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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 138 166
Rank change year-on-year -44 +28 -37
Permanent jobs citing Data Analytics 279 325 454
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.25% 2.61% 2.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 2.76% 2.25%
Number of salaries quoted 182 122 268
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £96,875 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £61,903
% change year-on-year -4.00% +0.97% -8.29%

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 18,337 11,781 20,187
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 82.28% 94.66% 89.58%
Number of salaries quoted 12,558 7,403 14,459
10th Percentile £40,500 £40,542 £38,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
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 £108,000 £122,500 £118,750
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 17 July 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 17 July 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 -51 36 £100,000 +33.33% 10
West London -2 17 £50,000 -23.08% 6
East London - 17 £101,250 - 7
South London +11 3 £30,000 -71.43% 5
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 24 (8.60%) SAS
2 15 (5.38%) Apache Spark
3 13 (4.66%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (3.23%) Apache
5 2 (0.72%) Confluence
5 2 (0.72%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.36%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 25 (8.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (6.81%) SPSS
3 9 (3.23%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (1.79%) Relativity
2 4 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.36%) Maximo
3 1 (0.36%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.36%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 56 (20.07%) Power Platform
2 38 (13.62%) Azure
3 30 (10.75%) AWS
4 18 (6.45%) GCP
5 14 (5.02%) Dropbox
5 14 (5.02%) Snowflake
6 13 (4.66%) GitHub
7 11 (3.94%) Amazon S3
8 9 (3.23%) Azure Machine Learning
8 9 (3.23%) Microsoft Purview
8 9 (3.23%) OpenShift
9 8 (2.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 7 (2.51%) GitHub Copilot
10 7 (2.51%) Serverless
11 6 (2.15%) dbt
12 5 (1.79%) Power Automate
13 4 (1.43%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (1.43%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.38%) CHAP
2 5 (1.79%) Network Security
3 4 (1.43%) Internet
4 2 (0.72%) Broadband
5 1 (0.36%) DSL
5 1 (0.36%) Skype
5 1 (0.36%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (19.35%) Power BI
2 41 (14.70%) Tableau
3 29 (10.39%) Big Data
4 19 (6.81%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (6.81%) EDRMS
5 11 (3.94%) MongoDB
6 10 (3.58%) BigQuery
6 10 (3.58%) Oracle Database
7 9 (3.23%) Apache Hive
7 9 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (3.23%) Impala
7 9 (3.23%) Parquet
7 9 (3.23%) Spark SQL
8 8 (2.87%) Data Lake
9 7 (2.51%) Data Mining
9 7 (2.51%) Metadata
10 6 (2.15%) Delta Lake
10 6 (2.15%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.79%) Semantic Layer
11 5 (1.79%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (3.23%) Git
1 9 (3.23%) IBM UrbanCode
2 5 (1.79%) MLflow
3 4 (1.43%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.43%) JIRA
4 1 (0.36%) TeamCity
General
1 140 (50.18%) Finance
2 99 (35.48%) Social Skills
3 75 (26.88%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (14.34%) Banking
4 40 (14.34%) Marketing
5 28 (10.04%) Legal
6 27 (9.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (9.32%) Retail
8 22 (7.89%) Financial Institution
9 19 (6.81%) Legal Technology
10 18 (6.45%) Law
11 13 (4.66%) Investment Banking
12 11 (3.94%) Aerospace
12 11 (3.94%) Retail Banking
13 9 (3.23%) Telecoms
14 7 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (2.51%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (2.51%) Public Sector
15 5 (1.79%) French Language
Job Titles
1 64 (22.94%) Analyst
2 57 (20.43%) Senior
3 37 (13.26%) Data Analyst
4 32 (11.47%) Architect
4 32 (11.47%) Auditor
5 29 (10.39%) Lead
6 17 (6.09%) Solutions Architect
7 15 (5.38%) Analytics Manager
7 15 (5.38%) Business Analyst
7 15 (5.38%) Security Auditor
8 14 (5.02%) Forensic Manager
8 14 (5.02%) Senior Auditor
9 13 (4.66%) Data Analytics Manager
9 13 (4.66%) Data Engineer
9 13 (4.66%) Data Manager
9 13 (4.66%) Senior Manager
10 12 (4.30%) Data Architect
10 12 (4.30%) Internal Auditor
10 12 (4.30%) IT Auditor
10 12 (4.30%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.66%) PySpark
2 12 (4.30%) CSS
2 12 (4.30%) HTML
3 10 (3.58%) .NET
4 9 (3.23%) .NET Core
4 9 (3.23%) ASP.NET
4 9 (3.23%) ASP.NET Core
4 9 (3.23%) Pandas
5 7 (2.51%) AngularJS
5 7 (2.51%) SubSonic
5 7 (2.51%) Vue
6 4 (1.43%) Kafka
7 3 (1.08%) Middleware
8 2 (0.72%) Entity Framework
9 1 (0.36%) .NET Framework
9 1 (0.36%) Akka
9 1 (0.36%) LangChain
9 1 (0.36%) React
9 1 (0.36%) Snowpark
9 1 (0.36%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 30 (10.75%) Management Information System
2 20 (7.17%) Onboarding
3 19 (6.81%) Cybercrime
4 9 (3.23%) Data Structures
5 8 (2.87%) Blockchain
5 8 (2.87%) Social Media
6 7 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.15%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.79%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.79%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.43%) Cyber Defence
9 4 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.43%) Derivative
9 4 (1.43%) Digital Media
9 4 (1.43%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.08%) Blog
10 3 (1.08%) Credit Risk
10 3 (1.08%) Fixed Income
10 3 (1.08%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.43%) Unix
1 4 (1.43%) Windows
2 3 (1.08%) AIX
3 1 (0.36%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 279 (100.00%) Analytics
2 101 (36.20%) AI
3 78 (27.96%) Business Intelligence
4 63 (22.58%) Agile
5 55 (19.71%) Data Governance
6 48 (17.20%) Information Security
7 47 (16.85%) Decision-Making
7 47 (16.85%) Machine Learning
8 46 (16.49%) Risk Management
9 45 (16.13%) Data Analysis
9 45 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
10 40 (14.34%) Data Modelling
11 39 (13.98%) Internal Audit
11 39 (13.98%) Project Management
12 38 (13.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 34 (12.19%) Continuous Improvement
13 34 (12.19%) Roadmaps
14 32 (11.47%) Computer Science
15 31 (11.11%) Coaching
16 29 (10.39%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 92 (32.97%) SQL
2 58 (20.79%) Python
3 11 (3.94%) C#
4 9 (3.23%) TypeScript
5 8 (2.87%) JavaScript
6 7 (2.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (2.15%) VBA
8 3 (1.08%) R
8 3 (1.08%) Scala
9 1 (0.36%) Ada
9 1 (0.36%) C
9 1 (0.36%) C++
9 1 (0.36%) Java
9 1 (0.36%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 71 (25.45%) Degree
2 23 (8.24%) CISSP
3 22 (7.89%) CISA
4 21 (7.53%) CISM
5 16 (5.73%) CGEIT
6 15 (5.38%) FFIEC
6 15 (5.38%) SANS
7 13 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.51%) Security Cleared
9 6 (2.15%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.43%) APMG
11 4 (1.43%) Azure Certification
11 4 (1.43%) CCIE
11 4 (1.43%) CCNP
11 4 (1.43%) CCSE
12 3 (1.08%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (1.08%) SC Cleared
13 2 (0.72%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (12.54%) Data Quality
2 24 (8.60%) GDPR
3 17 (6.09%) COBIT
3 17 (6.09%) NIST
4 15 (5.38%) QA
5 7 (2.51%) PERC
6 4 (1.43%) PMO
7 3 (1.08%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (1.08%) ITGC
7 3 (1.08%) MiFID
8 2 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.36%) COSO
9 1 (0.36%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.36%) GRC
9 1 (0.36%) IFRS
9 1 (0.36%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.36%) Solvency II
System Software
1 11 (3.94%) Docker
2 3 (1.08%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.08%) IAG
Systems Management
1 14 (5.02%) EnCase
1 14 (5.02%) FTK
2 11 (3.94%) Kubernetes
3 10 (3.58%) Terraform
4 3 (1.08%) Ansible
5 2 (0.72%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 36 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.38%) Databricks
2 15 (5.38%) Oracle
3 14 (5.02%) Cellebrite
4 9 (3.23%) Red Hat
5 8 (2.87%) Cisco
5 8 (2.87%) Google
5 8 (2.87%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.15%) Informatica
7 5 (1.79%) Alteryx
7 5 (1.79%) Nuix
7 5 (1.79%) SAP
7 5 (1.79%) Talend
8 4 (1.43%) Arista
8 4 (1.43%) CheckPoint
8 4 (1.43%) F5
8 4 (1.43%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.43%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.43%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.08%) Citrix