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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 23 37
Rank change year-on-year -4 +14 -9
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 5,233 3,982 4,563
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.15% 8.07% 5.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.99% 9.00% 6.44%
Number of salaries quoted 3,110 1,810 2,718
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,725 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £46,000
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 £87,500
90th Percentile £103,875 £112,500 £110,375
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 74,889 44,229 70,800
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.63% 89.64% 81.30%
Number of salaries quoted 51,640 25,065 47,390
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
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 29 July 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 29 July 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 4,706 £67,500 +8.00% 2,473
UK excluding London -9 2,736 £60,000 +9.09% 1,274
London +3 2,089 £80,000 +3.23% 1,537
Work from Home +4 1,595 £66,722 +11.20% 991
North of England +49 908 £60,000 +6.19% 333
Midlands +14 614 £60,000 +14.29% 181
North West +49 536 £60,000 +14.29% 182
South East -35 495 £55,000 - 435
West Midlands +5 349 £60,000 +10.65% 122
South West -31 278 £60,000 - 147
East Midlands +31 264 £60,000 +23.71% 59
Yorkshire +27 243 £62,500 - 104
East of England +12 226 £58,000 +26.30% 63
North East +27 129 £50,000 -3.85% 49
Scotland -19 103 £61,250 -12.50% 67
Wales -17 60 £61,750 +7.39% 37
Northern Ireland -33 59 £65,000 +50.84% 24

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
1 183 (3.50%) Apache Spark
2 137 (2.62%) Apache Airflow
3 119 (2.27%) CMS
4 103 (1.97%) Apache
5 68 (1.30%) SAS
6 60 (1.15%) Confluence
7 46 (0.88%) SharePoint
8 40 (0.76%) WordPress
9 33 (0.63%) ArcGIS
10 27 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
11 14 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
12 9 (0.17%) Jupyter
13 8 (0.15%) Headless CMS
14 7 (0.13%) Drupal
15 5 (0.096%) Oracle Application Server
15 5 (0.096%) Oracle Workflow
15 5 (0.096%) Umbraco
16 3 (0.057%) Sitecore CMS
17 2 (0.038%) Apache Pulsar
17 2 (0.038%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 248 (4.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (0.84%) UserZoom
3 42 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
4 40 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 33 (0.63%) Chatbot
6 24 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
7 23 (0.44%) SPSS
8 18 (0.34%) MS Visio
9 16 (0.31%) Adobe XD
10 12 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 6 (0.11%) Sketch
11 6 (0.11%) Trello
12 5 (0.096%) Microsoft Project
13 4 (0.076%) Photoshop
14 3 (0.057%) Adobe Premiere
14 3 (0.057%) InDesign
15 2 (0.038%) Adobe Illustrator
15 2 (0.038%) CapCut
16 1 (0.019%) PlantUML
16 1 (0.019%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 121 (2.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 46 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
3 35 (0.67%) SAP IBP
4 34 (0.65%) Adobe Campaign
5 33 (0.63%) Dynamics GP
5 33 (0.63%) SAP PP
6 30 (0.57%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 20 (0.38%) Magento
8 19 (0.36%) Shopify
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%) SAP PM
14 6 (0.11%) SAP Travel Management
15 5 (0.096%) SAP PS
15 5 (0.096%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 1,026 (19.61%) Azure
2 820 (15.67%) Power Platform
3 791 (15.12%) AWS
4 346 (6.61%) GCP
5 323 (6.17%) SaaS
6 255 (4.87%) Snowflake
7 210 (4.01%) Google Analytics
8 188 (3.59%) Azure Data Factory
9 185 (3.54%) Adobe Analytics
10 154 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
11 150 (2.87%) GitHub
12 146 (2.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 144 (2.75%) Serverless
14 134 (2.56%) dbt
15 117 (2.24%) Amazon S3
16 112 (2.14%) Figma
17 107 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
18 89 (1.70%) Microsoft 365
19 75 (1.43%) Contentsquare
19 75 (1.43%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 225 (4.30%) Broadband
2 56 (1.07%) Internet
3 55 (1.05%) VPN
4 50 (0.96%) Firewall
5 42 (0.80%) DNS
6 41 (0.78%) Network Security
7 27 (0.52%) BGP
8 24 (0.46%) TCP/IP
9 20 (0.38%) VLAN
10 18 (0.34%) OSPF
11 17 (0.32%) SMS
12 16 (0.31%) VoIP
13 15 (0.29%) DHCP
14 14 (0.27%) CTI
15 12 (0.23%) 5G
16 11 (0.21%) CHAP
16 11 (0.21%) Unified Communications
16 11 (0.21%) WAN
17 9 (0.17%) SSL
17 9 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 778 (14.87%) Power BI
2 424 (8.10%) Data Warehouse
3 322 (6.15%) Tableau
4 244 (4.66%) Data Lake
5 199 (3.80%) Metadata
6 170 (3.25%) SQL Server
7 137 (2.62%) Big Data
8 130 (2.48%) Looker
9 124 (2.37%) Amazon Redshift
10 117 (2.24%) Azure SQL Database
10 117 (2.24%) BigQuery
11 95 (1.82%) Relational Database
12 91 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
13 83 (1.59%) NoSQL
14 73 (1.39%) Power Query
15 72 (1.38%) MongoDB
16 71 (1.36%) Delta Lake
17 69 (1.32%) Star Schema
18 62 (1.18%) Data Mining
19 57 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 175 (3.34%) Git
2 75 (1.43%) JIRA
3 59 (1.13%) Jenkins
4 47 (0.90%) MLflow
5 37 (0.71%) GitLab
6 25 (0.48%) IBM UrbanCode
7 21 (0.40%) Crashlytics
8 14 (0.27%) Claude Code
8 14 (0.27%) XCTest
9 13 (0.25%) fastlane
10 12 (0.23%) 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 (0.096%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 5 (0.096%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,430 (27.33%) Finance
2 1,324 (25.30%) Social Skills
3 1,176 (22.47%) Analytical Skills
4 736 (14.06%) Marketing
5 350 (6.69%) Retail
6 339 (6.48%) Public Sector
7 280 (5.35%) Law
8 267 (5.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 251 (4.80%) Legal
10 232 (4.43%) Banking
11 218 (4.17%) Games
12 173 (3.31%) Manufacturing
13 158 (3.02%) Influencing Skills
14 122 (2.33%) Automotive
15 121 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
16 108 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
17 93 (1.78%) Advertising
17 93 (1.78%) Financial Institution
18 60 (1.15%) Telecoms
19 50 (0.96%) Military
Job Titles
1 992 (18.96%) Senior
2 620 (11.85%) Analyst
3 600 (11.47%) Data Engineer
4 576 (11.01%) Lead
5 485 (9.27%) Architect
6 327 (6.25%) Developer
7 294 (5.62%) Data Analyst
8 236 (4.51%) Data Architect
9 232 (4.43%) Consultant
10 201 (3.84%) Senior Data Engineer
11 170 (3.25%) Data Scientist
12 162 (3.10%) Solutions Architect
13 161 (3.08%) Analytics Manager
14 146 (2.79%) Senior Manager
15 133 (2.54%) Product Manager
16 112 (2.14%) Senior Analyst
17 110 (2.10%) Data Manager
18 95 (1.82%) Senior Architect
19 89 (1.70%) Designer
20 81 (1.55%) Marketing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (3.13%) PySpark
2 139 (2.66%) Kafka
3 96 (1.83%) HTML
4 94 (1.80%) CSS
5 90 (1.72%) .NET
6 70 (1.34%) REST
7 69 (1.32%) PyTorch
8 61 (1.17%) SAP Fiori
9 60 (1.15%) Node.js
10 59 (1.13%) React
11 57 (1.09%) Pandas
12 52 (0.99%) scikit-learn
13 49 (0.94%) .NET Core
14 43 (0.82%) TensorFlow
15 42 (0.80%) LangChain
16 39 (0.75%) RESTful
17 37 (0.71%) ASP.NET
17 37 (0.71%) JSON
18 36 (0.69%) AngularJS
18 36 (0.69%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 285 (5.45%) Cloud Native
2 275 (5.26%) Social Media
3 245 (4.68%) Onboarding
4 197 (3.76%) Product Ownership
5 175 (3.34%) Analytical Mindset
6 147 (2.81%) Management Information System
7 122 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
8 121 (2.31%) Marketing Technology
9 113 (2.16%) Data Structures
10 112 (2.14%) Blog
11 101 (1.93%) Algorithms
12 87 (1.66%) Mobile App
13 67 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
14 64 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
15 63 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
16 61 (1.17%) AI Agents
17 57 (1.09%) Public Cloud
18 56 (1.07%) Life Science
19 46 (0.88%) e-Learning
20 45 (0.86%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 87 (1.66%) Windows
2 77 (1.47%) Linux
3 32 (0.61%) VMS
4 23 (0.44%) Apple iOS
5 18 (0.34%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.15%) Android
7 7 (0.13%) Unix
8 5 (0.096%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.076%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.038%) AIX
10 2 (0.038%) Debian
10 2 (0.038%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.019%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,793 (34.26%) AI
2 1,188 (22.70%) Decision-Making
3 1,115 (21.31%) Business Intelligence
4 939 (17.94%) Agile
5 870 (16.63%) Roadmaps
6 816 (15.59%) Continuous Improvement
7 815 (15.57%) Data Modelling
8 775 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
9 725 (13.85%) Data Analytics
10 713 (13.63%) Data Engineering
11 669 (12.78%) Machine Learning
12 634 (12.12%) Data Pipeline
13 612 (11.70%) CI/CD
14 569 (10.87%) Data Governance
15 556 (10.62%) Data Science
16 535 (10.22%) Mentoring
17 509 (9.73%) ETL
18 506 (9.67%) Customer Experience
19 475 (9.08%) Stakeholder Management
20 468 (8.94%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 1,363 (26.05%) SQL
2 1,165 (22.26%) Python
3 127 (2.43%) C#
4 126 (2.41%) Java
5 124 (2.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 108 (2.06%) PowerShell
7 103 (1.97%) JavaScript
8 85 (1.62%) R
9 81 (1.55%) TypeScript
10 69 (1.32%) Scala
11 59 (1.13%) Bicep
12 49 (0.94%) Bash
13 42 (0.80%) C++
14 41 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
15 40 (0.76%) Go
16 30 (0.57%) T-SQL
17 25 (0.48%) Kotlin
18 22 (0.42%) Swift
19 18 (0.34%) ABAP
19 18 (0.34%) Julia
Qualifications
1 605 (11.56%) Degree
2 342 (6.54%) Security Cleared
3 224 (4.28%) SC Cleared
4 119 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 99 (1.89%) Azure Certification
6 88 (1.68%) Master's Degree
7 72 (1.38%) IRCA
8 66 (1.26%) DV Cleared
9 56 (1.07%) AWS Certification
10 53 (1.01%) ACCA
11 52 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
12 48 (0.92%) DBS Check
13 47 (0.90%) CIMA
14 46 (0.88%) CISSP
15 37 (0.71%) CISM
16 35 (0.67%) PhD
17 32 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
18 26 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
19 22 (0.42%) CISA
19 22 (0.42%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 686 (13.11%) Data Quality
2 399 (7.62%) Accessibility
3 322 (6.15%) GDPR
4 223 (4.26%) QA
5 99 (1.89%) WCAG
6 75 (1.43%) ISO 9001
7 40 (0.76%) NIST
8 37 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 35 (0.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 34 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
11 33 (0.63%) SLA
12 26 (0.50%) PCI DSS
13 21 (0.40%) PMO
14 19 (0.36%) IFRS
15 15 (0.29%) EU AI Act
15 15 (0.29%) HIPAA
16 14 (0.27%) COBIT
16 14 (0.27%) GRC
17 13 (0.25%) PERC
18 12 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 153 (2.92%) Docker
2 90 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 21 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.29%) vSphere
5 14 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.11%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.076%) IAG
9 3 (0.057%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.038%) Firmware
11 1 (0.019%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 243 (4.64%) Terraform
2 175 (3.34%) Kubernetes
3 44 (0.84%) Ansible
4 29 (0.55%) Prometheus
5 24 (0.46%) Grafana
6 15 (0.29%) EnCase
6 15 (0.29%) FTK
6 15 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.15%) FortiGate
7 8 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.11%) Argo
8 6 (0.11%) Hadoop YARN
8 6 (0.11%) Nagios
9 5 (0.096%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.096%) Graylog
9 5 (0.096%) Packer
9 5 (0.096%) VxRail
10 3 (0.057%) Control-M
10 3 (0.057%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.057%) Kibana
Vendors
1 789 (15.08%) Microsoft
2 475 (9.08%) Databricks
3 370 (7.07%) Google
4 279 (5.33%) Adobe
5 265 (5.06%) SAP
6 139 (2.66%) Oracle
7 118 (2.25%) Salesforce
8 72 (1.38%) HubSpot
9 55 (1.05%) Informatica
10 49 (0.94%) Workday
11 48 (0.92%) Dell
12 42 (0.80%) Cisco
13 41 (0.78%) IBM
14 32 (0.61%) Alteryx
15 30 (0.57%) Cognos
16 29 (0.55%) ServiceNow
17 28 (0.54%) VMware
18 27 (0.52%) Cloudera
18 27 (0.52%) Teradata
19 25 (0.48%) Red Hat