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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 22 37
Rank change year-on-year -5 +15 -12
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 5,247 3,973 4,674
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.19% 8.06% 5.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.04% 8.98% 6.43%
Number of salaries quoted 3,130 1,813 2,816
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £35,375
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,357 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £61,628 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.53% -1.40% -3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £103,750 £112,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

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 74,528 44,262 72,639
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.71% 89.78% 81.61%
Number of salaries quoted 51,427 25,101 49,118
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -3 4,720 £67,500 +8.00% 2,235
UK excluding London -7 2,751 £60,000 +9.09% 1,198
London +3 2,083 £80,000 - 1,346
Work from Home +6 1,603 £65,250 +8.75% 898
North of England +46 918 £60,000 +6.67% 325
Midlands +14 609 £60,000 +14.29% 158
North West +42 540 £60,000 +14.29% 176
South East -33 504 £55,000 - 416
West Midlands +4 349 £57,500 +6.04% 106
South West -30 277 £60,000 - 135
East Midlands +28 259 £60,000 +23.71% 52
Yorkshire +30 248 £62,500 -2.34% 100
East of England +22 231 £60,000 +26.32% 66
North East +28 130 £50,000 -2.91% 50
Scotland -24 101 £61,250 -12.50% 59
Wales -18 59 £61,750 +2.92% 38
Northern Ireland -31 59 £61,250 +42.14% 19

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
1 185 (3.53%) Apache Spark
2 141 (2.69%) Apache Airflow
3 117 (2.23%) CMS
4 105 (2.00%) Apache
5 70 (1.33%) SAS
6 61 (1.16%) Confluence
7 45 (0.86%) SharePoint
8 41 (0.78%) WordPress
9 33 (0.63%) ArcGIS
10 27 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
11 14 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
12 9 (0.17%) Jupyter
13 7 (0.13%) Drupal
14 6 (0.11%) Headless CMS
14 6 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
15 5 (0.095%) Oracle Workflow
15 5 (0.095%) Umbraco
16 3 (0.057%) Sitecore CMS
17 2 (0.038%) Apache Pulsar
17 2 (0.038%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 257 (4.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (0.84%) UserZoom
3 41 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
4 39 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 31 (0.59%) Chatbot
6 26 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
7 23 (0.44%) SPSS
8 18 (0.34%) MS Visio
9 14 (0.27%) Adobe XD
10 12 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 6 (0.11%) Sketch
11 6 (0.11%) Trello
12 5 (0.095%) Microsoft Project
13 4 (0.076%) Photoshop
14 3 (0.057%) InDesign
15 2 (0.038%) Adobe Illustrator
16 1 (0.019%) Adobe Premiere
16 1 (0.019%) PlantUML
16 1 (0.019%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 119 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 45 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 35 (0.67%) SAP IBP
4 34 (0.65%) Adobe Campaign
5 33 (0.63%) Dynamics GP
5 33 (0.63%) SAP PP
6 30 (0.57%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 20 (0.38%) Magento
7 20 (0.38%) Shopify
8 17 (0.32%) NetSuite
9 11 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
10 10 (0.19%) iTrent
11 8 (0.15%) Workday HCM
12 7 (0.13%) Relativity
13 6 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
13 6 (0.11%) SAP MDG
13 6 (0.11%) SAP PM
13 6 (0.11%) SAP Travel Management
14 5 (0.095%) SAP PS
14 5 (0.095%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 1,023 (19.50%) Azure
2 815 (15.53%) Power Platform
3 793 (15.11%) AWS
4 344 (6.56%) GCP
5 326 (6.21%) SaaS
6 250 (4.76%) Snowflake
7 212 (4.04%) Google Analytics
8 202 (3.85%) Adobe Analytics
9 194 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
10 158 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
11 149 (2.84%) Serverless
12 148 (2.82%) GitHub
13 145 (2.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 132 (2.52%) dbt
15 120 (2.29%) Amazon S3
16 119 (2.27%) Figma
17 108 (2.06%) Cloud Computing
18 86 (1.64%) Microsoft 365
19 76 (1.45%) Contentsquare
20 72 (1.37%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 243 (4.63%) Broadband
2 56 (1.07%) Internet
2 56 (1.07%) VPN
3 50 (0.95%) Firewall
4 42 (0.80%) DNS
5 41 (0.78%) Network Security
6 27 (0.51%) BGP
7 24 (0.46%) TCP/IP
8 20 (0.38%) VLAN
9 18 (0.34%) OSPF
10 17 (0.32%) SMS
11 16 (0.30%) VoIP
12 15 (0.29%) DHCP
13 14 (0.27%) CTI
14 12 (0.23%) 5G
14 12 (0.23%) CHAP
14 12 (0.23%) Unified Communications
15 11 (0.21%) WAN
16 9 (0.17%) SSL
16 9 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 777 (14.81%) Power BI
2 418 (7.97%) Data Warehouse
3 325 (6.19%) Tableau
4 240 (4.57%) Data Lake
5 194 (3.70%) Metadata
6 170 (3.24%) SQL Server
7 140 (2.67%) Big Data
8 130 (2.48%) Looker
9 126 (2.40%) Amazon Redshift
10 115 (2.19%) Azure SQL Database
10 115 (2.19%) BigQuery
11 95 (1.81%) Relational Database
12 93 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
13 85 (1.62%) NoSQL
14 72 (1.37%) MongoDB
14 72 (1.37%) Power Query
15 69 (1.32%) Data Mining
16 68 (1.30%) Delta Lake
17 67 (1.28%) Star Schema
18 57 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 176 (3.35%) Git
2 75 (1.43%) JIRA
3 59 (1.12%) Jenkins
4 46 (0.88%) MLflow
5 34 (0.65%) GitLab
6 25 (0.48%) IBM UrbanCode
7 21 (0.40%) Crashlytics
8 14 (0.27%) Claude Code
8 14 (0.27%) XCTest
9 13 (0.25%) CircleCI
9 13 (0.25%) fastlane
10 10 (0.19%) ERwin
11 9 (0.17%) Xcode
12 8 (0.15%) Gradle
13 7 (0.13%) Balsamiq
14 6 (0.11%) Android Studio
14 6 (0.11%) Axure RP
14 6 (0.11%) Selenium
15 5 (0.095%) Bitbucket
15 5 (0.095%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 1,415 (26.97%) Finance
2 1,322 (25.20%) Social Skills
3 1,176 (22.41%) Analytical Skills
4 726 (13.84%) Marketing
5 350 (6.67%) Retail
6 338 (6.44%) Public Sector
7 267 (5.09%) Law
8 261 (4.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 248 (4.73%) Legal
10 235 (4.48%) Games
11 231 (4.40%) Banking
12 171 (3.26%) Manufacturing
13 154 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
14 122 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
15 121 (2.31%) Automotive
16 106 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
17 96 (1.83%) Advertising
18 91 (1.73%) Financial Institution
19 61 (1.16%) Telecoms
20 49 (0.93%) Military
Job Titles
1 998 (19.02%) Senior
2 626 (11.93%) Analyst
3 603 (11.49%) Data Engineer
4 586 (11.17%) Lead
5 476 (9.07%) Architect
6 328 (6.25%) Developer
7 301 (5.74%) Data Analyst
8 234 (4.46%) Consultant
9 229 (4.36%) Data Architect
10 201 (3.83%) Senior Data Engineer
11 164 (3.13%) Data Scientist
12 159 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
13 157 (2.99%) Analytics Manager
14 145 (2.76%) Senior Manager
15 134 (2.55%) Product Manager
16 112 (2.13%) Senior Analyst
17 110 (2.10%) Data Manager
18 101 (1.92%) Designer
19 95 (1.81%) Senior Architect
20 82 (1.56%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (3.11%) PySpark
2 143 (2.73%) Kafka
3 97 (1.85%) HTML
4 95 (1.81%) CSS
5 89 (1.70%) .NET
6 70 (1.33%) PyTorch
6 70 (1.33%) REST
7 62 (1.18%) Node.js
8 61 (1.16%) React
8 61 (1.16%) SAP Fiori
9 58 (1.11%) Pandas
10 52 (0.99%) scikit-learn
11 50 (0.95%) .NET Core
12 44 (0.84%) TensorFlow
13 41 (0.78%) RESTful
14 40 (0.76%) LangChain
15 37 (0.71%) ASP.NET
15 37 (0.71%) JSON
16 36 (0.69%) AngularJS
16 36 (0.69%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 296 (5.64%) Social Media
2 288 (5.49%) Cloud Native
3 242 (4.61%) Onboarding
4 204 (3.89%) Product Ownership
5 175 (3.34%) Analytical Mindset
6 150 (2.86%) Management Information System
7 124 (2.36%) Greenfield Project
8 118 (2.25%) Marketing Technology
9 112 (2.13%) Data Structures
10 109 (2.08%) Blog
11 102 (1.94%) Algorithms
12 90 (1.72%) Mobile App
13 66 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
14 65 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
15 64 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
16 58 (1.11%) AI Agents
16 58 (1.11%) Life Science
17 57 (1.09%) Public Cloud
18 45 (0.86%) e-Learning
18 45 (0.86%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 86 (1.64%) Windows
2 77 (1.47%) Linux
3 32 (0.61%) VMS
4 23 (0.44%) Apple iOS
5 18 (0.34%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.15%) Android
7 7 (0.13%) Unix
8 5 (0.095%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.076%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.038%) AIX
10 2 (0.038%) Debian
10 2 (0.038%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.019%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,784 (34.00%) AI
2 1,187 (22.62%) Decision-Making
3 1,111 (21.17%) Business Intelligence
4 954 (18.18%) Agile
5 879 (16.75%) Roadmaps
6 822 (15.67%) Data Modelling
7 805 (15.34%) Continuous Improvement
8 773 (14.73%) Problem-Solving
9 733 (13.97%) Data Analytics
10 711 (13.55%) Data Engineering
11 658 (12.54%) Machine Learning
12 635 (12.10%) Data Pipeline
13 612 (11.66%) CI/CD
14 572 (10.90%) Data Governance
15 543 (10.35%) Data Science
16 534 (10.18%) Mentoring
17 523 (9.97%) Customer Experience
18 518 (9.87%) ETL
19 471 (8.98%) Actionable Insight
20 464 (8.84%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1,361 (25.94%) SQL
2 1,163 (22.17%) Python
3 125 (2.38%) C#
4 124 (2.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 124 (2.36%) Java
5 109 (2.08%) PowerShell
6 98 (1.87%) JavaScript
7 83 (1.58%) R
7 83 (1.58%) TypeScript
8 68 (1.30%) Scala
9 59 (1.12%) Bicep
10 50 (0.95%) Bash
11 42 (0.80%) C++
12 41 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
13 40 (0.76%) Go
14 30 (0.57%) T-SQL
15 25 (0.48%) Kotlin
16 22 (0.42%) Swift
17 19 (0.36%) ABAP
18 18 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 600 (11.44%) Degree
2 338 (6.44%) Security Cleared
3 220 (4.19%) SC Cleared
4 117 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 99 (1.89%) Azure Certification
6 86 (1.64%) Master's Degree
7 72 (1.37%) IRCA
8 64 (1.22%) DV Cleared
9 56 (1.07%) AWS Certification
10 52 (0.99%) ACCA
11 51 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
12 48 (0.91%) DBS Check
13 47 (0.90%) CISSP
14 46 (0.88%) CIMA
15 38 (0.72%) CISM
16 33 (0.63%) PhD
17 32 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
18 24 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
19 22 (0.42%) CISA
19 22 (0.42%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 687 (13.09%) Data Quality
2 414 (7.89%) Accessibility
3 328 (6.25%) GDPR
4 221 (4.21%) QA
5 98 (1.87%) WCAG
6 74 (1.41%) ISO 9001
7 42 (0.80%) NIST
8 38 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 36 (0.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 34 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
11 33 (0.63%) SLA
12 26 (0.50%) PCI DSS
13 21 (0.40%) PMO
14 20 (0.38%) IFRS
15 15 (0.29%) COBIT
15 15 (0.29%) EU AI Act
15 15 (0.29%) GRC
15 15 (0.29%) HIPAA
16 14 (0.27%) PERC
17 13 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 153 (2.92%) Docker
2 90 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 21 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.29%) vSphere
5 14 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.11%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.076%) IAG
9 3 (0.057%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.038%) Firmware
11 1 (0.019%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 241 (4.59%) Terraform
2 174 (3.32%) Kubernetes
3 43 (0.82%) Ansible
4 29 (0.55%) Prometheus
5 23 (0.44%) Grafana
6 15 (0.29%) EnCase
6 15 (0.29%) FTK
6 15 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.15%) FortiGate
7 8 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.11%) Hadoop YARN
8 6 (0.11%) Nagios
9 5 (0.095%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.095%) Argo
9 5 (0.095%) Graylog
9 5 (0.095%) Packer
9 5 (0.095%) VxRail
10 3 (0.057%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.057%) Kibana
10 3 (0.057%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 789 (15.04%) Microsoft
2 466 (8.88%) Databricks
3 370 (7.05%) Google
4 292 (5.57%) Adobe
5 264 (5.03%) SAP
6 138 (2.63%) Oracle
7 124 (2.36%) Salesforce
8 74 (1.41%) HubSpot
9 55 (1.05%) Informatica
10 50 (0.95%) Workday
11 48 (0.91%) Dell
12 43 (0.82%) Cisco
13 41 (0.78%) IBM
14 31 (0.59%) Cognos
15 30 (0.57%) Alteryx
16 28 (0.53%) VMware
17 27 (0.51%) Cloudera
17 27 (0.51%) ServiceNow
17 27 (0.51%) Teradata
18 26 (0.50%) Braze