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 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 33 29
Rank change year-on-year +9 -4 -8
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 3,685 3,555 3,951
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 7.04% 5.28% 7.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.12% 6.37% 7.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,854 1,869 2,870
10th Percentile £33,750 £41,250 £36,995
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £93,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £113,750 £118,750 £114,152
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.28% +3.64% -

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 45,363 55,823 49,524
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.65% 82.88% 93.86%
Number of salaries quoted 26,894 29,023 37,931
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,532 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.04% +2.86% -

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 12 November 2025.

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 12 November 2025. 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 3,139 £62,500 -10.71% 3,667
UK excluding London +14 1,918 £50,000 -12.28% 1,844
London +5 1,471 £75,000 -11.76% 2,091
Work from Home +5 1,101 £60,000 -14.29% 1,734
South East +27 601 £50,000 -13.04% 642
North of England -28 345 £55,000 - 441
Midlands +30 303 £53,475 -6.18% 292
Scotland +6 254 £50,000 -20.00% 93
South West +26 213 £60,000 - 163
North West -34 198 £50,500 -8.18% 274
West Midlands +13 180 £58,000 -0.79% 178
East of England +40 156 £39,000 -35.00% 142
East Midlands +54 127 £44,250 -11.50% 112
Yorkshire -10 118 £62,500 +13.12% 129
North East +15 30 £46,750 -7.43% 40
Northern Ireland -1 30 £51,546 +8.52% 40
Wales +19 25 £50,124 -7.18% 49
Isle of Man - 1 - -

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
1 113 (3.07%) CMS
2 99 (2.69%) Apache Spark
3 64 (1.74%) WordPress
4 52 (1.41%) Confluence
5 41 (1.11%) SharePoint
6 40 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
7 32 (0.87%) Apache
8 25 (0.68%) SAS
9 14 (0.38%) Drupal
10 13 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 11 (0.30%) Headless CMS
11 11 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
12 10 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 10 (0.27%) SugarCRM
13 9 (0.24%) Umbraco
14 6 (0.16%) Jupyter
15 5 (0.14%) ArcGIS
16 4 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
16 4 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
17 3 (0.081%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 500 (13.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 93 (2.52%) Microsoft Office
3 60 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 37 (1.00%) Photoshop
5 30 (0.81%) Maya
6 26 (0.71%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 23 (0.62%) Adobe XD
8 18 (0.49%) Adobe Premiere
8 18 (0.49%) InDesign
8 18 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
9 17 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
10 16 (0.43%) Chatbot
11 13 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
12 11 (0.30%) Trello
13 9 (0.24%) SPSS
14 7 (0.19%) MadCap Flare
15 4 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
15 4 (0.11%) Final Cut Pro
15 4 (0.11%) MS Visio
15 4 (0.11%) SketchUp
Business Applications
1 89 (2.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 59 (1.60%) Shopify
3 55 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
4 31 (0.84%) Oracle ERP
5 28 (0.76%) SAP IBP
6 19 (0.52%) SAP CO
6 19 (0.52%) SAP FI
6 19 (0.52%) SAP FI/CO
7 18 (0.49%) Magento
8 15 (0.41%) Dynamics GP
9 13 (0.35%) NetSuite
9 13 (0.35%) SAP FSCM
9 13 (0.35%) Sprinklr
10 11 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
10 11 (0.30%) SAP IS-U
11 9 (0.24%) Oracle Assets
11 9 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
11 9 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
11 9 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
11 9 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 964 (26.16%) Azure
2 779 (21.14%) Power Platform
3 454 (12.32%) AWS
4 283 (7.68%) Google Analytics
5 250 (6.78%) GCP
6 214 (5.81%) SaaS
7 185 (5.02%) Snowflake
8 167 (4.53%) Azure Data Factory
9 153 (4.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 121 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
11 106 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
12 103 (2.80%) GitHub
13 93 (2.52%) Google Ads
14 89 (2.42%) Serverless
15 87 (2.36%) dbt
16 63 (1.71%) Entra ID
17 62 (1.68%) Figma
18 61 (1.66%) Azure Monitor
19 52 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
20 50 (1.36%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 35 (0.95%) SMS
2 29 (0.79%) VPN
3 28 (0.76%) Unified Communications
4 23 (0.62%) Firewall
5 14 (0.38%) Network Security
6 10 (0.27%) DNS
7 8 (0.22%) Broadband
7 8 (0.22%) WAN
8 6 (0.16%) Intrusion Detection
9 4 (0.11%) CHAP
9 4 (0.11%) Internet
9 4 (0.11%) Intranet
9 4 (0.11%) SAN
9 4 (0.11%) VoIP
9 4 (0.11%) Wireshark
10 3 (0.081%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.081%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.081%) TCP/IP
11 2 (0.054%) Hyperconnected
11 2 (0.054%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 749 (20.33%) Power BI
2 365 (9.91%) Tableau
3 333 (9.04%) Data Warehouse
4 262 (7.11%) Data Lake
5 155 (4.21%) SQL Server
6 148 (4.02%) Metadata
7 111 (3.01%) Big Data
8 107 (2.90%) Data Mining
9 97 (2.63%) SAP BW
10 95 (2.58%) Looker
11 93 (2.52%) NoSQL
12 75 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
13 70 (1.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 69 (1.87%) BigQuery
15 63 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
16 61 (1.66%) Relational Database
17 54 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
18 51 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 48 (1.30%) Power Query
20 45 (1.22%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 127 (3.45%) JIRA
2 80 (2.17%) Git
3 37 (1.00%) Jenkins
4 19 (0.52%) ER Studio
4 19 (0.52%) ERwin
5 18 (0.49%) Axure RP
5 18 (0.49%) Balsamiq
6 17 (0.46%) Cypress.io
6 17 (0.46%) Oracle Forms
7 15 (0.41%) GitLab
8 13 (0.35%) Selenium
9 11 (0.30%) Visual Studio
10 8 (0.22%) Maven
10 8 (0.22%) Postman
11 7 (0.19%) MLflow
11 7 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
12 6 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
13 5 (0.14%) RStudio
14 4 (0.11%) Bazaar
14 4 (0.11%) WebDriver
General
1 1,371 (37.20%) Social Skills
2 1,347 (36.55%) Finance
3 1,184 (32.13%) Analytical Skills
4 817 (22.17%) Marketing
5 437 (11.86%) Law
6 286 (7.76%) Retail
7 283 (7.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 277 (7.52%) Banking
9 206 (5.59%) Public Sector
10 172 (4.67%) Manufacturing
11 162 (4.40%) Presentation Skills
12 153 (4.15%) Legal
13 112 (3.04%) Influencing Skills
14 109 (2.96%) Advertising
15 99 (2.69%) Financial Institution
16 95 (2.58%) Games
17 80 (2.17%) Front Office
18 77 (2.09%) Organisational Skills
19 73 (1.98%) Pharmaceutical
20 57 (1.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 619 (16.80%) Senior
2 554 (15.03%) Analyst
3 495 (13.43%) Lead
4 301 (8.17%) Architect
5 271 (7.35%) Data Analyst
6 254 (6.89%) Data Engineer
7 233 (6.32%) Developer
8 138 (3.74%) Senior Manager
9 115 (3.12%) Data Architect
10 108 (2.93%) Consultant
11 96 (2.61%) Innovation Manager
12 84 (2.28%) Solutions Architect
13 82 (2.23%) Software Engineer
14 75 (2.04%) Analytics Manager
15 69 (1.87%) Data Manager
16 68 (1.85%) Data Scientist
16 68 (1.85%) Trainee
16 68 (1.85%) Trainee Analyst
16 68 (1.85%) Trainee Data Analyst
17 64 (1.74%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (3.18%) HTML
2 93 (2.52%) Kafka
3 92 (2.50%) CSS
4 68 (1.85%) React
5 66 (1.79%) RESTful
6 61 (1.66%) PySpark
7 49 (1.33%) REST
8 43 (1.17%) OAuth
9 39 (1.06%) .NET
9 39 (1.06%) JSON
10 38 (1.03%) TensorFlow
11 37 (1.00%) PyTorch
12 35 (0.95%) Node.js
13 31 (0.84%) Pandas
14 28 (0.76%) AngularJS
14 28 (0.76%) Middleware
14 28 (0.76%) OAuth2
15 25 (0.68%) GraphQL
15 25 (0.68%) scikit-learn
16 23 (0.62%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 235 (6.38%) Analytical Mindset
2 179 (4.86%) Product Ownership
2 179 (4.86%) Self-Motivation
3 177 (4.80%) Cloud Native
4 172 (4.67%) Onboarding
5 166 (4.50%) Social Media
6 160 (4.34%) Algorithms
7 158 (4.29%) Management Information System
8 81 (2.20%) FMCG
9 73 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
10 72 (1.95%) Life Science
11 54 (1.47%) Data Structures
12 51 (1.38%) Data Centre
13 43 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
14 39 (1.06%) Credit Risk
15 37 (1.00%) Fixed Income
16 36 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
16 36 (0.98%) Reinsurance
17 35 (0.95%) Equities
17 35 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 66 (1.79%) Windows
2 43 (1.17%) Linux
3 24 (0.65%) Unix
4 17 (0.46%) Windows 10
5 7 (0.19%) Android
5 7 (0.19%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.19%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.11%) VMS
7 2 (0.054%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.027%) AIX
8 1 (0.027%) Debian
8 1 (0.027%) Robot Operating System
8 1 (0.027%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.027%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,013 (27.49%) AI
2 991 (26.89%) Business Intelligence
3 920 (24.97%) Problem-Solving
4 876 (23.77%) Decision-Making
5 769 (20.87%) Agile
6 768 (20.84%) Data Analytics
7 671 (18.21%) Continuous Improvement
8 556 (15.09%) Data Modelling
9 527 (14.30%) Machine Learning
10 517 (14.03%) Stakeholder Management
11 516 (14.00%) Roadmaps
12 508 (13.79%) Data Science
13 451 (12.24%) Visualisation
14 442 (11.99%) Data Analysis
15 433 (11.75%) Data Governance
16 426 (11.56%) Project Management
17 417 (11.32%) Actionable Insight
18 396 (10.75%) Data Engineering
19 384 (10.42%) CRM
19 384 (10.42%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 987 (26.78%) SQL
2 887 (24.07%) Python
3 160 (4.34%) Java
4 130 (3.53%) JavaScript
5 80 (2.17%) PowerShell
6 79 (2.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 76 (2.06%) R
8 50 (1.36%) C#
9 44 (1.19%) T-SQL
10 43 (1.17%) TypeScript
11 42 (1.14%) C++
12 39 (1.06%) Scala
13 36 (0.98%) Go
14 31 (0.84%) Bash
15 30 (0.81%) Bicep
16 28 (0.76%) PL/SQL
17 21 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
18 18 (0.49%) VBA
19 17 (0.46%) PHP
19 17 (0.46%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 877 (23.80%) Degree
2 217 (5.89%) Master's Degree
3 157 (4.26%) Security Cleared
4 121 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 110 (2.99%) DBS Check
6 108 (2.93%) SC Cleared
7 100 (2.71%) PhD
8 68 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
9 57 (1.55%) Azure Certification
10 56 (1.52%) CISSP
11 47 (1.28%) Numerate Degree
12 45 (1.22%) CISA
13 44 (1.19%) PMI Certification
14 41 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
15 37 (1.00%) PMP
16 36 (0.98%) AWS Certification
17 35 (0.95%) ACCA
18 33 (0.90%) CISM
19 27 (0.73%) CIMA
20 24 (0.65%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 415 (11.26%) Data Quality
2 253 (6.87%) GDPR
3 186 (5.05%) Accessibility
4 93 (2.52%) QA
5 76 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 43 (1.17%) NIST
7 38 (1.03%) WCAG
8 35 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
9 31 (0.84%) GxP
10 26 (0.71%) SLA
11 25 (0.68%) HIPAA
12 24 (0.65%) Solvency II
13 23 (0.62%) COBIT
14 22 (0.60%) EU AI Act
15 21 (0.57%) PSD2
16 16 (0.43%) IFRS
17 15 (0.41%) ITGC
17 15 (0.41%) PMO
17 15 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 14 (0.38%) GRC
System Software
1 84 (2.28%) Docker
2 38 (1.03%) Active Directory
3 21 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (0.24%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.081%) Firmware
8 1 (0.027%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.027%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.027%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 144 (3.91%) Terraform
2 125 (3.39%) Kubernetes
3 23 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
4 22 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (0.46%) Ansible
6 12 (0.33%) QRadar
7 10 (0.27%) SCCM
8 9 (0.24%) Grafana
9 8 (0.22%) Prometheus
9 8 (0.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 6 (0.16%) EnCase
10 6 (0.16%) FTK
10 6 (0.16%) RSA Archer
11 5 (0.14%) SCOM
12 3 (0.081%) ArcSight ESM
13 2 (0.054%) Failover Clustering
14 1 (0.027%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
14 1 (0.027%) Computer Incident Response Team
14 1 (0.027%) Kibana
14 1 (0.027%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 636 (17.26%) Microsoft
2 481 (13.05%) Google
3 265 (7.19%) Databricks
4 250 (6.78%) SAP
5 183 (4.97%) Salesforce
6 158 (4.29%) Oracle
7 136 (3.69%) Adobe
8 74 (2.01%) HubSpot
9 52 (1.41%) Alteryx
10 45 (1.22%) Cisco
11 41 (1.11%) ServiceNow
12 40 (1.09%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 39 (1.06%) Facebook
14 37 (1.00%) Dell
14 37 (1.00%) OpenAI
15 33 (0.90%) Screaming Frog
16 32 (0.87%) Ahrefs
17 31 (0.84%) Bloomberg
18 28 (0.76%) Informatica
19 25 (0.68%) Talend