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 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 139 133
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 +17
Permanent jobs citing Data Analytics 343 367 497
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.07% 2.58% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.42% 2.69% 2.52%
Number of salaries quoted 209 144 349
10th Percentile £35,000 £47,875 £46,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £62,188 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +0.84%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £118,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -7.69%

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 14,196 13,664 19,701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 85.77% 95.96% 91.69%
Number of salaries quoted 9,179 7,731 15,750
10th Percentile £38,000 £42,826 £39,085
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,390 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.52% +3.99% -3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -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 6 March 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 6 March 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 -44 45 £85,000 -1.45% 35
East London +14 28 £87,500 - 10
South London +41 11 £40,000 -30.43% 2
West London -2 11 £30,000 -52.00% 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 19 (5.54%) Apache Airflow
1 19 (5.54%) SAS
2 16 (4.66%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.50%) Apache
4 3 (0.87%) Confluence
4 3 (0.87%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.29%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 54 (15.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (3.21%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (2.92%) SPSS
4 8 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (2.33%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.29%) Notion
Business Applications
1 5 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.87%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.58%) Relativity
4 1 (0.29%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 77 (22.45%) Power Platform
2 57 (16.62%) Azure
3 48 (13.99%) AWS
4 22 (6.41%) GCP
4 22 (6.41%) SaaS
5 15 (4.37%) Amazon S3
6 12 (3.50%) Snowflake
7 11 (3.21%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (2.92%) Dropbox
9 9 (2.62%) dbt
10 8 (2.33%) GitHub
10 8 (2.33%) OpenShift
11 7 (2.04%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (1.75%) Fivetran
12 6 (1.75%) Serverless
13 5 (1.46%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (1.46%) Azure Machine Learning
14 4 (1.17%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (1.17%) Matillion
14 4 (1.17%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 22 (6.41%) CHAP
2 18 (5.25%) Broadband
3 2 (0.58%) Internet
3 2 (0.58%) Network Security
4 1 (0.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (22.16%) Power BI
2 57 (16.62%) Tableau
3 35 (10.20%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (7.29%) Big Data
4 25 (7.29%) Data Mining
5 13 (3.79%) Data Lake
6 10 (2.92%) Apache Hive
6 10 (2.92%) EDRMS
6 10 (2.92%) Impala
6 10 (2.92%) NoSQL
6 10 (2.92%) Qlik Sense
7 9 (2.62%) SQL Server
8 8 (2.33%) Oracle Database
8 8 (2.33%) Parquet
8 8 (2.33%) Spark SQL
8 8 (2.33%) Star Schema
9 7 (2.04%) Metadata
10 6 (1.75%) Hadoop
10 6 (1.75%) Looker
10 6 (1.75%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 17 (4.96%) Jenkins
1 17 (4.96%) TeamCity
2 14 (4.08%) Git
3 8 (2.33%) IBM UrbanCode
4 5 (1.46%) JIRA
5 4 (1.17%) MLflow
General
1 177 (51.60%) Finance
2 134 (39.07%) Social Skills
3 99 (28.86%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (16.62%) Banking
5 34 (9.91%) Legal
6 33 (9.62%) Marketing
7 31 (9.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 29 (8.45%) Financial Institution
9 27 (7.87%) Law
10 22 (6.41%) Retail
11 18 (5.25%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (3.79%) Investment Banking
13 12 (3.50%) Front Office
14 11 (3.21%) Games
15 10 (2.92%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (2.33%) Retail Banking
17 7 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
18 6 (1.75%) Public Sector
19 5 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
19 5 (1.46%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 93 (27.11%) Senior
2 83 (24.20%) Analyst
3 54 (15.74%) Data Analyst
4 40 (11.66%) Auditor
5 35 (10.20%) Data Engineer
6 30 (8.75%) Senior Manager
7 24 (7.00%) Audit Manager
7 24 (7.00%) Internal Auditor
8 23 (6.71%) Senior Analyst
9 22 (6.41%) Architect
9 22 (6.41%) Trainee
9 22 (6.41%) Trainee Analyst
9 22 (6.41%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 21 (6.12%) Security Auditor
11 20 (5.83%) Business Analyst
12 16 (4.66%) Lead
13 15 (4.37%) Senior Audit Manager
14 13 (3.79%) Developer
14 13 (3.79%) IT Auditor
14 13 (3.79%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.25%) PySpark
2 17 (4.96%) Akka
3 9 (2.62%) Pandas
4 5 (1.46%) React
5 3 (0.87%) CSS
5 3 (0.87%) HTML
6 2 (0.58%) LangChain
6 2 (0.58%) Middleware
6 2 (0.58%) Streamlit
6 2 (0.58%) XML
7 1 (0.29%) JSON
7 1 (0.29%) Kafka
7 1 (0.29%) LangGraph
7 1 (0.29%) LlamaIndex
7 1 (0.29%) Next.js
7 1 (0.29%) NumPy
7 1 (0.29%) scikit-learn
7 1 (0.29%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 37 (10.79%) Management Information System
2 23 (6.71%) Self-Motivation
3 18 (5.25%) Onboarding
3 18 (5.25%) Video\Live Streaming
4 17 (4.96%) Algorithms
4 17 (4.96%) Over-the-Top Content
5 15 (4.37%) Product Ownership
6 13 (3.79%) Blockchain
7 10 (2.92%) Cybercrime
7 10 (2.92%) Fixed Income
8 6 (1.75%) Derivative
8 6 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.75%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.46%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.46%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.46%) OTC Derivatives
9 5 (1.46%) Reinsurance
10 4 (1.17%) Cyber Defence
10 4 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.17%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.33%) Unix
2 6 (1.75%) Linux
2 6 (1.75%) Windows
3 2 (0.58%) AIX
4 1 (0.29%) Android
4 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 343 (100.00%) Analytics
2 99 (28.86%) AI
2 99 (28.86%) Business Intelligence
3 93 (27.11%) Agile
4 79 (23.03%) Decision-Making
5 73 (21.28%) Project Management
6 67 (19.53%) Data Analysis
6 67 (19.53%) Data Governance
7 66 (19.24%) Risk Management
8 64 (18.66%) Data Modelling
9 55 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
10 53 (15.45%) Coaching
11 50 (14.58%) Internal Audit
12 49 (14.29%) Visualisation
13 46 (13.41%) Cybersecurity
13 46 (13.41%) Information Security
14 45 (13.12%) ETL
15 43 (12.54%) Machine Learning
16 41 (11.95%) Scrum
17 39 (11.37%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 123 (35.86%) Python
2 112 (32.65%) SQL
3 22 (6.41%) Scala
4 11 (3.21%) JavaScript
5 10 (2.92%) R
6 8 (2.33%) Java
7 6 (1.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (0.87%) C#
9 2 (0.58%) C
9 2 (0.58%) Perl
9 2 (0.58%) PHP
10 1 (0.29%) C++
10 1 (0.29%) Go
10 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.29%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.29%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.29%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 76 (22.16%) Degree
2 42 (12.24%) CISA
3 41 (11.95%) CISSP
4 36 (10.50%) CISM
5 22 (6.41%) CGEIT
5 22 (6.41%) FFIEC
5 22 (6.41%) SANS
6 17 (4.96%) Master's Degree
7 16 (4.66%) ACCA
8 14 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (3.50%) Security Cleared
10 9 (2.62%) CRISC
10 9 (2.62%) PhD
11 8 (2.33%) AWS Certification
12 6 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (1.75%) SC Cleared
13 4 (1.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (1.17%) CIMA
14 3 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.87%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (14.87%) Data Quality
2 27 (7.87%) GDPR
3 26 (7.58%) NIST
4 25 (7.29%) COBIT
5 17 (4.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (3.79%) IFRS
7 10 (2.92%) MiFID
8 9 (2.62%) Actionable Recommendations
9 7 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (1.46%) ITGC
10 5 (1.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (1.17%) IFRS 17
12 3 (0.87%) QA
13 2 (0.58%) Accessibility
13 2 (0.58%) GRC
14 1 (0.29%) EMIR
14 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (6.41%) Docker
2 1 (0.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (6.12%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.92%) Terraform
3 8 (2.33%) EnCase
3 8 (2.33%) FTK
4 2 (0.58%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 67 (19.53%) Microsoft
2 18 (5.25%) Databricks
2 18 (5.25%) Oracle
3 13 (3.79%) Salesforce
4 9 (2.62%) Google
5 8 (2.33%) Cellebrite
5 8 (2.33%) Cisco
5 8 (2.33%) Red Hat
6 7 (2.04%) Alteryx
6 7 (2.04%) Informatica
7 6 (1.75%) Fortinet
7 6 (1.75%) Palo Alto
8 5 (1.46%) GoldenSource
9 4 (1.17%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (1.17%) SAP
9 4 (1.17%) Talend
10 3 (0.87%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.58%) Arista
11 2 (0.58%) F5
11 2 (0.58%) Nuix