Exploratory Analysis
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Exploratory Analysis skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Exploratory Analysis over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 892 952 1192
Rank change year-on-year +60 +240 -306
Permanent jobs citing Exploratory Analysis 22 12 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.022% 0.012% 0.027%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.026% 0.012% 0.029%
Number of salaries quoted 21 8 7
10th Percentile - £43,875 £47,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £54,375 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £75,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -43.33% +38.89% +4.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £72,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £88,750 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,000 £85,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -64.71% +57.41% +47.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Exploratory Analysis 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 84,624 98,922 149,770
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.89% 95.62% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,744 58,119 83,346
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,500 £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%

Exploratory Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Exploratory Analysis in the UK

Exploratory Analysis
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Exploratory Analysis.

Salary trend for Exploratory Analysis in the UK

Exploratory Analysis
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Exploratory Analysis over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Exploratory Analysis in the UK

Exploratory Analysis
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Exploratory Analysis within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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 +111 18 £42,500 -43.33% 3
Work from Home +79 12 £42,500 -50.00%
North of England +54 12 £30,000 -64.71%
UK excluding London 0 12 £30,000 -64.71% 1
North East +1 11 £30,000 -64.71%
London +127 6 £90,000 +20.00% 2
North West - 1 - -

Exploratory Analysis
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 4 (18.18%) SAS
2 3 (13.64%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (36.36%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 13 (59.09%) Power Platform
2 4 (18.18%) Fivetran
3 3 (13.64%) Azure
3 3 (13.64%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.55%) dbt
4 1 (4.55%) Matillion
4 1 (4.55%) SaaS
4 1 (4.55%) Snowflake
4 1 (4.55%) Stitch
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (59.09%) Power BI
2 8 (36.36%) Big Data
3 7 (31.82%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (18.18%) Metadata
4 4 (18.18%) Tableau
5 3 (13.64%) Data Vault
5 3 (13.64%) Delta Lake
5 3 (13.64%) Looker
5 3 (13.64%) Star Schema
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (4.55%) BigQuery
6 1 (4.55%) Metabase
6 1 (4.55%) Redash
6 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (4.55%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Git
General
1 10 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
1 10 (45.45%) Marketing
2 8 (36.36%) Banking
2 8 (36.36%) Finance
3 7 (31.82%) Retail
3 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
4 3 (13.64%) Games
4 3 (13.64%) Manufacturing
5 2 (9.09%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 12 (54.55%) Analyst
1 12 (54.55%) Data Analyst
2 4 (18.18%) Data Scientist
3 3 (13.64%) Head of Analytics
3 3 (13.64%) Head of Data Analytics
4 2 (9.09%) Head of Mobile
5 1 (4.55%) Master Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) Tidyverse
Miscellaneous
1 8 (36.36%) Credit Risk
2 4 (18.18%) Product Ownership
3 2 (9.09%) Mobile App
3 2 (9.09%) Mobile Games
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (77.27%) Analytics
2 14 (63.64%) Business Intelligence
3 12 (54.55%) Mathematics
3 12 (54.55%) Statistics
3 12 (54.55%) Visualisation
4 11 (50.00%) Data Science
5 8 (36.36%) Data Analysis
5 8 (36.36%) Decision-Making
5 8 (36.36%) Direct Marketing
5 8 (36.36%) Fintech
5 8 (36.36%) Mobile First
5 8 (36.36%) Predictive Modelling
6 7 (31.82%) OpenUP
6 7 (31.82%) Technical Analysis
7 6 (27.27%) Economics
8 5 (22.73%) Data Analytics
8 5 (22.73%) Data Management
8 5 (22.73%) Machine Learning
9 4 (18.18%) Fraud Modelling
9 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (100.00%) SQL
2 11 (50.00%) Python
3 7 (31.82%) R
4 3 (13.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 16 (72.73%) Degree
2 6 (27.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Databricks