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 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 23 38
Rank change year-on-year -4 +15 -15
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 4,690 3,690 5,280
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.06% 8.61% 5.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.85% 9.23% 6.36%
Number of salaries quoted 2,776 1,615 3,315
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £91,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 68,421 39,984 83,066
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.77% 93.29% 84.23%
Number of salaries quoted 44,440 20,998 60,038
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,913 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,750 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.94% +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 25 May 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 25 May 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 4,162 £65,000 - 2,195
UK excluding London -15 2,501 £60,000 +9.09% 1,314
London 0 1,798 £80,000 -3.03% 1,231
Work from Home +6 1,424 £65,000 +8.33% 970
North of England +17 803 £60,000 +9.09% 370
Midlands -5 522 £55,200 +5.14% 176
South East -28 491 £55,000 -8.33% 435
North West +19 465 £60,000 +14.29% 209
West Midlands -19 307 £57,500 +4.55% 106
Yorkshire +3 252 £59,375 +3.26% 115
South West -29 231 £57,500 +0.10% 130
East of England +34 223 £60,000 - 76
East Midlands +36 211 £50,000 +3.09% 70
Scotland -4 139 £65,000 -7.14% 65
North East +14 86 £48,000 -5.88% 52
Northern Ireland -15 48 £45,000 +50.00% 51
Wales -4 46 £60,000 +23.08% 29

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
1 156 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
2 143 (3.05%) Apache Spark
3 116 (2.47%) CMS
4 89 (1.90%) Apache
5 62 (1.32%) Confluence
6 52 (1.11%) SharePoint
7 47 (1.00%) WordPress
8 45 (0.96%) SAS
9 35 (0.75%) ArcGIS
10 20 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
11 17 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
12 10 (0.21%) Drupal
13 7 (0.15%) Jupyter
13 7 (0.15%) Oracle Application Server
14 6 (0.13%) IIS
15 5 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 5 (0.11%) Umbraco
16 4 (0.085%) Documentum
17 3 (0.064%) Headless CMS
17 3 (0.064%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 284 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 90 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
3 51 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (0.66%) UserZoom
5 22 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
6 19 (0.41%) MS Visio
7 18 (0.38%) Adobe XD
8 15 (0.32%) SPSS
9 12 (0.26%) Chatbot
10 11 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.085%) Adobe Illustrator
11 4 (0.085%) InDesign
11 4 (0.085%) Photoshop
11 4 (0.085%) Trello
12 3 (0.064%) Microsoft Project
12 3 (0.064%) Sketch
13 2 (0.043%) Maya
14 1 (0.021%) Abaqus
14 1 (0.021%) Adobe Premiere
14 1 (0.021%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 87 (1.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (0.72%) Adobe Campaign
2 34 (0.72%) SAP IBP
3 33 (0.70%) SAP PP
4 23 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
5 22 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
6 18 (0.38%) Magento
7 16 (0.34%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 16 (0.34%) Shopify
8 15 (0.32%) iTrent
9 11 (0.23%) NetSuite
10 9 (0.19%) SAP CO
11 8 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
11 8 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
12 7 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
12 7 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
13 6 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
13 6 (0.13%) SAP ERP
13 6 (0.13%) SAP PM
13 6 (0.13%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 950 (20.26%) Azure
2 728 (15.52%) Power Platform
3 602 (12.84%) AWS
4 294 (6.27%) GCP
5 276 (5.88%) SaaS
6 213 (4.54%) Snowflake
7 204 (4.35%) Adobe Analytics
8 187 (3.99%) Azure Data Factory
9 186 (3.97%) Google Analytics
10 157 (3.35%) Azure DevOps
11 145 (3.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 142 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
13 131 (2.79%) GitHub
14 128 (2.73%) dbt
15 122 (2.60%) Amazon S3
16 119 (2.54%) Figma
17 116 (2.47%) Serverless
18 107 (2.28%) Entra ID
19 79 (1.68%) Azure Monitor
20 71 (1.51%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 259 (5.52%) Broadband
2 40 (0.85%) Firewall
3 36 (0.77%) VPN
4 29 (0.62%) DNS
5 26 (0.55%) Network Security
6 24 (0.51%) TCP/IP
7 23 (0.49%) CHAP
8 20 (0.43%) WAN
9 15 (0.32%) DHCP
10 14 (0.30%) BGP
10 14 (0.30%) Unified Communications
11 12 (0.26%) Intranet
11 12 (0.26%) VLAN
12 11 (0.23%) OSPF
12 11 (0.23%) SMS
13 10 (0.21%) SNMP
14 8 (0.17%) 5G
15 6 (0.13%) HTTP
15 6 (0.13%) IPFIX
15 6 (0.13%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 691 (14.73%) Power BI
2 335 (7.14%) Tableau
3 310 (6.61%) Data Warehouse
4 216 (4.61%) Data Lake
5 162 (3.45%) Metadata
6 147 (3.13%) SQL Server
7 126 (2.69%) Data Mining
8 123 (2.62%) Looker
9 112 (2.39%) BigQuery
10 106 (2.26%) Amazon Redshift
11 96 (2.05%) Relational Database
12 86 (1.83%) NoSQL
13 85 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
14 84 (1.79%) Big Data
15 68 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
16 58 (1.24%) Power Query
17 52 (1.11%) Star Schema
18 51 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 48 (1.02%) MongoDB
20 46 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 166 (3.54%) Git
2 75 (1.60%) Jenkins
3 72 (1.54%) JIRA
4 42 (0.90%) MLflow
5 38 (0.81%) GitLab
6 25 (0.53%) IBM UrbanCode
7 24 (0.51%) TeamCity
8 17 (0.36%) CircleCI
8 17 (0.36%) Crashlytics
9 13 (0.28%) Axure RP
9 13 (0.28%) Balsamiq
9 13 (0.28%) XCTest
10 12 (0.26%) Oracle Forms
11 11 (0.23%) Selenium
12 10 (0.21%) ERwin
12 10 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 9 (0.19%) Claude Code
13 9 (0.19%) Visual Studio
14 8 (0.17%) fastlane
15 7 (0.15%) MSI
General
1 1,283 (27.36%) Finance
2 1,129 (24.07%) Social Skills
3 1,053 (22.45%) Analytical Skills
4 663 (14.14%) Marketing
5 267 (5.69%) Retail
6 252 (5.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 244 (5.20%) Public Sector
8 227 (4.84%) Law
9 220 (4.69%) Games
10 200 (4.26%) Banking
11 163 (3.48%) Legal
12 135 (2.88%) Manufacturing
13 132 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
14 122 (2.60%) Automotive
15 107 (2.28%) Advertising
16 104 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
17 86 (1.83%) Financial Institution
18 71 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
19 56 (1.19%) Back Office
20 52 (1.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 841 (17.93%) Senior
2 598 (12.75%) Analyst
3 532 (11.34%) Data Engineer
4 510 (10.87%) Lead
5 339 (7.23%) Architect
6 303 (6.46%) Data Analyst
7 285 (6.08%) Developer
8 183 (3.90%) Consultant
9 162 (3.45%) Data Architect
10 145 (3.09%) Senior Data Engineer
11 134 (2.86%) Senior Manager
12 120 (2.56%) Data Scientist
13 113 (2.41%) Product Manager
14 111 (2.37%) Trainee
14 111 (2.37%) Trainee Analyst
14 111 (2.37%) Trainee Data Analyst
15 108 (2.30%) Data Manager
16 106 (2.26%) Designer
17 105 (2.24%) Solutions Architect
18 104 (2.22%) Analytics Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (3.05%) PySpark
2 120 (2.56%) Kafka
3 87 (1.86%) HTML
4 86 (1.83%) .NET
5 83 (1.77%) CSS
5 83 (1.77%) PyTorch
6 55 (1.17%) TensorFlow
7 53 (1.13%) React
8 51 (1.09%) SAP Fiori
9 49 (1.04%) REST
10 46 (0.98%) RESTful
11 45 (0.96%) Pandas
12 44 (0.94%) .NET Core
13 43 (0.92%) LangChain
14 42 (0.90%) scikit-learn
15 37 (0.79%) OAuth
16 36 (0.77%) JSON
17 34 (0.72%) Node.js
18 28 (0.60%) gRPC
19 24 (0.51%) LlamaIndex
Miscellaneous
1 283 (6.03%) Social Media
2 208 (4.43%) Cloud Native
3 189 (4.03%) Product Ownership
4 158 (3.37%) Analytical Mindset
5 154 (3.28%) Management Information System
6 108 (2.30%) Algorithms
7 107 (2.28%) Onboarding
8 103 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
9 92 (1.96%) Data Structures
10 80 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
11 78 (1.66%) Marketing Technology
12 74 (1.58%) Mobile App
13 67 (1.43%) Life Science
14 66 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
15 64 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
16 58 (1.24%) Over-the-Top Content
17 44 (0.94%) Public Cloud
18 43 (0.92%) Virtual Team
19 39 (0.83%) e-Learning
19 39 (0.83%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 109 (2.32%) Windows
2 59 (1.26%) Linux
3 48 (1.02%) Windows 10
4 29 (0.62%) VMS
5 25 (0.53%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.38%) Windows Server
7 17 (0.36%) Unix
8 12 (0.26%) Android
9 3 (0.064%) AIX
10 2 (0.043%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.021%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,319 (28.12%) AI
2 991 (21.13%) Decision-Making
3 982 (20.94%) Business Intelligence
4 890 (18.98%) Agile
5 716 (15.27%) Data Modelling
6 713 (15.20%) Data Analytics
7 704 (15.01%) Continuous Improvement
8 679 (14.48%) Problem-Solving
9 669 (14.26%) Roadmaps
10 608 (12.96%) Data Engineering
11 570 (12.15%) Data Pipeline
12 550 (11.73%) CI/CD
13 534 (11.39%) Data Governance
14 508 (10.83%) Machine Learning
15 504 (10.75%) Customer Experience
16 494 (10.53%) Data Science
16 494 (10.53%) ETL
17 435 (9.28%) DevOps
18 429 (9.15%) Mentoring
19 426 (9.08%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 1,200 (25.59%) SQL
2 1,062 (22.64%) Python
3 113 (2.41%) C#
4 111 (2.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 107 (2.28%) Java
6 85 (1.81%) Scala
7 82 (1.75%) JavaScript
7 82 (1.75%) R
8 78 (1.66%) PowerShell
9 51 (1.09%) TypeScript
10 38 (0.81%) C++
11 37 (0.79%) Bicep
11 37 (0.79%) T-SQL
12 34 (0.72%) Bash
12 34 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
13 33 (0.70%) Go
14 20 (0.43%) Kotlin
14 20 (0.43%) VBA
15 17 (0.36%) Swift
16 14 (0.30%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 580 (12.37%) Degree
2 286 (6.10%) Security Cleared
3 197 (4.20%) SC Cleared
4 108 (2.30%) Master's Degree
5 78 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 72 (1.54%) IRCA
7 65 (1.39%) Azure Certification
8 51 (1.09%) ACCA
9 48 (1.02%) CTC Cleared
10 46 (0.98%) PhD
11 45 (0.96%) DBS Check
12 44 (0.94%) CIMA
13 42 (0.90%) CISSP
14 41 (0.87%) CISM
14 41 (0.87%) DV Cleared
15 38 (0.81%) CISA
16 29 (0.62%) AWS Certification
16 29 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
17 25 (0.53%) SANS
18 24 (0.51%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 590 (12.58%) Data Quality
2 361 (7.70%) Accessibility
3 328 (6.99%) GDPR
4 184 (3.92%) QA
5 94 (2.00%) WCAG
6 76 (1.62%) ISO 9001
7 74 (1.58%) SLA
8 44 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 44 (0.94%) NIST
9 37 (0.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 34 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
11 28 (0.60%) COBIT
12 24 (0.51%) IFRS
13 20 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 17 (0.36%) GRC
14 17 (0.36%) SOC 2
15 15 (0.32%) GAAP
15 15 (0.32%) HIPAA
16 14 (0.30%) PCI DSS
16 14 (0.30%) PERC
System Software
1 152 (3.24%) Docker
2 86 (1.83%) Active Directory
3 23 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.15%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.11%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.085%) IAG
6 4 (0.085%) vSphere
7 2 (0.043%) Firmware
8 1 (0.021%) Apache Flume
8 1 (0.021%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 227 (4.84%) Terraform
2 175 (3.73%) Kubernetes
3 42 (0.90%) Ansible
4 32 (0.68%) Grafana
4 32 (0.68%) Prometheus
5 13 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (0.23%) EnCase
7 11 (0.23%) FTK
8 9 (0.19%) Kibana
9 6 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (0.13%) Nagios
10 5 (0.11%) Control-M
10 5 (0.11%) VxRail
11 4 (0.085%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.085%) Graylog
12 3 (0.064%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.043%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.043%) SCCM
13 2 (0.043%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 777 (16.57%) Microsoft
2 397 (8.46%) Databricks
3 316 (6.74%) Google
4 301 (6.42%) Adobe
5 220 (4.69%) SAP
6 153 (3.26%) Salesforce
7 131 (2.79%) Oracle
8 101 (2.15%) Cisco
9 68 (1.45%) HubSpot
10 54 (1.15%) Dell
11 46 (0.98%) Informatica
12 29 (0.62%) Workday
13 27 (0.58%) Alteryx
14 26 (0.55%) Palantir
14 26 (0.55%) Teradata
15 25 (0.53%) Cloudera
15 25 (0.53%) Red Hat
16 24 (0.51%) Braze
16 24 (0.51%) Denodo
16 24 (0.51%) OpenAI