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

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 22 40
Rank change year-on-year -6 +18 -17
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 4,551 3,411 4,981
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.53% 8.31% 5.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.25% 8.94% 6.35%
Number of salaries quoted 2,548 1,733 3,276
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -8.19%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year -3.51% +4.59% -0.91%

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 62,747 38,173 78,463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.19% 93.03% 86.26%
Number of salaries quoted 38,762 22,528 58,201
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,290 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,557
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -8.26%

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 7 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 7 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 -11 3,968 £65,000 -5.82% 1,921
UK excluding London -18 2,340 £55,000 -3.51% 1,320
London +3 1,808 £80,000 -5.88% 896
Work from Home -4 1,408 £64,000 +5.36% 858
North of England -14 664 £57,500 +4.55% 331
South East -18 509 £55,000 -8.33% 433
Midlands -17 472 £51,000 -2.86% 212
North West -18 352 £60,000 +9.09% 192
West Midlands -18 288 £55,000 - 110
Yorkshire -6 239 £50,000 -9.09% 91
South West -23 211 £55,100 +4.95% 149
East of England +16 197 £52,500 -19.23% 103
Scotland -9 196 £65,000 -7.14% 53
East Midlands 0 181 £50,000 +4.17% 102
North East +15 73 £40,000 -27.27% 52
Northern Ireland -14 56 £45,000 +50.00% 17
Wales 0 38 £40,000 -27.27% 41

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
1 160 (3.52%) Apache Airflow
2 124 (2.72%) Apache Spark
3 107 (2.35%) CMS
4 79 (1.74%) Apache
5 71 (1.56%) Confluence
6 53 (1.16%) WordPress
7 47 (1.03%) SharePoint
8 36 (0.79%) SAS
9 35 (0.77%) ArcGIS
10 19 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
11 17 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
12 13 (0.29%) Drupal
13 9 (0.20%) Oracle Application Server
14 8 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 6 (0.13%) IIS
15 6 (0.13%) Umbraco
16 4 (0.088%) Appian
16 4 (0.088%) Documentum
16 4 (0.088%) Sitecore CMS
17 3 (0.066%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 407 (8.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 125 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
3 69 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (0.68%) UserZoom
5 28 (0.62%) Adobe XD
6 18 (0.40%) MS Visio
7 17 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
8 14 (0.31%) InDesign
9 13 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 10 (0.22%) SPSS
11 8 (0.18%) Chatbot
12 7 (0.15%) Photoshop
12 7 (0.15%) Trello
13 6 (0.13%) Adobe Premiere
13 6 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
14 4 (0.088%) Adobe Illustrator
15 3 (0.066%) Final Cut Pro
15 3 (0.066%) Sketch
16 2 (0.044%) Maya
16 2 (0.044%) Notion
Business Applications
1 77 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 37 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 34 (0.75%) SAP PP
4 33 (0.73%) SAP IBP
5 27 (0.59%) Oracle ERP
6 22 (0.48%) Magento
7 21 (0.46%) Adobe Campaign
8 18 (0.40%) Shopify
9 16 (0.35%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 15 (0.33%) iTrent
10 15 (0.33%) NetSuite
11 14 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
12 13 (0.29%) Oracle Assets
12 13 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
12 13 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
12 13 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
12 13 (0.29%) SAP CO
13 10 (0.22%) SAP ERP
14 9 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
14 9 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 988 (21.71%) Azure
2 737 (16.19%) Power Platform
3 541 (11.89%) AWS
4 273 (6.00%) GCP
5 266 (5.84%) SaaS
6 259 (5.69%) Snowflake
7 238 (5.23%) Azure Data Factory
8 201 (4.42%) Google Analytics
9 186 (4.09%) Adobe Analytics
10 183 (4.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 166 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
12 155 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
13 150 (3.30%) GitHub
14 143 (3.14%) dbt
15 118 (2.59%) Figma
16 112 (2.46%) Amazon S3
17 101 (2.22%) Serverless
18 83 (1.82%) Entra ID
19 73 (1.60%) Azure Monitor
20 61 (1.34%) Contentsquare
Communications & Networking
1 221 (4.86%) Broadband
2 34 (0.75%) Firewall
2 34 (0.75%) VPN
3 26 (0.57%) CHAP
4 23 (0.51%) WAN
5 19 (0.42%) Network Security
6 17 (0.37%) DNS
7 16 (0.35%) Intranet
8 14 (0.31%) TCP/IP
9 13 (0.29%) DHCP
10 12 (0.26%) Unified Communications
11 6 (0.13%) HTTPS
12 5 (0.11%) SMS
12 5 (0.11%) SNMP
13 4 (0.088%) HTTP
13 4 (0.088%) Intrusion Detection
13 4 (0.088%) Wi-Fi
14 3 (0.066%) LAN
14 3 (0.066%) Modbus
15 2 (0.044%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 700 (15.38%) Power BI
2 418 (9.18%) Tableau
3 365 (8.02%) Data Warehouse
4 242 (5.32%) Data Lake
5 189 (4.15%) Metadata
6 175 (3.85%) Data Mining
7 162 (3.56%) SQL Server
8 131 (2.88%) Looker
9 113 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
10 105 (2.31%) BigQuery
11 100 (2.20%) Relational Database
12 90 (1.98%) Amazon Redshift
13 76 (1.67%) NoSQL
14 70 (1.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 67 (1.47%) Big Data
16 66 (1.45%) Power Query
17 64 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 59 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
19 50 (1.10%) Snowflake Schema
20 43 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 161 (3.54%) Git
2 113 (2.48%) JIRA
3 69 (1.52%) Jenkins
4 40 (0.88%) MLflow
5 33 (0.73%) GitLab
6 25 (0.55%) IBM UrbanCode
7 23 (0.51%) Axure RP
7 23 (0.51%) Balsamiq
7 23 (0.51%) TeamCity
8 19 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
8 19 (0.42%) Visual Studio
9 13 (0.29%) CircleCI
10 12 (0.26%) Crashlytics
10 12 (0.26%) ERwin
11 11 (0.24%) Selenium
12 10 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 9 (0.20%) XCTest
14 7 (0.15%) Claude Code
14 7 (0.15%) Cypress.io
15 5 (0.11%) MSI
General
1 1,386 (30.45%) Finance
2 1,255 (27.58%) Social Skills
3 1,159 (25.47%) Analytical Skills
4 694 (15.25%) Marketing
5 294 (6.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 255 (5.60%) Banking
7 249 (5.47%) Public Sector
8 241 (5.30%) Retail
9 209 (4.59%) Law
10 194 (4.26%) Games
11 170 (3.74%) Manufacturing
12 162 (3.56%) Legal
13 114 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
14 110 (2.42%) Automotive
15 109 (2.40%) Financial Institution
16 104 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
17 98 (2.15%) Advertising
18 96 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
19 76 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
20 69 (1.52%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 754 (16.57%) Senior
2 658 (14.46%) Analyst
3 519 (11.40%) Lead
4 463 (10.17%) Data Engineer
5 363 (7.98%) Data Analyst
6 331 (7.27%) Architect
7 250 (5.49%) Developer
8 171 (3.76%) Consultant
9 156 (3.43%) Trainee
9 156 (3.43%) Trainee Analyst
9 156 (3.43%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 154 (3.38%) Data Architect
11 140 (3.08%) Senior Manager
12 116 (2.55%) Designer
13 103 (2.26%) Senior Data Engineer
14 101 (2.22%) Data Manager
14 101 (2.22%) Solutions Architect
15 91 (2.00%) Data Scientist
16 88 (1.93%) Support Engineer
17 86 (1.89%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (2.75%) PySpark
2 121 (2.66%) Kafka
3 106 (2.33%) HTML
4 98 (2.15%) CSS
5 95 (2.09%) PyTorch
6 70 (1.54%) .NET
7 69 (1.52%) TensorFlow
8 57 (1.25%) React
9 50 (1.10%) RESTful
9 50 (1.10%) SAP Fiori
10 49 (1.08%) JSON
10 49 (1.08%) OAuth
11 48 (1.05%) LangChain
12 47 (1.03%) scikit-learn
13 44 (0.97%) REST
14 39 (0.86%) Pandas
15 37 (0.81%) .NET Core
15 37 (0.81%) Node.js
16 25 (0.55%) FIX Protocol
16 25 (0.55%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 300 (6.59%) Social Media
2 209 (4.59%) Cloud Native
3 188 (4.13%) Product Ownership
4 171 (3.76%) Analytical Mindset
5 158 (3.47%) Management Information System
6 151 (3.32%) Self-Motivation
7 137 (3.01%) Onboarding
8 108 (2.37%) Life Science
9 104 (2.29%) Algorithms
10 83 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
11 77 (1.69%) Data Structures
12 68 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
13 62 (1.36%) Mobile App
14 53 (1.16%) Marketing Technology
15 51 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
16 48 (1.05%) Public Cloud
17 47 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
18 45 (0.99%) Over-the-Top Content
18 45 (0.99%) Virtual Team
19 41 (0.90%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 109 (2.40%) Windows
2 60 (1.32%) Windows 10
3 43 (0.94%) Linux
4 26 (0.57%) VMS
5 22 (0.48%) Apple iOS
5 22 (0.48%) Unix
6 15 (0.33%) Windows Server
7 14 (0.31%) Android
8 2 (0.044%) AIX
8 2 (0.044%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.022%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,321 (29.03%) AI
2 992 (21.80%) Business Intelligence
3 981 (21.56%) Decision-Making
4 901 (19.80%) Agile
5 772 (16.96%) Data Analytics
6 752 (16.52%) Continuous Improvement
7 743 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
8 720 (15.82%) Data Modelling
9 605 (13.29%) Data Engineering
10 597 (13.12%) Roadmaps
11 552 (12.13%) Data Governance
12 532 (11.69%) Data Pipeline
13 523 (11.49%) Data Science
14 518 (11.38%) Machine Learning
15 516 (11.34%) Customer Experience
16 503 (11.05%) Data Analysis
17 500 (10.99%) ETL
18 489 (10.74%) CI/CD
19 450 (9.89%) Project Management
20 425 (9.34%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 1,187 (26.08%) SQL
2 1,052 (23.12%) Python
3 117 (2.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 114 (2.50%) JavaScript
5 98 (2.15%) C#
6 97 (2.13%) Java
7 80 (1.76%) Scala
8 70 (1.54%) R
9 56 (1.23%) PowerShell
10 47 (1.03%) T-SQL
11 45 (0.99%) TypeScript
12 40 (0.88%) Bicep
13 38 (0.83%) C++
14 36 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
15 35 (0.77%) Go
16 18 (0.40%) Bash
17 16 (0.35%) PL/SQL
17 16 (0.35%) VBA
18 14 (0.31%) Shell Script
19 13 (0.29%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 718 (15.78%) Degree
2 258 (5.67%) Security Cleared
3 180 (3.96%) SC Cleared
4 143 (3.14%) Master's Degree
5 128 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 72 (1.58%) IRCA
7 60 (1.32%) CTC Cleared
8 55 (1.21%) Azure Certification
9 53 (1.16%) CISSP
10 51 (1.12%) PhD
11 50 (1.10%) DBS Check
12 49 (1.08%) ACCA
13 48 (1.05%) CISA
14 47 (1.03%) CISM
15 39 (0.86%) CIMA
15 39 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
16 35 (0.77%) Numerate Degree
17 33 (0.73%) AWS Certification
18 32 (0.70%) DV Cleared
19 28 (0.62%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 597 (13.12%) Data Quality
2 371 (8.15%) Accessibility
3 367 (8.06%) GDPR
4 170 (3.74%) QA
5 89 (1.96%) WCAG
6 82 (1.80%) ISO 9001
7 80 (1.76%) SLA
8 63 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 53 (1.16%) NIST
10 48 (1.05%) Actionable Recommendations
11 38 (0.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 34 (0.75%) HIPAA
13 31 (0.68%) COBIT
14 30 (0.66%) Solvency II
15 29 (0.64%) IFRS
16 28 (0.62%) EU AI Act
17 23 (0.51%) GxP
18 21 (0.46%) PSD2
19 20 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
20 18 (0.40%) SOC 2
System Software
1 144 (3.16%) Docker
2 62 (1.36%) Active Directory
3 24 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.15%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.088%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.088%) VMware NSX
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
1 196 (4.31%) Terraform
2 171 (3.76%) Kubernetes
3 45 (0.99%) Ansible
4 26 (0.57%) Prometheus
5 25 (0.55%) Grafana
6 18 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (0.18%) EnCase
8 8 (0.18%) FTK
9 7 (0.15%) Kibana
10 5 (0.11%) Argo
10 5 (0.11%) QRadar
11 4 (0.088%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.066%) ArcSight ESM
12 3 (0.066%) Control-M
12 3 (0.066%) RSA Archer
12 3 (0.066%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 3 (0.066%) VxRail
13 2 (0.044%) SCCM
13 2 (0.044%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 860 (18.90%) Microsoft
2 370 (8.13%) Databricks
3 337 (7.40%) Google
4 286 (6.28%) Adobe
5 180 (3.96%) SAP
6 159 (3.49%) Salesforce
7 138 (3.03%) Cisco
7 138 (3.03%) Oracle
8 61 (1.34%) HubSpot
9 58 (1.27%) Dell
10 54 (1.19%) Informatica
11 51 (1.12%) Alteryx
12 29 (0.64%) Bloomberg
13 28 (0.62%) IBM
13 28 (0.62%) Nexthink
13 28 (0.62%) OpenAI
13 28 (0.62%) Red Hat
13 28 (0.62%) ServiceNow
14 27 (0.59%) Palantir
14 27 (0.59%) Talend