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 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 22 40
Rank change year-on-year -6 +18 -16
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 4,489 3,340 4,983
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.62% 8.17% 5.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.34% 8.78% 6.41%
Number of salaries quoted 2,495 1,705 3,295
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £44,750 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -7.88%
75th Percentile £85,500 £93,778 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year -3.51% +4.59% -0.91%

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 61,153 38,054 77,716
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.62% 93.06% 86.41%
Number of salaries quoted 37,653 22,322 57,935
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,097
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.41%

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 2 April 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 2 April 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 -10 3,901 £65,000 -7.14% 1,921
UK excluding London -15 2,299 £55,000 -3.51% 1,320
London +4 1,786 £80,000 -5.88% 896
Work from Home -4 1,397 £65,000 +7.01% 858
North of England -15 626 £56,100 +2.00% 331
South East -17 515 £55,000 -8.33% 433
Midlands -16 463 £52,500 - 212
North West -20 325 £60,000 +9.09% 192
West Midlands -17 283 £55,100 +0.18% 110
Yorkshire 0 229 £50,000 -9.09% 91
South West -21 207 £55,200 +5.14% 149
East of England +23 198 £51,500 -20.77% 103
Scotland -9 195 £65,000 -7.14% 53
East Midlands +2 177 £49,000 +2.08% 102
North East +19 72 £40,000 -27.27% 52
Northern Ireland -15 59 £45,000 +50.00% 17
Wales +3 39 £40,000 -27.27% 41

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
1 160 (3.56%) Apache Airflow
2 125 (2.78%) Apache Spark
3 106 (2.36%) CMS
4 78 (1.74%) Apache
5 69 (1.54%) Confluence
6 52 (1.16%) WordPress
7 46 (1.02%) SharePoint
8 36 (0.80%) SAS
9 34 (0.76%) ArcGIS
10 18 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
11 17 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
12 14 (0.31%) Drupal
13 9 (0.20%) Oracle Application Server
14 8 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 6 (0.13%) IIS
15 6 (0.13%) Umbraco
16 5 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
17 4 (0.089%) Appian
17 4 (0.089%) Documentum
18 3 (0.067%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 416 (9.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 127 (2.83%) Microsoft Office
3 71 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (0.69%) UserZoom
5 29 (0.65%) Adobe XD
6 18 (0.40%) MS Visio
7 17 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
8 16 (0.36%) InDesign
9 11 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 10 (0.22%) Photoshop
11 9 (0.20%) SPSS
12 8 (0.18%) Adobe Premiere
12 8 (0.18%) Chatbot
13 7 (0.16%) Trello
14 6 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
15 4 (0.089%) Adobe Illustrator
16 3 (0.067%) Final Cut Pro
16 3 (0.067%) Sketch
17 2 (0.045%) Maya
17 2 (0.045%) Notion
Business Applications
1 74 (1.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 37 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 34 (0.76%) SAP PP
4 33 (0.74%) SAP IBP
5 27 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
6 21 (0.47%) Adobe Campaign
6 21 (0.47%) Magento
7 19 (0.42%) Shopify
8 15 (0.33%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 15 (0.33%) iTrent
8 15 (0.33%) NetSuite
9 14 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
10 13 (0.29%) Oracle Assets
10 13 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
10 13 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
10 13 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
10 13 (0.29%) SAP CO
11 10 (0.22%) SAP ERP
12 9 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
12 9 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 992 (22.10%) Azure
2 728 (16.22%) Power Platform
3 538 (11.98%) AWS
4 270 (6.01%) GCP
5 261 (5.81%) Snowflake
6 258 (5.75%) SaaS
7 236 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
8 198 (4.41%) Google Analytics
9 186 (4.14%) Adobe Analytics
9 186 (4.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 163 (3.63%) Microsoft 365
11 157 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
12 151 (3.36%) GitHub
13 147 (3.27%) dbt
14 115 (2.56%) Figma
15 111 (2.47%) Amazon S3
16 101 (2.25%) Serverless
17 82 (1.83%) Entra ID
18 73 (1.63%) Azure Monitor
19 64 (1.43%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 221 (4.92%) Broadband
2 34 (0.76%) Firewall
3 33 (0.74%) VPN
4 25 (0.56%) CHAP
5 23 (0.51%) WAN
6 19 (0.42%) Network Security
7 17 (0.38%) DNS
8 16 (0.36%) Intranet
9 14 (0.31%) TCP/IP
10 13 (0.29%) Unified Communications
11 12 (0.27%) DHCP
12 6 (0.13%) HTTPS
13 5 (0.11%) SMS
13 5 (0.11%) SNMP
14 4 (0.089%) HTTP
14 4 (0.089%) Intrusion Detection
15 3 (0.067%) LAN
15 3 (0.067%) Modbus
16 2 (0.045%) Internet
16 2 (0.045%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 691 (15.39%) Power BI
2 434 (9.67%) Tableau
3 375 (8.35%) Data Warehouse
4 245 (5.46%) Data Lake
5 195 (4.34%) Metadata
6 192 (4.28%) Data Mining
7 159 (3.54%) SQL Server
8 133 (2.96%) Looker
9 114 (2.54%) Azure SQL Database
10 105 (2.34%) BigQuery
11 96 (2.14%) Relational Database
12 90 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
13 74 (1.65%) NoSQL
14 68 (1.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 66 (1.47%) Big Data
16 64 (1.43%) Power Query
17 61 (1.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 58 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
19 50 (1.11%) Snowflake Schema
20 43 (0.96%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 162 (3.61%) Git
2 108 (2.41%) JIRA
3 68 (1.51%) Jenkins
4 40 (0.89%) MLflow
5 32 (0.71%) GitLab
6 25 (0.56%) IBM UrbanCode
7 24 (0.53%) Axure RP
7 24 (0.53%) Balsamiq
8 23 (0.51%) TeamCity
9 20 (0.45%) Visual Studio
10 19 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
11 16 (0.36%) ERwin
12 12 (0.27%) CircleCI
12 12 (0.27%) Crashlytics
12 12 (0.27%) Selenium
13 10 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 9 (0.20%) PowerDesigner
14 9 (0.20%) XCTest
15 8 (0.18%) Cypress.io
16 7 (0.16%) Claude Code
General
1 1,391 (30.99%) Finance
2 1,250 (27.85%) Social Skills
3 1,163 (25.91%) Analytical Skills
4 684 (15.24%) Marketing
5 299 (6.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 256 (5.70%) Banking
7 249 (5.55%) Public Sector
8 240 (5.35%) Retail
9 209 (4.66%) Law
10 196 (4.37%) Games
11 167 (3.72%) Manufacturing
12 162 (3.61%) Legal
13 116 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
14 109 (2.43%) Financial Institution
15 104 (2.32%) Automotive
16 103 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
17 97 (2.16%) Advertising
18 95 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
19 77 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
20 68 (1.51%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 749 (16.69%) Senior
2 663 (14.77%) Analyst
3 513 (11.43%) Lead
4 454 (10.11%) Data Engineer
5 375 (8.35%) Data Analyst
6 326 (7.26%) Architect
7 240 (5.35%) Developer
8 170 (3.79%) Consultant
9 168 (3.74%) Trainee
9 168 (3.74%) Trainee Analyst
9 168 (3.74%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 151 (3.36%) Data Architect
11 139 (3.10%) Senior Manager
12 115 (2.56%) Designer
13 101 (2.25%) Senior Data Engineer
14 100 (2.23%) Solutions Architect
15 99 (2.21%) Data Manager
16 91 (2.03%) Data Scientist
17 86 (1.92%) Senior Analyst
17 86 (1.92%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (2.70%) PySpark
2 119 (2.65%) Kafka
3 106 (2.36%) HTML
4 98 (2.18%) CSS
5 95 (2.12%) PyTorch
6 69 (1.54%) TensorFlow
7 68 (1.51%) .NET
8 58 (1.29%) React
9 49 (1.09%) OAuth
9 49 (1.09%) RESTful
9 49 (1.09%) SAP Fiori
10 48 (1.07%) LangChain
11 47 (1.05%) JSON
11 47 (1.05%) scikit-learn
12 43 (0.96%) REST
13 38 (0.85%) Node.js
13 38 (0.85%) Pandas
14 37 (0.82%) .NET Core
15 25 (0.56%) FIX Protocol
15 25 (0.56%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 303 (6.75%) Social Media
2 206 (4.59%) Cloud Native
3 191 (4.25%) Product Ownership
4 173 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
5 158 (3.52%) Self-Motivation
6 156 (3.48%) Management Information System
7 132 (2.94%) Onboarding
8 109 (2.43%) Life Science
9 105 (2.34%) Algorithms
10 83 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
11 77 (1.72%) Data Structures
12 66 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
13 61 (1.36%) Mobile App
14 50 (1.11%) Marketing Technology
15 48 (1.07%) Public Cloud
16 47 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
16 47 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
17 45 (1.00%) Over-the-Top Content
18 44 (0.98%) Virtual Team
19 40 (0.89%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 109 (2.43%) Windows
2 60 (1.34%) Windows 10
3 42 (0.94%) Linux
4 26 (0.58%) VMS
5 22 (0.49%) Unix
6 21 (0.47%) Apple iOS
7 15 (0.33%) Windows Server
8 13 (0.29%) Android
9 2 (0.045%) AIX
9 2 (0.045%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.022%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,307 (29.12%) AI
2 984 (21.92%) Business Intelligence
3 968 (21.56%) Decision-Making
4 897 (19.98%) Agile
5 774 (17.24%) Data Analytics
6 739 (16.46%) Continuous Improvement
7 732 (16.31%) Problem-Solving
8 719 (16.02%) Data Modelling
9 594 (13.23%) Data Engineering
9 594 (13.23%) Roadmaps
10 553 (12.32%) Data Governance
11 532 (11.85%) Data Science
12 527 (11.74%) Data Pipeline
13 513 (11.43%) Customer Experience
13 513 (11.43%) Data Analysis
14 512 (11.41%) Machine Learning
15 496 (11.05%) ETL
16 488 (10.87%) CI/CD
17 455 (10.14%) Project Management
18 426 (9.49%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1,187 (26.44%) SQL
2 1,068 (23.79%) Python
3 115 (2.56%) JavaScript
4 113 (2.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 96 (2.14%) C#
5 96 (2.14%) Java
6 80 (1.78%) Scala
7 72 (1.60%) R
8 55 (1.23%) PowerShell
9 46 (1.02%) T-SQL
10 45 (1.00%) TypeScript
11 39 (0.87%) Bicep
12 37 (0.82%) C++
13 36 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
14 34 (0.76%) Go
15 18 (0.40%) Bash
16 16 (0.36%) PL/SQL
17 15 (0.33%) VBA
18 14 (0.31%) Shell Script
19 12 (0.27%) PHP
Qualifications
1 723 (16.11%) Degree
2 264 (5.88%) Security Cleared
3 183 (4.08%) SC Cleared
4 150 (3.34%) Master's Degree
5 130 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 72 (1.60%) IRCA
7 60 (1.34%) CTC Cleared
8 55 (1.23%) Azure Certification
9 54 (1.20%) PhD
10 53 (1.18%) CISSP
11 51 (1.14%) DBS Check
12 48 (1.07%) ACCA
13 47 (1.05%) CISA
14 46 (1.02%) CISM
15 40 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
16 38 (0.85%) CIMA
17 37 (0.82%) Numerate Degree
18 34 (0.76%) DV Cleared
19 33 (0.74%) AWS Certification
20 31 (0.69%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 587 (13.08%) Data Quality
2 373 (8.31%) Accessibility
3 363 (8.09%) GDPR
4 168 (3.74%) QA
5 89 (1.98%) WCAG
6 83 (1.85%) ISO 9001
7 80 (1.78%) SLA
8 64 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 51 (1.14%) NIST
10 48 (1.07%) Actionable Recommendations
11 38 (0.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 34 (0.76%) HIPAA
13 30 (0.67%) COBIT
13 30 (0.67%) Solvency II
14 28 (0.62%) EU AI Act
14 28 (0.62%) IFRS
15 24 (0.53%) GxP
16 21 (0.47%) PSD2
16 21 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 18 (0.40%) SOC 2
System Software
1 142 (3.16%) Docker
2 59 (1.31%) Active Directory
3 24 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.16%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.089%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.089%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.045%) Firmware
7 2 (0.045%) vSphere
8 1 (0.022%) Apache Flume
8 1 (0.022%) IAG
8 1 (0.022%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.022%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 195 (4.34%) Terraform
2 168 (3.74%) Kubernetes
3 45 (1.00%) Ansible
4 25 (0.56%) Grafana
4 25 (0.56%) Prometheus
5 18 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
6 13 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (0.16%) EnCase
7 7 (0.16%) FTK
7 7 (0.16%) Kibana
8 5 (0.11%) Argo
8 5 (0.11%) QRadar
9 4 (0.089%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.067%) ArcSight ESM
10 3 (0.067%) Control-M
10 3 (0.067%) RSA Archer
10 3 (0.067%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 3 (0.067%) VxRail
11 2 (0.045%) SCCM
11 2 (0.045%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 868 (19.34%) Microsoft
2 362 (8.06%) Databricks
3 338 (7.53%) Google
4 286 (6.37%) Adobe
5 184 (4.10%) SAP
6 160 (3.56%) Salesforce
7 139 (3.10%) Cisco
7 139 (3.10%) Oracle
8 61 (1.36%) HubSpot
9 59 (1.31%) Dell
10 55 (1.23%) Informatica
11 52 (1.16%) Alteryx
12 31 (0.69%) Bloomberg
13 29 (0.65%) Talend
14 28 (0.62%) IBM
14 28 (0.62%) Nexthink
14 28 (0.62%) OpenAI
14 28 (0.62%) Red Hat
14 28 (0.62%) ServiceNow
15 27 (0.60%) Palantir