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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 23 36
Rank change year-on-year -4 +13 -6
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 5,465 3,997 4,379
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.16% 8.01% 5.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.02% 8.97% 6.50%
Number of salaries quoted 3,215 1,813 2,566
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,800 £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 £90,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £112,500 £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 77,887 44,584 67,368
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.57% 89.31% 81.13%
Number of salaries quoted 53,644 25,395 43,808
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,170 £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 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% -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 10 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 10 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 4,904 £67,500 +9.76% 4,065
UK excluding London -8 2,850 £60,000 +9.09% 1,825
London +2 2,209 £80,000 +3.23% 2,655
Work from Home +6 1,659 £65,000 +8.33% 1,545
North of England +59 934 £60,000 +6.67% 485
Midlands +17 615 £60,000 +14.29% 248
North West +48 548 £60,000 +14.29% 277
South East -36 530 £55,000 - 546
West Midlands +2 343 £60,000 +9.09% 165
South West -27 295 £60,000 - 198
East Midlands +35 272 £60,000 +23.71% 83
Yorkshire +33 247 £62,500 -3.10% 155
East of England +10 225 £55,500 +23.33% 132
North East +27 139 £50,000 -8.68% 56
Scotland -15 115 £65,000 -7.14% 141
Wales -2 81 £60,000 +9.09% 46
Northern Ireland -33 62 £65,000 +50.84% 48
Isle of Man -2 1 £38,500 - 4

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
1 199 (3.64%) Apache Spark
2 145 (2.65%) Apache Airflow
3 122 (2.23%) CMS
4 110 (2.01%) Apache
5 71 (1.30%) SAS
6 66 (1.21%) Confluence
7 46 (0.84%) SharePoint
8 39 (0.71%) WordPress
9 29 (0.53%) 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 (0.091%) Oracle Workflow
15 5 (0.091%) Umbraco
16 4 (0.073%) Drupal
17 2 (0.037%) Apache Pulsar
17 2 (0.037%) Luigi
17 2 (0.037%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 251 (4.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (0.81%) UserZoom
3 42 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 41 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
5 34 (0.62%) Chatbot
6 25 (0.46%) SPSS
7 22 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
8 19 (0.35%) MS Visio
9 17 (0.31%) Adobe XD
10 12 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 7 (0.13%) Sketch
12 6 (0.11%) Trello
13 4 (0.073%) Microsoft Project
13 4 (0.073%) Photoshop
14 3 (0.055%) Adobe Premiere
14 3 (0.055%) InDesign
14 3 (0.055%) Zeplin
15 2 (0.037%) Adobe Illustrator
15 2 (0.037%) CapCut
16 1 (0.018%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 110 (2.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 57 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 34 (0.62%) Adobe Campaign
4 33 (0.60%) Shopify
5 32 (0.59%) Dynamics GP
6 31 (0.57%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 30 (0.55%) SAP IBP
8 28 (0.51%) SAP PP
9 20 (0.37%) Magento
10 15 (0.27%) NetSuite
11 10 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
12 8 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
12 8 (0.15%) Relativity
12 8 (0.15%) Workday HCM
13 7 (0.13%) iTrent
13 7 (0.13%) SAP MDG
14 6 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
14 6 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
14 6 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
14 6 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1,058 (19.36%) Azure
2 856 (15.66%) Power Platform
3 842 (15.41%) AWS
4 375 (6.86%) GCP
5 317 (5.80%) SaaS
6 280 (5.12%) Snowflake
7 232 (4.25%) Google Analytics
8 192 (3.51%) Azure Data Factory
9 176 (3.22%) Adobe Analytics
10 166 (3.04%) Azure DevOps
10 166 (3.04%) GitHub
11 153 (2.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 152 (2.78%) Serverless
13 151 (2.76%) dbt
14 125 (2.29%) Amazon S3
15 116 (2.12%) Figma
16 106 (1.94%) Cloud Computing
17 90 (1.65%) Microsoft 365
18 80 (1.46%) Microsoft Purview
19 75 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 216 (3.95%) Broadband
2 57 (1.04%) VPN
3 56 (1.02%) Internet
4 55 (1.01%) Firewall
5 44 (0.81%) DNS
6 42 (0.77%) Network Security
7 27 (0.49%) 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 10 (0.18%) CHAP
15 10 (0.18%) SSL
15 10 (0.18%) Unified Communications
15 10 (0.18%) WAN
16 9 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 814 (14.89%) Power BI
2 450 (8.23%) Data Warehouse
3 344 (6.29%) Tableau
4 264 (4.83%) Data Lake
5 215 (3.93%) Metadata
6 178 (3.26%) SQL Server
7 146 (2.67%) Looker
8 143 (2.62%) Big Data
9 130 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
10 127 (2.32%) BigQuery
11 126 (2.31%) Azure SQL Database
12 97 (1.77%) Relational Database
13 95 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
14 86 (1.57%) NoSQL
15 78 (1.43%) Delta Lake
16 73 (1.34%) MongoDB
17 72 (1.32%) Star Schema
18 70 (1.28%) Power Query
19 66 (1.21%) Data Mining
20 58 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 183 (3.35%) Git
2 78 (1.43%) JIRA
3 60 (1.10%) Jenkins
4 47 (0.86%) MLflow
5 37 (0.68%) GitLab
6 25 (0.46%) IBM UrbanCode
7 21 (0.38%) Crashlytics
8 15 (0.27%) Claude Code
9 14 (0.26%) XCTest
10 13 (0.24%) fastlane
11 12 (0.22%) CircleCI
12 10 (0.18%) Balsamiq
12 10 (0.18%) ERwin
13 9 (0.16%) 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 (0.091%) Bitbucket
16 5 (0.091%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 1,534 (28.07%) Finance
2 1,404 (25.69%) Social Skills
3 1,259 (23.04%) Analytical Skills
4 826 (15.11%) Marketing
5 378 (6.92%) Retail
6 362 (6.62%) Public Sector
7 320 (5.86%) Law
8 300 (5.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 277 (5.07%) Legal
10 248 (4.54%) Banking
11 208 (3.81%) Games
12 174 (3.18%) Manufacturing
13 171 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
14 133 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
15 123 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
16 116 (2.12%) Automotive
17 100 (1.83%) Financial Institution
18 96 (1.76%) Advertising
19 60 (1.10%) Telecoms
20 51 (0.93%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,023 (18.72%) Senior
2 646 (11.82%) Analyst
3 636 (11.64%) Data Engineer
4 620 (11.34%) Lead
5 499 (9.13%) Architect
6 335 (6.13%) Developer
7 294 (5.38%) Data Analyst
8 245 (4.48%) Data Architect
9 231 (4.23%) Consultant
10 210 (3.84%) Senior Data Engineer
11 189 (3.46%) Analytics Manager
12 183 (3.35%) Data Scientist
13 165 (3.02%) Solutions Architect
14 159 (2.91%) Senior Manager
15 140 (2.56%) Product Manager
16 118 (2.16%) Senior Analyst
17 115 (2.10%) Data Manager
18 95 (1.74%) Senior Architect
19 88 (1.61%) Marketing Manager
20 85 (1.56%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (3.15%) PySpark
2 145 (2.65%) Kafka
3 95 (1.74%) HTML
4 92 (1.68%) CSS
5 87 (1.59%) .NET
6 73 (1.34%) PyTorch
7 69 (1.26%) REST
8 66 (1.21%) React
9 61 (1.12%) Node.js
10 60 (1.10%) Pandas
11 58 (1.06%) scikit-learn
12 51 (0.93%) SAP Fiori
13 48 (0.88%) LangChain
13 48 (0.88%) TensorFlow
14 47 (0.86%) .NET Core
15 39 (0.71%) RESTful
16 37 (0.68%) ASP.NET
16 37 (0.68%) JSON
17 36 (0.66%) ASP.NET Core
18 34 (0.62%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 291 (5.32%) Cloud Native
2 274 (5.01%) Social Media
3 271 (4.96%) Onboarding
4 204 (3.73%) Product Ownership
5 180 (3.29%) Analytical Mindset
6 147 (2.69%) Management Information System
7 137 (2.51%) Marketing Technology
8 130 (2.38%) Blog
9 113 (2.07%) Data Structures
10 110 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
11 103 (1.88%) Algorithms
12 85 (1.56%) Mobile App
13 74 (1.35%) AI Agents
14 63 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
14 63 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
15 61 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
16 56 (1.02%) Public Cloud
17 52 (0.95%) Life Science
18 46 (0.84%) IoT
19 44 (0.81%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 89 (1.63%) Windows
2 77 (1.41%) Linux
3 30 (0.55%) VMS
4 25 (0.46%) Apple iOS
5 21 (0.38%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.18%) Android
7 6 (0.11%) Unix
8 5 (0.091%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.073%) 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 1,916 (35.06%) AI
2 1,266 (23.17%) Decision-Making
3 1,180 (21.59%) Business Intelligence
4 982 (17.97%) Agile
5 906 (16.58%) Roadmaps
6 858 (15.70%) Continuous Improvement
7 834 (15.26%) Data Modelling
7 834 (15.26%) Problem-Solving
8 749 (13.71%) Data Engineering
8 749 (13.71%) Machine Learning
9 740 (13.54%) Data Analytics
10 678 (12.41%) Data Pipeline
11 646 (11.82%) CI/CD
12 639 (11.69%) Data Science
13 578 (10.58%) Mentoring
14 577 (10.56%) Data Governance
15 538 (9.84%) Stakeholder Management
16 535 (9.79%) ETL
17 533 (9.75%) Actionable Insight
18 512 (9.37%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 1,452 (26.57%) SQL
2 1,249 (22.85%) Python
3 134 (2.45%) Java
4 126 (2.31%) C#
5 119 (2.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 108 (1.98%) JavaScript
7 107 (1.96%) PowerShell
8 89 (1.63%) TypeScript
9 87 (1.59%) R
10 77 (1.41%) Scala
11 66 (1.21%) Bicep
12 51 (0.93%) Bash
13 43 (0.79%) Go
14 41 (0.75%) C++
15 38 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
16 28 (0.51%) Kotlin
16 28 (0.51%) T-SQL
17 24 (0.44%) Swift
18 19 (0.35%) Julia
19 18 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 640 (11.71%) Degree
2 371 (6.79%) Security Cleared
3 241 (4.41%) SC Cleared
4 124 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 103 (1.88%) Azure Certification
6 97 (1.77%) Master's Degree
7 78 (1.43%) DV Cleared
8 72 (1.32%) IRCA
9 60 (1.10%) AWS Certification
10 54 (0.99%) ACCA
11 50 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
12 48 (0.88%) CIMA
12 48 (0.88%) CISSP
13 46 (0.84%) DBS Check
14 38 (0.70%) PhD
15 37 (0.68%) CISM
16 32 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
17 31 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
18 22 (0.40%) Postgraduate
19 21 (0.38%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 727 (13.30%) Data Quality
2 402 (7.36%) Accessibility
3 325 (5.95%) GDPR
4 223 (4.08%) QA
5 98 (1.79%) WCAG
6 75 (1.37%) ISO 9001
7 43 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
8 40 (0.73%) NIST
9 39 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 37 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 33 (0.60%) SLA
12 24 (0.44%) PCI DSS
13 23 (0.42%) PMO
14 21 (0.38%) IFRS
15 17 (0.31%) GRC
16 16 (0.29%) HIPAA
17 15 (0.27%) PERC
18 14 (0.26%) EU AI Act
19 13 (0.24%) COBIT
20 12 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 159 (2.91%) Docker
2 87 (1.59%) 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 7 (0.13%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.073%) Firmware
7 4 (0.073%) IAG
7 4 (0.073%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.018%) Apache Flume
8 1 (0.018%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 258 (4.72%) Terraform
2 180 (3.29%) Kubernetes
3 46 (0.84%) Ansible
4 28 (0.51%) Prometheus
5 26 (0.48%) Grafana
6 16 (0.29%) EnCase
6 16 (0.29%) FTK
7 15 (0.27%) 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 (0.091%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.091%) Graylog
11 5 (0.091%) Packer
11 5 (0.091%) Puppet
11 5 (0.091%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.055%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.055%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 800 (14.64%) Microsoft
2 507 (9.28%) Databricks
3 403 (7.37%) Google
4 274 (5.01%) Adobe
5 260 (4.76%) SAP
6 144 (2.63%) Oracle
7 117 (2.14%) Salesforce
8 72 (1.32%) HubSpot
9 57 (1.04%) Informatica
10 53 (0.97%) 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 29 (0.53%) Cognos
16 29 (0.53%) OpenAI
17 27 (0.49%) Cloudera
17 27 (0.49%) Teradata
18 26 (0.48%) ServiceNow