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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 23 34
Rank change year-on-year -9 +11 -6
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 5,602 3,650 3,783
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.72% 7.42% 5.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.43% 8.35% 6.48%
Number of salaries quoted 3,361 1,704 1,980
10th Percentile £38,500 £31,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £93,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £117,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -13.04% +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 87,115 43,732 58,410
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.39% 88.90% 82.19%
Number of salaries quoted 59,537 24,546 31,188
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,997
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 14 October 2026.

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 14 October 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 -7 5,032 £67,500 +11.57% 6,063
UK excluding London -6 2,971 £60,000 +20.00% 2,244
London -1 2,279 £80,000 +6.67% 4,039
Work from Home +8 1,683 £66,805 +11.34% 2,471
North of England +57 958 £62,500 +13.64% 642
Midlands +30 639 £60,000 +12.25% 326
South East -30 595 £60,000 +20.00% 523
North West +59 524 £60,000 +20.00% 376
West Midlands +15 366 £60,000 +9.09% 236
South West -22 315 £60,000 - 199
Yorkshire +49 277 £66,805 +4.79% 180
East Midlands +30 273 £60,000 +35.59% 90
East of England -14 179 £51,878 +54.86% 219
North East +23 163 £57,500 +11.65% 87
Scotland -18 114 £75,000 +50.00% 198
Northern Ireland -20 98 £65,000 +8.33% 104
Wales -8 92 £63,500 +30.09% 58
Isle of Man +2 5 £38,500 -

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
1 155 (2.77%) Apache Spark
2 135 (2.41%) CMS
3 95 (1.70%) Apache
4 91 (1.62%) Apache Airflow
5 90 (1.61%) SharePoint
6 72 (1.29%) SAS
7 59 (1.05%) Confluence
8 40 (0.71%) WordPress
9 27 (0.48%) Sitecore CMS
10 21 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
11 18 (0.32%) Headless CMS
11 18 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
12 16 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
13 11 (0.20%) Jupyter
14 5 (0.089%) ArcGIS
14 5 (0.089%) Umbraco
15 3 (0.054%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 3 (0.054%) Appian
15 3 (0.054%) IIS
15 3 (0.054%) nginx
Applications
1 288 (5.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 60 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
3 46 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 39 (0.70%) Chatbot
5 32 (0.57%) SPSS
6 26 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
7 23 (0.41%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 20 (0.36%) UserZoom
9 17 (0.30%) MS Visio
10 12 (0.21%) Adobe XD
10 12 (0.21%) Photoshop
11 9 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
12 8 (0.14%) Notion
13 7 (0.12%) Sketch
14 6 (0.11%) Trello
15 4 (0.071%) Elementor
15 4 (0.071%) Microsoft Project
16 3 (0.054%) Adobe Premiere
16 3 (0.054%) InDesign
16 3 (0.054%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 128 (2.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 70 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 50 (0.89%) Shopify
4 31 (0.55%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 28 (0.50%) Dynamics GP
6 18 (0.32%) Workday HCM
7 17 (0.30%) Magento
8 9 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
8 9 (0.16%) SAP BPC
9 8 (0.14%) Adobe Campaign
9 8 (0.14%) NetSuite
10 7 (0.12%) SAP MDG
11 6 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
11 6 (0.11%) FastStats
12 5 (0.089%) Oracle Payables
12 5 (0.089%) Oracle Receivables
12 5 (0.089%) Payment Gateway
13 4 (0.071%) Oracle ERP
13 4 (0.071%) SAP HCM
13 4 (0.071%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 1,092 (19.49%) Azure
2 933 (16.65%) Power Platform
3 788 (14.07%) AWS
4 369 (6.59%) SaaS
5 350 (6.25%) GCP
6 275 (4.91%) Google Analytics
7 243 (4.34%) Snowflake
8 220 (3.93%) Azure Data Factory
9 216 (3.86%) Azure DevOps
10 191 (3.41%) GitHub
11 159 (2.84%) Serverless
12 155 (2.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 145 (2.59%) dbt
14 115 (2.05%) Microsoft 365
15 111 (1.98%) Microsoft Purview
16 109 (1.95%) Amazon S3
17 105 (1.87%) Cloud Computing
18 93 (1.66%) Azure Monitor
18 93 (1.66%) Entra ID
19 92 (1.64%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 76 (1.36%) VPN
2 71 (1.27%) Internet
3 64 (1.14%) Firewall
4 52 (0.93%) Broadband
5 46 (0.82%) DNS
6 44 (0.79%) Network Security
7 26 (0.46%) BGP
8 25 (0.45%) TCP/IP
9 24 (0.43%) SMS
10 21 (0.37%) 5G
11 20 (0.36%) VLAN
12 19 (0.34%) OSPF
13 15 (0.27%) VoIP
14 14 (0.25%) CTI
14 14 (0.25%) DHCP
14 14 (0.25%) SSL
15 11 (0.20%) Unified Communications
16 10 (0.18%) VXLAN
16 10 (0.18%) WAN
17 9 (0.16%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 903 (16.12%) Power BI
2 411 (7.34%) Data Warehouse
3 273 (4.87%) Tableau
4 266 (4.75%) Metadata
5 226 (4.03%) Data Lake
6 172 (3.07%) SQL Server
7 158 (2.82%) Big Data
8 138 (2.46%) Azure SQL Database
9 116 (2.07%) Amazon Redshift
10 114 (2.03%) Looker
11 97 (1.73%) Delta Lake
12 94 (1.68%) Relational Database
13 93 (1.66%) BigQuery
14 89 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
15 83 (1.48%) Star Schema
16 76 (1.36%) NoSQL
17 74 (1.32%) Power Query
18 73 (1.30%) MongoDB
18 73 (1.30%) Semantic Layer
19 61 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 194 (3.46%) Git
2 93 (1.66%) JIRA
3 47 (0.84%) GitLab
4 44 (0.79%) Jenkins
5 23 (0.41%) MLflow
6 20 (0.36%) Claude Code
7 11 (0.20%) fastlane
8 10 (0.18%) CircleCI
8 10 (0.18%) Crashlytics
9 9 (0.16%) Octopus Deploy
10 8 (0.14%) Balsamiq
10 8 (0.14%) Xcode
11 7 (0.12%) Gradle
11 7 (0.12%) Visual Website Optimizer
12 6 (0.11%) Axure RP
12 6 (0.11%) ERwin
13 5 (0.089%) Android Studio
13 5 (0.089%) Poetry
13 5 (0.089%) Visual Studio
13 5 (0.089%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,607 (28.69%) Social Skills
2 1,565 (27.94%) Finance
3 1,322 (23.60%) Analytical Skills
4 977 (17.44%) Marketing
5 443 (7.91%) Retail
6 430 (7.68%) Public Sector
7 398 (7.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 337 (6.02%) Legal
9 293 (5.23%) Law
10 240 (4.28%) Influencing Skills
11 235 (4.19%) Banking
12 195 (3.48%) Organisational Skills
13 162 (2.89%) Manufacturing
14 127 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
15 110 (1.96%) Advertising
16 98 (1.75%) Financial Institution
17 83 (1.48%) Automotive
18 77 (1.37%) Publishing
19 76 (1.36%) Games
20 63 (1.12%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,156 (20.64%) Senior
2 704 (12.57%) Data Engineer
3 661 (11.80%) Analyst
4 611 (10.91%) Lead
5 542 (9.68%) Architect
6 319 (5.69%) Developer
7 280 (5.00%) Analytics Manager
8 261 (4.66%) Data Analyst
9 255 (4.55%) Data Architect
10 244 (4.36%) Senior Data Engineer
11 214 (3.82%) Senior Manager
12 202 (3.61%) Data Scientist
13 190 (3.39%) Consultant
14 165 (2.95%) Solutions Architect
15 145 (2.59%) Data Manager
16 143 (2.55%) Senior Analyst
17 131 (2.34%) Marketing Manager
18 110 (1.96%) Senior Architect
19 108 (1.93%) Software Engineer
20 102 (1.82%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 265 (4.73%) Terraform
2 208 (3.71%) PySpark
3 110 (1.96%) Kafka
4 102 (1.82%) HTML
5 96 (1.71%) REST
6 94 (1.68%) .NET
7 85 (1.52%) CSS
8 82 (1.46%) React
9 54 (0.96%) Node.js
10 52 (0.93%) Pandas
11 42 (0.75%) Middleware
12 39 (0.70%) JSON
13 37 (0.66%) AngularJS
13 37 (0.66%) ASP.NET
14 35 (0.62%) ASP.NET Core
14 35 (0.62%) scikit-learn
15 34 (0.61%) .NET Core
16 32 (0.57%) TensorFlow
16 32 (0.57%) Vue
17 31 (0.55%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 340 (6.07%) Onboarding
2 278 (4.96%) Cloud Native
3 226 (4.03%) Management Information System
4 208 (3.71%) Marketing Technology
5 191 (3.41%) Blog
6 185 (3.30%) Product Ownership
7 156 (2.78%) Social Media
8 125 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
9 107 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
10 105 (1.87%) AI Agents
11 98 (1.75%) Data Structures
12 77 (1.37%) Algorithms
13 75 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
14 73 (1.30%) Mobile App
15 65 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
16 62 (1.11%) Virtual Team
17 61 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
18 49 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
19 48 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
20 44 (0.79%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 105 (1.87%) Windows
2 86 (1.54%) Linux
3 24 (0.43%) Windows Server
4 23 (0.41%) VMS
5 19 (0.34%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.14%) Android
7 7 (0.12%) macOS
8 6 (0.11%) Unix
8 6 (0.11%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.071%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.054%) Debian
11 1 (0.018%) AIX
11 1 (0.018%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.018%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.018%) SUSE
11 1 (0.018%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.018%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,066 (36.88%) AI
2 1,342 (23.96%) Decision-Making
3 1,243 (22.19%) Business Intelligence
4 974 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
5 917 (16.37%) Continuous Improvement
6 876 (15.64%) Data Modelling
7 873 (15.58%) Agile
8 850 (15.17%) Roadmaps
9 794 (14.17%) Data Engineering
10 790 (14.10%) Stakeholder Management
11 763 (13.62%) Machine Learning
12 758 (13.53%) Data Analytics
13 711 (12.69%) CI/CD
14 706 (12.60%) Data Pipeline
15 661 (11.80%) Mentoring
16 631 (11.26%) Data Science
17 573 (10.23%) Data Governance
18 551 (9.84%) Actionable Insight
19 542 (9.68%) ETL
20 520 (9.28%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1,564 (27.92%) SQL
2 1,299 (23.19%) Python
3 164 (2.93%) Java
4 147 (2.62%) JavaScript
5 145 (2.59%) C#
6 125 (2.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 122 (2.18%) PowerShell
8 115 (2.05%) R
9 94 (1.68%) TypeScript
10 88 (1.57%) Bicep
11 76 (1.36%) Scala
12 70 (1.25%) Bash
13 52 (0.93%) Go
14 51 (0.91%) C++
15 35 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
16 29 (0.52%) T-SQL
17 23 (0.41%) PHP
18 18 (0.32%) Kotlin
19 16 (0.29%) VBA
20 14 (0.25%) Swift
Qualifications
1 676 (12.07%) Degree
2 459 (8.19%) Security Cleared
3 333 (5.94%) SC Cleared
4 123 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 119 (2.12%) Azure Certification
6 114 (2.03%) Master's Degree
7 85 (1.52%) DV Cleared
8 70 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 61 (1.09%) AWS Certification
10 52 (0.93%) ACCA
11 50 (0.89%) DBS Check
11 50 (0.89%) PhD
12 47 (0.84%) CIMA
13 40 (0.71%) CISSP
14 36 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
15 31 (0.55%) Postgraduate
16 27 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
16 27 (0.48%) Numerate Degree
17 26 (0.46%) CISM
18 23 (0.41%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 895 (15.98%) Data Quality
2 293 (5.23%) Accessibility
3 229 (4.09%) GDPR
4 154 (2.75%) QA
5 78 (1.39%) Actionable Recommendations
6 42 (0.75%) WCAG
7 37 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 34 (0.61%) NIST
9 30 (0.54%) SLA
10 23 (0.41%) PMO
11 22 (0.39%) PCI DSS
12 19 (0.34%) GRC
13 15 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
14 14 (0.25%) IFRS
15 12 (0.21%) EU AI Act
16 10 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 9 (0.16%) ISO 9001
18 8 (0.14%) PERC
19 7 (0.12%) SOC 2
20 6 (0.11%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 168 (3.00%) Docker
2 87 (1.55%) Active Directory
3 28 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
5 18 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (0.29%) vSphere
7 8 (0.14%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.089%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.054%) Firmware
9 3 (0.054%) IAG
10 1 (0.018%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.018%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 173 (3.09%) Kubernetes
2 45 (0.80%) Ansible
3 39 (0.70%) Grafana
4 29 (0.52%) EnCase
4 29 (0.52%) FTK
4 29 (0.52%) Prometheus
5 20 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (0.23%) FortiGate
7 8 (0.14%) Argo
7 8 (0.14%) Kibana
8 6 (0.11%) Graylog
8 6 (0.11%) Hadoop YARN
8 6 (0.11%) Nagios
8 6 (0.11%) Packer
8 6 (0.11%) Proxmox
8 6 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.089%) Puppet
10 4 (0.071%) Control-M
10 4 (0.071%) VxRail
11 3 (0.054%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 895 (15.98%) Microsoft
2 490 (8.75%) Databricks
3 475 (8.48%) Google
4 231 (4.12%) SAP
5 130 (2.32%) Adobe
6 124 (2.21%) Oracle
7 113 (2.02%) Salesforce
8 77 (1.37%) TikTok
9 71 (1.27%) HubSpot
10 64 (1.14%) Workday
11 54 (0.96%) YouTube
12 44 (0.79%) Alteryx
12 44 (0.79%) Informatica
13 43 (0.77%) Cisco
13 43 (0.77%) IBM
14 41 (0.73%) VMware
15 37 (0.66%) OpenAI
16 34 (0.61%) ServiceNow
17 33 (0.59%) Samsung
18 32 (0.57%) Foundry