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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 22 39
Rank change year-on-year -4 +17 -17
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 4,781 3,788 5,382
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.18% 8.57% 5.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.10% 9.24% 6.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2,863 1,671 3,359
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,000 £45,960 £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 £90,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £107,465
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.85% -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 67,331 40,980 87,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.88% 92.69% 82.42%
Number of salaries quoted 46,057 21,831 62,274
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 11 June 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 11 June 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 -4 4,268 £65,000 - 1,822
UK excluding London -5 2,582 £60,000 +9.09% 1,206
London +3 1,815 £80,000 - 926
Work from Home +6 1,504 £65,000 +8.33% 984
North of England +33 857 £60,000 +14.29% 335
Midlands +10 556 £57,500 +9.52% 182
North West +33 499 £60,000 +14.29% 208
South East -28 477 £55,000 -8.33% 423
West Midlands -2 315 £57,500 +4.55% 122
Yorkshire +13 254 £60,000 +0.33% 82
South West -28 241 £60,000 +4.35% 136
East Midlands +36 238 £56,250 +15.98% 60
East of England +34 227 £60,000 +17.07% 68
Scotland -4 130 £65,000 -7.14% 39
North East +18 104 £48,000 -5.88% 46
Wales -6 51 £60,000 +41.18% 21
Northern Ireland -14 45 £45,000 +50.00% 24

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
1 149 (3.12%) Apache Airflow
2 144 (3.01%) Apache Spark
3 118 (2.47%) CMS
4 96 (2.01%) Apache
5 63 (1.32%) Confluence
6 48 (1.00%) SAS
6 48 (1.00%) SharePoint
7 47 (0.98%) WordPress
8 35 (0.73%) ArcGIS
9 22 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
10 16 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
11 10 (0.21%) Drupal
12 9 (0.19%) Jupyter
13 7 (0.15%) Oracle Application Server
14 5 (0.10%) IIS
14 5 (0.10%) Umbraco
15 4 (0.084%) Documentum
15 4 (0.084%) Headless CMS
16 3 (0.063%) Oracle Workflow
16 3 (0.063%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 270 (5.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 90 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
3 49 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 38 (0.79%) UserZoom
5 26 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
6 17 (0.36%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.36%) SPSS
7 15 (0.31%) Adobe XD
8 12 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 11 (0.23%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.10%) Trello
11 4 (0.084%) InDesign
11 4 (0.084%) Microsoft Project
11 4 (0.084%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.063%) Adobe Illustrator
12 3 (0.063%) Sketch
13 1 (0.021%) Adobe Premiere
13 1 (0.021%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 85 (1.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (0.71%) Adobe Campaign
2 34 (0.71%) SAP IBP
3 33 (0.69%) SAP PP
4 21 (0.44%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 19 (0.40%) Shopify
6 18 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
7 15 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
8 14 (0.29%) Magento
9 13 (0.27%) iTrent
10 12 (0.25%) NetSuite
11 7 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
11 7 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
11 7 (0.15%) SAP CO
12 6 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
12 6 (0.13%) SAP ERP
12 6 (0.13%) SAP PM
12 6 (0.13%) SAP Travel Management
13 5 (0.10%) SAP PS
13 5 (0.10%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 964 (20.16%) Azure
2 738 (15.44%) Power Platform
3 619 (12.95%) AWS
4 301 (6.30%) GCP
5 289 (6.04%) SaaS
6 215 (4.50%) Snowflake
7 204 (4.27%) Adobe Analytics
8 186 (3.89%) Google Analytics
9 175 (3.66%) Azure Data Factory
10 163 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
11 137 (2.87%) Microsoft 365
12 135 (2.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 129 (2.70%) GitHub
14 126 (2.64%) Amazon S3
15 121 (2.53%) dbt
16 120 (2.51%) Serverless
17 116 (2.43%) Figma
18 108 (2.26%) Entra ID
19 82 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
20 71 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 264 (5.52%) Broadband
2 42 (0.88%) Firewall
2 42 (0.88%) VPN
3 33 (0.69%) DNS
4 27 (0.56%) Network Security
5 24 (0.50%) TCP/IP
6 22 (0.46%) CHAP
7 19 (0.40%) BGP
8 18 (0.38%) WAN
9 17 (0.36%) VLAN
10 16 (0.33%) DHCP
10 16 (0.33%) OSPF
11 14 (0.29%) SMS
11 14 (0.29%) Unified Communications
12 11 (0.23%) Intranet
13 10 (0.21%) SNMP
14 9 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
15 8 (0.17%) 5G
15 8 (0.17%) VXLAN
16 6 (0.13%) IPFIX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 702 (14.68%) Power BI
2 316 (6.61%) Data Warehouse
3 313 (6.55%) Tableau
4 200 (4.18%) Data Lake
5 165 (3.45%) Metadata
6 144 (3.01%) SQL Server
7 121 (2.53%) Looker
8 109 (2.28%) BigQuery
9 108 (2.26%) Amazon Redshift
10 99 (2.07%) Data Mining
11 96 (2.01%) Azure SQL Database
12 93 (1.95%) Relational Database
13 90 (1.88%) Big Data
14 83 (1.74%) NoSQL
15 70 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
16 66 (1.38%) Power Query
17 56 (1.17%) MongoDB
17 56 (1.17%) Star Schema
18 50 (1.05%) Delta Lake
19 46 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 165 (3.45%) Git
2 74 (1.55%) Jenkins
3 69 (1.44%) JIRA
4 41 (0.86%) MLflow
5 36 (0.75%) GitLab
6 25 (0.52%) IBM UrbanCode
6 25 (0.52%) TeamCity
7 20 (0.42%) Crashlytics
8 16 (0.33%) CircleCI
9 14 (0.29%) XCTest
10 12 (0.25%) fastlane
11 11 (0.23%) Claude Code
11 11 (0.23%) ERwin
12 10 (0.21%) Axure RP
12 10 (0.21%) Balsamiq
13 9 (0.19%) Selenium
13 9 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 8 (0.17%) Visual Studio
15 7 (0.15%) Gradle
15 7 (0.15%) Xcode
General
1 1,291 (27.00%) Finance
2 1,174 (24.56%) Social Skills
3 1,063 (22.23%) Analytical Skills
4 652 (13.64%) Marketing
5 270 (5.65%) Retail
6 267 (5.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 265 (5.54%) Public Sector
8 222 (4.64%) Law
9 217 (4.54%) Games
10 211 (4.41%) Banking
11 178 (3.72%) Legal
12 137 (2.87%) Manufacturing
13 129 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
14 125 (2.61%) Automotive
15 114 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
16 109 (2.28%) Advertising
17 87 (1.82%) Financial Institution
18 72 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
19 55 (1.15%) Back Office
20 53 (1.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 861 (18.01%) Senior
2 598 (12.51%) Analyst
3 548 (11.46%) Data Engineer
4 530 (11.09%) Lead
5 344 (7.20%) Architect
6 302 (6.32%) Data Analyst
7 301 (6.30%) Developer
8 190 (3.97%) Consultant
9 178 (3.72%) Data Architect
10 145 (3.03%) Senior Data Engineer
10 145 (3.03%) Senior Manager
11 131 (2.74%) Data Scientist
12 123 (2.57%) Product Manager
13 112 (2.34%) Analytics Manager
14 108 (2.26%) Data Manager
14 108 (2.26%) Senior Analyst
15 103 (2.15%) Designer
15 103 (2.15%) Solutions Architect
16 91 (1.90%) Trainee
16 91 (1.90%) Trainee Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (2.93%) PySpark
2 117 (2.45%) Kafka
3 93 (1.95%) .NET
4 89 (1.86%) HTML
5 85 (1.78%) CSS
6 76 (1.59%) PyTorch
7 54 (1.13%) SAP Fiori
8 53 (1.11%) .NET Core
9 52 (1.09%) React
10 48 (1.00%) REST
10 48 (1.00%) TensorFlow
11 46 (0.96%) Pandas
12 44 (0.92%) RESTful
13 42 (0.88%) LangChain
14 41 (0.86%) scikit-learn
15 36 (0.75%) JSON
16 35 (0.73%) Node.js
17 31 (0.65%) YAML
18 30 (0.63%) OAuth
19 26 (0.54%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 283 (5.92%) Social Media
2 213 (4.46%) Cloud Native
3 189 (3.95%) Product Ownership
4 163 (3.41%) Analytical Mindset
5 158 (3.30%) Management Information System
6 110 (2.30%) Onboarding
7 109 (2.28%) Greenfield Project
8 105 (2.20%) Algorithms
9 96 (2.01%) Data Structures
10 81 (1.69%) Marketing Technology
10 81 (1.69%) Mobile App
10 81 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
11 68 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
12 63 (1.32%) Life Science
13 61 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
14 58 (1.21%) Over-the-Top Content
15 48 (1.00%) Public Cloud
16 42 (0.88%) e-Learning
17 41 (0.86%) Virtual Team
18 37 (0.77%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 117 (2.45%) Windows
2 66 (1.38%) Linux
3 48 (1.00%) Windows 10
4 33 (0.69%) VMS
5 26 (0.54%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.33%) Windows Server
7 15 (0.31%) Unix
8 12 (0.25%) Android
9 3 (0.063%) AIX
10 2 (0.042%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.021%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,372 (28.70%) AI
2 1,024 (21.42%) Decision-Making
3 996 (20.83%) Business Intelligence
4 903 (18.89%) Agile
5 733 (15.33%) Data Modelling
6 717 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 715 (14.96%) Roadmaps
8 710 (14.85%) Problem-Solving
9 706 (14.77%) Data Analytics
10 630 (13.18%) Data Engineering
11 573 (11.98%) Data Pipeline
12 561 (11.73%) CI/CD
13 543 (11.36%) Data Governance
14 529 (11.06%) Customer Experience
15 516 (10.79%) Machine Learning
16 488 (10.21%) ETL
17 486 (10.17%) Data Science
18 443 (9.27%) Actionable Insight
19 439 (9.18%) Mentoring
20 437 (9.14%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1,239 (25.92%) SQL
2 1,082 (22.63%) Python
3 125 (2.61%) C#
4 118 (2.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 107 (2.24%) Java
6 93 (1.95%) PowerShell
7 89 (1.86%) R
8 85 (1.78%) Scala
9 79 (1.65%) JavaScript
10 56 (1.17%) TypeScript
11 44 (0.92%) C++
12 42 (0.88%) Bash
12 42 (0.88%) Bicep
13 36 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
14 33 (0.69%) T-SQL
15 31 (0.65%) Go
16 23 (0.48%) Kotlin
17 22 (0.46%) VBA
18 20 (0.42%) Swift
19 17 (0.36%) Julia
Qualifications
1 566 (11.84%) Degree
2 299 (6.25%) Security Cleared
3 210 (4.39%) SC Cleared
4 98 (2.05%) Master's Degree
5 76 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 74 (1.55%) Azure Certification
7 72 (1.51%) IRCA
8 51 (1.07%) ACCA
9 48 (1.00%) CISSP
9 48 (1.00%) CTC Cleared
9 48 (1.00%) DV Cleared
10 45 (0.94%) CIMA
10 45 (0.94%) DBS Check
11 42 (0.88%) CISM
12 40 (0.84%) PhD
13 39 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
14 38 (0.79%) CISA
15 31 (0.65%) AWS Certification
16 30 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
17 25 (0.52%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 612 (12.80%) Data Quality
2 383 (8.01%) Accessibility
3 317 (6.63%) GDPR
4 189 (3.95%) QA
5 97 (2.03%) WCAG
6 76 (1.59%) ISO 9001
7 70 (1.46%) SLA
8 46 (0.96%) NIST
9 45 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 36 (0.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 32 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
12 27 (0.56%) COBIT
13 26 (0.54%) IFRS
14 19 (0.40%) PCI DSS
15 18 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 17 (0.36%) SOC 2
17 15 (0.31%) GAAP
17 15 (0.31%) HIPAA
18 14 (0.29%) GRC
18 14 (0.29%) PERC
System Software
1 156 (3.26%) Docker
2 90 (1.88%) Active Directory
3 21 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.17%) vSphere
6 7 (0.15%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.084%) IAG
8 4 (0.084%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.042%) Firmware
10 1 (0.021%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 232 (4.85%) Terraform
2 180 (3.76%) Kubernetes
3 40 (0.84%) Ansible
4 31 (0.65%) Grafana
4 31 (0.65%) Prometheus
5 15 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (0.23%) EnCase
6 11 (0.23%) FTK
7 10 (0.21%) Kibana
8 8 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (0.13%) Control-M
9 6 (0.13%) FortiGate
9 6 (0.13%) Nagios
10 5 (0.10%) VxRail
11 4 (0.084%) Argo
11 4 (0.084%) Graylog
12 3 (0.063%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.063%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.042%) vRealize
Vendors
1 776 (16.23%) Microsoft
2 405 (8.47%) Databricks
3 329 (6.88%) Google
4 298 (6.23%) Adobe
5 216 (4.52%) SAP
6 143 (2.99%) Salesforce
7 124 (2.59%) Oracle
8 97 (2.03%) Cisco
9 70 (1.46%) HubSpot
10 53 (1.11%) Dell
11 46 (0.96%) Informatica
12 35 (0.73%) Workday
13 27 (0.56%) Cloudera
13 27 (0.56%) IBM
14 26 (0.54%) Teradata
15 25 (0.52%) Alteryx
15 25 (0.52%) Braze
15 25 (0.52%) Cognos
15 25 (0.52%) Red Hat
15 25 (0.52%) ServiceNow