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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 17 32
Rank change year-on-year -4 +15 -5
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 185 320 241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 10.80% 11.09% 7.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.26% 11.90% 7.45%
Number of salaries quoted 121 189 217
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,250 £52,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £67,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -18.18% +17.86%
75th Percentile £120,000 £97,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £145,000 £130,000 £125,400
Central London median annual salary £90,000 £70,000 £81,250
% change year-on-year +28.57% -13.85% +16.07%

All Process and 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 1,643 2,689 3,236
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 95.91% 93.21% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,309 1,842 2,914
10th Percentile £39,890 £43,125 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £112,500 £116,250
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £73,000 £73,750
% change year-on-year +2.74% -1.02% +1.72%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Analytics 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 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Analytics in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 4 (2.16%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.62%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.54%) CMS
3 1 (0.54%) Confluence
3 1 (0.54%) Drupal
3 1 (0.54%) MTS
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.54%) SAS
3 1 (0.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 21 (11.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.08%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (4.32%) Adaptiv
2 6 (3.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.62%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (1.08%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.54%) Actimize
5 1 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.54%) Magento
5 1 (0.54%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.54%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 52 (28.11%) Azure
2 47 (25.41%) Power Platform
3 29 (15.68%) AWS
4 23 (12.43%) GCP
5 16 (8.65%) Snowflake
6 13 (7.03%) Google Analytics
7 12 (6.49%) Azure Data Factory
8 11 (5.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 9 (4.86%) dbt
10 8 (4.32%) Power Automate
10 8 (4.32%) SaaS
10 8 (4.32%) Serverless
11 5 (2.70%) Collibra
11 5 (2.70%) PowerApps
12 4 (2.16%) Azure AI
12 4 (2.16%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (2.16%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (2.16%) Microsoft Purview
13 3 (1.62%) Azure Machine Learning
13 3 (1.62%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.70%) Network Security
2 3 (1.62%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (24.86%) Power BI
2 33 (17.84%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (7.57%) Data Lake
4 12 (6.49%) Tableau
5 10 (5.41%) Power Query
6 7 (3.78%) NoSQL
6 7 (3.78%) SQL Server
6 7 (3.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (3.24%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (3.24%) BigQuery
8 5 (2.70%) SAP Data Services
9 4 (2.16%) Looker
9 4 (2.16%) Metadata
9 4 (2.16%) MongoDB
10 3 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.62%) Data Mining
10 3 (1.62%) Delta Lake
10 3 (1.62%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.62%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.62%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (3.78%) Git
2 5 (2.70%) ER Studio
2 5 (2.70%) ERwin
3 3 (1.62%) JIRA
4 1 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.54%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.54%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.54%) MLflow
General
1 90 (48.65%) Finance
2 76 (41.08%) Social Skills
3 37 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (12.97%) Banking
5 22 (11.89%) Front Office
5 22 (11.89%) Marketing
6 19 (10.27%) Law
7 13 (7.03%) Financial Institution
8 12 (6.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (5.41%) Retail
10 9 (4.86%) Advertising
11 6 (3.24%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (3.24%) Legal
11 6 (3.24%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (2.70%) Manufacturing
13 4 (2.16%) Agriculture
13 4 (2.16%) Investment Banking
13 4 (2.16%) Public Sector
14 3 (1.62%) International Banking
14 3 (1.62%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (20.00%) Developer
2 35 (18.92%) Analyst
3 32 (17.30%) Senior
4 27 (14.59%) Lead
5 19 (10.27%) Architect
6 18 (9.73%) Data Engineer
7 16 (8.65%) Data Analyst
8 11 (5.95%) Data Manager
9 10 (5.41%) Data Architect
9 10 (5.41%) Risk Analyst
10 9 (4.86%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 9 (4.86%) Power BI Developer
11 8 (4.32%) Business Analyst
11 8 (4.32%) Head of IT
12 7 (3.78%) Lead Data Engineer
13 6 (3.24%) Analytics Manager
13 6 (3.24%) Lead Business Analyst
13 6 (3.24%) Risk Business Analyst
13 6 (3.24%) Software Engineer
14 5 (2.70%) Chief Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.86%) Kafka
2 7 (3.78%) React
3 6 (3.24%) PySpark
4 5 (2.70%) .NET
5 4 (2.16%) ARM Templates
5 4 (2.16%) Django
5 4 (2.16%) Java Concurrency
5 4 (2.16%) Pandas
5 4 (2.16%) XML
6 3 (1.62%) LDAP
6 3 (1.62%) Next.js
6 3 (1.62%) Node.js
6 3 (1.62%) NumPy
6 3 (1.62%) OAuth
6 3 (1.62%) OpenID
6 3 (1.62%) PyTorch
6 3 (1.62%) REST
6 3 (1.62%) SailPoint
6 3 (1.62%) SAML
6 3 (1.62%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.11%) Algorithms
2 13 (7.03%) Data Structures
3 12 (6.49%) Credit Risk
3 12 (6.49%) Market Risk
4 9 (4.86%) Equities
5 7 (3.78%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.78%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.78%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.24%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.24%) Reinsurance
6 6 (3.24%) Social Media
6 6 (3.24%) Tandem
7 5 (2.70%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.16%) Fixed Income
8 4 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.62%) Derivative
9 3 (1.62%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.16%) Windows
1 4 (2.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (28.65%) Data Analytics
2 50 (27.03%) Business Intelligence
3 49 (26.49%) Data Science
4 44 (23.78%) Data Modelling
5 43 (23.24%) Artificial Intelligence
6 39 (21.08%) Decision-Making
7 37 (20.00%) Agile
7 37 (20.00%) Machine Learning
8 36 (19.46%) Risk Management
9 33 (17.84%) Data Analysis
10 32 (17.30%) Data Governance
11 31 (16.76%) Stakeholder Management
11 31 (16.76%) Visualisation
12 30 (16.22%) Data Engineering
12 30 (16.22%) Data Management
12 30 (16.22%) ETL
13 28 (15.14%) Problem-Solving
13 28 (15.14%) Project Management
14 26 (14.05%) Computer Science
15 25 (13.51%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 81 (43.78%) Python
2 71 (38.38%) SQL
3 26 (14.05%) Java
4 11 (5.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 9 (4.86%) Scala
6 7 (3.78%) PowerShell
7 6 (3.24%) T-SQL
8 5 (2.70%) C++
8 5 (2.70%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.16%) C#
9 4 (2.16%) R
10 3 (1.62%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.08%) Go
11 2 (1.08%) Rust
11 2 (1.08%) VBA
12 1 (0.54%) ABAP
12 1 (0.54%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 53 (28.65%) Degree
2 16 (8.65%) PMI Certification
2 16 (8.65%) PMP
3 14 (7.57%) CFA
3 14 (7.57%) Master's Degree
4 12 (6.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (4.86%) Azure Certification
5 9 (4.86%) PhD
6 8 (4.32%) ITIL Certification
6 8 (4.32%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (3.78%) ACCA
7 7 (3.78%) CCAB
7 7 (3.78%) CIMA
7 7 (3.78%) CIPFA
7 7 (3.78%) ICAEW
8 4 (2.16%) CISM
8 4 (2.16%) CISSP
9 3 (1.62%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.62%) CISA
9 3 (1.62%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (11.35%) GDPR
2 16 (8.65%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 4 (2.16%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.62%) ITGC
4 3 (1.62%) QA
5 1 (0.54%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.54%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (4.86%) Docker
2 4 (2.16%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.54%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (5.95%) Terraform
2 7 (3.78%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.62%) QRadar
3 3 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 26 (14.05%) Google
3 19 (10.27%) Databricks
4 15 (8.11%) Murex
4 15 (8.11%) SAP
5 12 (6.49%) Salesforce
6 10 (5.41%) ServiceNow
7 8 (4.32%) FIS
8 6 (3.24%) OpenAI
8 6 (3.24%) Workday
9 5 (2.70%) Oracle
10 4 (2.16%) Alteryx
11 3 (1.62%) SolarWinds
11 3 (1.62%) Splunk
11 3 (1.62%) Xero
12 2 (1.08%) Adobe
12 2 (1.08%) Anaplan
12 2 (1.08%) Informatica
13 1 (0.54%) LexisNexis
13 1 (0.54%) VMware