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 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 22 39
Rank change year-on-year -9 +17 -15
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 4,386 3,325 4,815
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.71% 8.04% 5.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.37% 8.60% 6.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,391 1,661 3,278
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,603 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £107,500
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 59,482 38,652 75,963
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.48% 93.43% 86.89%
Number of salaries quoted 36,105 22,218 57,058
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
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% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.41%

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 24 March 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 24 March 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 -11 3,784 £65,000 -7.14% 1,892
UK excluding London -15 2,203 £55,000 -3.51% 1,283
London +4 1,773 £80,000 -5.88% 918
Work from Home -3 1,378 £63,076 +0.92% 853
North of England -14 579 £50,000 -9.09% 315
South East -11 508 £55,000 -8.33% 436
Midlands -15 441 £52,250 -5.00% 204
North West -22 293 £60,000 +9.09% 196
West Midlands -13 280 £57,500 +4.55% 112
Yorkshire +3 220 £50,000 -9.09% 77
Scotland -7 202 £65,000 -7.14% 55
South West -17 195 £55,200 +6.15% 143
East of England +39 184 £50,500 -22.31% 91
East Midlands -6 158 £48,500 +2.11% 92
North East +22 66 £40,000 -27.27% 46
Northern Ireland -11 59 £45,000 +50.00% 14
Wales +10 38 £40,000 -20.00% 42

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
1 157 (3.58%) Apache Airflow
2 128 (2.92%) Apache Spark
3 109 (2.49%) CMS
4 78 (1.78%) Apache
5 63 (1.44%) Confluence
6 56 (1.28%) WordPress
7 48 (1.09%) SharePoint
8 41 (0.93%) SAS
9 34 (0.78%) ArcGIS
10 19 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
10 19 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
11 14 (0.32%) Drupal
12 11 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 9 (0.21%) Oracle Application Server
14 8 (0.18%) Umbraco
15 6 (0.14%) IIS
16 4 (0.091%) Appian
16 4 (0.091%) Documentum
16 4 (0.091%) Sitecore CMS
17 3 (0.068%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 416 (9.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 129 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
3 66 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 29 (0.66%) Adobe XD
5 23 (0.52%) UserZoom
6 18 (0.41%) MS Visio
7 17 (0.39%) InDesign
7 17 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
8 16 (0.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 13 (0.30%) Photoshop
10 11 (0.25%) Adobe Premiere
10 11 (0.25%) SPSS
11 8 (0.18%) Chatbot
11 8 (0.18%) Maya
12 7 (0.16%) Trello
13 6 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
14 5 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
15 3 (0.068%) Final Cut Pro
15 3 (0.068%) Sketch
15 3 (0.068%) SketchUp
Business Applications
1 76 (1.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 45 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 35 (0.80%) SAP IBP
4 34 (0.78%) SAP PP
5 30 (0.68%) Oracle ERP
6 20 (0.46%) Magento
7 17 (0.39%) NetSuite
7 17 (0.39%) Shopify
8 15 (0.34%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 15 (0.34%) iTrent
8 15 (0.34%) SAP CO
9 14 (0.32%) Adobe Campaign
9 14 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
10 13 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
10 13 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
10 13 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
11 12 (0.27%) Oracle Assets
12 11 (0.25%) Dynamics GP
13 10 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
13 10 (0.23%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 985 (22.46%) Azure
2 693 (15.80%) Power Platform
3 524 (11.95%) AWS
4 255 (5.81%) Snowflake
5 253 (5.77%) GCP
6 252 (5.75%) SaaS
7 228 (5.20%) Azure Data Factory
8 189 (4.31%) Google Analytics
9 182 (4.15%) Adobe Analytics
9 182 (4.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 165 (3.76%) Azure DevOps
11 162 (3.69%) Microsoft 365
12 154 (3.51%) GitHub
13 145 (3.31%) dbt
14 122 (2.78%) Figma
15 110 (2.51%) Amazon S3
16 98 (2.23%) Serverless
17 87 (1.98%) Entra ID
18 79 (1.80%) Azure Monitor
19 63 (1.44%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 204 (4.65%) Broadband
2 33 (0.75%) Firewall
2 33 (0.75%) VPN
3 25 (0.57%) CHAP
4 23 (0.52%) WAN
5 18 (0.41%) Network Security
6 15 (0.34%) DNS
6 15 (0.34%) Intranet
7 13 (0.30%) TCP/IP
7 13 (0.30%) Unified Communications
8 10 (0.23%) DHCP
9 6 (0.14%) HTTPS
10 5 (0.11%) SMS
10 5 (0.11%) SNMP
11 4 (0.091%) HTTP
11 4 (0.091%) Intrusion Detection
12 3 (0.068%) LAN
12 3 (0.068%) Modbus
13 2 (0.046%) Kerberos
13 2 (0.046%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 659 (15.03%) Power BI
2 426 (9.71%) Tableau
3 372 (8.48%) Data Warehouse
4 243 (5.54%) Data Lake
5 191 (4.35%) Data Mining
6 188 (4.29%) Metadata
7 161 (3.67%) SQL Server
8 125 (2.85%) Looker
9 114 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
10 97 (2.21%) BigQuery
11 90 (2.05%) Relational Database
12 89 (2.03%) Amazon Redshift
13 76 (1.73%) NoSQL
14 70 (1.60%) Big Data
15 66 (1.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 62 (1.41%) Power Query
17 54 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
18 53 (1.21%) Snowflake Schema
18 53 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 43 (0.98%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 151 (3.44%) Git
2 107 (2.44%) JIRA
3 71 (1.62%) Jenkins
4 41 (0.93%) MLflow
5 33 (0.75%) GitLab
6 25 (0.57%) Axure RP
6 25 (0.57%) Balsamiq
6 25 (0.57%) IBM UrbanCode
7 23 (0.52%) TeamCity
8 21 (0.48%) Oracle Forms
9 19 (0.43%) Visual Studio
10 16 (0.36%) ERwin
11 12 (0.27%) CircleCI
11 12 (0.27%) Crashlytics
12 10 (0.23%) Selenium
13 9 (0.21%) PowerDesigner
13 9 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 9 (0.21%) XCTest
14 8 (0.18%) Cypress.io
15 5 (0.11%) MSI
General
1 1,399 (31.90%) Finance
2 1,254 (28.59%) Social Skills
3 1,148 (26.17%) Analytical Skills
4 661 (15.07%) Marketing
5 292 (6.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 262 (5.97%) Banking
7 255 (5.81%) Public Sector
8 218 (4.97%) Law
9 215 (4.90%) Retail
10 200 (4.56%) Games
11 172 (3.92%) Legal
12 165 (3.76%) Manufacturing
13 125 (2.85%) Presentation Skills
14 114 (2.60%) Financial Institution
15 107 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
16 96 (2.19%) Automotive
17 94 (2.14%) Advertising
18 92 (2.10%) Organisational Skills
19 72 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
20 68 (1.55%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 729 (16.62%) Senior
2 650 (14.82%) Analyst
3 494 (11.26%) Lead
4 426 (9.71%) Data Engineer
5 370 (8.44%) Data Analyst
6 326 (7.43%) Architect
7 232 (5.29%) Developer
8 168 (3.83%) Trainee
8 168 (3.83%) Trainee Analyst
8 168 (3.83%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 165 (3.76%) Consultant
10 146 (3.33%) Data Architect
11 144 (3.28%) Senior Manager
12 116 (2.64%) Designer
13 97 (2.21%) Solutions Architect
14 91 (2.07%) Data Manager
15 90 (2.05%) Senior Data Engineer
16 88 (2.01%) Data Scientist
17 87 (1.98%) Senior Analyst
18 85 (1.94%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (2.74%) Kafka
2 110 (2.51%) PySpark
3 103 (2.35%) HTML
4 95 (2.17%) CSS
5 91 (2.07%) PyTorch
6 70 (1.60%) .NET
7 69 (1.57%) TensorFlow
8 61 (1.39%) React
9 55 (1.25%) OAuth
10 53 (1.21%) RESTful
11 49 (1.12%) SAP Fiori
12 48 (1.09%) LangChain
13 46 (1.05%) JSON
14 43 (0.98%) scikit-learn
15 42 (0.96%) REST
16 37 (0.84%) .NET Core
17 36 (0.82%) Node.js
18 35 (0.80%) Pandas
19 31 (0.71%) OAuth2
20 27 (0.62%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 294 (6.70%) Social Media
2 208 (4.74%) Cloud Native
3 192 (4.38%) Product Ownership
4 178 (4.06%) Analytical Mindset
5 172 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
6 153 (3.49%) Management Information System
7 129 (2.94%) Onboarding
8 111 (2.53%) Algorithms
9 109 (2.49%) Life Science
10 80 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
11 77 (1.76%) Data Structures
12 65 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
13 60 (1.37%) Mobile App
14 58 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
15 46 (1.05%) Public Cloud
16 45 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
16 45 (1.03%) Virtual Team
17 40 (0.91%) Web Conferencing
18 38 (0.87%) Over-the-Top Content
19 35 (0.80%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 108 (2.46%) Windows
2 60 (1.37%) Windows 10
3 42 (0.96%) Linux
4 26 (0.59%) VMS
5 24 (0.55%) Unix
6 21 (0.48%) Apple iOS
7 14 (0.32%) Windows Server
8 13 (0.30%) Android
9 2 (0.046%) AIX
9 2 (0.046%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.023%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,283 (29.25%) AI
2 954 (21.75%) Business Intelligence
3 928 (21.16%) Decision-Making
4 898 (20.47%) Agile
5 779 (17.76%) Data Analytics
6 751 (17.12%) Continuous Improvement
7 720 (16.42%) Problem-Solving
8 686 (15.64%) Data Modelling
9 580 (13.22%) Roadmaps
10 557 (12.70%) Data Engineering
11 546 (12.45%) Data Governance
12 523 (11.92%) Data Science
13 510 (11.63%) Data Analysis
14 507 (11.56%) Data Pipeline
15 505 (11.51%) Customer Experience
16 503 (11.47%) Machine Learning
17 482 (10.99%) CI/CD
17 482 (10.99%) ETL
18 452 (10.31%) Project Management
19 425 (9.69%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1,146 (26.13%) SQL
2 1,050 (23.94%) Python
3 116 (2.64%) JavaScript
4 101 (2.30%) Java
5 99 (2.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 98 (2.23%) C#
7 76 (1.73%) Scala
8 72 (1.64%) R
9 62 (1.41%) PowerShell
10 44 (1.00%) TypeScript
11 41 (0.93%) Bicep
11 41 (0.93%) T-SQL
12 39 (0.89%) Kusto Query Language
13 38 (0.87%) C++
14 33 (0.75%) Go
15 23 (0.52%) Bash
16 18 (0.41%) PL/SQL
17 16 (0.36%) Shell Script
18 15 (0.34%) VBA
19 12 (0.27%) PHP
Qualifications
1 734 (16.74%) Degree
2 259 (5.91%) Security Cleared
3 179 (4.08%) SC Cleared
4 154 (3.51%) Master's Degree
5 125 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 72 (1.64%) IRCA
7 60 (1.37%) CTC Cleared
8 58 (1.32%) PhD
9 54 (1.23%) CISSP
10 52 (1.19%) Azure Certification
11 49 (1.12%) CISA
11 49 (1.12%) DBS Check
12 46 (1.05%) CISM
13 42 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
13 42 (0.96%) Numerate Degree
14 38 (0.87%) ACCA
15 36 (0.82%) DV Cleared
16 32 (0.73%) AWS Certification
17 31 (0.71%) PMI Certification
18 29 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 573 (13.06%) Data Quality
2 379 (8.64%) Accessibility
3 359 (8.19%) GDPR
4 168 (3.83%) QA
5 90 (2.05%) WCAG
6 83 (1.89%) ISO 9001
7 80 (1.82%) SLA
8 68 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 52 (1.19%) NIST
10 47 (1.07%) Actionable Recommendations
11 38 (0.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 34 (0.78%) HIPAA
13 30 (0.68%) COBIT
14 28 (0.64%) EU AI Act
15 27 (0.62%) IFRS
15 27 (0.62%) Solvency II
16 25 (0.57%) GxP
17 23 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 21 (0.48%) PSD2
19 18 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 139 (3.17%) Docker
2 60 (1.37%) Active Directory
3 26 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.16%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (0.091%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.046%) Firmware
8 2 (0.046%) vSphere
9 1 (0.023%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.023%) IAG
9 1 (0.023%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.023%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 198 (4.51%) Terraform
2 162 (3.69%) Kubernetes
3 46 (1.05%) Ansible
4 25 (0.57%) Grafana
4 25 (0.57%) Prometheus
5 20 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.18%) EnCase
7 8 (0.18%) FTK
8 7 (0.16%) Kibana
9 5 (0.11%) Argo
9 5 (0.11%) QRadar
10 4 (0.091%) SCCM
10 4 (0.091%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 3 (0.068%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.068%) ArcSight ESM
11 3 (0.068%) Control-M
11 3 (0.068%) RSA Archer
11 3 (0.068%) VxRail
12 2 (0.046%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 863 (19.68%) Microsoft
2 338 (7.71%) Databricks
3 323 (7.36%) Google
4 282 (6.43%) Adobe
5 177 (4.04%) SAP
6 168 (3.83%) Salesforce
7 145 (3.31%) Oracle
8 136 (3.10%) Cisco
9 66 (1.50%) Dell
10 61 (1.39%) HubSpot
11 54 (1.23%) Alteryx
12 53 (1.21%) Informatica
13 34 (0.78%) Bloomberg
14 30 (0.68%) Talend
15 29 (0.66%) Instagram
15 29 (0.66%) Palantir
15 29 (0.66%) ServiceNow
16 28 (0.64%) IBM
16 28 (0.64%) Nexthink
16 28 (0.64%) Red Hat