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 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 20 39
Rank change year-on-year -9 +19 -16
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 4,601 3,840 5,238
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.06% 8.78% 5.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.82% 9.41% 6.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2,691 1,779 3,312
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £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 £92,500 £80,435
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,443 £53,067
% change year-on-year +0.10% +8.25% -3.51%

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 67,438 40,826 82,224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.22% 93.31% 85.22%
Number of salaries quoted 42,850 22,742 59,687
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,491 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £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 10 May 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 10 May 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 4,077 £65,000 - 1,918
UK excluding London -19 2,438 £57,500 +0.10% 1,208
London 0 1,783 £80,000 -5.88% 1,021
Work from Home +1 1,419 £65,000 +8.33% 881
North of England +4 759 £60,000 +8.11% 319
South East -30 503 £55,000 -8.33% 419
Midlands -12 491 £55,000 +4.76% 195
North West +10 434 £60,000 +9.09% 190
West Midlands -21 287 £55,000 - 101
Yorkshire -8 244 £59,375 +4.63% 82
South West -30 225 £57,500 +4.55% 112
East of England +35 219 £60,000 -7.69% 73
East Midlands +26 200 £50,000 +3.09% 94
Scotland -11 155 £65,000 -16.24% 57
North East +7 81 £47,000 -16.44% 50
Northern Ireland -14 47 £45,000 +50.00% 12
Wales -4 41 £56,250 +7.14% 39

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
1 166 (3.61%) Apache Airflow
2 140 (3.04%) Apache Spark
3 117 (2.54%) CMS
4 82 (1.78%) Apache
5 62 (1.35%) Confluence
6 52 (1.13%) SharePoint
7 51 (1.11%) WordPress
8 36 (0.78%) SAS
9 35 (0.76%) ArcGIS
10 20 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
11 17 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
12 10 (0.22%) Drupal
13 7 (0.15%) Oracle Application Server
13 7 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 6 (0.13%) IIS
15 4 (0.087%) Appian
15 4 (0.087%) Documentum
15 4 (0.087%) Moodle
15 4 (0.087%) Umbraco
16 3 (0.065%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 308 (6.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 99 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
3 52 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (0.67%) UserZoom
5 23 (0.50%) Adobe XD
6 18 (0.39%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 9 (0.20%) Chatbot
8 9 (0.20%) SPSS
9 4 (0.087%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.087%) InDesign
9 4 (0.087%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.065%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.065%) Sketch
11 2 (0.043%) Maya
11 2 (0.043%) Notion
12 1 (0.022%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.022%) Siemens NX
12 1 (0.022%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 87 (1.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (0.74%) Adobe Campaign
2 34 (0.74%) SAP IBP
3 33 (0.72%) SAP PP
4 24 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
4 24 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
5 20 (0.43%) Magento
6 17 (0.37%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 16 (0.35%) Shopify
8 15 (0.33%) iTrent
9 11 (0.24%) NetSuite
9 11 (0.24%) SAP CO
10 10 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
11 9 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
12 8 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
12 8 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
12 8 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
12 8 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
12 8 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
12 8 (0.17%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 948 (20.60%) Azure
2 710 (15.43%) Power Platform
3 576 (12.52%) AWS
4 291 (6.32%) GCP
5 261 (5.67%) SaaS
6 226 (4.91%) Snowflake
7 201 (4.37%) Adobe Analytics
8 199 (4.33%) Google Analytics
9 195 (4.24%) Azure Data Factory
10 160 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
11 152 (3.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 146 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
13 141 (3.06%) GitHub
14 138 (3.00%) dbt
15 128 (2.78%) Figma
16 118 (2.56%) Amazon S3
17 114 (2.48%) Serverless
18 101 (2.20%) Entra ID
19 70 (1.52%) Azure Monitor
19 70 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 258 (5.61%) Broadband
2 39 (0.85%) Firewall
3 36 (0.78%) VPN
4 29 (0.63%) CHAP
5 26 (0.57%) DNS
6 23 (0.50%) Network Security
7 22 (0.48%) WAN
8 17 (0.37%) TCP/IP
9 15 (0.33%) DHCP
10 14 (0.30%) Intranet
11 12 (0.26%) Unified Communications
12 8 (0.17%) 5G
12 8 (0.17%) SMS
13 6 (0.13%) HTTP
14 5 (0.11%) BGP
14 5 (0.11%) SSL
14 5 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
15 4 (0.087%) SNMP
15 4 (0.087%) VXLAN
16 3 (0.065%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 671 (14.58%) Power BI
2 344 (7.48%) Tableau
3 324 (7.04%) Data Warehouse
4 229 (4.98%) Data Lake
5 171 (3.72%) Metadata
6 142 (3.09%) Data Mining
7 140 (3.04%) SQL Server
8 121 (2.63%) Looker
9 112 (2.43%) BigQuery
10 103 (2.24%) Amazon Redshift
11 102 (2.22%) Relational Database
12 85 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
13 82 (1.78%) NoSQL
14 71 (1.54%) Big Data
15 68 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
16 57 (1.24%) Power Query
17 54 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 47 (1.02%) Delta Lake
18 47 (1.02%) Star Schema
19 46 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 173 (3.76%) Git
2 85 (1.85%) JIRA
3 77 (1.67%) Jenkins
4 43 (0.93%) MLflow
5 36 (0.78%) GitLab
6 25 (0.54%) IBM UrbanCode
7 24 (0.52%) TeamCity
8 18 (0.39%) Axure RP
8 18 (0.39%) Balsamiq
9 17 (0.37%) Crashlytics
10 16 (0.35%) CircleCI
10 16 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
11 12 (0.26%) Selenium
11 12 (0.26%) XCTest
12 11 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 10 (0.22%) ERwin
13 10 (0.22%) Visual Studio
14 7 (0.15%) Claude Code
15 6 (0.13%) fastlane
16 5 (0.11%) MSI
General
1 1,268 (27.56%) Finance
2 1,137 (24.71%) Social Skills
3 1,043 (22.67%) Analytical Skills
4 646 (14.04%) Marketing
5 265 (5.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 248 (5.39%) Retail
7 228 (4.96%) Public Sector
8 219 (4.76%) Games
9 213 (4.63%) Law
10 205 (4.46%) Banking
11 146 (3.17%) Legal
12 142 (3.09%) Manufacturing
13 127 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
14 116 (2.52%) Automotive
15 104 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
16 101 (2.20%) Advertising
17 95 (2.06%) Financial Institution
18 64 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
19 61 (1.33%) Back Office
20 49 (1.06%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 813 (17.67%) Senior
2 604 (13.13%) Analyst
3 519 (11.28%) Data Engineer
4 505 (10.98%) Lead
5 337 (7.32%) Architect
6 310 (6.74%) Data Analyst
7 273 (5.93%) Developer
8 178 (3.87%) Consultant
9 164 (3.56%) Data Architect
10 133 (2.89%) Senior Manager
11 131 (2.85%) Senior Data Engineer
12 126 (2.74%) Trainee
12 126 (2.74%) Trainee Analyst
12 126 (2.74%) Trainee Data Analyst
13 111 (2.41%) Designer
14 109 (2.37%) Data Scientist
15 105 (2.28%) Data Manager
15 105 (2.28%) Product Manager
16 102 (2.22%) Solutions Architect
17 98 (2.13%) Analytics Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (2.96%) PySpark
2 125 (2.72%) Kafka
3 95 (2.06%) HTML
4 88 (1.91%) CSS
5 87 (1.89%) PyTorch
6 84 (1.83%) .NET
7 59 (1.28%) TensorFlow
8 56 (1.22%) React
9 52 (1.13%) SAP Fiori
10 51 (1.11%) RESTful
11 46 (1.00%) scikit-learn
12 45 (0.98%) .NET Core
13 44 (0.96%) LangChain
13 44 (0.96%) Pandas
14 43 (0.93%) REST
15 42 (0.91%) OAuth
16 37 (0.80%) JSON
17 36 (0.78%) Node.js
18 24 (0.52%) LlamaIndex
19 23 (0.50%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 283 (6.15%) Social Media
2 208 (4.52%) Cloud Native
3 185 (4.02%) Product Ownership
4 154 (3.35%) Management Information System
5 151 (3.28%) Analytical Mindset
6 103 (2.24%) Algorithms
6 103 (2.24%) Onboarding
7 100 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
8 88 (1.91%) Data Structures
9 80 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
10 79 (1.72%) Marketing Technology
11 70 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
11 70 (1.52%) Life Science
12 68 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
12 68 (1.48%) Mobile App
13 57 (1.24%) Over-the-Top Content
14 46 (1.00%) Public Cloud
15 45 (0.98%) Virtual Team
16 41 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
17 37 (0.80%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 108 (2.35%) Windows
2 53 (1.15%) Linux
3 51 (1.11%) Windows 10
4 27 (0.59%) VMS
5 25 (0.54%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.39%) Unix
7 17 (0.37%) Windows Server
8 13 (0.28%) Android
9 3 (0.065%) AIX
10 1 (0.022%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,288 (27.99%) AI
2 963 (20.93%) Decision-Making
3 956 (20.78%) Business Intelligence
4 896 (19.47%) Agile
5 716 (15.56%) Data Analytics
6 710 (15.43%) Data Modelling
7 698 (15.17%) Continuous Improvement
8 677 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
9 644 (14.00%) Roadmaps
10 615 (13.37%) Data Engineering
11 565 (12.28%) Data Pipeline
12 546 (11.87%) CI/CD
13 514 (11.17%) Data Governance
14 499 (10.85%) Machine Learning
15 497 (10.80%) ETL
16 494 (10.74%) Customer Experience
17 491 (10.67%) Data Science
18 436 (9.48%) DevOps
19 427 (9.28%) Data Analysis
20 425 (9.24%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1,183 (25.71%) SQL
2 1,050 (22.82%) Python
3 116 (2.52%) C#
4 109 (2.37%) Java
5 105 (2.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 90 (1.96%) JavaScript
7 83 (1.80%) Scala
8 74 (1.61%) R
9 69 (1.50%) PowerShell
10 52 (1.13%) TypeScript
11 43 (0.93%) Bicep
12 39 (0.85%) T-SQL
13 38 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
14 37 (0.80%) C++
15 36 (0.78%) Go
16 24 (0.52%) Bash
17 19 (0.41%) Kotlin
18 18 (0.39%) VBA
19 16 (0.35%) Swift
20 14 (0.30%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 589 (12.80%) Degree
2 278 (6.04%) Security Cleared
3 191 (4.15%) SC Cleared
4 106 (2.30%) Master's Degree
5 87 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 72 (1.56%) IRCA
7 61 (1.33%) Azure Certification
8 54 (1.17%) ACCA
9 51 (1.11%) CTC Cleared
10 47 (1.02%) CISM
10 47 (1.02%) CISSP
11 46 (1.00%) CIMA
11 46 (1.00%) DBS Check
12 44 (0.96%) CISA
12 44 (0.96%) PhD
13 37 (0.80%) DV Cleared
14 33 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
15 31 (0.67%) SANS
16 30 (0.65%) CGEIT
16 30 (0.65%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 587 (12.76%) Data Quality
2 371 (8.06%) Accessibility
3 333 (7.24%) GDPR
4 181 (3.93%) QA
5 96 (2.09%) WCAG
6 76 (1.65%) ISO 9001
7 74 (1.61%) SLA
8 50 (1.09%) NIST
9 44 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 37 (0.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 34 (0.74%) COBIT
12 32 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
13 26 (0.57%) IFRS
14 20 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 18 (0.39%) SOC 2
16 17 (0.37%) GAAP
17 16 (0.35%) GRC
18 15 (0.33%) HIPAA
19 14 (0.30%) PCI DSS
20 12 (0.26%) GxP
System Software
1 154 (3.35%) Docker
2 83 (1.80%) Active Directory
3 23 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.17%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.087%) IAG
6 4 (0.087%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.087%) vSphere
7 2 (0.043%) Firmware
8 1 (0.022%) Apache Flume
8 1 (0.022%) vCloud
8 1 (0.022%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 224 (4.87%) Terraform
2 182 (3.96%) Kubernetes
3 51 (1.11%) Ansible
4 26 (0.57%) Grafana
4 26 (0.57%) Prometheus
5 17 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
6 13 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.17%) EnCase
7 8 (0.17%) FTK
8 7 (0.15%) Kibana
9 6 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.11%) Control-M
11 4 (0.087%) Argo
11 4 (0.087%) VxRail
12 3 (0.065%) Graylog
13 2 (0.043%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.043%) QRadar
13 2 (0.043%) RSA Archer
13 2 (0.043%) SCCM
13 2 (0.043%) vRealize
Vendors
1 800 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 386 (8.39%) Databricks
3 321 (6.98%) Google
4 301 (6.54%) Adobe
5 208 (4.52%) SAP
6 153 (3.33%) Salesforce
7 128 (2.78%) Oracle
8 111 (2.41%) Cisco
9 60 (1.30%) HubSpot
10 54 (1.17%) Dell
11 47 (1.02%) Informatica
12 32 (0.70%) Alteryx
13 28 (0.61%) Red Hat
13 28 (0.61%) Workday
14 26 (0.57%) Nexthink
14 26 (0.57%) OpenAI
14 26 (0.57%) Palantir
15 25 (0.54%) Cloudera
15 25 (0.54%) Denodo
15 25 (0.54%) ServiceNow