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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 24 35
Rank change year-on-year -9 +11 -10
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 4,149 3,292 4,449
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.82% 7.22% 5.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.40% 7.75% 6.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2,241 1,611 3,168
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,250 £33,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £49,480 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -9.91%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £56,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.79% +6.67% -4.55%

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 56,068 42,498 69,118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.66% 93.26% 87.85%
Number of salaries quoted 33,637 21,727 52,919
10th Percentile £29,087 £32,750 £29,290
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £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 £77,125 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £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 4 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 4 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 -5 3,554 £65,000 -7.14% 2,615
UK excluding London -6 2,064 £55,000 -1.79% 1,948
London +5 1,686 £80,000 -5.88% 1,051
Work from Home -2 1,323 £63,076 +0.47% 1,375
South East +17 522 £57,500 -4.17% 603
North of England -19 511 £50,000 -9.09% 442
Midlands -11 405 £53,000 -3.64% 287
North West -21 254 £55,000 - 225
West Midlands -11 253 £59,527 +8.23% 166
Scotland -3 208 £65,000 -7.14% 79
Yorkshire -2 201 £50,000 -9.09% 155
South West -7 193 £55,000 +1.03% 241
East Midlands -4 150 £48,000 -1.54% 118
East of England +33 143 £50,000 -23.08% 242
North East +14 56 £40,000 -20.79% 64
Northern Ireland 0 54 £45,000 +50.00% 26
Wales +11 31 £65,000 +31.18% 64

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
1 126 (3.04%) Apache Airflow
2 108 (2.60%) Apache Spark
3 104 (2.51%) CMS
4 75 (1.81%) Apache
5 53 (1.28%) WordPress
6 51 (1.23%) Confluence
7 43 (1.04%) SharePoint
8 40 (0.96%) SAS
9 33 (0.80%) ArcGIS
10 18 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
11 17 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
12 16 (0.39%) Drupal
13 15 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 8 (0.19%) Umbraco
15 7 (0.17%) Oracle Application Server
16 6 (0.14%) IIS
17 4 (0.096%) Appian
17 4 (0.096%) Documentum
17 4 (0.096%) Sitecore CMS
18 3 (0.072%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 440 (10.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 128 (3.09%) Microsoft Office
3 64 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (0.60%) Adobe XD
5 20 (0.48%) InDesign
6 18 (0.43%) MS Visio
7 17 (0.41%) Photoshop
8 16 (0.39%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 16 (0.39%) Maya
8 16 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
9 15 (0.36%) UserZoom
10 11 (0.27%) Adobe Premiere
10 11 (0.27%) SPSS
11 9 (0.22%) Chatbot
11 9 (0.22%) Trello
12 8 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
13 6 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
14 3 (0.072%) Final Cut Pro
14 3 (0.072%) SketchUp
15 2 (0.048%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 83 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 50 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 40 (0.96%) SAP IBP
4 34 (0.82%) SAP PP
5 32 (0.77%) Oracle ERP
6 19 (0.46%) Shopify
7 18 (0.43%) SAP CO
8 16 (0.39%) Magento
9 15 (0.36%) NetSuite
10 14 (0.34%) iTrent
10 14 (0.34%) Oracle General Ledger
10 14 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
10 14 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
11 13 (0.31%) Dynamics GP
11 13 (0.31%) IBM Planning Analytics
11 13 (0.31%) Oracle Assets
11 13 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
11 13 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
12 11 (0.27%) SAP ERP
13 9 (0.22%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 943 (22.73%) Azure
2 680 (16.39%) Power Platform
3 464 (11.18%) AWS
4 243 (5.86%) SaaS
5 219 (5.28%) GCP
6 216 (5.21%) Azure Data Factory
7 215 (5.18%) Snowflake
8 184 (4.43%) Google Analytics
9 173 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
10 169 (4.07%) Microsoft 365
11 155 (3.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 151 (3.64%) GitHub
13 122 (2.94%) Adobe Analytics
14 120 (2.89%) dbt
15 103 (2.48%) Amazon S3
16 101 (2.43%) Entra ID
17 94 (2.27%) Figma
18 90 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
19 85 (2.05%) Serverless
20 67 (1.61%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 132 (3.18%) Broadband
2 39 (0.94%) VPN
3 36 (0.87%) Firewall
4 23 (0.55%) WAN
5 22 (0.53%) CHAP
6 17 (0.41%) DNS
7 16 (0.39%) Network Security
8 14 (0.34%) Intranet
9 13 (0.31%) Unified Communications
10 10 (0.24%) TCP/IP
11 7 (0.17%) DHCP
12 6 (0.14%) HTTPS
13 5 (0.12%) SNMP
14 4 (0.096%) HTTP
14 4 (0.096%) Intrusion Detection
14 4 (0.096%) VoIP
15 3 (0.072%) Internet
15 3 (0.072%) LAN
15 3 (0.072%) MQTT
16 2 (0.048%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 642 (15.47%) Power BI
2 416 (10.03%) Tableau
3 327 (7.88%) Data Warehouse
4 198 (4.77%) Data Lake
5 193 (4.65%) Metadata
6 188 (4.53%) Data Mining
7 155 (3.74%) SQL Server
8 110 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
9 98 (2.36%) Looker
10 83 (2.00%) Relational Database
11 75 (1.81%) Big Data
12 71 (1.71%) BigQuery
13 69 (1.66%) NoSQL
14 68 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
15 67 (1.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 59 (1.42%) Power Query
17 54 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 45 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
19 42 (1.01%) Oracle Database
20 37 (0.89%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 149 (3.59%) Git
2 113 (2.72%) JIRA
3 66 (1.59%) Jenkins
4 29 (0.70%) GitLab
5 25 (0.60%) Oracle Forms
6 23 (0.55%) Axure RP
6 23 (0.55%) Balsamiq
6 23 (0.55%) IBM UrbanCode
6 23 (0.55%) TeamCity
7 19 (0.46%) ERwin
7 19 (0.46%) Visual Studio
8 17 (0.41%) MLflow
9 10 (0.24%) CircleCI
10 9 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 8 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
11 8 (0.19%) Selenium
12 6 (0.14%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.12%) ER Studio
13 5 (0.12%) MSI
13 5 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,429 (34.44%) Finance
2 1,263 (30.44%) Social Skills
3 1,109 (26.73%) Analytical Skills
4 670 (16.15%) Marketing
5 285 (6.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 254 (6.12%) Banking
7 250 (6.03%) Public Sector
8 225 (5.42%) Law
9 213 (5.13%) Retail
10 169 (4.07%) Manufacturing
11 165 (3.98%) Legal
12 145 (3.49%) Games
13 130 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
14 109 (2.63%) Financial Institution
15 93 (2.24%) Automotive
16 90 (2.17%) Advertising
17 89 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
18 88 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
19 84 (2.02%) Pharmaceutical
20 69 (1.66%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 684 (16.49%) Senior
2 648 (15.62%) Analyst
3 486 (11.71%) Lead
4 389 (9.38%) Data Engineer
5 374 (9.01%) Data Analyst
6 328 (7.91%) Architect
7 225 (5.42%) Developer
8 162 (3.90%) Trainee
8 162 (3.90%) Trainee Analyst
8 162 (3.90%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 151 (3.64%) Consultant
9 151 (3.64%) Data Architect
10 146 (3.52%) Senior Manager
11 101 (2.43%) Designer
12 94 (2.27%) Solutions Architect
13 90 (2.17%) Data Manager
14 85 (2.05%) Support Engineer
15 84 (2.02%) Data Scientist
15 84 (2.02%) Senior Analyst
16 82 (1.98%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (2.46%) PySpark
2 96 (2.31%) HTML
3 87 (2.10%) CSS
3 87 (2.10%) Kafka
4 69 (1.66%) PyTorch
5 63 (1.52%) .NET
6 61 (1.47%) React
7 59 (1.42%) OAuth
8 55 (1.33%) RESTful
9 50 (1.21%) SAP Fiori
10 49 (1.18%) TensorFlow
11 45 (1.08%) JSON
12 44 (1.06%) REST
13 36 (0.87%) OAuth2
14 32 (0.77%) Pandas
15 30 (0.72%) .NET Core
16 29 (0.70%) Node.js
17 27 (0.65%) FIX Protocol
17 27 (0.65%) SAML
18 25 (0.60%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 239 (5.76%) Social Media
2 196 (4.72%) Analytical Mindset
3 182 (4.39%) Product Ownership
4 180 (4.34%) Self-Motivation
5 174 (4.19%) Cloud Native
6 155 (3.74%) Management Information System
7 125 (3.01%) Algorithms
8 123 (2.96%) Onboarding
9 120 (2.89%) Life Science
10 81 (1.95%) Data Structures
11 71 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
12 67 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
13 66 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
14 51 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
15 48 (1.16%) Mobile App
16 42 (1.01%) FMCG
17 41 (0.99%) Virtual Team
18 38 (0.92%) Fixed Income
18 38 (0.92%) Web Conferencing
19 34 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 111 (2.68%) Windows
2 60 (1.45%) Windows 10
3 41 (0.99%) Linux
4 29 (0.70%) Unix
5 24 (0.58%) VMS
6 14 (0.34%) Apple iOS
6 14 (0.34%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.29%) Android
8 2 (0.048%) AIX
8 2 (0.048%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,156 (27.86%) AI
2 936 (22.56%) Business Intelligence
3 872 (21.02%) Decision-Making
4 830 (20.00%) Agile
5 800 (19.28%) Data Analytics
6 744 (17.93%) Problem-Solving
7 733 (17.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 629 (15.16%) Data Modelling
9 522 (12.58%) Roadmaps
10 517 (12.46%) Data Governance
11 515 (12.41%) Data Analysis
12 505 (12.17%) Data Engineering
13 501 (12.08%) Project Management
14 499 (12.03%) Data Science
15 493 (11.88%) Machine Learning
16 461 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
17 453 (10.92%) ETL
18 448 (10.80%) CI/CD
19 431 (10.39%) Visualisation
20 425 (10.24%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1,104 (26.61%) SQL
2 1,013 (24.42%) Python
3 113 (2.72%) JavaScript
4 111 (2.68%) Java
5 91 (2.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 89 (2.15%) C#
7 76 (1.83%) PowerShell
7 76 (1.83%) Scala
8 71 (1.71%) R
9 50 (1.21%) Bicep
10 44 (1.06%) T-SQL
11 41 (0.99%) C++
12 40 (0.96%) TypeScript
13 34 (0.82%) Kusto Query Language
14 28 (0.67%) Bash
15 27 (0.65%) Go
16 22 (0.53%) PL/SQL
17 20 (0.48%) Shell Script
18 16 (0.39%) VBA
19 12 (0.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 751 (18.10%) Degree
2 276 (6.65%) Security Cleared
3 195 (4.70%) SC Cleared
4 165 (3.98%) Master's Degree
5 120 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 70 (1.69%) PhD
7 60 (1.45%) CTC Cleared
8 58 (1.40%) CISSP
9 54 (1.30%) Azure Certification
10 52 (1.25%) CISA
11 50 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
12 48 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
13 46 (1.11%) CISM
13 46 (1.11%) Numerate Degree
14 42 (1.01%) DBS Check
15 41 (0.99%) ACCA
16 36 (0.87%) IRCA
17 35 (0.84%) PMI Certification
18 32 (0.77%) DV Cleared
19 29 (0.70%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 547 (13.18%) Data Quality
2 308 (7.42%) Accessibility
3 305 (7.35%) GDPR
4 127 (3.06%) QA
5 76 (1.83%) SLA
6 74 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 67 (1.61%) WCAG
8 50 (1.21%) NIST
9 49 (1.18%) ISO 9001
10 45 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
11 37 (0.89%) GxP
12 33 (0.80%) HIPAA
13 30 (0.72%) COBIT
14 25 (0.60%) EU AI Act
14 25 (0.60%) IFRS
14 25 (0.60%) Solvency II
15 21 (0.51%) PSD2
16 18 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 17 (0.41%) GRC
17 17 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 135 (3.25%) Docker
2 61 (1.47%) Active Directory
3 33 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.29%) Hyper-V
5 12 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.096%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.048%) vSphere
8 1 (0.024%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.024%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 197 (4.75%) Terraform
2 156 (3.76%) Kubernetes
3 40 (0.96%) Ansible
4 25 (0.60%) Grafana
5 24 (0.58%) Prometheus
5 24 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
6 23 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.19%) EnCase
7 8 (0.19%) FTK
7 8 (0.19%) SCCM
8 7 (0.17%) Kibana
9 6 (0.14%) QRadar
9 6 (0.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 5 (0.12%) Argo
10 5 (0.12%) RSA Archer
10 5 (0.12%) SCOM
11 3 (0.072%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.072%) ArcSight ESM
11 3 (0.072%) Control-M
11 3 (0.072%) VxRail
Vendors
1 842 (20.29%) Microsoft
2 324 (7.81%) Google
3 264 (6.36%) Databricks
4 211 (5.09%) Adobe
5 203 (4.89%) SAP
6 187 (4.51%) Salesforce
7 155 (3.74%) Oracle
8 139 (3.35%) Cisco
9 65 (1.57%) HubSpot
10 58 (1.40%) Alteryx
11 34 (0.82%) Informatica
12 33 (0.80%) Bloomberg
13 31 (0.75%) ServiceNow
14 30 (0.72%) Instagram
15 29 (0.70%) OpenAI
15 29 (0.70%) YouTube
16 28 (0.67%) Dell
16 28 (0.67%) Nexthink
16 28 (0.67%) Talend
17 26 (0.63%) IBM