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 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 29 33
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 -9
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 3,950 3,299 4,403
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.86% 6.73% 5.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.37% 7.29% 6.65%
Number of salaries quoted 2,135 1,593 3,155
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,000 £42,737
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £109,500 £118,750 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -7.89% +6.54% -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 53,577 45,271 66,195
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.42% 92.38% 88.33%
Number of salaries quoted 32,051 21,953 51,270
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,504 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.10% +10.01% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 17 February 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 17 February 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 -5 3,353 £65,000 -7.14% 1,620
UK excluding London -2 1,993 £52,500 -7.89% 1,217
London +5 1,583 £80,000 -5.88% 777
Work from Home -3 1,260 £65,000 - 782
South East +12 535 £56,250 -6.25% 470
North of England -18 457 £50,000 -9.09% 264
Midlands -4 371 £52,500 -4.55% 207
Scotland +10 246 £55,000 -12.70% 46
North West -17 230 £55,000 - 155
West Midlands -13 223 £57,500 +2.68% 120
South West +8 187 £54,750 +0.57% 126
Yorkshire -14 180 £55,000 - 78
East Midlands +16 148 £45,945 -8.11% 86
East of England +36 123 £48,750 -25.00% 85
Northern Ireland -1 49 £45,000 -33.33% 14
North East +17 47 £40,000 -20.79% 33
Wales +12 28 £56,250 +13.52% 31

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 97 (2.46%) Apache Airflow
1 97 (2.46%) CMS
2 89 (2.25%) Apache Spark
3 55 (1.39%) WordPress
4 51 (1.29%) Apache
5 47 (1.19%) Confluence
6 44 (1.11%) SharePoint
7 36 (0.91%) SAS
8 21 (0.53%) ArcGIS
9 18 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 17 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
10 17 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
11 15 (0.38%) Drupal
12 9 (0.23%) Umbraco
13 6 (0.15%) IIS
14 5 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
15 4 (0.10%) Appian
15 4 (0.10%) Documentum
15 4 (0.10%) Sitecore CMS
16 3 (0.076%) Jupyter
Applications
1 461 (11.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 132 (3.34%) Microsoft Office
3 62 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (0.63%) Adobe XD
5 22 (0.56%) Maya
6 20 (0.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 20 (0.51%) InDesign
7 18 (0.46%) Photoshop
8 17 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
9 12 (0.30%) Adobe Premiere
9 12 (0.30%) Chatbot
9 12 (0.30%) SPSS
10 9 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
10 9 (0.23%) Trello
11 8 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
12 6 (0.15%) MS Visio
12 6 (0.15%) UserZoom
13 4 (0.10%) SketchUp
14 3 (0.076%) Final Cut Pro
15 2 (0.051%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 70 (1.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 53 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 34 (0.86%) Oracle ERP
4 28 (0.71%) SAP IBP
5 21 (0.53%) SAP CO
5 21 (0.53%) Shopify
6 19 (0.48%) Magento
7 16 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
7 16 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
7 16 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
7 16 (0.41%) SAP PP
8 15 (0.38%) Oracle Assets
9 14 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
10 13 (0.33%) NetSuite
10 13 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
11 12 (0.30%) iTrent
11 12 (0.30%) SAP FI
11 12 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
12 11 (0.28%) Dynamics GP
12 11 (0.28%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 957 (24.23%) Azure
2 689 (17.44%) Power Platform
3 415 (10.51%) AWS
4 227 (5.75%) SaaS
5 219 (5.54%) GCP
6 213 (5.39%) Azure Data Factory
7 196 (4.96%) Google Analytics
7 196 (4.96%) Snowflake
8 178 (4.51%) Azure DevOps
9 170 (4.30%) Microsoft 365
10 157 (3.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 152 (3.85%) GitHub
12 124 (3.14%) dbt
13 108 (2.73%) Entra ID
14 89 (2.25%) Azure Monitor
15 85 (2.15%) Adobe Analytics
16 83 (2.10%) Figma
16 83 (2.10%) Serverless
17 77 (1.95%) Amazon S3
18 69 (1.75%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 87 (2.20%) Broadband
2 40 (1.01%) VPN
3 36 (0.91%) Firewall
4 20 (0.51%) CHAP
4 20 (0.51%) WAN
5 15 (0.38%) DNS
6 13 (0.33%) Network Security
6 13 (0.33%) Unified Communications
7 12 (0.30%) Intranet
8 10 (0.25%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.15%) HTTPS
10 5 (0.13%) DHCP
10 5 (0.13%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (0.10%) HTTP
11 4 (0.10%) Internet
11 4 (0.10%) SMS
11 4 (0.10%) SNMP
11 4 (0.10%) VoIP
12 3 (0.076%) MQTT
12 3 (0.076%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 653 (16.53%) Power BI
2 400 (10.13%) Tableau
3 319 (8.08%) Data Warehouse
4 211 (5.34%) Data Lake
5 188 (4.76%) Metadata
6 181 (4.58%) Data Mining
7 153 (3.87%) SQL Server
8 107 (2.71%) Azure SQL Database
9 100 (2.53%) Looker
10 79 (2.00%) Big Data
11 71 (1.80%) NoSQL
11 71 (1.80%) Relational Database
12 70 (1.77%) BigQuery
13 68 (1.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 66 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
15 55 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 54 (1.37%) Power Query
17 52 (1.32%) SAP BW
18 44 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
19 37 (0.94%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 125 (3.16%) Git
2 119 (3.01%) JIRA
3 65 (1.65%) Jenkins
4 29 (0.73%) Oracle Forms
5 27 (0.68%) GitLab
6 23 (0.58%) Axure RP
6 23 (0.58%) Balsamiq
6 23 (0.58%) TeamCity
7 19 (0.48%) ERwin
8 18 (0.46%) Visual Studio
9 16 (0.41%) MLflow
10 12 (0.30%) Selenium
11 9 (0.23%) CircleCI
12 8 (0.20%) PowerDesigner
12 8 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 6 (0.15%) Cypress.io
13 6 (0.15%) ER Studio
14 5 (0.13%) MSI
14 5 (0.13%) Postman
14 5 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,355 (34.30%) Finance
2 1,264 (32.00%) Social Skills
3 1,092 (27.65%) Analytical Skills
4 656 (16.61%) Marketing
5 273 (6.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 243 (6.15%) Public Sector
7 224 (5.67%) Banking
8 222 (5.62%) Law
9 199 (5.04%) Retail
10 149 (3.77%) Manufacturing
11 143 (3.62%) Legal
12 132 (3.34%) Presentation Skills
13 122 (3.09%) Games
14 107 (2.71%) Financial Institution
15 90 (2.28%) Organisational Skills
15 90 (2.28%) Pharmaceutical
16 87 (2.20%) Advertising
16 87 (2.20%) Automotive
17 73 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
18 69 (1.75%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 648 (16.41%) Senior
2 626 (15.85%) Analyst
3 480 (12.15%) Lead
4 359 (9.09%) Data Engineer
5 356 (9.01%) Data Analyst
6 322 (8.15%) Architect
7 224 (5.67%) Developer
8 152 (3.85%) Trainee
8 152 (3.85%) Trainee Analyst
8 152 (3.85%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 141 (3.57%) Senior Manager
10 139 (3.52%) Data Architect
11 113 (2.86%) Consultant
12 96 (2.43%) Designer
12 96 (2.43%) Solutions Architect
13 87 (2.20%) Data Manager
14 84 (2.13%) Senior Analyst
15 83 (2.10%) Support Engineer
16 77 (1.95%) Data Scientist
17 74 (1.87%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (2.46%) HTML
2 86 (2.18%) CSS
3 83 (2.10%) Kafka
4 77 (1.95%) PySpark
5 64 (1.62%) .NET
6 63 (1.59%) React
7 60 (1.52%) OAuth
8 58 (1.47%) PyTorch
8 58 (1.47%) RESTful
9 48 (1.22%) TensorFlow
10 47 (1.19%) REST
11 43 (1.09%) JSON
12 38 (0.96%) OAuth2
13 34 (0.86%) SAP Fiori
14 30 (0.76%) Node.js
14 30 (0.76%) SAML
15 29 (0.73%) .NET Core
16 27 (0.68%) FIX Protocol
17 25 (0.63%) Middleware
18 23 (0.58%) Akka
Miscellaneous
1 197 (4.99%) Social Media
2 183 (4.63%) Product Ownership
3 181 (4.58%) Self-Motivation
4 168 (4.25%) Analytical Mindset
4 168 (4.25%) Cloud Native
5 153 (3.87%) Management Information System
6 121 (3.06%) Onboarding
7 119 (3.01%) Algorithms
8 103 (2.61%) Life Science
9 76 (1.92%) Data Structures
10 75 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
11 69 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
12 51 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
13 50 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
14 47 (1.19%) FMCG
14 47 (1.19%) Mobile App
15 41 (1.04%) Fixed Income
15 41 (1.04%) Virtual Team
16 40 (1.01%) Data Centre
17 37 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 114 (2.89%) Windows
2 60 (1.52%) Windows 10
3 44 (1.11%) Linux
4 30 (0.76%) Unix
5 21 (0.53%) VMS
6 15 (0.38%) Windows Server
7 13 (0.33%) Apple iOS
8 12 (0.30%) Android
9 2 (0.051%) AIX
9 2 (0.051%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.025%) Debian
10 1 (0.025%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,102 (27.90%) AI
2 950 (24.05%) Business Intelligence
3 867 (21.95%) Decision-Making
4 775 (19.62%) Problem-Solving
5 770 (19.49%) Agile
6 760 (19.24%) Data Analytics
7 712 (18.03%) Continuous Improvement
8 622 (15.75%) Data Modelling
9 498 (12.61%) Project Management
10 488 (12.35%) Data Analysis
11 486 (12.30%) Machine Learning
12 484 (12.25%) Data Governance
13 482 (12.20%) Data Science
14 479 (12.13%) Roadmaps
15 471 (11.92%) Data Engineering
16 452 (11.44%) Stakeholder Management
17 432 (10.94%) Data Pipeline
18 424 (10.73%) Visualisation
19 421 (10.66%) CI/CD
20 420 (10.63%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 1,051 (26.61%) SQL
2 960 (24.30%) Python
3 121 (3.06%) Java
4 118 (2.99%) JavaScript
5 88 (2.23%) C#
6 87 (2.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 80 (2.03%) Scala
8 79 (2.00%) PowerShell
9 68 (1.72%) R
10 49 (1.24%) Bicep
11 44 (1.11%) T-SQL
12 39 (0.99%) C++
13 38 (0.96%) TypeScript
14 32 (0.81%) Bash
15 31 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
16 25 (0.63%) Go
16 25 (0.63%) PL/SQL
17 22 (0.56%) Shell Script
18 17 (0.43%) VBA
19 14 (0.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 786 (19.90%) Degree
2 267 (6.76%) Security Cleared
3 191 (4.84%) SC Cleared
4 173 (4.38%) Master's Degree
5 121 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 78 (1.97%) PhD
7 60 (1.52%) CTC Cleared
8 58 (1.47%) CISSP
9 54 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
10 53 (1.34%) Azure Certification
11 50 (1.27%) CISA
12 47 (1.19%) Numerate Degree
13 46 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
14 45 (1.14%) DBS Check
15 43 (1.09%) CISM
16 37 (0.94%) PMI Certification
17 35 (0.89%) ACCA
18 30 (0.76%) DV Cleared
18 30 (0.76%) PMP
19 27 (0.68%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 518 (13.11%) Data Quality
2 261 (6.61%) Accessibility
3 259 (6.56%) GDPR
4 87 (2.20%) QA
5 77 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 71 (1.80%) SLA
7 51 (1.29%) NIST
8 45 (1.14%) WCAG
9 42 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
10 40 (1.01%) GxP
11 30 (0.76%) COBIT
12 25 (0.63%) Solvency II
13 24 (0.61%) IFRS
14 23 (0.58%) EU AI Act
15 22 (0.56%) HIPAA
16 21 (0.53%) PSD2
17 17 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 17 (0.43%) SOC 2
18 16 (0.41%) GRC
19 14 (0.35%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 129 (3.27%) Docker
2 60 (1.52%) Active Directory
3 36 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.30%) Hyper-V
5 12 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.10%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.051%) vSphere
8 1 (0.025%) Firmware
8 1 (0.025%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.025%) vCloud
8 1 (0.025%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 198 (5.01%) Terraform
2 151 (3.82%) Kubernetes
3 38 (0.96%) Ansible
4 28 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
5 25 (0.63%) Grafana
5 25 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
6 23 (0.58%) Prometheus
7 10 (0.25%) SCCM
8 9 (0.23%) QRadar
9 8 (0.20%) EnCase
9 8 (0.20%) FTK
10 7 (0.18%) Kibana
11 6 (0.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 5 (0.13%) Argo
12 5 (0.13%) SCOM
13 4 (0.10%) RSA Archer
14 3 (0.076%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.076%) ArcSight ESM
14 3 (0.076%) Control-M
14 3 (0.076%) VxRail
Vendors
1 827 (20.94%) Microsoft
2 331 (8.38%) Google
3 260 (6.58%) Databricks
4 212 (5.37%) SAP
5 183 (4.63%) Salesforce
6 170 (4.30%) Adobe
7 137 (3.47%) Cisco
8 133 (3.37%) Oracle
9 68 (1.72%) HubSpot
10 54 (1.37%) Alteryx
11 35 (0.89%) ServiceNow
12 34 (0.86%) Bloomberg
13 31 (0.78%) OpenAI
14 30 (0.76%) Informatica
15 29 (0.73%) Talend
15 29 (0.73%) YouTube
16 28 (0.71%) Nexthink
17 27 (0.68%) Dell
18 25 (0.63%) IBM
18 25 (0.63%) Palantir