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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 142 153
Rank change year-on-year -28 +11 -12
Permanent jobs citing Data Analytics 288 305 496
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.39% 2.47% 2.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.71% 2.58% 2.33%
Number of salaries quoted 182 111 324
10th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £58,199 £60,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £72,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -0.69%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £59,886 £60,743 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.41% +1.24% -10.45%

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 16,794 11,837 21,312
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.32% 96.01% 90.93%
Number of salaries quoted 11,297 7,212 15,917
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,456 £51,351
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,001
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £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 19 May 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 May 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 -63 42 £97,500 +11.43% 37
East London +16 29 £87,500 - 6
West London -5 15 £50,000 -20.00% 12
South London +26 10 £41,375 -60.60% 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 18 (6.25%) SAS
2 15 (5.21%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (5.21%) Apache Spark
3 10 (3.47%) Apache
4 2 (0.69%) Confluence
5 1 (0.35%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 32 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (3.82%) SPSS
3 9 (3.13%) MS Visio
4 6 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.35%) Maximo
2 1 (0.35%) Relativity
2 1 (0.35%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 55 (19.10%) Power Platform
2 40 (13.89%) Azure
3 27 (9.38%) AWS
4 20 (6.94%) GCP
5 12 (4.17%) Amazon S3
6 10 (3.47%) Dropbox
6 10 (3.47%) Snowflake
7 9 (3.13%) Azure Machine Learning
7 9 (3.13%) OpenShift
7 9 (3.13%) SaaS
8 7 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (2.43%) Microsoft Purview
9 6 (2.08%) dbt
9 6 (2.08%) GitHub
9 6 (2.08%) Power Automate
10 5 (1.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (1.39%) Google Analytics
11 4 (1.39%) Serverless
12 3 (1.04%) IaaS
12 3 (1.04%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (7.99%) CHAP
2 17 (5.90%) Broadband
3 4 (1.39%) Network Security
4 2 (0.69%) Internet
5 1 (0.35%) Skype
5 1 (0.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (18.40%) Power BI
2 49 (17.01%) Tableau
3 23 (7.99%) Big Data
3 23 (7.99%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (5.90%) Data Mining
5 12 (4.17%) BigQuery
6 11 (3.82%) Apache Hive
6 11 (3.82%) EDRMS
6 11 (3.82%) Impala
7 9 (3.13%) Oracle Database
7 9 (3.13%) Parquet
7 9 (3.13%) Spark SQL
8 8 (2.78%) Data Lake
9 6 (2.08%) Delta Lake
9 6 (2.08%) Metadata
10 5 (1.74%) NoSQL
11 4 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.39%) Looker
11 4 (1.39%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.39%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (5.56%) Jenkins
1 16 (5.56%) TeamCity
2 10 (3.47%) Git
3 9 (3.13%) IBM UrbanCode
4 5 (1.74%) MLflow
5 4 (1.39%) JIRA
General
1 140 (48.61%) Finance
2 107 (37.15%) Social Skills
3 88 (30.56%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (19.79%) Banking
5 38 (13.19%) Marketing
6 32 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 29 (10.07%) Financial Institution
7 29 (10.07%) Retail
8 22 (7.64%) Law
9 21 (7.29%) Legal
10 13 (4.51%) Investment Banking
11 11 (3.82%) Retail Banking
12 10 (3.47%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (3.13%) Telecoms
14 7 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (2.43%) Public Sector
15 6 (2.08%) Aerospace
15 6 (2.08%) Games
16 5 (1.74%) French Language
Job Titles
1 72 (25.00%) Senior
2 67 (23.26%) Analyst
3 39 (13.54%) Auditor
4 38 (13.19%) Data Analyst
5 27 (9.38%) Architect
6 22 (7.64%) Security Auditor
7 20 (6.94%) Data Engineer
7 20 (6.94%) Internal Auditor
8 18 (6.25%) Lead
9 16 (5.56%) Trainee
9 16 (5.56%) Trainee Analyst
9 16 (5.56%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 15 (5.21%) Business Analyst
10 15 (5.21%) Senior Analyst
11 14 (4.86%) Data Manager
11 14 (4.86%) Senior Auditor
12 12 (4.17%) Consultant
12 12 (4.17%) Data Architect
12 12 (4.17%) IT Auditor
12 12 (4.17%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.25%) PySpark
2 16 (5.56%) Akka
3 12 (4.17%) CSS
3 12 (4.17%) HTML
4 9 (3.13%) Pandas
5 5 (1.74%) .NET
6 4 (1.39%) .NET Core
6 4 (1.39%) ASP.NET
6 4 (1.39%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (1.04%) Kafka
7 3 (1.04%) Middleware
8 2 (0.69%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.69%) Entity Framework
8 2 (0.69%) SubSonic
8 2 (0.69%) Vue
9 1 (0.35%) .NET Framework
9 1 (0.35%) LangChain
9 1 (0.35%) Next.js
9 1 (0.35%) React
9 1 (0.35%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 36 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 18 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 17 (5.90%) Video\Live Streaming
4 16 (5.56%) Over-the-Top Content
5 12 (4.17%) Blockchain
6 11 (3.82%) Cybercrime
7 10 (3.47%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (2.78%) Data Structures
9 7 (2.43%) Product Ownership
9 7 (2.43%) Social Media
10 6 (2.08%) Derivative
10 6 (2.08%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.74%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.74%) Fixed Income
11 5 (1.74%) OTC Derivatives
11 5 (1.74%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.39%) Cyber Defence
12 4 (1.39%) Digital Media
12 4 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.74%) Unix
2 3 (1.04%) AIX
2 3 (1.04%) Windows
3 2 (0.69%) Linux
4 1 (0.35%) Android
4 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 288 (100.00%) Analytics
2 85 (29.51%) Agile
3 83 (28.82%) AI
4 75 (26.04%) Business Intelligence
5 59 (20.49%) Data Governance
6 58 (20.14%) Data Analysis
7 56 (19.44%) Project Management
8 55 (19.10%) Problem-Solving
9 54 (18.75%) Decision-Making
10 50 (17.36%) Data Modelling
10 50 (17.36%) Risk Management
11 49 (17.01%) Coaching
12 48 (16.67%) Internal Audit
13 42 (14.58%) Machine Learning
14 39 (13.54%) Information Security
15 38 (13.19%) Risk Assessment
16 37 (12.85%) Validation
17 34 (11.81%) Data Engineering
17 34 (11.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 33 (11.46%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 89 (30.90%) SQL
2 82 (28.47%) Python
3 19 (6.60%) Scala
4 8 (2.78%) C#
4 8 (2.78%) JavaScript
5 5 (1.74%) Java
5 5 (1.74%) R
6 4 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (1.39%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.04%) C
8 2 (0.69%) Perl
8 2 (0.69%) VBA
9 1 (0.35%) C++
9 1 (0.35%) PHP
9 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.35%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 63 (21.88%) Degree
2 31 (10.76%) CISSP
3 30 (10.42%) CISA
3 30 (10.42%) CISM
4 23 (7.99%) CGEIT
4 23 (7.99%) FFIEC
4 23 (7.99%) SANS
5 14 (4.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (3.82%) Master's Degree
7 10 (3.47%) Security Cleared
8 7 (2.43%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (2.08%) ACCA
9 6 (2.08%) SC Cleared
10 4 (1.39%) APMG
10 4 (1.39%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.39%) CCIE
10 4 (1.39%) CCNP
10 4 (1.39%) CCSE
10 4 (1.39%) PhD
11 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (14.24%) Data Quality
2 32 (11.11%) GDPR
3 25 (8.68%) COBIT
4 24 (8.33%) NIST
5 8 (2.78%) QA
6 7 (2.43%) PERC
7 6 (2.08%) MiFID
8 5 (1.74%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (1.39%) IFRS
9 4 (1.39%) IFRS 17
10 3 (1.04%) Accessibility
10 3 (1.04%) ITGC
11 1 (0.35%) COSO
11 1 (0.35%) EMIR
11 1 (0.35%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.35%) Solvency II
System Software
1 21 (7.29%) Docker
2 3 (1.04%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.04%) IAG
Systems Management
1 21 (7.29%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.47%) EnCase
2 10 (3.47%) FTK
3 8 (2.78%) Terraform
4 3 (1.04%) Ansible
5 2 (0.69%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 50 (17.36%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.51%) Databricks
2 13 (4.51%) Oracle
3 11 (3.82%) Cisco
4 10 (3.47%) Cellebrite
5 9 (3.13%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.78%) Google
6 8 (2.78%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.74%) Alteryx
8 4 (1.39%) Arista
8 4 (1.39%) CheckPoint
8 4 (1.39%) F5
8 4 (1.39%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.39%) Informatica
8 4 (1.39%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.39%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.39%) SAP
9 3 (1.04%) Ariba
9 3 (1.04%) Citrix
9 3 (1.04%) Talend