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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 29 34
Rank change year-on-year -4 +5 -10
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 4,083 3,269 4,354
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.85% 6.90% 5.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.42% 7.42% 6.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,192 1,603 3,128
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £43,583 £50,000 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,000 £53,750
% change year-on-year -7.89% +6.05% -2.27%

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 55,039 44,035 66,669
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.92% 92.97% 88.39%
Number of salaries quoted 32,968 22,033 51,326
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £29,487
25th Percentile £38,541 £45,651 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,001 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 27 February 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 27 February 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 3,477 £65,000 -7.14% 1,508
UK excluding London -3 2,050 £52,500 -7.89% 1,238
London +5 1,642 £80,000 -5.88% 688
Work from Home -4 1,301 £64,000 - 705
South East +22 526 £57,500 -4.17% 475
North of England -14 492 £49,000 -10.91% 272
Midlands -4 392 £53,500 -2.73% 203
West Midlands -11 243 £57,500 +4.55% 121
North West -22 241 £55,000 - 139
Scotland +4 231 £65,000 -7.14% 49
Yorkshire -4 197 £49,500 -10.00% 93
South West -1 191 £55,000 +1.03% 126
East Midlands +5 147 £47,500 -5.00% 81
East of England +30 140 £50,250 -22.69% 85
North East +16 54 £40,000 -20.79% 42
Northern Ireland +1 52 £45,000 -7.69% 12
Wales +9 29 £65,000 +32.37% 35

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
1 123 (3.01%) Apache Airflow
2 105 (2.57%) Apache Spark
2 105 (2.57%) CMS
3 73 (1.79%) Apache
4 53 (1.30%) WordPress
5 51 (1.25%) Confluence
6 41 (1.00%) SharePoint
7 38 (0.93%) SAS
8 32 (0.78%) ArcGIS
9 18 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
10 17 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
10 17 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 16 (0.39%) Drupal
12 8 (0.20%) Umbraco
13 7 (0.17%) Oracle Application Server
14 6 (0.15%) IIS
15 4 (0.098%) Appian
15 4 (0.098%) Documentum
15 4 (0.098%) Sitecore CMS
16 3 (0.073%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 453 (11.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 128 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
3 61 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (0.61%) Adobe XD
5 20 (0.49%) InDesign
6 17 (0.42%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.42%) Photoshop
6 17 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
7 16 (0.39%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 16 (0.39%) Maya
8 14 (0.34%) UserZoom
9 12 (0.29%) Chatbot
10 11 (0.27%) Adobe Premiere
10 11 (0.27%) SPSS
11 9 (0.22%) Trello
12 8 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
13 6 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
14 3 (0.073%) Final Cut Pro
14 3 (0.073%) SketchUp
15 2 (0.049%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 78 (1.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 49 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 35 (0.86%) SAP IBP
4 34 (0.83%) Oracle ERP
5 28 (0.69%) SAP PP
6 19 (0.47%) SAP CO
7 18 (0.44%) Shopify
8 16 (0.39%) Magento
9 15 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
9 15 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
9 15 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
10 14 (0.34%) iTrent
10 14 (0.34%) NetSuite
10 14 (0.34%) Oracle Assets
10 14 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
11 13 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
12 12 (0.29%) Dynamics GP
13 11 (0.27%) IBM Planning Analytics
14 10 (0.24%) SAP ERP
14 10 (0.24%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 950 (23.27%) Azure
2 678 (16.61%) Power Platform
3 453 (11.09%) AWS
4 232 (5.68%) SaaS
5 216 (5.29%) Azure Data Factory
5 216 (5.29%) GCP
6 211 (5.17%) Snowflake
7 185 (4.53%) Google Analytics
8 174 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
9 170 (4.16%) Microsoft 365
10 157 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 151 (3.70%) GitHub
12 120 (2.94%) dbt
13 113 (2.77%) Adobe Analytics
14 104 (2.55%) Entra ID
15 98 (2.40%) Amazon S3
16 94 (2.30%) Figma
17 90 (2.20%) Azure Monitor
18 84 (2.06%) Serverless
19 64 (1.57%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 123 (3.01%) Broadband
2 39 (0.96%) VPN
3 35 (0.86%) Firewall
4 22 (0.54%) CHAP
4 22 (0.54%) WAN
5 16 (0.39%) DNS
6 15 (0.37%) Network Security
7 13 (0.32%) Intranet
7 13 (0.32%) Unified Communications
8 10 (0.24%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.15%) DHCP
9 6 (0.15%) HTTPS
10 5 (0.12%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (0.12%) SNMP
10 5 (0.12%) VoIP
11 4 (0.098%) HTTP
12 3 (0.073%) Internet
12 3 (0.073%) LAN
12 3 (0.073%) MQTT
13 2 (0.049%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 641 (15.70%) Power BI
2 429 (10.51%) Tableau
3 326 (7.98%) Data Warehouse
4 202 (4.95%) Data Lake
5 198 (4.85%) Data Mining
6 188 (4.60%) Metadata
7 153 (3.75%) SQL Server
8 109 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
9 97 (2.38%) Looker
10 78 (1.91%) Relational Database
11 75 (1.84%) Big Data
12 71 (1.74%) BigQuery
13 70 (1.71%) NoSQL
14 68 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 66 (1.62%) Amazon Redshift
16 57 (1.40%) Power Query
17 54 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 43 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
19 39 (0.96%) Oracle Database
20 38 (0.93%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 147 (3.60%) Git
2 115 (2.82%) JIRA
3 67 (1.64%) Jenkins
4 28 (0.69%) GitLab
5 27 (0.66%) Oracle Forms
6 23 (0.56%) Axure RP
6 23 (0.56%) Balsamiq
6 23 (0.56%) TeamCity
7 21 (0.51%) IBM UrbanCode
8 20 (0.49%) ERwin
9 19 (0.47%) Visual Studio
10 17 (0.42%) MLflow
11 10 (0.24%) CircleCI
11 10 (0.24%) Selenium
12 9 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 8 (0.20%) PowerDesigner
14 6 (0.15%) Cypress.io
15 5 (0.12%) Crashlytics
15 5 (0.12%) MSI
15 5 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,414 (34.63%) Finance
2 1,257 (30.79%) Social Skills
3 1,112 (27.23%) Analytical Skills
4 660 (16.16%) Marketing
5 282 (6.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 251 (6.15%) Banking
7 246 (6.02%) Public Sector
8 218 (5.34%) Law
9 209 (5.12%) Retail
10 161 (3.94%) Legal
10 161 (3.94%) Manufacturing
11 136 (3.33%) Games
12 128 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
13 110 (2.69%) Financial Institution
14 92 (2.25%) Automotive
15 88 (2.16%) Advertising
15 88 (2.16%) Pharmaceutical
16 87 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
17 82 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
18 69 (1.69%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 658 (16.12%) Senior
2 657 (16.09%) Analyst
3 484 (11.85%) Lead
4 379 (9.28%) Data Analyst
5 376 (9.21%) Data Engineer
6 325 (7.96%) Architect
7 223 (5.46%) Developer
8 171 (4.19%) Trainee
8 171 (4.19%) Trainee Analyst
8 171 (4.19%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 148 (3.62%) Data Architect
10 144 (3.53%) Senior Manager
11 141 (3.45%) Consultant
12 101 (2.47%) Designer
13 96 (2.35%) Solutions Architect
14 88 (2.16%) Data Manager
15 84 (2.06%) Support Engineer
16 81 (1.98%) Senior Analyst
17 80 (1.96%) Data Scientist
18 78 (1.91%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (2.42%) PySpark
2 95 (2.33%) HTML
3 85 (2.08%) CSS
4 84 (2.06%) Kafka
5 69 (1.69%) PyTorch
6 64 (1.57%) .NET
7 63 (1.54%) React
8 59 (1.45%) OAuth
9 57 (1.40%) RESTful
10 49 (1.20%) TensorFlow
11 45 (1.10%) REST
11 45 (1.10%) SAP Fiori
12 44 (1.08%) JSON
13 37 (0.91%) OAuth2
14 31 (0.76%) Pandas
15 29 (0.71%) .NET Core
15 29 (0.71%) SAML
16 28 (0.69%) Node.js
17 26 (0.64%) FIX Protocol
18 24 (0.59%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 227 (5.56%) Social Media
2 184 (4.51%) Product Ownership
3 183 (4.48%) Analytical Mindset
4 179 (4.38%) Self-Motivation
5 170 (4.16%) Cloud Native
6 154 (3.77%) Management Information System
7 123 (3.01%) Algorithms
8 121 (2.96%) Onboarding
9 116 (2.84%) Life Science
10 82 (2.01%) Data Structures
11 67 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
12 66 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
13 65 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
14 51 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
15 48 (1.18%) Mobile App
16 44 (1.08%) FMCG
17 41 (1.00%) Virtual Team
18 39 (0.96%) Fixed Income
19 37 (0.91%) Web Conferencing
20 35 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 112 (2.74%) Windows
2 60 (1.47%) Windows 10
3 42 (1.03%) Linux
4 29 (0.71%) Unix
5 23 (0.56%) VMS
6 14 (0.34%) Apple iOS
6 14 (0.34%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.29%) Android
8 2 (0.049%) AIX
8 2 (0.049%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,159 (28.39%) AI
2 930 (22.78%) Business Intelligence
3 869 (21.28%) Decision-Making
4 820 (20.08%) Agile
5 793 (19.42%) Data Analytics
6 753 (18.44%) Problem-Solving
7 736 (18.03%) Continuous Improvement
8 629 (15.41%) Data Modelling
9 522 (12.78%) Data Analysis
10 514 (12.59%) Project Management
10 514 (12.59%) Roadmaps
11 508 (12.44%) Data Governance
12 498 (12.20%) Data Engineering
13 495 (12.12%) Data Science
14 493 (12.07%) Machine Learning
15 457 (11.19%) Data Pipeline
16 446 (10.92%) ETL
17 445 (10.90%) CI/CD
18 435 (10.65%) Stakeholder Management
19 427 (10.46%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1,106 (27.09%) SQL
2 1,010 (24.74%) Python
3 112 (2.74%) JavaScript
4 111 (2.72%) Java
5 91 (2.23%) C#
6 89 (2.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 77 (1.89%) PowerShell
8 75 (1.84%) Scala
9 69 (1.69%) R
10 49 (1.20%) Bicep
11 44 (1.08%) T-SQL
12 41 (1.00%) C++
12 41 (1.00%) TypeScript
13 33 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
14 30 (0.73%) Bash
15 27 (0.66%) Go
16 24 (0.59%) PL/SQL
17 21 (0.51%) Shell Script
18 16 (0.39%) VBA
19 12 (0.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 753 (18.44%) Degree
2 270 (6.61%) Security Cleared
3 191 (4.68%) SC Cleared
4 166 (4.07%) Master's Degree
5 120 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 72 (1.76%) PhD
7 60 (1.47%) CTC Cleared
8 59 (1.45%) CISSP
9 54 (1.32%) Azure Certification
10 51 (1.25%) CISA
11 50 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
12 47 (1.15%) CISM
13 46 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
13 46 (1.13%) Numerate Degree
14 41 (1.00%) DBS Check
15 37 (0.91%) ACCA
16 34 (0.83%) PMI Certification
17 32 (0.78%) DV Cleared
18 29 (0.71%) AWS Certification
19 28 (0.69%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 541 (13.25%) Data Quality
2 298 (7.30%) Accessibility
3 291 (7.13%) GDPR
4 117 (2.87%) QA
5 74 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 73 (1.79%) SLA
7 59 (1.45%) WCAG
8 51 (1.25%) NIST
9 44 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
10 39 (0.96%) GxP
11 37 (0.91%) ISO 9001
12 32 (0.78%) HIPAA
13 31 (0.76%) COBIT
14 25 (0.61%) IFRS
14 25 (0.61%) Solvency II
15 24 (0.59%) EU AI Act
16 21 (0.51%) PSD2
17 17 (0.42%) GRC
17 17 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 16 (0.39%) SOC 2
System Software
1 133 (3.26%) Docker
2 61 (1.49%) Active Directory
3 35 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.29%) Hyper-V
5 12 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.098%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.049%) vSphere
8 1 (0.024%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.024%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 198 (4.85%) Terraform
2 153 (3.75%) Kubernetes
3 40 (0.98%) Ansible
4 26 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
5 25 (0.61%) Grafana
6 24 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
6 24 (0.59%) Prometheus
7 9 (0.22%) SCCM
8 8 (0.20%) EnCase
8 8 (0.20%) FTK
9 7 (0.17%) Kibana
10 6 (0.15%) QRadar
10 6 (0.15%) RSA Archer
10 6 (0.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 5 (0.12%) Argo
11 5 (0.12%) SCOM
12 3 (0.073%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.073%) ArcSight ESM
12 3 (0.073%) Control-M
12 3 (0.073%) VxRail
Vendors
1 847 (20.74%) Microsoft
2 319 (7.81%) Google
3 266 (6.51%) Databricks
4 202 (4.95%) Adobe
5 201 (4.92%) SAP
6 183 (4.48%) Salesforce
7 152 (3.72%) Oracle
8 139 (3.40%) Cisco
9 65 (1.59%) HubSpot
10 55 (1.35%) Alteryx
11 34 (0.83%) Bloomberg
12 33 (0.81%) Informatica
13 32 (0.78%) ServiceNow
14 31 (0.76%) Instagram
15 30 (0.73%) YouTube
16 29 (0.71%) OpenAI
17 28 (0.69%) Dell
17 28 (0.69%) Nexthink
18 26 (0.64%) Palantir
18 26 (0.64%) Talend