Analytics Jobs

Analytics
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Analytics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Analytics over the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 31 24
Rank change year-on-year +8 -7 -1
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 4,557 3,817 10,607
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.83% 7.41% 9.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.51% 7.88% 9.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,925 2,488 5,537
10th Percentile £40,700 £37,341 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,519 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,900
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -1.37% +4.76%
75th Percentile £93,750 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £114,152 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,000 £55,050 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.54% +0.09% +4.76%

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 60,644 48,444 112,598
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 90.90% 94.08% 95.75%
Number of salaries quoted 27,354 34,872 70,428
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,000 £34,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £45,058
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £61,757
Median % change year-on-year - -2.84% +2.93%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,793 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year +4.37% -2.78% +8.00%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Analytics.

Salary trend for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytics over the 6 months to 21 December 2024.

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 21 December 2024. 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 4,165 £70,000 +7.69% 1,801
Work from Home +9 2,327 £67,500 +3.85% 1,408
London +12 2,275 £85,000 +6.25% 1,071
UK excluding London -10 2,129 £57,000 +3.54% 803
North of England -20 547 £56,509 +2.74% 264
South East -11 489 £59,000 +4.38% 163
North West -17 366 £57,000 +9.44% 162
Midlands -3 360 £57,000 +7.04% 132
South West +3 316 £55,000 -10.39% 93
West Midlands +7 281 £57,000 +7.04% 90
Scotland -1 272 £52,500 -11.69% 49
Yorkshire -26 153 £55,000 -7.65% 79
East of England -20 104 £60,000 +5.26% 63
East Midlands -12 79 £50,000 -9.09% 42
North East -15 31 £55,000 +8.91% 25
Northern Ireland +3 25 £68,750 +1.85% 17
Wales -42 18 £50,000 +12.69% 26
Channel Islands - 2 £62,000 -

Analytics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 152 (3.34%) SAS
2 121 (2.66%) Apache Airflow
3 102 (2.24%) SharePoint
4 88 (1.93%) Oracle Application Server
5 84 (1.84%) CMS
6 69 (1.51%) Apache Spark
7 64 (1.40%) Apache
8 47 (1.03%) WordPress
9 25 (0.55%) Confluence
10 23 (0.50%) Mule
11 22 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
12 17 (0.37%) Drupal
13 12 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 9 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
15 8 (0.18%) ArcGIS
16 6 (0.13%) IBM Domino
16 6 (0.13%) Jupyter
16 6 (0.13%) Luigi
16 6 (0.13%) Umbraco
17 5 (0.11%) IIS
Applications
1 427 (9.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 117 (2.57%) Microsoft Office
3 100 (2.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (0.55%) Chatbot
5 21 (0.46%) Adobe Premiere
5 21 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
6 15 (0.33%) Photoshop
7 12 (0.26%) MS Visio
8 11 (0.24%) Adobe XD
9 10 (0.22%) Sketch
10 9 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 9 (0.20%) InDesign
10 9 (0.20%) SPSS
10 9 (0.20%) Weka
11 6 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
11 6 (0.13%) Trello
12 5 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
13 4 (0.088%) InVision
13 4 (0.088%) Oracle Smart View
13 4 (0.088%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 102 (2.24%) Oracle EBS
2 55 (1.21%) Shopify
3 44 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
4 40 (0.88%) NetSuite
5 37 (0.81%) Aladdin
6 36 (0.79%) iTrent
7 24 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
8 20 (0.44%) Unit4 Business World
9 19 (0.42%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 16 (0.35%) PeopleSoft HCM
11 15 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
12 12 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
13 8 (0.18%) Oracle Retail
13 8 (0.18%) SystmOne
14 5 (0.11%) CiviCRM
14 5 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
15 4 (0.088%) Dynamics NAV
15 4 (0.088%) Remedy ITSM
15 4 (0.088%) SAP ERP
16 3 (0.066%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 924 (20.28%) GCP
2 766 (16.81%) Azure
3 722 (15.84%) Power Platform
4 559 (12.27%) AWS
5 203 (4.45%) Google Analytics
6 164 (3.60%) SaaS
7 155 (3.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 149 (3.27%) Azure Data Factory
8 149 (3.27%) Collibra
9 135 (2.96%) Snowflake
10 127 (2.79%) dbt
11 117 (2.57%) Amazon S3
12 105 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
13 88 (1.93%) Cloud Computing
14 86 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
15 84 (1.84%) Serverless
16 80 (1.76%) GitHub
17 64 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
18 58 (1.27%) Google Ads
19 54 (1.18%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 922 (20.23%) Broadband
2 49 (1.08%) Internet
3 43 (0.94%) Network Security
4 42 (0.92%) Firewall
5 33 (0.72%) DNS
6 23 (0.50%) HTTP
7 19 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
8 18 (0.39%) VPN
9 16 (0.35%) LAN
9 16 (0.35%) Wireless
10 14 (0.31%) DHCP
10 14 (0.31%) SSL
10 14 (0.31%) WAN
11 13 (0.29%) Intranet
12 11 (0.24%) TCP/IP
13 10 (0.22%) BGP
13 10 (0.22%) OSPF
13 10 (0.22%) SNMP
14 8 (0.18%) 802.11
14 8 (0.18%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 842 (18.48%) Data Hub
2 697 (15.30%) Power BI
3 475 (10.42%) Data Warehouse
4 392 (8.60%) Tableau
5 231 (5.07%) BigQuery
6 208 (4.56%) Metadata
7 204 (4.48%) Data Lake
8 189 (4.15%) Big Data
9 187 (4.10%) SQL Server
10 164 (3.60%) Relational Database
11 113 (2.48%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 107 (2.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 98 (2.15%) NoSQL
14 97 (2.13%) RDBMS
15 89 (1.95%) Amazon Athena
16 84 (1.84%) Amazon Redshift
17 78 (1.71%) Data Mining
18 71 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
19 65 (1.43%) Apache Iceberg
20 64 (1.40%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 138 (3.03%) Git
2 102 (2.24%) JIRA
3 66 (1.45%) Jenkins
4 26 (0.57%) GitLab
5 21 (0.46%) Visual Studio
6 19 (0.42%) Maven
7 17 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
8 16 (0.35%) JUnit
9 15 (0.33%) SoapUI
10 14 (0.31%) Eclipse
11 13 (0.29%) Cucumber
11 13 (0.29%) Eclipse RCP
12 12 (0.26%) Bitbucket
12 12 (0.26%) MLflow
12 12 (0.26%) Mockito
13 11 (0.24%) IntelliJ
13 11 (0.24%) Subversion
14 10 (0.22%) Rational DOORS
14 10 (0.22%) Selenium
14 10 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 2,250 (49.37%) Social Skills
2 1,384 (30.37%) Finance
3 1,166 (25.59%) Analytical Skills
4 818 (17.95%) Influencing Skills
5 448 (9.83%) Marketing
6 337 (7.40%) Banking
7 305 (6.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 281 (6.17%) Retail
9 249 (5.46%) Legal
10 202 (4.43%) Front Office
11 193 (4.24%) Organisational Skills
12 184 (4.04%) Law
13 151 (3.31%) Presentation Skills
14 126 (2.76%) Public Sector
15 99 (2.17%) Games
16 91 (2.00%) Manufacturing
17 88 (1.93%) Military
18 87 (1.91%) Advertising
19 67 (1.47%) Telecoms
20 60 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1,546 (33.93%) Senior
2 1,531 (33.60%) Analyst
3 923 (20.25%) Senior Analyst
4 464 (10.18%) Data Analyst
5 423 (9.28%) Lead
6 391 (8.58%) IT Analyst
7 385 (8.45%) Audit Analyst
8 310 (6.80%) Developer
9 294 (6.45%) Data Engineer
10 258 (5.66%) Architect
11 158 (3.47%) Analytics Manager
12 156 (3.42%) Data Scientist
13 143 (3.14%) Consultant
14 128 (2.81%) Data Manager
15 116 (2.55%) Senior Manager
16 113 (2.48%) Data Architect
17 104 (2.28%) Product Manager
18 95 (2.08%) DevOps Engineer
19 93 (2.04%) Solutions Architect
20 89 (1.95%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 193 (4.24%) HTML
2 154 (3.38%) CSS
3 118 (2.59%) PySpark
4 114 (2.50%) Pandas
5 97 (2.13%) NumPy
6 90 (1.97%) .NET
7 83 (1.82%) Kafka
8 74 (1.62%) React
9 62 (1.36%) REST
9 62 (1.36%) SciPy
10 56 (1.23%) Node.js
11 50 (1.10%) JSON
12 44 (0.97%) Web Services
13 42 (0.92%) AngularJS
14 36 (0.79%) HTML5
15 35 (0.77%) XML
16 34 (0.75%) scikit-learn
17 33 (0.72%) PyTorch
18 32 (0.70%) TensorFlow
19 30 (0.66%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 203 (4.45%) Management Information System
2 193 (4.24%) Product Ownership
3 192 (4.21%) Algorithms
4 184 (4.04%) Social Media
5 151 (3.31%) Over-the-Top Content
6 143 (3.14%) Self-Motivation
7 109 (2.39%) Fixed Income
8 108 (2.37%) Hedge funds
9 88 (1.93%) Derivative
10 86 (1.89%) Equities
11 79 (1.73%) Data Structures
12 78 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 74 (1.62%) Credit Risk
14 70 (1.54%) Onboarding
15 59 (1.29%) IoT
16 56 (1.23%) Public Cloud
17 54 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
18 51 (1.12%) Cloud Native
19 47 (1.03%) Life Science
20 46 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 170 (3.73%) Linux
2 160 (3.51%) Windows
3 39 (0.86%) Apple iOS
4 34 (0.75%) Unix
4 34 (0.75%) Windows Server
5 20 (0.44%) Windows 10
6 16 (0.35%) Ubuntu
6 16 (0.35%) Windows Vista
7 12 (0.26%) Android
7 12 (0.26%) Mac OS
7 12 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (0.15%) CentOS
8 7 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.088%) Windows Server 2008
10 4 (0.088%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.066%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (0.066%) VMS
12 2 (0.044%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.022%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,519 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1,213 (26.62%) Data Management
3 1,122 (24.62%) Data Governance
4 1,080 (23.70%) Customer Experience
5 950 (20.85%) Agile
6 930 (20.41%) Continuous Improvement
7 927 (20.34%) Data Transformation
8 910 (19.97%) Business Intelligence
9 903 (19.82%) Data Analytics
10 843 (18.50%) Data Analysis
11 684 (15.01%) Visualisation
12 626 (13.74%) Decision-Making
13 563 (12.35%) Data Modelling
14 550 (12.07%) Machine Learning
15 549 (12.05%) Roadmaps
16 542 (11.89%) Artificial Intelligence
17 533 (11.70%) Data Science
18 500 (10.97%) Mentoring
19 441 (9.68%) Computer Science
19 441 (9.68%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1,317 (28.90%) SQL
2 1,061 (23.28%) Python
3 236 (5.18%) Java
4 219 (4.81%) R
5 189 (4.15%) JavaScript
6 163 (3.58%) C#
7 108 (2.37%) T-SQL
8 85 (1.87%) PowerShell
9 84 (1.84%) VBA
10 73 (1.60%) C++
10 73 (1.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 54 (1.18%) TypeScript
12 39 (0.86%) Bash
13 38 (0.83%) PHP
13 38 (0.83%) Scala
14 35 (0.77%) C
14 35 (0.77%) MATLAB
15 22 (0.48%) PL/SQL
16 21 (0.46%) Go
17 18 (0.39%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1,042 (22.87%) Degree
2 645 (14.15%) CISA
3 197 (4.32%) Security Cleared
4 190 (4.17%) Master's Degree
5 179 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 164 (3.60%) DBS Check
7 132 (2.90%) SC Cleared
8 90 (1.97%) Numerate Degree
9 76 (1.67%) PhD
10 69 (1.51%) DV Cleared
11 42 (0.92%) ACCA
12 40 (0.88%) Azure Certification
13 34 (0.75%) CISSP
14 30 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
15 28 (0.61%) AWS Certification
16 26 (0.57%) CCAB
17 24 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
18 22 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 21 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
20 20 (0.44%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 597 (13.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 563 (12.35%) Data Quality
3 114 (2.50%) QA
4 107 (2.35%) Accessibility
5 95 (2.08%) GDPR
6 55 (1.21%) ITGC
7 34 (0.75%) IFRS
8 29 (0.64%) NIST
9 27 (0.59%) SLA
10 23 (0.50%) SOC 2
11 22 (0.48%) IFRS 9
12 21 (0.46%) PMO
13 19 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 16 (0.35%) WCAG
15 12 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
16 11 (0.24%) GRC
17 8 (0.18%) HIPAA
18 6 (0.13%) Basel III
19 5 (0.11%) NCSC
20 4 (0.088%) CRD IV
System Software
1 123 (2.70%) Docker
2 79 (1.73%) Active Directory
3 30 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
6 12 (0.26%) Hyper-V
7 10 (0.22%) vSphere
8 4 (0.088%) Terminal Services
9 3 (0.066%) Firmware
10 2 (0.044%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.044%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.022%) Apache Flume
11 1 (0.022%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.022%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.022%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.022%) XenApp
11 1 (0.022%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 153 (3.36%) Kubernetes
2 122 (2.68%) Terraform
3 38 (0.83%) Ansible
4 23 (0.50%) Grafana
5 18 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (0.39%) SCCM
6 15 (0.33%) Prometheus
7 11 (0.24%) Graylog
8 9 (0.20%) Packer
9 6 (0.13%) CSIRT
10 5 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.11%) Cacti
10 5 (0.11%) Nagios
11 4 (0.088%) Argo
11 4 (0.088%) Kubeflow
11 4 (0.088%) McAfee ePO
11 4 (0.088%) Proxmox
11 4 (0.088%) SCOM
11 4 (0.088%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.088%) WSUS
Vendors
1 820 (17.99%) Google
2 662 (14.53%) Microsoft
3 415 (9.11%) Oracle
4 263 (5.77%) Databricks
5 158 (3.47%) Informatica
6 154 (3.38%) SAP
7 149 (3.27%) Cloudera
8 122 (2.68%) Salesforce
9 78 (1.71%) Adobe
10 63 (1.38%) Alteryx
11 58 (1.27%) IBM
12 48 (1.05%) Bloomberg
13 37 (0.81%) Cisco
14 33 (0.72%) BISAM
15 28 (0.61%) TikTok
16 26 (0.57%) Instagram
17 25 (0.55%) Cadence
18 23 (0.50%) Facebook
18 23 (0.50%) ServiceNow
19 22 (0.48%) BT