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 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 20 39
Rank change year-on-year -9 +19 -16
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 4,616 3,526 5,129
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.26% 8.43% 5.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.99% 9.07% 6.32%
Number of salaries quoted 2,573 1,768 3,307
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,175 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,990 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +9.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £107,474
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -3.51% +5.56% -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 65,992 38,867 81,094
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.24% 92.91% 85.83%
Number of salaries quoted 40,690 22,673 59,246
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.86%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 21 April 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 21 April 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 -15 4,033 £65,000 -3.70% 1,982
UK excluding London -20 2,403 £55,000 -3.51% 1,344
London +3 1,811 £80,000 -5.88% 950
Work from Home -5 1,424 £65,000 +8.33% 926
North of England -8 708 £60,000 +9.09% 339
South East -23 505 £55,000 -8.33% 440
Midlands -22 470 £50,000 -4.76% 224
North West +2 379 £60,000 +9.09% 216
West Midlands -23 275 £51,000 -7.27% 118
Yorkshire -5 255 £55,000 -1.79% 84
South West -26 224 £58,750 +8.40% 125
East of England +21 211 £50,500 -22.31% 125
Scotland -8 195 £65,000 -7.14% 48
East Midlands -3 191 £50,000 +3.09% 106
North East +4 74 £40,000 -27.27% 44
Northern Ireland -18 55 £45,000 +50.00% 35
Wales -5 37 £40,000 -27.27% 29

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
1 161 (3.49%) Apache Airflow
2 132 (2.86%) Apache Spark
3 121 (2.62%) CMS
4 81 (1.75%) Apache
5 72 (1.56%) Confluence
6 54 (1.17%) WordPress
7 47 (1.02%) SharePoint
8 34 (0.74%) ArcGIS
9 31 (0.67%) SAS
10 20 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
11 16 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
12 12 (0.26%) Drupal
13 9 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
14 8 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 6 (0.13%) IIS
16 4 (0.087%) Appian
16 4 (0.087%) Documentum
16 4 (0.087%) Umbraco
17 3 (0.065%) Apache Superset
17 3 (0.065%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 391 (8.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 115 (2.49%) Microsoft Office
3 64 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (0.67%) UserZoom
5 29 (0.63%) Adobe XD
6 19 (0.41%) MS Visio
7 16 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
8 13 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 10 (0.22%) Chatbot
9 10 (0.22%) SPSS
10 6 (0.13%) InDesign
10 6 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
10 6 (0.13%) Trello
11 4 (0.087%) Adobe Illustrator
11 4 (0.087%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.065%) Sketch
13 2 (0.043%) Adobe Premiere
13 2 (0.043%) Final Cut Pro
13 2 (0.043%) Maya
13 2 (0.043%) Notion
Business Applications
1 82 (1.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (0.74%) SAP PP
3 33 (0.71%) SAP IBP
4 32 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
5 28 (0.61%) Adobe Campaign
6 27 (0.58%) Oracle ERP
7 23 (0.50%) Magento
8 17 (0.37%) Shopify
9 16 (0.35%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 16 (0.35%) NetSuite
10 15 (0.32%) iTrent
11 14 (0.30%) Oracle General Ledger
12 13 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
12 13 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
12 13 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
12 13 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
12 13 (0.28%) SAP CO
13 10 (0.22%) SAP ERP
14 9 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
14 9 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 985 (21.34%) Azure
2 732 (15.86%) Power Platform
3 556 (12.05%) AWS
4 276 (5.98%) GCP
5 255 (5.52%) Snowflake
6 247 (5.35%) SaaS
7 235 (5.09%) Azure Data Factory
8 217 (4.70%) Google Analytics
9 204 (4.42%) Adobe Analytics
10 183 (3.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 158 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
11 158 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
12 151 (3.27%) GitHub
13 146 (3.16%) dbt
14 137 (2.97%) Figma
15 115 (2.49%) Amazon S3
16 110 (2.38%) Serverless
17 90 (1.95%) Entra ID
18 75 (1.62%) Azure Monitor
19 69 (1.49%) Contentsquare
Communications & Networking
1 251 (5.44%) Broadband
2 39 (0.84%) Firewall
3 33 (0.71%) VPN
4 28 (0.61%) CHAP
5 23 (0.50%) WAN
6 20 (0.43%) DNS
7 19 (0.41%) Network Security
8 16 (0.35%) DHCP
8 16 (0.35%) Intranet
8 16 (0.35%) TCP/IP
9 9 (0.19%) Unified Communications
10 6 (0.13%) HTTP
11 5 (0.11%) HTTPS
11 5 (0.11%) Intrusion Detection
11 5 (0.11%) SMS
11 5 (0.11%) SNMP
12 4 (0.087%) Wi-Fi
13 3 (0.065%) BGP
13 3 (0.065%) LAN
13 3 (0.065%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 697 (15.10%) Power BI
2 387 (8.38%) Tableau
3 358 (7.76%) Data Warehouse
4 246 (5.33%) Data Lake
5 198 (4.29%) Metadata
6 171 (3.70%) Data Mining
7 160 (3.47%) SQL Server
8 124 (2.69%) Looker
9 107 (2.32%) Azure SQL Database
10 104 (2.25%) Relational Database
11 103 (2.23%) BigQuery
12 95 (2.06%) Amazon Redshift
13 77 (1.67%) NoSQL
14 67 (1.45%) Big Data
15 66 (1.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 65 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
17 62 (1.34%) Power Query
18 60 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 49 (1.06%) Snowflake Schema
20 45 (0.97%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 165 (3.57%) Git
2 102 (2.21%) JIRA
3 72 (1.56%) Jenkins
4 43 (0.93%) MLflow
5 35 (0.76%) GitLab
6 25 (0.54%) IBM UrbanCode
7 23 (0.50%) Axure RP
7 23 (0.50%) Balsamiq
7 23 (0.50%) TeamCity
8 19 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
9 16 (0.35%) Visual Studio
10 14 (0.30%) CircleCI
11 13 (0.28%) Crashlytics
12 12 (0.26%) Selenium
13 10 (0.22%) ERwin
13 10 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 10 (0.22%) XCTest
14 7 (0.15%) Claude Code
15 6 (0.13%) Cypress.io
16 5 (0.11%) MSI
General
1 1,369 (29.66%) Finance
2 1,229 (26.62%) Social Skills
3 1,128 (24.44%) Analytical Skills
4 690 (14.95%) Marketing
5 282 (6.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 255 (5.52%) Retail
7 236 (5.11%) Public Sector
8 231 (5.00%) Banking
9 218 (4.72%) Games
10 209 (4.53%) Law
11 160 (3.47%) Legal
11 160 (3.47%) Manufacturing
12 120 (2.60%) Automotive
13 105 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
14 104 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
15 103 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
16 101 (2.19%) Financial Institution
17 99 (2.14%) Advertising
18 71 (1.54%) Back Office
19 68 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 768 (16.64%) Senior
2 649 (14.06%) Analyst
3 528 (11.44%) Lead
4 486 (10.53%) Data Engineer
5 347 (7.52%) Data Analyst
6 342 (7.41%) Architect
7 246 (5.33%) Developer
8 173 (3.75%) Consultant
9 161 (3.49%) Data Architect
10 155 (3.36%) Trainee
10 155 (3.36%) Trainee Analyst
10 155 (3.36%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 135 (2.92%) Senior Manager
12 124 (2.69%) Designer
13 111 (2.40%) Senior Data Engineer
14 103 (2.23%) Solutions Architect
15 101 (2.19%) Data Manager
16 96 (2.08%) Data Scientist
17 90 (1.95%) Support Engineer
18 88 (1.91%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (2.82%) PySpark
2 122 (2.64%) Kafka
3 104 (2.25%) HTML
4 96 (2.08%) CSS
4 96 (2.08%) PyTorch
5 73 (1.58%) .NET
6 69 (1.49%) TensorFlow
7 54 (1.17%) React
8 51 (1.10%) RESTful
8 51 (1.10%) SAP Fiori
9 50 (1.08%) OAuth
10 48 (1.04%) LangChain
10 48 (1.04%) scikit-learn
11 45 (0.97%) JSON
11 45 (0.97%) Pandas
12 43 (0.93%) REST
13 37 (0.80%) .NET Core
13 37 (0.80%) Node.js
14 26 (0.56%) OAuth2
15 24 (0.52%) LlamaIndex
Miscellaneous
1 302 (6.54%) Social Media
2 213 (4.61%) Cloud Native
3 193 (4.18%) Product Ownership
4 170 (3.68%) Analytical Mindset
5 156 (3.38%) Management Information System
6 131 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
7 118 (2.56%) Onboarding
8 102 (2.21%) Life Science
9 99 (2.14%) Algorithms
10 88 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
11 77 (1.67%) Data Structures
12 70 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
13 65 (1.41%) Marketing Technology
14 61 (1.32%) Mobile App
15 57 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
16 52 (1.13%) Over-the-Top Content
17 47 (1.02%) Public Cloud
18 45 (0.97%) Virtual Team
19 44 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
20 37 (0.80%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 106 (2.30%) Windows
2 60 (1.30%) Windows 10
3 42 (0.91%) Linux
4 25 (0.54%) VMS
5 22 (0.48%) Apple iOS
6 19 (0.41%) Unix
7 17 (0.37%) Windows Server
8 13 (0.28%) Android
9 3 (0.065%) AIX
10 1 (0.022%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.022%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,337 (28.96%) AI
2 995 (21.56%) Decision-Making
3 989 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
4 918 (19.89%) Agile
5 753 (16.31%) Continuous Improvement
6 736 (15.94%) Data Analytics
7 731 (15.84%) Data Modelling
8 726 (15.73%) Problem-Solving
9 624 (13.52%) Roadmaps
10 619 (13.41%) Data Engineering
11 550 (11.92%) Data Pipeline
12 536 (11.61%) Data Governance
13 531 (11.50%) Customer Experience
14 512 (11.09%) Data Science
15 509 (11.03%) ETL
16 508 (11.01%) Machine Learning
17 505 (10.94%) CI/CD
18 493 (10.68%) Data Analysis
19 441 (9.55%) Project Management
20 430 (9.32%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1,190 (25.78%) SQL
2 1,053 (22.81%) Python
3 118 (2.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 104 (2.25%) JavaScript
5 101 (2.19%) C#
6 98 (2.12%) Java
7 81 (1.75%) Scala
8 64 (1.39%) PowerShell
9 62 (1.34%) R
10 44 (0.95%) Bicep
10 44 (0.95%) T-SQL
10 44 (0.95%) TypeScript
11 36 (0.78%) C++
12 35 (0.76%) Go
12 35 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
13 22 (0.48%) Bash
14 15 (0.32%) PL/SQL
15 14 (0.30%) Kotlin
15 14 (0.30%) Shell Script
15 14 (0.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 674 (14.60%) Degree
2 269 (5.83%) Security Cleared
3 187 (4.05%) SC Cleared
4 139 (3.01%) Master's Degree
5 118 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 72 (1.56%) IRCA
7 61 (1.32%) Azure Certification
8 60 (1.30%) CTC Cleared
9 51 (1.10%) CISSP
10 47 (1.02%) CISM
10 47 (1.02%) PhD
11 46 (1.00%) ACCA
11 46 (1.00%) DBS Check
12 43 (0.93%) CISA
13 38 (0.82%) CIMA
14 37 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
15 33 (0.71%) DV Cleared
16 31 (0.67%) AWS Certification
17 30 (0.65%) SANS
18 29 (0.63%) CGEIT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 599 (12.98%) Data Quality
2 385 (8.34%) Accessibility
3 369 (7.99%) GDPR
4 170 (3.68%) QA
5 98 (2.12%) WCAG
6 81 (1.75%) SLA
7 76 (1.65%) ISO 9001
8 52 (1.13%) NIST
9 48 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 47 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
11 38 (0.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 34 (0.74%) HIPAA
13 33 (0.71%) COBIT
14 30 (0.65%) Solvency II
15 27 (0.58%) EU AI Act
16 26 (0.56%) IFRS
17 20 (0.43%) PSD2
17 20 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 19 (0.41%) SOC 2
19 17 (0.37%) GxP
System Software
1 151 (3.27%) Docker
2 71 (1.54%) Active Directory
3 26 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.15%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.11%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.065%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.043%) Firmware
7 2 (0.043%) IAG
7 2 (0.043%) vSphere
8 1 (0.022%) Apache Flume
8 1 (0.022%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.022%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 211 (4.57%) Terraform
2 174 (3.77%) Kubernetes
3 50 (1.08%) Ansible
4 27 (0.58%) Prometheus
5 26 (0.56%) Grafana
6 18 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (0.19%) EnCase
8 9 (0.19%) FTK
9 7 (0.15%) Kibana
10 6 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.11%) Argo
11 5 (0.11%) QRadar
12 3 (0.065%) ArcSight ESM
12 3 (0.065%) Control-M
12 3 (0.065%) VxRail
13 2 (0.043%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.043%) SCCM
13 2 (0.043%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 2 (0.043%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 841 (18.22%) Microsoft
2 376 (8.15%) Databricks
3 351 (7.60%) Google
4 303 (6.56%) Adobe
5 186 (4.03%) SAP
6 158 (3.42%) Salesforce
7 136 (2.95%) Oracle
8 131 (2.84%) Cisco
9 61 (1.32%) HubSpot
10 58 (1.26%) Dell
11 48 (1.04%) Informatica
12 41 (0.89%) Alteryx
13 29 (0.63%) OpenAI
14 28 (0.61%) Red Hat
15 27 (0.58%) Nexthink
15 27 (0.58%) Talend
16 26 (0.56%) Palantir
16 26 (0.56%) Workday
17 25 (0.54%) Cloudera
17 25 (0.54%) ServiceNow