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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 22 34
Rank change year-on-year -5 +12 -4
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 5,456 3,971 4,392
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.05% 7.97% 5.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.90% 8.95% 6.55%
Number of salaries quoted 3,196 1,797 2,501
10th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,375 £45,000 £46,990
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £62,900
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -4.61% -3.23%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £112,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £53,971 £55,750
% change year-on-year +11.17% -3.19% +1.36%

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 79,126 44,376 67,104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.31% 89.04% 80.77%
Number of salaries quoted 54,636 25,137 42,574
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
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 22 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 22 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 -5 4,880 £67,500 +9.76% 1,811
UK excluding London -7 2,880 £60,000 +11.17% 1,299
London +2 2,217 £80,000 +3.23% 879
Work from Home +9 1,650 £65,000 +8.33% 784
North of England +54 928 £60,000 +4.35% 341
Midlands +16 596 £60,000 +14.29% 170
North West +51 549 £60,000 +14.29% 188
South East -36 536 £55,000 - 485
West Midlands +2 325 £59,625 +8.41% 119
South West -23 297 £60,000 - 151
East Midlands +35 271 £60,000 +23.71% 51
Yorkshire +25 235 £63,076 +0.92% 108
East of England +5 219 £55,500 +42.31% 83
North East +30 144 £55,000 -4.35% 47
Scotland -17 113 £65,000 -5.45% 52
Northern Ireland -16 108 £65,000 +39.65% 5
Wales -4 89 £60,000 +9.09% 32
Isle of Man +1 3 £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
1 193 (3.54%) Apache Spark
2 149 (2.73%) CMS
3 135 (2.47%) Apache Airflow
4 108 (1.98%) Apache
5 80 (1.47%) SharePoint
6 70 (1.28%) Confluence
7 65 (1.19%) SAS
8 39 (0.71%) WordPress
9 29 (0.53%) Sitecore CMS
10 25 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
11 14 (0.26%) ArcGIS
11 14 (0.26%) Headless CMS
11 14 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
12 10 (0.18%) Jupyter
13 6 (0.11%) Umbraco
14 5 (0.092%) Oracle Workflow
15 4 (0.073%) Oracle Application Server
16 3 (0.055%) Drupal
17 2 (0.037%) Luigi
17 2 (0.037%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 247 (4.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (0.82%) UserZoom
3 38 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
4 34 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 33 (0.60%) Chatbot
6 27 (0.49%) SPSS
7 21 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
8 19 (0.35%) MS Visio
9 18 (0.33%) Adobe XD
10 13 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 7 (0.13%) Sketch
12 6 (0.11%) Trello
13 4 (0.073%) Photoshop
14 3 (0.055%) Adobe Premiere
14 3 (0.055%) Microsoft Project
14 3 (0.055%) Zeplin
15 2 (0.037%) Adobe Illustrator
15 2 (0.037%) CapCut
16 1 (0.018%) InDesign
16 1 (0.018%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 114 (2.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 92 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 41 (0.75%) Shopify
4 34 (0.62%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 33 (0.60%) Adobe Campaign
6 31 (0.57%) Dynamics GP
7 20 (0.37%) Magento
8 16 (0.29%) SAP IBP
9 14 (0.26%) NetSuite
9 14 (0.26%) SAP PP
10 11 (0.20%) Workday HCM
11 9 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
12 8 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
12 8 (0.15%) Relativity
13 7 (0.13%) SAP MDG
14 6 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
14 6 (0.11%) iTrent
14 6 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
14 6 (0.11%) SAP PM
14 6 (0.11%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 1,047 (19.19%) Azure
2 894 (16.39%) Power Platform
3 813 (14.90%) AWS
4 373 (6.84%) GCP
5 311 (5.70%) SaaS
6 279 (5.11%) Snowflake
7 243 (4.45%) Google Analytics
8 196 (3.59%) Azure Data Factory
9 174 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
10 172 (3.15%) GitHub
11 157 (2.88%) Adobe Analytics
12 154 (2.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 150 (2.75%) dbt
14 146 (2.68%) Serverless
15 128 (2.35%) Amazon S3
16 105 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
17 103 (1.89%) Figma
18 97 (1.78%) Microsoft 365
19 96 (1.76%) Microsoft Purview
20 78 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 191 (3.50%) Broadband
2 61 (1.12%) VPN
3 59 (1.08%) Firewall
4 57 (1.04%) Internet
5 47 (0.86%) DNS
6 42 (0.77%) Network Security
7 27 (0.49%) BGP
8 26 (0.48%) TCP/IP
9 22 (0.40%) SMS
10 20 (0.37%) VLAN
11 18 (0.33%) DHCP
11 18 (0.33%) OSPF
12 15 (0.27%) VoIP
13 14 (0.26%) CTI
14 12 (0.22%) 5G
14 12 (0.22%) SSL
15 10 (0.18%) Unified Communications
16 9 (0.16%) CHAP
16 9 (0.16%) VXLAN
16 9 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 855 (15.67%) Power BI
2 441 (8.08%) Data Warehouse
3 327 (5.99%) Tableau
4 271 (4.97%) Data Lake
5 211 (3.87%) Metadata
6 174 (3.19%) SQL Server
7 150 (2.75%) Big Data
8 139 (2.55%) Looker
9 129 (2.36%) Amazon Redshift
10 125 (2.29%) Azure SQL Database
11 115 (2.11%) BigQuery
12 93 (1.70%) Relational Database
13 88 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
14 82 (1.50%) Delta Lake
15 79 (1.45%) NoSQL
16 76 (1.39%) Star Schema
17 71 (1.30%) MongoDB
18 66 (1.21%) Power Query
19 57 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
20 54 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 185 (3.39%) Git
2 81 (1.48%) JIRA
3 55 (1.01%) Jenkins
4 44 (0.81%) MLflow
5 34 (0.62%) GitLab
6 24 (0.44%) IBM UrbanCode
7 18 (0.33%) Crashlytics
8 17 (0.31%) Claude Code
9 13 (0.24%) fastlane
10 12 (0.22%) CircleCI
11 11 (0.20%) Balsamiq
11 11 (0.20%) XCTest
12 9 (0.16%) Axure RP
12 9 (0.16%) Xcode
13 8 (0.15%) ERwin
13 8 (0.15%) Gradle
14 6 (0.11%) Android Studio
14 6 (0.11%) Octopus Deploy
14 6 (0.11%) Selenium
15 5 (0.092%) Bitbucket
General
1 1,541 (28.24%) Finance
2 1,454 (26.65%) Social Skills
3 1,264 (23.17%) Analytical Skills
4 886 (16.24%) Marketing
5 383 (7.02%) Retail
6 359 (6.58%) Public Sector
7 313 (5.74%) Legal
8 306 (5.61%) Law
9 301 (5.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 249 (4.56%) Banking
11 189 (3.46%) Influencing Skills
12 188 (3.45%) Games
13 164 (3.01%) Manufacturing
14 139 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
15 122 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
16 106 (1.94%) Automotive
17 99 (1.81%) Financial Institution
18 96 (1.76%) Advertising
19 68 (1.25%) Publishing
20 59 (1.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,046 (19.17%) Senior
2 638 (11.69%) Analyst
3 626 (11.47%) Data Engineer
4 615 (11.27%) Lead
5 497 (9.11%) Architect
6 338 (6.20%) Developer
7 270 (4.95%) Data Analyst
8 241 (4.42%) Data Architect
9 211 (3.87%) Senior Data Engineer
10 207 (3.79%) Analytics Manager
11 204 (3.74%) Consultant
12 183 (3.35%) Data Scientist
13 168 (3.08%) Solutions Architect
14 161 (2.95%) Senior Manager
15 142 (2.60%) Product Manager
16 127 (2.33%) Senior Analyst
17 116 (2.13%) Data Manager
18 113 (2.07%) Marketing Manager
19 93 (1.70%) Senior Architect
20 86 (1.58%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 259 (4.75%) Terraform
2 181 (3.32%) PySpark
3 139 (2.55%) Kafka
4 103 (1.89%) HTML
5 95 (1.74%) CSS
6 82 (1.50%) .NET
7 68 (1.25%) REST
8 67 (1.23%) React
9 62 (1.14%) Node.js
9 62 (1.14%) PyTorch
10 61 (1.12%) Pandas
11 60 (1.10%) scikit-learn
12 53 (0.97%) TensorFlow
13 51 (0.93%) LangChain
14 43 (0.79%) .NET Core
15 39 (0.71%) RESTful
16 38 (0.70%) ASP.NET
17 36 (0.66%) ASP.NET Core
18 35 (0.64%) Middleware
19 34 (0.62%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 305 (5.59%) Cloud Native
2 275 (5.04%) Onboarding
3 245 (4.49%) Social Media
4 208 (3.81%) Product Ownership
5 192 (3.52%) Marketing Technology
6 186 (3.41%) Blog
7 169 (3.10%) Management Information System
8 161 (2.95%) Analytical Mindset
9 107 (1.96%) Data Structures
10 92 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
11 89 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
12 85 (1.56%) Algorithms
13 81 (1.48%) AI Agents
14 79 (1.45%) Mobile App
15 59 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
16 58 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
17 57 (1.04%) Public Cloud
18 46 (0.84%) Virtual Team
19 41 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
19 41 (0.75%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 89 (1.63%) Windows
2 77 (1.41%) Linux
3 26 (0.48%) VMS
4 24 (0.44%) Apple iOS
5 21 (0.38%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.18%) Android
7 6 (0.11%) Unix
8 5 (0.092%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.073%) 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 1,949 (35.72%) AI
2 1,310 (24.01%) Decision-Making
3 1,190 (21.81%) Business Intelligence
4 955 (17.50%) Agile
5 899 (16.48%) Roadmaps
6 884 (16.20%) Continuous Improvement
7 881 (16.15%) Problem-Solving
8 826 (15.14%) Data Modelling
9 769 (14.09%) Data Engineering
10 763 (13.98%) Machine Learning
11 702 (12.87%) Data Analytics
12 681 (12.48%) Data Pipeline
13 667 (12.23%) CI/CD
14 634 (11.62%) Data Science
15 583 (10.69%) Mentoring
16 563 (10.32%) Data Governance
17 555 (10.17%) Stakeholder Management
18 544 (9.97%) Actionable Insight
19 529 (9.70%) ETL
20 492 (9.02%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 1,456 (26.69%) SQL
2 1,232 (22.58%) Python
3 131 (2.40%) Java
4 119 (2.18%) C#
4 119 (2.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 111 (2.03%) JavaScript
6 106 (1.94%) PowerShell
7 90 (1.65%) R
8 88 (1.61%) TypeScript
9 74 (1.36%) Scala
10 71 (1.30%) Bicep
11 55 (1.01%) Bash
12 46 (0.84%) Go
13 34 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
14 33 (0.60%) C++
15 27 (0.49%) T-SQL
16 26 (0.48%) Kotlin
17 22 (0.40%) Swift
18 18 (0.33%) Julia
18 18 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 660 (12.10%) Degree
2 379 (6.95%) Security Cleared
3 254 (4.66%) SC Cleared
4 124 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 111 (2.03%) Azure Certification
6 103 (1.89%) Master's Degree
7 80 (1.47%) DV Cleared
8 60 (1.10%) AWS Certification
8 60 (1.10%) IRCA
9 55 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
10 53 (0.97%) ACCA
11 47 (0.86%) CIMA
12 45 (0.82%) CISSP
12 45 (0.82%) DBS Check
13 42 (0.77%) PhD
14 34 (0.62%) CISM
15 33 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
16 30 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
17 22 (0.40%) Postgraduate
18 21 (0.38%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 751 (13.76%) Data Quality
2 375 (6.87%) Accessibility
3 305 (5.59%) GDPR
4 201 (3.68%) QA
5 98 (1.80%) WCAG
6 63 (1.15%) ISO 9001
7 46 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
8 39 (0.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 37 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 37 (0.68%) NIST
10 34 (0.62%) SLA
11 24 (0.44%) PMO
12 22 (0.40%) IFRS
13 21 (0.38%) PCI DSS
14 16 (0.29%) HIPAA
15 14 (0.26%) EU AI Act
15 14 (0.26%) GRC
15 14 (0.26%) PERC
15 14 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 12 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 150 (2.75%) Docker
2 89 (1.63%) Active Directory
3 25 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (0.29%) vSphere
6 15 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.13%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.073%) Firmware
8 4 (0.073%) IAG
8 4 (0.073%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.018%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.018%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 176 (3.23%) Kubernetes
2 46 (0.84%) Ansible
3 27 (0.49%) Grafana
3 27 (0.49%) Prometheus
4 17 (0.31%) EnCase
4 17 (0.31%) FTK
5 13 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (0.22%) FortiGate
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 (0.073%) VxRail
11 3 (0.055%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.055%) Stealthwatch
11 3 (0.055%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 803 (14.72%) Microsoft
2 521 (9.55%) Databricks
3 417 (7.64%) Google
4 262 (4.80%) Adobe
5 237 (4.34%) SAP
6 134 (2.46%) Oracle
7 108 (1.98%) Salesforce
8 69 (1.26%) HubSpot
9 59 (1.08%) Informatica
10 58 (1.06%) Workday
11 50 (0.92%) Dell
12 43 (0.79%) IBM
13 42 (0.77%) Cisco
14 38 (0.70%) Alteryx
15 33 (0.60%) OpenAI
15 33 (0.60%) VMware
16 30 (0.55%) Cognos
16 30 (0.55%) Sitecore
17 29 (0.53%) YouTube
18 27 (0.49%) TikTok