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 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 129 135
Rank change year-on-year 0 +6 +15
Permanent jobs citing Data Analytics 340 358 504
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.99% 2.69% 2.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.34% 2.80% 2.51%
Number of salaries quoted 214 143 346
10th Percentile £35,000 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £65,000 £55,035
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £121,000 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,372 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.90% +0.62% -7.69%

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 14,558 12,785 20,058
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 85.23% 96.22% 91.67%
Number of salaries quoted 9,461 7,542 15,893
10th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £54,250 £56,250 £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 £113,750 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 18 March 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 18 March 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 -63 45 £85,000 -2.86% 41
East London +9 33 £87,500 - 8
South London +45 11 £40,000 -30.43% 3
West London -4 11 £30,000 -52.00% 6
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 21 (6.18%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (5.59%) SAS
3 14 (4.12%) Apache Spark
4 11 (3.24%) Apache
5 3 (0.88%) Confluence
5 3 (0.88%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.29%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 50 (14.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.94%) SPSS
3 9 (2.65%) MS Visio
4 8 (2.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.29%) Notion
Business Applications
1 5 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.88%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.59%) Relativity
Cloud Services
1 68 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 54 (15.88%) Azure
3 42 (12.35%) AWS
4 22 (6.47%) SaaS
5 20 (5.88%) GCP
6 14 (4.12%) Amazon S3
6 14 (4.12%) Snowflake
7 11 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (2.94%) dbt
8 10 (2.94%) Dropbox
9 9 (2.65%) OpenShift
10 8 (2.35%) GitHub
11 7 (2.06%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (1.76%) Azure Machine Learning
12 6 (1.76%) Fivetran
13 5 (1.47%) Microsoft Purview
13 5 (1.47%) Serverless
14 4 (1.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 4 (1.18%) Matillion
14 4 (1.18%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 25 (7.35%) CHAP
2 18 (5.29%) Broadband
3 2 (0.59%) Internet
3 2 (0.59%) Network Security
4 1 (0.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (19.71%) Power BI
2 54 (15.88%) Tableau
3 36 (10.59%) Data Warehouse
4 26 (7.65%) Data Mining
5 23 (6.76%) Big Data
6 11 (3.24%) Apache Hive
6 11 (3.24%) Data Lake
6 11 (3.24%) Impala
7 10 (2.94%) EDRMS
7 10 (2.94%) NoSQL
8 9 (2.65%) Oracle Database
8 9 (2.65%) Parquet
8 9 (2.65%) Spark SQL
8 9 (2.65%) SQL Server
9 8 (2.35%) Qlik Sense
9 8 (2.35%) Star Schema
10 7 (2.06%) BigQuery
10 7 (2.06%) Metadata
11 5 (1.47%) Power Query
11 5 (1.47%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (5.00%) Jenkins
1 17 (5.00%) TeamCity
2 15 (4.41%) Git
3 9 (2.65%) IBM UrbanCode
4 5 (1.47%) JIRA
4 5 (1.47%) MLflow
General
1 176 (51.76%) Finance
2 135 (39.71%) Social Skills
3 102 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (17.65%) Banking
5 33 (9.71%) Marketing
6 32 (9.41%) Financial Institution
7 31 (9.12%) Legal
8 30 (8.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 26 (7.65%) Law
10 25 (7.35%) Retail
11 16 (4.71%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (3.82%) Investment Banking
13 11 (3.24%) Games
13 11 (3.24%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (2.94%) Retail Banking
15 9 (2.65%) Front Office
16 7 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
17 6 (1.76%) Public Sector
18 5 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
18 5 (1.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 90 (26.47%) Senior
2 83 (24.41%) Analyst
3 53 (15.59%) Data Analyst
4 44 (12.94%) Auditor
5 28 (8.24%) Data Engineer
6 27 (7.94%) Senior Manager
7 26 (7.65%) Internal Auditor
8 24 (7.06%) Security Auditor
9 23 (6.76%) Trainee
9 23 (6.76%) Trainee Analyst
9 23 (6.76%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 22 (6.47%) Architect
10 22 (6.47%) Audit Manager
11 21 (6.18%) Business Analyst
11 21 (6.18%) Senior Analyst
12 17 (5.00%) Lead
13 14 (4.12%) IT Auditor
13 14 (4.12%) Senior Audit Manager
13 14 (4.12%) Senior Auditor
14 13 (3.82%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.29%) PySpark
2 17 (5.00%) Akka
3 9 (2.65%) Pandas
4 5 (1.47%) React
5 4 (1.18%) CSS
5 4 (1.18%) HTML
6 2 (0.59%) Kafka
6 2 (0.59%) Middleware
6 2 (0.59%) Streamlit
6 2 (0.59%) XML
7 1 (0.29%) JSON
7 1 (0.29%) LangChain
7 1 (0.29%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 39 (11.47%) Management Information System
2 21 (6.18%) Onboarding
3 20 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (5.29%) Video\Live Streaming
5 17 (5.00%) Over-the-Top Content
6 15 (4.41%) Algorithms
6 15 (4.41%) Product Ownership
7 14 (4.12%) Blockchain
8 10 (2.94%) Cybercrime
8 10 (2.94%) Fixed Income
9 6 (1.76%) Cloud Native
9 6 (1.76%) Derivative
9 6 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.76%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.47%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.47%) OTC Derivatives
11 4 (1.18%) Cyber Defence
11 4 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.18%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.06%) Unix
2 5 (1.47%) Linux
2 5 (1.47%) Windows
3 2 (0.59%) AIX
4 1 (0.29%) Android
4 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 340 (100.00%) Analytics
2 99 (29.12%) Agile
3 96 (28.24%) AI
4 92 (27.06%) Business Intelligence
5 77 (22.65%) Project Management
6 76 (22.35%) Decision-Making
7 71 (20.88%) Data Analysis
8 69 (20.29%) Data Governance
9 66 (19.41%) Risk Management
10 63 (18.53%) Data Modelling
11 56 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
12 55 (16.18%) Coaching
13 54 (15.88%) Internal Audit
14 47 (13.82%) Information Security
15 46 (13.53%) ETL
16 44 (12.94%) Cybersecurity
17 42 (12.35%) Scrum
18 41 (12.06%) Machine Learning
19 40 (11.76%) Business Analysis
19 40 (11.76%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 115 (33.82%) Python
2 108 (31.76%) SQL
3 21 (6.18%) Scala
4 10 (2.94%) JavaScript
5 9 (2.65%) R
6 6 (1.76%) Java
7 5 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (0.88%) C#
9 2 (0.59%) C
9 2 (0.59%) Perl
9 2 (0.59%) PHP
10 1 (0.29%) C++
10 1 (0.29%) Go
10 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.29%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.29%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.29%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 75 (22.06%) Degree
2 40 (11.76%) CISA
3 39 (11.47%) CISSP
4 35 (10.29%) CISM
5 25 (7.35%) CGEIT
5 25 (7.35%) FFIEC
5 25 (7.35%) SANS
6 17 (5.00%) Master's Degree
7 15 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (4.12%) ACCA
9 12 (3.53%) Security Cleared
10 9 (2.65%) PhD
11 6 (1.76%) AWS Certification
11 6 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (1.76%) SC Cleared
12 5 (1.47%) CRISC
13 4 (1.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (1.18%) Azure Certification
14 3 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.88%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (14.41%) Data Quality
2 30 (8.82%) GDPR
3 27 (7.94%) NIST
4 26 (7.65%) COBIT
5 12 (3.53%) IFRS
6 11 (3.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (2.94%) MiFID
8 9 (2.65%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (1.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (1.18%) IFRS 17
11 3 (0.88%) ITGC
11 3 (0.88%) QA
12 2 (0.59%) Accessibility
13 1 (0.29%) EMIR
13 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.29%) PERC
System Software
1 20 (5.88%) Docker
2 1 (0.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (5.59%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.94%) Terraform
3 8 (2.35%) EnCase
3 8 (2.35%) FTK
4 2 (0.59%) Ansible
Vendors
1 68 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.59%) Oracle
3 17 (5.00%) Databricks
4 14 (4.12%) Salesforce
5 9 (2.65%) Google
5 9 (2.65%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.35%) Cellebrite
6 8 (2.35%) Cisco
7 7 (2.06%) Informatica
8 6 (1.76%) Alteryx
8 6 (1.76%) Fortinet
8 6 (1.76%) GoldenSource
8 6 (1.76%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.18%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (1.18%) SAP
9 4 (1.18%) Talend
10 3 (0.88%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.59%) Arista
11 2 (0.59%) EMC
11 2 (0.59%) HP