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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 23 36
Rank change year-on-year -4 +13 -12
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 5,162 3,951 4,815
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.14% 8.05% 5.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.99% 8.95% 6.36%
Number of salaries quoted 3,101 1,798 2,930
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £34,975
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £61,564 £60,409
Median % change year-on-year +9.64% +1.91% -7.06%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £112,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

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 73,858 44,154 75,761
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.61% 89.93% 81.83%
Number of salaries quoted 51,064 24,939 51,848
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,599 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,043 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.01% +0.08% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,528 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 23 July 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 23 July 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 -4 4,644 £67,500 +8.00% 2,621
UK excluding London -8 2,729 £60,000 +9.09% 1,302
London +6 2,026 £80,000 +3.23% 1,646
Work from Home +6 1,579 £65,250 +8.75% 1,091
North of England +46 910 £60,000 +7.14% 339
Midlands +16 602 £60,000 +14.29% 181
North West +43 541 £60,000 +14.29% 186
South East -32 503 £55,000 - 420
West Midlands +4 346 £57,500 +7.58% 112
South West -33 270 £60,000 - 172
East Midlands +29 255 £60,000 +23.71% 69
Yorkshire +23 244 £62,500 -2.34% 107
East of England +28 233 £60,000 +25.00% 67
North East +28 125 £50,000 -2.91% 47
Scotland -25 98 £61,250 -12.50% 76
Northern Ireland -33 63 £51,250 +18.93% 24
Wales -14 57 £63,500 +5.83% 40

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
1 177 (3.43%) Apache Spark
2 140 (2.71%) Apache Airflow
3 116 (2.25%) CMS
4 100 (1.94%) Apache
5 69 (1.34%) SAS
6 65 (1.26%) Confluence
7 46 (0.89%) SharePoint
8 41 (0.79%) WordPress
9 34 (0.66%) ArcGIS
10 27 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
11 14 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
12 9 (0.17%) Jupyter
13 7 (0.14%) Drupal
14 6 (0.12%) Headless CMS
14 6 (0.12%) Oracle Application Server
15 5 (0.097%) Oracle Workflow
15 5 (0.097%) Umbraco
16 3 (0.058%) Sitecore CMS
17 2 (0.039%) Apache Pulsar
17 2 (0.039%) Luigi
Applications
1 252 (4.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (0.85%) UserZoom
3 42 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
4 39 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 30 (0.58%) Chatbot
6 26 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
7 21 (0.41%) SPSS
8 18 (0.35%) MS Visio
9 14 (0.27%) Adobe XD
10 12 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 6 (0.12%) Sketch
11 6 (0.12%) Trello
12 5 (0.097%) Microsoft Project
13 4 (0.077%) Photoshop
14 3 (0.058%) InDesign
15 2 (0.039%) Adobe Illustrator
16 1 (0.019%) Adobe Premiere
16 1 (0.019%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 119 (2.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 43 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
3 35 (0.68%) SAP IBP
4 34 (0.66%) Adobe Campaign
5 33 (0.64%) Dynamics GP
5 33 (0.64%) SAP PP
6 29 (0.56%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 20 (0.39%) Magento
7 20 (0.39%) Shopify
8 17 (0.33%) NetSuite
9 11 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
10 10 (0.19%) iTrent
11 7 (0.14%) Workday HCM
12 6 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
12 6 (0.12%) Relativity
12 6 (0.12%) SAP MDG
12 6 (0.12%) SAP PM
12 6 (0.12%) SAP Travel Management
13 5 (0.097%) SAP PS
13 5 (0.097%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 1,006 (19.49%) Azure
2 804 (15.58%) Power Platform
3 775 (15.01%) AWS
4 333 (6.45%) GCP
5 320 (6.20%) SaaS
6 244 (4.73%) Snowflake
7 209 (4.05%) Google Analytics
8 205 (3.97%) Adobe Analytics
9 187 (3.62%) Azure Data Factory
10 157 (3.04%) Azure DevOps
11 147 (2.85%) Serverless
12 142 (2.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 142 (2.75%) GitHub
13 126 (2.44%) dbt
14 119 (2.31%) Figma
15 118 (2.29%) Amazon S3
16 110 (2.13%) Cloud Computing
17 86 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
18 75 (1.45%) Contentsquare
19 71 (1.38%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 243 (4.71%) Broadband
2 56 (1.08%) Internet
2 56 (1.08%) VPN
3 50 (0.97%) Firewall
4 42 (0.81%) DNS
5 39 (0.76%) Network Security
6 27 (0.52%) BGP
7 25 (0.48%) TCP/IP
8 20 (0.39%) VLAN
9 18 (0.35%) OSPF
10 17 (0.33%) SMS
11 16 (0.31%) VoIP
12 15 (0.29%) DHCP
13 14 (0.27%) CTI
14 12 (0.23%) CHAP
14 12 (0.23%) Unified Communications
14 12 (0.23%) WAN
15 11 (0.21%) 5G
16 9 (0.17%) Intranet
16 9 (0.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 766 (14.84%) Power BI
2 407 (7.88%) Data Warehouse
3 316 (6.12%) Tableau
4 234 (4.53%) Data Lake
5 185 (3.58%) Metadata
6 167 (3.24%) SQL Server
7 135 (2.62%) Big Data
8 127 (2.46%) Looker
9 124 (2.40%) Amazon Redshift
10 116 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
11 111 (2.15%) BigQuery
12 90 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
12 90 (1.74%) Relational Database
13 84 (1.63%) NoSQL
14 71 (1.38%) MongoDB
14 71 (1.38%) Power Query
15 68 (1.32%) Data Mining
16 66 (1.28%) Delta Lake
17 65 (1.26%) Star Schema
18 56 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 170 (3.29%) Git
2 78 (1.51%) JIRA
3 58 (1.12%) Jenkins
4 44 (0.85%) MLflow
5 34 (0.66%) GitLab
6 25 (0.48%) IBM UrbanCode
7 21 (0.41%) Crashlytics
8 14 (0.27%) XCTest
9 13 (0.25%) CircleCI
9 13 (0.25%) Claude Code
9 13 (0.25%) fastlane
10 10 (0.19%) ERwin
11 9 (0.17%) Xcode
12 8 (0.15%) Gradle
13 6 (0.12%) Android Studio
13 6 (0.12%) Axure RP
13 6 (0.12%) Balsamiq
13 6 (0.12%) Selenium
13 6 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 5 (0.097%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,369 (26.52%) Finance
2 1,298 (25.15%) Social Skills
3 1,153 (22.34%) Analytical Skills
4 714 (13.83%) Marketing
5 339 (6.57%) Retail
6 329 (6.37%) Public Sector
7 250 (4.84%) Law
8 247 (4.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 239 (4.63%) Legal
10 235 (4.55%) Games
11 218 (4.22%) Banking
12 168 (3.25%) Manufacturing
13 152 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
14 121 (2.34%) Automotive
15 120 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
16 99 (1.92%) Advertising
16 99 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
17 95 (1.84%) Financial Institution
18 60 (1.16%) Telecoms
19 49 (0.95%) Military
Job Titles
1 980 (18.98%) Senior
2 612 (11.86%) Analyst
3 585 (11.33%) Data Engineer
4 570 (11.04%) Lead
5 471 (9.12%) Architect
6 323 (6.26%) Developer
7 292 (5.66%) Data Analyst
8 228 (4.42%) Consultant
9 226 (4.38%) Data Architect
10 194 (3.76%) Senior Data Engineer
11 157 (3.04%) Solutions Architect
12 155 (3.00%) Data Scientist
13 152 (2.94%) Analytics Manager
14 140 (2.71%) Senior Manager
15 132 (2.56%) Product Manager
16 110 (2.13%) Senior Analyst
17 106 (2.05%) Data Manager
18 104 (2.01%) Designer
19 96 (1.86%) Senior Architect
20 84 (1.63%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (3.06%) PySpark
2 134 (2.60%) Kafka
3 98 (1.90%) HTML
4 96 (1.86%) CSS
5 91 (1.76%) .NET
6 69 (1.34%) PyTorch
7 67 (1.30%) REST
8 61 (1.18%) SAP Fiori
9 60 (1.16%) Node.js
10 59 (1.14%) React
11 55 (1.07%) Pandas
12 52 (1.01%) .NET Core
13 49 (0.95%) scikit-learn
14 43 (0.83%) TensorFlow
15 41 (0.79%) RESTful
16 39 (0.76%) LangChain
17 36 (0.70%) AngularJS
17 36 (0.70%) ASP.NET
17 36 (0.70%) ASP.NET Core
17 36 (0.70%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 297 (5.75%) Social Media
2 284 (5.50%) Cloud Native
3 238 (4.61%) Onboarding
4 202 (3.91%) Product Ownership
5 175 (3.39%) Analytical Mindset
6 154 (2.98%) Management Information System
7 125 (2.42%) Greenfield Project
8 116 (2.25%) Marketing Technology
9 112 (2.17%) Data Structures
10 102 (1.98%) Blog
11 99 (1.92%) Algorithms
12 93 (1.80%) Mobile App
13 66 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
14 65 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
15 62 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
16 56 (1.08%) AI Agents
17 55 (1.07%) Life Science
17 55 (1.07%) Public Cloud
18 46 (0.89%) IoT
19 45 (0.87%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 86 (1.67%) Windows
2 78 (1.51%) Linux
3 34 (0.66%) VMS
4 24 (0.46%) Apple iOS
5 18 (0.35%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.17%) Android
7 7 (0.14%) Unix
8 5 (0.097%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.077%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.039%) AIX
10 2 (0.039%) Debian
10 2 (0.039%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.019%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,726 (33.44%) AI
2 1,161 (22.49%) Decision-Making
3 1,093 (21.17%) Business Intelligence
4 944 (18.29%) Agile
5 869 (16.83%) Roadmaps
6 801 (15.52%) Data Modelling
7 798 (15.46%) Continuous Improvement
8 750 (14.53%) Problem-Solving
9 720 (13.95%) Data Analytics
10 696 (13.48%) Data Engineering
11 625 (12.11%) Machine Learning
12 621 (12.03%) Data Pipeline
13 602 (11.66%) CI/CD
14 563 (10.91%) Data Governance
15 520 (10.07%) Mentoring
16 519 (10.05%) Customer Experience
17 516 (10.00%) Data Science
18 505 (9.78%) ETL
19 458 (8.87%) Actionable Insight
20 453 (8.78%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1,337 (25.90%) SQL
2 1,133 (21.95%) Python
3 126 (2.44%) C#
4 123 (2.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 117 (2.27%) Java
6 110 (2.13%) PowerShell
7 95 (1.84%) JavaScript
8 82 (1.59%) R
9 80 (1.55%) TypeScript
10 64 (1.24%) Scala
11 58 (1.12%) Bicep
12 50 (0.97%) Bash
13 43 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
14 42 (0.81%) C++
15 40 (0.77%) Go
16 30 (0.58%) T-SQL
17 24 (0.46%) Kotlin
18 22 (0.43%) Swift
19 19 (0.37%) ABAP
20 18 (0.35%) Julia
Qualifications
1 590 (11.43%) Degree
2 320 (6.20%) Security Cleared
3 209 (4.05%) SC Cleared
4 114 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 95 (1.84%) Azure Certification
6 88 (1.70%) Master's Degree
7 72 (1.39%) IRCA
8 59 (1.14%) DV Cleared
9 55 (1.07%) AWS Certification
10 52 (1.01%) ACCA
10 52 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
11 49 (0.95%) DBS Check
12 46 (0.89%) CIMA
13 45 (0.87%) CISSP
14 37 (0.72%) CISM
15 33 (0.64%) PhD
16 31 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
17 22 (0.43%) CISA
17 22 (0.43%) Postgraduate
18 20 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 666 (12.90%) Data Quality
2 410 (7.94%) Accessibility
3 324 (6.28%) GDPR
4 219 (4.24%) QA
5 98 (1.90%) WCAG
6 74 (1.43%) ISO 9001
7 41 (0.79%) NIST
8 39 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 36 (0.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 34 (0.66%) SLA
11 30 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
12 26 (0.50%) PCI DSS
13 21 (0.41%) PMO
14 20 (0.39%) IFRS
15 15 (0.29%) COBIT
15 15 (0.29%) GRC
15 15 (0.29%) HIPAA
16 14 (0.27%) PERC
17 13 (0.25%) GAAP
17 13 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 148 (2.87%) Docker
2 91 (1.76%) Active Directory
3 21 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.29%) vSphere
5 14 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.12%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.077%) IAG
9 3 (0.058%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.039%) Firmware
11 1 (0.019%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 239 (4.63%) Terraform
2 172 (3.33%) Kubernetes
3 44 (0.85%) Ansible
4 29 (0.56%) Prometheus
5 23 (0.45%) Grafana
6 15 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
7 14 (0.27%) EnCase
7 14 (0.27%) FTK
8 8 (0.15%) FortiGate
8 8 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.12%) Hadoop YARN
9 6 (0.12%) Nagios
10 5 (0.097%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.097%) Argo
10 5 (0.097%) Graylog
10 5 (0.097%) Packer
10 5 (0.097%) VxRail
11 3 (0.058%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.058%) Kibana
11 3 (0.058%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 783 (15.17%) Microsoft
2 452 (8.76%) Databricks
3 367 (7.11%) Google
4 297 (5.75%) Adobe
5 265 (5.13%) SAP
6 140 (2.71%) Oracle
7 119 (2.31%) Salesforce
8 72 (1.39%) HubSpot
9 55 (1.07%) Informatica
10 48 (0.93%) Dell
11 46 (0.89%) Workday
12 43 (0.83%) Cisco
13 40 (0.77%) IBM
14 30 (0.58%) Cognos
15 28 (0.54%) ServiceNow
15 28 (0.54%) VMware
16 27 (0.52%) Alteryx
16 27 (0.52%) Cloudera
16 27 (0.52%) Teradata
17 25 (0.48%) Red Hat