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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 20 39
Rank change year-on-year -12 +19 -17
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 4,573 3,589 5,235
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.08% 8.48% 5.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.81% 9.13% 6.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,590 1,782 3,345
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,500 £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 £93,778 £81,250
90th Percentile £103,875 £115,000 £107,482
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 67,199 39,303 82,062
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.71% 92.91% 85.63%
Number of salaries quoted 41,762 22,588 59,681
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,946 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.42% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £78,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 1 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 1 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 -15 4,033 £65,000 -2.06% 1,840
UK excluding London -21 2,404 £55,000 -3.51% 1,219
London +2 1,782 £80,000 -5.88% 928
Work from Home -3 1,396 £65,000 +8.33% 819
North of England -2 718 £60,000 +9.09% 302
South East -19 518 £55,000 -8.33% 417
Midlands -22 480 £51,000 -2.86% 200
North West +4 400 £60,000 +9.09% 190
West Midlands -23 279 £53,500 -2.73% 116
Yorkshire -7 248 £59,375 +6.98% 71
South West -26 227 £60,000 +9.09% 120
East of England +27 216 £60,000 -7.69% 89
East Midlands +16 197 £50,000 +3.09% 84
Scotland -14 164 £65,000 -7.14% 79
North East +3 70 £45,000 -18.18% 45
Northern Ireland -21 47 £45,000 +50.00% 11
Wales -7 36 £40,000 -20.00% 32

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
1 158 (3.46%) Apache Airflow
2 134 (2.93%) Apache Spark
3 118 (2.58%) CMS
4 79 (1.73%) Apache
5 65 (1.42%) Confluence
6 54 (1.18%) WordPress
7 50 (1.09%) SharePoint
8 35 (0.77%) ArcGIS
9 31 (0.68%) SAS
10 20 (0.44%) 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 (0.066%) Apache Superset
17 3 (0.066%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 330 (7.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 114 (2.49%) Microsoft Office
3 57 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (0.68%) UserZoom
5 26 (0.57%) Adobe XD
6 19 (0.42%) 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%) Microsoft Project
11 4 (0.087%) Adobe Illustrator
11 4 (0.087%) InDesign
11 4 (0.087%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.066%) Trello
13 2 (0.044%) Maya
13 2 (0.044%) Notion
13 2 (0.044%) Sketch
14 1 (0.022%) Oracle Smart View
14 1 (0.022%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 86 (1.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (0.74%) Adobe Campaign
3 33 (0.72%) SAP IBP
3 33 (0.72%) SAP PP
4 25 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
5 24 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
6 22 (0.48%) Magento
7 16 (0.35%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 16 (0.35%) Shopify
8 15 (0.33%) iTrent
8 15 (0.33%) NetSuite
9 12 (0.26%) SAP CO
10 11 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
11 10 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
12 9 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
12 9 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
12 9 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
12 9 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
12 9 (0.20%) SAP ERP
13 8 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 949 (20.75%) Azure
2 693 (15.15%) Power Platform
3 567 (12.40%) AWS
4 279 (6.10%) GCP
5 243 (5.31%) Snowflake
6 241 (5.27%) SaaS
7 214 (4.68%) Google Analytics
8 201 (4.40%) Adobe Analytics
9 195 (4.26%) Azure Data Factory
10 156 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
11 155 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
12 151 (3.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 148 (3.24%) GitHub
14 136 (2.97%) dbt
15 131 (2.86%) Figma
16 117 (2.56%) Amazon S3
17 114 (2.49%) Serverless
18 99 (2.16%) Entra ID
19 71 (1.55%) GitHub Actions
20 70 (1.53%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 255 (5.58%) Broadband
2 39 (0.85%) Firewall
3 35 (0.77%) VPN
4 29 (0.63%) CHAP
5 25 (0.55%) DNS
6 23 (0.50%) WAN
7 21 (0.46%) Network Security
8 16 (0.35%) TCP/IP
9 15 (0.33%) DHCP
9 15 (0.33%) Intranet
10 11 (0.24%) Unified Communications
11 7 (0.15%) HTTP
12 5 (0.11%) Intrusion Detection
12 5 (0.11%) SMS
12 5 (0.11%) SNMP
12 5 (0.11%) SSL
12 5 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (0.087%) BGP
13 4 (0.087%) HTTPS
14 3 (0.066%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 657 (14.37%) Power BI
2 353 (7.72%) Tableau
3 340 (7.43%) Data Warehouse
4 232 (5.07%) Data Lake
5 185 (4.05%) Metadata
6 153 (3.35%) Data Mining
7 131 (2.86%) SQL Server
8 128 (2.80%) Looker
9 106 (2.32%) BigQuery
10 105 (2.30%) Relational Database
11 98 (2.14%) Amazon Redshift
12 81 (1.77%) NoSQL
13 75 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
14 68 (1.49%) Big Data
15 66 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
16 56 (1.22%) Power Query
17 53 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 45 (0.98%) Delta Lake
18 45 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
18 45 (0.98%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 168 (3.67%) Git
2 94 (2.06%) JIRA
3 74 (1.62%) Jenkins
4 44 (0.96%) MLflow
5 36 (0.79%) GitLab
6 25 (0.55%) IBM UrbanCode
7 22 (0.48%) TeamCity
8 21 (0.46%) Axure RP
8 21 (0.46%) Balsamiq
9 17 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
10 16 (0.35%) CircleCI
11 15 (0.33%) Crashlytics
12 12 (0.26%) Selenium
12 12 (0.26%) Visual Studio
12 12 (0.26%) XCTest
13 10 (0.22%) ERwin
13 10 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 7 (0.15%) Claude Code
15 5 (0.11%) Cypress.io
15 5 (0.11%) MSI
General
1 1,289 (28.19%) Finance
2 1,171 (25.61%) Social Skills
3 1,047 (22.90%) Analytical Skills
4 670 (14.65%) Marketing
5 270 (5.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 248 (5.42%) Retail
7 224 (4.90%) Banking
8 218 (4.77%) Games
9 209 (4.57%) Law
9 209 (4.57%) Public Sector
10 150 (3.28%) Legal
11 149 (3.26%) Manufacturing
12 125 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
13 119 (2.60%) Automotive
14 101 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
15 99 (2.16%) Advertising
16 95 (2.08%) Financial Institution
17 76 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
18 70 (1.53%) Back Office
19 58 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 784 (17.14%) Senior
2 612 (13.38%) Analyst
3 527 (11.52%) Lead
4 491 (10.74%) Data Engineer
5 333 (7.28%) Architect
6 321 (7.02%) Data Analyst
7 250 (5.47%) Developer
8 168 (3.67%) Consultant
8 168 (3.67%) Data Architect
9 139 (3.04%) Senior Manager
10 137 (3.00%) Trainee
10 137 (3.00%) Trainee Analyst
10 137 (3.00%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 114 (2.49%) Designer
12 113 (2.47%) Senior Data Engineer
13 108 (2.36%) Product Manager
14 106 (2.32%) Data Manager
15 105 (2.30%) Data Scientist
16 92 (2.01%) Senior Analyst
17 91 (1.99%) Analytics Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (2.84%) PySpark
2 125 (2.73%) Kafka
3 96 (2.10%) HTML
4 92 (2.01%) PyTorch
5 88 (1.92%) CSS
6 74 (1.62%) .NET
7 65 (1.42%) TensorFlow
8 54 (1.18%) React
9 53 (1.16%) SAP Fiori
10 50 (1.09%) RESTful
11 48 (1.05%) LangChain
11 48 (1.05%) scikit-learn
12 47 (1.03%) OAuth
13 46 (1.01%) Pandas
14 43 (0.94%) REST
15 39 (0.85%) JSON
16 37 (0.81%) .NET Core
17 36 (0.79%) Node.js
18 24 (0.52%) LlamaIndex
19 23 (0.50%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 294 (6.43%) Social Media
2 211 (4.61%) Cloud Native
3 185 (4.05%) Product Ownership
4 152 (3.32%) Management Information System
5 149 (3.26%) Analytical Mindset
6 113 (2.47%) Onboarding
7 99 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
8 96 (2.10%) Algorithms
9 91 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
9 91 (1.99%) Life Science
10 83 (1.82%) Data Structures
11 75 (1.64%) Marketing Technology
12 71 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
13 64 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
14 62 (1.36%) Mobile App
15 57 (1.25%) Over-the-Top Content
16 46 (1.01%) Public Cloud
17 44 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
18 37 (0.81%) e-Learning
19 36 (0.79%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 114 (2.49%) Windows
2 60 (1.31%) Windows 10
3 49 (1.07%) Linux
4 25 (0.55%) VMS
5 23 (0.50%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.39%) Unix
6 18 (0.39%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.24%) Android
8 3 (0.066%) AIX
9 1 (0.022%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,266 (27.68%) AI
2 953 (20.84%) Decision-Making
3 939 (20.53%) Business Intelligence
4 899 (19.66%) Agile
5 722 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 708 (15.48%) Data Analytics
6 708 (15.48%) Data Modelling
7 676 (14.78%) Problem-Solving
8 646 (14.13%) Roadmaps
9 623 (13.62%) Data Engineering
10 552 (12.07%) Data Pipeline
11 523 (11.44%) CI/CD
12 521 (11.39%) Customer Experience
13 517 (11.31%) Data Governance
14 512 (11.20%) Data Science
15 502 (10.98%) Machine Learning
16 495 (10.82%) ETL
17 441 (9.64%) Data Analysis
18 422 (9.23%) DevOps
19 421 (9.21%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1,143 (24.99%) SQL
2 1,035 (22.63%) Python
3 104 (2.27%) C#
4 99 (2.16%) Java
5 96 (2.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 95 (2.08%) JavaScript
7 81 (1.77%) Scala
8 66 (1.44%) PowerShell
8 66 (1.44%) R
9 45 (0.98%) Bicep
10 44 (0.96%) TypeScript
11 39 (0.85%) T-SQL
12 38 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
13 37 (0.81%) Go
14 35 (0.77%) C++
15 23 (0.50%) Bash
16 16 (0.35%) Kotlin
17 15 (0.33%) PL/SQL
17 15 (0.33%) VBA
18 14 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 631 (13.80%) Degree
2 277 (6.06%) Security Cleared
3 191 (4.18%) SC Cleared
4 124 (2.71%) Master's Degree
5 101 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 72 (1.57%) IRCA
7 61 (1.33%) Azure Certification
8 60 (1.31%) CTC Cleared
9 50 (1.09%) ACCA
9 50 (1.09%) CISSP
10 48 (1.05%) PhD
11 47 (1.03%) CISM
11 47 (1.03%) DBS Check
12 45 (0.98%) CISA
13 42 (0.92%) CIMA
14 34 (0.74%) DV Cleared
15 32 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
16 31 (0.68%) AWS Certification
16 31 (0.68%) SANS
17 30 (0.66%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 579 (12.66%) Data Quality
2 385 (8.42%) Accessibility
3 347 (7.59%) GDPR
4 178 (3.89%) QA
5 96 (2.10%) WCAG
6 83 (1.82%) SLA
7 76 (1.66%) ISO 9001
8 53 (1.16%) NIST
9 47 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 37 (0.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 34 (0.74%) COBIT
12 33 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
13 26 (0.57%) IFRS
14 25 (0.55%) HIPAA
15 20 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 19 (0.42%) Solvency II
17 18 (0.39%) EU AI Act
17 18 (0.39%) SOC 2
18 17 (0.37%) GxP
19 16 (0.35%) GAAP
System Software
1 152 (3.32%) Docker
2 80 (1.75%) Active Directory
3 24 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.17%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.11%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.087%) IAG
8 2 (0.044%) Firmware
8 2 (0.044%) vSphere
9 1 (0.022%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.022%) vCloud
9 1 (0.022%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 218 (4.77%) Terraform
2 177 (3.87%) Kubernetes
3 50 (1.09%) Ansible
4 28 (0.61%) 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
12 4 (0.087%) QRadar
12 4 (0.087%) VxRail
13 3 (0.066%) ArcSight ESM
13 3 (0.066%) Control-M
13 3 (0.066%) Graylog
14 2 (0.044%) Jamf Pro
14 2 (0.044%) SCCM
14 2 (0.044%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 817 (17.87%) Microsoft
2 377 (8.24%) Databricks
3 344 (7.52%) Google
4 302 (6.60%) Adobe
5 197 (4.31%) SAP
6 153 (3.35%) Salesforce
7 130 (2.84%) Oracle
8 125 (2.73%) Cisco
9 57 (1.25%) HubSpot
10 54 (1.18%) Dell
11 47 (1.03%) Informatica
12 36 (0.79%) Alteryx
13 29 (0.63%) OpenAI
14 28 (0.61%) Red Hat
15 27 (0.59%) Nexthink
15 27 (0.59%) Workday
16 26 (0.57%) Palantir
16 26 (0.57%) ServiceNow
16 26 (0.57%) Talend
17 25 (0.55%) Cloudera