Data Collection Job Trends in the City of London

Data Collection
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Data Collection skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 158 161
Rank change year-on-year +36 +3 +78
Permanent jobs citing Data Collection 11 11 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.53% 0.41% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.42% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 8 10 8
10th Percentile - £27,500 £40,625
25th Percentile £32,010 £33,875 £47,666
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,005 £55,000 £81,438
Median % change year-on-year +56.37% -32.46% +1.80%
75th Percentile £172,500 £81,250 £116,250
90th Percentile - £89,250 £120,000
Central London median annual salary £32,010 £55,000 £81,438
% change year-on-year -41.80% -32.46% +1.80%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Data Collection 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 1,833 2,593 2,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 87.54% 95.47% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,357 1,694 2,415
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £40,350
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% - -

Data Collection
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Collection relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Data Collection job vacancy trend in the City of London

Data Collection
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Collection.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Collection

Data Collection
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Collection in the City of London over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Collection in the City of London

Data Collection
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 1 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (9.09%) Apache Spark
1 1 (9.09%) Luigi
Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) AWS
1 4 (36.36%) GCP
1 4 (36.36%) Power Platform
2 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Power BI
2 1 (9.09%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (9.09%) Hadoop
2 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
General
1 7 (63.64%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (36.36%) Legal
2 4 (36.36%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Analyst
1 4 (36.36%) Data Analyst
1 4 (36.36%) Data Insight Analyst
1 4 (36.36%) Insight Analyst
1 4 (36.36%) Insight Data Analyst
1 4 (36.36%) Junior
1 4 (36.36%) Junior Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Senior
2 3 (27.27%) Senior Software Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Senior Voice Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Software Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Voice Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) RESTful
2 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (9.09%) Kafka
2 1 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (27.27%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (9.09%) Algorithms
2 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Data Protection
2 4 (36.36%) Actionable Insight
2 4 (36.36%) Agile
2 4 (36.36%) AI
2 4 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (36.36%) Data Cleansing
2 4 (36.36%) Decision-Making
2 4 (36.36%) Service Delivery
2 4 (36.36%) Visualisation
3 3 (27.27%) Coaching
3 3 (27.27%) Creative Thinking
3 3 (27.27%) Cyber Assurance
3 3 (27.27%) Information Security
3 3 (27.27%) Low Latency
3 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
3 3 (27.27%) Microservices
3 3 (27.27%) Risk Management
3 3 (27.27%) Roadmaps
3 3 (27.27%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Go
2 1 (9.09%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) Scala
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Degree
2 3 (27.27%) CISM
2 3 (27.27%) CISSP
2 3 (27.27%) CRISC
3 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) QA
2 3 (27.27%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (27.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 3 (27.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (27.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Ansible
1 1 (9.09%) Progress Chef
1 1 (9.09%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft