Analytics
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Analytics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Analytics over the 6 months to 2 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 30 22 23
Rank change year-on-year -8 +1 +16
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 3,979 11,505 12,182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.46% 9.18% 9.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.93% 9.59% 9.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,667 5,799 7,020
10th Percentile £37,000 £38,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £113,911 £112,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,500 £55,197 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.36% +5.14% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Analytics is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 50,205 119,980 123,470
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 94.09% 95.73% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 36,305 73,101 82,277
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £99,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.94% +6.00% +4.17%

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 2 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Top 17 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 2 December 2023. 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 -6 3,461 £65,000 -3.70% 2,569
UK excluding London -4 2,137 £56,500 +2.36% 1,246
Work from Home +6 1,976 £65,000 - 1,132
London -4 1,582 £80,000 +3.23% 1,435
North of England +8 677 £57,500 +1.94% 360
South East -3 429 £57,500 -4.17% 323
North West +6 356 £55,000 - 231
South West +4 334 £59,556 +8.28% 131
Yorkshire +4 305 £59,556 -8.38% 94
Midlands -22 254 £53,500 +1.90% 203
Scotland -7 234 £59,556 +8.28% 76
West Midlands -18 180 £53,250 +6.50% 128
Wales -1 93 £44,710 -14.84% 39
East Midlands -33 74 £55,000 -4.35% 75
East of England -24 73 £56,000 -2.61% 115
Northern Ireland -3 46 £68,750 +37.50% 14
North East +11 16 £50,500 -14.04% 41

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
1 149 (3.74%) Apache
2 148 (3.72%) Apache Spark
3 110 (2.76%) Apache Airflow
4 106 (2.66%) SAS
5 82 (2.06%) SharePoint
6 42 (1.06%) Confluence
7 35 (0.88%) CMS
8 21 (0.53%) WordPress
9 18 (0.45%) Jupyter
10 10 (0.25%) Oracle Application Server
11 8 (0.20%) Luigi
12 7 (0.18%) IIS
13 6 (0.15%) nginx
14 5 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 5 (0.13%) Drupal
15 4 (0.10%) SharePoint Server
16 3 (0.075%) Oracle Workflow
17 2 (0.050%) Appian
17 2 (0.050%) ArcGIS
17 2 (0.050%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 223 (5.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
3 38 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (0.50%) MS Visio
5 11 (0.28%) Sketch
6 10 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
6 10 (0.25%) Photoshop
6 10 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.23%) Adobe XD
8 8 (0.20%) Chatbot
8 8 (0.20%) InVision
9 5 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
10 4 (0.10%) SPSS
11 3 (0.075%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.075%) Oracle Smart View
11 3 (0.075%) Trello
11 3 (0.075%) UserZoom
12 2 (0.050%) EViews
13 1 (0.025%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 38 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 37 (0.93%) SAP ERP
3 15 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
4 14 (0.35%) Cloudability
5 11 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 10 (0.25%) Shopify
7 9 (0.23%) Magento
8 8 (0.20%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 8 (0.20%) NetSuite
8 8 (0.20%) SAP FI
9 7 (0.18%) iTrent
9 7 (0.18%) SAP CO
9 7 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
10 6 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
10 6 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
10 6 (0.15%) SAP Retail
11 5 (0.13%) HFM
11 5 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
11 5 (0.13%) SAP BPC
11 5 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 979 (24.60%) Azure
2 901 (22.64%) Power Platform
3 687 (17.27%) AWS
4 525 (13.19%) GCP
5 224 (5.63%) Google Analytics
6 198 (4.98%) Azure Data Factory
7 196 (4.93%) Azure DevOps
8 166 (4.17%) SaaS
9 138 (3.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 128 (3.22%) GitHub
10 128 (3.22%) Serverless
11 109 (2.74%) PaaS
12 106 (2.66%) Snowflake
13 100 (2.51%) dbt
14 99 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
15 87 (2.19%) Azure Monitor
16 80 (2.01%) PowerApps
17 79 (1.99%) IaaS
18 62 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
19 61 (1.53%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.56%) Firewall
2 51 (1.28%) DNS
3 41 (1.03%) Network Security
4 33 (0.83%) DHCP
5 17 (0.43%) Wireless
6 16 (0.40%) Internet
7 13 (0.33%) VPN
8 11 (0.28%) SMS
9 9 (0.23%) TCP/IP
9 9 (0.23%) WAN
10 8 (0.20%) HTTP
11 6 (0.15%) Intrusion Detection
12 5 (0.13%) OpenVPN
12 5 (0.13%) VoIP
12 5 (0.13%) Wireshark
13 4 (0.10%) Broadband
13 4 (0.10%) FTP
13 4 (0.10%) LAN
13 4 (0.10%) SMTP
13 4 (0.10%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 881 (22.14%) Power BI
2 514 (12.92%) Data Warehouse
3 404 (10.15%) Tableau
4 315 (7.92%) Data Lake
5 232 (5.83%) SQL Server
6 231 (5.81%) Big Data
7 183 (4.60%) NoSQL
8 160 (4.02%) Relational Database
9 155 (3.90%) Looker
10 147 (3.69%) BigQuery
11 145 (3.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 118 (2.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 99 (2.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 91 (2.29%) Azure SQL Database
15 87 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
16 80 (2.01%) Metadata
16 80 (2.01%) MySQL
17 77 (1.94%) Amazon Athena
18 71 (1.78%) Data Mining
19 70 (1.76%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 172 (4.32%) Jenkins
2 134 (3.37%) Git
3 114 (2.87%) JIRA
4 47 (1.18%) GitLab
5 34 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
6 32 (0.80%) SonarQube
7 26 (0.65%) Jasmine
8 25 (0.63%) Maven
9 22 (0.55%) Eclipse
9 22 (0.55%) Mockito
10 20 (0.50%) Team Foundation Server
11 19 (0.48%) IntelliJ
12 17 (0.43%) Artifactory
12 17 (0.43%) Spinnaker
13 15 (0.38%) Selenium
14 14 (0.35%) Axure RP
14 14 (0.35%) ERwin
15 13 (0.33%) Cucumber
15 13 (0.33%) Gradle
15 13 (0.33%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,406 (35.34%) Social Skills
2 1,395 (35.06%) Finance
3 819 (20.58%) Analytical Skills
4 597 (15.00%) Banking
5 452 (11.36%) Retail
6 448 (11.26%) Marketing
7 208 (5.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 165 (4.15%) Manufacturing
9 155 (3.90%) Front Office
10 153 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
11 132 (3.32%) Public Sector
12 105 (2.64%) Legal
13 104 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
14 73 (1.83%) Law
15 71 (1.78%) Advertising
16 62 (1.56%) Investment Banking
17 48 (1.21%) Aviation
18 38 (0.96%) Automotive
18 38 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
19 37 (0.93%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 769 (19.33%) Analyst
2 604 (15.18%) Senior
3 602 (15.13%) Architect
4 481 (12.09%) Developer
5 405 (10.18%) Data Engineer
6 351 (8.82%) Solutions Architect
7 330 (8.29%) Lead
8 244 (6.13%) Presales Solution Architect
9 241 (6.06%) Data Analyst
10 160 (4.02%) Software Engineer
11 154 (3.87%) Consultant
12 145 (3.64%) Senior Analyst
13 134 (3.37%) Data Architect
14 119 (2.99%) Data Manager
15 118 (2.97%) Data Scientist
16 107 (2.69%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 99 (2.49%) Business Intelligence Developer
18 93 (2.34%) Enterprise Architect
19 82 (2.06%) Senior Developer
20 81 (2.04%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (4.00%) React
2 129 (3.24%) .NET
3 122 (3.07%) HTML
4 119 (2.99%) Pandas
5 94 (2.36%) Kafka
6 88 (2.21%) NumPy
7 84 (2.11%) AngularJS
8 73 (1.83%) CSS
9 67 (1.68%) REST
10 66 (1.66%) Node.js
11 64 (1.61%) JSON
12 63 (1.58%) PySpark
13 60 (1.51%) gRPC
13 60 (1.51%) Protocol Buffers
14 55 (1.38%) Redux
15 53 (1.33%) SciPy
16 46 (1.16%) Middleware
17 44 (1.11%) scikit-learn
18 43 (1.08%) PyTorch
18 43 (1.08%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 183 (4.60%) Public Cloud
2 141 (3.54%) Management Information System
3 134 (3.37%) Product Ownership
4 112 (2.81%) Cloud Native
5 111 (2.79%) Algorithms
6 109 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
7 94 (2.36%) Data Structures
8 91 (2.29%) Fixed Income
9 84 (2.11%) Onboarding
10 79 (1.99%) Credit Risk
11 68 (1.71%) Hedge funds
12 60 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
13 59 (1.48%) Derivative
14 58 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 54 (1.36%) Replication
16 53 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
17 48 (1.21%) Blockchain
18 46 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
18 46 (1.16%) Social Media
18 46 (1.16%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 133 (3.34%) Windows
2 101 (2.54%) Linux
3 81 (2.04%) Unix
4 40 (1.01%) Windows Server
5 18 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
6 17 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
7 15 (0.38%) Android
8 14 (0.35%) AIX
8 14 (0.35%) Mac OS
9 12 (0.30%) Apple iOS
10 7 (0.18%) Windows 10
11 6 (0.15%) CentOS
11 6 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 6 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
12 5 (0.13%) Ubuntu
13 4 (0.10%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.050%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,309 (32.90%) Agile
2 1,171 (29.43%) Business Intelligence
3 1,144 (28.75%) Data Analytics
4 1,048 (26.34%) Problem-Solving
5 661 (16.61%) Visualisation
6 633 (15.91%) Data Modelling
7 613 (15.41%) Machine Learning
8 611 (15.36%) Data Science
9 527 (13.24%) ETL
10 521 (13.09%) Decision-Making
11 501 (12.59%) DevOps
12 496 (12.47%) Actionable Insight
13 488 (12.26%) Artificial Intelligence
14 408 (10.25%) Data Analysis
15 396 (9.95%) Data Visualisation
15 396 (9.95%) Stakeholder Management
16 395 (9.93%) Roadmaps
17 365 (9.17%) Technology Strategy
18 351 (8.82%) Thought Leadership
19 347 (8.72%) Business Case
Programming Languages
1 1,273 (31.99%) SQL
2 985 (24.75%) Python
3 273 (6.86%) JavaScript
4 267 (6.71%) Java
5 197 (4.95%) R
6 175 (4.40%) C#
7 143 (3.59%) TypeScript
8 135 (3.39%) PowerShell
9 124 (3.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 108 (2.71%) T-SQL
11 88 (2.21%) Bash
12 85 (2.14%) PL/SQL
13 80 (2.01%) Scala
14 71 (1.78%) C++
15 47 (1.18%) Ruby
16 38 (0.96%) VBA
17 37 (0.93%) MATLAB
18 32 (0.80%) Go
19 27 (0.68%) Kotlin
19 27 (0.68%) VB
Qualifications
1 806 (20.26%) Degree
2 503 (12.64%) Security Cleared
3 434 (10.91%) SC Cleared
4 173 (4.35%) Master's Degree
5 155 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 72 (1.81%) Azure Certification
7 71 (1.78%) DV Cleared
8 48 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
9 38 (0.96%) AWS Certification
10 37 (0.93%) PhD
11 31 (0.78%) Numerate Degree
12 30 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
13 22 (0.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 17 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
15 16 (0.40%) ACCA
16 15 (0.38%) CISA
17 14 (0.35%) GCIA
17 14 (0.35%) GCIH
17 14 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
18 13 (0.33%) GREM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 327 (8.22%) Data Quality
2 146 (3.67%) QA
3 71 (1.78%) GDPR
4 47 (1.18%) Actionable Recommendations
5 44 (1.11%) PMO
6 42 (1.06%) Accessibility
7 38 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 22 (0.55%) NIST
9 21 (0.53%) IFRS
9 21 (0.53%) PCI DSS
10 19 (0.48%) SLA
11 18 (0.45%) IFRS 9
12 14 (0.35%) GMP
13 11 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (0.23%) CRD IV
14 9 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 7 (0.18%) COBIT
16 6 (0.15%) Basel III
16 6 (0.15%) ISO 9000
17 5 (0.13%) ITGC
System Software
1 160 (4.02%) Docker
2 69 (1.73%) Active Directory
3 32 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
4 27 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (0.20%) HDFS
6 6 (0.15%) IAG
7 5 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 5 (0.13%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.075%) BitLocker
8 3 (0.075%) Firmware
8 3 (0.075%) VMware Infrastructure
9 2 (0.050%) vSphere
10 1 (0.025%) Apache Flume
10 1 (0.025%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.025%) VirtualBox
10 1 (0.025%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 201 (5.05%) Kubernetes
2 198 (4.98%) Terraform
3 66 (1.66%) Ansible
4 48 (1.21%) Prometheus
5 43 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
6 42 (1.06%) Grafana
7 36 (0.90%) Puppet
8 29 (0.73%) Progress Chef
9 24 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 24 (0.60%) SCCM
10 22 (0.55%) SCOM
10 22 (0.55%) WSUS
11 13 (0.33%) Kibana
12 12 (0.30%) Nagios
13 10 (0.25%) Packer
14 7 (0.18%) Argo
14 7 (0.18%) Oozie
15 6 (0.15%) Istio
15 6 (0.15%) SysTrack
16 4 (0.10%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 613 (15.41%) Microsoft
2 425 (10.68%) Google
3 255 (6.41%) Databricks
4 173 (4.35%) SAP
5 161 (4.05%) Oracle
6 95 (2.39%) Salesforce
7 66 (1.66%) Informatica
8 64 (1.61%) IBM
9 58 (1.46%) ServiceNow
10 56 (1.41%) Adobe
10 56 (1.41%) Alteryx
11 47 (1.18%) Splunk
12 40 (1.01%) Teradata
13 24 (0.60%) Finsemble
13 24 (0.60%) New Relic
14 23 (0.58%) Hotjar
14 23 (0.58%) Talend
15 20 (0.50%) Ahrefs
16 19 (0.48%) Apple
16 19 (0.48%) Dataiku