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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 23 33
Rank change year-on-year -8 +10 -5
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 5,584 3,730 3,942
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.73% 7.52% 5.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.46% 8.44% 6.43%
Number of salaries quoted 3,376 1,713 2,071
10th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £49,438 £42,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,805 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.34% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £117,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £56,525
% change year-on-year +14.29% -7.12% +2.77%

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 86,437 44,202 61,341
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.18% 89.12% 81.82%
Number of salaries quoted 59,483 24,460 33,440
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,500 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,465
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.93% -2.56%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £96,250
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 2 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 2 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 5,005 £67,250 +7.60% 10,616
UK excluding London -8 2,959 £60,000 +14.29% 4,337
London 0 2,266 £80,000 +6.67% 7,023
Work from Home +7 1,695 £65,000 +8.33% 3,971
North of England +55 960 £60,500 +5.22% 1,055
Midlands +22 615 £60,000 +14.29% 585
South East -32 593 £60,000 +20.00% 1,182
North West +55 548 £60,000 +14.29% 601
West Midlands +12 348 £59,625 +8.41% 381
South West -21 325 £60,000 - 450
East Midlands +25 267 £60,000 +33.33% 204
Yorkshire +33 259 £66,763 +4.73% 330
East of England -16 178 £51,878 +38.34% 379
North East +28 159 £57,500 +5.02% 128
Scotland -20 115 £75,000 +40.26% 393
Northern Ireland -21 96 £65,000 +8.33% 181
Wales -8 94 £63,500 +30.09% 148
Isle of Man +3 5 £38,500 - 4

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
1 153 (2.74%) Apache Spark
2 151 (2.70%) CMS
3 90 (1.61%) SharePoint
4 89 (1.59%) Apache
5 85 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
6 71 (1.27%) SAS
7 68 (1.22%) Confluence
8 42 (0.75%) WordPress
9 28 (0.50%) Sitecore CMS
10 21 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
11 19 (0.34%) Headless CMS
12 18 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
13 16 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
14 10 (0.18%) Jupyter
15 6 (0.11%) ArcGIS
15 6 (0.11%) Umbraco
16 3 (0.054%) Adobe Experience Manager
16 3 (0.054%) IIS
17 2 (0.036%) NServiceBus
17 2 (0.036%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 280 (5.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
3 43 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 39 (0.70%) Chatbot
5 32 (0.57%) SPSS
6 26 (0.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 25 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
8 20 (0.36%) UserZoom
9 18 (0.32%) MS Visio
10 13 (0.23%) Adobe XD
11 11 (0.20%) Photoshop
12 8 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
13 7 (0.13%) Sketch
13 7 (0.13%) Trello
14 4 (0.072%) Microsoft Project
14 4 (0.072%) Notion
15 3 (0.054%) Adobe Premiere
15 3 (0.054%) InDesign
15 3 (0.054%) Zeplin
16 2 (0.036%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 126 (2.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 75 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 52 (0.93%) Shopify
4 32 (0.57%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 28 (0.50%) Dynamics GP
6 19 (0.34%) Magento
7 18 (0.32%) Workday HCM
8 14 (0.25%) Adobe Campaign
9 10 (0.18%) NetSuite
10 9 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
11 8 (0.14%) SAP BPC
12 7 (0.13%) SAP MDG
13 6 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
13 6 (0.11%) SAP Travel Management
14 5 (0.090%) FastStats
14 5 (0.090%) Oracle Payables
14 5 (0.090%) Oracle Receivables
14 5 (0.090%) Payment Gateway
14 5 (0.090%) SAP SD
15 4 (0.072%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,081 (19.36%) Azure
2 916 (16.40%) Power Platform
3 792 (14.18%) AWS
4 354 (6.34%) GCP
5 341 (6.11%) SaaS
6 286 (5.12%) Google Analytics
7 243 (4.35%) Snowflake
8 219 (3.92%) Azure Data Factory
9 210 (3.76%) Azure DevOps
10 188 (3.37%) GitHub
11 161 (2.88%) Serverless
12 149 (2.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 137 (2.45%) dbt
14 119 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
15 110 (1.97%) Microsoft Purview
16 108 (1.93%) Amazon S3
17 106 (1.90%) Cloud Computing
18 90 (1.61%) Azure Monitor
18 90 (1.61%) Google Tag Manager
19 89 (1.59%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 73 (1.31%) VPN
2 71 (1.27%) Broadband
2 71 (1.27%) Internet
3 64 (1.15%) Firewall
4 44 (0.79%) DNS
4 44 (0.79%) Network Security
5 27 (0.48%) BGP
6 23 (0.41%) SMS
7 22 (0.39%) TCP/IP
8 21 (0.38%) 5G
9 20 (0.36%) VLAN
10 19 (0.34%) OSPF
11 15 (0.27%) VoIP
12 14 (0.25%) CTI
12 14 (0.25%) DHCP
13 13 (0.23%) SSL
14 11 (0.20%) Unified Communications
15 10 (0.18%) VXLAN
15 10 (0.18%) WAN
15 10 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 885 (15.85%) Power BI
2 404 (7.23%) Data Warehouse
3 270 (4.84%) Tableau
4 256 (4.58%) Metadata
5 225 (4.03%) Data Lake
6 177 (3.17%) SQL Server
7 156 (2.79%) Big Data
8 134 (2.40%) Azure SQL Database
9 115 (2.06%) Looker
10 114 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
11 94 (1.68%) BigQuery
12 92 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
13 91 (1.63%) Delta Lake
14 89 (1.59%) Relational Database
15 79 (1.41%) Star Schema
16 78 (1.40%) NoSQL
17 74 (1.33%) MongoDB
18 70 (1.25%) Semantic Layer
19 69 (1.24%) Power Query
20 61 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 184 (3.30%) Git
2 100 (1.79%) JIRA
3 45 (0.81%) GitLab
3 45 (0.81%) Jenkins
4 25 (0.45%) MLflow
5 19 (0.34%) Claude Code
6 11 (0.20%) Crashlytics
6 11 (0.20%) fastlane
7 9 (0.16%) CircleCI
7 9 (0.16%) Octopus Deploy
8 8 (0.14%) Balsamiq
8 8 (0.14%) Xcode
9 7 (0.13%) Gradle
9 7 (0.13%) Visual Website Optimizer
10 6 (0.11%) Axure RP
10 6 (0.11%) ERwin
11 5 (0.090%) Android Studio
11 5 (0.090%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.090%) Visual Studio Code
11 5 (0.090%) XCTest
General
1 1,567 (28.06%) Social Skills
2 1,528 (27.36%) Finance
3 1,284 (22.99%) Analytical Skills
4 978 (17.51%) Marketing
5 416 (7.45%) Retail
6 415 (7.43%) Public Sector
7 342 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 329 (5.89%) Legal
9 297 (5.32%) Law
10 227 (4.07%) Banking
11 222 (3.98%) Influencing Skills
12 185 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
13 165 (2.95%) Manufacturing
14 122 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
15 111 (1.99%) Advertising
16 97 (1.74%) Financial Institution
17 93 (1.67%) Automotive
18 90 (1.61%) Games
19 78 (1.40%) Publishing
20 60 (1.07%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,134 (20.31%) Senior
2 686 (12.29%) Data Engineer
3 663 (11.87%) Analyst
4 611 (10.94%) Lead
5 537 (9.62%) Architect
6 321 (5.75%) Developer
7 270 (4.84%) Analytics Manager
8 261 (4.67%) Data Analyst
9 255 (4.57%) Data Architect
10 245 (4.39%) Senior Data Engineer
11 204 (3.65%) Senior Manager
12 190 (3.40%) Data Scientist
13 189 (3.38%) Consultant
14 171 (3.06%) Solutions Architect
15 138 (2.47%) Data Manager
16 135 (2.42%) Senior Analyst
17 129 (2.31%) Marketing Manager
18 114 (2.04%) Product Manager
19 107 (1.92%) Senior Architect
20 101 (1.81%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 270 (4.84%) Terraform
2 205 (3.67%) PySpark
3 111 (1.99%) Kafka
4 104 (1.86%) HTML
5 97 (1.74%) .NET
6 89 (1.59%) REST
7 86 (1.54%) CSS
8 76 (1.36%) React
9 56 (1.00%) Node.js
10 55 (0.98%) Pandas
11 42 (0.75%) Middleware
12 38 (0.68%) JSON
12 38 (0.68%) scikit-learn
13 37 (0.66%) ASP.NET
14 36 (0.64%) AngularJS
15 35 (0.63%) .NET Core
15 35 (0.63%) ASP.NET Core
15 35 (0.63%) PyTorch
16 34 (0.61%) RESTful
16 34 (0.61%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 310 (5.55%) Onboarding
2 275 (4.92%) Cloud Native
3 206 (3.69%) Management Information System
4 198 (3.55%) Product Ownership
5 196 (3.51%) Marketing Technology
6 190 (3.40%) Blog
7 173 (3.10%) Social Media
8 114 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
9 109 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
10 100 (1.79%) AI Agents
11 97 (1.74%) Data Structures
12 82 (1.47%) Algorithms
13 75 (1.34%) Mobile App
14 72 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
15 67 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
16 64 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
17 55 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
18 53 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
19 45 (0.81%) IoT
20 44 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 103 (1.84%) Windows
2 85 (1.52%) Linux
3 23 (0.41%) VMS
3 23 (0.41%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.36%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.16%) Android
6 6 (0.11%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.11%) Unix
6 6 (0.11%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.072%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.054%) Debian
9 1 (0.018%) AIX
9 1 (0.018%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.018%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.018%) SUSE
9 1 (0.018%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.018%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,999 (35.80%) AI
2 1,327 (23.76%) Decision-Making
3 1,227 (21.97%) Business Intelligence
4 978 (17.51%) Problem-Solving
5 886 (15.87%) Continuous Improvement
6 883 (15.81%) Agile
7 850 (15.22%) Roadmaps
8 841 (15.06%) Data Modelling
9 775 (13.88%) Data Engineering
10 744 (13.32%) Machine Learning
11 725 (12.98%) Data Analytics
12 720 (12.89%) Stakeholder Management
13 698 (12.50%) CI/CD
14 681 (12.20%) Data Pipeline
15 653 (11.69%) Mentoring
16 621 (11.12%) Data Science
17 544 (9.74%) Data Governance
18 535 (9.58%) ETL
19 533 (9.55%) Actionable Insight
20 518 (9.28%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1,518 (27.18%) SQL
2 1,248 (22.35%) Python
3 160 (2.87%) Java
4 142 (2.54%) C#
4 142 (2.54%) JavaScript
5 125 (2.24%) PowerShell
6 122 (2.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 98 (1.76%) R
8 92 (1.65%) TypeScript
9 86 (1.54%) Bicep
10 75 (1.34%) Scala
11 69 (1.24%) Bash
12 52 (0.93%) Go
13 48 (0.86%) C++
14 37 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
15 26 (0.47%) T-SQL
16 19 (0.34%) Kotlin
16 19 (0.34%) PHP
17 16 (0.29%) VBA
18 15 (0.27%) Swift
Qualifications
1 673 (12.05%) Degree
2 457 (8.18%) Security Cleared
3 332 (5.95%) SC Cleared
4 127 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 120 (2.15%) Azure Certification
6 106 (1.90%) Master's Degree
7 85 (1.52%) DV Cleared
8 70 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 58 (1.04%) AWS Certification
10 52 (0.93%) DBS Check
11 51 (0.91%) ACCA
12 46 (0.82%) CIMA
13 43 (0.77%) PhD
14 41 (0.73%) CISSP
15 36 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
16 28 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
16 28 (0.50%) CISM
17 23 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
17 23 (0.41%) Postgraduate
18 22 (0.39%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 857 (15.35%) Data Quality
2 295 (5.28%) Accessibility
3 235 (4.21%) GDPR
4 149 (2.67%) QA
5 61 (1.09%) Actionable Recommendations
6 50 (0.90%) WCAG
7 40 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 36 (0.64%) NIST
9 28 (0.50%) SLA
10 24 (0.43%) PMO
11 23 (0.41%) PCI DSS
12 19 (0.34%) GRC
13 17 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
14 15 (0.27%) IFRS
15 12 (0.21%) EU AI Act
16 10 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 9 (0.16%) ISO 9001
17 9 (0.16%) PERC
17 9 (0.16%) SOC 2
18 6 (0.11%) COBIT
System Software
1 169 (3.03%) Docker
2 88 (1.58%) 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 (0.090%) 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
1 175 (3.13%) Kubernetes
2 47 (0.84%) Ansible
3 38 (0.68%) Grafana
4 30 (0.54%) Prometheus
5 26 (0.47%) EnCase
5 26 (0.47%) FTK
6 19 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (0.23%) FortiGate
8 8 (0.14%) Argo
9 7 (0.13%) Kibana
10 6 (0.11%) Graylog
10 6 (0.11%) Hadoop YARN
10 6 (0.11%) Nagios
10 6 (0.11%) Proxmox
10 6 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.090%) Packer
11 5 (0.090%) Puppet
12 4 (0.072%) Control-M
12 4 (0.072%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (0.072%) VxRail
Vendors
1 876 (15.69%) Microsoft
2 485 (8.69%) Databricks
3 484 (8.67%) Google
4 232 (4.15%) SAP
5 151 (2.70%) Adobe
6 124 (2.22%) Oracle
7 117 (2.10%) Salesforce
8 74 (1.33%) HubSpot
9 66 (1.18%) Workday
10 56 (1.00%) TikTok
11 52 (0.93%) YouTube
12 44 (0.79%) IBM
13 42 (0.75%) Cisco
13 42 (0.75%) Informatica
14 41 (0.73%) VMware
15 37 (0.66%) Alteryx
15 37 (0.66%) OpenAI
16 32 (0.57%) ServiceNow
17 30 (0.54%) Foundry
18 28 (0.50%) Sitecore