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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 136 128
Rank change year-on-year +7 -8 +26
Permanent jobs citing Data Analytics 340 342 508
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.93% 2.66% 2.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.27% 2.76% 2.50%
Number of salaries quoted 216 131 345
10th Percentile £35,000 £53,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,188 £68,125 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +3.45%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -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 14,953 12,378 20,360
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 84.82% 96.30% 91.58%
Number of salaries quoted 9,732 7,514 15,931
10th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £38,503
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 £113,750 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 27 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 27 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 -64 46 £92,500 +5.71% 36
East London +11 33 £87,500 - 8
South London +41 11 £40,000 -30.43% 3
West London -5 11 £30,000 -52.00% 8
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 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (5.00%) SAS
3 15 (4.41%) Apache Spark
4 11 (3.24%) Apache
5 3 (0.88%) Confluence
5 3 (0.88%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.29%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 49 (14.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (2.65%) MS Visio
3 9 (2.65%) SPSS
4 8 (2.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.29%) Notion
Business Applications
1 5 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.59%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.59%) Relativity
Cloud Services
1 66 (19.41%) Power Platform
2 53 (15.59%) Azure
3 41 (12.06%) AWS
4 22 (6.47%) GCP
5 21 (6.18%) SaaS
6 15 (4.41%) Snowflake
7 14 (4.12%) Amazon S3
8 10 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (2.65%) dbt
9 9 (2.65%) Dropbox
9 9 (2.65%) OpenShift
10 8 (2.35%) GitHub
11 6 (1.76%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (1.76%) Azure Machine Learning
11 6 (1.76%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (1.47%) Fivetran
12 5 (1.47%) Serverless
13 4 (1.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 4 (1.18%) Collibra
13 4 (1.18%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 25 (7.35%) CHAP
2 18 (5.29%) Broadband
3 3 (0.88%) Network Security
4 2 (0.59%) Internet
5 1 (0.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (19.12%) Power BI
2 56 (16.47%) Tableau
3 35 (10.29%) Data Warehouse
4 26 (7.65%) Data Mining
5 23 (6.76%) Big Data
6 11 (3.24%) Apache Hive
6 11 (3.24%) Data Lake
6 11 (3.24%) Impala
7 10 (2.94%) BigQuery
7 10 (2.94%) NoSQL
8 9 (2.65%) EDRMS
8 9 (2.65%) Metadata
8 9 (2.65%) Oracle Database
8 9 (2.65%) Parquet
8 9 (2.65%) Spark SQL
9 8 (2.35%) SQL Server
10 7 (2.06%) Qlik Sense
10 7 (2.06%) Star Schema
11 5 (1.47%) Power Query
11 5 (1.47%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (5.00%) Jenkins
1 17 (5.00%) TeamCity
2 14 (4.12%) Git
3 9 (2.65%) IBM UrbanCode
4 5 (1.47%) JIRA
5 4 (1.18%) MLflow
General
1 169 (49.71%) Finance
2 132 (38.82%) Social Skills
3 108 (31.76%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (17.65%) Banking
5 36 (10.59%) Marketing
6 31 (9.12%) Financial Institution
7 30 (8.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 29 (8.53%) Retail
9 27 (7.94%) Legal
10 23 (6.76%) Law
11 13 (3.82%) Investment Banking
11 13 (3.82%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (3.24%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (2.94%) Retail Banking
14 9 (2.65%) Games
15 8 (2.35%) Front Office
16 7 (2.06%) Public Sector
17 6 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
17 6 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
17 6 (1.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 87 (25.59%) Senior
2 82 (24.12%) Analyst
3 50 (14.71%) Data Analyst
4 44 (12.94%) Auditor
5 28 (8.24%) Data Engineer
6 26 (7.65%) Internal Auditor
7 24 (7.06%) Security Auditor
7 24 (7.06%) Senior Manager
8 23 (6.76%) Trainee
8 23 (6.76%) Trainee Analyst
8 23 (6.76%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 22 (6.47%) Architect
10 21 (6.18%) Lead
11 20 (5.88%) Audit Manager
11 20 (5.88%) Business Analyst
11 20 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
12 14 (4.12%) IT Auditor
12 14 (4.12%) Senior Auditor
13 13 (3.82%) Developer
13 13 (3.82%) Senior Audit Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.29%) PySpark
2 17 (5.00%) Akka
3 9 (2.65%) Pandas
4 7 (2.06%) CSS
4 7 (2.06%) HTML
5 5 (1.47%) React
6 2 (0.59%) Kafka
6 2 (0.59%) Middleware
6 2 (0.59%) Streamlit
6 2 (0.59%) XML
7 1 (0.29%) JSON
7 1 (0.29%) LangChain
7 1 (0.29%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 40 (11.76%) Management Information System
2 25 (7.35%) Onboarding
3 18 (5.29%) Video\Live Streaming
4 17 (5.00%) Over-the-Top Content
5 16 (4.71%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (4.41%) Product Ownership
7 14 (4.12%) Blockchain
8 11 (3.24%) Algorithms
9 9 (2.65%) Cybercrime
9 9 (2.65%) Fixed Income
10 7 (2.06%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.76%) Cloud Native
11 6 (1.76%) Derivative
11 6 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.47%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.47%) OTC Derivatives
12 5 (1.47%) Virtual Team
13 4 (1.18%) Cyber Defence
13 4 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
13 4 (1.18%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.06%) Unix
2 5 (1.47%) Linux
2 5 (1.47%) Windows
3 2 (0.59%) AIX
4 1 (0.29%) Android
4 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 340 (100.00%) Analytics
2 100 (29.41%) AI
3 98 (28.82%) Agile
4 92 (27.06%) Business Intelligence
5 77 (22.65%) Project Management
6 73 (21.47%) Decision-Making
7 72 (21.18%) Data Analysis
7 72 (21.18%) Data Governance
8 63 (18.53%) Risk Management
9 61 (17.94%) Data Modelling
10 58 (17.06%) Problem-Solving
11 57 (16.76%) Coaching
12 53 (15.59%) Internal Audit
13 45 (13.24%) ETL
14 44 (12.94%) Information Security
15 42 (12.35%) Cybersecurity
16 41 (12.06%) Machine Learning
16 41 (12.06%) Scrum
17 40 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 40 (11.76%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 111 (32.65%) Python
2 110 (32.35%) SQL
3 22 (6.47%) Scala
4 12 (3.53%) JavaScript
5 9 (2.65%) R
6 6 (1.76%) Java
7 5 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (0.88%) C#
9 2 (0.59%) C
9 2 (0.59%) Perl
9 2 (0.59%) 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 (22.35%) Degree
2 38 (11.18%) CISA
2 38 (11.18%) CISSP
3 34 (10.00%) CISM
4 25 (7.35%) CGEIT
4 25 (7.35%) FFIEC
4 25 (7.35%) SANS
5 16 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (4.41%) Master's Degree
7 13 (3.82%) ACCA
8 12 (3.53%) Security Cleared
9 7 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (2.06%) PhD
10 6 (1.76%) AWS Certification
10 6 (1.76%) SC Cleared
11 4 (1.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (1.18%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.88%) APMG
12 3 (0.88%) CRISC
12 3 (0.88%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (13.82%) Data Quality
2 33 (9.71%) GDPR
3 27 (7.94%) NIST
4 26 (7.65%) COBIT
5 10 (2.94%) IFRS
6 9 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (2.65%) MiFID
7 8 (2.35%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (1.18%) IFRS 17
8 4 (1.18%) PERC
9 3 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.88%) ITGC
9 3 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.59%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.59%) QA
11 1 (0.29%) EMIR
11 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (5.88%) Docker
2 1 (0.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (5.59%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.65%) Terraform
3 7 (2.06%) EnCase
3 7 (2.06%) FTK
4 2 (0.59%) Ansible
4 2 (0.59%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 70 (20.59%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.59%) Oracle
3 17 (5.00%) Databricks
4 12 (3.53%) Salesforce
5 9 (2.65%) Cisco
5 9 (2.65%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.35%) Google
7 7 (2.06%) Cellebrite
7 7 (2.06%) Fortinet
7 7 (2.06%) Informatica
7 7 (2.06%) Palo Alto
8 6 (1.76%) Alteryx
9 5 (1.47%) GoldenSource
10 4 (1.18%) CrowdStrike
10 4 (1.18%) SAP
10 4 (1.18%) Talend
11 3 (0.88%) Arista
11 3 (0.88%) Bloomberg
11 3 (0.88%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.88%) Refinitiv