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 17 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 20 16
Rank change year-on-year +3 -4 +14
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 223 189 318
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 7.18% 10.99% 11.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.92% 11.45% 11.93%
Number of salaries quoted 137 121 188
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,250 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £90,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +33.33% -16.92%
75th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £131,150 £145,000 £130,000
Central London median annual salary £90,000 £90,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +28.57% -9.68%

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 2,500 1,650 2,666
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 80.52% 95.99% 93.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,813 1,308 1,830
10th Percentile £47,500 £39,835 £43,463
25th Percentile £60,000 £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 £101,250 £122,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £73,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% +2.74% -1.02%

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 17 September 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 8 (3.59%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.14%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.14%) Confluence
3 4 (1.79%) Apache
3 4 (1.79%) CMS
4 2 (0.90%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.45%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 10 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.24%) UserZoom
3 1 (0.45%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.45%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.45%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 12 (5.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.35%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 42 (18.83%) Azure
2 31 (13.90%) Power Platform
3 22 (9.87%) AWS
4 20 (8.97%) GCP
5 14 (6.28%) Snowflake
5 14 (6.28%) SuccessFactors
6 11 (4.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 11 (4.93%) SaaS
7 10 (4.48%) Azure Data Factory
7 10 (4.48%) dbt
8 7 (3.14%) Serverless
9 6 (2.69%) Adobe Analytics
10 5 (2.24%) Contentsquare
10 5 (2.24%) Google Analytics
11 4 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.79%) Azure Machine Learning
12 3 (1.35%) Entra ID
12 3 (1.35%) GitHub
12 3 (1.35%) PaaS
12 3 (1.35%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.04%) Broadband
2 4 (1.79%) Firewall
3 3 (1.35%) DHCP
3 3 (1.35%) DNS
3 3 (1.35%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.45%) Intranet
4 1 (0.45%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (13.00%) Power BI
2 18 (8.07%) Metadata
3 17 (7.62%) Data Lake
4 15 (6.73%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (4.93%) BigQuery
6 9 (4.04%) Geospatial Data
6 9 (4.04%) Relational Database
6 9 (4.04%) Tableau
7 7 (3.14%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (2.69%) Looker
8 6 (2.69%) SQL Server
9 4 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.79%) KDB
9 4 (1.79%) Milvus
9 4 (1.79%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.35%) Delta Lake
11 2 (0.90%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (0.90%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (3.59%) Git
2 7 (3.14%) JIRA
3 5 (2.24%) MLflow
4 1 (0.45%) Jenkins
General
1 63 (28.25%) Finance
2 47 (21.08%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (20.63%) Social Skills
4 36 (16.14%) Marketing
5 29 (13.00%) Law
6 13 (5.83%) Manufacturing
6 13 (5.83%) Publishing
7 11 (4.93%) Pharmaceutical
8 8 (3.59%) Advertising
9 7 (3.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (3.14%) Legal
10 6 (2.69%) Banking
10 6 (2.69%) Games
11 4 (1.79%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.35%) Digital Healthcare
12 3 (1.35%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.90%) Front Office
13 2 (0.90%) General Ledger
13 2 (0.90%) Retail
Job Titles
1 45 (20.18%) Analyst
2 42 (18.83%) Senior
3 27 (12.11%) Lead
4 26 (11.66%) Architect
5 20 (8.97%) Data Engineer
6 18 (8.07%) Data Analyst
7 14 (6.28%) Systems Analyst
8 13 (5.83%) Developer
9 12 (5.38%) Data Architect
9 12 (5.38%) Marketing Analyst
10 11 (4.93%) Marketing Analytics Analyst
10 11 (4.93%) Solutions Architect
11 10 (4.48%) Senior Manager
11 10 (4.48%) Software Engineer
12 9 (4.04%) HR Analyst
13 8 (3.59%) Campaign Manager
13 8 (3.59%) Excel Analyst
14 7 (3.14%) SAP Analyst
14 7 (3.14%) SAP HR Analyst
14 7 (3.14%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.83%) Terraform
2 11 (4.93%) HTML
3 6 (2.69%) PyTorch
3 6 (2.69%) TensorFlow
4 5 (2.24%) Kafka
4 5 (2.24%) LangChain
4 5 (2.24%) LlamaIndex
4 5 (2.24%) scikit-learn
5 4 (1.79%) pgvector
5 4 (1.79%) PySpark
6 3 (1.35%) ADO
6 3 (1.35%) AWS CDK
6 3 (1.35%) React
6 3 (1.35%) REST
7 1 (0.45%) Django
7 1 (0.45%) Flask
7 1 (0.45%) JSON
7 1 (0.45%) Pandas
7 1 (0.45%) SQLAlchemy
7 1 (0.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.76%) Product Ownership
2 13 (5.83%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.83%) Mobile App
2 13 (5.83%) Reinsurance
3 11 (4.93%) Biopharmaceutical
4 9 (4.04%) Onboarding
4 9 (4.04%) Social Media
5 8 (3.59%) Taxonomies
6 7 (3.14%) Data Structures
6 7 (3.14%) Hedge funds
6 7 (3.14%) Reference Data
7 6 (2.69%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.79%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.79%) Clustering
8 4 (1.79%) FMCG
8 4 (1.79%) Marketing Technology
9 3 (1.35%) Derivative
9 3 (1.35%) Equities
9 3 (1.35%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.35%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.35%) Windows
1 3 (1.35%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.45%) Android
2 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (39.01%) AI
2 49 (21.97%) Decision-Making
3 44 (19.73%) Agile
4 39 (17.49%) Roadmaps
5 36 (16.14%) Business Intelligence
5 36 (16.14%) Stakeholder Management
6 33 (14.80%) Data Engineering
7 30 (13.45%) Data Pipeline
7 30 (13.45%) Machine Learning
7 30 (13.45%) Storytelling
8 26 (11.66%) Data Analytics
9 25 (11.21%) CI/CD
10 24 (10.76%) Continuous Improvement
11 23 (10.31%) Data Modelling
12 22 (9.87%) Customer Experience
12 22 (9.87%) Data Governance
12 22 (9.87%) Data Management
13 21 (9.42%) Problem-Solving
14 20 (8.97%) Data Science
15 19 (8.52%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 69 (30.94%) SQL
2 58 (26.01%) Python
3 13 (5.83%) R
4 10 (4.48%) C++
5 9 (4.04%) Julia
5 9 (4.04%) MATLAB
6 8 (3.59%) C#
6 8 (3.59%) Java
7 6 (2.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (2.69%) VBA
8 3 (1.35%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.90%) Bicep
9 2 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.90%) Scala
9 2 (0.90%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.45%) Bash
10 1 (0.45%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.45%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.45%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 23 (10.31%) Degree
2 12 (5.38%) Master's Degree
3 11 (4.93%) MBA
4 9 (4.04%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.04%) Security Cleared
5 5 (2.24%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.24%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.35%) ACCA
6 3 (1.35%) CIMA
7 2 (0.90%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.90%) ICAEW
8 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.45%) CISSP
8 1 (0.45%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.45%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.45%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (12.56%) Data Quality
2 22 (9.87%) Accessibility
3 18 (8.07%) GDPR
4 11 (4.93%) QA
5 6 (2.69%) IFRS
6 4 (1.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.35%) Solvency II
8 2 (0.90%) GAAP
8 2 (0.90%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.90%) NIST
9 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.45%) Dublin Core
9 1 (0.45%) SLA
9 1 (0.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (2.24%) Docker
2 3 (1.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (2.69%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (0.90%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 29 (13.00%) Databricks
2 25 (11.21%) Microsoft
3 15 (6.73%) SAP
4 9 (4.04%) Adobe
5 8 (3.59%) Google
6 7 (3.14%) Dell
7 5 (2.24%) Informatica
8 4 (1.79%) Cloudera
9 3 (1.35%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.35%) Denodo
9 3 (1.35%) Okta
9 3 (1.35%) OneLogin
9 3 (1.35%) Refinitiv
9 3 (1.35%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.35%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.35%) Teradata
10 2 (0.90%) FactSet
11 1 (0.45%) Guidewire
11 1 (0.45%) Proofpoint
11 1 (0.45%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud