Business Analytics
UK

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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 716 758 806
Rank change year-on-year +42 +48 -122
Permanent jobs citing Business Analytics 175 219 470
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.22% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.23% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 85 155 206
10th Percentile £37,900 £41,125 £36,875
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,625 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £64,500
Median % change year-on-year - +0.78% +7.50%
75th Percentile £95,000 £78,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £87,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,000 £62,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.60% +38.89% -18.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Business 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 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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% +9.38%

Business Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Analytics in the UK

Business Analytics
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Business Analytics in the UK

Business Analytics
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Analytics over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Business Analytics in the UK

Business Analytics
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Business Analytics within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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 +50 152 £59,500 -8.46% 58
UK excluding London -27 100 £59,000 -5.60% 34
London +82 73 £72,500 -6.45% 32
Work from Home +48 62 £67,500 +8.00% 39
North of England +82 36 £65,000 -3.70% 9
North West +35 33 £65,000 -18.75% 5
Scotland -48 20 £53,750 -4.03% 6
South East -34 15 £70,500 +8.46% 7
South West -27 12 £53,500 +14.44% 1
Midlands -18 9 £59,000 +18.00% 8
West Midlands +6 7 £47,500 +14.02% 3
East of England +8 6 £45,000 - 2
Yorkshire +83 3 £55,000 - 2
East Midlands -11 2 £63,500 +1.60% 5
Wales - 2 £79,279 - 1

Business 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 22 (12.57%) Apache Spark
2 7 (4.00%) Apache
3 6 (3.43%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.29%) CMS
5 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 22 (12.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (5.14%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.71%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.14%) MIS ActiveH
1 2 (1.14%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 43 (24.57%) Power Platform
2 28 (16.00%) AWS
3 19 (10.86%) Azure
4 18 (10.29%) SaaS
5 8 (4.57%) dbt
6 7 (4.00%) GitHub
7 6 (3.43%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (3.43%) GCP
8 5 (2.86%) Fivetran
8 5 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (2.86%) Google Data Studio
8 5 (2.86%) Snowflake
8 5 (2.86%) Stitch
9 4 (2.29%) Amazon EMR
10 3 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.71%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (1.14%) IaaS
11 2 (1.14%) PaaS
12 1 (0.57%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (10.29%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (29.71%) Data Warehouse
2 43 (24.57%) Power BI
2 43 (24.57%) Tableau
3 25 (14.29%) Metadata
4 24 (13.71%) Data Lake
5 20 (11.43%) Big Data
6 19 (10.86%) MongoDB
7 18 (10.29%) DB2
8 13 (7.43%) Amazon Redshift
9 11 (6.29%) SQL Server
10 9 (5.14%) QlikView
10 9 (5.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 8 (4.57%) Looker
11 8 (4.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 8 (4.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (4.00%) Data Vault
12 7 (4.00%) MySQL
12 7 (4.00%) Snowflake Schema
12 7 (4.00%) Star Schema
13 6 (3.43%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 8 (4.57%) Git
2 5 (2.86%) GitLab
3 1 (0.57%) Cypress.io
General
1 72 (41.14%) Finance
2 64 (36.57%) Analytical Skills
3 63 (36.00%) Social Skills
4 27 (15.43%) Marketing
5 23 (13.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 21 (12.00%) Banking
6 21 (12.00%) Investment Banking
7 19 (10.86%) Law
8 18 (10.29%) Financial Institution
9 15 (8.57%) Legal
9 15 (8.57%) Pharmaceutical
10 12 (6.86%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (4.57%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (4.57%) Public Sector
11 8 (4.57%) Retail
12 3 (1.71%) Back Office
12 3 (1.71%) Front Office
12 3 (1.71%) Local Government
12 3 (1.71%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.71%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 37 (21.14%) Analyst
2 35 (20.00%) Senior
3 33 (18.86%) Architect
4 31 (17.71%) Data Architect
4 31 (17.71%) Data Engineer
5 18 (10.29%) Lead
5 18 (10.29%) Software Engineering Director
6 16 (9.14%) Senior Architect
6 16 (9.14%) Senior Data Architect
7 12 (6.86%) Product Manager
8 11 (6.29%) Data Scientist
8 11 (6.29%) Senior Data Scientist
9 10 (5.71%) Business Manager
10 8 (4.57%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 7 (4.00%) Data Manager
11 7 (4.00%) Developer
12 6 (3.43%) Business Intelligence Lead
13 5 (2.86%) Business Intelligence Architect
13 5 (2.86%) Data Analytics Architect
13 5 (2.86%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (10.29%) Kafka
2 12 (6.86%) Web Services
3 5 (2.86%) REST
4 4 (2.29%) Django
5 3 (1.71%) PySpark
6 2 (1.14%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.14%) HTML
7 1 (0.57%) Jest
7 1 (0.57%) Matplotlib
7 1 (0.57%) NumPy
7 1 (0.57%) Pandas
7 1 (0.57%) React
Miscellaneous
1 56 (32.00%) Management Information System
2 31 (17.71%) Algorithms
3 22 (12.57%) Product Ownership
4 18 (10.29%) Cloud Native
4 18 (10.29%) Public Cloud
5 15 (8.57%) Life Science
6 12 (6.86%) Data Structures
6 12 (6.86%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (6.29%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.86%) Replication
9 4 (2.29%) Social Media
9 4 (2.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 3 (1.71%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (1.14%) Mainframe
11 2 (1.14%) Mobile App
11 2 (1.14%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.71%) Windows
2 1 (0.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (100.00%) Analytics
2 116 (66.29%) Business Intelligence
3 83 (47.43%) Data Modelling
4 73 (41.71%) Agile
5 63 (36.00%) Visualisation
6 61 (34.86%) Data Strategy
7 49 (28.00%) Data Analytics
8 48 (27.43%) Data Analysis
9 46 (26.29%) Data Visualisation
9 46 (26.29%) SDLC
10 44 (25.14%) Roadmaps
11 43 (24.57%) Computer Science
12 41 (23.43%) DevOps
13 40 (22.86%) Data Science
13 40 (22.86%) Decision-Making
14 39 (22.29%) Data Governance
14 39 (22.29%) ETL
14 39 (22.29%) Software Engineering
15 36 (20.57%) User Experience
16 32 (18.29%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 70 (40.00%) SQL
2 46 (26.29%) Python
3 18 (10.29%) Java
3 18 (10.29%) PL/SQL
3 18 (10.29%) Scala
4 8 (4.57%) R
5 6 (3.43%) VBA
6 5 (2.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (1.71%) C#
8 2 (1.14%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.57%) Bash
9 1 (0.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 60 (34.29%) Degree
2 32 (18.29%) Master's Degree
3 15 (8.57%) PhD
4 10 (5.71%) MBA
5 6 (3.43%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.14%) CSPO
6 2 (1.14%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.57%) MAPM
7 1 (0.57%) MCP
7 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (22.29%) Data Quality
2 18 (10.29%) SLA
3 3 (1.71%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.14%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.57%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (11.43%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 27 (15.43%) Oracle
2 24 (13.71%) Microsoft
3 22 (12.57%) Databricks
4 21 (12.00%) Alteryx
5 18 (10.29%) Cognos
5 18 (10.29%) Sybase
6 5 (2.86%) Google
7 4 (2.29%) BiZZdesign
7 4 (2.29%) MicroStrategy
8 3 (1.71%) Cisco
8 3 (1.71%) Mitel
8 3 (1.71%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.71%) SAP
8 3 (1.71%) Zoho
9 2 (1.14%) Cadence
9 2 (1.14%) NEC
9 2 (1.14%) Pardot
9 2 (1.14%) Twitter
10 1 (0.57%) Splunk
10 1 (0.57%) Vertica