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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 142 136
Rank change year-on-year +9 -6 +7
Permanent jobs citing Data Analytics 326 362 482
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.09% 2.42% 2.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.42% 2.54% 2.49%
Number of salaries quoted 198 144 359
10th Percentile £35,000 £49,875 £44,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £69,688 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £113,875 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,743 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.22% +1.24% -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 13,498 14,261 19,394
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 86.39% 95.53% 91.85%
Number of salaries quoted 8,715 7,775 15,646
10th Percentile £37,500 £43,236 £39,085
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,000 £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 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -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 18 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 18 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 45 £85,000 -2.86% 35
East London +9 23 £87,500 - 5
South London +44 9 £40,000 -30.43% 1
West London -5 6 £30,000 -52.00% 9
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 (5.52%) SAS
2 13 (3.99%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (3.07%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.53%) Apache
5 3 (0.92%) Confluence
5 3 (0.92%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.31%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 53 (16.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (3.37%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (3.07%) SPSS
4 8 (2.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.31%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.31%) Notion
Business Applications
1 5 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.92%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.61%) Relativity
3 2 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.31%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 78 (23.93%) Power Platform
2 58 (17.79%) Azure
3 47 (14.42%) AWS
4 23 (7.06%) GCP
4 23 (7.06%) SaaS
5 16 (4.91%) Snowflake
6 12 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (3.68%) dbt
7 10 (3.07%) Amazon S3
7 10 (3.07%) Dropbox
7 10 (3.07%) GitHub
8 8 (2.45%) Azure Data Factory
8 8 (2.45%) Serverless
9 7 (2.15%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (1.84%) Fivetran
11 5 (1.53%) Azure Machine Learning
12 4 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (1.23%) Collibra
12 4 (1.23%) Matillion
12 4 (1.23%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.13%) CHAP
2 18 (5.52%) Broadband
3 2 (0.61%) Internet
4 1 (0.31%) Network Security
4 1 (0.31%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (23.62%) Power BI
2 49 (15.03%) Tableau
3 37 (11.35%) Data Warehouse
4 26 (7.98%) Big Data
5 25 (7.67%) Data Mining
6 11 (3.37%) Data Lake
6 11 (3.37%) NoSQL
7 10 (3.07%) EDRMS
7 10 (3.07%) Qlik Sense
8 9 (2.76%) Metadata
8 9 (2.76%) SQL Server
9 8 (2.45%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (2.45%) Hadoop
10 7 (2.15%) Looker
10 7 (2.15%) Power Query
10 7 (2.15%) Star Schema
11 5 (1.53%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (1.53%) BigQuery
11 5 (1.53%) Relational Database
12 4 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 17 (5.21%) Jenkins
1 17 (5.21%) TeamCity
2 7 (2.15%) Git
3 5 (1.53%) MLflow
4 4 (1.23%) JIRA
5 1 (0.31%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.31%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 164 (50.31%) Finance
2 124 (38.04%) Social Skills
3 92 (28.22%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (14.72%) Banking
5 34 (10.43%) Law
6 31 (9.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 31 (9.51%) Legal
7 29 (8.90%) Financial Institution
7 29 (8.90%) Marketing
8 19 (5.83%) Presentation Skills
8 19 (5.83%) Retail
9 18 (5.52%) Games
10 14 (4.29%) Front Office
11 7 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.84%) Public Sector
12 6 (1.84%) Retail Banking
13 5 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.53%) Investment Banking
14 4 (1.23%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 82 (25.15%) Senior
2 75 (23.01%) Analyst
3 52 (15.95%) Data Analyst
4 35 (10.74%) Auditor
5 33 (10.12%) Data Engineer
6 30 (9.20%) Senior Manager
7 24 (7.36%) Internal Auditor
8 23 (7.06%) Audit Manager
9 22 (6.75%) Architect
9 22 (6.75%) Senior Analyst
10 21 (6.44%) Trainee
10 21 (6.44%) Trainee Analyst
10 21 (6.44%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 20 (6.13%) Lead
12 19 (5.83%) Security Auditor
13 16 (4.91%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 15 (4.60%) Developer
14 15 (4.60%) Senior Audit Manager
14 15 (4.60%) Software Engineer
15 13 (3.99%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.21%) Akka
2 10 (3.07%) PySpark
3 5 (1.53%) React
4 3 (0.92%) Kafka
4 3 (0.92%) Middleware
5 2 (0.61%) CSS
5 2 (0.61%) HTML
5 2 (0.61%) LangChain
5 2 (0.61%) Pandas
5 2 (0.61%) Streamlit
5 2 (0.61%) XML
6 1 (0.31%) JSON
6 1 (0.31%) LangGraph
6 1 (0.31%) LlamaIndex
6 1 (0.31%) Next.js
6 1 (0.31%) NumPy
6 1 (0.31%) PyXLL
6 1 (0.31%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.31%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 35 (10.74%) Management Information System
2 25 (7.67%) Algorithms
3 22 (6.75%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (5.52%) Video\Live Streaming
5 17 (5.21%) Over-the-Top Content
6 16 (4.91%) Product Ownership
7 15 (4.60%) Onboarding
8 12 (3.68%) Blockchain
9 11 (3.37%) Fixed Income
10 10 (3.07%) Cybercrime
11 6 (1.84%) Derivative
11 6 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (1.53%) Equities
12 5 (1.53%) OTC Derivatives
12 5 (1.53%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.53%) Reinsurance
13 4 (1.23%) Cloud Native
14 3 (0.92%) Data Structures
14 3 (0.92%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.45%) Unix
2 6 (1.84%) Linux
2 6 (1.84%) Windows
3 2 (0.61%) AIX
4 1 (0.31%) Android
4 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 326 (100.00%) Analytics
2 102 (31.29%) Business Intelligence
3 98 (30.06%) AI
4 80 (24.54%) Agile
5 79 (24.23%) Decision-Making
6 69 (21.17%) Project Management
7 64 (19.63%) Risk Management
8 63 (19.33%) Data Modelling
9 62 (19.02%) Problem-Solving
10 60 (18.40%) Data Governance
11 57 (17.48%) Data Analysis
12 49 (15.03%) Coaching
12 49 (15.03%) Visualisation
13 44 (13.50%) Cybersecurity
13 44 (13.50%) Information Security
14 43 (13.19%) Machine Learning
15 42 (12.88%) Internal Audit
16 41 (12.58%) ETL
17 39 (11.96%) Data Engineering
18 38 (11.66%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 123 (37.73%) Python
2 106 (32.52%) SQL
3 23 (7.06%) Scala
4 11 (3.37%) JavaScript
5 9 (2.76%) R
6 8 (2.45%) Java
7 6 (1.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (0.92%) C#
9 2 (0.61%) C
9 2 (0.61%) C++
9 2 (0.61%) Perl
9 2 (0.61%) PHP
9 2 (0.61%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.61%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.31%) Go
10 1 (0.31%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.31%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 84 (25.77%) Degree
2 39 (11.96%) CISA
3 38 (11.66%) CISSP
4 33 (10.12%) CISM
5 27 (8.28%) Master's Degree
6 20 (6.13%) CGEIT
6 20 (6.13%) FFIEC
6 20 (6.13%) SANS
7 17 (5.21%) PhD
8 16 (4.91%) ACCA
9 13 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (3.07%) CRISC
11 9 (2.76%) AWS Certification
12 8 (2.45%) Security Cleared
13 6 (1.84%) SC Cleared
14 4 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (1.23%) CIMA
14 4 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
15 3 (0.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 2 (0.61%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (13.80%) Data Quality
2 27 (8.28%) GDPR
3 24 (7.36%) NIST
4 23 (7.06%) COBIT
5 18 (5.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (3.99%) IFRS
7 10 (3.07%) MiFID
8 9 (2.76%) Actionable Recommendations
9 7 (2.15%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (1.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (1.53%) ITGC
12 4 (1.23%) IFRS 17
12 4 (1.23%) QA
13 3 (0.92%) GRC
14 2 (0.61%) Accessibility
15 1 (0.31%) EMIR
15 1 (0.31%) GAAP
System Software
1 21 (6.44%) Docker
2 1 (0.31%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (6.13%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.07%) Terraform
3 8 (2.45%) EnCase
3 8 (2.45%) FTK
4 3 (0.92%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 64 (19.63%) Microsoft
2 22 (6.75%) Databricks
3 13 (3.99%) Salesforce
4 10 (3.07%) Oracle
5 9 (2.76%) Google
6 8 (2.45%) Cellebrite
7 7 (2.15%) Cisco
8 6 (1.84%) Informatica
8 6 (1.84%) SAP
9 5 (1.53%) Alteryx
9 5 (1.53%) Fortinet
9 5 (1.53%) GoldenSource
9 5 (1.53%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.23%) CrowdStrike
10 4 (1.23%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.92%) Progress
11 3 (0.92%) Talend
12 2 (0.61%) EMC
12 2 (0.61%) HP
12 2 (0.61%) IBM