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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 16 17
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 +20
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 233 209 295
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 6.65% 11.53% 10.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.29% 12.07% 11.63%
Number of salaries quoted 144 118 190
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £55,313 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £82,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +22.22% -12.90%
75th Percentile £105,000 £112,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £125,000 £133,250 £130,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £68,750
% change year-on-year +3.03% +20.00% -8.33%

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 2,812 1,732 2,536
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 80.21% 95.58% 92.39%
Number of salaries quoted 2,040 1,332 1,963
10th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £43,125
25th Percentile £60,000 £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 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -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 20 August 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 11 (4.72%) Apache Spark
2 8 (3.43%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.58%) Confluence
4 4 (1.72%) Apache
4 4 (1.72%) CMS
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (4.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.58%) UserZoom
3 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.43%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 8 (3.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.72%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 46 (19.74%) Azure
2 34 (14.59%) Power Platform
3 27 (11.59%) AWS
4 22 (9.44%) GCP
5 19 (8.15%) Snowflake
6 15 (6.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 14 (6.01%) SuccessFactors
8 12 (5.15%) Azure Data Factory
8 12 (5.15%) dbt
8 12 (5.15%) SaaS
9 8 (3.43%) Adobe Analytics
10 7 (3.00%) Contentsquare
11 6 (2.58%) Serverless
12 5 (2.15%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (2.15%) Azure Machine Learning
12 5 (2.15%) Google Analytics
13 4 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
14 3 (1.29%) Entra ID
14 3 (1.29%) GitHub
14 3 (1.29%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.15%) Broadband
2 5 (2.15%) Firewall
3 4 (1.72%) DHCP
3 4 (1.72%) DNS
3 4 (1.72%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.43%) Intranet
4 1 (0.43%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (13.73%) Power BI
2 23 (9.87%) Data Lake
3 22 (9.44%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (6.01%) Metadata
5 12 (5.15%) BigQuery
6 11 (4.72%) Tableau
7 10 (4.29%) Relational Database
8 9 (3.86%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (3.86%) Geospatial Data
9 8 (3.43%) Looker
10 7 (3.00%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (2.58%) Snowflake Schema
11 6 (2.58%) SQL Server
12 4 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (1.72%) Delta Lake
12 4 (1.72%) KDB
13 3 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
13 3 (1.29%) Star Schema
14 2 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
14 2 (0.86%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (4.72%) Git
2 7 (3.00%) MLflow
3 5 (2.15%) JIRA
4 1 (0.43%) Jenkins
General
1 64 (27.47%) Finance
2 55 (23.61%) Analytical Skills
3 50 (21.46%) Social Skills
4 32 (13.73%) Marketing
5 21 (9.01%) Law
6 10 (4.29%) Manufacturing
7 8 (3.43%) Banking
7 8 (3.43%) Games
7 8 (3.43%) Legal
7 8 (3.43%) Publishing
8 7 (3.00%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (2.58%) Advertising
9 6 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (2.15%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.72%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.29%) Digital Healthcare
12 3 (1.29%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 45 (19.31%) Analyst
2 42 (18.03%) Senior
3 28 (12.02%) Lead
4 27 (11.59%) Architect
5 20 (8.58%) Data Engineer
6 18 (7.73%) Data Analyst
7 15 (6.44%) Developer
8 14 (6.01%) Systems Analyst
9 12 (5.15%) Data Architect
9 12 (5.15%) Marketing Analyst
10 11 (4.72%) Marketing Analytics Analyst
10 11 (4.72%) Solutions Architect
11 9 (3.86%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
11 9 (3.86%) HR Analyst
11 9 (3.86%) Senior Manager
11 9 (3.86%) Software Engineer
12 8 (3.43%) Excel Analyst
12 8 (3.43%) Product Manager
13 7 (3.00%) Azure Engineer
13 7 (3.00%) Marketing Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.15%) Terraform
2 8 (3.43%) Kafka
2 8 (3.43%) PyTorch
2 8 (3.43%) TensorFlow
3 7 (3.00%) HTML
3 7 (3.00%) LangChain
3 7 (3.00%) LlamaIndex
3 7 (3.00%) scikit-learn
4 6 (2.58%) pgvector
5 5 (2.15%) PySpark
5 5 (2.15%) React
6 4 (1.72%) ADO
6 4 (1.72%) REST
7 3 (1.29%) AWS CDK
7 3 (1.29%) SQLAlchemy
8 2 (0.86%) FastAPI
8 2 (0.86%) Pandas
9 1 (0.43%) Flask
9 1 (0.43%) JSON-LD
9 1 (0.43%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.73%) Product Ownership
2 15 (6.44%) Cloud Native
3 13 (5.58%) Reinsurance
4 11 (4.72%) Public Cloud
4 11 (4.72%) Social Media
5 8 (3.43%) Mobile App
5 8 (3.43%) Taxonomies
6 7 (3.00%) Biopharmaceutical
6 7 (3.00%) Data Structures
7 6 (2.58%) Algorithms
7 6 (2.58%) Clustering
7 6 (2.58%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.58%) Reference Data
8 5 (2.15%) Hedge funds
8 5 (2.15%) Marketing Technology
9 4 (1.72%) FMCG
9 4 (1.72%) Over-the-Top Content
10 3 (1.29%) Derivative
10 3 (1.29%) Equities
10 3 (1.29%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.72%) Windows
1 4 (1.72%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.43%) Android
2 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (38.63%) AI
2 48 (20.60%) Decision-Making
3 44 (18.88%) Agile
3 44 (18.88%) Business Intelligence
4 40 (17.17%) Roadmaps
5 36 (15.45%) Data Engineering
6 34 (14.59%) Machine Learning
7 31 (13.30%) Stakeholder Management
8 30 (12.88%) Data Pipeline
9 29 (12.45%) Data Analytics
9 29 (12.45%) Storytelling
10 28 (12.02%) Data Modelling
10 28 (12.02%) Data Science
11 26 (11.16%) CI/CD
12 25 (10.73%) Data Management
13 22 (9.44%) Continuous Improvement
13 22 (9.44%) Customer Experience
14 20 (8.58%) Data Governance
14 20 (8.58%) ETL
14 20 (8.58%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 72 (30.90%) SQL
2 63 (27.04%) Python
3 13 (5.58%) R
4 9 (3.86%) C++
4 9 (3.86%) Julia
4 9 (3.86%) MATLAB
5 8 (3.43%) Java
6 7 (3.00%) C#
7 6 (2.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (2.58%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.58%) VBA
8 3 (1.29%) Bicep
8 3 (1.29%) Scala
9 2 (0.86%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.86%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.43%) Bash
10 1 (0.43%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.43%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 24 (10.30%) Degree
2 10 (4.29%) SC Cleared
2 10 (4.29%) Security Cleared
3 8 (3.43%) AWS Certification
3 8 (3.43%) Azure Certification
3 8 (3.43%) Master's Degree
4 7 (3.00%) MBA
5 3 (1.29%) ACCA
5 3 (1.29%) CIMA
5 3 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.86%) CISSP
6 2 (0.86%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (0.86%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.86%) ICAEW
7 1 (0.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.43%) GCIH
7 1 (0.43%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.43%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (11.16%) Data Quality
2 19 (8.15%) GDPR
3 18 (7.73%) Accessibility
4 11 (4.72%) QA
5 6 (2.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 6 (2.58%) IFRS
6 4 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.29%) Solvency II
8 2 (0.86%) GAAP
8 2 (0.86%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.86%) NIST
9 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.43%) Dublin Core
9 1 (0.43%) ITGC
9 1 (0.43%) SLA
9 1 (0.43%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (2.58%) Docker
2 4 (1.72%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (3.86%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (0.86%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 36 (15.45%) Databricks
2 25 (10.73%) Microsoft
3 15 (6.44%) SAP
4 12 (5.15%) Adobe
4 12 (5.15%) Dell
5 8 (3.43%) Google
5 8 (3.43%) Informatica
6 6 (2.58%) Cloudera
6 6 (2.58%) Denodo
6 6 (2.58%) Teradata
7 4 (1.72%) Okta
7 4 (1.72%) OneLogin
8 3 (1.29%) Bloomberg
8 3 (1.29%) Refinitiv
8 3 (1.29%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.86%) FactSet
9 2 (0.86%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.43%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.43%) Oracle
10 1 (0.43%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud