Head of Analytics
UK

The median Head of Analytics salary in the UK is £90,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 857 941 1159
Rank change year-on-year +84 +218 -289
Permanent jobs requiring a Head of Analytics 37 40 63
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.037% 0.040% 0.040%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.039% 0.043% 0.042%
Number of salaries quoted 23 24 34
10th Percentile £50,963 £63,000 £69,125
25th Percentile £66,625 £80,313 £72,671
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £94,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +18.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £104,978 £105,313 £102,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £113,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £98,944 £85,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +16.40% -5.56% +2.86%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 93,899 92,293 151,422
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.47% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,283 58,235 84,441
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,627 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Head of Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Head of Analytics in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Head of Analytics in the UK

Head of Analytics
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Head of Analytics in the UK

Head of Analytics
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Head of Analytics over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Head of Analytics in the UK

Head of Analytics
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Head of Analytics within the UK over the 6 months to 11 May 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 +78 35 £98,944 +8.14% 13
UK excluding London +9 21 £98,944 +16.40% 1
Work from Home +74 19 £90,000 -10.00% 5
London +121 16 £90,000 -4.76% 11
East of England - 10 £99,472 -
Midlands - 5 £115,000 - 1
West Midlands - 5 £115,000 - 1
North of England +41 3 £75,000 -6.25%
North West +6 2 £75,000 -6.25%
Scotland -57 2 £62,055 -
South West -31 1 £65,000 -25.71%
Yorkshire - 1 - -

Head of Analytics Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, Head of Analytics job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Head of Analytics in the job title.

1 37 (100.00%) Analytics
2 16 (43.24%) Social Skills
2 16 (43.24%) Business Intelligence
3 14 (37.84%) Data Analytics
4 13 (35.14%) Visualisation
4 13 (35.14%) Finance
5 12 (32.43%) Data Analysis
5 12 (32.43%) Artificial Intelligence
6 11 (29.73%) Decision-Making
6 11 (29.73%) Power Platform
6 11 (29.73%) Power BI
7 10 (27.03%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 10 (27.03%) Data Science
7 10 (27.03%) Azure
7 10 (27.03%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (27.03%) Machine Learning
8 9 (24.32%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (24.32%) Budget Management
9 8 (21.62%) Roadmaps
9 8 (21.62%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (21.62%) SQL
10 7 (18.92%) Microsoft
10 7 (18.92%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (18.92%) Degree
10 7 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (16.22%) Data Engineering
11 6 (16.22%) Customer Service
11 6 (16.22%) Python
11 6 (16.22%) Data Modelling
11 6 (16.22%) DevOps

Head of Analytics Skill Set
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 3 (8.11%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 11 (29.73%) Power Platform
2 10 (27.03%) Azure
3 3 (8.11%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (8.11%) Fivetran
3 3 (8.11%) SaaS
4 2 (5.41%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (29.73%) Power BI
2 9 (24.32%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (10.81%) Data Vault
3 4 (10.81%) Tableau
4 3 (8.11%) Delta Lake
4 3 (8.11%) Hadoop
4 3 (8.11%) Star Schema
5 2 (5.41%) Amazon QuickSight
5 2 (5.41%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.70%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.70%) BigQuery
6 1 (2.70%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Git
General
1 16 (43.24%) Social Skills
2 13 (35.14%) Finance
3 8 (21.62%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (13.51%) Banking
5 3 (8.11%) Manufacturing
5 3 (8.11%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (5.41%) Games
7 1 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.70%) Algorithms
2 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (100.00%) Analytics
2 16 (43.24%) Business Intelligence
3 14 (37.84%) Data Analytics
4 13 (35.14%) Visualisation
5 12 (32.43%) Artificial Intelligence
5 12 (32.43%) Data Analysis
6 11 (29.73%) Decision-Making
7 10 (27.03%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (27.03%) Data Science
7 10 (27.03%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 10 (27.03%) Machine Learning
8 9 (24.32%) Budget Management
9 8 (21.62%) Roadmaps
10 7 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (18.92%) Stakeholder Management
11 6 (16.22%) Customer Service
11 6 (16.22%) Data Engineering
11 6 (16.22%) Data Modelling
11 6 (16.22%) DevOps
12 5 (13.51%) Budgeting
Programming Languages
1 8 (21.62%) SQL
2 6 (16.22%) Python
3 3 (8.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (5.41%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (18.92%) Degree
2 2 (5.41%) ACCA
2 2 (5.41%) CIMA
3 1 (2.70%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.81%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (2.70%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 7 (18.92%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.11%) Databricks
3 2 (5.41%) Cognos