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

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 33 29
Rank change year-on-year +9 -4 -8
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 3,720 3,586 3,966
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 7.06% 5.29% 7.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.20% 6.36% 7.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,876 1,903 2,883
10th Percentile £34,500 £40,600 £37,000
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% -1.37%
75th Percentile £86,250 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £113,750 £118,750 £114,152
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,500 £57,000 £55,148
% change year-on-year -11.40% +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 45,350 56,347 49,907
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.07% 83.11% 93.80%
Number of salaries quoted 27,263 29,385 38,254
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,112 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,750 £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 £79,600 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,714 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.18% +4.22% -

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 16 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 16 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 3,166 £62,500 -10.71% 3,739
UK excluding London +19 1,929 £50,500 -11.40% 1,873
London +5 1,485 £75,000 -11.76% 2,145
Work from Home +7 1,120 £60,000 -14.29% 1,759
South East +29 603 £50,000 -13.04% 656
North of England -16 351 £55,000 - 410
Midlands +29 307 £53,450 -2.82% 310
Scotland +7 256 £50,000 -20.00% 101
South West +26 216 £55,200 -11.68% 168
North West -15 197 £52,500 -4.55% 258
West Midlands +12 181 £57,750 +0.43% 182
East of England +42 150 £39,000 -35.00% 158
East Midlands +54 130 £45,000 -10.00% 124
Yorkshire -5 123 £63,750 +11.88% 111
North East +20 32 £46,750 -7.43% 43
Northern Ireland -2 30 £51,546 +8.52% 45
Wales +19 24 £55,062 +1.97% 46
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
1 114 (3.06%) CMS
2 101 (2.72%) Apache Spark
3 66 (1.77%) WordPress
4 52 (1.40%) Confluence
5 47 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
6 41 (1.10%) SharePoint
7 32 (0.86%) Apache
8 26 (0.70%) SAS
9 14 (0.38%) Drupal
9 14 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 11 (0.30%) Headless CMS
10 11 (0.30%) 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 5 (0.13%) ArcGIS
15 4 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
15 4 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
16 3 (0.081%) Joomla!
Applications
1 508 (13.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 94 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
3 59 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 38 (1.02%) Photoshop
5 30 (0.81%) Maya
6 26 (0.70%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 26 (0.70%) Adobe XD
7 18 (0.48%) Adobe Premiere
7 18 (0.48%) InDesign
7 18 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
8 17 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
9 15 (0.40%) Chatbot
10 13 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
11 11 (0.30%) 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 90 (2.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 59 (1.59%) Shopify
3 56 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
4 33 (0.89%) 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 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
9 11 (0.30%) 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%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 972 (26.13%) Azure
2 784 (21.08%) Power Platform
3 457 (12.28%) AWS
4 289 (7.77%) Google Analytics
5 251 (6.75%) GCP
6 215 (5.78%) SaaS
7 190 (5.11%) Snowflake
8 168 (4.52%) Azure Data Factory
9 149 (4.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 127 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
11 113 (3.04%) GitHub
12 109 (2.93%) Microsoft 365
13 94 (2.53%) Google Ads
14 92 (2.47%) dbt
15 88 (2.37%) Serverless
16 65 (1.75%) Figma
17 63 (1.69%) Entra ID
18 62 (1.67%) Azure Monitor
19 55 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
20 49 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 35 (0.94%) SMS
2 29 (0.78%) VPN
3 27 (0.73%) Unified Communications
4 24 (0.65%) Firewall
5 14 (0.38%) Network Security
6 11 (0.30%) DNS
7 8 (0.22%) Broadband
7 8 (0.22%) WAN
8 6 (0.16%) Intrusion Detection
9 5 (0.13%) Intranet
10 4 (0.11%) CHAP
10 4 (0.11%) Internet
10 4 (0.11%) SAN
10 4 (0.11%) VoIP
10 4 (0.11%) Wireshark
11 3 (0.081%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.081%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.081%) TCP/IP
12 2 (0.054%) Kerberos
12 2 (0.054%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 753 (20.24%) Power BI
2 372 (10.00%) Tableau
3 346 (9.30%) Data Warehouse
4 269 (7.23%) Data Lake
5 155 (4.17%) SQL Server
6 153 (4.11%) Metadata
7 113 (3.04%) Data Mining
8 109 (2.93%) Big Data
9 97 (2.61%) SAP BW
10 95 (2.55%) Looker
11 93 (2.50%) NoSQL
12 77 (2.07%) Azure SQL Database
13 72 (1.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 68 (1.83%) BigQuery
15 64 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
16 63 (1.69%) Relational Database
17 56 (1.51%) PostgreSQL
18 53 (1.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 50 (1.34%) Power Query
20 45 (1.21%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 130 (3.49%) JIRA
2 79 (2.12%) Git
3 38 (1.02%) 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 14 (0.38%) GitLab
8 13 (0.35%) Selenium
9 11 (0.30%) Visual Studio
10 8 (0.22%) Maven
10 8 (0.22%) Postman
11 7 (0.19%) MLflow
11 7 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
12 6 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
13 5 (0.13%) RStudio
14 4 (0.11%) TestNG
14 4 (0.11%) WebDriver
General
1 1,388 (37.31%) Social Skills
2 1,351 (36.32%) Finance
3 1,197 (32.18%) Analytical Skills
4 818 (21.99%) Marketing
5 437 (11.75%) Law
6 293 (7.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 281 (7.55%) Retail
8 274 (7.37%) Banking
9 211 (5.67%) Public Sector
10 176 (4.73%) Manufacturing
11 163 (4.38%) Presentation Skills
12 150 (4.03%) Legal
13 111 (2.98%) Influencing Skills
14 109 (2.93%) Advertising
15 98 (2.63%) Financial Institution
16 92 (2.47%) Games
17 79 (2.12%) Front Office
18 77 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
19 75 (2.02%) Pharmaceutical
20 57 (1.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 624 (16.77%) Senior
2 566 (15.22%) Analyst
3 494 (13.28%) Lead
4 299 (8.04%) Architect
5 280 (7.53%) Data Analyst
6 261 (7.02%) Data Engineer
7 231 (6.21%) Developer
8 139 (3.74%) Senior Manager
9 116 (3.12%) Data Architect
10 109 (2.93%) Consultant
11 96 (2.58%) Innovation Manager
12 85 (2.28%) Solutions Architect
13 83 (2.23%) Software Engineer
14 76 (2.04%) Analytics Manager
15 74 (1.99%) Trainee
15 74 (1.99%) Trainee Analyst
15 74 (1.99%) Trainee Data Analyst
16 72 (1.94%) Data Manager
17 68 (1.83%) Data Scientist
18 67 (1.80%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (3.20%) HTML
2 94 (2.53%) CSS
3 93 (2.50%) Kafka
4 70 (1.88%) React
5 66 (1.77%) RESTful
6 62 (1.67%) PySpark
7 49 (1.32%) REST
8 45 (1.21%) OAuth
9 40 (1.08%) .NET
9 40 (1.08%) JSON
9 40 (1.08%) TensorFlow
10 39 (1.05%) PyTorch
11 36 (0.97%) Node.js
12 31 (0.83%) Pandas
13 30 (0.81%) OAuth2
14 29 (0.78%) AngularJS
15 28 (0.75%) Middleware
16 27 (0.73%) scikit-learn
17 26 (0.70%) GraphQL
18 25 (0.67%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 234 (6.29%) Analytical Mindset
2 182 (4.89%) Cloud Native
2 182 (4.89%) Product Ownership
3 180 (4.84%) Self-Motivation
4 172 (4.62%) Onboarding
5 166 (4.46%) Social Media
6 156 (4.19%) Management Information System
7 155 (4.17%) Algorithms
8 79 (2.12%) FMCG
9 73 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
10 70 (1.88%) Life Science
11 55 (1.48%) Data Structures
12 51 (1.37%) Data Centre
13 45 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
14 39 (1.05%) Credit Risk
15 38 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
15 38 (1.02%) Reinsurance
16 36 (0.97%) Equities
16 36 (0.97%) Fixed Income
16 36 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 67 (1.80%) Windows
2 42 (1.13%) Linux
3 24 (0.65%) Unix
4 18 (0.48%) Windows 10
5 7 (0.19%) Android
5 7 (0.19%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.19%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.11%) VMS
7 2 (0.054%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.027%) AIX
8 1 (0.027%) Debian
8 1 (0.027%) Robot Operating System
8 1 (0.027%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.027%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,024 (27.53%) AI
2 1,001 (26.91%) Business Intelligence
3 916 (24.62%) Problem-Solving
4 884 (23.76%) Decision-Making
5 780 (20.97%) Agile
6 769 (20.67%) Data Analytics
7 683 (18.36%) Continuous Improvement
8 571 (15.35%) Data Modelling
9 532 (14.30%) Machine Learning
10 518 (13.92%) Roadmaps
11 517 (13.90%) Stakeholder Management
12 509 (13.68%) Data Science
13 450 (12.10%) Visualisation
14 445 (11.96%) Data Analysis
15 437 (11.75%) Data Governance
16 436 (11.72%) Project Management
17 419 (11.26%) Actionable Insight
18 409 (10.99%) Data Engineering
19 392 (10.54%) ETL
20 386 (10.38%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 997 (26.80%) SQL
2 895 (24.06%) Python
3 160 (4.30%) Java
4 133 (3.58%) JavaScript
5 83 (2.23%) PowerShell
6 80 (2.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 76 (2.04%) R
8 53 (1.42%) C#
9 47 (1.26%) T-SQL
10 42 (1.13%) TypeScript
11 40 (1.08%) C++
11 40 (1.08%) Scala
12 35 (0.94%) Go
13 33 (0.89%) Bicep
14 31 (0.83%) Bash
15 28 (0.75%) PL/SQL
16 22 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
17 18 (0.48%) VBA
18 17 (0.46%) Shell Script
19 16 (0.43%) PHP
Qualifications
1 871 (23.41%) Degree
2 209 (5.62%) Master's Degree
3 169 (4.54%) Security Cleared
4 123 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 119 (3.20%) SC Cleared
6 107 (2.88%) DBS Check
7 95 (2.55%) PhD
8 64 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
9 57 (1.53%) Azure Certification
10 56 (1.51%) CISSP
11 48 (1.29%) Numerate Degree
12 45 (1.21%) CISA
12 45 (1.21%) PMI Certification
13 40 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
14 39 (1.05%) PMP
15 37 (0.99%) ACCA
15 37 (0.99%) AWS Certification
16 33 (0.89%) CISM
17 29 (0.78%) CIMA
18 24 (0.65%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 421 (11.32%) Data Quality
2 253 (6.80%) GDPR
3 195 (5.24%) Accessibility
4 92 (2.47%) QA
5 76 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 43 (1.16%) NIST
7 41 (1.10%) WCAG
8 35 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
9 31 (0.83%) GxP
10 28 (0.75%) SLA
11 24 (0.65%) HIPAA
11 24 (0.65%) Solvency II
12 23 (0.62%) COBIT
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 (0.38%) GRC
System Software
1 86 (2.31%) Docker
2 38 (1.02%) Active Directory
3 21 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (0.24%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.081%) Firmware
8 1 (0.027%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.027%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.027%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 149 (4.01%) Terraform
2 130 (3.49%) Kubernetes
3 25 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
4 22 (0.59%) Ansible
4 22 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (0.32%) QRadar
6 10 (0.27%) Grafana
6 10 (0.27%) SCCM
7 9 (0.24%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.22%) 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 3 (0.081%) ArcSight ESM
11 3 (0.081%) Argo
12 2 (0.054%) Failover Clustering
13 1 (0.027%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 1 (0.027%) Computer Incident Response Team
13 1 (0.027%) Kibana
Vendors
1 653 (17.55%) Microsoft
2 484 (13.01%) Google
3 266 (7.15%) Databricks
4 255 (6.85%) SAP
5 186 (5.00%) Salesforce
6 160 (4.30%) Oracle
7 139 (3.74%) Adobe
8 74 (1.99%) HubSpot
9 54 (1.45%) Alteryx
10 51 (1.37%) Cisco
11 42 (1.13%) ServiceNow
12 39 (1.05%) OpenAI
13 38 (1.02%) Facebook
13 38 (1.02%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 37 (0.99%) Dell
15 33 (0.89%) Bloomberg
16 32 (0.86%) Ahrefs
16 32 (0.86%) Screaming Frog
17 27 (0.73%) Informatica
18 25 (0.67%) Splunk