Analytics Jobs

Analytics
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Analytics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Analytics over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 39 24
Rank change year-on-year +13 -15 -1
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 3,653 5,371 9,095
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.00% 5.46% 8.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.51% 6.35% 9.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,836 3,370 4,535
10th Percentile £37,250 £32,600 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,438 £42,725 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £80,435 £87,125
90th Percentile £115,000 £105,000 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,034 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.71% -3.58% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,641 84,574 99,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.26% 86.00% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,531 59,798 58,397
10th Percentile £30,580 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Analytics.

Salary trend for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytics over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Analytics within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +8 3,196 £65,500 +9.17% 4,377
UK excluding London +15 1,979 £55,000 +3.71% 1,732
London +5 1,480 £85,000 +13.33% 2,798
Work from Home +8 1,326 £60,000 +1.18% 2,147
South East +26 529 £60,000 +9.09% 409
North of England -19 510 £55,000 +10.00% 512
Midlands -3 353 £52,500 -4.55% 307
North West -36 333 £55,000 +5.60% 346
West Midlands 0 265 £55,000 - 185
Scotland +27 230 £52,000 -13.33% 133
South West +22 214 £54,195 -1.46% 186
Yorkshire +11 159 £55,000 +21.55% 125
East of England +29 96 £65,000 +36.84% 142
East Midlands +5 85 £48,500 -0.51% 114
Northern Ireland +30 32 £30,000 -64.71% 34
North East -10 22 £55,000 +10.00% 44
Wales -3 16 £49,552 -0.90% 34
Channel Islands +3 4 £78,750 -

Analytics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 122 (3.34%) CMS
2 84 (2.30%) SharePoint
3 77 (2.11%) SAS
4 75 (2.05%) Apache Spark
4 75 (2.05%) Oracle Application Server
5 60 (1.64%) WordPress
6 56 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
7 54 (1.48%) Apache
8 23 (0.63%) Drupal
9 22 (0.60%) Confluence
9 22 (0.60%) Umbraco
10 12 (0.33%) IBM Domino
11 9 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 8 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
13 7 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
14 5 (0.14%) IIS
14 5 (0.14%) Luigi
15 4 (0.11%) ArcGIS
15 4 (0.11%) Jupyter
15 4 (0.11%) Mule
Applications
1 373 (10.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 91 (2.49%) Microsoft Office
3 79 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 27 (0.74%) Photoshop
5 22 (0.60%) Adobe Premiere
6 17 (0.47%) Maya
7 16 (0.44%) Trello
8 15 (0.41%) Chatbot
9 14 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
10 11 (0.30%) SPSS
11 9 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
12 8 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 7 (0.19%) Adobe XD
13 7 (0.19%) MS Visio
14 6 (0.16%) InDesign
15 5 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
16 4 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
17 3 (0.082%) Sketch
18 2 (0.055%) Final Cut Pro
18 2 (0.055%) Notion
Business Applications
1 57 (1.56%) Shopify
2 37 (1.01%) NetSuite
3 31 (0.85%) Aladdin
4 25 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
5 22 (0.60%) Dynamics AX
6 19 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
7 14 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
8 10 (0.27%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 10 (0.27%) SAP IBP
9 8 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
10 7 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
11 6 (0.16%) Infor M3
12 5 (0.14%) CiviCRM
12 5 (0.14%) iTrent
12 5 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
12 5 (0.14%) Relativity
12 5 (0.14%) SAP FI
13 4 (0.11%) Infor LN
13 4 (0.11%) Magento
13 4 (0.11%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 846 (23.16%) Azure
2 691 (18.92%) Power Platform
3 542 (14.84%) AWS
4 329 (9.01%) Google Analytics
5 301 (8.24%) GCP
6 174 (4.76%) Snowflake
7 151 (4.13%) Azure Data Factory
8 148 (4.05%) SaaS
9 145 (3.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 117 (3.20%) Google Ads
11 114 (3.12%) Serverless
12 89 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
13 76 (2.08%) Amazon S3
13 76 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
14 72 (1.97%) Microsoft 365
15 69 (1.89%) dbt
16 68 (1.86%) Power Automate
17 64 (1.75%) GitHub
18 59 (1.62%) PaaS
19 52 (1.42%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 35 (0.96%) Firewall
2 31 (0.85%) DNS
3 30 (0.82%) Internet
4 24 (0.66%) VPN
5 16 (0.44%) Network Security
6 15 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
7 12 (0.33%) Intranet
8 11 (0.30%) HTTP
8 11 (0.30%) TCP/IP
9 10 (0.27%) Intrusion Detection
10 9 (0.25%) SMS
10 9 (0.25%) WAN
11 8 (0.22%) 5G
12 7 (0.19%) DHCP
13 6 (0.16%) Bluetooth
13 6 (0.16%) LAN
13 6 (0.16%) SAN
14 5 (0.14%) Broadband
14 5 (0.14%) NAS
14 5 (0.14%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 683 (18.70%) Power BI
2 380 (10.40%) Tableau
3 378 (10.35%) Data Warehouse
4 226 (6.19%) Data Lake
5 214 (5.86%) Big Data
6 138 (3.78%) SQL Server
7 89 (2.44%) Oracle Reports
8 88 (2.41%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 85 (2.33%) Metadata
10 83 (2.27%) NoSQL
11 78 (2.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 73 (2.00%) Relational Database
13 70 (1.92%) BigQuery
14 64 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 60 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
16 57 (1.56%) Data Mining
17 55 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
17 55 (1.51%) Looker
18 52 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
19 49 (1.34%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 166 (4.54%) Git
2 110 (3.01%) JIRA
3 77 (2.11%) Jenkins
4 36 (0.99%) GitLab
5 26 (0.71%) Eclipse
5 26 (0.71%) Eclipse RCP
6 22 (0.60%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 19 (0.52%) JUnit
8 17 (0.47%) Maven
9 14 (0.38%) Cucumber
9 14 (0.38%) IntelliJ
9 14 (0.38%) Mockito
10 12 (0.33%) Selenium
11 10 (0.27%) CircleCI
12 9 (0.25%) ERwin
12 9 (0.25%) MLflow
12 9 (0.25%) Visual Studio
13 8 (0.22%) Bazaar
14 7 (0.19%) Postman
15 6 (0.16%) Browser DevTools
General
1 1,398 (38.27%) Social Skills
2 1,354 (37.07%) Finance
3 1,056 (28.91%) Analytical Skills
4 607 (16.62%) Marketing
5 449 (12.29%) Law
6 381 (10.43%) Banking
7 360 (9.85%) Retail
8 245 (6.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 217 (5.94%) Organisational Skills
10 165 (4.52%) Legal
11 153 (4.19%) Presentation Skills
11 153 (4.19%) Public Sector
12 151 (4.13%) Advertising
13 137 (3.75%) Manufacturing
14 122 (3.34%) Games
15 118 (3.23%) Front Office
16 104 (2.85%) Telecoms
17 85 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
18 83 (2.27%) Military
19 46 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 677 (18.53%) Analyst
2 669 (18.31%) Senior
3 512 (14.02%) Lead
4 263 (7.20%) Data Analyst
5 245 (6.71%) Data Engineer
6 240 (6.57%) Architect
7 222 (6.08%) Developer
8 152 (4.16%) Data Scientist
9 131 (3.59%) Senior Analyst
10 113 (3.09%) Data Manager
11 111 (3.04%) Software Engineer
12 108 (2.96%) Solutions Architect
13 97 (2.66%) Product Manager
13 97 (2.66%) Senior Manager
14 87 (2.38%) Consultant
15 76 (2.08%) Digital Analyst
16 74 (2.03%) Analytics Manager
16 74 (2.03%) Business Analyst
17 68 (1.86%) Data Architect
18 66 (1.81%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (3.75%) CSS
2 133 (3.64%) HTML
3 94 (2.57%) Kafka
4 93 (2.55%) React
5 87 (2.38%) Pandas
6 85 (2.33%) PySpark
7 84 (2.30%) NumPy
8 63 (1.72%) RESTful
9 57 (1.56%) PyTorch
10 53 (1.45%) Middleware
11 46 (1.26%) SciPy
12 44 (1.20%) TensorFlow
13 41 (1.12%) scikit-learn
14 40 (1.09%) AngularJS
15 37 (1.01%) Node.js
16 36 (0.99%) .NET
17 34 (0.93%) OAuth
18 31 (0.85%) JSON
18 31 (0.85%) REST
19 30 (0.82%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 249 (6.82%) Product Ownership
2 245 (6.71%) Algorithms
3 220 (6.02%) Management Information System
4 205 (5.61%) Social Media
5 100 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
6 92 (2.52%) Robotics
7 90 (2.46%) Cloud Native
8 81 (2.22%) Fixed Income
9 73 (2.00%) Hedge funds
10 68 (1.86%) Data Structures
11 67 (1.83%) Blockchain
12 64 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
13 63 (1.72%) Derivative
14 61 (1.67%) FMCG
15 60 (1.64%) Credit Risk
16 58 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
17 51 (1.40%) Equities
17 51 (1.40%) Mobile App
18 50 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 48 (1.31%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 118 (3.23%) Windows
2 109 (2.98%) Linux
3 39 (1.07%) Apple iOS
4 33 (0.90%) Windows Server
5 14 (0.38%) Windows Vista
6 12 (0.33%) Android
7 9 (0.25%) Ubuntu
7 9 (0.25%) Unix
8 6 (0.16%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.16%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.11%) AIX
9 4 (0.11%) VMS
9 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.055%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.055%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.027%) CentOS
11 1 (0.027%) Rocky
11 1 (0.027%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 953 (26.09%) Data Analytics
2 885 (24.23%) Business Intelligence
3 881 (24.12%) Agile
4 833 (22.80%) Artificial Intelligence
5 805 (22.04%) Problem-Solving
6 676 (18.51%) Decision-Making
7 653 (17.88%) Visualisation
8 591 (16.18%) Data Science
9 522 (14.29%) Data Management
10 488 (13.36%) Machine Learning
11 486 (13.30%) Data Modelling
12 484 (13.25%) Roadmaps
13 454 (12.43%) Data Analysis
13 454 (12.43%) Mentoring
14 444 (12.15%) DevOps
15 404 (11.06%) Computer Science
16 396 (10.84%) Data Engineering
17 392 (10.73%) Stakeholder Management
18 366 (10.02%) ETL
19 360 (9.85%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,065 (29.15%) SQL
2 987 (27.02%) Python
3 230 (6.30%) Java
4 161 (4.41%) JavaScript
5 126 (3.45%) R
6 117 (3.20%) C#
7 78 (2.14%) PowerShell
8 72 (1.97%) T-SQL
9 67 (1.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 61 (1.67%) C++
11 52 (1.42%) Scala
12 40 (1.09%) TypeScript
13 34 (0.93%) Bash
14 30 (0.82%) Rust
15 27 (0.74%) C
16 24 (0.66%) PHP
17 23 (0.63%) Ada
18 18 (0.49%) Go
19 17 (0.47%) Bicep
20 13 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,163 (31.84%) Degree
2 242 (6.62%) Master's Degree
3 204 (5.58%) DBS Check
4 169 (4.63%) Security Cleared
5 133 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 110 (3.01%) PhD
7 98 (2.68%) SC Cleared
8 68 (1.86%) Azure Certification
9 61 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
10 59 (1.62%) Numerate Degree
11 55 (1.51%) DV Cleared
12 46 (1.26%) CISA
13 45 (1.23%) ACCA
14 41 (1.12%) CIMA
15 31 (0.85%) AWS Certification
16 27 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
17 24 (0.66%) MBA
18 22 (0.60%) ISACA
18 22 (0.60%) PMI Certification
19 21 (0.57%) ICAEW
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 390 (10.68%) Data Quality
2 152 (4.16%) Accessibility
3 133 (3.64%) GDPR
4 85 (2.33%) QA
5 48 (1.31%) ITGC
6 41 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
7 24 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 21 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 21 (0.57%) IFRS
8 21 (0.57%) MiFID
9 19 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 18 (0.49%) EMIR
11 17 (0.47%) HIPAA
11 17 (0.47%) SOC 2
12 16 (0.44%) IFRS 9
12 16 (0.44%) SLA
13 14 (0.38%) PCI DSS
14 13 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
15 10 (0.27%) NIST
15 10 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 123 (3.37%) Docker
2 38 (1.04%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.36%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.14%) vSphere
7 4 (0.11%) HDFS
8 3 (0.082%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.055%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.027%) Firmware
10 1 (0.027%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 1 (0.027%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.027%) Time Sharing Option
10 1 (0.027%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.027%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 161 (4.41%) Kubernetes
2 153 (4.19%) Terraform
3 59 (1.62%) Ansible
4 28 (0.77%) Prometheus
5 21 (0.57%) Grafana
5 21 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (0.19%) ZABBIX
8 5 (0.14%) QRadar
9 4 (0.11%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.11%) Graylog
9 4 (0.11%) Kubeflow
9 4 (0.11%) Matomo
9 4 (0.11%) Puppet
9 4 (0.11%) SCCM
10 3 (0.082%) Argo
10 3 (0.082%) Istio
10 3 (0.082%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 2 (0.055%) EnCase
11 2 (0.055%) FTK
Vendors
1 707 (19.35%) Microsoft
2 511 (13.99%) Google
3 303 (8.29%) Databricks
4 195 (5.34%) SAP
5 187 (5.12%) Oracle
6 145 (3.97%) Salesforce
7 116 (3.18%) Adobe
8 98 (2.68%) Alteryx
9 76 (2.08%) ServiceNow
10 73 (2.00%) Facebook
11 65 (1.78%) Instagram
12 62 (1.70%) TikTok
13 44 (1.20%) IBM
14 37 (1.01%) VMware
15 36 (0.99%) Informatica
15 36 (0.99%) Pinterest
16 34 (0.93%) Ahrefs
16 34 (0.93%) YouTube
17 27 (0.74%) OpenAI
18 25 (0.68%) MuleSoft