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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 24 37
Rank change year-on-year -9 +13 -12
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 4,145 3,278 4,621
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.69% 7.46% 5.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.29% 7.97% 6.32%
Number of salaries quoted 2,258 1,634 3,274
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £33,325
25th Percentile £44,049 £47,813 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -8.19%
75th Percentile £87,188 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £106,625 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year - +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 56,840 41,126 73,167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.06% 93.65% 87.53%
Number of salaries quoted 34,202 22,190 55,823
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.41%
75th Percentile £77,219 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £94,500
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 10 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 10 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 -6 3,556 £65,000 -7.14% 2,417
UK excluding London -11 2,059 £55,000 - 1,751
London +5 1,688 £80,000 -5.88% 782
Work from Home -3 1,319 £63,750 +2.00% 1,232
North of England -17 524 £52,250 -5.00% 389
South East +1 485 £57,500 -4.17% 619
Midlands -8 414 £52,500 - 248
West Midlands -13 262 £57,500 +4.55% 137
North West -25 261 £59,000 +7.27% 196
Yorkshire -7 205 £49,500 -10.00% 142
Scotland -7 205 £65,000 -11.93% 70
South West -10 199 £55,000 +1.03% 179
East Midlands +1 150 £48,000 +3.78% 107
East of England +36 149 £50,000 -23.08% 208
North East +12 58 £40,000 -20.79% 54
Northern Ireland -5 54 £45,000 +50.00% 18
Wales +11 32 £65,000 +31.18% 51

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
1 138 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
2 118 (2.85%) Apache Spark
3 103 (2.48%) CMS
4 77 (1.86%) Apache
5 52 (1.25%) Confluence
5 52 (1.25%) WordPress
6 45 (1.09%) SharePoint
7 40 (0.97%) SAS
8 33 (0.80%) ArcGIS
9 19 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
10 18 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
11 17 (0.41%) Drupal
12 14 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 8 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
13 8 (0.19%) Umbraco
14 6 (0.14%) IIS
15 4 (0.097%) Appian
15 4 (0.097%) Documentum
15 4 (0.097%) Sitecore CMS
16 3 (0.072%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 412 (9.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 124 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
3 63 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (0.63%) Adobe XD
5 19 (0.46%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.43%) InDesign
7 15 (0.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 15 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
7 15 (0.36%) UserZoom
8 14 (0.34%) Photoshop
9 11 (0.27%) Adobe Premiere
9 11 (0.27%) SPSS
10 8 (0.19%) Chatbot
10 8 (0.19%) Maya
10 8 (0.19%) Trello
11 6 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
11 6 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
12 3 (0.072%) Final Cut Pro
12 3 (0.072%) SketchUp
13 2 (0.048%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 77 (1.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 47 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 35 (0.84%) SAP IBP
4 34 (0.82%) SAP PP
5 31 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
6 17 (0.41%) Shopify
7 16 (0.39%) Magento
7 16 (0.39%) SAP CO
8 15 (0.36%) iTrent
8 15 (0.36%) NetSuite
9 14 (0.34%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 13 (0.31%) Dynamics GP
10 13 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
10 13 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
10 13 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
11 12 (0.29%) Oracle Assets
11 12 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
11 12 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
12 11 (0.27%) SAP ERP
13 7 (0.17%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 937 (22.61%) Azure
2 660 (15.92%) Power Platform
3 478 (11.53%) AWS
4 241 (5.81%) SaaS
5 232 (5.60%) Snowflake
6 223 (5.38%) GCP
7 214 (5.16%) Azure Data Factory
8 183 (4.41%) Google Analytics
9 167 (4.03%) Azure DevOps
10 163 (3.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 163 (3.93%) Microsoft 365
11 150 (3.62%) GitHub
12 136 (3.28%) Adobe Analytics
13 125 (3.02%) dbt
14 109 (2.63%) Amazon S3
15 105 (2.53%) Figma
16 97 (2.34%) Entra ID
17 88 (2.12%) Azure Monitor
18 86 (2.07%) Serverless
19 64 (1.54%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 150 (3.62%) Broadband
2 39 (0.94%) VPN
3 36 (0.87%) Firewall
4 24 (0.58%) CHAP
5 23 (0.55%) WAN
6 18 (0.43%) DNS
7 16 (0.39%) Network Security
8 14 (0.34%) Intranet
9 13 (0.31%) Unified Communications
10 12 (0.29%) TCP/IP
11 8 (0.19%) DHCP
12 6 (0.14%) HTTPS
13 5 (0.12%) SNMP
14 4 (0.097%) HTTP
14 4 (0.097%) Intrusion Detection
15 3 (0.072%) Internet
15 3 (0.072%) LAN
15 3 (0.072%) MQTT
15 3 (0.072%) VoIP
16 2 (0.048%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 626 (15.10%) Power BI
2 410 (9.89%) Tableau
3 339 (8.18%) Data Warehouse
4 214 (5.16%) Data Lake
5 189 (4.56%) Metadata
6 187 (4.51%) Data Mining
7 153 (3.69%) SQL Server
8 109 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
9 103 (2.48%) Looker
10 84 (2.03%) Relational Database
11 77 (1.86%) Amazon Redshift
12 74 (1.79%) BigQuery
13 71 (1.71%) Big Data
14 70 (1.69%) NoSQL
15 64 (1.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 59 (1.42%) Power Query
17 52 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 46 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
19 43 (1.04%) Snowflake Schema
20 42 (1.01%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 152 (3.67%) Git
2 112 (2.70%) JIRA
3 68 (1.64%) Jenkins
4 30 (0.72%) GitLab
5 26 (0.63%) MLflow
6 25 (0.60%) IBM UrbanCode
7 24 (0.58%) Axure RP
7 24 (0.58%) Balsamiq
8 23 (0.55%) Oracle Forms
8 23 (0.55%) TeamCity
9 19 (0.46%) Visual Studio
10 13 (0.31%) ERwin
11 11 (0.27%) CircleCI
12 9 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 8 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
13 8 (0.19%) Selenium
14 6 (0.14%) Crashlytics
14 6 (0.14%) Cypress.io
15 5 (0.12%) ER Studio
15 5 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,367 (32.98%) Finance
2 1,203 (29.02%) Social Skills
3 1,062 (25.62%) Analytical Skills
4 642 (15.49%) Marketing
5 281 (6.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 254 (6.13%) Banking
7 249 (6.01%) Public Sector
8 211 (5.09%) Law
9 202 (4.87%) Retail
10 165 (3.98%) Legal
10 165 (3.98%) Manufacturing
11 151 (3.64%) Games
12 122 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
13 110 (2.65%) Financial Institution
14 91 (2.20%) Advertising
14 91 (2.20%) Automotive
15 90 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
16 86 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
17 78 (1.88%) Pharmaceutical
18 69 (1.66%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 674 (16.26%) Senior
2 634 (15.30%) Analyst
3 453 (10.93%) Lead
4 387 (9.34%) Data Engineer
5 362 (8.73%) Data Analyst
6 314 (7.58%) Architect
7 231 (5.57%) Developer
8 163 (3.93%) Trainee
8 163 (3.93%) Trainee Analyst
8 163 (3.93%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 154 (3.72%) Consultant
10 147 (3.55%) Senior Manager
11 141 (3.40%) Data Architect
12 107 (2.58%) Designer
13 97 (2.34%) Solutions Architect
14 89 (2.15%) Data Manager
15 85 (2.05%) Support Engineer
16 84 (2.03%) Data Scientist
17 83 (2.00%) Senior Analyst
18 79 (1.91%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (2.56%) PySpark
2 97 (2.34%) Kafka
3 96 (2.32%) HTML
4 88 (2.12%) CSS
5 77 (1.86%) PyTorch
6 65 (1.57%) .NET
7 59 (1.42%) React
8 58 (1.40%) OAuth
9 57 (1.38%) TensorFlow
10 54 (1.30%) RESTful
11 49 (1.18%) SAP Fiori
12 47 (1.13%) REST
13 45 (1.09%) JSON
14 35 (0.84%) OAuth2
15 33 (0.80%) Pandas
16 32 (0.77%) .NET Core
16 32 (0.77%) LangChain
17 29 (0.70%) Node.js
18 28 (0.68%) scikit-learn
19 27 (0.65%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 253 (6.10%) Social Media
2 187 (4.51%) Cloud Native
3 180 (4.34%) Product Ownership
4 179 (4.32%) Self-Motivation
5 154 (3.72%) Analytical Mindset
6 151 (3.64%) Management Information System
7 123 (2.97%) Onboarding
8 121 (2.92%) Algorithms
9 115 (2.77%) Life Science
10 75 (1.81%) Data Structures
11 72 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
12 62 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
13 60 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
14 52 (1.25%) Mobile App
15 43 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
16 41 (0.99%) Virtual Team
17 39 (0.94%) Fixed Income
18 37 (0.89%) Web Conferencing
19 33 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
19 33 (0.80%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 110 (2.65%) Windows
2 60 (1.45%) Windows 10
3 41 (0.99%) Linux
4 24 (0.58%) Unix
4 24 (0.58%) VMS
5 15 (0.36%) Apple iOS
6 14 (0.34%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.29%) Android
8 2 (0.048%) AIX
8 2 (0.048%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,177 (28.40%) AI
2 913 (22.03%) Business Intelligence
3 863 (20.82%) Decision-Making
4 842 (20.31%) Agile
5 779 (18.79%) Data Analytics
6 710 (17.13%) Continuous Improvement
7 702 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
8 630 (15.20%) Data Modelling
9 519 (12.52%) Data Governance
10 517 (12.47%) Roadmaps
11 508 (12.26%) Data Engineering
12 505 (12.18%) Data Analysis
13 501 (12.09%) Data Science
14 488 (11.77%) Machine Learning
15 471 (11.36%) Data Pipeline
16 462 (11.15%) Project Management
17 451 (10.88%) ETL
18 449 (10.83%) CI/CD
19 413 (9.96%) Customer Experience
20 408 (9.84%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1,099 (26.51%) SQL
2 1,015 (24.49%) Python
3 113 (2.73%) JavaScript
4 105 (2.53%) Java
5 93 (2.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 91 (2.20%) C#
7 75 (1.81%) Scala
8 70 (1.69%) PowerShell
8 70 (1.69%) R
9 50 (1.21%) Bicep
10 43 (1.04%) C++
11 42 (1.01%) T-SQL
12 40 (0.97%) TypeScript
13 35 (0.84%) Kusto Query Language
14 28 (0.68%) Go
15 26 (0.63%) Bash
16 21 (0.51%) PL/SQL
17 19 (0.46%) Shell Script
18 15 (0.36%) VBA
19 12 (0.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 717 (17.30%) Degree
2 270 (6.51%) Security Cleared
3 193 (4.66%) SC Cleared
4 153 (3.69%) Master's Degree
5 121 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 62 (1.50%) PhD
7 60 (1.45%) CTC Cleared
8 55 (1.33%) Azure Certification
8 55 (1.33%) CISSP
9 51 (1.23%) CISA
10 49 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
11 48 (1.16%) IRCA
12 46 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
12 46 (1.11%) CISM
13 45 (1.09%) Numerate Degree
14 42 (1.01%) DBS Check
15 38 (0.92%) ACCA
16 32 (0.77%) DV Cleared
17 31 (0.75%) PMI Certification
18 28 (0.68%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 550 (13.27%) Data Quality
2 331 (7.99%) Accessibility
3 311 (7.50%) GDPR
4 136 (3.28%) QA
5 77 (1.86%) SLA
6 69 (1.66%) WCAG
7 68 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 59 (1.42%) ISO 9001
9 50 (1.21%) NIST
10 47 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
11 34 (0.82%) HIPAA
12 30 (0.72%) COBIT
12 30 (0.72%) GxP
13 26 (0.63%) EU AI Act
13 26 (0.63%) IFRS
14 25 (0.60%) Solvency II
15 23 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 21 (0.51%) PSD2
17 19 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 16 (0.39%) SOC 2
System Software
1 141 (3.40%) Docker
2 63 (1.52%) Active Directory
3 32 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (0.29%) Hyper-V
4 12 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.097%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.048%) vSphere
7 1 (0.024%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.024%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 199 (4.80%) Terraform
2 162 (3.91%) Kubernetes
3 45 (1.09%) Ansible
4 25 (0.60%) Prometheus
5 24 (0.58%) Grafana
6 23 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
7 21 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (0.19%) EnCase
8 8 (0.19%) FTK
9 7 (0.17%) Kibana
9 7 (0.17%) SCCM
10 6 (0.14%) QRadar
11 5 (0.12%) Argo
11 5 (0.12%) SCOM
11 5 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 4 (0.097%) RSA Archer
13 3 (0.072%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.072%) ArcSight ESM
13 3 (0.072%) Control-M
13 3 (0.072%) VxRail
Vendors
1 837 (20.19%) Microsoft
2 314 (7.58%) Google
3 283 (6.83%) Databricks
4 223 (5.38%) Adobe
5 183 (4.41%) SAP
6 176 (4.25%) Salesforce
7 146 (3.52%) Oracle
8 137 (3.31%) Cisco
9 62 (1.50%) HubSpot
10 55 (1.33%) Alteryx
11 41 (0.99%) Dell
11 41 (0.99%) Informatica
12 33 (0.80%) Bloomberg
13 31 (0.75%) ServiceNow
14 30 (0.72%) OpenAI
15 29 (0.70%) Instagram
16 28 (0.68%) Nexthink
16 28 (0.68%) Red Hat
17 27 (0.65%) IBM
17 27 (0.65%) Palantir