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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 26 29
Rank change year-on-year -6 +3 -4
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 3,662 3,583 3,534
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 6.19% 6.46% 6.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.54% 7.18% 7.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,883 1,819 2,461
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,750
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% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £113,750 £118,750 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £56,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +1.77% +0.98%

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 48,537 49,891 46,757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.05% 89.96% 91.45%
Number of salaries quoted 28,419 24,819 35,711
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £36,532 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.34%

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 31 December 2025.

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 31 December 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 -8 3,131 £62,500 -10.71% 7,435
UK excluding London +6 1,905 £50,000 -13.04% 6,675
London +3 1,467 £75,000 -11.76% 1,419
Work from Home -3 1,091 £60,000 -9.59% 3,108
South East +19 582 £53,750 -10.42% 1,789
North of England -15 371 £52,500 -4.55% 1,480
Midlands -3 316 £53,000 -7.02% 1,216
Scotland +5 253 £49,500 -18.51% 298
South West +11 198 £54,500 -5.22% 734
North West -24 189 £47,500 -13.64% 755
West Midlands -16 183 £57,750 +0.87% 624
Yorkshire +2 148 £65,000 +18.18% 621
East Midlands +16 134 £45,000 -10.00% 517
East of England +33 127 £40,000 -33.33% 988
North East +18 35 £40,000 -27.27% 107
Northern Ireland +3 34 £45,000 -35.71% 89
Wales +19 27 £47,500 -5.00% 186

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 88 (2.40%) Apache Spark
2 87 (2.38%) CMS
3 63 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
4 50 (1.37%) WordPress
5 46 (1.26%) Confluence
6 42 (1.15%) SharePoint
7 34 (0.93%) Apache
8 23 (0.63%) SAS
9 20 (0.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 15 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
11 10 (0.27%) Drupal
11 10 (0.27%) SugarCRM
12 9 (0.25%) Umbraco
13 6 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 6 (0.16%) Headless CMS
14 5 (0.14%) IIS
15 4 (0.11%) Apache Superset
15 4 (0.11%) Appian
16 3 (0.082%) Moodle
16 3 (0.082%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 517 (14.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 97 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
3 58 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (0.85%) Maya
5 28 (0.76%) Adobe XD
6 23 (0.63%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 22 (0.60%) Photoshop
8 18 (0.49%) InDesign
9 15 (0.41%) Chatbot
9 15 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
10 12 (0.33%) Adobe Premiere
11 11 (0.30%) SPSS
12 10 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
12 10 (0.27%) Trello
13 9 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
14 5 (0.14%) MadCap Flare
14 5 (0.14%) MS Visio
15 4 (0.11%) SketchUp
16 3 (0.082%) Final Cut Pro
16 3 (0.082%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 83 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 61 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 38 (1.04%) Shopify
4 34 (0.93%) Oracle ERP
5 26 (0.71%) SAP IBP
6 21 (0.57%) Magento
6 21 (0.57%) SAP CO
7 17 (0.46%) SAP FI
7 17 (0.46%) SAP FI/CO
8 16 (0.44%) Oracle Assets
8 16 (0.44%) Oracle General Ledger
8 16 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
8 16 (0.44%) Oracle Receivables
9 15 (0.41%) Dynamics GP
9 15 (0.41%) Oracle Financials
10 13 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
11 11 (0.30%) SAP FSCM
12 10 (0.27%) NetSuite
12 10 (0.27%) SAP IS-U
13 8 (0.22%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 941 (25.70%) Azure
2 744 (20.32%) Power Platform
3 369 (10.08%) AWS
4 228 (6.23%) GCP
5 224 (6.12%) SaaS
6 214 (5.84%) Google Analytics
7 194 (5.30%) Snowflake
8 181 (4.94%) Azure Data Factory
9 164 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
10 157 (4.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 147 (4.01%) GitHub
12 133 (3.63%) Microsoft 365
13 112 (3.06%) dbt
14 76 (2.08%) Azure Monitor
15 74 (2.02%) Serverless
16 69 (1.88%) Figma
17 65 (1.77%) Entra ID
18 62 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
18 62 (1.69%) Google Ads
19 58 (1.58%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 35 (0.96%) VPN
2 34 (0.93%) SMS
3 30 (0.82%) Firewall
4 26 (0.71%) Broadband
5 18 (0.49%) Unified Communications
6 14 (0.38%) DNS
6 14 (0.38%) Network Security
7 12 (0.33%) CHAP
8 11 (0.30%) WAN
9 9 (0.25%) Intranet
10 7 (0.19%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.14%) Intrusion Detection
12 4 (0.11%) DHCP
12 4 (0.11%) HTTPS
12 4 (0.11%) Internet
12 4 (0.11%) VoIP
12 4 (0.11%) Wireshark
13 3 (0.082%) MQTT
14 2 (0.055%) HTTP
14 2 (0.055%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 710 (19.39%) Power BI
2 393 (10.73%) Tableau
3 320 (8.74%) Data Warehouse
4 251 (6.85%) Data Lake
5 163 (4.45%) Metadata
6 145 (3.96%) Data Mining
6 145 (3.96%) SQL Server
7 97 (2.65%) SAP BW
8 93 (2.54%) Azure SQL Database
8 93 (2.54%) Big Data
9 92 (2.51%) Looker
10 75 (2.05%) BigQuery
11 71 (1.94%) NoSQL
12 68 (1.86%) Relational Database
13 67 (1.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 60 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
15 52 (1.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 48 (1.31%) Hadoop
17 46 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
17 46 (1.26%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 125 (3.41%) JIRA
2 107 (2.92%) Git
3 49 (1.34%) Jenkins
4 31 (0.85%) Oracle Forms
5 25 (0.68%) Axure RP
5 25 (0.68%) Balsamiq
6 18 (0.49%) ERwin
6 18 (0.49%) GitLab
7 14 (0.38%) Visual Studio
8 12 (0.33%) TeamCity
9 11 (0.30%) Cypress.io
9 11 (0.30%) MLflow
9 11 (0.30%) Selenium
10 8 (0.22%) ER Studio
11 7 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
12 6 (0.16%) Postman
13 5 (0.14%) MSI
13 5 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
14 4 (0.11%) Maven
14 4 (0.11%) TestNG
General
1 1,293 (35.31%) Finance
2 1,266 (34.57%) Social Skills
3 1,119 (30.56%) Analytical Skills
4 715 (19.52%) Marketing
5 276 (7.54%) Law
6 232 (6.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 217 (5.93%) Retail
8 205 (5.60%) Banking
9 201 (5.49%) Public Sector
10 169 (4.61%) Manufacturing
11 150 (4.10%) Presentation Skills
12 132 (3.60%) Legal
13 98 (2.68%) Financial Institution
13 98 (2.68%) Games
14 95 (2.59%) Pharmaceutical
15 76 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
16 70 (1.91%) Automotive
17 67 (1.83%) Advertising
17 67 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
18 66 (1.80%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 579 (15.81%) Analyst
2 572 (15.62%) Senior
3 457 (12.48%) Lead
4 314 (8.57%) Data Analyst
5 291 (7.95%) Architect
6 288 (7.86%) Data Engineer
7 217 (5.93%) Developer
8 142 (3.88%) Senior Manager
9 118 (3.22%) Data Architect
10 116 (3.17%) Trainee
10 116 (3.17%) Trainee Analyst
10 116 (3.17%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 96 (2.62%) Innovation Manager
12 93 (2.54%) Consultant
13 79 (2.16%) Solutions Architect
14 73 (1.99%) Analytics Manager
15 71 (1.94%) Data Scientist
16 70 (1.91%) Data Manager
16 70 (1.91%) Report Analyst
17 69 (1.88%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (2.51%) HTML
2 80 (2.18%) CSS
3 69 (1.88%) RESTful
4 67 (1.83%) PySpark
5 64 (1.75%) Kafka
6 57 (1.56%) OAuth
6 57 (1.56%) React
7 54 (1.47%) REST
8 49 (1.34%) PyTorch
9 48 (1.31%) TensorFlow
10 46 (1.26%) JSON
11 38 (1.04%) .NET
12 37 (1.01%) OAuth2
13 34 (0.93%) Node.js
14 31 (0.85%) scikit-learn
15 30 (0.82%) SAML
16 28 (0.76%) Pandas
17 27 (0.74%) Middleware
18 25 (0.68%) GraphQL
19 23 (0.63%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 178 (4.86%) Analytical Mindset
2 176 (4.81%) Self-Motivation
3 167 (4.56%) Product Ownership
4 166 (4.53%) Onboarding
5 164 (4.48%) Cloud Native
6 151 (4.12%) Management Information System
7 142 (3.88%) Social Media
8 120 (3.28%) Algorithms
9 85 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
10 83 (2.27%) Life Science
11 65 (1.77%) FMCG
12 60 (1.64%) Data Structures
13 58 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
14 50 (1.37%) Data Centre
15 48 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
16 39 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
17 37 (1.01%) Virtual Team
18 35 (0.96%) Fixed Income
19 33 (0.90%) Reinsurance
20 30 (0.82%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 79 (2.16%) Windows
2 35 (0.96%) Linux
3 28 (0.76%) Windows 10
4 27 (0.74%) Unix
5 11 (0.30%) VMS
5 11 (0.30%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.25%) Android
7 8 (0.22%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.055%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.027%) AIX
9 1 (0.027%) Debian
9 1 (0.027%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 994 (27.14%) AI
2 988 (26.98%) Business Intelligence
3 846 (23.10%) Decision-Making
4 840 (22.94%) Problem-Solving
5 721 (19.69%) Data Analytics
6 702 (19.17%) Continuous Improvement
7 686 (18.73%) Agile
8 593 (16.19%) Data Modelling
9 496 (13.54%) Stakeholder Management
10 474 (12.94%) Data Science
11 469 (12.81%) Roadmaps
12 459 (12.53%) Data Analysis
13 458 (12.51%) Machine Learning
14 455 (12.42%) Data Governance
15 434 (11.85%) Project Management
16 409 (11.17%) Visualisation
17 397 (10.84%) Data Engineering
18 383 (10.46%) ETL
19 381 (10.40%) DevOps
20 373 (10.19%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 970 (26.49%) SQL
2 916 (25.01%) Python
3 127 (3.47%) Java
4 122 (3.33%) JavaScript
5 82 (2.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 76 (2.08%) PowerShell
7 71 (1.94%) R
8 64 (1.75%) Scala
9 63 (1.72%) C#
10 50 (1.37%) Bicep
11 47 (1.28%) T-SQL
12 36 (0.98%) TypeScript
13 34 (0.93%) Go
14 30 (0.82%) PL/SQL
15 29 (0.79%) Bash
15 29 (0.79%) C++
16 24 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
17 20 (0.55%) Shell Script
18 13 (0.35%) PHP
18 13 (0.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 836 (22.83%) Degree
2 202 (5.52%) Master's Degree
3 184 (5.02%) Security Cleared
4 133 (3.63%) SC Cleared
5 117 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 96 (2.62%) PhD
7 94 (2.57%) DBS Check
8 62 (1.69%) CISSP
9 52 (1.42%) CISA
10 49 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
11 48 (1.31%) Numerate Degree
12 46 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
13 45 (1.23%) Azure Certification
14 42 (1.15%) ACCA
14 42 (1.15%) CISM
15 37 (1.01%) PMI Certification
16 29 (0.79%) CIMA
16 29 (0.79%) PMP
17 28 (0.76%) CTC Cleared
18 24 (0.66%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 485 (13.24%) Data Quality
2 262 (7.15%) GDPR
3 202 (5.52%) Accessibility
4 83 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 82 (2.24%) QA
6 50 (1.37%) NIST
7 43 (1.17%) SLA
7 43 (1.17%) WCAG
8 39 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
8 39 (1.06%) GxP
9 29 (0.79%) COBIT
10 24 (0.66%) Solvency II
11 23 (0.63%) HIPAA
12 22 (0.60%) EU AI Act
13 21 (0.57%) PSD2
14 20 (0.55%) GRC
15 17 (0.46%) IFRS
15 17 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 15 (0.41%) ITGC
16 15 (0.41%) PMO
System Software
1 101 (2.76%) Docker
2 50 (1.37%) Active Directory
3 30 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
6 10 (0.27%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.055%) Firmware
7 2 (0.055%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.027%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.027%) vCloud
8 1 (0.027%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.027%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 172 (4.70%) Terraform
2 130 (3.55%) Kubernetes
3 33 (0.90%) Ansible
4 30 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
5 24 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
6 14 (0.38%) Grafana
7 12 (0.33%) Prometheus
8 11 (0.30%) QRadar
8 11 (0.30%) SCCM
9 7 (0.19%) EnCase
9 7 (0.19%) FTK
10 6 (0.16%) RSA Archer
10 6 (0.16%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 5 (0.14%) Argo
11 5 (0.14%) SCOM
12 3 (0.082%) ArcSight ESM
12 3 (0.082%) Control-M
13 2 (0.055%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.055%) Kibana
14 1 (0.027%) CASB
Vendors
1 690 (18.84%) Microsoft
2 342 (9.34%) Google
3 252 (6.88%) SAP
4 247 (6.74%) Databricks
5 203 (5.54%) Salesforce
6 138 (3.77%) Oracle
7 125 (3.41%) Adobe
8 85 (2.32%) Cisco
9 67 (1.83%) HubSpot
10 56 (1.53%) Alteryx
11 39 (1.06%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 35 (0.96%) ServiceNow
13 34 (0.93%) Bloomberg
14 32 (0.87%) Dell
15 30 (0.82%) Talend
16 26 (0.71%) Informatica
17 25 (0.68%) OpenAI
18 23 (0.63%) Sage
18 23 (0.63%) YouTube
19 21 (0.57%) IBM