Data Analytics Job Trends in London

Data Analytics
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Data Analytics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 146 150
Rank change year-on-year -3 +4 -2
Permanent jobs citing Data Analytics 311 330 502
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.60% 2.55% 2.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 2.66% 2.37%
Number of salaries quoted 204 129 334
10th Percentile £35,000 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,188 £61,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £72,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +18.06% +0.70%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,743 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.45% +1.24% -7.88%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

Data 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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 16,162 12,417 21,205
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 83.30% 96.06% 91.54%
Number of salaries quoted 10,596 7,558 16,043
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year - +6.27% -5.90%
75th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%

Data Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Data Analytics job vacancy trend in London

Data Analytics
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Analytics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Analytics

Data Analytics
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Analytics in London over the 6 months to 20 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Analytics in London

Data Analytics
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Analytics within the London region over the 6 months to 20 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -64 44 £93,750 +7.14% 38
East London +13 34 £87,500 - 10
West London -13 12 £30,000 -52.00% 15
South London +23 11 £40,000 -31.91% 2
Data Analytics
England

Data Analytics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 18 (5.79%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (5.14%) SAS
3 15 (4.82%) Apache Spark
4 11 (3.54%) Apache
5 2 (0.64%) Confluence
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 39 (12.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.89%) MS Visio
2 9 (2.89%) SPSS
3 6 (1.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.32%) Notion
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.32%) Maximo
1 1 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.32%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 50 (16.08%) Power Platform
2 38 (12.22%) Azure
3 34 (10.93%) AWS
4 23 (7.40%) GCP
5 14 (4.50%) Amazon S3
6 13 (4.18%) SaaS
6 13 (4.18%) Snowflake
7 9 (2.89%) dbt
7 9 (2.89%) Dropbox
7 9 (2.89%) OpenShift
8 8 (2.57%) Azure Machine Learning
9 6 (1.93%) GitHub
9 6 (1.93%) Microsoft Purview
9 6 (1.93%) Serverless
10 5 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (1.61%) Google Analytics
11 4 (1.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (1.29%) Power Automate
12 3 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (0.96%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 27 (8.68%) CHAP
2 18 (5.79%) Broadband
3 4 (1.29%) Network Security
4 2 (0.64%) Internet
5 1 (0.32%) Skype
5 1 (0.32%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (17.04%) Tableau
2 50 (16.08%) Power BI
3 27 (8.68%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (7.40%) Big Data
4 23 (7.40%) Data Mining
5 13 (4.18%) BigQuery
6 11 (3.54%) Apache Hive
6 11 (3.54%) Impala
7 10 (3.22%) Data Lake
7 10 (3.22%) Metadata
8 9 (2.89%) EDRMS
8 9 (2.89%) Oracle Database
8 9 (2.89%) Parquet
8 9 (2.89%) Spark SQL
9 7 (2.25%) NoSQL
10 5 (1.61%) Delta Lake
11 4 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (1.29%) Looker
11 4 (1.29%) Star Schema
12 3 (0.96%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 17 (5.47%) Jenkins
1 17 (5.47%) TeamCity
2 10 (3.22%) Git
3 9 (2.89%) IBM UrbanCode
4 5 (1.61%) MLflow
5 4 (1.29%) JIRA
General
1 158 (50.80%) Finance
2 123 (39.55%) Social Skills
3 101 (32.48%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (20.26%) Banking
5 45 (14.47%) Marketing
6 34 (10.93%) Financial Institution
7 33 (10.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 31 (9.97%) Retail
9 21 (6.75%) Legal
10 19 (6.11%) Law
11 13 (4.18%) Investment Banking
12 11 (3.54%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (3.54%) Retail Banking
13 8 (2.57%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (2.57%) Telecoms
14 7 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (1.93%) Public Sector
16 5 (1.61%) Games
16 5 (1.61%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 77 (24.76%) Analyst
2 75 (24.12%) Senior
3 45 (14.47%) Data Analyst
4 44 (14.15%) Auditor
5 26 (8.36%) Data Engineer
5 26 (8.36%) Security Auditor
6 24 (7.72%) Internal Auditor
7 23 (7.40%) Architect
7 23 (7.40%) Lead
8 22 (7.07%) Trainee
8 22 (7.07%) Trainee Analyst
8 22 (7.07%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 19 (6.11%) Business Analyst
10 15 (4.82%) Senior Analyst
10 15 (4.82%) Senior Auditor
11 14 (4.50%) Senior Manager
12 13 (4.18%) Audit Manager
13 12 (3.86%) Consultant
13 12 (3.86%) IT Auditor
13 12 (3.86%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.79%) PySpark
2 17 (5.47%) Akka
3 10 (3.22%) CSS
3 10 (3.22%) HTML
4 9 (2.89%) Pandas
5 3 (0.96%) Kafka
5 3 (0.96%) Middleware
5 3 (0.96%) React
6 1 (0.32%) JSON
6 1 (0.32%) LangChain
6 1 (0.32%) Next.js
6 1 (0.32%) Streamlit
6 1 (0.32%) XML
6 1 (0.32%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 39 (12.54%) Management Information System
2 25 (8.04%) Onboarding
3 18 (5.79%) Video\Live Streaming
4 17 (5.47%) Over-the-Top Content
5 15 (4.82%) Blockchain
6 12 (3.86%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (3.54%) Product Ownership
8 9 (2.89%) Cybercrime
9 8 (2.57%) Fixed Income
10 7 (2.25%) Public Cloud
10 7 (2.25%) Social Media
11 6 (1.93%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.93%) Derivative
12 5 (1.61%) Algorithms
12 5 (1.61%) Cloud Native
12 5 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.61%) OTC Derivatives
12 5 (1.61%) Virtual Team
13 4 (1.29%) Cyber Defence
13 4 (1.29%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.61%) Unix
2 3 (0.96%) AIX
2 3 (0.96%) Windows
3 2 (0.64%) Linux
4 1 (0.32%) Android
4 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 311 (100.00%) Analytics
2 95 (30.55%) Agile
3 87 (27.97%) AI
4 75 (24.12%) Business Intelligence
5 71 (22.83%) Project Management
6 69 (22.19%) Data Analysis
6 69 (22.19%) Data Governance
7 63 (20.26%) Decision-Making
8 59 (18.97%) Problem-Solving
9 58 (18.65%) Data Modelling
10 57 (18.33%) Risk Management
11 55 (17.68%) Coaching
12 52 (16.72%) Internal Audit
13 42 (13.50%) Risk Assessment
14 41 (13.18%) ETL
14 41 (13.18%) Information Security
14 41 (13.18%) Machine Learning
14 41 (13.18%) Validation
15 40 (12.86%) Data Engineering
16 38 (12.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 92 (29.58%) Python
2 91 (29.26%) SQL
3 22 (7.07%) Scala
4 11 (3.54%) JavaScript
5 6 (1.93%) R
6 5 (1.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 5 (1.61%) Java
7 3 (0.96%) C#
8 2 (0.64%) C
8 2 (0.64%) Perl
8 2 (0.64%) PHP
9 1 (0.32%) C++
9 1 (0.32%) Go
9 1 (0.32%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.32%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.32%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.32%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 67 (21.54%) Degree
2 35 (11.25%) CISSP
3 34 (10.93%) CISA
3 34 (10.93%) CISM
4 27 (8.68%) CGEIT
4 27 (8.68%) FFIEC
4 27 (8.68%) SANS
5 17 (5.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (3.86%) Master's Degree
7 10 (3.22%) Security Cleared
8 8 (2.57%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (2.25%) ACCA
10 6 (1.93%) SC Cleared
11 5 (1.61%) AWS Certification
12 4 (1.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (1.29%) APMG
12 4 (1.29%) CCIE
12 4 (1.29%) CCNP
12 4 (1.29%) CCSE
12 4 (1.29%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (13.50%) Data Quality
2 38 (12.22%) GDPR
3 29 (9.32%) NIST
4 28 (9.00%) COBIT
5 9 (2.89%) MiFID
6 8 (2.57%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (2.25%) PERC
8 5 (1.61%) IFRS
9 4 (1.29%) IFRS 17
10 3 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.96%) ITGC
10 3 (0.96%) QA
11 2 (0.64%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.32%) EMIR
12 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.32%) Solvency II
System Software
1 20 (6.43%) Docker
2 1 (0.32%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (6.43%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.22%) Terraform
3 9 (2.89%) EnCase
3 9 (2.89%) FTK
4 3 (0.96%) Ansible
5 2 (0.64%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 54 (17.36%) Microsoft
2 16 (5.14%) Databricks
3 14 (4.50%) Oracle
4 11 (3.54%) Cisco
5 10 (3.22%) Google
6 9 (2.89%) Cellebrite
6 9 (2.89%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.57%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.93%) Alteryx
9 5 (1.61%) GoldenSource
9 5 (1.61%) Informatica
10 4 (1.29%) Arista
10 4 (1.29%) CheckPoint
10 4 (1.29%) F5
10 4 (1.29%) Fortinet
10 4 (1.29%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.29%) Palo Alto
11 3 (0.96%) Citrix
11 3 (0.96%) SAP
11 3 (0.96%) Talend