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

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 24 23
Rank change year-on-year -15 -1 +10
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 5,344 8,751 15,684
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.43% 8.62% 9.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.33% 9.01% 10.42%
Number of salaries quoted 3,334 4,421 6,802
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,725 £48,972 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,300 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.77% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,435 £86,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £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 84,403 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.70% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,565 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
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 £96,750
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 7 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 7 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 4,646 £59,000 -11.94% 2,426
UK excluding London -25 3,178 £52,500 -4.55% 1,197
Work from Home -6 2,422 £59,000 -9.23% 1,121
London 0 1,970 £75,000 - 1,274
North of England -14 895 £50,000 -16.67% 381
South East -14 658 £55,000 -4.35% 269
Midlands -4 573 £55,000 +10.00% 242
North West +13 558 £52,084 -12.50% 257
Scotland -6 446 £60,249 +1.21% 71
West Midlands -7 428 £55,000 +13.23% 156
South West -13 384 £55,000 -7.01% 106
Yorkshire -37 237 £45,249 -30.39% 93
East Midlands +6 144 £50,000 - 86
East of England -46 128 £47,500 -17.39% 100
North East -2 100 £50,000 -9.09% 32
Wales -10 61 £50,000 +25.00% 24
Northern Ireland +26 32 £85,000 +61.90% 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
1 164 (3.07%) SAS
2 140 (2.62%) Apache Spark
3 105 (1.96%) Apache
4 88 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
5 84 (1.57%) CMS
5 84 (1.57%) SharePoint
6 68 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
7 53 (0.99%) WordPress
8 52 (0.97%) Confluence
9 22 (0.41%) IIS
10 19 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2010
11 9 (0.17%) ArcGIS
12 8 (0.15%) Jupyter
12 8 (0.15%) Tomcat
13 7 (0.13%) nginx
13 7 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
14 6 (0.11%) Drupal
14 6 (0.11%) IBM Notes
15 5 (0.094%) Umbraco
15 5 (0.094%) WebSphere
Applications
1 394 (7.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 139 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
3 130 (2.43%) 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 (0.36%) Trello
11 16 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 15 (0.28%) MS Visio
13 14 (0.26%) Adobe XD
14 8 (0.15%) InDesign
15 6 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
16 5 (0.094%) Adobe Premiere
17 4 (0.075%) Adobe After Effects
17 4 (0.075%) Microsoft Project
18 3 (0.056%) AutoCAD
19 2 (0.037%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 37 (0.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 35 (0.65%) Shopify
3 27 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
4 18 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
5 17 (0.32%) Magento
5 17 (0.32%) Unit4 Business World
6 10 (0.19%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 9 (0.17%) SAP CX
8 7 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
9 6 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
9 6 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
9 6 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 6 (0.11%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 6 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.11%) SAP IBP
10 5 (0.094%) NetSuite
10 5 (0.094%) Payment Gateway
11 4 (0.075%) Dynamics NAV
11 4 (0.075%) Oracle Applications
11 4 (0.075%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 1,171 (21.91%) Azure
2 994 (18.60%) Power Platform
3 834 (15.61%) AWS
4 398 (7.45%) GCP
5 341 (6.38%) Google Analytics
6 211 (3.95%) Azure Data Factory
6 211 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
7 191 (3.57%) SaaS
8 185 (3.46%) Microsoft 365
9 171 (3.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 160 (2.99%) Snowflake
11 111 (2.08%) dbt
12 104 (1.95%) PowerApps
13 102 (1.91%) Azure Monitor
14 99 (1.85%) Serverless
15 81 (1.52%) Power Automate
16 78 (1.46%) Cloud Computing
16 78 (1.46%) GitHub
17 74 (1.38%) Figma
18 73 (1.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 193 (3.61%) Broadband
2 83 (1.55%) Firewall
3 73 (1.37%) Network Security
4 46 (0.86%) VPN
5 45 (0.84%) WAN
6 41 (0.77%) TCP/IP
7 40 (0.75%) DNS
8 25 (0.47%) LAN
9 24 (0.45%) Internet
10 23 (0.43%) SD-WAN
11 21 (0.39%) DHCP
12 19 (0.36%) HTTP
12 19 (0.36%) Wireless
13 18 (0.34%) Cisco Firepower
13 18 (0.34%) DSL
13 18 (0.34%) MQTT
14 14 (0.26%) WLAN
15 12 (0.22%) VoIP
16 10 (0.19%) SMS
17 9 (0.17%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 946 (17.70%) Power BI
2 606 (11.34%) Tableau
3 601 (11.25%) Data Warehouse
4 337 (6.31%) SQL Server
5 303 (5.67%) Data Lake
6 212 (3.97%) Big Data
7 195 (3.65%) BigQuery
8 150 (2.81%) Relational Database
9 140 (2.62%) Metadata
10 131 (2.45%) NoSQL
11 128 (2.40%) Looker
12 120 (2.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 113 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
14 98 (1.83%) Data Mining
15 89 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
16 80 (1.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 79 (1.48%) MongoDB
17 79 (1.48%) MySQL
18 76 (1.42%) Star Schema
19 75 (1.40%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 268 (5.01%) Git
2 168 (3.14%) JIRA
3 118 (2.21%) Jenkins
4 90 (1.68%) GitLab
5 34 (0.64%) Visual Studio
6 18 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 17 (0.32%) JUnit
8 15 (0.28%) RStudio
9 14 (0.26%) SonarQube
9 14 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
10 13 (0.24%) CircleCI
10 13 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
11 12 (0.22%) Subversion
12 11 (0.21%) MLflow
12 11 (0.21%) Postman
13 10 (0.19%) Bitbucket
14 9 (0.17%) Eclipse
15 8 (0.15%) IntelliJ
15 8 (0.15%) Jasmine
16 7 (0.13%) SoapUI
General
1 1,589 (29.73%) Social Skills
2 1,518 (28.41%) Finance
3 1,139 (21.31%) Analytical Skills
4 1,083 (20.27%) Marketing
5 563 (10.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 482 (9.02%) Retail
7 447 (8.36%) Law
8 388 (7.26%) Banking
9 331 (6.19%) Presentation Skills
10 285 (5.33%) Advertising
11 274 (5.13%) Legal
12 187 (3.50%) Public Sector
13 138 (2.58%) Financial Institution
14 124 (2.32%) Front Office
15 120 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
16 113 (2.11%) Games
17 106 (1.98%) Manufacturing
18 103 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
19 102 (1.91%) Investment Banking
20 74 (1.38%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 965 (18.06%) Analyst
2 918 (17.18%) Senior
3 675 (12.63%) Lead
4 522 (9.77%) Developer
5 501 (9.38%) Architect
6 475 (8.89%) Data Engineer
7 389 (7.28%) Data Analyst
8 238 (4.45%) Solutions Architect
9 236 (4.42%) Senior Analyst
10 211 (3.95%) Consultant
11 208 (3.89%) Software Engineer
12 192 (3.59%) Data Architect
12 192 (3.59%) Data Manager
13 139 (2.60%) Data Scientist
13 139 (2.60%) Product Manager
14 135 (2.53%) Senior Data Analyst
15 128 (2.40%) Senior Manager
16 116 (2.17%) Analytics Manager
17 109 (2.04%) Engineering Manager
18 107 (2.00%) Presales Solution Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 208 (3.89%) .NET
2 192 (3.59%) React
3 174 (3.26%) HTML
4 149 (2.79%) CSS
5 124 (2.32%) Kafka
6 108 (2.02%) Spring
7 100 (1.87%) REST
8 96 (1.80%) AngularJS
9 95 (1.78%) RESTful
10 90 (1.68%) Pandas
11 84 (1.57%) Spring Boot
12 83 (1.55%) Node.js
13 67 (1.25%) NumPy
14 62 (1.16%) .NET Core
15 58 (1.09%) ASP.NET
16 57 (1.07%) Web Services
17 56 (1.05%) PySpark
18 47 (0.88%) HTML5
19 44 (0.82%) Elastic Stack
20 42 (0.79%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 300 (5.61%) Management Information System
2 239 (4.47%) Algorithms
3 227 (4.25%) Product Ownership
4 203 (3.80%) Cloud Native
5 200 (3.74%) Marketing Technology
6 176 (3.29%) Data Structures
7 174 (3.26%) Onboarding
8 162 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
9 131 (2.45%) Social Media
10 106 (1.98%) Public Cloud
11 102 (1.91%) Fixed Income
12 90 (1.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 82 (1.53%) Credit Risk
14 79 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
15 78 (1.46%) Equities
16 75 (1.40%) IoT
17 73 (1.37%) Derivative
18 71 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
19 70 (1.31%) Hedge funds
20 68 (1.27%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 190 (3.56%) Linux
2 189 (3.54%) Windows
3 70 (1.31%) Windows Server
4 44 (0.82%) Unix
5 34 (0.64%) Android
6 26 (0.49%) Apple iOS
7 20 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
8 15 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
9 13 (0.24%) Mac OS
9 13 (0.24%) Windows 10
10 12 (0.22%) zOS
11 9 (0.17%) CentOS
12 7 (0.13%) AIX
13 6 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
13 6 (0.11%) Windows Vista
14 4 (0.075%) Solaris
14 4 (0.075%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.019%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.019%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,483 (27.75%) Data Analytics
2 1,439 (26.93%) Agile
3 1,253 (23.45%) Business Intelligence
4 1,156 (21.63%) Problem-Solving
5 1,036 (19.39%) Visualisation
6 868 (16.24%) Data Modelling
7 804 (15.04%) Data Analysis
8 766 (14.33%) Machine Learning
9 763 (14.28%) Data Science
10 720 (13.47%) Decision-Making
11 661 (12.37%) ETL
12 634 (11.86%) Artificial Intelligence
13 595 (11.13%) Mentoring
14 556 (10.40%) Software Engineering
15 551 (10.31%) Actionable Insight
15 551 (10.31%) DevOps
16 549 (10.27%) Data Strategy
17 543 (10.16%) Data Engineering
18 541 (10.12%) Data Visualisation
19 524 (9.81%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,704 (31.89%) SQL
2 1,355 (25.36%) Python
3 348 (6.51%) Java
4 319 (5.97%) JavaScript
5 252 (4.72%) R
6 224 (4.19%) C#
7 140 (2.62%) TypeScript
8 136 (2.54%) T-SQL
9 127 (2.38%) PowerShell
10 111 (2.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 82 (1.53%) Scala
12 63 (1.18%) C
13 52 (0.97%) C++
14 50 (0.94%) VBA
15 48 (0.90%) Bash
16 47 (0.88%) PHP
17 42 (0.79%) PL/SQL
18 36 (0.67%) MATLAB
19 34 (0.64%) Go
20 28 (0.52%) VB
Qualifications
1 1,233 (23.07%) Degree
2 356 (6.66%) Security Cleared
3 221 (4.14%) Master's Degree
4 217 (4.06%) SC Cleared
5 185 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 159 (2.98%) DBS Check
7 105 (1.96%) DV Cleared
8 69 (1.29%) Azure Certification
9 66 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
10 60 (1.12%) PhD
11 55 (1.03%) Numerate Degree
12 52 (0.97%) MBA
13 47 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
14 36 (0.67%) PMI Certification
15 33 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
16 31 (0.58%) CISSP
17 30 (0.56%) CIPD
18 27 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
19 23 (0.43%) ACCA
20 22 (0.41%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 466 (8.72%) Data Quality
2 192 (3.59%) QA
3 106 (1.98%) Accessibility
4 87 (1.63%) GDPR
5 74 (1.38%) IFRS
6 70 (1.31%) Actionable Recommendations
7 66 (1.24%) IFRS 9
8 40 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 40 (0.75%) PMO
9 36 (0.67%) WCAG
10 32 (0.60%) NIST
11 31 (0.58%) SLA
12 24 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 19 (0.36%) ITGC
14 16 (0.30%) ISO 9001
15 15 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 12 (0.22%) CRD IV
17 7 (0.13%) PCI DSS
17 7 (0.13%) SOC 2
18 6 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 168 (3.14%) Docker
2 94 (1.76%) Active Directory
3 30 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
4 27 (0.51%) vSphere
5 20 (0.37%) Firmware
6 16 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
7 14 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (0.19%) 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
1 212 (3.97%) Kubernetes
2 156 (2.92%) Terraform
3 65 (1.22%) Grafana
4 64 (1.20%) Ansible
5 61 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
6 41 (0.77%) Prometheus
7 21 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 20 (0.37%) WSUS
9 19 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
9 19 (0.36%) Stealthwatch
10 16 (0.30%) Puppet
10 16 (0.30%) SCCM
11 14 (0.26%) SCOM
12 13 (0.24%) Progress Chef
13 12 (0.22%) Kibana
14 9 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
15 8 (0.15%) logstash
15 8 (0.15%) Nagios
16 7 (0.13%) SysTrack
16 7 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 870 (16.28%) Microsoft
2 527 (9.86%) Google
3 447 (8.36%) Databricks
4 261 (4.88%) Oracle
5 140 (2.62%) SAP
6 117 (2.19%) Adobe
7 91 (1.70%) Alteryx
8 74 (1.38%) Salesforce
9 64 (1.20%) Informatica
10 61 (1.14%) ServiceNow
11 55 (1.03%) Splunk
12 52 (0.97%) IBM
13 40 (0.75%) Qualtrics
14 38 (0.71%) Sparx
15 37 (0.69%) Cisco
16 36 (0.67%) Apple
17 34 (0.64%) Dynatrace
18 33 (0.62%) Cognos
19 32 (0.60%) YouTube
20 30 (0.56%) Facebook