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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 14 31
Rank change year-on-year -3 +17 -4
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 194 332 196
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 10.23% 11.81% 6.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.34% 12.45% 6.95%
Number of salaries quoted 139 194 164
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £46,625
25th Percentile £65,000 £53,000 £58,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -9.09% +17.86%
75th Percentile £113,750 £104,688 £109,063
90th Percentile £135,000 £130,000 £123,875
Central London median annual salary £83,086 £75,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +10.78% -9.09% +17.86%

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 1,711 2,666 2,820
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 90.20% 94.81% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,301 1,762 2,547
10th Percentile £40,532 £46,250 £40,400
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £117,500 £117,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £73,500
% change year-on-year - +2.04% -2.00%

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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 4 December 2025.

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 (6.19%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.09%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.06%) Confluence
4 3 (1.55%) Apache
5 1 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.52%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (7.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.52%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (3.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.06%) Adaptiv
3 2 (1.03%) Actimize
4 1 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 59 (30.41%) Azure
2 55 (28.35%) Power Platform
3 37 (19.07%) AWS
4 24 (12.37%) GCP
5 22 (11.34%) Snowflake
6 12 (6.19%) dbt
7 11 (5.67%) GitHub
7 11 (5.67%) Serverless
8 10 (5.15%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (4.64%) Amazon S3
9 9 (4.64%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (4.12%) Google Analytics
11 7 (3.61%) Microsoft Purview
12 6 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (3.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 5 (2.58%) Collibra
13 5 (2.58%) SaaS
14 4 (2.06%) Amazon EC2
14 4 (2.06%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (2.06%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.58%) Network Security
2 2 (1.03%) Firewall
2 2 (1.03%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.52%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (27.32%) Power BI
2 39 (20.10%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (9.28%) Data Lake
4 13 (6.70%) Tableau
5 11 (5.67%) Power Query
6 10 (5.15%) Metadata
6 10 (5.15%) SQL Server
7 7 (3.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (3.09%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (3.09%) BigQuery
8 6 (3.09%) DynamoDB
9 5 (2.58%) Delta Lake
9 5 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (2.58%) SAP Data Services
10 4 (2.06%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (2.06%) Data Mining
10 4 (2.06%) MongoDB
10 4 (2.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (1.55%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 7 (3.61%) ER Studio
1 7 (3.61%) ERwin
1 7 (3.61%) Git
2 4 (2.06%) JIRA
3 2 (1.03%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.03%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.52%) Deequ
4 1 (0.52%) GitLab
4 1 (0.52%) MLflow
General
1 81 (41.75%) Finance
2 62 (31.96%) Social Skills
3 34 (17.53%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (12.37%) Banking
5 18 (9.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (8.25%) Front Office
7 15 (7.73%) Legal
8 14 (7.22%) Law
9 13 (6.70%) Financial Institution
9 13 (6.70%) Marketing
10 11 (5.67%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (4.64%) Retail
12 8 (4.12%) Advertising
13 6 (3.09%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (3.09%) Investment Banking
14 5 (2.58%) International Banking
14 5 (2.58%) Public Sector
15 4 (2.06%) Manufacturing
16 3 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
17 2 (1.03%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 33 (17.01%) Analyst
1 33 (17.01%) Lead
2 26 (13.40%) Data Engineer
2 26 (13.40%) Developer
3 23 (11.86%) Architect
4 21 (10.82%) Senior
5 20 (10.31%) Data Analyst
6 15 (7.73%) Data Architect
7 8 (4.12%) Lead Architect
7 8 (4.12%) Senior Data Engineer
8 7 (3.61%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 7 (3.61%) Data Scientist
8 7 (3.61%) Lead Data Architect
9 6 (3.09%) Power BI Developer
9 6 (3.09%) User Researcher
10 5 (2.58%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (2.58%) Chief Architect
11 4 (2.06%) Data Manager
11 4 (2.06%) Head of IT
11 4 (2.06%) Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.70%) Kafka
2 10 (5.15%) PySpark
3 6 (3.09%) PyTorch
4 4 (2.06%) Java Concurrency
4 4 (2.06%) Node.js
4 4 (2.06%) Pandas
4 4 (2.06%) TensorFlow
5 3 (1.55%) NumPy
5 3 (1.55%) OAuth
5 3 (1.55%) React
5 3 (1.55%) scikit-learn
6 2 (1.03%) .NET
6 2 (1.03%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.03%) CSS
6 2 (1.03%) FastAPI
6 2 (1.03%) Hugging Face
6 2 (1.03%) JWT
6 2 (1.03%) LangChain
6 2 (1.03%) REST
6 2 (1.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.22%) Algorithms
2 11 (5.67%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.15%) Equities
3 10 (5.15%) Management Information System
4 9 (4.64%) Credit Risk
4 9 (4.64%) Product Ownership
4 9 (4.64%) Reinsurance
5 8 (4.12%) Cloud Native
6 7 (3.61%) Market Risk
7 6 (3.09%) Data Structures
7 6 (3.09%) Derivative
7 6 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (3.09%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.58%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.58%) Tandem
9 2 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.03%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.03%) FMCG
9 2 (1.03%) Grid Computing
9 2 (1.03%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.03%) Linux
1 2 (1.03%) Unix
2 1 (0.52%) Android
2 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.52%) Windows
2 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (31.96%) Business Intelligence
2 61 (31.44%) AI
3 53 (27.32%) Data Modelling
4 49 (25.26%) Data Governance
5 48 (24.74%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (24.23%) Decision-Making
7 46 (23.71%) Data Analytics
8 44 (22.68%) Agile
9 38 (19.59%) ETL
10 36 (18.56%) Data Science
11 35 (18.04%) Data Pipeline
11 35 (18.04%) Machine Learning
12 33 (17.01%) Data Engineering
13 32 (16.49%) Data Management
14 31 (15.98%) CI/CD
14 31 (15.98%) Data Analysis
14 31 (15.98%) Stakeholder Management
15 30 (15.46%) Data Architecture
16 28 (14.43%) Actionable Insight
16 28 (14.43%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 91 (46.91%) Python
2 76 (39.18%) SQL
3 17 (8.76%) Java
4 14 (7.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 7 (3.61%) C#
6 6 (3.09%) C++
7 5 (2.58%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.55%) R
8 3 (1.55%) Scala
8 3 (1.55%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.03%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.52%) Bash
10 1 (0.52%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.52%) Ruby
10 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.52%) VBA
Qualifications
1 37 (19.07%) Degree
2 17 (8.76%) Master's Degree
3 10 (5.15%) PhD
4 9 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (4.64%) PMI Certification
4 9 (4.64%) PMP
5 8 (4.12%) Security Cleared
6 7 (3.61%) Azure Certification
7 6 (3.09%) AWS Certification
7 6 (3.09%) CFA
8 5 (2.58%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (2.58%) SnowPro
9 4 (2.06%) CISA
9 4 (2.06%) CISM
9 4 (2.06%) CISSP
9 4 (2.06%) CRISC
9 4 (2.06%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (2.06%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (1.55%) DBS Check
11 2 (1.03%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (13.92%) Data Quality
2 19 (9.79%) GDPR
3 7 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.06%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.55%) QA
6 2 (1.03%) ITGC
6 2 (1.03%) NIST
6 2 (1.03%) PMO
6 2 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.52%) COBIT
7 1 (0.52%) EMIR
7 1 (0.52%) MiFID
7 1 (0.52%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (5.15%) Docker
2 2 (1.03%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.52%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (5.67%) Terraform
2 7 (3.61%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.06%) Ansible
4 2 (1.03%) ArcSight ESM
4 2 (1.03%) Argo
4 2 (1.03%) Grafana
4 2 (1.03%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.03%) QRadar
Vendors
1 40 (20.62%) Microsoft
2 32 (16.49%) Databricks
3 15 (7.73%) Google
4 9 (4.64%) SAP
5 7 (3.61%) ServiceNow
6 6 (3.09%) Murex
7 5 (2.58%) Informatica
7 5 (2.58%) Salesforce
8 4 (2.06%) Alteryx
8 4 (2.06%) FIS
8 4 (2.06%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.55%) Anaplan
9 3 (1.55%) Dell
9 3 (1.55%) Splunk
10 2 (1.03%) ArcSight
10 2 (1.03%) IBM
10 2 (1.03%) LogLogic
10 2 (1.03%) McAfee
10 2 (1.03%) Oracle
10 2 (1.03%) Workday