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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 28 30
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 -6
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 3,592 3,478 3,735
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 6.06% 6.50% 6.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.48% 7.18% 7.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,876 1,718 2,578
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £35,813
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £64,827
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +7.98% -3.96%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £118,750 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.28% +3.64% -0.63%

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 48,033 48,451 50,427
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.00% 90.60% 89.96%
Number of salaries quoted 28,230 23,579 38,463
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £78,479
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%

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 12 January 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 12 January 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 3,099 £65,000 -7.14% 2,573
UK excluding London +4 1,844 £50,000 -12.28% 2,296
London +4 1,471 £75,000 -11.76% 717
Work from Home -4 1,055 £64,250 -8.21% 1,202
South East +15 562 £53,750 -10.42% 833
North of England -13 369 £51,000 -7.27% 411
Midlands -3 324 £55,000 - 304
Scotland +5 223 £51,250 -15.11% 81
West Midlands -10 188 £58,764 +3.09% 117
South West +10 187 £55,000 +1.03% 256
North West -19 186 £47,500 -13.64% 194
Yorkshire -6 146 £62,500 +30.21% 151
East Midlands +18 137 £45,390 -9.22% 180
East of England +36 118 £40,000 -36.00% 316
North East +21 38 £41,250 -18.32% 67
Northern Ireland 0 37 £45,000 -34.55% 50
Wales +15 27 £44,000 -12.00% 104

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 86 (2.39%) Apache Spark
2 78 (2.17%) CMS
3 69 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
4 51 (1.42%) WordPress
5 42 (1.17%) SharePoint
6 41 (1.14%) Confluence
7 37 (1.03%) Apache
8 24 (0.67%) SAS
9 20 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 16 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
11 10 (0.28%) Drupal
12 9 (0.25%) Umbraco
13 8 (0.22%) SugarCRM
14 6 (0.17%) IIS
15 4 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 4 (0.11%) Apache Superset
15 4 (0.11%) Appian
16 3 (0.084%) Joomla!
16 3 (0.084%) Moodle
16 3 (0.084%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 523 (14.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 95 (2.64%) Microsoft Office
3 58 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 29 (0.81%) Adobe XD
4 29 (0.81%) Maya
5 23 (0.64%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 20 (0.56%) Photoshop
7 18 (0.50%) InDesign
8 14 (0.39%) Chatbot
9 13 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
10 12 (0.33%) Adobe Premiere
10 12 (0.33%) SPSS
11 10 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
11 10 (0.28%) Trello
12 9 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
13 5 (0.14%) MS Visio
14 4 (0.11%) SketchUp
15 3 (0.084%) Final Cut Pro
15 3 (0.084%) Oracle Smart View
16 2 (0.056%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 70 (1.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 60 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 34 (0.95%) Oracle ERP
4 26 (0.72%) Shopify
5 22 (0.61%) SAP CO
5 22 (0.61%) SAP IBP
6 21 (0.58%) Magento
7 16 (0.45%) Oracle Assets
7 16 (0.45%) Oracle General Ledger
7 16 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
7 16 (0.45%) Oracle Receivables
7 16 (0.45%) SAP FI
7 16 (0.45%) SAP FI/CO
8 15 (0.42%) Oracle Financials
9 14 (0.39%) Dynamics GP
10 13 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
11 10 (0.28%) NetSuite
11 10 (0.28%) SAP FSCM
12 9 (0.25%) IBM Planning Analytics
12 9 (0.25%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 944 (26.28%) Azure
2 734 (20.43%) Power Platform
3 355 (9.88%) AWS
4 221 (6.15%) SaaS
5 218 (6.07%) GCP
6 190 (5.29%) Snowflake
7 184 (5.12%) Google Analytics
8 182 (5.07%) Azure Data Factory
9 173 (4.82%) Azure DevOps
10 154 (4.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 147 (4.09%) GitHub
12 133 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
13 110 (3.06%) dbt
14 83 (2.31%) Azure Monitor
15 68 (1.89%) Entra ID
16 66 (1.84%) Serverless
17 64 (1.78%) Figma
18 61 (1.70%) Google Ads
19 60 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
20 57 (1.59%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 38 (1.06%) VPN
2 33 (0.92%) SMS
3 32 (0.89%) Firewall
4 27 (0.75%) Broadband
5 15 (0.42%) DNS
5 15 (0.42%) Unified Communications
6 14 (0.39%) CHAP
6 14 (0.39%) WAN
7 12 (0.33%) Network Security
8 9 (0.25%) Intranet
9 8 (0.22%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.14%) DHCP
10 5 (0.14%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (0.14%) Wireshark
11 4 (0.11%) HTTPS
11 4 (0.11%) Internet
11 4 (0.11%) VoIP
12 3 (0.084%) MQTT
13 2 (0.056%) SD-WAN
13 2 (0.056%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 699 (19.46%) Power BI
2 392 (10.91%) Tableau
3 310 (8.63%) Data Warehouse
4 245 (6.82%) Data Lake
5 162 (4.51%) Metadata
6 149 (4.15%) Data Mining
7 145 (4.04%) SQL Server
8 95 (2.64%) SAP BW
9 93 (2.59%) Azure SQL Database
10 92 (2.56%) Looker
11 87 (2.42%) Big Data
12 69 (1.92%) BigQuery
13 67 (1.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 66 (1.84%) Relational Database
15 64 (1.78%) NoSQL
16 61 (1.70%) Amazon Redshift
17 51 (1.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 46 (1.28%) Hadoop
18 46 (1.28%) Power Query
19 43 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 113 (3.15%) JIRA
2 112 (3.12%) Git
3 51 (1.42%) Jenkins
4 31 (0.86%) Oracle Forms
5 26 (0.72%) Axure RP
5 26 (0.72%) Balsamiq
6 19 (0.53%) ERwin
6 19 (0.53%) GitLab
7 17 (0.47%) Visual Studio
8 13 (0.36%) MLflow
8 13 (0.36%) TeamCity
9 12 (0.33%) Selenium
10 8 (0.22%) PowerDesigner
11 7 (0.19%) ER Studio
12 6 (0.17%) Postman
13 5 (0.14%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.14%) MSI
13 5 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
14 4 (0.11%) Maven
14 4 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 1,274 (35.47%) Finance
2 1,205 (33.55%) Social Skills
3 1,067 (29.70%) Analytical Skills
4 679 (18.90%) Marketing
5 249 (6.93%) Law
6 247 (6.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 208 (5.79%) Banking
8 203 (5.65%) Retail
9 198 (5.51%) Public Sector
10 153 (4.26%) Manufacturing
11 141 (3.93%) Presentation Skills
12 130 (3.62%) Legal
13 96 (2.67%) Financial Institution
14 95 (2.64%) Games
14 95 (2.64%) Pharmaceutical
15 73 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
16 67 (1.87%) Automotive
17 66 (1.84%) Advertising
18 65 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
19 64 (1.78%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 585 (16.29%) Analyst
2 552 (15.37%) Senior
3 456 (12.69%) Lead
4 317 (8.83%) Data Analyst
5 301 (8.38%) Data Engineer
6 279 (7.77%) Architect
7 211 (5.87%) Developer
8 128 (3.56%) Senior Manager
9 121 (3.37%) Trainee
9 121 (3.37%) Trainee Analyst
9 121 (3.37%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 118 (3.29%) Data Architect
11 85 (2.37%) Consultant
12 79 (2.20%) Solutions Architect
13 70 (1.95%) Data Scientist
13 70 (1.95%) Report Analyst
14 69 (1.92%) Senior Analyst
15 68 (1.89%) Data Manager
16 64 (1.78%) Innovation Manager
16 64 (1.78%) Marketing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (2.26%) HTML
2 71 (1.98%) CSS
3 69 (1.92%) PySpark
4 66 (1.84%) Kafka
5 62 (1.73%) RESTful
6 60 (1.67%) OAuth
7 55 (1.53%) React
8 52 (1.45%) REST
9 50 (1.39%) PyTorch
10 49 (1.36%) TensorFlow
11 46 (1.28%) .NET
11 46 (1.28%) JSON
12 37 (1.03%) OAuth2
13 32 (0.89%) SAML
14 30 (0.84%) scikit-learn
15 28 (0.78%) Node.js
16 27 (0.75%) Pandas
17 26 (0.72%) Middleware
18 23 (0.64%) FIX Protocol
19 22 (0.61%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 173 (4.82%) Analytical Mindset
2 171 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
3 166 (4.62%) Onboarding
4 162 (4.51%) Product Ownership
5 149 (4.15%) Cloud Native
6 144 (4.01%) Management Information System
7 140 (3.90%) Social Media
8 111 (3.09%) Algorithms
9 88 (2.45%) Life Science
10 83 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
11 61 (1.70%) FMCG
12 59 (1.64%) Data Structures
13 55 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
14 46 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
15 45 (1.25%) Data Centre
16 39 (1.09%) Virtual Team
17 36 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
18 35 (0.97%) Fixed Income
19 29 (0.81%) Credit Risk
19 29 (0.81%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 82 (2.28%) Windows
2 35 (0.97%) Linux
3 28 (0.78%) Windows 10
4 27 (0.75%) Unix
5 13 (0.36%) VMS
6 11 (0.31%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.22%) Android
8 7 (0.19%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.056%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.028%) AIX
10 1 (0.028%) Debian
10 1 (0.028%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 973 (27.09%) AI
1 973 (27.09%) Business Intelligence
2 817 (22.74%) Decision-Making
3 798 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 717 (19.96%) Data Analytics
5 666 (18.54%) Continuous Improvement
6 664 (18.49%) Agile
7 586 (16.31%) Data Modelling
8 469 (13.06%) Data Science
9 463 (12.89%) Machine Learning
10 458 (12.75%) Data Governance
11 456 (12.69%) Data Analysis
12 453 (12.61%) Roadmaps
13 452 (12.58%) Stakeholder Management
14 437 (12.17%) Project Management
15 411 (11.44%) Data Engineering
16 408 (11.36%) Visualisation
17 385 (10.72%) ETL
18 375 (10.44%) DevOps
19 373 (10.38%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 961 (26.75%) SQL
2 900 (25.06%) Python
3 119 (3.31%) Java
4 111 (3.09%) JavaScript
5 80 (2.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 74 (2.06%) PowerShell
7 72 (2.00%) C#
8 70 (1.95%) R
9 66 (1.84%) Scala
10 52 (1.45%) Bicep
11 43 (1.20%) T-SQL
12 31 (0.86%) Bash
13 30 (0.84%) TypeScript
14 29 (0.81%) C++
15 27 (0.75%) Go
15 27 (0.75%) PL/SQL
16 23 (0.64%) Kusto Query Language
17 20 (0.56%) Shell Script
18 18 (0.50%) VBA
19 13 (0.36%) PHP
Qualifications
1 831 (23.13%) Degree
2 196 (5.46%) Master's Degree
3 185 (5.15%) Security Cleared
4 134 (3.73%) SC Cleared
5 113 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 96 (2.67%) PhD
7 90 (2.51%) DBS Check
8 60 (1.67%) CISSP
9 56 (1.56%) CISA
10 47 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
11 46 (1.28%) Numerate Degree
12 45 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
13 44 (1.22%) Azure Certification
14 41 (1.14%) CISM
15 39 (1.09%) ACCA
16 38 (1.06%) PMI Certification
17 30 (0.84%) PMP
18 28 (0.78%) CTC Cleared
19 26 (0.72%) CIMA
20 23 (0.64%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 489 (13.61%) Data Quality
2 264 (7.35%) GDPR
3 200 (5.57%) Accessibility
4 82 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 77 (2.14%) QA
6 50 (1.39%) NIST
7 43 (1.20%) GxP
7 43 (1.20%) WCAG
8 41 (1.14%) SLA
9 34 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
10 31 (0.86%) COBIT
11 25 (0.70%) Solvency II
12 23 (0.64%) HIPAA
13 22 (0.61%) EU AI Act
14 21 (0.58%) PSD2
15 20 (0.56%) GRC
15 20 (0.56%) IFRS
16 17 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 15 (0.42%) ITGC
17 15 (0.42%) PMO
System Software
1 106 (2.95%) Docker
2 52 (1.45%) Active Directory
3 31 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (0.25%) Hyper-V
5 9 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.056%) Firmware
6 2 (0.056%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.028%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.028%) vCloud
7 1 (0.028%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.028%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 177 (4.93%) Terraform
2 126 (3.51%) Kubernetes
3 34 (0.95%) Ansible
4 30 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
5 25 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
6 18 (0.50%) Grafana
7 14 (0.39%) Prometheus
8 12 (0.33%) SCCM
9 11 (0.31%) QRadar
10 8 (0.22%) EnCase
10 8 (0.22%) FTK
11 6 (0.17%) RSA Archer
11 6 (0.17%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 5 (0.14%) Argo
12 5 (0.14%) Kibana
12 5 (0.14%) SCOM
13 3 (0.084%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.084%) ArcSight ESM
13 3 (0.084%) Control-M
14 1 (0.028%) MOM
Vendors
1 704 (19.60%) Microsoft
2 315 (8.77%) Google
3 242 (6.74%) Databricks
4 240 (6.68%) SAP
5 207 (5.76%) Salesforce
6 136 (3.79%) Oracle
7 126 (3.51%) Adobe
8 95 (2.64%) Cisco
9 68 (1.89%) HubSpot
10 57 (1.59%) Alteryx
11 40 (1.11%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 34 (0.95%) Bloomberg
13 31 (0.86%) Dell
14 30 (0.84%) OpenAI
14 30 (0.84%) ServiceNow
15 29 (0.81%) Talend
16 25 (0.70%) Informatica
17 23 (0.64%) IBM
17 23 (0.64%) YouTube
18 22 (0.61%) Nexthink