Analytics Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Analytics
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Analytics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 44 37
Rank change year-on-year +4 -7 -6
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 1,869 1,719 1,998
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.41% 4.79% 5.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.62% 5.37% 6.53%
Number of salaries quoted 877 787 1,331
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £40,262
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +3.64% -0.90%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £63,500 £70,000 £64,827
% change year-on-year -9.29% +7.98% -3.96%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,283 31,985 30,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 78.49% 89.04% 88.64%
Number of salaries quoted 19,187 14,363 22,780
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Analytics relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Analytics job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Analytics
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Analytics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Analytics

Analytics
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytics in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Analytics in the UK excluding London

Analytics
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Analytics within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 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
South East +19 556 £55,000 -8.33% 892
North of England -16 376 £52,500 -4.55% 462
Midlands -1 325 £55,000 - 313
Scotland +8 239 £51,250 -15.11% 86
South West +8 192 £55,000 +1.03% 277
West Midlands -9 189 £58,000 +1.75% 118
North West -22 189 £48,750 -11.36% 213
Yorkshire -7 150 £60,625 +25.64% 178
East Midlands +15 137 £46,445 -7.11% 187
East of England +40 119 £40,000 -36.00% 341
North East +26 38 £41,250 -18.32% 74
Northern Ireland +1 37 £45,000 -34.55% 58
Wales +25 28 £45,750 -8.50% 111
Analytics
UK

Analytics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 29 (1.55%) CMS
2 22 (1.18%) WordPress
3 19 (1.02%) Apache Spark
3 19 (1.02%) SharePoint
4 17 (0.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 16 (0.86%) Confluence
6 12 (0.64%) Apache
6 12 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
7 9 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (0.37%) SAS
8 7 (0.37%) SugarCRM
9 6 (0.32%) IIS
10 4 (0.21%) Oracle Application Server
11 3 (0.16%) Drupal
11 3 (0.16%) Joomla!
11 3 (0.16%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.054%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.054%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.054%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.054%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 394 (21.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 84 (4.49%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.59%) Photoshop
5 10 (0.54%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 10 (0.54%) InDesign
6 8 (0.43%) Adobe Premiere
6 8 (0.43%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.32%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.21%) SketchUp
9 3 (0.16%) MS Visio
9 3 (0.16%) Trello
10 1 (0.054%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.054%) MadCap Flare
10 1 (0.054%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.054%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 32 (1.71%) Oracle ERP
2 24 (1.28%) Shopify
3 20 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
4 16 (0.86%) Oracle Assets
4 16 (0.86%) Oracle General Ledger
4 16 (0.86%) Oracle Payables
4 16 (0.86%) Oracle Receivables
5 14 (0.75%) Oracle Financials
6 13 (0.70%) Magento
6 13 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
7 11 (0.59%) SAP CO
8 9 (0.48%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 7 (0.37%) iTrent
10 5 (0.27%) JDE EnterpriseOne
10 5 (0.27%) NetSuite
11 4 (0.21%) SAP FI
11 4 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
11 4 (0.21%) SAP IBP
12 3 (0.16%) SAP APO
12 3 (0.16%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 461 (24.67%) Azure
2 398 (21.29%) Power Platform
3 105 (5.62%) SaaS
4 102 (5.46%) AWS
4 102 (5.46%) Microsoft 365
5 96 (5.14%) Snowflake
6 92 (4.92%) Azure Data Factory
7 91 (4.87%) Google Analytics
8 84 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
9 74 (3.96%) GitHub
10 63 (3.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 59 (3.16%) GCP
12 47 (2.51%) Entra ID
13 45 (2.41%) GitHub Copilot
14 39 (2.09%) dbt
14 39 (2.09%) Google Ads
15 33 (1.77%) Azure Monitor
16 29 (1.55%) OCI
17 28 (1.50%) Dynamics 365
18 27 (1.44%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 26 (1.39%) SMS
2 13 (0.70%) VPN
3 10 (0.54%) Broadband
4 9 (0.48%) Unified Communications
5 8 (0.43%) Firewall
5 8 (0.43%) Intranet
6 4 (0.21%) VoIP
7 3 (0.16%) MQTT
7 3 (0.16%) Network Security
7 3 (0.16%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.11%) DNS
9 1 (0.054%) DHCP
9 1 (0.054%) FTP
9 1 (0.054%) Internet
9 1 (0.054%) IPv4
9 1 (0.054%) IPv6
9 1 (0.054%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.054%) SAN
9 1 (0.054%) SSL
9 1 (0.054%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 387 (20.71%) Power BI
2 210 (11.24%) Tableau
3 135 (7.22%) Data Warehouse
4 126 (6.74%) Data Mining
5 124 (6.63%) Data Lake
6 86 (4.60%) Metadata
7 74 (3.96%) SAP BW
8 73 (3.91%) SQL Server
9 48 (2.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 46 (2.46%) Azure SQL Database
11 39 (2.09%) Looker
12 27 (1.44%) Relational Database
12 27 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 23 (1.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 21 (1.12%) BigQuery
15 20 (1.07%) NoSQL
16 19 (1.02%) MongoDB
16 19 (1.02%) Snowflake Schema
17 18 (0.96%) MySQL
18 16 (0.86%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 64 (3.42%) JIRA
2 44 (2.35%) Git
3 31 (1.66%) Oracle Forms
4 28 (1.50%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.37%) GitLab
6 5 (0.27%) Axure RP
6 5 (0.27%) Balsamiq
6 5 (0.27%) Selenium
7 3 (0.16%) ERwin
7 3 (0.16%) PowerDesigner
7 3 (0.16%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.16%) Visual Website Optimizer
8 2 (0.11%) DBeaver
8 2 (0.11%) JMeter
8 2 (0.11%) JUnit
8 2 (0.11%) Postman
8 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.054%) Maven
9 1 (0.054%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.054%) TestNG
General
1 646 (34.56%) Analytical Skills
2 642 (34.35%) Social Skills
3 628 (33.60%) Finance
4 345 (18.46%) Marketing
5 96 (5.14%) Manufacturing
6 93 (4.98%) Retail
7 84 (4.49%) Public Sector
8 79 (4.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 64 (3.42%) Presentation Skills
10 60 (3.21%) Pharmaceutical
11 46 (2.46%) Back Office
12 44 (2.35%) Legal
13 41 (2.19%) Automotive
14 40 (2.14%) Law
15 39 (2.09%) Banking
16 30 (1.61%) Advertising
16 30 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
17 29 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
18 18 (0.96%) Games
19 17 (0.91%) Billing
Job Titles
1 385 (20.60%) Analyst
2 254 (13.59%) Senior
3 238 (12.73%) Lead
4 188 (10.06%) Data Analyst
5 125 (6.69%) Architect
6 117 (6.26%) Data Engineer
7 105 (5.62%) Trainee
7 105 (5.62%) Trainee Analyst
7 105 (5.62%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 83 (4.44%) Developer
9 64 (3.42%) Innovation Manager
10 56 (3.00%) Data Architect
11 55 (2.94%) Report Analyst
12 52 (2.78%) Senior Manager
13 47 (2.51%) Data Manager
14 46 (2.46%) Solutions Architect
15 44 (2.35%) Desktop Engineer
15 44 (2.35%) Desktop Support
15 44 (2.35%) Desktop Support Engineer
15 44 (2.35%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (2.30%) RESTful
2 37 (1.98%) OAuth
3 31 (1.66%) OAuth2
3 31 (1.66%) PySpark
4 25 (1.34%) JSON
5 23 (1.23%) REST
6 21 (1.12%) SAML
7 19 (1.02%) HTML
8 17 (0.91%) .NET
9 15 (0.80%) Kafka
10 14 (0.75%) CSS
11 13 (0.70%) React
11 13 (0.70%) TensorFlow
12 12 (0.64%) PyTorch
13 11 (0.59%) SOAP
14 10 (0.54%) FHIR
14 10 (0.54%) scikit-learn
14 10 (0.54%) XML
15 9 (0.48%) ARM Templates
15 9 (0.48%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 123 (6.58%) Analytical Mindset
2 92 (4.92%) Onboarding
3 83 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
4 76 (4.07%) Cloud Native
5 65 (3.48%) Life Science
6 61 (3.26%) Management Information System
7 57 (3.05%) Product Ownership
8 50 (2.68%) Social Media
9 41 (2.19%) FMCG
10 38 (2.03%) Algorithms
11 31 (1.66%) Data Centre
12 28 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
13 23 (1.23%) Virtual Team
14 19 (1.02%) Blog
14 19 (1.02%) Data Structures
15 18 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
16 15 (0.80%) Low-Code
17 14 (0.75%) Driving Licence
17 14 (0.75%) IoT
17 14 (0.75%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 61 (3.26%) Windows
2 44 (2.35%) Windows 10
3 8 (0.43%) Linux
4 3 (0.16%) Android
4 3 (0.16%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.16%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.11%) Unix
6 1 (0.054%) Debian
6 1 (0.054%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.054%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 500 (26.75%) Business Intelligence
2 479 (25.63%) Decision-Making
3 476 (25.47%) Continuous Improvement
4 453 (24.24%) AI
5 433 (23.17%) Problem-Solving
6 345 (18.46%) Agile
7 341 (18.25%) Data Analytics
8 272 (14.55%) Data Analysis
9 271 (14.50%) Data Modelling
10 259 (13.86%) Project Management
11 254 (13.59%) Stakeholder Management
12 229 (12.25%) Roadmaps
13 227 (12.15%) Customer Experience
14 220 (11.77%) Coaching
15 211 (11.29%) Machine Learning
16 195 (10.43%) Actionable Insight
16 195 (10.43%) Mentoring
16 195 (10.43%) Visualisation
17 192 (10.27%) Data Governance
18 190 (10.17%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 495 (26.48%) SQL
2 399 (21.35%) Python
3 52 (2.78%) Java
4 50 (2.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 40 (2.14%) R
6 39 (2.09%) PowerShell
7 35 (1.87%) T-SQL
8 29 (1.55%) Bicep
9 23 (1.23%) PL/SQL
10 21 (1.12%) JavaScript
10 21 (1.12%) Scala
11 19 (1.02%) Bash
12 18 (0.96%) C#
13 17 (0.91%) Shell Script
14 15 (0.80%) VBA
15 9 (0.48%) Go
15 9 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
16 8 (0.43%) TypeScript
17 7 (0.37%) C++
18 6 (0.32%) PHP
Qualifications
1 439 (23.49%) Degree
2 105 (5.62%) Security Cleared
3 80 (4.28%) SC Cleared
4 71 (3.80%) Master's Degree
5 63 (3.37%) DBS Check
6 45 (2.41%) PhD
7 44 (2.35%) CTC Cleared
8 38 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
9 33 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
10 16 (0.86%) ACCA
10 16 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
11 15 (0.80%) CIMA
12 13 (0.70%) PMI Certification
13 11 (0.59%) Numerate Degree
13 11 (0.59%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 10 (0.54%) Azure Certification
14 10 (0.54%) HNC
14 10 (0.54%) PMP
15 9 (0.48%) MBA
16 7 (0.37%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 237 (12.68%) Data Quality
2 102 (5.46%) GDPR
3 100 (5.35%) Accessibility
4 51 (2.73%) SLA
5 43 (2.30%) GxP
6 34 (1.82%) QA
7 20 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 19 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
9 11 (0.59%) NIST
9 11 (0.59%) PMO
9 11 (0.59%) WCAG
10 10 (0.54%) CDISC
10 10 (0.54%) HL7
11 8 (0.43%) ISO 9001
12 6 (0.32%) GRC
13 5 (0.27%) PCI DSS
14 4 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
15 3 (0.16%) 21 CFR Part 11
15 3 (0.16%) NIST 800
15 3 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 37 (1.98%) Docker
2 18 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
3 16 (0.86%) Active Directory
3 16 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.16%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.11%) vSphere
6 1 (0.054%) Firmware
6 1 (0.054%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.054%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 82 (4.39%) Terraform
2 44 (2.35%) Kubernetes
3 23 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
4 18 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (0.43%) SCCM
6 7 (0.37%) Ansible
7 3 (0.16%) QRadar
8 2 (0.11%) Control-M
9 1 (0.054%) Argo
9 1 (0.054%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.054%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.054%) Grafana
9 1 (0.054%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 1 (0.054%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 445 (23.81%) Microsoft
2 142 (7.60%) Google
3 135 (7.22%) SAP
4 127 (6.80%) Salesforce
5 98 (5.24%) Cisco
6 90 (4.82%) Databricks
7 74 (3.96%) Oracle
8 45 (2.41%) Adobe
9 43 (2.30%) HubSpot
10 24 (1.28%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 21 (1.12%) Nexthink
12 18 (0.96%) Zoho
13 14 (0.75%) Ab Initio
13 14 (0.75%) IBM
14 12 (0.64%) Alteryx
15 11 (0.59%) Qualtrics
15 11 (0.59%) Sage
15 11 (0.59%) Screaming Frog
15 11 (0.59%) ServiceNow
16 10 (0.54%) Talend