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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 118 188
Rank change year-on-year -64 +70 -49
Permanent jobs citing Data Analytics 299 338 347
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.26% 2.77% 1.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 2.94% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 181 136 179
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £43,125
25th Percentile £58,199 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +2.86% -6.67%
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £110,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -6.72%

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 19,505 11,484 17,462
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.89% 94.28% 89.25%
Number of salaries quoted 13,151 7,251 11,771
10th Percentile £40,800 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £121,250 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 13 August 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 13 August 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 30 £100,000 +29.03% 27
West London -6 18 £50,000 -23.08% 13
East London - 14 £115,000 - 7
South London +7 3 £30,000 -71.43% 2
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 26 (8.70%) SAS
2 16 (5.35%) Apache Spark
3 13 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (3.34%) Apache
5 1 (0.33%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 26 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (7.69%) SPSS
3 9 (3.01%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (2.34%) Relativity
2 4 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.33%) Maximo
3 1 (0.33%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.33%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 63 (21.07%) Power Platform
2 47 (15.72%) Azure
3 37 (12.37%) AWS
4 22 (7.36%) GCP
5 16 (5.35%) Dropbox
6 14 (4.68%) Snowflake
7 13 (4.35%) Amazon S3
7 13 (4.35%) GitHub
8 12 (4.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 12 (4.01%) dbt
9 10 (3.34%) Google Analytics
9 10 (3.34%) Serverless
10 9 (3.01%) OpenShift
11 8 (2.68%) Azure Machine Learning
11 8 (2.68%) Microsoft Purview
12 7 (2.34%) GitHub Copilot
13 6 (2.01%) Azure Data Factory
14 5 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
15 4 (1.34%) Cloud Computing
15 4 (1.34%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.01%) CHAP
2 8 (2.68%) Network Security
3 4 (1.34%) Internet
4 1 (0.33%) DSL
4 1 (0.33%) Firewall
4 1 (0.33%) GoToMeeting
4 1 (0.33%) NGFW
4 1 (0.33%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (20.40%) Power BI
2 45 (15.05%) Tableau
3 33 (11.04%) Big Data
4 23 (7.69%) EDRMS
5 19 (6.35%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (3.68%) MongoDB
7 10 (3.34%) Azure SQL Database
7 10 (3.34%) Oracle Database
7 10 (3.34%) Parquet
8 9 (3.01%) Apache Hive
8 9 (3.01%) BigQuery
8 9 (3.01%) Impala
8 9 (3.01%) Spark SQL
9 8 (2.68%) Data Lake
9 8 (2.68%) Looker
9 8 (2.68%) Metadata
10 7 (2.34%) Star Schema
11 6 (2.01%) Delta Lake
11 6 (2.01%) Relational Database
12 5 (1.67%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 9 (3.01%) Git
1 9 (3.01%) IBM UrbanCode
2 4 (1.34%) MLflow
3 3 (1.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.00%) JIRA
General
1 147 (49.16%) Finance
2 103 (34.45%) Social Skills
3 74 (24.75%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (17.06%) Marketing
5 40 (13.38%) Banking
6 33 (11.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 31 (10.37%) Legal
8 28 (9.36%) Law
9 24 (8.03%) Retail
10 23 (7.69%) Legal Technology
11 19 (6.35%) Financial Institution
12 15 (5.02%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (4.01%) Investment Banking
13 12 (4.01%) Organisational Skills
14 11 (3.68%) Aerospace
14 11 (3.68%) Public Sector
14 11 (3.68%) Telecoms
15 8 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (2.34%) Retail Banking
17 5 (1.67%) French Language
Job Titles
1 57 (19.06%) Senior
2 56 (18.73%) Analyst
3 39 (13.04%) Lead
4 35 (11.71%) Architect
5 34 (11.37%) Data Analyst
6 25 (8.36%) Analytics Manager
7 23 (7.69%) Auditor
8 22 (7.36%) Data Analytics Manager
9 20 (6.69%) Data Engineer
10 19 (6.35%) Solutions Architect
11 18 (6.02%) Senior Manager
12 16 (5.35%) Forensic Manager
13 15 (5.02%) Data Manager
14 14 (4.68%) Data Model Manager
15 13 (4.35%) Data Architect
15 13 (4.35%) Senior Analytics Manager
16 12 (4.01%) Business Analyst
17 11 (3.68%) Audit Manager
17 11 (3.68%) Consultant
17 11 (3.68%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.35%) PySpark
2 12 (4.01%) CSS
2 12 (4.01%) HTML
3 10 (3.34%) .NET
4 9 (3.01%) .NET Core
4 9 (3.01%) ASP.NET
4 9 (3.01%) ASP.NET Core
4 9 (3.01%) Pandas
5 7 (2.34%) AngularJS
5 7 (2.34%) SubSonic
5 7 (2.34%) Vue
6 5 (1.67%) Kafka
7 2 (0.67%) Entity Framework
8 1 (0.33%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.33%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.33%) Middleware
8 1 (0.33%) Snowpark
8 1 (0.33%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 30 (10.03%) Management Information System
2 23 (7.69%) Cybercrime
3 19 (6.35%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.01%) Social Media
5 8 (2.68%) Data Structures
6 7 (2.34%) Data Fabric
6 7 (2.34%) Educational Technology
7 6 (2.01%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (2.01%) Cloud Native
7 6 (2.01%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.67%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.34%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.34%) Cyber Defence
9 4 (1.34%) Digital Media
9 4 (1.34%) Housing Association
9 4 (1.34%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.00%) Blockchain
10 3 (1.00%) Blog
10 3 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.67%) Unix
1 2 (0.67%) Windows
2 1 (0.33%) AIX
2 1 (0.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 299 (100.00%) Analytics
2 112 (37.46%) AI
3 84 (28.09%) Business Intelligence
4 58 (19.40%) Data Governance
5 57 (19.06%) Agile
6 55 (18.39%) Decision-Making
7 51 (17.06%) Problem-Solving
8 48 (16.05%) Machine Learning
9 47 (15.72%) Data Modelling
10 45 (15.05%) Information Security
11 44 (14.72%) Continuous Improvement
11 44 (14.72%) Data Analysis
12 39 (13.04%) Computer Science
12 39 (13.04%) Visualisation
13 38 (12.71%) Risk Management
13 38 (12.71%) Roadmaps
14 36 (12.04%) Actionable Insight
15 35 (11.71%) Data Engineering
15 35 (11.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 35 (11.71%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 100 (33.44%) SQL
2 61 (20.40%) Python
3 11 (3.68%) C#
4 8 (2.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (2.68%) TypeScript
5 7 (2.34%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.01%) VBA
7 3 (1.00%) R
8 2 (0.67%) Java
9 1 (0.33%) Ada
9 1 (0.33%) C
9 1 (0.33%) C++
9 1 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 84 (28.09%) Degree
2 21 (7.02%) CISSP
3 19 (6.35%) CISM
4 18 (6.02%) CISA
5 13 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (3.34%) CGEIT
7 9 (3.01%) FFIEC
7 9 (3.01%) SANS
7 9 (3.01%) Security Cleared
8 7 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (2.01%) APMG
9 6 (2.01%) CCIE
9 6 (2.01%) CCNP
9 6 (2.01%) CCSE
10 5 (1.67%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.67%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.34%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.00%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.67%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (17.06%) Data Quality
2 18 (6.02%) QA
3 17 (5.69%) GDPR
4 11 (3.68%) COBIT
4 11 (3.68%) NIST
5 7 (2.34%) PERC
6 6 (2.01%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.34%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (1.34%) PMO
8 2 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.67%) ITGC
9 1 (0.33%) COSO
9 1 (0.33%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.33%) GRC
9 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.33%) Solvency II
System Software
1 10 (3.34%) Docker
2 3 (1.00%) IAG
3 2 (0.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (5.35%) EnCase
1 16 (5.35%) FTK
2 11 (3.68%) Kubernetes
3 10 (3.34%) Terraform
4 3 (1.00%) Ansible
5 2 (0.67%) Thomson Reuters DACS
6 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 30 (10.03%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.69%) Databricks
3 16 (5.35%) Cellebrite
4 14 (4.68%) Oracle
5 13 (4.35%) Google
6 9 (3.01%) Red Hat
6 9 (3.01%) Salesforce
6 9 (3.01%) SAP
7 7 (2.34%) Cisco
7 7 (2.34%) Nuix
7 7 (2.34%) Palo Alto
8 6 (2.01%) Alteryx
8 6 (2.01%) Arista
8 6 (2.01%) CheckPoint
8 6 (2.01%) F5
8 6 (2.01%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.34%) Informatica
9 4 (1.34%) Talend
10 3 (1.00%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.67%) Refinitiv