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

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 145 131
Rank change year-on-year +10 -14 +22
Permanent jobs citing Data Analytics 338 322 507
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.82% 2.49% 2.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.17% 2.59% 2.47%
Number of salaries quoted 216 132 339
10th Percentile £35,000 £48,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,188 £64,125 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £83,340 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.01% +14.95% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £94,375
90th Percentile £122,500 £119,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,372 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.90% +0.62% -7.88%

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 15,601 12,426 20,559
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 84.10% 96.23% 91.49%
Number of salaries quoted 10,221 7,590 15,931
10th Percentile £39,860 £42,500 £38,500
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 £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 7 April 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 7 April 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 48 £92,500 +5.71% 36
East London +10 34 £87,500 - 8
West London -8 12 £30,000 -52.00% 8
South London +34 11 £40,000 -30.43% 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 20 (5.92%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (4.73%) SAS
3 14 (4.14%) Apache Spark
4 11 (3.25%) Apache
5 3 (0.89%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.59%) Confluence
7 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 47 (13.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.66%) MS Visio
2 9 (2.66%) SPSS
3 8 (2.37%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.30%) Notion
Business Applications
1 3 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.30%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.30%) Relativity
Cloud Services
1 63 (18.64%) Power Platform
2 47 (13.91%) Azure
3 39 (11.54%) AWS
4 25 (7.40%) GCP
5 17 (5.03%) SaaS
6 15 (4.44%) Snowflake
7 14 (4.14%) Amazon S3
8 9 (2.66%) dbt
8 9 (2.66%) Dropbox
8 9 (2.66%) OpenShift
9 8 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (2.37%) GitHub
10 7 (2.07%) Azure Machine Learning
11 6 (1.78%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (1.48%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (1.48%) Google Analytics
12 5 (1.48%) Serverless
13 4 (1.18%) Collibra
13 4 (1.18%) Fivetran
13 4 (1.18%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 26 (7.69%) CHAP
2 18 (5.33%) Broadband
3 4 (1.18%) Network Security
4 2 (0.59%) Internet
5 1 (0.30%) Skype
5 1 (0.30%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (18.34%) Power BI
2 59 (17.46%) Tableau
3 30 (8.88%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (7.10%) Big Data
5 23 (6.80%) Data Mining
6 13 (3.85%) BigQuery
7 11 (3.25%) Apache Hive
7 11 (3.25%) Impala
8 10 (2.96%) Data Lake
8 10 (2.96%) Metadata
8 10 (2.96%) NoSQL
9 9 (2.66%) EDRMS
9 9 (2.66%) Oracle Database
9 9 (2.66%) Parquet
9 9 (2.66%) Spark SQL
10 6 (1.78%) Qlik Sense
10 6 (1.78%) Star Schema
11 5 (1.48%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.48%) SQL Server
12 4 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 17 (5.03%) Jenkins
1 17 (5.03%) TeamCity
2 13 (3.85%) Git
3 9 (2.66%) IBM UrbanCode
4 4 (1.18%) JIRA
4 4 (1.18%) MLflow
General
1 169 (50.00%) Finance
2 132 (39.05%) Social Skills
3 107 (31.66%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (18.05%) Banking
5 45 (13.31%) Marketing
6 37 (10.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 33 (9.76%) Financial Institution
7 33 (9.76%) Retail
8 26 (7.69%) Legal
9 22 (6.51%) Law
10 13 (3.85%) Investment Banking
11 12 (3.55%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (3.25%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (2.96%) Retail Banking
14 8 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (2.07%) Front Office
15 7 (2.07%) Telecoms
16 6 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
16 6 (1.78%) Public Sector
17 5 (1.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 83 (24.56%) Analyst
2 82 (24.26%) Senior
3 49 (14.50%) Data Analyst
4 45 (13.31%) Auditor
5 29 (8.58%) Data Engineer
6 27 (7.99%) Internal Auditor
7 25 (7.40%) Security Auditor
8 24 (7.10%) Lead
9 22 (6.51%) Architect
9 22 (6.51%) Trainee
9 22 (6.51%) Trainee Analyst
9 22 (6.51%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 21 (6.21%) Senior Manager
11 20 (5.92%) Business Analyst
12 18 (5.33%) Audit Manager
13 17 (5.03%) Senior Analyst
14 14 (4.14%) IT Auditor
14 14 (4.14%) Senior Auditor
15 13 (3.85%) Developer
16 12 (3.55%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.33%) PySpark
2 17 (5.03%) Akka
3 10 (2.96%) CSS
3 10 (2.96%) HTML
4 9 (2.66%) Pandas
5 5 (1.48%) React
6 2 (0.59%) Kafka
6 2 (0.59%) Middleware
6 2 (0.59%) Streamlit
7 1 (0.30%) JSON
7 1 (0.30%) LangChain
7 1 (0.30%) Next.js
7 1 (0.30%) XML
7 1 (0.30%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 43 (12.72%) Management Information System
2 26 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 18 (5.33%) Video\Live Streaming
4 17 (5.03%) Over-the-Top Content
5 14 (4.14%) Blockchain
5 14 (4.14%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (3.85%) Product Ownership
7 9 (2.66%) Cybercrime
7 9 (2.66%) Fixed Income
8 8 (2.37%) Algorithms
8 8 (2.37%) Public Cloud
9 7 (2.07%) Social Media
10 6 (1.78%) Cloud Native
10 6 (1.78%) Derivative
11 5 (1.48%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.48%) OTC Derivatives
11 5 (1.48%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.18%) Digital Media
12 4 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.07%) Unix
2 5 (1.48%) Linux
2 5 (1.48%) Windows
3 2 (0.59%) AIX
4 1 (0.30%) Android
4 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 338 (100.00%) Analytics
2 97 (28.70%) AI
3 96 (28.40%) Agile
4 87 (25.74%) Business Intelligence
5 75 (22.19%) Decision-Making
5 75 (22.19%) Project Management
6 74 (21.89%) Data Governance
7 73 (21.60%) Data Analysis
8 63 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
9 61 (18.05%) Risk Management
10 60 (17.75%) Data Modelling
11 58 (17.16%) Coaching
12 53 (15.68%) Internal Audit
13 45 (13.31%) Information Security
14 44 (13.02%) ETL
14 44 (13.02%) Machine Learning
15 41 (12.13%) Cybersecurity
15 41 (12.13%) Data Engineering
15 41 (12.13%) Data Pipeline
16 40 (11.83%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 102 (30.18%) Python
1 102 (30.18%) SQL
2 22 (6.51%) Scala
3 13 (3.85%) JavaScript
4 9 (2.66%) R
5 6 (1.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 6 (1.78%) Java
6 3 (0.89%) C#
7 2 (0.59%) C
7 2 (0.59%) Perl
7 2 (0.59%) PHP
8 1 (0.30%) C++
8 1 (0.30%) Go
8 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.30%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.30%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.30%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 70 (20.71%) Degree
2 40 (11.83%) CISSP
3 39 (11.54%) CISA
4 36 (10.65%) CISM
5 26 (7.69%) CGEIT
5 26 (7.69%) FFIEC
5 26 (7.69%) SANS
6 17 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (3.55%) ACCA
7 12 (3.55%) Master's Degree
8 10 (2.96%) Security Cleared
9 8 (2.37%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (1.78%) AWS Certification
10 6 (1.78%) SC Cleared
11 4 (1.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (1.18%) APMG
11 4 (1.18%) CCIE
11 4 (1.18%) CCNP
11 4 (1.18%) CCSE
11 4 (1.18%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (13.61%) Data Quality
2 37 (10.95%) GDPR
3 28 (8.28%) NIST
4 27 (7.99%) COBIT
5 9 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (2.66%) MiFID
6 8 (2.37%) Actionable Recommendations
6 8 (2.37%) IFRS
7 7 (2.07%) PERC
8 4 (1.18%) IFRS 17
9 3 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.89%) ITGC
10 2 (0.59%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.59%) QA
11 1 (0.30%) EMIR
11 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.30%) Solvency II
System Software
1 20 (5.92%) Docker
2 1 (0.30%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (5.62%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.66%) Terraform
3 8 (2.37%) EnCase
3 8 (2.37%) FTK
4 2 (0.59%) Ansible
4 2 (0.59%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 65 (19.23%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.62%) Oracle
3 17 (5.03%) Databricks
4 11 (3.25%) Cisco
4 11 (3.25%) Google
4 11 (3.25%) Salesforce
5 9 (2.66%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.37%) Cellebrite
7 7 (2.07%) Informatica
8 6 (1.78%) Alteryx
8 6 (1.78%) Fortinet
8 6 (1.78%) Palo Alto
9 5 (1.48%) GoldenSource
10 4 (1.18%) Arista
10 4 (1.18%) CheckPoint
10 4 (1.18%) F5
10 4 (1.18%) SAP
10 4 (1.18%) Talend
11 3 (0.89%) Bloomberg
11 3 (0.89%) Refinitiv