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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 23 34
Rank change year-on-year -4 +11 -4
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 5,434 3,964 4,447
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.99% 7.94% 5.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.82% 8.93% 6.60%
Number of salaries quoted 3,208 1,799 2,498
10th Percentile £37,000 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,250 £60,000 £63,382
Median % change year-on-year +12.08% -5.34% -2.49%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £90,822
90th Percentile £101,250 £112,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £53,475 £56,141
% change year-on-year +12.20% -4.75% +2.07%

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 79,636 44,374 67,391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.20% 88.88% 80.70%
Number of salaries quoted 55,106 25,202 42,338
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,650 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 25 August 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 August 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 -4 4,866 £67,500 +8.00% 4,308
UK excluding London -7 2,871 £60,000 +12.20% 1,813
London +2 2,206 £80,000 +3.23% 2,919
Work from Home +10 1,650 £65,000 +8.33% 1,774
North of England +56 932 £60,000 +4.35% 532
Midlands +19 592 £60,000 +14.29% 218
North West +50 550 £60,000 +14.29% 332
South East -36 539 £55,000 - 337
West Midlands -1 322 £59,250 +7.73% 143
South West -23 295 £60,000 - 305
East Midlands +32 270 £60,000 +23.71% 75
Yorkshire +24 237 £63,076 +0.92% 141
East of England +10 212 £55,000 +41.03% 126
North East +28 145 £52,500 -8.70% 62
Scotland -17 112 £65,000 +1.96% 210
Northern Ireland -12 106 £65,000 +39.65% 65
Wales -6 88 £60,000 +4.35% 36
Isle of Man +1 4 £38,500 - 2

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
1 176 (3.24%) Apache Spark
2 148 (2.72%) CMS
3 117 (2.15%) Apache Airflow
4 90 (1.66%) Apache
5 83 (1.53%) SharePoint
6 68 (1.25%) Confluence
7 65 (1.20%) SAS
8 40 (0.74%) WordPress
9 29 (0.53%) Sitecore CMS
10 25 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
11 15 (0.28%) Headless CMS
12 14 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
13 11 (0.20%) ArcGIS
14 10 (0.18%) Jupyter
15 6 (0.11%) Umbraco
16 5 (0.092%) Oracle Workflow
17 4 (0.074%) Oracle Application Server
18 3 (0.055%) Drupal
19 2 (0.037%) Apache Pulsar
19 2 (0.037%) Luigi
Applications
1 247 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (0.83%) UserZoom
3 39 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
4 34 (0.63%) Chatbot
4 34 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 27 (0.50%) SPSS
6 21 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
7 17 (0.31%) Adobe XD
8 13 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 11 (0.20%) MS Visio
10 7 (0.13%) Sketch
11 6 (0.11%) Trello
12 4 (0.074%) Photoshop
13 3 (0.055%) Adobe Premiere
13 3 (0.055%) Microsoft Project
13 3 (0.055%) Zeplin
14 2 (0.037%) Adobe Illustrator
14 2 (0.037%) CapCut
15 1 (0.018%) InDesign
15 1 (0.018%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 114 (2.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 87 (1.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 50 (0.92%) Shopify
4 34 (0.63%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 33 (0.61%) Adobe Campaign
6 31 (0.57%) Dynamics GP
7 20 (0.37%) Magento
8 13 (0.24%) NetSuite
8 13 (0.24%) SAP IBP
9 11 (0.20%) SAP PP
9 11 (0.20%) Workday HCM
10 8 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
10 8 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
10 8 (0.15%) Relativity
11 7 (0.13%) SAP MDG
12 6 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
12 6 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
12 6 (0.11%) SAP PM
12 6 (0.11%) SAP Travel Management
13 5 (0.092%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 1,042 (19.18%) Azure
2 895 (16.47%) Power Platform
3 795 (14.63%) AWS
4 375 (6.90%) GCP
5 312 (5.74%) SaaS
6 275 (5.06%) Snowflake
7 252 (4.64%) Google Analytics
8 197 (3.63%) Azure Data Factory
9 175 (3.22%) Azure DevOps
9 175 (3.22%) GitHub
10 152 (2.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 150 (2.76%) Adobe Analytics
11 150 (2.76%) dbt
12 145 (2.67%) Serverless
13 109 (2.01%) Amazon S3
14 104 (1.91%) Cloud Computing
15 101 (1.86%) Microsoft 365
16 98 (1.80%) Microsoft Purview
17 96 (1.77%) Figma
18 80 (1.47%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 184 (3.39%) Broadband
2 63 (1.16%) VPN
3 61 (1.12%) Firewall
4 57 (1.05%) Internet
5 48 (0.88%) DNS
6 42 (0.77%) Network Security
7 28 (0.52%) BGP
8 27 (0.50%) TCP/IP
9 25 (0.46%) SMS
10 20 (0.37%) VLAN
11 19 (0.35%) DHCP
11 19 (0.35%) OSPF
12 15 (0.28%) VoIP
13 14 (0.26%) CTI
14 13 (0.24%) SSL
15 12 (0.22%) 5G
16 10 (0.18%) Unified Communications
17 9 (0.17%) CHAP
17 9 (0.17%) VXLAN
17 9 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 857 (15.77%) Power BI
2 442 (8.13%) Data Warehouse
3 308 (5.67%) Tableau
4 273 (5.02%) Data Lake
5 215 (3.96%) Metadata
6 172 (3.17%) SQL Server
7 149 (2.74%) Big Data
8 139 (2.56%) Looker
9 129 (2.37%) Amazon Redshift
10 124 (2.28%) Azure SQL Database
11 115 (2.12%) BigQuery
12 91 (1.67%) Relational Database
13 88 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
14 82 (1.51%) Delta Lake
15 79 (1.45%) NoSQL
16 75 (1.38%) Star Schema
17 71 (1.31%) MongoDB
18 66 (1.21%) Power Query
19 57 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
20 55 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 166 (3.05%) Git
2 85 (1.56%) JIRA
3 53 (0.98%) Jenkins
4 45 (0.83%) MLflow
5 34 (0.63%) GitLab
6 18 (0.33%) Crashlytics
7 17 (0.31%) Claude Code
8 13 (0.24%) fastlane
9 11 (0.20%) CircleCI
9 11 (0.20%) XCTest
10 10 (0.18%) Balsamiq
11 9 (0.17%) ERwin
11 9 (0.17%) Xcode
12 8 (0.15%) Axure RP
12 8 (0.15%) Gradle
13 7 (0.13%) IBM UrbanCode
14 6 (0.11%) Android Studio
14 6 (0.11%) Octopus Deploy
14 6 (0.11%) Selenium
15 5 (0.092%) Bitbucket
General
1 1,510 (27.79%) Finance
2 1,445 (26.59%) Social Skills
3 1,251 (23.02%) Analytical Skills
4 892 (16.42%) Marketing
5 393 (7.23%) Retail
6 361 (6.64%) Public Sector
7 303 (5.58%) Law
8 301 (5.54%) Legal
9 299 (5.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 231 (4.25%) Banking
11 188 (3.46%) Influencing Skills
12 182 (3.35%) Games
13 159 (2.93%) Manufacturing
14 143 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
15 121 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
16 107 (1.97%) Automotive
17 102 (1.88%) Financial Institution
18 99 (1.82%) Advertising
19 68 (1.25%) Publishing
20 58 (1.07%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,049 (19.30%) Senior
2 626 (11.52%) Analyst
2 626 (11.52%) Data Engineer
3 617 (11.35%) Lead
4 498 (9.16%) Architect
5 338 (6.22%) Developer
6 271 (4.99%) Data Analyst
7 242 (4.45%) Data Architect
8 212 (3.90%) Senior Data Engineer
9 211 (3.88%) Analytics Manager
10 198 (3.64%) Consultant
11 183 (3.37%) Data Scientist
12 169 (3.11%) Solutions Architect
13 160 (2.94%) Senior Manager
14 141 (2.59%) Product Manager
15 129 (2.37%) Senior Analyst
16 117 (2.15%) Data Manager
17 112 (2.06%) Marketing Manager
18 95 (1.75%) Senior Architect
19 87 (1.60%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 261 (4.80%) Terraform
2 165 (3.04%) PySpark
3 138 (2.54%) Kafka
4 102 (1.88%) HTML
5 93 (1.71%) CSS
6 83 (1.53%) .NET
7 70 (1.29%) REST
8 67 (1.23%) React
9 62 (1.14%) Node.js
10 60 (1.10%) scikit-learn
11 59 (1.09%) PyTorch
12 53 (0.98%) Pandas
12 53 (0.98%) TensorFlow
13 50 (0.92%) LangChain
14 43 (0.79%) .NET Core
15 38 (0.70%) ASP.NET
15 38 (0.70%) RESTful
16 37 (0.68%) Middleware
17 36 (0.66%) ASP.NET Core
18 34 (0.63%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 302 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 273 (5.02%) Onboarding
3 247 (4.55%) Social Media
4 209 (3.85%) Product Ownership
5 193 (3.55%) Marketing Technology
6 187 (3.44%) Blog
7 169 (3.11%) Management Information System
8 153 (2.82%) Analytical Mindset
9 108 (1.99%) Data Structures
10 95 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
11 85 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
12 84 (1.55%) Algorithms
13 81 (1.49%) AI Agents
14 78 (1.44%) Mobile App
15 58 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
15 58 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
16 55 (1.01%) Public Cloud
17 46 (0.85%) Virtual Team
18 42 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
19 41 (0.75%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 88 (1.62%) Windows
2 78 (1.44%) Linux
3 26 (0.48%) VMS
4 24 (0.44%) Apple iOS
5 21 (0.39%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.18%) Android
7 6 (0.11%) Unix
8 5 (0.092%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.074%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.055%) Debian
11 2 (0.037%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.018%) AIX
12 1 (0.018%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.018%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.018%) SUSE
12 1 (0.018%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,933 (35.57%) AI
2 1,309 (24.09%) Decision-Making
3 1,194 (21.97%) Business Intelligence
4 940 (17.30%) Agile
5 895 (16.47%) Roadmaps
6 887 (16.32%) Problem-Solving
7 857 (15.77%) Continuous Improvement
8 829 (15.26%) Data Modelling
9 761 (14.00%) Machine Learning
10 755 (13.89%) Data Engineering
11 696 (12.81%) Data Analytics
12 662 (12.18%) Data Pipeline
13 651 (11.98%) CI/CD
14 634 (11.67%) Data Science
15 582 (10.71%) Mentoring
16 554 (10.20%) Stakeholder Management
17 541 (9.96%) Data Governance
18 533 (9.81%) Actionable Insight
19 514 (9.46%) ETL
20 478 (8.80%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1,438 (26.46%) SQL
2 1,214 (22.34%) Python
3 132 (2.43%) Java
4 120 (2.21%) C#
4 120 (2.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 112 (2.06%) JavaScript
6 106 (1.95%) PowerShell
7 91 (1.67%) R
8 88 (1.62%) TypeScript
9 75 (1.38%) Scala
10 72 (1.32%) Bicep
11 57 (1.05%) Bash
12 47 (0.86%) Go
13 34 (0.63%) C++
13 34 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
14 27 (0.50%) T-SQL
15 26 (0.48%) Kotlin
16 22 (0.40%) Swift
17 18 (0.33%) Julia
17 18 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 660 (12.15%) Degree
2 382 (7.03%) Security Cleared
3 254 (4.67%) SC Cleared
4 123 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 111 (2.04%) Azure Certification
6 103 (1.90%) Master's Degree
7 82 (1.51%) DV Cleared
8 61 (1.12%) AWS Certification
9 56 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
10 53 (0.98%) ACCA
11 48 (0.88%) IRCA
12 47 (0.86%) CIMA
13 46 (0.85%) DBS Check
14 44 (0.81%) CISSP
15 43 (0.79%) PhD
16 34 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
17 33 (0.61%) CISM
18 29 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
19 22 (0.40%) Postgraduate
20 20 (0.37%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 730 (13.43%) Data Quality
2 364 (6.70%) Accessibility
3 281 (5.17%) GDPR
4 189 (3.48%) QA
5 91 (1.67%) WCAG
6 51 (0.94%) ISO 9001
7 46 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
8 37 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 37 (0.68%) NIST
9 33 (0.61%) SLA
10 30 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 24 (0.44%) PMO
12 22 (0.40%) IFRS
13 21 (0.39%) PCI DSS
14 14 (0.26%) EU AI Act
14 14 (0.26%) GRC
14 14 (0.26%) PERC
14 14 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 12 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
16 11 (0.20%) GAAP
System Software
1 150 (2.76%) Docker
2 89 (1.64%) Active Directory
3 25 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (0.29%) vSphere
6 15 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.13%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.074%) Firmware
8 4 (0.074%) IAG
8 4 (0.074%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.018%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.018%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 177 (3.26%) Kubernetes
2 47 (0.86%) Ansible
3 28 (0.52%) Grafana
4 27 (0.50%) Prometheus
5 17 (0.31%) EnCase
5 17 (0.31%) FTK
6 13 (0.24%) FortiGate
6 13 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.15%) Argo
8 6 (0.11%) Graylog
8 6 (0.11%) Hadoop YARN
8 6 (0.11%) Nagios
9 5 (0.092%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.092%) Packer
9 5 (0.092%) Puppet
9 5 (0.092%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.074%) VxRail
11 3 (0.055%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.055%) Stealthwatch
11 3 (0.055%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 805 (14.81%) Microsoft
2 522 (9.61%) Databricks
3 428 (7.88%) Google
4 255 (4.69%) Adobe
5 234 (4.31%) SAP
6 114 (2.10%) Oracle
7 106 (1.95%) Salesforce
8 69 (1.27%) HubSpot
9 59 (1.09%) Informatica
10 58 (1.07%) Workday
11 50 (0.92%) Dell
12 43 (0.79%) IBM
13 41 (0.75%) Cisco
14 37 (0.68%) Alteryx
15 35 (0.64%) YouTube
16 34 (0.63%) OpenAI
16 34 (0.63%) VMware
17 30 (0.55%) Cognos
17 30 (0.55%) Sitecore
18 29 (0.53%) TikTok