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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 29 33
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 -9
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 3,871 3,311 4,415
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.92% 6.57% 5.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.42% 7.15% 6.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,051 1,619 3,156
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,738 £42,744
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.18% -10.74%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £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 52,190 46,328 65,674
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.79% 92.00% 88.33%
Number of salaries quoted 30,933 22,336 50,972
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,100 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,375 £101,250 £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 9 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 9 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 3,304 £65,000 -7.14% 1,560
UK excluding London 0 1,973 £52,500 -7.89% 1,155
London +5 1,565 £77,500 -8.82% 779
Work from Home 0 1,189 £65,000 - 792
South East +12 574 £55,000 -8.33% 468
North of England -19 432 £50,000 -9.09% 244
Midlands -2 349 £55,000 - 175
Scotland +11 249 £55,000 -8.90% 48
North West -19 223 £52,500 -4.55% 141
West Midlands -11 207 £59,527 +4.43% 102
South West +7 183 £55,000 +1.03% 119
Yorkshire -14 165 £52,000 -5.45% 74
East Midlands +12 142 £46,500 -7.00% 73
East of England +36 112 £47,500 -25.49% 81
Northern Ireland +2 48 £45,000 -34.55% 10
North East +20 45 £40,000 -20.79% 32
Wales +20 28 £56,250 +13.52% 27

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 93 (2.40%) CMS
2 87 (2.25%) Apache Spark
3 86 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
4 56 (1.45%) WordPress
5 48 (1.24%) Apache
6 46 (1.19%) Confluence
7 45 (1.16%) SharePoint
8 30 (0.77%) SAS
9 20 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 18 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
11 17 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
12 15 (0.39%) Drupal
13 9 (0.23%) ArcGIS
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 (0.077%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 498 (12.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 129 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
3 58 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (0.67%) Adobe XD
4 26 (0.67%) Maya
5 21 (0.54%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 19 (0.49%) InDesign
6 19 (0.49%) Photoshop
6 19 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.34%) Chatbot
8 12 (0.31%) Adobe Premiere
8 12 (0.31%) SPSS
9 9 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
9 9 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
9 9 (0.23%) Trello
10 6 (0.15%) MS Visio
11 5 (0.13%) UserZoom
12 4 (0.10%) SketchUp
13 3 (0.077%) Final Cut Pro
14 2 (0.052%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 64 (1.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 54 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 35 (0.90%) Oracle ERP
4 23 (0.59%) SAP CO
4 23 (0.59%) Shopify
5 22 (0.57%) SAP IBP
6 21 (0.54%) Magento
7 16 (0.41%) Oracle Assets
7 16 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
7 16 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
7 16 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
8 15 (0.39%) Oracle Financials
9 14 (0.36%) SAP FI
9 14 (0.36%) SAP FI/CO
10 13 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
11 12 (0.31%) Dynamics GP
11 12 (0.31%) NetSuite
12 11 (0.28%) IBM Planning Analytics
12 11 (0.28%) iTrent
13 8 (0.21%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 974 (25.16%) Azure
2 734 (18.96%) Power Platform
3 383 (9.89%) AWS
4 221 (5.71%) SaaS
5 208 (5.37%) Azure Data Factory
6 204 (5.27%) GCP
7 190 (4.91%) Google Analytics
8 189 (4.88%) Snowflake
9 180 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
10 169 (4.37%) Microsoft 365
11 152 (3.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 147 (3.80%) GitHub
13 115 (2.97%) dbt
14 105 (2.71%) Entra ID
15 86 (2.22%) Azure Monitor
16 76 (1.96%) Figma
16 76 (1.96%) Serverless
17 74 (1.91%) Amazon S3
18 68 (1.76%) Adobe Analytics
18 68 (1.76%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 65 (1.68%) Broadband
2 40 (1.03%) VPN
3 35 (0.90%) Firewall
4 19 (0.49%) CHAP
5 18 (0.46%) WAN
6 14 (0.36%) DNS
6 14 (0.36%) Unified Communications
7 12 (0.31%) Intranet
7 12 (0.31%) Network Security
8 9 (0.23%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.15%) HTTPS
10 5 (0.13%) DHCP
10 5 (0.13%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (0.10%) HTTP
11 4 (0.10%) Internet
11 4 (0.10%) SMS
11 4 (0.10%) SNMP
11 4 (0.10%) VoIP
11 4 (0.10%) Wireshark
12 3 (0.077%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 699 (18.06%) Power BI
2 394 (10.18%) Tableau
3 317 (8.19%) Data Warehouse
4 250 (6.46%) Data Lake
5 177 (4.57%) Metadata
6 171 (4.42%) Data Mining
7 152 (3.93%) SQL Server
8 102 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
9 96 (2.48%) SAP BW
10 92 (2.38%) Looker
11 84 (2.17%) Big Data
12 72 (1.86%) Relational Database
13 69 (1.78%) NoSQL
14 67 (1.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 62 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
16 56 (1.45%) Power Query
16 56 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 54 (1.39%) BigQuery
18 41 (1.06%) Hadoop
19 39 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 119 (3.07%) Git
1 119 (3.07%) JIRA
2 62 (1.60%) Jenkins
3 31 (0.80%) Oracle Forms
4 24 (0.62%) Axure RP
4 24 (0.62%) Balsamiq
4 24 (0.62%) GitLab
5 23 (0.59%) TeamCity
6 18 (0.46%) ERwin
6 18 (0.46%) Visual Studio
7 15 (0.39%) MLflow
8 13 (0.34%) Selenium
9 8 (0.21%) CircleCI
9 8 (0.21%) PowerDesigner
10 7 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 6 (0.15%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.15%) ER Studio
11 6 (0.15%) Postman
12 5 (0.13%) MSI
12 5 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,339 (34.59%) Finance
2 1,274 (32.91%) Social Skills
3 1,087 (28.08%) Analytical Skills
4 652 (16.84%) Marketing
5 265 (6.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 223 (5.76%) Banking
7 217 (5.61%) Public Sector
8 215 (5.55%) Law
9 196 (5.06%) Retail
10 152 (3.93%) Manufacturing
11 138 (3.56%) Legal
12 133 (3.44%) Presentation Skills
13 114 (2.94%) Games
14 107 (2.76%) Financial Institution
15 91 (2.35%) Pharmaceutical
16 89 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
17 85 (2.20%) Advertising
18 83 (2.14%) Automotive
19 74 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
20 68 (1.76%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 628 (16.22%) Analyst
2 623 (16.09%) Senior
3 484 (12.50%) Lead
4 347 (8.96%) Data Engineer
5 344 (8.89%) Data Analyst
6 301 (7.78%) Architect
7 224 (5.79%) Developer
8 141 (3.64%) Trainee
8 141 (3.64%) Trainee Analyst
8 141 (3.64%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 137 (3.54%) Senior Manager
10 130 (3.36%) Data Architect
11 93 (2.40%) Solutions Architect
12 88 (2.27%) Consultant
13 84 (2.17%) Data Manager
14 83 (2.14%) Designer
14 83 (2.14%) Senior Analyst
15 79 (2.04%) Data Scientist
15 79 (2.04%) Support Engineer
16 74 (1.91%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (2.38%) HTML
2 81 (2.09%) CSS
3 77 (1.99%) Kafka
3 77 (1.99%) PySpark
4 62 (1.60%) OAuth
5 61 (1.58%) React
6 60 (1.55%) RESTful
7 59 (1.52%) .NET
8 52 (1.34%) PyTorch
9 50 (1.29%) REST
10 49 (1.27%) TensorFlow
11 44 (1.14%) JSON
12 39 (1.01%) OAuth2
13 32 (0.83%) SAML
14 29 (0.75%) Node.js
15 27 (0.70%) .NET Core
16 26 (0.67%) FIX Protocol
17 25 (0.65%) Middleware
18 23 (0.59%) Akka
18 23 (0.59%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 188 (4.86%) Self-Motivation
2 185 (4.78%) Product Ownership
3 174 (4.49%) Social Media
4 173 (4.47%) Analytical Mindset
5 164 (4.24%) Cloud Native
6 160 (4.13%) Management Information System
7 127 (3.28%) Onboarding
8 114 (2.94%) Algorithms
9 95 (2.45%) Life Science
10 79 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
11 67 (1.73%) Data Structures
11 67 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
12 53 (1.37%) FMCG
13 44 (1.14%) Data Centre
13 44 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
14 42 (1.08%) Virtual Team
15 40 (1.03%) Fixed Income
15 40 (1.03%) Mobile App
16 38 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
17 32 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 112 (2.89%) Windows
2 60 (1.55%) Windows 10
3 42 (1.08%) Linux
4 30 (0.77%) Unix
5 19 (0.49%) 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 1,061 (27.41%) AI
2 996 (25.73%) Business Intelligence
3 871 (22.50%) Decision-Making
4 812 (20.98%) Problem-Solving
5 747 (19.30%) Data Analytics
6 745 (19.25%) Agile
7 708 (18.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 644 (16.64%) Data Modelling
9 501 (12.94%) Data Governance
10 480 (12.40%) Machine Learning
11 479 (12.37%) Project Management
12 470 (12.14%) Data Science
13 465 (12.01%) Data Analysis
14 464 (11.99%) Data Engineering
15 453 (11.70%) Roadmaps
16 448 (11.57%) Stakeholder Management
17 427 (11.03%) CI/CD
18 423 (10.93%) Data Pipeline
19 421 (10.88%) Visualisation
20 417 (10.77%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 1,016 (26.25%) SQL
2 929 (24.00%) Python
3 116 (3.00%) Java
4 115 (2.97%) JavaScript
5 88 (2.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 85 (2.20%) C#
7 77 (1.99%) PowerShell
8 75 (1.94%) Scala
9 64 (1.65%) R
10 50 (1.29%) Bicep
11 42 (1.08%) T-SQL
12 34 (0.88%) Bash
12 34 (0.88%) C++
12 34 (0.88%) TypeScript
13 29 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
14 25 (0.65%) PL/SQL
15 23 (0.59%) Go
16 22 (0.57%) Shell Script
17 17 (0.44%) VBA
18 14 (0.36%) PHP
Qualifications
1 861 (22.24%) Degree
2 244 (6.30%) Security Cleared
3 188 (4.86%) Master's Degree
4 179 (4.62%) SC Cleared
5 123 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 89 (2.30%) PhD
7 60 (1.55%) CISSP
7 60 (1.55%) CTC Cleared
8 54 (1.39%) CISA
9 51 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
10 48 (1.24%) Azure Certification
10 48 (1.24%) DBS Check
11 47 (1.21%) Numerate Degree
12 46 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
13 44 (1.14%) CISM
14 38 (0.98%) PMI Certification
15 32 (0.83%) ACCA
16 31 (0.80%) PMP
17 27 (0.70%) DV Cleared
18 26 (0.67%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 548 (14.16%) Data Quality
2 253 (6.54%) GDPR
3 235 (6.07%) Accessibility
4 80 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 79 (2.04%) QA
6 71 (1.83%) SLA
7 54 (1.39%) NIST
8 45 (1.16%) WCAG
9 43 (1.11%) GxP
10 40 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
11 32 (0.83%) COBIT
12 25 (0.65%) Solvency II
13 22 (0.57%) EU AI Act
13 22 (0.57%) HIPAA
13 22 (0.57%) IFRS
14 21 (0.54%) PSD2
15 18 (0.46%) GRC
16 17 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 17 (0.44%) SOC 2
17 15 (0.39%) PMO
System Software
1 119 (3.07%) Docker
2 57 (1.47%) Active Directory
3 35 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (0.23%) 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
1 188 (4.86%) Terraform
2 137 (3.54%) Kubernetes
3 36 (0.93%) Ansible
4 29 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
5 25 (0.65%) Grafana
5 25 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
6 21 (0.54%) Prometheus
7 11 (0.28%) SCCM
8 10 (0.26%) QRadar
9 8 (0.21%) EnCase
9 8 (0.21%) FTK
10 7 (0.18%) Kibana
11 6 (0.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 5 (0.13%) Argo
12 5 (0.13%) RSA Archer
12 5 (0.13%) SCOM
13 3 (0.077%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.077%) ArcSight ESM
13 3 (0.077%) Control-M
14 1 (0.026%) MOM
Vendors
1 800 (20.67%) Microsoft
2 322 (8.32%) Google
3 254 (6.56%) Databricks
4 247 (6.38%) SAP
5 183 (4.73%) Salesforce
6 153 (3.95%) Adobe
7 137 (3.54%) Cisco
8 135 (3.49%) Oracle
9 67 (1.73%) HubSpot
10 54 (1.39%) Alteryx
11 36 (0.93%) ServiceNow
12 34 (0.88%) Bloomberg
13 31 (0.80%) Dell
13 31 (0.80%) Informatica
14 30 (0.77%) OpenAI
14 30 (0.77%) Talend
15 29 (0.75%) YouTube
16 28 (0.72%) Nexthink
17 26 (0.67%) IBM
18 24 (0.62%) Instagram