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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 23 15
Rank change year-on-year +4 -8 +15
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 186 171 331
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 7.37% 10.54% 11.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.99% 10.98% 12.50%
Number of salaries quoted 125 118 187
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,375 £42,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £91,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.85% +30.36% -17.65%
75th Percentile £107,500 £118,438 £97,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £135,750 £130,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +21.43% -17.65%

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 2,068 1,557 2,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 81.93% 95.93% 93.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,518 1,250 1,738
10th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £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 £97,188 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £122,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - +3.45%

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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 15 October 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 6 (3.23%) Confluence
2 5 (2.69%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.15%) CMS
4 3 (1.61%) Apache
5 2 (1.08%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.08%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.54%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 9 (4.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.15%) UserZoom
3 1 (0.54%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.54%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.54%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 12 (6.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.54%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 30 (16.13%) Azure
2 27 (14.52%) Power Platform
3 22 (11.83%) AWS
4 14 (7.53%) SuccessFactors
5 13 (6.99%) GCP
6 11 (5.91%) SaaS
7 7 (3.76%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (3.76%) dbt
7 7 (3.76%) Snowflake
8 6 (3.23%) Serverless
9 4 (2.15%) Adobe Analytics
9 4 (2.15%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (2.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (2.15%) Contentsquare
10 3 (1.61%) Entra ID
10 3 (1.61%) GitHub
10 3 (1.61%) Power Automate
11 2 (1.08%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (1.08%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.69%) Broadband
2 1 (0.54%) Firewall
2 1 (0.54%) Intranet
2 1 (0.54%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (13.98%) Power BI
2 13 (6.99%) Metadata
3 10 (5.38%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (4.84%) Geospatial Data
5 7 (3.76%) Data Lake
5 7 (3.76%) Relational Database
5 7 (3.76%) SQL Server
6 5 (2.69%) Tableau
7 3 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.61%) BigQuery
7 3 (1.61%) OLTP
7 3 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (1.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (1.61%) SSDT
8 2 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.08%) KDB
8 2 (1.08%) Looker
8 2 (1.08%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.08%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (4.84%) JIRA
2 7 (3.76%) Git
3 1 (0.54%) Cypress.io
General
1 55 (29.57%) Finance
2 40 (21.51%) Analytical Skills
3 37 (19.89%) Social Skills
4 29 (15.59%) Law
5 28 (15.05%) Marketing
6 13 (6.99%) Manufacturing
6 13 (6.99%) Publishing
7 11 (5.91%) Pharmaceutical
8 10 (5.38%) Advertising
9 7 (3.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (3.76%) Legal
10 6 (3.23%) Public Sector
11 4 (2.15%) Banking
11 4 (2.15%) Games
12 3 (1.61%) Digital Healthcare
12 3 (1.61%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.61%) Retail
12 3 (1.61%) Telecoms
13 2 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (20.97%) Senior
2 38 (20.43%) Analyst
3 24 (12.90%) Lead
4 18 (9.68%) Architect
5 16 (8.60%) Data Engineer
6 15 (8.06%) Data Analyst
7 14 (7.53%) Developer
7 14 (7.53%) Systems Analyst
8 11 (5.91%) Software Engineer
9 10 (5.38%) Senior Manager
10 9 (4.84%) Data Architect
10 9 (4.84%) HR Analyst
11 8 (4.30%) Consultant
11 8 (4.30%) Excel Analyst
11 8 (4.30%) Solutions Architect
12 7 (3.76%) SAP Analyst
12 7 (3.76%) SAP HR Analyst
12 7 (3.76%) Senior Software Engineer
13 6 (3.23%) Campaign Manager
13 6 (3.23%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.91%) HTML
2 9 (4.84%) Terraform
3 6 (3.23%) React
4 4 (2.15%) PySpark
5 3 (1.61%) AWS CDK
5 3 (1.61%) REST
6 2 (1.08%) FastAPI
6 2 (1.08%) JSON
6 2 (1.08%) LangChain
6 2 (1.08%) Next.js
7 1 (0.54%) Celery
7 1 (0.54%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.54%) Jest
7 1 (0.54%) JSON-LD
7 1 (0.54%) PyTorch
7 1 (0.54%) Redux
7 1 (0.54%) scikit-learn
7 1 (0.54%) Seaborn
7 1 (0.54%) Tailwind CSS
7 1 (0.54%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.53%) Product Ownership
2 13 (6.99%) Reinsurance
3 12 (6.45%) Mobile App
4 11 (5.91%) Biopharmaceutical
5 10 (5.38%) Onboarding
6 9 (4.84%) Cloud Native
7 7 (3.76%) Hedge funds
8 6 (3.23%) AI Agents
8 6 (3.23%) Taxonomies
9 5 (2.69%) Social Media
10 4 (2.15%) FMCG
11 3 (1.61%) Algorithms
11 3 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.61%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.61%) Life Science
11 3 (1.61%) Market Risk
11 3 (1.61%) Reference Data
12 2 (1.08%) Data Structures
12 2 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (1.08%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.54%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (36.56%) AI
2 42 (22.58%) Decision-Making
3 38 (20.43%) Agile
4 37 (19.89%) Stakeholder Management
5 32 (17.20%) Roadmaps
6 27 (14.52%) Business Intelligence
7 24 (12.90%) Data Pipeline
7 24 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (12.90%) Storytelling
8 21 (11.29%) Data Engineering
8 21 (11.29%) Machine Learning
9 20 (10.75%) Data Modelling
10 19 (10.22%) CI/CD
10 19 (10.22%) Customer Experience
10 19 (10.22%) Data Analytics
10 19 (10.22%) Data Architecture
11 18 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
12 17 (9.14%) Software Engineering
13 16 (8.60%) Coaching
13 16 (8.60%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 52 (27.96%) Python
2 50 (26.88%) SQL
3 14 (7.53%) R
4 11 (5.91%) C#
5 10 (5.38%) C++
6 9 (4.84%) Julia
6 9 (4.84%) MATLAB
7 8 (4.30%) Java
8 6 (3.23%) TypeScript
9 5 (2.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (2.69%) T-SQL
9 5 (2.69%) VBA
10 2 (1.08%) Bash
10 2 (1.08%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.54%) Bicep
11 1 (0.54%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.54%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.54%) Scala
11 1 (0.54%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 15 (8.06%) Degree
2 12 (6.45%) Security Cleared
3 11 (5.91%) Master's Degree
3 11 (5.91%) MBA
3 11 (5.91%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.69%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.61%) ACCA
5 3 (1.61%) CIMA
6 2 (1.08%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.08%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.08%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.08%) ICAEW
7 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.54%) CISSP
7 1 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.54%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.54%) PMP
7 1 (0.54%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (12.37%) Data Quality
2 21 (11.29%) Accessibility
3 14 (7.53%) GDPR
4 9 (4.84%) QA
5 4 (2.15%) IFRS
5 4 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.61%) NIST
7 1 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.54%) Dublin Core
7 1 (0.54%) GAAP
7 1 (0.54%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.54%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.54%) Solvency II
System Software
1 4 (2.15%) Docker
2 1 (0.54%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (1.61%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.61%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 20 (10.75%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.68%) Databricks
3 15 (8.06%) SAP
4 6 (3.23%) Adobe
5 5 (2.69%) Google
6 3 (1.61%) RedGate
6 3 (1.61%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.08%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.08%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.54%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.54%) Informatica
8 1 (0.54%) Proofpoint
8 1 (0.54%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud