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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 136 158
Rank change year-on-year -37 +22 -31
Permanent jobs citing Data Analytics 292 321 488
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.34% 2.63% 2.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.64% 2.75% 2.24%
Number of salaries quoted 190 111 304
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £118,000 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,484 £60,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.39% +0.42% -11.11%

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 17,811 11,656 21,743
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.91% 95.64% 89.21%
Number of salaries quoted 12,181 7,073 15,932
10th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,420 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £122,500 £117,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 26 June 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 26 June 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 -61 37 £100,000 +33.33% 16
East London - 24 £87,500 - 5
West London -3 18 £50,000 -21.57% 6
South London +28 9 £30,000 -71.43% 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 20 (6.85%) SAS
2 15 (5.14%) Apache Spark
3 14 (4.79%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (3.08%) Apache
5 2 (0.68%) Confluence
5 2 (0.68%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.34%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 25 (8.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (5.14%) SPSS
3 9 (3.08%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.03%) Relativity
1 3 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.34%) Maximo
2 1 (0.34%) SAP IBP
2 1 (0.34%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 59 (20.21%) Power Platform
2 40 (13.70%) Azure
3 30 (10.27%) AWS
4 19 (6.51%) GCP
5 14 (4.79%) Snowflake
6 12 (4.11%) Dropbox
7 11 (3.77%) Amazon S3
7 11 (3.77%) GitHub
8 9 (3.08%) Azure Machine Learning
8 9 (3.08%) Microsoft Purview
8 9 (3.08%) OpenShift
9 8 (2.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 7 (2.40%) dbt
11 5 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.71%) GitHub Copilot
11 5 (1.71%) Power Automate
11 5 (1.71%) Serverless
12 4 (1.37%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (1.03%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.51%) CHAP
2 17 (5.82%) Broadband
3 5 (1.71%) Network Security
4 2 (0.68%) Internet
5 1 (0.34%) DSL
5 1 (0.34%) Skype
5 1 (0.34%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (19.52%) Power BI
2 41 (14.04%) Tableau
3 23 (7.88%) Big Data
4 22 (7.53%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (5.14%) EDRMS
6 10 (3.42%) BigQuery
6 10 (3.42%) Oracle Database
7 9 (3.08%) Apache Hive
7 9 (3.08%) Data Mining
7 9 (3.08%) Impala
7 9 (3.08%) MongoDB
7 9 (3.08%) Parquet
7 9 (3.08%) Spark SQL
8 8 (2.74%) Data Lake
9 7 (2.40%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (2.40%) Metadata
10 6 (2.05%) Delta Lake
10 6 (2.05%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.71%) Semantic Layer
11 5 (1.71%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (6.51%) Jenkins
2 16 (5.48%) TeamCity
3 10 (3.42%) Git
4 9 (3.08%) IBM UrbanCode
5 5 (1.71%) MLflow
6 4 (1.37%) JIRA
General
1 143 (48.97%) Finance
2 107 (36.64%) Social Skills
3 78 (26.71%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (15.41%) Banking
5 39 (13.36%) Marketing
6 30 (10.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (8.90%) Financial Institution
7 26 (8.90%) Retail
8 25 (8.56%) Legal
9 17 (5.82%) Law
10 15 (5.14%) Legal Technology
11 13 (4.45%) Investment Banking
12 11 (3.77%) Retail Banking
13 9 (3.08%) Aerospace
13 9 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (3.08%) Telecoms
14 7 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (2.05%) Public Sector
16 5 (1.71%) French Language
Job Titles
1 72 (24.66%) Analyst
2 70 (23.97%) Senior
3 43 (14.73%) Data Analyst
4 36 (12.33%) Auditor
5 32 (10.96%) Architect
6 22 (7.53%) Lead
7 19 (6.51%) Security Auditor
8 17 (5.82%) Senior Analyst
9 16 (5.48%) Business Analyst
9 16 (5.48%) Data Engineer
9 16 (5.48%) Data Manager
9 16 (5.48%) Internal Auditor
10 15 (5.14%) Solutions Architect
11 14 (4.79%) Data Architect
11 14 (4.79%) Senior Auditor
12 13 (4.45%) Developer
13 12 (4.11%) Forensic Manager
13 12 (4.11%) IT Auditor
14 11 (3.77%) Analytics Manager
14 11 (3.77%) Senior IT Auditor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.48%) Akka
2 13 (4.45%) CSS
2 13 (4.45%) HTML
2 13 (4.45%) PySpark
3 9 (3.08%) Pandas
4 8 (2.74%) .NET
5 7 (2.40%) .NET Core
5 7 (2.40%) ASP.NET
5 7 (2.40%) ASP.NET Core
6 5 (1.71%) AngularJS
6 5 (1.71%) SubSonic
6 5 (1.71%) Vue
7 4 (1.37%) Kafka
8 3 (1.03%) Middleware
9 2 (0.68%) Entity Framework
10 1 (0.34%) .NET Framework
10 1 (0.34%) AWS CDK
10 1 (0.34%) LangChain
10 1 (0.34%) Next.js
10 1 (0.34%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 33 (11.30%) Management Information System
2 18 (6.16%) Onboarding
3 17 (5.82%) Video\Live Streaming
4 16 (5.48%) Over-the-Top Content
5 15 (5.14%) Cybercrime
6 10 (3.42%) Blockchain
7 9 (3.08%) Data Structures
7 9 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (2.74%) Social Media
9 6 (2.05%) Cloud Native
10 5 (1.71%) Derivative
10 5 (1.71%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.71%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.37%) Cyber Defence
11 4 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.37%) Digital Media
11 4 (1.37%) Fixed Income
11 4 (1.37%) OTC Derivatives
11 4 (1.37%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.03%) AIX
1 3 (1.03%) Unix
1 3 (1.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (100.00%) Analytics
2 95 (32.53%) AI
3 81 (27.74%) Agile
4 80 (27.40%) Business Intelligence
5 58 (19.86%) Data Governance
6 51 (17.47%) Machine Learning
7 50 (17.12%) Data Modelling
8 49 (16.78%) Decision-Making
9 48 (16.44%) Data Analysis
9 48 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
10 46 (15.75%) Risk Management
11 44 (15.07%) Project Management
12 43 (14.73%) Internal Audit
13 41 (14.04%) Information Security
14 38 (13.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 36 (12.33%) Coaching
16 34 (11.64%) Validation
17 33 (11.30%) Risk Assessment
18 32 (10.96%) Computer Science
18 32 (10.96%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 94 (32.19%) SQL
2 65 (22.26%) Python
3 18 (6.16%) Scala
4 10 (3.42%) C#
5 8 (2.74%) JavaScript
6 7 (2.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 7 (2.40%) TypeScript
7 5 (1.71%) VBA
8 3 (1.03%) R
9 2 (0.68%) Java
10 1 (0.34%) Ada
10 1 (0.34%) C
10 1 (0.34%) C++
10 1 (0.34%) PHP
10 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.34%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 62 (21.23%) Degree
2 27 (9.25%) CISA
2 27 (9.25%) CISSP
3 25 (8.56%) CISM
4 19 (6.51%) CGEIT
4 19 (6.51%) FFIEC
4 19 (6.51%) SANS
5 13 (4.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.08%) Security Cleared
7 6 (2.05%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.71%) SC Cleared
9 4 (1.37%) APMG
9 4 (1.37%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.37%) CCIE
9 4 (1.37%) CCNP
9 4 (1.37%) CCSE
10 3 (1.03%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.68%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (12.67%) Data Quality
2 28 (9.59%) GDPR
3 21 (7.19%) COBIT
3 21 (7.19%) NIST
4 12 (4.11%) QA
5 7 (2.40%) PERC
6 4 (1.37%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (1.37%) MiFID
7 3 (1.03%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.03%) IFRS
7 3 (1.03%) IFRS 17
7 3 (1.03%) ITGC
8 2 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.34%) COSO
9 1 (0.34%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.34%) Solvency II
System Software
1 24 (8.22%) Docker
2 3 (1.03%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.03%) IAG
Systems Management
1 24 (8.22%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.11%) EnCase
2 12 (4.11%) FTK
3 10 (3.42%) Terraform
4 3 (1.03%) Ansible
5 2 (0.68%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 43 (14.73%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.14%) Databricks
2 15 (5.14%) Oracle
3 12 (4.11%) Cellebrite
4 11 (3.77%) Cisco
4 11 (3.77%) Salesforce
5 9 (3.08%) Red Hat
6 7 (2.40%) Google
7 6 (2.05%) Informatica
8 5 (1.71%) Alteryx
8 5 (1.71%) Talend
9 4 (1.37%) Arista
9 4 (1.37%) CheckPoint
9 4 (1.37%) F5
9 4 (1.37%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.37%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.37%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.37%) SAP
10 3 (1.03%) Citrix
10 3 (1.03%) Nuix