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 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 31 29
Rank change year-on-year +7 -2 -8
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 3,721 3,705 3,759
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 6.94% 5.51% 7.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.17% 6.50% 7.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,902 1,990 2,731
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,950
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% -1.37%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £118,750 £113,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £57,000 £56,525
% change year-on-year -8.77% +0.84% +2.41%

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 45,560 57,007 47,921
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.92% 84.85% 93.78%
Number of salaries quoted 27,788 29,760 36,892
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,439 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.75% +3.69% -0.19%

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 26 November 2025.

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 26 November 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 +6 3,171 £62,500 -10.71% 2,753
UK excluding London +20 1,907 £52,000 -8.77% 2,314
London +5 1,509 £75,000 -11.76% 957
Work from Home +5 1,124 £60,000 -11.11% 1,149
South East +30 585 £50,410 -12.33% 923
North of England -18 350 £55,000 - 393
Midlands +20 309 £55,000 - 370
Scotland +8 257 £50,000 -21.88% 112
South West +21 210 £55,000 -15.38% 224
North West -20 192 £52,500 -4.55% 221
West Midlands +5 179 £57,750 +1.32% 204
East of England +40 151 £40,000 -31.03% 238
East Midlands +47 134 £45,390 -9.22% 152
Yorkshire -8 124 £60,000 +8.11% 122
North East +26 35 £41,250 -25.00% 53
Northern Ireland -1 31 £60,000 +26.32% 37
Wales +15 21 £60,000 +20.00% 59
Isle of Man - 1 - -

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
1 113 (3.04%) CMS
2 96 (2.58%) Apache Spark
3 66 (1.77%) WordPress
4 53 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
5 51 (1.37%) Confluence
6 42 (1.13%) SharePoint
7 33 (0.89%) Apache
8 25 (0.67%) SAS
9 15 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 14 (0.38%) Drupal
11 12 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
12 11 (0.30%) Headless CMS
12 11 (0.30%) Umbraco
13 10 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 10 (0.27%) SugarCRM
14 5 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
15 4 (0.11%) ArcGIS
15 4 (0.11%) Jupyter
15 4 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
16 3 (0.081%) Joomla!
Applications
1 514 (13.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 99 (2.66%) Microsoft Office
3 54 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 37 (0.99%) Photoshop
5 32 (0.86%) Maya
6 28 (0.75%) Adobe XD
7 26 (0.70%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 18 (0.48%) InDesign
9 17 (0.46%) Adobe Premiere
9 17 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
10 16 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
11 14 (0.38%) Chatbot
12 12 (0.32%) Adobe Illustrator
13 11 (0.30%) Trello
14 9 (0.24%) SPSS
15 7 (0.19%) MadCap Flare
16 4 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
16 4 (0.11%) MS Visio
16 4 (0.11%) SketchUp
17 3 (0.081%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 94 (2.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 58 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 58 (1.56%) Shopify
3 31 (0.83%) Oracle ERP
4 28 (0.75%) SAP IBP
5 21 (0.56%) Magento
6 19 (0.51%) SAP CO
6 19 (0.51%) SAP FI
6 19 (0.51%) SAP FI/CO
7 16 (0.43%) Dynamics GP
8 14 (0.38%) NetSuite
9 13 (0.35%) SAP FSCM
9 13 (0.35%) Sprinklr
10 11 (0.30%) Oracle Assets
10 11 (0.30%) Oracle General Ledger
10 11 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
10 11 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
10 11 (0.30%) SAP IS-U
11 10 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
12 9 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 954 (25.64%) Azure
2 792 (21.28%) Power Platform
3 434 (11.66%) AWS
4 288 (7.74%) Google Analytics
5 245 (6.58%) GCP
6 214 (5.75%) SaaS
7 197 (5.29%) Snowflake
8 168 (4.51%) Azure Data Factory
9 149 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 138 (3.71%) Azure DevOps
11 120 (3.22%) GitHub
12 117 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
13 99 (2.66%) dbt
14 93 (2.50%) Google Ads
15 85 (2.28%) Serverless
16 67 (1.80%) Entra ID
16 67 (1.80%) Figma
17 65 (1.75%) Azure Monitor
18 57 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
19 49 (1.32%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (0.94%) SMS
2 33 (0.89%) VPN
3 27 (0.73%) Firewall
3 27 (0.73%) Unified Communications
4 18 (0.48%) Network Security
5 13 (0.35%) DNS
6 9 (0.24%) WAN
7 8 (0.21%) Broadband
8 7 (0.19%) Intranet
9 6 (0.16%) CHAP
9 6 (0.16%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (0.13%) TCP/IP
11 4 (0.11%) Internet
11 4 (0.11%) VoIP
11 4 (0.11%) Wireshark
12 3 (0.081%) DHCP
12 3 (0.081%) HTTPS
12 3 (0.081%) SAN
12 3 (0.081%) SD-WAN
13 2 (0.054%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 759 (20.40%) Power BI
2 375 (10.08%) Tableau
3 341 (9.16%) Data Warehouse
4 256 (6.88%) Data Lake
5 159 (4.27%) SQL Server
6 158 (4.25%) Metadata
7 120 (3.22%) Data Mining
8 100 (2.69%) Big Data
9 99 (2.66%) SAP BW
10 96 (2.58%) Looker
11 84 (2.26%) NoSQL
12 81 (2.18%) Azure SQL Database
13 73 (1.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 69 (1.85%) BigQuery
15 66 (1.77%) Relational Database
16 60 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
17 58 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
18 54 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 52 (1.40%) Power Query
20 44 (1.18%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 130 (3.49%) JIRA
2 85 (2.28%) Git
3 39 (1.05%) Jenkins
4 23 (0.62%) Axure RP
4 23 (0.62%) Balsamiq
5 21 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
6 18 (0.48%) ERwin
7 17 (0.46%) ER Studio
8 15 (0.40%) Cypress.io
9 13 (0.35%) GitLab
9 13 (0.35%) Selenium
10 12 (0.32%) Visual Studio
11 9 (0.24%) MLflow
12 8 (0.21%) Postman
13 7 (0.19%) Maven
13 7 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
14 6 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
15 5 (0.13%) RStudio
16 4 (0.11%) TestNG
16 4 (0.11%) WebDriver
General
1 1,362 (36.60%) Social Skills
2 1,320 (35.47%) Finance
3 1,186 (31.87%) Analytical Skills
4 806 (21.66%) Marketing
5 393 (10.56%) Law
6 284 (7.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 267 (7.18%) Retail
8 251 (6.75%) Banking
9 214 (5.75%) Public Sector
10 180 (4.84%) Manufacturing
11 162 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
12 141 (3.79%) Legal
13 101 (2.71%) Financial Institution
14 100 (2.69%) Advertising
14 100 (2.69%) Games
15 91 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
16 82 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
17 77 (2.07%) Pharmaceutical
18 76 (2.04%) Front Office
19 58 (1.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 607 (16.31%) Senior
2 584 (15.69%) Analyst
3 487 (13.09%) Lead
4 306 (8.22%) Architect
5 298 (8.01%) Data Analyst
6 263 (7.07%) Data Engineer
7 228 (6.13%) Developer
8 138 (3.71%) Senior Manager
9 121 (3.25%) Data Architect
10 107 (2.88%) Consultant
11 96 (2.58%) Innovation Manager
12 82 (2.20%) Solutions Architect
13 80 (2.15%) Trainee
13 80 (2.15%) Trainee Analyst
13 80 (2.15%) Trainee Data Analyst
14 79 (2.12%) Analytics Manager
15 71 (1.91%) Data Scientist
16 70 (1.88%) Data Manager
17 69 (1.85%) Senior Analyst
17 69 (1.85%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (3.25%) HTML
2 95 (2.55%) CSS
3 83 (2.23%) Kafka
4 70 (1.88%) React
5 66 (1.77%) RESTful
6 62 (1.67%) PySpark
7 51 (1.37%) REST
8 48 (1.29%) OAuth
9 43 (1.16%) TensorFlow
10 42 (1.13%) JSON
11 41 (1.10%) .NET
11 41 (1.10%) PyTorch
12 39 (1.05%) Node.js
13 32 (0.86%) OAuth2
14 31 (0.83%) Pandas
15 29 (0.78%) scikit-learn
16 28 (0.75%) Middleware
17 27 (0.73%) GraphQL
18 26 (0.70%) AngularJS
18 26 (0.70%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 217 (5.83%) Analytical Mindset
2 185 (4.97%) Product Ownership
3 179 (4.81%) Self-Motivation
4 177 (4.76%) Onboarding
5 175 (4.70%) Cloud Native
6 160 (4.30%) Social Media
7 150 (4.03%) Algorithms
8 146 (3.92%) Management Information System
9 79 (2.12%) FMCG
10 77 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
11 75 (2.02%) Life Science
12 56 (1.50%) Data Structures
13 51 (1.37%) Data Centre
14 48 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
15 43 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
16 39 (1.05%) Reinsurance
17 37 (0.99%) Virtual Team
18 36 (0.97%) Blog
18 36 (0.97%) Credit Risk
18 36 (0.97%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 72 (1.93%) Windows
2 40 (1.07%) Linux
3 24 (0.64%) Unix
4 20 (0.54%) Windows 10
5 9 (0.24%) Android
5 9 (0.24%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.24%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.16%) VMS
7 2 (0.054%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.027%) AIX
8 1 (0.027%) Debian
8 1 (0.027%) Robot Operating System
8 1 (0.027%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.027%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,027 (27.60%) AI
2 1,012 (27.20%) Business Intelligence
3 899 (24.16%) Problem-Solving
4 874 (23.49%) Decision-Making
5 749 (20.13%) Data Analytics
6 746 (20.05%) Agile
7 690 (18.54%) Continuous Improvement
8 580 (15.59%) Data Modelling
9 507 (13.63%) Roadmaps
10 503 (13.52%) Stakeholder Management
11 500 (13.44%) Machine Learning
12 492 (13.22%) Data Science
13 452 (12.15%) Data Analysis
14 443 (11.91%) Visualisation
15 435 (11.69%) Project Management
16 431 (11.58%) Data Governance
17 415 (11.15%) Actionable Insight
18 410 (11.02%) Data Engineering
19 396 (10.64%) CRM
20 387 (10.40%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 996 (26.77%) SQL
2 903 (24.27%) Python
3 149 (4.00%) Java
4 136 (3.65%) JavaScript
5 85 (2.28%) PowerShell
6 83 (2.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 73 (1.96%) R
8 56 (1.50%) C#
9 45 (1.21%) T-SQL
10 43 (1.16%) TypeScript
11 38 (1.02%) Scala
12 37 (0.99%) Bicep
13 36 (0.97%) Go
14 35 (0.94%) C++
15 29 (0.78%) PL/SQL
16 27 (0.73%) Bash
17 24 (0.64%) Kusto Query Language
18 17 (0.46%) PHP
18 17 (0.46%) VBA
19 16 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 871 (23.41%) Degree
2 206 (5.54%) Master's Degree
3 172 (4.62%) Security Cleared
4 123 (3.31%) SC Cleared
5 119 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 106 (2.85%) DBS Check
7 100 (2.69%) PhD
8 59 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
9 58 (1.56%) CISSP
10 51 (1.37%) Azure Certification
10 51 (1.37%) Numerate Degree
11 46 (1.24%) CISA
12 43 (1.16%) PMI Certification
13 40 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
14 38 (1.02%) ACCA
15 37 (0.99%) PMP
16 36 (0.97%) CISM
17 29 (0.78%) CIMA
18 26 (0.70%) AWS Certification
19 24 (0.64%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 441 (11.85%) Data Quality
2 253 (6.80%) GDPR
3 197 (5.29%) Accessibility
4 92 (2.47%) QA
5 80 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 46 (1.24%) NIST
7 43 (1.16%) WCAG
8 34 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
9 32 (0.86%) SLA
10 31 (0.83%) GxP
11 24 (0.64%) COBIT
11 24 (0.64%) HIPAA
11 24 (0.64%) Solvency II
12 22 (0.59%) EU AI Act
13 21 (0.56%) PSD2
14 16 (0.43%) IFRS
14 16 (0.43%) PMO
15 15 (0.40%) ITGC
15 15 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 14 (0.38%) GRC
System Software
1 85 (2.28%) Docker
2 41 (1.10%) Active Directory
3 23 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
6 10 (0.27%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.081%) Firmware
8 1 (0.027%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.027%) vCloud
8 1 (0.027%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.027%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 153 (4.11%) Terraform
2 127 (3.41%) Kubernetes
3 26 (0.70%) Ansible
3 26 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
4 24 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (0.32%) QRadar
6 10 (0.27%) Prometheus
6 10 (0.27%) SCCM
7 9 (0.24%) Grafana
8 8 (0.21%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 6 (0.16%) EnCase
9 6 (0.16%) FTK
9 6 (0.16%) RSA Archer
10 5 (0.13%) Argo
10 5 (0.13%) SCOM
11 3 (0.081%) ArcSight ESM
12 2 (0.054%) Failover Clustering
13 1 (0.027%) CASB
13 1 (0.027%) Fluentd
13 1 (0.027%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 680 (18.27%) Microsoft
2 469 (12.60%) Google
3 261 (7.01%) Databricks
4 259 (6.96%) SAP
5 190 (5.11%) Salesforce
6 156 (4.19%) Oracle
7 140 (3.76%) Adobe
8 74 (1.99%) HubSpot
9 58 (1.56%) Alteryx
10 57 (1.53%) Cisco
11 43 (1.16%) ServiceNow
12 39 (1.05%) OpenAI
12 39 (1.05%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 36 (0.97%) Bloomberg
14 35 (0.94%) Dell
15 32 (0.86%) Facebook
16 31 (0.83%) Ahrefs
17 29 (0.78%) Screaming Frog
18 26 (0.70%) Informatica
19 25 (0.67%) Talend