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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 144 138
Rank change year-on-year +11 -6 +9
Permanent jobs citing Data Analytics 331 361 483
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.19% 2.37% 2.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.53% 2.49% 2.49%
Number of salaries quoted 200 143 367
10th Percentile £35,000 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £69,375 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.69% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £111,000 £112,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,372 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.62% +0.62% -10.11%

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 13,099 14,514 19,425
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 86.78% 95.19% 91.85%
Number of salaries quoted 8,431 7,916 15,669
10th Percentile £36,750 £43,250 £39,450
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,094 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,205 £55,440
% change year-on-year -11.58% +12.20% -11.30%

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 February 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 February 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 -35 46 £92,500 +5.71% 49
East London +5 23 £87,500 - 6
South London +44 9 £40,000 -30.43% 4
West London +2 6 £30,000 - 6
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 15 (4.53%) SAS
2 11 (3.32%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (3.32%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.21%) Apache
4 3 (0.91%) Confluence
4 3 (0.91%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 50 (15.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.02%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (3.02%) SPSS
3 6 (1.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.30%) Notion
Business Applications
1 5 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.21%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.91%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.60%) Relativity
5 1 (0.30%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 79 (23.87%) Power Platform
2 62 (18.73%) Azure
3 50 (15.11%) AWS
4 24 (7.25%) GCP
4 24 (7.25%) SaaS
5 15 (4.53%) Snowflake
6 12 (3.63%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (3.63%) dbt
7 10 (3.02%) Dropbox
8 9 (2.72%) Amazon S3
8 9 (2.72%) Serverless
9 8 (2.42%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (2.42%) GitHub
10 7 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (1.81%) Fivetran
12 5 (1.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 4 (1.21%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (1.21%) Azure Machine Learning
13 4 (1.21%) LangSmith
13 4 (1.21%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.74%) Broadband
1 19 (5.74%) CHAP
2 2 (0.60%) Internet
3 1 (0.30%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (23.56%) Power BI
2 47 (14.20%) Tableau
3 42 (12.69%) Data Warehouse
4 29 (8.76%) Big Data
5 25 (7.55%) Data Mining
6 13 (3.93%) NoSQL
7 12 (3.63%) Metadata
8 11 (3.32%) Data Lake
9 10 (3.02%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (3.02%) EDRMS
9 10 (3.02%) Hadoop
9 10 (3.02%) Qlik Sense
10 9 (2.72%) Power Query
10 9 (2.72%) SQL Server
11 7 (2.11%) Star Schema
12 5 (1.51%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (1.51%) Looker
12 5 (1.51%) Relational Database
13 4 (1.21%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 17 (5.14%) Jenkins
1 17 (5.14%) TeamCity
2 6 (1.81%) Git
3 4 (1.21%) JIRA
3 4 (1.21%) MLflow
4 1 (0.30%) ER Studio
General
1 159 (48.04%) Finance
2 116 (35.05%) Social Skills
3 88 (26.59%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (13.90%) Banking
5 40 (12.08%) Law
6 32 (9.67%) Financial Institution
7 31 (9.37%) Legal
8 30 (9.06%) Marketing
9 28 (8.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 23 (6.95%) Games
11 19 (5.74%) Front Office
12 18 (5.44%) Presentation Skills
13 13 (3.93%) Retail
14 7 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (1.51%) Public Sector
17 4 (1.21%) Manufacturing
18 3 (0.91%) International Banking
18 3 (0.91%) Investment Banking
18 3 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 78 (23.56%) Senior
2 71 (21.45%) Analyst
3 52 (15.71%) Data Analyst
4 34 (10.27%) Data Engineer
5 33 (9.97%) Auditor
6 27 (8.16%) Senior Manager
7 26 (7.85%) Internal Auditor
8 23 (6.95%) Architect
9 22 (6.65%) Audit Manager
10 21 (6.34%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 21 (6.34%) Lead
10 21 (6.34%) Senior Analyst
11 20 (6.04%) Developer
11 20 (6.04%) Trainee
11 20 (6.04%) Trainee Analyst
11 20 (6.04%) Trainee Data Analyst
12 19 (5.74%) Security Auditor
13 15 (4.53%) Software Engineer
14 14 (4.23%) Senior Audit Manager
15 12 (3.63%) Compliance Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.14%) Akka
2 9 (2.72%) PySpark
3 7 (2.11%) Kafka
4 5 (1.51%) React
5 4 (1.21%) PyXLL
6 3 (0.91%) Middleware
7 2 (0.60%) CSS
7 2 (0.60%) HTML
7 2 (0.60%) Streamlit
7 2 (0.60%) XML
8 1 (0.30%) JSON
8 1 (0.30%) LangChain
8 1 (0.30%) LangGraph
8 1 (0.30%) LlamaIndex
8 1 (0.30%) Next.js
8 1 (0.30%) NumPy
8 1 (0.30%) Pandas
8 1 (0.30%) scikit-learn
8 1 (0.30%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 35 (10.57%) Management Information System
2 32 (9.67%) Algorithms
3 20 (6.04%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (5.44%) Product Ownership
4 18 (5.44%) Video\Live Streaming
5 17 (5.14%) Over-the-Top Content
6 15 (4.53%) Onboarding
7 12 (3.63%) Blockchain
8 10 (3.02%) Cybercrime
8 10 (3.02%) Fixed Income
9 7 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (2.11%) Equities
10 6 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.51%) FMCG
11 5 (1.51%) Reinsurance
12 4 (1.21%) Cloud Native
12 4 (1.21%) Derivative
12 4 (1.21%) OTC Derivatives
12 4 (1.21%) Public Cloud
13 3 (0.91%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.42%) Unix
2 6 (1.81%) Linux
2 6 (1.81%) Windows
3 2 (0.60%) AIX
4 1 (0.30%) Android
4 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 331 (100.00%) Analytics
2 104 (31.42%) Business Intelligence
3 102 (30.82%) AI
4 80 (24.17%) Agile
5 79 (23.87%) Decision-Making
6 67 (20.24%) Data Modelling
6 67 (20.24%) Problem-Solving
6 67 (20.24%) Project Management
7 65 (19.64%) Data Governance
8 61 (18.43%) Risk Management
9 55 (16.62%) Data Analysis
10 48 (14.50%) Cybersecurity
10 48 (14.50%) Visualisation
11 45 (13.60%) Data Engineering
11 45 (13.60%) Machine Learning
12 44 (13.29%) Coaching
12 44 (13.29%) ETL
13 43 (12.99%) Business Strategy
13 43 (12.99%) Information Security
14 40 (12.08%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 129 (38.97%) Python
2 104 (31.42%) SQL
3 25 (7.55%) Scala
4 11 (3.32%) JavaScript
5 10 (3.02%) Java
6 8 (2.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 8 (2.42%) R
7 6 (1.81%) C#
8 5 (1.51%) C++
9 3 (0.91%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.60%) C
10 2 (0.60%) Perl
10 2 (0.60%) PHP
10 2 (0.60%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.30%) Go
11 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.30%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 90 (27.19%) Degree
2 42 (12.69%) CISA
3 38 (11.48%) CISSP
4 34 (10.27%) Master's Degree
5 32 (9.67%) CISM
6 24 (7.25%) PhD
7 20 (6.04%) FFIEC
8 19 (5.74%) CGEIT
8 19 (5.74%) SANS
9 16 (4.83%) ACCA
10 12 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (3.32%) CRISC
12 9 (2.72%) AWS Certification
13 8 (2.42%) Security Cleared
14 6 (1.81%) SC Cleared
15 4 (1.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 4 (1.21%) CIMA
16 3 (0.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 3 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
17 2 (0.60%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (14.20%) Data Quality
2 28 (8.46%) GDPR
3 25 (7.55%) NIST
4 24 (7.25%) COBIT
5 20 (6.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (3.63%) IFRS
7 9 (2.72%) MiFID
8 8 (2.42%) Actionable Recommendations
9 7 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (1.81%) QA
10 6 (1.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (1.21%) GRC
11 4 (1.21%) ITGC
12 3 (0.91%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.60%) Accessibility
14 1 (0.30%) EMIR
14 1 (0.30%) GAAP
System Software
1 21 (6.34%) Docker
2 1 (0.30%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.30%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (6.04%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.72%) Terraform
3 8 (2.42%) EnCase
3 8 (2.42%) FTK
4 4 (1.21%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 61 (18.43%) Microsoft
2 22 (6.65%) Databricks
3 12 (3.63%) Salesforce
4 9 (2.72%) SAP
5 8 (2.42%) Cellebrite
5 8 (2.42%) Google
5 8 (2.42%) Oracle
6 6 (1.81%) Cisco
7 5 (1.51%) GoldenSource
7 5 (1.51%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.21%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (1.21%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.21%) Informatica
8 4 (1.21%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.21%) Progress
9 3 (0.91%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.60%) HP
10 2 (0.60%) iManage
10 2 (0.60%) Nuix
10 2 (0.60%) Talend