Analytics Job Trends in Central London

Analytics
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Analytics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 14 28
Rank change year-on-year -7 +14 -1
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 215 394 218
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 8.38% 12.26% 7.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.61% 12.78% 7.62%
Number of salaries quoted 153 179 181
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £66,250 £55,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -3.03% +17.86%
75th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £106,250
90th Percentile £130,000 £130,000 £142,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +6.25% +3.23%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Central London

Analytics 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 in Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,238 3,082 2,862
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 87.22% 95.89% 94.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,643 1,843 2,523
10th Percentile £41,850 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,625
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £115,000
London median annual salary £74,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -1.33% - -

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Analytics relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Analytics job vacancy trend in Central London

Analytics
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Analytics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Analytics

Analytics
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytics in Central London over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Analytics in Central London

Analytics
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Analytics within the Central London region over the 6 months to 15 January 2026. 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
City of London -4 201 £85,000 +9.68% 140
City of Westminster +2 12 - - 10
West End of London -1 3 £32,838 -45.38% 4
Southwark +7 2 £46,250 -55.95%
Kensington and Chelsea - 2 £60,000 - 2
Camden +1 1 £57,500 - 1
Analytics
London

Analytics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 13 (6.05%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.26%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.86%) Apache
4 3 (1.40%) Confluence
5 1 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.47%) CMS
5 1 (0.47%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (6.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.47%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.47%) Notion
Business Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Actimize
1 2 (0.93%) Adaptiv
1 2 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 74 (34.42%) Azure
2 54 (25.12%) Power Platform
3 40 (18.60%) AWS
4 24 (11.16%) GCP
5 19 (8.84%) Snowflake
6 17 (7.91%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (6.51%) Azure Data Factory
7 14 (6.51%) Serverless
8 12 (5.58%) dbt
9 10 (4.65%) GitHub
10 8 (3.72%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (3.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 8 (3.72%) Microsoft Purview
11 7 (3.26%) Amazon S3
11 7 (3.26%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (3.26%) Google Analytics
11 7 (3.26%) SaaS
12 6 (2.79%) Azure Event Grid
12 6 (2.79%) Azure Functions
12 6 (2.79%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.93%) Firewall
1 2 (0.93%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (0.47%) Broadband
2 1 (0.47%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (24.19%) Power BI
2 34 (15.81%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (7.44%) Data Lake
4 13 (6.05%) Tableau
5 10 (4.65%) Metadata
5 10 (4.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 8 (3.72%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (3.72%) Power Query
6 8 (3.72%) SQL Server
7 6 (2.79%) BigQuery
7 6 (2.79%) MongoDB
8 5 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (2.33%) Data Mining
8 5 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (1.86%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (1.86%) Big Data
9 4 (1.86%) Delta Lake
9 4 (1.86%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (1.86%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (4.19%) Git
2 7 (3.26%) ERwin
3 5 (2.33%) JIRA
4 3 (1.40%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.93%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.93%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.47%) Deequ
6 1 (0.47%) GitLab
6 1 (0.47%) TeamCity
General
1 75 (34.88%) Finance
2 58 (26.98%) Social Skills
3 33 (15.35%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (9.77%) Banking
5 20 (9.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (8.84%) Law
7 16 (7.44%) Legal
8 15 (6.98%) Front Office
9 13 (6.05%) Financial Institution
10 12 (5.58%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (5.12%) Marketing
12 9 (4.19%) Retail
13 7 (3.26%) Advertising
14 6 (2.79%) Investment Banking
15 5 (2.33%) International Banking
16 4 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
17 3 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
17 3 (1.40%) Manufacturing
17 3 (1.40%) Public Sector
18 2 (0.93%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (17.67%) Lead
2 30 (13.95%) Data Engineer
3 25 (11.63%) Analyst
4 24 (11.16%) Architect
5 22 (10.23%) Developer
5 22 (10.23%) Senior
6 16 (7.44%) Data Architect
7 14 (6.51%) Data Analyst
8 11 (5.12%) Lead Architect
9 10 (4.65%) Data Scientist
10 8 (3.72%) Senior Data Engineer
11 7 (3.26%) Lead Data Architect
11 7 (3.26%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (3.26%) Support Engineer
11 7 (3.26%) User Researcher
12 6 (2.79%) Applications Engineer
12 6 (2.79%) Applications Support
12 6 (2.79%) Applications Support Engineer
13 5 (2.33%) AWS Architect
13 5 (2.33%) Head of Data Analytics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.58%) Kafka
2 9 (4.19%) .NET
3 8 (3.72%) PySpark
4 7 (3.26%) PyTorch
5 6 (2.79%) LangChain
5 6 (2.79%) WPF
6 5 (2.33%) CSS
6 5 (2.33%) TensorFlow
7 4 (1.86%) HTML
7 4 (1.86%) Java Concurrency
7 4 (1.86%) Node.js
7 4 (1.86%) Pandas
8 3 (1.40%) Hugging Face
8 3 (1.40%) NumPy
8 3 (1.40%) OAuth
8 3 (1.40%) REST
8 3 (1.40%) scikit-learn
9 2 (0.93%) ARM Templates
9 2 (0.93%) FastAPI
9 2 (0.93%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.98%) Algorithms
2 12 (5.58%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.19%) Equities
3 9 (4.19%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.72%) Cloud Native
4 8 (3.72%) Derivative
5 7 (3.26%) Data Structures
5 7 (3.26%) Reinsurance
6 6 (2.79%) Credit Risk
6 6 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.79%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.79%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.86%) Market Risk
9 3 (1.40%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.93%) ASIC
10 2 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.93%) FMCG
10 2 (0.93%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.26%) Windows
2 3 (1.40%) Linux
3 2 (0.93%) Unix
4 1 (0.47%) Android
4 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (36.74%) AI
2 63 (29.30%) Business Intelligence
3 61 (28.37%) Data Modelling
4 60 (27.91%) Problem-Solving
5 54 (25.12%) Data Governance
6 53 (24.65%) Decision-Making
7 49 (22.79%) Data Pipeline
8 47 (21.86%) Agile
8 47 (21.86%) Data Analytics
9 45 (20.93%) ETL
10 42 (19.53%) CI/CD
11 41 (19.07%) Data Science
12 40 (18.60%) Mentoring
13 38 (17.67%) Data Architecture
14 36 (16.74%) Data Engineering
14 36 (16.74%) Machine Learning
15 34 (15.81%) Actionable Insight
16 31 (14.42%) DevOps
17 30 (13.95%) Stakeholder Management
18 28 (13.02%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 101 (46.98%) Python
2 91 (42.33%) SQL
3 18 (8.37%) Java
4 16 (7.44%) C#
5 15 (6.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 7 (3.26%) C++
7 5 (2.33%) Scala
8 4 (1.86%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.40%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.40%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.40%) VBA
10 2 (0.93%) Bicep
10 2 (0.93%) R
11 1 (0.47%) Bash
11 1 (0.47%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.47%) Ruby
11 1 (0.47%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (14.88%) Degree
2 15 (6.98%) Master's Degree
3 10 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (4.19%) PhD
4 9 (4.19%) Security Cleared
5 6 (2.79%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.86%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.86%) CISA
6 4 (1.86%) CISM
6 4 (1.86%) CISSP
6 4 (1.86%) CRISC
6 4 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.86%) PMI Certification
6 4 (1.86%) PMP
6 4 (1.86%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (1.40%) CFA
7 3 (1.40%) SnowPro
8 2 (0.93%) CompTIA CySA+
8 2 (0.93%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (0.93%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (17.21%) Data Quality
2 18 (8.37%) GDPR
3 10 (4.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.40%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.40%) QA
6 2 (0.93%) EMIR
6 2 (0.93%) ITGC
6 2 (0.93%) MiFID
6 2 (0.93%) NIST
6 2 (0.93%) PMO
6 2 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.47%) COBIT
7 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.47%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (6.51%) Docker
2 1 (0.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (6.05%) Terraform
2 10 (4.65%) Grafana
2 10 (4.65%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.79%) Kibana
4 4 (1.86%) Ansible
5 2 (0.93%) ArcSight ESM
5 2 (0.93%) Argo
5 2 (0.93%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.93%) QRadar
Vendors
1 44 (20.47%) Microsoft
2 34 (15.81%) Databricks
3 13 (6.05%) Google
4 7 (3.26%) OpenAI
5 5 (2.33%) Informatica
6 4 (1.86%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.86%) SAP
7 3 (1.40%) Anaplan
7 3 (1.40%) Dell
7 3 (1.40%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 3 (1.40%) Splunk
8 2 (0.93%) ArcSight
8 2 (0.93%) FIS
8 2 (0.93%) IBM
8 2 (0.93%) iManage
8 2 (0.93%) LogLogic
8 2 (0.93%) McAfee
8 2 (0.93%) Murex
8 2 (0.93%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.93%) Workday