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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 20 16
Rank change year-on-year +3 -4 +16
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 208 181 323
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 7.31% 10.71% 11.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.06% 11.15% 12.04%
Number of salaries quoted 137 120 186
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,625 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,000 £52,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £91,250 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.37% +35.19% -18.18%
75th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £145,250 £130,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £90,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% +28.57% -15.15%

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 2,297 1,623 2,682
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 80.71% 96.04% 93.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,685 1,288 1,766
10th Percentile £47,500 £39,700 £45,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £114,375
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £73,360
% change year-on-year +6.67% +2.24% +0.49%

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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 1 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 7 (3.37%) Confluence
2 5 (2.40%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.92%) Apache
3 4 (1.92%) CMS
4 3 (1.44%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.96%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.48%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 9 (4.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.92%) UserZoom
3 1 (0.48%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.48%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.48%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 12 (5.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.96%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 36 (17.31%) Azure
2 27 (12.98%) Power Platform
3 18 (8.65%) AWS
4 15 (7.21%) GCP
5 14 (6.73%) SuccessFactors
6 12 (5.77%) SaaS
7 10 (4.81%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (3.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 7 (3.37%) dbt
9 6 (2.88%) Serverless
9 6 (2.88%) Snowflake
10 4 (1.92%) Adobe Analytics
10 4 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.92%) Contentsquare
10 4 (1.92%) Google Analytics
11 3 (1.44%) Azure Machine Learning
11 3 (1.44%) Entra ID
11 3 (1.44%) GitHub
11 3 (1.44%) Power Automate
12 2 (0.96%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.88%) Broadband
2 4 (1.92%) Firewall
3 3 (1.44%) DHCP
3 3 (1.44%) DNS
3 3 (1.44%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.48%) Intranet
4 1 (0.48%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (12.50%) Power BI
2 15 (7.21%) Metadata
3 10 (4.81%) Data Lake
3 10 (4.81%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (4.33%) Geospatial Data
4 9 (4.33%) SQL Server
5 8 (3.85%) Relational Database
6 7 (3.37%) BigQuery
7 5 (2.40%) Tableau
8 4 (1.92%) KDB
9 3 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.44%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.44%) OLTP
9 3 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.96%) Looker
10 2 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.96%) SSDT
10 2 (0.96%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (4.33%) Git
1 9 (4.33%) JIRA
2 1 (0.48%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.48%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.48%) MLflow
General
1 61 (29.33%) Finance
2 45 (21.63%) Analytical Skills
3 43 (20.67%) Social Skills
4 32 (15.38%) Marketing
5 29 (13.94%) Law
6 13 (6.25%) Manufacturing
6 13 (6.25%) Publishing
7 11 (5.29%) Pharmaceutical
8 9 (4.33%) Advertising
9 7 (3.37%) Banking
9 7 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (3.37%) Legal
10 5 (2.40%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.92%) Games
12 3 (1.44%) Digital Healthcare
12 3 (1.44%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.96%) Front Office
13 2 (0.96%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.96%) Retail
13 2 (0.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 43 (20.67%) Analyst
2 40 (19.23%) Senior
3 26 (12.50%) Lead
4 23 (11.06%) Architect
5 18 (8.65%) Data Engineer
6 16 (7.69%) Data Analyst
7 15 (7.21%) Developer
8 14 (6.73%) Systems Analyst
9 11 (5.29%) Software Engineer
9 11 (5.29%) Solutions Architect
10 10 (4.81%) Data Architect
11 9 (4.33%) HR Analyst
11 9 (4.33%) Marketing Analyst
11 9 (4.33%) Marketing Analytics Analyst
11 9 (4.33%) Senior Manager
12 8 (3.85%) Excel Analyst
13 7 (3.37%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
13 7 (3.37%) Azure Engineer
13 7 (3.37%) SAP Analyst
13 7 (3.37%) SAP HR Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.25%) Terraform
2 11 (5.29%) HTML
3 5 (2.40%) React
4 4 (1.92%) PySpark
5 3 (1.44%) ADO
5 3 (1.44%) AWS CDK
5 3 (1.44%) REST
6 2 (0.96%) FastAPI
6 2 (0.96%) Hugging Face
6 2 (0.96%) LangChain
6 2 (0.96%) Model Context Protocol
6 2 (0.96%) Next.js
6 2 (0.96%) PyTorch
6 2 (0.96%) TensorFlow
7 1 (0.48%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.48%) Jest
7 1 (0.48%) JSON-LD
7 1 (0.48%) Redux
7 1 (0.48%) Seaborn
7 1 (0.48%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.62%) Product Ownership
2 13 (6.25%) Mobile App
2 13 (6.25%) Reinsurance
3 11 (5.29%) Biopharmaceutical
4 9 (4.33%) Cloud Native
4 9 (4.33%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.37%) Hedge funds
5 7 (3.37%) Taxonomies
6 6 (2.88%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.88%) Social Media
7 5 (2.40%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.92%) FMCG
8 4 (1.92%) Reference Data
9 3 (1.44%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.44%) Derivative
9 3 (1.44%) Equities
9 3 (1.44%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.44%) Life Science
9 3 (1.44%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.44%) Windows
1 3 (1.44%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.48%) Android
2 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.48%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (35.58%) AI
2 45 (21.63%) Decision-Making
3 42 (20.19%) Agile
4 36 (17.31%) Stakeholder Management
5 35 (16.83%) Roadmaps
6 29 (13.94%) Business Intelligence
7 27 (12.98%) Data Engineering
8 26 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
9 25 (12.02%) Problem-Solving
10 24 (11.54%) Storytelling
11 23 (11.06%) Data Analytics
11 23 (11.06%) Machine Learning
12 22 (10.58%) CI/CD
12 22 (10.58%) Continuous Improvement
13 21 (10.10%) Data Modelling
14 19 (9.13%) Customer Experience
14 19 (9.13%) Software Engineering
15 18 (8.65%) DevOps
16 17 (8.17%) Data Architecture
16 17 (8.17%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 60 (28.85%) SQL
2 54 (25.96%) Python
3 14 (6.73%) R
4 10 (4.81%) C#
4 10 (4.81%) C++
5 9 (4.33%) Julia
5 9 (4.33%) MATLAB
6 8 (3.85%) Java
7 6 (2.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (2.40%) TypeScript
8 5 (2.40%) VBA
9 4 (1.92%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.96%) Bash
10 2 (0.96%) Bicep
10 2 (0.96%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.96%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.48%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.48%) Scala
11 1 (0.48%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 19 (9.13%) Degree
2 11 (5.29%) Master's Degree
2 11 (5.29%) MBA
3 10 (4.81%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.81%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.40%) AWS Certification
4 5 (2.40%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.44%) ACCA
5 3 (1.44%) CIMA
6 2 (0.96%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.96%) ICAEW
7 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.48%) CISSP
7 1 (0.48%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.48%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.48%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (12.98%) Data Quality
2 20 (9.62%) Accessibility
3 13 (6.25%) GDPR
4 10 (4.81%) QA
5 5 (2.40%) IFRS
6 4 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.96%) GAAP
7 2 (0.96%) NIST
7 2 (0.96%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.48%) Dublin Core
8 1 (0.48%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.48%) SLA
8 1 (0.48%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (3.37%) Docker
2 3 (1.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (3.37%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (0.96%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 24 (11.54%) Microsoft
2 21 (10.10%) Databricks
3 15 (7.21%) SAP
4 10 (4.81%) Google
5 6 (2.88%) Adobe
6 3 (1.44%) Okta
6 3 (1.44%) OneLogin
6 3 (1.44%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.44%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.96%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.96%) RedGate
8 1 (0.48%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.48%) Confluent
8 1 (0.48%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.48%) Informatica
8 1 (0.48%) Proofpoint
8 1 (0.48%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.48%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud