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

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 137 148
Rank change year-on-year +15 +11 0
Permanent jobs citing Data Analytics 331 369 409
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.33% 2.39% 2.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.66% 2.52% 2.33%
Number of salaries quoted 197 151 301
10th Percentile £35,000 £49,750 £51,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £56,700
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 £108,750
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 12,430 14,629 17,538
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 87.36% 94.69% 92.19%
Number of salaries quoted 7,910 7,999 14,056
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,245 £40,726
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,357 £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 £121,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £59,556
% change year-on-year -8.33% +0.75% -4.71%

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 19 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 19 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 -16 46 £95,000 +10.14% 33
East London +4 19 £87,500 - 8
South London +45 9 £40,000 -30.43% 4
West London +6 6 £30,000 -62.50% 9
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 (4.53%) SAS
2 14 (4.23%) Apache Spark
3 11 (3.32%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.21%) Apache
5 2 (0.60%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.30%) Confluence
6 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 49 (14.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.93%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (3.02%) 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 (0.91%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.60%) Relativity
5 1 (0.30%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 84 (25.38%) Power Platform
2 65 (19.64%) Azure
3 51 (15.41%) AWS
4 26 (7.85%) SaaS
5 22 (6.65%) GCP
6 17 (5.14%) Snowflake
7 14 (4.23%) dbt
8 12 (3.63%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (3.02%) Amazon S3
9 10 (3.02%) Dropbox
9 10 (3.02%) Serverless
10 8 (2.42%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (2.42%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (2.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 8 (2.42%) GitHub
11 6 (1.81%) Fivetran
12 4 (1.21%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (1.21%) Azure Machine Learning
12 4 (1.21%) Matillion
12 4 (1.21%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.44%) Broadband
2 14 (4.23%) CHAP
3 2 (0.60%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (25.08%) Power BI
2 52 (15.71%) Tableau
3 46 (13.90%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (9.67%) Big Data
5 24 (7.25%) Data Mining
6 15 (4.53%) Metadata
6 15 (4.53%) NoSQL
7 14 (4.23%) Amazon Redshift
8 13 (3.93%) Hadoop
9 10 (3.02%) Data Lake
9 10 (3.02%) EDRMS
9 10 (3.02%) Qlik Sense
9 10 (3.02%) SQL Server
10 9 (2.72%) Power Query
11 7 (2.11%) Star Schema
12 6 (1.81%) Looker
13 5 (1.51%) Amazon Athena
13 5 (1.51%) Relational Database
14 4 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (1.21%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 17 (5.14%) Jenkins
1 17 (5.14%) TeamCity
2 6 (1.81%) Git
3 4 (1.21%) MLflow
4 3 (0.91%) JIRA
5 2 (0.60%) ER Studio
General
1 156 (47.13%) Finance
2 117 (35.35%) Social Skills
3 88 (26.59%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (14.20%) Law
5 42 (12.69%) Banking
6 34 (10.27%) Marketing
7 31 (9.37%) Legal
8 30 (9.06%) Financial Institution
9 26 (7.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 25 (7.55%) Games
11 21 (6.34%) Front Office
12 17 (5.14%) Presentation Skills
13 10 (3.02%) Retail
14 7 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (1.81%) Public Sector
16 4 (1.21%) International Banking
16 4 (1.21%) Manufacturing
17 3 (0.91%) Local Government
17 3 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 72 (21.75%) Senior
2 64 (19.34%) Analyst
3 47 (14.20%) Data Analyst
4 34 (10.27%) Data Engineer
5 28 (8.46%) Auditor
6 27 (8.16%) Senior Manager
7 25 (7.55%) Audit Manager
7 25 (7.55%) Internal Auditor
7 25 (7.55%) Lead
8 22 (6.65%) Architect
8 22 (6.65%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 21 (6.34%) Developer
10 18 (5.44%) Trainee
10 18 (5.44%) Trainee Analyst
10 18 (5.44%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 17 (5.14%) Senior Analyst
12 15 (4.53%) Software Engineer
13 14 (4.23%) Compliance Officer
13 14 (4.23%) IT Manager
13 14 (4.23%) Senior Audit Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.14%) Akka
2 11 (3.32%) Kafka
3 9 (2.72%) PySpark
4 5 (1.51%) PyXLL
5 4 (1.21%) React
6 3 (0.91%) Middleware
7 2 (0.60%) CSS
7 2 (0.60%) HTML
7 2 (0.60%) Streamlit
7 2 (0.60%) XML
8 1 (0.30%) JSON
8 1 (0.30%) LangChain
8 1 (0.30%) LangGraph
8 1 (0.30%) Next.js
8 1 (0.30%) NumPy
8 1 (0.30%) Pandas
8 1 (0.30%) scikit-learn
8 1 (0.30%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 35 (10.57%) Algorithms
2 33 (9.97%) Management Information System
3 19 (5.74%) Onboarding
3 19 (5.74%) Product Ownership
3 19 (5.74%) Self-Motivation
4 17 (5.14%) Over-the-Top Content
4 17 (5.14%) Video\Live Streaming
5 10 (3.02%) Cybercrime
6 8 (2.42%) Blockchain
6 8 (2.42%) Equities
6 8 (2.42%) Fixed Income
6 8 (2.42%) FMCG
7 7 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.21%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.21%) Credit Risk
9 4 (1.21%) Market Risk
9 4 (1.21%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.21%) Reinsurance
10 3 (0.91%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.02%) Unix
2 9 (2.72%) Linux
3 8 (2.42%) Windows
4 1 (0.30%) AIX
4 1 (0.30%) Android
4 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 331 (100.00%) Analytics
2 110 (33.23%) Business Intelligence
3 101 (30.51%) AI
4 79 (23.87%) Decision-Making
5 77 (23.26%) Agile
6 69 (20.85%) Problem-Solving
7 68 (20.54%) Data Modelling
8 63 (19.03%) Data Governance
9 60 (18.13%) Project Management
10 56 (16.92%) Data Analysis
10 56 (16.92%) Risk Management
11 53 (16.01%) Visualisation
12 49 (14.80%) Cybersecurity
12 49 (14.80%) Data Engineering
12 49 (14.80%) ETL
13 45 (13.60%) Machine Learning
14 43 (12.99%) Business Strategy
14 43 (12.99%) DevOps
15 42 (12.69%) SDLC
16 40 (12.08%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 134 (40.48%) Python
2 110 (33.23%) SQL
3 24 (7.25%) Scala
4 11 (3.32%) Java
4 11 (3.32%) R
5 10 (3.02%) JavaScript
6 8 (2.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 7 (2.11%) C#
8 6 (1.81%) C++
9 3 (0.91%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.91%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.60%) C
10 2 (0.60%) Fortran
10 2 (0.60%) Perl
10 2 (0.60%) PHP
10 2 (0.60%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.30%) Go
11 1 (0.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 90 (27.19%) Degree
2 42 (12.69%) CISA
3 38 (11.48%) CISSP
4 37 (11.18%) Master's Degree
5 29 (8.76%) CISM
6 26 (7.85%) PhD
7 19 (5.74%) ACCA
8 15 (4.53%) FFIEC
9 14 (4.23%) CGEIT
9 14 (4.23%) SANS
10 13 (3.93%) CRISC
11 9 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (2.42%) AWS Certification
12 8 (2.42%) Security Cleared
13 7 (2.11%) CIMA
14 6 (1.81%) SC Cleared
15 3 (0.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 3 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 3 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
16 2 (0.60%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (15.11%) Data Quality
2 25 (7.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (6.65%) GDPR
3 22 (6.65%) NIST
4 21 (6.34%) COBIT
5 12 (3.63%) IFRS
6 9 (2.72%) QA
7 7 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (2.11%) MiFID
7 7 (2.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (1.81%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (1.81%) GRC
8 6 (1.81%) ITGC
9 3 (0.91%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.60%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.30%) EMIR
11 1 (0.30%) GAAP
System Software
1 21 (6.34%) Docker
2 1 (0.30%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (6.04%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.72%) Terraform
3 8 (2.42%) EnCase
3 8 (2.42%) FTK
4 5 (1.51%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 57 (17.22%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.55%) Databricks
3 12 (3.63%) SAP
4 11 (3.32%) Oracle
5 9 (2.72%) Google
5 9 (2.72%) Salesforce
6 8 (2.42%) Cellebrite
7 6 (1.81%) Progress
8 5 (1.51%) GoldenSource
8 5 (1.51%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.21%) Alteryx
9 4 (1.21%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (1.21%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.21%) Informatica
9 4 (1.21%) Palo Alto
10 3 (0.91%) Cisco
11 2 (0.60%) Adobe
11 2 (0.60%) EMC
11 2 (0.60%) HP
11 2 (0.60%) IBM