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

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 28 30
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 -6
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 3,705 3,452 3,872
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 6.07% 6.48% 6.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.52% 7.13% 7.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,939 1,713 2,673
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.89% +12.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £114,000 £118,750 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.28% +3.64% -0.45%

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 49,245 48,425 53,180
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.71% 90.86% 89.54%
Number of salaries quoted 28,981 23,503 40,689
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +3.45% -7.20%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 18 January 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 18 January 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 3,183 £63,500 -9.29% 2,887
UK excluding London +4 1,898 £50,000 -12.28% 2,638
London +4 1,510 £75,000 -11.76% 714
Work from Home -1 1,120 £63,076 -4.96% 1,072
South East +19 565 £55,000 -8.33% 931
North of England -17 385 £52,500 -4.55% 476
Midlands 0 329 £55,000 - 361
Scotland +7 240 £51,250 -15.11% 95
South West +9 194 £55,000 +1.03% 301
North West -24 193 £50,000 -9.09% 208
West Midlands -10 190 £58,764 +3.09% 132
Yorkshire -4 151 £55,233 +15.07% 199
East Midlands +16 140 £45,390 -9.22% 221
East of England +41 120 £40,000 -36.00% 359
North East +20 42 £42,500 -19.43% 72
Northern Ireland +4 40 £45,000 -34.55% 63
Wales +23 28 £45,750 -7.67% 123

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 86 (2.32%) Apache Spark
2 81 (2.19%) CMS
3 74 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
4 54 (1.46%) WordPress
5 43 (1.16%) Confluence
5 43 (1.16%) SharePoint
6 42 (1.13%) Apache
7 25 (0.67%) SAS
8 20 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 16 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
10 11 (0.30%) Drupal
11 9 (0.24%) Umbraco
12 7 (0.19%) SugarCRM
13 6 (0.16%) IIS
14 4 (0.11%) Apache Superset
14 4 (0.11%) Appian
14 4 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
15 3 (0.081%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 3 (0.081%) ArcGIS
15 3 (0.081%) Joomla!
Applications
1 531 (14.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 114 (3.08%) Microsoft Office
3 59 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 29 (0.78%) Adobe XD
4 29 (0.78%) Maya
5 24 (0.65%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 21 (0.57%) Photoshop
7 19 (0.51%) InDesign
8 15 (0.40%) Chatbot
8 15 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
9 12 (0.32%) Adobe Premiere
9 12 (0.32%) SPSS
10 10 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
10 10 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
10 10 (0.27%) Trello
11 6 (0.16%) MS Visio
12 4 (0.11%) SketchUp
13 3 (0.081%) Final Cut Pro
13 3 (0.081%) Oracle Smart View
13 3 (0.081%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 68 (1.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 61 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 34 (0.92%) Oracle ERP
4 26 (0.70%) Shopify
5 23 (0.62%) SAP CO
6 22 (0.59%) SAP IBP
7 21 (0.57%) Magento
8 16 (0.43%) Oracle Assets
8 16 (0.43%) Oracle General Ledger
8 16 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
8 16 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
8 16 (0.43%) SAP FI
8 16 (0.43%) SAP FI/CO
9 15 (0.40%) Oracle Financials
10 14 (0.38%) Dynamics GP
11 13 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
12 10 (0.27%) NetSuite
12 10 (0.27%) SAP FSCM
13 9 (0.24%) IBM Planning Analytics
13 9 (0.24%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 956 (25.80%) Azure
2 751 (20.27%) Power Platform
3 375 (10.12%) AWS
4 219 (5.91%) SaaS
5 213 (5.75%) GCP
6 195 (5.26%) Snowflake
7 187 (5.05%) Azure Data Factory
8 185 (4.99%) Google Analytics
9 175 (4.72%) Azure DevOps
10 158 (4.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 151 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
12 149 (4.02%) GitHub
13 115 (3.10%) dbt
14 85 (2.29%) Entra ID
15 84 (2.27%) Azure Monitor
16 70 (1.89%) Serverless
17 65 (1.75%) Amazon S3
18 64 (1.73%) Figma
19 63 (1.70%) Google Ads
20 60 (1.62%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 40 (1.08%) VPN
2 39 (1.05%) Broadband
3 34 (0.92%) SMS
4 33 (0.89%) Firewall
5 15 (0.40%) DNS
5 15 (0.40%) Unified Communications
5 15 (0.40%) WAN
6 14 (0.38%) CHAP
7 11 (0.30%) Network Security
8 10 (0.27%) Intranet
9 8 (0.22%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.13%) DHCP
10 5 (0.13%) HTTPS
10 5 (0.13%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (0.13%) Wireshark
11 4 (0.11%) Internet
11 4 (0.11%) VoIP
12 3 (0.081%) HTTP
12 3 (0.081%) MQTT
12 3 (0.081%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 716 (19.33%) Power BI
2 396 (10.69%) Tableau
3 321 (8.66%) Data Warehouse
4 246 (6.64%) Data Lake
5 164 (4.43%) Metadata
6 153 (4.13%) Data Mining
7 148 (3.99%) SQL Server
8 96 (2.59%) Azure SQL Database
9 95 (2.56%) SAP BW
10 94 (2.54%) Looker
11 85 (2.29%) Big Data
12 68 (1.84%) NoSQL
12 68 (1.84%) Relational Database
12 68 (1.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 64 (1.73%) Amazon Redshift
13 64 (1.73%) BigQuery
14 55 (1.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 48 (1.30%) Power Query
16 45 (1.21%) Hadoop
17 40 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 121 (3.27%) Git
2 113 (3.05%) JIRA
3 63 (1.70%) Jenkins
4 31 (0.84%) Oracle Forms
5 26 (0.70%) Axure RP
5 26 (0.70%) Balsamiq
6 23 (0.62%) TeamCity
7 19 (0.51%) ERwin
7 19 (0.51%) GitLab
8 17 (0.46%) Visual Studio
9 13 (0.35%) MLflow
9 13 (0.35%) Selenium
10 8 (0.22%) PowerDesigner
11 7 (0.19%) ER Studio
12 6 (0.16%) Postman
13 5 (0.13%) CircleCI
13 5 (0.13%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.13%) MSI
13 5 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
14 4 (0.11%) Maven
General
1 1,292 (34.87%) Finance
2 1,249 (33.71%) Social Skills
3 1,086 (29.31%) Analytical Skills
4 678 (18.30%) Marketing
5 254 (6.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 241 (6.50%) Law
7 212 (5.72%) Public Sector
8 211 (5.70%) Banking
9 201 (5.43%) Retail
10 152 (4.10%) Manufacturing
11 138 (3.72%) Presentation Skills
12 133 (3.59%) Legal
13 97 (2.62%) Games
14 95 (2.56%) Financial Institution
15 93 (2.51%) Pharmaceutical
16 75 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
17 72 (1.94%) Automotive
18 69 (1.86%) Advertising
19 67 (1.81%) Front Office
20 63 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 603 (16.28%) Analyst
2 591 (15.95%) Senior
3 457 (12.33%) Lead
4 325 (8.77%) Data Analyst
5 322 (8.69%) Data Engineer
6 282 (7.61%) Architect
7 218 (5.88%) Developer
8 140 (3.78%) Senior Manager
9 123 (3.32%) Trainee
9 123 (3.32%) Trainee Analyst
9 123 (3.32%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 119 (3.21%) Data Architect
11 85 (2.29%) Consultant
12 83 (2.24%) Data Manager
12 83 (2.24%) Solutions Architect
13 75 (2.02%) Senior Analyst
14 74 (2.00%) Data Scientist
15 71 (1.92%) Report Analyst
16 67 (1.81%) Marketing Manager
17 65 (1.75%) Business Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (2.21%) HTML
2 72 (1.94%) PySpark
3 71 (1.92%) CSS
4 70 (1.89%) Kafka
5 61 (1.65%) OAuth
6 58 (1.57%) RESTful
7 57 (1.54%) React
8 54 (1.46%) REST
9 50 (1.35%) PyTorch
10 49 (1.32%) .NET
11 47 (1.27%) TensorFlow
12 45 (1.21%) JSON
13 38 (1.03%) OAuth2
14 32 (0.86%) SAML
15 29 (0.78%) Node.js
16 28 (0.76%) scikit-learn
17 26 (0.70%) Middleware
17 26 (0.70%) Pandas
18 25 (0.67%) FIX Protocol
19 23 (0.62%) Akka
Miscellaneous
1 174 (4.70%) Analytical Mindset
1 174 (4.70%) Self-Motivation
2 164 (4.43%) Onboarding
2 164 (4.43%) Product Ownership
3 148 (3.99%) Cloud Native
4 144 (3.89%) Management Information System
5 141 (3.81%) Social Media
6 111 (3.00%) Algorithms
7 88 (2.38%) Life Science
8 82 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
9 63 (1.70%) Data Structures
10 59 (1.59%) FMCG
11 58 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
12 46 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
13 45 (1.21%) Data Centre
14 40 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
14 40 (1.08%) Virtual Team
15 38 (1.03%) Fixed Income
16 28 (0.76%) Blog
17 27 (0.73%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 100 (2.70%) Windows
2 44 (1.19%) Windows 10
3 42 (1.13%) Linux
4 31 (0.84%) Unix
5 14 (0.38%) VMS
6 11 (0.30%) Windows Server
7 10 (0.27%) Android
8 9 (0.24%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.054%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.027%) AIX
10 1 (0.027%) Debian
10 1 (0.027%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,001 (27.02%) Business Intelligence
2 994 (26.83%) AI
3 848 (22.89%) Decision-Making
4 812 (21.92%) Problem-Solving
5 734 (19.81%) Data Analytics
6 694 (18.73%) Agile
7 682 (18.41%) Continuous Improvement
8 606 (16.36%) Data Modelling
9 482 (13.01%) Data Governance
10 468 (12.63%) Data Science
11 465 (12.55%) Machine Learning
12 462 (12.47%) Data Analysis
13 457 (12.33%) Stakeholder Management
14 455 (12.28%) Roadmaps
15 446 (12.04%) Project Management
16 425 (11.47%) Data Engineering
17 418 (11.28%) Visualisation
18 406 (10.96%) ETL
19 399 (10.77%) Data Pipeline
20 390 (10.53%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 983 (26.53%) SQL
2 911 (24.59%) Python
3 123 (3.32%) Java
4 113 (3.05%) JavaScript
5 82 (2.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 79 (2.13%) C#
7 76 (2.05%) Scala
8 72 (1.94%) PowerShell
9 68 (1.84%) R
10 50 (1.35%) Bicep
11 44 (1.19%) T-SQL
12 33 (0.89%) C++
13 31 (0.84%) Bash
14 30 (0.81%) TypeScript
15 26 (0.70%) PL/SQL
16 23 (0.62%) Go
16 23 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
17 21 (0.57%) Shell Script
18 18 (0.49%) VBA
19 14 (0.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 852 (23.00%) Degree
2 213 (5.75%) Security Cleared
3 199 (5.37%) Master's Degree
4 154 (4.16%) SC Cleared
5 115 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 97 (2.62%) PhD
7 90 (2.43%) DBS Check
8 59 (1.59%) CISSP
9 55 (1.48%) CISA
10 49 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
11 47 (1.27%) Azure Certification
12 46 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
12 46 (1.24%) Numerate Degree
13 44 (1.19%) CTC Cleared
14 40 (1.08%) CISM
15 39 (1.05%) PMI Certification
16 38 (1.03%) ACCA
17 31 (0.84%) PMP
18 25 (0.67%) CIMA
19 23 (0.62%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 522 (14.09%) Data Quality
2 272 (7.34%) GDPR
3 208 (5.61%) Accessibility
4 82 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 80 (2.16%) QA
6 55 (1.48%) SLA
7 50 (1.35%) NIST
8 43 (1.16%) GxP
8 43 (1.16%) WCAG
9 36 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
10 31 (0.84%) COBIT
11 25 (0.67%) Solvency II
12 23 (0.62%) HIPAA
13 22 (0.59%) EU AI Act
14 21 (0.57%) IFRS
14 21 (0.57%) PSD2
15 20 (0.54%) GRC
16 17 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 16 (0.43%) PMO
18 15 (0.40%) SOC 2
System Software
1 118 (3.18%) Docker
2 52 (1.40%) Active Directory
3 33 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (0.22%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.11%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.054%) Firmware
8 2 (0.054%) vSphere
9 1 (0.027%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.027%) vCloud
9 1 (0.027%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 184 (4.97%) Terraform
2 138 (3.72%) Kubernetes
3 37 (1.00%) Ansible
4 28 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
5 25 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
6 21 (0.57%) Grafana
7 16 (0.43%) Prometheus
8 11 (0.30%) QRadar
8 11 (0.30%) SCCM
9 8 (0.22%) EnCase
9 8 (0.22%) FTK
10 6 (0.16%) Kibana
10 6 (0.16%) RSA Archer
10 6 (0.16%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 5 (0.13%) Argo
11 5 (0.13%) SCOM
12 3 (0.081%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.081%) ArcSight ESM
12 3 (0.081%) Control-M
13 1 (0.027%) Ganglia
Vendors
1 735 (19.84%) Microsoft
2 314 (8.48%) Google
3 247 (6.67%) Databricks
4 241 (6.50%) SAP
5 211 (5.70%) Salesforce
6 140 (3.78%) Oracle
7 128 (3.45%) Adobe
8 115 (3.10%) Cisco
9 68 (1.84%) HubSpot
10 58 (1.57%) Alteryx
11 41 (1.11%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 34 (0.92%) Bloomberg
13 33 (0.89%) ServiceNow
14 31 (0.84%) OpenAI
15 30 (0.81%) Dell
15 30 (0.81%) Talend
16 27 (0.73%) Informatica
17 25 (0.67%) YouTube
18 23 (0.62%) IBM
19 22 (0.59%) Sage