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 22 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 24 22
Rank change year-on-year -15 -2 +11
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 5,390 8,494 16,564
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.39% 8.61% 10.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.33% 9.01% 10.58%
Number of salaries quoted 3,333 4,346 6,747
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,725 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.23% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £81,250 £86,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,875 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%

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 85,138 94,311 156,544
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.08% 95.58% 95.82%
Number of salaries quoted 59,815 55,545 82,618
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £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% +10.53%

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 22 May 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 22 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 -9 4,699 £59,000 -11.94% 2,064
UK excluding London -19 3,190 £52,500 -4.55% 1,086
Work from Home -5 2,463 £57,965 -10.82% 948
London 0 2,003 £75,000 - 1,020
North of England -16 898 £50,000 -16.67% 341
South East -14 661 £54,500 -9.17% 237
Midlands -3 589 £55,000 +14.49% 193
North West +16 574 £52,084 -13.19% 227
West Midlands -7 438 £55,000 +15.79% 115
Scotland -7 436 £60,249 +1.21% 85
South West -12 386 £55,000 -2.06% 104
Yorkshire -37 226 £45,249 -27.60% 85
East Midlands +15 149 £52,500 +7.69% 78
East of England -49 125 £47,500 -17.39% 97
North East 0 98 £50,000 -9.09% 32
Wales -14 59 £50,000 +25.00% 22
Northern Ireland +23 35 £76,250 +45.24% 19
Channel Islands - 3 £67,500 - 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
1 161 (2.99%) SAS
2 138 (2.56%) Apache Spark
3 106 (1.97%) Apache
4 90 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
5 85 (1.58%) CMS
6 81 (1.50%) SharePoint
7 68 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
8 54 (1.00%) Confluence
9 53 (0.98%) WordPress
10 22 (0.41%) IIS
11 19 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2010
12 9 (0.17%) ArcGIS
13 8 (0.15%) Tomcat
14 7 (0.13%) Jupyter
15 6 (0.11%) Drupal
15 6 (0.11%) IBM Notes
15 6 (0.11%) nginx
16 5 (0.093%) Joomla!
16 5 (0.093%) Umbraco
16 5 (0.093%) WebSphere
Applications
1 406 (7.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 141 (2.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 135 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
4 32 (0.59%) UserZoom
5 25 (0.46%) SPSS
6 24 (0.45%) Photoshop
7 21 (0.39%) Adobe Illustrator
7 21 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
8 19 (0.35%) Sketch
8 19 (0.35%) Trello
9 16 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 15 (0.28%) MS Visio
11 14 (0.26%) Adobe XD
12 8 (0.15%) InDesign
13 6 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
14 5 (0.093%) Adobe Premiere
15 4 (0.074%) Adobe After Effects
15 4 (0.074%) Microsoft Project
16 3 (0.056%) AutoCAD
17 2 (0.037%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 36 (0.67%) Shopify
1 36 (0.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 29 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.33%) Magento
4 17 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
4 17 (0.32%) Unit4 Business World
5 11 (0.20%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 9 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
6 9 (0.17%) SAP CX
7 6 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
7 6 (0.11%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 6 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.11%) SAP IBP
8 5 (0.093%) Dynamics AX
8 5 (0.093%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.093%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 5 (0.093%) Payment Gateway
9 4 (0.074%) Dynamics NAV
9 4 (0.074%) Oracle Applications
9 4 (0.074%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 1,190 (22.08%) Azure
2 1,015 (18.83%) Power Platform
3 916 (16.99%) AWS
4 404 (7.50%) GCP
5 337 (6.25%) Google Analytics
6 207 (3.84%) Azure Data Factory
7 201 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
8 193 (3.58%) Microsoft 365
9 191 (3.54%) SaaS
10 175 (3.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 151 (2.80%) Snowflake
12 114 (2.12%) dbt
13 104 (1.93%) Azure Monitor
13 104 (1.93%) PowerApps
14 98 (1.82%) Serverless
15 83 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
15 83 (1.54%) Power Automate
16 76 (1.41%) GitHub
16 76 (1.41%) PaaS
17 72 (1.34%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 191 (3.54%) Broadband
2 91 (1.69%) Firewall
3 79 (1.47%) Network Security
4 52 (0.96%) WAN
5 49 (0.91%) VPN
6 42 (0.78%) TCP/IP
7 41 (0.76%) DNS
8 30 (0.56%) SD-WAN
9 26 (0.48%) LAN
10 24 (0.45%) Cisco Firepower
11 23 (0.43%) Internet
12 22 (0.41%) DHCP
13 20 (0.37%) HTTP
13 20 (0.37%) Wireless
14 19 (0.35%) MQTT
15 18 (0.33%) DSL
16 14 (0.26%) WLAN
17 13 (0.24%) VoIP
18 10 (0.19%) SMS
19 9 (0.17%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 968 (17.96%) Power BI
2 642 (11.91%) Tableau
3 629 (11.67%) Data Warehouse
4 343 (6.36%) SQL Server
5 314 (5.83%) Data Lake
6 226 (4.19%) Big Data
7 195 (3.62%) BigQuery
8 150 (2.78%) NoSQL
8 150 (2.78%) Relational Database
9 143 (2.65%) Metadata
10 126 (2.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 125 (2.32%) Looker
12 114 (2.12%) Azure SQL Database
13 93 (1.73%) Data Mining
14 91 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
15 80 (1.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 79 (1.47%) Data Vault
16 79 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
17 78 (1.45%) MongoDB
18 76 (1.41%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 309 (5.73%) Git
2 165 (3.06%) JIRA
3 109 (2.02%) Jenkins
4 78 (1.45%) GitLab
5 35 (0.65%) Visual Studio
6 18 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 16 (0.30%) JUnit
8 14 (0.26%) RStudio
8 14 (0.26%) Subversion
9 13 (0.24%) CircleCI
9 13 (0.24%) MLflow
9 13 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
9 13 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
10 11 (0.20%) Gatling
10 11 (0.20%) Postman
11 10 (0.19%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.15%) Selenium
13 7 (0.13%) Crashlytics
13 7 (0.13%) JMeter
13 7 (0.13%) SoapUI
General
1 1,602 (29.72%) Social Skills
2 1,512 (28.05%) Finance
3 1,190 (22.08%) Analytical Skills
4 1,096 (20.33%) Marketing
5 566 (10.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 516 (9.57%) Retail
7 454 (8.42%) Law
8 393 (7.29%) Banking
9 389 (7.22%) Presentation Skills
10 284 (5.27%) Advertising
11 277 (5.14%) Legal
12 189 (3.51%) Public Sector
13 137 (2.54%) Financial Institution
13 137 (2.54%) Front Office
14 110 (2.04%) Games
15 109 (2.02%) Manufacturing
16 108 (2.00%) Investment Banking
17 103 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
18 102 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
19 72 (1.34%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 993 (18.42%) Analyst
2 964 (17.88%) Senior
3 670 (12.43%) Lead
4 509 (9.44%) Developer
5 497 (9.22%) Data Engineer
6 492 (9.13%) Architect
7 421 (7.81%) Data Analyst
8 265 (4.92%) Senior Analyst
9 217 (4.03%) Consultant
10 213 (3.95%) Software Engineer
10 213 (3.95%) Solutions Architect
11 205 (3.80%) Data Architect
12 188 (3.49%) Data Manager
13 169 (3.14%) Senior Data Analyst
14 139 (2.58%) Product Manager
15 135 (2.50%) Data Scientist
16 131 (2.43%) Senior Manager
17 117 (2.17%) Analytics Manager
18 112 (2.08%) Engineering Manager
19 110 (2.04%) Digital Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 222 (4.12%) .NET
2 192 (3.56%) React
3 180 (3.34%) HTML
4 157 (2.91%) CSS
5 126 (2.34%) Kafka
6 112 (2.08%) REST
7 109 (2.02%) Spring
8 99 (1.84%) AngularJS
9 94 (1.74%) RESTful
10 91 (1.69%) Pandas
11 85 (1.58%) Spring Boot
12 76 (1.41%) Node.js
13 72 (1.34%) PySpark
14 69 (1.28%) Web Services
15 68 (1.26%) .NET Core
16 66 (1.22%) NumPy
17 58 (1.08%) ASP.NET
18 49 (0.91%) HTML5
19 42 (0.78%) GraphQL
19 42 (0.78%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 311 (5.77%) Management Information System
2 254 (4.71%) Algorithms
3 232 (4.30%) Product Ownership
4 201 (3.73%) Marketing Technology
5 197 (3.65%) Cloud Native
6 179 (3.32%) Data Structures
7 177 (3.28%) Onboarding
8 159 (2.95%) Self-Motivation
9 131 (2.43%) Social Media
10 104 (1.93%) Fixed Income
11 94 (1.74%) Public Cloud
12 91 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 84 (1.56%) Equities
14 81 (1.50%) Hedge funds
15 79 (1.47%) Credit Risk
15 79 (1.47%) Derivative
16 77 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
16 77 (1.43%) IoT
17 74 (1.37%) Data Centre
18 73 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 181 (3.36%) Linux
1 181 (3.36%) Windows
2 73 (1.35%) Windows Server
3 43 (0.80%) Unix
4 34 (0.63%) Android
5 26 (0.48%) Apple iOS
6 21 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
7 16 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
8 13 (0.24%) Windows 10
9 12 (0.22%) zOS
10 9 (0.17%) CentOS
10 9 (0.17%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.13%) AIX
12 6 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
12 6 (0.11%) Windows Vista
13 4 (0.074%) Solaris
13 4 (0.074%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.037%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 2 (0.037%) VMS
15 1 (0.019%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,468 (27.24%) Data Analytics
2 1,433 (26.59%) Agile
3 1,262 (23.41%) Business Intelligence
4 1,197 (22.21%) Problem-Solving
5 1,074 (19.93%) Visualisation
6 872 (16.18%) Data Modelling
7 842 (15.62%) Data Analysis
8 771 (14.30%) Data Science
9 757 (14.04%) Machine Learning
10 731 (13.56%) Decision-Making
11 665 (12.34%) ETL
12 625 (11.60%) Artificial Intelligence
13 587 (10.89%) Mentoring
14 572 (10.61%) DevOps
15 562 (10.43%) Data Engineering
16 561 (10.41%) Computer Science
17 557 (10.33%) Software Engineering
18 552 (10.24%) Actionable Insight
19 550 (10.20%) Data Strategy
20 545 (10.11%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1,760 (32.65%) SQL
2 1,388 (25.75%) Python
3 359 (6.66%) Java
4 317 (5.88%) JavaScript
5 251 (4.66%) R
6 239 (4.43%) C#
7 141 (2.62%) TypeScript
8 135 (2.50%) T-SQL
9 121 (2.24%) PowerShell
10 117 (2.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 87 (1.61%) Scala
12 63 (1.17%) C
13 49 (0.91%) C++
13 49 (0.91%) VBA
14 44 (0.82%) PHP
15 39 (0.72%) PL/SQL
16 36 (0.67%) Bash
17 35 (0.65%) Go
18 33 (0.61%) MATLAB
19 29 (0.54%) VB
Qualifications
1 1,308 (24.27%) Degree
2 332 (6.16%) Security Cleared
3 235 (4.36%) Master's Degree
4 206 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 198 (3.67%) DBS Check
6 192 (3.56%) SC Cleared
7 108 (2.00%) DV Cleared
8 73 (1.35%) Azure Certification
8 73 (1.35%) PhD
9 65 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
10 53 (0.98%) Numerate Degree
11 52 (0.96%) MBA
12 47 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
13 36 (0.67%) PMI Certification
14 33 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
15 32 (0.59%) CISSP
15 32 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
16 31 (0.58%) CIPD
17 27 (0.50%) CCNP
18 25 (0.46%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 489 (9.07%) Data Quality
2 193 (3.58%) QA
3 106 (1.97%) Accessibility
4 84 (1.56%) GDPR
5 71 (1.32%) Actionable Recommendations
5 71 (1.32%) IFRS
6 63 (1.17%) IFRS 9
7 44 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 38 (0.71%) PMO
9 36 (0.67%) WCAG
10 34 (0.63%) NIST
11 33 (0.61%) SLA
12 23 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 20 (0.37%) ITGC
14 16 (0.30%) ISO 9001
15 15 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 9 (0.17%) CRD IV
16 9 (0.17%) Good Clinical Practice
16 9 (0.17%) SOC 2
17 8 (0.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 157 (2.91%) Docker
2 99 (1.84%) Active Directory
3 32 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
4 29 (0.54%) vSphere
5 20 (0.37%) Firmware
6 17 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
7 15 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.20%) Hyper-V
9 9 (0.17%) HDFS
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
1 205 (3.80%) Kubernetes
2 148 (2.75%) Terraform
3 61 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 55 (1.02%) Ansible
5 53 (0.98%) Grafana
6 29 (0.54%) Prometheus
7 25 (0.46%) Stealthwatch
8 22 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 21 (0.39%) Docker Swarm
9 21 (0.39%) WSUS
10 17 (0.32%) SCCM
11 16 (0.30%) Puppet
12 15 (0.28%) SCOM
13 13 (0.24%) Progress Chef
14 12 (0.22%) Kibana
15 9 (0.17%) Nagios
15 9 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
16 8 (0.15%) logstash
16 8 (0.15%) ZABBIX
17 7 (0.13%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 882 (16.36%) Microsoft
2 526 (9.76%) Google
3 493 (9.15%) Databricks
4 257 (4.77%) Oracle
5 138 (2.56%) SAP
6 122 (2.26%) Adobe
7 89 (1.65%) Alteryx
8 74 (1.37%) Salesforce
9 60 (1.11%) Informatica
10 56 (1.04%) ServiceNow
10 56 (1.04%) Splunk
11 49 (0.91%) IBM
12 43 (0.80%) Cisco
13 41 (0.76%) Apple
14 40 (0.74%) Qualtrics
15 38 (0.71%) Sparx
16 35 (0.65%) Meraki
17 34 (0.63%) Cognos
17 34 (0.63%) Dynatrace
18 30 (0.56%) Bloomberg