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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 22 37
Rank change year-on-year -7 +15 -14
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 4,453 3,330 4,982
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.61% 8.15% 5.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.32% 8.76% 6.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,472 1,696 3,295
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £32,540
25th Percentile £44,460 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -7.88%
75th Percentile £85,500 £93,778 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year -3.51% +4.59% -0.91%

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 60,831 38,033 77,482
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.64% 93.07% 86.50%
Number of salaries quoted 37,418 22,319 57,741
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.26%

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 April 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 April 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 -10 3,867 £65,000 -7.14% 1,921
UK excluding London -16 2,273 £55,000 -3.51% 1,320
London +4 1,774 £80,000 -5.88% 896
Work from Home -4 1,395 £64,500 +6.19% 858
North of England -14 618 £55,000 - 331
South East -15 512 £55,000 -8.33% 433
Midlands -16 456 £52,500 - 212
North West -20 323 £60,000 +9.09% 192
West Midlands -17 281 £55,200 +0.36% 110
Yorkshire -1 225 £50,000 -9.09% 91
South West -25 202 £55,200 +5.14% 149
East of England +30 197 £51,500 -20.77% 103
Scotland -8 194 £65,000 -7.14% 53
East Midlands +2 172 £49,500 +3.13% 102
North East +18 70 £40,000 -27.27% 52
Northern Ireland -13 59 £45,000 +50.00% 17
Wales +1 38 £40,000 -27.27% 41

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
1 158 (3.55%) Apache Airflow
2 127 (2.85%) Apache Spark
3 108 (2.43%) CMS
4 78 (1.75%) Apache
5 67 (1.50%) Confluence
6 52 (1.17%) WordPress
7 44 (0.99%) SharePoint
8 37 (0.83%) SAS
9 34 (0.76%) ArcGIS
10 18 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
11 17 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
12 14 (0.31%) Drupal
13 9 (0.20%) Oracle Application Server
14 8 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 7 (0.16%) Umbraco
16 6 (0.13%) IIS
17 5 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
18 4 (0.090%) Appian
18 4 (0.090%) Documentum
19 3 (0.067%) Jupyter
Applications
1 418 (9.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 128 (2.87%) Microsoft Office
3 72 (1.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (0.70%) UserZoom
5 29 (0.65%) Adobe XD
6 18 (0.40%) MS Visio
7 17 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
8 16 (0.36%) InDesign
9 13 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 10 (0.22%) Photoshop
10 10 (0.22%) SPSS
11 8 (0.18%) Adobe Premiere
11 8 (0.18%) Chatbot
12 7 (0.16%) Trello
13 6 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
14 4 (0.090%) Adobe Illustrator
15 3 (0.067%) Final Cut Pro
15 3 (0.067%) Sketch
16 2 (0.045%) Notion
16 2 (0.045%) SketchUp
Business Applications
1 75 (1.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 34 (0.76%) SAP PP
4 33 (0.74%) SAP IBP
5 27 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
6 21 (0.47%) Adobe Campaign
6 21 (0.47%) Magento
7 19 (0.43%) Shopify
8 16 (0.36%) NetSuite
9 15 (0.34%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 15 (0.34%) iTrent
10 14 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
11 13 (0.29%) Oracle Assets
11 13 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
11 13 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
11 13 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
11 13 (0.29%) SAP CO
12 10 (0.22%) Dynamics GP
12 10 (0.22%) SAP ERP
13 9 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 983 (22.08%) Azure
2 713 (16.01%) Power Platform
3 531 (11.92%) AWS
4 263 (5.91%) GCP
5 260 (5.84%) SaaS
6 257 (5.77%) Snowflake
7 232 (5.21%) Azure Data Factory
8 196 (4.40%) Google Analytics
9 186 (4.18%) Adobe Analytics
10 185 (4.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 162 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
12 157 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
13 150 (3.37%) GitHub
14 146 (3.28%) dbt
15 115 (2.58%) Figma
16 109 (2.45%) Amazon S3
17 99 (2.22%) Serverless
18 82 (1.84%) Entra ID
19 73 (1.64%) Azure Monitor
20 64 (1.44%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 221 (4.96%) Broadband
2 34 (0.76%) Firewall
3 33 (0.74%) VPN
4 25 (0.56%) CHAP
5 23 (0.52%) WAN
6 19 (0.43%) Network Security
7 17 (0.38%) DNS
8 16 (0.36%) Intranet
9 14 (0.31%) TCP/IP
10 13 (0.29%) Unified Communications
11 12 (0.27%) DHCP
12 6 (0.13%) HTTPS
13 5 (0.11%) SMS
13 5 (0.11%) SNMP
14 4 (0.090%) HTTP
14 4 (0.090%) Intrusion Detection
15 3 (0.067%) LAN
15 3 (0.067%) Modbus
16 2 (0.045%) Kerberos
16 2 (0.045%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 677 (15.20%) Power BI
2 430 (9.66%) Tableau
3 374 (8.40%) Data Warehouse
4 245 (5.50%) Data Lake
5 193 (4.33%) Metadata
6 192 (4.31%) Data Mining
7 157 (3.53%) SQL Server
8 131 (2.94%) Looker
9 114 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
10 101 (2.27%) BigQuery
11 95 (2.13%) Relational Database
12 88 (1.98%) Amazon Redshift
13 74 (1.66%) NoSQL
14 68 (1.53%) Big Data
15 66 (1.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 64 (1.44%) Power Query
17 58 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 56 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
19 51 (1.15%) Snowflake Schema
20 43 (0.97%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 156 (3.50%) Git
2 106 (2.38%) JIRA
3 68 (1.53%) Jenkins
4 40 (0.90%) MLflow
5 32 (0.72%) GitLab
6 25 (0.56%) IBM UrbanCode
7 24 (0.54%) Axure RP
7 24 (0.54%) Balsamiq
8 23 (0.52%) TeamCity
9 20 (0.45%) Visual Studio
10 19 (0.43%) Oracle Forms
11 16 (0.36%) ERwin
12 12 (0.27%) CircleCI
12 12 (0.27%) Crashlytics
12 12 (0.27%) Selenium
13 10 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 9 (0.20%) PowerDesigner
14 9 (0.20%) XCTest
15 8 (0.18%) Cypress.io
16 5 (0.11%) MSI
General
1 1,385 (31.10%) Finance
2 1,248 (28.03%) Social Skills
3 1,148 (25.78%) Analytical Skills
4 683 (15.34%) Marketing
5 295 (6.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 256 (5.75%) Banking
7 247 (5.55%) Public Sector
8 234 (5.25%) Retail
9 205 (4.60%) Law
10 196 (4.40%) Games
11 166 (3.73%) Manufacturing
12 165 (3.71%) Legal
13 116 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
14 110 (2.47%) Financial Institution
15 104 (2.34%) Automotive
16 101 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
17 97 (2.18%) Organisational Skills
18 96 (2.16%) Advertising
19 74 (1.66%) Pharmaceutical
20 68 (1.53%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 740 (16.62%) Senior
2 658 (14.78%) Analyst
3 504 (11.32%) Lead
4 446 (10.02%) Data Engineer
5 372 (8.35%) Data Analyst
6 324 (7.28%) Architect
7 238 (5.34%) Developer
8 168 (3.77%) Trainee
8 168 (3.77%) Trainee Analyst
8 168 (3.77%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 166 (3.73%) Consultant
10 149 (3.35%) Data Architect
11 140 (3.14%) Senior Manager
12 115 (2.58%) Designer
13 99 (2.22%) Data Manager
13 99 (2.22%) Senior Data Engineer
14 98 (2.20%) Solutions Architect
15 90 (2.02%) Data Scientist
16 86 (1.93%) Support Engineer
17 84 (1.89%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (2.69%) Kafka
2 119 (2.67%) PySpark
3 104 (2.34%) HTML
4 96 (2.16%) CSS
5 93 (2.09%) PyTorch
6 69 (1.55%) TensorFlow
7 67 (1.50%) .NET
8 59 (1.32%) React
9 50 (1.12%) OAuth
10 49 (1.10%) RESTful
10 49 (1.10%) SAP Fiori
11 48 (1.08%) LangChain
12 46 (1.03%) JSON
13 45 (1.01%) scikit-learn
14 42 (0.94%) REST
15 37 (0.83%) Node.js
16 36 (0.81%) .NET Core
16 36 (0.81%) Pandas
17 26 (0.58%) FIX Protocol
17 26 (0.58%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 303 (6.80%) Social Media
2 204 (4.58%) Cloud Native
3 190 (4.27%) Product Ownership
4 172 (3.86%) Analytical Mindset
5 160 (3.59%) Self-Motivation
6 152 (3.41%) Management Information System
7 131 (2.94%) Onboarding
8 108 (2.43%) Life Science
9 105 (2.36%) Algorithms
10 81 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
11 77 (1.73%) Data Structures
12 66 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
13 61 (1.37%) Mobile App
14 50 (1.12%) Marketing Technology
15 48 (1.08%) Public Cloud
16 47 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
16 47 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
17 45 (1.01%) Over-the-Top Content
18 44 (0.99%) Virtual Team
19 40 (0.90%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 108 (2.43%) Windows
2 60 (1.35%) Windows 10
3 42 (0.94%) Linux
4 26 (0.58%) VMS
5 23 (0.52%) Unix
6 21 (0.47%) Apple iOS
7 15 (0.34%) Windows Server
8 13 (0.29%) Android
9 2 (0.045%) AIX
9 2 (0.045%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.022%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,299 (29.17%) AI
2 969 (21.76%) Business Intelligence
3 951 (21.36%) Decision-Making
4 888 (19.94%) Agile
5 769 (17.27%) Data Analytics
6 733 (16.46%) Continuous Improvement
7 721 (16.19%) Problem-Solving
8 711 (15.97%) Data Modelling
9 591 (13.27%) Roadmaps
10 578 (12.98%) Data Engineering
11 550 (12.35%) Data Governance
12 522 (11.72%) Data Science
13 520 (11.68%) Data Pipeline
14 513 (11.52%) Customer Experience
15 511 (11.48%) Data Analysis
16 510 (11.45%) Machine Learning
17 489 (10.98%) ETL
18 482 (10.82%) CI/CD
19 453 (10.17%) Project Management
20 414 (9.30%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1,173 (26.34%) SQL
2 1,056 (23.71%) Python
3 114 (2.56%) JavaScript
4 110 (2.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 96 (2.16%) C#
5 96 (2.16%) Java
6 79 (1.77%) Scala
7 72 (1.62%) R
8 55 (1.24%) PowerShell
9 46 (1.03%) T-SQL
10 44 (0.99%) TypeScript
11 39 (0.88%) Bicep
12 37 (0.83%) C++
13 36 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
14 34 (0.76%) Go
15 18 (0.40%) Bash
16 16 (0.36%) PL/SQL
17 15 (0.34%) VBA
18 14 (0.31%) Shell Script
19 12 (0.27%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 718 (16.12%) Degree
2 257 (5.77%) Security Cleared
3 180 (4.04%) SC Cleared
4 149 (3.35%) Master's Degree
5 129 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 72 (1.62%) IRCA
7 60 (1.35%) CTC Cleared
8 55 (1.24%) Azure Certification
9 53 (1.19%) CISSP
10 52 (1.17%) PhD
11 50 (1.12%) DBS Check
12 48 (1.08%) ACCA
13 47 (1.06%) CISA
14 46 (1.03%) CISM
15 40 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
16 39 (0.88%) Numerate Degree
17 37 (0.83%) CIMA
18 33 (0.74%) AWS Certification
18 33 (0.74%) DV Cleared
19 31 (0.70%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 580 (13.02%) Data Quality
2 375 (8.42%) Accessibility
3 362 (8.13%) GDPR
4 169 (3.80%) QA
5 90 (2.02%) WCAG
6 83 (1.86%) ISO 9001
7 80 (1.80%) SLA
8 64 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 51 (1.15%) NIST
10 47 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
11 38 (0.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 34 (0.76%) HIPAA
13 30 (0.67%) COBIT
13 30 (0.67%) IFRS
14 29 (0.65%) Solvency II
15 28 (0.63%) EU AI Act
16 24 (0.54%) GxP
17 22 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 21 (0.47%) PSD2
19 18 (0.40%) SOC 2
System Software
1 140 (3.14%) Docker
2 60 (1.35%) Active Directory
3 24 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.16%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.090%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.090%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.045%) Firmware
7 2 (0.045%) vSphere
8 1 (0.022%) Apache Flume
8 1 (0.022%) IAG
8 1 (0.022%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.022%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 192 (4.31%) Terraform
2 166 (3.73%) Kubernetes
3 45 (1.01%) Ansible
4 25 (0.56%) Grafana
4 25 (0.56%) Prometheus
5 18 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
6 13 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (0.16%) EnCase
7 7 (0.16%) FTK
7 7 (0.16%) Kibana
8 5 (0.11%) Argo
8 5 (0.11%) QRadar
9 4 (0.090%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.067%) ArcSight ESM
10 3 (0.067%) Control-M
10 3 (0.067%) RSA Archer
10 3 (0.067%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 3 (0.067%) VxRail
11 2 (0.045%) SCCM
11 2 (0.045%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 867 (19.47%) Microsoft
2 358 (8.04%) Databricks
3 333 (7.48%) Google
4 288 (6.47%) Adobe
5 185 (4.15%) SAP
6 161 (3.62%) Salesforce
7 139 (3.12%) Cisco
7 139 (3.12%) Oracle
8 61 (1.37%) Dell
9 60 (1.35%) HubSpot
10 55 (1.24%) Informatica
11 53 (1.19%) Alteryx
12 32 (0.72%) Bloomberg
13 29 (0.65%) Talend
14 28 (0.63%) IBM
14 28 (0.63%) Nexthink
14 28 (0.63%) Red Hat
14 28 (0.63%) ServiceNow
15 27 (0.61%) OpenAI
15 27 (0.61%) Palantir