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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 142 149
Rank change year-on-year +26 +7 -7
Permanent jobs citing Data Analytics 332 371 396
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.33% 2.39% 2.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.66% 2.53% 2.34%
Number of salaries quoted 197 152 292
10th Percentile £35,000 £50,025 £51,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £56,826
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% -3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £88,750
90th Percentile £130,000 £110,000 £108,625
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 12,475 14,691 16,911
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 87.52% 94.64% 92.38%
Number of salaries quoted 7,963 8,064 13,533
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,875 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 January 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 January 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 -17 47 £95,000 +10.14% 29
East London +5 19 £87,500 - 9
South London +45 9 £40,000 -30.43% 3
West London +6 5 £30,000 -62.50% 12
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 15 (4.52%) SAS
2 14 (4.22%) Apache Spark
3 10 (3.01%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.20%) Apache
5 2 (0.60%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.30%) Confluence
6 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
Applications
1 49 (14.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.92%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (3.01%) SPSS
4 6 (1.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.30%) Notion
Business Applications
1 7 (2.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.90%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.60%) Relativity
5 1 (0.30%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 84 (25.30%) Power Platform
2 64 (19.28%) Azure
3 50 (15.06%) AWS
4 25 (7.53%) SaaS
5 22 (6.63%) GCP
6 17 (5.12%) Snowflake
7 13 (3.92%) dbt
8 12 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (3.01%) Amazon S3
9 10 (3.01%) Dropbox
9 10 (3.01%) Serverless
10 8 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (2.41%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (2.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 8 (2.41%) GitHub
11 6 (1.81%) Fivetran
12 4 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (1.20%) Azure Machine Learning
12 4 (1.20%) Matillion
12 4 (1.20%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.12%) Broadband
2 14 (4.22%) CHAP
3 2 (0.60%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (25.00%) Power BI
2 53 (15.96%) Tableau
3 45 (13.55%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (9.94%) Big Data
5 24 (7.23%) Data Mining
6 15 (4.52%) Metadata
6 15 (4.52%) NoSQL
7 14 (4.22%) Amazon Redshift
8 13 (3.92%) Hadoop
9 11 (3.31%) Data Lake
10 10 (3.01%) EDRMS
10 10 (3.01%) Qlik Sense
10 10 (3.01%) SQL Server
11 9 (2.71%) Power Query
12 7 (2.11%) Star Schema
13 6 (1.81%) Looker
14 5 (1.51%) Amazon Athena
15 4 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
15 4 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
15 4 (1.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (4.82%) Jenkins
1 16 (4.82%) TeamCity
2 5 (1.51%) Git
3 4 (1.20%) MLflow
4 3 (0.90%) JIRA
5 2 (0.60%) ER Studio
General
1 160 (48.19%) Finance
2 116 (34.94%) Social Skills
3 89 (26.81%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (14.46%) Law
5 42 (12.65%) Banking
6 34 (10.24%) Marketing
7 32 (9.64%) Financial Institution
8 31 (9.34%) Legal
9 26 (7.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 25 (7.53%) Games
11 22 (6.63%) Front Office
12 17 (5.12%) Presentation Skills
13 10 (3.01%) Retail
14 7 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (1.81%) Public Sector
16 4 (1.20%) International Banking
16 4 (1.20%) Manufacturing
17 3 (0.90%) Local Government
17 3 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 71 (21.39%) Senior
2 65 (19.58%) Analyst
3 48 (14.46%) Data Analyst
4 32 (9.64%) Data Engineer
5 28 (8.43%) Auditor
6 27 (8.13%) Senior Manager
7 26 (7.83%) Lead
8 25 (7.53%) Audit Manager
8 25 (7.53%) Internal Auditor
9 23 (6.93%) Architect
10 22 (6.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 22 (6.63%) Developer
11 18 (5.42%) Trainee
11 18 (5.42%) Trainee Analyst
11 18 (5.42%) Trainee Data Analyst
12 17 (5.12%) Senior Analyst
13 15 (4.52%) Data Analytics Analyst
14 14 (4.22%) IT Manager
14 14 (4.22%) Senior Audit Manager
14 14 (4.22%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.82%) Akka
2 12 (3.61%) Kafka
3 9 (2.71%) PySpark
4 5 (1.51%) PyXLL
5 4 (1.20%) React
6 3 (0.90%) Middleware
7 2 (0.60%) CSS
7 2 (0.60%) HTML
7 2 (0.60%) XML
8 1 (0.30%) JSON
8 1 (0.30%) LangChain
8 1 (0.30%) LangGraph
8 1 (0.30%) NumPy
8 1 (0.30%) Pandas
8 1 (0.30%) scikit-learn
8 1 (0.30%) Semantic Kernel
8 1 (0.30%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 36 (10.84%) Algorithms
2 34 (10.24%) Management Information System
3 19 (5.72%) Onboarding
3 19 (5.72%) Product Ownership
3 19 (5.72%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (4.82%) Over-the-Top Content
4 16 (4.82%) Video\Live Streaming
5 10 (3.01%) Cybercrime
6 9 (2.71%) Equities
7 8 (2.41%) Blockchain
7 8 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (2.41%) Fixed Income
7 8 (2.41%) FMCG
8 6 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.20%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.20%) Credit Risk
9 4 (1.20%) Market Risk
9 4 (1.20%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.20%) Reinsurance
10 3 (0.90%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.01%) Unix
2 9 (2.71%) Linux
3 8 (2.41%) Windows
4 1 (0.30%) AIX
4 1 (0.30%) Android
4 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 332 (100.00%) Analytics
2 110 (33.13%) Business Intelligence
3 101 (30.42%) AI
4 80 (24.10%) Decision-Making
5 75 (22.59%) Agile
6 70 (21.08%) Data Modelling
7 68 (20.48%) Problem-Solving
8 64 (19.28%) Data Governance
9 60 (18.07%) Project Management
10 57 (17.17%) Data Analysis
10 57 (17.17%) Risk Management
11 54 (16.27%) Visualisation
12 50 (15.06%) Cybersecurity
13 48 (14.46%) Data Engineering
13 48 (14.46%) ETL
14 44 (13.25%) Machine Learning
15 43 (12.95%) Business Strategy
15 43 (12.95%) DevOps
16 42 (12.65%) SDLC
17 39 (11.75%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 133 (40.06%) Python
2 109 (32.83%) SQL
3 23 (6.93%) Scala
4 12 (3.61%) Java
5 11 (3.31%) R
6 10 (3.01%) JavaScript
7 8 (2.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 7 (2.11%) C#
9 6 (1.81%) C++
10 3 (0.90%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.90%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.60%) C
11 2 (0.60%) Fortran
11 2 (0.60%) Perl
11 2 (0.60%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.30%) Go
12 1 (0.30%) PHP
12 1 (0.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 92 (27.71%) Degree
2 43 (12.95%) CISA
3 39 (11.75%) CISSP
4 37 (11.14%) Master's Degree
5 30 (9.04%) CISM
6 27 (8.13%) PhD
7 19 (5.72%) ACCA
8 15 (4.52%) FFIEC
9 14 (4.22%) CGEIT
9 14 (4.22%) CRISC
9 14 (4.22%) SANS
10 8 (2.41%) AWS Certification
10 8 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (2.41%) Security Cleared
11 7 (2.11%) CIMA
12 6 (1.81%) SC Cleared
13 3 (0.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.60%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (15.36%) Data Quality
2 26 (7.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (6.93%) NIST
4 22 (6.63%) COBIT
4 22 (6.63%) GDPR
5 12 (3.61%) IFRS
6 9 (2.71%) QA
7 7 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (2.11%) GRC
7 7 (2.11%) ITGC
7 7 (2.11%) MiFID
7 7 (2.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (1.81%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.90%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.60%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.30%) EMIR
11 1 (0.30%) GAAP
System Software
1 20 (6.02%) Docker
2 1 (0.30%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (5.72%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.71%) Terraform
3 8 (2.41%) EnCase
3 8 (2.41%) FTK
4 5 (1.51%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 57 (17.17%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.53%) Databricks
3 12 (3.61%) SAP
4 11 (3.31%) Oracle
5 9 (2.71%) Google
5 9 (2.71%) Salesforce
6 8 (2.41%) Cellebrite
7 7 (2.11%) Progress
8 5 (1.51%) GoldenSource
8 5 (1.51%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.20%) Alteryx
9 4 (1.20%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (1.20%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.20%) Informatica
9 4 (1.20%) Palo Alto
10 3 (0.90%) Cisco
11 2 (0.60%) Adobe
11 2 (0.60%) EMC
11 2 (0.60%) HP
11 2 (0.60%) IBM