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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 23 38
Rank change year-on-year -4 +15 -15
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 4,648 3,777 5,264
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.07% 8.58% 5.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.88% 9.19% 6.39%
Number of salaries quoted 2,734 1,730 3,303
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,000 £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 £92,375 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,443 £53,500
% change year-on-year +0.10% +7.37% -2.73%

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 67,575 41,082 82,390
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.71% 93.28% 84.93%
Number of salaries quoted 43,564 22,321 59,668
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,684 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.53% +8.52% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,001 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -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 17 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 17 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 4,119 £65,000 - 2,057
UK excluding London -15 2,472 £57,500 +0.10% 1,322
London -1 1,786 £80,000 -3.03% 1,066
Work from Home +3 1,421 £65,000 +8.33% 952
North of England +15 778 £60,000 +9.09% 360
Midlands -8 512 £56,000 +6.67% 184
South East -26 493 £55,000 -8.33% 413
North West +19 450 £60,000 +9.09% 215
West Midlands -19 299 £57,500 +4.55% 96
Yorkshire -2 248 £56,875 +0.22% 100
South West -26 229 £58,750 +4.50% 143
East of England +31 224 £60,000 - 109
East Midlands +30 209 £50,000 +3.09% 88
Scotland -6 148 £65,000 -7.14% 75
North East +12 80 £47,000 -14.55% 51
Northern Ireland -13 48 £45,000 +50.00% 22
Wales -6 42 £56,250 +2.27% 37

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
1 158 (3.40%) Apache Airflow
2 140 (3.01%) Apache Spark
3 117 (2.52%) CMS
4 86 (1.85%) Apache
5 62 (1.33%) Confluence
6 54 (1.16%) SharePoint
7 49 (1.05%) WordPress
8 41 (0.88%) SAS
9 35 (0.75%) ArcGIS
10 20 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
11 17 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
12 10 (0.22%) Drupal
13 7 (0.15%) Oracle Application Server
14 6 (0.13%) IIS
14 6 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 5 (0.11%) Jupyter
15 5 (0.11%) Umbraco
16 4 (0.086%) Documentum
16 4 (0.086%) Moodle
17 3 (0.065%) Appian
Applications
1 299 (6.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 95 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
3 50 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (0.67%) UserZoom
5 20 (0.43%) Adobe XD
5 20 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
6 18 (0.39%) MS Visio
7 12 (0.26%) SPSS
8 11 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 10 (0.22%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.086%) Adobe Illustrator
10 4 (0.086%) InDesign
10 4 (0.086%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.065%) Microsoft Project
11 3 (0.065%) Sketch
12 2 (0.043%) Maya
12 2 (0.043%) Trello
13 1 (0.022%) Adobe Premiere
13 1 (0.022%) Oracle Smart View
13 1 (0.022%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 85 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (0.73%) Adobe Campaign
2 34 (0.73%) SAP IBP
3 33 (0.71%) SAP PP
4 24 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
5 23 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
6 20 (0.43%) Magento
7 17 (0.37%) Shopify
8 16 (0.34%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 15 (0.32%) iTrent
10 11 (0.24%) NetSuite
11 9 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
11 9 (0.19%) SAP CO
12 8 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
12 8 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
13 7 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
13 7 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
13 7 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
13 7 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
14 6 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 945 (20.33%) Azure
2 720 (15.49%) Power Platform
3 586 (12.61%) AWS
4 290 (6.24%) GCP
5 266 (5.72%) SaaS
6 219 (4.71%) Snowflake
7 202 (4.35%) Adobe Analytics
8 195 (4.20%) Google Analytics
9 190 (4.09%) Azure Data Factory
10 158 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
11 148 (3.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 146 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
13 134 (2.88%) GitHub
14 133 (2.86%) dbt
15 122 (2.62%) Figma
16 118 (2.54%) Amazon S3
17 114 (2.45%) Serverless
18 105 (2.26%) Entra ID
19 76 (1.64%) Azure Monitor
20 72 (1.55%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 258 (5.55%) Broadband
2 40 (0.86%) Firewall
3 37 (0.80%) VPN
4 28 (0.60%) DNS
5 25 (0.54%) CHAP
6 24 (0.52%) Network Security
6 24 (0.52%) TCP/IP
7 22 (0.47%) WAN
8 15 (0.32%) DHCP
9 14 (0.30%) Intranet
9 14 (0.30%) Unified Communications
10 13 (0.28%) BGP
11 10 (0.22%) OSPF
11 10 (0.22%) SNMP
11 10 (0.22%) VLAN
12 9 (0.19%) SMS
13 8 (0.17%) 5G
14 6 (0.13%) HTTP
14 6 (0.13%) IPFIX
14 6 (0.13%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 681 (14.65%) Power BI
2 334 (7.19%) Tableau
3 313 (6.73%) Data Warehouse
4 221 (4.75%) Data Lake
5 163 (3.51%) Metadata
6 145 (3.12%) SQL Server
7 133 (2.86%) Data Mining
8 124 (2.67%) Looker
9 111 (2.39%) BigQuery
10 103 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
11 98 (2.11%) Relational Database
12 86 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
13 83 (1.79%) NoSQL
14 76 (1.64%) Big Data
15 68 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
16 59 (1.27%) Power Query
17 52 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 49 (1.05%) Star Schema
19 46 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
20 45 (0.97%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 171 (3.68%) Git
2 77 (1.66%) JIRA
3 76 (1.64%) Jenkins
4 43 (0.93%) MLflow
5 37 (0.80%) GitLab
6 25 (0.54%) IBM UrbanCode
7 24 (0.52%) TeamCity
8 17 (0.37%) CircleCI
9 16 (0.34%) Crashlytics
10 15 (0.32%) Axure RP
10 15 (0.32%) Balsamiq
11 14 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
12 13 (0.28%) XCTest
13 12 (0.26%) Selenium
14 11 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 10 (0.22%) ERwin
15 10 (0.22%) Visual Studio
16 8 (0.17%) Claude Code
17 6 (0.13%) fastlane
17 6 (0.13%) MSI
General
1 1,278 (27.50%) Finance
2 1,118 (24.05%) Social Skills
3 1,048 (22.55%) Analytical Skills
4 654 (14.07%) Marketing
5 257 (5.53%) Retail
6 254 (5.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 235 (5.06%) Public Sector
8 221 (4.75%) Law
9 220 (4.73%) Games
10 203 (4.37%) Banking
11 153 (3.29%) Legal
12 140 (3.01%) Manufacturing
13 128 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
14 121 (2.60%) Automotive
15 105 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
16 101 (2.17%) Advertising
17 91 (1.96%) Financial Institution
18 67 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
19 58 (1.25%) Back Office
20 55 (1.18%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 831 (17.88%) Senior
2 605 (13.02%) Analyst
3 524 (11.27%) Data Engineer
4 509 (10.95%) Lead
5 336 (7.23%) Architect
6 312 (6.71%) Data Analyst
7 279 (6.00%) Developer
8 179 (3.85%) Consultant
9 162 (3.49%) Data Architect
10 137 (2.95%) Senior Data Engineer
11 133 (2.86%) Senior Manager
12 117 (2.52%) Trainee
12 117 (2.52%) Trainee Analyst
12 117 (2.52%) Trainee Data Analyst
13 113 (2.43%) Data Scientist
14 109 (2.35%) Designer
14 109 (2.35%) Product Manager
15 107 (2.30%) Data Manager
16 102 (2.19%) Senior Analyst
16 102 (2.19%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (2.97%) PySpark
2 121 (2.60%) Kafka
3 89 (1.91%) HTML
4 86 (1.85%) .NET
5 85 (1.83%) PyTorch
6 83 (1.79%) CSS
7 57 (1.23%) TensorFlow
8 53 (1.14%) React
9 50 (1.08%) SAP Fiori
10 46 (0.99%) RESTful
11 45 (0.97%) .NET Core
11 45 (0.97%) Pandas
11 45 (0.97%) REST
12 43 (0.93%) LangChain
12 43 (0.93%) scikit-learn
13 39 (0.84%) OAuth
14 36 (0.77%) JSON
15 34 (0.73%) Node.js
16 28 (0.60%) gRPC
17 24 (0.52%) LlamaIndex
Miscellaneous
1 282 (6.07%) Social Media
2 205 (4.41%) Cloud Native
3 186 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 153 (3.29%) Analytical Mindset
5 152 (3.27%) Management Information System
6 107 (2.30%) Algorithms
7 105 (2.26%) Onboarding
8 102 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
9 90 (1.94%) Data Structures
10 80 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
11 77 (1.66%) Marketing Technology
12 70 (1.51%) Mobile App
13 69 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
14 67 (1.44%) Life Science
15 66 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
16 57 (1.23%) Over-the-Top Content
17 45 (0.97%) Public Cloud
18 44 (0.95%) Virtual Team
19 38 (0.82%) e-Learning
19 38 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 112 (2.41%) Windows
2 60 (1.29%) Linux
3 49 (1.05%) Windows 10
4 28 (0.60%) VMS
5 25 (0.54%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.39%) Unix
6 18 (0.39%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.26%) Android
8 3 (0.065%) AIX
9 2 (0.043%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.022%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,303 (28.03%) AI
2 975 (20.98%) Decision-Making
3 970 (20.87%) Business Intelligence
4 888 (19.10%) Agile
5 712 (15.32%) Data Modelling
6 709 (15.25%) Data Analytics
7 701 (15.08%) Continuous Improvement
8 678 (14.59%) Problem-Solving
9 662 (14.24%) Roadmaps
10 609 (13.10%) Data Engineering
11 569 (12.24%) Data Pipeline
12 550 (11.83%) CI/CD
13 522 (11.23%) Data Governance
14 501 (10.78%) Machine Learning
15 499 (10.74%) Customer Experience
16 492 (10.59%) ETL
17 483 (10.39%) Data Science
18 434 (9.34%) DevOps
19 431 (9.27%) Mentoring
20 426 (9.17%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 1,190 (25.60%) SQL
2 1,060 (22.81%) Python
3 118 (2.54%) C#
4 109 (2.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 107 (2.30%) Java
6 86 (1.85%) JavaScript
7 83 (1.79%) Scala
8 80 (1.72%) R
9 74 (1.59%) PowerShell
10 53 (1.14%) TypeScript
11 40 (0.86%) Bicep
12 38 (0.82%) C++
13 36 (0.77%) Kusto Query Language
13 36 (0.77%) T-SQL
14 35 (0.75%) Go
15 33 (0.71%) Bash
16 19 (0.41%) Kotlin
17 18 (0.39%) VBA
18 16 (0.34%) Swift
19 14 (0.30%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 581 (12.50%) Degree
2 277 (5.96%) Security Cleared
3 190 (4.09%) SC Cleared
4 105 (2.26%) Master's Degree
5 81 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 72 (1.55%) IRCA
7 63 (1.36%) Azure Certification
8 50 (1.08%) ACCA
9 49 (1.05%) CTC Cleared
10 46 (0.99%) PhD
11 44 (0.95%) CISM
11 44 (0.95%) CISSP
11 44 (0.95%) DBS Check
12 43 (0.93%) CIMA
13 40 (0.86%) CISA
14 38 (0.82%) DV Cleared
15 30 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
16 29 (0.62%) AWS Certification
17 27 (0.58%) SANS
18 26 (0.56%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 587 (12.63%) Data Quality
2 361 (7.77%) Accessibility
3 327 (7.04%) GDPR
4 184 (3.96%) QA
5 94 (2.02%) WCAG
6 77 (1.66%) SLA
7 76 (1.64%) ISO 9001
8 46 (0.99%) NIST
9 44 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 37 (0.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 32 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
12 30 (0.65%) COBIT
13 24 (0.52%) IFRS
14 20 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 18 (0.39%) SOC 2
16 16 (0.34%) GRC
17 15 (0.32%) GAAP
17 15 (0.32%) HIPAA
18 14 (0.30%) PCI DSS
19 12 (0.26%) GxP
System Software
1 153 (3.29%) Docker
2 85 (1.83%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (0.19%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.11%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.086%) IAG
7 4 (0.086%) vSphere
8 2 (0.043%) Firmware
9 1 (0.022%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.022%) vCloud
9 1 (0.022%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 226 (4.86%) Terraform
2 178 (3.83%) Kubernetes
3 46 (0.99%) Ansible
4 32 (0.69%) Grafana
4 32 (0.69%) Prometheus
5 15 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
6 13 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (0.19%) EnCase
7 9 (0.19%) FTK
8 8 (0.17%) 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 (0.086%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.086%) Graylog
12 3 (0.065%) Argo
12 3 (0.065%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.043%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.043%) SCCM
Vendors
1 790 (17.00%) Microsoft
2 394 (8.48%) Databricks
3 319 (6.86%) Google
4 300 (6.45%) Adobe
5 211 (4.54%) SAP
6 151 (3.25%) Salesforce
7 127 (2.73%) Oracle
8 105 (2.26%) Cisco
9 64 (1.38%) HubSpot
10 54 (1.16%) Dell
11 47 (1.01%) Informatica
12 29 (0.62%) Alteryx
12 29 (0.62%) Workday
13 26 (0.56%) Palantir
13 26 (0.56%) Red Hat
14 25 (0.54%) Cloudera
14 25 (0.54%) Denodo
14 25 (0.54%) Nexthink
14 25 (0.54%) OpenAI
14 25 (0.54%) Teradata