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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 29 34
Rank change year-on-year -5 +5 -10
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 4,037 3,302 4,376
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.87% 6.80% 5.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.41% 7.35% 6.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,195 1,605 3,150
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,600 £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 £108,750 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,000 £53,067
% change year-on-year -7.89% +7.41% -3.51%

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 54,494 44,927 66,578
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.19% 92.59% 88.37%
Number of salaries quoted 32,685 22,191 51,489
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £29,448
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,001 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £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 21 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 21 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 -4 3,442 £65,000 -7.14% 1,828
UK excluding London -3 2,034 £52,500 -7.89% 1,407
London +5 1,617 £80,000 -5.88% 874
Work from Home -2 1,283 £65,000 - 948
South East +17 545 £56,250 -7.79% 574
North of England -15 486 £49,000 -10.91% 289
Midlands -4 388 £52,500 -4.55% 209
North West -19 241 £52,500 -4.55% 159
West Midlands -11 238 £56,350 +2.45% 124
Scotland +6 229 £55,000 -17.29% 49
Yorkshire -7 194 £50,000 -9.09% 91
South West -3 187 £55,000 +1.03% 142
East Midlands +9 149 £46,500 -7.00% 83
East of England +36 123 £51,500 -20.77% 119
North East +13 51 £40,000 -20.79% 42
Northern Ireland -5 50 £45,000 -7.69% 16
Wales +14 29 £56,250 +13.52% 38

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
1 103 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
2 101 (2.50%) CMS
3 90 (2.23%) Apache Spark
4 55 (1.36%) WordPress
5 53 (1.31%) Apache
6 46 (1.14%) Confluence
7 44 (1.09%) SharePoint
8 38 (0.94%) SAS
9 25 (0.62%) ArcGIS
10 18 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
11 17 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
11 17 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 15 (0.37%) Drupal
13 9 (0.22%) Umbraco
14 7 (0.17%) Oracle Application Server
15 6 (0.15%) IIS
16 4 (0.099%) Appian
16 4 (0.099%) Documentum
16 4 (0.099%) Sitecore CMS
17 3 (0.074%) Jupyter
Applications
1 474 (11.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 131 (3.24%) Microsoft Office
3 64 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (0.62%) Adobe XD
5 20 (0.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 20 (0.50%) InDesign
6 19 (0.47%) Maya
7 18 (0.45%) Photoshop
8 17 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
9 13 (0.32%) Chatbot
10 12 (0.30%) Adobe Premiere
10 12 (0.30%) SPSS
11 9 (0.22%) Trello
12 8 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
12 8 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
13 7 (0.17%) MS Visio
14 6 (0.15%) UserZoom
15 4 (0.099%) SketchUp
16 3 (0.074%) Final Cut Pro
17 2 (0.050%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 72 (1.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 53 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 32 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
4 29 (0.72%) SAP IBP
5 21 (0.52%) Shopify
6 20 (0.50%) SAP CO
6 20 (0.50%) SAP PP
7 18 (0.45%) Magento
8 15 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
8 15 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
8 15 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
9 14 (0.35%) Oracle Assets
10 13 (0.32%) iTrent
10 13 (0.32%) NetSuite
10 13 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
10 13 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
11 12 (0.30%) Dynamics GP
12 11 (0.27%) IBM Planning Analytics
12 11 (0.27%) SAP FI
12 11 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 965 (23.90%) Azure
2 695 (17.22%) Power Platform
3 433 (10.73%) AWS
4 232 (5.75%) SaaS
5 224 (5.55%) GCP
6 218 (5.40%) Azure Data Factory
7 203 (5.03%) Snowflake
8 199 (4.93%) Google Analytics
9 176 (4.36%) Azure DevOps
10 167 (4.14%) Microsoft 365
11 158 (3.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 153 (3.79%) GitHub
13 125 (3.10%) dbt
14 103 (2.55%) Entra ID
15 91 (2.25%) Adobe Analytics
16 90 (2.23%) Azure Monitor
17 89 (2.20%) Figma
18 85 (2.11%) Serverless
19 76 (1.88%) Amazon S3
20 71 (1.76%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 96 (2.38%) Broadband
2 40 (0.99%) VPN
3 35 (0.87%) Firewall
4 21 (0.52%) WAN
5 20 (0.50%) CHAP
6 16 (0.40%) DNS
7 14 (0.35%) Network Security
8 13 (0.32%) Intranet
8 13 (0.32%) Unified Communications
9 10 (0.25%) TCP/IP
10 6 (0.15%) DHCP
10 6 (0.15%) HTTPS
11 5 (0.12%) Intrusion Detection
11 5 (0.12%) SNMP
11 5 (0.12%) VoIP
12 4 (0.099%) HTTP
12 4 (0.099%) SMS
13 3 (0.074%) Internet
13 3 (0.074%) LAN
13 3 (0.074%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 658 (16.30%) Power BI
2 414 (10.26%) Tableau
3 331 (8.20%) Data Warehouse
4 214 (5.30%) Data Lake
5 197 (4.88%) Data Mining
6 193 (4.78%) Metadata
7 156 (3.86%) SQL Server
8 108 (2.68%) Azure SQL Database
9 100 (2.48%) Looker
10 78 (1.93%) Big Data
11 75 (1.86%) Relational Database
12 73 (1.81%) BigQuery
12 73 (1.81%) NoSQL
13 68 (1.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 65 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
15 56 (1.39%) Power Query
15 56 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 52 (1.29%) SAP BW
17 47 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
18 36 (0.89%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 125 (3.10%) Git
2 116 (2.87%) JIRA
3 64 (1.59%) Jenkins
4 27 (0.67%) GitLab
4 27 (0.67%) Oracle Forms
5 23 (0.57%) Axure RP
5 23 (0.57%) Balsamiq
5 23 (0.57%) TeamCity
6 20 (0.50%) ERwin
7 19 (0.47%) Visual Studio
8 18 (0.45%) MLflow
9 11 (0.27%) Selenium
10 9 (0.22%) CircleCI
10 9 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 8 (0.20%) PowerDesigner
12 6 (0.15%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.12%) Crashlytics
13 5 (0.12%) ER Studio
13 5 (0.12%) MSI
13 5 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,400 (34.68%) Finance
2 1,272 (31.51%) Social Skills
3 1,109 (27.47%) Analytical Skills
4 667 (16.52%) Marketing
5 278 (6.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 249 (6.17%) Public Sector
7 229 (5.67%) Banking
8 219 (5.42%) Law
9 206 (5.10%) Retail
10 153 (3.79%) Manufacturing
11 148 (3.67%) Legal
12 133 (3.29%) Presentation Skills
13 123 (3.05%) Games
14 109 (2.70%) Financial Institution
15 92 (2.28%) Automotive
16 90 (2.23%) Advertising
16 90 (2.23%) Pharmaceutical
17 89 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
18 78 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
19 69 (1.71%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 658 (16.30%) Senior
2 648 (16.05%) Analyst
3 488 (12.09%) Lead
4 380 (9.41%) Data Analyst
5 372 (9.21%) Data Engineer
6 327 (8.10%) Architect
7 226 (5.60%) Developer
8 169 (4.19%) Trainee
8 169 (4.19%) Trainee Analyst
8 169 (4.19%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 147 (3.64%) Data Architect
10 142 (3.52%) Senior Manager
11 125 (3.10%) Consultant
12 99 (2.45%) Designer
13 96 (2.38%) Solutions Architect
14 88 (2.18%) Data Manager
15 84 (2.08%) Support Engineer
16 82 (2.03%) Senior Analyst
17 81 (2.01%) Data Scientist
18 77 (1.91%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (2.43%) HTML
2 87 (2.16%) CSS
2 87 (2.16%) Kafka
3 78 (1.93%) PySpark
4 66 (1.63%) .NET
5 65 (1.61%) PyTorch
6 63 (1.56%) React
7 59 (1.46%) OAuth
8 57 (1.41%) RESTful
9 50 (1.24%) TensorFlow
10 46 (1.14%) JSON
10 46 (1.14%) REST
11 38 (0.94%) SAP Fiori
12 37 (0.92%) OAuth2
13 31 (0.77%) .NET Core
14 30 (0.74%) Node.js
15 29 (0.72%) SAML
16 26 (0.64%) FIX Protocol
17 24 (0.59%) Middleware
18 23 (0.57%) Akka
Miscellaneous
1 210 (5.20%) Social Media
2 181 (4.48%) Analytical Mindset
2 181 (4.48%) Product Ownership
2 181 (4.48%) Self-Motivation
3 168 (4.16%) Cloud Native
4 155 (3.84%) Management Information System
5 124 (3.07%) Algorithms
6 123 (3.05%) Onboarding
7 109 (2.70%) Life Science
8 81 (2.01%) Data Structures
9 70 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
10 68 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
11 56 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
12 52 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
13 47 (1.16%) FMCG
13 47 (1.16%) Mobile App
14 41 (1.02%) Virtual Team
15 40 (0.99%) Data Centre
15 40 (0.99%) Fixed Income
16 37 (0.92%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 112 (2.77%) Windows
2 60 (1.49%) Windows 10
3 43 (1.07%) Linux
4 29 (0.72%) Unix
5 23 (0.57%) VMS
6 14 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 14 (0.35%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.30%) Android
8 2 (0.050%) AIX
8 2 (0.050%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,112 (27.55%) AI
2 955 (23.66%) Business Intelligence
3 871 (21.58%) Decision-Making
4 785 (19.45%) Data Analytics
5 778 (19.27%) Agile
6 774 (19.17%) Problem-Solving
7 718 (17.79%) Continuous Improvement
8 640 (15.85%) Data Modelling
9 518 (12.83%) Project Management
10 513 (12.71%) Data Analysis
11 500 (12.39%) Data Governance
12 497 (12.31%) Machine Learning
13 494 (12.24%) Data Science
14 487 (12.06%) Data Engineering
15 486 (12.04%) Roadmaps
16 441 (10.92%) Stakeholder Management
17 440 (10.90%) Data Pipeline
18 432 (10.70%) Visualisation
19 428 (10.60%) ETL
20 426 (10.55%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 1,088 (26.95%) SQL
2 992 (24.57%) Python
3 119 (2.95%) Java
4 117 (2.90%) JavaScript
5 93 (2.30%) C#
6 88 (2.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 79 (1.96%) Scala
8 78 (1.93%) PowerShell
9 71 (1.76%) R
10 49 (1.21%) Bicep
11 46 (1.14%) T-SQL
12 41 (1.02%) C++
13 40 (0.99%) TypeScript
14 33 (0.82%) Kusto Query Language
15 30 (0.74%) Bash
16 26 (0.64%) Go
17 23 (0.57%) PL/SQL
18 21 (0.52%) Shell Script
19 16 (0.40%) VBA
20 13 (0.32%) PHP
Qualifications
1 784 (19.42%) Degree
2 272 (6.74%) Security Cleared
3 191 (4.73%) SC Cleared
4 172 (4.26%) Master's Degree
5 122 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 77 (1.91%) PhD
7 60 (1.49%) CTC Cleared
8 59 (1.46%) CISSP
9 54 (1.34%) Azure Certification
10 53 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
11 52 (1.29%) CISA
12 47 (1.16%) Numerate Degree
13 46 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
14 45 (1.11%) CISM
15 42 (1.04%) DBS Check
16 38 (0.94%) PMI Certification
17 37 (0.92%) ACCA
18 32 (0.79%) DV Cleared
19 31 (0.77%) PMP
20 29 (0.72%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 531 (13.15%) Data Quality
2 275 (6.81%) Accessibility
3 274 (6.79%) GDPR
4 102 (2.53%) QA
5 78 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 71 (1.76%) SLA
7 52 (1.29%) NIST
8 45 (1.11%) WCAG
9 42 (1.04%) Actionable Recommendations
10 40 (0.99%) GxP
11 31 (0.77%) COBIT
12 25 (0.62%) ISO 9001
12 25 (0.62%) Solvency II
13 24 (0.59%) EU AI Act
13 24 (0.59%) IFRS
14 22 (0.54%) HIPAA
15 21 (0.52%) PSD2
16 17 (0.42%) GRC
16 17 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 17 (0.42%) SOC 2
System Software
1 131 (3.24%) Docker
2 60 (1.49%) Active Directory
3 35 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.30%) Hyper-V
5 12 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.099%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.050%) vSphere
8 1 (0.025%) Firmware
8 1 (0.025%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.025%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 198 (4.90%) Terraform
2 152 (3.77%) Kubernetes
3 37 (0.92%) Ansible
4 26 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
5 25 (0.62%) Grafana
6 24 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
7 23 (0.57%) Prometheus
8 9 (0.22%) SCCM
9 8 (0.20%) EnCase
9 8 (0.20%) FTK
9 8 (0.20%) QRadar
10 7 (0.17%) Kibana
11 6 (0.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 5 (0.12%) Argo
12 5 (0.12%) SCOM
13 4 (0.099%) RSA Archer
14 3 (0.074%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.074%) ArcSight ESM
14 3 (0.074%) Control-M
14 3 (0.074%) VxRail
Vendors
1 842 (20.86%) Microsoft
2 338 (8.37%) Google
3 263 (6.51%) Databricks
4 213 (5.28%) SAP
5 187 (4.63%) Salesforce
6 177 (4.38%) Adobe
7 138 (3.42%) Cisco
8 131 (3.24%) Oracle
9 68 (1.68%) HubSpot
10 54 (1.34%) Alteryx
11 34 (0.84%) Bloomberg
12 33 (0.82%) ServiceNow
13 31 (0.77%) OpenAI
14 30 (0.74%) Informatica
14 30 (0.74%) YouTube
15 28 (0.69%) Nexthink
16 27 (0.67%) Instagram
16 27 (0.67%) Talend
17 26 (0.64%) Foundry
17 26 (0.64%) Palantir