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 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 15 31
Rank change year-on-year -3 +16 -5
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 226 295 204
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 8.63% 11.56% 6.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.06% 12.08% 6.99%
Number of salaries quoted 163 148 171
10th Percentile £47,500 £44,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +6.67% +4.90%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £97,000
90th Percentile £128,000 £126,250 £120,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +13.33% +3.45%

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 2,247 2,443 2,918
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 85.80% 95.69% 93.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,638 1,562 2,594
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £56,250 £54,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +1.35% -1.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,813 £96,250
90th Percentile £110,225 £117,500 £113,750
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -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 5 February 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 5 February 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 12 (5.31%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.65%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.77%) Confluence
4 3 (1.33%) Apache
5 2 (0.88%) CMS
6 1 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.44%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.44%) SAS
6 1 (0.44%) Strapi
Applications
1 15 (6.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.44%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Actimize
1 2 (0.88%) Adaptiv
1 2 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 76 (33.63%) Azure
2 54 (23.89%) Power Platform
3 37 (16.37%) AWS
4 25 (11.06%) GCP
5 18 (7.96%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (6.64%) Snowflake
7 14 (6.19%) Azure Data Factory
7 14 (6.19%) Serverless
8 10 (4.42%) Azure Storage
9 9 (3.98%) Azure Monitor
9 9 (3.98%) dbt
9 9 (3.98%) GitHub
10 7 (3.10%) Azure Event Grid
10 7 (3.10%) Azure Functions
10 7 (3.10%) Microsoft Purview
11 6 (2.65%) Amazon S3
11 6 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.65%) SaaS
12 5 (2.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 5 (2.21%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.88%) Broadband
1 2 (0.88%) Firewall
1 2 (0.88%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (0.44%) Intranet
2 1 (0.44%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (23.01%) Power BI
2 34 (15.04%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (7.08%) Data Lake
4 11 (4.87%) Metadata
4 11 (4.87%) Tableau
5 9 (3.98%) SQL Server
6 8 (3.54%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (3.10%) MongoDB
7 7 (3.10%) Power Query
7 7 (3.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (3.10%) Star Schema
8 6 (2.65%) BigQuery
9 5 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (2.21%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (1.77%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (1.77%) Data Mining
10 4 (1.77%) Looker
10 4 (1.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.33%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 6 (2.65%) ERwin
2 5 (2.21%) Git
3 4 (1.77%) JIRA
4 2 (0.88%) ER Studio
4 2 (0.88%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.88%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.44%) Deequ
5 1 (0.44%) GitLab
5 1 (0.44%) MLflow
5 1 (0.44%) TeamCity
General
1 81 (35.84%) Finance
2 60 (26.55%) Social Skills
3 31 (13.72%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (11.06%) Banking
5 19 (8.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (7.96%) Legal
7 17 (7.52%) Law
8 16 (7.08%) Front Office
9 13 (5.75%) Financial Institution
10 11 (4.87%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (3.54%) Investment Banking
12 7 (3.10%) Retail
13 6 (2.65%) Advertising
13 6 (2.65%) Marketing
14 4 (1.77%) International Banking
14 4 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (1.33%) Manufacturing
15 3 (1.33%) Public Sector
16 2 (0.88%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (16.81%) Lead
2 30 (13.27%) Data Engineer
3 27 (11.95%) Senior
4 26 (11.50%) Analyst
5 25 (11.06%) Architect
6 24 (10.62%) Developer
7 14 (6.19%) Data Analyst
7 14 (6.19%) Data Architect
8 11 (4.87%) Lead Architect
9 10 (4.42%) Data Scientist
9 10 (4.42%) Senior Data Engineer
10 9 (3.98%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (3.10%) Applications Engineer
11 7 (3.10%) Applications Support
11 7 (3.10%) Applications Support Engineer
11 7 (3.10%) Support Engineer
11 7 (3.10%) User Researcher
12 6 (2.65%) AWS Architect
12 6 (2.65%) Lead Data Architect
13 5 (2.21%) Lead Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.31%) .NET
2 10 (4.42%) Kafka
3 8 (3.54%) PyTorch
4 7 (3.10%) TensorFlow
4 7 (3.10%) WPF
5 6 (2.65%) LangChain
5 6 (2.65%) PySpark
6 5 (2.21%) Node.js
6 5 (2.21%) React
7 4 (1.77%) Hugging Face
8 3 (1.33%) Java Concurrency
8 3 (1.33%) OAuth
8 3 (1.33%) Pandas
9 2 (0.88%) ARM Templates
9 2 (0.88%) JWT
9 2 (0.88%) Keras
9 2 (0.88%) Next.js
9 2 (0.88%) NumPy
9 2 (0.88%) REST
9 2 (0.88%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.75%) Management Information System
2 12 (5.31%) Algorithms
3 11 (4.87%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (3.98%) Cloud Native
4 9 (3.98%) Derivative
5 7 (3.10%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.10%) Reinsurance
6 6 (2.65%) Equities
6 6 (2.65%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.21%) Credit Risk
7 5 (2.21%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.77%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.33%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.33%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.33%) Market Risk
10 2 (0.88%) ASIC
10 2 (0.88%) Grid Computing
10 2 (0.88%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.54%) Windows
2 4 (1.77%) Linux
3 3 (1.33%) Unix
4 1 (0.44%) Android
4 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (34.96%) AI
2 67 (29.65%) Business Intelligence
3 60 (26.55%) Decision-Making
4 56 (24.78%) Data Governance
4 56 (24.78%) Data Modelling
4 56 (24.78%) Problem-Solving
5 50 (22.12%) Agile
6 48 (21.24%) Data Pipeline
7 47 (20.80%) Data Science
8 44 (19.47%) CI/CD
8 44 (19.47%) Data Analytics
9 41 (18.14%) Machine Learning
10 40 (17.70%) Data Architecture
10 40 (17.70%) ETL
11 39 (17.26%) Mentoring
12 38 (16.81%) Actionable Insight
12 38 (16.81%) Data Engineering
13 32 (14.16%) Stakeholder Management
14 28 (12.39%) Data Management
14 28 (12.39%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 94 (41.59%) Python
2 89 (39.38%) SQL
3 17 (7.52%) C#
4 13 (5.75%) Java
5 12 (5.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 7 (3.10%) C++
7 5 (2.21%) Scala
7 5 (2.21%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.33%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.33%) VBA
9 2 (0.88%) Bicep
9 2 (0.88%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.88%) R
9 2 (0.88%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.44%) Bash
10 1 (0.44%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 31 (13.72%) Degree
2 13 (5.75%) Master's Degree
3 12 (5.31%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (3.98%) Security Cleared
5 5 (2.21%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.21%) PhD
6 4 (1.77%) CISA
6 4 (1.77%) CISM
6 4 (1.77%) CISSP
6 4 (1.77%) CRISC
6 4 (1.77%) PMI Certification
6 4 (1.77%) PMP
6 4 (1.77%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (1.33%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.33%) CFA
7 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.88%) GCIH
8 2 (0.88%) GIAC
8 2 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.88%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (18.14%) Data Quality
2 21 (9.29%) GDPR
3 11 (4.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.21%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.33%) NIST
5 3 (1.33%) QA
6 2 (0.88%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.88%) EMIR
6 2 (0.88%) ITGC
6 2 (0.88%) MiFID
6 2 (0.88%) PMO
6 2 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.44%) COBIT
7 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.44%) GRC
7 1 (0.44%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (6.64%) Docker
2 1 (0.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (5.31%) Terraform
2 11 (4.87%) Grafana
2 11 (4.87%) Kubernetes
3 7 (3.10%) Kibana
4 4 (1.77%) Ansible
5 2 (0.88%) ArcSight ESM
5 2 (0.88%) Argo
5 2 (0.88%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.88%) QRadar
Vendors
1 41 (18.14%) Microsoft
2 36 (15.93%) Databricks
3 13 (5.75%) Google
4 7 (3.10%) OpenAI
5 5 (2.21%) Informatica
6 4 (1.77%) Dell
6 4 (1.77%) SAP
6 4 (1.77%) Splunk
7 3 (1.33%) Adobe
7 3 (1.33%) Anaplan
7 3 (1.33%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.88%) ArcSight
8 2 (0.88%) FIS
8 2 (0.88%) IBM
8 2 (0.88%) LogLogic
8 2 (0.88%) McAfee
8 2 (0.88%) Murex
8 2 (0.88%) NVIDIA
8 2 (0.88%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.88%) Workday