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 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 15 30
Rank change year-on-year -3 +15 -3
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 198 316 201
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 8.80% 11.88% 7.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.17% 12.45% 7.46%
Number of salaries quoted 143 172 169
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,125 £49,750
25th Percentile £68,750 £55,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -6.06% +17.86%
75th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £134,500 £127,375 £120,250
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -3.03% +17.86%

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 1,946 2,539 2,696
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 86.53% 95.49% 94.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,429 1,626 2,414
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,625 £40,750
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 £116,875 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -

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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 10 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 (6.06%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.03%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.52%) Apache
3 3 (1.52%) Confluence
4 1 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.51%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.51%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.01%) Actimize
1 2 (1.01%) Adaptiv
1 2 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 68 (34.34%) Azure
2 47 (23.74%) Power Platform
3 36 (18.18%) AWS
4 22 (11.11%) GCP
5 18 (9.09%) Snowflake
6 13 (6.57%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (6.57%) Serverless
7 11 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (5.05%) GitHub
9 9 (4.55%) dbt
10 7 (3.54%) Amazon S3
10 7 (3.54%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (3.54%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (3.54%) Microsoft Purview
11 6 (3.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 5 (2.53%) Azure Event Grid
12 5 (2.53%) Azure Functions
12 5 (2.53%) Azure Storage
12 5 (2.53%) SaaS
13 4 (2.02%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.01%) Firewall
1 2 (1.01%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (0.51%) Broadband
2 1 (0.51%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (22.73%) Power BI
2 33 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (7.07%) Data Lake
4 9 (4.55%) Metadata
4 9 (4.55%) Tableau
5 8 (4.04%) SQL Server
5 8 (4.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (3.54%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (3.54%) Power Query
7 6 (3.03%) MongoDB
8 5 (2.53%) BigQuery
8 5 (2.53%) Data Mining
8 5 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (2.02%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (2.02%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (2.02%) Delta Lake
9 4 (2.02%) DynamoDB
9 4 (2.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (2.02%) Star Schema
10 3 (1.52%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 7 (3.54%) ERwin
1 7 (3.54%) Git
2 3 (1.52%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.52%) JIRA
3 2 (1.01%) ER Studio
3 2 (1.01%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.51%) Deequ
4 1 (0.51%) GitLab
4 1 (0.51%) TeamCity
General
1 75 (37.88%) Finance
2 55 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 30 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (10.61%) Banking
5 19 (9.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (8.08%) Law
7 15 (7.58%) Front Office
8 14 (7.07%) Financial Institution
9 13 (6.57%) Legal
10 11 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (4.55%) Retail
12 6 (3.03%) Advertising
12 6 (3.03%) Investment Banking
12 6 (3.03%) Marketing
13 5 (2.53%) International Banking
14 3 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (1.52%) Manufacturing
14 3 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (1.52%) Public Sector
15 2 (1.01%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 37 (18.69%) Lead
2 29 (14.65%) Data Engineer
3 23 (11.62%) Developer
4 22 (11.11%) Analyst
4 22 (11.11%) Architect
5 21 (10.61%) Senior
6 15 (7.58%) Data Architect
7 11 (5.56%) Data Analyst
8 10 (5.05%) Lead Architect
9 8 (4.04%) Data Scientist
9 8 (4.04%) Senior Data Engineer
10 7 (3.54%) Lead Data Architect
10 7 (3.54%) User Researcher
11 6 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
12 5 (2.53%) Applications Engineer
12 5 (2.53%) Applications Support
12 5 (2.53%) Applications Support Engineer
12 5 (2.53%) Head of Analytics
12 5 (2.53%) Head of Data Analytics
12 5 (2.53%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.57%) Kafka
2 8 (4.04%) .NET
3 7 (3.54%) PySpark
3 7 (3.54%) PyTorch
4 6 (3.03%) LangChain
5 5 (2.53%) TensorFlow
5 5 (2.53%) WPF
6 4 (2.02%) Java Concurrency
6 4 (2.02%) Node.js
6 4 (2.02%) Pandas
7 3 (1.52%) Hugging Face
7 3 (1.52%) NumPy
7 3 (1.52%) OAuth
7 3 (1.52%) scikit-learn
8 2 (1.01%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.01%) ARM Templates
8 2 (1.01%) FastAPI
8 2 (1.01%) JWT
8 2 (1.01%) React
8 2 (1.01%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.08%) Algorithms
2 13 (6.57%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.05%) Equities
4 9 (4.55%) Management Information System
5 8 (4.04%) Cloud Native
6 7 (3.54%) Derivative
6 7 (3.54%) Reinsurance
7 6 (3.03%) Credit Risk
7 6 (3.03%) Data Structures
7 6 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (3.03%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (2.02%) Market Risk
9 4 (2.02%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (1.01%) AI Agents
11 2 (1.01%) ASIC
11 2 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.01%) Fixed Income
11 2 (1.01%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.53%) Windows
2 2 (1.01%) Linux
2 2 (1.01%) Unix
3 1 (0.51%) Android
3 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (37.37%) AI
2 54 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
2 54 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 52 (26.26%) Data Governance
3 52 (26.26%) Data Modelling
4 47 (23.74%) Decision-Making
5 46 (23.23%) Agile
6 45 (22.73%) Data Analytics
7 42 (21.21%) Data Pipeline
8 41 (20.71%) ETL
9 40 (20.20%) Data Science
10 39 (19.70%) CI/CD
11 37 (18.69%) Mentoring
12 35 (17.68%) Data Architecture
12 35 (17.68%) Data Engineering
12 35 (17.68%) Machine Learning
13 31 (15.66%) Actionable Insight
14 30 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
15 27 (13.64%) Coaching
15 27 (13.64%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 92 (46.46%) Python
2 81 (40.91%) SQL
3 17 (8.59%) Java
4 13 (6.57%) C#
4 13 (6.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 6 (3.03%) C++
6 5 (2.53%) Scala
7 4 (2.02%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.52%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.01%) Bicep
9 2 (1.01%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.01%) R
9 2 (1.01%) VBA
10 1 (0.51%) Bash
10 1 (0.51%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.51%) Ruby
10 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (15.66%) Degree
2 16 (8.08%) Master's Degree
3 10 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (4.55%) PhD
4 9 (4.55%) Security Cleared
5 6 (3.03%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.02%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.02%) CISA
6 4 (2.02%) CISM
6 4 (2.02%) CISSP
6 4 (2.02%) CRISC
6 4 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.02%) PMI Certification
6 4 (2.02%) PMP
6 4 (2.02%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (1.52%) CFA
7 3 (1.52%) SnowPro
8 2 (1.01%) CompTIA CySA+
8 2 (1.01%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (1.01%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (16.16%) Data Quality
2 19 (9.60%) GDPR
3 9 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.02%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.52%) QA
6 2 (1.01%) EMIR
6 2 (1.01%) ITGC
6 2 (1.01%) MiFID
6 2 (1.01%) NIST
6 2 (1.01%) PMO
6 2 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.51%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.51%) COBIT
7 1 (0.51%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (7.07%) Docker
2 1 (0.51%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (6.06%) Terraform
2 10 (5.05%) Kubernetes
3 9 (4.55%) Grafana
4 5 (2.53%) Kibana
5 4 (2.02%) Ansible
6 2 (1.01%) ArcSight ESM
6 2 (1.01%) Argo
6 2 (1.01%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.01%) QRadar
Vendors
1 41 (20.71%) Microsoft
2 33 (16.67%) Databricks
3 10 (5.05%) Google
4 7 (3.54%) OpenAI
5 5 (2.53%) Informatica
6 4 (2.02%) SAP
7 3 (1.52%) Anaplan
7 3 (1.52%) Dell
7 3 (1.52%) Splunk
8 2 (1.01%) ArcSight
8 2 (1.01%) FIS
8 2 (1.01%) IBM
8 2 (1.01%) LogLogic
8 2 (1.01%) McAfee
8 2 (1.01%) Murex
8 2 (1.01%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.01%) Workday
9 1 (0.51%) Adobe
9 1 (0.51%) Ariba
9 1 (0.51%) Oracle