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 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 15 33
Rank change year-on-year -5 +18 -1
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 249 267 208
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 7.66% 12.79% 6.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.11% 13.32% 7.19%
Number of salaries quoted 163 135 158
10th Percentile £47,500 £48,100 £42,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% +10.34% -3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £116,250 £123,750 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.13% +10.34% -3.33%

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 2,732 2,004 2,894
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 84.06% 96.02% 92.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,919 1,499 2,483
10th Percentile £44,800 £42,500 £41,800
25th Percentile £59,750 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £120,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -

Analytics
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

Analytics
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

Analytics
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytics in the City of London over the 6 months to 25 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Analytics in the City of London

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Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Analytics within the City of London region over the 6 months to 25 March 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
London Bridge - 2 £95,000 -
Analytics
Central 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 16 (6.43%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (5.62%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.01%) Apache
3 5 (2.01%) Confluence
4 3 (1.20%) CMS
5 1 (0.40%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.40%) Site Server
5 1 (0.40%) Strapi
Applications
1 15 (6.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.40%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (0.80%) Actimize
1 2 (0.80%) Adobe Campaign
1 2 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 83 (33.33%) Azure
2 56 (22.49%) Power Platform
3 45 (18.07%) AWS
4 30 (12.05%) GCP
5 25 (10.04%) Snowflake
6 21 (8.43%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (5.62%) Azure Data Factory
7 14 (5.62%) dbt
8 13 (5.22%) Serverless
9 10 (4.02%) Azure Storage
9 10 (4.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 10 (4.02%) GitHub
10 9 (3.61%) Azure Monitor
10 9 (3.61%) SaaS
11 7 (2.81%) Azure Event Grid
11 7 (2.81%) Azure Functions
12 6 (2.41%) Amazon S3
12 6 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (2.01%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (2.01%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.81%) Broadband
2 3 (1.20%) Firewall
3 2 (0.80%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.40%) DHCP
4 1 (0.40%) DNS
4 1 (0.40%) Intranet
4 1 (0.40%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.40%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.40%) NAS
4 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (21.29%) Power BI
2 37 (14.86%) Data Warehouse
3 28 (11.24%) Data Lake
4 16 (6.43%) Tableau
5 13 (5.22%) Elasticsearch
6 12 (4.82%) BigQuery
6 12 (4.82%) Metadata
7 9 (3.61%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (3.61%) Looker
7 9 (3.61%) SQL Server
8 8 (3.21%) Star Schema
9 7 (2.81%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (2.81%) MongoDB
10 6 (2.41%) Amazon Athena
10 6 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (2.41%) Snowflake Schema
11 5 (2.01%) Delta Lake
11 5 (2.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (1.61%) Big Data
12 4 (1.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (2.81%) Git
1 7 (2.81%) MLflow
2 5 (2.01%) JIRA
3 2 (0.80%) ER Studio
3 2 (0.80%) ERwin
3 2 (0.80%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.80%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.40%) Deequ
4 1 (0.40%) GitLab
4 1 (0.40%) TeamCity
General
1 81 (32.53%) Finance
2 58 (23.29%) Social Skills
3 48 (19.28%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (8.84%) Banking
5 18 (7.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (6.02%) Law
6 15 (6.02%) Legal
7 10 (4.02%) Investment Banking
8 9 (3.61%) Front Office
9 8 (3.21%) Marketing
9 8 (3.21%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.81%) Financial Institution
11 6 (2.41%) Advertising
11 6 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.61%) Public Sector
13 3 (1.20%) Games
13 3 (1.20%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.20%) Retail
14 2 (0.80%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 39 (15.66%) Senior
2 35 (14.06%) Data Engineer
3 34 (13.65%) Lead
4 26 (10.44%) Analyst
5 25 (10.04%) Architect
6 21 (8.43%) Developer
7 13 (5.22%) Data Analyst
7 13 (5.22%) Data Scientist
7 13 (5.22%) Senior Data Engineer
8 12 (4.82%) Data Architect
9 9 (3.61%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (2.81%) Applications Engineer
10 7 (2.81%) Applications Support
10 7 (2.81%) Applications Support Engineer
10 7 (2.81%) Lead Architect
10 7 (2.81%) Senior Manager
10 7 (2.81%) Support Engineer
10 7 (2.81%) User Researcher
11 6 (2.41%) AWS Architect
11 6 (2.41%) Product Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.62%) .NET
2 13 (5.22%) Kafka
3 12 (4.82%) LangChain
3 12 (4.82%) PyTorch
3 12 (4.82%) TensorFlow
4 8 (3.21%) React
5 7 (2.81%) LlamaIndex
5 7 (2.81%) WPF
6 6 (2.41%) pgvector
6 6 (2.41%) scikit-learn
7 5 (2.01%) Node.js
7 5 (2.01%) PySpark
8 3 (1.20%) CSS
8 3 (1.20%) HTML
8 3 (1.20%) OAuth
9 2 (0.80%) Hugging Face
9 2 (0.80%) Keras
9 2 (0.80%) Next.js
9 2 (0.80%) REST
9 2 (0.80%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.43%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.82%) Management Information System
3 11 (4.42%) Product Ownership
4 10 (4.02%) Public Cloud
5 8 (3.21%) Algorithms
5 8 (3.21%) Derivative
5 8 (3.21%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (2.81%) Clustering
6 7 (2.81%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.81%) Reinsurance
7 6 (2.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (2.01%) Social Media
9 3 (1.20%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.20%) Marketing Technology
9 3 (1.20%) Over-the-Top Content
9 3 (1.20%) Reference Data
9 3 (1.20%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.02%) Windows
2 5 (2.01%) Linux
3 4 (1.61%) Unix
4 2 (0.80%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.40%) Android
5 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (38.15%) AI
2 72 (28.92%) Business Intelligence
3 57 (22.89%) Agile
4 56 (22.49%) Decision-Making
5 55 (22.09%) Data Pipeline
6 53 (21.29%) Data Modelling
6 53 (21.29%) Data Science
7 52 (20.88%) Problem-Solving
8 51 (20.48%) Data Engineering
9 48 (19.28%) CI/CD
9 48 (19.28%) Data Governance
10 42 (16.87%) Data Analytics
10 42 (16.87%) ETL
10 42 (16.87%) Machine Learning
11 41 (16.47%) Mentoring
12 40 (16.06%) Data Architecture
13 37 (14.86%) Actionable Insight
13 37 (14.86%) Data Management
14 30 (12.05%) Continuous Improvement
14 30 (12.05%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 92 (36.95%) Python
2 91 (36.55%) SQL
3 16 (6.43%) C#
4 8 (3.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 7 (2.81%) TypeScript
6 6 (2.41%) Java
7 5 (2.01%) C++
7 5 (2.01%) Scala
8 3 (1.20%) Bicep
8 3 (1.20%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.20%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.20%) VBA
9 2 (0.80%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.80%) R
10 1 (0.40%) Bash
10 1 (0.40%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 32 (12.85%) Degree
2 13 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (3.61%) Security Cleared
4 8 (3.21%) Master's Degree
5 7 (2.81%) AWS Certification
5 7 (2.81%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.20%) CISSP
6 3 (1.20%) GCIH
6 3 (1.20%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.80%) CCNA
7 2 (0.80%) CISA
7 2 (0.80%) CISM
7 2 (0.80%) CRISC
7 2 (0.80%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.80%) GIAC
7 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.80%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.80%) PMP
7 2 (0.80%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (15.66%) Data Quality
2 20 (8.03%) GDPR
3 9 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 5 (2.01%) Accessibility
5 5 (2.01%) ITGC
6 3 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.20%) NIST
7 2 (0.80%) EMIR
7 2 (0.80%) MiFID
7 2 (0.80%) PMO
7 2 (0.80%) QA
7 2 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.40%) COBIT
8 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.40%) GRC
8 1 (0.40%) SLA
8 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (5.62%) Docker
2 3 (1.20%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.40%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 20 (8.03%) Terraform
2 13 (5.22%) Kubernetes
3 11 (4.42%) Grafana
4 7 (2.81%) Kibana
5 4 (1.61%) Ansible
6 2 (0.80%) ArcSight ESM
6 2 (0.80%) Argo
6 2 (0.80%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.80%) QRadar
6 2 (0.80%) Thomson Reuters DACS
7 1 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 48 (19.28%) Databricks
2 42 (16.87%) Microsoft
3 16 (6.43%) Dell
4 11 (4.42%) Google
4 11 (4.42%) Informatica
5 7 (2.81%) Adobe
6 6 (2.41%) Cloudera
6 6 (2.41%) Denodo
6 6 (2.41%) Teradata
7 5 (2.01%) OpenAI
7 5 (2.01%) Splunk
8 4 (1.61%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.61%) SAP
9 3 (1.20%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.20%) Refinitiv
10 2 (0.80%) IBM
10 2 (0.80%) McAfee
10 2 (0.80%) NVIDIA
10 2 (0.80%) Oracle
10 2 (0.80%) Workday