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 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 20 39
Rank change year-on-year -11 +19 -16
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 4,599 3,543 5,132
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.24% 8.45% 5.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.96% 9.10% 6.32%
Number of salaries quoted 2,563 1,773 3,307
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,000 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,367 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +10.61% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £107,474
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -3.51% +5.56% -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 66,065 38,941 81,145
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.24% 92.85% 85.83%
Number of salaries quoted 40,765 22,745 59,274
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -8.90%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 -15 4,023 £65,000 -3.70% 2,076
UK excluding London -20 2,398 £55,000 -3.51% 1,381
London +2 1,801 £80,000 -5.88% 1,022
Work from Home -4 1,417 £65,000 +8.33% 964
North of England -4 713 £60,000 +9.09% 350
South East -24 506 £55,000 -8.33% 449
Midlands -23 468 £50,000 -4.76% 223
North West -1 383 £60,000 +9.09% 228
West Midlands -23 273 £51,000 -7.27% 122
Yorkshire -5 255 £55,000 -3.08% 84
South West -26 222 £60,000 +10.71% 135
East of England +21 211 £51,500 -20.77% 130
East Midlands +2 191 £50,000 +3.09% 101
Scotland -9 189 £65,000 -7.14% 53
North East 0 75 £40,000 -27.27% 43
Northern Ireland -16 54 £45,000 +50.00% 36
Wales +1 37 £40,000 -27.27% 28

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
1 157 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
2 130 (2.83%) Apache Spark
3 121 (2.63%) CMS
4 79 (1.72%) Apache
5 71 (1.54%) Confluence
6 54 (1.17%) WordPress
7 47 (1.02%) SharePoint
8 34 (0.74%) ArcGIS
9 31 (0.67%) SAS
10 20 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
11 16 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
12 12 (0.26%) Drupal
13 9 (0.20%) Oracle Application Server
14 8 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 6 (0.13%) IIS
16 4 (0.087%) Appian
16 4 (0.087%) Documentum
16 4 (0.087%) Umbraco
17 3 (0.065%) Apache Superset
17 3 (0.065%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 388 (8.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 115 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
3 64 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (0.67%) UserZoom
5 28 (0.61%) Adobe XD
6 19 (0.41%) MS Visio
7 16 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
8 12 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 10 (0.22%) Chatbot
9 10 (0.22%) SPSS
10 6 (0.13%) InDesign
10 6 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
11 5 (0.11%) Trello
12 4 (0.087%) Adobe Illustrator
12 4 (0.087%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.043%) Maya
13 2 (0.043%) Notion
13 2 (0.043%) Sketch
14 1 (0.022%) Oracle Smart View
14 1 (0.022%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 82 (1.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (0.74%) SAP PP
3 33 (0.72%) SAP IBP
4 32 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
5 28 (0.61%) Adobe Campaign
6 26 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
7 23 (0.50%) Magento
8 17 (0.37%) Shopify
9 16 (0.35%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 16 (0.35%) NetSuite
10 15 (0.33%) iTrent
11 13 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
11 13 (0.28%) SAP CO
12 12 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
12 12 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
12 12 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
12 12 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
13 10 (0.22%) SAP ERP
14 9 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
15 8 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 976 (21.22%) Azure
2 723 (15.72%) Power Platform
3 556 (12.09%) AWS
4 275 (5.98%) GCP
5 248 (5.39%) Snowflake
6 247 (5.37%) SaaS
7 231 (5.02%) Azure Data Factory
8 216 (4.70%) Google Analytics
9 204 (4.44%) Adobe Analytics
10 180 (3.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 158 (3.44%) Microsoft 365
12 156 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
13 149 (3.24%) GitHub
14 140 (3.04%) dbt
15 136 (2.96%) Figma
16 112 (2.44%) Amazon S3
17 109 (2.37%) Serverless
18 90 (1.96%) Entra ID
19 73 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
20 69 (1.50%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 251 (5.46%) Broadband
2 38 (0.83%) Firewall
3 32 (0.70%) VPN
4 28 (0.61%) CHAP
5 23 (0.50%) WAN
6 19 (0.41%) DNS
7 18 (0.39%) Network Security
8 16 (0.35%) Intranet
9 15 (0.33%) DHCP
9 15 (0.33%) TCP/IP
10 10 (0.22%) Unified Communications
11 6 (0.13%) HTTP
12 5 (0.11%) HTTPS
12 5 (0.11%) Intrusion Detection
12 5 (0.11%) SMS
12 5 (0.11%) SNMP
13 4 (0.087%) Wi-Fi
14 3 (0.065%) BGP
14 3 (0.065%) LAN
14 3 (0.065%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 690 (15.00%) Power BI
2 380 (8.26%) Tableau
3 350 (7.61%) Data Warehouse
4 241 (5.24%) Data Lake
5 193 (4.20%) Metadata
6 170 (3.70%) Data Mining
7 159 (3.46%) SQL Server
8 125 (2.72%) Looker
9 104 (2.26%) Azure SQL Database
9 104 (2.26%) Relational Database
10 103 (2.24%) BigQuery
11 93 (2.02%) Amazon Redshift
12 77 (1.67%) NoSQL
13 67 (1.46%) Big Data
14 65 (1.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 64 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
16 59 (1.28%) Power Query
16 59 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 47 (1.02%) Snowflake Schema
18 44 (0.96%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 166 (3.61%) Git
2 100 (2.17%) JIRA
3 73 (1.59%) Jenkins
4 43 (0.93%) MLflow
5 35 (0.76%) GitLab
6 25 (0.54%) IBM UrbanCode
7 23 (0.50%) Axure RP
7 23 (0.50%) Balsamiq
7 23 (0.50%) TeamCity
8 18 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
9 15 (0.33%) Visual Studio
10 14 (0.30%) CircleCI
10 14 (0.30%) Crashlytics
11 12 (0.26%) Selenium
12 11 (0.24%) XCTest
13 10 (0.22%) ERwin
13 10 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 7 (0.15%) Claude Code
15 6 (0.13%) Cypress.io
16 5 (0.11%) MSI
General
1 1,363 (29.64%) Finance
2 1,221 (26.55%) Social Skills
3 1,118 (24.31%) Analytical Skills
4 686 (14.92%) Marketing
5 278 (6.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 254 (5.52%) Retail
7 233 (5.07%) Public Sector
8 229 (4.98%) Banking
9 218 (4.74%) Games
10 209 (4.54%) Law
11 162 (3.52%) Legal
12 158 (3.44%) Manufacturing
13 119 (2.59%) Automotive
14 107 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
15 104 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
16 103 (2.24%) Organisational Skills
17 100 (2.17%) Advertising
17 100 (2.17%) Financial Institution
18 71 (1.54%) Back Office
19 68 (1.48%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 768 (16.70%) Senior
2 640 (13.92%) Analyst
3 529 (11.50%) Lead
4 484 (10.52%) Data Engineer
5 342 (7.44%) Data Analyst
6 341 (7.41%) Architect
7 242 (5.26%) Developer
8 172 (3.74%) Consultant
9 159 (3.46%) Data Architect
10 154 (3.35%) Trainee
10 154 (3.35%) Trainee Analyst
10 154 (3.35%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 134 (2.91%) Senior Manager
12 124 (2.70%) Designer
13 112 (2.44%) Senior Data Engineer
14 104 (2.26%) Solutions Architect
15 100 (2.17%) Data Manager
16 96 (2.09%) Data Scientist
17 90 (1.96%) Support Engineer
18 89 (1.94%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (2.78%) PySpark
2 121 (2.63%) Kafka
3 102 (2.22%) HTML
4 96 (2.09%) PyTorch
5 94 (2.04%) CSS
6 73 (1.59%) .NET
7 69 (1.50%) TensorFlow
8 54 (1.17%) React
9 51 (1.11%) SAP Fiori
10 50 (1.09%) RESTful
11 49 (1.07%) OAuth
12 48 (1.04%) LangChain
12 48 (1.04%) scikit-learn
13 44 (0.96%) Pandas
14 43 (0.93%) JSON
14 43 (0.93%) REST
15 37 (0.80%) .NET Core
15 37 (0.80%) Node.js
16 25 (0.54%) OAuth2
17 24 (0.52%) LlamaIndex
Miscellaneous
1 299 (6.50%) Social Media
2 208 (4.52%) Cloud Native
3 190 (4.13%) Product Ownership
4 169 (3.67%) Analytical Mindset
5 158 (3.44%) Management Information System
6 130 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
7 118 (2.57%) Onboarding
8 101 (2.20%) Life Science
9 97 (2.11%) Algorithms
10 89 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
11 77 (1.67%) Data Structures
12 70 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
13 66 (1.44%) Marketing Technology
14 62 (1.35%) Mobile App
15 57 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
16 52 (1.13%) Over-the-Top Content
17 47 (1.02%) Public Cloud
18 45 (0.98%) Virtual Team
19 44 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
20 36 (0.78%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 106 (2.30%) Windows
2 60 (1.30%) Windows 10
3 44 (0.96%) Linux
4 25 (0.54%) VMS
5 23 (0.50%) Apple iOS
6 19 (0.41%) Unix
7 17 (0.37%) Windows Server
8 13 (0.28%) Android
9 3 (0.065%) AIX
10 1 (0.022%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.022%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,332 (28.96%) AI
2 991 (21.55%) Decision-Making
3 976 (21.22%) Business Intelligence
4 906 (19.70%) Agile
5 747 (16.24%) Continuous Improvement
6 735 (15.98%) Data Analytics
7 719 (15.63%) Data Modelling
8 716 (15.57%) Problem-Solving
9 618 (13.44%) Roadmaps
10 613 (13.33%) Data Engineering
11 543 (11.81%) Data Pipeline
12 531 (11.55%) Customer Experience
12 531 (11.55%) Data Governance
13 510 (11.09%) Data Science
14 505 (10.98%) Machine Learning
15 501 (10.89%) CI/CD
16 500 (10.87%) ETL
17 488 (10.61%) Data Analysis
18 434 (9.44%) Project Management
19 428 (9.31%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 1,176 (25.57%) SQL
2 1,043 (22.68%) Python
3 117 (2.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 103 (2.24%) JavaScript
5 102 (2.22%) C#
6 98 (2.13%) Java
7 81 (1.76%) Scala
8 63 (1.37%) PowerShell
9 62 (1.35%) R
10 44 (0.96%) Bicep
10 44 (0.96%) TypeScript
11 42 (0.91%) T-SQL
12 35 (0.76%) C++
12 35 (0.76%) Go
12 35 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
13 21 (0.46%) Bash
14 15 (0.33%) Kotlin
14 15 (0.33%) PL/SQL
15 14 (0.30%) Shell Script
15 14 (0.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 667 (14.50%) Degree
2 267 (5.81%) Security Cleared
3 185 (4.02%) SC Cleared
4 138 (3.00%) Master's Degree
5 118 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 72 (1.57%) IRCA
7 60 (1.30%) Azure Certification
7 60 (1.30%) CTC Cleared
8 51 (1.11%) CISSP
9 47 (1.02%) ACCA
9 47 (1.02%) CISM
10 46 (1.00%) DBS Check
10 46 (1.00%) PhD
11 43 (0.93%) CISA
12 38 (0.83%) CIMA
13 36 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
14 33 (0.72%) DV Cleared
15 30 (0.65%) SANS
16 29 (0.63%) CGEIT
16 29 (0.63%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 593 (12.89%) Data Quality
2 387 (8.41%) Accessibility
3 368 (8.00%) GDPR
4 170 (3.70%) QA
5 98 (2.13%) WCAG
6 81 (1.76%) SLA
7 76 (1.65%) ISO 9001
8 52 (1.13%) NIST
9 48 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 46 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
11 38 (0.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 34 (0.74%) COBIT
12 34 (0.74%) HIPAA
13 30 (0.65%) Solvency II
14 27 (0.59%) EU AI Act
15 26 (0.57%) IFRS
16 20 (0.43%) PSD2
16 20 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 18 (0.39%) SOC 2
18 17 (0.37%) GxP
System Software
1 152 (3.31%) Docker
2 72 (1.57%) Active Directory
3 26 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.15%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.11%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.065%) IAG
7 2 (0.043%) Firmware
7 2 (0.043%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.043%) vSphere
8 1 (0.022%) Apache Flume
8 1 (0.022%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.022%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 207 (4.50%) Terraform
2 175 (3.81%) Kubernetes
3 50 (1.09%) Ansible
4 27 (0.59%) Prometheus
5 26 (0.57%) Grafana
6 18 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (0.20%) EnCase
8 9 (0.20%) FTK
9 7 (0.15%) Kibana
10 6 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.11%) Argo
11 5 (0.11%) QRadar
12 3 (0.065%) ArcSight ESM
12 3 (0.065%) Control-M
12 3 (0.065%) VxRail
13 2 (0.043%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.043%) SCCM
13 2 (0.043%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 2 (0.043%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 837 (18.20%) Microsoft
2 372 (8.09%) Databricks
3 353 (7.68%) Google
4 301 (6.54%) Adobe
5 185 (4.02%) SAP
6 157 (3.41%) Salesforce
7 134 (2.91%) Oracle
8 131 (2.85%) Cisco
9 61 (1.33%) HubSpot
10 58 (1.26%) Dell
11 48 (1.04%) Informatica
12 40 (0.87%) Alteryx
13 29 (0.63%) OpenAI
14 28 (0.61%) Red Hat
15 27 (0.59%) Nexthink
15 27 (0.59%) Talend
16 26 (0.57%) Palantir
16 26 (0.57%) Workday
17 25 (0.54%) Cloudera
17 25 (0.54%) ServiceNow