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 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 28 29
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 -5
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 3,711 3,423 3,914
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 6.07% 6.47% 6.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.53% 7.12% 7.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,940 1,699 2,715
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.89% +12.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £118,750 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.28% +3.64% -

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 49,307 48,088 54,172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.63% 90.91% 89.35%
Number of salaries quoted 29,027 23,255 41,501
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £96,539
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 20 January 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 20 January 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 3,188 £65,000 -7.14% 2,833
UK excluding London +3 1,891 £50,000 -12.28% 2,560
London +4 1,522 £75,000 -11.76% 755
Work from Home -1 1,132 £63,288 -4.64% 1,176
South East +13 560 £52,500 -12.50% 935
North of England -15 387 £52,500 -4.55% 464
Midlands +4 332 £55,000 - 337
Scotland +3 241 £51,250 -15.11% 94
North West -22 195 £50,000 -9.09% 209
West Midlands -8 193 £58,764 +3.09% 126
South West +7 188 £55,000 +1.03% 279
Yorkshire -8 151 £55,233 +15.67% 187
East Midlands +17 140 £46,445 -7.11% 203
East of England +40 118 £40,000 -36.00% 341
North East +25 42 £42,500 -19.43% 72
Northern Ireland +3 40 £45,000 -34.55% 59
Wales +22 28 £45,750 -7.67% 117

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 87 (2.34%) Apache Spark
2 79 (2.13%) CMS
3 75 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
4 54 (1.46%) WordPress
5 43 (1.16%) Apache
5 43 (1.16%) SharePoint
6 41 (1.10%) Confluence
7 25 (0.67%) SAS
8 20 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 16 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
10 11 (0.30%) Drupal
11 9 (0.24%) Umbraco
12 6 (0.16%) IIS
13 5 (0.13%) ArcGIS
13 5 (0.13%) SugarCRM
14 4 (0.11%) Apache Superset
14 4 (0.11%) Appian
14 4 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
15 3 (0.081%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 3 (0.081%) Joomla!
Applications
1 528 (14.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 130 (3.50%) Microsoft Office
3 59 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 29 (0.78%) Adobe XD
4 29 (0.78%) Maya
5 24 (0.65%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 20 (0.54%) Photoshop
7 19 (0.51%) InDesign
8 15 (0.40%) Chatbot
9 14 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
10 12 (0.32%) Adobe Premiere
10 12 (0.32%) SPSS
11 10 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
11 10 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
11 10 (0.27%) Trello
12 6 (0.16%) MS Visio
13 4 (0.11%) SketchUp
13 4 (0.11%) UserZoom
14 3 (0.081%) Final Cut Pro
14 3 (0.081%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 66 (1.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 60 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 34 (0.92%) Oracle ERP
4 23 (0.62%) SAP CO
5 22 (0.59%) SAP IBP
5 22 (0.59%) Shopify
6 21 (0.57%) Magento
7 16 (0.43%) Oracle Assets
7 16 (0.43%) Oracle General Ledger
7 16 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
7 16 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
7 16 (0.43%) SAP FI
7 16 (0.43%) SAP FI/CO
8 15 (0.40%) Oracle Financials
9 13 (0.35%) Dynamics GP
9 13 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
10 10 (0.27%) NetSuite
10 10 (0.27%) SAP FSCM
11 9 (0.24%) IBM Planning Analytics
11 9 (0.24%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 961 (25.90%) Azure
2 749 (20.18%) Power Platform
3 377 (10.16%) AWS
4 217 (5.85%) SaaS
5 215 (5.79%) GCP
6 195 (5.25%) Snowflake
7 189 (5.09%) Azure Data Factory
8 176 (4.74%) Azure DevOps
9 175 (4.72%) Google Analytics
10 168 (4.53%) Microsoft 365
11 159 (4.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 150 (4.04%) GitHub
13 115 (3.10%) dbt
14 102 (2.75%) Entra ID
15 85 (2.29%) Azure Monitor
16 71 (1.91%) Serverless
17 66 (1.78%) Amazon S3
18 64 (1.72%) Figma
19 61 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
20 60 (1.62%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 44 (1.19%) Broadband
2 38 (1.02%) VPN
3 34 (0.92%) SMS
4 33 (0.89%) Firewall
5 15 (0.40%) DNS
5 15 (0.40%) WAN
6 14 (0.38%) CHAP
6 14 (0.38%) Unified Communications
7 11 (0.30%) Network Security
8 10 (0.27%) Intranet
9 8 (0.22%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.13%) DHCP
10 5 (0.13%) HTTPS
10 5 (0.13%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (0.13%) Wireshark
11 4 (0.11%) Internet
11 4 (0.11%) VoIP
12 3 (0.081%) HTTP
12 3 (0.081%) MQTT
12 3 (0.081%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 714 (19.24%) Power BI
2 393 (10.59%) Tableau
3 322 (8.68%) Data Warehouse
4 249 (6.71%) Data Lake
5 170 (4.58%) Metadata
6 153 (4.12%) Data Mining
7 149 (4.02%) SQL Server
8 96 (2.59%) Azure SQL Database
9 95 (2.56%) SAP BW
10 93 (2.51%) Looker
11 86 (2.32%) Big Data
12 70 (1.89%) NoSQL
13 68 (1.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 67 (1.81%) Relational Database
15 65 (1.75%) BigQuery
16 64 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
17 56 (1.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 48 (1.29%) Power Query
19 45 (1.21%) Hadoop
20 40 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 123 (3.31%) Git
2 111 (2.99%) JIRA
3 62 (1.67%) Jenkins
4 31 (0.84%) Oracle Forms
5 26 (0.70%) Axure RP
5 26 (0.70%) Balsamiq
6 23 (0.62%) TeamCity
7 19 (0.51%) ERwin
7 19 (0.51%) GitLab
8 17 (0.46%) Visual Studio
9 13 (0.35%) MLflow
9 13 (0.35%) Selenium
10 8 (0.22%) PowerDesigner
11 7 (0.19%) ER Studio
11 7 (0.19%) Postman
12 5 (0.13%) CircleCI
12 5 (0.13%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.13%) MSI
12 5 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 5 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,291 (34.79%) Finance
2 1,244 (33.52%) Social Skills
3 1,063 (28.64%) Analytical Skills
4 670 (18.05%) Marketing
5 254 (6.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 241 (6.49%) Law
7 212 (5.71%) Public Sector
8 211 (5.69%) Banking
9 197 (5.31%) Retail
10 154 (4.15%) Manufacturing
11 135 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
12 133 (3.58%) Legal
13 101 (2.72%) Games
14 95 (2.56%) Financial Institution
15 93 (2.51%) Pharmaceutical
16 75 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
17 74 (1.99%) Automotive
18 70 (1.89%) Back Office
19 69 (1.86%) Advertising
20 67 (1.81%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 604 (16.28%) Analyst
2 591 (15.93%) Senior
3 457 (12.31%) Lead
4 326 (8.78%) Data Analyst
5 325 (8.76%) Data Engineer
6 287 (7.73%) Architect
7 219 (5.90%) Developer
8 141 (3.80%) Senior Manager
9 123 (3.31%) Trainee
9 123 (3.31%) Trainee Analyst
9 123 (3.31%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 122 (3.29%) Data Architect
11 85 (2.29%) Solutions Architect
12 84 (2.26%) Consultant
13 83 (2.24%) Data Manager
14 76 (2.05%) Data Scientist
15 75 (2.02%) Support Engineer
16 74 (1.99%) Senior Analyst
17 71 (1.91%) Report Analyst
18 66 (1.78%) Marketing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (2.21%) HTML
2 73 (1.97%) PySpark
3 72 (1.94%) CSS
3 72 (1.94%) Kafka
4 61 (1.64%) OAuth
5 59 (1.59%) RESTful
6 58 (1.56%) React
7 55 (1.48%) PyTorch
8 54 (1.46%) REST
9 51 (1.37%) .NET
9 51 (1.37%) TensorFlow
10 45 (1.21%) JSON
11 38 (1.02%) OAuth2
12 32 (0.86%) SAML
13 28 (0.75%) Node.js
13 28 (0.75%) scikit-learn
14 26 (0.70%) Middleware
14 26 (0.70%) Pandas
15 25 (0.67%) FIX Protocol
16 23 (0.62%) Akka
Miscellaneous
1 173 (4.66%) Analytical Mindset
2 171 (4.61%) Self-Motivation
3 165 (4.45%) Product Ownership
4 164 (4.42%) Onboarding
5 149 (4.02%) Cloud Native
6 147 (3.96%) Management Information System
7 143 (3.85%) Social Media
8 112 (3.02%) Algorithms
9 88 (2.37%) Life Science
10 82 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
11 64 (1.72%) Data Structures
12 60 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
13 59 (1.59%) FMCG
14 49 (1.32%) Data Centre
15 46 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
16 41 (1.10%) Virtual Team
17 38 (1.02%) Fixed Income
17 38 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
18 27 (0.73%) Blog
18 27 (0.73%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 114 (3.07%) Windows
2 60 (1.62%) Windows 10
3 43 (1.16%) Linux
4 30 (0.81%) Unix
5 15 (0.40%) VMS
6 11 (0.30%) Android
6 11 (0.30%) Windows Server
7 10 (0.27%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.054%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.027%) AIX
9 1 (0.027%) Debian
9 1 (0.027%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,000 (26.95%) Business Intelligence
2 994 (26.79%) AI
3 832 (22.42%) Decision-Making
4 811 (21.85%) Problem-Solving
5 738 (19.89%) Data Analytics
6 696 (18.76%) Agile
7 682 (18.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 607 (16.36%) Data Modelling
9 487 (13.12%) Data Governance
10 473 (12.75%) Machine Learning
11 470 (12.67%) Data Science
12 461 (12.42%) Data Analysis
13 458 (12.34%) Roadmaps
14 446 (12.02%) Project Management
15 444 (11.96%) Stakeholder Management
16 431 (11.61%) Data Engineering
17 419 (11.29%) Visualisation
18 408 (10.99%) ETL
19 405 (10.91%) Data Pipeline
20 394 (10.62%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 985 (26.54%) SQL
2 915 (24.66%) Python
3 124 (3.34%) Java
4 115 (3.10%) JavaScript
5 82 (2.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 81 (2.18%) C#
7 77 (2.07%) Scala
8 74 (1.99%) PowerShell
9 67 (1.81%) R
10 50 (1.35%) Bicep
11 44 (1.19%) T-SQL
12 34 (0.92%) C++
13 32 (0.86%) Bash
14 30 (0.81%) TypeScript
15 26 (0.70%) PL/SQL
16 24 (0.65%) Go
16 24 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
17 21 (0.57%) Shell Script
18 18 (0.49%) VBA
19 14 (0.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 870 (23.44%) Degree
2 231 (6.22%) Security Cleared
3 203 (5.47%) Master's Degree
4 172 (4.63%) SC Cleared
5 120 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 98 (2.64%) PhD
7 91 (2.45%) DBS Check
8 60 (1.62%) CTC Cleared
9 58 (1.56%) CISSP
10 54 (1.46%) CISA
11 49 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
12 46 (1.24%) Azure Certification
12 46 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
12 46 (1.24%) Numerate Degree
13 40 (1.08%) CISM
14 39 (1.05%) PMI Certification
15 35 (0.94%) ACCA
16 31 (0.84%) PMP
17 23 (0.62%) DV Cleared
18 22 (0.59%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 528 (14.23%) Data Quality
2 270 (7.28%) GDPR
3 210 (5.66%) Accessibility
4 81 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 79 (2.13%) QA
6 70 (1.89%) SLA
7 50 (1.35%) NIST
8 44 (1.19%) WCAG
9 43 (1.16%) GxP
10 35 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
11 31 (0.84%) COBIT
12 25 (0.67%) Solvency II
13 23 (0.62%) HIPAA
14 22 (0.59%) EU AI Act
15 21 (0.57%) IFRS
15 21 (0.57%) PSD2
16 20 (0.54%) GRC
17 17 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 16 (0.43%) PMO
19 15 (0.40%) SOC 2
System Software
1 119 (3.21%) Docker
2 53 (1.43%) Active Directory
3 34 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (0.22%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.11%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.054%) Firmware
8 2 (0.054%) vSphere
9 1 (0.027%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.027%) vCloud
9 1 (0.027%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 185 (4.99%) Terraform
2 138 (3.72%) Kubernetes
3 36 (0.97%) Ansible
4 28 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
5 25 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
6 21 (0.57%) Grafana
7 16 (0.43%) Prometheus
8 11 (0.30%) QRadar
8 11 (0.30%) SCCM
9 8 (0.22%) EnCase
9 8 (0.22%) FTK
10 6 (0.16%) Kibana
10 6 (0.16%) RSA Archer
10 6 (0.16%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 5 (0.13%) Argo
11 5 (0.13%) SCOM
12 3 (0.081%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.081%) ArcSight ESM
12 3 (0.081%) Control-M
13 1 (0.027%) Ganglia
Vendors
1 752 (20.26%) Microsoft
2 304 (8.19%) Google
3 253 (6.82%) Databricks
4 239 (6.44%) SAP
5 211 (5.69%) Salesforce
6 139 (3.75%) Oracle
7 131 (3.53%) Cisco
8 130 (3.50%) Adobe
9 68 (1.83%) HubSpot
10 58 (1.56%) Alteryx
11 41 (1.10%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 34 (0.92%) Bloomberg
12 34 (0.92%) Dell
13 33 (0.89%) ServiceNow
14 31 (0.84%) OpenAI
15 30 (0.81%) Talend
16 27 (0.73%) Informatica
17 25 (0.67%) YouTube
18 23 (0.62%) IBM
19 22 (0.59%) Palantir