Market Research Jobs

Market Research
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Market Research skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Market Research over the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 498 554 330
Rank change year-on-year +56 -224 +490
Permanent jobs citing Market Research 234 397 960
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.36% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.43% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 146 218 67
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,850 £45,000
25th Percentile £40,313 £33,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £46,719 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.37% -15.06% -15.38%
75th Percentile £72,838 £69,688 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £102,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £37,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% -25.00% -4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Market Research falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,917 91,690 87,314
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 92.38% 82.10% 95.43%
Number of salaries quoted 26,105 63,362 53,134
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £39,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year - -9.54% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £80,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,991 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Market Research
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Market Research as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Market Research in the UK

Market Research
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Market Research.

Salary trend for Market Research in the UK

Market Research
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Market Research over the 6 months to 20 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Market Research in the UK

Market Research
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Market Research within the UK over the 6 months to 20 June 2025. 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 +56 219 £51,500 +14.44% 2,112
UK excluding London +108 168 £50,000 +33.33% 1,160
Work from Home +53 78 £52,500 +7.70% 836
London +33 54 £70,000 +21.74% 1,061
South East +41 49 £40,000 +6.67% 278
North of England +75 48 £52,000 +25.30% 315
North West +48 47 £51,000 +45.71% 172
East of England +41 27 £24,000 -58.26% 153
Midlands +90 23 £43,750 +33.59% 187
South West +106 18 £58,750 +30.56% 106
West Midlands +77 15 £27,500 -15.84% 109
East Midlands +51 7 £51,500 +37.33% 78
Scotland +87 4 £70,000 +40.03% 74

Market Research
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 3 (1.28%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.85%) CMS
2 2 (0.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 18 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 18 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (5.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (3.42%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.43%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.14%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.85%) Shopify
3 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 31 (13.25%) SaaS
2 14 (5.98%) AWS
3 9 (3.85%) Azure
4 7 (2.99%) Serverless
5 5 (2.14%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (2.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (2.14%) GCP
6 3 (1.28%) Anthropic Claude
6 3 (1.28%) ChatGPT
6 3 (1.28%) Figma
6 3 (1.28%) Google Workspace
6 3 (1.28%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Copilot
6 3 (1.28%) Slack
7 1 (0.43%) Google Analytics
7 1 (0.43%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.43%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.85%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (0.43%) LAN
2 1 (0.43%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.43%) VoIP
2 1 (0.43%) WAN
2 1 (0.43%) Wireless
2 1 (0.43%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.56%) Electronic Patient Records
2 5 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.43%) Looker
3 1 (0.43%) Power BI
3 1 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (1.71%) JIRA
2 3 (1.28%) Git
3 2 (0.85%) Axure RP
General
1 136 (58.12%) Social Skills
2 76 (32.48%) Analytical Skills
3 75 (32.05%) Marketing
4 70 (29.91%) Finance
5 23 (9.83%) Presentation Skills
6 21 (8.97%) Electronics
7 20 (8.55%) Legal
8 19 (8.12%) Organisational Skills
9 17 (7.26%) Billing
9 17 (7.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 16 (6.84%) Advertising
11 14 (5.98%) Retail
12 13 (5.56%) Law
12 13 (5.56%) Public Sector
13 9 (3.85%) Automotive
13 9 (3.85%) Manufacturing
14 7 (2.99%) Brand Awareness
14 7 (2.99%) Games
14 7 (2.99%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (2.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (21.37%) Product Manager
2 29 (12.39%) Project Manager
3 24 (10.26%) Marketing Manager
3 24 (10.26%) Senior
4 23 (9.83%) Sales Manager
5 21 (8.97%) Product Marketing Manager
6 20 (8.55%) Business Development Manager
6 20 (8.55%) Development Manager
7 19 (8.12%) Business Manager
8 18 (7.69%) Consultant
8 18 (7.69%) Operations Manager
9 17 (7.26%) Analyst
9 17 (7.26%) Operations Project Manager
9 17 (7.26%) Sales Operations Manager
10 15 (6.41%) Recruitment Consultant
11 14 (5.98%) Vendor Manager
12 10 (4.27%) Senior Manager
13 9 (3.85%) Lead
13 9 (3.85%) Sales Executive
13 9 (3.85%) Senior Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.42%) AngularJS
1 8 (3.42%) Laravel
1 8 (3.42%) Vue
2 5 (2.14%) Lightning Web Components
3 4 (1.71%) CSS
3 4 (1.71%) HTML
4 3 (1.28%) Serverless Framework
5 2 (0.85%) web3js
6 1 (0.43%) Akka
6 1 (0.43%) Google JAX
6 1 (0.43%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 40 (17.09%) Social Media
2 23 (9.83%) Self-Motivation
3 21 (8.97%) Onboarding
4 15 (6.41%) FMCG
5 14 (5.98%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 10 (4.27%) Product Ownership
7 7 (2.99%) NHS
8 6 (2.56%) Blog
8 6 (2.56%) Management Information System
9 5 (2.14%) Digital Media
9 5 (2.14%) PACS
10 4 (1.71%) IoT
10 4 (1.71%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.28%) Blockchain
11 3 (1.28%) Digital Signage
11 3 (1.28%) Video\Live Streaming
12 2 (0.85%) CCTV
12 2 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.85%) EPoS
12 2 (0.85%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.98%) Windows
1 14 (5.98%) Windows Vista
2 1 (0.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (30.77%) Decision-Making
2 64 (27.35%) Problem-Solving
3 53 (22.65%) CRM
4 52 (22.22%) Analytics
5 50 (21.37%) Business Development
6 48 (20.51%) Roadmaps
7 47 (20.09%) B2B
8 42 (17.95%) Project Management
9 38 (16.24%) Service Delivery
10 37 (15.81%) Agile
10 37 (15.81%) Customer Service
11 36 (15.38%) Product Strategy
12 33 (14.10%) Product Management
13 31 (13.25%) Customer Engagement
13 31 (13.25%) Order Management
14 30 (12.82%) Customer Retention
14 30 (12.82%) Strategic Thinking
15 29 (12.39%) Continuous Improvement
15 29 (12.39%) Contract Negotiation
16 28 (11.97%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 11 (4.70%) SQL
2 8 (3.42%) PHP
3 7 (2.99%) JavaScript
3 7 (2.99%) TypeScript
4 3 (1.28%) Python
Qualifications
1 73 (31.20%) Degree
2 36 (15.38%) Master's Degree
3 18 (7.69%) DBS Check
4 11 (4.70%) MBA
5 2 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.13%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.27%) QA
3 2 (0.85%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 6 (2.56%) Terraform
2 5 (2.14%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (0.43%) Puppet
Vendors
1 44 (18.80%) Microsoft
2 19 (8.12%) Oracle
3 17 (7.26%) Salesforce
4 11 (4.70%) Capita
5 7 (2.99%) HubSpot
6 5 (2.14%) Google
7 4 (1.71%) SAP
8 2 (0.85%) Ahrefs
8 2 (0.85%) Mercator
9 1 (0.43%) Adobe
9 1 (0.43%) Apple
9 1 (0.43%) Duck Creek
9 1 (0.43%) Foundry
9 1 (0.43%) Graphcore
9 1 (0.43%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.43%) Workday
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