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

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 34 29
Rank change year-on-year +11 -5 -8
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 3,608 3,570 3,988
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 7.21% 5.27% 7.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.28% 6.38% 8.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,813 1,870 2,909
10th Percentile £32,500 £41,225 £36,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £46,335
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £94,688 £87,500
90th Percentile £113,750 £118,750 £113,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,062 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.94% +4.55% -

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 43,586 55,994 49,616
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 87.08% 82.59% 93.89%
Number of salaries quoted 26,170 29,448 38,129
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,532 £45,000 £43,992
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,250 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.58% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,750 £54,063 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.53% +2.98% -

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 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 5 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 +9 3,079 £62,500 -10.71% 4,727
UK excluding London +18 1,871 £50,062 -12.94% 3,433
London +6 1,447 £75,000 -11.76% 2,518
Work from Home -3 1,094 £60,000 -14.29% 2,156
South East +35 582 £50,000 -13.04% 1,905
North of England -23 345 £55,233 -0.03% 503
Midlands +14 287 £53,475 -7.00% 354
Scotland +14 247 £50,000 -21.88% 106
South West +27 214 £60,000 - 215
North West -27 207 £51,000 -8.93% 298
West Midlands +11 168 £57,500 -1.65% 209
East of England +50 153 £37,500 -37.50% 205
East Midlands +41 123 £44,250 -11.50% 135
Yorkshire -15 112 £65,000 +14.07% 149
Northern Ireland -10 28 £51,546 -10.36% 51
North East +12 27 £51,000 +1.49% 59
Wales +20 24 £52,562 -2.66% 78
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
1 115 (3.19%) CMS
2 97 (2.69%) Apache Spark
3 62 (1.72%) WordPress
4 49 (1.36%) Confluence
5 44 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
6 43 (1.19%) SharePoint
7 32 (0.89%) Apache
8 24 (0.67%) SAS
9 14 (0.39%) Drupal
10 13 (0.36%) Headless CMS
11 12 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
11 12 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 10 (0.28%) SugarCRM
13 9 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 9 (0.25%) Umbraco
14 6 (0.17%) ArcGIS
14 6 (0.17%) Jupyter
15 5 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
16 4 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
17 3 (0.083%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 489 (13.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 98 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
3 63 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 37 (1.03%) Photoshop
5 31 (0.86%) Maya
6 26 (0.72%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 23 (0.64%) Adobe XD
8 18 (0.50%) Adobe Premiere
8 18 (0.50%) InDesign
9 17 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
10 16 (0.44%) Chatbot
10 16 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
11 13 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
12 11 (0.30%) Trello
13 8 (0.22%) SPSS
14 7 (0.19%) MadCap Flare
15 4 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
15 4 (0.11%) Final Cut Pro
15 4 (0.11%) MS Visio
15 4 (0.11%) SketchUp
Business Applications
1 87 (2.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 58 (1.61%) Shopify
3 57 (1.58%) Dynamics CRM
4 29 (0.80%) Oracle ERP
4 29 (0.80%) SAP IBP
5 18 (0.50%) Magento
5 18 (0.50%) SAP CO
5 18 (0.50%) SAP FI
5 18 (0.50%) SAP FI/CO
6 16 (0.44%) Dynamics GP
7 14 (0.39%) SAP FSCM
8 13 (0.36%) Sprinklr
9 12 (0.33%) SAP IS-U
10 11 (0.30%) NetSuite
10 11 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
11 10 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
12 9 (0.25%) Adaptiv
13 8 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
13 8 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
13 8 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 964 (26.72%) Azure
2 789 (21.87%) Power Platform
3 470 (13.03%) AWS
4 293 (8.12%) Google Analytics
5 255 (7.07%) GCP
6 229 (6.35%) SaaS
7 171 (4.74%) Snowflake
8 166 (4.60%) Azure Data Factory
9 149 (4.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 123 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
11 106 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
12 96 (2.66%) Google Ads
13 91 (2.52%) GitHub
14 88 (2.44%) Serverless
15 86 (2.38%) dbt
16 84 (2.33%) Entra ID
17 73 (2.02%) Azure Monitor
18 58 (1.61%) Figma
19 56 (1.55%) PaaS
20 52 (1.44%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 43 (1.19%) VPN
2 34 (0.94%) SMS
3 33 (0.91%) Firewall
4 28 (0.78%) Unified Communications
5 25 (0.69%) DNS
6 21 (0.58%) WAN
7 18 (0.50%) SD-WAN
8 13 (0.36%) Network Security
9 5 (0.14%) Broadband
9 5 (0.14%) SAN
10 4 (0.11%) Internet
10 4 (0.11%) VoIP
10 4 (0.11%) Wireshark
11 3 (0.083%) Intranet
11 3 (0.083%) Intrusion Detection
11 3 (0.083%) TCP/IP
12 2 (0.055%) DHCP
12 2 (0.055%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.055%) SSH
12 2 (0.055%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 759 (21.04%) Power BI
2 358 (9.92%) Tableau
3 323 (8.95%) Data Warehouse
4 282 (7.82%) Data Lake
5 155 (4.30%) SQL Server
6 146 (4.05%) Metadata
7 111 (3.08%) Big Data
8 97 (2.69%) SAP BW
9 95 (2.63%) NoSQL
10 94 (2.61%) Data Mining
11 90 (2.49%) Looker
12 71 (1.97%) Azure SQL Database
13 70 (1.94%) BigQuery
14 68 (1.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 66 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
16 60 (1.66%) Relational Database
17 59 (1.64%) MySQL
18 54 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
19 50 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
20 47 (1.30%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 118 (3.27%) JIRA
2 93 (2.58%) Git
3 37 (1.03%) Jenkins
4 21 (0.58%) ERwin
5 19 (0.53%) ER Studio
6 18 (0.50%) Axure RP
6 18 (0.50%) Balsamiq
7 16 (0.44%) Cypress.io
7 16 (0.44%) GitLab
8 15 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
9 13 (0.36%) Selenium
10 10 (0.28%) Visual Studio
11 8 (0.22%) Maven
11 8 (0.22%) MLflow
11 8 (0.22%) Postman
12 7 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
13 5 (0.14%) RStudio
13 5 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
14 4 (0.11%) CircleCI
14 4 (0.11%) JUnit
General
1 1,356 (37.58%) Social Skills
2 1,286 (35.64%) Finance
3 1,154 (31.98%) Analytical Skills
4 808 (22.39%) Marketing
5 453 (12.56%) Law
6 287 (7.95%) Retail
7 279 (7.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 267 (7.40%) Banking
9 193 (5.35%) Public Sector
10 168 (4.66%) Manufacturing
11 158 (4.38%) Presentation Skills
12 149 (4.13%) Legal
13 118 (3.27%) Influencing Skills
14 115 (3.19%) Advertising
15 99 (2.74%) Games
16 92 (2.55%) Financial Institution
17 80 (2.22%) Front Office
18 74 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
19 65 (1.80%) Pharmaceutical
20 56 (1.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 619 (17.16%) Senior
2 532 (14.75%) Analyst
3 477 (13.22%) Lead
4 290 (8.04%) Architect
5 254 (7.04%) Data Analyst
6 249 (6.90%) Data Engineer
7 232 (6.43%) Developer
8 133 (3.69%) Senior Manager
9 111 (3.08%) Consultant
10 104 (2.88%) Data Architect
11 96 (2.66%) Innovation Manager
12 83 (2.30%) Software Engineer
13 72 (2.00%) Analytics Manager
13 72 (2.00%) Solutions Architect
14 69 (1.91%) Data Manager
14 69 (1.91%) Data Scientist
15 63 (1.75%) Report Analyst
16 61 (1.69%) Senior Analyst
17 60 (1.66%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 60 (1.66%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (3.16%) HTML
2 92 (2.55%) Kafka
3 90 (2.49%) CSS
4 67 (1.86%) React
5 62 (1.72%) PySpark
6 61 (1.69%) RESTful
7 49 (1.36%) REST
8 39 (1.08%) .NET
9 38 (1.05%) TensorFlow
10 37 (1.03%) OAuth
10 37 (1.03%) PyTorch
11 36 (1.00%) JSON
12 33 (0.91%) Node.js
13 31 (0.86%) Pandas
14 29 (0.80%) Middleware
15 28 (0.78%) AngularJS
16 25 (0.69%) GraphQL
16 25 (0.69%) OAuth2
16 25 (0.69%) scikit-learn
17 23 (0.64%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 235 (6.51%) Analytical Mindset
2 182 (5.04%) Product Ownership
3 173 (4.79%) Cloud Native
4 167 (4.63%) Social Media
5 165 (4.57%) Algorithms
5 165 (4.57%) Self-Motivation
6 159 (4.41%) Onboarding
7 157 (4.35%) Management Information System
8 81 (2.25%) FMCG
9 71 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
10 66 (1.83%) Data Centre
11 57 (1.58%) Life Science
12 54 (1.50%) Data Structures
13 43 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
14 41 (1.14%) Credit Risk
15 37 (1.03%) Reinsurance
16 36 (1.00%) Blog
16 36 (1.00%) Fixed Income
17 35 (0.97%) Equities
18 33 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 66 (1.83%) Windows
2 42 (1.16%) Linux
3 23 (0.64%) Unix
4 17 (0.47%) Windows 10
5 7 (0.19%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.17%) Android
6 6 (0.17%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.083%) VMS
8 2 (0.055%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.055%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.028%) AIX
9 1 (0.028%) Debian
9 1 (0.028%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.028%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 997 (27.63%) AI
2 979 (27.13%) Business Intelligence
3 895 (24.81%) Problem-Solving
4 856 (23.73%) Decision-Making
5 757 (20.98%) Agile
6 752 (20.84%) Data Analytics
7 641 (17.77%) Continuous Improvement
8 542 (15.02%) Data Modelling
9 531 (14.72%) Machine Learning
10 528 (14.63%) Roadmaps
11 523 (14.50%) Stakeholder Management
12 502 (13.91%) Data Science
13 450 (12.47%) Visualisation
14 433 (12.00%) Data Governance
15 428 (11.86%) Data Analysis
16 424 (11.75%) Actionable Insight
17 404 (11.20%) Project Management
18 385 (10.67%) CRM
19 382 (10.59%) Data Engineering
19 382 (10.59%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 994 (27.55%) SQL
2 874 (24.22%) Python
3 161 (4.46%) Java
4 129 (3.58%) JavaScript
5 96 (2.66%) PowerShell
6 83 (2.30%) R
7 79 (2.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 49 (1.36%) C#
9 47 (1.30%) T-SQL
10 44 (1.22%) TypeScript
11 43 (1.19%) Bicep
12 42 (1.16%) C++
13 38 (1.05%) Scala
14 35 (0.97%) Go
15 32 (0.89%) Bash
16 27 (0.75%) PL/SQL
17 20 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
17 20 (0.55%) VBA
18 18 (0.50%) PHP
19 15 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 864 (23.95%) Degree
2 213 (5.90%) Master's Degree
3 158 (4.38%) Security Cleared
4 127 (3.52%) DBS Check
5 110 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 110 (3.05%) SC Cleared
6 102 (2.83%) PhD
7 70 (1.94%) Azure Certification
8 67 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
9 52 (1.44%) CISSP
10 47 (1.30%) PMI Certification
11 45 (1.25%) Numerate Degree
12 41 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
12 41 (1.14%) CISA
13 39 (1.08%) PMP
14 37 (1.03%) AWS Certification
15 33 (0.91%) ACCA
16 29 (0.80%) CISM
17 26 (0.72%) CIMA
18 24 (0.67%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 405 (11.23%) Data Quality
2 238 (6.60%) GDPR
3 175 (4.85%) Accessibility
4 100 (2.77%) QA
5 72 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 37 (1.03%) WCAG
7 36 (1.00%) NIST
8 35 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
9 28 (0.78%) SLA
10 26 (0.72%) GxP
11 22 (0.61%) HIPAA
12 21 (0.58%) Solvency II
13 19 (0.53%) COBIT
13 19 (0.53%) EU AI Act
14 18 (0.50%) PSD2
15 15 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 14 (0.39%) GRC
16 14 (0.39%) PMO
17 13 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 13 (0.36%) IFRS
System Software
1 80 (2.22%) Docker
2 37 (1.03%) Active Directory
3 34 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (0.25%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.083%) Firmware
8 1 (0.028%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.028%) Varnish
8 1 (0.028%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 138 (3.82%) Terraform
2 122 (3.38%) Kubernetes
3 37 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
4 23 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (0.39%) Ansible
6 10 (0.28%) SCCM
7 9 (0.25%) Grafana
7 9 (0.25%) QRadar
8 8 (0.22%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 6 (0.17%) RSA Archer
10 5 (0.14%) EnCase
10 5 (0.14%) FTK
10 5 (0.14%) SCOM
11 2 (0.055%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.055%) SmoothWall
12 1 (0.028%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 1 (0.028%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 1 (0.028%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.028%) Kibana
Vendors
1 605 (16.77%) Microsoft
2 493 (13.66%) Google
3 276 (7.65%) Databricks
4 241 (6.68%) SAP
5 177 (4.91%) Salesforce
6 151 (4.19%) Oracle
7 136 (3.77%) Adobe
8 71 (1.97%) HubSpot
9 50 (1.39%) Alteryx
10 42 (1.16%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 41 (1.14%) Cisco
11 41 (1.14%) ServiceNow
12 40 (1.11%) Facebook
13 37 (1.03%) Dell
14 36 (1.00%) OpenAI
15 33 (0.91%) Ahrefs
15 33 (0.91%) Screaming Frog
16 30 (0.83%) Bloomberg
17 28 (0.78%) Informatica
18 25 (0.69%) Hotjar