Analytics Job Trends in the South East

Analytics
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Analytics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 56 39
Rank change year-on-year +28 -17 -3
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 576 472 400
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 5.88% 4.54% 5.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.12% 5.37% 5.84%
Number of salaries quoted 225 186 285
10th Percentile £31,250 £41,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,948 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £66,750 £78,458 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,750 £97,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% -3.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,085 8,795 6,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 82.56% 84.58% 92.79%
Number of salaries quoted 4,925 4,575 4,815
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £54,763
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +5.00% -0.43%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Analytics job vacancy trend in the South East

Analytics
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Analytics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Analytics

Analytics
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytics in the South East over the 6 months to 7 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Analytics in the South East

Analytics
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Analytics within the South East region over the 6 months to 7 December 2025. 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
Thames Valley +67 372 £49,000 -7.55% 406
Berkshire +84 235 £50,000 -8.70% 188
Buckinghamshire +40 101 £49,000 -14.78% 144
Hampshire +6 79 £60,000 -7.69% 209
Surrey -40 38 £60,000 -4.00% 153
Oxfordshire +24 37 £48,750 - 75
Kent +8 24 £40,000 -30.43% 136
West Sussex +4 23 £45,000 -25.00% 77
Middlesex -9 17 - - 15
East Sussex -1 15 £55,000 - 72
Sussex +6 6 £45,000 -18.18% 11
Analytics
England

Analytics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 17 (2.95%) CMS
2 13 (2.26%) WordPress
3 10 (1.74%) SugarCRM
4 9 (1.56%) Confluence
4 9 (1.56%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.52%) Drupal
5 3 (0.52%) Joomla!
5 3 (0.52%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.35%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 135 (23.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.39%) Adobe Premiere
3 8 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.39%) Photoshop
4 7 (1.22%) InDesign
4 7 (1.22%) MadCap Flare
4 7 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.87%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 5 (0.87%) Adobe XD
6 4 (0.69%) SketchUp
7 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.08%) Shopify
2 11 (1.91%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.87%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 3 (0.52%) SAP MDG
5 3 (0.52%) Unit4 Business World
6 2 (0.35%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.17%) Primavera
7 1 (0.17%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.17%) SAP EWM
7 1 (0.17%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.17%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.17%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 170 (29.51%) Power Platform
2 148 (25.69%) Azure
3 55 (9.55%) Google Analytics
4 39 (6.77%) SaaS
5 33 (5.73%) Snowflake
6 31 (5.38%) GCP
7 20 (3.47%) AWS
8 19 (3.30%) Google Ads
9 15 (2.60%) Vertex AI
10 13 (2.26%) Figma
11 12 (2.08%) Azure Data Factory
12 10 (1.74%) Google Docs
13 9 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (1.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 9 (1.56%) GitHub
13 9 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
14 8 (1.39%) dbt
14 8 (1.39%) Google Tag Manager
15 7 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
16 6 (1.04%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.26%) SMS
2 7 (1.22%) Intranet
3 4 (0.69%) Unified Communications
4 3 (0.52%) Network Security
5 2 (0.35%) MQTT
5 2 (0.35%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.35%) VPN
6 1 (0.17%) Broadband
6 1 (0.17%) LoRaWAN
6 1 (0.17%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (29.17%) Power BI
2 86 (14.93%) Data Lake
3 69 (11.98%) SAP BW
4 49 (8.51%) Data Warehouse
5 36 (6.25%) Metadata
6 29 (5.03%) Tableau
7 27 (4.69%) BigQuery
8 22 (3.82%) Data Mining
9 13 (2.26%) Relational Database
10 10 (1.74%) SQL Server
11 8 (1.39%) Looker
12 7 (1.22%) Qlik Sense
12 7 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 3 (0.52%) Amazon QuickSight
14 3 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (0.52%) MySQL
14 3 (0.52%) NoSQL
14 3 (0.52%) SAP HANA
14 3 (0.52%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (3.13%) JIRA
2 9 (1.56%) Git
3 5 (0.87%) Axure RP
3 5 (0.87%) Balsamiq
4 3 (0.52%) ERwin
4 3 (0.52%) PowerDesigner
4 3 (0.52%) Visual Website Optimizer
5 1 (0.17%) GCC
General
1 262 (45.49%) Social Skills
2 183 (31.77%) Analytical Skills
3 168 (29.17%) Finance
4 140 (24.31%) Marketing
5 48 (8.33%) Law
6 37 (6.42%) Manufacturing
7 36 (6.25%) Retail
8 23 (3.99%) Pharmaceutical
9 18 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
11 13 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (1.74%) Legal
13 9 (1.56%) Advertising
13 9 (1.56%) Public Sector
14 8 (1.39%) Banking
15 7 (1.22%) Brand Awareness
16 6 (1.04%) Billing
16 6 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
17 5 (0.87%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 139 (24.13%) Lead
2 108 (18.75%) Senior
3 93 (16.15%) Analyst
4 50 (8.68%) Architect
5 41 (7.12%) Report Analyst
6 36 (6.25%) Data Analyst
7 34 (5.90%) Business Intelligence Lead
8 28 (4.86%) Sustainability Analyst
9 26 (4.51%) Data Architect
10 25 (4.34%) Senior Manager
11 20 (3.47%) Cloud Architect
11 20 (3.47%) GCP Architect
11 20 (3.47%) Platform Architect
12 18 (3.13%) Data Engineer
13 17 (2.95%) Marketing Manager
14 15 (2.60%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 15 (2.60%) Marketing Executive
15 13 (2.26%) Commercial Analyst
15 13 (2.26%) Data Manager
15 13 (2.26%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.74%) FHIR
2 9 (1.56%) HTML
3 7 (1.22%) SOAP
4 6 (1.04%) CSS
4 6 (1.04%) JSON
4 6 (1.04%) REST
4 6 (1.04%) XML
5 5 (0.87%) ARM Templates
6 4 (0.69%) OAuth
6 4 (0.69%) SAML
7 3 (0.52%) Hugging Face
7 3 (0.52%) Middleware
7 3 (0.52%) scikit-learn
8 2 (0.35%) Kafka
8 2 (0.35%) NumPy
8 2 (0.35%) Pandas
8 2 (0.35%) RESTful
8 2 (0.35%) SAP Fiori
8 2 (0.35%) Snowpark
8 2 (0.35%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 53 (9.20%) Onboarding
2 51 (8.85%) Analytical Mindset
3 43 (7.47%) Life Science
4 28 (4.86%) Algorithms
4 28 (4.86%) Data Centre
5 27 (4.69%) Management Information System
6 25 (4.34%) Cloud Native
7 23 (3.99%) Product Ownership
8 20 (3.47%) Social Media
9 17 (2.95%) Self-Motivation
10 15 (2.60%) FMCG
11 13 (2.26%) Blog
12 10 (1.74%) Omics
13 7 (1.22%) Security Operations Centre
14 6 (1.04%) Educational Technology
14 6 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
14 6 (1.04%) Web Conferencing
15 5 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
16 4 (0.69%) Photography
16 4 (0.69%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.35%) Unix
2 1 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (32.29%) Problem-Solving
2 185 (32.12%) Business Intelligence
3 128 (22.22%) Data Modelling
4 127 (22.05%) Continuous Improvement
5 118 (20.49%) AI
6 116 (20.14%) Agile
7 111 (19.27%) Decision-Making
8 107 (18.58%) Roadmaps
9 100 (17.36%) Data Science
10 91 (15.80%) Actionable Insight
11 86 (14.93%) Data Governance
12 84 (14.58%) Machine Learning
13 77 (13.37%) Use Case
14 76 (13.19%) ERP
15 75 (13.02%) Stakeholder Management
16 74 (12.85%) Computer Science
17 70 (12.15%) Visualisation
18 63 (10.94%) Data Engineering
19 62 (10.76%) Data Management
20 60 (10.42%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 107 (18.58%) SQL
2 89 (15.45%) Python
3 22 (3.82%) Go
4 21 (3.65%) Java
5 12 (2.08%) JavaScript
6 8 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 8 (1.39%) Kusto Query Language
6 8 (1.39%) PowerShell
7 6 (1.04%) T-SQL
8 5 (0.87%) Bicep
8 5 (0.87%) R
9 2 (0.35%) VBA
10 1 (0.17%) ABAP
10 1 (0.17%) Bash
10 1 (0.17%) Ruby
10 1 (0.17%) Scala
10 1 (0.17%) SQR
Qualifications
1 200 (34.72%) Degree
2 37 (6.42%) Master's Degree
3 31 (5.38%) PhD
4 18 (3.13%) Security Cleared
5 16 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (2.43%) DBS Check
7 12 (2.08%) HNC
8 9 (1.56%) SC Cleared
9 8 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.39%) PMI Certification
9 8 (1.39%) PMP
10 6 (1.04%) ACCA
10 6 (1.04%) CIMA
11 5 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.69%) SAP Certification
13 3 (0.52%) Azure Certification
13 3 (0.52%) CISSP
13 3 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (0.52%) CREST Certified
13 3 (0.52%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (18.92%) Data Quality
2 52 (9.03%) Accessibility
3 32 (5.56%) GxP
4 27 (4.69%) GDPR
5 16 (2.78%) QA
6 10 (1.74%) CDISC
6 10 (1.74%) HL7
7 8 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.39%) WCAG
8 5 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (0.87%) NIST
8 5 (0.87%) PMO
9 3 (0.52%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.52%) SLA
10 2 (0.35%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 2 (0.35%) GRC
11 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.17%) IFRS
System Software
1 7 (1.22%) Docker
2 2 (0.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (4.34%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.74%) Terraform
3 5 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.52%) QRadar
5 1 (0.17%) Ansible
5 1 (0.17%) Argo
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 107 (18.58%) Google
2 104 (18.06%) Microsoft
3 88 (15.28%) SAP
4 23 (3.99%) Adobe
5 21 (3.65%) Salesforce
6 17 (2.95%) OpenAI
7 12 (2.08%) Ahrefs
7 12 (2.08%) Databricks
7 12 (2.08%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 11 (1.91%) HubSpot
8 11 (1.91%) Oracle
8 11 (1.91%) Screaming Frog
9 8 (1.39%) Nexthink
10 6 (1.04%) Instagram
10 6 (1.04%) Qualtrics
10 6 (1.04%) Zoho
11 5 (0.87%) Facebook
11 5 (0.87%) JD Edwards
12 4 (0.69%) Sage
12 4 (0.69%) Siemens