Data Analytics
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Data Analytics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Analytics over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 200 136 163
Rank change year-on-year -64 +27 +34
Permanent jobs citing Data Analytics 1,494 2,770 3,845
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.54% 2.59% 2.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 2.71% 2.64%
Number of salaries quoted 908 1,035 1,754
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,800 £38,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% +15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data 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 83,908 102,297 145,809
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.28% 95.66% 95.48%
Number of salaries quoted 59,730 59,825 83,628
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,882 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.90% +4.54% +9.38%

Data Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analytics in the UK

Data Analytics
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Analytics in the UK

Data Analytics
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Analytics over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Analytics in the UK

Data 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 Data Analytics within the UK over the 6 months to 18 April 2024. 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 -67 1,251 £60,000 -7.69% 426
UK excluding London -91 920 £55,000 +2.80% 252
Work from Home +46 667 £59,556 -8.38% 185
London +9 516 £72,500 +1.40% 186
Midlands -66 194 £52,500 +5.00% 49
North of England -103 189 £50,000 -9.33% 70
South East -31 175 £55,000 - 47
Scotland -47 156 £59,556 +8.28% 18
West Midlands -39 153 £55,000 +15.79% 34
South West -9 138 £62,500 +13.55% 40
North West -107 106 £50,500 -20.78% 41
Yorkshire -26 57 £46,500 -13.08% 19
East Midlands -46 41 £47,500 -20.83% 15
North East -30 26 £50,000 -10.09% 11
East of England -63 26 £47,500 -24.00% 23
Northern Ireland +44 22 £57,500 - 6
Wales +7 18 £50,000 - 4
Channel Islands - 2 - - 1

Data 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 66 (4.42%) Apache Spark
2 59 (3.95%) SAS
3 31 (2.07%) Apache
4 28 (1.87%) SharePoint
5 19 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
6 13 (0.87%) IIS
6 13 (0.87%) WordPress
7 10 (0.67%) Confluence
8 9 (0.60%) CMS
8 9 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
9 7 (0.47%) nginx
10 6 (0.40%) IBM Notes
10 6 (0.40%) Oracle Application Server
11 5 (0.33%) Appian
11 5 (0.33%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2013
12 3 (0.20%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.067%) Drupal
13 1 (0.067%) Luigi
13 1 (0.067%) OpenStack
Applications
1 115 (7.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (3.01%) Microsoft Office
3 33 (2.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (2.14%) UserZoom
5 17 (1.14%) SPSS
6 12 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.40%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.13%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.067%) Trello
Business Applications
1 33 (2.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 21 (1.41%) Unit4 Business World
3 8 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.27%) Relativity
5 3 (0.20%) Infor M3
5 3 (0.20%) Raiser’s Edge
6 2 (0.13%) Endur
6 2 (0.13%) Veritas eDiscovery
7 1 (0.067%) Data Workbench
7 1 (0.067%) FastStats
7 1 (0.067%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 1 (0.067%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.067%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.067%) Ringtail
7 1 (0.067%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.067%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 361 (24.16%) Power Platform
2 324 (21.69%) Azure
3 147 (9.84%) AWS
4 102 (6.83%) GCP
5 62 (4.15%) Azure DevOps
5 62 (4.15%) Snowflake
6 56 (3.75%) PowerApps
7 55 (3.68%) Azure Data Factory
8 53 (3.55%) Microsoft 365
9 52 (3.48%) SaaS
10 42 (2.81%) Power Automate
11 40 (2.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 38 (2.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 33 (2.21%) Matillion
14 32 (2.14%) Figma
14 32 (2.14%) SurveyMonkey
15 29 (1.94%) GitHub
16 28 (1.87%) dbt
17 26 (1.74%) Google Analytics
18 24 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 34 (2.28%) Network Security
2 18 (1.20%) DSL
3 13 (0.87%) HTTP
3 13 (0.87%) MQTT
4 12 (0.80%) Internet
5 10 (0.67%) TCP/IP
6 7 (0.47%) OpenVPN
7 6 (0.40%) Broadband
8 5 (0.33%) LAN
8 5 (0.33%) VoIP
8 5 (0.33%) WAN
9 4 (0.27%) Ethernet
9 4 (0.27%) RS-232
9 4 (0.27%) SAN
9 4 (0.27%) SMS
9 4 (0.27%) WPA
10 3 (0.20%) Fibre Channel
10 3 (0.20%) Firewall
10 3 (0.20%) WebEx
10 3 (0.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 358 (23.96%) Power BI
2 196 (13.12%) Data Warehouse
3 190 (12.72%) Tableau
4 140 (9.37%) SQL Server
5 123 (8.23%) Data Lake
6 109 (7.30%) Big Data
7 67 (4.48%) Relational Database
8 49 (3.28%) NoSQL
9 48 (3.21%) Azure SQL Database
10 41 (2.74%) BigQuery
10 41 (2.74%) Star Schema
11 39 (2.61%) DB2
11 39 (2.61%) Looker
12 37 (2.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 36 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
14 35 (2.34%) MySQL
15 30 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
16 27 (1.81%) Data Hub
17 26 (1.74%) MongoDB
18 24 (1.61%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 76 (5.09%) Jenkins
2 57 (3.82%) Git
3 43 (2.88%) GitLab
4 29 (1.94%) JIRA
5 12 (0.80%) SonarQube
6 11 (0.74%) Jasmine
6 11 (0.74%) Mockito
7 8 (0.54%) CircleCI
8 7 (0.47%) RStudio
9 6 (0.40%) Eclipse
9 6 (0.40%) IntelliJ
10 5 (0.33%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.27%) Subversion
12 2 (0.13%) ER Studio
12 2 (0.13%) ERwin
12 2 (0.13%) gulp
13 1 (0.067%) IBM UrbanCode
13 1 (0.067%) LabVIEW
13 1 (0.067%) Sonatype Nexus
13 1 (0.067%) Spinnaker
General
1 569 (38.09%) Social Skills
2 518 (34.67%) Finance
3 290 (19.41%) Analytical Skills
4 214 (14.32%) Marketing
5 206 (13.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 150 (10.04%) Law
7 147 (9.84%) Banking
8 85 (5.69%) Retail
9 72 (4.82%) Legal
10 70 (4.69%) Public Sector
11 67 (4.48%) Organisational Skills
12 62 (4.15%) Presentation Skills
13 60 (4.02%) Manufacturing
14 47 (3.15%) Military
15 37 (2.48%) Games
16 32 (2.14%) Financial Institution
17 28 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
18 25 (1.67%) Investment Banking
19 24 (1.61%) Aerospace
20 19 (1.27%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 246 (16.47%) Architect
2 227 (15.19%) Senior
3 211 (14.12%) Analyst
4 173 (11.58%) Developer
5 168 (11.24%) Solutions Architect
6 142 (9.50%) Data Engineer
7 112 (7.50%) Data Analyst
8 103 (6.89%) Presales Solution Architect
9 95 (6.36%) Consultant
10 92 (6.16%) Lead
11 58 (3.88%) Data Manager
12 56 (3.75%) Analytics Manager
13 51 (3.41%) Senior Analyst
14 50 (3.35%) Audit Manager
15 44 (2.95%) Data Architect
16 43 (2.88%) Data Scientist
16 43 (2.88%) Senior Manager
17 39 (2.61%) IT Manager
17 39 (2.61%) Senior Data Engineer
18 36 (2.41%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (6.83%) .NET
2 64 (4.28%) Kafka
3 63 (4.22%) HTML
4 47 (3.15%) AngularJS
5 46 (3.08%) ASP.NET
6 45 (3.01%) CSS
7 38 (2.54%) React
8 36 (2.41%) Elastic Stack
9 35 (2.34%) .NET Core
10 34 (2.28%) ASP.NET MVC
11 33 (2.21%) Entity Framework
12 27 (1.81%) CSS3
12 27 (1.81%) HTML5
13 25 (1.67%) REST
14 24 (1.61%) Web Services
15 20 (1.34%) Blazor
15 20 (1.34%) Pandas
15 20 (1.34%) RESTful
16 19 (1.27%) PySpark
16 19 (1.27%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 115 (7.70%) Management Information System
2 74 (4.95%) Algorithms
3 70 (4.69%) Product Ownership
4 68 (4.55%) Data Structures
5 58 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
6 43 (2.88%) Cloud Native
7 34 (2.28%) Greenfield Project
7 34 (2.28%) Public Cloud
8 33 (2.21%) IoT
9 31 (2.07%) Onboarding
10 27 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
11 25 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
12 24 (1.61%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 20 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
14 16 (1.07%) Taxonomies
15 15 (1.00%) Cyber Defence
15 15 (1.00%) Cybercrime
15 15 (1.00%) Security Operations Centre
16 14 (0.94%) Cyberattack
16 14 (0.94%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 70 (4.69%) Linux
2 56 (3.75%) Windows
3 28 (1.87%) Windows Server
4 24 (1.61%) Unix
5 7 (0.47%) CentOS
6 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.067%) Android
7 1 (0.067%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.067%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,494 (100.00%) Analytics
2 458 (30.66%) Business Intelligence
3 413 (27.64%) Problem-Solving
4 406 (27.18%) Agile
5 347 (23.23%) Visualisation
6 299 (20.01%) Machine Learning
7 292 (19.54%) Data Modelling
8 280 (18.74%) Artificial Intelligence
9 273 (18.27%) Decision-Making
10 259 (17.34%) Actionable Insight
11 254 (17.00%) Data Analysis
12 246 (16.47%) Data Science
13 219 (14.66%) Data Visualisation
14 214 (14.32%) ETL
15 201 (13.45%) Roadmaps
16 178 (11.91%) Business Case
17 164 (10.98%) DevOps
18 163 (10.91%) Computer Science
19 151 (10.11%) Project Management
20 148 (9.91%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 518 (34.67%) SQL
2 362 (24.23%) Python
3 91 (6.09%) JavaScript
4 87 (5.82%) C#
5 85 (5.69%) Java
6 72 (4.82%) R
7 41 (2.74%) Scala
8 38 (2.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 30 (2.01%) TypeScript
10 29 (1.94%) PowerShell
11 25 (1.67%) C
12 24 (1.61%) PL/SQL
13 22 (1.47%) Haskell
14 21 (1.41%) T-SQL
15 19 (1.27%) C++
16 17 (1.14%) Bash
17 15 (1.00%) PHP
18 12 (0.80%) Clojure
18 12 (0.80%) VBA
19 9 (0.60%) F#
Qualifications
1 395 (26.44%) Degree
2 211 (14.12%) Security Cleared
3 157 (10.51%) SC Cleared
4 101 (6.76%) Master's Degree
5 65 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 51 (3.41%) DV Cleared
7 32 (2.14%) TOGAF Certification
8 30 (2.01%) MBA
9 29 (1.94%) PhD
10 28 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
11 25 (1.67%) CISA
12 22 (1.47%) ACCA
13 21 (1.41%) CISSP
13 21 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
13 21 (1.41%) Numerate Degree
14 14 (0.94%) DBS Check
15 11 (0.74%) CFA
15 11 (0.74%) CIMA
16 6 (0.40%) CISM
16 6 (0.40%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (10.64%) Data Quality
2 65 (4.35%) Actionable Recommendations
3 29 (1.94%) QA
4 27 (1.81%) Accessibility
4 27 (1.81%) PMO
5 24 (1.61%) NIST
6 21 (1.41%) ITGC
7 19 (1.27%) GDPR
7 19 (1.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 19 (1.27%) SLA
8 16 (1.07%) IFRS
9 15 (1.00%) IFRS 9
10 11 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 8 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 4 (0.27%) COBIT
12 4 (0.27%) ISO 9000
12 4 (0.27%) ISO 9001
12 4 (0.27%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.20%) MiFID
14 2 (0.13%) SOX 404
System Software
1 45 (3.01%) Docker
2 27 (1.81%) vSphere
3 9 (0.60%) HDFS
4 8 (0.54%) Firmware
5 7 (0.47%) Active Directory
6 4 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.067%) Lustre
7 1 (0.067%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 61 (4.08%) Terraform
2 59 (3.95%) Kubernetes
3 15 (1.00%) Ansible
4 12 (0.80%) Grafana
4 12 (0.80%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.47%) Puppet
6 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.067%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.067%) Icinga
7 1 (0.067%) Podman
7 1 (0.067%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.067%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.067%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 286 (19.14%) Microsoft
2 111 (7.43%) Google
3 91 (6.09%) Databricks
4 71 (4.75%) Oracle
5 56 (3.75%) Alteryx
6 44 (2.95%) SAP
7 33 (2.21%) Sparx
8 32 (2.14%) Qualtrics
9 26 (1.74%) IBM
10 24 (1.61%) Salesforce
10 24 (1.61%) SolarWinds
10 24 (1.61%) Tanium
10 24 (1.61%) Tripwire
11 21 (1.41%) Sage
12 19 (1.27%) Cognos
13 18 (1.20%) Sybase
14 16 (1.07%) Dataiku
15 15 (1.00%) CA
16 14 (0.94%) Pega
16 14 (0.94%) Snow