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 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 16 28
Rank change year-on-year -4 +12 -1
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 202 308 200
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 8.59% 11.65% 7.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.97% 12.18% 7.44%
Number of salaries quoted 143 160 167
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £48,250
25th Percentile £68,750 £55,000 £57,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -6.06% +17.86%
75th Percentile £108,125 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £127,500 £120,500
Central London median annual salary £84,336 £80,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +5.42% -3.03% +14.58%

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 2,026 2,528 2,688
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 86.14% 95.65% 94.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,474 1,610 2,405
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £40,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £113,750 £117,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -

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

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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 January 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 12 (5.94%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.97%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.49%) Apache
3 3 (1.49%) Confluence
4 1 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.50%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (6.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.50%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.99%) Actimize
1 2 (0.99%) Adaptiv
1 2 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 68 (33.66%) Azure
2 49 (24.26%) Power Platform
3 37 (18.32%) AWS
4 22 (10.89%) GCP
5 17 (8.42%) Snowflake
6 14 (6.93%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (6.93%) Serverless
7 10 (4.95%) Azure Data Factory
7 10 (4.95%) GitHub
8 9 (4.46%) dbt
9 8 (3.96%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (3.47%) Amazon S3
10 7 (3.47%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (3.47%) Microsoft Purview
11 6 (2.97%) Azure Event Grid
11 6 (2.97%) Azure Functions
11 6 (2.97%) Azure Storage
11 6 (2.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 5 (2.48%) Google Analytics
12 5 (2.48%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.99%) Firewall
1 2 (0.99%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (0.50%) Broadband
2 1 (0.50%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (23.27%) Power BI
2 33 (16.34%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (6.93%) Data Lake
4 10 (4.95%) Tableau
5 9 (4.46%) Metadata
6 8 (3.96%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (3.96%) SQL Server
6 8 (3.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (3.47%) Power Query
8 6 (2.97%) MongoDB
9 5 (2.48%) BigQuery
9 5 (2.48%) Data Mining
9 5 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (1.98%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (1.98%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (1.98%) Delta Lake
10 4 (1.98%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (1.98%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (3.47%) ERwin
1 7 (3.47%) Git
2 3 (1.49%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.49%) JIRA
3 2 (0.99%) ER Studio
3 2 (0.99%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.50%) Deequ
4 1 (0.50%) GitLab
4 1 (0.50%) TeamCity
General
1 73 (36.14%) Finance
2 54 (26.73%) Social Skills
3 30 (14.85%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (10.40%) Banking
5 19 (9.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (8.42%) Law
7 14 (6.93%) Front Office
7 14 (6.93%) Legal
8 12 (5.94%) Financial Institution
9 11 (5.45%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (4.46%) Retail
11 7 (3.47%) Marketing
12 6 (2.97%) Advertising
12 6 (2.97%) Investment Banking
13 5 (2.48%) International Banking
14 3 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (1.49%) Manufacturing
14 3 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (1.49%) Public Sector
15 2 (0.99%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (18.81%) Lead
2 28 (13.86%) Data Engineer
3 23 (11.39%) Analyst
3 23 (11.39%) Architect
4 22 (10.89%) Developer
4 22 (10.89%) Senior
5 15 (7.43%) Data Architect
6 12 (5.94%) Data Analyst
7 11 (5.45%) Lead Architect
8 9 (4.46%) Data Scientist
9 8 (3.96%) Senior Data Engineer
10 7 (3.47%) Lead Data Architect
10 7 (3.47%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (3.47%) User Researcher
11 6 (2.97%) Applications Engineer
11 6 (2.97%) Applications Support
11 6 (2.97%) Applications Support Engineer
11 6 (2.97%) Support Engineer
12 5 (2.48%) AWS Architect
12 5 (2.48%) Head of Analytics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.45%) Kafka
2 9 (4.46%) .NET
3 7 (3.47%) PySpark
3 7 (3.47%) PyTorch
4 6 (2.97%) LangChain
4 6 (2.97%) WPF
5 5 (2.48%) TensorFlow
6 4 (1.98%) Java Concurrency
6 4 (1.98%) Node.js
6 4 (1.98%) Pandas
7 3 (1.49%) Hugging Face
7 3 (1.49%) NumPy
7 3 (1.49%) OAuth
7 3 (1.49%) scikit-learn
8 2 (0.99%) ARM Templates
8 2 (0.99%) FastAPI
8 2 (0.99%) JWT
8 2 (0.99%) React
8 2 (0.99%) REST
8 2 (0.99%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.93%) Algorithms
2 11 (5.45%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.46%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.96%) Cloud Native
4 8 (3.96%) Derivative
4 8 (3.96%) Equities
5 7 (3.47%) Reinsurance
6 6 (2.97%) Credit Risk
6 6 (2.97%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.97%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.98%) Market Risk
8 4 (1.98%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.49%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.99%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.99%) FMCG
10 2 (0.99%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.47%) Windows
2 4 (1.98%) Linux
3 3 (1.49%) Unix
4 1 (0.50%) Android
4 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (37.13%) AI
2 57 (28.22%) Business Intelligence
3 55 (27.23%) Problem-Solving
4 53 (26.24%) Data Governance
5 52 (25.74%) Data Modelling
6 49 (24.26%) Decision-Making
7 46 (22.77%) Agile
8 43 (21.29%) Data Analytics
8 43 (21.29%) Data Pipeline
9 41 (20.30%) ETL
10 40 (19.80%) CI/CD
10 40 (19.80%) Data Science
11 38 (18.81%) Mentoring
12 36 (17.82%) Data Architecture
13 35 (17.33%) Machine Learning
14 33 (16.34%) Data Engineering
15 32 (15.84%) Actionable Insight
16 29 (14.36%) Stakeholder Management
17 28 (13.86%) DevOps
18 27 (13.37%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 92 (45.54%) Python
2 82 (40.59%) SQL
3 15 (7.43%) Java
4 14 (6.93%) C#
5 13 (6.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 7 (3.47%) C++
7 5 (2.48%) Scala
8 4 (1.98%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.49%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.49%) VBA
10 2 (0.99%) Bicep
10 2 (0.99%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.99%) R
10 2 (0.99%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.50%) Bash
11 1 (0.50%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 30 (14.85%) Degree
2 14 (6.93%) Master's Degree
3 10 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (4.46%) Security Cleared
5 7 (3.47%) PhD
6 6 (2.97%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.98%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.98%) CISA
7 4 (1.98%) CISM
7 4 (1.98%) CISSP
7 4 (1.98%) CRISC
7 4 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.98%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.98%) PMP
7 4 (1.98%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (1.49%) CFA
8 3 (1.49%) SnowPro
9 2 (0.99%) CompTIA CySA+
9 2 (0.99%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.99%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (16.34%) Data Quality
2 18 (8.91%) GDPR
3 10 (4.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.48%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.49%) QA
6 2 (0.99%) EMIR
6 2 (0.99%) ITGC
6 2 (0.99%) MiFID
6 2 (0.99%) NIST
6 2 (0.99%) PMO
6 2 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.50%) COBIT
7 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (6.93%) Docker
2 1 (0.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (5.94%) Terraform
2 10 (4.95%) Grafana
2 10 (4.95%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.97%) Kibana
4 4 (1.98%) Ansible
5 2 (0.99%) ArcSight ESM
5 2 (0.99%) Argo
5 2 (0.99%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.99%) QRadar
Vendors
1 40 (19.80%) Microsoft
2 31 (15.35%) Databricks
3 11 (5.45%) Google
4 7 (3.47%) OpenAI
5 5 (2.48%) Informatica
6 4 (1.98%) SAP
6 4 (1.98%) Splunk
7 3 (1.49%) Anaplan
7 3 (1.49%) Dell
8 2 (0.99%) ArcSight
8 2 (0.99%) FIS
8 2 (0.99%) IBM
8 2 (0.99%) LogLogic
8 2 (0.99%) McAfee
8 2 (0.99%) Murex
8 2 (0.99%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.99%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.99%) Workday
9 1 (0.50%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.50%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud