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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 29 33
Rank change year-on-year -4 +4 -9
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 3,932 3,324 4,413
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.85% 6.74% 5.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.36% 7.30% 6.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2,122 1,609 3,163
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,000 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £118,750 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -7.89% +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 53,402 45,552 66,177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.39% 92.32% 88.33%
Number of salaries quoted 31,913 22,134 51,281
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,934 £29,490
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,350 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.86% +9.73% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 February 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 16 February 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 3,341 £65,000 -7.14% 1,693
UK excluding London -3 1,992 £52,500 -7.89% 1,235
London +5 1,571 £80,000 -5.88% 740
Work from Home -4 1,234 £65,000 - 856
South East +9 544 £55,000 -8.33% 507
North of England -20 456 £50,000 -9.09% 258
Midlands -6 367 £53,500 -2.73% 191
Scotland +7 245 £55,000 -12.70% 45
North West -18 230 £55,000 - 145
West Midlands -13 218 £57,500 +0.88% 110
South West +3 187 £54,750 +0.57% 124
Yorkshire -12 179 £55,000 - 83
East Midlands +14 149 £45,945 -8.11% 80
East of England +39 119 £47,500 -26.92% 99
Northern Ireland -1 48 £45,000 -33.33% 12
North East +21 47 £40,000 -20.79% 32
Wales +15 28 £56,250 +13.52% 23

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 97 (2.47%) CMS
2 92 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
3 85 (2.16%) Apache Spark
4 55 (1.40%) WordPress
5 50 (1.27%) Apache
6 46 (1.17%) Confluence
7 45 (1.14%) SharePoint
8 36 (0.92%) SAS
9 20 (0.51%) ArcGIS
10 18 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 17 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
11 17 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
12 15 (0.38%) Drupal
13 9 (0.23%) Umbraco
14 6 (0.15%) IIS
15 5 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
16 4 (0.10%) Appian
16 4 (0.10%) Documentum
16 4 (0.10%) Sitecore CMS
17 3 (0.076%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 473 (12.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 132 (3.36%) Microsoft Office
3 63 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (0.64%) Adobe XD
5 22 (0.56%) Maya
6 20 (0.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 20 (0.51%) InDesign
7 18 (0.46%) Photoshop
8 17 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
9 12 (0.31%) Adobe Premiere
9 12 (0.31%) Chatbot
9 12 (0.31%) SPSS
10 10 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
11 9 (0.23%) Trello
12 8 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
13 6 (0.15%) MS Visio
14 5 (0.13%) UserZoom
15 4 (0.10%) SketchUp
16 3 (0.076%) Final Cut Pro
17 2 (0.051%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 70 (1.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 54 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 34 (0.86%) Oracle ERP
4 27 (0.69%) SAP IBP
5 22 (0.56%) Shopify
6 21 (0.53%) SAP CO
7 20 (0.51%) Magento
8 16 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
8 16 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
8 16 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
9 15 (0.38%) Oracle Assets
9 15 (0.38%) SAP PP
10 14 (0.36%) Oracle Financials
11 13 (0.33%) NetSuite
11 13 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
12 12 (0.31%) Dynamics GP
12 12 (0.31%) iTrent
12 12 (0.31%) SAP FI
12 12 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
13 11 (0.28%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 961 (24.44%) Azure
2 702 (17.85%) Power Platform
3 407 (10.35%) AWS
4 228 (5.80%) SaaS
5 213 (5.42%) GCP
6 208 (5.29%) Azure Data Factory
7 196 (4.98%) Google Analytics
8 195 (4.96%) Snowflake
9 179 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
10 169 (4.30%) Microsoft 365
11 154 (3.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 151 (3.84%) GitHub
13 120 (3.05%) dbt
14 106 (2.70%) Entra ID
15 89 (2.26%) Azure Monitor
16 80 (2.03%) Serverless
17 77 (1.96%) Adobe Analytics
17 77 (1.96%) Figma
18 75 (1.91%) Amazon S3
19 69 (1.75%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 74 (1.88%) Broadband
2 41 (1.04%) VPN
3 36 (0.92%) Firewall
4 20 (0.51%) CHAP
5 19 (0.48%) WAN
6 15 (0.38%) DNS
7 13 (0.33%) Network Security
7 13 (0.33%) Unified Communications
8 12 (0.31%) Intranet
9 10 (0.25%) TCP/IP
10 6 (0.15%) HTTPS
11 5 (0.13%) DHCP
11 5 (0.13%) Intrusion Detection
12 4 (0.10%) HTTP
12 4 (0.10%) Internet
12 4 (0.10%) SMS
12 4 (0.10%) SNMP
12 4 (0.10%) VoIP
13 3 (0.076%) MQTT
13 3 (0.076%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 665 (16.91%) Power BI
2 400 (10.17%) Tableau
3 318 (8.09%) Data Warehouse
4 222 (5.65%) Data Lake
5 183 (4.65%) Metadata
6 181 (4.60%) Data Mining
7 152 (3.87%) SQL Server
8 105 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
9 101 (2.57%) Looker
10 80 (2.03%) Big Data
11 71 (1.81%) Relational Database
12 70 (1.78%) NoSQL
13 68 (1.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 66 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
15 65 (1.65%) BigQuery
16 63 (1.60%) SAP BW
17 54 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 53 (1.35%) Power Query
19 43 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
20 38 (0.97%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 123 (3.13%) Git
2 118 (3.00%) JIRA
3 63 (1.60%) Jenkins
4 29 (0.74%) Oracle Forms
5 26 (0.66%) GitLab
6 23 (0.58%) Axure RP
6 23 (0.58%) Balsamiq
6 23 (0.58%) TeamCity
7 19 (0.48%) ERwin
8 18 (0.46%) Visual Studio
9 16 (0.41%) MLflow
10 12 (0.31%) Selenium
11 8 (0.20%) CircleCI
11 8 (0.20%) PowerDesigner
11 8 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 6 (0.15%) Cypress.io
12 6 (0.15%) ER Studio
13 5 (0.13%) MSI
13 5 (0.13%) Postman
13 5 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,352 (34.38%) Finance
2 1,261 (32.07%) Social Skills
3 1,096 (27.87%) Analytical Skills
4 654 (16.63%) Marketing
5 272 (6.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 241 (6.13%) Public Sector
7 223 (5.67%) Banking
8 215 (5.47%) Law
9 199 (5.06%) Retail
10 152 (3.87%) Manufacturing
11 141 (3.59%) Legal
12 132 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
13 113 (2.87%) Games
14 107 (2.72%) Financial Institution
15 90 (2.29%) Pharmaceutical
16 89 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
17 88 (2.24%) Advertising
18 86 (2.19%) Automotive
19 75 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
20 69 (1.75%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 638 (16.23%) Senior
2 631 (16.05%) Analyst
3 480 (12.21%) Lead
4 355 (9.03%) Data Analyst
5 350 (8.90%) Data Engineer
6 320 (8.14%) Architect
7 222 (5.65%) Developer
8 152 (3.87%) Trainee
8 152 (3.87%) Trainee Analyst
8 152 (3.87%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 138 (3.51%) Data Architect
9 138 (3.51%) Senior Manager
10 109 (2.77%) Consultant
11 96 (2.44%) Solutions Architect
12 90 (2.29%) Designer
13 87 (2.21%) Data Manager
14 84 (2.14%) Senior Analyst
15 83 (2.11%) Support Engineer
16 76 (1.93%) Data Scientist
17 71 (1.81%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (2.47%) HTML
2 85 (2.16%) CSS
3 78 (1.98%) Kafka
4 75 (1.91%) PySpark
5 64 (1.63%) .NET
6 62 (1.58%) React
7 60 (1.53%) OAuth
8 57 (1.45%) RESTful
9 56 (1.42%) PyTorch
10 47 (1.20%) REST
10 47 (1.20%) TensorFlow
11 43 (1.09%) JSON
12 38 (0.97%) OAuth2
13 31 (0.79%) SAP Fiori
14 30 (0.76%) Node.js
14 30 (0.76%) SAML
15 29 (0.74%) .NET Core
16 27 (0.69%) FIX Protocol
17 25 (0.64%) Middleware
18 23 (0.58%) Akka
Miscellaneous
1 185 (4.70%) Self-Motivation
2 184 (4.68%) Social Media
3 183 (4.65%) Product Ownership
4 170 (4.32%) Analytical Mindset
5 165 (4.20%) Cloud Native
6 159 (4.04%) Management Information System
7 124 (3.15%) Onboarding
8 118 (3.00%) Algorithms
9 102 (2.59%) Life Science
10 74 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
11 72 (1.83%) Data Structures
12 68 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
13 50 (1.27%) FMCG
13 50 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
14 46 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
14 46 (1.17%) Mobile App
15 41 (1.04%) Data Centre
15 41 (1.04%) Fixed Income
15 41 (1.04%) Virtual Team
16 37 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 113 (2.87%) Windows
2 60 (1.53%) Windows 10
3 43 (1.09%) Linux
4 29 (0.74%) Unix
5 21 (0.53%) VMS
6 15 (0.38%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.31%) Android
7 12 (0.31%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.051%) AIX
8 2 (0.051%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.025%) Debian
9 1 (0.025%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,083 (27.54%) AI
2 964 (24.52%) Business Intelligence
3 871 (22.15%) Decision-Making
4 783 (19.91%) Problem-Solving
5 759 (19.30%) Data Analytics
6 753 (19.15%) Agile
7 712 (18.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 626 (15.92%) Data Modelling
9 497 (12.64%) Project Management
10 487 (12.39%) Data Governance
11 485 (12.33%) Data Analysis
12 481 (12.23%) Machine Learning
13 478 (12.16%) Data Science
14 469 (11.93%) Roadmaps
15 463 (11.78%) Data Engineering
16 453 (11.52%) Stakeholder Management
17 426 (10.83%) Data Pipeline
18 419 (10.66%) Visualisation
19 417 (10.61%) CI/CD
20 415 (10.55%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 1,045 (26.58%) SQL
2 947 (24.08%) Python
3 118 (3.00%) JavaScript
4 117 (2.98%) Java
5 88 (2.24%) C#
5 88 (2.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 79 (2.01%) PowerShell
7 76 (1.93%) Scala
8 68 (1.73%) R
9 50 (1.27%) Bicep
10 44 (1.12%) T-SQL
11 37 (0.94%) TypeScript
12 34 (0.86%) C++
13 32 (0.81%) Bash
14 31 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
15 25 (0.64%) PL/SQL
16 24 (0.61%) Go
17 21 (0.53%) Shell Script
18 17 (0.43%) VBA
19 14 (0.36%) PHP
Qualifications
1 803 (20.42%) Degree
2 266 (6.77%) Security Cleared
3 190 (4.83%) SC Cleared
4 173 (4.40%) Master's Degree
5 121 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 79 (2.01%) PhD
7 60 (1.53%) CTC Cleared
8 58 (1.48%) CISSP
9 54 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
10 53 (1.35%) Azure Certification
11 50 (1.27%) CISA
12 47 (1.20%) Numerate Degree
13 46 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
14 44 (1.12%) DBS Check
15 43 (1.09%) CISM
16 38 (0.97%) PMI Certification
17 34 (0.86%) ACCA
18 31 (0.79%) PMP
19 30 (0.76%) DV Cleared
20 27 (0.69%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 526 (13.38%) Data Quality
2 259 (6.59%) GDPR
3 252 (6.41%) Accessibility
4 86 (2.19%) QA
5 77 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 71 (1.81%) SLA
7 51 (1.30%) NIST
8 44 (1.12%) WCAG
9 42 (1.07%) Actionable Recommendations
10 41 (1.04%) GxP
11 30 (0.76%) COBIT
12 25 (0.64%) Solvency II
13 24 (0.61%) IFRS
14 23 (0.58%) EU AI Act
15 22 (0.56%) HIPAA
16 21 (0.53%) PSD2
17 17 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 17 (0.43%) SOC 2
18 16 (0.41%) GRC
19 14 (0.36%) PMO
System Software
1 126 (3.20%) Docker
2 59 (1.50%) Active Directory
3 36 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.31%) Hyper-V
5 12 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.10%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.051%) vSphere
8 1 (0.025%) Firmware
8 1 (0.025%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.025%) vCloud
8 1 (0.025%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 196 (4.98%) Terraform
2 148 (3.76%) Kubernetes
3 38 (0.97%) Ansible
4 28 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
5 25 (0.64%) Grafana
6 24 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
7 22 (0.56%) Prometheus
8 10 (0.25%) SCCM
9 9 (0.23%) QRadar
10 8 (0.20%) EnCase
10 8 (0.20%) FTK
11 7 (0.18%) Kibana
12 6 (0.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 5 (0.13%) Argo
13 5 (0.13%) SCOM
14 4 (0.10%) RSA Archer
15 3 (0.076%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 3 (0.076%) ArcSight ESM
15 3 (0.076%) Control-M
15 3 (0.076%) VxRail
Vendors
1 826 (21.01%) Microsoft
2 332 (8.44%) Google
3 258 (6.56%) Databricks
4 226 (5.75%) SAP
5 184 (4.68%) Salesforce
6 161 (4.09%) Adobe
7 137 (3.48%) Cisco
8 133 (3.38%) Oracle
9 69 (1.75%) HubSpot
10 54 (1.37%) Alteryx
11 35 (0.89%) ServiceNow
12 34 (0.86%) Bloomberg
13 31 (0.79%) OpenAI
14 30 (0.76%) Informatica
15 29 (0.74%) Talend
15 29 (0.74%) YouTube
16 28 (0.71%) Nexthink
17 27 (0.69%) Dell
18 24 (0.61%) IBM
18 24 (0.61%) Palantir