Data Analytics Job Trends in England

Data Analytics
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Data Analytics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 185 187
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 -27
Permanent jobs citing Data Analytics 643 764 785
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.23% 1.57% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.51% 1.74% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 419 357 591
10th Percentile - £34,800 £36,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -8.74%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £113,750 £97,350 £97,290
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -11.11%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Data Analytics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 42,581 44,028 42,509
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.75% 90.38% 90.78%
Number of salaries quoted 25,429 21,729 32,838
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Data Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Analytics relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Data Analytics job vacancy trend in England

Data Analytics
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Analytics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Analytics

Data Analytics
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Analytics in England over the 6 months to 5 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Analytics in England

Data Analytics
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Analytics within the England region over the 6 months to 5 January 2026. 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
London +17 328 £75,000 -3.23% 339
North of England -9 93 £40,000 -11.11% 75
Midlands +17 67 £45,000 -19.64% 53
South East -20 61 £62,500 +8.70% 247
West Midlands +15 51 £42,750 -22.27% 34
North West -17 51 £40,000 -11.11% 27
South West -6 44 £42,750 -21.47% 45
East of England +39 41 £27,500 -57.69% 72
Yorkshire -13 29 £40,000 -11.11% 33
East Midlands +2 19 £45,195 -32.04% 19
North East +16 13 £40,000 -27.27% 18
Data Analytics
UK

Data Analytics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 20 (3.11%) Apache Spark
2 17 (2.64%) SAS
3 11 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.78%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.62%) Apache
5 4 (0.62%) Confluence
6 3 (0.47%) CMS
7 1 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.16%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 200 (31.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.40%) SPSS
5 4 (0.62%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.16%) Notion
Business Applications
1 11 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.78%) SAP CO
4 4 (0.62%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.47%) Unit4 Business World
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.31%) Relativity
7 1 (0.16%) FIS Private Capital Suite
7 1 (0.16%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.16%) Maximo
7 1 (0.16%) Pegasus Opera
7 1 (0.16%) Primavera
7 1 (0.16%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 181 (28.15%) Power Platform
2 131 (20.37%) Azure
3 64 (9.95%) AWS
4 42 (6.53%) SaaS
5 31 (4.82%) GCP
6 22 (3.42%) Snowflake
7 20 (3.11%) Azure Data Factory
8 17 (2.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 17 (2.64%) dbt
9 14 (2.18%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (2.18%) Serverless
10 12 (1.87%) Amazon S3
11 11 (1.71%) Microsoft 365
12 10 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (1.40%) Dropbox
13 9 (1.40%) GitHub
14 8 (1.24%) Fivetran
14 8 (1.24%) Google Analytics
15 6 (0.93%) Dynamics 365
15 6 (0.93%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.49%) Broadband
2 12 (1.87%) CHAP
3 4 (0.62%) VoIP
4 2 (0.31%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (27.53%) Power BI
2 163 (25.35%) Tableau
3 115 (17.88%) Data Mining
4 55 (8.55%) Data Warehouse
5 44 (6.84%) Big Data
6 22 (3.42%) SQL Server
7 19 (2.95%) Metadata
8 18 (2.80%) Hadoop
9 17 (2.64%) NoSQL
10 16 (2.49%) Amazon Redshift
11 13 (2.02%) Azure SQL Database
12 12 (1.87%) Looker
12 12 (1.87%) Power Query
13 11 (1.71%) Data Lake
14 10 (1.56%) Qlik Sense
14 10 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 9 (1.40%) EDRMS
15 9 (1.40%) Star Schema
16 6 (0.93%) BigQuery
17 5 (0.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (1.87%) Jenkins
1 12 (1.87%) TeamCity
2 9 (1.40%) Git
3 5 (0.78%) JIRA
4 4 (0.62%) MLflow
5 2 (0.31%) ER Studio
General
1 311 (48.37%) Finance
2 257 (39.97%) Analytical Skills
3 199 (30.95%) Social Skills
4 64 (9.95%) Marketing
5 63 (9.80%) Law
6 47 (7.31%) Banking
7 40 (6.22%) Legal
8 33 (5.13%) Financial Institution
9 32 (4.98%) Manufacturing
10 30 (4.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 28 (4.35%) Games
12 23 (3.58%) Front Office
13 21 (3.27%) Public Sector
14 20 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
15 18 (2.80%) Retail
16 14 (2.18%) Organisational Skills
17 8 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
17 8 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
17 8 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
18 7 (1.09%) Billing
Job Titles
1 217 (33.75%) Analyst
2 162 (25.19%) Data Analyst
3 106 (16.49%) Trainee
3 106 (16.49%) Trainee Analyst
3 106 (16.49%) Trainee Data Analyst
4 86 (13.37%) Senior
5 40 (6.22%) Data Engineer
6 37 (5.75%) Architect
7 35 (5.44%) Lead
8 32 (4.98%) Developer
9 31 (4.82%) Senior Manager
10 28 (4.35%) Auditor
11 25 (3.89%) Audit Manager
12 23 (3.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 23 (3.58%) Internal Auditor
12 23 (3.58%) Software Engineer
13 19 (2.95%) Commercial Analyst
14 17 (2.64%) Analytics Manager
14 17 (2.64%) IT Manager
14 17 (2.64%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.80%) Kafka
2 16 (2.49%) PySpark
3 12 (1.87%) Akka
4 7 (1.09%) React
5 5 (0.78%) PyXLL
5 5 (0.78%) SAP CO-PA
6 4 (0.62%) NumPy
6 4 (0.62%) Pandas
6 4 (0.62%) scikit-learn
7 3 (0.47%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.47%) Matplotlib
7 3 (0.47%) Middleware
7 3 (0.47%) PyTorch
7 3 (0.47%) Seaborn
7 3 (0.47%) TensorFlow
7 3 (0.47%) Vue
8 2 (0.31%) CSS
8 2 (0.31%) EDI
8 2 (0.31%) HTML
8 2 (0.31%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 49 (7.62%) Algorithms
2 35 (5.44%) Management Information System
2 35 (5.44%) Self-Motivation
3 25 (3.89%) Onboarding
4 24 (3.73%) Analytical Mindset
5 23 (3.58%) Product Ownership
6 22 (3.42%) FMCG
7 12 (1.87%) Over-the-Top Content
7 12 (1.87%) Video\Live Streaming
8 10 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (1.56%) Equities
9 9 (1.40%) Cybercrime
10 8 (1.24%) Credit Risk
10 8 (1.24%) IoT
11 7 (1.09%) Blockchain
11 7 (1.09%) Cloud Native
11 7 (1.09%) Fixed Income
12 6 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (0.78%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.56%) Linux
1 10 (1.56%) Unix
1 10 (1.56%) Windows
2 1 (0.16%) AIX
2 1 (0.16%) Android
2 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 643 (100.00%) Analytics
2 214 (33.28%) Data Analysis
3 209 (32.50%) Business Intelligence
4 167 (25.97%) Project Management
5 165 (25.66%) AI
6 157 (24.42%) Decision-Making
7 147 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
8 126 (19.60%) Business Analysis
9 121 (18.82%) Visualisation
10 113 (17.57%) Agile
11 87 (13.53%) Data Modelling
12 82 (12.75%) Data Governance
13 79 (12.29%) ETL
13 79 (12.29%) Machine Learning
14 76 (11.82%) Data Visualisation
15 70 (10.89%) Actionable Insight
15 70 (10.89%) Risk Management
16 68 (10.58%) Continuous Improvement
17 67 (10.42%) Computer Science
18 65 (10.11%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 285 (44.32%) Python
2 275 (42.77%) SQL
3 28 (4.35%) R
4 26 (4.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 21 (3.27%) Java
5 21 (3.27%) Scala
6 13 (2.02%) C++
7 12 (1.87%) JavaScript
8 9 (1.40%) C#
8 9 (1.40%) VBA
9 7 (1.09%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.78%) C
11 4 (0.62%) Fortran
11 4 (0.62%) PHP
11 4 (0.62%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.62%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.47%) Google Apps Script
12 3 (0.47%) MATLAB
12 3 (0.47%) Tcl
13 2 (0.31%) Perl
Qualifications
1 170 (26.44%) Degree
2 45 (7.00%) CISA
3 44 (6.84%) Master's Degree
4 42 (6.53%) CISSP
5 34 (5.29%) CISM
6 33 (5.13%) Security Cleared
7 30 (4.67%) PhD
8 25 (3.89%) DBS Check
9 24 (3.73%) SC Cleared
10 20 (3.11%) BPSS Clearance
11 19 (2.95%) ACCA
12 18 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
13 14 (2.18%) CRISC
14 13 (2.02%) FFIEC
15 12 (1.87%) CGEIT
15 12 (1.87%) SANS
16 11 (1.71%) AWS Certification
17 7 (1.09%) CIMA
18 4 (0.62%) Azure Certification
18 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (14.62%) Data Quality
2 34 (5.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 30 (4.67%) GDPR
4 25 (3.89%) NIST
5 20 (3.11%) COBIT
5 20 (3.11%) QA
6 12 (1.87%) GRC
7 11 (1.71%) IFRS
8 10 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (1.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (1.09%) ITGC
11 6 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.93%) MiFID
12 5 (0.78%) Accessibility
13 4 (0.62%) PMO
14 3 (0.47%) SLA
15 2 (0.31%) Def Stans
15 2 (0.31%) IFRS 17
15 2 (0.31%) PCI DSS
15 2 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (2.95%) Docker
2 3 (0.47%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.31%) Firmware
4 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (2.95%) Kubernetes
2 13 (2.02%) Terraform
3 7 (1.09%) EnCase
3 7 (1.09%) FTK
4 5 (0.78%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.16%) Ganglia
5 1 (0.16%) Grafana
5 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 178 (27.68%) Microsoft
2 39 (6.07%) Databricks
3 24 (3.73%) Google
4 23 (3.58%) SAP
5 16 (2.49%) Oracle
6 10 (1.56%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.09%) Cellebrite
7 7 (1.09%) Progress
8 6 (0.93%) ServiceNow
9 5 (0.78%) Alteryx
9 5 (0.78%) GoldenSource
10 4 (0.62%) Adobe
10 4 (0.62%) CrowdStrike
10 4 (0.62%) Fortinet
10 4 (0.62%) HubSpot
10 4 (0.62%) Informatica
10 4 (0.62%) Palo Alto
11 3 (0.47%) Allen-Bradley
11 3 (0.47%) IBM
11 3 (0.47%) Siemens