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 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 28 32
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 -7
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 3,815 3,378 4,317
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.98% 6.50% 6.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.46% 7.10% 6.95%
Number of salaries quoted 2,013 1,667 3,059
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £34,559
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £114,750 £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 51,135 47,583 62,099
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.17% 91.57% 88.82%
Number of salaries quoted 30,200 22,958 48,143
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,531 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% -9.60%
75th Percentile £75,900 £80,000 £75,772
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 31 January 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 31 January 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 -7 3,265 £65,000 -7.14% 1,532
UK excluding London +2 1,937 £52,500 -7.89% 1,201
London +4 1,556 £75,000 -11.76% 738
Work from Home 0 1,176 £65,000 - 736
South East +15 568 £55,000 -8.33% 529
North of England -19 411 £51,000 -7.27% 228
Midlands -1 339 £55,000 - 163
Scotland +5 245 £57,500 -4.17% 57
North West -18 212 £52,500 -4.55% 143
West Midlands -9 201 £58,514 +2.66% 84
South West +8 188 £55,000 +1.03% 100
Yorkshire -12 157 £55,000 - 61
East Midlands +21 139 £46,445 -7.11% 79
East of England +42 113 £43,250 -29.39% 102
Northern Ireland +1 46 £45,000 -34.55% 11
North East +19 43 £40,000 -24.17% 28
Wales +21 29 £47,500 -4.14% 30

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 88 (2.31%) Apache Spark
2 87 (2.28%) CMS
3 84 (2.20%) Apache Airflow
4 53 (1.39%) WordPress
5 47 (1.23%) Apache
5 47 (1.23%) Confluence
6 45 (1.18%) SharePoint
7 29 (0.76%) SAS
8 20 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 18 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
10 17 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
11 13 (0.34%) Drupal
12 9 (0.24%) Umbraco
13 6 (0.16%) ArcGIS
13 6 (0.16%) IIS
14 5 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
15 4 (0.10%) Apache Superset
15 4 (0.10%) Documentum
15 4 (0.10%) Sitecore CMS
15 4 (0.10%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 503 (13.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 130 (3.41%) Microsoft Office
3 61 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 29 (0.76%) Maya
5 26 (0.68%) Adobe XD
6 23 (0.60%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 19 (0.50%) InDesign
7 19 (0.50%) Photoshop
8 16 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
9 14 (0.37%) Chatbot
10 12 (0.31%) Adobe Premiere
10 12 (0.31%) SPSS
11 10 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
11 10 (0.26%) Trello
12 9 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
13 6 (0.16%) MS Visio
14 4 (0.10%) SketchUp
14 4 (0.10%) UserZoom
15 3 (0.079%) Final Cut Pro
15 3 (0.079%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 62 (1.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 56 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 35 (0.92%) Oracle ERP
4 24 (0.63%) SAP CO
5 23 (0.60%) Shopify
6 22 (0.58%) SAP IBP
7 21 (0.55%) Magento
8 16 (0.42%) Oracle Assets
8 16 (0.42%) Oracle General Ledger
8 16 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
8 16 (0.42%) Oracle Receivables
8 16 (0.42%) SAP FI
8 16 (0.42%) SAP FI/CO
9 15 (0.39%) Oracle Financials
10 13 (0.34%) Dynamics GP
10 13 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
11 11 (0.29%) IBM Planning Analytics
12 10 (0.26%) NetSuite
12 10 (0.26%) SAP FSCM
13 9 (0.24%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 978 (25.64%) Azure
2 753 (19.74%) Power Platform
3 388 (10.17%) AWS
4 211 (5.53%) SaaS
5 207 (5.43%) GCP
6 202 (5.29%) Azure Data Factory
7 192 (5.03%) Snowflake
8 184 (4.82%) Azure DevOps
9 180 (4.72%) Google Analytics
10 170 (4.46%) Microsoft 365
11 156 (4.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 149 (3.91%) GitHub
13 111 (2.91%) dbt
14 104 (2.73%) Entra ID
15 88 (2.31%) Azure Monitor
16 76 (1.99%) Serverless
17 74 (1.94%) Figma
18 71 (1.86%) Amazon S3
19 66 (1.73%) Adobe Analytics
20 64 (1.68%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.63%) Broadband
2 43 (1.13%) VPN
3 35 (0.92%) Firewall
4 18 (0.47%) CHAP
4 18 (0.47%) WAN
5 15 (0.39%) DNS
6 14 (0.37%) Unified Communications
7 12 (0.31%) Intranet
8 11 (0.29%) Network Security
9 9 (0.24%) TCP/IP
10 6 (0.16%) HTTPS
11 5 (0.13%) DHCP
11 5 (0.13%) Intrusion Detection
11 5 (0.13%) Wireshark
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 (0.079%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 718 (18.82%) Power BI
2 394 (10.33%) Tableau
3 316 (8.28%) Data Warehouse
4 249 (6.53%) Data Lake
5 175 (4.59%) Metadata
6 162 (4.25%) Data Mining
7 148 (3.88%) SQL Server
8 99 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
9 97 (2.54%) SAP BW
10 92 (2.41%) Looker
11 86 (2.25%) Big Data
12 70 (1.83%) NoSQL
12 70 (1.83%) Relational Database
13 67 (1.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 61 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
15 55 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 54 (1.42%) Power Query
17 53 (1.39%) BigQuery
18 42 (1.10%) Hadoop
19 39 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 119 (3.12%) Git
2 117 (3.07%) JIRA
3 61 (1.60%) Jenkins
4 31 (0.81%) Oracle Forms
5 24 (0.63%) Axure RP
5 24 (0.63%) Balsamiq
6 23 (0.60%) GitLab
6 23 (0.60%) TeamCity
7 17 (0.45%) ERwin
7 17 (0.45%) Visual Studio
8 14 (0.37%) MLflow
8 14 (0.37%) Selenium
9 8 (0.21%) PowerDesigner
10 7 (0.18%) CircleCI
10 7 (0.18%) Postman
10 7 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 6 (0.16%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.16%) ER Studio
12 5 (0.13%) MSI
12 5 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,329 (34.84%) Finance
2 1,277 (33.47%) Social Skills
3 1,068 (27.99%) Analytical Skills
4 640 (16.78%) Marketing
5 262 (6.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 223 (5.85%) Banking
6 223 (5.85%) Law
7 220 (5.77%) Public Sector
8 193 (5.06%) Retail
9 154 (4.04%) Manufacturing
10 137 (3.59%) Legal
11 134 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
12 121 (3.17%) Games
13 103 (2.70%) Financial Institution
14 92 (2.41%) Pharmaceutical
15 82 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
16 79 (2.07%) Advertising
17 77 (2.02%) Automotive
18 71 (1.86%) Front Office
18 71 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 619 (16.23%) Analyst
2 613 (16.07%) Senior
3 476 (12.48%) Lead
4 345 (9.04%) Data Engineer
5 335 (8.78%) Data Analyst
6 298 (7.81%) Architect
7 221 (5.79%) Developer
8 142 (3.72%) Senior Manager
9 131 (3.43%) Trainee
9 131 (3.43%) Trainee Analyst
9 131 (3.43%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 126 (3.30%) Data Architect
11 93 (2.44%) Solutions Architect
12 87 (2.28%) Consultant
13 84 (2.20%) Data Manager
14 79 (2.07%) Senior Analyst
15 78 (2.04%) Data Scientist
15 78 (2.04%) Designer
15 78 (2.04%) Support Engineer
16 72 (1.89%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (2.23%) HTML
2 78 (2.04%) PySpark
3 76 (1.99%) Kafka
4 75 (1.97%) CSS
5 62 (1.63%) OAuth
6 61 (1.60%) React
7 60 (1.57%) RESTful
8 56 (1.47%) .NET
9 53 (1.39%) PyTorch
9 53 (1.39%) REST
10 49 (1.28%) TensorFlow
11 43 (1.13%) JSON
12 39 (1.02%) OAuth2
13 32 (0.84%) SAML
14 29 (0.76%) Node.js
15 27 (0.71%) Middleware
16 26 (0.68%) .NET Core
16 26 (0.68%) FIX Protocol
17 24 (0.63%) scikit-learn
17 24 (0.63%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 182 (4.77%) Self-Motivation
2 180 (4.72%) Product Ownership
3 174 (4.56%) Analytical Mindset
4 166 (4.35%) Social Media
5 161 (4.22%) Cloud Native
6 158 (4.14%) Management Information System
7 131 (3.43%) Onboarding
8 114 (2.99%) Algorithms
9 89 (2.33%) Life Science
10 83 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
11 66 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
12 64 (1.68%) Data Structures
13 56 (1.47%) FMCG
14 47 (1.23%) Data Centre
15 45 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
16 42 (1.10%) Virtual Team
17 41 (1.07%) Fixed Income
18 39 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
19 32 (0.84%) Mobile App
20 29 (0.76%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 113 (2.96%) Windows
2 60 (1.57%) Windows 10
3 42 (1.10%) Linux
4 30 (0.79%) Unix
5 19 (0.50%) VMS
6 13 (0.34%) Android
7 12 (0.31%) Apple iOS
7 12 (0.31%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.052%) AIX
8 2 (0.052%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.026%) Debian
9 1 (0.026%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,043 (27.34%) AI
2 1,012 (26.53%) Business Intelligence
3 860 (22.54%) Decision-Making
4 823 (21.57%) Problem-Solving
5 745 (19.53%) Agile
6 740 (19.40%) Data Analytics
7 701 (18.37%) Continuous Improvement
8 633 (16.59%) Data Modelling
9 505 (13.24%) Data Governance
10 479 (12.56%) Machine Learning
11 472 (12.37%) Project Management
12 469 (12.29%) Data Science
13 465 (12.19%) Data Analysis
14 456 (11.95%) Data Engineering
15 450 (11.80%) Stakeholder Management
16 449 (11.77%) Roadmaps
17 428 (11.22%) CI/CD
17 428 (11.22%) Visualisation
18 424 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
19 416 (10.90%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 1,011 (26.50%) SQL
2 925 (24.25%) Python
3 116 (3.04%) Java
3 116 (3.04%) JavaScript
4 86 (2.25%) C#
5 84 (2.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 76 (1.99%) PowerShell
6 76 (1.99%) Scala
7 63 (1.65%) R
8 52 (1.36%) Bicep
9 43 (1.13%) T-SQL
10 34 (0.89%) Bash
10 34 (0.89%) C++
10 34 (0.89%) TypeScript
11 28 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
12 25 (0.66%) PL/SQL
13 22 (0.58%) Go
14 21 (0.55%) Shell Script
15 17 (0.45%) VBA
16 14 (0.37%) PHP
Qualifications
1 877 (22.99%) Degree
2 244 (6.40%) Security Cleared
3 200 (5.24%) Master's Degree
4 178 (4.67%) SC Cleared
5 124 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 97 (2.54%) PhD
7 60 (1.57%) CISSP
7 60 (1.57%) CTC Cleared
8 55 (1.44%) CISA
9 52 (1.36%) DBS Check
10 50 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
11 46 (1.21%) Azure Certification
11 46 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
11 46 (1.21%) Numerate Degree
12 43 (1.13%) CISM
13 39 (1.02%) PMI Certification
14 33 (0.87%) ACCA
15 31 (0.81%) PMP
16 29 (0.76%) DV Cleared
17 24 (0.63%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 548 (14.36%) Data Quality
2 251 (6.58%) GDPR
3 231 (6.06%) Accessibility
4 80 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 78 (2.04%) QA
6 71 (1.86%) SLA
7 53 (1.39%) NIST
8 44 (1.15%) WCAG
9 43 (1.13%) GxP
10 39 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
11 33 (0.87%) COBIT
12 25 (0.66%) Solvency II
13 23 (0.60%) HIPAA
14 22 (0.58%) IFRS
15 21 (0.55%) EU AI Act
15 21 (0.55%) PSD2
16 19 (0.50%) GRC
17 17 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 16 (0.42%) PMO
18 16 (0.42%) SOC 2
System Software
1 122 (3.20%) Docker
2 54 (1.42%) Active Directory
3 35 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (0.24%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.10%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.052%) Firmware
8 2 (0.052%) vSphere
9 1 (0.026%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.026%) vCloud
9 1 (0.026%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 190 (4.98%) Terraform
2 137 (3.59%) Kubernetes
3 36 (0.94%) Ansible
4 26 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
5 25 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
6 24 (0.63%) Grafana
7 19 (0.50%) Prometheus
8 11 (0.29%) QRadar
8 11 (0.29%) SCCM
9 8 (0.21%) EnCase
9 8 (0.21%) FTK
10 7 (0.18%) Kibana
11 6 (0.16%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 5 (0.13%) Argo
12 5 (0.13%) RSA Archer
12 5 (0.13%) SCOM
13 3 (0.079%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.079%) ArcSight ESM
13 3 (0.079%) Control-M
14 1 (0.026%) MOM
Vendors
1 785 (20.58%) Microsoft
2 306 (8.02%) Google
3 259 (6.79%) Databricks
4 244 (6.40%) SAP
5 181 (4.74%) Salesforce
6 153 (4.01%) Adobe
7 138 (3.62%) Oracle
8 136 (3.56%) Cisco
9 64 (1.68%) HubSpot
10 53 (1.39%) Alteryx
11 35 (0.92%) ServiceNow
12 34 (0.89%) Bloomberg
13 33 (0.87%) Dell
14 29 (0.76%) Informatica
14 29 (0.76%) Talend
14 29 (0.76%) YouTube
15 28 (0.73%) OpenAI
16 27 (0.71%) Nexthink
17 25 (0.66%) IBM
18 24 (0.63%) Palantir