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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 23 37
Rank change year-on-year -3 +14 -13
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 5,054 3,899 5,272
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.18% 8.10% 5.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.03% 8.91% 6.23%
Number of salaries quoted 3,070 1,793 3,339
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,100 £32,920
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,750 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £113,900 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,650
% change year-on-year +9.09% +0.64% -0.64%

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 71,935 43,736 84,643
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.79% 90.86% 82.47%
Number of salaries quoted 49,710 24,302 59,641
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,068 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.14% - -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 8 July 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 8 July 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 -3 4,544 £67,500 +5.47% 2,374
UK excluding London -6 2,694 £60,000 +9.09% 1,436
London +5 1,957 £80,000 - 1,267
Work from Home +3 1,561 £65,000 +8.33% 1,438
North of England +41 911 £60,000 +6.67% 347
Midlands +11 589 £58,514 +11.45% 216
North West +39 541 £60,000 +14.29% 199
South East -31 493 £55,000 - 473
West Midlands +3 347 £57,500 +9.52% 122
South West -32 252 £60,000 -2.04% 140
Yorkshire +20 249 £60,000 - 97
East Midlands +31 241 £58,616 +20.86% 94
East of England +24 233 £60,000 +20.00% 117
Scotland -10 126 £65,000 -7.14% 72
North East +28 121 £50,000 -3.85% 51
Wales -20 51 £61,750 +7.39% 39
Northern Ireland -37 43 £45,000 +4.43% 54

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 (3.17%) Apache Spark
2 145 (2.87%) Apache Airflow
3 121 (2.39%) CMS
4 100 (1.98%) Apache
5 65 (1.29%) Confluence
6 62 (1.23%) SAS
7 47 (0.93%) WordPress
8 46 (0.91%) SharePoint
9 36 (0.71%) ArcGIS
10 27 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
11 17 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
12 9 (0.18%) Drupal
12 9 (0.18%) Jupyter
13 7 (0.14%) Oracle Application Server
14 6 (0.12%) Headless CMS
15 5 (0.099%) Oracle Workflow
15 5 (0.099%) Umbraco
16 4 (0.079%) Documentum
17 3 (0.059%) Sitecore CMS
18 2 (0.040%) Apache Qpid
Applications
1 253 (5.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 76 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
3 47 (0.93%) UserZoom
4 39 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 28 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
6 23 (0.46%) Chatbot
7 19 (0.38%) SPSS
8 18 (0.36%) MS Visio
9 13 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 12 (0.24%) Adobe XD
11 6 (0.12%) Trello
12 5 (0.099%) Photoshop
12 5 (0.099%) Sketch
13 4 (0.079%) InDesign
13 4 (0.079%) Microsoft Project
14 3 (0.059%) Adobe Illustrator
15 1 (0.020%) Adobe Premiere
15 1 (0.020%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 101 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (0.69%) SAP IBP
3 34 (0.67%) Adobe Campaign
4 33 (0.65%) SAP PP
5 28 (0.55%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 20 (0.40%) Shopify
7 17 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
8 16 (0.32%) Magento
9 14 (0.28%) NetSuite
10 11 (0.22%) iTrent
10 11 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
11 7 (0.14%) Workday HCM
12 6 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
12 6 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
12 6 (0.12%) Relativity
12 6 (0.12%) SAP ERP
12 6 (0.12%) SAP PM
12 6 (0.12%) SAP Travel Management
13 5 (0.099%) SAP PS
13 5 (0.099%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 1,003 (19.85%) Azure
2 791 (15.65%) Power Platform
3 713 (14.11%) AWS
4 323 (6.39%) GCP
5 315 (6.23%) SaaS
6 228 (4.51%) Snowflake
7 211 (4.17%) Adobe Analytics
8 198 (3.92%) Google Analytics
9 184 (3.64%) Azure Data Factory
10 159 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
11 146 (2.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 141 (2.79%) GitHub
13 140 (2.77%) Serverless
14 124 (2.45%) Amazon S3
15 123 (2.43%) Microsoft 365
16 122 (2.41%) dbt
17 116 (2.30%) Figma
18 105 (2.08%) Entra ID
19 80 (1.58%) Contentsquare
20 79 (1.56%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 260 (5.14%) Broadband
2 58 (1.15%) VPN
3 47 (0.93%) Firewall
4 40 (0.79%) DNS
5 33 (0.65%) Network Security
6 25 (0.49%) BGP
6 25 (0.49%) TCP/IP
7 21 (0.42%) Internet
8 20 (0.40%) VLAN
9 18 (0.36%) OSPF
9 18 (0.36%) SMS
10 17 (0.34%) CHAP
11 16 (0.32%) WAN
12 15 (0.30%) DHCP
13 14 (0.28%) Unified Communications
14 11 (0.22%) Intranet
14 11 (0.22%) VoIP
15 10 (0.20%) SNMP
15 10 (0.20%) VXLAN
15 10 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 756 (14.96%) Power BI
2 381 (7.54%) Data Warehouse
3 305 (6.03%) Tableau
4 219 (4.33%) Data Lake
5 178 (3.52%) Metadata
6 159 (3.15%) SQL Server
7 121 (2.39%) Looker
8 118 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
9 114 (2.26%) Azure SQL Database
10 113 (2.24%) Big Data
11 109 (2.16%) BigQuery
12 94 (1.86%) Relational Database
13 85 (1.68%) NoSQL
14 83 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
15 74 (1.46%) Data Mining
16 72 (1.42%) MongoDB
17 69 (1.37%) Power Query
18 62 (1.23%) Star Schema
19 58 (1.15%) Delta Lake
20 55 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 172 (3.40%) Git
2 76 (1.50%) JIRA
3 68 (1.35%) Jenkins
4 44 (0.87%) MLflow
5 36 (0.71%) GitLab
6 25 (0.49%) IBM UrbanCode
7 21 (0.42%) Crashlytics
8 15 (0.30%) CircleCI
9 14 (0.28%) TeamCity
9 14 (0.28%) XCTest
10 13 (0.26%) Claude Code
10 13 (0.26%) fastlane
11 10 (0.20%) ERwin
12 9 (0.18%) Selenium
12 9 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 9 (0.18%) Xcode
13 8 (0.16%) Gradle
14 7 (0.14%) Visual Studio
15 6 (0.12%) Android Studio
16 5 (0.099%) Bitbucket
General
1 1,335 (26.41%) Finance
2 1,274 (25.21%) Social Skills
3 1,107 (21.90%) Analytical Skills
4 663 (13.12%) Marketing
5 318 (6.29%) Public Sector
6 307 (6.07%) Retail
7 251 (4.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 239 (4.73%) Games
9 232 (4.59%) Law
10 210 (4.16%) Banking
11 194 (3.84%) Legal
12 160 (3.17%) Manufacturing
13 136 (2.69%) Influencing Skills
14 121 (2.39%) Organisational Skills
15 120 (2.37%) Automotive
16 108 (2.14%) Advertising
17 90 (1.78%) Financial Institution
18 83 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
19 54 (1.07%) Telecoms
20 41 (0.81%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 936 (18.52%) Senior
2 616 (12.19%) Analyst
3 575 (11.38%) Data Engineer
4 557 (11.02%) Lead
5 421 (8.33%) Architect
6 324 (6.41%) Developer
7 294 (5.82%) Data Analyst
8 213 (4.21%) Data Architect
9 211 (4.17%) Consultant
10 176 (3.48%) Senior Data Engineer
11 144 (2.85%) Data Scientist
12 142 (2.81%) Senior Manager
13 133 (2.63%) Analytics Manager
13 133 (2.63%) Product Manager
14 129 (2.55%) Solutions Architect
15 116 (2.30%) Data Manager
16 110 (2.18%) Senior Analyst
17 104 (2.06%) Designer
18 85 (1.68%) Azure Engineer
19 75 (1.48%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (2.93%) PySpark
2 126 (2.49%) Kafka
3 97 (1.92%) HTML
4 96 (1.90%) .NET
5 94 (1.86%) CSS
6 73 (1.44%) PyTorch
7 62 (1.23%) REST
8 58 (1.15%) SAP Fiori
9 57 (1.13%) .NET Core
10 56 (1.11%) React
11 52 (1.03%) Node.js
12 50 (0.99%) Pandas
13 44 (0.87%) scikit-learn
13 44 (0.87%) TensorFlow
14 43 (0.85%) RESTful
15 41 (0.81%) LangChain
16 36 (0.71%) ASP.NET
16 36 (0.71%) ASP.NET Core
17 35 (0.69%) JSON
18 33 (0.65%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 300 (5.94%) Social Media
2 271 (5.36%) Cloud Native
3 198 (3.92%) Product Ownership
4 172 (3.40%) Onboarding
5 170 (3.36%) Analytical Mindset
6 156 (3.09%) Management Information System
7 118 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
8 111 (2.20%) Data Structures
9 96 (1.90%) Algorithms
10 89 (1.76%) Mobile App
11 84 (1.66%) Marketing Technology
12 74 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
13 67 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
14 60 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
15 58 (1.15%) Life Science
16 57 (1.13%) Public Cloud
17 47 (0.93%) Over-the-Top Content
18 46 (0.91%) Blog
19 43 (0.85%) e-Learning
20 42 (0.83%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 117 (2.31%) Windows
2 84 (1.66%) Linux
3 37 (0.73%) VMS
4 35 (0.69%) Windows 10
5 27 (0.53%) Apple iOS
6 19 (0.38%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.24%) Android
8 11 (0.22%) Unix
9 4 (0.079%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.059%) AIX
11 2 (0.040%) Debian
11 2 (0.040%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.020%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,574 (31.14%) AI
2 1,099 (21.75%) Decision-Making
3 1,073 (21.23%) Business Intelligence
4 957 (18.94%) Agile
5 820 (16.22%) Roadmaps
6 781 (15.45%) Data Modelling
7 768 (15.20%) Continuous Improvement
8 751 (14.86%) Problem-Solving
9 733 (14.50%) Data Analytics
10 675 (13.36%) Data Engineering
11 616 (12.19%) Data Pipeline
12 603 (11.93%) CI/CD
13 583 (11.54%) Machine Learning
14 568 (11.24%) Data Governance
15 544 (10.76%) Customer Experience
16 506 (10.01%) ETL
17 493 (9.75%) Data Science
18 486 (9.62%) Mentoring
19 455 (9.00%) Actionable Insight
20 450 (8.90%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1,309 (25.90%) SQL
2 1,114 (22.04%) Python
3 133 (2.63%) C#
4 122 (2.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 116 (2.30%) Java
6 114 (2.26%) PowerShell
7 87 (1.72%) JavaScript
8 80 (1.58%) R
9 73 (1.44%) TypeScript
10 72 (1.42%) Scala
11 57 (1.13%) Bicep
12 54 (1.07%) Bash
13 45 (0.89%) C++
14 44 (0.87%) Kusto Query Language
15 36 (0.71%) Go
16 31 (0.61%) T-SQL
17 23 (0.46%) Kotlin
18 21 (0.42%) Swift
18 21 (0.42%) VBA
19 19 (0.38%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 580 (11.48%) Degree
2 332 (6.57%) Security Cleared
3 221 (4.37%) SC Cleared
4 96 (1.90%) Master's Degree
5 94 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 90 (1.78%) Azure Certification
7 72 (1.42%) IRCA
8 55 (1.09%) DV Cleared
9 52 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
10 51 (1.01%) ACCA
10 51 (1.01%) DBS Check
11 46 (0.91%) AWS Certification
12 45 (0.89%) CIMA
13 44 (0.87%) CISSP
14 38 (0.75%) CISM
14 38 (0.75%) PhD
15 35 (0.69%) CTC Cleared
16 32 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
17 27 (0.53%) CISA
18 22 (0.44%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 654 (12.94%) Data Quality
2 405 (8.01%) Accessibility
3 324 (6.41%) GDPR
4 210 (4.16%) QA
5 96 (1.90%) WCAG
6 74 (1.46%) ISO 9001
7 62 (1.23%) SLA
8 46 (0.91%) NIST
9 40 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 36 (0.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 32 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
12 27 (0.53%) PCI DSS
13 21 (0.42%) COBIT
13 21 (0.42%) IFRS
14 17 (0.34%) PMO
15 15 (0.30%) HIPAA
15 15 (0.30%) SOC 2
16 14 (0.28%) PERC
17 13 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
17 13 (0.26%) GRC
System Software
1 164 (3.24%) Docker
2 93 (1.84%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.32%) vSphere
6 13 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.14%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.099%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.079%) IAG
10 2 (0.040%) Firmware
11 1 (0.020%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 246 (4.87%) Terraform
2 188 (3.72%) Kubernetes
3 49 (0.97%) Ansible
4 31 (0.61%) Prometheus
5 26 (0.51%) Grafana
6 13 (0.26%) EnCase
6 13 (0.26%) FTK
6 13 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.14%) FortiGate
9 6 (0.12%) Nagios
9 6 (0.12%) VxRail
10 5 (0.099%) Argo
10 5 (0.099%) Graylog
10 5 (0.099%) Kibana
11 4 (0.079%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.079%) Hadoop YARN
11 4 (0.079%) Packer
12 3 (0.059%) Control-M
12 3 (0.059%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 809 (16.01%) Microsoft
2 434 (8.59%) Databricks
3 359 (7.10%) Google
4 302 (5.98%) Adobe
5 245 (4.85%) SAP
6 138 (2.73%) Oracle
7 128 (2.53%) Salesforce
8 77 (1.52%) Cisco
9 70 (1.39%) HubSpot
10 53 (1.05%) Dell
11 50 (0.99%) Informatica
12 43 (0.85%) Workday
13 35 (0.69%) IBM
14 30 (0.59%) ServiceNow
15 29 (0.57%) Cognos
15 29 (0.57%) VMware
16 28 (0.55%) Alteryx
17 27 (0.53%) Cloudera
18 26 (0.51%) Hotjar
18 26 (0.51%) Teradata