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 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 15 31
Rank change year-on-year -5 +16 -3
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 192 322 194
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 9.20% 11.86% 6.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.50% 12.43% 7.09%
Number of salaries quoted 137 182 163
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,750 £49,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -9.09% +17.86%
75th Percentile £111,250 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £129,750 £121,250
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £77,250 £82,500
% change year-on-year +10.03% -6.36% +17.86%

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 1,829 2,591 2,735
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 87.68% 95.43% 95.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,359 1,698 2,463
10th Percentile £42,450 £46,250 £40,300
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 £115,000 £117,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -

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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 27 December 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 11 (5.73%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.65%) 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 12 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.52%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.04%) Actimize
2 2 (1.04%) Adaptiv
2 2 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 62 (32.29%) Azure
2 50 (26.04%) Power Platform
3 35 (18.23%) AWS
4 22 (11.46%) GCP
5 18 (9.38%) Snowflake
6 11 (5.73%) Azure Data Factory
6 11 (5.73%) dbt
6 11 (5.73%) Serverless
7 10 (5.21%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (5.21%) GitHub
8 7 (3.65%) Amazon S3
8 7 (3.65%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (3.65%) Microsoft Purview
9 6 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (3.13%) SaaS
10 4 (2.08%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (2.08%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (2.08%) Google Analytics
11 3 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.56%) Network Security
2 2 (1.04%) Firewall
2 2 (1.04%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.52%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (25.00%) Power BI
2 36 (18.75%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (8.33%) Data Lake
4 9 (4.69%) Metadata
4 9 (4.69%) SQL Server
4 9 (4.69%) Tableau
5 8 (4.17%) Power Query
5 8 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (2.60%) BigQuery
6 5 (2.60%) Data Mining
6 5 (2.60%) Delta Lake
6 5 (2.60%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (2.08%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (2.08%) Big Data
7 4 (2.08%) DynamoDB
7 4 (2.08%) Hadoop
7 4 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (3.65%) ERwin
1 7 (3.65%) Git
2 5 (2.60%) ER Studio
3 3 (1.56%) JIRA
4 2 (1.04%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.04%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.52%) Deequ
5 1 (0.52%) GitLab
General
1 78 (40.63%) Finance
2 56 (29.17%) Social Skills
3 34 (17.71%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (9.90%) Banking
5 17 (8.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (8.85%) Law
6 15 (7.81%) Front Office
7 14 (7.29%) Financial Institution
8 12 (6.25%) Legal
9 11 (5.73%) Marketing
9 11 (5.73%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (4.69%) Retail
11 6 (3.13%) Advertising
12 5 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (2.60%) International Banking
12 5 (2.60%) Investment Banking
13 4 (2.08%) Manufacturing
14 3 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (1.56%) Public Sector
15 2 (1.04%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 38 (19.79%) Lead
2 27 (14.06%) Data Engineer
3 24 (12.50%) Architect
4 23 (11.98%) Developer
5 22 (11.46%) Analyst
6 20 (10.42%) Senior
7 15 (7.81%) Data Architect
8 11 (5.73%) Data Analyst
9 10 (5.21%) Lead Architect
10 8 (4.17%) Data Scientist
10 8 (4.17%) Senior Data Engineer
11 7 (3.65%) Lead Data Architect
11 7 (3.65%) User Researcher
12 6 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
13 5 (2.60%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 4 (2.08%) AWS Architect
14 4 (2.08%) AWS Engineer
14 4 (2.08%) DevOps Engineer
14 4 (2.08%) Product Owner
14 4 (2.08%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.29%) Kafka
2 10 (5.21%) PySpark
3 6 (3.13%) PyTorch
4 5 (2.60%) .NET
5 4 (2.08%) Java Concurrency
5 4 (2.08%) Node.js
5 4 (2.08%) Pandas
5 4 (2.08%) TensorFlow
6 3 (1.56%) Hugging Face
6 3 (1.56%) LangChain
6 3 (1.56%) NumPy
6 3 (1.56%) OAuth
6 3 (1.56%) React
6 3 (1.56%) scikit-learn
7 2 (1.04%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.04%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.04%) CSS
7 2 (1.04%) FastAPI
7 2 (1.04%) JWT
7 2 (1.04%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.33%) Algorithms
2 12 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.21%) Equities
4 9 (4.69%) Management Information System
4 9 (4.69%) Reinsurance
5 8 (4.17%) Cloud Native
6 7 (3.65%) Derivative
6 7 (3.65%) Product Ownership
7 6 (3.13%) Credit Risk
7 6 (3.13%) Data Structures
7 6 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (2.08%) Market Risk
9 4 (2.08%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.56%) Tandem
11 2 (1.04%) ASIC
11 2 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.04%) Fixed Income
11 2 (1.04%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.56%) Windows
2 2 (1.04%) Linux
2 2 (1.04%) Unix
3 1 (0.52%) Android
3 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (33.33%) AI
2 57 (29.69%) Business Intelligence
3 54 (28.13%) Data Modelling
4 51 (26.56%) Data Governance
5 49 (25.52%) Decision-Making
5 49 (25.52%) Problem-Solving
6 45 (23.44%) Data Analytics
7 44 (22.92%) Agile
8 42 (21.88%) ETL
9 40 (20.83%) Data Pipeline
9 40 (20.83%) Data Science
10 35 (18.23%) CI/CD
10 35 (18.23%) Data Engineering
11 33 (17.19%) Machine Learning
11 33 (17.19%) Mentoring
12 31 (16.15%) Actionable Insight
12 31 (16.15%) Stakeholder Management
13 30 (15.63%) Data Architecture
14 27 (14.06%) Data Management
14 27 (14.06%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 91 (47.40%) Python
2 77 (40.10%) SQL
3 17 (8.85%) Java
4 14 (7.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 10 (5.21%) C#
6 6 (3.13%) C++
7 4 (2.08%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.08%) Scala
8 3 (1.56%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.04%) Bicep
9 2 (1.04%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.04%) R
9 2 (1.04%) VBA
10 1 (0.52%) Bash
10 1 (0.52%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.52%) Ruby
10 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 32 (16.67%) Degree
2 16 (8.33%) Master's Degree
3 10 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (4.69%) PhD
4 9 (4.69%) Security Cleared
5 7 (3.65%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.60%) PMI Certification
6 5 (2.60%) PMP
7 4 (2.08%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.08%) CISA
7 4 (2.08%) CISM
7 4 (2.08%) CISSP
7 4 (2.08%) CRISC
7 4 (2.08%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (1.56%) CFA
8 3 (1.56%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.56%) SnowPro
9 2 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.04%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (16.15%) Data Quality
2 18 (9.38%) GDPR
3 8 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.56%) QA
6 2 (1.04%) EMIR
6 2 (1.04%) ITGC
6 2 (1.04%) MiFID
6 2 (1.04%) NIST
6 2 (1.04%) PMO
6 2 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.52%) COBIT
7 1 (0.52%) SLA
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 12 (6.25%) Terraform
2 8 (4.17%) Kubernetes
3 6 (3.13%) Grafana
4 4 (2.08%) Ansible
5 2 (1.04%) ArcSight ESM
5 2 (1.04%) Argo
5 2 (1.04%) Kibana
5 2 (1.04%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.04%) QRadar
Vendors
1 38 (19.79%) Microsoft
2 30 (15.63%) Databricks
3 10 (5.21%) Google
4 8 (4.17%) SAP
5 5 (2.60%) Informatica
5 5 (2.60%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.08%) OpenAI
6 4 (2.08%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.56%) Anaplan
7 3 (1.56%) Dell
7 3 (1.56%) Splunk
8 2 (1.04%) ArcSight
8 2 (1.04%) FIS
8 2 (1.04%) IBM
8 2 (1.04%) LogLogic
8 2 (1.04%) McAfee
8 2 (1.04%) Murex
8 2 (1.04%) Oracle
8 2 (1.04%) Workday
9 1 (0.52%) Adobe