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

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 24 37
Rank change year-on-year -9 +13 -13
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 4,261 3,260 4,668
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.71% 7.56% 5.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.33% 8.09% 6.32%
Number of salaries quoted 2,355 1,665 3,272
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,683 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year - +1.85% -1.82%

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 58,145 40,321 73,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.92% 93.51% 87.23%
Number of salaries quoted 35,200 22,427 56,120
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,925 £29,000
25th Percentile £39,911 £44,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.78%
75th Percentile £76,299 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
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 16 March 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 March 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 -8 3,664 £65,000 -7.14% 1,946
UK excluding London -13 2,133 £55,000 - 1,537
London +5 1,720 £80,000 -5.88% 878
Work from Home -3 1,366 £64,000 +2.40% 1,014
North of England -14 557 £52,000 -5.45% 331
South East +5 494 £55,000 -8.33% 575
Midlands -13 430 £52,500 +0.00% 215
North West -21 279 £57,750 +5.00% 181
West Midlands -14 271 £57,500 +4.55% 112
Yorkshire -6 217 £50,000 -9.09% 107
Scotland -5 204 £65,000 -11.93% 58
South West -11 193 £55,000 +3.01% 165
East of England +39 167 £50,000 -23.08% 165
East Midlands -1 157 £48,500 +2.11% 103
North East +13 61 £40,000 -27.27% 46
Northern Ireland -9 56 £45,000 +50.00% 12
Wales +4 34 £52,500 +5.00% 44

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
1 144 (3.38%) Apache Airflow
2 117 (2.75%) Apache Spark
3 108 (2.53%) CMS
4 79 (1.85%) Apache
5 57 (1.34%) Confluence
6 54 (1.27%) WordPress
7 46 (1.08%) SharePoint
8 40 (0.94%) SAS
9 34 (0.80%) ArcGIS
10 22 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
11 18 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
12 17 (0.40%) Drupal
13 12 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 9 (0.21%) Oracle Application Server
15 8 (0.19%) Umbraco
16 6 (0.14%) IIS
17 4 (0.094%) Appian
17 4 (0.094%) Documentum
17 4 (0.094%) Sitecore CMS
18 3 (0.070%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 427 (10.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 125 (2.93%) Microsoft Office
3 64 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (0.66%) Adobe XD
5 23 (0.54%) UserZoom
6 18 (0.42%) MS Visio
7 17 (0.40%) InDesign
8 16 (0.38%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 15 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
10 13 (0.31%) Photoshop
11 11 (0.26%) Adobe Premiere
11 11 (0.26%) SPSS
12 8 (0.19%) Chatbot
12 8 (0.19%) Maya
13 7 (0.16%) Trello
14 6 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
15 5 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
16 3 (0.070%) Final Cut Pro
16 3 (0.070%) Sketch
16 3 (0.070%) SketchUp
Business Applications
1 78 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 47 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
3 35 (0.82%) SAP IBP
4 34 (0.80%) SAP PP
5 30 (0.70%) Oracle ERP
6 18 (0.42%) Magento
7 17 (0.40%) Shopify
8 16 (0.38%) NetSuite
8 16 (0.38%) SAP CO
9 15 (0.35%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 15 (0.35%) iTrent
10 13 (0.31%) Adobe Campaign
10 13 (0.31%) Dynamics GP
10 13 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
10 13 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
10 13 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
11 12 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
11 12 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
11 12 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
12 11 (0.26%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 954 (22.39%) Azure
2 673 (15.79%) Power Platform
3 493 (11.57%) AWS
4 248 (5.82%) SaaS
5 233 (5.47%) Snowflake
6 226 (5.30%) GCP
7 223 (5.23%) Azure Data Factory
8 190 (4.46%) Google Analytics
9 171 (4.01%) Azure DevOps
10 166 (3.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 162 (3.80%) Microsoft 365
12 158 (3.71%) Adobe Analytics
13 153 (3.59%) GitHub
14 128 (3.00%) dbt
15 112 (2.63%) Amazon S3
15 112 (2.63%) Figma
16 95 (2.23%) Serverless
17 93 (2.18%) Entra ID
18 86 (2.02%) Azure Monitor
19 65 (1.53%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 177 (4.15%) Broadband
2 38 (0.89%) VPN
3 37 (0.87%) Firewall
4 24 (0.56%) CHAP
5 23 (0.54%) WAN
6 20 (0.47%) DNS
7 17 (0.40%) Network Security
8 14 (0.33%) Intranet
8 14 (0.33%) TCP/IP
9 13 (0.31%) Unified Communications
10 10 (0.23%) DHCP
11 6 (0.14%) HTTPS
12 5 (0.12%) SNMP
13 4 (0.094%) HTTP
13 4 (0.094%) SMS
14 3 (0.070%) Intrusion Detection
14 3 (0.070%) LAN
14 3 (0.070%) Modbus
14 3 (0.070%) MQTT
15 2 (0.047%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 639 (15.00%) Power BI
2 428 (10.04%) Tableau
3 347 (8.14%) Data Warehouse
4 218 (5.12%) Data Lake
5 201 (4.72%) Data Mining
6 187 (4.39%) Metadata
7 161 (3.78%) SQL Server
8 113 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
9 110 (2.58%) Looker
10 84 (1.97%) Relational Database
11 81 (1.90%) Amazon Redshift
12 77 (1.81%) BigQuery
13 73 (1.71%) NoSQL
14 69 (1.62%) Big Data
15 67 (1.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 62 (1.46%) Power Query
17 55 (1.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 52 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
19 43 (1.01%) Snowflake Schema
20 42 (0.99%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 153 (3.59%) Git
2 108 (2.53%) JIRA
3 71 (1.67%) Jenkins
4 33 (0.77%) GitLab
5 27 (0.63%) MLflow
6 25 (0.59%) Axure RP
6 25 (0.59%) Balsamiq
6 25 (0.59%) IBM UrbanCode
7 23 (0.54%) TeamCity
8 22 (0.52%) Oracle Forms
9 19 (0.45%) Visual Studio
10 13 (0.31%) ERwin
11 11 (0.26%) CircleCI
12 10 (0.23%) Crashlytics
13 9 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 8 (0.19%) Cypress.io
14 8 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
14 8 (0.19%) Selenium
15 7 (0.16%) XCTest
16 5 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,382 (32.43%) Finance
2 1,228 (28.82%) Social Skills
3 1,096 (25.72%) Analytical Skills
4 654 (15.35%) Marketing
5 282 (6.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 260 (6.10%) Public Sector
7 257 (6.03%) Banking
8 215 (5.05%) Law
9 202 (4.74%) Retail
10 177 (4.15%) Games
11 169 (3.97%) Legal
12 162 (3.80%) Manufacturing
13 124 (2.91%) Presentation Skills
14 109 (2.56%) Financial Institution
15 97 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
16 94 (2.21%) Advertising
16 94 (2.21%) Automotive
17 88 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
18 73 (1.71%) Pharmaceutical
19 69 (1.62%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 700 (16.43%) Senior
2 656 (15.40%) Analyst
3 471 (11.05%) Lead
4 403 (9.46%) Data Engineer
5 381 (8.94%) Data Analyst
6 321 (7.53%) Architect
7 237 (5.56%) Developer
8 179 (4.20%) Trainee
8 179 (4.20%) Trainee Analyst
8 179 (4.20%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 165 (3.87%) Consultant
10 148 (3.47%) Senior Manager
11 145 (3.40%) Data Architect
12 109 (2.56%) Designer
13 97 (2.28%) Solutions Architect
14 91 (2.14%) Data Manager
15 86 (2.02%) Senior Analyst
15 86 (2.02%) Support Engineer
16 83 (1.95%) Data Scientist
16 83 (1.95%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (2.56%) PySpark
2 101 (2.37%) Kafka
3 100 (2.35%) HTML
4 92 (2.16%) CSS
5 76 (1.78%) PyTorch
6 69 (1.62%) .NET
7 62 (1.46%) React
8 56 (1.31%) TensorFlow
9 55 (1.29%) OAuth
9 55 (1.29%) RESTful
10 49 (1.15%) SAP Fiori
11 47 (1.10%) REST
12 44 (1.03%) JSON
13 36 (0.84%) .NET Core
14 34 (0.80%) LangChain
14 34 (0.80%) Node.js
15 32 (0.75%) OAuth2
15 32 (0.75%) Pandas
16 28 (0.66%) scikit-learn
17 26 (0.61%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 275 (6.45%) Social Media
2 195 (4.58%) Cloud Native
3 192 (4.51%) Product Ownership
4 175 (4.11%) Self-Motivation
5 151 (3.54%) Analytical Mindset
6 149 (3.50%) Management Information System
7 126 (2.96%) Onboarding
8 113 (2.65%) Algorithms
9 111 (2.61%) Life Science
10 80 (1.88%) Data Structures
11 77 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
12 64 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
13 59 (1.38%) Mobile App
14 58 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
15 44 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
16 41 (0.96%) Virtual Team
17 39 (0.92%) Fixed Income
17 39 (0.92%) Web Conferencing
18 36 (0.84%) Over-the-Top Content
19 33 (0.77%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 109 (2.56%) Windows
2 60 (1.41%) Windows 10
3 42 (0.99%) Linux
4 25 (0.59%) VMS
5 24 (0.56%) Unix
6 19 (0.45%) Apple iOS
7 15 (0.35%) Windows Server
8 13 (0.31%) Android
9 2 (0.047%) AIX
9 2 (0.047%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.023%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,208 (28.35%) AI
2 926 (21.73%) Business Intelligence
3 893 (20.96%) Decision-Making
4 866 (20.32%) Agile
5 791 (18.56%) Data Analytics
6 729 (17.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 711 (16.69%) Problem-Solving
8 658 (15.44%) Data Modelling
9 551 (12.93%) Roadmaps
10 530 (12.44%) Data Governance
11 519 (12.18%) Data Engineering
12 514 (12.06%) Data Analysis
13 493 (11.57%) Data Science
14 486 (11.41%) Machine Learning
15 485 (11.38%) Data Pipeline
16 477 (11.19%) CI/CD
17 468 (10.98%) Project Management
18 464 (10.89%) ETL
19 449 (10.54%) Customer Experience
20 422 (9.90%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1,134 (26.61%) SQL
2 1,039 (24.38%) Python
3 114 (2.68%) JavaScript
4 102 (2.39%) Java
5 97 (2.28%) C#
6 94 (2.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 74 (1.74%) Scala
8 70 (1.64%) PowerShell
9 68 (1.60%) R
10 48 (1.13%) Bicep
11 44 (1.03%) TypeScript
12 43 (1.01%) T-SQL
13 40 (0.94%) C++
14 36 (0.84%) Kusto Query Language
15 32 (0.75%) Go
16 26 (0.61%) Bash
17 20 (0.47%) PL/SQL
18 17 (0.40%) Shell Script
19 16 (0.38%) VBA
20 13 (0.31%) PHP
Qualifications
1 709 (16.64%) Degree
2 268 (6.29%) Security Cleared
3 187 (4.39%) SC Cleared
4 153 (3.59%) Master's Degree
5 124 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 60 (1.41%) CTC Cleared
7 59 (1.38%) PhD
8 56 (1.31%) CISSP
9 55 (1.29%) Azure Certification
10 51 (1.20%) CISA
11 48 (1.13%) CISM
11 48 (1.13%) IRCA
11 48 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
12 44 (1.03%) DBS Check
12 44 (1.03%) Numerate Degree
13 38 (0.89%) ACCA
14 36 (0.84%) DV Cleared
15 35 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
16 31 (0.73%) AWS Certification
16 31 (0.73%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 569 (13.35%) Data Quality
2 361 (8.47%) Accessibility
3 319 (7.49%) GDPR
4 141 (3.31%) QA
5 84 (1.97%) WCAG
6 80 (1.88%) SLA
7 70 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 59 (1.38%) ISO 9001
9 52 (1.22%) NIST
10 49 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
11 34 (0.80%) HIPAA
12 30 (0.70%) COBIT
13 28 (0.66%) IFRS
14 27 (0.63%) GxP
14 27 (0.63%) Solvency II
15 26 (0.61%) EU AI Act
16 24 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 21 (0.49%) PSD2
17 21 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 17 (0.40%) SOC 2
System Software
1 142 (3.33%) Docker
2 64 (1.50%) Active Directory
3 31 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (0.28%) Hyper-V
5 11 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
6 10 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.094%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.047%) Firmware
8 2 (0.047%) vSphere
9 1 (0.023%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.023%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 204 (4.79%) Terraform
2 166 (3.90%) Kubernetes
3 46 (1.08%) Ansible
4 26 (0.61%) Grafana
5 25 (0.59%) Prometheus
6 20 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (0.19%) EnCase
8 8 (0.19%) FTK
9 7 (0.16%) Kibana
10 6 (0.14%) QRadar
10 6 (0.14%) SCCM
11 5 (0.12%) Argo
11 5 (0.12%) SCOM
12 4 (0.094%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.094%) RSA Archer
12 4 (0.094%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 3 (0.070%) ArcSight ESM
13 3 (0.070%) Control-M
13 3 (0.070%) VxRail
Vendors
1 867 (20.35%) Microsoft
2 321 (7.53%) Google
3 296 (6.95%) Databricks
4 254 (5.96%) Adobe
5 181 (4.25%) SAP
6 175 (4.11%) Salesforce
7 146 (3.43%) Oracle
8 136 (3.19%) Cisco
9 63 (1.48%) HubSpot
10 55 (1.29%) Alteryx
11 41 (0.96%) Informatica
12 40 (0.94%) Dell
13 32 (0.75%) Bloomberg
13 32 (0.75%) Palantir
14 31 (0.73%) ServiceNow
15 29 (0.68%) Instagram
16 28 (0.66%) Foundry
16 28 (0.66%) Nexthink
16 28 (0.66%) OpenAI
16 28 (0.66%) Talend