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 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 18 39
Rank change year-on-year -12 +21 -16
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 4,592 3,826 5,244
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.07% 8.79% 5.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.82% 9.42% 6.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,669 1,769 3,323
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £80,435
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,221 £53,500
% change year-on-year +0.49% +6.96% -2.73%

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 67,307 40,602 82,234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.25% 93.30% 85.26%
Number of salaries quoted 42,652 22,587 59,697
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,450 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,446 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -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 9 May 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 9 May 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 -8 4,069 £65,000 - 1,963
UK excluding London -20 2,434 £57,500 +0.49% 1,229
London 0 1,778 £80,000 -5.88% 1,044
Work from Home 0 1,411 £65,000 +8.33% 895
North of England +2 748 £60,000 +8.11% 325
South East -29 509 £55,000 -8.33% 430
Midlands -15 494 £55,000 +4.76% 196
North West +6 428 £60,000 +9.09% 192
West Midlands -21 290 £55,000 - 104
Yorkshire -10 243 £60,000 +5.73% 85
South West -26 224 £57,500 +2.27% 112
East of England +32 219 £60,000 -7.69% 78
East Midlands +29 200 £50,000 +3.09% 92
Scotland -9 155 £65,000 -16.24% 55
North East +2 77 £47,000 -16.44% 51
Northern Ireland -13 47 £45,000 +50.00% 12
Wales -9 40 £55,000 +4.76% 39

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
1 165 (3.59%) Apache Airflow
2 140 (3.05%) Apache Spark
3 116 (2.53%) CMS
4 82 (1.79%) Apache
5 62 (1.35%) Confluence
6 52 (1.13%) SharePoint
7 51 (1.11%) WordPress
8 36 (0.78%) SAS
9 35 (0.76%) ArcGIS
10 20 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
11 17 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
12 10 (0.22%) Drupal
13 7 (0.15%) Oracle Application Server
13 7 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 6 (0.13%) IIS
15 4 (0.087%) Appian
15 4 (0.087%) Documentum
15 4 (0.087%) Moodle
15 4 (0.087%) Umbraco
16 3 (0.065%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 309 (6.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 99 (2.16%) Microsoft Office
3 52 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (0.68%) UserZoom
5 23 (0.50%) Adobe XD
6 19 (0.41%) MS Visio
7 18 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
8 11 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 9 (0.20%) Chatbot
9 9 (0.20%) SPSS
10 4 (0.087%) Adobe Illustrator
10 4 (0.087%) InDesign
10 4 (0.087%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.065%) Microsoft Project
11 3 (0.065%) Sketch
12 2 (0.044%) Maya
12 2 (0.044%) Notion
13 1 (0.022%) Adobe Premiere
13 1 (0.022%) Siemens NX
13 1 (0.022%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 87 (1.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (0.74%) Adobe Campaign
2 34 (0.74%) SAP IBP
3 33 (0.72%) SAP PP
4 24 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
4 24 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
5 20 (0.44%) Magento
6 17 (0.37%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 15 (0.33%) iTrent
7 15 (0.33%) Shopify
8 11 (0.24%) NetSuite
8 11 (0.24%) SAP CO
9 10 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
10 9 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
11 8 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
11 8 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
11 8 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
11 8 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
11 8 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
11 8 (0.17%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 942 (20.51%) Azure
2 705 (15.35%) Power Platform
3 576 (12.54%) AWS
4 289 (6.29%) GCP
5 258 (5.62%) SaaS
6 228 (4.97%) Snowflake
7 201 (4.38%) Adobe Analytics
8 199 (4.33%) Google Analytics
9 194 (4.22%) Azure Data Factory
10 158 (3.44%) Azure DevOps
11 152 (3.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 146 (3.18%) Microsoft 365
13 139 (3.03%) GitHub
14 137 (2.98%) dbt
15 128 (2.79%) Figma
16 118 (2.57%) Amazon S3
17 114 (2.48%) Serverless
18 100 (2.18%) Entra ID
19 70 (1.52%) Azure Monitor
19 70 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 259 (5.64%) Broadband
2 39 (0.85%) Firewall
3 36 (0.78%) VPN
4 29 (0.63%) CHAP
5 26 (0.57%) DNS
6 23 (0.50%) Network Security
6 23 (0.50%) WAN
7 17 (0.37%) TCP/IP
8 15 (0.33%) DHCP
9 14 (0.30%) Intranet
10 12 (0.26%) Unified Communications
11 8 (0.17%) 5G
11 8 (0.17%) SMS
12 7 (0.15%) HTTP
13 5 (0.11%) BGP
13 5 (0.11%) SNMP
13 5 (0.11%) SSL
13 5 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
14 4 (0.087%) HTTPS
14 4 (0.087%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 667 (14.53%) Power BI
2 343 (7.47%) Tableau
3 325 (7.08%) Data Warehouse
4 229 (4.99%) Data Lake
5 173 (3.77%) Metadata
6 142 (3.09%) Data Mining
7 138 (3.01%) SQL Server
8 123 (2.68%) Looker
9 111 (2.42%) BigQuery
10 103 (2.24%) Amazon Redshift
11 102 (2.22%) Relational Database
12 82 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
12 82 (1.79%) NoSQL
13 72 (1.57%) Big Data
14 68 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
15 56 (1.22%) Power Query
16 52 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 47 (1.02%) Delta Lake
18 46 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
18 46 (1.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 173 (3.77%) Git
2 84 (1.83%) JIRA
3 77 (1.68%) Jenkins
4 43 (0.94%) MLflow
5 36 (0.78%) GitLab
6 25 (0.54%) IBM UrbanCode
7 23 (0.50%) TeamCity
8 18 (0.39%) Axure RP
8 18 (0.39%) Balsamiq
9 17 (0.37%) Crashlytics
10 16 (0.35%) CircleCI
10 16 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
11 12 (0.26%) Selenium
11 12 (0.26%) XCTest
12 11 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 10 (0.22%) ERwin
13 10 (0.22%) Visual Studio
14 7 (0.15%) Claude Code
15 6 (0.13%) fastlane
16 5 (0.11%) MSI
General
1 1,267 (27.59%) Finance
2 1,137 (24.76%) Social Skills
3 1,046 (22.78%) Analytical Skills
4 648 (14.11%) Marketing
5 265 (5.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 246 (5.36%) Retail
7 227 (4.94%) Public Sector
8 218 (4.75%) Games
9 211 (4.59%) Law
10 205 (4.46%) Banking
11 146 (3.18%) Legal
12 142 (3.09%) Manufacturing
13 126 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
14 116 (2.53%) Automotive
15 104 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
16 101 (2.20%) Advertising
17 93 (2.03%) Financial Institution
18 63 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
19 61 (1.33%) Back Office
20 50 (1.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 813 (17.70%) Senior
2 604 (13.15%) Analyst
3 514 (11.19%) Data Engineer
4 508 (11.06%) Lead
5 336 (7.32%) Architect
6 310 (6.75%) Data Analyst
7 267 (5.81%) Developer
8 178 (3.88%) Consultant
9 163 (3.55%) Data Architect
10 136 (2.96%) Senior Manager
11 128 (2.79%) Senior Data Engineer
12 126 (2.74%) Trainee
12 126 (2.74%) Trainee Analyst
12 126 (2.74%) Trainee Data Analyst
13 111 (2.42%) Designer
14 109 (2.37%) Data Scientist
15 106 (2.31%) Data Manager
16 105 (2.29%) Product Manager
17 102 (2.22%) Solutions Architect
18 100 (2.18%) Analytics Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (2.96%) PySpark
2 125 (2.72%) Kafka
3 94 (2.05%) HTML
4 87 (1.89%) CSS
4 87 (1.89%) PyTorch
5 81 (1.76%) .NET
6 60 (1.31%) TensorFlow
7 55 (1.20%) React
8 52 (1.13%) SAP Fiori
9 51 (1.11%) RESTful
10 46 (1.00%) scikit-learn
11 44 (0.96%) LangChain
11 44 (0.96%) Pandas
11 44 (0.96%) REST
12 42 (0.91%) .NET Core
12 42 (0.91%) OAuth
13 37 (0.81%) JSON
14 36 (0.78%) Node.js
15 24 (0.52%) LlamaIndex
16 23 (0.50%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 283 (6.16%) Social Media
2 209 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 184 (4.01%) Product Ownership
4 154 (3.35%) Management Information System
5 151 (3.29%) Analytical Mindset
6 108 (2.35%) Onboarding
7 104 (2.26%) Algorithms
8 98 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
9 86 (1.87%) Data Structures
10 79 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
11 78 (1.70%) Marketing Technology
12 76 (1.66%) Life Science
13 70 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
14 68 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
14 68 (1.48%) Mobile App
15 57 (1.24%) Over-the-Top Content
16 46 (1.00%) Public Cloud
17 45 (0.98%) Virtual Team
18 41 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
19 37 (0.81%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 107 (2.33%) Windows
2 52 (1.13%) Linux
3 51 (1.11%) Windows 10
4 27 (0.59%) VMS
5 25 (0.54%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.39%) Unix
7 17 (0.37%) Windows Server
8 13 (0.28%) Android
9 3 (0.065%) AIX
10 1 (0.022%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,287 (28.03%) AI
2 960 (20.91%) Decision-Making
3 954 (20.78%) Business Intelligence
4 902 (19.64%) Agile
5 709 (15.44%) Data Modelling
6 707 (15.40%) Data Analytics
7 699 (15.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 677 (14.74%) Problem-Solving
9 647 (14.09%) Roadmaps
10 616 (13.41%) Data Engineering
11 565 (12.30%) Data Pipeline
12 543 (11.82%) CI/CD
13 513 (11.17%) Data Governance
14 503 (10.95%) Machine Learning
15 498 (10.84%) Customer Experience
16 496 (10.80%) Data Science
16 496 (10.80%) ETL
17 432 (9.41%) DevOps
18 430 (9.36%) Data Analysis
19 425 (9.26%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1,176 (25.61%) SQL
2 1,048 (22.82%) Python
3 112 (2.44%) C#
4 108 (2.35%) Java
5 103 (2.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 90 (1.96%) JavaScript
7 83 (1.81%) Scala
8 73 (1.59%) R
9 68 (1.48%) PowerShell
10 49 (1.07%) TypeScript
11 43 (0.94%) Bicep
12 39 (0.85%) T-SQL
13 38 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
14 37 (0.81%) C++
15 36 (0.78%) Go
16 24 (0.52%) Bash
17 19 (0.41%) Kotlin
18 18 (0.39%) VBA
19 16 (0.35%) Swift
20 14 (0.30%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 597 (13.00%) Degree
2 276 (6.01%) Security Cleared
3 190 (4.14%) SC Cleared
4 110 (2.40%) Master's Degree
5 86 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 72 (1.57%) IRCA
7 61 (1.33%) Azure Certification
8 54 (1.18%) ACCA
9 51 (1.11%) CTC Cleared
10 47 (1.02%) CISM
10 47 (1.02%) CISSP
11 46 (1.00%) CIMA
11 46 (1.00%) DBS Check
11 46 (1.00%) PhD
12 44 (0.96%) CISA
13 36 (0.78%) DV Cleared
14 33 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
15 31 (0.68%) SANS
16 30 (0.65%) CGEIT
16 30 (0.65%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 586 (12.76%) Data Quality
2 372 (8.10%) Accessibility
3 332 (7.23%) GDPR
4 179 (3.90%) QA
5 96 (2.09%) WCAG
6 76 (1.66%) ISO 9001
7 74 (1.61%) SLA
8 50 (1.09%) NIST
9 44 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 37 (0.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 34 (0.74%) COBIT
12 32 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
13 26 (0.57%) IFRS
14 20 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 18 (0.39%) SOC 2
16 17 (0.37%) GAAP
17 16 (0.35%) GRC
18 15 (0.33%) HIPAA
19 14 (0.30%) GxP
19 14 (0.30%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 151 (3.29%) Docker
2 82 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 23 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.17%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.087%) IAG
6 4 (0.087%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.065%) vSphere
8 2 (0.044%) Firmware
9 1 (0.022%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.022%) vCloud
9 1 (0.022%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 223 (4.86%) Terraform
2 180 (3.92%) Kubernetes
3 50 (1.09%) Ansible
4 26 (0.57%) Prometheus
5 25 (0.54%) Grafana
6 17 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (0.17%) EnCase
8 8 (0.17%) FTK
9 7 (0.15%) Kibana
10 6 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.087%) Argo
11 4 (0.087%) Control-M
11 4 (0.087%) VxRail
12 3 (0.065%) Graylog
13 2 (0.044%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.044%) QRadar
13 2 (0.044%) RSA Archer
13 2 (0.044%) SCCM
13 2 (0.044%) vRealize
Vendors
1 791 (17.23%) Microsoft
2 386 (8.41%) Databricks
3 321 (6.99%) Google
4 301 (6.55%) Adobe
5 208 (4.53%) SAP
6 151 (3.29%) Salesforce
7 128 (2.79%) Oracle
8 112 (2.44%) Cisco
9 60 (1.31%) HubSpot
10 54 (1.18%) Dell
11 47 (1.02%) Informatica
12 32 (0.70%) Alteryx
13 28 (0.61%) Red Hat
13 28 (0.61%) Workday
14 26 (0.57%) Nexthink
14 26 (0.57%) OpenAI
14 26 (0.57%) Palantir
15 25 (0.54%) Cloudera
15 25 (0.54%) Denodo
15 25 (0.54%) ServiceNow