Data Analytics Job Trends in the South East

Data Analytics
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Data Analytics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 206 200 205
Rank change year-on-year -6 +5 -5
Permanent jobs citing Data Analytics 61 99 84
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.59% 1.09% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 1.24% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 31 50 49
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,750 £33,488
25th Percentile £56,250 £43,750 £40,906
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £116,250 £82,750 £75,700
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% -7.41%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,281 7,962 7,798
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 80.27% 88.01% 88.28%
Number of salaries quoted 4,926 3,813 5,426
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,250 £45,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +10.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Data Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Data Analytics job vacancy trend in the South East

Data Analytics
Salary Trend in the South East

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

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

Data Analytics
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Analytics in the South East over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Analytics in the South East

Data 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 Data Analytics within the South East region over the 6 months to 11 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
Thames Valley +21 36 £67,500 +42.11% 56
Buckinghamshire +13 15 £67,500 +17.39% 14
Berkshire +11 15 £72,500 +45.00% 33
Surrey -11 8 £60,000 -14.29% 21
Middlesex -5 7 - - 12
Oxfordshire +22 6 £62,500 +35.16% 9
Kent -10 3 £40,000 - 20
Hampshire +30 2 £87,500 +94.44% 17
West Sussex +3 2 £40,000 -52.94% 9
Sussex +1 2 £55,000 -
East Sussex +3 1 £75,000 -1.03% 7
Data Analytics
England

Data 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 3 (4.92%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.28%) CMS
2 2 (3.28%) Confluence
3 1 (1.64%) SAS
Applications
1 21 (34.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (6.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (9.84%) SAP CO
2 3 (4.92%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (1.64%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 35 (57.38%) Power Platform
2 7 (11.48%) Azure
3 3 (4.92%) dbt
3 3 (4.92%) GCP
3 3 (4.92%) SaaS
3 3 (4.92%) Snowflake
4 2 (3.28%) AWS
4 2 (3.28%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (3.28%) Dataform
4 2 (3.28%) Fivetran
4 2 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.64%) Adobe Analytics
5 1 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.64%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.64%) Figma
5 1 (1.64%) iPaaS
5 1 (1.64%) Miro
5 1 (1.64%) OCI
5 1 (1.64%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.64%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (57.38%) Power BI
2 5 (8.20%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (8.20%) Tableau
3 3 (4.92%) Looker
4 2 (3.28%) BigQuery
4 2 (3.28%) Data Mining
4 2 (3.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (3.28%) Star Schema
5 1 (1.64%) MySQL
5 1 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.64%) Power Query
5 1 (1.64%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.64%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (1.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (4.92%) Git
2 1 (1.64%) JIRA
General
1 36 (59.02%) Analytical Skills
2 28 (45.90%) Social Skills
3 27 (44.26%) Finance
4 16 (26.23%) Manufacturing
5 12 (19.67%) Marketing
6 4 (6.56%) Legal
6 4 (6.56%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (4.92%) Local Government
8 2 (3.28%) Banking
8 2 (3.28%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.64%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.64%) Back Office
9 1 (1.64%) Games
9 1 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.64%) Retail
9 1 (1.64%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 16 (26.23%) Analyst
1 16 (26.23%) Data Analyst
2 12 (19.67%) Commercial Analyst
2 12 (19.67%) Commercial Data Analyst
2 12 (19.67%) Procurement Analyst
3 8 (13.11%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 8 (13.11%) Developer
3 8 (13.11%) Senior
4 7 (11.48%) Business Developer
4 7 (11.48%) Power BI Developer
5 6 (9.84%) Business Intelligence Specialist
5 6 (9.84%) Lead
5 6 (9.84%) Power BI Specialist
6 5 (8.20%) Manufacturing Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Analytics Manager
7 3 (4.92%) Senior Manager
7 3 (4.92%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Systems Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) Business Intelligence Manager
8 2 (3.28%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.84%) SAP CO-PA
2 1 (1.64%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.67%) Analytical Mindset
1 12 (19.67%) FMCG
2 4 (6.56%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (4.92%) Industry 4.0
3 3 (4.92%) Manufacturing Execution System
3 3 (4.92%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.92%) SCADA
4 1 (1.64%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.64%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (100.00%) Analytics
2 35 (57.38%) Business Intelligence
3 34 (55.74%) Decision-Making
3 34 (55.74%) Visualisation
4 27 (44.26%) Data Visualisation
5 22 (36.07%) Actionable Insight
6 20 (32.79%) Computer Science
6 20 (32.79%) Continuous Improvement
7 16 (26.23%) AI
7 16 (26.23%) Trend Analysis
8 15 (24.59%) ETL
9 14 (22.95%) Storytelling
10 13 (21.31%) Agile
10 13 (21.31%) Data Analysis
10 13 (21.31%) LLM
10 13 (21.31%) Machine Learning
10 13 (21.31%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (19.67%) Economics
11 12 (19.67%) Generative AI
11 12 (19.67%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 25 (40.98%) SQL
2 12 (19.67%) Python
3 8 (13.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (3.28%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.28%) R
4 2 (3.28%) VBA
5 1 (1.64%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 29 (47.54%) Degree
2 2 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (3.28%) HNC
3 1 (1.64%) CISM
3 1 (1.64%) CISSP
3 1 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (18.03%) Data Quality
2 4 (6.56%) GDPR
2 4 (6.56%) GRC
3 3 (4.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (4.92%) QA
3 3 (4.92%) SLA
4 1 (1.64%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.64%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.64%) NIST
4 1 (1.64%) PMO
4 1 (1.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (3.28%) Docker
2 1 (1.64%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (3.28%) Terraform
2 1 (1.64%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (19.67%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.11%) SAP
3 3 (4.92%) Allen-Bradley
3 3 (4.92%) Siemens
4 2 (3.28%) Databricks
4 2 (3.28%) Google
5 1 (1.64%) Adobe
5 1 (1.64%) Informatica
5 1 (1.64%) Oracle
5 1 (1.64%) Talend