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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 31 29
Rank change year-on-year +6 -2 -7
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 3,723 3,740 3,746
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 6.90% 5.60% 7.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.15% 6.57% 7.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,902 2,006 2,721
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £37,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% -1.37%
75th Percentile £86,188 £94,694 £87,500
90th Percentile £113,750 £118,750 £113,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,000 £56,525
% change year-on-year -7.89% +0.84% +2.41%

All Process and 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 45,707 56,896 47,775
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.68% 85.15% 93.78%
Number of salaries quoted 27,910 29,661 36,781
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,001 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,439 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.75% +3.69% -0.94%

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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 2025. 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 +6 3,177 £62,500 -10.71% 2,158
UK excluding London +21 1,905 £52,500 -7.89% 1,682
London +5 1,514 £75,000 -11.76% 941
Work from Home +3 1,111 £60,000 -11.11% 936
South East +26 590 £52,500 -8.70% 752
North of England -20 350 £55,000 - 273
Midlands +22 307 £55,000 -3.51% 248
Scotland +13 255 £50,000 -20.32% 83
South West +15 207 £55,000 -15.38% 150
North West -21 190 £52,500 -4.55% 163
West Midlands +6 180 £59,000 +3.51% 147
East of England +38 150 £39,500 -31.60% 135
East Midlands +45 131 £47,500 -5.00% 99
Yorkshire -4 128 £63,750 +15.38% 75
North East +17 33 £41,250 -25.00% 40
Northern Ireland -1 31 £60,000 +28.34% 31
Wales +14 21 £60,000 +15.38% 41
Isle of Man - 1 - -

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
1 111 (2.98%) CMS
2 98 (2.63%) Apache Spark
3 66 (1.77%) WordPress
4 56 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
5 51 (1.37%) Confluence
6 43 (1.15%) SharePoint
7 34 (0.91%) Apache
8 23 (0.62%) SAS
9 15 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 14 (0.38%) Drupal
11 13 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
12 11 (0.30%) Headless CMS
12 11 (0.30%) Umbraco
13 10 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 10 (0.27%) SugarCRM
14 5 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
15 4 (0.11%) Jupyter
16 3 (0.081%) Appian
16 3 (0.081%) Joomla!
16 3 (0.081%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 508 (13.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 100 (2.69%) Microsoft Office
3 54 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 37 (0.99%) Photoshop
5 32 (0.86%) Maya
6 30 (0.81%) Adobe XD
7 26 (0.70%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 18 (0.48%) InDesign
9 17 (0.46%) Adobe Premiere
9 17 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
10 16 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
11 14 (0.38%) Chatbot
12 13 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
13 11 (0.30%) Trello
14 9 (0.24%) SPSS
15 7 (0.19%) MadCap Flare
16 4 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
16 4 (0.11%) MS Visio
16 4 (0.11%) SketchUp
17 3 (0.081%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 95 (2.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 57 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 57 (1.53%) Shopify
3 30 (0.81%) Oracle ERP
4 28 (0.75%) SAP IBP
5 21 (0.56%) Magento
6 19 (0.51%) SAP CO
6 19 (0.51%) SAP FI
6 19 (0.51%) SAP FI/CO
7 15 (0.40%) Dynamics GP
8 14 (0.38%) NetSuite
9 13 (0.35%) SAP FSCM
9 13 (0.35%) Sprinklr
10 11 (0.30%) Oracle Assets
10 11 (0.30%) Oracle General Ledger
10 11 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
10 11 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
10 11 (0.30%) SAP IS-U
11 10 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
12 9 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 958 (25.73%) Azure
2 783 (21.03%) Power Platform
3 436 (11.71%) AWS
4 285 (7.66%) Google Analytics
5 249 (6.69%) GCP
6 214 (5.75%) SaaS
7 197 (5.29%) Snowflake
8 169 (4.54%) Azure Data Factory
9 153 (4.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 138 (3.71%) Azure DevOps
11 121 (3.25%) GitHub
12 119 (3.20%) Microsoft 365
13 100 (2.69%) dbt
14 92 (2.47%) Google Ads
15 84 (2.26%) Serverless
16 69 (1.85%) Figma
17 68 (1.83%) Entra ID
18 65 (1.75%) Azure Monitor
19 58 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
20 51 (1.37%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (0.94%) SMS
2 33 (0.89%) VPN
3 27 (0.73%) Firewall
3 27 (0.73%) Unified Communications
4 18 (0.48%) Network Security
5 13 (0.35%) DNS
6 9 (0.24%) WAN
7 8 (0.21%) Broadband
8 7 (0.19%) Intranet
9 6 (0.16%) CHAP
9 6 (0.16%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (0.13%) TCP/IP
11 4 (0.11%) Internet
11 4 (0.11%) VoIP
11 4 (0.11%) Wireshark
12 3 (0.081%) DHCP
12 3 (0.081%) HTTPS
12 3 (0.081%) SAN
12 3 (0.081%) SD-WAN
13 2 (0.054%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 750 (20.15%) Power BI
2 378 (10.15%) Tableau
3 338 (9.08%) Data Warehouse
4 258 (6.93%) Data Lake
5 159 (4.27%) Metadata
6 155 (4.16%) SQL Server
7 123 (3.30%) Data Mining
8 99 (2.66%) SAP BW
9 97 (2.61%) Big Data
10 95 (2.55%) Looker
11 82 (2.20%) NoSQL
12 81 (2.18%) Azure SQL Database
13 71 (1.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 70 (1.88%) BigQuery
15 66 (1.77%) Relational Database
16 62 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
17 57 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
18 53 (1.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 51 (1.37%) Power Query
20 44 (1.18%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 130 (3.49%) JIRA
2 88 (2.36%) Git
3 39 (1.05%) Jenkins
4 24 (0.64%) Axure RP
4 24 (0.64%) Balsamiq
5 21 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
6 18 (0.48%) ERwin
7 16 (0.43%) ER Studio
8 15 (0.40%) Cypress.io
9 14 (0.38%) Selenium
10 13 (0.35%) GitLab
11 12 (0.32%) Visual Studio
12 9 (0.24%) MLflow
13 8 (0.21%) Postman
14 7 (0.19%) Maven
14 7 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
15 6 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
16 4 (0.11%) Browser DevTools
16 4 (0.11%) TestNG
16 4 (0.11%) WebDriver
General
1 1,364 (36.64%) Social Skills
2 1,322 (35.51%) Finance
3 1,183 (31.78%) Analytical Skills
4 799 (21.46%) Marketing
5 394 (10.58%) Law
6 287 (7.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 266 (7.14%) Retail
8 250 (6.72%) Banking
9 217 (5.83%) Public Sector
10 174 (4.67%) Manufacturing
11 162 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
12 142 (3.81%) Legal
13 103 (2.77%) Financial Institution
14 100 (2.69%) Advertising
14 100 (2.69%) Games
15 92 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
16 79 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
17 78 (2.10%) Pharmaceutical
18 76 (2.04%) Front Office
19 58 (1.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 620 (16.65%) Senior
2 577 (15.50%) Analyst
3 487 (13.08%) Lead
4 309 (8.30%) Architect
5 297 (7.98%) Data Analyst
6 264 (7.09%) Data Engineer
7 223 (5.99%) Developer
8 140 (3.76%) Senior Manager
9 120 (3.22%) Data Architect
10 107 (2.87%) Consultant
11 96 (2.58%) Innovation Manager
12 84 (2.26%) Solutions Architect
13 83 (2.23%) Trainee
13 83 (2.23%) Trainee Analyst
13 83 (2.23%) Trainee Data Analyst
14 79 (2.12%) Analytics Manager
15 71 (1.91%) Data Scientist
15 71 (1.91%) Senior Analyst
15 71 (1.91%) Software Engineer
16 70 (1.88%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (3.30%) HTML
2 97 (2.61%) CSS
3 83 (2.23%) Kafka
4 71 (1.91%) React
5 65 (1.75%) RESTful
6 62 (1.67%) PySpark
7 53 (1.42%) REST
8 48 (1.29%) OAuth
9 44 (1.18%) TensorFlow
10 43 (1.15%) JSON
11 42 (1.13%) PyTorch
12 41 (1.10%) .NET
13 40 (1.07%) Node.js
14 32 (0.86%) OAuth2
15 31 (0.83%) Pandas
16 30 (0.81%) Middleware
16 30 (0.81%) scikit-learn
17 28 (0.75%) AngularJS
17 28 (0.75%) GraphQL
18 26 (0.70%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 214 (5.75%) Analytical Mindset
2 187 (5.02%) Product Ownership
3 178 (4.78%) Self-Motivation
4 177 (4.75%) Cloud Native
5 176 (4.73%) Onboarding
6 158 (4.24%) Social Media
7 150 (4.03%) Algorithms
8 147 (3.95%) Management Information System
9 77 (2.07%) FMCG
10 76 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
11 75 (2.01%) Life Science
12 56 (1.50%) Data Structures
13 51 (1.37%) Data Centre
14 48 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
15 45 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
16 39 (1.05%) Reinsurance
17 38 (1.02%) Virtual Team
18 37 (0.99%) Credit Risk
19 36 (0.97%) Blog
19 36 (0.97%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 70 (1.88%) Windows
2 39 (1.05%) Linux
3 24 (0.64%) Unix
4 20 (0.54%) Windows 10
5 10 (0.27%) Android
5 10 (0.27%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.24%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.16%) VMS
8 2 (0.054%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.027%) AIX
9 1 (0.027%) Debian
9 1 (0.027%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.027%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.027%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,033 (27.75%) AI
2 1,009 (27.10%) Business Intelligence
3 895 (24.04%) Problem-Solving
4 871 (23.40%) Decision-Making
5 755 (20.28%) Agile
6 751 (20.17%) Data Analytics
7 691 (18.56%) Continuous Improvement
8 579 (15.55%) Data Modelling
9 513 (13.78%) Roadmaps
10 508 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
11 503 (13.51%) Machine Learning
12 490 (13.16%) Data Science
13 457 (12.28%) Data Analysis
14 442 (11.87%) Project Management
15 441 (11.85%) Visualisation
16 436 (11.71%) Data Governance
17 413 (11.09%) Actionable Insight
18 411 (11.04%) Data Engineering
19 390 (10.48%) CRM
20 382 (10.26%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 988 (26.54%) SQL
2 906 (24.34%) Python
3 150 (4.03%) Java
4 139 (3.73%) JavaScript
5 86 (2.31%) PowerShell
6 82 (2.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 71 (1.91%) R
8 57 (1.53%) C#
9 45 (1.21%) T-SQL
10 44 (1.18%) TypeScript
11 39 (1.05%) Scala
12 38 (1.02%) Bicep
13 36 (0.97%) Go
14 35 (0.94%) C++
15 29 (0.78%) PL/SQL
16 28 (0.75%) Bash
17 25 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
18 17 (0.46%) PHP
19 16 (0.43%) Shell Script
20 15 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 868 (23.31%) Degree
2 206 (5.53%) Master's Degree
3 174 (4.67%) Security Cleared
4 125 (3.36%) SC Cleared
5 118 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 106 (2.85%) DBS Check
7 100 (2.69%) PhD
8 58 (1.56%) CISSP
9 57 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
10 51 (1.37%) Azure Certification
11 50 (1.34%) Numerate Degree
12 46 (1.24%) CISA
13 45 (1.21%) PMI Certification
14 42 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
15 39 (1.05%) ACCA
15 39 (1.05%) PMP
16 38 (1.02%) CISM
17 29 (0.78%) CIMA
18 26 (0.70%) AWS Certification
19 25 (0.67%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 446 (11.98%) Data Quality
2 259 (6.96%) GDPR
3 201 (5.40%) Accessibility
4 93 (2.50%) QA
5 80 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 48 (1.29%) NIST
7 44 (1.18%) WCAG
8 34 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
9 33 (0.89%) SLA
10 31 (0.83%) GxP
11 24 (0.64%) HIPAA
11 24 (0.64%) Solvency II
12 23 (0.62%) COBIT
13 22 (0.59%) EU AI Act
14 21 (0.56%) PSD2
15 16 (0.43%) IFRS
15 16 (0.43%) PMO
16 15 (0.40%) GRC
16 15 (0.40%) ITGC
16 15 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 86 (2.31%) Docker
2 41 (1.10%) Active Directory
3 23 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
6 10 (0.27%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.081%) Firmware
8 1 (0.027%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.027%) vCloud
8 1 (0.027%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.027%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 154 (4.14%) Terraform
2 128 (3.44%) Kubernetes
3 28 (0.75%) Ansible
4 27 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
5 24 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (0.32%) QRadar
7 10 (0.27%) SCCM
8 9 (0.24%) Grafana
8 9 (0.24%) Prometheus
9 8 (0.21%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 6 (0.16%) EnCase
10 6 (0.16%) FTK
10 6 (0.16%) RSA Archer
11 5 (0.13%) Argo
11 5 (0.13%) SCOM
12 3 (0.081%) ArcSight ESM
13 2 (0.054%) Failover Clustering
14 1 (0.027%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 1 (0.027%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
14 1 (0.027%) Computer Incident Response Team
Vendors
1 683 (18.35%) Microsoft
2 466 (12.52%) Google
3 263 (7.06%) Databricks
4 259 (6.96%) SAP
5 185 (4.97%) Salesforce
6 152 (4.08%) Oracle
7 144 (3.87%) Adobe
8 74 (1.99%) HubSpot
9 60 (1.61%) Alteryx
10 57 (1.53%) Cisco
11 44 (1.18%) ServiceNow
12 40 (1.07%) OpenAI
13 39 (1.05%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 37 (0.99%) Bloomberg
15 35 (0.94%) Dell
16 32 (0.86%) Facebook
17 30 (0.81%) Ahrefs
18 29 (0.78%) Screaming Frog
19 26 (0.70%) Informatica
19 26 (0.70%) Splunk