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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 23 33
Rank change year-on-year -8 +10 -4
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 5,533 3,752 4,079
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.72% 7.60% 5.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.46% 8.56% 6.51%
Number of salaries quoted 3,372 1,742 2,125
10th Percentile £37,500 £31,750 £37,873
25th Percentile £48,750 £42,750 £49,461
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,722 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.20% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -7.89% +3.64%

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 85,591 43,838 62,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.02% 88.74% 81.52%
Number of salaries quoted 59,105 24,621 34,654
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,560
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.45% -4.07%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 25 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Top 18 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 25 September 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 -8 4,954 £66,805 +6.89% 9,640
UK excluding London -7 2,950 £60,000 +14.29% 3,937
London +1 2,221 £80,000 +3.23% 6,380
Work from Home +8 1,692 £65,000 +8.33% 3,615
North of England +55 969 £60,000 +4.35% 996
Midlands +21 606 £60,000 +14.29% 589
South East -34 570 £60,000 +20.00% 1,015
North West +61 568 £60,000 +14.29% 578
West Midlands +7 335 £59,250 +7.73% 388
South West -22 329 £60,000 - 388
East Midlands +27 271 £60,000 +30.43% 201
Yorkshire +28 248 £65,000 +6.12% 305
East of England -13 184 £51,878 +33.02% 332
North East +24 157 £57,500 +5.02% 117
Scotland -18 115 £75,000 +40.26% 370
Northern Ireland -22 96 £65,000 +8.33% 186
Wales -4 94 £63,500 +26.69% 102
Isle of Man +3 5 £38,500 - 4

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
1 151 (2.73%) Apache Spark
2 150 (2.71%) CMS
3 87 (1.57%) SharePoint
4 85 (1.54%) Apache
5 84 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
6 70 (1.27%) SAS
7 67 (1.21%) Confluence
8 41 (0.74%) WordPress
9 29 (0.52%) Sitecore CMS
10 22 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
11 19 (0.34%) Headless CMS
12 16 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
12 16 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
13 10 (0.18%) Jupyter
14 6 (0.11%) ArcGIS
14 6 (0.11%) Umbraco
15 3 (0.054%) Adobe Experience Manager
16 2 (0.036%) Apache Pulsar
16 2 (0.036%) Appian
16 2 (0.036%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 276 (4.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
3 45 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 37 (0.67%) Chatbot
5 32 (0.58%) SPSS
6 27 (0.49%) UserZoom
7 22 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 22 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
8 16 (0.29%) MS Visio
9 14 (0.25%) Adobe XD
10 9 (0.16%) Photoshop
11 7 (0.13%) Sketch
11 7 (0.13%) Trello
12 6 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
13 4 (0.072%) Microsoft Project
14 3 (0.054%) Adobe Premiere
14 3 (0.054%) InDesign
14 3 (0.054%) Zeplin
15 2 (0.036%) CATIA
15 2 (0.036%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 125 (2.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 74 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 54 (0.98%) Shopify
4 32 (0.58%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 28 (0.51%) Dynamics GP
6 21 (0.38%) Adobe Campaign
7 20 (0.36%) Magento
8 17 (0.31%) Workday HCM
9 10 (0.18%) NetSuite
10 9 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
11 7 (0.13%) SAP BPC
11 7 (0.13%) SAP MDG
12 6 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
12 6 (0.11%) SAP PM
12 6 (0.11%) SAP Travel Management
13 5 (0.090%) Oracle Payables
13 5 (0.090%) Oracle Receivables
13 5 (0.090%) Payment Gateway
13 5 (0.090%) SAP SD
14 4 (0.072%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 1,073 (19.39%) Azure
2 923 (16.68%) Power Platform
3 791 (14.30%) AWS
4 353 (6.38%) GCP
5 331 (5.98%) SaaS
6 290 (5.24%) Google Analytics
7 241 (4.36%) Snowflake
8 218 (3.94%) Azure Data Factory
9 206 (3.72%) Azure DevOps
10 187 (3.38%) GitHub
11 163 (2.95%) Serverless
12 148 (2.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 133 (2.40%) dbt
14 119 (2.15%) Microsoft 365
15 109 (1.97%) Amazon S3
16 107 (1.93%) Microsoft Purview
17 106 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
18 88 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
19 87 (1.57%) Google Ads
20 86 (1.55%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 84 (1.52%) Broadband
2 71 (1.28%) Internet
3 70 (1.27%) VPN
4 64 (1.16%) Firewall
5 46 (0.83%) DNS
6 45 (0.81%) Network Security
7 27 (0.49%) BGP
8 23 (0.42%) SMS
8 23 (0.42%) TCP/IP
9 21 (0.38%) 5G
10 20 (0.36%) VLAN
11 19 (0.34%) OSPF
12 16 (0.29%) DHCP
13 15 (0.27%) VoIP
14 14 (0.25%) CTI
15 13 (0.23%) SSL
16 10 (0.18%) Unified Communications
16 10 (0.18%) VXLAN
16 10 (0.18%) WAN
16 10 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 890 (16.09%) Power BI
2 402 (7.27%) Data Warehouse
3 274 (4.95%) Tableau
4 247 (4.46%) Metadata
5 227 (4.10%) Data Lake
6 177 (3.20%) SQL Server
7 155 (2.80%) Big Data
8 136 (2.46%) Azure SQL Database
9 117 (2.11%) Looker
10 112 (2.02%) Amazon Redshift
11 96 (1.74%) BigQuery
12 93 (1.68%) Delta Lake
13 86 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
14 85 (1.54%) Relational Database
15 84 (1.52%) Star Schema
16 78 (1.41%) NoSQL
17 73 (1.32%) MongoDB
18 67 (1.21%) Power Query
18 67 (1.21%) Semantic Layer
19 64 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 181 (3.27%) Git
2 98 (1.77%) JIRA
3 44 (0.80%) Jenkins
4 39 (0.70%) GitLab
5 25 (0.45%) MLflow
6 18 (0.33%) Claude Code
7 11 (0.20%) Crashlytics
7 11 (0.20%) fastlane
8 9 (0.16%) CircleCI
8 9 (0.16%) Octopus Deploy
9 8 (0.14%) Balsamiq
9 8 (0.14%) Xcode
10 7 (0.13%) Gradle
10 7 (0.13%) Visual Website Optimizer
11 6 (0.11%) Axure RP
11 6 (0.11%) ERwin
12 5 (0.090%) Android Studio
12 5 (0.090%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.090%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.090%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,527 (27.60%) Social Skills
2 1,505 (27.20%) Finance
3 1,274 (23.03%) Analytical Skills
4 973 (17.59%) Marketing
5 415 (7.50%) Retail
6 407 (7.36%) Public Sector
7 325 (5.87%) Legal
8 323 (5.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 305 (5.51%) Law
10 223 (4.03%) Banking
11 205 (3.71%) Influencing Skills
12 179 (3.24%) Organisational Skills
13 167 (3.02%) Manufacturing
14 121 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
15 114 (2.06%) Advertising
16 101 (1.83%) Automotive
17 95 (1.72%) Games
18 94 (1.70%) Financial Institution
19 79 (1.43%) Publishing
20 63 (1.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,116 (20.17%) Senior
2 683 (12.34%) Data Engineer
3 655 (11.84%) Analyst
4 607 (10.97%) Lead
5 528 (9.54%) Architect
6 326 (5.89%) Developer
7 260 (4.70%) Analytics Manager
7 260 (4.70%) Data Analyst
8 249 (4.50%) Data Architect
9 247 (4.46%) Senior Data Engineer
10 196 (3.54%) Senior Manager
11 190 (3.43%) Consultant
12 188 (3.40%) Data Scientist
13 172 (3.11%) Solutions Architect
14 135 (2.44%) Data Manager
15 131 (2.37%) Senior Analyst
16 127 (2.30%) Marketing Manager
17 116 (2.10%) Product Manager
18 106 (1.92%) Senior Architect
19 97 (1.75%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 266 (4.81%) Terraform
2 210 (3.80%) PySpark
3 110 (1.99%) Kafka
4 104 (1.88%) HTML
5 96 (1.74%) .NET
6 85 (1.54%) CSS
7 83 (1.50%) REST
8 70 (1.27%) React
9 57 (1.03%) Node.js
10 55 (0.99%) Pandas
11 41 (0.74%) Middleware
12 39 (0.70%) scikit-learn
13 37 (0.67%) ASP.NET
13 37 (0.67%) JSON
13 37 (0.67%) PyTorch
14 35 (0.63%) .NET Core
14 35 (0.63%) ASP.NET Core
15 34 (0.61%) AngularJS
15 34 (0.61%) TensorFlow
16 33 (0.60%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 295 (5.33%) Onboarding
2 273 (4.93%) Cloud Native
3 204 (3.69%) Product Ownership
4 197 (3.56%) Management Information System
5 195 (3.52%) Marketing Technology
6 190 (3.43%) Blog
7 186 (3.36%) Social Media
8 112 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
9 109 (1.97%) Analytical Mindset
10 98 (1.77%) Data Structures
11 93 (1.68%) AI Agents
12 81 (1.46%) Algorithms
13 75 (1.36%) Mobile App
14 69 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
15 66 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
16 63 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
17 59 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
18 55 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
19 45 (0.81%) IoT
20 44 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 104 (1.88%) Windows
2 85 (1.54%) Linux
3 24 (0.43%) Windows Server
4 23 (0.42%) VMS
5 20 (0.36%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.16%) Android
7 6 (0.11%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.11%) Unix
7 6 (0.11%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.072%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.054%) Debian
10 1 (0.018%) AIX
10 1 (0.018%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.018%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.018%) SUSE
10 1 (0.018%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.018%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,948 (35.21%) AI
2 1,334 (24.11%) Decision-Making
3 1,231 (22.25%) Business Intelligence
4 970 (17.53%) Problem-Solving
5 886 (16.01%) Agile
6 876 (15.83%) Continuous Improvement
7 839 (15.16%) Roadmaps
8 834 (15.07%) Data Modelling
9 766 (13.84%) Data Engineering
10 743 (13.43%) Machine Learning
11 721 (13.03%) Data Analytics
12 685 (12.38%) CI/CD
12 685 (12.38%) Stakeholder Management
13 675 (12.20%) Data Pipeline
14 646 (11.68%) Mentoring
15 612 (11.06%) Data Science
16 534 (9.65%) ETL
17 531 (9.60%) Actionable Insight
18 523 (9.45%) Data Governance
19 512 (9.25%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1,511 (27.31%) SQL
2 1,233 (22.28%) Python
3 156 (2.82%) Java
4 139 (2.51%) C#
5 137 (2.48%) JavaScript
6 125 (2.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 119 (2.15%) PowerShell
8 95 (1.72%) R
9 89 (1.61%) TypeScript
10 83 (1.50%) Bicep
11 75 (1.36%) Scala
12 68 (1.23%) Bash
13 52 (0.94%) Go
14 49 (0.89%) C++
15 36 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
16 31 (0.56%) T-SQL
17 19 (0.34%) Kotlin
18 17 (0.31%) VBA
19 16 (0.29%) PHP
20 15 (0.27%) Swift
Qualifications
1 672 (12.15%) Degree
2 451 (8.15%) Security Cleared
3 326 (5.89%) SC Cleared
4 124 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 118 (2.13%) Azure Certification
6 102 (1.84%) Master's Degree
7 83 (1.50%) DV Cleared
8 69 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 57 (1.03%) AWS Certification
10 55 (0.99%) ACCA
10 55 (0.99%) DBS Check
11 50 (0.90%) CIMA
12 42 (0.76%) CISSP
13 40 (0.72%) PhD
14 35 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
15 29 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
15 29 (0.52%) CISM
16 22 (0.40%) MBA
16 22 (0.40%) Postgraduate
17 21 (0.38%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 828 (14.96%) Data Quality
2 298 (5.39%) Accessibility
3 231 (4.17%) GDPR
4 152 (2.75%) QA
5 54 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
6 51 (0.92%) WCAG
7 40 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 33 (0.60%) NIST
9 28 (0.51%) SLA
10 24 (0.43%) PMO
11 21 (0.38%) PCI DSS
12 18 (0.33%) GRC
12 18 (0.33%) IFRS
13 17 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
14 11 (0.20%) EU AI Act
15 10 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 10 (0.18%) PERC
16 9 (0.16%) SOC 2
17 7 (0.13%) ISO 9001
17 7 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 157 (2.84%) Docker
2 88 (1.59%) Active Directory
3 28 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
5 17 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (0.29%) vSphere
7 8 (0.14%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.090%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.054%) IAG
10 2 (0.036%) Firmware
11 1 (0.018%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.018%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 172 (3.11%) Kubernetes
2 46 (0.83%) Ansible
3 38 (0.69%) Grafana
4 30 (0.54%) Prometheus
5 25 (0.45%) EnCase
5 25 (0.45%) FTK
6 19 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (0.23%) FortiGate
8 8 (0.14%) Argo
9 6 (0.11%) Graylog
9 6 (0.11%) Hadoop YARN
9 6 (0.11%) Kibana
9 6 (0.11%) Nagios
9 6 (0.11%) Proxmox
9 6 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.090%) Packer
10 5 (0.090%) Puppet
11 4 (0.072%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.072%) Control-M
11 4 (0.072%) VxRail
Vendors
1 870 (15.72%) Microsoft
2 488 (8.82%) Databricks
3 482 (8.71%) Google
4 236 (4.27%) SAP
5 166 (3.00%) Adobe
6 123 (2.22%) Oracle
7 114 (2.06%) Salesforce
8 73 (1.32%) HubSpot
9 67 (1.21%) Workday
10 51 (0.92%) YouTube
11 44 (0.80%) Cisco
11 44 (0.80%) IBM
12 43 (0.78%) Informatica
12 43 (0.78%) TikTok
13 41 (0.74%) VMware
14 38 (0.69%) Alteryx
15 34 (0.61%) OpenAI
16 30 (0.54%) ServiceNow
16 30 (0.54%) Sitecore
17 29 (0.52%) Instagram