Analytics Job Trends in the City of London

Analytics
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Analytics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 16 31
Rank change year-on-year -3 +15 -6
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 209 310 198
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 8.54% 11.78% 6.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.92% 12.33% 7.27%
Number of salaries quoted 146 157 166
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £48,125
25th Percentile £70,000 £55,000 £56,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £102,500 £115,000 £102,981
90th Percentile £132,500 £127,500 £120,625
Central London median annual salary £83,672 £80,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +4.59% -3.03% +14.98%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,106 2,515 2,723
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 86.10% 95.55% 94.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1,533 1,597 2,433
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £40,550
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 £113,750 £117,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £74,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% +1.35% -1.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Analytics job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Analytics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Analytics

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Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytics in the City of London over the 6 months to 22 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Analytics in the City of London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 12 (5.74%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.87%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.44%) Apache
3 3 (1.44%) Confluence
4 1 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.48%) CMS
4 1 (0.48%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.48%) SAS
4 1 (0.48%) Strapi
Applications
1 13 (6.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.48%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.96%) Actimize
1 2 (0.96%) Adaptiv
1 2 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 71 (33.97%) Azure
2 50 (23.92%) Power Platform
3 39 (18.66%) AWS
4 24 (11.48%) GCP
5 16 (7.66%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (7.66%) Snowflake
6 15 (7.18%) Serverless
7 11 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (4.78%) GitHub
9 9 (4.31%) Azure Monitor
9 9 (4.31%) dbt
10 8 (3.83%) Azure Storage
11 7 (3.35%) Amazon S3
11 7 (3.35%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (3.35%) Azure Event Grid
11 7 (3.35%) Azure Functions
11 7 (3.35%) Microsoft Purview
12 6 (2.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (2.87%) SaaS
13 5 (2.39%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.96%) Broadband
1 2 (0.96%) Firewall
1 2 (0.96%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (0.48%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (22.97%) Power BI
2 33 (15.79%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (7.18%) Data Lake
4 11 (5.26%) Metadata
5 10 (4.78%) Tableau
6 9 (4.31%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (4.31%) SQL Server
7 8 (3.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (3.35%) Power Query
9 6 (2.87%) MongoDB
10 5 (2.39%) BigQuery
10 5 (2.39%) Data Mining
10 5 (2.39%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (2.39%) Star Schema
11 4 (1.91%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (1.91%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (1.91%) Delta Lake
11 4 (1.91%) DynamoDB
11 4 (1.91%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (3.35%) ERwin
1 7 (3.35%) Git
2 3 (1.44%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.44%) JIRA
3 2 (0.96%) ER Studio
3 2 (0.96%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.48%) Deequ
4 1 (0.48%) GitLab
4 1 (0.48%) TeamCity
General
1 76 (36.36%) Finance
2 56 (26.79%) Social Skills
3 31 (14.83%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (10.05%) Banking
5 20 (9.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (8.13%) Law
7 14 (6.70%) Legal
8 13 (6.22%) Front Office
9 12 (5.74%) Financial Institution
10 11 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (3.83%) Retail
12 7 (3.35%) Marketing
13 6 (2.87%) Advertising
13 6 (2.87%) Investment Banking
14 5 (2.39%) International Banking
15 4 (1.91%) Manufacturing
16 3 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
16 3 (1.44%) Public Sector
17 2 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
17 2 (0.96%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 39 (18.66%) Lead
2 29 (13.88%) Data Engineer
3 25 (11.96%) Architect
4 23 (11.00%) Analyst
4 23 (11.00%) Senior
5 22 (10.53%) Developer
6 15 (7.18%) Data Architect
7 12 (5.74%) Data Analyst
7 12 (5.74%) Lead Architect
8 10 (4.78%) Data Scientist
9 9 (4.31%) Senior Data Engineer
9 9 (4.31%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (3.35%) Applications Engineer
10 7 (3.35%) Applications Support
10 7 (3.35%) Applications Support Engineer
10 7 (3.35%) Lead Data Architect
10 7 (3.35%) Support Engineer
10 7 (3.35%) User Researcher
11 6 (2.87%) AWS Architect
12 5 (2.39%) Lead Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.26%) Kafka
2 10 (4.78%) .NET
3 8 (3.83%) PyTorch
4 7 (3.35%) PySpark
4 7 (3.35%) WPF
5 6 (2.87%) LangChain
5 6 (2.87%) TensorFlow
6 5 (2.39%) Node.js
7 4 (1.91%) Pandas
7 4 (1.91%) React
8 3 (1.44%) Hugging Face
8 3 (1.44%) Java Concurrency
8 3 (1.44%) NumPy
8 3 (1.44%) OAuth
8 3 (1.44%) scikit-learn
9 2 (0.96%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.96%) CSS
9 2 (0.96%) Keras
9 2 (0.96%) REST
9 2 (0.96%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.22%) Algorithms
2 11 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (4.78%) Management Information System
4 9 (4.31%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.83%) Derivative
6 7 (3.35%) Equities
6 7 (3.35%) Reinsurance
7 6 (2.87%) Credit Risk
7 6 (2.87%) Data Structures
7 6 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.87%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.91%) Market Risk
9 4 (1.91%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.44%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.96%) ASIC
11 2 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.96%) Grid Computing
11 2 (0.96%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.83%) Windows
2 4 (1.91%) Linux
3 3 (1.44%) Unix
4 1 (0.48%) Android
4 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (36.84%) AI
2 60 (28.71%) Business Intelligence
3 56 (26.79%) Problem-Solving
4 53 (25.36%) Data Governance
4 53 (25.36%) Data Modelling
5 50 (23.92%) Decision-Making
6 48 (22.97%) Agile
7 46 (22.01%) Data Pipeline
8 44 (21.05%) Data Analytics
9 43 (20.57%) CI/CD
10 42 (20.10%) Data Science
11 41 (19.62%) ETL
12 39 (18.66%) Mentoring
13 37 (17.70%) Data Architecture
14 36 (17.22%) Data Engineering
14 36 (17.22%) Machine Learning
15 33 (15.79%) Actionable Insight
16 30 (14.35%) DevOps
16 30 (14.35%) Stakeholder Management
17 28 (13.40%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 93 (44.50%) Python
2 84 (40.19%) SQL
3 15 (7.18%) C#
4 14 (6.70%) Java
5 13 (6.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 7 (3.35%) C++
7 6 (2.87%) Scala
8 4 (1.91%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.91%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.44%) VBA
10 2 (0.96%) Bicep
10 2 (0.96%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.96%) R
10 2 (0.96%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.48%) Bash
11 1 (0.48%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.48%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 31 (14.83%) Degree
2 15 (7.18%) Master's Degree
3 11 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (4.31%) Security Cleared
5 7 (3.35%) PhD
6 6 (2.87%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.91%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.91%) CISA
7 4 (1.91%) CISM
7 4 (1.91%) CISSP
7 4 (1.91%) CRISC
7 4 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.91%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.91%) PMP
7 4 (1.91%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (1.44%) CFA
8 3 (1.44%) SnowPro
9 2 (0.96%) CompTIA CySA+
9 2 (0.96%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.96%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (16.75%) Data Quality
2 18 (8.61%) GDPR
3 10 (4.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.39%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.44%) QA
6 2 (0.96%) EMIR
6 2 (0.96%) ITGC
6 2 (0.96%) MiFID
6 2 (0.96%) NIST
6 2 (0.96%) PMO
6 2 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.48%) COBIT
7 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (6.70%) Docker
2 1 (0.48%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (5.74%) Terraform
2 11 (5.26%) Grafana
3 10 (4.78%) Kubernetes
4 7 (3.35%) Kibana
5 4 (1.91%) Ansible
6 2 (0.96%) ArcSight ESM
6 2 (0.96%) Argo
6 2 (0.96%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.96%) QRadar
Vendors
1 40 (19.14%) Microsoft
2 33 (15.79%) Databricks
3 12 (5.74%) Google
4 7 (3.35%) OpenAI
5 5 (2.39%) Informatica
6 4 (1.91%) Dell
6 4 (1.91%) SAP
6 4 (1.91%) Splunk
7 3 (1.44%) Anaplan
8 2 (0.96%) Adobe
8 2 (0.96%) ArcSight
8 2 (0.96%) FIS
8 2 (0.96%) IBM
8 2 (0.96%) LogLogic
8 2 (0.96%) McAfee
8 2 (0.96%) Murex
8 2 (0.96%) NVIDIA
8 2 (0.96%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.96%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.96%) Workday