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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 20 38
Rank change year-on-year -7 +18 -15
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 4,622 3,780 5,245
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.10% 8.71% 5.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.90% 9.33% 6.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,701 1,729 3,305
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £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 £92,500 £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 66,963 40,520 82,162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.84% 93.32% 85.21%
Number of salaries quoted 43,068 22,234 59,552
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,938 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £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 14 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 14 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 -6 4,092 £65,000 - 1,972
UK excluding London -16 2,455 £57,500 +0.10% 1,262
London 0 1,783 £80,000 -3.03% 1,032
Work from Home +4 1,423 £65,000 +8.33% 866
North of England +16 758 £60,000 +8.11% 342
Midlands -14 509 £55,000 +4.76% 184
South East -28 494 £55,000 -8.33% 423
North West +14 438 £60,000 +9.09% 195
West Midlands -20 298 £56,750 +3.18% 98
Yorkshire -6 241 £60,000 +4.35% 97
South West -24 229 £58,750 +6.82% 124
East of England +38 223 £60,000 -7.69% 90
East Midlands +27 207 £50,000 +3.09% 86
Scotland -10 154 £65,000 -7.14% 68
North East +12 79 £47,000 -14.55% 57
Northern Ireland -16 48 £45,000 +50.00% 14
Wales -3 42 £56,250 -2.17% 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
1 161 (3.48%) Apache Airflow
2 141 (3.05%) Apache Spark
3 117 (2.53%) CMS
4 85 (1.84%) Apache
5 62 (1.34%) Confluence
6 53 (1.15%) SharePoint
7 50 (1.08%) WordPress
8 39 (0.84%) SAS
9 35 (0.76%) 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
13 7 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 6 (0.13%) IIS
15 5 (0.11%) Jupyter
15 5 (0.11%) Umbraco
16 4 (0.087%) Documentum
16 4 (0.087%) Moodle
17 3 (0.065%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 298 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 96 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
3 50 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (0.67%) UserZoom
5 21 (0.45%) Adobe XD
6 20 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
7 18 (0.39%) MS Visio
8 11 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 11 (0.24%) SPSS
9 10 (0.22%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.087%) Adobe Illustrator
10 4 (0.087%) InDesign
11 3 (0.065%) Microsoft Project
11 3 (0.065%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.065%) Sketch
12 2 (0.043%) Maya
13 1 (0.022%) Abaqus
13 1 (0.022%) Adobe Premiere
13 1 (0.022%) Siemens NX
13 1 (0.022%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 86 (1.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (0.74%) Adobe Campaign
2 34 (0.74%) SAP IBP
3 33 (0.71%) SAP PP
4 25 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
5 24 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
6 20 (0.43%) Magento
7 17 (0.37%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 16 (0.35%) Shopify
9 15 (0.32%) iTrent
10 11 (0.24%) NetSuite
11 10 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
12 9 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
12 9 (0.19%) SAP CO
13 8 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
13 8 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
13 8 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
13 8 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
14 7 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
15 6 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 946 (20.47%) Azure
2 709 (15.34%) Power Platform
3 579 (12.53%) AWS
4 289 (6.25%) GCP
5 264 (5.71%) SaaS
6 223 (4.82%) Snowflake
7 202 (4.37%) Adobe Analytics
8 195 (4.22%) Google Analytics
9 190 (4.11%) Azure Data Factory
10 161 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
11 147 (3.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 145 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
13 136 (2.94%) dbt
13 136 (2.94%) GitHub
14 123 (2.66%) Figma
15 117 (2.53%) Amazon S3
16 113 (2.44%) Serverless
17 102 (2.21%) Entra ID
18 75 (1.62%) Azure Monitor
19 71 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 258 (5.58%) Broadband
2 38 (0.82%) Firewall
3 36 (0.78%) VPN
4 27 (0.58%) DNS
5 25 (0.54%) CHAP
6 23 (0.50%) Network Security
6 23 (0.50%) TCP/IP
7 22 (0.48%) WAN
8 15 (0.32%) DHCP
9 14 (0.30%) Intranet
10 12 (0.26%) BGP
10 12 (0.26%) Unified Communications
11 10 (0.22%) SNMP
12 9 (0.19%) OSPF
12 9 (0.19%) VLAN
13 8 (0.17%) 5G
13 8 (0.17%) SMS
14 6 (0.13%) HTTP
14 6 (0.13%) IPFIX
14 6 (0.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 671 (14.52%) Power BI
2 337 (7.29%) Tableau
3 314 (6.79%) Data Warehouse
4 222 (4.80%) Data Lake
5 166 (3.59%) Metadata
6 144 (3.12%) SQL Server
7 133 (2.88%) Data Mining
8 124 (2.68%) Looker
9 110 (2.38%) BigQuery
10 103 (2.23%) Amazon Redshift
11 101 (2.19%) Relational Database
12 84 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
13 81 (1.75%) NoSQL
14 73 (1.58%) Big Data
15 69 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
16 57 (1.23%) Power Query
17 53 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 49 (1.06%) Star Schema
19 46 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
20 45 (0.97%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 173 (3.74%) Git
2 81 (1.75%) JIRA
3 77 (1.67%) Jenkins
4 43 (0.93%) MLflow
5 36 (0.78%) GitLab
6 25 (0.54%) IBM UrbanCode
7 24 (0.52%) TeamCity
8 16 (0.35%) Axure RP
8 16 (0.35%) Balsamiq
8 16 (0.35%) CircleCI
8 16 (0.35%) Crashlytics
8 16 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
9 13 (0.28%) XCTest
10 12 (0.26%) Selenium
11 11 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 10 (0.22%) ERwin
12 10 (0.22%) Visual Studio
13 7 (0.15%) Claude Code
14 6 (0.13%) fastlane
14 6 (0.13%) MSI
General
1 1,273 (27.54%) Finance
2 1,124 (24.32%) Social Skills
3 1,044 (22.59%) Analytical Skills
4 648 (14.02%) Marketing
5 257 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 254 (5.50%) Retail
7 230 (4.98%) Public Sector
8 222 (4.80%) Law
9 220 (4.76%) Games
10 203 (4.39%) Banking
11 152 (3.29%) Legal
12 142 (3.07%) Manufacturing
13 127 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
14 121 (2.62%) Automotive
15 104 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
16 100 (2.16%) Advertising
17 92 (1.99%) Financial Institution
18 66 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
19 60 (1.30%) Back Office
20 56 (1.21%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 826 (17.87%) Senior
2 599 (12.96%) Analyst
3 514 (11.12%) Data Engineer
4 506 (10.95%) Lead
5 339 (7.33%) Architect
6 307 (6.64%) Data Analyst
7 276 (5.97%) Developer
8 179 (3.87%) Consultant
9 165 (3.57%) Data Architect
10 136 (2.94%) Senior Manager
11 134 (2.90%) Senior Data Engineer
12 117 (2.53%) Trainee
12 117 (2.53%) Trainee Analyst
12 117 (2.53%) Trainee Data Analyst
13 113 (2.44%) Data Scientist
14 109 (2.36%) Designer
14 109 (2.36%) Product Manager
15 106 (2.29%) Data Manager
16 103 (2.23%) Solutions Architect
17 100 (2.16%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (2.90%) PySpark
2 120 (2.60%) Kafka
3 92 (1.99%) HTML
4 87 (1.88%) .NET
5 86 (1.86%) CSS
5 86 (1.86%) PyTorch
6 58 (1.25%) TensorFlow
7 53 (1.15%) React
8 51 (1.10%) SAP Fiori
9 47 (1.02%) RESTful
10 46 (1.00%) .NET Core
10 46 (1.00%) Pandas
11 45 (0.97%) REST
12 44 (0.95%) scikit-learn
13 43 (0.93%) LangChain
14 41 (0.89%) OAuth
15 36 (0.78%) JSON
16 34 (0.74%) Node.js
17 27 (0.58%) gRPC
18 24 (0.52%) LlamaIndex
Miscellaneous
1 282 (6.10%) Social Media
2 208 (4.50%) Cloud Native
3 184 (3.98%) Product Ownership
4 151 (3.27%) Management Information System
5 150 (3.25%) Analytical Mindset
6 106 (2.29%) Algorithms
7 105 (2.27%) Onboarding
8 102 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
9 89 (1.93%) Data Structures
10 83 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
11 78 (1.69%) Marketing Technology
12 70 (1.51%) Life Science
13 69 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
13 69 (1.49%) Mobile App
14 67 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
15 57 (1.23%) Over-the-Top Content
16 45 (0.97%) Public Cloud
16 45 (0.97%) Virtual Team
17 39 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
18 38 (0.82%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 112 (2.42%) Windows
2 59 (1.28%) Linux
3 50 (1.08%) Windows 10
4 26 (0.56%) 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 1 (0.022%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.022%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,298 (28.08%) AI
2 963 (20.84%) Decision-Making
3 959 (20.75%) Business Intelligence
4 891 (19.28%) Agile
5 713 (15.43%) Data Modelling
6 705 (15.25%) Data Analytics
7 702 (15.19%) Continuous Improvement
8 682 (14.76%) Problem-Solving
9 657 (14.21%) Roadmaps
10 608 (13.15%) Data Engineering
11 564 (12.20%) Data Pipeline
12 548 (11.86%) CI/CD
13 518 (11.21%) Data Governance
14 508 (10.99%) Machine Learning
15 498 (10.77%) Customer Experience
16 491 (10.62%) Data Science
17 490 (10.60%) ETL
18 435 (9.41%) DevOps
19 430 (9.30%) Mentoring
20 422 (9.13%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 1,175 (25.42%) SQL
2 1,053 (22.78%) Python
3 119 (2.57%) C#
4 109 (2.36%) Java
5 107 (2.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 87 (1.88%) JavaScript
7 84 (1.82%) Scala
8 76 (1.64%) R
9 72 (1.56%) PowerShell
10 52 (1.13%) TypeScript
11 42 (0.91%) Bicep
12 38 (0.82%) T-SQL
13 37 (0.80%) C++
14 36 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
15 34 (0.74%) Go
16 32 (0.69%) Bash
17 19 (0.41%) Kotlin
18 18 (0.39%) VBA
19 16 (0.35%) Swift
20 15 (0.32%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 587 (12.70%) Degree
2 278 (6.01%) Security Cleared
3 190 (4.11%) SC Cleared
4 107 (2.32%) Master's Degree
5 83 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 72 (1.56%) IRCA
7 61 (1.32%) Azure Certification
8 51 (1.10%) ACCA
9 50 (1.08%) CTC Cleared
10 46 (1.00%) PhD
11 45 (0.97%) DBS Check
12 44 (0.95%) CIMA
12 44 (0.95%) CISM
12 44 (0.95%) CISSP
13 40 (0.87%) CISA
14 37 (0.80%) DV Cleared
15 30 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
16 29 (0.63%) AWS Certification
17 27 (0.58%) SANS
18 26 (0.56%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 588 (12.72%) Data Quality
2 364 (7.88%) Accessibility
3 327 (7.07%) GDPR
4 181 (3.92%) QA
5 94 (2.03%) WCAG
6 78 (1.69%) SLA
7 76 (1.64%) ISO 9001
8 46 (1.00%) NIST
9 43 (0.93%) 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 (0.35%) 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 (3.31%) Docker
2 83 (1.80%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (0.19%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.11%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.087%) IAG
7 4 (0.087%) 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
1 229 (4.95%) Terraform
2 178 (3.85%) Kubernetes
3 48 (1.04%) Ansible
4 33 (0.71%) Grafana
4 33 (0.71%) Prometheus
5 16 (0.35%) 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 (0.087%) Argo
11 4 (0.087%) Graylog
12 3 (0.065%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.065%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.043%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.043%) SCCM
Vendors
1 790 (17.09%) Microsoft
2 388 (8.39%) Databricks
3 318 (6.88%) Google
4 299 (6.47%) Adobe
5 210 (4.54%) SAP
6 149 (3.22%) Salesforce
7 128 (2.77%) Oracle
8 106 (2.29%) Cisco
9 62 (1.34%) HubSpot
10 54 (1.17%) Dell
11 47 (1.02%) Informatica
12 31 (0.67%) Alteryx
13 29 (0.63%) Workday
14 27 (0.58%) Red Hat
15 26 (0.56%) Palantir
16 25 (0.54%) Cloudera
16 25 (0.54%) Denodo
16 25 (0.54%) IBM
16 25 (0.54%) Nexthink
16 25 (0.54%) Teradata