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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 29 33
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 -9
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 3,925 3,291 4,398
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.94% 6.63% 5.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.44% 7.20% 6.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2,079 1,624 3,142
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,450 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,750 £118,750 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,000 £53,159
% change year-on-year -7.89% +7.23% -3.35%

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 52,730 45,725 65,371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.77% 92.08% 88.28%
Number of salaries quoted 31,308 22,323 50,742
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £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 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,125 £102,500 £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 11 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 11 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 3,346 £65,000 -7.14% 1,580
UK excluding London -1 2,003 £52,500 -7.89% 1,158
London +5 1,575 £77,500 -8.82% 800
Work from Home 0 1,218 £65,000 - 831
South East +15 577 £55,000 -8.33% 478
North of England -21 439 £52,000 -5.45% 234
Midlands -3 356 £55,000 - 170
Scotland +12 250 £57,500 -4.76% 42
North West -15 226 £52,500 -4.55% 136
West Midlands -11 211 £57,500 +0.88% 98
South West +7 185 £54,500 +0.11% 125
Yorkshire -14 168 £55,000 - 69
East Midlands +18 145 £46,500 -7.00% 71
East of England +37 122 £47,500 -26.92% 95
Northern Ireland +1 48 £45,000 -34.55% 11
North East +16 46 £40,000 -20.79% 30
Wales +21 28 £56,250 +13.52% 25

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 (2.37%) CMS
2 88 (2.24%) Apache Airflow
2 88 (2.24%) Apache Spark
3 56 (1.43%) WordPress
4 49 (1.25%) Apache
5 47 (1.20%) Confluence
6 45 (1.15%) SharePoint
7 30 (0.76%) SAS
8 20 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 18 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
10 17 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
11 14 (0.36%) Drupal
12 11 (0.28%) 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 (0.076%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 501 (12.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 127 (3.24%) Microsoft Office
3 58 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (0.66%) Adobe XD
5 25 (0.64%) Maya
6 21 (0.54%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 19 (0.48%) InDesign
7 19 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
8 18 (0.46%) Photoshop
9 13 (0.33%) Chatbot
10 12 (0.31%) Adobe Premiere
10 12 (0.31%) SPSS
11 10 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
12 9 (0.23%) Trello
13 8 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
14 6 (0.15%) MS Visio
15 5 (0.13%) UserZoom
16 4 (0.10%) SketchUp
17 3 (0.076%) Final Cut Pro
18 2 (0.051%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 69 (1.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 54 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 35 (0.89%) Oracle ERP
4 23 (0.59%) SAP IBP
5 22 (0.56%) SAP CO
5 22 (0.56%) Shopify
6 20 (0.51%) Magento
7 17 (0.43%) Oracle General Ledger
7 17 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
7 17 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
8 16 (0.41%) Oracle Assets
9 15 (0.38%) Oracle Financials
10 13 (0.33%) NetSuite
10 13 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
10 13 (0.33%) SAP FI
10 13 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
11 12 (0.31%) Dynamics GP
12 11 (0.28%) IBM Planning Analytics
12 11 (0.28%) iTrent
13 9 (0.23%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 989 (25.20%) Azure
2 741 (18.88%) Power Platform
3 397 (10.11%) AWS
4 226 (5.76%) SaaS
5 209 (5.32%) Azure Data Factory
6 208 (5.30%) GCP
7 191 (4.87%) Google Analytics
7 191 (4.87%) Snowflake
8 180 (4.59%) Azure DevOps
9 170 (4.33%) Microsoft 365
10 154 (3.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 151 (3.85%) GitHub
12 118 (3.01%) dbt
13 107 (2.73%) Entra ID
14 88 (2.24%) Azure Monitor
15 78 (1.99%) Serverless
16 77 (1.96%) Adobe Analytics
16 77 (1.96%) Figma
17 76 (1.94%) Amazon S3
18 68 (1.73%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 73 (1.86%) Broadband
2 41 (1.04%) VPN
3 36 (0.92%) Firewall
4 19 (0.48%) CHAP
4 19 (0.48%) WAN
5 15 (0.38%) DNS
6 13 (0.33%) Unified Communications
7 12 (0.31%) Intranet
7 12 (0.31%) Network Security
8 10 (0.25%) 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 (0.076%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 706 (17.99%) Power BI
2 398 (10.14%) Tableau
3 322 (8.20%) Data Warehouse
4 252 (6.42%) Data Lake
5 181 (4.61%) Metadata
6 172 (4.38%) Data Mining
7 153 (3.90%) SQL Server
8 104 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
9 97 (2.47%) SAP BW
10 94 (2.39%) Looker
11 84 (2.14%) Big Data
12 72 (1.83%) Relational Database
13 71 (1.81%) NoSQL
14 68 (1.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 64 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
16 57 (1.45%) Power Query
17 56 (1.43%) BigQuery
18 55 (1.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 41 (1.04%) Hadoop
19 41 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 122 (3.11%) Git
2 121 (3.08%) JIRA
3 63 (1.61%) Jenkins
4 31 (0.79%) Oracle Forms
5 26 (0.66%) GitLab
6 24 (0.61%) Axure RP
6 24 (0.61%) Balsamiq
7 23 (0.59%) TeamCity
8 18 (0.46%) ERwin
8 18 (0.46%) Visual Studio
9 15 (0.38%) MLflow
10 13 (0.33%) Selenium
11 8 (0.20%) CircleCI
11 8 (0.20%) PowerDesigner
12 7 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 6 (0.15%) Cypress.io
13 6 (0.15%) ER Studio
13 6 (0.15%) Postman
14 5 (0.13%) MSI
14 5 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,355 (34.52%) Finance
2 1,283 (32.69%) Social Skills
3 1,100 (28.03%) Analytical Skills
4 654 (16.66%) Marketing
5 266 (6.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 225 (5.73%) Banking
6 225 (5.73%) Public Sector
7 214 (5.45%) Law
8 201 (5.12%) Retail
9 155 (3.95%) Manufacturing
10 139 (3.54%) Legal
11 136 (3.46%) Presentation Skills
12 121 (3.08%) Games
13 106 (2.70%) Financial Institution
14 91 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
15 90 (2.29%) Pharmaceutical
16 86 (2.19%) Automotive
17 85 (2.17%) Advertising
18 78 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
19 68 (1.73%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 636 (16.20%) Analyst
1 636 (16.20%) Senior
2 492 (12.54%) Lead
3 354 (9.02%) Data Engineer
4 347 (8.84%) Data Analyst
5 310 (7.90%) Architect
6 226 (5.76%) Developer
7 142 (3.62%) Trainee
7 142 (3.62%) Trainee Analyst
7 142 (3.62%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 138 (3.52%) Senior Manager
9 134 (3.41%) Data Architect
10 95 (2.42%) Solutions Architect
11 93 (2.37%) Consultant
12 89 (2.27%) Designer
13 85 (2.17%) Data Manager
14 84 (2.14%) Senior Analyst
15 83 (2.11%) Support Engineer
16 79 (2.01%) Data Scientist
17 74 (1.89%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (2.45%) HTML
2 85 (2.17%) CSS
3 79 (2.01%) Kafka
3 79 (2.01%) PySpark
4 64 (1.63%) .NET
5 62 (1.58%) OAuth
6 61 (1.55%) React
7 60 (1.53%) RESTful
8 54 (1.38%) PyTorch
9 50 (1.27%) REST
10 49 (1.25%) TensorFlow
11 44 (1.12%) JSON
12 39 (0.99%) OAuth2
13 32 (0.82%) SAML
14 29 (0.74%) Node.js
15 28 (0.71%) .NET Core
16 26 (0.66%) FIX Protocol
17 25 (0.64%) Middleware
18 24 (0.61%) SAP Fiori
19 23 (0.59%) Akka
Miscellaneous
1 187 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
2 185 (4.71%) Product Ownership
3 183 (4.66%) Social Media
4 171 (4.36%) Analytical Mindset
5 167 (4.25%) Cloud Native
6 160 (4.08%) Management Information System
7 128 (3.26%) Onboarding
8 115 (2.93%) Algorithms
9 95 (2.42%) Life Science
10 79 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
11 69 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
12 68 (1.73%) Data Structures
13 52 (1.32%) FMCG
14 50 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
15 44 (1.12%) Data Centre
16 42 (1.07%) Mobile App
16 42 (1.07%) Virtual Team
17 41 (1.04%) Fixed Income
18 40 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
19 38 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 115 (2.93%) Windows
2 60 (1.53%) Windows 10
3 43 (1.10%) Linux
4 30 (0.76%) Unix
5 20 (0.51%) VMS
6 15 (0.38%) Windows Server
7 13 (0.33%) Android
7 13 (0.33%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.051%) AIX
8 2 (0.051%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.025%) Debian
9 1 (0.025%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,079 (27.49%) AI
2 1,005 (25.61%) Business Intelligence
3 876 (22.32%) Decision-Making
4 827 (21.07%) Problem-Solving
5 756 (19.26%) Agile
6 751 (19.13%) Data Analytics
7 714 (18.19%) Continuous Improvement
8 655 (16.69%) Data Modelling
9 508 (12.94%) Data Governance
10 484 (12.33%) Machine Learning
11 480 (12.23%) Project Management
12 475 (12.10%) Data Science
13 472 (12.03%) Data Analysis
14 471 (12.00%) Data Engineering
15 466 (11.87%) Roadmaps
16 455 (11.59%) Stakeholder Management
17 430 (10.96%) CI/CD
18 426 (10.85%) Data Pipeline
19 425 (10.83%) Visualisation
20 424 (10.80%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 1,034 (26.34%) SQL
2 939 (23.92%) Python
3 120 (3.06%) Java
4 119 (3.03%) JavaScript
5 90 (2.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 87 (2.22%) C#
7 80 (2.04%) PowerShell
8 78 (1.99%) Scala
9 68 (1.73%) R
10 50 (1.27%) Bicep
11 44 (1.12%) T-SQL
12 35 (0.89%) C++
12 35 (0.89%) TypeScript
13 34 (0.87%) Bash
14 30 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
15 25 (0.64%) PL/SQL
16 24 (0.61%) Go
17 22 (0.56%) Shell Script
18 17 (0.43%) VBA
19 14 (0.36%) PHP
Qualifications
1 861 (21.94%) Degree
2 255 (6.50%) Security Cleared
3 185 (4.71%) Master's Degree
3 185 (4.71%) SC Cleared
4 124 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 86 (2.19%) PhD
6 60 (1.53%) CISSP
6 60 (1.53%) CTC Cleared
7 54 (1.38%) CISA
7 54 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
8 51 (1.30%) Azure Certification
9 50 (1.27%) DBS Check
10 47 (1.20%) Numerate Degree
11 46 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
12 44 (1.12%) CISM
13 38 (0.97%) PMI Certification
14 34 (0.87%) ACCA
15 31 (0.79%) PMP
16 28 (0.71%) DV Cleared
17 26 (0.66%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 559 (14.24%) Data Quality
2 257 (6.55%) GDPR
3 245 (6.24%) Accessibility
4 81 (2.06%) QA
5 80 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 71 (1.81%) SLA
7 54 (1.38%) NIST
8 45 (1.15%) WCAG
9 41 (1.04%) Actionable Recommendations
9 41 (1.04%) GxP
10 32 (0.82%) COBIT
11 25 (0.64%) Solvency II
12 23 (0.59%) IFRS
13 22 (0.56%) EU AI Act
13 22 (0.56%) HIPAA
14 21 (0.54%) PSD2
15 18 (0.46%) GRC
16 17 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 17 (0.43%) SOC 2
17 15 (0.38%) PMO
System Software
1 121 (3.08%) Docker
2 58 (1.48%) Active Directory
3 36 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.31%) Hyper-V
5 12 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.10%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.051%) vSphere
8 1 (0.025%) Firmware
8 1 (0.025%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.025%) vCloud
8 1 (0.025%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 192 (4.89%) Terraform
2 141 (3.59%) Kubernetes
3 37 (0.94%) Ansible
4 29 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
5 25 (0.64%) Grafana
5 25 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
6 21 (0.54%) Prometheus
7 11 (0.28%) SCCM
8 10 (0.25%) QRadar
9 8 (0.20%) EnCase
9 8 (0.20%) 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 (0.076%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.076%) ArcSight ESM
13 3 (0.076%) Control-M
13 3 (0.076%) VxRail
Vendors
1 813 (20.71%) Microsoft
2 324 (8.25%) Google
3 259 (6.60%) Databricks
4 253 (6.45%) SAP
5 185 (4.71%) Salesforce
6 163 (4.15%) Adobe
7 137 (3.49%) Cisco
8 136 (3.46%) Oracle
9 69 (1.76%) HubSpot
10 55 (1.40%) Alteryx
11 36 (0.92%) ServiceNow
12 34 (0.87%) Bloomberg
13 33 (0.84%) Informatica
14 32 (0.82%) Dell
15 31 (0.79%) Talend
16 30 (0.76%) OpenAI
17 29 (0.74%) YouTube
18 28 (0.71%) Nexthink
19 26 (0.66%) IBM
20 25 (0.64%) Instagram