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 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 26 29
Rank change year-on-year -6 +3 -4
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 3,669 3,577 3,555
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 6.18% 6.46% 6.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.54% 7.19% 7.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,895 1,815 2,478
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £87,188
90th Percentile £113,750 £118,750 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,455 £57,500 £56,500
% change year-on-year -12.25% +1.77% +2.18%

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 48,671 49,754 47,191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.04% 89.85% 91.49%
Number of salaries quoted 28,569 24,792 36,014
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £36,500 £45,000 £42,631
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -3.67%

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 29 December 2025.

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 29 December 2025. 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 -9 3,137 £62,500 -10.71% 6,110
UK excluding London +5 1,913 £50,455 -12.25% 4,980
London +2 1,467 £75,000 -11.76% 1,653
Work from Home -2 1,092 £60,000 -8.54% 2,818
South East +18 582 £55,000 -8.33% 1,360
North of England -12 376 £55,000 - 1,128
Midlands -5 313 £53,500 -6.14% 914
Scotland +6 254 £49,750 -18.10% 221
South West +10 201 £55,000 -4.35% 553
North West -25 191 £47,500 -13.64% 590
West Midlands -17 182 £58,764 +2.20% 475
Yorkshire +2 151 £62,500 +13.64% 464
East Midlands +14 133 £45,000 -10.00% 381
East of England +39 128 £40,000 -33.33% 686
North East +21 35 £40,000 -27.27% 78
Northern Ireland +1 35 £45,000 -35.71% 61
Wales +13 27 £60,000 +20.00% 130

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 91 (2.48%) Apache Spark
2 87 (2.37%) CMS
3 63 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
4 50 (1.36%) WordPress
5 46 (1.25%) Confluence
6 42 (1.14%) SharePoint
7 34 (0.93%) Apache
8 23 (0.63%) SAS
9 20 (0.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 15 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
11 10 (0.27%) Drupal
11 10 (0.27%) SugarCRM
12 9 (0.25%) Umbraco
13 6 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 6 (0.16%) Headless CMS
14 5 (0.14%) IIS
15 4 (0.11%) Apache Superset
15 4 (0.11%) Appian
16 3 (0.082%) Moodle
16 3 (0.082%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 518 (14.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 97 (2.64%) Microsoft Office
3 58 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (0.84%) Maya
5 28 (0.76%) Adobe XD
6 23 (0.63%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 23 (0.63%) Photoshop
7 18 (0.49%) InDesign
8 15 (0.41%) Chatbot
8 15 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
9 12 (0.33%) Adobe Premiere
10 11 (0.30%) SPSS
11 10 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
11 10 (0.27%) Trello
12 9 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
13 5 (0.14%) MadCap Flare
13 5 (0.14%) MS Visio
14 4 (0.11%) SketchUp
15 3 (0.082%) Final Cut Pro
15 3 (0.082%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 85 (2.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 61 (1.66%) Dynamics CRM
3 39 (1.06%) Shopify
4 34 (0.93%) Oracle ERP
5 26 (0.71%) SAP IBP
6 21 (0.57%) Magento
6 21 (0.57%) SAP CO
7 17 (0.46%) SAP FI
7 17 (0.46%) SAP FI/CO
8 16 (0.44%) Oracle Assets
8 16 (0.44%) Oracle General Ledger
8 16 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
8 16 (0.44%) Oracle Receivables
9 15 (0.41%) Dynamics GP
9 15 (0.41%) Oracle Financials
10 13 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
11 11 (0.30%) SAP FSCM
12 10 (0.27%) NetSuite
12 10 (0.27%) SAP IS-U
13 8 (0.22%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 943 (25.70%) Azure
2 748 (20.39%) Power Platform
3 371 (10.11%) AWS
4 229 (6.24%) GCP
5 226 (6.16%) SaaS
6 215 (5.86%) Google Analytics
7 194 (5.29%) Snowflake
8 182 (4.96%) Azure Data Factory
9 164 (4.47%) Azure DevOps
10 156 (4.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 147 (4.01%) GitHub
12 133 (3.62%) Microsoft 365
13 114 (3.11%) dbt
14 77 (2.10%) Serverless
15 76 (2.07%) Azure Monitor
16 69 (1.88%) Figma
17 65 (1.77%) Entra ID
18 62 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
18 62 (1.69%) Google Ads
19 58 (1.58%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 35 (0.95%) VPN
2 34 (0.93%) SMS
3 30 (0.82%) Firewall
4 18 (0.49%) Unified Communications
5 15 (0.41%) Broadband
5 15 (0.41%) Network Security
6 14 (0.38%) DNS
7 11 (0.30%) WAN
8 10 (0.27%) CHAP
9 9 (0.25%) Intranet
10 7 (0.19%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.14%) Intrusion Detection
12 4 (0.11%) DHCP
12 4 (0.11%) HTTPS
12 4 (0.11%) Internet
12 4 (0.11%) VoIP
12 4 (0.11%) Wireshark
13 3 (0.082%) MQTT
14 2 (0.055%) HTTP
14 2 (0.055%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 714 (19.46%) Power BI
2 393 (10.71%) Tableau
3 324 (8.83%) Data Warehouse
4 252 (6.87%) Data Lake
5 164 (4.47%) Metadata
6 148 (4.03%) SQL Server
7 146 (3.98%) Data Mining
8 97 (2.64%) Big Data
8 97 (2.64%) SAP BW
9 93 (2.53%) Looker
10 91 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
11 75 (2.04%) BigQuery
11 75 (2.04%) NoSQL
12 68 (1.85%) Relational Database
12 68 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 61 (1.66%) Amazon Redshift
14 53 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 51 (1.39%) Hadoop
16 46 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
17 45 (1.23%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 125 (3.41%) JIRA
2 106 (2.89%) Git
3 38 (1.04%) Jenkins
4 31 (0.84%) Oracle Forms
5 25 (0.68%) Axure RP
5 25 (0.68%) Balsamiq
6 18 (0.49%) ERwin
6 18 (0.49%) GitLab
7 14 (0.38%) Visual Studio
8 11 (0.30%) Cypress.io
8 11 (0.30%) MLflow
8 11 (0.30%) Selenium
9 9 (0.25%) ER Studio
10 7 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
11 6 (0.16%) Postman
12 5 (0.14%) MSI
12 5 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
13 4 (0.11%) Browser DevTools
13 4 (0.11%) Maven
13 4 (0.11%) TestNG
General
1 1,291 (35.19%) Finance
2 1,267 (34.53%) Social Skills
3 1,125 (30.66%) Analytical Skills
4 722 (19.68%) Marketing
5 286 (7.80%) Law
6 233 (6.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 218 (5.94%) Retail
8 202 (5.51%) Banking
9 201 (5.48%) Public Sector
10 173 (4.72%) Manufacturing
11 150 (4.09%) Presentation Skills
12 131 (3.57%) Legal
13 98 (2.67%) Games
14 97 (2.64%) Financial Institution
15 95 (2.59%) Pharmaceutical
16 75 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
17 70 (1.91%) Automotive
18 68 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
19 67 (1.83%) Advertising
20 66 (1.80%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 579 (15.78%) Analyst
2 578 (15.75%) Senior
3 458 (12.48%) Lead
4 314 (8.56%) Data Analyst
5 293 (7.99%) Data Engineer
6 292 (7.96%) Architect
7 214 (5.83%) Developer
8 151 (4.12%) Senior Manager
9 118 (3.22%) Data Architect
10 116 (3.16%) Trainee
10 116 (3.16%) Trainee Analyst
10 116 (3.16%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 96 (2.62%) Innovation Manager
12 94 (2.56%) Consultant
13 84 (2.29%) Analytics Manager
14 78 (2.13%) Solutions Architect
15 71 (1.94%) Data Scientist
16 70 (1.91%) Data Manager
16 70 (1.91%) Report Analyst
16 70 (1.91%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (2.53%) HTML
2 80 (2.18%) CSS
3 73 (1.99%) PySpark
4 69 (1.88%) RESTful
5 68 (1.85%) Kafka
6 60 (1.64%) React
7 57 (1.55%) OAuth
8 54 (1.47%) REST
9 49 (1.34%) PyTorch
10 48 (1.31%) TensorFlow
11 46 (1.25%) JSON
12 38 (1.04%) .NET
13 37 (1.01%) OAuth2
14 34 (0.93%) Node.js
15 30 (0.82%) SAML
15 30 (0.82%) scikit-learn
16 28 (0.76%) Middleware
17 27 (0.74%) Pandas
18 25 (0.68%) GraphQL
19 23 (0.63%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 178 (4.85%) Analytical Mindset
2 175 (4.77%) Self-Motivation
3 168 (4.58%) Product Ownership
4 165 (4.50%) Onboarding
5 164 (4.47%) Cloud Native
6 149 (4.06%) Management Information System
7 142 (3.87%) Social Media
8 119 (3.24%) Algorithms
9 85 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
10 83 (2.26%) Life Science
11 66 (1.80%) FMCG
12 60 (1.64%) Data Structures
13 57 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
14 51 (1.39%) Data Centre
15 48 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
16 39 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
17 37 (1.01%) Virtual Team
18 35 (0.95%) Fixed Income
18 35 (0.95%) Reinsurance
19 30 (0.82%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 79 (2.15%) Windows
2 35 (0.95%) Linux
3 28 (0.76%) Windows 10
4 27 (0.74%) Unix
5 11 (0.30%) VMS
5 11 (0.30%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.25%) Android
7 8 (0.22%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.055%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.027%) AIX
9 1 (0.027%) Debian
9 1 (0.027%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 995 (27.12%) AI
2 992 (27.04%) Business Intelligence
3 856 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
4 850 (23.17%) Decision-Making
5 711 (19.38%) Data Analytics
6 700 (19.08%) Continuous Improvement
7 678 (18.48%) Agile
8 599 (16.33%) Data Modelling
9 498 (13.57%) Stakeholder Management
10 481 (13.11%) Data Science
11 473 (12.89%) Roadmaps
12 463 (12.62%) Machine Learning
13 459 (12.51%) Data Analysis
14 455 (12.40%) Data Governance
15 433 (11.80%) Project Management
16 415 (11.31%) Visualisation
17 403 (10.98%) Data Engineering
18 390 (10.63%) ETL
19 389 (10.60%) DevOps
20 371 (10.11%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 977 (26.63%) SQL
2 922 (25.13%) Python
3 127 (3.46%) Java
4 122 (3.33%) JavaScript
5 82 (2.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 77 (2.10%) PowerShell
7 70 (1.91%) R
8 63 (1.72%) C#
9 53 (1.44%) Scala
10 50 (1.36%) Bicep
11 48 (1.31%) T-SQL
12 36 (0.98%) TypeScript
13 34 (0.93%) Go
14 31 (0.84%) PL/SQL
15 30 (0.82%) Bash
16 29 (0.79%) C++
17 24 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
18 20 (0.55%) Shell Script
19 13 (0.35%) PHP
19 13 (0.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 839 (22.87%) Degree
2 203 (5.53%) Master's Degree
3 184 (5.01%) Security Cleared
4 133 (3.62%) SC Cleared
5 118 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 96 (2.62%) PhD
7 93 (2.53%) DBS Check
8 59 (1.61%) CISSP
9 49 (1.34%) CISA
9 49 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
10 48 (1.31%) Numerate Degree
11 46 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
12 45 (1.23%) Azure Certification
13 42 (1.14%) ACCA
14 39 (1.06%) CISM
15 36 (0.98%) PMI Certification
16 30 (0.82%) PMP
17 29 (0.79%) CIMA
18 28 (0.76%) CTC Cleared
19 24 (0.65%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 483 (13.16%) Data Quality
2 262 (7.14%) GDPR
3 201 (5.48%) Accessibility
4 84 (2.29%) QA
5 83 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 48 (1.31%) NIST
7 43 (1.17%) SLA
7 43 (1.17%) WCAG
8 39 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
8 39 (1.06%) GxP
9 27 (0.74%) COBIT
10 24 (0.65%) Solvency II
11 23 (0.63%) HIPAA
12 22 (0.60%) EU AI Act
13 21 (0.57%) PSD2
14 19 (0.52%) GRC
15 18 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 17 (0.46%) IFRS
17 16 (0.44%) PMO
18 15 (0.41%) ITGC
System Software
1 90 (2.45%) Docker
2 50 (1.36%) Active Directory
3 30 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
6 10 (0.27%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.055%) Firmware
7 2 (0.055%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.027%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.027%) vCloud
8 1 (0.027%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.027%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 172 (4.69%) Terraform
2 119 (3.24%) Kubernetes
3 33 (0.90%) Ansible
4 30 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
5 24 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
6 14 (0.38%) Grafana
7 12 (0.33%) Prometheus
8 11 (0.30%) QRadar
8 11 (0.30%) SCCM
9 7 (0.19%) EnCase
9 7 (0.19%) FTK
10 6 (0.16%) RSA Archer
10 6 (0.16%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 5 (0.14%) Argo
11 5 (0.14%) SCOM
12 3 (0.082%) ArcSight ESM
12 3 (0.082%) Control-M
13 2 (0.055%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.055%) Kibana
14 1 (0.027%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 689 (18.78%) Microsoft
2 344 (9.38%) Google
3 255 (6.95%) Databricks
3 255 (6.95%) SAP
4 204 (5.56%) Salesforce
5 138 (3.76%) Oracle
6 125 (3.41%) Adobe
7 85 (2.32%) Cisco
8 67 (1.83%) HubSpot
9 56 (1.53%) Alteryx
10 39 (1.06%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 36 (0.98%) ServiceNow
12 34 (0.93%) Bloomberg
13 33 (0.90%) Dell
14 30 (0.82%) Talend
15 26 (0.71%) Informatica
15 26 (0.71%) OpenAI
16 23 (0.63%) Sage
16 23 (0.63%) YouTube
17 21 (0.57%) IBM