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

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 152 140
Rank change year-on-year +24 -12 +7
Permanent jobs citing Data Analytics 329 363 457
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.24% 2.36% 2.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.57% 2.48% 2.43%
Number of salaries quoted 196 145 344
10th Percentile £35,000 £52,500 £49,650
25th Percentile £55,000 £67,500 £56,650
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £89,063
90th Percentile £123,750 £110,000 £112,125
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 12,804 14,627 18,824
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 87.11% 94.97% 92.02%
Number of salaries quoted 8,167 7,897 15,185
10th Percentile £36,750 £43,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,000 £54,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,600 £75,000 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.53% +1.35% -1.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,500 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,743 £57,500
% change year-on-year -9.45% +5.64% -8.00%

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 27 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 27 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 -22 46 £93,750 +8.70% 24
East London +9 21 £87,500 - 6
South London +46 9 £40,000 -30.43% 5
West London +6 6 £30,000 -62.50% 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 15 (4.56%) SAS
2 13 (3.95%) Apache Spark
3 11 (3.34%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.22%) Apache
5 3 (0.91%) Confluence
5 3 (0.91%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 48 (14.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (3.34%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (3.04%) SPSS
4 6 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.30%) Notion
Business Applications
1 6 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.91%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.61%) Relativity
5 1 (0.30%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 79 (24.01%) Power Platform
2 65 (19.76%) Azure
3 51 (15.50%) AWS
4 24 (7.29%) GCP
4 24 (7.29%) SaaS
5 15 (4.56%) Snowflake
6 12 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (3.65%) dbt
7 10 (3.04%) Dropbox
8 9 (2.74%) Amazon S3
8 9 (2.74%) Serverless
9 8 (2.43%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (2.43%) GitHub
10 7 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (2.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 6 (1.82%) Fivetran
12 4 (1.22%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (1.22%) Azure Machine Learning
12 4 (1.22%) Google Analytics
12 4 (1.22%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.78%) Broadband
2 17 (5.17%) CHAP
3 2 (0.61%) Internet
4 1 (0.30%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (23.71%) Power BI
2 46 (13.98%) Tableau
3 43 (13.07%) Data Warehouse
4 31 (9.42%) Big Data
5 23 (6.99%) Data Mining
6 15 (4.56%) NoSQL
7 14 (4.26%) Metadata
8 12 (3.65%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (3.65%) Hadoop
9 10 (3.04%) Data Lake
9 10 (3.04%) EDRMS
9 10 (3.04%) Qlik Sense
10 9 (2.74%) Power Query
10 9 (2.74%) SQL Server
11 7 (2.13%) Star Schema
12 5 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (1.52%) Looker
12 5 (1.52%) Relational Database
13 4 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 17 (5.17%) Jenkins
1 17 (5.17%) TeamCity
2 6 (1.82%) Git
3 4 (1.22%) JIRA
3 4 (1.22%) MLflow
4 1 (0.30%) ER Studio
General
1 155 (47.11%) Finance
2 117 (35.56%) Social Skills
3 87 (26.44%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (13.37%) Banking
4 44 (13.37%) Law
5 32 (9.73%) Financial Institution
5 32 (9.73%) Marketing
6 31 (9.42%) Legal
7 26 (7.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (7.29%) Games
9 21 (6.38%) Front Office
10 17 (5.17%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (3.65%) Retail
12 7 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.52%) Public Sector
15 4 (1.22%) Manufacturing
16 3 (0.91%) Investment Banking
16 3 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
16 3 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 75 (22.80%) Senior
2 65 (19.76%) Analyst
3 47 (14.29%) Data Analyst
4 34 (10.33%) Data Engineer
5 31 (9.42%) Auditor
6 27 (8.21%) Senior Manager
7 25 (7.60%) Internal Auditor
8 23 (6.99%) Audit Manager
8 23 (6.99%) Lead
9 22 (6.69%) Architect
9 22 (6.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 22 (6.69%) Developer
10 18 (5.47%) Senior Analyst
10 18 (5.47%) Trainee
10 18 (5.47%) Trainee Analyst
10 18 (5.47%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 17 (5.17%) Security Auditor
12 15 (4.56%) Software Engineer
13 14 (4.26%) Senior Audit Manager
14 13 (3.95%) Compliance Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.17%) Akka
2 10 (3.04%) Kafka
3 9 (2.74%) PySpark
4 5 (1.52%) PyXLL
4 5 (1.52%) React
5 3 (0.91%) Middleware
6 2 (0.61%) CSS
6 2 (0.61%) HTML
6 2 (0.61%) Streamlit
6 2 (0.61%) XML
7 1 (0.30%) JSON
7 1 (0.30%) LangChain
7 1 (0.30%) LangGraph
7 1 (0.30%) Next.js
7 1 (0.30%) NumPy
7 1 (0.30%) Pandas
7 1 (0.30%) scikit-learn
7 1 (0.30%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 34 (10.33%) Algorithms
1 34 (10.33%) Management Information System
2 20 (6.08%) Self-Motivation
3 18 (5.47%) Product Ownership
3 18 (5.47%) Video\Live Streaming
4 17 (5.17%) Onboarding
4 17 (5.17%) Over-the-Top Content
5 10 (3.04%) Blockchain
5 10 (3.04%) Cybercrime
6 9 (2.74%) Fixed Income
7 8 (2.43%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (2.43%) Equities
8 7 (2.13%) FMCG
9 6 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.22%) Cloud Native
10 4 (1.22%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.22%) Reinsurance
11 3 (0.91%) IoT
11 3 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.91%) OTC Derivatives
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.74%) Unix
2 7 (2.13%) Linux
2 7 (2.13%) Windows
3 2 (0.61%) AIX
4 1 (0.30%) Android
4 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 329 (100.00%) Analytics
2 105 (31.91%) Business Intelligence
3 100 (30.40%) AI
4 79 (24.01%) Agile
4 79 (24.01%) Decision-Making
5 68 (20.67%) Problem-Solving
6 65 (19.76%) Data Modelling
7 63 (19.15%) Data Governance
7 63 (19.15%) Project Management
8 56 (17.02%) Risk Management
9 54 (16.41%) Data Analysis
10 48 (14.59%) Visualisation
11 47 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
11 47 (14.29%) Data Engineering
12 46 (13.98%) ETL
13 44 (13.37%) Machine Learning
14 43 (13.07%) Business Strategy
15 42 (12.77%) Coaching
16 41 (12.46%) Information Security
16 41 (12.46%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 130 (39.51%) Python
2 104 (31.61%) SQL
3 25 (7.60%) Scala
4 11 (3.34%) Java
4 11 (3.34%) JavaScript
5 9 (2.74%) R
6 8 (2.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 7 (2.13%) C#
8 6 (1.82%) C++
9 3 (0.91%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.61%) C
10 2 (0.61%) Perl
10 2 (0.61%) PHP
10 2 (0.61%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.61%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.30%) Fortran
11 1 (0.30%) Go
11 1 (0.30%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 90 (27.36%) Degree
2 41 (12.46%) CISA
3 37 (11.25%) CISSP
4 36 (10.94%) Master's Degree
5 30 (9.12%) CISM
6 26 (7.90%) PhD
7 18 (5.47%) FFIEC
8 17 (5.17%) ACCA
8 17 (5.17%) CGEIT
8 17 (5.17%) SANS
9 11 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (3.34%) CRISC
10 8 (2.43%) AWS Certification
10 8 (2.43%) Security Cleared
11 6 (1.82%) SC Cleared
12 5 (1.52%) CIMA
13 3 (0.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.61%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (14.89%) Data Quality
2 26 (7.90%) GDPR
3 23 (6.99%) NIST
4 22 (6.69%) COBIT
5 21 (6.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (3.65%) IFRS
7 8 (2.43%) MiFID
7 8 (2.43%) QA
8 7 (2.13%) Actionable Recommendations
8 7 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (1.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (1.22%) GRC
10 4 (1.22%) ITGC
11 3 (0.91%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.61%) Accessibility
13 1 (0.30%) EMIR
13 1 (0.30%) GAAP
System Software
1 21 (6.38%) Docker
2 1 (0.30%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.30%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (6.08%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.74%) Terraform
3 8 (2.43%) EnCase
3 8 (2.43%) FTK
4 4 (1.22%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 57 (17.33%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.29%) Databricks
3 11 (3.34%) SAP
4 10 (3.04%) Salesforce
5 9 (2.74%) Google
5 9 (2.74%) Oracle
6 8 (2.43%) Cellebrite
7 5 (1.52%) GoldenSource
7 5 (1.52%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.22%) Cisco
8 4 (1.22%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (1.22%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.22%) Informatica
8 4 (1.22%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.22%) Progress
9 3 (0.91%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.61%) Adobe
10 2 (0.61%) HP
10 2 (0.61%) iManage
10 2 (0.61%) Talend