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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 133 133
Rank change year-on-year +7 0 +14
Permanent jobs citing Data Analytics 344 357 503
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.01% 2.67% 2.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% 2.78% 2.51%
Number of salaries quoted 215 146 346
10th Percentile £35,000 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £65,625 £55,035
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +4.17%
75th Percentile £100,000 £99,375 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,264 £60,372 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.15% +0.62% -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 14,563 12,852 20,046
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 85.29% 96.19% 91.66%
Number of salaries quoted 9,463 7,581 15,888
10th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £54,250 £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 £115,000 £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 17 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 17 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 -55 46 £85,000 -2.86% 40
East London +11 32 £87,500 - 8
South London +40 11 £40,000 -30.43% 5
West London -3 11 £30,000 -52.00% 7
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 21 (6.10%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (5.52%) SAS
3 16 (4.65%) Apache Spark
4 12 (3.49%) Apache
5 3 (0.87%) Confluence
5 3 (0.87%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.29%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 51 (14.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.91%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.91%) SPSS
3 9 (2.62%) MS Visio
4 8 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.29%) Notion
Business Applications
1 5 (1.45%) 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 69 (20.06%) Power Platform
2 55 (15.99%) Azure
3 44 (12.79%) AWS
4 22 (6.40%) SaaS
5 21 (6.10%) GCP
6 15 (4.36%) Amazon S3
7 14 (4.07%) Snowflake
8 11 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (2.91%) dbt
9 10 (2.91%) Dropbox
10 9 (2.62%) OpenShift
11 8 (2.33%) GitHub
12 7 (2.03%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (1.74%) Azure Machine Learning
13 6 (1.74%) Fivetran
13 6 (1.74%) Serverless
14 5 (1.45%) Microsoft Purview
15 4 (1.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 4 (1.16%) Collibra
15 4 (1.16%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 24 (6.98%) CHAP
2 18 (5.23%) Broadband
3 2 (0.58%) Internet
3 2 (0.58%) Network Security
4 1 (0.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (19.77%) Power BI
2 54 (15.70%) Tableau
3 37 (10.76%) Data Warehouse
4 26 (7.56%) Data Mining
5 24 (6.98%) Big Data
6 13 (3.78%) Data Lake
7 11 (3.20%) Apache Hive
7 11 (3.20%) Impala
8 10 (2.91%) EDRMS
8 10 (2.91%) NoSQL
9 9 (2.62%) Oracle Database
9 9 (2.62%) Parquet
9 9 (2.62%) Spark SQL
9 9 (2.62%) SQL Server
10 8 (2.33%) Qlik Sense
10 8 (2.33%) Star Schema
11 7 (2.03%) BigQuery
11 7 (2.03%) Metadata
12 5 (1.45%) Power Query
12 5 (1.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (4.94%) Jenkins
1 17 (4.94%) TeamCity
2 15 (4.36%) Git
3 9 (2.62%) IBM UrbanCode
4 5 (1.45%) JIRA
4 5 (1.45%) MLflow
General
1 177 (51.45%) Finance
2 136 (39.53%) Social Skills
3 103 (29.94%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (17.44%) Banking
5 33 (9.59%) Marketing
6 32 (9.30%) Legal
7 31 (9.01%) Financial Institution
7 31 (9.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 26 (7.56%) Law
9 25 (7.27%) Retail
10 17 (4.94%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (4.07%) Investment Banking
12 11 (3.20%) Games
12 11 (3.20%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (2.91%) Front Office
13 10 (2.91%) Retail Banking
14 7 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (1.74%) Public Sector
16 5 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (1.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 91 (26.45%) Senior
2 84 (24.42%) Analyst
3 53 (15.41%) Data Analyst
4 43 (12.50%) Auditor
5 30 (8.72%) Data Engineer
6 28 (8.14%) Senior Manager
7 25 (7.27%) Internal Auditor
8 23 (6.69%) Architect
8 23 (6.69%) Security Auditor
8 23 (6.69%) Trainee
8 23 (6.69%) Trainee Analyst
8 23 (6.69%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 22 (6.40%) Audit Manager
10 21 (6.10%) Business Analyst
10 21 (6.10%) Senior Analyst
11 17 (4.94%) Lead
12 14 (4.07%) IT Auditor
12 14 (4.07%) Senior Audit Manager
12 14 (4.07%) Senior Auditor
13 13 (3.78%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (5.52%) PySpark
2 17 (4.94%) Akka
3 9 (2.62%) Pandas
4 5 (1.45%) React
5 4 (1.16%) CSS
5 4 (1.16%) HTML
6 2 (0.58%) Kafka
6 2 (0.58%) Middleware
6 2 (0.58%) Streamlit
6 2 (0.58%) XML
7 1 (0.29%) JSON
7 1 (0.29%) LangChain
7 1 (0.29%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 39 (11.34%) Management Information System
2 22 (6.40%) Self-Motivation
3 21 (6.10%) Onboarding
4 18 (5.23%) Video\Live Streaming
5 17 (4.94%) Over-the-Top Content
6 16 (4.65%) Algorithms
7 15 (4.36%) Product Ownership
8 14 (4.07%) Blockchain
9 10 (2.91%) Cybercrime
9 10 (2.91%) Fixed Income
10 6 (1.74%) Cloud Native
10 6 (1.74%) Derivative
10 6 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.74%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.45%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.45%) OTC Derivatives
12 4 (1.16%) Cyber Defence
12 4 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (1.16%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.03%) Unix
2 5 (1.45%) Linux
2 5 (1.45%) Windows
3 2 (0.58%) AIX
4 1 (0.29%) Android
4 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 344 (100.00%) Analytics
2 98 (28.49%) Agile
2 98 (28.49%) AI
3 93 (27.03%) Business Intelligence
4 78 (22.67%) Decision-Making
5 76 (22.09%) Project Management
6 71 (20.64%) Data Analysis
6 71 (20.64%) Data Governance
7 66 (19.19%) Risk Management
8 63 (18.31%) Data Modelling
9 56 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
10 54 (15.70%) Coaching
11 53 (15.41%) Internal Audit
12 47 (13.66%) Information Security
13 46 (13.37%) ETL
14 44 (12.79%) Cybersecurity
15 42 (12.21%) Machine Learning
15 42 (12.21%) Scrum
16 41 (11.92%) Visualisation
17 40 (11.63%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 118 (34.30%) Python
2 110 (31.98%) SQL
3 21 (6.10%) Scala
4 10 (2.91%) JavaScript
5 9 (2.62%) R
6 7 (2.03%) Java
7 5 (1.45%) 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 75 (21.80%) Degree
2 40 (11.63%) CISA
3 39 (11.34%) CISSP
4 35 (10.17%) CISM
5 24 (6.98%) CGEIT
5 24 (6.98%) FFIEC
5 24 (6.98%) SANS
6 17 (4.94%) Master's Degree
7 15 (4.36%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (4.07%) ACCA
9 12 (3.49%) Security Cleared
10 9 (2.62%) PhD
11 7 (2.03%) AWS Certification
12 6 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (1.74%) CRISC
12 6 (1.74%) SC Cleared
13 4 (1.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (1.16%) Azure Certification
14 3 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.87%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (14.83%) Data Quality
2 29 (8.43%) GDPR
3 26 (7.56%) NIST
4 25 (7.27%) COBIT
5 12 (3.49%) IFRS
5 12 (3.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (2.91%) MiFID
7 9 (2.62%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (1.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (1.16%) IFRS 17
11 3 (0.87%) ITGC
11 3 (0.87%) QA
12 2 (0.58%) Accessibility
13 1 (0.29%) EMIR
13 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.29%) PERC
System Software
1 21 (6.10%) Docker
2 1 (0.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (5.81%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.20%) Terraform
3 8 (2.33%) EnCase
3 8 (2.33%) FTK
4 2 (0.58%) Ansible
Vendors
1 68 (19.77%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.52%) Oracle
3 17 (4.94%) Databricks
4 14 (4.07%) Salesforce
5 9 (2.62%) Google
5 9 (2.62%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.33%) Cellebrite
6 8 (2.33%) Cisco
7 7 (2.03%) Informatica
8 6 (1.74%) Alteryx
8 6 (1.74%) Fortinet
8 6 (1.74%) GoldenSource
8 6 (1.74%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.16%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (1.16%) SAP
9 4 (1.16%) Talend
10 3 (0.87%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.58%) EMC
11 2 (0.58%) HP
11 2 (0.58%) IBM