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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 130 180
Rank change year-on-year -49 +50 -47
Permanent jobs citing Data Analytics 293 334 356
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.26% 2.73% 1.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 2.89% 2.03%
Number of salaries quoted 181 134 188
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,250 £42,938
25th Percentile £58,199 £59,813 £54,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,500 £72,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.65% +3.21% -6.67%
75th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £88,125
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -7.41%

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 19,142 11,543 17,577
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 82.05% 94.35% 89.26%
Number of salaries quoted 12,978 7,307 11,977
10th Percentile £40,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £73,441
Median % change year-on-year - +2.12% -2.08%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £122,500 £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 4 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 4 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 -49 32 £100,000 +29.03% 31
West London -15 17 £50,000 -23.08% 9
East London - 14 £115,000 - 6
South London +6 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 28 (9.56%) SAS
2 16 (5.46%) Apache Spark
3 13 (4.44%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (3.41%) Apache
5 1 (0.34%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 25 (8.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (7.85%) SPSS
3 9 (3.07%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (2.39%) Relativity
2 4 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.34%) Maximo
3 1 (0.34%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.34%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 61 (20.82%) Power Platform
2 44 (15.02%) Azure
3 33 (11.26%) AWS
4 20 (6.83%) GCP
5 16 (5.46%) Dropbox
6 15 (5.12%) Snowflake
7 14 (4.78%) GitHub
8 12 (4.10%) Amazon S3
9 11 (3.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 10 (3.41%) dbt
11 9 (3.07%) Azure Machine Learning
11 9 (3.07%) Microsoft Purview
11 9 (3.07%) OpenShift
11 9 (3.07%) Serverless
12 8 (2.73%) Google Analytics
13 7 (2.39%) GitHub Copilot
14 6 (2.05%) Azure Data Factory
15 5 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
16 4 (1.37%) Cloud Computing
16 4 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.41%) CHAP
2 8 (2.73%) Network Security
3 4 (1.37%) Internet
4 1 (0.34%) DSL
4 1 (0.34%) Firewall
4 1 (0.34%) GoToMeeting
4 1 (0.34%) NGFW
4 1 (0.34%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (20.14%) Power BI
2 44 (15.02%) Tableau
3 33 (11.26%) Big Data
4 23 (7.85%) EDRMS
5 19 (6.48%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (3.75%) MongoDB
7 10 (3.41%) Azure SQL Database
7 10 (3.41%) BigQuery
7 10 (3.41%) Oracle Database
8 9 (3.07%) Apache Hive
8 9 (3.07%) Impala
8 9 (3.07%) Parquet
8 9 (3.07%) Spark SQL
9 8 (2.73%) Data Lake
10 7 (2.39%) Looker
10 7 (2.39%) Metadata
10 7 (2.39%) Star Schema
11 6 (2.05%) Delta Lake
11 6 (2.05%) Relational Database
12 5 (1.71%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 9 (3.07%) Git
1 9 (3.07%) IBM UrbanCode
2 5 (1.71%) MLflow
3 3 (1.02%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.02%) JIRA
General
1 149 (50.85%) Finance
2 102 (34.81%) Social Skills
3 75 (25.60%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (16.38%) Marketing
5 41 (13.99%) Banking
6 32 (10.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 32 (10.92%) Legal
7 26 (8.87%) Law
7 26 (8.87%) Retail
8 23 (7.85%) Legal Technology
9 19 (6.48%) Financial Institution
10 13 (4.44%) Investment Banking
11 11 (3.75%) Aerospace
11 11 (3.75%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (3.75%) Public Sector
11 11 (3.75%) Telecoms
12 10 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (2.73%) Retail Banking
14 5 (1.71%) French Language
Job Titles
1 58 (19.80%) Analyst
1 58 (19.80%) Senior
2 37 (12.63%) Lead
3 33 (11.26%) Data Analyst
4 32 (10.92%) Architect
5 26 (8.87%) Auditor
6 21 (7.17%) Analytics Manager
7 18 (6.14%) Data Analytics Manager
7 18 (6.14%) Data Engineer
7 18 (6.14%) Senior Manager
8 17 (5.80%) Solutions Architect
9 16 (5.46%) Forensic Manager
10 14 (4.78%) Data Manager
11 13 (4.44%) Business Analyst
12 12 (4.10%) Audit Manager
12 12 (4.10%) Consultant
12 12 (4.10%) Data Architect
12 12 (4.10%) Data Model Manager
13 11 (3.75%) Developer
13 11 (3.75%) Senior Auditor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.44%) PySpark
2 12 (4.10%) CSS
2 12 (4.10%) HTML
3 10 (3.41%) .NET
4 9 (3.07%) .NET Core
4 9 (3.07%) ASP.NET
4 9 (3.07%) ASP.NET Core
4 9 (3.07%) Pandas
5 7 (2.39%) AngularJS
5 7 (2.39%) SubSonic
5 7 (2.39%) Vue
6 5 (1.71%) Kafka
7 2 (0.68%) Entity Framework
7 2 (0.68%) Middleware
8 1 (0.34%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.34%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.34%) LangChain
8 1 (0.34%) Snowpark
8 1 (0.34%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 30 (10.24%) Management Information System
2 23 (7.85%) Cybercrime
3 21 (7.17%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.07%) Data Structures
4 9 (3.07%) Social Media
5 6 (2.05%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (2.05%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.05%) Public Cloud
5 6 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (1.71%) Data Fabric
6 5 (1.71%) Educational Technology
6 5 (1.71%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.71%) Virtual Team
7 4 (1.37%) Blockchain
7 4 (1.37%) Cyber Defence
7 4 (1.37%) Digital Media
8 3 (1.02%) Blog
8 3 (1.02%) Credit Risk
8 3 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.02%) Unix
1 3 (1.02%) Windows
2 2 (0.68%) AIX
3 1 (0.34%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 293 (100.00%) Analytics
2 111 (37.88%) AI
3 83 (28.33%) Business Intelligence
4 57 (19.45%) Agile
4 57 (19.45%) Data Governance
5 52 (17.75%) Decision-Making
6 46 (15.70%) Information Security
6 46 (15.70%) Machine Learning
6 46 (15.70%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (15.36%) Data Analysis
8 44 (15.02%) Data Modelling
9 41 (13.99%) Continuous Improvement
9 41 (13.99%) Risk Management
10 37 (12.63%) Computer Science
10 37 (12.63%) Roadmaps
11 36 (12.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 34 (11.60%) Internal Audit
13 33 (11.26%) Project Management
13 33 (11.26%) Visualisation
14 32 (10.92%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 98 (33.45%) SQL
2 60 (20.48%) Python
3 11 (3.75%) C#
4 8 (2.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (2.73%) TypeScript
5 7 (2.39%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.05%) VBA
7 4 (1.37%) R
8 1 (0.34%) Ada
8 1 (0.34%) C
8 1 (0.34%) C++
8 1 (0.34%) Java
8 1 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.34%) Scala
Qualifications
1 82 (27.99%) Degree
2 22 (7.51%) CISSP
3 20 (6.83%) CISM
4 19 (6.48%) CISA
5 14 (4.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (3.75%) CGEIT
7 10 (3.41%) FFIEC
7 10 (3.41%) SANS
8 7 (2.39%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (2.39%) Security Cleared
9 6 (2.05%) APMG
9 6 (2.05%) CCIE
9 6 (2.05%) CCNP
9 6 (2.05%) CCSE
10 5 (1.71%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.71%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.71%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.68%) ACCA
12 2 (0.68%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (15.36%) Data Quality
2 18 (6.14%) GDPR
2 18 (6.14%) QA
3 12 (4.10%) COBIT
3 12 (4.10%) NIST
4 7 (2.39%) PERC
5 5 (1.71%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.37%) PMO
7 3 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (1.02%) ITGC
8 2 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.34%) COSO
9 1 (0.34%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.34%) GRC
9 1 (0.34%) IFRS
9 1 (0.34%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.34%) MiFID
9 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.34%) Solvency II
System Software
1 10 (3.41%) Docker
2 3 (1.02%) IAG
3 2 (0.68%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (5.46%) EnCase
1 16 (5.46%) FTK
2 10 (3.41%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.41%) Terraform
3 3 (1.02%) Ansible
4 2 (0.68%) Thomson Reuters DACS
5 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 32 (10.92%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.80%) Databricks
3 16 (5.46%) Cellebrite
4 15 (5.12%) Oracle
5 12 (4.10%) Google
6 9 (3.07%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.73%) Salesforce
8 7 (2.39%) Cisco
8 7 (2.39%) Nuix
8 7 (2.39%) Palo Alto
8 7 (2.39%) SAP
9 6 (2.05%) Alteryx
9 6 (2.05%) Arista
9 6 (2.05%) CheckPoint
9 6 (2.05%) F5
9 6 (2.05%) Fortinet
9 6 (2.05%) Informatica
10 5 (1.71%) Talend
11 4 (1.37%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.68%) Refinitiv