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 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 28 31
Rank change year-on-year -6 +3 -7
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 3,752 3,448 4,062
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 6.03% 6.49% 6.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.49% 7.12% 7.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,971 1,718 2,832
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £118,750 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.89% +3.64% -0.45%

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 50,076 48,429 57,012
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.42% 91.10% 89.12%
Number of salaries quoted 29,566 23,408 43,853
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 23 January 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 23 January 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 -6 3,217 £65,000 -7.14% 2,978
UK excluding London +2 1,906 £52,500 -7.89% 2,734
London +4 1,537 £75,000 -11.76% 772
Work from Home 0 1,144 £65,000 -2.06% 1,211
South East +17 563 £55,000 -8.33% 1,000
North of England -18 395 £55,000 - 478
Midlands +2 335 £55,000 - 367
Scotland +5 243 £53,750 -10.97% 99
North West -23 199 £53,500 -2.73% 220
West Midlands -12 198 £59,764 +4.85% 138
South West +9 188 £55,000 +1.03% 299
Yorkshire -5 154 £55,233 +14.46% 188
East Midlands +19 138 £46,445 -7.11% 222
East of England +32 115 £40,000 -37.25% 375
North East +17 43 £41,250 -21.80% 73
Northern Ireland +1 41 £45,000 -34.55% 59
Wales +25 29 £47,500 -4.14% 122

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 87 (2.32%) Apache Spark
2 82 (2.19%) CMS
3 76 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
4 53 (1.41%) WordPress
5 45 (1.20%) Apache
6 44 (1.17%) SharePoint
7 42 (1.12%) Confluence
8 26 (0.69%) SAS
9 20 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 17 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
11 12 (0.32%) Drupal
12 9 (0.24%) Umbraco
13 6 (0.16%) IIS
14 5 (0.13%) ArcGIS
14 5 (0.13%) SugarCRM
15 4 (0.11%) Apache Superset
15 4 (0.11%) Appian
15 4 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
16 3 (0.080%) Adobe Experience Manager
16 3 (0.080%) Joomla!
Applications
1 526 (14.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 130 (3.46%) Microsoft Office
3 59 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 29 (0.77%) Maya
5 28 (0.75%) Adobe XD
6 23 (0.61%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 19 (0.51%) InDesign
7 19 (0.51%) Photoshop
8 15 (0.40%) Chatbot
9 14 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
10 12 (0.32%) Adobe Premiere
10 12 (0.32%) SPSS
11 10 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
11 10 (0.27%) Trello
12 9 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
13 6 (0.16%) MS Visio
14 4 (0.11%) SketchUp
14 4 (0.11%) UserZoom
15 3 (0.080%) Final Cut Pro
15 3 (0.080%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 65 (1.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 60 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 34 (0.91%) Oracle ERP
4 24 (0.64%) SAP CO
5 23 (0.61%) Shopify
6 22 (0.59%) SAP IBP
7 21 (0.56%) Magento
8 16 (0.43%) Oracle Assets
8 16 (0.43%) Oracle General Ledger
8 16 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
8 16 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
8 16 (0.43%) SAP FI
8 16 (0.43%) SAP FI/CO
9 15 (0.40%) Oracle Financials
10 13 (0.35%) Dynamics GP
10 13 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
11 11 (0.29%) IBM Planning Analytics
12 10 (0.27%) NetSuite
12 10 (0.27%) SAP FSCM
13 9 (0.24%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 964 (25.69%) Azure
2 752 (20.04%) Power Platform
3 382 (10.18%) AWS
4 217 (5.78%) SaaS
5 208 (5.54%) GCP
6 194 (5.17%) Azure Data Factory
6 194 (5.17%) Snowflake
7 181 (4.82%) Azure DevOps
8 176 (4.69%) Google Analytics
9 169 (4.50%) Microsoft 365
10 159 (4.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 153 (4.08%) GitHub
12 114 (3.04%) dbt
13 103 (2.75%) Entra ID
14 86 (2.29%) Azure Monitor
15 74 (1.97%) Serverless
16 70 (1.87%) Amazon S3
17 65 (1.73%) Figma
18 61 (1.63%) Google Ads
19 60 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 44 (1.17%) Broadband
2 40 (1.07%) VPN
3 34 (0.91%) SMS
4 33 (0.88%) Firewall
5 17 (0.45%) CHAP
6 15 (0.40%) DNS
6 15 (0.40%) WAN
7 14 (0.37%) Unified Communications
8 11 (0.29%) Intranet
8 11 (0.29%) Network Security
9 8 (0.21%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.13%) DHCP
10 5 (0.13%) HTTPS
10 5 (0.13%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (0.13%) Wireshark
11 4 (0.11%) Internet
11 4 (0.11%) VoIP
12 3 (0.080%) HTTP
12 3 (0.080%) MQTT
12 3 (0.080%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 717 (19.11%) Power BI
2 392 (10.45%) Tableau
3 324 (8.64%) Data Warehouse
4 252 (6.72%) Data Lake
5 172 (4.58%) Metadata
6 153 (4.08%) Data Mining
7 148 (3.94%) SQL Server
8 99 (2.64%) Azure SQL Database
9 97 (2.59%) SAP BW
10 94 (2.51%) Looker
11 85 (2.27%) Big Data
12 69 (1.84%) NoSQL
13 68 (1.81%) Relational Database
13 68 (1.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 64 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
15 58 (1.55%) BigQuery
16 56 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 49 (1.31%) Power Query
18 44 (1.17%) Hadoop
19 39 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 122 (3.25%) Git
2 112 (2.99%) JIRA
3 61 (1.63%) Jenkins
4 31 (0.83%) Oracle Forms
5 26 (0.69%) Axure RP
5 26 (0.69%) Balsamiq
6 23 (0.61%) TeamCity
7 22 (0.59%) GitLab
8 19 (0.51%) ERwin
9 17 (0.45%) Visual Studio
10 14 (0.37%) Selenium
11 13 (0.35%) MLflow
12 8 (0.21%) PowerDesigner
13 7 (0.19%) ER Studio
13 7 (0.19%) Postman
14 6 (0.16%) CircleCI
14 6 (0.16%) Cypress.io
15 5 (0.13%) MSI
15 5 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 5 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,316 (35.07%) Finance
2 1,259 (33.56%) Social Skills
3 1,071 (28.54%) Analytical Skills
4 667 (17.78%) Marketing
5 259 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 228 (6.08%) Law
7 219 (5.84%) Public Sector
8 214 (5.70%) Banking
9 199 (5.30%) Retail
10 156 (4.16%) Manufacturing
11 135 (3.60%) Legal
12 134 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
13 102 (2.72%) Games
14 98 (2.61%) Financial Institution
15 93 (2.48%) Pharmaceutical
16 76 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
17 75 (2.00%) Automotive
18 71 (1.89%) Advertising
19 70 (1.87%) Back Office
20 67 (1.79%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 610 (16.26%) Analyst
2 604 (16.10%) Senior
3 466 (12.42%) Lead
4 333 (8.88%) Data Engineer
5 330 (8.80%) Data Analyst
6 289 (7.70%) Architect
7 221 (5.89%) Developer
8 141 (3.76%) Senior Manager
9 126 (3.36%) Data Architect
10 123 (3.28%) Trainee
10 123 (3.28%) Trainee Analyst
10 123 (3.28%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 88 (2.35%) Solutions Architect
12 87 (2.32%) Consultant
13 84 (2.24%) Data Manager
14 76 (2.03%) Data Scientist
14 76 (2.03%) Support Engineer
15 75 (2.00%) Senior Analyst
16 72 (1.92%) Report Analyst
17 68 (1.81%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (2.16%) HTML
2 76 (2.03%) PySpark
3 73 (1.95%) Kafka
4 71 (1.89%) CSS
5 61 (1.63%) OAuth
6 60 (1.60%) React
6 60 (1.60%) RESTful
7 53 (1.41%) .NET
7 53 (1.41%) PyTorch
7 53 (1.41%) REST
8 49 (1.31%) TensorFlow
9 44 (1.17%) JSON
10 39 (1.04%) OAuth2
11 31 (0.83%) SAML
12 28 (0.75%) scikit-learn
13 27 (0.72%) Middleware
13 27 (0.72%) Node.js
14 26 (0.69%) FIX Protocol
14 26 (0.69%) Pandas
15 24 (0.64%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 176 (4.69%) Self-Motivation
2 174 (4.64%) Analytical Mindset
3 165 (4.40%) Product Ownership
4 163 (4.34%) Onboarding
5 149 (3.97%) Cloud Native
5 149 (3.97%) Management Information System
6 142 (3.78%) Social Media
7 109 (2.91%) Algorithms
8 87 (2.32%) Life Science
9 82 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
10 65 (1.73%) Data Structures
11 62 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
12 58 (1.55%) FMCG
13 49 (1.31%) Data Centre
14 46 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
15 42 (1.12%) Virtual Team
16 40 (1.07%) Fixed Income
16 40 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
17 28 (0.75%) Blog
18 27 (0.72%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 114 (3.04%) Windows
2 60 (1.60%) Windows 10
3 42 (1.12%) Linux
4 31 (0.83%) Unix
5 15 (0.40%) VMS
6 12 (0.32%) Android
6 12 (0.32%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.29%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.053%) AIX
8 2 (0.053%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.027%) Debian
9 1 (0.027%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,007 (26.84%) AI
1 1,007 (26.84%) Business Intelligence
2 840 (22.39%) Decision-Making
3 816 (21.75%) Problem-Solving
4 737 (19.64%) Data Analytics
5 708 (18.87%) Agile
6 687 (18.31%) Continuous Improvement
7 612 (16.31%) Data Modelling
8 496 (13.22%) Data Governance
9 476 (12.69%) Machine Learning
10 467 (12.45%) Data Science
11 459 (12.23%) Data Analysis
12 454 (12.10%) Roadmaps
13 453 (12.07%) Project Management
14 448 (11.94%) Stakeholder Management
15 442 (11.78%) Data Engineering
16 423 (11.27%) Visualisation
17 413 (11.01%) Data Pipeline
18 408 (10.87%) ETL
19 405 (10.79%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 988 (26.33%) SQL
2 912 (24.31%) Python
3 117 (3.12%) Java
4 116 (3.09%) JavaScript
5 83 (2.21%) C#
6 82 (2.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 78 (2.08%) Scala
8 75 (2.00%) PowerShell
9 64 (1.71%) R
10 51 (1.36%) Bicep
11 44 (1.17%) T-SQL
12 35 (0.93%) C++
13 33 (0.88%) Bash
14 30 (0.80%) TypeScript
15 26 (0.69%) PL/SQL
16 24 (0.64%) Kusto Query Language
17 21 (0.56%) Shell Script
18 20 (0.53%) Go
19 18 (0.48%) VBA
20 13 (0.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 870 (23.19%) Degree
2 239 (6.37%) Security Cleared
3 200 (5.33%) Master's Degree
4 176 (4.69%) SC Cleared
5 121 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 98 (2.61%) PhD
7 87 (2.32%) DBS Check
8 61 (1.63%) CISSP
9 60 (1.60%) CTC Cleared
10 57 (1.52%) CISA
11 49 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
12 47 (1.25%) Azure Certification
13 46 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
13 46 (1.23%) Numerate Degree
14 43 (1.15%) CISM
15 39 (1.04%) PMI Certification
16 36 (0.96%) ACCA
17 31 (0.83%) PMP
18 27 (0.72%) DV Cleared
19 23 (0.61%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 533 (14.21%) Data Quality
2 275 (7.33%) GDPR
3 212 (5.65%) Accessibility
4 81 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 79 (2.11%) QA
6 70 (1.87%) SLA
7 54 (1.44%) NIST
8 44 (1.17%) WCAG
9 43 (1.15%) GxP
10 38 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
11 34 (0.91%) COBIT
12 25 (0.67%) Solvency II
13 23 (0.61%) HIPAA
14 22 (0.59%) EU AI Act
15 21 (0.56%) IFRS
15 21 (0.56%) PSD2
16 20 (0.53%) GRC
17 17 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 16 (0.43%) PMO
19 15 (0.40%) SOC 2
System Software
1 123 (3.28%) Docker
2 54 (1.44%) Active Directory
3 33 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (0.24%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.11%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.053%) Firmware
8 2 (0.053%) vSphere
9 1 (0.027%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.027%) vCloud
9 1 (0.027%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 188 (5.01%) Terraform
2 134 (3.57%) Kubernetes
3 34 (0.91%) Ansible
4 27 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
5 25 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
6 23 (0.61%) Grafana
7 17 (0.45%) Prometheus
8 11 (0.29%) QRadar
8 11 (0.29%) SCCM
9 8 (0.21%) EnCase
9 8 (0.21%) FTK
10 7 (0.19%) Kibana
11 6 (0.16%) RSA Archer
11 6 (0.16%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 5 (0.13%) Argo
12 5 (0.13%) SCOM
13 3 (0.080%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.080%) ArcSight ESM
13 3 (0.080%) Control-M
14 1 (0.027%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 760 (20.26%) Microsoft
2 302 (8.05%) Google
3 254 (6.77%) Databricks
4 244 (6.50%) SAP
5 213 (5.68%) Salesforce
6 138 (3.68%) Oracle
7 133 (3.54%) Cisco
8 131 (3.49%) Adobe
9 68 (1.81%) HubSpot
10 56 (1.49%) Alteryx
11 41 (1.09%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 34 (0.91%) Bloomberg
12 34 (0.91%) Dell
12 34 (0.91%) ServiceNow
13 31 (0.83%) OpenAI
13 31 (0.83%) Talend
14 28 (0.75%) Informatica
15 27 (0.72%) YouTube
16 25 (0.67%) IBM
17 24 (0.64%) Palantir