
7 33 (0.88%) Apache
8 27 (0.72%) SAS
9 14 (0.37%) Drupal
9 14 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 11 (0.29%) Headless CMS
10 11 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
11 10 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 10 (0.27%) SugarCRM
12 9 (0.24%) Umbraco
13 6 (0.16%) Jupyter
14 4 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
14 4 (0.11%) ArcGIS
14 4 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
15 3 (0.080%) Joomla!
Applications
1 512 (13.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 102 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
3 59 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 38 (1.01%) Photoshop
5 30 (0.80%) Maya
6 26 (0.69%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 26 (0.69%) Adobe XD
7 18 (0.48%) Adobe Premiere
7 18 (0.48%) InDesign
7 18 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
8 17 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
9 15 (0.40%) Chatbot
10 13 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
11 11 (0.29%) Trello
12 9 (0.24%) SPSS
13 7 (0.19%) MadCap Flare
14 4 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
14 4 (0.11%) Final Cut Pro
14 4 (0.11%) MS Visio
14 4 (0.11%) SketchUp
Business Applications
1 89 (2.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 59 (1.58%) Shopify
3 56 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
4 33 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
5 28 (0.75%) SAP IBP
6 19 (0.51%) Magento
6 19 (0.51%) SAP CO
6 19 (0.51%) SAP FI
6 19 (0.51%) SAP FI/CO
7 16 (0.43%) Dynamics GP
8 13 (0.35%) NetSuite
8 13 (0.35%) SAP FSCM
8 13 (0.35%) Sprinklr
9 11 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
9 11 (0.29%) SAP IS-U
10 10 (0.27%) Oracle Assets
10 10 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
10 10 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
10 10 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
11 9 (0.24%) Adaptiv
Cloud Services
1 970 (25.89%) Azure
2 789 (21.06%) Power Platform
3 454 (12.12%) AWS
4 290 (7.74%) Google Analytics
5 248 (6.62%) GCP
6 215 (5.74%) SaaS
7 193 (5.15%) Snowflake
8 167 (4.46%) Azure Data Factory
9 150 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 131 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
11 115 (3.07%) GitHub
12 111 (2.96%) Microsoft 365
13 94 (2.51%) dbt
13 94 (2.51%) Google Ads
14 88 (2.35%) Serverless
15 65 (1.74%) Entra ID
15 65 (1.74%) Figma
16 64 (1.71%) Azure Monitor
17 56 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
18 48 (1.28%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 35 (0.93%) SMS
2 31 (0.83%) VPN
3 27 (0.72%) Unified Communications
4 26 (0.69%) Firewall
5 15 (0.40%) Network Security
6 12 (0.32%) DNS
7 9 (0.24%) WAN
8 8 (0.21%) Broadband
9 6 (0.16%) CHAP
9 6 (0.16%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (0.13%) Intranet
11 4 (0.11%) Internet
11 4 (0.11%) SAN
11 4 (0.11%) VoIP
11 4 (0.11%) Wireshark
12 3 (0.080%) HTTPS
12 3 (0.080%) SD-WAN
12 3 (0.080%) TCP/IP
13 2 (0.053%) Kerberos
13 2 (0.053%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 758 (20.23%) Power BI
2 372 (9.93%) Tableau
3 343 (9.16%) Data Warehouse
4 262 (6.99%) Data Lake
5 156 (4.16%) Metadata
6 155 (4.14%) SQL Server
7 113 (3.02%) Data Mining
8 105 (2.80%) Big Data
9 97 (2.59%) SAP BW
10 96 (2.56%) Looker
11 90 (2.40%) NoSQL
12 79 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
13 70 (1.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 68 (1.82%) BigQuery
15 64 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
15 64 (1.71%) Relational Database
16 58 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
17 53 (1.41%) Power Query
18 50 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 44 (1.17%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 132 (3.52%) JIRA
2 82 (2.19%) Git
3 38 (1.01%) Jenkins
4 21 (0.56%) Axure RP
4 21 (0.56%) Balsamiq
5 19 (0.51%) ER Studio
5 19 (0.51%) ERwin
5 19 (0.51%) Oracle Forms
6 16 (0.43%) Cypress.io
7 13 (0.35%) GitLab
7 13 (0.35%) Selenium
8 11 (0.29%) Visual Studio
9 8 (0.21%) Postman
10 7 (0.19%) Maven
10 7 (0.19%) MLflow
10 7 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
11 6 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
12 5 (0.13%) RStudio
13 4 (0.11%) Browser DevTools
13 4 (0.11%) TestNG
General
1 1,392 (37.16%) Social Skills
2 1,353 (36.12%) Finance
3 1,197 (31.95%) Analytical Skills
4 822 (21.94%) Marketing
5 427 (11.40%) Law
6 302 (8.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 279 (7.45%) Banking
7 279 (7.45%) Retail
8 214 (5.71%) Public Sector
9 176 (4.70%) Manufacturing
10 163 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
11 150 (4.00%) Legal
12 106 (2.83%) Advertising
12 106 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
13 102 (2.72%) Financial Institution
14 93 (2.48%) Games
15 82 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
16 79 (2.11%) Front Office
17 76 (2.03%) Pharmaceutical
18 59 (1.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 625 (16.68%) Senior
2 575 (15.35%) Analyst
3 496 (13.24%) Lead
4 304 (8.12%) Architect
5 287 (7.66%) Data Analyst
6 264 (7.05%) Data Engineer
7 230 (6.14%) Developer
8 143 (3.82%) Senior Manager
9 121 (3.23%) Data Architect
10 109 (2.91%) Consultant
11 96 (2.56%) Innovation Manager
12 84 (2.24%) Software Engineer
12 84 (2.24%) Solutions Architect
13 78 (2.08%) Analytics Manager
14 74 (1.98%) Trainee
14 74 (1.98%) Trainee Analyst
14 74 (1.98%) Trainee Data Analyst
15 72 (1.92%) Data Manager
16 69 (1.84%) Data Scientist
17 67 (1.79%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (3.23%) HTML
2 96 (2.56%) CSS
3 91 (2.43%) Kafka
4 72 (1.92%) React
5 66 (1.76%) RESTful
6 63 (1.68%) PySpark
7 49 (1.31%) REST
8 47 (1.25%) OAuth
9 42 (1.12%) .NET
10 40 (1.07%) JSON
10 40 (1.07%) TensorFlow
11 39 (1.04%) PyTorch
12 38 (1.01%) Node.js
13 31 (0.83%) OAuth2
13 31 (0.83%) Pandas
14 29 (0.77%) AngularJS
15 28 (0.75%) Middleware
16 27 (0.72%) scikit-learn
17 26 (0.69%) FIX Protocol
17 26 (0.69%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 229 (6.11%) Analytical Mindset
2 181 (4.83%) Product Ownership
2 181 (4.83%) Self-Motivation
3 179 (4.78%) Cloud Native
4 175 (4.67%) Onboarding
5 165 (4.40%) Social Media
6 154 (4.11%) Algorithms
6 154 (4.11%) Management Information System
7 78 (2.08%) FMCG
8 74 (1.98%) Life Science
9 72 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
10 55 (1.47%) Data Structures
11 51 (1.36%) Data Centre
12 45 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
13 40 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
14 39 (1.04%) Credit Risk
15 38 (1.01%) Reinsurance
16 36 (0.96%) Fixed Income
16 36 (0.96%) Virtual Team
17 35 (0.93%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 70 (1.87%) Windows
2 42 (1.12%) Linux
3 24 (0.64%) Unix
4 20 (0.53%) Windows 10
5 8 (0.21%) Android
5 8 (0.21%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.19%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.13%) VMS
8 2 (0.053%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.027%) AIX
9 1 (0.027%) Debian
9 1 (0.027%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.027%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.027%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,029 (27.47%) AI
2 1,006 (26.86%) Business Intelligence
3 922 (24.61%) Problem-Solving
4 883 (23.57%) Decision-Making
5 774 (20.66%) Agile
6 767 (20.48%) Data Analytics
7 693 (18.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 578 (15.43%) Data Modelling
9 523 (13.96%) Machine Learning
10 513 (13.69%) Roadmaps
11 511 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
12 505 (13.48%) Data Science
13 452 (12.07%) Data Analysis
14 450 (12.01%) Visualisation
15 443 (11.83%) Project Management
16 434 (11.59%) Data Governance
17 419 (11.19%) Actionable Insight
18 412 (11.00%) Data Engineering
19 388 (10.36%) CRM
19 388 (10.36%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 1,003 (26.78%) SQL
2 903 (24.11%) Python
3 160 (4.27%) Java
4 135 (3.60%) JavaScript
5 83 (2.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 83 (2.22%) PowerShell
6 77 (2.06%) R
7 54 (1.44%) C#
8 46 (1.23%) T-SQL
9 45 (1.20%) TypeScript
10 40 (1.07%) Scala
11 39 (1.04%) C++
12 36 (0.96%) Go
13 35 (0.93%) Bicep
14 29 (0.77%) Bash
15 28 (0.75%) PL/SQL
16 23 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
17 18 (0.48%) VBA
18 17 (0.45%) Shell Script
19 16 (0.43%) PHP
Qualifications
1 877 (23.41%) Degree
2 206 (5.50%) Master's Degree
3 170 (4.54%) Security Cleared
4 122 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 120 (3.20%) SC Cleared
6 108 (2.88%) DBS Check
7 95 (2.54%) PhD
8 63 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
9 59 (1.58%) CISSP
10 52 (1.39%) Azure Certification
11 49 (1.31%) Numerate Degree
12 47 (1.25%) CISA
13 45 (1.20%) PMI Certification
14 40 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
15 39 (1.04%) PMP
16 38 (1.01%) ACCA
17 36 (0.96%) CISM
18 32 (0.85%) AWS Certification
19 29 (0.77%) CIMA
20 23 (0.61%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 432 (11.53%) Data Quality
2 252 (6.73%) GDPR
3 197 (5.26%) Accessibility
4 90 (2.40%) QA
5 78 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 46 (1.23%) NIST
7 41 (1.09%) WCAG
8 34 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
9 31 (0.83%) GxP
10 30 (0.80%) SLA
11 25 (0.67%) COBIT
12 24 (0.64%) HIPAA
12 24 (0.64%) Solvency II
13 22 (0.59%) EU AI Act
14 21 (0.56%) PSD2
15 16 (0.43%) IFRS
16 15 (0.40%) ITGC
16 15 (0.40%) PMO
16 15 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 14 (0.37%) GRC
System Software
1 89 (2.38%) Docker
2 39 (1.04%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
6 10 (0.27%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.080%) Firmware
8 1 (0.027%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.027%) vCloud
8 1 (0.027%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.027%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 153 (4.08%) Terraform
2 134 (3.58%) Kubernetes
3 25 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
4 24 (0.64%) Ansible
5 22 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (0.32%) QRadar
7 10 (0.27%) Grafana
7 10 (0.27%) Prometheus
7 10 (0.27%) SCCM
8 8 (0.21%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 6 (0.16%) EnCase
9 6 (0.16%) FTK
9 6 (0.16%) RSA Archer
10 5 (0.13%) SCOM
11 4 (0.11%) Argo
12 3 (0.080%) ArcSight ESM
13 2 (0.053%) Failover Clustering
14 1 (0.027%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
14 1 (0.027%) Computer Incident Response Team
14 1 (0.027%) Kibana
Vendors
1 666 (17.78%) Microsoft
2 481 (12.84%) Google
3 269 (7.18%) Databricks
4 254 (6.78%) SAP
5 186 (4.97%) Salesforce
6 161 (4.30%) Oracle
7 139 (3.71%) Adobe
8 74 (1.98%) HubSpot
9 55 (1.47%) Alteryx
10 53 (1.41%) Cisco
11 42 (1.12%) ServiceNow
12 39 (1.04%) OpenAI
13 38 (1.01%) Facebook
13 38 (1.01%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 37 (0.99%) Dell
15 34 (0.91%) Bloomberg
16 32 (0.85%) Ahrefs
16 32 (0.85%) Screaming Frog
17 27 (0.72%) Informatica
18 25 (0.67%) Talend