Analytics Job Trends

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 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 25 29
Rank change year-on-year -7 +4 -4
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 3,675 3,578 3,584
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 6.16% 6.44% 6.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.51% 7.17% 7.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,896 1,825 2,508
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £86,563
90th Percentile £113,750 £118,750 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,455 £57,500 £55,148
% change year-on-year -12.25% +4.27% -0.27%

All Process and 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 48,914 49,911 47,327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.01% 89.84% 91.50%
Number of salaries quoted 28,739 24,946 36,141
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,552
25th Percentile £36,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.34%

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 28 December 2025.

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 28 December 2025. 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 -9 3,140 £62,500 -10.71% 5,501
UK excluding London +5 1,914 £50,455 -12.25% 4,247
London +3 1,470 £75,000 -11.76% 1,706
Work from Home -2 1,094 £60,000 -9.59% 2,409
South East +22 583 £55,000 -8.33% 1,147
North of England -12 376 £55,000 - 991
Midlands -2 312 £53,500 -6.14% 771
Scotland +7 255 £49,750 -18.10% 173
South West +7 201 £55,000 -4.35% 466
North West -22 191 £47,500 -13.64% 517
West Midlands -17 182 £58,764 +2.20% 404
Yorkshire -1 151 £62,500 +13.64% 402
East Midlands +17 132 £45,000 -10.00% 324
East of England +35 128 £40,000 -33.33% 594
North East +24 35 £40,000 -27.27% 76
Northern Ireland +2 35 £45,000 -35.71% 51
Wales +14 27 £60,000 +20.00% 116

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 91 (2.48%) Apache Spark
2 89 (2.42%) CMS
3 63 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
4 51 (1.39%) WordPress
5 46 (1.25%) Confluence
6 42 (1.14%) SharePoint
7 34 (0.93%) Apache
8 23 (0.63%) SAS
9 20 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 15 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
11 10 (0.27%) Drupal
11 10 (0.27%) SugarCRM
11 10 (0.27%) Umbraco
12 7 (0.19%) Headless CMS
13 6 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 5 (0.14%) IIS
15 4 (0.11%) Apache Superset
15 4 (0.11%) Appian
16 3 (0.082%) Moodle
16 3 (0.082%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 519 (14.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 97 (2.64%) Microsoft Office
3 58 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (0.84%) Maya
5 28 (0.76%) Adobe XD
6 24 (0.65%) Photoshop
7 23 (0.63%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 18 (0.49%) InDesign
9 15 (0.41%) Chatbot
9 15 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
10 12 (0.33%) Adobe Premiere
11 11 (0.30%) SPSS
12 10 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
12 10 (0.27%) Trello
13 9 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
14 5 (0.14%) MadCap Flare
14 5 (0.14%) MS Visio
15 4 (0.11%) SketchUp
16 3 (0.082%) Final Cut Pro
16 3 (0.082%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 86 (2.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 61 (1.66%) Dynamics CRM
3 40 (1.09%) Shopify
4 34 (0.93%) Oracle ERP
5 26 (0.71%) SAP IBP
6 21 (0.57%) Magento
6 21 (0.57%) SAP CO
7 17 (0.46%) SAP FI
7 17 (0.46%) SAP FI/CO
8 16 (0.44%) Oracle Assets
8 16 (0.44%) Oracle General Ledger
8 16 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
8 16 (0.44%) Oracle Receivables
9 15 (0.41%) Dynamics GP
9 15 (0.41%) Oracle Financials
10 13 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
11 11 (0.30%) NetSuite
11 11 (0.30%) SAP FSCM
12 10 (0.27%) SAP IS-U
13 8 (0.22%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 943 (25.66%) Azure
2 750 (20.41%) Power Platform
3 372 (10.12%) AWS
4 229 (6.23%) GCP
5 225 (6.12%) SaaS
6 218 (5.93%) Google Analytics
7 194 (5.28%) Snowflake
8 182 (4.95%) Azure Data Factory
9 164 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
10 156 (4.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 147 (4.00%) GitHub
12 133 (3.62%) Microsoft 365
13 114 (3.10%) dbt
14 78 (2.12%) Serverless
15 76 (2.07%) Azure Monitor
16 70 (1.90%) Figma
17 65 (1.77%) Entra ID
18 63 (1.71%) Google Ads
19 62 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
20 59 (1.61%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 35 (0.95%) VPN
2 34 (0.93%) SMS
3 30 (0.82%) Firewall
4 18 (0.49%) Unified Communications
5 16 (0.44%) Network Security
6 15 (0.41%) Broadband
7 14 (0.38%) DNS
8 11 (0.30%) WAN
9 10 (0.27%) CHAP
10 9 (0.24%) Intranet
11 7 (0.19%) TCP/IP
12 5 (0.14%) Intrusion Detection
13 4 (0.11%) DHCP
13 4 (0.11%) HTTPS
13 4 (0.11%) Internet
13 4 (0.11%) VoIP
13 4 (0.11%) Wireshark
14 3 (0.082%) MQTT
15 2 (0.054%) HTTP
15 2 (0.054%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 716 (19.48%) Power BI
2 394 (10.72%) Tableau
3 325 (8.84%) Data Warehouse
4 253 (6.88%) Data Lake
5 165 (4.49%) Metadata
6 148 (4.03%) SQL Server
7 147 (4.00%) Data Mining
8 97 (2.64%) Big Data
8 97 (2.64%) SAP BW
9 93 (2.53%) Looker
10 91 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
11 76 (2.07%) NoSQL
12 75 (2.04%) BigQuery
13 68 (1.85%) Relational Database
13 68 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 61 (1.66%) Amazon Redshift
15 53 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 51 (1.39%) Hadoop
17 46 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
17 46 (1.25%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 125 (3.40%) JIRA
2 106 (2.88%) Git
3 38 (1.03%) Jenkins
4 31 (0.84%) Oracle Forms
5 25 (0.68%) Axure RP
5 25 (0.68%) Balsamiq
6 18 (0.49%) ERwin
6 18 (0.49%) GitLab
7 14 (0.38%) Visual Studio
8 12 (0.33%) Cypress.io
9 11 (0.30%) MLflow
9 11 (0.30%) Selenium
10 10 (0.27%) ER Studio
11 7 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
12 6 (0.16%) Postman
13 5 (0.14%) MSI
13 5 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
14 4 (0.11%) Browser DevTools
14 4 (0.11%) Maven
14 4 (0.11%) TestNG
General
1 1,293 (35.18%) Finance
2 1,271 (34.59%) Social Skills
3 1,127 (30.67%) Analytical Skills
4 721 (19.62%) Marketing
5 287 (7.81%) Law
6 234 (6.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 219 (5.96%) Retail
8 202 (5.50%) Banking
9 201 (5.47%) Public Sector
10 174 (4.73%) Manufacturing
11 150 (4.08%) Presentation Skills
12 131 (3.56%) Legal
13 98 (2.67%) Games
14 97 (2.64%) Financial Institution
15 95 (2.59%) Pharmaceutical
16 76 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
17 69 (1.88%) Automotive
17 69 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
18 68 (1.85%) Advertising
19 66 (1.80%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 580 (15.78%) Analyst
1 580 (15.78%) Senior
2 460 (12.52%) Lead
3 315 (8.57%) Data Analyst
4 294 (8.00%) Data Engineer
5 293 (7.97%) Architect
6 215 (5.85%) Developer
7 151 (4.11%) Senior Manager
8 118 (3.21%) Data Architect
9 116 (3.16%) Trainee
9 116 (3.16%) Trainee Analyst
9 116 (3.16%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 96 (2.61%) Innovation Manager
11 94 (2.56%) Consultant
12 84 (2.29%) Analytics Manager
13 78 (2.12%) Solutions Architect
14 71 (1.93%) Data Scientist
15 70 (1.90%) Data Manager
15 70 (1.90%) Report Analyst
15 70 (1.90%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (2.56%) HTML
2 81 (2.20%) CSS
3 73 (1.99%) PySpark
4 70 (1.90%) RESTful
5 68 (1.85%) Kafka
6 61 (1.66%) React
7 57 (1.55%) OAuth
8 54 (1.47%) REST
9 49 (1.33%) PyTorch
10 48 (1.31%) TensorFlow
11 46 (1.25%) JSON
12 38 (1.03%) .NET
13 37 (1.01%) OAuth2
14 35 (0.95%) Node.js
15 30 (0.82%) SAML
15 30 (0.82%) scikit-learn
16 28 (0.76%) Middleware
17 27 (0.73%) Pandas
18 26 (0.71%) GraphQL
19 23 (0.63%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 178 (4.84%) Analytical Mindset
2 175 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
3 168 (4.57%) Product Ownership
4 165 (4.49%) Onboarding
5 164 (4.46%) Cloud Native
6 149 (4.05%) Management Information System
7 143 (3.89%) Social Media
8 120 (3.27%) Algorithms
9 85 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
10 83 (2.26%) Life Science
11 66 (1.80%) FMCG
12 60 (1.63%) Data Structures
13 57 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
14 51 (1.39%) Data Centre
15 48 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
16 39 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
17 37 (1.01%) Virtual Team
18 35 (0.95%) Fixed Income
18 35 (0.95%) Reinsurance
19 30 (0.82%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 79 (2.15%) Windows
2 35 (0.95%) Linux
3 28 (0.76%) Windows 10
4 27 (0.73%) Unix
5 11 (0.30%) VMS
5 11 (0.30%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.24%) Android
7 8 (0.22%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.054%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.027%) AIX
9 1 (0.027%) Debian
9 1 (0.027%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 996 (27.10%) AI
2 995 (27.07%) Business Intelligence
3 859 (23.37%) Problem-Solving
4 850 (23.13%) Decision-Making
5 713 (19.40%) Data Analytics
6 701 (19.07%) Continuous Improvement
7 680 (18.50%) Agile
8 600 (16.33%) Data Modelling
9 499 (13.58%) Stakeholder Management
10 482 (13.12%) Data Science
11 475 (12.93%) Roadmaps
12 464 (12.63%) Machine Learning
13 459 (12.49%) Data Analysis
14 455 (12.38%) Data Governance
15 434 (11.81%) Project Management
16 416 (11.32%) Visualisation
17 404 (10.99%) Data Engineering
18 390 (10.61%) DevOps
18 390 (10.61%) ETL
19 371 (10.10%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 980 (26.67%) SQL
2 922 (25.09%) Python
3 127 (3.46%) Java
4 123 (3.35%) JavaScript
5 82 (2.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 77 (2.10%) PowerShell
7 70 (1.90%) R
8 63 (1.71%) C#
9 53 (1.44%) Scala
10 50 (1.36%) Bicep
11 48 (1.31%) T-SQL
12 37 (1.01%) TypeScript
13 34 (0.93%) Go
14 31 (0.84%) PL/SQL
15 30 (0.82%) Bash
16 29 (0.79%) C++
17 24 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
18 20 (0.54%) Shell Script
19 14 (0.38%) VBA
20 13 (0.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 840 (22.86%) Degree
2 203 (5.52%) Master's Degree
3 184 (5.01%) Security Cleared
4 133 (3.62%) SC Cleared
5 118 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 96 (2.61%) PhD
7 93 (2.53%) DBS Check
8 59 (1.61%) CISSP
9 49 (1.33%) CISA
9 49 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 48 (1.31%) Numerate Degree
11 46 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
12 45 (1.22%) Azure Certification
13 42 (1.14%) ACCA
14 39 (1.06%) CISM
15 36 (0.98%) PMI Certification
16 30 (0.82%) PMP
17 29 (0.79%) CIMA
18 28 (0.76%) CTC Cleared
19 24 (0.65%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 483 (13.14%) Data Quality
2 262 (7.13%) GDPR
3 204 (5.55%) Accessibility
4 84 (2.29%) QA
5 83 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 48 (1.31%) NIST
7 44 (1.20%) WCAG
8 43 (1.17%) SLA
9 39 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
9 39 (1.06%) GxP
10 27 (0.73%) COBIT
11 24 (0.65%) Solvency II
12 23 (0.63%) HIPAA
13 22 (0.60%) EU AI Act
14 21 (0.57%) PSD2
15 19 (0.52%) GRC
16 18 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 17 (0.46%) IFRS
18 16 (0.44%) PMO
19 15 (0.41%) ITGC
System Software
1 90 (2.45%) Docker
2 50 (1.36%) Active Directory
3 30 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
6 10 (0.27%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.054%) Firmware
7 2 (0.054%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.027%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.027%) vCloud
8 1 (0.027%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.027%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 172 (4.68%) Terraform
2 119 (3.24%) Kubernetes
3 33 (0.90%) Ansible
4 30 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
5 24 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
6 14 (0.38%) Grafana
7 12 (0.33%) Prometheus
8 11 (0.30%) QRadar
8 11 (0.30%) SCCM
9 7 (0.19%) EnCase
9 7 (0.19%) FTK
10 6 (0.16%) RSA Archer
10 6 (0.16%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 5 (0.14%) Argo
11 5 (0.14%) SCOM
12 3 (0.082%) ArcSight ESM
12 3 (0.082%) Control-M
13 2 (0.054%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.054%) Kibana
14 1 (0.027%) CASB
Vendors
1 692 (18.83%) Microsoft
2 347 (9.44%) Google
3 257 (6.99%) SAP
4 255 (6.94%) Databricks
5 205 (5.58%) Salesforce
6 139 (3.78%) Oracle
7 125 (3.40%) Adobe
8 85 (2.31%) Cisco
9 67 (1.82%) HubSpot
10 56 (1.52%) Alteryx
11 39 (1.06%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 37 (1.01%) ServiceNow
13 34 (0.93%) Bloomberg
14 33 (0.90%) Dell
15 30 (0.82%) Talend
16 27 (0.73%) OpenAI
17 26 (0.71%) Informatica
18 23 (0.63%) Sage
18 23 (0.63%) YouTube
19 21 (0.57%) Screaming Frog