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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 23 35
Rank change year-on-year -4 +12 -5
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 5,433 3,988 4,387
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.18% 8.04% 5.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.03% 8.99% 6.49%
Number of salaries quoted 3,204 1,808 2,566
10th Percentile £36,325 £31,425 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £103,450 £111,250 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

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 77,301 44,356 67,625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.63% 89.43% 81.01%
Number of salaries quoted 53,282 25,229 44,135
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £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 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +13.40% -3.00% -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 7 August 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 7 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 -3 4,876 £67,500 +9.76% 3,716
UK excluding London -9 2,832 £60,000 +9.09% 1,746
London +3 2,189 £80,000 +3.23% 2,344
Work from Home +5 1,655 £65,000 +8.33% 1,411
North of England +54 929 £60,000 +8.11% 470
Midlands +16 620 £60,000 +14.29% 247
North West +50 546 £60,000 +14.29% 264
South East -33 523 £55,000 - 524
West Midlands +4 347 £60,000 +9.09% 157
South West -29 291 £60,000 - 193
East Midlands +34 273 £60,000 +23.71% 90
Yorkshire +31 245 £62,500 -2.34% 155
East of England +15 227 £56,000 +24.44% 126
North East +30 138 £50,000 -3.85% 54
Scotland -20 109 £63,750 -8.93% 131
Wales -7 79 £60,000 +4.35% 39
Northern Ireland -37 62 £65,000 +50.84% 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
1 196 (3.61%) Apache Spark
2 143 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
3 119 (2.19%) CMS
4 109 (2.01%) Apache
5 72 (1.33%) SAS
6 64 (1.18%) Confluence
7 45 (0.83%) SharePoint
8 38 (0.70%) WordPress
9 33 (0.61%) ArcGIS
10 26 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
11 14 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
12 11 (0.20%) Headless CMS
13 10 (0.18%) Jupyter
14 6 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
15 5 (0.092%) Drupal
15 5 (0.092%) Oracle Workflow
15 5 (0.092%) Umbraco
16 2 (0.037%) Apache Pulsar
16 2 (0.037%) NServiceBus
16 2 (0.037%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 248 (4.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (0.81%) UserZoom
3 43 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
3 43 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 34 (0.63%) Chatbot
5 25 (0.46%) SPSS
6 23 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
7 19 (0.35%) MS Visio
8 17 (0.31%) Adobe XD
9 12 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 7 (0.13%) Sketch
11 6 (0.11%) Trello
12 4 (0.074%) Microsoft Project
12 4 (0.074%) Photoshop
13 3 (0.055%) Adobe Premiere
13 3 (0.055%) InDesign
13 3 (0.055%) Zeplin
14 2 (0.037%) Adobe Illustrator
14 2 (0.037%) CapCut
15 1 (0.018%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 115 (2.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 54 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 34 (0.63%) Adobe Campaign
4 32 (0.59%) Dynamics GP
4 32 (0.59%) SAP IBP
5 31 (0.57%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 30 (0.55%) SAP PP
7 27 (0.50%) Shopify
8 20 (0.37%) Magento
9 15 (0.28%) NetSuite
10 10 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
11 8 (0.15%) iTrent
11 8 (0.15%) Relativity
11 8 (0.15%) Workday HCM
12 7 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
12 7 (0.13%) SAP MDG
13 6 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
13 6 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
13 6 (0.11%) SAP PM
13 6 (0.11%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 1,061 (19.53%) Azure
2 857 (15.77%) Power Platform
3 840 (15.46%) AWS
4 371 (6.83%) GCP
5 320 (5.89%) SaaS
6 279 (5.14%) Snowflake
7 222 (4.09%) Google Analytics
8 193 (3.55%) Azure Data Factory
9 184 (3.39%) Adobe Analytics
10 165 (3.04%) GitHub
11 164 (3.02%) Azure DevOps
12 153 (2.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 149 (2.74%) Serverless
14 145 (2.67%) dbt
15 123 (2.26%) Amazon S3
16 117 (2.15%) Figma
17 107 (1.97%) Cloud Computing
18 91 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
19 81 (1.49%) Microsoft Purview
20 74 (1.36%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 223 (4.10%) Broadband
2 57 (1.05%) VPN
3 56 (1.03%) Internet
4 54 (0.99%) Firewall
5 44 (0.81%) DNS
6 42 (0.77%) Network Security
7 27 (0.50%) BGP
8 26 (0.48%) TCP/IP
9 20 (0.37%) SMS
9 20 (0.37%) VLAN
10 18 (0.33%) OSPF
11 17 (0.31%) DHCP
12 16 (0.29%) VoIP
13 14 (0.26%) CTI
14 13 (0.24%) 5G
15 11 (0.20%) WAN
16 10 (0.18%) CHAP
16 10 (0.18%) SSL
16 10 (0.18%) Unified Communications
17 9 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 815 (15.00%) Power BI
2 446 (8.21%) Data Warehouse
3 341 (6.28%) Tableau
4 262 (4.82%) Data Lake
5 211 (3.88%) Metadata
6 176 (3.24%) SQL Server
7 142 (2.61%) Looker
8 141 (2.60%) Big Data
9 129 (2.37%) Amazon Redshift
10 126 (2.32%) BigQuery
11 123 (2.26%) Azure SQL Database
12 97 (1.79%) Relational Database
13 95 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
14 85 (1.56%) NoSQL
15 78 (1.44%) Delta Lake
16 73 (1.34%) MongoDB
17 72 (1.33%) Star Schema
18 71 (1.31%) Power Query
19 66 (1.21%) Data Mining
20 58 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 183 (3.37%) Git
2 77 (1.42%) JIRA
3 60 (1.10%) Jenkins
4 47 (0.87%) MLflow
5 37 (0.68%) GitLab
6 25 (0.46%) IBM UrbanCode
7 21 (0.39%) Crashlytics
8 15 (0.28%) Claude Code
9 14 (0.26%) XCTest
10 13 (0.24%) fastlane
11 12 (0.22%) CircleCI
12 10 (0.18%) Balsamiq
13 9 (0.17%) ERwin
13 9 (0.17%) Xcode
14 8 (0.15%) Axure RP
14 8 (0.15%) Gradle
15 6 (0.11%) Android Studio
15 6 (0.11%) Selenium
16 5 (0.092%) Bitbucket
16 5 (0.092%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 1,515 (27.89%) Finance
2 1,394 (25.66%) Social Skills
3 1,239 (22.81%) Analytical Skills
4 809 (14.89%) Marketing
5 372 (6.85%) Retail
6 362 (6.66%) Public Sector
7 305 (5.61%) Law
8 295 (5.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 273 (5.02%) Legal
10 244 (4.49%) Banking
11 216 (3.98%) Games
12 174 (3.20%) Influencing Skills
12 174 (3.20%) Manufacturing
13 131 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
14 123 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
15 118 (2.17%) Automotive
16 97 (1.79%) Financial Institution
17 92 (1.69%) Advertising
18 60 (1.10%) Telecoms
19 50 (0.92%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,027 (18.90%) Senior
2 636 (11.71%) Analyst
3 627 (11.54%) Data Engineer
4 613 (11.28%) Lead
5 498 (9.17%) Architect
6 334 (6.15%) Developer
7 289 (5.32%) Data Analyst
8 242 (4.45%) Data Architect
9 235 (4.33%) Consultant
10 209 (3.85%) Senior Data Engineer
11 184 (3.39%) Data Scientist
12 180 (3.31%) Analytics Manager
13 165 (3.04%) Solutions Architect
14 156 (2.87%) Senior Manager
15 140 (2.58%) Product Manager
16 116 (2.14%) Senior Analyst
17 115 (2.12%) Data Manager
18 95 (1.75%) Senior Architect
19 90 (1.66%) Designer
20 87 (1.60%) Marketing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (3.17%) PySpark
2 144 (2.65%) Kafka
3 95 (1.75%) HTML
4 94 (1.73%) CSS
5 88 (1.62%) .NET
6 73 (1.34%) PyTorch
7 69 (1.27%) REST
8 65 (1.20%) React
9 61 (1.12%) Node.js
10 59 (1.09%) Pandas
11 56 (1.03%) scikit-learn
12 55 (1.01%) SAP Fiori
13 47 (0.87%) .NET Core
14 46 (0.85%) LangChain
14 46 (0.85%) TensorFlow
15 38 (0.70%) RESTful
16 37 (0.68%) ASP.NET
16 37 (0.68%) JSON
17 36 (0.66%) AngularJS
17 36 (0.66%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 289 (5.32%) Cloud Native
2 277 (5.10%) Social Media
3 268 (4.93%) Onboarding
4 205 (3.77%) Product Ownership
5 180 (3.31%) Analytical Mindset
6 151 (2.78%) Management Information System
7 136 (2.50%) Marketing Technology
8 125 (2.30%) Blog
9 115 (2.12%) Data Structures
9 115 (2.12%) Greenfield Project
10 106 (1.95%) Algorithms
11 90 (1.66%) Mobile App
12 71 (1.31%) AI Agents
13 66 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
14 64 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
15 62 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
16 57 (1.05%) Public Cloud
17 52 (0.96%) Life Science
18 46 (0.85%) IoT
19 44 (0.81%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 90 (1.66%) Windows
2 77 (1.42%) Linux
3 30 (0.55%) VMS
4 25 (0.46%) Apple iOS
5 22 (0.40%) 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%) AIX
11 2 (0.037%) Mac OS
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 1,905 (35.06%) AI
2 1,258 (23.15%) Decision-Making
3 1,179 (21.70%) Business Intelligence
4 981 (18.06%) Agile
5 905 (16.66%) Roadmaps
6 850 (15.65%) Continuous Improvement
7 836 (15.39%) Data Modelling
8 819 (15.07%) Problem-Solving
9 741 (13.64%) Data Engineering
10 739 (13.60%) Machine Learning
11 736 (13.55%) Data Analytics
12 672 (12.37%) Data Pipeline
13 641 (11.80%) CI/CD
14 630 (11.60%) Data Science
15 575 (10.58%) Data Governance
16 573 (10.55%) Mentoring
17 535 (9.85%) Stakeholder Management
18 533 (9.81%) ETL
19 520 (9.57%) Actionable Insight
20 519 (9.55%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 1,436 (26.43%) SQL
2 1,233 (22.69%) Python
3 132 (2.43%) Java
4 125 (2.30%) C#
5 120 (2.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 109 (2.01%) JavaScript
7 108 (1.99%) PowerShell
8 88 (1.62%) TypeScript
9 87 (1.60%) R
10 76 (1.40%) Scala
11 66 (1.21%) Bicep
12 50 (0.92%) Bash
13 42 (0.77%) Go
14 41 (0.75%) C++
15 38 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
16 29 (0.53%) T-SQL
17 28 (0.52%) Kotlin
18 24 (0.44%) Swift
19 18 (0.33%) Julia
19 18 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 635 (11.69%) Degree
2 368 (6.77%) Security Cleared
3 241 (4.44%) SC Cleared
4 124 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 104 (1.91%) Azure Certification
6 92 (1.69%) Master's Degree
7 76 (1.40%) DV Cleared
8 72 (1.33%) IRCA
9 58 (1.07%) AWS Certification
10 55 (1.01%) ACCA
11 52 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
12 49 (0.90%) CIMA
13 47 (0.87%) CISSP
13 47 (0.87%) DBS Check
14 37 (0.68%) CISM
15 36 (0.66%) PhD
16 32 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
17 31 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
18 22 (0.40%) Postgraduate
19 21 (0.39%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 723 (13.31%) Data Quality
2 408 (7.51%) Accessibility
3 328 (6.04%) GDPR
4 224 (4.12%) QA
5 98 (1.80%) WCAG
6 75 (1.38%) ISO 9001
7 41 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
8 39 (0.72%) NIST
9 38 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 36 (0.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 32 (0.59%) SLA
12 26 (0.48%) PCI DSS
13 22 (0.40%) PMO
14 21 (0.39%) IFRS
15 16 (0.29%) GRC
16 15 (0.28%) HIPAA
16 15 (0.28%) PERC
17 14 (0.26%) EU AI Act
18 13 (0.24%) COBIT
19 12 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 157 (2.89%) Docker
2 88 (1.62%) Active Directory
3 24 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
4 16 (0.29%) vSphere
5 14 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.15%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.074%) Firmware
7 4 (0.074%) IAG
7 4 (0.074%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.018%) Apache Flume
8 1 (0.018%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 255 (4.69%) Terraform
2 177 (3.26%) Kubernetes
3 46 (0.85%) Ansible
4 28 (0.52%) Prometheus
5 26 (0.48%) Grafana
6 16 (0.29%) EnCase
6 16 (0.29%) FTK
7 15 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
8 10 (0.18%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.15%) Argo
10 6 (0.11%) Hadoop YARN
10 6 (0.11%) Nagios
10 6 (0.11%) VxRail
11 5 (0.092%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.092%) Graylog
11 5 (0.092%) Packer
11 5 (0.092%) Puppet
11 5 (0.092%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.055%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.055%) Kibana
Vendors
1 799 (14.71%) Microsoft
2 502 (9.24%) Databricks
3 393 (7.23%) Google
4 282 (5.19%) Adobe
5 266 (4.90%) SAP
6 143 (2.63%) Oracle
7 118 (2.17%) Salesforce
8 73 (1.34%) HubSpot
9 59 (1.09%) Informatica
10 52 (0.96%) Workday
11 49 (0.90%) Dell
12 42 (0.77%) Cisco
13 41 (0.75%) IBM
14 36 (0.66%) Alteryx
15 31 (0.57%) VMware
16 30 (0.55%) Cognos
17 28 (0.52%) OpenAI
18 27 (0.50%) Cloudera
18 27 (0.50%) Teradata
19 26 (0.48%) ServiceNow