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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 20 40
Rank change year-on-year -10 +20 -17
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 4,584 3,501 5,068
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.37% 8.51% 5.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.10% 9.15% 6.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2,558 1,755 3,299
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,367 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +10.61% -8.03%
75th Percentile £85,001 £95,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £54,448
% change year-on-year -3.51% +4.69% -1.00%

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 64,523 38,250 80,347
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.56% 92.93% 86.07%
Number of salaries quoted 39,734 22,522 59,066
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.54%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -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 15 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 15 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 -14 4,002 £65,000 -3.70% 1,899
UK excluding London -22 2,362 £55,000 -3.51% 1,286
London +3 1,822 £80,000 -5.88% 899
Work from Home -5 1,413 £64,000 +6.67% 838
North of England -15 680 £58,000 +5.45% 350
South East -23 501 £55,000 -8.33% 418
Midlands -20 475 £51,000 -2.86% 221
North West -16 363 £60,000 +9.09% 214
West Midlands -25 281 £52,250 -5.00% 114
Yorkshire -7 244 £55,000 -1.79% 91
South West -24 217 £56,350 +2.45% 126
East of England +23 202 £53,750 -17.31% 103
Scotland -9 197 £65,000 -7.14% 49
East Midlands -1 191 £50,000 +3.09% 107
North East +14 73 £40,000 -27.27% 50
Northern Ireland -20 53 £45,000 +50.00% 19
Wales +1 39 £40,000 -27.27% 30

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
1 161 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
2 128 (2.79%) Apache Spark
3 117 (2.55%) CMS
4 80 (1.75%) Apache
5 72 (1.57%) Confluence
6 54 (1.18%) WordPress
7 45 (0.98%) SharePoint
8 35 (0.76%) SAS
9 34 (0.74%) ArcGIS
10 19 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
11 16 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
12 12 (0.26%) Drupal
13 9 (0.20%) Oracle Application Server
14 8 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 6 (0.13%) IIS
16 5 (0.11%) Umbraco
17 4 (0.087%) Appian
17 4 (0.087%) Documentum
17 4 (0.087%) Sitecore CMS
18 3 (0.065%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 397 (8.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 117 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
3 65 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (0.68%) UserZoom
5 29 (0.63%) Adobe XD
6 19 (0.41%) MS Visio
7 17 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
8 13 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 10 (0.22%) Chatbot
9 10 (0.22%) InDesign
10 9 (0.20%) SPSS
11 6 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
11 6 (0.13%) Trello
12 5 (0.11%) Photoshop
13 4 (0.087%) Adobe Illustrator
13 4 (0.087%) Adobe Premiere
14 3 (0.065%) Final Cut Pro
14 3 (0.065%) Sketch
15 2 (0.044%) Maya
15 2 (0.044%) Notion
Business Applications
1 78 (1.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 36 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 34 (0.74%) SAP PP
4 33 (0.72%) SAP IBP
5 28 (0.61%) Adobe Campaign
6 27 (0.59%) Oracle ERP
7 22 (0.48%) Magento
8 18 (0.39%) Shopify
9 16 (0.35%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 16 (0.35%) NetSuite
10 15 (0.33%) iTrent
11 14 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
12 13 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
12 13 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
12 13 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
12 13 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
12 13 (0.28%) SAP CO
13 10 (0.22%) SAP ERP
14 9 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
14 9 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 983 (21.44%) Azure
2 729 (15.90%) Power Platform
3 547 (11.93%) AWS
4 272 (5.93%) GCP
5 257 (5.61%) SaaS
6 255 (5.56%) Snowflake
7 235 (5.13%) Azure Data Factory
8 207 (4.52%) Google Analytics
9 195 (4.25%) Adobe Analytics
10 183 (3.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 161 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
12 155 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
13 150 (3.27%) GitHub
14 142 (3.10%) dbt
15 129 (2.81%) Figma
16 112 (2.44%) Amazon S3
17 107 (2.33%) Serverless
18 88 (1.92%) Entra ID
19 75 (1.64%) Azure Monitor
20 66 (1.44%) Contentsquare
Communications & Networking
1 239 (5.21%) Broadband
2 38 (0.83%) Firewall
3 33 (0.72%) VPN
4 27 (0.59%) CHAP
5 23 (0.50%) WAN
6 20 (0.44%) Network Security
7 19 (0.41%) DNS
8 16 (0.35%) Intranet
8 16 (0.35%) TCP/IP
9 15 (0.33%) DHCP
10 9 (0.20%) Unified Communications
11 6 (0.13%) HTTPS
12 5 (0.11%) HTTP
12 5 (0.11%) Intrusion Detection
12 5 (0.11%) SMS
12 5 (0.11%) SNMP
13 4 (0.087%) Wi-Fi
14 3 (0.065%) BGP
14 3 (0.065%) LAN
14 3 (0.065%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 695 (15.16%) Power BI
2 401 (8.75%) Tableau
3 359 (7.83%) Data Warehouse
4 240 (5.24%) Data Lake
5 188 (4.10%) Metadata
6 173 (3.77%) Data Mining
7 164 (3.58%) SQL Server
8 123 (2.68%) Looker
9 108 (2.36%) Azure SQL Database
10 104 (2.27%) BigQuery
11 103 (2.25%) Relational Database
12 91 (1.99%) Amazon Redshift
13 74 (1.61%) NoSQL
14 69 (1.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 66 (1.44%) Big Data
16 64 (1.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 63 (1.37%) Power Query
18 62 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
19 50 (1.09%) Snowflake Schema
20 44 (0.96%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 161 (3.51%) Git
2 107 (2.33%) JIRA
3 71 (1.55%) Jenkins
4 42 (0.92%) MLflow
5 34 (0.74%) GitLab
6 25 (0.55%) IBM UrbanCode
7 23 (0.50%) Axure RP
7 23 (0.50%) Balsamiq
7 23 (0.50%) TeamCity
8 19 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
9 16 (0.35%) Visual Studio
10 13 (0.28%) CircleCI
10 13 (0.28%) Crashlytics
11 12 (0.26%) Selenium
12 10 (0.22%) ERwin
12 10 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 10 (0.22%) XCTest
13 7 (0.15%) Claude Code
14 6 (0.13%) Cypress.io
15 5 (0.11%) MSI
General
1 1,373 (29.95%) Finance
2 1,240 (27.05%) Social Skills
3 1,144 (24.96%) Analytical Skills
4 692 (15.10%) Marketing
5 287 (6.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 247 (5.39%) Retail
7 245 (5.34%) Public Sector
8 242 (5.28%) Banking
9 210 (4.58%) Law
10 206 (4.49%) Games
11 163 (3.56%) Manufacturing
12 160 (3.49%) Legal
13 117 (2.55%) Automotive
14 106 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
15 105 (2.29%) Financial Institution
16 104 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
17 100 (2.18%) Organisational Skills
18 98 (2.14%) Advertising
19 70 (1.53%) Back Office
20 69 (1.51%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 767 (16.73%) Senior
2 656 (14.31%) Analyst
3 513 (11.19%) Lead
4 470 (10.25%) Data Engineer
5 357 (7.79%) Data Analyst
6 338 (7.37%) Architect
7 248 (5.41%) Developer
8 173 (3.77%) Consultant
9 157 (3.42%) Data Architect
10 155 (3.38%) Trainee
10 155 (3.38%) Trainee Analyst
10 155 (3.38%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 137 (2.99%) Senior Manager
12 121 (2.64%) Designer
13 109 (2.38%) Senior Data Engineer
14 104 (2.27%) Solutions Architect
15 100 (2.18%) Data Manager
16 92 (2.01%) Data Scientist
17 89 (1.94%) Support Engineer
18 88 (1.92%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (2.77%) PySpark
2 120 (2.62%) Kafka
3 105 (2.29%) HTML
4 98 (2.14%) CSS
5 96 (2.09%) PyTorch
6 70 (1.53%) .NET
7 69 (1.51%) TensorFlow
8 56 (1.22%) React
9 51 (1.11%) OAuth
10 50 (1.09%) SAP Fiori
11 49 (1.07%) RESTful
12 48 (1.05%) LangChain
12 48 (1.05%) scikit-learn
13 46 (1.00%) JSON
14 43 (0.94%) REST
15 40 (0.87%) Pandas
16 38 (0.83%) Node.js
17 37 (0.81%) .NET Core
18 26 (0.57%) OAuth2
19 24 (0.52%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 304 (6.63%) Social Media
2 208 (4.54%) Cloud Native
3 194 (4.23%) Product Ownership
4 170 (3.71%) Analytical Mindset
5 154 (3.36%) Management Information System
6 138 (3.01%) Self-Motivation
7 124 (2.71%) Onboarding
8 103 (2.25%) Life Science
9 99 (2.16%) Algorithms
10 84 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
11 78 (1.70%) Data Structures
12 69 (1.51%) Distributed Systems
13 62 (1.35%) Marketing Technology
14 61 (1.33%) Mobile App
15 55 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
16 52 (1.13%) Over-the-Top Content
17 48 (1.05%) Public Cloud
18 45 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
18 45 (0.98%) Virtual Team
19 37 (0.81%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 107 (2.33%) Windows
2 60 (1.31%) Windows 10
3 43 (0.94%) Linux
4 25 (0.55%) VMS
5 22 (0.48%) Apple iOS
6 20 (0.44%) Unix
7 17 (0.37%) Windows Server
8 13 (0.28%) Android
9 3 (0.065%) AIX
10 2 (0.044%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.022%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,320 (28.80%) AI
2 989 (21.58%) Decision-Making
3 980 (21.38%) Business Intelligence
4 906 (19.76%) Agile
5 755 (16.47%) Data Analytics
6 752 (16.40%) Continuous Improvement
7 739 (16.12%) Problem-Solving
8 722 (15.75%) Data Modelling
9 611 (13.33%) Data Engineering
9 611 (13.33%) Roadmaps
10 537 (11.71%) Data Governance
11 531 (11.58%) Data Pipeline
12 525 (11.45%) Customer Experience
13 508 (11.08%) Data Science
14 506 (11.04%) Machine Learning
15 501 (10.93%) Data Analysis
16 499 (10.89%) ETL
17 493 (10.75%) CI/CD
18 449 (9.79%) Project Management
19 430 (9.38%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 1,175 (25.63%) SQL
2 1,046 (22.82%) Python
3 117 (2.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 110 (2.40%) JavaScript
5 99 (2.16%) C#
6 96 (2.09%) Java
7 79 (1.72%) Scala
8 65 (1.42%) R
9 61 (1.33%) PowerShell
10 46 (1.00%) T-SQL
11 44 (0.96%) Bicep
11 44 (0.96%) TypeScript
12 36 (0.79%) C++
12 36 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
13 34 (0.74%) Go
14 21 (0.46%) Bash
15 16 (0.35%) VBA
16 15 (0.33%) PL/SQL
17 14 (0.31%) Kotlin
17 14 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 684 (14.92%) Degree
2 262 (5.72%) Security Cleared
3 184 (4.01%) SC Cleared
4 136 (2.97%) Master's Degree
5 122 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 72 (1.57%) IRCA
7 60 (1.31%) CTC Cleared
8 57 (1.24%) Azure Certification
9 50 (1.09%) CISSP
10 46 (1.00%) ACCA
10 46 (1.00%) DBS Check
10 46 (1.00%) PhD
11 45 (0.98%) CISM
12 43 (0.94%) CISA
13 38 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
14 37 (0.81%) CIMA
15 31 (0.68%) AWS Certification
15 31 (0.68%) DV Cleared
16 29 (0.63%) SANS
17 28 (0.61%) CGEIT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 597 (13.02%) Data Quality
2 379 (8.27%) Accessibility
3 369 (8.05%) GDPR
4 170 (3.71%) QA
5 94 (2.05%) WCAG
6 81 (1.77%) SLA
7 79 (1.72%) ISO 9001
8 54 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 53 (1.16%) NIST
10 46 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
11 38 (0.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 34 (0.74%) HIPAA
13 32 (0.70%) COBIT
14 30 (0.65%) Solvency II
15 28 (0.61%) EU AI Act
16 26 (0.57%) IFRS
17 21 (0.46%) PSD2
18 20 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 20 (0.44%) SOC 2
19 17 (0.37%) GxP
System Software
1 150 (3.27%) Docker
2 68 (1.48%) Active Directory
3 26 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.15%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.11%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.065%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.044%) Firmware
7 2 (0.044%) 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
1 208 (4.54%) Terraform
2 175 (3.82%) Kubernetes
3 50 (1.09%) Ansible
4 26 (0.57%) Grafana
4 26 (0.57%) Prometheus
5 19 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
6 14 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.17%) EnCase
7 8 (0.17%) FTK
8 7 (0.15%) Kibana
9 6 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.11%) Argo
10 5 (0.11%) QRadar
11 3 (0.065%) ArcSight ESM
11 3 (0.065%) Control-M
11 3 (0.065%) RSA Archer
11 3 (0.065%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 3 (0.065%) VxRail
12 2 (0.044%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.044%) SCCM
Vendors
1 849 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 369 (8.05%) Databricks
3 344 (7.50%) Google
4 298 (6.50%) Adobe
5 182 (3.97%) SAP
6 159 (3.47%) Salesforce
7 137 (2.99%) Oracle
8 135 (2.95%) Cisco
9 61 (1.33%) HubSpot
10 58 (1.27%) Dell
11 51 (1.11%) Informatica
12 45 (0.98%) Alteryx
13 28 (0.61%) OpenAI
13 28 (0.61%) Red Hat
13 28 (0.61%) ServiceNow
14 27 (0.59%) Nexthink
14 27 (0.59%) Talend
14 27 (0.59%) Workday
15 26 (0.57%) IBM
15 26 (0.57%) Palantir