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 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 147 134
Rank change year-on-year +12 -13 +12
Permanent jobs citing Data Analytics 323 360 483
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.09% 2.41% 2.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.42% 2.53% 2.47%
Number of salaries quoted 197 143 360
10th Percentile £35,000 £52,500 £43,625
25th Percentile £55,000 £69,375 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £114,250 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,743 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.22% +1.24% -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 13,354 14,240 19,561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 86.36% 95.45% 91.84%
Number of salaries quoted 8,612 7,762 15,773
10th Percentile £37,500 £43,250 £39,085
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,001 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -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 16 February 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 16 February 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 -31 44 £85,000 -2.86% 25
East London +11 23 £87,500 - 5
South London +41 9 £40,000 -30.43% 3
West London +2 6 £30,000 -52.00% 9
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 (5.57%) SAS
2 12 (3.72%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (3.10%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.24%) Apache
5 3 (0.93%) Confluence
5 3 (0.93%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.31%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 53 (16.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (3.41%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (3.10%) SPSS
4 8 (2.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.31%) Notion
Business Applications
1 5 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.93%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.62%) Relativity
4 1 (0.31%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 77 (23.84%) Power Platform
2 59 (18.27%) Azure
3 47 (14.55%) AWS
4 23 (7.12%) GCP
4 23 (7.12%) SaaS
5 16 (4.95%) Snowflake
6 12 (3.72%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (3.72%) dbt
7 10 (3.10%) Dropbox
7 10 (3.10%) GitHub
8 9 (2.79%) Amazon S3
9 8 (2.48%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (2.48%) Serverless
10 7 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (1.86%) Fivetran
12 5 (1.55%) Azure Machine Learning
13 4 (1.24%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (1.24%) Collibra
13 4 (1.24%) Matillion
13 4 (1.24%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.19%) CHAP
2 18 (5.57%) Broadband
3 2 (0.62%) Internet
4 1 (0.31%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (23.53%) Power BI
2 48 (14.86%) Tableau
3 38 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
4 26 (8.05%) Big Data
5 25 (7.74%) Data Mining
6 12 (3.72%) NoSQL
7 11 (3.41%) Data Lake
8 10 (3.10%) EDRMS
8 10 (3.10%) Metadata
8 10 (3.10%) Qlik Sense
9 9 (2.79%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (2.79%) Hadoop
9 9 (2.79%) SQL Server
10 7 (2.17%) Looker
10 7 (2.17%) Power Query
10 7 (2.17%) Star Schema
11 5 (1.55%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (1.55%) BigQuery
11 5 (1.55%) Relational Database
12 4 (1.24%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 17 (5.26%) Jenkins
1 17 (5.26%) TeamCity
2 6 (1.86%) Git
3 5 (1.55%) MLflow
4 4 (1.24%) JIRA
5 1 (0.31%) ER Studio
General
1 161 (49.85%) Finance
2 123 (38.08%) Social Skills
3 92 (28.48%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (14.24%) Banking
5 36 (11.15%) Law
6 31 (9.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 31 (9.60%) Legal
7 29 (8.98%) Financial Institution
8 28 (8.67%) Marketing
9 19 (5.88%) Games
10 18 (5.57%) Presentation Skills
11 17 (5.26%) Retail
12 14 (4.33%) Front Office
13 7 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.55%) Public Sector
14 5 (1.55%) Retail Banking
15 4 (1.24%) Investment Banking
15 4 (1.24%) Manufacturing
16 3 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 80 (24.77%) Senior
2 74 (22.91%) Analyst
3 52 (16.10%) Data Analyst
4 34 (10.53%) Auditor
5 33 (10.22%) Data Engineer
6 29 (8.98%) Senior Manager
7 24 (7.43%) Internal Auditor
8 23 (7.12%) Audit Manager
9 22 (6.81%) Architect
9 22 (6.81%) Senior Analyst
10 21 (6.50%) Lead
10 21 (6.50%) Trainee
10 21 (6.50%) Trainee Analyst
10 21 (6.50%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 19 (5.88%) Security Auditor
12 17 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 15 (4.64%) Developer
13 15 (4.64%) Senior Audit Manager
13 15 (4.64%) Software Engineer
14 12 (3.72%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.26%) Akka
2 9 (2.79%) PySpark
3 5 (1.55%) React
4 4 (1.24%) Kafka
5 3 (0.93%) Middleware
6 2 (0.62%) CSS
6 2 (0.62%) HTML
6 2 (0.62%) LangChain
6 2 (0.62%) Streamlit
6 2 (0.62%) XML
7 1 (0.31%) JSON
7 1 (0.31%) LangGraph
7 1 (0.31%) LlamaIndex
7 1 (0.31%) Next.js
7 1 (0.31%) NumPy
7 1 (0.31%) Pandas
7 1 (0.31%) PyXLL
7 1 (0.31%) scikit-learn
7 1 (0.31%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 35 (10.84%) Management Information System
2 26 (8.05%) Algorithms
3 22 (6.81%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (5.57%) Video\Live Streaming
5 17 (5.26%) Over-the-Top Content
5 17 (5.26%) Product Ownership
6 15 (4.64%) Onboarding
7 12 (3.72%) Blockchain
8 11 (3.41%) Fixed Income
9 10 (3.10%) Cybercrime
10 6 (1.86%) Derivative
10 6 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.55%) Equities
11 5 (1.55%) OTC Derivatives
11 5 (1.55%) Reinsurance
12 4 (1.24%) Cloud Native
12 4 (1.24%) FMCG
12 4 (1.24%) Public Cloud
13 3 (0.93%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.48%) Unix
2 6 (1.86%) Linux
2 6 (1.86%) Windows
3 2 (0.62%) AIX
4 1 (0.31%) Android
4 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (100.00%) Analytics
2 102 (31.58%) Business Intelligence
3 98 (30.34%) AI
4 80 (24.77%) Decision-Making
5 78 (24.15%) Agile
6 69 (21.36%) Project Management
7 63 (19.50%) Data Modelling
7 63 (19.50%) Problem-Solving
7 63 (19.50%) Risk Management
8 60 (18.58%) Data Governance
9 56 (17.34%) Data Analysis
10 48 (14.86%) Coaching
10 48 (14.86%) Visualisation
11 44 (13.62%) Cybersecurity
11 44 (13.62%) Information Security
11 44 (13.62%) Machine Learning
12 41 (12.69%) ETL
13 40 (12.38%) Data Engineering
13 40 (12.38%) Internal Audit
14 38 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 123 (38.08%) Python
2 106 (32.82%) SQL
3 23 (7.12%) Scala
4 11 (3.41%) JavaScript
5 9 (2.79%) R
6 8 (2.48%) Java
7 6 (1.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (0.93%) C#
9 2 (0.62%) C
9 2 (0.62%) C++
9 2 (0.62%) Perl
9 2 (0.62%) PHP
9 2 (0.62%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.62%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.31%) Go
10 1 (0.31%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.31%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 84 (26.01%) Degree
2 39 (12.07%) CISA
3 37 (11.46%) CISSP
4 32 (9.91%) CISM
5 28 (8.67%) Master's Degree
6 20 (6.19%) CGEIT
6 20 (6.19%) FFIEC
6 20 (6.19%) SANS
7 18 (5.57%) PhD
8 16 (4.95%) ACCA
9 12 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (3.10%) CRISC
11 9 (2.79%) AWS Certification
12 8 (2.48%) Security Cleared
13 6 (1.86%) SC Cleared
14 4 (1.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (1.24%) CIMA
15 3 (0.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 3 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
16 2 (0.62%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (13.93%) Data Quality
2 27 (8.36%) GDPR
3 24 (7.43%) NIST
4 23 (7.12%) COBIT
5 18 (5.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (4.02%) IFRS
7 10 (3.10%) MiFID
8 9 (2.79%) Actionable Recommendations
9 7 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (1.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (1.55%) QA
12 4 (1.24%) IFRS 17
12 4 (1.24%) ITGC
13 3 (0.93%) GRC
14 2 (0.62%) Accessibility
15 1 (0.31%) EMIR
15 1 (0.31%) GAAP
System Software
1 21 (6.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.31%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (6.19%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.10%) Terraform
3 8 (2.48%) EnCase
3 8 (2.48%) FTK
4 3 (0.93%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 64 (19.81%) Microsoft
2 23 (7.12%) Databricks
3 13 (4.02%) Salesforce
4 9 (2.79%) Google
4 9 (2.79%) Oracle
5 8 (2.48%) Cellebrite
6 7 (2.17%) SAP
7 6 (1.86%) Cisco
7 6 (1.86%) Informatica
8 5 (1.55%) Alteryx
8 5 (1.55%) GoldenSource
9 4 (1.24%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (1.24%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.24%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.24%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.93%) Progress
10 3 (0.93%) Talend
11 2 (0.62%) IBM
11 2 (0.62%) iManage
11 2 (0.62%) Nuix