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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 24 23
Rank change year-on-year -15 -1 +10
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 5,352 9,248 15,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.46% 8.84% 9.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.35% 9.24% 10.34%
Number of salaries quoted 3,356 4,564 6,925
10th Percentile £32,600 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,725 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £112,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,750 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.09% - +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 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -11 4,652 £60,000 -10.45% 1,929
UK excluding London -24 3,172 £52,750 -4.09% 1,008
Work from Home -4 2,428 £59,300 -10.96% 837
London 0 1,982 £75,000 - 986
North of England -15 889 £50,000 -16.67% 331
South East -19 661 £55,000 -8.33% 200
Midlands -11 562 £55,000 +10.00% 178
North West +10 545 £52,084 -9.42% 222
Scotland -10 449 £59,556 +3.57% 72
West Midlands -9 422 £55,000 +13.23% 108
South West -10 388 £55,000 -6.93% 105
Yorkshire -34 247 £45,249 -30.39% 77
East Midlands -1 139 £47,500 -5.00% 70
East of England -56 126 £47,500 -17.39% 95
North East -1 97 £50,000 -9.09% 35
Wales -11 63 £50,000 +25.00% 32
Northern Ireland +27 34 £76,250 +38.64% 16
Channel Islands - 2 - - 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
1 164 (3.06%) SAS
2 148 (2.77%) Apache Spark
3 120 (2.24%) Apache
4 94 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
5 86 (1.61%) SharePoint
6 84 (1.57%) CMS
7 63 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
8 55 (1.03%) Confluence
9 53 (0.99%) WordPress
10 22 (0.41%) IIS
11 14 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2010
12 9 (0.17%) ArcGIS
13 8 (0.15%) Tomcat
14 7 (0.13%) Jupyter
14 7 (0.13%) nginx
14 7 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
15 6 (0.11%) Drupal
15 6 (0.11%) IBM Notes
16 5 (0.093%) Umbraco
16 5 (0.093%) WebSphere
Applications
1 393 (7.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 135 (2.52%) Microsoft Office
3 116 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (0.60%) UserZoom
5 25 (0.47%) SPSS
6 24 (0.45%) Photoshop
7 22 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
8 21 (0.39%) Adobe Illustrator
9 20 (0.37%) Sketch
10 19 (0.36%) Trello
11 17 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 16 (0.30%) MS Visio
13 14 (0.26%) Adobe XD
14 8 (0.15%) InDesign
15 6 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
16 5 (0.093%) Microsoft Project
17 4 (0.075%) Adobe After Effects
17 4 (0.075%) Adobe Premiere
18 3 (0.056%) AutoCAD
19 2 (0.037%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 37 (0.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 35 (0.65%) Shopify
3 27 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
4 22 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
5 19 (0.36%) Unit4 Business World
6 17 (0.32%) Magento
7 10 (0.19%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 9 (0.17%) SAP CX
9 7 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 6 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
10 6 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
10 6 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
10 6 (0.11%) SAP IBP
11 5 (0.093%) NetSuite
11 5 (0.093%) Oracle General Ledger
11 5 (0.093%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 5 (0.093%) Payment Gateway
12 4 (0.075%) Dynamics NAV
12 4 (0.075%) Relativity
12 4 (0.075%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 1,172 (21.90%) Azure
2 1,009 (18.85%) Power Platform
3 831 (15.53%) AWS
4 415 (7.75%) GCP
5 345 (6.45%) Google Analytics
6 211 (3.94%) Azure DevOps
7 208 (3.89%) Azure Data Factory
8 184 (3.44%) SaaS
9 171 (3.20%) Microsoft 365
10 164 (3.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 163 (3.05%) Snowflake
12 118 (2.20%) dbt
13 110 (2.06%) PowerApps
14 101 (1.89%) Serverless
15 97 (1.81%) Azure Monitor
16 87 (1.63%) GitHub
17 81 (1.51%) Power Automate
18 76 (1.42%) Cloud Computing
19 74 (1.38%) Figma
19 74 (1.38%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 193 (3.61%) Broadband
2 78 (1.46%) Firewall
3 76 (1.42%) Network Security
4 42 (0.78%) WAN
5 41 (0.77%) VPN
6 40 (0.75%) DNS
6 40 (0.75%) TCP/IP
7 25 (0.47%) LAN
8 21 (0.39%) DHCP
8 21 (0.39%) Internet
9 20 (0.37%) SD-WAN
10 19 (0.36%) HTTP
11 18 (0.34%) DSL
11 18 (0.34%) MQTT
11 18 (0.34%) Wireless
12 15 (0.28%) Cisco Firepower
13 14 (0.26%) WLAN
14 11 (0.21%) VoIP
15 10 (0.19%) SMS
16 9 (0.17%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 961 (17.96%) Power BI
2 603 (11.27%) Tableau
3 598 (11.17%) Data Warehouse
4 336 (6.28%) SQL Server
5 309 (5.77%) Data Lake
6 214 (4.00%) Big Data
7 202 (3.77%) BigQuery
8 156 (2.91%) Relational Database
9 141 (2.63%) NoSQL
10 135 (2.52%) Looker
11 134 (2.50%) Metadata
12 121 (2.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 111 (2.07%) Azure SQL Database
14 100 (1.87%) Data Mining
15 85 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
16 84 (1.57%) MySQL
17 83 (1.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 79 (1.48%) MongoDB
19 76 (1.42%) Hadoop
20 75 (1.40%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 253 (4.73%) Git
2 174 (3.25%) JIRA
3 126 (2.35%) Jenkins
4 86 (1.61%) GitLab
5 37 (0.69%) Visual Studio
6 18 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 17 (0.32%) JUnit
8 15 (0.28%) RStudio
9 14 (0.26%) SonarQube
9 14 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
9 14 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
10 13 (0.24%) CircleCI
11 12 (0.22%) Subversion
12 11 (0.21%) Jasmine
12 11 (0.21%) Postman
13 10 (0.19%) Bitbucket
13 10 (0.19%) MLflow
13 10 (0.19%) Mockito
14 9 (0.17%) Eclipse
14 9 (0.17%) IntelliJ
General
1 1,580 (29.52%) Social Skills
2 1,562 (29.19%) Finance
3 1,141 (21.32%) Analytical Skills
4 1,072 (20.03%) Marketing
5 554 (10.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 471 (8.80%) Retail
7 434 (8.11%) Law
8 422 (7.88%) Banking
9 313 (5.85%) Presentation Skills
10 282 (5.27%) Advertising
11 276 (5.16%) Legal
12 191 (3.57%) Public Sector
13 136 (2.54%) Financial Institution
14 132 (2.47%) Front Office
15 123 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
16 113 (2.11%) Games
17 111 (2.07%) Manufacturing
18 108 (2.02%) Investment Banking
19 100 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
20 73 (1.36%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 952 (17.79%) Analyst
2 917 (17.13%) Senior
3 675 (12.61%) Lead
4 546 (10.20%) Developer
5 493 (9.21%) Architect
6 475 (8.88%) Data Engineer
7 375 (7.01%) Data Analyst
8 236 (4.41%) Solutions Architect
9 225 (4.20%) Consultant
10 224 (4.19%) Senior Analyst
11 212 (3.96%) Software Engineer
12 194 (3.62%) Data Architect
13 192 (3.59%) Data Manager
14 141 (2.63%) Data Scientist
15 134 (2.50%) Product Manager
16 129 (2.41%) Senior Manager
17 120 (2.24%) Analytics Manager
18 119 (2.22%) Senior Data Analyst
19 107 (2.00%) Digital Analyst
19 107 (2.00%) Presales Solution Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 205 (3.83%) .NET
2 196 (3.66%) React
3 175 (3.27%) HTML
4 150 (2.80%) CSS
5 133 (2.49%) Kafka
6 108 (2.02%) Spring
7 102 (1.91%) AngularJS
7 102 (1.91%) Pandas
8 99 (1.85%) REST
9 95 (1.78%) RESTful
10 84 (1.57%) Node.js
10 84 (1.57%) Spring Boot
11 74 (1.38%) NumPy
12 64 (1.20%) .NET Core
13 57 (1.07%) ASP.NET
14 56 (1.05%) Web Services
15 52 (0.97%) PySpark
16 45 (0.84%) HTML5
17 44 (0.82%) Redux
18 43 (0.80%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 291 (5.44%) Management Information System
2 240 (4.48%) Algorithms
3 222 (4.15%) Product Ownership
4 205 (3.83%) Cloud Native
5 200 (3.74%) Marketing Technology
6 179 (3.34%) Onboarding
7 174 (3.25%) Data Structures
8 164 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
9 131 (2.45%) Social Media
10 106 (1.98%) Fixed Income
11 104 (1.94%) Public Cloud
12 99 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 82 (1.53%) Credit Risk
13 82 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
14 80 (1.49%) Equities
15 73 (1.36%) Derivative
16 72 (1.35%) IoT
17 70 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
18 66 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
18 66 (1.23%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 187 (3.49%) Linux
2 186 (3.48%) Windows
3 70 (1.31%) Windows Server
4 48 (0.90%) Unix
5 34 (0.64%) Android
6 26 (0.49%) Apple iOS
7 20 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
8 15 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
9 13 (0.24%) Mac OS
10 12 (0.22%) 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 (0.075%) Mac OS X
14 4 (0.075%) Solaris
14 4 (0.075%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.019%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.019%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,503 (28.08%) Data Analytics
2 1,470 (27.47%) Agile
3 1,268 (23.69%) Business Intelligence
4 1,142 (21.34%) Problem-Solving
5 1,052 (19.66%) Visualisation
6 868 (16.22%) Data Modelling
7 784 (14.65%) Machine Learning
8 782 (14.61%) Data Analysis
9 772 (14.42%) Data Science
10 734 (13.71%) Decision-Making
11 669 (12.50%) ETL
12 642 (12.00%) Artificial Intelligence
13 598 (11.17%) Mentoring
14 559 (10.44%) Software Engineering
15 557 (10.41%) Data Visualisation
16 553 (10.33%) Actionable Insight
17 552 (10.31%) DevOps
18 546 (10.20%) Data Engineering
19 543 (10.15%) Data Strategy
20 519 (9.70%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,702 (31.80%) SQL
2 1,361 (25.43%) Python
3 350 (6.54%) Java
4 330 (6.17%) JavaScript
5 254 (4.75%) R
6 222 (4.15%) C#
7 149 (2.78%) TypeScript
8 138 (2.58%) T-SQL
9 123 (2.30%) PowerShell
10 115 (2.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 84 (1.57%) Scala
12 62 (1.16%) C
13 57 (1.07%) C++
14 51 (0.95%) Bash
14 51 (0.95%) VBA
15 47 (0.88%) PHP
16 42 (0.78%) PL/SQL
17 38 (0.71%) MATLAB
18 36 (0.67%) Go
19 28 (0.52%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,202 (22.46%) Degree
2 351 (6.56%) Security Cleared
3 225 (4.20%) Master's Degree
4 214 (4.00%) SC Cleared
5 184 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 143 (2.67%) DBS Check
7 105 (1.96%) DV Cleared
8 65 (1.21%) Azure Certification
9 61 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
10 57 (1.07%) PhD
11 54 (1.01%) MBA
12 51 (0.95%) Numerate Degree
13 47 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
14 34 (0.64%) PMI Certification
15 33 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
16 30 (0.56%) CIPD
16 30 (0.56%) CISSP
17 25 (0.47%) CISA
18 24 (0.45%) ACCA
19 23 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 457 (8.54%) Data Quality
2 182 (3.40%) QA
3 107 (2.00%) Accessibility
4 91 (1.70%) GDPR
5 86 (1.61%) Actionable Recommendations
6 75 (1.40%) IFRS
7 66 (1.23%) IFRS 9
8 45 (0.84%) PMO
9 38 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 36 (0.67%) WCAG
11 32 (0.60%) NIST
12 31 (0.58%) SLA
13 25 (0.47%) 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 7 (0.13%) HIPAA
18 7 (0.13%) PCI DSS
19 6 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 172 (3.21%) Docker
2 91 (1.70%) Active Directory
3 30 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
4 27 (0.50%) vSphere
5 18 (0.34%) Firmware
6 14 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 14 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
7 10 (0.19%) HDFS
8 9 (0.17%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.056%) VirtualBox
10 1 (0.019%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.019%) Lustre
10 1 (0.019%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 216 (4.04%) Kubernetes
2 163 (3.05%) Terraform
3 65 (1.21%) Grafana
4 64 (1.20%) Ansible
5 55 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
6 42 (0.78%) Prometheus
7 21 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 20 (0.37%) WSUS
9 17 (0.32%) Docker Swarm
9 17 (0.32%) Puppet
10 16 (0.30%) SCCM
10 16 (0.30%) Stealthwatch
11 14 (0.26%) Progress Chef
11 14 (0.26%) SCOM
12 12 (0.22%) Kibana
13 9 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
14 8 (0.15%) logstash
14 8 (0.15%) Nagios
15 7 (0.13%) SysTrack
15 7 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 862 (16.11%) Microsoft
2 540 (10.09%) Google
3 440 (8.22%) Databricks
4 263 (4.91%) Oracle
5 147 (2.75%) SAP
6 112 (2.09%) Adobe
7 92 (1.72%) Alteryx
8 70 (1.31%) Salesforce
9 67 (1.25%) Informatica
10 63 (1.18%) ServiceNow
11 57 (1.07%) IBM
12 54 (1.01%) Splunk
13 40 (0.75%) Qualtrics
14 38 (0.71%) Sparx
15 34 (0.64%) Cisco
15 34 (0.64%) Dynatrace
15 34 (0.64%) YouTube
16 33 (0.62%) Apple
16 33 (0.62%) Cognos
17 31 (0.58%) Facebook