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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 15 33
Rank change year-on-year -4 +18 -4
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 192 324 201
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 11.15% 11.65% 6.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.96% 12.34% 6.98%
Number of salaries quoted 134 185 172
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £47,625
25th Percentile £62,500 £53,000 £58,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -9.09% +16.20%
75th Percentile £113,750 £102,500 £110,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £130,000 £141,250
Central London median annual salary £84,336 £75,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +12.45% -9.09% +14.19%

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 1,605 2,625 2,878
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 93.21% 94.42% 95.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,217 1,710 2,592
10th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,250
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 £122,500 £116,375 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £73,000
% change year-on-year - +2.74% -2.67%

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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 19 November 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 10 (5.21%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.13%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.56%) Apache
3 3 (1.56%) Confluence
4 1 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.52%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.52%) SAS
Applications
1 15 (7.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.04%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (4.17%) Adaptiv
2 5 (2.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.52%) Actimize
3 1 (0.52%) Magento
3 1 (0.52%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 60 (31.25%) Azure
2 56 (29.17%) Power Platform
3 39 (20.31%) AWS
4 28 (14.58%) GCP
5 22 (11.46%) Snowflake
6 12 (6.25%) dbt
7 11 (5.73%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (5.73%) Serverless
8 10 (5.21%) GitHub
9 9 (4.69%) Amazon S3
9 9 (4.69%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 8 (4.17%) Microsoft Purview
11 7 (3.65%) Google Analytics
12 5 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (2.60%) Collibra
13 4 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (2.08%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
14 3 (1.56%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.60%) Network Security
2 2 (1.04%) Firewall
2 2 (1.04%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.52%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (27.60%) Power BI
2 39 (20.31%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (9.90%) Data Lake
4 14 (7.29%) Tableau
5 11 (5.73%) Power Query
6 10 (5.21%) Metadata
7 9 (4.69%) SQL Server
8 8 (4.17%) BigQuery
9 7 (3.65%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (3.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (3.13%) DynamoDB
11 5 (2.60%) Delta Lake
11 5 (2.60%) SAP Data Services
11 5 (2.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (2.08%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (2.08%) MongoDB
12 4 (2.08%) NoSQL
12 4 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
13 3 (1.56%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 7 (3.65%) ER Studio
1 7 (3.65%) ERwin
1 7 (3.65%) Git
2 3 (1.56%) JIRA
3 2 (1.04%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.04%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.52%) Deequ
4 1 (0.52%) GitLab
4 1 (0.52%) MLflow
General
1 87 (45.31%) Finance
2 70 (36.46%) Social Skills
3 32 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (15.10%) Banking
5 17 (8.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (8.33%) Front Office
7 15 (7.81%) Law
7 15 (7.81%) Marketing
8 14 (7.29%) Legal
9 12 (6.25%) Financial Institution
10 10 (5.21%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (5.21%) Retail
11 9 (4.69%) Advertising
12 6 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (2.60%) Investment Banking
13 5 (2.60%) Public Sector
14 4 (2.08%) International Banking
14 4 (2.08%) Manufacturing
15 2 (1.04%) Retail Banking
15 2 (1.04%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 39 (20.31%) Analyst
2 31 (16.15%) Lead
3 30 (15.63%) Developer
4 24 (12.50%) Data Engineer
4 24 (12.50%) Senior
5 21 (10.94%) Architect
6 19 (9.90%) Data Analyst
7 16 (8.33%) Data Architect
8 9 (4.69%) Risk Analyst
9 8 (4.17%) Business Analyst
9 8 (4.17%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 8 (4.17%) Head of IT
9 8 (4.17%) Senior Data Engineer
10 7 (3.65%) Data Scientist
10 7 (3.65%) Lead Architect
10 7 (3.65%) Lead Data Architect
10 7 (3.65%) Power BI Developer
11 6 (3.13%) Lead Business Analyst
11 6 (3.13%) Risk Business Analyst
12 5 (2.60%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.73%) Kafka
2 9 (4.69%) PySpark
3 6 (3.13%) PyTorch
4 5 (2.60%) Node.js
5 4 (2.08%) .NET
5 4 (2.08%) Java Concurrency
5 4 (2.08%) Pandas
5 4 (2.08%) TensorFlow
6 3 (1.56%) NumPy
6 3 (1.56%) OAuth
6 3 (1.56%) React
6 3 (1.56%) REST
6 3 (1.56%) scikit-learn
7 2 (1.04%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.04%) CSS
7 2 (1.04%) FastAPI
7 2 (1.04%) GraphQL
7 2 (1.04%) Hugging Face
7 2 (1.04%) JWT
7 2 (1.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.29%) Algorithms
2 13 (6.77%) Credit Risk
2 13 (6.77%) Market Risk
3 10 (5.21%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.21%) Equities
3 10 (5.21%) Management Information System
4 9 (4.69%) Cloud Native
4 9 (4.69%) Reinsurance
5 7 (3.65%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.13%) Data Structures
6 6 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.60%) Derivative
7 5 (2.60%) Tandem
8 4 (2.08%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.04%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.04%) Grid Computing
10 1 (0.52%) Clustering
10 1 (0.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.04%) Linux
1 2 (1.04%) Unix
2 1 (0.52%) Windows
2 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (31.77%) Business Intelligence
2 58 (30.21%) AI
3 56 (29.17%) Data Modelling
4 49 (25.52%) Data Governance
5 45 (23.44%) Decision-Making
6 44 (22.92%) Data Analytics
6 44 (22.92%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (22.40%) Agile
8 42 (21.88%) Machine Learning
9 40 (20.83%) Data Science
10 38 (19.79%) Data Management
10 38 (19.79%) ETL
11 36 (18.75%) Data Engineering
12 33 (17.19%) Data Analysis
13 32 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
13 32 (16.67%) Risk Management
14 31 (16.15%) Continuous Improvement
14 31 (16.15%) Data Architecture
15 30 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
16 29 (15.10%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 88 (45.83%) Python
2 76 (39.58%) SQL
3 21 (10.94%) Java
4 15 (7.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 6 (3.13%) C#
5 6 (3.13%) C++
6 4 (2.08%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.08%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.56%) R
7 3 (1.56%) Scala
8 2 (1.04%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.52%) Bash
9 1 (0.52%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.52%) Ruby
9 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.52%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.52%) VBA
Qualifications
1 39 (20.31%) Degree
2 16 (8.33%) Master's Degree
2 16 (8.33%) PMI Certification
2 16 (8.33%) PMP
3 14 (7.29%) CFA
4 10 (5.21%) PhD
5 9 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (4.17%) ITIL Certification
6 8 (4.17%) Security Cleared
7 7 (3.65%) Azure Certification
8 6 (3.13%) AWS Certification
9 5 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (2.60%) SnowPro
10 4 (2.08%) CISA
10 4 (2.08%) CISM
10 4 (2.08%) CISSP
10 4 (2.08%) CRISC
10 4 (2.08%) DBS Check
10 4 (2.08%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (1.04%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (13.02%) Data Quality
2 19 (9.90%) GDPR
3 7 (3.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.04%) ITGC
5 2 (1.04%) NIST
5 2 (1.04%) QA
5 2 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.52%) COBIT
6 1 (0.52%) PMO
System Software
1 11 (5.73%) Docker
2 2 (1.04%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.52%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (5.73%) Terraform
2 7 (3.65%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.08%) Ansible
4 2 (1.04%) ArcSight ESM
4 2 (1.04%) Argo
4 2 (1.04%) Grafana
4 2 (1.04%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.04%) QRadar
Vendors
1 41 (21.35%) Microsoft
2 34 (17.71%) Databricks
3 15 (7.81%) Google
4 14 (7.29%) Murex
5 8 (4.17%) FIS
6 7 (3.65%) Salesforce
6 7 (3.65%) SAP
7 6 (3.13%) ServiceNow
8 5 (2.60%) Informatica
8 5 (2.60%) OpenAI
9 4 (2.08%) Alteryx
9 4 (2.08%) Dell
9 4 (2.08%) Oracle
10 3 (1.56%) Splunk
10 3 (1.56%) Workday
11 2 (1.04%) Anaplan
11 2 (1.04%) ArcSight
11 2 (1.04%) IBM
11 2 (1.04%) LogLogic
11 2 (1.04%) McAfee