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 3 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 20 39
Rank change year-on-year -12 +19 -16
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 4,594 3,587 5,221
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.08% 8.44% 5.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.81% 9.08% 6.36%
Number of salaries quoted 2,602 1,783 3,334
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,500 £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 £93,764 £80,435
90th Percentile £102,500 £115,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,100 £57,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -1.58% +6.54% -2.73%

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 67,443 39,485 82,053
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.64% 92.88% 85.58%
Number of salaries quoted 41,986 22,655 59,675
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,668 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,599 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,001 £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 3 May 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 3 May 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 -15 4,052 £65,000 -0.76% 2,076
UK excluding London -21 2,428 £56,100 -1.58% 1,280
London +2 1,779 £80,000 -5.88% 1,054
Work from Home -3 1,410 £65,000 +8.33% 935
North of England -4 727 £60,000 +9.09% 351
South East -20 516 £55,000 -8.33% 418
Midlands -20 484 £52,000 -0.95% 224
North West +5 406 £60,000 +9.09% 211
West Midlands -20 282 £55,000 - 121
Yorkshire -6 251 £59,375 +6.98% 96
South West -24 233 £60,000 +6.72% 119
East of England +33 219 £56,000 -13.85% 96
East Midlands +17 198 £50,000 +3.09% 103
Scotland -13 165 £65,000 -7.14% 60
North East +5 70 £42,500 -22.73% 48
Northern Ireland -16 48 £45,000 +50.00% 11
Wales -5 38 £40,000 -20.00% 28

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
1 160 (3.48%) Apache Airflow
2 134 (2.92%) Apache Spark
3 118 (2.57%) CMS
4 79 (1.72%) Apache
5 64 (1.39%) Confluence
6 54 (1.18%) WordPress
7 50 (1.09%) SharePoint
8 35 (0.76%) ArcGIS
9 31 (0.67%) SAS
10 20 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
11 16 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
12 11 (0.24%) Drupal
13 8 (0.17%) Oracle Application Server
13 8 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 6 (0.13%) IIS
15 4 (0.087%) Appian
15 4 (0.087%) Documentum
15 4 (0.087%) Umbraco
16 3 (0.065%) Jupyter
16 3 (0.065%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 326 (7.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 113 (2.46%) Microsoft Office
3 57 (1.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (0.67%) UserZoom
5 25 (0.54%) Adobe XD
6 19 (0.41%) MS Visio
7 17 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
8 11 (0.24%) 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
12 2 (0.044%) Maya
12 2 (0.044%) Notion
12 2 (0.044%) Sketch
12 2 (0.044%) Trello
13 1 (0.022%) Abaqus
13 1 (0.022%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 86 (1.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (0.74%) Adobe Campaign
3 33 (0.72%) SAP IBP
3 33 (0.72%) SAP PP
4 25 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
5 24 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
6 21 (0.46%) Magento
7 16 (0.35%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 16 (0.35%) Shopify
8 15 (0.33%) iTrent
9 14 (0.30%) NetSuite
10 12 (0.26%) SAP CO
11 11 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
12 10 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
13 9 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
13 9 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
13 9 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
13 9 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
13 9 (0.20%) SAP ERP
14 8 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 953 (20.74%) Azure
2 693 (15.08%) Power Platform
3 570 (12.41%) AWS
4 281 (6.12%) GCP
5 245 (5.33%) Snowflake
6 244 (5.31%) SaaS
7 206 (4.48%) Google Analytics
8 201 (4.38%) Adobe Analytics
9 197 (4.29%) Azure Data Factory
10 157 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
11 155 (3.37%) Microsoft 365
12 152 (3.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 145 (3.16%) GitHub
14 138 (3.00%) dbt
15 130 (2.83%) Figma
16 117 (2.55%) Amazon S3
17 114 (2.48%) Serverless
18 100 (2.18%) Entra ID
19 70 (1.52%) Azure Monitor
19 70 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 255 (5.55%) Broadband
2 40 (0.87%) Firewall
3 36 (0.78%) VPN
4 29 (0.63%) CHAP
5 25 (0.54%) DNS
6 23 (0.50%) WAN
7 21 (0.46%) Network Security
8 16 (0.35%) TCP/IP
9 15 (0.33%) DHCP
10 14 (0.30%) Intranet
11 11 (0.24%) Unified Communications
12 7 (0.15%) HTTP
13 5 (0.11%) Intrusion Detection
13 5 (0.11%) SMS
13 5 (0.11%) SNMP
13 5 (0.11%) SSL
13 5 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
14 4 (0.087%) BGP
14 4 (0.087%) HTTPS
15 3 (0.065%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 656 (14.28%) Power BI
2 356 (7.75%) Tableau
3 344 (7.49%) Data Warehouse
4 234 (5.09%) Data Lake
5 184 (4.01%) Metadata
6 153 (3.33%) Data Mining
7 131 (2.85%) SQL Server
8 127 (2.76%) Looker
9 108 (2.35%) BigQuery
10 104 (2.26%) Relational Database
11 98 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
12 81 (1.76%) NoSQL
13 75 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
14 68 (1.48%) Big Data
15 66 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
16 55 (1.20%) Power Query
17 53 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 45 (0.98%) Delta Lake
18 45 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
18 45 (0.98%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 167 (3.64%) Git
2 91 (1.98%) JIRA
3 74 (1.61%) Jenkins
4 44 (0.96%) MLflow
5 36 (0.78%) GitLab
6 25 (0.54%) IBM UrbanCode
7 22 (0.48%) TeamCity
8 20 (0.44%) Axure RP
8 20 (0.44%) Balsamiq
9 17 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
10 16 (0.35%) CircleCI
11 15 (0.33%) Crashlytics
12 12 (0.26%) Selenium
12 12 (0.26%) XCTest
13 10 (0.22%) ERwin
13 10 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 10 (0.22%) Visual Studio
14 7 (0.15%) Claude Code
15 5 (0.11%) MSI
16 4 (0.087%) Browser DevTools
General
1 1,301 (28.32%) Finance
2 1,170 (25.47%) Social Skills
3 1,054 (22.94%) Analytical Skills
4 660 (14.37%) Marketing
5 269 (5.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 247 (5.38%) Retail
7 222 (4.83%) Banking
8 221 (4.81%) Public Sector
9 219 (4.77%) Games
10 209 (4.55%) Law
11 149 (3.24%) Legal
12 148 (3.22%) Manufacturing
13 124 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
14 115 (2.50%) Automotive
15 100 (2.18%) Organisational Skills
16 98 (2.13%) Advertising
17 95 (2.07%) Financial Institution
18 76 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
19 70 (1.52%) Back Office
20 57 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 786 (17.11%) Senior
2 615 (13.39%) Analyst
3 523 (11.38%) Lead
4 496 (10.80%) Data Engineer
5 351 (7.64%) Architect
6 320 (6.97%) Data Analyst
7 251 (5.46%) Developer
8 172 (3.74%) Data Architect
9 169 (3.68%) Consultant
10 137 (2.98%) Trainee
10 137 (2.98%) Trainee Analyst
10 137 (2.98%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 136 (2.96%) Senior Manager
12 114 (2.48%) Senior Data Engineer
13 113 (2.46%) Designer
14 107 (2.33%) Product Manager
15 106 (2.31%) Data Manager
16 105 (2.29%) Data Scientist
17 101 (2.20%) Solutions Architect
18 96 (2.09%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (2.81%) PySpark
2 125 (2.72%) Kafka
3 94 (2.05%) HTML
4 92 (2.00%) PyTorch
5 86 (1.87%) CSS
6 75 (1.63%) .NET
7 65 (1.41%) TensorFlow
8 53 (1.15%) React
8 53 (1.15%) SAP Fiori
9 49 (1.07%) RESTful
10 48 (1.04%) LangChain
10 48 (1.04%) scikit-learn
11 47 (1.02%) OAuth
12 46 (1.00%) Pandas
13 43 (0.94%) REST
14 38 (0.83%) .NET Core
14 38 (0.83%) JSON
15 35 (0.76%) Node.js
16 24 (0.52%) LlamaIndex
17 23 (0.50%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 290 (6.31%) Social Media
2 212 (4.61%) Cloud Native
3 181 (3.94%) Product Ownership
4 152 (3.31%) Management Information System
5 148 (3.22%) Analytical Mindset
6 114 (2.48%) Onboarding
7 98 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
8 97 (2.11%) Algorithms
9 92 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
10 89 (1.94%) Life Science
11 84 (1.83%) Data Structures
12 75 (1.63%) Marketing Technology
13 72 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
14 66 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
15 62 (1.35%) Mobile App
16 57 (1.24%) Over-the-Top Content
17 46 (1.00%) Public Cloud
18 45 (0.98%) Virtual Team
19 44 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
20 37 (0.81%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 114 (2.48%) Windows
2 60 (1.31%) Windows 10
3 49 (1.07%) Linux
4 25 (0.54%) VMS
5 23 (0.50%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.39%) Unix
6 18 (0.39%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.24%) Android
8 3 (0.065%) AIX
9 1 (0.022%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,284 (27.95%) AI
2 954 (20.77%) Decision-Making
3 941 (20.48%) Business Intelligence
4 897 (19.53%) Agile
5 721 (15.69%) Continuous Improvement
6 711 (15.48%) Data Modelling
7 706 (15.37%) Data Analytics
8 685 (14.91%) Problem-Solving
9 647 (14.08%) Roadmaps
10 626 (13.63%) Data Engineering
11 557 (12.12%) Data Pipeline
12 526 (11.45%) CI/CD
13 519 (11.30%) Customer Experience
14 517 (11.25%) Data Governance
15 509 (11.08%) Data Science
16 503 (10.95%) Machine Learning
17 494 (10.75%) ETL
18 438 (9.53%) Data Analysis
19 425 (9.25%) DevOps
20 420 (9.14%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1,147 (24.97%) SQL
2 1,040 (22.64%) Python
3 106 (2.31%) C#
4 99 (2.15%) Java
5 97 (2.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 92 (2.00%) JavaScript
7 82 (1.78%) Scala
8 68 (1.48%) R
9 66 (1.44%) PowerShell
10 46 (1.00%) Bicep
11 43 (0.94%) TypeScript
12 39 (0.85%) T-SQL
13 38 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
14 37 (0.81%) Go
15 36 (0.78%) C++
16 23 (0.50%) Bash
17 16 (0.35%) Kotlin
18 15 (0.33%) PL/SQL
18 15 (0.33%) VBA
19 14 (0.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 628 (13.67%) Degree
2 281 (6.12%) Security Cleared
3 194 (4.22%) SC Cleared
4 122 (2.66%) Master's Degree
5 100 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 72 (1.57%) IRCA
7 62 (1.35%) Azure Certification
8 60 (1.31%) CTC Cleared
9 50 (1.09%) ACCA
9 50 (1.09%) CISSP
10 48 (1.04%) PhD
11 47 (1.02%) CISM
11 47 (1.02%) DBS Check
12 45 (0.98%) CISA
13 42 (0.91%) CIMA
14 35 (0.76%) DV Cleared
15 33 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
16 31 (0.67%) AWS Certification
16 31 (0.67%) SANS
17 30 (0.65%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 578 (12.58%) Data Quality
2 383 (8.34%) Accessibility
3 344 (7.49%) GDPR
4 178 (3.87%) QA
5 95 (2.07%) WCAG
6 83 (1.81%) SLA
7 76 (1.65%) ISO 9001
8 53 (1.15%) NIST
9 47 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 37 (0.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 34 (0.74%) COBIT
12 33 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
13 25 (0.54%) IFRS
14 23 (0.50%) HIPAA
15 20 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 18 (0.39%) SOC 2
17 17 (0.37%) GxP
17 17 (0.37%) Solvency II
18 16 (0.35%) EU AI Act
18 16 (0.35%) GAAP
System Software
1 153 (3.33%) Docker
2 82 (1.78%) Active Directory
3 24 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.17%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.11%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.087%) IAG
8 2 (0.044%) Firmware
8 2 (0.044%) vSphere
9 1 (0.022%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.022%) vCloud
9 1 (0.022%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 221 (4.81%) Terraform
2 178 (3.87%) Kubernetes
3 51 (1.11%) Ansible
4 28 (0.61%) Prometheus
5 26 (0.57%) Grafana
6 18 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (0.20%) EnCase
8 9 (0.20%) FTK
9 7 (0.15%) Kibana
10 6 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.11%) Argo
12 4 (0.087%) QRadar
12 4 (0.087%) VxRail
13 3 (0.065%) ArcSight ESM
13 3 (0.065%) Control-M
13 3 (0.065%) Graylog
14 2 (0.044%) Jamf Pro
14 2 (0.044%) SCCM
14 2 (0.044%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 816 (17.76%) Microsoft
2 380 (8.27%) Databricks
3 335 (7.29%) Google
4 300 (6.53%) Adobe
5 199 (4.33%) SAP
6 152 (3.31%) Salesforce
7 131 (2.85%) Oracle
8 125 (2.72%) Cisco
9 56 (1.22%) HubSpot
10 54 (1.18%) Dell
11 48 (1.04%) Informatica
12 36 (0.78%) Alteryx
13 29 (0.63%) OpenAI
14 28 (0.61%) Red Hat
15 27 (0.59%) Nexthink
15 27 (0.59%) Workday
16 26 (0.57%) Palantir
16 26 (0.57%) ServiceNow
16 26 (0.57%) Talend
17 25 (0.54%) Cloudera