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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 23 33
Rank change year-on-year -8 +10 -5
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 5,530 3,723 3,934
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.68% 7.50% 5.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.40% 8.42% 6.47%
Number of salaries quoted 3,332 1,714 2,065
10th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £49,500 £42,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,805 £60,000 £66,199
Median % change year-on-year +11.34% -9.36% +1.84%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £51,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -10.53% +3.64%

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 86,353 44,239 60,788
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.12% 89.09% 81.92%
Number of salaries quoted 59,227 24,477 32,914
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £59,430
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -7.45% -0.95%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 5 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Top 18 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 5 October 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 -6 4,957 £67,500 +10.33% 10,977
UK excluding London -8 2,932 £60,000 +17.65% 5,533
London 0 2,246 £80,000 +6.67% 6,578
Work from Home +7 1,681 £66,805 +11.34% 5,286
North of England +56 951 £60,500 +9.54% 1,292
Midlands +28 610 £60,000 +14.29% 763
South East -31 589 £60,000 +20.00% 1,277
North West +52 542 £60,000 +18.81% 681
West Midlands +11 349 £60,000 +9.09% 464
South West -24 320 £60,000 - 558
East Midlands +25 261 £60,000 +33.33% 299
Yorkshire +30 256 £66,805 +6.89% 423
East of England -8 177 £51,878 +52.58% 524
North East +28 159 £55,000 +5.77% 192
Scotland -21 114 £75,000 +50.00% 674
Northern Ireland -21 96 £65,000 +8.33% 205
Wales -6 93 £63,500 +30.09% 285
Isle of Man +2 5 £38,500 - 8

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
1 154 (2.78%) Apache Spark
2 150 (2.71%) CMS
3 90 (1.63%) Apache
4 88 (1.59%) SharePoint
5 85 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
6 71 (1.28%) SAS
7 66 (1.19%) Confluence
8 42 (0.76%) WordPress
9 28 (0.51%) Sitecore CMS
10 21 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
11 19 (0.34%) Headless CMS
12 17 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
13 16 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
14 10 (0.18%) Jupyter
15 6 (0.11%) Umbraco
16 5 (0.090%) ArcGIS
17 3 (0.054%) Adobe Experience Manager
17 3 (0.054%) IIS
18 2 (0.036%) Appian
18 2 (0.036%) Luigi
Applications
1 279 (5.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
3 43 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 39 (0.71%) Chatbot
5 32 (0.58%) SPSS
6 26 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
7 25 (0.45%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 20 (0.36%) UserZoom
9 18 (0.33%) MS Visio
10 13 (0.24%) Adobe XD
11 11 (0.20%) Photoshop
12 8 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
13 7 (0.13%) Sketch
13 7 (0.13%) Trello
14 5 (0.090%) Notion
15 4 (0.072%) Microsoft Project
16 3 (0.054%) Adobe Premiere
16 3 (0.054%) InDesign
16 3 (0.054%) Zeplin
17 2 (0.036%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 126 (2.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 73 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 52 (0.94%) Shopify
4 31 (0.56%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 28 (0.51%) Dynamics GP
6 18 (0.33%) Magento
6 18 (0.33%) Workday HCM
7 14 (0.25%) Adobe Campaign
8 10 (0.18%) NetSuite
9 9 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
10 8 (0.14%) SAP BPC
11 7 (0.13%) SAP MDG
12 6 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
13 5 (0.090%) FastStats
13 5 (0.090%) Oracle Payables
13 5 (0.090%) Oracle Receivables
13 5 (0.090%) SAP Travel Management
14 4 (0.072%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
14 4 (0.072%) Payment Gateway
14 4 (0.072%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,070 (19.35%) Azure
2 896 (16.20%) Power Platform
3 782 (14.14%) AWS
4 345 (6.24%) GCP
5 338 (6.11%) SaaS
6 284 (5.14%) Google Analytics
7 239 (4.32%) Snowflake
8 214 (3.87%) Azure Data Factory
9 210 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
10 188 (3.40%) GitHub
11 159 (2.88%) Serverless
12 149 (2.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 137 (2.48%) dbt
14 117 (2.12%) Microsoft 365
15 111 (2.01%) Microsoft Purview
16 106 (1.92%) Amazon S3
17 105 (1.90%) Cloud Computing
18 92 (1.66%) Google Ads
19 90 (1.63%) Azure Monitor
19 90 (1.63%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 73 (1.32%) VPN
2 71 (1.28%) Broadband
2 71 (1.28%) Internet
3 64 (1.16%) Firewall
4 44 (0.80%) DNS
4 44 (0.80%) Network Security
5 27 (0.49%) BGP
6 23 (0.42%) SMS
7 22 (0.40%) TCP/IP
8 21 (0.38%) 5G
9 20 (0.36%) VLAN
10 19 (0.34%) OSPF
11 15 (0.27%) VoIP
12 14 (0.25%) CTI
12 14 (0.25%) DHCP
13 13 (0.24%) SSL
14 11 (0.20%) Unified Communications
15 10 (0.18%) VXLAN
15 10 (0.18%) WAN
15 10 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 867 (15.68%) Power BI
2 400 (7.23%) Data Warehouse
3 260 (4.70%) Tableau
4 256 (4.63%) Metadata
5 225 (4.07%) Data Lake
6 174 (3.15%) SQL Server
7 154 (2.78%) Big Data
8 134 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
9 113 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
10 112 (2.03%) Looker
11 92 (1.66%) Delta Lake
12 91 (1.65%) BigQuery
13 89 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
14 85 (1.54%) Relational Database
15 80 (1.45%) Star Schema
16 75 (1.36%) NoSQL
17 73 (1.32%) MongoDB
18 69 (1.25%) Semantic Layer
19 68 (1.23%) Power Query
20 58 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 179 (3.24%) Git
2 98 (1.77%) JIRA
3 45 (0.81%) GitLab
4 44 (0.80%) Jenkins
5 25 (0.45%) MLflow
6 17 (0.31%) Claude Code
7 11 (0.20%) Crashlytics
7 11 (0.20%) fastlane
8 9 (0.16%) Octopus Deploy
9 8 (0.14%) Balsamiq
9 8 (0.14%) CircleCI
9 8 (0.14%) Xcode
10 7 (0.13%) Gradle
10 7 (0.13%) Visual Website Optimizer
11 6 (0.11%) Axure RP
11 6 (0.11%) ERwin
12 5 (0.090%) Android Studio
12 5 (0.090%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.090%) Visual Studio Code
12 5 (0.090%) XCTest
General
1 1,552 (28.07%) Social Skills
2 1,519 (27.47%) Finance
3 1,266 (22.89%) Analytical Skills
4 972 (17.58%) Marketing
5 416 (7.52%) Retail
6 411 (7.43%) Public Sector
7 338 (6.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 336 (6.08%) Legal
9 293 (5.30%) Law
10 226 (4.09%) Banking
11 222 (4.01%) Influencing Skills
12 188 (3.40%) Organisational Skills
13 165 (2.98%) Manufacturing
14 122 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
15 113 (2.04%) Advertising
16 97 (1.75%) Financial Institution
17 90 (1.63%) Automotive
18 89 (1.61%) Games
19 76 (1.37%) Publishing
20 59 (1.07%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,131 (20.45%) Senior
2 676 (12.22%) Data Engineer
3 653 (11.81%) Analyst
4 602 (10.89%) Lead
5 537 (9.71%) Architect
6 315 (5.70%) Developer
7 273 (4.94%) Analytics Manager
8 255 (4.61%) Data Architect
9 254 (4.59%) Data Analyst
10 241 (4.36%) Senior Data Engineer
11 207 (3.74%) Senior Manager
12 189 (3.42%) Data Scientist
13 184 (3.33%) Consultant
14 168 (3.04%) Solutions Architect
15 139 (2.51%) Data Manager
16 133 (2.41%) Senior Analyst
17 129 (2.33%) Marketing Manager
18 112 (2.03%) Product Manager
19 108 (1.95%) Senior Architect
20 101 (1.83%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 266 (4.81%) Terraform
2 201 (3.63%) PySpark
3 109 (1.97%) Kafka
4 101 (1.83%) HTML
5 96 (1.74%) .NET
6 87 (1.57%) REST
7 83 (1.50%) CSS
8 76 (1.37%) React
9 55 (0.99%) Node.js
10 52 (0.94%) Pandas
11 40 (0.72%) Middleware
12 37 (0.67%) AngularJS
12 37 (0.67%) ASP.NET
13 36 (0.65%) JSON
13 36 (0.65%) scikit-learn
14 35 (0.63%) ASP.NET Core
15 34 (0.61%) .NET Core
15 34 (0.61%) TensorFlow
16 33 (0.60%) PyTorch
17 32 (0.58%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 305 (5.52%) Onboarding
2 271 (4.90%) Cloud Native
3 204 (3.69%) Management Information System
4 195 (3.53%) Product Ownership
5 194 (3.51%) Marketing Technology
6 191 (3.45%) Blog
7 171 (3.09%) Social Media
8 115 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
9 109 (1.97%) Analytical Mindset
10 100 (1.81%) AI Agents
11 97 (1.75%) Data Structures
12 81 (1.46%) Algorithms
13 75 (1.36%) Mobile App
14 73 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
15 65 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
16 64 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
17 53 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
18 51 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
19 44 (0.80%) Virtual Team
20 42 (0.76%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 102 (1.84%) Windows
2 83 (1.50%) Linux
3 23 (0.42%) VMS
3 23 (0.42%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.36%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.16%) Android
6 6 (0.11%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.11%) Unix
6 6 (0.11%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.072%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.054%) Debian
9 1 (0.018%) AIX
9 1 (0.018%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.018%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.018%) SUSE
9 1 (0.018%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.018%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,988 (35.95%) AI
2 1,301 (23.53%) Decision-Making
3 1,203 (21.75%) Business Intelligence
4 961 (17.38%) Problem-Solving
5 880 (15.91%) Continuous Improvement
6 876 (15.84%) Agile
7 839 (15.17%) Roadmaps
8 831 (15.03%) Data Modelling
9 759 (13.73%) Data Engineering
10 740 (13.38%) Machine Learning
11 717 (12.97%) Data Analytics
11 717 (12.97%) Stakeholder Management
12 693 (12.53%) CI/CD
13 673 (12.17%) Data Pipeline
14 644 (11.65%) Mentoring
15 607 (10.98%) Data Science
16 543 (9.82%) Data Governance
17 524 (9.48%) ETL
18 523 (9.46%) Actionable Insight
19 514 (9.29%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1,498 (27.09%) SQL
2 1,234 (22.31%) Python
3 159 (2.88%) Java
4 144 (2.60%) C#
5 140 (2.53%) JavaScript
6 125 (2.26%) PowerShell
7 118 (2.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 99 (1.79%) R
9 91 (1.65%) TypeScript
10 86 (1.56%) Bicep
11 74 (1.34%) Scala
12 69 (1.25%) Bash
13 51 (0.92%) Go
14 49 (0.89%) C++
15 37 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
16 26 (0.47%) T-SQL
17 19 (0.34%) Kotlin
17 19 (0.34%) PHP
18 15 (0.27%) Swift
18 15 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 663 (11.99%) Degree
2 450 (8.14%) Security Cleared
3 329 (5.95%) SC Cleared
4 124 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 119 (2.15%) Azure Certification
6 104 (1.88%) Master's Degree
7 84 (1.52%) DV Cleared
8 70 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
9 59 (1.07%) AWS Certification
10 51 (0.92%) ACCA
11 50 (0.90%) DBS Check
12 46 (0.83%) CIMA
13 41 (0.74%) CISSP
13 41 (0.74%) PhD
14 36 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
15 28 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
15 28 (0.51%) CISM
16 23 (0.42%) Numerate Degree
17 22 (0.40%) MBA
18 20 (0.36%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 843 (15.24%) Data Quality
2 296 (5.35%) Accessibility
3 231 (4.18%) GDPR
4 149 (2.69%) QA
5 61 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
6 50 (0.90%) WCAG
7 40 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 36 (0.65%) NIST
9 28 (0.51%) SLA
10 24 (0.43%) PMO
11 23 (0.42%) PCI DSS
12 19 (0.34%) GRC
13 17 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
14 15 (0.27%) IFRS
15 12 (0.22%) EU AI Act
16 10 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 9 (0.16%) ISO 9001
17 9 (0.16%) SOC 2
18 7 (0.13%) PERC
19 6 (0.11%) COBIT
System Software
1 166 (3.00%) Docker
2 88 (1.59%) Active Directory
3 28 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
5 18 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (0.29%) vSphere
7 8 (0.14%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.090%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.054%) Firmware
9 3 (0.054%) IAG
10 1 (0.018%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.018%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 171 (3.09%) Kubernetes
2 46 (0.83%) Ansible
3 38 (0.69%) Grafana
4 29 (0.52%) Prometheus
5 27 (0.49%) EnCase
5 27 (0.49%) FTK
6 19 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (0.24%) FortiGate
8 8 (0.14%) Argo
9 7 (0.13%) Kibana
10 6 (0.11%) Graylog
10 6 (0.11%) Hadoop YARN
10 6 (0.11%) Nagios
10 6 (0.11%) Proxmox
10 6 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.090%) Packer
11 5 (0.090%) Puppet
12 4 (0.072%) Control-M
12 4 (0.072%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (0.072%) VxRail
Vendors
1 874 (15.80%) Microsoft
2 478 (8.64%) Google
3 477 (8.63%) Databricks
4 231 (4.18%) SAP
5 151 (2.73%) Adobe
6 123 (2.22%) Oracle
7 117 (2.12%) Salesforce
8 73 (1.32%) HubSpot
9 65 (1.18%) Workday
10 56 (1.01%) TikTok
11 52 (0.94%) YouTube
12 43 (0.78%) IBM
13 42 (0.76%) Cisco
13 42 (0.76%) Informatica
14 41 (0.74%) VMware
15 37 (0.67%) Alteryx
16 36 (0.65%) OpenAI
17 31 (0.56%) ServiceNow
18 29 (0.52%) Foundry
19 28 (0.51%) Sitecore