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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 130 168
Rank change year-on-year -49 +38 -38
Permanent jobs citing Data Analytics 290 323 495
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.34% 2.65% 2.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 2.77% 2.25%
Number of salaries quoted 186 109 313
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,100 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% +6.90% -3.33%
75th Percentile £99,375 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,484 £60,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.03% +0.83% -11.11%

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 17,595 11,649 21,974
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.57% 95.70% 88.87%
Number of salaries quoted 12,024 7,025 16,134
10th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,687 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £123,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 20 June 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 20 June 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 -75 38 £100,000 +33.33% 22
East London - 24 £87,500 - 3
West London +2 17 £50,000 -20.00% 6
South London +27 9 £30,000 -71.43% 2
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 (6.90%) SAS
2 15 (5.17%) Apache Spark
3 14 (4.83%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (3.10%) Apache
5 2 (0.69%) Confluence
5 2 (0.69%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.34%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 25 (8.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (4.83%) SPSS
3 9 (3.10%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.03%) Relativity
1 3 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.34%) Maximo
2 1 (0.34%) SAP IBP
2 1 (0.34%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 59 (20.34%) Power Platform
2 40 (13.79%) Azure
3 31 (10.69%) AWS
4 19 (6.55%) GCP
5 14 (4.83%) Snowflake
6 11 (3.79%) Amazon S3
6 11 (3.79%) Dropbox
7 10 (3.45%) GitHub
8 9 (3.10%) Azure Machine Learning
8 9 (3.10%) Microsoft Purview
8 9 (3.10%) OpenShift
9 7 (2.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 7 (2.41%) dbt
10 6 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.72%) Power Automate
11 5 (1.72%) Serverless
12 4 (1.38%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (1.38%) GitHub Copilot
13 3 (1.03%) Azure AI
13 3 (1.03%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.55%) CHAP
2 17 (5.86%) Broadband
3 5 (1.72%) Network Security
4 2 (0.69%) Internet
5 1 (0.34%) DSL
5 1 (0.34%) Skype
5 1 (0.34%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (19.66%) Power BI
2 41 (14.14%) Tableau
3 23 (7.93%) Big Data
4 21 (7.24%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (4.83%) EDRMS
6 10 (3.45%) Apache Hive
6 10 (3.45%) BigQuery
6 10 (3.45%) Impala
6 10 (3.45%) Oracle Database
7 9 (3.10%) Data Mining
7 9 (3.10%) Parquet
7 9 (3.10%) Spark SQL
8 8 (2.76%) Data Lake
8 8 (2.76%) MongoDB
9 7 (2.41%) Metadata
10 6 (2.07%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (2.07%) Delta Lake
11 5 (1.72%) Relational Database
12 4 (1.38%) NoSQL
12 4 (1.38%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (6.55%) Jenkins
2 16 (5.52%) TeamCity
3 10 (3.45%) Git
4 9 (3.10%) IBM UrbanCode
5 5 (1.72%) MLflow
6 4 (1.38%) JIRA
General
1 144 (49.66%) Finance
2 108 (37.24%) Social Skills
3 81 (27.93%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (16.55%) Banking
5 40 (13.79%) Marketing
6 31 (10.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 28 (9.66%) Retail
8 27 (9.31%) Financial Institution
9 25 (8.62%) Legal
10 18 (6.21%) Law
11 14 (4.83%) Legal Technology
12 13 (4.48%) Investment Banking
13 11 (3.79%) Retail Banking
14 9 (3.10%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (3.10%) Telecoms
15 8 (2.76%) Aerospace
16 7 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
17 6 (2.07%) Public Sector
18 5 (1.72%) French Language
Job Titles
1 70 (24.14%) Analyst
1 70 (24.14%) Senior
2 41 (14.14%) Data Analyst
3 36 (12.41%) Auditor
4 31 (10.69%) Architect
5 21 (7.24%) Lead
6 19 (6.55%) Security Auditor
7 16 (5.52%) Business Analyst
7 16 (5.52%) Data Engineer
7 16 (5.52%) Data Manager
7 16 (5.52%) Internal Auditor
7 16 (5.52%) Senior Analyst
8 14 (4.83%) Data Architect
8 14 (4.83%) Senior Auditor
8 14 (4.83%) Solutions Architect
9 12 (4.14%) Consultant
9 12 (4.14%) Developer
9 12 (4.14%) IT Auditor
10 11 (3.79%) Audit Manager
10 11 (3.79%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.52%) Akka
2 14 (4.83%) CSS
2 14 (4.83%) HTML
2 14 (4.83%) PySpark
3 9 (3.10%) Pandas
4 7 (2.41%) .NET
5 6 (2.07%) .NET Core
5 6 (2.07%) ASP.NET
5 6 (2.07%) ASP.NET Core
6 4 (1.38%) AngularJS
6 4 (1.38%) Kafka
6 4 (1.38%) SubSonic
6 4 (1.38%) Vue
7 3 (1.03%) Middleware
8 2 (0.69%) Entity Framework
9 1 (0.34%) .NET Framework
9 1 (0.34%) Next.js
9 1 (0.34%) React
9 1 (0.34%) Snowpark
9 1 (0.34%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 34 (11.72%) Management Information System
2 18 (6.21%) Onboarding
3 17 (5.86%) Video\Live Streaming
4 16 (5.52%) Over-the-Top Content
5 14 (4.83%) Cybercrime
6 10 (3.45%) Blockchain
6 10 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (3.10%) Data Structures
8 8 (2.76%) Social Media
9 6 (2.07%) Cloud Native
10 5 (1.72%) Derivative
10 5 (1.72%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.72%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.38%) Cyber Defence
11 4 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.38%) Digital Media
11 4 (1.38%) Fixed Income
11 4 (1.38%) OTC Derivatives
11 4 (1.38%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.03%) AIX
1 3 (1.03%) Unix
1 3 (1.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 290 (100.00%) Analytics
2 94 (32.41%) AI
3 81 (27.93%) Business Intelligence
4 80 (27.59%) Agile
5 59 (20.34%) Data Governance
6 52 (17.93%) Machine Learning
7 51 (17.59%) Data Analysis
7 51 (17.59%) Data Modelling
8 50 (17.24%) Decision-Making
8 50 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
9 46 (15.86%) Risk Management
10 45 (15.52%) Project Management
11 43 (14.83%) Internal Audit
12 41 (14.14%) Coaching
12 41 (14.14%) Information Security
13 37 (12.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 34 (11.72%) Risk Assessment
14 34 (11.72%) Validation
15 33 (11.38%) Computer Science
15 33 (11.38%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 93 (32.07%) SQL
2 67 (23.10%) Python
3 18 (6.21%) Scala
4 10 (3.45%) C#
5 8 (2.76%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 6 (2.07%) TypeScript
7 4 (1.38%) R
7 4 (1.38%) VBA
8 3 (1.03%) Java
9 1 (0.34%) Ada
9 1 (0.34%) C
9 1 (0.34%) C++
9 1 (0.34%) PHP
9 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.34%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 63 (21.72%) Degree
2 28 (9.66%) CISA
2 28 (9.66%) CISSP
3 26 (8.97%) CISM
4 19 (6.55%) CGEIT
4 19 (6.55%) FFIEC
4 19 (6.55%) SANS
5 13 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.10%) Security Cleared
7 7 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (2.07%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.72%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.72%) SC Cleared
10 4 (1.38%) APMG
10 4 (1.38%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.38%) CCIE
10 4 (1.38%) CCNP
10 4 (1.38%) CCSE
11 3 (1.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.03%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (13.45%) Data Quality
2 28 (9.66%) GDPR
3 21 (7.24%) COBIT
3 21 (7.24%) NIST
4 11 (3.79%) QA
5 7 (2.41%) PERC
6 4 (1.38%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (1.38%) IFRS
6 4 (1.38%) IFRS 17
6 4 (1.38%) MiFID
7 3 (1.03%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.03%) ITGC
8 2 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.34%) COSO
9 1 (0.34%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.34%) Solvency II
System Software
1 23 (7.93%) Docker
2 3 (1.03%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.03%) IAG
Systems Management
1 23 (7.93%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.79%) EnCase
2 11 (3.79%) FTK
3 10 (3.45%) Terraform
4 3 (1.03%) Ansible
5 2 (0.69%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 45 (15.52%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.17%) Databricks
2 15 (5.17%) Oracle
3 11 (3.79%) Cellebrite
3 11 (3.79%) Cisco
3 11 (3.79%) Salesforce
4 9 (3.10%) Red Hat
5 8 (2.76%) Google
6 6 (2.07%) Informatica
7 5 (1.72%) Alteryx
7 5 (1.72%) Talend
8 4 (1.38%) Arista
8 4 (1.38%) CheckPoint
8 4 (1.38%) F5
8 4 (1.38%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.38%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.38%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.38%) SAP
9 3 (1.03%) Citrix
9 3 (1.03%) Nuix