Analytics
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Analytics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Analytics over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 24 22
Rank change year-on-year -14 -2 +11
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 5,419 8,408 16,983
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.28% 8.64% 10.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.27% 9.04% 10.61%
Number of salaries quoted 3,338 4,292 6,769
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £37,491
25th Percentile £42,725 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,300 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.77% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £81,400 £86,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,375 £112,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Analytics is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86,445 93,025 160,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.24% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,550 54,985 83,280
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Analytics.

Salary trend for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytics over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Top 19 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 28 May 2024. 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 -8 4,726 £59,000 -11.94% 2,145
UK excluding London -23 3,213 £52,500 -4.55% 1,104
Work from Home -5 2,463 £57,965 -10.82% 988
London -1 2,008 £75,000 - 1,073
North of England -16 902 £50,000 -16.67% 355
South East -8 672 £54,500 -9.17% 246
Midlands -5 595 £55,000 +15.79% 201
North West +17 582 £52,084 -13.19% 233
West Midlands -8 441 £55,000 +15.79% 120
Scotland -6 431 £60,372 +1.42% 78
South West -13 386 £55,000 -0.27% 107
Yorkshire -42 224 £45,249 -27.60% 86
East Midlands +11 152 £51,250 +13.89% 82
East of England -55 127 £47,500 -17.39% 92
North East +2 96 £50,000 -9.09% 39
Wales -20 59 £50,000 +25.00% 23
Northern Ireland +24 41 £87,500 +66.67% 19
Channel Islands - 3 £67,500 - 1
Isle of Man - 2 £82,500 -

Analytics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 156 (2.88%) SAS
2 133 (2.45%) Apache Spark
3 105 (1.94%) Apache
4 92 (1.70%) Apache Airflow
5 86 (1.59%) CMS
6 79 (1.46%) SharePoint
7 68 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
8 55 (1.01%) Confluence
9 52 (0.96%) WordPress
10 22 (0.41%) IIS
11 19 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2010
12 9 (0.17%) ArcGIS
13 8 (0.15%) Tomcat
14 7 (0.13%) Jupyter
15 6 (0.11%) Drupal
15 6 (0.11%) IBM Notes
15 6 (0.11%) nginx
16 5 (0.092%) Joomla!
16 5 (0.092%) Umbraco
16 5 (0.092%) WebSphere
Applications
1 414 (7.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 142 (2.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 136 (2.51%) Microsoft Office
4 31 (0.57%) UserZoom
5 25 (0.46%) SPSS
6 22 (0.41%) Photoshop
7 21 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
8 20 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
9 19 (0.35%) Sketch
9 19 (0.35%) Trello
10 15 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 15 (0.28%) MS Visio
11 14 (0.26%) Adobe XD
12 8 (0.15%) InDesign
13 6 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
14 5 (0.092%) Adobe Premiere
15 4 (0.074%) Adobe After Effects
15 4 (0.074%) Microsoft Project
16 3 (0.055%) AutoCAD
17 2 (0.037%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 36 (0.66%) Shopify
2 35 (0.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 29 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
4 18 (0.33%) Magento
5 17 (0.31%) Unit4 Business World
6 16 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
7 11 (0.20%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 10 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
9 9 (0.17%) SAP CX
10 6 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
10 6 (0.11%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 6 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
10 6 (0.11%) SAP IBP
11 5 (0.092%) Dynamics AX
11 5 (0.092%) NetSuite
11 5 (0.092%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 5 (0.092%) Payment Gateway
12 4 (0.074%) Dynamics NAV
12 4 (0.074%) Oracle Applications
12 4 (0.074%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 1,215 (22.42%) Azure
2 1,030 (19.01%) Power Platform
3 941 (17.36%) AWS
4 400 (7.38%) GCP
5 334 (6.16%) Google Analytics
6 207 (3.82%) Azure Data Factory
7 200 (3.69%) Azure DevOps
8 194 (3.58%) Microsoft 365
9 187 (3.45%) SaaS
10 177 (3.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 150 (2.77%) Snowflake
12 122 (2.25%) dbt
13 107 (1.97%) Azure Monitor
14 104 (1.92%) PowerApps
15 97 (1.79%) Serverless
16 87 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
17 83 (1.53%) Power Automate
18 78 (1.44%) PaaS
19 73 (1.35%) GitHub
20 71 (1.31%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 191 (3.52%) Broadband
2 94 (1.73%) Firewall
3 82 (1.51%) Network Security
4 56 (1.03%) WAN
5 50 (0.92%) VPN
6 44 (0.81%) TCP/IP
7 42 (0.78%) DNS
8 34 (0.63%) SD-WAN
9 27 (0.50%) Cisco Firepower
9 27 (0.50%) LAN
10 24 (0.44%) DHCP
11 23 (0.42%) Internet
12 22 (0.41%) HTTP
12 22 (0.41%) Wireless
13 21 (0.39%) MQTT
14 17 (0.31%) DSL
15 14 (0.26%) WLAN
16 13 (0.24%) VoIP
17 10 (0.18%) SMS
18 9 (0.17%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 983 (18.14%) Power BI
2 648 (11.96%) Tableau
3 645 (11.90%) Data Warehouse
4 343 (6.33%) SQL Server
5 314 (5.79%) Data Lake
6 229 (4.23%) Big Data
7 194 (3.58%) BigQuery
8 156 (2.88%) NoSQL
9 145 (2.68%) Metadata
9 145 (2.68%) Relational Database
10 125 (2.31%) Looker
10 125 (2.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 112 (2.07%) Azure SQL Database
12 91 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
12 91 (1.68%) Data Vault
13 90 (1.66%) Data Mining
14 86 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
15 80 (1.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 79 (1.46%) MongoDB
17 75 (1.38%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 312 (5.76%) Git
2 165 (3.04%) JIRA
3 107 (1.97%) Jenkins
4 79 (1.46%) GitLab
5 35 (0.65%) Visual Studio
6 18 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 17 (0.31%) Gatling
8 15 (0.28%) JUnit
8 15 (0.28%) Subversion
9 14 (0.26%) RStudio
10 13 (0.24%) MLflow
10 13 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
10 13 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
11 12 (0.22%) CircleCI
12 11 (0.20%) Postman
13 10 (0.18%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.15%) Selenium
15 7 (0.13%) JMeter
15 7 (0.13%) SoapUI
15 7 (0.13%) Spinnaker
General
1 1,607 (29.65%) Social Skills
2 1,510 (27.86%) Finance
3 1,184 (21.85%) Analytical Skills
4 1,096 (20.23%) Marketing
5 564 (10.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 511 (9.43%) Retail
7 451 (8.32%) Law
8 399 (7.36%) Presentation Skills
9 389 (7.18%) Banking
10 281 (5.19%) Advertising
11 280 (5.17%) Legal
12 191 (3.52%) Public Sector
13 147 (2.71%) Front Office
14 135 (2.49%) Financial Institution
15 112 (2.07%) Manufacturing
16 111 (2.05%) Investment Banking
17 109 (2.01%) Games
18 104 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
19 100 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
20 72 (1.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1,003 (18.51%) Analyst
2 970 (17.90%) Senior
3 671 (12.38%) Lead
4 509 (9.39%) Architect
5 505 (9.32%) Developer
6 499 (9.21%) Data Engineer
7 426 (7.86%) Data Analyst
8 265 (4.89%) Senior Analyst
9 220 (4.06%) Consultant
10 218 (4.02%) Data Architect
11 212 (3.91%) Solutions Architect
12 211 (3.89%) Software Engineer
13 188 (3.47%) Data Manager
14 171 (3.16%) Senior Data Analyst
15 142 (2.62%) Product Manager
16 133 (2.45%) Data Scientist
17 132 (2.44%) Senior Manager
18 115 (2.12%) Analytics Manager
19 111 (2.05%) Digital Analyst
19 111 (2.05%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 223 (4.12%) .NET
2 189 (3.49%) React
3 185 (3.41%) HTML
4 162 (2.99%) CSS
5 127 (2.34%) Kafka
6 115 (2.12%) REST
7 108 (1.99%) Spring
8 100 (1.85%) AngularJS
9 95 (1.75%) RESTful
10 94 (1.73%) Pandas
11 84 (1.55%) Spring Boot
12 78 (1.44%) Web Services
13 76 (1.40%) Node.js
14 74 (1.37%) PySpark
15 69 (1.27%) NumPy
16 67 (1.24%) .NET Core
17 58 (1.07%) ASP.NET
18 50 (0.92%) HTML5
19 46 (0.85%) GraphQL
20 42 (0.78%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 314 (5.79%) Management Information System
2 256 (4.72%) Algorithms
3 235 (4.34%) Product Ownership
4 200 (3.69%) Marketing Technology
5 189 (3.49%) Cloud Native
6 180 (3.32%) Data Structures
7 173 (3.19%) Onboarding
8 160 (2.95%) Self-Motivation
9 131 (2.42%) Social Media
10 110 (2.03%) Fixed Income
11 97 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 91 (1.68%) Public Cloud
13 90 (1.66%) Equities
13 90 (1.66%) Hedge funds
14 85 (1.57%) Derivative
15 80 (1.48%) IoT
16 78 (1.44%) Data Centre
17 76 (1.40%) Credit Risk
18 75 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
19 74 (1.37%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 181 (3.34%) Linux
2 179 (3.30%) Windows
3 75 (1.38%) Windows Server
4 43 (0.79%) Unix
5 34 (0.63%) Android
6 26 (0.48%) Apple iOS
7 23 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
8 18 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
9 13 (0.24%) Windows 10
10 12 (0.22%) zOS
11 9 (0.17%) CentOS
12 7 (0.13%) AIX
13 6 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
13 6 (0.11%) Windows Vista
14 4 (0.074%) Mac OS
14 4 (0.074%) Solaris
14 4 (0.074%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.037%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 2 (0.037%) VMS
16 1 (0.018%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,470 (27.13%) Data Analytics
2 1,434 (26.46%) Agile
3 1,270 (23.44%) Business Intelligence
4 1,207 (22.27%) Problem-Solving
5 1,064 (19.63%) Visualisation
6 881 (16.26%) Data Modelling
7 859 (15.85%) Data Analysis
8 784 (14.47%) Data Science
9 755 (13.93%) Machine Learning
10 731 (13.49%) Decision-Making
11 658 (12.14%) ETL
12 630 (11.63%) Artificial Intelligence
13 593 (10.94%) Mentoring
14 587 (10.83%) DevOps
15 568 (10.48%) Computer Science
16 557 (10.28%) Software Engineering
17 556 (10.26%) Data Engineering
18 552 (10.19%) Actionable Insight
19 547 (10.09%) Data Strategy
20 540 (9.96%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1,768 (32.63%) SQL
2 1,400 (25.84%) Python
3 361 (6.66%) Java
4 317 (5.85%) JavaScript
5 247 (4.56%) R
6 242 (4.47%) C#
7 139 (2.57%) TypeScript
8 133 (2.45%) T-SQL
9 124 (2.29%) PowerShell
10 117 (2.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 91 (1.68%) Scala
12 64 (1.18%) C
13 52 (0.96%) C++
14 49 (0.90%) VBA
15 43 (0.79%) PHP
16 39 (0.72%) PL/SQL
17 38 (0.70%) Bash
18 35 (0.65%) Go
19 32 (0.59%) MATLAB
20 31 (0.57%) VB
Qualifications
1 1,318 (24.32%) Degree
2 336 (6.20%) Security Cleared
3 241 (4.45%) Master's Degree
4 217 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 200 (3.69%) DBS Check
6 193 (3.56%) SC Cleared
7 111 (2.05%) DV Cleared
8 77 (1.42%) PhD
9 73 (1.35%) Azure Certification
10 64 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
11 53 (0.98%) MBA
11 53 (0.98%) Numerate Degree
12 46 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
13 36 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
13 36 (0.66%) PMI Certification
14 32 (0.59%) CISSP
15 31 (0.57%) CIPD
15 31 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
16 30 (0.55%) CCNP
17 28 (0.52%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 497 (9.17%) Data Quality
2 196 (3.62%) QA
3 106 (1.96%) Accessibility
4 83 (1.53%) GDPR
5 68 (1.25%) Actionable Recommendations
5 68 (1.25%) IFRS
6 60 (1.11%) IFRS 9
7 44 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 37 (0.68%) PMO
9 36 (0.66%) WCAG
10 35 (0.65%) NIST
11 33 (0.61%) SLA
12 23 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 20 (0.37%) ITGC
14 16 (0.30%) ISO 9001
15 15 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 14 (0.26%) Good Clinical Practice
17 9 (0.17%) SOC 2
18 8 (0.15%) HIPAA
18 8 (0.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 154 (2.84%) Docker
2 101 (1.86%) Active Directory
3 34 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
4 30 (0.55%) vSphere
5 21 (0.39%) Firmware
6 20 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
7 17 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
8 13 (0.24%) Hyper-V
9 9 (0.17%) HDFS
10 3 (0.055%) VirtualBox
11 1 (0.018%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.018%) Lustre
11 1 (0.018%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 203 (3.75%) Kubernetes
2 148 (2.73%) Terraform
3 61 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 57 (1.05%) Ansible
5 50 (0.92%) Grafana
6 28 (0.52%) Stealthwatch
7 27 (0.50%) Prometheus
8 24 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 23 (0.42%) WSUS
10 21 (0.39%) Docker Swarm
11 19 (0.35%) SCCM
12 17 (0.31%) SCOM
13 16 (0.30%) Puppet
14 13 (0.24%) Progress Chef
15 10 (0.18%) Kibana
16 9 (0.17%) Nagios
16 9 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
17 8 (0.15%) logstash
17 8 (0.15%) ZABBIX
18 7 (0.13%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 890 (16.42%) Microsoft
2 530 (9.78%) Google
3 482 (8.89%) Databricks
4 255 (4.71%) Oracle
5 138 (2.55%) SAP
6 126 (2.33%) Adobe
7 88 (1.62%) Alteryx
8 73 (1.35%) Salesforce
9 60 (1.11%) Informatica
10 57 (1.05%) Splunk
11 55 (1.01%) ServiceNow
12 48 (0.89%) IBM
13 46 (0.85%) Cisco
14 44 (0.81%) Apple
15 39 (0.72%) Qualtrics
16 38 (0.70%) Meraki
17 37 (0.68%) Sparx
18 33 (0.61%) Cognos
19 32 (0.59%) Bloomberg
20 31 (0.57%) Dynatrace