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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 23 35
Rank change year-on-year -4 +12 -5
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 5,350 3,995 4,404
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.16% 8.05% 5.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.02% 9.00% 6.48%
Number of salaries quoted 3,161 1,816 2,574
10th Percentile £36,500 £31,875 £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 £105,000 £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 76,247 44,374 67,952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.60% 89.45% 81.06%
Number of salaries quoted 52,515 25,244 44,456
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,246
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,246 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.24% -2.00% -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 4 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 4 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 4,806 £67,500 +8.00% 4,007
UK excluding London -9 2,785 £60,000 +9.09% 1,875
London +3 2,157 £80,000 +3.23% 2,519
Work from Home +4 1,629 £65,000 +8.33% 1,678
North of England +52 919 £60,000 +7.14% 512
Midlands +12 612 £60,000 +14.29% 278
North West +45 542 £60,000 +14.29% 304
South East -34 510 £55,000 - 566
West Midlands +1 344 £57,500 +4.55% 186
South West -30 288 £60,000 - 198
East Midlands +33 268 £60,000 +23.71% 92
Yorkshire +26 244 £62,500 - 157
East of England +14 224 £58,000 +28.89% 121
North East +28 133 £50,000 -3.85% 54
Scotland -25 107 £63,750 -8.93% 118
Wales -4 70 £61,750 +7.39% 39
Northern Ireland -35 62 £65,000 +50.84% 56

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 (3.61%) Apache Spark
2 138 (2.58%) Apache Airflow
3 119 (2.22%) CMS
4 107 (2.00%) Apache
5 70 (1.31%) SAS
6 62 (1.16%) Confluence
7 44 (0.82%) SharePoint
8 39 (0.73%) WordPress
9 33 (0.62%) ArcGIS
10 26 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
11 14 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
12 11 (0.21%) Headless CMS
13 9 (0.17%) Jupyter
14 6 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
15 5 (0.093%) Drupal
15 5 (0.093%) Oracle Workflow
15 5 (0.093%) Umbraco
16 2 (0.037%) Apache Pulsar
16 2 (0.037%) Luigi
16 2 (0.037%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 244 (4.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 44 (0.82%) UserZoom
3 42 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
4 34 (0.64%) Chatbot
5 25 (0.47%) SPSS
6 24 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
7 18 (0.34%) MS Visio
8 16 (0.30%) Adobe XD
9 12 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 6 (0.11%) Sketch
10 6 (0.11%) Trello
11 5 (0.093%) Microsoft Project
12 4 (0.075%) Photoshop
13 3 (0.056%) Adobe Premiere
13 3 (0.056%) InDesign
13 3 (0.056%) Zeplin
14 2 (0.037%) Adobe Illustrator
14 2 (0.037%) CapCut
15 1 (0.019%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 115 (2.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 53 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 34 (0.64%) Adobe Campaign
4 32 (0.60%) Dynamics GP
4 32 (0.60%) SAP IBP
5 30 (0.56%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 30 (0.56%) SAP PP
6 22 (0.41%) Shopify
7 20 (0.37%) Magento
8 15 (0.28%) NetSuite
9 10 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
10 8 (0.15%) iTrent
10 8 (0.15%) Relativity
10 8 (0.15%) Workday HCM
11 7 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
11 7 (0.13%) SAP MDG
12 6 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
12 6 (0.11%) SAP PM
12 6 (0.11%) SAP Travel Management
13 5 (0.093%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 1,040 (19.44%) Azure
2 841 (15.72%) Power Platform
3 821 (15.35%) AWS
4 360 (6.73%) GCP
5 319 (5.96%) SaaS
6 270 (5.05%) Snowflake
7 211 (3.94%) Google Analytics
8 184 (3.44%) Adobe Analytics
8 184 (3.44%) Azure Data Factory
9 159 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
10 157 (2.93%) GitHub
11 148 (2.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 148 (2.77%) Serverless
12 135 (2.52%) dbt
13 120 (2.24%) Amazon S3
14 115 (2.15%) Figma
15 108 (2.02%) Cloud Computing
16 90 (1.68%) Microsoft 365
17 76 (1.42%) Microsoft Purview
18 73 (1.36%) Contentsquare
Communications & Networking
1 223 (4.17%) Broadband
2 57 (1.07%) VPN
3 56 (1.05%) Internet
4 54 (1.01%) Firewall
5 44 (0.82%) DNS
6 43 (0.80%) Network Security
7 27 (0.50%) BGP
8 26 (0.49%) TCP/IP
9 20 (0.37%) VLAN
10 18 (0.34%) OSPF
10 18 (0.34%) SMS
11 17 (0.32%) DHCP
12 16 (0.30%) VoIP
13 14 (0.26%) CTI
14 13 (0.24%) 5G
15 11 (0.21%) WAN
16 10 (0.19%) CHAP
16 10 (0.19%) SSL
16 10 (0.19%) Unified Communications
17 9 (0.17%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 800 (14.95%) Power BI
2 434 (8.11%) Data Warehouse
3 329 (6.15%) Tableau
4 251 (4.69%) Data Lake
5 202 (3.78%) Metadata
6 171 (3.20%) SQL Server
7 141 (2.64%) Big Data
8 132 (2.47%) Looker
9 127 (2.37%) Amazon Redshift
10 123 (2.30%) BigQuery
11 120 (2.24%) Azure SQL Database
12 97 (1.81%) Relational Database
13 93 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
14 85 (1.59%) NoSQL
15 73 (1.36%) Delta Lake
15 73 (1.36%) Power Query
16 71 (1.33%) MongoDB
17 68 (1.27%) Star Schema
18 60 (1.12%) Data Mining
19 58 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 180 (3.36%) Git
2 76 (1.42%) JIRA
3 61 (1.14%) Jenkins
4 48 (0.90%) MLflow
5 38 (0.71%) GitLab
6 25 (0.47%) IBM UrbanCode
7 21 (0.39%) Crashlytics
8 14 (0.26%) Claude Code
8 14 (0.26%) XCTest
9 13 (0.24%) fastlane
10 12 (0.22%) CircleCI
11 10 (0.19%) ERwin
12 9 (0.17%) Balsamiq
12 9 (0.17%) Xcode
13 8 (0.15%) Axure RP
13 8 (0.15%) Gradle
14 6 (0.11%) Android Studio
14 6 (0.11%) Selenium
15 5 (0.093%) Bitbucket
15 5 (0.093%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,483 (27.72%) Finance
2 1,374 (25.68%) Social Skills
3 1,219 (22.79%) Analytical Skills
4 782 (14.62%) Marketing
5 363 (6.79%) Retail
6 354 (6.62%) Public Sector
7 296 (5.53%) Law
8 287 (5.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 267 (4.99%) Legal
10 240 (4.49%) Banking
11 216 (4.04%) Games
12 171 (3.20%) Manufacturing
13 165 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
14 127 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
15 120 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
16 118 (2.21%) Automotive
17 99 (1.85%) Financial Institution
18 90 (1.68%) Advertising
19 61 (1.14%) Telecoms
20 50 (0.93%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,015 (18.97%) Senior
2 624 (11.66%) Analyst
3 620 (11.59%) Data Engineer
4 598 (11.18%) Lead
5 488 (9.12%) Architect
6 331 (6.19%) Developer
7 287 (5.36%) Data Analyst
8 236 (4.41%) Data Architect
9 235 (4.39%) Consultant
10 207 (3.87%) Senior Data Engineer
11 183 (3.42%) Data Scientist
12 174 (3.25%) Analytics Manager
13 161 (3.01%) Solutions Architect
14 153 (2.86%) Senior Manager
15 139 (2.60%) Product Manager
16 114 (2.13%) Senior Analyst
17 113 (2.11%) Data Manager
18 95 (1.78%) Senior Architect
19 89 (1.66%) Designer
20 86 (1.61%) Marketing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (3.12%) PySpark
2 143 (2.67%) Kafka
3 96 (1.79%) HTML
4 94 (1.76%) CSS
5 87 (1.63%) .NET
6 71 (1.33%) PyTorch
7 69 (1.29%) REST
8 62 (1.16%) React
9 61 (1.14%) Node.js
10 56 (1.05%) Pandas
11 55 (1.03%) SAP Fiori
12 54 (1.01%) scikit-learn
13 47 (0.88%) .NET Core
14 45 (0.84%) LangChain
15 44 (0.82%) TensorFlow
16 39 (0.73%) RESTful
17 37 (0.69%) ASP.NET
17 37 (0.69%) JSON
18 36 (0.67%) AngularJS
18 36 (0.67%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 286 (5.35%) Cloud Native
2 272 (5.08%) Social Media
3 261 (4.88%) Onboarding
4 202 (3.78%) Product Ownership
5 180 (3.36%) Analytical Mindset
6 149 (2.79%) Management Information System
7 135 (2.52%) Marketing Technology
8 121 (2.26%) Blog
9 116 (2.17%) Data Structures
9 116 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
10 103 (1.93%) Algorithms
11 88 (1.64%) Mobile App
12 68 (1.27%) AI Agents
13 65 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
14 64 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
15 62 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
16 56 (1.05%) Public Cloud
17 52 (0.97%) Life Science
18 47 (0.88%) e-Learning
19 46 (0.86%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 91 (1.70%) Windows
2 79 (1.48%) Linux
3 29 (0.54%) VMS
4 24 (0.45%) Apple iOS
5 22 (0.41%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.17%) Android
7 7 (0.13%) Unix
8 5 (0.093%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.075%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.056%) Debian
11 2 (0.037%) AIX
11 2 (0.037%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.019%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.019%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.019%) SUSE
12 1 (0.019%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,872 (34.99%) AI
2 1,240 (23.18%) Decision-Making
3 1,149 (21.48%) Business Intelligence
4 962 (17.98%) Agile
5 890 (16.64%) Roadmaps
6 840 (15.70%) Continuous Improvement
7 825 (15.42%) Data Modelling
8 803 (15.01%) Problem-Solving
9 731 (13.66%) Data Engineering
10 728 (13.61%) Data Analytics
11 714 (13.35%) Machine Learning
12 655 (12.24%) Data Pipeline
13 627 (11.72%) CI/CD
14 607 (11.35%) Data Science
15 576 (10.77%) Data Governance
16 560 (10.47%) Mentoring
17 519 (9.70%) ETL
18 515 (9.63%) Customer Experience
19 514 (9.61%) Stakeholder Management
20 498 (9.31%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 1,401 (26.19%) SQL
2 1,206 (22.54%) Python
3 130 (2.43%) Java
4 125 (2.34%) C#
5 122 (2.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 108 (2.02%) JavaScript
6 108 (2.02%) PowerShell
7 87 (1.63%) R
8 85 (1.59%) TypeScript
9 73 (1.36%) Scala
10 63 (1.18%) Bicep
11 51 (0.95%) Bash
12 44 (0.82%) C++
13 42 (0.79%) Go
14 38 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
15 29 (0.54%) T-SQL
16 27 (0.50%) Kotlin
17 23 (0.43%) Swift
18 18 (0.34%) ABAP
18 18 (0.34%) Julia
Qualifications
1 625 (11.68%) Degree
2 357 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 232 (4.34%) SC Cleared
4 120 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 103 (1.93%) Azure Certification
6 90 (1.68%) Master's Degree
7 72 (1.35%) DV Cleared
7 72 (1.35%) IRCA
8 58 (1.08%) AWS Certification
9 53 (0.99%) ACCA
10 51 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
11 48 (0.90%) CISSP
11 48 (0.90%) DBS Check
12 47 (0.88%) CIMA
13 38 (0.71%) CISM
14 36 (0.67%) PhD
15 33 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
16 29 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
17 22 (0.41%) Postgraduate
18 21 (0.39%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 702 (13.12%) Data Quality
2 406 (7.59%) Accessibility
3 323 (6.04%) GDPR
4 226 (4.22%) QA
5 98 (1.83%) WCAG
6 75 (1.40%) ISO 9001
7 40 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
8 38 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 38 (0.71%) NIST
9 35 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 33 (0.62%) SLA
11 26 (0.49%) PCI DSS
12 21 (0.39%) PMO
13 20 (0.37%) IFRS
14 16 (0.30%) GRC
15 15 (0.28%) EU AI Act
15 15 (0.28%) HIPAA
16 13 (0.24%) COBIT
16 13 (0.24%) PERC
17 12 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 155 (2.90%) Docker
2 91 (1.70%) Active Directory
3 24 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
4 16 (0.30%) vSphere
5 14 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.15%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.075%) Firmware
7 4 (0.075%) IAG
7 4 (0.075%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.019%) Apache Flume
8 1 (0.019%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 252 (4.71%) Terraform
2 175 (3.27%) Kubernetes
3 46 (0.86%) Ansible
4 29 (0.54%) Prometheus
5 25 (0.47%) Grafana
6 16 (0.30%) EnCase
6 16 (0.30%) FTK
7 15 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (0.17%) FortiGate
9 7 (0.13%) Argo
9 7 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.11%) Hadoop YARN
10 6 (0.11%) Nagios
10 6 (0.11%) VxRail
11 5 (0.093%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.093%) Graylog
11 5 (0.093%) Packer
11 5 (0.093%) Puppet
12 3 (0.056%) Control-M
12 3 (0.056%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 789 (14.75%) Microsoft
2 485 (9.07%) Databricks
3 376 (7.03%) Google
4 280 (5.23%) Adobe
5 262 (4.90%) SAP
6 142 (2.65%) Oracle
7 117 (2.19%) Salesforce
8 73 (1.36%) HubSpot
9 57 (1.07%) Informatica
10 51 (0.95%) Workday
11 49 (0.92%) Dell
12 42 (0.79%) Cisco
13 40 (0.75%) IBM
14 36 (0.67%) Alteryx
15 31 (0.58%) VMware
16 30 (0.56%) Cognos
17 27 (0.50%) Cloudera
17 27 (0.50%) ServiceNow
17 27 (0.50%) Teradata
18 26 (0.49%) OpenAI