Data Analytics
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Data Analytics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Analytics over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 196 164 168
Rank change year-on-year -32 +4 +31
Permanent jobs citing Data Analytics 1,493 2,286 3,896
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.51% 2.25% 2.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.76% 2.35% 2.59%
Number of salaries quoted 896 992 1,658
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,875 £38,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £103,625 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data 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 84,937 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,853 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
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 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Data Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analytics in the UK

Data Analytics
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Analytics in the UK

Data Analytics
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Analytics over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Analytics in the UK

Data Analytics
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Analytics within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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 -48 1,249 £60,000 -10.45% 452
UK excluding London -67 927 £55,000 +4.76% 220
Work from Home +26 625 £60,000 -7.69% 212
London +12 512 £71,500 -0.69% 237
Midlands -39 205 £55,000 +10.00% 53
South East -21 183 £55,000 +10.00% 35
North of England -93 173 £47,500 -13.87% 62
West Midlands -23 163 £55,000 +10.00% 43
Scotland -23 157 £62,872 +18.22% 16
South West -2 141 £62,500 +13.55% 28
North West -83 100 £50,000 -25.93% 30
Yorkshire -12 46 £42,500 -20.56% 17
East Midlands -30 42 £47,500 -13.64% 10
North East -30 27 £50,000 -10.09% 15
East of England -50 27 £48,750 -22.00% 19
Northern Ireland +43 21 £76,250 - 6
Wales +10 18 £50,000 - 4
Channel Islands - 2 - -

Data 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 58 (3.88%) SAS
2 47 (3.15%) Apache Spark
3 29 (1.94%) SharePoint
4 16 (1.07%) Apache
4 16 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (0.94%) IIS
6 13 (0.87%) WordPress
7 10 (0.67%) Confluence
8 9 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
9 8 (0.54%) CMS
10 7 (0.47%) nginx
11 6 (0.40%) IBM Notes
12 5 (0.33%) Appian
12 5 (0.33%) ArcGIS
12 5 (0.33%) Oracle Application Server
13 3 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2013
13 3 (0.20%) Headless CMS
14 2 (0.13%) Moodle
15 1 (0.067%) Drupal
15 1 (0.067%) OpenStack
Applications
1 127 (8.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (3.15%) Microsoft Office
3 43 (2.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (2.14%) UserZoom
5 16 (1.07%) SPSS
6 12 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.40%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.13%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.067%) Trello
Business Applications
1 34 (2.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 17 (1.14%) Unit4 Business World
3 8 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.27%) Relativity
5 3 (0.20%) Raiser’s Edge
6 2 (0.13%) Endur
6 2 (0.13%) Veritas eDiscovery
7 1 (0.067%) Data Workbench
7 1 (0.067%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 1 (0.067%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.067%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.067%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.067%) Ringtail
7 1 (0.067%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.067%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 355 (23.78%) Power Platform
2 334 (22.37%) Azure
3 157 (10.52%) AWS
4 83 (5.56%) GCP
5 69 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
6 61 (4.09%) Snowflake
7 60 (4.02%) Azure Data Factory
8 56 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
9 55 (3.68%) PowerApps
10 54 (3.62%) SaaS
11 48 (3.22%) Power Automate
12 44 (2.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 37 (2.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 33 (2.21%) Matillion
15 32 (2.14%) Figma
15 32 (2.14%) SurveyMonkey
16 29 (1.94%) dbt
17 26 (1.74%) Cloud Computing
18 24 (1.61%) Google Analytics
19 23 (1.54%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 36 (2.41%) Network Security
2 18 (1.21%) DSL
3 14 (0.94%) HTTP
3 14 (0.94%) MQTT
4 12 (0.80%) Internet
4 12 (0.80%) TCP/IP
5 7 (0.47%) OpenVPN
6 6 (0.40%) Broadband
7 5 (0.33%) Firewall
7 5 (0.33%) LAN
7 5 (0.33%) VoIP
7 5 (0.33%) WAN
8 4 (0.27%) Ethernet
8 4 (0.27%) RS-232
8 4 (0.27%) SAN
8 4 (0.27%) SMS
8 4 (0.27%) Wireless
8 4 (0.27%) WPA
9 3 (0.20%) iSCSI
9 3 (0.20%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 345 (23.11%) Power BI
2 216 (14.47%) Data Warehouse
3 204 (13.66%) Tableau
4 134 (8.98%) SQL Server
5 112 (7.50%) Data Lake
6 96 (6.43%) Big Data
7 49 (3.28%) Azure SQL Database
8 45 (3.01%) Relational Database
9 41 (2.75%) Star Schema
10 36 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
11 35 (2.34%) DB2
11 35 (2.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 30 (2.01%) NoSQL
13 26 (1.74%) MongoDB
14 25 (1.67%) BigQuery
15 24 (1.61%) Data Mining
15 24 (1.61%) Looker
15 24 (1.61%) Metadata
16 21 (1.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 20 (1.34%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 62 (4.15%) Jenkins
2 58 (3.88%) Git
3 44 (2.95%) GitLab
4 29 (1.94%) JIRA
5 12 (0.80%) SonarQube
6 8 (0.54%) CircleCI
7 7 (0.47%) Jasmine
7 7 (0.47%) Mockito
7 7 (0.47%) RStudio
8 4 (0.27%) Eclipse
8 4 (0.27%) IntelliJ
8 4 (0.27%) Subversion
9 3 (0.20%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.13%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.13%) ERwin
10 2 (0.13%) gulp
11 1 (0.067%) Gradle
11 1 (0.067%) IBM UrbanCode
11 1 (0.067%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.067%) Spinnaker
General
1 554 (37.11%) Social Skills
2 496 (33.22%) Finance
3 280 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 222 (14.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 220 (14.74%) Marketing
6 171 (11.45%) Law
7 127 (8.51%) Banking
8 84 (5.63%) Legal
9 76 (5.09%) Presentation Skills
10 70 (4.69%) Organisational Skills
11 66 (4.42%) Retail
12 63 (4.22%) Manufacturing
13 60 (4.02%) Public Sector
14 49 (3.28%) Military
15 39 (2.61%) Games
16 38 (2.55%) Financial Institution
17 37 (2.48%) Investment Banking
18 25 (1.67%) Aerospace
19 21 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
20 19 (1.27%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 264 (17.68%) Architect
2 223 (14.94%) Senior
3 208 (13.93%) Analyst
4 170 (11.39%) Solutions Architect
5 162 (10.85%) Developer
6 140 (9.38%) Data Engineer
7 110 (7.37%) Data Analyst
8 103 (6.90%) Presales Solution Architect
9 89 (5.96%) Lead
10 85 (5.69%) Consultant
11 57 (3.82%) Data Architect
12 55 (3.68%) Data Manager
13 51 (3.42%) Analytics Manager
14 50 (3.35%) Senior Analyst
15 46 (3.08%) Audit Manager
15 46 (3.08%) Product Manager
16 43 (2.88%) Senior Manager
17 40 (2.68%) Data Scientist
18 39 (2.61%) Senior Data Engineer
19 38 (2.55%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (6.90%) .NET
2 63 (4.22%) HTML
3 51 (3.42%) Kafka
4 48 (3.22%) ASP.NET
5 46 (3.08%) CSS
6 45 (3.01%) AngularJS
7 37 (2.48%) Elastic Stack
8 36 (2.41%) React
9 35 (2.34%) ASP.NET MVC
10 33 (2.21%) .NET Core
10 33 (2.21%) Entity Framework
11 27 (1.81%) CSS3
11 27 (1.81%) HTML5
12 26 (1.74%) Web Services
13 24 (1.61%) REST
14 23 (1.54%) PySpark
15 20 (1.34%) Blazor
15 20 (1.34%) Pandas
15 20 (1.34%) RESTful
16 19 (1.27%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 124 (8.31%) Management Information System
2 78 (5.22%) Product Ownership
3 75 (5.02%) Algorithms
4 68 (4.55%) Data Structures
5 66 (4.42%) Self-Motivation
6 43 (2.88%) Cloud Native
7 39 (2.61%) Onboarding
8 36 (2.41%) IoT
9 35 (2.34%) Public Cloud
10 32 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
11 27 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
12 24 (1.61%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 24 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
13 23 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
14 18 (1.21%) Robotics
15 17 (1.14%) Taxonomies
16 15 (1.00%) Cyber Defence
16 15 (1.00%) Cybercrime
16 15 (1.00%) Security Operations Centre
17 14 (0.94%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 69 (4.62%) Linux
2 54 (3.62%) Windows
3 26 (1.74%) Windows Server
4 20 (1.34%) Unix
5 7 (0.47%) CentOS
6 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.067%) Android
7 1 (0.067%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.067%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,493 (100.00%) Analytics
2 463 (31.01%) Business Intelligence
3 426 (28.53%) Problem-Solving
4 369 (24.72%) Agile
5 317 (21.23%) Data Modelling
6 310 (20.76%) Visualisation
7 277 (18.55%) Data Analysis
7 277 (18.55%) Machine Learning
8 266 (17.82%) Data Science
9 263 (17.62%) Artificial Intelligence
10 260 (17.41%) Decision-Making
11 245 (16.41%) Actionable Insight
12 207 (13.86%) ETL
12 207 (13.86%) Roadmaps
13 202 (13.53%) Data Visualisation
14 182 (12.19%) Business Case
15 176 (11.79%) DevOps
16 173 (11.59%) Computer Science
17 151 (10.11%) Project Management
18 150 (10.05%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 506 (33.89%) SQL
2 375 (25.12%) Python
3 90 (6.03%) JavaScript
4 89 (5.96%) C#
5 87 (5.83%) Java
6 74 (4.96%) R
7 38 (2.55%) Scala
8 36 (2.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 30 (2.01%) PowerShell
9 30 (2.01%) TypeScript
10 27 (1.81%) C
11 24 (1.61%) PL/SQL
12 22 (1.47%) Haskell
13 21 (1.41%) C++
14 17 (1.14%) Bash
14 17 (1.14%) T-SQL
15 15 (1.00%) VBA
16 14 (0.94%) PHP
17 10 (0.67%) Clojure
17 10 (0.67%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 415 (27.80%) Degree
2 210 (14.07%) Security Cleared
3 154 (10.31%) SC Cleared
4 107 (7.17%) Master's Degree
5 72 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 51 (3.42%) DV Cleared
7 33 (2.21%) TOGAF Certification
8 32 (2.14%) PhD
9 29 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
9 29 (1.94%) MBA
10 23 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
11 22 (1.47%) Numerate Degree
12 21 (1.41%) CISA
12 21 (1.41%) CISSP
13 20 (1.34%) ACCA
14 14 (0.94%) DBS Check
15 11 (0.74%) CFA
15 11 (0.74%) CIMA
16 6 (0.40%) Azure Certification
16 6 (0.40%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (10.78%) Data Quality
2 45 (3.01%) Actionable Recommendations
3 32 (2.14%) QA
4 30 (2.01%) Accessibility
5 24 (1.61%) NIST
5 24 (1.61%) PMO
6 19 (1.27%) ITGC
6 19 (1.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 19 (1.27%) SLA
7 18 (1.21%) GDPR
8 17 (1.14%) IFRS
9 16 (1.07%) IFRS 9
10 11 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 11 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 5 (0.33%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.20%) ISO 9000
12 3 (0.20%) MiFID
12 3 (0.20%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.13%) COBIT
13 2 (0.13%) COSO
System Software
1 43 (2.88%) Docker
2 27 (1.81%) vSphere
3 8 (0.54%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.54%) HDFS
4 7 (0.47%) Firmware
5 5 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.067%) Lustre
7 1 (0.067%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 58 (3.88%) Kubernetes
2 39 (2.61%) Terraform
3 16 (1.07%) Ansible
4 13 (0.87%) Grafana
5 12 (0.80%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.40%) Puppet
7 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.067%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.067%) Icinga
8 1 (0.067%) MOM
8 1 (0.067%) Podman
8 1 (0.067%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.067%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.067%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 292 (19.56%) Microsoft
2 92 (6.16%) Google
3 90 (6.03%) Databricks
4 66 (4.42%) Oracle
5 55 (3.68%) Alteryx
6 39 (2.61%) SAP
7 34 (2.28%) Sparx
8 32 (2.14%) Qualtrics
9 24 (1.61%) Salesforce
9 24 (1.61%) SolarWinds
9 24 (1.61%) Tanium
9 24 (1.61%) Tripwire
10 22 (1.47%) IBM
11 19 (1.27%) Cognos
12 18 (1.21%) Sybase
13 17 (1.14%) Sage
14 16 (1.07%) CA
15 15 (1.00%) Pega
16 14 (0.94%) Dataiku
16 14 (0.94%) Snow