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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 28 31
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 -7
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 3,739 3,448 4,005
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 6.04% 6.49% 6.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.50% 7.13% 7.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,964 1,716 2,786
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,000 £45,000
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 £115,000 £118,750 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.77% +3.64% -0.90%

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 49,863 48,378 55,939
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.51% 91.05% 89.23%
Number of salaries quoted 29,434 23,452 42,996
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £96,250
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 22 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 22 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 -6 3,210 £65,000 -7.14% 2,835
UK excluding London +3 1,897 £52,000 -8.77% 2,567
London +4 1,538 £75,000 -11.76% 758
Work from Home 0 1,137 £65,000 -2.06% 1,088
South East +19 560 £55,000 -9.09% 940
North of England -17 395 £52,500 -4.55% 470
Midlands -1 332 £55,000 - 344
Scotland +4 242 £52,500 -13.04% 96
North West -19 199 £52,000 -5.45% 216
West Midlands -11 195 £58,764 +3.09% 127
South West +8 188 £55,000 +1.03% 280
Yorkshire -8 154 £55,117 +14.22% 185
East Midlands +20 138 £46,445 -7.11% 208
East of England +29 114 £40,000 -36.00% 335
North East +24 43 £41,250 -21.80% 72
Northern Ireland 0 40 £45,000 -34.55% 54
Wales +22 29 £47,500 -4.14% 110

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 87 (2.33%) Apache Spark
2 81 (2.17%) CMS
3 75 (2.01%) Apache Airflow
4 55 (1.47%) WordPress
5 44 (1.18%) Apache
6 43 (1.15%) SharePoint
7 41 (1.10%) Confluence
8 26 (0.70%) SAS
9 20 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 17 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
11 11 (0.29%) Drupal
12 9 (0.24%) Umbraco
13 6 (0.16%) IIS
14 5 (0.13%) ArcGIS
14 5 (0.13%) SugarCRM
15 4 (0.11%) Apache Superset
15 4 (0.11%) Appian
15 4 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
16 3 (0.080%) Adobe Experience Manager
16 3 (0.080%) Joomla!
Applications
1 527 (14.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 130 (3.48%) Microsoft Office
3 59 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 29 (0.78%) Adobe XD
4 29 (0.78%) Maya
5 24 (0.64%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 20 (0.53%) Photoshop
7 19 (0.51%) InDesign
8 15 (0.40%) Chatbot
9 14 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
10 12 (0.32%) Adobe Premiere
10 12 (0.32%) SPSS
11 10 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
11 10 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
11 10 (0.27%) Trello
12 6 (0.16%) MS Visio
13 4 (0.11%) SketchUp
13 4 (0.11%) UserZoom
14 3 (0.080%) Final Cut Pro
14 3 (0.080%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 65 (1.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 60 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 34 (0.91%) Oracle ERP
4 23 (0.62%) SAP CO
5 22 (0.59%) SAP IBP
5 22 (0.59%) Shopify
6 21 (0.56%) Magento
7 16 (0.43%) Oracle Assets
7 16 (0.43%) Oracle General Ledger
7 16 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
7 16 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
7 16 (0.43%) SAP FI
7 16 (0.43%) SAP FI/CO
8 15 (0.40%) Oracle Financials
9 13 (0.35%) Dynamics GP
9 13 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
10 10 (0.27%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 10 (0.27%) NetSuite
10 10 (0.27%) SAP FSCM
11 9 (0.24%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 963 (25.76%) Azure
2 750 (20.06%) Power Platform
3 380 (10.16%) AWS
4 216 (5.78%) SaaS
5 207 (5.54%) GCP
6 196 (5.24%) Snowflake
7 193 (5.16%) Azure Data Factory
8 181 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
9 178 (4.76%) Google Analytics
10 169 (4.52%) Microsoft 365
11 159 (4.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 152 (4.07%) GitHub
13 115 (3.08%) dbt
14 103 (2.75%) Entra ID
15 86 (2.30%) Azure Monitor
16 73 (1.95%) Serverless
17 68 (1.82%) Amazon S3
18 65 (1.74%) Figma
19 61 (1.63%) Google Ads
20 60 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 44 (1.18%) Broadband
2 40 (1.07%) VPN
3 34 (0.91%) SMS
4 33 (0.88%) Firewall
5 17 (0.45%) CHAP
6 15 (0.40%) DNS
6 15 (0.40%) WAN
7 14 (0.37%) Unified Communications
8 11 (0.29%) Intranet
8 11 (0.29%) Network Security
9 8 (0.21%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.13%) DHCP
10 5 (0.13%) HTTPS
10 5 (0.13%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (0.13%) Wireshark
11 4 (0.11%) Internet
11 4 (0.11%) VoIP
12 3 (0.080%) HTTP
12 3 (0.080%) MQTT
12 3 (0.080%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 715 (19.12%) Power BI
2 393 (10.51%) Tableau
3 323 (8.64%) Data Warehouse
4 252 (6.74%) Data Lake
5 170 (4.55%) Metadata
6 153 (4.09%) Data Mining
7 149 (3.99%) SQL Server
8 99 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
9 96 (2.57%) SAP BW
10 95 (2.54%) Looker
11 86 (2.30%) Big Data
12 69 (1.85%) NoSQL
13 68 (1.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 67 (1.79%) Relational Database
15 63 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
16 58 (1.55%) BigQuery
17 56 (1.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 49 (1.31%) Power Query
19 44 (1.18%) Hadoop
20 39 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 122 (3.26%) Git
2 112 (3.00%) JIRA
3 61 (1.63%) Jenkins
4 31 (0.83%) Oracle Forms
5 26 (0.70%) Axure RP
5 26 (0.70%) Balsamiq
6 23 (0.62%) TeamCity
7 21 (0.56%) GitLab
8 19 (0.51%) ERwin
9 17 (0.45%) Visual Studio
10 14 (0.37%) Selenium
11 13 (0.35%) MLflow
12 8 (0.21%) PowerDesigner
13 7 (0.19%) ER Studio
13 7 (0.19%) Postman
14 6 (0.16%) CircleCI
14 6 (0.16%) Cypress.io
15 5 (0.13%) MSI
15 5 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 5 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,310 (35.04%) Finance
2 1,259 (33.67%) Social Skills
3 1,069 (28.59%) Analytical Skills
4 664 (17.76%) Marketing
5 259 (6.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 230 (6.15%) Law
7 216 (5.78%) Public Sector
8 214 (5.72%) Banking
9 198 (5.30%) Retail
10 154 (4.12%) Manufacturing
11 134 (3.58%) Presentation Skills
12 133 (3.56%) Legal
13 103 (2.75%) Games
14 98 (2.62%) Financial Institution
15 93 (2.49%) Pharmaceutical
16 76 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
17 75 (2.01%) Automotive
18 70 (1.87%) Advertising
18 70 (1.87%) Back Office
19 67 (1.79%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 612 (16.37%) Analyst
2 599 (16.02%) Senior
3 462 (12.36%) Lead
4 331 (8.85%) Data Engineer
5 330 (8.83%) Data Analyst
6 287 (7.68%) Architect
7 220 (5.88%) Developer
8 140 (3.74%) Senior Manager
9 126 (3.37%) Data Architect
10 123 (3.29%) Trainee
10 123 (3.29%) Trainee Analyst
10 123 (3.29%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 87 (2.33%) Solutions Architect
12 86 (2.30%) Consultant
13 83 (2.22%) Data Manager
14 77 (2.06%) Data Scientist
15 76 (2.03%) Support Engineer
16 75 (2.01%) Senior Analyst
17 72 (1.93%) Report Analyst
18 68 (1.82%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (2.22%) HTML
2 75 (2.01%) PySpark
3 73 (1.95%) CSS
4 72 (1.93%) Kafka
5 60 (1.60%) OAuth
5 60 (1.60%) React
5 60 (1.60%) RESTful
6 54 (1.44%) PyTorch
7 52 (1.39%) .NET
7 52 (1.39%) REST
8 50 (1.34%) TensorFlow
9 44 (1.18%) JSON
10 38 (1.02%) OAuth2
11 31 (0.83%) SAML
12 28 (0.75%) scikit-learn
13 27 (0.72%) Middleware
13 27 (0.72%) Node.js
14 26 (0.70%) FIX Protocol
14 26 (0.70%) Pandas
15 24 (0.64%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 172 (4.60%) Analytical Mindset
1 172 (4.60%) Self-Motivation
2 165 (4.41%) Product Ownership
3 163 (4.36%) Onboarding
4 149 (3.99%) Management Information System
5 148 (3.96%) Cloud Native
6 144 (3.85%) Social Media
7 111 (2.97%) Algorithms
8 87 (2.33%) Life Science
9 83 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
10 65 (1.74%) Data Structures
11 61 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
12 58 (1.55%) FMCG
13 49 (1.31%) Data Centre
14 46 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
15 41 (1.10%) Virtual Team
16 40 (1.07%) Fixed Income
17 39 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
18 28 (0.75%) Blog
19 27 (0.72%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 113 (3.02%) Windows
2 60 (1.60%) Windows 10
3 42 (1.12%) Linux
4 31 (0.83%) Unix
5 15 (0.40%) VMS
6 12 (0.32%) Android
7 11 (0.29%) Apple iOS
7 11 (0.29%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.053%) AIX
8 2 (0.053%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.027%) Debian
9 1 (0.027%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,005 (26.88%) AI
1 1,005 (26.88%) Business Intelligence
2 838 (22.41%) Decision-Making
3 813 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
4 741 (19.82%) Data Analytics
5 705 (18.86%) Agile
6 685 (18.32%) Continuous Improvement
7 612 (16.37%) Data Modelling
8 492 (13.16%) Data Governance
9 476 (12.73%) Machine Learning
10 467 (12.49%) Data Science
11 459 (12.28%) Data Analysis
12 452 (12.09%) Roadmaps
13 451 (12.06%) Project Management
14 447 (11.96%) Stakeholder Management
15 439 (11.74%) Data Engineering
16 423 (11.31%) Visualisation
17 411 (10.99%) Data Pipeline
18 407 (10.89%) ETL
19 402 (10.75%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 991 (26.50%) SQL
2 912 (24.39%) Python
3 117 (3.13%) Java
3 117 (3.13%) JavaScript
4 82 (2.19%) C#
4 82 (2.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 78 (2.09%) Scala
6 75 (2.01%) PowerShell
7 65 (1.74%) R
8 51 (1.36%) Bicep
9 44 (1.18%) T-SQL
10 35 (0.94%) C++
11 32 (0.86%) Bash
12 30 (0.80%) TypeScript
13 26 (0.70%) PL/SQL
14 24 (0.64%) Kusto Query Language
15 21 (0.56%) Shell Script
16 20 (0.53%) Go
17 18 (0.48%) VBA
18 14 (0.37%) PHP
Qualifications
1 870 (23.27%) Degree
2 237 (6.34%) Security Cleared
3 200 (5.35%) Master's Degree
4 176 (4.71%) SC Cleared
5 121 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 98 (2.62%) PhD
7 87 (2.33%) DBS Check
8 61 (1.63%) CISSP
9 60 (1.60%) CTC Cleared
10 57 (1.52%) CISA
11 49 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
12 47 (1.26%) Azure Certification
13 46 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
13 46 (1.23%) Numerate Degree
14 43 (1.15%) CISM
15 39 (1.04%) PMI Certification
16 36 (0.96%) ACCA
17 31 (0.83%) PMP
18 25 (0.67%) DV Cleared
19 23 (0.62%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 532 (14.23%) Data Quality
2 275 (7.35%) GDPR
3 212 (5.67%) Accessibility
4 81 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 78 (2.09%) QA
6 70 (1.87%) SLA
7 54 (1.44%) NIST
8 44 (1.18%) WCAG
9 43 (1.15%) GxP
10 38 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
11 34 (0.91%) COBIT
12 25 (0.67%) Solvency II
13 23 (0.62%) HIPAA
14 22 (0.59%) EU AI Act
15 21 (0.56%) IFRS
15 21 (0.56%) PSD2
16 20 (0.53%) GRC
17 17 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 16 (0.43%) PMO
19 15 (0.40%) SOC 2
System Software
1 122 (3.26%) Docker
2 54 (1.44%) Active Directory
3 33 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (0.21%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.11%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.053%) Firmware
8 2 (0.053%) vSphere
9 1 (0.027%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.027%) vCloud
9 1 (0.027%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 186 (4.97%) Terraform
2 133 (3.56%) Kubernetes
3 34 (0.91%) Ansible
4 27 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
5 25 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
6 22 (0.59%) Grafana
7 17 (0.45%) Prometheus
8 11 (0.29%) QRadar
8 11 (0.29%) SCCM
9 8 (0.21%) EnCase
9 8 (0.21%) FTK
10 7 (0.19%) Kibana
11 6 (0.16%) RSA Archer
11 6 (0.16%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 5 (0.13%) Argo
12 5 (0.13%) SCOM
13 3 (0.080%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.080%) ArcSight ESM
13 3 (0.080%) Control-M
14 1 (0.027%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 759 (20.30%) Microsoft
2 302 (8.08%) Google
3 255 (6.82%) Databricks
4 240 (6.42%) SAP
5 212 (5.67%) Salesforce
6 139 (3.72%) Oracle
7 133 (3.56%) Cisco
8 132 (3.53%) Adobe
9 69 (1.85%) HubSpot
10 58 (1.55%) Alteryx
11 41 (1.10%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 34 (0.91%) Bloomberg
13 33 (0.88%) Dell
13 33 (0.88%) ServiceNow
14 31 (0.83%) OpenAI
14 31 (0.83%) Talend
15 28 (0.75%) Informatica
16 26 (0.70%) YouTube
17 24 (0.64%) IBM
17 24 (0.64%) Palantir