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 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 20 39
Rank change year-on-year -10 +19 -16
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 4,590 3,523 5,149
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.30% 8.47% 5.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.03% 9.11% 6.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2,557 1,770 3,340
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,000 £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 £95,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £54,448
% change year-on-year -3.51% +4.69% -1.00%

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 65,329 38,670 81,283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.37% 92.92% 85.97%
Number of salaries quoted 40,301 22,594 59,579
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.51%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.94% +5.20% -8.41%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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 -15 4,012 £65,000 -3.70% 1,884
UK excluding London -22 2,380 £55,000 -3.51% 1,283
London +3 1,809 £80,000 -5.88% 888
Work from Home -6 1,409 £64,000 +6.67% 784
North of England -7 696 £58,000 +5.45% 347
South East -23 501 £55,000 -8.33% 419
Midlands -18 472 £51,000 -2.86% 211
North West +2 370 £60,000 +9.09% 216
West Midlands -24 277 £52,250 -5.00% 115
Yorkshire -6 253 £55,000 -1.79% 90
South West -25 222 £57,500 +6.10% 135
East of England +17 204 £55,000 -15.38% 97
Scotland -9 196 £65,000 -7.14% 49
East Midlands +2 191 £50,000 +3.09% 96
North East +7 73 £40,000 -27.27% 46
Northern Ireland -21 54 £45,000 +50.00% 17
Wales -3 37 £40,000 -27.27% 32

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
1 161 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
2 132 (2.88%) Apache Spark
3 115 (2.51%) CMS
4 81 (1.76%) Apache
5 67 (1.46%) Confluence
6 53 (1.15%) WordPress
7 48 (1.05%) SharePoint
8 36 (0.78%) SAS
9 34 (0.74%) ArcGIS
10 20 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
11 16 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
12 11 (0.24%) Drupal
13 9 (0.20%) Oracle Application Server
14 8 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 6 (0.13%) IIS
16 4 (0.087%) Appian
16 4 (0.087%) Documentum
16 4 (0.087%) Umbraco
17 3 (0.065%) Apache Superset
17 3 (0.065%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 392 (8.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 115 (2.51%) Microsoft Office
3 64 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (0.68%) UserZoom
5 29 (0.63%) Adobe XD
6 19 (0.41%) MS Visio
7 16 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
8 14 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 10 (0.22%) Chatbot
9 10 (0.22%) SPSS
10 6 (0.13%) InDesign
10 6 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
10 6 (0.13%) Trello
11 4 (0.087%) Adobe Illustrator
11 4 (0.087%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.065%) Adobe Premiere
12 3 (0.065%) Final Cut Pro
12 3 (0.065%) Sketch
13 2 (0.044%) Maya
13 2 (0.044%) Notion
Business Applications
1 80 (1.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
3 34 (0.74%) SAP PP
4 33 (0.72%) SAP IBP
5 28 (0.61%) Adobe Campaign
6 27 (0.59%) Oracle ERP
7 22 (0.48%) Magento
8 16 (0.35%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 16 (0.35%) NetSuite
8 16 (0.35%) Shopify
9 15 (0.33%) iTrent
10 14 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
11 13 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
11 13 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
11 13 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
11 13 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
11 13 (0.28%) SAP CO
12 10 (0.22%) SAP ERP
13 9 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
13 9 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 980 (21.35%) Azure
2 728 (15.86%) Power Platform
3 550 (11.98%) AWS
4 274 (5.97%) GCP
5 252 (5.49%) Snowflake
6 247 (5.38%) SaaS
7 232 (5.05%) Azure Data Factory
8 215 (4.68%) Google Analytics
9 192 (4.18%) Adobe Analytics
10 182 (3.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 157 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
12 155 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
13 151 (3.29%) GitHub
14 144 (3.14%) dbt
15 125 (2.72%) Figma
16 113 (2.46%) Amazon S3
17 108 (2.35%) Serverless
18 89 (1.94%) Entra ID
19 75 (1.63%) Azure Monitor
20 67 (1.46%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 239 (5.21%) Broadband
2 38 (0.83%) Firewall
3 33 (0.72%) VPN
4 27 (0.59%) CHAP
5 23 (0.50%) WAN
6 20 (0.44%) DNS
7 19 (0.41%) Network Security
8 16 (0.35%) DHCP
8 16 (0.35%) Intranet
8 16 (0.35%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.13%) HTTP
9 6 (0.13%) HTTPS
9 6 (0.13%) Unified Communications
10 5 (0.11%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (0.11%) SMS
10 5 (0.11%) SNMP
11 4 (0.087%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (0.065%) BGP
12 3 (0.065%) LAN
12 3 (0.065%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 693 (15.10%) Power BI
2 391 (8.52%) Tableau
3 355 (7.73%) Data Warehouse
4 243 (5.29%) Data Lake
5 196 (4.27%) Metadata
6 171 (3.73%) Data Mining
7 159 (3.46%) SQL Server
8 122 (2.66%) Looker
9 106 (2.31%) Azure SQL Database
10 104 (2.27%) Relational Database
11 102 (2.22%) BigQuery
12 94 (2.05%) Amazon Redshift
13 75 (1.63%) NoSQL
14 67 (1.46%) Big Data
15 65 (1.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 64 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
17 62 (1.35%) Power Query
18 59 (1.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 49 (1.07%) Snowflake Schema
20 45 (0.98%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 162 (3.53%) Git
2 102 (2.22%) JIRA
3 71 (1.55%) Jenkins
4 43 (0.94%) MLflow
5 34 (0.74%) GitLab
6 25 (0.54%) IBM UrbanCode
7 23 (0.50%) Axure RP
7 23 (0.50%) Balsamiq
7 23 (0.50%) TeamCity
8 19 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
9 16 (0.35%) Visual Studio
10 13 (0.28%) CircleCI
10 13 (0.28%) Crashlytics
11 12 (0.26%) Selenium
12 10 (0.22%) ERwin
12 10 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 10 (0.22%) XCTest
13 7 (0.15%) Claude Code
14 6 (0.13%) Cypress.io
15 5 (0.11%) MSI
General
1 1,370 (29.85%) Finance
2 1,232 (26.84%) Social Skills
3 1,139 (24.81%) Analytical Skills
4 688 (14.99%) Marketing
5 282 (6.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 254 (5.53%) Retail
7 243 (5.29%) Public Sector
8 236 (5.14%) Banking
9 207 (4.51%) Law
10 206 (4.49%) Games
11 159 (3.46%) Manufacturing
12 158 (3.44%) Legal
13 118 (2.57%) Automotive
14 105 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
15 104 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
16 103 (2.24%) Financial Institution
17 102 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
18 99 (2.16%) Advertising
19 71 (1.55%) Back Office
20 68 (1.48%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 765 (16.67%) Senior
2 656 (14.29%) Analyst
3 519 (11.31%) Lead
4 475 (10.35%) Data Engineer
5 354 (7.71%) Data Analyst
6 339 (7.39%) Architect
7 246 (5.36%) Developer
8 173 (3.77%) Consultant
9 158 (3.44%) Data Architect
10 155 (3.38%) Trainee
10 155 (3.38%) Trainee Analyst
10 155 (3.38%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 137 (2.98%) Senior Manager
12 120 (2.61%) Designer
13 109 (2.37%) Senior Data Engineer
14 104 (2.27%) Solutions Architect
15 101 (2.20%) Data Manager
16 96 (2.09%) Data Scientist
17 90 (1.96%) Support Engineer
18 87 (1.90%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (2.79%) PySpark
2 121 (2.64%) Kafka
3 104 (2.27%) HTML
4 96 (2.09%) CSS
4 96 (2.09%) PyTorch
5 72 (1.57%) .NET
6 69 (1.50%) TensorFlow
7 55 (1.20%) React
8 51 (1.11%) OAuth
9 50 (1.09%) SAP Fiori
10 49 (1.07%) RESTful
11 48 (1.05%) LangChain
11 48 (1.05%) scikit-learn
12 46 (1.00%) JSON
13 44 (0.96%) Pandas
14 43 (0.94%) REST
15 37 (0.81%) .NET Core
15 37 (0.81%) Node.js
16 26 (0.57%) OAuth2
17 24 (0.52%) LlamaIndex
Miscellaneous
1 297 (6.47%) Social Media
2 212 (4.62%) Cloud Native
3 194 (4.23%) Product Ownership
4 170 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
5 155 (3.38%) Management Information System
6 133 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
7 121 (2.64%) Onboarding
8 102 (2.22%) Life Science
9 101 (2.20%) Algorithms
10 87 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
11 77 (1.68%) Data Structures
12 69 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
13 64 (1.39%) Marketing Technology
14 61 (1.33%) Mobile App
15 56 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
16 52 (1.13%) Over-the-Top Content
17 47 (1.02%) Public Cloud
18 45 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
18 45 (0.98%) Virtual Team
19 37 (0.81%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 106 (2.31%) Windows
2 60 (1.31%) Windows 10
3 41 (0.89%) Linux
4 25 (0.54%) VMS
5 22 (0.48%) Apple iOS
6 19 (0.41%) Unix
7 17 (0.37%) Windows Server
8 13 (0.28%) Android
9 3 (0.065%) AIX
10 2 (0.044%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.022%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,323 (28.82%) AI
2 994 (21.66%) Decision-Making
3 981 (21.37%) Business Intelligence
4 906 (19.74%) Agile
5 746 (16.25%) Continuous Improvement
6 744 (16.21%) Data Analytics
7 727 (15.84%) Problem-Solving
8 723 (15.75%) Data Modelling
9 616 (13.42%) Data Engineering
10 613 (13.36%) Roadmaps
11 541 (11.79%) Data Pipeline
12 534 (11.63%) Data Governance
13 519 (11.31%) Customer Experience
14 517 (11.26%) Data Science
15 506 (11.02%) ETL
16 504 (10.98%) Machine Learning
17 499 (10.87%) CI/CD
17 499 (10.87%) Data Analysis
18 444 (9.67%) Project Management
19 435 (9.48%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 1,184 (25.80%) SQL
2 1,048 (22.83%) Python
3 116 (2.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 105 (2.29%) JavaScript
5 99 (2.16%) C#
6 97 (2.11%) Java
7 81 (1.76%) Scala
8 63 (1.37%) R
9 62 (1.35%) PowerShell
10 45 (0.98%) Bicep
11 43 (0.94%) TypeScript
12 42 (0.92%) T-SQL
13 35 (0.76%) C++
13 35 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
14 34 (0.74%) Go
15 21 (0.46%) Bash
16 15 (0.33%) PL/SQL
17 14 (0.31%) Kotlin
17 14 (0.31%) Shell Script
17 14 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 680 (14.81%) Degree
2 267 (5.82%) Security Cleared
3 186 (4.05%) SC Cleared
4 139 (3.03%) Master's Degree
5 118 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 72 (1.57%) IRCA
7 60 (1.31%) Azure Certification
7 60 (1.31%) CTC Cleared
8 50 (1.09%) CISSP
9 47 (1.02%) ACCA
9 47 (1.02%) PhD
10 46 (1.00%) CISM
11 45 (0.98%) DBS Check
12 42 (0.92%) CISA
13 38 (0.83%) CIMA
14 37 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
15 32 (0.70%) DV Cleared
16 31 (0.68%) AWS Certification
17 29 (0.63%) SANS
18 28 (0.61%) CGEIT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 601 (13.09%) Data Quality
2 372 (8.10%) Accessibility
3 366 (7.97%) GDPR
4 170 (3.70%) QA
5 93 (2.03%) WCAG
6 81 (1.76%) SLA
7 76 (1.66%) ISO 9001
8 51 (1.11%) NIST
9 49 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 47 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
11 38 (0.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 34 (0.74%) HIPAA
13 32 (0.70%) COBIT
14 30 (0.65%) Solvency II
15 27 (0.59%) EU AI Act
15 27 (0.59%) IFRS
16 20 (0.44%) PSD2
16 20 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 19 (0.41%) SOC 2
18 17 (0.37%) GxP
System Software
1 149 (3.25%) Docker
2 70 (1.53%) Active Directory
3 26 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.15%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.11%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.065%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.044%) Firmware
7 2 (0.044%) vSphere
8 1 (0.022%) Apache Flume
8 1 (0.022%) IAG
8 1 (0.022%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.022%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 210 (4.58%) Terraform
2 174 (3.79%) Kubernetes
3 50 (1.09%) Ansible
4 26 (0.57%) Grafana
4 26 (0.57%) Prometheus
5 19 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
6 14 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (0.20%) EnCase
7 9 (0.20%) FTK
8 7 (0.15%) Kibana
9 6 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.11%) Argo
10 5 (0.11%) QRadar
11 3 (0.065%) ArcSight ESM
11 3 (0.065%) Control-M
11 3 (0.065%) VxRail
12 2 (0.044%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.044%) RSA Archer
12 2 (0.044%) SCCM
12 2 (0.044%) vRealize
Vendors
1 838 (18.26%) Microsoft
2 376 (8.19%) Databricks
3 347 (7.56%) Google
4 292 (6.36%) Adobe
5 184 (4.01%) SAP
6 159 (3.46%) Salesforce
7 135 (2.94%) Oracle
8 132 (2.88%) Cisco
9 61 (1.33%) HubSpot
10 58 (1.26%) Dell
11 48 (1.05%) Informatica
12 45 (0.98%) Alteryx
13 29 (0.63%) OpenAI
14 28 (0.61%) Red Hat
15 27 (0.59%) Nexthink
15 27 (0.59%) Talend
16 26 (0.57%) Palantir
16 26 (0.57%) Workday
17 25 (0.54%) Cloudera
17 25 (0.54%) ServiceNow