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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 24 23
Rank change year-on-year -15 -1 +10
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 5,353 9,356 15,275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.45% 8.90% 9.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.34% 9.30% 10.38%
Number of salaries quoted 3,367 4,585 6,937
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,725 £49,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,343 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £112,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £54,882
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.22% +9.76%

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 84,476 100,576 147,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.05% 95.63% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 59,789 58,947 82,930
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,476
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,700 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.86% +2.83% +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 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Top 19 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 25 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 -11 4,650 £60,000 -10.45% 1,925
UK excluding London -25 3,166 £52,500 -4.55% 996
Work from Home -6 2,420 £59,300 -10.96% 871
London 0 1,989 £75,000 - 994
North of England -16 887 £50,000 -19.03% 328
South East -22 659 £55,000 -7.54% 193
Midlands -11 556 £55,000 +10.00% 182
North West +9 541 £52,084 -13.19% 220
Scotland -8 448 £59,556 +3.57% 69
West Midlands -10 418 £55,000 +14.49% 106
South West -8 389 £55,000 -6.93% 104
Yorkshire -34 249 £45,249 -30.39% 77
East Midlands -4 137 £47,500 -5.00% 76
East of England -44 127 £47,500 -17.39% 94
North East -1 97 £50,000 -9.09% 34
Wales -12 64 £50,000 +25.00% 32
Northern Ireland +21 36 £67,500 +22.73% 15
Channel Islands - 2 - - 1
Isle of Man - 2 £82,500 -

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
1 165 (3.08%) SAS
2 152 (2.84%) Apache Spark
3 126 (2.35%) Apache
4 98 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
5 86 (1.61%) CMS
5 86 (1.61%) SharePoint
6 60 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
7 55 (1.03%) Confluence
8 54 (1.01%) WordPress
9 22 (0.41%) IIS
10 11 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2010
11 9 (0.17%) ArcGIS
12 8 (0.15%) Tomcat
13 7 (0.13%) Drupal
13 7 (0.13%) Jupyter
13 7 (0.13%) nginx
13 7 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
14 6 (0.11%) IBM Notes
15 5 (0.093%) Appian
15 5 (0.093%) Umbraco
Applications
1 390 (7.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 135 (2.52%) Microsoft Office
3 110 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (0.60%) UserZoom
5 25 (0.47%) SPSS
6 24 (0.45%) Photoshop
7 22 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
8 21 (0.39%) Adobe Illustrator
9 20 (0.37%) Sketch
10 19 (0.35%) Trello
11 17 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 16 (0.30%) MS Visio
13 14 (0.26%) Adobe XD
14 8 (0.15%) InDesign
15 6 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
16 5 (0.093%) Microsoft Project
17 4 (0.075%) Adobe After Effects
17 4 (0.075%) Adobe Premiere
18 3 (0.056%) AutoCAD
19 2 (0.037%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 38 (0.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 35 (0.65%) Shopify
3 27 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
4 22 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
5 20 (0.37%) Unit4 Business World
6 17 (0.32%) Magento
7 10 (0.19%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 9 (0.17%) SAP CX
9 7 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 6 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
10 6 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
10 6 (0.11%) SAP IBP
11 5 (0.093%) Payment Gateway
11 5 (0.093%) Remedy ITSM
12 4 (0.075%) Dynamics NAV
12 4 (0.075%) NetSuite
12 4 (0.075%) Oracle General Ledger
12 4 (0.075%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 4 (0.075%) Relativity
12 4 (0.075%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 1,170 (21.86%) Azure
2 1,017 (19.00%) Power Platform
3 821 (15.34%) AWS
4 423 (7.90%) GCP
5 346 (6.46%) Google Analytics
6 214 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
7 207 (3.87%) Azure Data Factory
8 184 (3.44%) SaaS
9 167 (3.12%) Microsoft 365
10 164 (3.06%) Snowflake
11 163 (3.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 120 (2.24%) dbt
13 110 (2.05%) PowerApps
14 103 (1.92%) Serverless
15 94 (1.76%) Azure Monitor
16 92 (1.72%) GitHub
17 80 (1.49%) Power Automate
18 76 (1.42%) Cloud Computing
19 75 (1.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 75 (1.40%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 193 (3.61%) Broadband
2 77 (1.44%) Firewall
3 76 (1.42%) Network Security
4 41 (0.77%) WAN
5 40 (0.75%) DNS
5 40 (0.75%) TCP/IP
6 37 (0.69%) VPN
7 24 (0.45%) LAN
8 21 (0.39%) DHCP
8 21 (0.39%) Internet
9 20 (0.37%) SD-WAN
10 19 (0.35%) HTTP
11 18 (0.34%) DSL
11 18 (0.34%) MQTT
12 17 (0.32%) Wireless
13 15 (0.28%) Cisco Firepower
14 14 (0.26%) WLAN
15 11 (0.21%) VoIP
16 10 (0.19%) SMS
17 9 (0.17%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 970 (18.12%) Power BI
2 599 (11.19%) Data Warehouse
3 594 (11.10%) Tableau
4 339 (6.33%) SQL Server
5 314 (5.87%) Data Lake
6 218 (4.07%) Big Data
7 205 (3.83%) BigQuery
8 160 (2.99%) Relational Database
9 144 (2.69%) NoSQL
10 139 (2.60%) Looker
11 136 (2.54%) Metadata
12 121 (2.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 112 (2.09%) Azure SQL Database
14 100 (1.87%) Data Mining
15 87 (1.63%) MySQL
16 83 (1.55%) Amazon Redshift
16 83 (1.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 78 (1.46%) MongoDB
18 76 (1.42%) Hadoop
18 76 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 244 (4.56%) Git
2 174 (3.25%) JIRA
3 132 (2.47%) Jenkins
4 86 (1.61%) GitLab
5 37 (0.69%) Visual Studio
6 19 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 17 (0.32%) JUnit
8 15 (0.28%) RStudio
9 14 (0.26%) SonarQube
9 14 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
9 14 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
10 13 (0.24%) CircleCI
11 12 (0.22%) Subversion
12 11 (0.21%) Jasmine
12 11 (0.21%) Postman
13 10 (0.19%) Bitbucket
13 10 (0.19%) MLflow
13 10 (0.19%) Mockito
14 9 (0.17%) Eclipse
14 9 (0.17%) JMeter
General
1 1,574 (29.40%) Social Skills
2 1,568 (29.29%) Finance
3 1,127 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
4 1,069 (19.97%) Marketing
5 549 (10.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 459 (8.57%) Retail
7 427 (7.98%) Law
8 426 (7.96%) Banking
9 301 (5.62%) Presentation Skills
10 281 (5.25%) Advertising
11 271 (5.06%) Legal
12 192 (3.59%) Public Sector
13 137 (2.56%) Front Office
14 133 (2.48%) Financial Institution
15 125 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
16 112 (2.09%) Games
17 110 (2.05%) Manufacturing
18 107 (2.00%) Investment Banking
19 100 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
20 73 (1.36%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 944 (17.63%) Analyst
2 909 (16.98%) Senior
3 680 (12.70%) Lead
4 554 (10.35%) Developer
5 498 (9.30%) Architect
6 476 (8.89%) Data Engineer
7 364 (6.80%) Data Analyst
8 239 (4.46%) Solutions Architect
9 225 (4.20%) Consultant
10 219 (4.09%) Software Engineer
11 213 (3.98%) Senior Analyst
12 195 (3.64%) Data Architect
13 193 (3.61%) Data Manager
14 141 (2.63%) Data Scientist
15 130 (2.43%) Product Manager
16 129 (2.41%) Senior Manager
17 121 (2.26%) Analytics Manager
18 107 (2.00%) Digital Analyst
18 107 (2.00%) Presales Solution Architect
18 107 (2.00%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 209 (3.90%) .NET
2 200 (3.74%) React
3 176 (3.29%) HTML
4 151 (2.82%) CSS
5 137 (2.56%) Kafka
6 107 (2.00%) Spring
7 106 (1.98%) Pandas
8 104 (1.94%) AngularJS
9 103 (1.92%) REST
10 95 (1.77%) RESTful
11 86 (1.61%) Node.js
12 83 (1.55%) Spring Boot
13 76 (1.42%) NumPy
14 64 (1.20%) .NET Core
15 57 (1.06%) ASP.NET
16 56 (1.05%) Web Services
17 50 (0.93%) PySpark
18 46 (0.86%) Redux
19 45 (0.84%) HTML5
20 44 (0.82%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 289 (5.40%) Management Information System
2 241 (4.50%) Algorithms
3 220 (4.11%) Product Ownership
4 205 (3.83%) Cloud Native
5 200 (3.74%) Marketing Technology
6 178 (3.33%) Onboarding
7 173 (3.23%) Data Structures
8 163 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
9 130 (2.43%) Social Media
10 110 (2.05%) Fixed Income
11 103 (1.92%) Public Cloud
12 100 (1.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 83 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
14 82 (1.53%) Credit Risk
15 81 (1.51%) Equities
16 74 (1.38%) Derivative
17 70 (1.31%) IoT
18 69 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
19 67 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
20 66 (1.23%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 187 (3.49%) Linux
1 187 (3.49%) Windows
2 71 (1.33%) Windows Server
3 49 (0.92%) Unix
4 34 (0.64%) Android
5 26 (0.49%) Apple iOS
6 20 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
7 15 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
8 13 (0.24%) Mac OS
9 12 (0.22%) Windows 10
9 12 (0.22%) zOS
10 9 (0.17%) CentOS
11 7 (0.13%) AIX
12 6 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
12 6 (0.11%) Windows Vista
13 4 (0.075%) Mac OS X
13 4 (0.075%) Solaris
13 4 (0.075%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.019%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 1 (0.019%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,510 (28.21%) Data Analytics
2 1,480 (27.65%) Agile
3 1,273 (23.78%) Business Intelligence
4 1,128 (21.07%) Problem-Solving
5 1,045 (19.52%) Visualisation
6 866 (16.18%) Data Modelling
7 789 (14.74%) Machine Learning
8 773 (14.44%) Data Science
9 766 (14.31%) Data Analysis
10 734 (13.71%) Decision-Making
11 671 (12.54%) ETL
12 647 (12.09%) Artificial Intelligence
13 603 (11.26%) Mentoring
14 566 (10.57%) Software Engineering
15 562 (10.50%) Data Visualisation
16 556 (10.39%) DevOps
17 546 (10.20%) Data Engineering
18 542 (10.13%) Data Strategy
19 541 (10.11%) Actionable Insight
20 519 (9.70%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,695 (31.66%) SQL
2 1,357 (25.35%) Python
3 353 (6.59%) Java
4 337 (6.30%) JavaScript
5 254 (4.75%) R
6 225 (4.20%) C#
7 155 (2.90%) TypeScript
8 139 (2.60%) T-SQL
9 123 (2.30%) PowerShell
10 117 (2.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 87 (1.63%) Scala
12 63 (1.18%) C
13 57 (1.06%) C++
14 52 (0.97%) Bash
15 51 (0.95%) VBA
16 48 (0.90%) PHP
17 42 (0.78%) PL/SQL
18 38 (0.71%) MATLAB
19 36 (0.67%) Go
20 30 (0.56%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,201 (22.44%) Degree
2 346 (6.46%) Security Cleared
3 227 (4.24%) Master's Degree
4 211 (3.94%) SC Cleared
5 186 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 131 (2.45%) DBS Check
7 104 (1.94%) DV Cleared
8 64 (1.20%) Azure Certification
9 60 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
10 57 (1.06%) PhD
11 54 (1.01%) MBA
12 51 (0.95%) Numerate Degree
13 46 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
14 34 (0.64%) PMI Certification
14 34 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
15 30 (0.56%) CIPD
15 30 (0.56%) CISSP
16 26 (0.49%) CISA
17 25 (0.47%) ACCA
18 22 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 456 (8.52%) Data Quality
2 182 (3.40%) QA
3 105 (1.96%) Accessibility
4 92 (1.72%) GDPR
5 86 (1.61%) Actionable Recommendations
6 74 (1.38%) IFRS
7 66 (1.23%) IFRS 9
8 46 (0.86%) PMO
9 39 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 36 (0.67%) WCAG
11 32 (0.60%) NIST
12 31 (0.58%) SLA
13 26 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 21 (0.39%) ITGC
15 16 (0.30%) ISO 9001
16 15 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 12 (0.22%) CRD IV
18 8 (0.15%) PCI DSS
19 7 (0.13%) HIPAA
20 6 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 174 (3.25%) Docker
2 89 (1.66%) Active Directory
3 31 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
4 27 (0.50%) vSphere
5 18 (0.34%) Firmware
6 14 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
7 13 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
8 10 (0.19%) HDFS
9 8 (0.15%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.056%) VirtualBox
11 1 (0.019%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.019%) Lustre
11 1 (0.019%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 219 (4.09%) Kubernetes
2 168 (3.14%) Terraform
3 65 (1.21%) Grafana
4 64 (1.20%) Ansible
5 52 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
6 42 (0.78%) Prometheus
7 21 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 20 (0.37%) WSUS
9 17 (0.32%) Docker Swarm
9 17 (0.32%) Puppet
10 16 (0.30%) SCCM
10 16 (0.30%) Stealthwatch
11 14 (0.26%) Progress Chef
11 14 (0.26%) SCOM
12 12 (0.22%) Kibana
13 9 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
14 8 (0.15%) logstash
14 8 (0.15%) Nagios
15 7 (0.13%) SysTrack
15 7 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 863 (16.12%) Microsoft
2 545 (10.18%) Google
3 428 (8.00%) Databricks
4 264 (4.93%) Oracle
5 147 (2.75%) SAP
6 112 (2.09%) Adobe
7 92 (1.72%) Alteryx
8 70 (1.31%) Salesforce
9 67 (1.25%) Informatica
10 64 (1.20%) ServiceNow
11 57 (1.06%) IBM
12 54 (1.01%) Splunk
13 40 (0.75%) Qualtrics
14 39 (0.73%) Sparx
15 34 (0.64%) Cisco
15 34 (0.64%) Dynatrace
15 34 (0.64%) YouTube
16 33 (0.62%) Apple
16 33 (0.62%) Cognos
17 31 (0.58%) Facebook