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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 23 33
Rank change year-on-year -9 +10 -5
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 5,504 3,690 3,906
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.68% 7.43% 5.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.39% 8.35% 6.50%
Number of salaries quoted 3,304 1,693 2,051
10th Percentile £38,030 £31,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -12.28% +3.64%

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 86,155 44,192 60,081
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.18% 88.99% 81.99%
Number of salaries quoted 59,150 24,458 32,463
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,325 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,608
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 8 October 2026.

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 8 October 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 -7 4,937 £67,500 +10.33% 9,941
UK excluding London -6 2,916 £60,000 +20.00% 4,058
London -1 2,239 £80,000 +6.67% 6,532
Work from Home +8 1,665 £66,805 +11.34% 3,700
North of England +58 936 £62,500 +13.64% 1,023
Midlands +31 612 £60,000 +14.29% 573
South East -31 587 £60,000 +20.00% 1,101
North West +57 522 £60,000 +18.81% 600
West Midlands +13 347 £60,000 +9.09% 380
South West -19 317 £60,000 - 352
East Midlands +28 265 £60,000 +33.33% 193
Yorkshire +44 260 £66,805 +4.79% 304
East of England -12 181 £51,878 +53.71% 342
North East +33 160 £57,500 +11.65% 120
Scotland -20 113 £75,000 +50.00% 368
Northern Ireland -19 96 £65,000 +8.33% 214
Wales -9 92 £63,500 +30.09% 115
Isle of Man +2 5 £38,500 - 4

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
1 155 (2.82%) Apache Spark
2 145 (2.63%) CMS
3 91 (1.65%) Apache
4 88 (1.60%) SharePoint
5 86 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
6 71 (1.29%) SAS
7 64 (1.16%) Confluence
8 38 (0.69%) WordPress
9 28 (0.51%) Sitecore CMS
10 21 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
11 18 (0.33%) Headless CMS
11 18 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
12 16 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
13 11 (0.20%) Jupyter
14 5 (0.091%) ArcGIS
14 5 (0.091%) Umbraco
15 3 (0.055%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 3 (0.055%) Appian
15 3 (0.055%) IIS
16 2 (0.036%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 281 (5.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
3 43 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 37 (0.67%) Chatbot
5 32 (0.58%) SPSS
6 26 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
7 22 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 20 (0.36%) UserZoom
9 17 (0.31%) MS Visio
10 12 (0.22%) Adobe XD
11 11 (0.20%) Photoshop
12 8 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
13 7 (0.13%) Sketch
14 6 (0.11%) Trello
15 5 (0.091%) Notion
16 4 (0.073%) Microsoft Project
17 3 (0.055%) Adobe Premiere
17 3 (0.055%) Elementor
17 3 (0.055%) InDesign
17 3 (0.055%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 126 (2.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 73 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 50 (0.91%) Shopify
4 31 (0.56%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 28 (0.51%) Dynamics GP
6 18 (0.33%) Workday HCM
7 17 (0.31%) Magento
8 14 (0.25%) Adobe Campaign
9 10 (0.18%) NetSuite
10 9 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
10 9 (0.16%) SAP BPC
11 7 (0.13%) SAP MDG
12 6 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
12 6 (0.11%) FastStats
13 5 (0.091%) Oracle Payables
13 5 (0.091%) Oracle Receivables
13 5 (0.091%) SAP Travel Management
14 4 (0.073%) iTrent
14 4 (0.073%) Payment Gateway
14 4 (0.073%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,062 (19.30%) Azure
2 895 (16.26%) Power Platform
3 776 (14.10%) AWS
4 360 (6.54%) SaaS
5 340 (6.18%) GCP
6 275 (5.00%) Google Analytics
7 237 (4.31%) Snowflake
8 216 (3.92%) Azure Data Factory
9 213 (3.87%) Azure DevOps
10 190 (3.45%) GitHub
11 159 (2.89%) Serverless
12 150 (2.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 139 (2.53%) dbt
14 116 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
15 111 (2.02%) Microsoft Purview
16 106 (1.93%) Amazon S3
17 105 (1.91%) Cloud Computing
18 90 (1.64%) Azure Monitor
18 90 (1.64%) Google Tag Manager
19 89 (1.62%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 73 (1.33%) VPN
2 71 (1.29%) Broadband
2 71 (1.29%) Internet
3 63 (1.14%) Firewall
4 44 (0.80%) Network Security
5 43 (0.78%) DNS
6 26 (0.47%) BGP
7 24 (0.44%) SMS
8 21 (0.38%) 5G
8 21 (0.38%) TCP/IP
9 20 (0.36%) VLAN
10 19 (0.35%) OSPF
11 15 (0.27%) VoIP
12 14 (0.25%) CTI
13 13 (0.24%) SSL
14 12 (0.22%) DHCP
15 11 (0.20%) Unified Communications
16 10 (0.18%) VXLAN
16 10 (0.18%) WAN
17 9 (0.16%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 866 (15.73%) Power BI
2 398 (7.23%) Data Warehouse
3 261 (4.74%) Tableau
4 258 (4.69%) Metadata
5 223 (4.05%) Data Lake
6 171 (3.11%) SQL Server
7 153 (2.78%) Big Data
8 136 (2.47%) Azure SQL Database
9 114 (2.07%) Amazon Redshift
10 112 (2.03%) Looker
11 92 (1.67%) Delta Lake
12 90 (1.64%) BigQuery
13 89 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
14 85 (1.54%) Relational Database
15 80 (1.45%) Star Schema
16 76 (1.38%) NoSQL
17 73 (1.33%) MongoDB
18 71 (1.29%) Semantic Layer
19 68 (1.24%) Power Query
20 59 (1.07%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 178 (3.23%) Git
2 92 (1.67%) JIRA
3 46 (0.84%) GitLab
4 45 (0.82%) Jenkins
5 24 (0.44%) MLflow
6 19 (0.35%) Claude Code
7 11 (0.20%) Crashlytics
7 11 (0.20%) fastlane
8 9 (0.16%) Octopus Deploy
9 8 (0.15%) Balsamiq
9 8 (0.15%) CircleCI
9 8 (0.15%) Xcode
10 7 (0.13%) Gradle
10 7 (0.13%) Visual Website Optimizer
11 6 (0.11%) Axure RP
11 6 (0.11%) ERwin
12 5 (0.091%) Android Studio
12 5 (0.091%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.091%) Visual Studio Code
12 5 (0.091%) XCTest
General
1 1,560 (28.34%) Social Skills
2 1,532 (27.83%) Finance
3 1,261 (22.91%) Analytical Skills
4 974 (17.70%) Marketing
5 427 (7.76%) Retail
6 413 (7.50%) Public Sector
7 371 (6.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 335 (6.09%) Legal
9 289 (5.25%) Law
10 228 (4.14%) Banking
11 227 (4.12%) Influencing Skills
12 188 (3.42%) Organisational Skills
13 160 (2.91%) Manufacturing
14 123 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
15 109 (1.98%) Advertising
16 98 (1.78%) Financial Institution
17 89 (1.62%) Games
18 86 (1.56%) Automotive
19 75 (1.36%) Publishing
20 59 (1.07%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,125 (20.44%) Senior
2 677 (12.30%) Data Engineer
3 647 (11.76%) Analyst
4 606 (11.01%) Lead
5 534 (9.70%) Architect
6 312 (5.67%) Developer
7 273 (4.96%) Analytics Manager
8 255 (4.63%) Data Analyst
9 250 (4.54%) Data Architect
10 240 (4.36%) Senior Data Engineer
11 206 (3.74%) Senior Manager
12 190 (3.45%) Data Scientist
13 187 (3.40%) Consultant
14 168 (3.05%) Solutions Architect
15 135 (2.45%) Data Manager
16 133 (2.42%) Senior Analyst
17 129 (2.34%) Marketing Manager
18 109 (1.98%) Senior Architect
19 107 (1.94%) Product Manager
20 102 (1.85%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 263 (4.78%) Terraform
2 202 (3.67%) PySpark
3 108 (1.96%) Kafka
4 100 (1.82%) HTML
5 94 (1.71%) .NET
6 88 (1.60%) REST
7 83 (1.51%) CSS
8 77 (1.40%) React
9 54 (0.98%) Node.js
10 51 (0.93%) Pandas
11 41 (0.74%) Middleware
12 37 (0.67%) ASP.NET
13 36 (0.65%) AngularJS
13 36 (0.65%) JSON
14 35 (0.64%) ASP.NET Core
14 35 (0.64%) scikit-learn
15 34 (0.62%) .NET Core
16 33 (0.60%) TensorFlow
17 32 (0.58%) PyTorch
17 32 (0.58%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 331 (6.01%) Onboarding
2 269 (4.89%) Cloud Native
3 214 (3.89%) Marketing Technology
4 210 (3.82%) Management Information System
5 190 (3.45%) Blog
5 190 (3.45%) Product Ownership
6 169 (3.07%) Social Media
7 115 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
8 107 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
9 102 (1.85%) AI Agents
10 99 (1.80%) Data Structures
11 78 (1.42%) Algorithms
12 74 (1.34%) Mobile App
13 71 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
14 64 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
15 63 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
16 58 (1.05%) Virtual Team
17 51 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
18 49 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
19 43 (0.78%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 102 (1.85%) Windows
2 84 (1.53%) Linux
3 23 (0.42%) VMS
4 22 (0.40%) Windows Server
5 19 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.15%) Android
7 6 (0.11%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.11%) Unix
7 6 (0.11%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.073%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.055%) Debian
10 1 (0.018%) AIX
10 1 (0.018%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.018%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.018%) SUSE
10 1 (0.018%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.018%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,005 (36.43%) AI
2 1,308 (23.76%) Decision-Making
3 1,197 (21.75%) Business Intelligence
4 949 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
5 885 (16.08%) Continuous Improvement
6 866 (15.73%) Agile
7 850 (15.44%) Roadmaps
8 834 (15.15%) Data Modelling
9 756 (13.74%) Data Engineering
10 749 (13.61%) Stakeholder Management
11 737 (13.39%) Machine Learning
12 722 (13.12%) Data Analytics
13 696 (12.65%) CI/CD
14 677 (12.30%) Data Pipeline
15 642 (11.66%) Mentoring
16 611 (11.10%) Data Science
17 542 (9.85%) Data Governance
18 523 (9.50%) ETL
19 518 (9.41%) Actionable Insight
20 512 (9.30%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1,495 (27.16%) SQL
2 1,247 (22.66%) Python
3 162 (2.94%) Java
4 143 (2.60%) C#
5 139 (2.53%) JavaScript
6 122 (2.22%) PowerShell
7 118 (2.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 101 (1.84%) R
9 90 (1.64%) TypeScript
10 85 (1.54%) Bicep
11 74 (1.34%) Scala
12 69 (1.25%) Bash
13 51 (0.93%) Go
14 49 (0.89%) C++
15 35 (0.64%) Kusto Query Language
16 27 (0.49%) T-SQL
17 19 (0.35%) PHP
18 18 (0.33%) Kotlin
19 15 (0.27%) Swift
19 15 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 663 (12.05%) Degree
2 455 (8.27%) Security Cleared
3 333 (6.05%) SC Cleared
4 122 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 118 (2.14%) Azure Certification
6 110 (2.00%) Master's Degree
7 84 (1.53%) DV Cleared
8 69 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 59 (1.07%) AWS Certification
10 51 (0.93%) ACCA
11 49 (0.89%) DBS Check
12 48 (0.87%) PhD
13 46 (0.84%) CIMA
14 41 (0.74%) CISSP
15 36 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
16 28 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
17 27 (0.49%) CISM
17 27 (0.49%) Postgraduate
18 23 (0.42%) Numerate Degree
19 22 (0.40%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 844 (15.33%) Data Quality
2 289 (5.25%) Accessibility
3 229 (4.16%) GDPR
4 145 (2.63%) QA
5 63 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
6 47 (0.85%) WCAG
7 38 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 35 (0.64%) NIST
9 29 (0.53%) SLA
10 23 (0.42%) PMO
11 22 (0.40%) PCI DSS
12 19 (0.35%) GRC
13 17 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
14 14 (0.25%) IFRS
15 12 (0.22%) EU AI Act
16 10 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 9 (0.16%) ISO 9001
18 8 (0.15%) SOC 2
19 7 (0.13%) PERC
20 6 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 164 (2.98%) Docker
2 84 (1.53%) Active Directory
3 28 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
5 18 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (0.29%) vSphere
7 8 (0.15%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.091%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.055%) Firmware
9 3 (0.055%) IAG
10 1 (0.018%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.018%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 168 (3.05%) Kubernetes
2 45 (0.82%) Ansible
3 39 (0.71%) Grafana
4 29 (0.53%) Prometheus
5 28 (0.51%) EnCase
5 28 (0.51%) FTK
6 18 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (0.24%) FortiGate
8 8 (0.15%) Argo
9 7 (0.13%) Kibana
10 6 (0.11%) Graylog
10 6 (0.11%) Hadoop YARN
10 6 (0.11%) Nagios
10 6 (0.11%) Packer
10 6 (0.11%) Proxmox
11 5 (0.091%) Puppet
11 5 (0.091%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.073%) Control-M
12 4 (0.073%) VxRail
13 3 (0.055%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 862 (15.66%) Microsoft
2 475 (8.63%) Databricks
3 466 (8.47%) Google
4 231 (4.20%) SAP
5 145 (2.63%) Adobe
6 122 (2.22%) Oracle
7 115 (2.09%) Salesforce
8 76 (1.38%) TikTok
9 71 (1.29%) HubSpot
10 64 (1.16%) Workday
11 52 (0.94%) YouTube
12 43 (0.78%) IBM
13 42 (0.76%) Cisco
13 42 (0.76%) Informatica
14 41 (0.74%) VMware
15 39 (0.71%) Alteryx
16 35 (0.64%) OpenAI
17 33 (0.60%) Samsung
18 31 (0.56%) ServiceNow
19 30 (0.55%) Foundry