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

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 20 39
Rank change year-on-year -12 +19 -16
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 4,619 3,558 5,210
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.17% 8.45% 5.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.90% 9.10% 6.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2,581 1,774 3,333
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,750 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £80,435
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -3.51% +5.56% -1.82%

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 66,909 39,106 81,845
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.92% 92.82% 85.67%
Number of salaries quoted 41,448 22,678 59,603
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 27 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 27 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 -14 4,040 £65,000 -2.06% 1,961
UK excluding London -20 2,438 £55,000 -3.51% 1,264
London +2 1,787 £80,000 -5.88% 1,021
Work from Home -3 1,421 £65,000 +8.33% 1,284
North of England 0 732 £60,000 +9.09% 333
South East -20 513 £55,000 -8.33% 400
Midlands -20 477 £51,000 -2.86% 218
North West +5 401 £60,000 +9.09% 228
West Midlands -23 278 £52,000 -5.45% 134
Yorkshire -9 255 £52,500 -6.25% 69
South West -27 224 £60,000 +9.09% 129
East of England +15 212 £55,000 -15.38% 95
East Midlands +3 195 £50,000 +3.09% 84
Scotland -9 189 £65,000 -7.14% 59
North East -2 76 £42,500 -22.73% 40
Northern Ireland -16 55 £45,000 +50.00% 26
Wales -6 38 £40,000 -20.00% 29

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
1 159 (3.44%) Apache Airflow
2 131 (2.84%) Apache Spark
3 119 (2.58%) CMS
4 79 (1.71%) Apache
5 67 (1.45%) Confluence
6 54 (1.17%) WordPress
7 47 (1.02%) SharePoint
8 35 (0.76%) ArcGIS
9 31 (0.67%) SAS
10 20 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
11 16 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
12 12 (0.26%) Drupal
13 9 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
14 8 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 6 (0.13%) IIS
16 4 (0.087%) Appian
16 4 (0.087%) Documentum
16 4 (0.087%) Umbraco
17 3 (0.065%) Headless CMS
17 3 (0.065%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 370 (8.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 114 (2.47%) Microsoft Office
3 60 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (0.67%) UserZoom
5 27 (0.58%) Adobe XD
6 19 (0.41%) MS Visio
7 15 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
8 12 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 10 (0.22%) Chatbot
9 10 (0.22%) SPSS
10 6 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
11 4 (0.087%) Adobe Illustrator
11 4 (0.087%) InDesign
11 4 (0.087%) Photoshop
11 4 (0.087%) Trello
12 2 (0.043%) Maya
12 2 (0.043%) Notion
12 2 (0.043%) Sketch
13 1 (0.022%) Oracle Smart View
13 1 (0.022%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 84 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 33 (0.71%) SAP IBP
2 33 (0.71%) SAP PP
3 28 (0.61%) Adobe Campaign
3 28 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
4 26 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
5 22 (0.48%) Magento
6 17 (0.37%) Shopify
7 16 (0.35%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 16 (0.35%) NetSuite
8 15 (0.32%) iTrent
9 13 (0.28%) SAP CO
10 12 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
10 12 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
11 11 (0.24%) Oracle Assets
11 11 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
11 11 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
12 10 (0.22%) SAP ERP
13 9 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
14 8 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 978 (21.17%) Azure
2 722 (15.63%) Power Platform
3 563 (12.19%) AWS
4 277 (6.00%) GCP
5 247 (5.35%) Snowflake
6 240 (5.20%) SaaS
7 223 (4.83%) Azure Data Factory
8 216 (4.68%) Google Analytics
9 201 (4.35%) Adobe Analytics
10 173 (3.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 156 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
11 156 (3.38%) Microsoft 365
12 149 (3.23%) GitHub
13 139 (3.01%) dbt
14 131 (2.84%) Figma
15 114 (2.47%) Amazon S3
16 110 (2.38%) Serverless
17 93 (2.01%) Entra ID
18 73 (1.58%) Azure Monitor
19 70 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 251 (5.43%) Broadband
2 40 (0.87%) Firewall
3 33 (0.71%) VPN
4 28 (0.61%) CHAP
5 25 (0.54%) DNS
6 23 (0.50%) WAN
7 20 (0.43%) Network Security
8 16 (0.35%) TCP/IP
9 15 (0.32%) DHCP
9 15 (0.32%) Intranet
10 10 (0.22%) Unified Communications
11 7 (0.15%) HTTP
12 5 (0.11%) Intrusion Detection
12 5 (0.11%) SMS
12 5 (0.11%) SNMP
12 5 (0.11%) SSL
12 5 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (0.087%) BGP
13 4 (0.087%) HTTPS
14 3 (0.065%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 689 (14.92%) Power BI
2 363 (7.86%) Tableau
3 339 (7.34%) Data Warehouse
4 237 (5.13%) Data Lake
5 192 (4.16%) Metadata
6 158 (3.42%) Data Mining
7 156 (3.38%) SQL Server
8 126 (2.73%) Looker
9 104 (2.25%) BigQuery
10 103 (2.23%) Relational Database
11 98 (2.12%) Azure SQL Database
12 95 (2.06%) Amazon Redshift
13 77 (1.67%) NoSQL
14 66 (1.43%) Big Data
15 64 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
16 62 (1.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 56 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 55 (1.19%) Power Query
19 45 (0.97%) Snowflake Schema
20 44 (0.95%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 166 (3.59%) Git
2 96 (2.08%) JIRA
3 73 (1.58%) Jenkins
4 43 (0.93%) MLflow
5 35 (0.76%) GitLab
6 25 (0.54%) IBM UrbanCode
7 23 (0.50%) TeamCity
8 22 (0.48%) Axure RP
8 22 (0.48%) Balsamiq
9 18 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
10 14 (0.30%) CircleCI
10 14 (0.30%) Crashlytics
11 13 (0.28%) Visual Studio
12 12 (0.26%) Selenium
13 11 (0.24%) XCTest
14 10 (0.22%) ERwin
14 10 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 7 (0.15%) Claude Code
16 5 (0.11%) Cypress.io
16 5 (0.11%) MSI
General
1 1,349 (29.21%) Finance
2 1,226 (26.54%) Social Skills
3 1,117 (24.18%) Analytical Skills
4 674 (14.59%) Marketing
5 275 (5.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 260 (5.63%) Retail
7 230 (4.98%) Banking
8 222 (4.81%) Public Sector
9 218 (4.72%) Games
10 209 (4.52%) Law
11 159 (3.44%) Legal
12 158 (3.42%) Manufacturing
13 121 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
14 118 (2.55%) Automotive
15 103 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
15 103 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
16 100 (2.16%) Advertising
17 97 (2.10%) Financial Institution
18 70 (1.52%) Back Office
19 65 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 772 (16.71%) Senior
2 636 (13.77%) Analyst
3 533 (11.54%) Lead
4 486 (10.52%) Data Engineer
5 340 (7.36%) Architect
6 331 (7.17%) Data Analyst
7 248 (5.37%) Developer
8 170 (3.68%) Consultant
9 159 (3.44%) Data Architect
10 143 (3.10%) Trainee
10 143 (3.10%) Trainee Analyst
10 143 (3.10%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 133 (2.88%) Senior Manager
12 116 (2.51%) Designer
13 112 (2.42%) Senior Data Engineer
14 106 (2.29%) Data Manager
15 102 (2.21%) Data Scientist
16 100 (2.16%) Solutions Architect
17 98 (2.12%) Product Manager
18 90 (1.95%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (2.79%) PySpark
2 124 (2.68%) Kafka
3 98 (2.12%) HTML
4 96 (2.08%) PyTorch
5 90 (1.95%) CSS
6 74 (1.60%) .NET
7 69 (1.49%) TensorFlow
8 53 (1.15%) React
9 51 (1.10%) SAP Fiori
10 49 (1.06%) OAuth
10 49 (1.06%) RESTful
11 48 (1.04%) LangChain
11 48 (1.04%) scikit-learn
12 46 (1.00%) Pandas
13 42 (0.91%) REST
14 41 (0.89%) JSON
15 37 (0.80%) .NET Core
16 35 (0.76%) Node.js
17 25 (0.54%) OAuth2
18 24 (0.52%) LlamaIndex
Miscellaneous
1 290 (6.28%) Social Media
2 212 (4.59%) Cloud Native
3 183 (3.96%) Product Ownership
4 171 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
5 157 (3.40%) Management Information System
6 128 (2.77%) Self-Motivation
7 113 (2.45%) Onboarding
8 98 (2.12%) Life Science
9 95 (2.06%) Algorithms
10 90 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
11 79 (1.71%) Data Structures
12 71 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
13 68 (1.47%) Marketing Technology
14 62 (1.34%) Mobile App
15 60 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
16 52 (1.13%) Over-the-Top Content
17 45 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
17 45 (0.97%) Public Cloud
17 45 (0.97%) Virtual Team
18 36 (0.78%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 112 (2.42%) Windows
2 60 (1.30%) Windows 10
3 49 (1.06%) Linux
4 25 (0.54%) VMS
5 23 (0.50%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.39%) Unix
7 17 (0.37%) Windows Server
8 13 (0.28%) Android
9 3 (0.065%) AIX
10 1 (0.022%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,323 (28.64%) AI
2 1,002 (21.69%) Decision-Making
3 974 (21.09%) Business Intelligence
4 902 (19.53%) Agile
5 764 (16.54%) Continuous Improvement
6 723 (15.65%) Problem-Solving
7 721 (15.61%) Data Modelling
8 720 (15.59%) Data Analytics
9 639 (13.83%) Roadmaps
10 615 (13.31%) Data Engineering
11 549 (11.89%) Data Pipeline
12 544 (11.78%) Customer Experience
13 529 (11.45%) Data Governance
14 514 (11.13%) Data Science
15 508 (11.00%) CI/CD
16 506 (10.95%) Machine Learning
17 497 (10.76%) ETL
18 475 (10.28%) Data Analysis
19 438 (9.48%) Actionable Insight
20 426 (9.22%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1,170 (25.33%) SQL
2 1,040 (22.52%) Python
3 117 (2.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 104 (2.25%) C#
5 98 (2.12%) JavaScript
6 97 (2.10%) Java
7 80 (1.73%) Scala
8 68 (1.47%) PowerShell
9 64 (1.39%) R
10 44 (0.95%) Bicep
11 43 (0.93%) TypeScript
12 41 (0.89%) T-SQL
13 36 (0.78%) C++
13 36 (0.78%) Go
13 36 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
14 22 (0.48%) Bash
15 15 (0.32%) Kotlin
15 15 (0.32%) PL/SQL
16 14 (0.30%) Shell Script
16 14 (0.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 662 (14.33%) Degree
2 273 (5.91%) Security Cleared
3 190 (4.11%) SC Cleared
4 135 (2.92%) Master's Degree
5 115 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 72 (1.56%) IRCA
7 64 (1.39%) Azure Certification
8 60 (1.30%) CTC Cleared
9 51 (1.10%) CISSP
10 49 (1.06%) ACCA
11 47 (1.02%) CISM
11 47 (1.02%) PhD
12 46 (1.00%) DBS Check
13 43 (0.93%) CISA
14 41 (0.89%) CIMA
15 34 (0.74%) DV Cleared
15 34 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
16 31 (0.67%) AWS Certification
17 30 (0.65%) SANS
18 29 (0.63%) CGEIT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 594 (12.86%) Data Quality
2 381 (8.25%) Accessibility
3 361 (7.82%) GDPR
4 171 (3.70%) QA
5 96 (2.08%) WCAG
6 83 (1.80%) SLA
7 76 (1.65%) ISO 9001
8 53 (1.15%) NIST
9 49 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 45 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
11 37 (0.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 34 (0.74%) COBIT
13 32 (0.69%) HIPAA
14 25 (0.54%) IFRS
14 25 (0.54%) Solvency II
15 24 (0.52%) EU AI Act
16 21 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 18 (0.39%) SOC 2
18 17 (0.37%) GxP
18 17 (0.37%) PSD2
System Software
1 152 (3.29%) Docker
2 73 (1.58%) Active Directory
3 26 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.15%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.11%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.065%) IAG
7 2 (0.043%) Firmware
7 2 (0.043%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.043%) vSphere
8 1 (0.022%) Apache Flume
8 1 (0.022%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.022%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 210 (4.55%) Terraform
2 175 (3.79%) Kubernetes
3 50 (1.08%) Ansible
4 27 (0.58%) Prometheus
5 26 (0.56%) Grafana
6 18 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (0.19%) EnCase
8 9 (0.19%) FTK
9 7 (0.15%) Kibana
10 6 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.11%) Argo
12 4 (0.087%) QRadar
13 3 (0.065%) ArcSight ESM
13 3 (0.065%) Control-M
13 3 (0.065%) Graylog
13 3 (0.065%) VxRail
14 2 (0.043%) Jamf Pro
14 2 (0.043%) SCCM
14 2 (0.043%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 823 (17.82%) Microsoft
2 377 (8.16%) Databricks
3 350 (7.58%) Google
4 296 (6.41%) Adobe
5 190 (4.11%) SAP
6 158 (3.42%) Salesforce
7 134 (2.90%) Oracle
8 129 (2.79%) Cisco
9 59 (1.28%) HubSpot
10 58 (1.26%) Dell
11 48 (1.04%) Informatica
12 37 (0.80%) Alteryx
13 29 (0.63%) OpenAI
14 28 (0.61%) Red Hat
14 28 (0.61%) Talend
15 27 (0.58%) Nexthink
16 26 (0.56%) Palantir
16 26 (0.56%) Workday
17 25 (0.54%) Cloudera
17 25 (0.54%) ServiceNow