Data Collection Job Trends in Central London

Data Collection
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Data Collection skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 163 166
Rank change year-on-year +36 +3 +87
Permanent jobs citing Data Collection 14 27 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 0.59% 0.83% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.87% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 10 10 8
10th Percentile - £27,500 £40,625
25th Percentile - £33,875 £47,666
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,010 £55,000 £81,438
Median % change year-on-year -41.80% -32.46% +1.80%
75th Percentile £164,375 £81,250 £116,250
90th Percentile £172,500 £89,250 £120,000
London median annual salary £75,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +36.36% -12.00% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Central London

Data Collection 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 2,089 3,116 2,917
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 88.48% 95.64% 94.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,557 1,921 2,592
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £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 £96,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £115,000
London median annual salary £73,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -

Data Collection
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Data Collection job vacancy trend in Central London

Data Collection
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Data Collection.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Data Collection

Data Collection
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Collection in Central London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Collection in Central London

Data Collection
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 Data Collection within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 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 +36 11 £86,005 +56.37% 8
West End of London - 2 £32,010 -
Southwark +8 1 - -
Data Collection
London

Data Collection
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 2 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (7.14%) Apache
2 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
2 1 (7.14%) Luigi
Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (7.14%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) Power Platform
2 5 (35.71%) AWS
2 5 (35.71%) GCP
3 3 (21.43%) Azure
3 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (7.14%) dbt
4 1 (7.14%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) Power BI
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (7.14%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (7.14%) BigQuery
2 1 (7.14%) Hadoop
2 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.14%) Tableau
General
1 10 (71.43%) Analytical Skills
1 10 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 6 (42.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (42.86%) Legal
2 6 (42.86%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) Music Industry
4 1 (7.14%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Analyst
1 6 (42.86%) Data Analyst
1 6 (42.86%) Data Insight Analyst
1 6 (42.86%) Insight Analyst
1 6 (42.86%) Insight Data Analyst
1 6 (42.86%) Junior
1 6 (42.86%) Junior Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Senior
2 3 (21.43%) Senior Software Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Senior Voice Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Software Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Voice Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) RESTful
2 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (7.14%) Kafka
2 1 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (21.43%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (7.14%) Algorithms
2 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Data Protection
2 7 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
3 6 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (42.86%) Data Cleansing
3 6 (42.86%) Decision-Making
3 6 (42.86%) Service Delivery
3 6 (42.86%) Visualisation
4 4 (28.57%) Agile
4 4 (28.57%) AI
5 3 (21.43%) Creative Thinking
5 3 (21.43%) Cyber Assurance
5 3 (21.43%) Information Security
5 3 (21.43%) Low Latency
5 3 (21.43%) Microservices
5 3 (21.43%) OWASP
5 3 (21.43%) Risk Management
5 3 (21.43%) Roadmaps
5 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
5 3 (21.43%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) Go
2 2 (14.29%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) Java
3 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
2 3 (21.43%) CISM
2 3 (21.43%) CISSP
2 3 (21.43%) CRISC
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (42.86%) QA
2 3 (21.43%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (21.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 3 (21.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (21.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Ansible
1 1 (7.14%) Progress Chef
1 1 (7.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Apple
2 1 (7.14%) Google
2 1 (7.14%) Spotify