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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 24 36
Rank change year-on-year -9 +12 -11
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 4,118 3,295 4,626
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.71% 7.48% 5.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.31% 7.98% 6.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2,251 1,646 3,279
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £33,450
25th Percentile £43,750 £48,750 £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 £87,500 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,395
% change year-on-year - +1.11% -1.10%

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 56,331 41,289 73,115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.05% 93.69% 87.56%
Number of salaries quoted 33,961 22,320 55,807
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £39,750 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.78%
75th Percentile £76,299 £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 9 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 9 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 3,533 £65,000 -7.14% 2,192
UK excluding London -9 2,039 £55,000 - 1,840
London +5 1,681 £80,000 -5.88% 863
Work from Home -3 1,320 £64,000 +2.40% 1,159
North of England -19 516 £51,000 -7.27% 396
South East +3 485 £57,500 -4.17% 669
Midlands -9 408 £52,500 - 251
West Midlands -14 258 £57,500 +4.55% 143
North West -26 257 £57,750 +5.00% 201
Yorkshire -3 203 £49,500 -10.00% 142
Scotland -5 203 £65,000 -16.24% 70
South West -6 197 £55,000 +1.03% 202
East of England +34 149 £50,000 -23.08% 215
East Midlands +2 148 £48,500 +4.86% 104
North East +14 56 £40,000 -20.79% 56
Northern Ireland -8 53 £45,000 +50.00% 22
Wales +10 31 £65,000 +31.18% 48

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
1 137 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
2 117 (2.84%) Apache Spark
3 103 (2.50%) CMS
4 76 (1.85%) Apache
5 52 (1.26%) Confluence
5 52 (1.26%) WordPress
6 44 (1.07%) SharePoint
7 40 (0.97%) SAS
8 33 (0.80%) ArcGIS
9 18 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
10 17 (0.41%) Drupal
10 17 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
11 14 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 8 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
12 8 (0.19%) Umbraco
13 6 (0.15%) IIS
14 4 (0.097%) Appian
14 4 (0.097%) Documentum
14 4 (0.097%) Sitecore CMS
15 3 (0.073%) Jupyter
Applications
1 414 (10.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 124 (3.01%) Microsoft Office
3 62 (1.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (0.63%) Adobe XD
5 19 (0.46%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.44%) 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 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
11 6 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
12 3 (0.073%) Final Cut Pro
12 3 (0.073%) SketchUp
13 2 (0.049%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 76 (1.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 47 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
3 35 (0.85%) SAP IBP
4 34 (0.83%) 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%) NetSuite
9 14 (0.34%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 14 (0.34%) iTrent
10 13 (0.32%) Dynamics GP
10 13 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
10 13 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
10 13 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
10 13 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
11 12 (0.29%) Oracle Assets
11 12 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
12 11 (0.27%) SAP ERP
13 7 (0.17%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 936 (22.73%) Azure
2 663 (16.10%) Power Platform
3 476 (11.56%) AWS
4 241 (5.85%) SaaS
5 231 (5.61%) Snowflake
6 219 (5.32%) GCP
7 213 (5.17%) Azure Data Factory
8 183 (4.44%) Google Analytics
9 167 (4.06%) Azure DevOps
10 163 (3.96%) Microsoft 365
11 162 (3.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 150 (3.64%) GitHub
13 136 (3.30%) Adobe Analytics
14 125 (3.04%) dbt
15 107 (2.60%) Amazon S3
16 105 (2.55%) Figma
17 97 (2.36%) Entra ID
18 88 (2.14%) Azure Monitor
19 84 (2.04%) Serverless
20 64 (1.55%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 150 (3.64%) Broadband
2 39 (0.95%) VPN
3 36 (0.87%) Firewall
4 23 (0.56%) WAN
5 22 (0.53%) CHAP
6 18 (0.44%) DNS
7 16 (0.39%) Network Security
8 14 (0.34%) Intranet
9 13 (0.32%) Unified Communications
10 12 (0.29%) TCP/IP
11 8 (0.19%) DHCP
12 6 (0.15%) HTTPS
13 5 (0.12%) SNMP
14 4 (0.097%) HTTP
14 4 (0.097%) Intrusion Detection
15 3 (0.073%) Internet
15 3 (0.073%) LAN
15 3 (0.073%) MQTT
15 3 (0.073%) VoIP
16 2 (0.049%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 628 (15.25%) Power BI
2 412 (10.00%) Tableau
3 338 (8.21%) Data Warehouse
4 212 (5.15%) Data Lake
5 188 (4.57%) Metadata
6 187 (4.54%) Data Mining
7 154 (3.74%) SQL Server
8 109 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
9 105 (2.55%) Looker
10 82 (1.99%) Relational Database
11 76 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
12 74 (1.80%) BigQuery
13 72 (1.75%) Big Data
14 69 (1.68%) NoSQL
15 64 (1.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 59 (1.43%) Power Query
17 51 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 44 (1.07%) PostgreSQL
19 43 (1.04%) Oracle Database
19 43 (1.04%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 151 (3.67%) Git
2 112 (2.72%) JIRA
3 67 (1.63%) Jenkins
4 29 (0.70%) GitLab
5 25 (0.61%) IBM UrbanCode
5 25 (0.61%) MLflow
6 24 (0.58%) Axure RP
6 24 (0.58%) Balsamiq
7 23 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
7 23 (0.56%) TeamCity
8 19 (0.46%) Visual Studio
9 12 (0.29%) ERwin
10 10 (0.24%) CircleCI
11 9 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 8 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
12 8 (0.19%) Selenium
13 6 (0.15%) Crashlytics
13 6 (0.15%) Cypress.io
14 5 (0.12%) MSI
14 5 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,343 (32.61%) Finance
2 1,183 (28.73%) Social Skills
3 1,048 (25.45%) Analytical Skills
4 643 (15.61%) Marketing
5 283 (6.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 251 (6.10%) Banking
7 248 (6.02%) Public Sector
8 211 (5.12%) Law
9 201 (4.88%) Retail
10 166 (4.03%) Manufacturing
11 164 (3.98%) Legal
12 151 (3.67%) Games
13 122 (2.96%) Presentation Skills
14 105 (2.55%) Financial Institution
15 91 (2.21%) Advertising
15 91 (2.21%) Automotive
16 90 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
17 85 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
18 78 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
19 69 (1.68%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 667 (16.20%) Senior
2 634 (15.40%) Analyst
3 451 (10.95%) Lead
4 389 (9.45%) Data Engineer
5 363 (8.81%) Data Analyst
6 313 (7.60%) Architect
7 230 (5.59%) Developer
8 163 (3.96%) Trainee
8 163 (3.96%) Trainee Analyst
8 163 (3.96%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 151 (3.67%) Consultant
10 147 (3.57%) Senior Manager
11 139 (3.38%) Data Architect
12 107 (2.60%) Designer
13 97 (2.36%) Solutions Architect
14 91 (2.21%) Data Manager
15 85 (2.06%) Support Engineer
16 84 (2.04%) Data Scientist
17 83 (2.02%) Senior Analyst
18 79 (1.92%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (2.55%) PySpark
2 97 (2.36%) HTML
3 95 (2.31%) Kafka
4 89 (2.16%) CSS
5 77 (1.87%) PyTorch
6 65 (1.58%) .NET
7 59 (1.43%) React
8 58 (1.41%) OAuth
9 57 (1.38%) TensorFlow
10 53 (1.29%) RESTful
11 49 (1.19%) SAP Fiori
12 45 (1.09%) REST
13 44 (1.07%) JSON
14 35 (0.85%) OAuth2
15 32 (0.78%) .NET Core
15 32 (0.78%) LangChain
15 32 (0.78%) Pandas
16 29 (0.70%) Node.js
17 28 (0.68%) scikit-learn
18 27 (0.66%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 253 (6.14%) Social Media
2 184 (4.47%) Cloud Native
3 180 (4.37%) Product Ownership
4 179 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
5 148 (3.59%) Management Information System
6 142 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
7 122 (2.96%) Algorithms
7 122 (2.96%) Onboarding
8 115 (2.79%) Life Science
9 75 (1.82%) Data Structures
10 71 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
11 63 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
12 60 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
13 52 (1.26%) Mobile App
14 44 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
15 41 (1.00%) Virtual Team
16 39 (0.95%) Fixed Income
17 37 (0.90%) Web Conferencing
18 33 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
18 33 (0.80%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 109 (2.65%) Windows
2 60 (1.46%) Windows 10
3 41 (1.00%) 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 (0.049%) AIX
8 2 (0.049%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,176 (28.56%) AI
2 913 (22.17%) Business Intelligence
3 858 (20.84%) Decision-Making
4 837 (20.33%) Agile
5 779 (18.92%) Data Analytics
6 700 (17.00%) Problem-Solving
7 697 (16.93%) Continuous Improvement
8 623 (15.13%) Data Modelling
9 515 (12.51%) Data Governance
10 514 (12.48%) Roadmaps
11 510 (12.38%) Data Engineering
12 502 (12.19%) Data Analysis
13 500 (12.14%) Data Science
14 486 (11.80%) Machine Learning
15 472 (11.46%) Data Pipeline
16 461 (11.19%) Project Management
17 450 (10.93%) ETL
18 445 (10.81%) CI/CD
19 408 (9.91%) Visualisation
20 401 (9.74%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 1,098 (26.66%) SQL
2 1,015 (24.65%) Python
3 113 (2.74%) JavaScript
4 108 (2.62%) Java
5 93 (2.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 91 (2.21%) C#
7 75 (1.82%) Scala
8 70 (1.70%) PowerShell
8 70 (1.70%) R
9 50 (1.21%) Bicep
10 43 (1.04%) C++
11 42 (1.02%) T-SQL
12 40 (0.97%) TypeScript
13 35 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
14 27 (0.66%) 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
1 715 (17.36%) Degree
2 269 (6.53%) Security Cleared
3 192 (4.66%) SC Cleared
4 153 (3.72%) Master's Degree
5 119 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 62 (1.51%) PhD
7 60 (1.46%) CTC Cleared
8 54 (1.31%) CISSP
9 53 (1.29%) Azure Certification
10 49 (1.19%) CISA
10 49 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
11 46 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
12 45 (1.09%) Numerate Degree
13 44 (1.07%) CISM
14 42 (1.02%) DBS Check
15 38 (0.92%) ACCA
16 36 (0.87%) IRCA
17 31 (0.75%) DV Cleared
17 31 (0.75%) PMI Certification
18 27 (0.66%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 545 (13.23%) Data Quality
2 331 (8.04%) Accessibility
3 298 (7.24%) GDPR
4 124 (3.01%) QA
5 77 (1.87%) SLA
6 69 (1.68%) WCAG
7 68 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 48 (1.17%) NIST
9 47 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
9 47 (1.14%) ISO 9001
10 34 (0.83%) HIPAA
11 30 (0.73%) GxP
12 28 (0.68%) COBIT
13 26 (0.63%) IFRS
14 25 (0.61%) EU AI Act
14 25 (0.61%) Solvency II
15 23 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 21 (0.51%) PSD2
17 19 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 16 (0.39%) SOC 2
System Software
1 138 (3.35%) Docker
2 62 (1.51%) Active Directory
3 32 (0.78%) 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 (0.049%) vSphere
7 1 (0.024%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.024%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 195 (4.74%) Terraform
2 157 (3.81%) Kubernetes
3 44 (1.07%) Ansible
4 24 (0.58%) Grafana
4 24 (0.58%) Prometheus
5 23 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
6 21 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.19%) EnCase
7 8 (0.19%) FTK
8 7 (0.17%) Kibana
8 7 (0.17%) SCCM
9 6 (0.15%) QRadar
10 5 (0.12%) Argo
10 5 (0.12%) SCOM
10 5 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 4 (0.097%) RSA Archer
12 3 (0.073%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.073%) ArcSight ESM
12 3 (0.073%) Control-M
12 3 (0.073%) VxRail
Vendors
1 838 (20.35%) Microsoft
2 314 (7.63%) Google
3 279 (6.78%) Databricks
4 223 (5.42%) Adobe
5 183 (4.44%) SAP
6 177 (4.30%) Salesforce
7 146 (3.55%) Oracle
8 137 (3.33%) Cisco
9 62 (1.51%) HubSpot
10 55 (1.34%) Alteryx
11 41 (1.00%) Dell
11 41 (1.00%) Informatica
12 33 (0.80%) Bloomberg
13 31 (0.75%) ServiceNow
14 29 (0.70%) Instagram
14 29 (0.70%) OpenAI
15 28 (0.68%) Nexthink
15 28 (0.68%) Red Hat
16 27 (0.66%) IBM
16 27 (0.66%) Talend