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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 23 36
Rank change year-on-year -3 +13 -7
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 5,340 3,996 4,493
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.17% 8.07% 5.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.02% 9.02% 6.44%
Number of salaries quoted 3,178 1,821 2,677
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.57% -3.20% -3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £103,050 £112,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

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 76,038 44,320 69,725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.68% 89.51% 81.15%
Number of salaries quoted 52,466 25,228 46,329
10th Percentile £30,603 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.41%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 1 August 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 1 August 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 -3 4,803 £67,500 +8.00% 3,417
UK excluding London -9 2,786 £60,000 +9.09% 1,648
London +3 2,142 £80,000 +3.23% 2,148
Work from Home +4 1,626 £65,000 +8.33% 1,454
North of England +54 923 £60,000 +6.67% 435
Midlands +11 620 £60,000 +14.29% 232
North West +49 545 £60,000 +14.29% 252
South East -34 508 £55,000 - 497
West Midlands +2 351 £57,500 +4.55% 154
South West -30 287 £60,000 - 163
East Midlands +32 268 £60,000 +23.71% 78
Yorkshire +29 245 £62,500 - 136
East of England +16 225 £56,000 +24.44% 105
North East +25 133 £50,000 -3.85% 49
Scotland -21 106 £62,500 -10.71% 99
Wales -18 66 £60,000 +4.35% 86
Northern Ireland -38 58 £65,000 +50.84% 44

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
1 193 (3.61%) Apache Spark
2 141 (2.64%) Apache Airflow
3 121 (2.27%) CMS
4 109 (2.04%) Apache
5 69 (1.29%) SAS
6 62 (1.16%) Confluence
7 46 (0.86%) SharePoint
8 40 (0.75%) WordPress
9 33 (0.62%) ArcGIS
10 27 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
11 14 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
12 9 (0.17%) Headless CMS
12 9 (0.17%) Jupyter
13 6 (0.11%) Drupal
14 5 (0.094%) Oracle Application Server
14 5 (0.094%) Oracle Workflow
14 5 (0.094%) Umbraco
15 2 (0.037%) Luigi
15 2 (0.037%) NServiceBus
15 2 (0.037%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 252 (4.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (0.84%) UserZoom
3 42 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 41 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
5 34 (0.64%) Chatbot
6 24 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
6 24 (0.45%) SPSS
7 18 (0.34%) MS Visio
8 16 (0.30%) Adobe XD
9 12 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 6 (0.11%) Sketch
10 6 (0.11%) Trello
11 5 (0.094%) Microsoft Project
12 4 (0.075%) Photoshop
13 3 (0.056%) Adobe Premiere
13 3 (0.056%) InDesign
14 2 (0.037%) Adobe Illustrator
14 2 (0.037%) CapCut
15 1 (0.019%) PlantUML
15 1 (0.019%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 121 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 47 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
3 35 (0.66%) SAP IBP
4 34 (0.64%) Adobe Campaign
5 33 (0.62%) Dynamics GP
5 33 (0.62%) SAP PP
6 30 (0.56%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 22 (0.41%) Shopify
8 20 (0.37%) Magento
9 17 (0.32%) NetSuite
10 10 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
11 9 (0.17%) iTrent
12 8 (0.15%) Workday HCM
13 7 (0.13%) Relativity
13 7 (0.13%) SAP MDG
14 6 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
14 6 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
14 6 (0.11%) SAP PM
14 6 (0.11%) SAP Travel Management
15 5 (0.094%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 1,041 (19.49%) Azure
2 840 (15.73%) Power Platform
3 817 (15.30%) AWS
4 355 (6.65%) GCP
5 326 (6.10%) SaaS
6 268 (5.02%) Snowflake
7 215 (4.03%) Google Analytics
8 190 (3.56%) Azure Data Factory
9 185 (3.46%) Adobe Analytics
10 158 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
11 154 (2.88%) GitHub
12 149 (2.79%) Serverless
13 148 (2.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 137 (2.57%) dbt
15 121 (2.27%) Amazon S3
16 113 (2.12%) Figma
17 107 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
18 89 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
19 76 (1.42%) Microsoft Purview
20 74 (1.39%) Contentsquare
Communications & Networking
1 225 (4.21%) Broadband
2 56 (1.05%) Internet
2 56 (1.05%) VPN
3 51 (0.96%) Firewall
4 43 (0.81%) Network Security
5 42 (0.79%) DNS
6 27 (0.51%) BGP
7 24 (0.45%) TCP/IP
8 20 (0.37%) VLAN
9 18 (0.34%) OSPF
9 18 (0.34%) SMS
10 16 (0.30%) VoIP
11 15 (0.28%) DHCP
12 14 (0.26%) CTI
13 13 (0.24%) 5G
14 11 (0.21%) CHAP
14 11 (0.21%) Unified Communications
14 11 (0.21%) WAN
15 9 (0.17%) SSL
15 9 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 798 (14.94%) Power BI
2 436 (8.16%) Data Warehouse
3 330 (6.18%) Tableau
4 251 (4.70%) Data Lake
5 202 (3.78%) Metadata
6 172 (3.22%) SQL Server
7 141 (2.64%) Big Data
8 133 (2.49%) Looker
9 127 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
10 123 (2.30%) BigQuery
11 120 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
12 96 (1.80%) Relational Database
13 93 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
14 84 (1.57%) NoSQL
15 74 (1.39%) Power Query
16 73 (1.37%) Delta Lake
17 71 (1.33%) MongoDB
18 69 (1.29%) Star Schema
19 66 (1.24%) Data Mining
20 58 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 178 (3.33%) Git
2 77 (1.44%) JIRA
3 61 (1.14%) Jenkins
4 47 (0.88%) MLflow
5 38 (0.71%) GitLab
6 25 (0.47%) IBM UrbanCode
7 21 (0.39%) Crashlytics
8 14 (0.26%) Claude Code
8 14 (0.26%) XCTest
9 13 (0.24%) fastlane
10 12 (0.22%) CircleCI
11 10 (0.19%) ERwin
12 9 (0.17%) Balsamiq
12 9 (0.17%) Xcode
13 8 (0.15%) Axure RP
13 8 (0.15%) Gradle
14 6 (0.11%) Android Studio
14 6 (0.11%) Selenium
15 5 (0.094%) Bitbucket
15 5 (0.094%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,467 (27.47%) Finance
2 1,363 (25.52%) Social Skills
3 1,211 (22.68%) Analytical Skills
4 767 (14.36%) Marketing
5 363 (6.80%) Retail
6 351 (6.57%) Public Sector
7 291 (5.45%) Law
8 274 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 258 (4.83%) Legal
10 235 (4.40%) Banking
11 217 (4.06%) Games
12 175 (3.28%) Manufacturing
13 165 (3.09%) Influencing Skills
14 127 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
15 121 (2.27%) Automotive
16 117 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
17 96 (1.80%) Financial Institution
18 92 (1.72%) Advertising
19 61 (1.14%) Telecoms
20 50 (0.94%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,010 (18.91%) Senior
2 629 (11.78%) Analyst
3 618 (11.57%) Data Engineer
4 591 (11.07%) Lead
5 489 (9.16%) Architect
6 332 (6.22%) Developer
7 295 (5.52%) Data Analyst
8 237 (4.44%) Data Architect
9 235 (4.40%) Consultant
10 208 (3.90%) Senior Data Engineer
11 175 (3.28%) Data Scientist
12 169 (3.16%) Analytics Manager
13 161 (3.01%) Solutions Architect
14 152 (2.85%) Senior Manager
15 135 (2.53%) Product Manager
16 114 (2.13%) Data Manager
17 113 (2.12%) Senior Analyst
18 95 (1.78%) Senior Architect
19 88 (1.65%) Designer
20 82 (1.54%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (3.09%) PySpark
2 143 (2.68%) Kafka
3 99 (1.85%) HTML
4 97 (1.82%) CSS
5 90 (1.69%) .NET
6 70 (1.31%) PyTorch
6 70 (1.31%) REST
7 62 (1.16%) React
8 61 (1.14%) SAP Fiori
9 60 (1.12%) Node.js
10 57 (1.07%) Pandas
11 53 (0.99%) scikit-learn
12 48 (0.90%) .NET Core
13 46 (0.86%) LangChain
14 44 (0.82%) TensorFlow
15 39 (0.73%) RESTful
16 37 (0.69%) ASP.NET
16 37 (0.69%) JSON
17 36 (0.67%) AngularJS
17 36 (0.67%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 287 (5.37%) Cloud Native
2 277 (5.19%) Social Media
3 255 (4.78%) Onboarding
4 198 (3.71%) Product Ownership
5 180 (3.37%) Analytical Mindset
6 151 (2.83%) Management Information System
7 127 (2.38%) Marketing Technology
8 124 (2.32%) Greenfield Project
9 116 (2.17%) Data Structures
10 114 (2.13%) Blog
11 104 (1.95%) Algorithms
12 86 (1.61%) Mobile App
13 66 (1.24%) AI Agents
13 66 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
14 64 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
15 63 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
16 57 (1.07%) Life Science
17 56 (1.05%) Public Cloud
18 46 (0.86%) e-Learning
19 45 (0.84%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 88 (1.65%) Windows
2 79 (1.48%) Linux
3 30 (0.56%) VMS
4 24 (0.45%) Apple iOS
5 19 (0.36%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.17%) Android
7 7 (0.13%) Unix
8 5 (0.094%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.075%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.056%) Debian
11 2 (0.037%) AIX
11 2 (0.037%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.019%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.019%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.019%) SUSE
12 1 (0.019%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,849 (34.63%) AI
2 1,219 (22.83%) Decision-Making
3 1,145 (21.44%) Business Intelligence
4 957 (17.92%) Agile
5 884 (16.55%) Roadmaps
6 834 (15.62%) Continuous Improvement
7 825 (15.45%) Data Modelling
8 792 (14.83%) Problem-Solving
9 737 (13.80%) Data Analytics
10 732 (13.71%) Data Engineering
11 697 (13.05%) Machine Learning
12 647 (12.12%) Data Pipeline
13 622 (11.65%) CI/CD
14 584 (10.94%) Data Science
15 578 (10.82%) Data Governance
16 552 (10.34%) Mentoring
17 519 (9.72%) ETL
18 517 (9.68%) Customer Experience
19 502 (9.40%) Stakeholder Management
20 492 (9.21%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 1,394 (26.10%) SQL
2 1,197 (22.42%) Python
3 127 (2.38%) Java
4 126 (2.36%) C#
5 125 (2.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 108 (2.02%) PowerShell
7 107 (2.00%) JavaScript
8 87 (1.63%) R
9 84 (1.57%) TypeScript
10 71 (1.33%) Scala
11 60 (1.12%) Bicep
12 51 (0.96%) Bash
13 43 (0.81%) C++
14 40 (0.75%) Go
15 39 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
16 30 (0.56%) T-SQL
17 26 (0.49%) Kotlin
18 23 (0.43%) Swift
19 18 (0.34%) ABAP
19 18 (0.34%) Julia
Qualifications
1 618 (11.57%) Degree
2 356 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 232 (4.34%) SC Cleared
4 120 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 100 (1.87%) Azure Certification
6 89 (1.67%) Master's Degree
7 72 (1.35%) DV Cleared
7 72 (1.35%) IRCA
8 59 (1.10%) AWS Certification
9 53 (0.99%) ACCA
10 51 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
11 49 (0.92%) CISSP
12 48 (0.90%) DBS Check
13 47 (0.88%) CIMA
14 39 (0.73%) CISM
15 35 (0.66%) PhD
16 34 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
17 28 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
18 22 (0.41%) CISA
18 22 (0.41%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 706 (13.22%) Data Quality
2 405 (7.58%) Accessibility
3 329 (6.16%) GDPR
4 226 (4.23%) QA
5 99 (1.85%) WCAG
6 75 (1.40%) ISO 9001
7 40 (0.75%) NIST
8 39 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
9 38 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 35 (0.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 32 (0.60%) SLA
12 27 (0.51%) PCI DSS
13 21 (0.39%) PMO
14 19 (0.36%) IFRS
15 16 (0.30%) GRC
16 15 (0.28%) EU AI Act
16 15 (0.28%) HIPAA
17 14 (0.26%) COBIT
17 14 (0.26%) PERC
18 12 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 156 (2.92%) Docker
2 89 (1.67%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.30%) vSphere
5 14 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.11%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.075%) IAG
8 4 (0.075%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.056%) Firmware
10 1 (0.019%) Apache Flume
10 1 (0.019%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 248 (4.64%) Terraform
2 177 (3.31%) Kubernetes
3 45 (0.84%) Ansible
4 29 (0.54%) Prometheus
5 25 (0.47%) Grafana
6 16 (0.30%) EnCase
6 16 (0.30%) FTK
7 15 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (0.17%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (0.13%) Argo
11 6 (0.11%) Hadoop YARN
11 6 (0.11%) Nagios
11 6 (0.11%) VxRail
12 5 (0.094%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (0.094%) Graylog
12 5 (0.094%) Packer
13 4 (0.075%) Puppet
14 3 (0.056%) Docker Swarm
14 3 (0.056%) Kibana
Vendors
1 798 (14.94%) Microsoft
2 481 (9.01%) Databricks
3 383 (7.17%) Google
4 280 (5.24%) Adobe
5 269 (5.04%) SAP
6 141 (2.64%) Oracle
7 119 (2.23%) Salesforce
8 72 (1.35%) HubSpot
9 58 (1.09%) Informatica
10 49 (0.92%) Dell
10 49 (0.92%) Workday
11 43 (0.81%) Cisco
12 40 (0.75%) IBM
13 34 (0.64%) Alteryx
14 30 (0.56%) Cognos
15 29 (0.54%) ServiceNow
15 29 (0.54%) VMware
16 27 (0.51%) Cloudera
16 27 (0.51%) Teradata
17 26 (0.49%) OpenAI