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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 23 33
Rank change year-on-year -8 +10 -5
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 5,527 3,734 3,969
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.71% 7.57% 5.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.44% 8.51% 6.40%
Number of salaries quoted 3,355 1,724 2,102
10th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £49,049 £42,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,805 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.34% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -7.89% +3.64%

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 85,804 43,854 61,991
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.05% 88.92% 81.71%
Number of salaries quoted 59,130 24,461 33,915
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -3.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £96,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 28 September 2026.

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 28 September 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 -8 4,953 £66,805 +9.19% 8,222
UK excluding London -8 2,933 £60,000 +14.29% 3,350
London 0 2,237 £80,000 +6.67% 5,290
Work from Home +7 1,678 £65,000 +8.33% 3,186
North of England +53 955 £60,000 +4.35% 879
Midlands +22 604 £60,000 +14.29% 501
South East -28 582 £60,000 +20.00% 826
North West +59 551 £60,000 +14.29% 506
West Midlands +8 338 £59,250 +7.73% 341
South West -21 322 £60,000 - 347
East Midlands +25 266 £60,000 +29.73% 160
Yorkshire +33 253 £66,763 +4.73% 268
East of England -12 183 £51,878 +33.02% 291
North East +25 155 £55,000 +0.46% 108
Scotland -25 113 £75,000 +40.26% 297
Northern Ireland -20 96 £65,000 +8.33% 160
Wales +3 94 £63,500 +30.09% 84
Isle of Man +3 5 £38,500 - 6

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
1 150 (2.71%) CMS
2 149 (2.70%) Apache Spark
3 87 (1.57%) SharePoint
4 86 (1.56%) Apache
5 83 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
6 71 (1.28%) SAS
7 66 (1.19%) Confluence
8 41 (0.74%) WordPress
9 29 (0.52%) Sitecore CMS
10 22 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
11 19 (0.34%) Headless CMS
12 16 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
12 16 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
13 10 (0.18%) Jupyter
14 6 (0.11%) ArcGIS
14 6 (0.11%) Umbraco
15 3 (0.054%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 3 (0.054%) IIS
16 2 (0.036%) Apache Pulsar
16 2 (0.036%) Appian
Applications
1 277 (5.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
3 42 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 37 (0.67%) Chatbot
5 33 (0.60%) SPSS
6 27 (0.49%) UserZoom
7 23 (0.42%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 23 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
8 18 (0.33%) MS Visio
9 14 (0.25%) Adobe XD
10 9 (0.16%) Photoshop
11 7 (0.13%) Sketch
11 7 (0.13%) Trello
12 6 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
13 4 (0.072%) Microsoft Project
14 3 (0.054%) Adobe Premiere
14 3 (0.054%) InDesign
14 3 (0.054%) Zeplin
15 2 (0.036%) CATIA
15 2 (0.036%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 125 (2.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 75 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 54 (0.98%) Shopify
4 32 (0.58%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 28 (0.51%) Dynamics GP
6 20 (0.36%) Magento
7 18 (0.33%) Workday HCM
8 14 (0.25%) Adobe Campaign
9 10 (0.18%) NetSuite
10 9 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
11 7 (0.13%) SAP BPC
11 7 (0.13%) SAP MDG
12 6 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
12 6 (0.11%) SAP Travel Management
13 5 (0.090%) Oracle Payables
13 5 (0.090%) Oracle Receivables
13 5 (0.090%) Payment Gateway
13 5 (0.090%) SAP SD
14 4 (0.072%) iTrent
14 4 (0.072%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 1,066 (19.29%) Azure
2 907 (16.41%) Power Platform
3 784 (14.18%) AWS
4 347 (6.28%) GCP
5 332 (6.01%) SaaS
6 290 (5.25%) Google Analytics
7 239 (4.32%) Snowflake
8 216 (3.91%) Azure Data Factory
9 204 (3.69%) Azure DevOps
10 185 (3.35%) GitHub
11 161 (2.91%) Serverless
12 149 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 134 (2.42%) dbt
14 117 (2.12%) Microsoft 365
15 110 (1.99%) Microsoft Purview
16 108 (1.95%) Amazon S3
17 106 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
18 89 (1.61%) Google Ads
19 88 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
19 88 (1.59%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 76 (1.38%) Broadband
2 71 (1.28%) Internet
3 70 (1.27%) VPN
4 64 (1.16%) Firewall
5 46 (0.83%) DNS
6 45 (0.81%) Network Security
7 27 (0.49%) BGP
8 23 (0.42%) SMS
8 23 (0.42%) TCP/IP
9 21 (0.38%) 5G
10 20 (0.36%) VLAN
11 19 (0.34%) OSPF
12 16 (0.29%) DHCP
13 15 (0.27%) VoIP
14 14 (0.25%) CTI
15 13 (0.24%) SSL
16 10 (0.18%) Unified Communications
16 10 (0.18%) VXLAN
16 10 (0.18%) WAN
16 10 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 874 (15.81%) Power BI
2 400 (7.24%) Data Warehouse
3 270 (4.89%) Tableau
4 254 (4.60%) Metadata
5 226 (4.09%) Data Lake
6 176 (3.18%) SQL Server
7 156 (2.82%) Big Data
8 134 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
9 112 (2.03%) Amazon Redshift
9 112 (2.03%) Looker
10 94 (1.70%) BigQuery
11 92 (1.66%) Delta Lake
12 84 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
13 83 (1.50%) Relational Database
14 82 (1.48%) Star Schema
15 77 (1.39%) NoSQL
16 73 (1.32%) MongoDB
17 68 (1.23%) Power Query
17 68 (1.23%) Semantic Layer
18 61 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 180 (3.26%) Git
2 97 (1.76%) JIRA
3 44 (0.80%) Jenkins
4 43 (0.78%) GitLab
5 25 (0.45%) MLflow
6 18 (0.33%) Claude Code
7 11 (0.20%) Crashlytics
7 11 (0.20%) fastlane
8 9 (0.16%) CircleCI
8 9 (0.16%) Octopus Deploy
9 8 (0.14%) Balsamiq
9 8 (0.14%) Xcode
10 7 (0.13%) Gradle
10 7 (0.13%) Visual Website Optimizer
11 6 (0.11%) Axure RP
11 6 (0.11%) ERwin
11 6 (0.11%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.090%) Android Studio
12 5 (0.090%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.090%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,535 (27.77%) Social Skills
2 1,516 (27.43%) Finance
3 1,269 (22.96%) Analytical Skills
4 971 (17.57%) Marketing
5 416 (7.53%) Retail
6 407 (7.36%) Public Sector
7 329 (5.95%) Legal
8 328 (5.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 299 (5.41%) Law
10 224 (4.05%) Banking
11 206 (3.73%) Influencing Skills
12 184 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
13 166 (3.00%) Manufacturing
14 120 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
15 114 (2.06%) Advertising
16 99 (1.79%) Automotive
17 95 (1.72%) Financial Institution
18 94 (1.70%) Games
19 79 (1.43%) Publishing
20 59 (1.07%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,118 (20.23%) Senior
2 677 (12.25%) Data Engineer
3 654 (11.83%) Analyst
4 606 (10.96%) Lead
5 534 (9.66%) Architect
6 322 (5.83%) Developer
7 259 (4.69%) Analytics Manager
8 255 (4.61%) Data Analyst
8 255 (4.61%) Data Architect
9 247 (4.47%) Senior Data Engineer
10 195 (3.53%) Senior Manager
11 188 (3.40%) Consultant
12 185 (3.35%) Data Scientist
13 170 (3.08%) Solutions Architect
14 134 (2.42%) Senior Analyst
15 132 (2.39%) Data Manager
16 127 (2.30%) Marketing Manager
17 111 (2.01%) Product Manager
18 107 (1.94%) Senior Architect
19 98 (1.77%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 264 (4.78%) Terraform
2 204 (3.69%) PySpark
3 110 (1.99%) Kafka
4 104 (1.88%) HTML
5 96 (1.74%) .NET
6 85 (1.54%) CSS
7 82 (1.48%) REST
8 70 (1.27%) React
9 56 (1.01%) Node.js
10 54 (0.98%) Pandas
11 41 (0.74%) Middleware
12 38 (0.69%) scikit-learn
13 37 (0.67%) ASP.NET
13 37 (0.67%) JSON
14 36 (0.65%) PyTorch
15 35 (0.63%) .NET Core
15 35 (0.63%) ASP.NET Core
16 34 (0.62%) AngularJS
16 34 (0.62%) TensorFlow
17 33 (0.60%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 294 (5.32%) Onboarding
2 272 (4.92%) Cloud Native
3 204 (3.69%) Management Information System
4 195 (3.53%) Product Ownership
5 191 (3.46%) Blog
6 189 (3.42%) Marketing Technology
7 178 (3.22%) Social Media
8 113 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
9 111 (2.01%) Analytical Mindset
10 97 (1.76%) Data Structures
11 93 (1.68%) AI Agents
12 81 (1.47%) Algorithms
13 75 (1.36%) Mobile App
14 68 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
15 67 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
16 63 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
17 57 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
18 55 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
19 45 (0.81%) IoT
20 44 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 104 (1.88%) Windows
2 85 (1.54%) Linux
3 24 (0.43%) Windows Server
4 23 (0.42%) VMS
5 20 (0.36%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.16%) Android
7 6 (0.11%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.11%) Unix
7 6 (0.11%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.072%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.054%) Debian
10 1 (0.018%) AIX
10 1 (0.018%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.018%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.018%) SUSE
10 1 (0.018%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.018%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,961 (35.48%) AI
2 1,320 (23.88%) Decision-Making
3 1,214 (21.96%) Business Intelligence
4 970 (17.55%) Problem-Solving
5 880 (15.92%) Agile
6 877 (15.87%) Continuous Improvement
7 831 (15.04%) Roadmaps
8 829 (15.00%) Data Modelling
9 766 (13.86%) Data Engineering
10 736 (13.32%) Machine Learning
11 721 (13.05%) Data Analytics
12 689 (12.47%) Stakeholder Management
13 685 (12.39%) CI/CD
14 668 (12.09%) Data Pipeline
15 647 (11.71%) Mentoring
16 609 (11.02%) Data Science
17 531 (9.61%) ETL
18 530 (9.59%) Data Governance
19 526 (9.52%) Actionable Insight
20 509 (9.21%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1,507 (27.27%) SQL
2 1,227 (22.20%) Python
3 157 (2.84%) Java
4 140 (2.53%) C#
5 137 (2.48%) JavaScript
6 121 (2.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 120 (2.17%) PowerShell
8 95 (1.72%) R
9 89 (1.61%) TypeScript
10 83 (1.50%) Bicep
11 75 (1.36%) Scala
12 68 (1.23%) Bash
13 52 (0.94%) Go
14 49 (0.89%) C++
15 36 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
16 28 (0.51%) T-SQL
17 19 (0.34%) Kotlin
18 17 (0.31%) PHP
18 17 (0.31%) VBA
19 15 (0.27%) Swift
Qualifications
1 671 (12.14%) Degree
2 449 (8.12%) Security Cleared
3 324 (5.86%) SC Cleared
4 122 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 116 (2.10%) Azure Certification
6 104 (1.88%) Master's Degree
7 84 (1.52%) DV Cleared
8 69 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 57 (1.03%) ACCA
9 57 (1.03%) AWS Certification
10 53 (0.96%) DBS Check
11 52 (0.94%) CIMA
12 43 (0.78%) PhD
13 42 (0.76%) CISSP
14 36 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
15 29 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
15 29 (0.52%) CISM
16 25 (0.45%) Postgraduate
17 22 (0.40%) MBA
18 21 (0.38%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 836 (15.13%) Data Quality
2 300 (5.43%) Accessibility
3 233 (4.22%) GDPR
4 147 (2.66%) QA
5 57 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
6 50 (0.90%) WCAG
7 40 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 33 (0.60%) NIST
9 28 (0.51%) SLA
10 24 (0.43%) PMO
11 21 (0.38%) PCI DSS
12 18 (0.33%) GRC
13 17 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
13 17 (0.31%) IFRS
14 12 (0.22%) EU AI Act
15 10 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 10 (0.18%) PERC
16 9 (0.16%) SOC 2
17 8 (0.14%) ISO 9001
18 7 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 159 (2.88%) Docker
2 88 (1.59%) Active Directory
3 28 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
5 17 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (0.29%) vSphere
7 8 (0.14%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.090%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.054%) Firmware
9 3 (0.054%) IAG
10 1 (0.018%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.018%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 172 (3.11%) Kubernetes
2 47 (0.85%) Ansible
3 38 (0.69%) Grafana
4 30 (0.54%) Prometheus
5 27 (0.49%) EnCase
5 27 (0.49%) FTK
6 19 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (0.24%) FortiGate
8 8 (0.14%) Argo
9 6 (0.11%) Graylog
9 6 (0.11%) Hadoop YARN
9 6 (0.11%) Kibana
9 6 (0.11%) Nagios
9 6 (0.11%) Proxmox
9 6 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.090%) Packer
10 5 (0.090%) Puppet
11 4 (0.072%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.072%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (0.072%) VxRail
Vendors
1 866 (15.67%) Microsoft
2 483 (8.74%) Google
3 481 (8.70%) Databricks
4 229 (4.14%) SAP
5 158 (2.86%) Adobe
6 122 (2.21%) Oracle
7 116 (2.10%) Salesforce
8 73 (1.32%) HubSpot
9 67 (1.21%) Workday
10 51 (0.92%) YouTube
11 44 (0.80%) Cisco
11 44 (0.80%) IBM
12 43 (0.78%) Informatica
12 43 (0.78%) TikTok
13 41 (0.74%) VMware
14 37 (0.67%) Alteryx
15 35 (0.63%) OpenAI
16 30 (0.54%) ServiceNow
16 30 (0.54%) Sitecore
17 28 (0.51%) Instagram