Data Analytics Jobs

Data Analytics
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Data Analytics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Analytics over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 202 206 159
Rank change year-on-year +4 -47 +8
Permanent jobs citing Data Analytics 896 1,477 2,252
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.64% 1.45% 2.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.75% 1.71% 2.41%
Number of salaries quoted 378 887 972
10th Percentile £25,313 £35,000 £37,173
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £80,250 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £99,125 £95,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data 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 51,242 86,144 93,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.71% 84.33% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 25,211 60,433 55,406
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%

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 28 May 2025.

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 28 May 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 -2 763 £60,743 +1.24% 3,637
UK excluding London +32 588 £52,000 -5.45% 3,229
Work from Home -27 300 £60,000 - 1,627
London -3 290 £80,000 +10.34% 833
North of England +43 175 £41,000 -13.68% 689
North West +10 118 £43,750 -12.50% 317
South East +25 113 £56,250 +2.27% 942
Midlands -18 106 £43,000 -18.10% 598
West Midlands +1 88 £45,000 -18.18% 320
Scotland +61 83 £52,000 -20.00% 163
Yorkshire +77 60 £45,000 +5.88% 280
East of England +69 55 £70,000 +40.00% 462
South West +32 48 £42,500 -32.00% 363
East Midlands +17 18 £43,000 -14.00% 238
Northern Ireland +24 5 - - 45
Channel Islands +2 4 £78,750 - 8
Wales +31 1 - - 79
North East +22 1 £30,500 -39.00% 93

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 38 (4.24%) SharePoint
2 34 (3.79%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.23%) Umbraco
4 9 (1.00%) Apache
4 9 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.78%) SAS
6 6 (0.67%) WordPress
7 5 (0.56%) CMS
8 4 (0.45%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.22%) Confluence
10 2 (0.22%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 131 (14.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.56%) Trello
6 2 (0.22%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.11%) SPSS
7 1 (0.11%) SPSS Modeler
Business Applications
1 24 (2.68%) Dynamics AX
2 6 (0.67%) Infor M3
3 3 (0.33%) Sprinklr
4 2 (0.22%) iTrent
5 1 (0.11%) Actimize
5 1 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.11%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 244 (27.23%) Power Platform
2 178 (19.87%) Azure
3 147 (16.41%) AWS
4 70 (7.81%) GCP
5 50 (5.58%) SaaS
6 42 (4.69%) Serverless
7 37 (4.13%) PowerApps
8 36 (4.02%) Google Analytics
9 32 (3.57%) Adobe Analytics
9 32 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
10 30 (3.35%) Power Automate
11 29 (3.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 22 (2.46%) Snowflake
13 21 (2.34%) Amazon S3
13 21 (2.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 19 (2.12%) AWS Step Functions
15 18 (2.01%) GitHub
16 17 (1.90%) Azure Data Factory
17 16 (1.79%) Google Ads
18 15 (1.67%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.45%) HTTP
2 3 (0.33%) Bluetooth
3 2 (0.22%) Firewall
3 2 (0.22%) Internet
3 2 (0.22%) SMS
4 1 (0.11%) Intranet
4 1 (0.11%) LAN
4 1 (0.11%) PPP
4 1 (0.11%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.11%) VPN
4 1 (0.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 243 (27.12%) Power BI
2 174 (19.42%) Tableau
3 124 (13.84%) Big Data
4 71 (7.92%) Data Lake
4 71 (7.92%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (3.46%) Hadoop
5 31 (3.46%) SQL Server
6 27 (3.01%) Metadata
6 27 (3.01%) NoSQL
7 25 (2.79%) BigQuery
8 21 (2.34%) Relational Database
9 19 (2.12%) Amazon Redshift
9 19 (2.12%) Power Query
10 15 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
11 13 (1.45%) MongoDB
11 13 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 11 (1.23%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 11 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 10 (1.12%) Data Mining
14 9 (1.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 59 (6.58%) JIRA
2 23 (2.57%) Git
3 7 (0.78%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 4 (0.45%) Subversion
6 3 (0.33%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.22%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.22%) GitLab
7 2 (0.22%) MLflow
8 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.11%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.11%) Selenium
8 1 (0.11%) Vite
General
1 384 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 373 (41.63%) Finance
3 231 (25.78%) Analytical Skills
4 150 (16.74%) Law
5 112 (12.50%) Marketing
6 97 (10.83%) Banking
7 95 (10.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 84 (9.38%) Retail
9 68 (7.59%) Manufacturing
10 61 (6.81%) Organisational Skills
11 57 (6.36%) Games
12 56 (6.25%) Telecoms
13 42 (4.69%) Public Sector
14 30 (3.35%) Legal
15 27 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
15 27 (3.01%) Presentation Skills
16 23 (2.57%) Advertising
17 15 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
18 12 (1.34%) Publishing
19 9 (1.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 295 (32.92%) Analyst
2 155 (17.30%) Data Analyst
3 140 (15.63%) Senior
4 111 (12.39%) Lead
5 45 (5.02%) Digital Analyst
6 40 (4.46%) Architect
7 39 (4.35%) Data Engineer
8 38 (4.24%) Data Manager
9 35 (3.91%) Audit Manager
10 33 (3.68%) Principal Engineer
11 31 (3.46%) Risk Manager
11 31 (3.46%) Technology Risk Manager
12 30 (3.35%) Data Scientist
13 28 (3.13%) Analytics Manager
13 28 (3.13%) Business Analyst
14 27 (3.01%) Data Analytics Director
15 26 (2.90%) Graduate
15 26 (2.90%) Procurement Analyst
15 26 (2.90%) Solutions Architect
16 25 (2.79%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (5.36%) Kafka
2 27 (3.01%) OAuth
3 25 (2.79%) React
4 19 (2.12%) CSS
5 17 (1.90%) RESTful
6 16 (1.79%) JWT
7 14 (1.56%) SAML
8 13 (1.45%) JSON
8 13 (1.45%) PyTorch
8 13 (1.45%) TensorFlow
9 12 (1.34%) OpenID
10 11 (1.23%) Ajax
10 11 (1.23%) jQuery
10 11 (1.23%) NumPy
10 11 (1.23%) scikit-learn
11 9 (1.00%) Keras
12 8 (0.89%) HTML
13 7 (0.78%) Pandas
13 7 (0.78%) Web Services
14 6 (0.67%) Akka
Miscellaneous
1 82 (9.15%) Management Information System
2 65 (7.25%) Robotics
3 52 (5.80%) Blockchain
4 40 (4.46%) Algorithms
5 39 (4.35%) Product Ownership
6 30 (3.35%) Self-Motivation
7 27 (3.01%) Cloud Native
7 27 (3.01%) FMCG
8 18 (2.01%) Data Structures
9 17 (1.90%) Social Media
10 15 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
11 11 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
11 11 (1.23%) Mobile Games
12 9 (1.00%) Credit Risk
12 9 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
12 9 (1.00%) Mobile App
13 8 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
14 7 (0.78%) Derivative
14 7 (0.78%) OTC Derivatives
14 7 (0.78%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.23%) Linux
2 4 (0.45%) Windows
3 3 (0.33%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.11%) Unix
4 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 896 (100.00%) Analytics
2 253 (28.24%) Artificial Intelligence
3 244 (27.23%) Agile
4 242 (27.01%) Business Intelligence
5 199 (22.21%) Data Analysis
6 193 (21.54%) Visualisation
7 190 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
8 171 (19.08%) Mentoring
9 167 (18.64%) Decision-Making
10 159 (17.75%) Data Management
11 144 (16.07%) Computer Science
11 144 (16.07%) Data Governance
12 141 (15.74%) Coaching
13 140 (15.63%) Data Science
14 120 (13.39%) Machine Learning
15 118 (13.17%) Data Engineering
16 114 (12.72%) Data Modelling
17 113 (12.61%) Statistics
18 111 (12.39%) Stakeholder Management
19 110 (12.28%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 297 (33.15%) SQL
2 240 (26.79%) Python
3 45 (5.02%) Java
4 44 (4.91%) JavaScript
5 34 (3.79%) R
6 33 (3.68%) C#
7 30 (3.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 13 (1.45%) C
9 12 (1.34%) Scala
10 11 (1.23%) T-SQL
11 10 (1.12%) C++
12 9 (1.00%) Bash
12 9 (1.00%) PowerShell
13 8 (0.89%) TypeScript
14 6 (0.67%) VBA
15 4 (0.45%) Julia
16 3 (0.33%) Ladder Logic
17 2 (0.22%) JCL
17 2 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
17 2 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 388 (43.30%) Degree
2 69 (7.70%) Master's Degree
3 47 (5.25%) CISA
4 40 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (4.35%) Security Cleared
6 28 (3.13%) ACCA
7 25 (2.79%) PhD
8 24 (2.68%) Azure Certification
8 24 (2.68%) CIMA
9 23 (2.57%) DBS Check
10 22 (2.46%) ISACA
10 22 (2.46%) SC Cleared
11 19 (2.12%) CCAB
11 19 (2.12%) CIPFA
11 19 (2.12%) ICAEW
12 17 (1.90%) AWS Certification
13 10 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
14 9 (1.00%) CISSP
14 9 (1.00%) Numerate Degree
15 7 (0.78%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (17.52%) Data Quality
2 46 (5.13%) ITGC
3 32 (3.57%) QA
4 25 (2.79%) Accessibility
5 23 (2.57%) GDPR
6 22 (2.46%) Actionable Recommendations
7 19 (2.12%) MiFID
8 18 (2.01%) EMIR
9 16 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (1.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 8 (0.89%) Def Stans
11 8 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 6 (0.67%) GxP
13 5 (0.56%) COBIT
14 4 (0.45%) SLA
15 3 (0.33%) NIST
16 2 (0.22%) HIPAA
16 2 (0.22%) PMO
17 1 (0.11%) COSO
17 1 (0.11%) GRC
System Software
1 13 (1.45%) Docker
2 4 (0.45%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.22%) HDFS
4 2 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.11%) Job Entry Subsystem
5 1 (0.11%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 23 (2.57%) Kubernetes
2 18 (2.01%) Terraform
3 12 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.33%) Grafana
5 2 (0.22%) Ansible
5 2 (0.22%) Hadoop YARN
5 2 (0.22%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.22%) SCCM
5 2 (0.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.11%) Argo
6 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.11%) Nessus
6 1 (0.11%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 182 (20.31%) Microsoft
2 88 (9.82%) Google
3 81 (9.04%) SAP
4 67 (7.48%) Databricks
5 57 (6.36%) Alteryx
6 46 (5.13%) ServiceNow
7 35 (3.91%) Adobe
7 35 (3.91%) Salesforce
8 30 (3.35%) Oracle
9 23 (2.57%) Informatica
10 18 (2.01%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 16 (1.79%) MuleSoft
12 14 (1.56%) Marketo
13 13 (1.45%) VMware
14 9 (1.00%) IBM
15 7 (0.78%) Cisco
15 7 (0.78%) Omniture
16 6 (0.67%) Infor
16 6 (0.67%) Teradata
17 5 (0.56%) Talend