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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 24 37
Rank change year-on-year -9 +13 -12
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 4,159 3,279 4,642
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.70% 7.48% 5.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.30% 7.99% 6.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,279 1,636 3,276
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £33,250
25th Percentile £43,875 £47,797 £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 £85,500 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £56,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -1.79% +3.70% -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 56,972 41,045 73,238
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.05% 93.61% 87.51%
Number of salaries quoted 34,330 22,188 55,854
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% -11.31%
75th Percentile £77,419 £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% -8.90%

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 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 11 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 3,576 £65,000 -7.14% 2,220
UK excluding London -12 2,064 £55,000 -1.79% 1,544
London +5 1,698 £80,000 -5.88% 787
Work from Home -3 1,322 £63,076 +0.92% 1,178
North of England -15 529 £52,500 -4.55% 335
South East +3 486 £57,500 -4.17% 583
Midlands -10 419 £52,500 - 215
West Midlands -11 266 £57,500 +4.55% 121
North West -24 261 £58,000 +5.45% 177
Yorkshire -6 210 £50,000 -9.09% 114
Scotland -4 199 £65,000 -7.14% 60
South West -4 195 £55,000 +3.01% 154
East of England +36 152 £50,000 -23.08% 168
East Midlands +1 151 £48,000 +1.05% 94
North East +19 58 £40,000 -20.40% 47
Northern Ireland -3 55 £45,000 +50.00% 14
Wales +11 32 £65,000 +30.00% 42

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
1 139 (3.34%) Apache Airflow
2 117 (2.81%) Apache Spark
3 108 (2.60%) CMS
4 76 (1.83%) Apache
5 57 (1.37%) Confluence
6 52 (1.25%) WordPress
7 43 (1.03%) SharePoint
8 40 (0.96%) SAS
9 33 (0.79%) ArcGIS
10 22 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
11 17 (0.41%) Drupal
11 17 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
12 12 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 8 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
13 8 (0.19%) Umbraco
14 6 (0.14%) IIS
15 4 (0.096%) Appian
15 4 (0.096%) Documentum
15 4 (0.096%) Sitecore CMS
16 3 (0.072%) Jupyter
Applications
1 415 (9.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 124 (2.98%) Microsoft Office
3 63 (1.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (0.63%) Adobe XD
5 19 (0.46%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.41%) InDesign
7 16 (0.38%) UserZoom
8 15 (0.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 15 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
9 13 (0.31%) Photoshop
10 11 (0.26%) Adobe Premiere
10 11 (0.26%) SPSS
11 8 (0.19%) Chatbot
11 8 (0.19%) Maya
11 8 (0.19%) Trello
12 6 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
13 5 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
14 3 (0.072%) Final Cut Pro
14 3 (0.072%) SketchUp
15 2 (0.048%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 77 (1.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 47 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 35 (0.84%) SAP IBP
4 34 (0.82%) SAP PP
5 29 (0.70%) Oracle ERP
6 17 (0.41%) Shopify
7 16 (0.38%) Magento
7 16 (0.38%) 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 (0.26%) SAP ERP
13 7 (0.17%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 935 (22.48%) Azure
2 661 (15.89%) Power Platform
3 482 (11.59%) AWS
4 242 (5.82%) SaaS
5 231 (5.55%) Snowflake
6 221 (5.31%) GCP
7 216 (5.19%) Azure Data Factory
8 182 (4.38%) Google Analytics
9 165 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
9 165 (3.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 160 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
11 148 (3.56%) GitHub
12 143 (3.44%) Adobe Analytics
13 126 (3.03%) dbt
14 111 (2.67%) Figma
15 108 (2.60%) Amazon S3
16 94 (2.26%) Entra ID
17 88 (2.12%) Serverless
18 86 (2.07%) Azure Monitor
19 63 (1.51%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 156 (3.75%) Broadband
2 38 (0.91%) VPN
3 36 (0.87%) Firewall
4 24 (0.58%) CHAP
5 23 (0.55%) WAN
6 19 (0.46%) DNS
7 16 (0.38%) Network Security
8 14 (0.34%) Intranet
9 13 (0.31%) TCP/IP
9 13 (0.31%) Unified Communications
10 9 (0.22%) DHCP
11 6 (0.14%) HTTPS
12 5 (0.12%) SNMP
13 4 (0.096%) HTTP
13 4 (0.096%) Intrusion Detection
14 3 (0.072%) Internet
14 3 (0.072%) LAN
14 3 (0.072%) MQTT
15 2 (0.048%) Modbus
15 2 (0.048%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 627 (15.08%) Power BI
2 411 (9.88%) Tableau
3 338 (8.13%) Data Warehouse
4 213 (5.12%) Data Lake
5 190 (4.57%) Data Mining
6 189 (4.54%) Metadata
7 155 (3.73%) SQL Server
8 111 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
9 104 (2.50%) Looker
10 85 (2.04%) Relational Database
11 78 (1.88%) Amazon Redshift
12 74 (1.78%) BigQuery
13 70 (1.68%) Big Data
14 69 (1.66%) NoSQL
15 64 (1.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 59 (1.42%) Power Query
17 52 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 45 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
19 43 (1.03%) Oracle Database
20 42 (1.01%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 152 (3.65%) Git
2 110 (2.64%) JIRA
3 67 (1.61%) Jenkins
4 31 (0.75%) 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%) TeamCity
9 21 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
10 19 (0.46%) Visual Studio
11 13 (0.31%) ERwin
12 11 (0.26%) CircleCI
13 9 (0.22%) Selenium
13 9 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 8 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
15 7 (0.17%) Crashlytics
15 7 (0.17%) Cypress.io
16 5 (0.12%) ER Studio
16 5 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,365 (32.82%) Finance
2 1,211 (29.12%) Social Skills
3 1,069 (25.70%) Analytical Skills
4 639 (15.36%) Marketing
5 280 (6.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 256 (6.16%) Banking
7 251 (6.04%) Public Sector
8 212 (5.10%) Law
9 202 (4.86%) Retail
10 168 (4.04%) Legal
11 165 (3.97%) Manufacturing
12 160 (3.85%) Games
13 121 (2.91%) Presentation Skills
14 110 (2.64%) Financial Institution
15 92 (2.21%) Automotive
15 92 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
16 90 (2.16%) Advertising
17 85 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
18 76 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
19 69 (1.66%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 679 (16.33%) Senior
2 643 (15.46%) Analyst
3 456 (10.96%) Lead
4 389 (9.35%) Data Engineer
5 368 (8.85%) Data Analyst
6 314 (7.55%) Architect
7 232 (5.58%) Developer
8 166 (3.99%) Trainee
8 166 (3.99%) Trainee Analyst
8 166 (3.99%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 158 (3.80%) Consultant
10 147 (3.53%) Senior Manager
11 141 (3.39%) Data Architect
12 108 (2.60%) Designer
13 96 (2.31%) Solutions Architect
14 89 (2.14%) Data Manager
15 85 (2.04%) Senior Analyst
15 85 (2.04%) Support Engineer
16 84 (2.02%) Data Scientist
17 79 (1.90%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (2.55%) PySpark
2 98 (2.36%) HTML
2 98 (2.36%) Kafka
3 90 (2.16%) CSS
4 77 (1.85%) PyTorch
5 66 (1.59%) .NET
6 59 (1.42%) React
7 57 (1.37%) TensorFlow
8 55 (1.32%) OAuth
9 51 (1.23%) RESTful
10 49 (1.18%) SAP Fiori
11 47 (1.13%) REST
12 44 (1.06%) JSON
13 33 (0.79%) .NET Core
13 33 (0.79%) LangChain
13 33 (0.79%) Pandas
14 32 (0.77%) OAuth2
15 29 (0.70%) Node.js
16 28 (0.67%) scikit-learn
17 27 (0.65%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 253 (6.08%) Social Media
2 186 (4.47%) Cloud Native
3 179 (4.30%) Product Ownership
3 179 (4.30%) Self-Motivation
4 154 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
5 150 (3.61%) Management Information System
6 122 (2.93%) Onboarding
7 118 (2.84%) Algorithms
8 114 (2.74%) Life Science
9 77 (1.85%) Data Structures
10 74 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
11 63 (1.51%) Distributed Systems
12 58 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
13 54 (1.30%) Mobile App
14 43 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
15 41 (0.99%) Virtual Team
16 39 (0.94%) Fixed Income
17 38 (0.91%) Web Conferencing
18 33 (0.79%) Low-Code
19 32 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 110 (2.64%) Windows
2 60 (1.44%) Windows 10
3 43 (1.03%) Linux
4 24 (0.58%) Unix
4 24 (0.58%) VMS
5 16 (0.38%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.36%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.29%) Android
8 2 (0.048%) AIX
8 2 (0.048%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.024%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,181 (28.40%) AI
2 915 (22.00%) Business Intelligence
3 870 (20.92%) Decision-Making
4 845 (20.32%) Agile
5 779 (18.73%) Data Analytics
6 718 (17.26%) Continuous Improvement
7 701 (16.86%) Problem-Solving
8 635 (15.27%) Data Modelling
9 525 (12.62%) Roadmaps
10 522 (12.55%) Data Governance
11 510 (12.26%) Data Engineering
12 507 (12.19%) Data Analysis
13 499 (12.00%) Data Science
14 485 (11.66%) Machine Learning
15 474 (11.40%) Data Pipeline
16 462 (11.11%) Project Management
17 455 (10.94%) CI/CD
18 454 (10.92%) ETL
19 421 (10.12%) Customer Experience
20 409 (9.83%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1,107 (26.62%) SQL
2 1,020 (24.53%) Python
3 114 (2.74%) JavaScript
4 104 (2.50%) Java
5 94 (2.26%) C#
6 92 (2.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 74 (1.78%) Scala
8 71 (1.71%) R
9 67 (1.61%) PowerShell
10 49 (1.18%) Bicep
11 43 (1.03%) C++
12 42 (1.01%) T-SQL
13 40 (0.96%) TypeScript
14 35 (0.84%) Kusto Query Language
15 30 (0.72%) Go
16 25 (0.60%) Bash
17 19 (0.46%) PL/SQL
18 17 (0.41%) Shell Script
19 15 (0.36%) VBA
20 12 (0.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 717 (17.24%) Degree
2 268 (6.44%) Security Cleared
3 192 (4.62%) SC Cleared
4 155 (3.73%) Master's Degree
5 122 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 64 (1.54%) PhD
7 60 (1.44%) CTC Cleared
8 56 (1.35%) Azure Certification
9 55 (1.32%) CISSP
10 51 (1.23%) CISA
11 50 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
12 48 (1.15%) IRCA
13 46 (1.11%) CISM
14 45 (1.08%) Numerate Degree
15 42 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
15 42 (1.01%) DBS Check
16 38 (0.91%) ACCA
17 35 (0.84%) DV Cleared
18 31 (0.75%) PMI Certification
19 28 (0.67%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 553 (13.30%) Data Quality
2 340 (8.18%) Accessibility
3 311 (7.48%) GDPR
4 138 (3.32%) QA
5 78 (1.88%) SLA
6 74 (1.78%) WCAG
7 67 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 59 (1.42%) ISO 9001
9 50 (1.20%) NIST
10 47 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
11 34 (0.82%) HIPAA
12 30 (0.72%) COBIT
12 30 (0.72%) GxP
13 27 (0.65%) IFRS
14 26 (0.63%) EU AI Act
15 25 (0.60%) Solvency II
16 23 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 21 (0.50%) PSD2
18 20 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 16 (0.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 140 (3.37%) Docker
2 63 (1.51%) Active Directory
3 31 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (0.29%) Hyper-V
5 11 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
6 10 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.096%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.048%) vSphere
9 1 (0.024%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.024%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 194 (4.66%) Terraform
2 163 (3.92%) Kubernetes
3 45 (1.08%) Ansible
4 25 (0.60%) Grafana
4 25 (0.60%) Prometheus
5 21 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
6 19 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.19%) EnCase
7 8 (0.19%) FTK
8 7 (0.17%) Kibana
9 6 (0.14%) QRadar
9 6 (0.14%) SCCM
10 5 (0.12%) Argo
10 5 (0.12%) SCOM
10 5 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 4 (0.096%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.096%) RSA Archer
12 3 (0.072%) ArcSight ESM
12 3 (0.072%) Control-M
12 3 (0.072%) VxRail
Vendors
1 841 (20.22%) Microsoft
2 311 (7.48%) Google
3 284 (6.83%) Databricks
4 229 (5.51%) Adobe
5 183 (4.40%) SAP
6 176 (4.23%) Salesforce
7 145 (3.49%) Oracle
8 136 (3.27%) Cisco
9 61 (1.47%) HubSpot
10 55 (1.32%) Alteryx
11 41 (0.99%) Dell
11 41 (0.99%) Informatica
12 33 (0.79%) Bloomberg
13 31 (0.75%) ServiceNow
14 30 (0.72%) OpenAI
14 30 (0.72%) Palantir
15 29 (0.70%) Instagram
16 28 (0.67%) Foundry
16 28 (0.67%) Nexthink
16 28 (0.67%) Talend