Analytics Job Trends in the South West

Analytics
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Analytics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 49 40
Rank change year-on-year +12 -9 +12
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 190 187 279
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 3.80% 4.38% 6.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.26% 5.17% 6.80%
Number of salaries quoted 108 114 204
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £40,875 £41,563 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -12.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £97,250 £94,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% -3.70%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,610 3,614 4,103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 72.21% 84.58% 90.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,454 1,842 3,112
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £33,813 £40,000 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,720 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.62% +4.23% +4.23%
75th Percentile £66,250 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £81,250
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 West

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

Analytics job vacancy trend in the South West

Analytics
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Analytics

Analytics
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytics in the South West over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Analytics in the South West

Analytics
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Analytics within the South West region over the 6 months to 4 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
Bristol -5 90 £60,000 +4.40% 48
Wiltshire +12 25 £45,000 -43.75% 24
Gloucestershire +35 23 £57,500 +13.39% 49
Somerset -7 21 £53,750 +43.33% 31
Devon +8 16 £36,625 -47.68% 49
Dorset -7 8 £35,000 -35.71% 28
Cornwall - 4 £55,000 - 9
Analytics
England

Analytics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 5 (2.63%) CMS
2 4 (2.11%) Apache
3 2 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.53%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.53%) Confluence
4 1 (0.53%) SAS
Applications
1 32 (16.84%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (16.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (3.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.53%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.58%) SAP APO
1 3 (1.58%) SAP IBP
2 2 (1.05%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 2 (1.05%) Shopify
3 1 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.53%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 47 (24.74%) Power Platform
2 37 (19.47%) Azure
3 21 (11.05%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (7.89%) AWS
5 10 (5.26%) Google Analytics
6 8 (4.21%) SaaS
7 7 (3.68%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (3.16%) Snowflake
9 5 (2.63%) GCP
10 4 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.11%) Google Ads
11 3 (1.58%) Amazon SageMaker
11 3 (1.58%) Azure Stack
11 3 (1.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (1.58%) Google Workspace
11 3 (1.58%) Matillion
12 2 (1.05%) Amazon S3
12 2 (1.05%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (1.05%) GitHub
12 2 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.16%) VPN
2 3 (1.58%) Firewall
2 3 (1.58%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.53%) Internet
3 1 (0.53%) Network Security
3 1 (0.53%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (24.74%) Power BI
2 22 (11.58%) Tableau
3 18 (9.47%) SQL Server
4 12 (6.32%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (4.21%) Data Mining
6 6 (3.16%) Metadata
6 6 (3.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (2.63%) Looker
8 4 (2.11%) Big Data
8 4 (2.11%) Data Lake
8 4 (2.11%) NoSQL
8 4 (2.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.58%) ClickHouse
9 3 (1.58%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.58%) MS Access
9 3 (1.58%) OLAP
10 2 (1.05%) Ataccama
10 2 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.05%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.05%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (2.11%) Git
2 2 (1.05%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.05%) JIRA
2 2 (1.05%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.53%) GitLab
General
1 73 (38.42%) Social Skills
2 56 (29.47%) Finance
3 48 (25.26%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (17.37%) Marketing
5 22 (11.58%) Manufacturing
6 21 (11.05%) Back Office
7 14 (7.37%) Presentation Skills
7 14 (7.37%) Retail
8 9 (4.74%) Public Sector
9 7 (3.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (3.16%) Avionics
10 6 (3.16%) Financial Institution
11 5 (2.63%) Aerospace
11 5 (2.63%) Publishing
12 4 (2.11%) Banking
12 4 (2.11%) Brand Awareness
12 4 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (2.11%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (2.11%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (14.21%) Analyst
2 21 (11.05%) Desktop Engineer
2 21 (11.05%) Desktop Support
2 21 (11.05%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 21 (11.05%) Site Engineer
2 21 (11.05%) Support Engineer
3 16 (8.42%) Data Engineer
3 16 (8.42%) Senior
4 13 (6.84%) Data Analyst
5 12 (6.32%) Developer
6 11 (5.79%) Analytics Manager
6 11 (5.79%) Architect
6 11 (5.79%) Lead
7 8 (4.21%) Data Manager
7 8 (4.21%) Sales Executive
7 8 (4.21%) Sales Manager
7 8 (4.21%) Trainee
7 8 (4.21%) Trainee Analyst
7 8 (4.21%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 7 (3.68%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.11%) PySpark
2 3 (1.58%) Apache NiFi
2 3 (1.58%) Kafka
2 3 (1.58%) REST
3 2 (1.05%) AngularJS
3 2 (1.05%) NumPy
3 2 (1.05%) Pandas
3 2 (1.05%) PyTorch
3 2 (1.05%) scikit-learn
3 2 (1.05%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.53%) Blazor
4 1 (0.53%) CSS
4 1 (0.53%) D3.js
4 1 (0.53%) HTML
4 1 (0.53%) PrimeNG
4 1 (0.53%) React
4 1 (0.53%) RxJS
4 1 (0.53%) Spring
4 1 (0.53%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.53%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.95%) Analytical Mindset
2 14 (7.37%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (4.21%) Algorithms
4 7 (3.68%) IoT
5 6 (3.16%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.63%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.63%) e-Learning
6 5 (2.63%) Podcast
7 3 (1.58%) Augmented Reality
7 3 (1.58%) FMCG
7 3 (1.58%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.58%) Virtual Reality
8 2 (1.05%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.05%) Blog
8 2 (1.05%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.05%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.05%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.05%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (0.53%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 22 (11.58%) Windows
2 21 (11.05%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.05%) Linux
4 1 (0.53%) Debian
4 1 (0.53%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
2 49 (25.79%) Decision-Making
3 45 (23.68%) Continuous Improvement
4 44 (23.16%) Data Analytics
5 37 (19.47%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (17.37%) AI
6 33 (17.37%) Customer Experience
7 32 (16.84%) Data Analysis
8 31 (16.32%) Cybersecurity
9 30 (15.79%) Customer Service
9 30 (15.79%) Project Management
10 29 (15.26%) Machine Learning
11 26 (13.68%) Agile
11 26 (13.68%) Visualisation
12 24 (12.63%) Data Science
13 22 (11.58%) ITIL
14 21 (11.05%) Actionable Insight
14 21 (11.05%) Customer Acquisition
14 21 (11.05%) Data Modelling
14 21 (11.05%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 49 (25.79%) Python
2 44 (23.16%) SQL
3 9 (4.74%) Java
3 9 (4.74%) R
4 7 (3.68%) C++
4 7 (3.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (2.11%) C#
6 3 (1.58%) C
6 3 (1.58%) Google Apps Script
6 3 (1.58%) MATLAB
6 3 (1.58%) PL/SQL
6 3 (1.58%) Tcl
6 3 (1.58%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.58%) VBA
7 2 (1.05%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.05%) Scala
7 2 (1.05%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.53%) Go
8 1 (0.53%) Groovy
8 1 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 54 (28.42%) Degree
2 45 (23.68%) Security Cleared
3 36 (18.95%) SC Cleared
4 21 (11.05%) CTC Cleared
5 12 (6.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.63%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.05%) ACCA
8 2 (1.05%) CIMA
9 1 (0.53%) CCNA
9 1 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.53%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.53%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.53%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.53%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.53%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (11.05%) SLA
2 16 (8.42%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.16%) GDPR
4 5 (2.63%) QA
5 3 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.05%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.05%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.05%) NIST
7 1 (0.53%) NCSC
7 1 (0.53%) Solvency II
System Software
1 5 (2.63%) Docker
2 2 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (2.63%) Kubernetes
1 5 (2.63%) Terraform
2 2 (1.05%) Ansible
3 1 (0.53%) Control-M
Vendors
1 38 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 22 (11.58%) Cisco
3 20 (10.53%) Google
4 9 (4.74%) HubSpot
5 8 (4.21%) Autodesk
5 8 (4.21%) Databricks
5 8 (4.21%) Salesforce
6 6 (3.16%) SAP
7 3 (1.58%) IBM
7 3 (1.58%) Oracle
8 2 (1.05%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.05%) Talend
9 1 (0.53%) Adobe
9 1 (0.53%) F5
9 1 (0.53%) Foundry
9 1 (0.53%) Palantir
9 1 (0.53%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.53%) Splunk
9 1 (0.53%) Verint
9 1 (0.53%) Zoho