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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 22 35
Rank change year-on-year -4 +13 -5
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 5,518 3,986 4,379
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.16% 7.97% 5.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.03% 8.93% 6.53%
Number of salaries quoted 3,219 1,802 2,544
10th Percentile £36,500 £31,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £46,295
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £62,879
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -4.58% -3.26%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £102,550 £112,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £54,721 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.65% -0.51% -

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 78,515 44,640 67,074
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.47% 89.25% 80.94%
Number of salaries quoted 54,079 25,322 43,171
10th Percentile £30,975 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,236 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -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 16 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Top 18 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 16 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 -5 4,944 £67,500 +10.33% 1,751
UK excluding London -7 2,895 £60,000 +9.65% 1,266
London +2 2,243 £80,000 +3.23% 844
Work from Home +8 1,676 £65,000 +8.33% 763
North of England +52 942 £60,000 +6.67% 347
Midlands +18 611 £60,000 +14.29% 178
North West +48 550 £60,000 +14.29% 196
South East -36 542 £55,000 - 441
West Midlands +5 342 £59,250 +7.73% 121
South West -26 297 £60,000 - 155
East Midlands +37 269 £60,000 +23.71% 57
Yorkshire +31 245 £62,750 -1.57% 105
East of England +7 218 £56,000 +40.00% 75
North East +22 147 £52,500 -8.70% 48
Scotland -16 117 £67,500 -3.57% 46
Northern Ireland -20 89 £65,000 +50.84% 9
Wales -3 87 £60,000 +9.09% 30
Isle of Man -1 1 £38,500 - 2

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
1 200 (3.62%) Apache Spark
2 144 (2.61%) Apache Airflow
3 135 (2.45%) CMS
4 109 (1.98%) Apache
5 69 (1.25%) Confluence
6 67 (1.21%) SharePoint
7 65 (1.18%) SAS
8 40 (0.72%) WordPress
9 26 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
10 19 (0.34%) ArcGIS
11 16 (0.29%) Sitecore CMS
12 15 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
13 14 (0.25%) Headless CMS
14 10 (0.18%) Jupyter
15 6 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
16 5 (0.091%) Oracle Workflow
16 5 (0.091%) Umbraco
17 3 (0.054%) Drupal
18 2 (0.036%) Luigi
18 2 (0.036%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 254 (4.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (0.82%) UserZoom
3 38 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
4 37 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 34 (0.62%) Chatbot
6 26 (0.47%) SPSS
7 21 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
8 20 (0.36%) MS Visio
9 17 (0.31%) Adobe XD
10 12 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 7 (0.13%) Sketch
12 6 (0.11%) Trello
13 4 (0.072%) Photoshop
14 3 (0.054%) Adobe Premiere
14 3 (0.054%) Microsoft Project
14 3 (0.054%) Zeplin
15 2 (0.036%) Adobe Illustrator
15 2 (0.036%) CapCut
15 2 (0.036%) InDesign
16 1 (0.018%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 101 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 86 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 35 (0.63%) Shopify
4 34 (0.62%) Adobe Campaign
5 33 (0.60%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 32 (0.58%) Dynamics GP
7 22 (0.40%) SAP IBP
8 20 (0.36%) Magento
8 20 (0.36%) SAP PP
9 14 (0.25%) NetSuite
10 10 (0.18%) Workday HCM
11 9 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
12 8 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
12 8 (0.14%) Relativity
13 7 (0.13%) iTrent
13 7 (0.13%) SAP MDG
14 6 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
14 6 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
14 6 (0.11%) SAP PM
14 6 (0.11%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 1,059 (19.19%) Azure
2 886 (16.06%) Power Platform
3 834 (15.11%) AWS
4 372 (6.74%) GCP
5 319 (5.78%) SaaS
6 286 (5.18%) Snowflake
7 231 (4.19%) Google Analytics
8 200 (3.62%) Azure Data Factory
9 173 (3.14%) Adobe Analytics
10 170 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
10 170 (3.08%) GitHub
11 155 (2.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 155 (2.81%) dbt
12 151 (2.74%) Serverless
13 125 (2.27%) Amazon S3
14 115 (2.08%) Figma
15 108 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
16 96 (1.74%) Microsoft 365
17 90 (1.63%) Microsoft Purview
18 77 (1.40%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 214 (3.88%) Broadband
2 58 (1.05%) VPN
3 57 (1.03%) Internet
4 56 (1.01%) Firewall
5 44 (0.80%) DNS
6 42 (0.76%) Network Security
7 27 (0.49%) BGP
8 25 (0.45%) TCP/IP
9 21 (0.38%) SMS
10 20 (0.36%) VLAN
11 18 (0.33%) OSPF
12 17 (0.31%) DHCP
13 16 (0.29%) VoIP
14 14 (0.25%) CTI
15 13 (0.24%) 5G
16 11 (0.20%) SSL
17 10 (0.18%) Unified Communications
17 10 (0.18%) WAN
18 9 (0.16%) CHAP
18 9 (0.16%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 844 (15.30%) Power BI
2 452 (8.19%) Data Warehouse
3 342 (6.20%) Tableau
4 270 (4.89%) Data Lake
5 217 (3.93%) Metadata
6 177 (3.21%) SQL Server
7 148 (2.68%) Big Data
8 137 (2.48%) Looker
9 126 (2.28%) Amazon Redshift
9 126 (2.28%) Azure SQL Database
10 117 (2.12%) BigQuery
11 98 (1.78%) Relational Database
12 92 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
13 83 (1.50%) NoSQL
14 79 (1.43%) Delta Lake
15 75 (1.36%) Star Schema
16 72 (1.30%) MongoDB
17 71 (1.29%) Power Query
18 60 (1.09%) Data Mining
19 56 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 187 (3.39%) Git
2 80 (1.45%) JIRA
3 58 (1.05%) Jenkins
4 46 (0.83%) MLflow
5 35 (0.63%) GitLab
6 25 (0.45%) IBM UrbanCode
7 20 (0.36%) Crashlytics
8 15 (0.27%) Claude Code
9 13 (0.24%) CircleCI
9 13 (0.24%) fastlane
9 13 (0.24%) XCTest
10 10 (0.18%) Balsamiq
11 9 (0.16%) ERwin
11 9 (0.16%) Xcode
12 8 (0.14%) Axure RP
12 8 (0.14%) Gradle
13 6 (0.11%) Android Studio
13 6 (0.11%) Octopus Deploy
13 6 (0.11%) Selenium
14 5 (0.091%) Bitbucket
General
1 1,572 (28.49%) Finance
2 1,458 (26.42%) Social Skills
3 1,284 (23.27%) Analytical Skills
4 862 (15.62%) Marketing
5 380 (6.89%) Retail
6 364 (6.60%) Public Sector
7 314 (5.69%) Law
8 305 (5.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 298 (5.40%) Legal
10 251 (4.55%) Banking
11 205 (3.72%) Games
12 190 (3.44%) Influencing Skills
13 171 (3.10%) Manufacturing
14 139 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
15 122 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
16 112 (2.03%) Automotive
17 100 (1.81%) Financial Institution
18 96 (1.74%) Advertising
19 61 (1.11%) Telecoms
20 54 (0.98%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1,042 (18.88%) Senior
2 650 (11.78%) Analyst
3 641 (11.62%) Data Engineer
4 628 (11.38%) Lead
5 501 (9.08%) Architect
6 341 (6.18%) Developer
7 288 (5.22%) Data Analyst
8 245 (4.44%) Data Architect
9 218 (3.95%) Consultant
10 215 (3.90%) Senior Data Engineer
11 200 (3.62%) Analytics Manager
12 185 (3.35%) Data Scientist
13 167 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
14 159 (2.88%) Senior Manager
15 146 (2.65%) Product Manager
16 123 (2.23%) Senior Analyst
17 117 (2.12%) Data Manager
18 102 (1.85%) Marketing Manager
19 93 (1.69%) Senior Architect
20 86 (1.56%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (3.23%) PySpark
2 147 (2.66%) Kafka
3 97 (1.76%) HTML
4 94 (1.70%) CSS
5 85 (1.54%) .NET
6 70 (1.27%) PyTorch
7 69 (1.25%) React
7 69 (1.25%) REST
8 63 (1.14%) Pandas
9 62 (1.12%) Node.js
9 62 (1.12%) scikit-learn
10 54 (0.98%) TensorFlow
11 51 (0.92%) LangChain
12 45 (0.82%) .NET Core
13 42 (0.76%) SAP Fiori
14 40 (0.72%) RESTful
15 38 (0.69%) ASP.NET
16 37 (0.67%) JSON
17 36 (0.65%) ASP.NET Core
18 34 (0.62%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 306 (5.55%) Cloud Native
2 275 (4.98%) Onboarding
3 270 (4.89%) Social Media
4 208 (3.77%) Product Ownership
5 182 (3.30%) Analytical Mindset
6 168 (3.04%) Marketing Technology
7 163 (2.95%) Blog
8 160 (2.90%) Management Information System
9 113 (2.05%) Data Structures
10 100 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
11 96 (1.74%) Algorithms
12 80 (1.45%) Mobile App
13 77 (1.40%) AI Agents
14 76 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
15 61 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
15 61 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
16 58 (1.05%) Public Cloud
17 45 (0.82%) Life Science
18 43 (0.78%) IoT
18 43 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 88 (1.59%) Windows
2 79 (1.43%) Linux
3 28 (0.51%) VMS
4 26 (0.47%) Apple iOS
5 19 (0.34%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.18%) Android
7 7 (0.13%) Unix
8 5 (0.091%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.072%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.054%) Debian
11 2 (0.036%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.018%) AIX
12 1 (0.018%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.018%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.018%) SUSE
12 1 (0.018%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,964 (35.59%) AI
2 1,301 (23.58%) Decision-Making
3 1,197 (21.69%) Business Intelligence
4 983 (17.81%) Agile
5 919 (16.65%) Roadmaps
6 890 (16.13%) Continuous Improvement
7 867 (15.71%) Problem-Solving
8 842 (15.26%) Data Modelling
9 776 (14.06%) Data Engineering
10 770 (13.95%) Machine Learning
11 732 (13.27%) Data Analytics
12 690 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
13 668 (12.11%) CI/CD
14 640 (11.60%) Data Science
15 585 (10.60%) Mentoring
16 581 (10.53%) Data Governance
17 556 (10.08%) Stakeholder Management
18 552 (10.00%) Actionable Insight
19 539 (9.77%) ETL
20 516 (9.35%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 1,472 (26.68%) SQL
2 1,267 (22.96%) Python
3 137 (2.48%) Java
4 123 (2.23%) C#
5 121 (2.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 109 (1.98%) JavaScript
7 104 (1.88%) PowerShell
8 90 (1.63%) TypeScript
9 87 (1.58%) R
10 77 (1.40%) Scala
11 67 (1.21%) Bicep
12 54 (0.98%) Bash
13 46 (0.83%) Go
14 42 (0.76%) C++
15 36 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
16 29 (0.53%) T-SQL
17 28 (0.51%) Kotlin
18 24 (0.43%) Swift
19 18 (0.33%) Julia
19 18 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 654 (11.85%) Degree
2 377 (6.83%) Security Cleared
3 249 (4.51%) SC Cleared
4 126 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 107 (1.94%) Azure Certification
6 101 (1.83%) Master's Degree
7 81 (1.47%) DV Cleared
8 72 (1.30%) IRCA
9 60 (1.09%) AWS Certification
10 54 (0.98%) ACCA
11 53 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
12 48 (0.87%) CIMA
12 48 (0.87%) CISSP
13 46 (0.83%) DBS Check
14 43 (0.78%) PhD
15 37 (0.67%) CISM
16 33 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
17 32 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
18 22 (0.40%) CCNP
18 22 (0.40%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 748 (13.56%) Data Quality
2 400 (7.25%) Accessibility
3 319 (5.78%) GDPR
4 218 (3.95%) QA
5 98 (1.78%) WCAG
6 75 (1.36%) ISO 9001
7 46 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
8 39 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 39 (0.71%) NIST
9 38 (0.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 33 (0.60%) SLA
11 23 (0.42%) PCI DSS
11 23 (0.42%) PMO
12 21 (0.38%) IFRS
13 17 (0.31%) GRC
14 16 (0.29%) HIPAA
15 15 (0.27%) EU AI Act
16 14 (0.25%) PERC
17 13 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 12 (0.22%) COBIT
System Software
1 154 (2.79%) Docker
2 88 (1.59%) Active Directory
3 23 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (0.29%) vSphere
6 13 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.091%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.072%) Firmware
8 4 (0.072%) IAG
8 4 (0.072%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.018%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.018%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 257 (4.66%) Terraform
2 180 (3.26%) Kubernetes
3 47 (0.85%) Ansible
4 28 (0.51%) Prometheus
5 27 (0.49%) Grafana
6 16 (0.29%) EnCase
6 16 (0.29%) FTK
7 15 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
8 11 (0.20%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.14%) Argo
10 6 (0.11%) Hadoop YARN
10 6 (0.11%) Nagios
11 5 (0.091%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.091%) Graylog
11 5 (0.091%) Packer
11 5 (0.091%) Puppet
11 5 (0.091%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.072%) VxRail
13 3 (0.054%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.054%) Kibana
Vendors
1 808 (14.64%) Microsoft
2 518 (9.39%) Databricks
3 406 (7.36%) Google
4 279 (5.06%) Adobe
5 247 (4.48%) SAP
6 140 (2.54%) Oracle
7 114 (2.07%) Salesforce
8 70 (1.27%) HubSpot
9 57 (1.03%) Informatica
9 57 (1.03%) Workday
10 49 (0.89%) Dell
11 43 (0.78%) Cisco
11 43 (0.78%) IBM
12 37 (0.67%) Alteryx
13 32 (0.58%) OpenAI
14 31 (0.56%) VMware
15 30 (0.54%) Cognos
16 27 (0.49%) Cloudera
16 27 (0.49%) Teradata
17 26 (0.47%) Red Hat