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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 24 23
Rank change year-on-year -14 -1 +10
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 5,377 8,578 16,041
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.42% 8.60% 10.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.34% 9.00% 10.48%
Number of salaries quoted 3,333 4,359 6,748
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,725 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.23% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,435 £86,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £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 84,815 95,319 153,046
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.51% 95.59% 95.74%
Number of salaries quoted 59,706 56,021 82,390
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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 15 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 15 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 -9 4,693 £59,000 -11.42% 1,947
UK excluding London -24 3,178 £52,500 -4.55% 1,024
Work from Home -6 2,469 £58,232 -10.41% 967
London 0 2,002 £75,000 - 992
North of England -13 908 £50,000 -16.67% 329
South East -14 658 £54,500 -6.44% 216
Midlands -2 581 £55,000 +10.00% 187
North West +20 573 £52,084 -13.19% 208
Scotland -8 437 £60,249 +1.21% 76
West Midlands -5 434 £55,000 +10.00% 114
South West -15 379 £55,000 -6.93% 106
Yorkshire -34 235 £45,249 -30.39% 86
East Midlands +9 146 £51,250 +5.13% 73
East of England -54 125 £47,500 -17.39% 82
North East +3 100 £50,000 -9.09% 37
Wales -17 57 £50,000 +25.00% 26
Northern Ireland +22 32 £76,250 +45.24% 18
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
1 165 (3.07%) SAS
2 139 (2.59%) Apache Spark
3 105 (1.95%) Apache
4 89 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
5 85 (1.58%) CMS
6 83 (1.54%) SharePoint
7 68 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
8 55 (1.02%) Confluence
9 53 (0.99%) 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
14 7 (0.13%) nginx
15 6 (0.11%) Drupal
15 6 (0.11%) IBM Notes
15 6 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
16 5 (0.093%) Joomla!
16 5 (0.093%) WebSphere
Applications
1 401 (7.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 140 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
2 140 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 32 (0.60%) UserZoom
4 25 (0.46%) SPSS
5 24 (0.45%) Photoshop
6 22 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
7 21 (0.39%) Adobe Illustrator
8 19 (0.35%) Sketch
8 19 (0.35%) Trello
9 16 (0.30%) 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 (0.093%) Adobe Premiere
15 4 (0.074%) Adobe After Effects
15 4 (0.074%) Microsoft Project
16 3 (0.056%) AutoCAD
17 2 (0.037%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 37 (0.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 35 (0.65%) Shopify
3 28 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
4 17 (0.32%) Magento
4 17 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
4 17 (0.32%) Unit4 Business World
5 11 (0.20%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 9 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
6 9 (0.17%) SAP CX
7 6 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
7 6 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
7 6 (0.11%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 6 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.11%) SAP IBP
8 5 (0.093%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.093%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 5 (0.093%) Payment Gateway
9 4 (0.074%) Dynamics NAV
9 4 (0.074%) Oracle Applications
9 4 (0.074%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 1,175 (21.85%) Azure
2 1,001 (18.62%) Power Platform
3 882 (16.40%) AWS
4 401 (7.46%) GCP
5 339 (6.30%) Google Analytics
6 208 (3.87%) Azure Data Factory
7 202 (3.76%) Azure DevOps
8 195 (3.63%) SaaS
9 192 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
10 175 (3.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 155 (2.88%) Snowflake
12 111 (2.06%) dbt
13 104 (1.93%) Azure Monitor
14 103 (1.92%) PowerApps
15 97 (1.80%) Serverless
16 82 (1.53%) Cloud Computing
16 82 (1.53%) Power Automate
17 79 (1.47%) GitHub
18 74 (1.38%) PaaS
19 73 (1.36%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 192 (3.57%) Broadband
2 88 (1.64%) Firewall
3 75 (1.39%) Network Security
4 48 (0.89%) WAN
5 47 (0.87%) VPN
6 42 (0.78%) TCP/IP
7 40 (0.74%) DNS
8 26 (0.48%) SD-WAN
9 25 (0.46%) LAN
10 23 (0.43%) Internet
11 21 (0.39%) Cisco Firepower
11 21 (0.39%) DHCP
12 20 (0.37%) HTTP
13 19 (0.35%) MQTT
13 19 (0.35%) Wireless
14 18 (0.33%) DSL
15 14 (0.26%) WLAN
16 13 (0.24%) VoIP
17 10 (0.19%) SMS
18 9 (0.17%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 953 (17.72%) Power BI
2 632 (11.75%) Tableau
3 611 (11.36%) Data Warehouse
4 338 (6.29%) SQL Server
5 304 (5.65%) Data Lake
6 217 (4.04%) Big Data
7 194 (3.61%) BigQuery
8 148 (2.75%) Relational Database
9 144 (2.68%) Metadata
10 142 (2.64%) NoSQL
11 128 (2.38%) Looker
12 120 (2.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 114 (2.12%) Azure SQL Database
14 98 (1.82%) Data Mining
15 90 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
16 79 (1.47%) MongoDB
17 78 (1.45%) MySQL
17 78 (1.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 74 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
18 74 (1.38%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 303 (5.64%) Git
2 169 (3.14%) JIRA
3 107 (1.99%) Jenkins
4 78 (1.45%) GitLab
5 35 (0.65%) Visual Studio
6 18 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 17 (0.32%) JUnit
8 14 (0.26%) RStudio
9 13 (0.24%) CircleCI
9 13 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
9 13 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
10 12 (0.22%) MLflow
10 12 (0.22%) Subversion
11 11 (0.20%) Postman
12 10 (0.19%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.15%) Selenium
14 7 (0.13%) Crashlytics
14 7 (0.13%) Eclipse
14 7 (0.13%) JMeter
14 7 (0.13%) SoapUI
General
1 1,609 (29.92%) Social Skills
2 1,520 (28.27%) Finance
3 1,192 (22.17%) Analytical Skills
4 1,094 (20.35%) Marketing
5 567 (10.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 516 (9.60%) Retail
7 455 (8.46%) Law
8 386 (7.18%) Banking
9 369 (6.86%) Presentation Skills
10 284 (5.28%) Advertising
11 275 (5.11%) Legal
12 188 (3.50%) Public Sector
13 138 (2.57%) Financial Institution
14 128 (2.38%) Front Office
15 119 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
16 113 (2.10%) Games
17 107 (1.99%) Manufacturing
18 104 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
19 103 (1.92%) Investment Banking
20 74 (1.38%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1,002 (18.63%) Analyst
2 953 (17.72%) Senior
3 670 (12.46%) Lead
4 519 (9.65%) Developer
5 485 (9.02%) Data Engineer
6 479 (8.91%) Architect
7 415 (7.72%) Data Analyst
8 263 (4.89%) Senior Analyst
9 215 (4.00%) Software Engineer
10 214 (3.98%) Solutions Architect
11 213 (3.96%) Consultant
12 194 (3.61%) Data Manager
13 191 (3.55%) Data Architect
14 164 (3.05%) Senior Data Analyst
15 141 (2.62%) Data Scientist
16 140 (2.60%) Product Manager
17 131 (2.44%) Senior Manager
18 116 (2.16%) Analytics Manager
19 112 (2.08%) Engineering Manager
20 109 (2.03%) Digital Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 219 (4.07%) .NET
2 195 (3.63%) React
3 176 (3.27%) HTML
4 153 (2.85%) CSS
5 127 (2.36%) Kafka
6 109 (2.03%) Spring
7 106 (1.97%) REST
8 98 (1.82%) AngularJS
9 95 (1.77%) RESTful
10 89 (1.66%) Pandas
11 85 (1.58%) Spring Boot
12 79 (1.47%) Node.js
13 66 (1.23%) .NET Core
14 64 (1.19%) NumPy
14 64 (1.19%) PySpark
14 64 (1.19%) Web Services
15 58 (1.08%) ASP.NET
16 49 (0.91%) HTML5
17 41 (0.76%) Vue
18 40 (0.74%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 308 (5.73%) Management Information System
2 251 (4.67%) Algorithms
3 229 (4.26%) Product Ownership
4 201 (3.74%) Cloud Native
4 201 (3.74%) Marketing Technology
5 177 (3.29%) Onboarding
6 176 (3.27%) Data Structures
7 159 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
8 129 (2.40%) Social Media
9 101 (1.88%) Fixed Income
10 95 (1.77%) Public Cloud
11 88 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 82 (1.53%) Credit Risk
13 80 (1.49%) Equities
14 78 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
14 78 (1.45%) IoT
15 75 (1.39%) Hedge funds
16 74 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
16 74 (1.38%) Derivative
17 71 (1.32%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 181 (3.37%) Linux
1 181 (3.37%) Windows
2 72 (1.34%) Windows Server
3 43 (0.80%) Unix
4 34 (0.63%) Android
5 26 (0.48%) Apple iOS
6 20 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
7 15 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
8 13 (0.24%) Windows 10
9 12 (0.22%) Mac OS
9 12 (0.22%) zOS
10 10 (0.19%) CentOS
11 7 (0.13%) AIX
12 6 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
12 6 (0.11%) Windows Vista
13 4 (0.074%) Solaris
13 4 (0.074%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.037%) VMS
15 1 (0.019%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,458 (27.12%) Data Analytics
2 1,433 (26.65%) Agile
3 1,258 (23.40%) Business Intelligence
4 1,174 (21.83%) Problem-Solving
5 1,074 (19.97%) Visualisation
6 874 (16.25%) Data Modelling
7 827 (15.38%) Data Analysis
8 766 (14.25%) Data Science
9 761 (14.15%) Machine Learning
10 722 (13.43%) Decision-Making
11 662 (12.31%) ETL
12 631 (11.74%) Artificial Intelligence
13 585 (10.88%) Mentoring
14 556 (10.34%) Software Engineering
15 552 (10.27%) Data Engineering
15 552 (10.27%) DevOps
16 551 (10.25%) Data Visualisation
17 550 (10.23%) Computer Science
18 549 (10.21%) Data Strategy
19 545 (10.14%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 1,743 (32.42%) SQL
2 1,385 (25.76%) Python
3 357 (6.64%) Java
4 319 (5.93%) JavaScript
5 255 (4.74%) R
6 235 (4.37%) C#
7 142 (2.64%) TypeScript
8 134 (2.49%) T-SQL
9 119 (2.21%) PowerShell
10 111 (2.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 83 (1.54%) Scala
12 63 (1.17%) C
13 51 (0.95%) C++
13 51 (0.95%) VBA
14 46 (0.86%) PHP
15 42 (0.78%) PL/SQL
16 38 (0.71%) Bash
17 35 (0.65%) Go
18 33 (0.61%) MATLAB
19 28 (0.52%) VB
Qualifications
1 1,294 (24.07%) Degree
2 336 (6.25%) Security Cleared
3 232 (4.31%) Master's Degree
4 197 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 195 (3.63%) SC Cleared
6 190 (3.53%) DBS Check
7 105 (1.95%) DV Cleared
8 72 (1.34%) Azure Certification
8 72 (1.34%) PhD
9 66 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
10 54 (1.00%) Numerate Degree
11 52 (0.97%) MBA
12 48 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
13 36 (0.67%) PMI Certification
14 33 (0.61%) CISSP
14 33 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
15 31 (0.58%) CIPD
16 30 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
17 25 (0.46%) ACCA
18 24 (0.45%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 478 (8.89%) Data Quality
2 201 (3.74%) QA
3 107 (1.99%) Accessibility
4 84 (1.56%) GDPR
5 74 (1.38%) IFRS
6 71 (1.32%) Actionable Recommendations
7 66 (1.23%) IFRS 9
8 44 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 37 (0.69%) PMO
10 36 (0.67%) WCAG
11 33 (0.61%) NIST
12 32 (0.60%) SLA
13 23 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 20 (0.37%) ITGC
15 16 (0.30%) ISO 9001
16 15 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 12 (0.22%) CRD IV
18 8 (0.15%) PCI DSS
18 8 (0.15%) SOC 2
19 7 (0.13%) HIPAA
System Software
1 157 (2.92%) Docker
2 98 (1.82%) Active Directory
3 30 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
4 28 (0.52%) vSphere
5 20 (0.37%) Firmware
6 16 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
7 14 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (0.19%) Hyper-V
9 9 (0.17%) HDFS
10 3 (0.056%) VirtualBox
11 1 (0.019%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.019%) Lustre
11 1 (0.019%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 203 (3.78%) Kubernetes
2 146 (2.72%) Terraform
3 62 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
4 54 (1.00%) Ansible
5 53 (0.99%) Grafana
6 29 (0.54%) Prometheus
7 22 (0.41%) Stealthwatch
8 21 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 20 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
9 20 (0.37%) WSUS
10 16 (0.30%) Puppet
10 16 (0.30%) SCCM
11 14 (0.26%) SCOM
12 13 (0.24%) Progress Chef
13 12 (0.22%) Kibana
14 9 (0.17%) Nagios
14 9 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
15 8 (0.15%) logstash
15 8 (0.15%) ZABBIX
16 7 (0.13%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 883 (16.42%) Microsoft
2 528 (9.82%) Google
3 480 (8.93%) Databricks
4 259 (4.82%) Oracle
5 137 (2.55%) SAP
6 119 (2.21%) Adobe
7 90 (1.67%) Alteryx
8 74 (1.38%) Salesforce
9 62 (1.15%) Informatica
10 59 (1.10%) ServiceNow
11 55 (1.02%) Splunk
12 51 (0.95%) IBM
13 40 (0.74%) Cisco
13 40 (0.74%) Qualtrics
14 39 (0.73%) Apple
15 38 (0.71%) Sparx
16 34 (0.63%) Cognos
16 34 (0.63%) Dynatrace
17 32 (0.60%) Meraki
18 31 (0.58%) YouTube