Data Analytics
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Data Analytics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Analytics over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 196 165 164
Rank change year-on-year -31 -1 +36
Permanent jobs citing Data Analytics 1,500 2,319 3,914
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.52% 2.24% 2.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.77% 2.34% 2.61%
Number of salaries quoted 900 1,008 1,689
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,875 £38,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £104,125 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data 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 84,624 98,922 149,770
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.89% 95.62% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,744 58,119 83,346
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,500 £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%

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 5 May 2024.

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 5 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 -41 1,256 £60,000 -10.45% 523
UK excluding London -61 932 £55,000 +4.76% 244
Work from Home +31 634 £59,778 -8.03% 234
London +3 512 £72,000 -0.69% 293
Midlands -37 202 £55,000 +10.00% 51
South East -20 181 £55,000 +10.00% 49
North of England -88 179 £48,750 -11.60% 62
West Midlands -25 160 £55,000 +10.00% 41
Scotland -28 158 £60,149 +13.10% 17
South West -3 145 £62,500 +13.55% 32
North West -76 104 £50,000 -25.93% 30
Yorkshire -8 48 £42,500 -20.56% 17
East Midlands -28 42 £47,500 -13.64% 10
North East -34 27 £50,000 -10.09% 15
East of England -46 26 £47,500 -24.00% 22
Northern Ireland +41 21 £67,500 - 10
Wales +14 18 £50,000 - 5
Channel Islands - 2 - - 1

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 59 (3.93%) SAS
2 51 (3.40%) Apache Spark
3 29 (1.93%) SharePoint
4 20 (1.33%) Apache
5 17 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
6 14 (0.93%) IIS
7 13 (0.87%) WordPress
8 10 (0.67%) Confluence
9 9 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
10 8 (0.53%) CMS
11 7 (0.47%) nginx
12 6 (0.40%) IBM Notes
13 5 (0.33%) Appian
13 5 (0.33%) ArcGIS
13 5 (0.33%) Oracle Application Server
14 3 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2013
14 3 (0.20%) Headless CMS
15 2 (0.13%) Moodle
16 1 (0.067%) Drupal
16 1 (0.067%) OpenStack
Applications
1 125 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (3.07%) Microsoft Office
3 43 (2.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (2.13%) UserZoom
5 16 (1.07%) SPSS
6 12 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.40%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.13%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.067%) Trello
Business Applications
1 34 (2.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 18 (1.20%) Unit4 Business World
3 8 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.27%) Relativity
5 3 (0.20%) Raiser’s Edge
6 2 (0.13%) Endur
6 2 (0.13%) Veritas eDiscovery
7 1 (0.067%) Data Workbench
7 1 (0.067%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 1 (0.067%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.067%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.067%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.067%) Ringtail
7 1 (0.067%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.067%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 361 (24.07%) Power Platform
2 335 (22.33%) Azure
3 158 (10.53%) AWS
4 90 (6.00%) GCP
5 68 (4.53%) Azure DevOps
6 63 (4.20%) Snowflake
7 59 (3.93%) Azure Data Factory
8 56 (3.73%) Microsoft 365
9 55 (3.67%) PowerApps
10 53 (3.53%) SaaS
11 48 (3.20%) Power Automate
12 43 (2.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 38 (2.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 33 (2.20%) Matillion
15 32 (2.13%) Figma
15 32 (2.13%) SurveyMonkey
16 30 (2.00%) dbt
17 26 (1.73%) Cloud Computing
18 24 (1.60%) Google Analytics
19 23 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 35 (2.33%) Network Security
2 18 (1.20%) DSL
3 14 (0.93%) HTTP
3 14 (0.93%) MQTT
4 12 (0.80%) Internet
5 11 (0.73%) TCP/IP
6 7 (0.47%) OpenVPN
7 6 (0.40%) Broadband
8 5 (0.33%) Firewall
8 5 (0.33%) LAN
8 5 (0.33%) VoIP
8 5 (0.33%) WAN
9 4 (0.27%) Ethernet
9 4 (0.27%) RS-232
9 4 (0.27%) SAN
9 4 (0.27%) SMS
9 4 (0.27%) Wireless
9 4 (0.27%) WPA
10 3 (0.20%) DNS
10 3 (0.20%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 351 (23.40%) Power BI
2 213 (14.20%) Data Warehouse
3 206 (13.73%) Tableau
4 135 (9.00%) SQL Server
5 115 (7.67%) Data Lake
6 97 (6.47%) Big Data
7 50 (3.33%) Relational Database
8 48 (3.20%) Azure SQL Database
9 41 (2.73%) Star Schema
10 36 (2.40%) DB2
10 36 (2.40%) Elasticsearch
11 35 (2.33%) NoSQL
11 35 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 29 (1.93%) BigQuery
12 29 (1.93%) Looker
13 26 (1.73%) MongoDB
14 24 (1.60%) Data Mining
14 24 (1.60%) MySQL
15 23 (1.53%) Metadata
16 22 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 65 (4.33%) Jenkins
2 59 (3.93%) Git
3 43 (2.87%) GitLab
4 29 (1.93%) JIRA
5 12 (0.80%) SonarQube
6 8 (0.53%) CircleCI
6 8 (0.53%) Jasmine
6 8 (0.53%) Mockito
7 7 (0.47%) RStudio
8 5 (0.33%) Eclipse
8 5 (0.33%) IntelliJ
9 4 (0.27%) Subversion
10 3 (0.20%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.13%) ER Studio
11 2 (0.13%) ERwin
11 2 (0.13%) gulp
12 1 (0.067%) IBM UrbanCode
12 1 (0.067%) LabVIEW
12 1 (0.067%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.067%) Spinnaker
General
1 560 (37.33%) Social Skills
2 504 (33.60%) Finance
3 285 (19.00%) Analytical Skills
4 225 (15.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 219 (14.60%) Marketing
6 170 (11.33%) Law
7 138 (9.20%) Banking
8 83 (5.53%) Legal
9 77 (5.13%) Presentation Skills
10 71 (4.73%) Retail
11 70 (4.67%) Organisational Skills
12 64 (4.27%) Public Sector
13 63 (4.20%) Manufacturing
14 49 (3.27%) Military
15 39 (2.60%) Games
16 38 (2.53%) Financial Institution
17 37 (2.47%) Investment Banking
18 25 (1.67%) Aerospace
19 22 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
20 19 (1.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 263 (17.53%) Architect
2 224 (14.93%) Senior
3 207 (13.80%) Analyst
4 170 (11.33%) Solutions Architect
5 165 (11.00%) Developer
6 141 (9.40%) Data Engineer
7 110 (7.33%) Data Analyst
8 103 (6.87%) Presales Solution Architect
9 91 (6.07%) Consultant
10 90 (6.00%) Lead
11 57 (3.80%) Data Architect
12 54 (3.60%) Data Manager
13 52 (3.47%) Analytics Manager
14 50 (3.33%) Senior Analyst
15 47 (3.13%) Audit Manager
16 46 (3.07%) Product Manager
17 42 (2.80%) Data Scientist
17 42 (2.80%) Senior Manager
18 40 (2.67%) Senior Data Engineer
19 36 (2.40%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (6.80%) .NET
2 63 (4.20%) HTML
3 53 (3.53%) Kafka
4 47 (3.13%) ASP.NET
5 46 (3.07%) CSS
6 45 (3.00%) AngularJS
7 37 (2.47%) React
8 36 (2.40%) Elastic Stack
9 35 (2.33%) ASP.NET MVC
10 34 (2.27%) .NET Core
11 33 (2.20%) Entity Framework
12 27 (1.80%) CSS3
12 27 (1.80%) HTML5
13 25 (1.67%) Web Services
14 24 (1.60%) REST
15 22 (1.47%) PySpark
16 20 (1.33%) Blazor
16 20 (1.33%) Pandas
17 18 (1.20%) Node.js
17 18 (1.20%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 123 (8.20%) Management Information System
2 78 (5.20%) Product Ownership
3 77 (5.13%) Algorithms
4 68 (4.53%) Data Structures
5 66 (4.40%) Self-Motivation
6 43 (2.87%) Cloud Native
7 36 (2.40%) Onboarding
8 35 (2.33%) IoT
8 35 (2.33%) Public Cloud
9 32 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
10 26 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
11 24 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
11 24 (1.60%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 24 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
12 18 (1.20%) Robotics
13 16 (1.07%) Taxonomies
14 15 (1.00%) Cyber Defence
14 15 (1.00%) Cybercrime
14 15 (1.00%) Security Operations Centre
15 14 (0.93%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 70 (4.67%) Linux
2 55 (3.67%) Windows
3 27 (1.80%) Windows Server
4 21 (1.40%) Unix
5 7 (0.47%) CentOS
6 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.067%) Android
7 1 (0.067%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.067%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,500 (100.00%) Analytics
2 467 (31.13%) Business Intelligence
3 433 (28.87%) Problem-Solving
4 382 (25.47%) Agile
5 322 (21.47%) Visualisation
6 315 (21.00%) Data Modelling
7 286 (19.07%) Machine Learning
8 278 (18.53%) Data Analysis
9 272 (18.13%) Artificial Intelligence
10 267 (17.80%) Data Science
10 267 (17.80%) Decision-Making
11 253 (16.87%) Actionable Insight
12 209 (13.93%) ETL
13 206 (13.73%) Data Visualisation
14 205 (13.67%) Roadmaps
15 182 (12.13%) Business Case
16 175 (11.67%) DevOps
17 170 (11.33%) Computer Science
18 152 (10.13%) Project Management
19 150 (10.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 506 (33.73%) SQL
2 371 (24.73%) Python
3 91 (6.07%) JavaScript
4 88 (5.87%) C#
5 87 (5.80%) Java
6 72 (4.80%) R
7 38 (2.53%) Scala
8 36 (2.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 30 (2.00%) PowerShell
9 30 (2.00%) TypeScript
10 28 (1.87%) C
11 24 (1.60%) PL/SQL
12 22 (1.47%) Haskell
13 21 (1.40%) C++
14 17 (1.13%) T-SQL
15 16 (1.07%) Bash
16 14 (0.93%) PHP
17 12 (0.80%) VBA
18 10 (0.67%) Clojure
19 9 (0.60%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 410 (27.33%) Degree
2 212 (14.13%) Security Cleared
3 156 (10.40%) SC Cleared
4 104 (6.93%) Master's Degree
5 70 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 51 (3.40%) DV Cleared
7 33 (2.20%) TOGAF Certification
8 30 (2.00%) PhD
9 29 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
9 29 (1.93%) MBA
10 22 (1.47%) CISA
10 22 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
10 22 (1.47%) Numerate Degree
11 21 (1.40%) CISSP
12 20 (1.33%) ACCA
13 14 (0.93%) DBS Check
14 11 (0.73%) CFA
14 11 (0.73%) CIMA
15 6 (0.40%) CISM
15 6 (0.40%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 160 (10.67%) Data Quality
2 52 (3.47%) Actionable Recommendations
3 31 (2.07%) QA
4 30 (2.00%) Accessibility
5 25 (1.67%) PMO
6 24 (1.60%) NIST
7 20 (1.33%) ITGC
8 19 (1.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 19 (1.27%) SLA
9 18 (1.20%) GDPR
10 17 (1.13%) IFRS
11 16 (1.07%) IFRS 9
12 11 (0.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 11 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 5 (0.33%) ISO 9001
14 3 (0.20%) COBIT
14 3 (0.20%) ISO 9000
14 3 (0.20%) MiFID
14 3 (0.20%) PCI DSS
15 2 (0.13%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 42 (2.80%) Docker
2 27 (1.80%) vSphere
3 8 (0.53%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.53%) Firmware
3 8 (0.53%) HDFS
4 4 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.067%) Lustre
6 1 (0.067%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 57 (3.80%) Kubernetes
2 47 (3.13%) Terraform
3 15 (1.00%) Ansible
4 13 (0.87%) Grafana
5 12 (0.80%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.40%) Puppet
7 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.067%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.067%) Icinga
8 1 (0.067%) MOM
8 1 (0.067%) Podman
8 1 (0.067%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.067%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.067%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 293 (19.53%) Microsoft
2 98 (6.53%) Google
3 91 (6.07%) Databricks
4 67 (4.47%) Oracle
5 56 (3.73%) Alteryx
6 41 (2.73%) SAP
7 34 (2.27%) Sparx
8 32 (2.13%) Qualtrics
9 24 (1.60%) SolarWinds
9 24 (1.60%) Tanium
9 24 (1.60%) Tripwire
10 23 (1.53%) IBM
10 23 (1.53%) Salesforce
11 19 (1.27%) Cognos
12 18 (1.20%) Sage
12 18 (1.20%) Sybase
13 16 (1.07%) CA
13 16 (1.07%) Dataiku
14 15 (1.00%) Pega
15 14 (0.93%) Snow