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 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 147 135
Rank change year-on-year +1 -12 +17
Permanent jobs citing Data Analytics 327 322 509
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.74% 2.50% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.07% 2.60% 2.45%
Number of salaries quoted 208 132 339
10th Percentile £35,000 £47,050 £46,000
25th Percentile £52,188 £61,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £81,250 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% +12.07% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,125
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,372 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.90% +0.62% -7.88%

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 15,778 12,386 20,770
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 84.00% 96.16% 91.43%
Number of salaries quoted 10,306 7,547 16,056
10th Percentile £39,956 £42,500 £38,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
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 £112,500 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 10 April 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 10 April 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 -48 46 £92,500 +5.71% 36
East London +13 34 £87,500 - 8
West London -8 12 £30,000 -52.00% 8
South London +32 11 £40,000 -31.91% 3
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 20 (6.12%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (4.59%) Apache Spark
3 14 (4.28%) SAS
4 11 (3.36%) Apache
5 3 (0.92%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.61%) Confluence
7 1 (0.31%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 44 (13.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.75%) MS Visio
3 7 (2.14%) SPSS
4 6 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.31%) Notion
Business Applications
1 2 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.31%) Maximo
2 1 (0.31%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 59 (18.04%) Power Platform
2 46 (14.07%) Azure
3 38 (11.62%) AWS
4 24 (7.34%) GCP
5 15 (4.59%) SaaS
5 15 (4.59%) Snowflake
6 14 (4.28%) Amazon S3
7 9 (2.75%) dbt
7 9 (2.75%) OpenShift
8 8 (2.45%) Azure Machine Learning
8 8 (2.45%) GitHub
9 7 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (2.14%) Dropbox
10 6 (1.83%) Microsoft Purview
10 6 (1.83%) Serverless
11 5 (1.53%) Google Analytics
12 4 (1.22%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (1.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (1.22%) Power Automate
13 3 (0.92%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 26 (7.95%) CHAP
2 18 (5.50%) Broadband
3 4 (1.22%) Network Security
4 2 (0.61%) Internet
5 1 (0.31%) Skype
5 1 (0.31%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (18.04%) Power BI
2 57 (17.43%) Tableau
3 30 (9.17%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (7.03%) Data Mining
5 22 (6.73%) Big Data
6 13 (3.98%) BigQuery
7 11 (3.36%) Apache Hive
7 11 (3.36%) Impala
8 10 (3.06%) Data Lake
8 10 (3.06%) Metadata
8 10 (3.06%) NoSQL
9 9 (2.75%) Oracle Database
9 9 (2.75%) Parquet
9 9 (2.75%) Spark SQL
10 7 (2.14%) EDRMS
11 5 (1.53%) Qlik Sense
11 5 (1.53%) Star Schema
12 4 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (1.22%) Looker
12 4 (1.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (5.20%) Jenkins
1 17 (5.20%) TeamCity
2 12 (3.67%) Git
3 9 (2.75%) IBM UrbanCode
4 5 (1.53%) MLflow
5 4 (1.22%) JIRA
General
1 162 (49.54%) Finance
2 127 (38.84%) Social Skills
3 104 (31.80%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (18.65%) Banking
5 45 (13.76%) Marketing
6 34 (10.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 33 (10.09%) Financial Institution
7 33 (10.09%) Retail
8 21 (6.42%) Law
9 20 (6.12%) Legal
10 13 (3.98%) Investment Banking
11 11 (3.36%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (3.36%) Retail Banking
12 9 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (2.14%) Telecoms
14 6 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.83%) Public Sector
15 5 (1.53%) Front Office
15 5 (1.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 82 (25.08%) Analyst
1 82 (25.08%) Senior
2 48 (14.68%) Data Analyst
3 45 (13.76%) Auditor
4 28 (8.56%) Data Engineer
5 26 (7.95%) Internal Auditor
6 25 (7.65%) Security Auditor
7 23 (7.03%) Architect
7 23 (7.03%) Lead
8 22 (6.73%) Trainee
8 22 (6.73%) Trainee Analyst
8 22 (6.73%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 20 (6.12%) Business Analyst
10 19 (5.81%) Senior Manager
11 17 (5.20%) Audit Manager
12 16 (4.89%) Senior Analyst
13 15 (4.59%) Senior Auditor
14 14 (4.28%) IT Auditor
15 13 (3.98%) Developer
16 12 (3.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (5.81%) PySpark
2 17 (5.20%) Akka
3 10 (3.06%) CSS
3 10 (3.06%) HTML
4 9 (2.75%) Pandas
5 5 (1.53%) React
6 3 (0.92%) Kafka
7 2 (0.61%) Middleware
7 2 (0.61%) Streamlit
8 1 (0.31%) JSON
8 1 (0.31%) LangChain
8 1 (0.31%) Next.js
8 1 (0.31%) XML
8 1 (0.31%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 40 (12.23%) Management Information System
2 26 (7.95%) Onboarding
3 18 (5.50%) Video\Live Streaming
4 17 (5.20%) Over-the-Top Content
5 14 (4.28%) Blockchain
6 13 (3.98%) Product Ownership
7 11 (3.36%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (2.75%) Fixed Income
9 8 (2.45%) Public Cloud
10 7 (2.14%) Cybercrime
10 7 (2.14%) Social Media
11 6 (1.83%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.83%) Cloud Native
11 6 (1.83%) Derivative
12 5 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.53%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.53%) OTC Derivatives
12 5 (1.53%) Virtual Team
13 4 (1.22%) Digital Media
13 4 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.83%) Unix
2 4 (1.22%) Linux
2 4 (1.22%) Windows
3 2 (0.61%) AIX
4 1 (0.31%) Android
4 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 327 (100.00%) Analytics
2 97 (29.66%) Agile
3 93 (28.44%) AI
4 82 (25.08%) Business Intelligence
5 74 (22.63%) Project Management
6 72 (22.02%) Data Analysis
6 72 (22.02%) Data Governance
7 70 (21.41%) Decision-Making
8 62 (18.96%) Problem-Solving
9 59 (18.04%) Data Modelling
9 59 (18.04%) Risk Management
10 58 (17.74%) Coaching
11 53 (16.21%) Internal Audit
12 43 (13.15%) ETL
12 43 (13.15%) Machine Learning
13 42 (12.84%) Data Engineering
14 41 (12.54%) Risk Assessment
15 40 (12.23%) Data Pipeline
15 40 (12.23%) Information Security
15 40 (12.23%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 99 (30.28%) Python
2 98 (29.97%) SQL
3 22 (6.73%) Scala
4 12 (3.67%) JavaScript
5 8 (2.45%) R
6 6 (1.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 5 (1.53%) Java
8 3 (0.92%) C#
9 2 (0.61%) C
9 2 (0.61%) Perl
9 2 (0.61%) PHP
10 1 (0.31%) C++
10 1 (0.31%) Go
10 1 (0.31%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.31%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.31%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.31%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 67 (20.49%) Degree
2 37 (11.31%) CISSP
3 36 (11.01%) CISA
4 34 (10.40%) CISM
5 26 (7.95%) CGEIT
5 26 (7.95%) FFIEC
5 26 (7.95%) SANS
6 18 (5.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (3.67%) Master's Degree
8 11 (3.36%) ACCA
9 10 (3.06%) Security Cleared
10 8 (2.45%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (1.83%) SC Cleared
12 5 (1.53%) AWS Certification
13 4 (1.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (1.22%) APMG
13 4 (1.22%) CCIE
13 4 (1.22%) CCNP
13 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (1.22%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (13.46%) Data Quality
2 37 (11.31%) GDPR
3 28 (8.56%) NIST
4 27 (8.26%) COBIT
5 9 (2.75%) MiFID
6 8 (2.45%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (2.14%) IFRS
7 7 (2.14%) PERC
8 6 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (1.22%) IFRS 17
10 3 (0.92%) ITGC
11 2 (0.61%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.61%) QA
12 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.31%) EMIR
12 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.31%) Solvency II
System Software
1 21 (6.42%) Docker
2 1 (0.31%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (6.12%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.06%) Terraform
3 7 (2.14%) EnCase
3 7 (2.14%) FTK
4 3 (0.92%) Ansible
5 2 (0.61%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 64 (19.57%) Microsoft
2 18 (5.50%) Oracle
3 17 (5.20%) Databricks
4 11 (3.36%) Cisco
4 11 (3.36%) Google
5 9 (2.75%) Red Hat
5 9 (2.75%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.14%) Cellebrite
7 6 (1.83%) Alteryx
7 6 (1.83%) Fortinet
7 6 (1.83%) Informatica
7 6 (1.83%) Palo Alto
8 5 (1.53%) GoldenSource
8 5 (1.53%) SAP
9 4 (1.22%) Arista
9 4 (1.22%) CheckPoint
9 4 (1.22%) F5
9 4 (1.22%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.22%) Talend
10 3 (0.92%) Refinitiv