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 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 28 32
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 -8
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 3,805 3,394 4,287
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 6.00% 6.50% 6.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.48% 7.10% 6.94%
Number of salaries quoted 2,005 1,685 3,038
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £34,925
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £118,750 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,250 £57,000 £53,750
% change year-on-year -8.33% +6.05% -2.27%

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 50,903 47,795 61,750
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.21% 91.56% 88.84%
Number of salaries quoted 30,118 23,045 47,857
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,326 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% -9.60%
75th Percentile £75,900 £80,000 £75,772
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 30 January 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 30 January 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 3,257 £65,000 -7.14% 2,126
UK excluding London +2 1,931 £52,250 -8.33% 1,806
London +4 1,554 £75,000 -11.76% 775
Work from Home 0 1,175 £65,000 - 933
South East +19 567 £55,000 -9.84% 724
North of England -17 409 £51,000 -7.27% 331
Midlands -1 338 £55,000 - 235
Scotland +3 245 £55,000 -8.33% 76
North West -19 211 £52,250 -5.00% 175
West Midlands -6 200 £57,500 +0.88% 98
South West +9 187 £55,000 +1.03% 179
Yorkshire -10 157 £55,000 - 115
East Midlands +21 139 £46,445 -7.11% 134
East of England +44 112 £43,000 -31.20% 207
Northern Ireland +2 46 £45,000 -34.55% 28
North East +17 42 £40,000 -24.17% 45
Wales +20 29 £47,500 -4.14% 63

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 88 (2.31%) Apache Spark
2 84 (2.21%) CMS
3 83 (2.18%) Apache Airflow
4 51 (1.34%) WordPress
5 48 (1.26%) Confluence
6 47 (1.24%) Apache
7 45 (1.18%) SharePoint
8 29 (0.76%) SAS
9 20 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 18 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
11 17 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
12 12 (0.32%) Drupal
13 9 (0.24%) Umbraco
14 6 (0.16%) IIS
15 5 (0.13%) ArcGIS
15 5 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
16 4 (0.11%) Apache Superset
16 4 (0.11%) Appian
16 4 (0.11%) Documentum
16 4 (0.11%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 501 (13.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 129 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
3 61 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 29 (0.76%) Maya
5 26 (0.68%) Adobe XD
6 23 (0.60%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 19 (0.50%) InDesign
7 19 (0.50%) Photoshop
8 16 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
9 14 (0.37%) Chatbot
10 12 (0.32%) Adobe Premiere
10 12 (0.32%) SPSS
11 10 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
11 10 (0.26%) Trello
12 9 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
13 6 (0.16%) MS Visio
14 4 (0.11%) SketchUp
14 4 (0.11%) UserZoom
15 3 (0.079%) Final Cut Pro
15 3 (0.079%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 63 (1.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 56 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 35 (0.92%) Oracle ERP
4 24 (0.63%) SAP CO
5 23 (0.60%) Shopify
6 22 (0.58%) SAP IBP
7 21 (0.55%) Magento
8 16 (0.42%) Oracle Assets
8 16 (0.42%) Oracle General Ledger
8 16 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
8 16 (0.42%) Oracle Receivables
8 16 (0.42%) SAP FI
8 16 (0.42%) SAP FI/CO
9 15 (0.39%) Oracle Financials
10 13 (0.34%) Dynamics GP
10 13 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
11 11 (0.29%) IBM Planning Analytics
12 10 (0.26%) NetSuite
12 10 (0.26%) SAP FSCM
13 9 (0.24%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 969 (25.47%) Azure
2 750 (19.71%) Power Platform
3 387 (10.17%) AWS
4 209 (5.49%) SaaS
5 205 (5.39%) GCP
6 200 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
7 192 (5.05%) Snowflake
8 183 (4.81%) Azure DevOps
9 177 (4.65%) Google Analytics
10 170 (4.47%) Microsoft 365
11 155 (4.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 148 (3.89%) GitHub
13 110 (2.89%) dbt
14 103 (2.71%) Entra ID
15 86 (2.26%) Azure Monitor
16 75 (1.97%) Serverless
17 74 (1.94%) Figma
18 71 (1.87%) Amazon S3
19 66 (1.73%) Adobe Analytics
20 65 (1.71%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.63%) Broadband
2 42 (1.10%) VPN
3 34 (0.89%) Firewall
4 18 (0.47%) CHAP
5 17 (0.45%) WAN
6 15 (0.39%) DNS
7 14 (0.37%) Unified Communications
8 12 (0.32%) Intranet
9 11 (0.29%) Network Security
10 9 (0.24%) TCP/IP
11 6 (0.16%) HTTPS
12 5 (0.13%) DHCP
12 5 (0.13%) Intrusion Detection
12 5 (0.13%) Wireshark
13 4 (0.11%) HTTP
13 4 (0.11%) Internet
13 4 (0.11%) SMS
13 4 (0.11%) SNMP
13 4 (0.11%) VoIP
14 3 (0.079%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 715 (18.79%) Power BI
2 394 (10.35%) Tableau
3 318 (8.36%) Data Warehouse
4 250 (6.57%) Data Lake
5 173 (4.55%) Metadata
6 162 (4.26%) Data Mining
7 146 (3.84%) SQL Server
8 99 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
9 97 (2.55%) SAP BW
10 91 (2.39%) Looker
11 86 (2.26%) Big Data
12 70 (1.84%) NoSQL
13 69 (1.81%) Relational Database
14 67 (1.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 61 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
16 55 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 53 (1.39%) BigQuery
17 53 (1.39%) Power Query
18 42 (1.10%) Hadoop
19 39 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 120 (3.15%) Git
2 118 (3.10%) JIRA
3 61 (1.60%) Jenkins
4 31 (0.81%) Oracle Forms
5 24 (0.63%) Axure RP
5 24 (0.63%) Balsamiq
6 23 (0.60%) GitLab
6 23 (0.60%) TeamCity
7 17 (0.45%) ERwin
7 17 (0.45%) Visual Studio
8 14 (0.37%) MLflow
8 14 (0.37%) Selenium
9 8 (0.21%) PowerDesigner
10 7 (0.18%) CircleCI
10 7 (0.18%) Postman
11 6 (0.16%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.16%) ER Studio
11 6 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 5 (0.13%) MSI
12 5 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,329 (34.93%) Finance
2 1,272 (33.43%) Social Skills
3 1,064 (27.96%) Analytical Skills
4 641 (16.85%) Marketing
5 262 (6.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 222 (5.83%) Banking
6 222 (5.83%) Law
7 220 (5.78%) Public Sector
8 192 (5.05%) Retail
9 154 (4.05%) Manufacturing
10 137 (3.60%) Legal
11 134 (3.52%) Presentation Skills
12 120 (3.15%) Games
13 103 (2.71%) Financial Institution
14 93 (2.44%) Pharmaceutical
15 81 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
16 80 (2.10%) Advertising
17 77 (2.02%) Automotive
18 71 (1.87%) Front Office
18 71 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 618 (16.24%) Analyst
2 608 (15.98%) Senior
3 476 (12.51%) Lead
4 341 (8.96%) Data Engineer
5 335 (8.80%) Data Analyst
6 295 (7.75%) Architect
7 222 (5.83%) Developer
8 142 (3.73%) Senior Manager
9 131 (3.44%) Trainee
9 131 (3.44%) Trainee Analyst
9 131 (3.44%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 126 (3.31%) Data Architect
11 91 (2.39%) Solutions Architect
12 87 (2.29%) Consultant
13 84 (2.21%) Data Manager
14 79 (2.08%) Senior Analyst
15 78 (2.05%) Data Scientist
16 77 (2.02%) Support Engineer
17 76 (2.00%) Designer
18 70 (1.84%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (2.21%) HTML
2 78 (2.05%) PySpark
3 76 (2.00%) Kafka
4 74 (1.94%) CSS
5 62 (1.63%) OAuth
6 61 (1.60%) React
7 60 (1.58%) RESTful
8 55 (1.45%) .NET
9 54 (1.42%) REST
10 53 (1.39%) PyTorch
11 49 (1.29%) TensorFlow
12 44 (1.16%) JSON
13 39 (1.02%) OAuth2
14 32 (0.84%) SAML
15 29 (0.76%) Node.js
16 27 (0.71%) Middleware
17 26 (0.68%) FIX Protocol
18 25 (0.66%) .NET Core
19 24 (0.63%) scikit-learn
19 24 (0.63%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 182 (4.78%) Self-Motivation
2 178 (4.68%) Product Ownership
3 174 (4.57%) Analytical Mindset
4 166 (4.36%) Social Media
5 157 (4.13%) Cloud Native
5 157 (4.13%) Management Information System
6 131 (3.44%) Onboarding
7 113 (2.97%) Algorithms
8 89 (2.34%) Life Science
9 83 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
10 65 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
11 63 (1.66%) Data Structures
12 56 (1.47%) FMCG
13 47 (1.24%) Data Centre
14 44 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
15 42 (1.10%) Virtual Team
16 41 (1.08%) Fixed Income
17 39 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
18 29 (0.76%) Mobile App
18 29 (0.76%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 113 (2.97%) Windows
2 60 (1.58%) Windows 10
3 42 (1.10%) Linux
4 30 (0.79%) Unix
5 17 (0.45%) VMS
6 13 (0.34%) Android
7 12 (0.32%) Apple iOS
7 12 (0.32%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.053%) AIX
8 2 (0.053%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.026%) Debian
9 1 (0.026%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,039 (27.31%) AI
2 1,009 (26.52%) Business Intelligence
3 858 (22.55%) Decision-Making
4 821 (21.58%) Problem-Solving
5 744 (19.55%) Agile
6 743 (19.53%) Data Analytics
7 697 (18.32%) Continuous Improvement
8 629 (16.53%) Data Modelling
9 503 (13.22%) Data Governance
10 476 (12.51%) Machine Learning
11 471 (12.38%) Project Management
12 467 (12.27%) Data Science
13 464 (12.19%) Data Analysis
14 453 (11.91%) Data Engineering
15 451 (11.85%) Roadmaps
16 447 (11.75%) Stakeholder Management
17 426 (11.20%) Visualisation
18 424 (11.14%) CI/CD
19 418 (10.99%) Data Pipeline
20 414 (10.88%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 1,001 (26.31%) SQL
2 920 (24.18%) Python
3 116 (3.05%) Java
3 116 (3.05%) JavaScript
4 85 (2.23%) C#
5 84 (2.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 77 (2.02%) Scala
7 75 (1.97%) PowerShell
8 63 (1.66%) R
9 52 (1.37%) Bicep
10 43 (1.13%) T-SQL
11 35 (0.92%) C++
12 34 (0.89%) Bash
12 34 (0.89%) TypeScript
13 26 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
14 25 (0.66%) PL/SQL
15 22 (0.58%) Go
16 21 (0.55%) Shell Script
17 17 (0.45%) VBA
18 14 (0.37%) PHP
Qualifications
1 877 (23.05%) Degree
2 244 (6.41%) Security Cleared
3 201 (5.28%) Master's Degree
4 178 (4.68%) SC Cleared
5 124 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 98 (2.58%) PhD
7 60 (1.58%) CISSP
7 60 (1.58%) CTC Cleared
8 55 (1.45%) CISA
9 53 (1.39%) DBS Check
10 50 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
11 47 (1.24%) Azure Certification
12 46 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
12 46 (1.21%) Numerate Degree
13 43 (1.13%) CISM
14 39 (1.02%) PMI Certification
15 35 (0.92%) ACCA
16 31 (0.81%) PMP
17 29 (0.76%) DV Cleared
18 24 (0.63%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 544 (14.30%) Data Quality
2 250 (6.57%) GDPR
3 230 (6.04%) Accessibility
4 80 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 78 (2.05%) QA
6 70 (1.84%) SLA
7 53 (1.39%) NIST
8 43 (1.13%) GxP
8 43 (1.13%) WCAG
9 39 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
10 33 (0.87%) COBIT
11 25 (0.66%) Solvency II
12 23 (0.60%) HIPAA
13 22 (0.58%) IFRS
14 21 (0.55%) EU AI Act
14 21 (0.55%) PSD2
15 19 (0.50%) GRC
16 17 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 16 (0.42%) PMO
17 16 (0.42%) SOC 2
System Software
1 121 (3.18%) Docker
2 53 (1.39%) Active Directory
3 34 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (0.24%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.11%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.053%) Firmware
8 2 (0.053%) vSphere
9 1 (0.026%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.026%) vCloud
9 1 (0.026%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 189 (4.97%) Terraform
2 136 (3.57%) Kubernetes
3 35 (0.92%) Ansible
4 27 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
5 25 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
6 23 (0.60%) Grafana
7 18 (0.47%) Prometheus
8 11 (0.29%) QRadar
8 11 (0.29%) SCCM
9 8 (0.21%) EnCase
9 8 (0.21%) FTK
10 7 (0.18%) Kibana
11 6 (0.16%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 5 (0.13%) Argo
12 5 (0.13%) RSA Archer
12 5 (0.13%) SCOM
13 3 (0.079%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.079%) ArcSight ESM
13 3 (0.079%) Control-M
14 1 (0.026%) MOM
Vendors
1 780 (20.50%) Microsoft
2 305 (8.02%) Google
3 257 (6.75%) Databricks
4 245 (6.44%) SAP
5 180 (4.73%) Salesforce
6 153 (4.02%) Adobe
7 138 (3.63%) Oracle
8 136 (3.57%) Cisco
9 64 (1.68%) HubSpot
10 53 (1.39%) Alteryx
11 35 (0.92%) ServiceNow
12 34 (0.89%) Bloomberg
13 33 (0.87%) Dell
14 29 (0.76%) Informatica
14 29 (0.76%) Talend
14 29 (0.76%) YouTube
15 28 (0.74%) OpenAI
16 27 (0.71%) Nexthink
17 25 (0.66%) IBM
18 24 (0.63%) Palantir