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

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 20 39
Rank change year-on-year -11 +19 -16
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 4,613 3,600 5,222
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.07% 8.38% 5.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.80% 9.02% 6.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2,635 1,784 3,322
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,875 £46,438 £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 £93,750 £80,389
90th Percentile £102,500 £115,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +0.88% +6.54% -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 67,799 39,928 81,978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.55% 92.95% 85.54%
Number of salaries quoted 42,318 22,681 59,568
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,625 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,450 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.92% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,250 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.38% +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 5 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 5 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 -15 4,072 £65,000 - 2,145
UK excluding London -20 2,453 £57,500 +0.88% 1,357
London +2 1,776 £80,000 -5.88% 1,078
Work from Home -2 1,432 £65,000 +8.33% 935
North of England -2 741 £60,000 +9.09% 341
South East -21 518 £55,000 -8.33% 443
Midlands -21 491 £53,750 +2.38% 237
North West +5 418 £60,000 +9.09% 202
West Midlands -21 285 £55,000 - 122
Yorkshire -7 250 £59,375 +6.98% 92
South West -25 232 £60,000 +6.72% 139
East of England +36 220 £56,000 -13.85% 109
East Midlands +11 202 £50,000 +3.09% 115
Scotland -10 165 £65,000 -7.14% 63
North East +9 73 £45,000 -18.18% 51
Northern Ireland -15 49 £45,000 +50.00% 14
Wales -5 39 £40,000 -20.00% 35

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 (3.49%) Apache Airflow
2 137 (2.97%) Apache Spark
3 118 (2.56%) CMS
4 80 (1.73%) Apache
5 63 (1.37%) Confluence
6 53 (1.15%) WordPress
7 50 (1.08%) SharePoint
8 35 (0.76%) ArcGIS
9 31 (0.67%) SAS
10 20 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
11 16 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
12 11 (0.24%) Drupal
13 8 (0.17%) Oracle Application Server
13 8 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 6 (0.13%) IIS
15 4 (0.087%) Appian
15 4 (0.087%) Documentum
15 4 (0.087%) Umbraco
16 3 (0.065%) Headless CMS
16 3 (0.065%) Jupyter
Applications
1 328 (7.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 112 (2.43%) Microsoft Office
3 55 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (0.67%) UserZoom
5 25 (0.54%) Adobe XD
6 19 (0.41%) MS Visio
7 17 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
8 11 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 10 (0.22%) SPSS
10 9 (0.20%) Chatbot
11 4 (0.087%) Adobe Illustrator
11 4 (0.087%) InDesign
11 4 (0.087%) Microsoft Project
11 4 (0.087%) Photoshop
12 2 (0.043%) Maya
12 2 (0.043%) Notion
12 2 (0.043%) Sketch
13 1 (0.022%) Abaqus
13 1 (0.022%) Siemens NX
13 1 (0.022%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 83 (1.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (0.74%) Adobe Campaign
3 33 (0.72%) SAP IBP
4 32 (0.69%) SAP PP
5 25 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
5 25 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
6 21 (0.46%) Magento
7 17 (0.37%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 16 (0.35%) Shopify
9 15 (0.33%) iTrent
10 13 (0.28%) NetSuite
11 11 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
11 11 (0.24%) SAP CO
12 10 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
13 9 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
13 9 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
13 9 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
13 9 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
14 8 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
14 8 (0.17%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 948 (20.55%) Azure
2 696 (15.09%) Power Platform
3 569 (12.33%) AWS
4 279 (6.05%) GCP
5 250 (5.42%) SaaS
6 246 (5.33%) Snowflake
7 203 (4.40%) Google Analytics
8 201 (4.36%) Adobe Analytics
9 196 (4.25%) Azure Data Factory
10 158 (3.43%) Azure DevOps
11 155 (3.36%) Microsoft 365
12 152 (3.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 146 (3.16%) GitHub
14 137 (2.97%) dbt
15 130 (2.82%) Figma
16 119 (2.58%) Amazon S3
17 116 (2.51%) Serverless
18 99 (2.15%) Entra ID
19 71 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
20 70 (1.52%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 255 (5.53%) Broadband
2 40 (0.87%) Firewall
3 35 (0.76%) VPN
4 29 (0.63%) CHAP
5 25 (0.54%) DNS
6 23 (0.50%) WAN
7 21 (0.46%) Network Security
8 16 (0.35%) TCP/IP
9 15 (0.33%) DHCP
10 14 (0.30%) Intranet
11 11 (0.24%) Unified Communications
12 7 (0.15%) HTTP
13 5 (0.11%) Intrusion Detection
13 5 (0.11%) SMS
13 5 (0.11%) SNMP
13 5 (0.11%) SSL
13 5 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
14 4 (0.087%) BGP
14 4 (0.087%) HTTPS
15 3 (0.065%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 659 (14.29%) Power BI
2 353 (7.65%) Tableau
3 342 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
4 232 (5.03%) Data Lake
5 184 (3.99%) Metadata
6 153 (3.32%) Data Mining
7 131 (2.84%) SQL Server
8 125 (2.71%) Looker
9 108 (2.34%) BigQuery
10 105 (2.28%) Relational Database
11 100 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
12 82 (1.78%) NoSQL
13 74 (1.60%) Azure SQL Database
14 71 (1.54%) Big Data
15 66 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
16 56 (1.21%) Power Query
17 53 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 46 (1.00%) Delta Lake
19 45 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
19 45 (0.98%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 169 (3.66%) Git
2 88 (1.91%) JIRA
3 74 (1.60%) Jenkins
4 44 (0.95%) MLflow
5 36 (0.78%) GitLab
6 25 (0.54%) IBM UrbanCode
7 22 (0.48%) TeamCity
8 20 (0.43%) Axure RP
8 20 (0.43%) Balsamiq
9 17 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
10 16 (0.35%) CircleCI
11 15 (0.33%) Crashlytics
12 12 (0.26%) Selenium
12 12 (0.26%) XCTest
13 10 (0.22%) ERwin
13 10 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 10 (0.22%) Visual Studio
14 7 (0.15%) Claude Code
15 5 (0.11%) MSI
16 4 (0.087%) Browser DevTools
General
1 1,304 (28.27%) Finance
2 1,166 (25.28%) Social Skills
3 1,062 (23.02%) Analytical Skills
4 655 (14.20%) Marketing
5 267 (5.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 246 (5.33%) Retail
7 234 (5.07%) Public Sector
8 217 (4.70%) Games
9 212 (4.60%) Banking
10 207 (4.49%) Law
11 147 (3.19%) Manufacturing
12 146 (3.16%) Legal
13 124 (2.69%) Influencing Skills
14 116 (2.51%) Automotive
15 102 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
16 99 (2.15%) Advertising
17 93 (2.02%) Financial Institution
18 77 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
19 71 (1.54%) Back Office
20 53 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 793 (17.19%) Senior
2 620 (13.44%) Analyst
3 517 (11.21%) Lead
4 504 (10.93%) Data Engineer
5 361 (7.83%) Architect
6 322 (6.98%) Data Analyst
7 253 (5.48%) Developer
8 175 (3.79%) Data Architect
9 169 (3.66%) Consultant
10 137 (2.97%) Trainee
10 137 (2.97%) Trainee Analyst
10 137 (2.97%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 134 (2.90%) Senior Manager
12 120 (2.60%) Senior Data Engineer
13 113 (2.45%) Designer
13 113 (2.45%) Solutions Architect
14 111 (2.41%) Data Manager
15 105 (2.28%) Data Scientist
15 105 (2.28%) Product Manager
16 99 (2.15%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (2.84%) PySpark
2 126 (2.73%) Kafka
3 91 (1.97%) HTML
4 90 (1.95%) PyTorch
5 84 (1.82%) CSS
6 75 (1.63%) .NET
7 63 (1.37%) TensorFlow
8 53 (1.15%) React
9 52 (1.13%) SAP Fiori
10 49 (1.06%) RESTful
11 47 (1.02%) OAuth
11 47 (1.02%) scikit-learn
12 46 (1.00%) LangChain
13 45 (0.98%) Pandas
14 43 (0.93%) REST
15 38 (0.82%) .NET Core
15 38 (0.82%) JSON
16 35 (0.76%) Node.js
17 24 (0.52%) LlamaIndex
18 23 (0.50%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 288 (6.24%) Social Media
2 211 (4.57%) Cloud Native
3 182 (3.95%) Product Ownership
4 152 (3.30%) Management Information System
5 148 (3.21%) Analytical Mindset
6 118 (2.56%) Onboarding
7 97 (2.10%) Algorithms
8 96 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
9 92 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
10 86 (1.86%) Life Science
11 83 (1.80%) Data Structures
12 78 (1.69%) Marketing Technology
13 72 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
14 66 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
15 62 (1.34%) Mobile App
16 57 (1.24%) Over-the-Top Content
16 57 (1.24%) Virtual Team
17 45 (0.98%) Public Cloud
18 44 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
19 37 (0.80%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 114 (2.47%) Windows
2 60 (1.30%) Windows 10
3 50 (1.08%) Linux
4 25 (0.54%) VMS
5 23 (0.50%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.39%) Unix
6 18 (0.39%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.24%) Android
8 3 (0.065%) AIX
9 1 (0.022%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,294 (28.05%) AI
2 957 (20.75%) Decision-Making
3 939 (20.36%) Business Intelligence
4 897 (19.45%) Agile
5 719 (15.59%) Continuous Improvement
6 714 (15.48%) Data Modelling
7 710 (15.39%) Data Analytics
8 693 (15.02%) Problem-Solving
9 649 (14.07%) Roadmaps
10 629 (13.64%) Data Engineering
11 560 (12.14%) Data Pipeline
12 529 (11.47%) CI/CD
13 520 (11.27%) Data Governance
14 518 (11.23%) Customer Experience
15 502 (10.88%) Data Science
16 500 (10.84%) ETL
17 499 (10.82%) Machine Learning
18 435 (9.43%) Data Analysis
19 428 (9.28%) DevOps
20 422 (9.15%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1,154 (25.02%) SQL
2 1,044 (22.63%) Python
3 106 (2.30%) C#
4 101 (2.19%) Java
5 97 (2.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 91 (1.97%) JavaScript
7 83 (1.80%) Scala
8 68 (1.47%) R
9 66 (1.43%) PowerShell
10 46 (1.00%) Bicep
11 43 (0.93%) TypeScript
12 39 (0.85%) T-SQL
13 38 (0.82%) Kusto Query Language
14 37 (0.80%) Go
15 36 (0.78%) C++
16 24 (0.52%) Bash
17 17 (0.37%) VBA
18 16 (0.35%) Kotlin
19 15 (0.33%) PL/SQL
20 14 (0.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 620 (13.44%) Degree
2 281 (6.09%) Security Cleared
3 195 (4.23%) SC Cleared
4 117 (2.54%) Master's Degree
5 96 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 72 (1.56%) IRCA
7 62 (1.34%) Azure Certification
8 60 (1.30%) CTC Cleared
9 50 (1.08%) ACCA
10 48 (1.04%) CISSP
10 48 (1.04%) PhD
11 47 (1.02%) CISM
12 46 (1.00%) DBS Check
13 44 (0.95%) CISA
14 42 (0.91%) CIMA
15 35 (0.76%) DV Cleared
16 32 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
17 31 (0.67%) SANS
18 30 (0.65%) CGEIT
18 30 (0.65%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 585 (12.68%) Data Quality
2 385 (8.35%) Accessibility
3 340 (7.37%) GDPR
4 177 (3.84%) QA
5 95 (2.06%) WCAG
6 83 (1.80%) SLA
7 76 (1.65%) ISO 9001
8 52 (1.13%) NIST
9 47 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 37 (0.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 34 (0.74%) COBIT
12 32 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
13 26 (0.56%) IFRS
14 20 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 19 (0.41%) HIPAA
16 18 (0.39%) SOC 2
17 17 (0.37%) GAAP
17 17 (0.37%) GxP
18 14 (0.30%) GRC
18 14 (0.30%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 153 (3.32%) Docker
2 81 (1.76%) Active Directory
3 24 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.17%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.11%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.087%) IAG
8 2 (0.043%) Firmware
8 2 (0.043%) vSphere
9 1 (0.022%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.022%) vCloud
9 1 (0.022%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 225 (4.88%) Terraform
2 177 (3.84%) Kubernetes
3 51 (1.11%) Ansible
4 28 (0.61%) Prometheus
5 26 (0.56%) Grafana
6 18 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (0.20%) EnCase
8 9 (0.20%) FTK
9 7 (0.15%) Kibana
10 6 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.11%) Argo
12 4 (0.087%) QRadar
12 4 (0.087%) VxRail
13 3 (0.065%) ArcSight ESM
13 3 (0.065%) Control-M
13 3 (0.065%) Graylog
14 2 (0.043%) RSA Archer
14 2 (0.043%) SCCM
14 2 (0.043%) vRealize
Vendors
1 816 (17.69%) Microsoft
2 381 (8.26%) Databricks
3 327 (7.09%) Google
4 301 (6.53%) Adobe
5 198 (4.29%) SAP
6 154 (3.34%) Salesforce
7 130 (2.82%) Oracle
8 125 (2.71%) Cisco
9 57 (1.24%) HubSpot
10 54 (1.17%) Dell
11 48 (1.04%) Informatica
12 34 (0.74%) Alteryx
13 29 (0.63%) OpenAI
14 28 (0.61%) Red Hat
14 28 (0.61%) Workday
15 26 (0.56%) Nexthink
15 26 (0.56%) Palantir
15 26 (0.56%) ServiceNow
15 26 (0.56%) Talend
16 25 (0.54%) Denodo