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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 22 37
Rank change year-on-year -5 +15 -15
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 4,877 3,808 5,454
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.15% 8.43% 5.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.04% 9.14% 6.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2,954 1,704 3,422
10th Percentile £35,150 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,000 £45,464 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +6.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,001 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,125 £115,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.85% -1.82%

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 69,314 41,679 88,914
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.17% 92.27% 81.73%
Number of salaries quoted 47,751 22,444 62,987
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.41%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,159
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 23 June 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 23 June 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 -3 4,376 £67,000 +3.08% 1,709
UK excluding London -5 2,600 £60,000 +9.09% 1,135
London +3 1,886 £80,000 - 925
Work from Home +3 1,512 £65,000 +8.33% 724
North of England +39 881 £60,000 +9.09% 266
Midlands +11 571 £58,514 +11.45% 177
North West +34 523 £60,000 +14.29% 160
South East -30 473 £55,000 -8.33% 409
West Midlands -1 331 £57,500 +9.52% 104
Yorkshire +18 245 £60,000 - 70
East Midlands +30 237 £57,500 +18.56% 72
South West -28 232 £57,500 -4.17% 124
East of England +28 231 £60,000 +20.00% 83
Scotland -7 124 £65,000 -7.14% 40
North East +18 113 £50,000 -2.91% 37
Northern Ireland -15 46 £45,000 +50.00% 33
Wales -17 45 £60,000 +19.70% 27

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
1 156 (3.20%) Apache Spark
2 147 (3.01%) Apache Airflow
3 120 (2.46%) CMS
4 102 (2.09%) Apache
5 65 (1.33%) Confluence
6 55 (1.13%) SAS
7 46 (0.94%) WordPress
8 45 (0.92%) SharePoint
9 35 (0.72%) ArcGIS
10 26 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
11 17 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
12 10 (0.21%) Drupal
13 9 (0.18%) Jupyter
14 7 (0.14%) Oracle Application Server
15 6 (0.12%) Headless CMS
15 6 (0.12%) Umbraco
16 4 (0.082%) Documentum
16 4 (0.082%) Oracle Workflow
17 3 (0.062%) Sitecore CMS
18 2 (0.041%) Moodle
Applications
1 253 (5.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 77 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
3 46 (0.94%) UserZoom
4 39 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 28 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
6 17 (0.35%) MS Visio
7 16 (0.33%) SPSS
8 13 (0.27%) Chatbot
9 12 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 12 (0.25%) Adobe XD
10 6 (0.12%) Trello
11 5 (0.10%) Photoshop
12 4 (0.082%) InDesign
12 4 (0.082%) Microsoft Project
13 3 (0.062%) Adobe Illustrator
13 3 (0.062%) Sketch
14 1 (0.021%) Adobe Premiere
14 1 (0.021%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 94 (1.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (0.72%) SAP IBP
3 34 (0.70%) Adobe Campaign
4 33 (0.68%) SAP PP
5 23 (0.47%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 19 (0.39%) Shopify
7 14 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
7 14 (0.29%) Magento
8 12 (0.25%) iTrent
8 12 (0.25%) NetSuite
9 11 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
10 6 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
10 6 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
10 6 (0.12%) SAP CO
10 6 (0.12%) SAP ERP
10 6 (0.12%) SAP PM
10 6 (0.12%) SAP Travel Management
11 5 (0.10%) SAP PS
11 5 (0.10%) SAP SD
12 4 (0.082%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 988 (20.26%) Azure
2 759 (15.56%) Power Platform
3 671 (13.76%) AWS
4 314 (6.44%) GCP
5 294 (6.03%) SaaS
6 218 (4.47%) Snowflake
7 212 (4.35%) Adobe Analytics
8 198 (4.06%) Google Analytics
9 177 (3.63%) Azure Data Factory
10 169 (3.47%) Azure DevOps
11 144 (2.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 136 (2.79%) GitHub
12 136 (2.79%) Serverless
13 124 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
14 121 (2.48%) Amazon S3
15 120 (2.46%) dbt
16 113 (2.32%) Figma
17 106 (2.17%) Entra ID
18 86 (1.76%) Azure Monitor
19 79 (1.62%) Contentsquare
Communications & Networking
1 270 (5.54%) Broadband
2 50 (1.03%) VPN
3 43 (0.88%) Firewall
4 37 (0.76%) DNS
5 31 (0.64%) Network Security
6 25 (0.51%) TCP/IP
7 23 (0.47%) BGP
8 19 (0.39%) CHAP
8 19 (0.39%) VLAN
9 18 (0.37%) OSPF
10 17 (0.35%) SMS
11 16 (0.33%) DHCP
11 16 (0.33%) Internet
11 16 (0.33%) WAN
12 14 (0.29%) Unified Communications
13 11 (0.23%) Intranet
14 10 (0.21%) SNMP
14 10 (0.21%) VXLAN
14 10 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
15 9 (0.18%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 725 (14.87%) Power BI
2 342 (7.01%) Data Warehouse
3 302 (6.19%) Tableau
4 208 (4.26%) Data Lake
5 169 (3.47%) Metadata
6 144 (2.95%) SQL Server
7 124 (2.54%) Looker
8 114 (2.34%) BigQuery
9 111 (2.28%) Amazon Redshift
10 108 (2.21%) Azure SQL Database
11 101 (2.07%) Big Data
12 91 (1.87%) Relational Database
13 85 (1.74%) NoSQL
14 82 (1.68%) Data Mining
15 78 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
16 67 (1.37%) Power Query
17 62 (1.27%) MongoDB
18 59 (1.21%) Star Schema
19 57 (1.17%) Delta Lake
20 53 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 167 (3.42%) Git
2 75 (1.54%) Jenkins
3 74 (1.52%) JIRA
4 45 (0.92%) MLflow
5 37 (0.76%) GitLab
6 25 (0.51%) IBM UrbanCode
6 25 (0.51%) TeamCity
7 20 (0.41%) Crashlytics
8 16 (0.33%) CircleCI
9 14 (0.29%) XCTest
10 13 (0.27%) Claude Code
10 13 (0.27%) fastlane
11 11 (0.23%) ERwin
12 9 (0.18%) Selenium
12 9 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 9 (0.18%) Xcode
13 8 (0.16%) Gradle
13 8 (0.16%) Visual Studio
14 7 (0.14%) Axure RP
14 7 (0.14%) Balsamiq
General
1 1,303 (26.72%) Finance
2 1,205 (24.71%) Social Skills
3 1,075 (22.04%) Analytical Skills
4 658 (13.49%) Marketing
5 283 (5.80%) Public Sector
6 279 (5.72%) Retail
7 261 (5.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 229 (4.70%) Games
9 227 (4.65%) Law
10 208 (4.26%) Banking
11 186 (3.81%) Legal
12 142 (2.91%) Manufacturing
13 130 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
14 127 (2.60%) Automotive
15 118 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
16 108 (2.21%) Advertising
17 88 (1.80%) Financial Institution
18 75 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
19 53 (1.09%) Telecoms
20 41 (0.84%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 881 (18.06%) Senior
2 611 (12.53%) Analyst
3 549 (11.26%) Data Engineer
4 540 (11.07%) Lead
5 383 (7.85%) Architect
6 314 (6.44%) Developer
7 299 (6.13%) Data Analyst
8 201 (4.12%) Data Architect
9 200 (4.10%) Consultant
10 147 (3.01%) Senior Data Engineer
11 141 (2.89%) Senior Manager
12 134 (2.75%) Data Scientist
13 125 (2.56%) Product Manager
14 120 (2.46%) Solutions Architect
15 119 (2.44%) Analytics Manager
16 111 (2.28%) Data Manager
17 109 (2.23%) Senior Analyst
18 101 (2.07%) Designer
19 84 (1.72%) Azure Engineer
20 82 (1.68%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (2.95%) PySpark
2 120 (2.46%) Kafka
3 97 (1.99%) .NET
4 90 (1.85%) HTML
5 86 (1.76%) CSS
6 74 (1.52%) PyTorch
7 57 (1.17%) .NET Core
8 56 (1.15%) React
8 56 (1.15%) SAP Fiori
9 50 (1.03%) Pandas
10 49 (1.00%) REST
11 45 (0.92%) TensorFlow
12 44 (0.90%) scikit-learn
13 43 (0.88%) RESTful
14 42 (0.86%) LangChain
15 41 (0.84%) Node.js
16 35 (0.72%) JSON
17 28 (0.57%) YAML
18 27 (0.55%) ASP.NET
18 27 (0.55%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 295 (6.05%) Social Media
2 241 (4.94%) Cloud Native
3 197 (4.04%) Product Ownership
4 164 (3.36%) Analytical Mindset
5 151 (3.10%) Management Information System
6 144 (2.95%) Onboarding
7 112 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
8 108 (2.21%) Data Structures
9 98 (2.01%) Algorithms
10 83 (1.70%) Mobile App
11 82 (1.68%) Marketing Technology
12 76 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
13 63 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
14 61 (1.25%) Life Science
15 58 (1.19%) Over-the-Top Content
16 55 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
17 54 (1.11%) Public Cloud
18 42 (0.86%) Blog
18 42 (0.86%) e-Learning
18 42 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 114 (2.34%) Windows
2 74 (1.52%) Linux
3 37 (0.76%) VMS
4 34 (0.70%) Windows 10
5 27 (0.55%) Apple iOS
6 17 (0.35%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.25%) Android
8 11 (0.23%) Unix
9 3 (0.062%) AIX
10 2 (0.041%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.041%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.021%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,459 (29.92%) AI
2 1,049 (21.51%) Decision-Making
3 1,024 (21.00%) Business Intelligence
4 921 (18.88%) Agile
5 767 (15.73%) Roadmaps
6 750 (15.38%) Data Modelling
7 716 (14.68%) Continuous Improvement
7 716 (14.68%) Data Analytics
8 713 (14.62%) Problem-Solving
9 645 (13.23%) Data Engineering
10 591 (12.12%) Data Pipeline
11 581 (11.91%) CI/CD
12 552 (11.32%) Data Governance
13 543 (11.13%) Machine Learning
14 528 (10.83%) Customer Experience
15 485 (9.94%) ETL
16 484 (9.92%) Data Science
17 463 (9.49%) Mentoring
18 445 (9.12%) DevOps
19 440 (9.02%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 1,265 (25.94%) SQL
2 1,083 (22.21%) Python
3 132 (2.71%) C#
4 122 (2.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 107 (2.19%) PowerShell
6 105 (2.15%) Java
7 85 (1.74%) R
8 84 (1.72%) Scala
9 81 (1.66%) JavaScript
10 63 (1.29%) TypeScript
11 54 (1.11%) Bicep
12 52 (1.07%) Bash
13 44 (0.90%) C++
14 42 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
15 34 (0.70%) Go
16 31 (0.64%) T-SQL
17 23 (0.47%) Kotlin
17 23 (0.47%) VBA
18 21 (0.43%) Swift
19 18 (0.37%) Julia
Qualifications
1 560 (11.48%) Degree
2 310 (6.36%) Security Cleared
3 211 (4.33%) SC Cleared
4 96 (1.97%) Master's Degree
5 89 (1.82%) Azure Certification
6 85 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 72 (1.48%) IRCA
8 53 (1.09%) DV Cleared
9 52 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
10 51 (1.05%) ACCA
11 48 (0.98%) DBS Check
12 46 (0.94%) CISSP
13 45 (0.92%) CIMA
14 42 (0.86%) AWS Certification
15 40 (0.82%) CISM
16 38 (0.78%) PhD
17 35 (0.72%) CISA
18 34 (0.70%) CTC Cleared
19 33 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
20 22 (0.45%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 624 (12.79%) Data Quality
2 393 (8.06%) Accessibility
3 322 (6.60%) GDPR
4 197 (4.04%) QA
5 96 (1.97%) WCAG
6 76 (1.56%) ISO 9001
7 57 (1.17%) SLA
8 44 (0.90%) NIST
9 43 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 36 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 32 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
12 26 (0.53%) IFRS
13 23 (0.47%) COBIT
14 20 (0.41%) PCI DSS
15 16 (0.33%) SOC 2
16 15 (0.31%) GAAP
16 15 (0.31%) HIPAA
16 15 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 14 (0.29%) GRC
17 14 (0.29%) PERC
System Software
1 163 (3.34%) Docker
2 93 (1.91%) Active Directory
3 20 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.29%) vSphere
6 11 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.14%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.10%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.082%) IAG
10 2 (0.041%) Firmware
11 1 (0.021%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 245 (5.02%) Terraform
2 190 (3.90%) Kubernetes
3 44 (0.90%) Ansible
4 32 (0.66%) Prometheus
5 30 (0.62%) Grafana
6 15 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (0.23%) EnCase
7 11 (0.23%) FTK
8 9 (0.18%) Kibana
9 7 (0.14%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (0.12%) Nagios
10 6 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.12%) VxRail
11 5 (0.10%) Argo
11 5 (0.10%) Graylog
12 3 (0.062%) Control-M
12 3 (0.062%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.062%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.041%) SCCM
Vendors
1 787 (16.14%) Microsoft
2 422 (8.65%) Databricks
3 347 (7.12%) Google
4 301 (6.17%) Adobe
5 232 (4.76%) SAP
6 136 (2.79%) Salesforce
7 125 (2.56%) Oracle
8 79 (1.62%) Cisco
9 70 (1.44%) HubSpot
10 53 (1.09%) Dell
11 48 (0.98%) Informatica
12 34 (0.70%) Workday
13 29 (0.59%) VMware
14 28 (0.57%) IBM
14 28 (0.57%) ServiceNow
15 27 (0.55%) Alteryx
15 27 (0.55%) Cloudera
16 26 (0.53%) OpenAI
16 26 (0.53%) Teradata
17 25 (0.51%) Braze