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

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 131 130
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +22
Permanent jobs citing Data Analytics 340 333 509
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.90% 2.57% 2.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.25% 2.67% 2.50%
Number of salaries quoted 217 131 345
10th Percentile £35,000 £53,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £66,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +13.79% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £122,500 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -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 15,115 12,458 20,352
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 84.63% 96.28% 91.46%
Number of salaries quoted 9,864 7,607 15,912
10th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £38,503
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 £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 29 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 29 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 -61 46 £92,500 +5.71% 36
East London +11 33 £87,500 - 8
South London +38 11 £40,000 -30.43% 3
West London -10 11 £30,000 -52.00% 8
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 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (5.00%) SAS
3 15 (4.41%) Apache Spark
4 11 (3.24%) Apache
5 3 (0.88%) Confluence
5 3 (0.88%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.29%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 51 (15.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (2.65%) MS Visio
3 9 (2.65%) SPSS
4 8 (2.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.29%) Notion
Business Applications
1 5 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.59%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.59%) Relativity
Cloud Services
1 68 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 52 (15.29%) Azure
3 40 (11.76%) AWS
4 22 (6.47%) GCP
5 20 (5.88%) SaaS
6 15 (4.41%) Snowflake
7 14 (4.12%) Amazon S3
8 10 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (2.65%) dbt
9 9 (2.65%) Dropbox
9 9 (2.65%) OpenShift
10 8 (2.35%) GitHub
11 6 (1.76%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (1.76%) Azure Machine Learning
11 6 (1.76%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (1.47%) Fivetran
12 5 (1.47%) Serverless
13 4 (1.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 4 (1.18%) Collibra
13 4 (1.18%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 25 (7.35%) CHAP
2 18 (5.29%) Broadband
3 3 (0.88%) Network Security
4 2 (0.59%) Internet
5 1 (0.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (19.71%) Power BI
2 56 (16.47%) Tableau
3 34 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
4 26 (7.65%) Data Mining
5 23 (6.76%) Big Data
6 11 (3.24%) Apache Hive
6 11 (3.24%) Data Lake
6 11 (3.24%) Impala
7 10 (2.94%) BigQuery
7 10 (2.94%) NoSQL
8 9 (2.65%) EDRMS
8 9 (2.65%) Metadata
8 9 (2.65%) Oracle Database
8 9 (2.65%) Parquet
8 9 (2.65%) Spark SQL
9 8 (2.35%) SQL Server
10 7 (2.06%) Qlik Sense
10 7 (2.06%) Star Schema
11 6 (1.76%) Relational Database
12 5 (1.47%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 17 (5.00%) Jenkins
1 17 (5.00%) TeamCity
2 14 (4.12%) Git
3 9 (2.65%) IBM UrbanCode
4 5 (1.47%) JIRA
5 4 (1.18%) MLflow
General
1 170 (50.00%) Finance
2 132 (38.82%) Social Skills
3 108 (31.76%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (17.65%) Banking
5 38 (11.18%) Marketing
6 31 (9.12%) Financial Institution
7 30 (8.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 29 (8.53%) Retail
9 27 (7.94%) Legal
10 23 (6.76%) Law
11 13 (3.82%) Investment Banking
11 13 (3.82%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (3.24%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (2.94%) Retail Banking
14 9 (2.65%) Games
15 8 (2.35%) Front Office
16 7 (2.06%) Public Sector
17 6 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
17 6 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
17 6 (1.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 86 (25.29%) Senior
2 84 (24.71%) Analyst
3 52 (15.29%) Data Analyst
4 44 (12.94%) Auditor
5 28 (8.24%) Data Engineer
6 26 (7.65%) Internal Auditor
7 24 (7.06%) Security Auditor
8 23 (6.76%) Senior Manager
8 23 (6.76%) Trainee
8 23 (6.76%) Trainee Analyst
8 23 (6.76%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 22 (6.47%) Architect
10 21 (6.18%) Business Analyst
10 21 (6.18%) Lead
11 20 (5.88%) Audit Manager
11 20 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
12 14 (4.12%) IT Auditor
12 14 (4.12%) Senior Auditor
13 13 (3.82%) Developer
13 13 (3.82%) Senior Audit Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.29%) PySpark
2 17 (5.00%) Akka
3 9 (2.65%) Pandas
4 7 (2.06%) CSS
4 7 (2.06%) HTML
5 5 (1.47%) React
6 2 (0.59%) Kafka
6 2 (0.59%) Middleware
6 2 (0.59%) Streamlit
6 2 (0.59%) XML
7 1 (0.29%) JSON
7 1 (0.29%) LangChain
7 1 (0.29%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 40 (11.76%) Management Information System
2 25 (7.35%) Onboarding
3 18 (5.29%) Video\Live Streaming
4 17 (5.00%) Over-the-Top Content
5 16 (4.71%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (4.12%) Blockchain
6 14 (4.12%) Product Ownership
7 11 (3.24%) Algorithms
8 9 (2.65%) Cybercrime
8 9 (2.65%) Fixed Income
9 7 (2.06%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.76%) Cloud Native
10 6 (1.76%) Derivative
11 5 (1.47%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.47%) OTC Derivatives
11 5 (1.47%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.18%) Cyber Defence
12 4 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (1.18%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.06%) Unix
2 5 (1.47%) Linux
2 5 (1.47%) Windows
3 2 (0.59%) AIX
4 1 (0.29%) Android
4 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 340 (100.00%) Analytics
2 99 (29.12%) AI
3 97 (28.53%) Agile
4 93 (27.35%) Business Intelligence
5 77 (22.65%) Project Management
6 72 (21.18%) Data Analysis
6 72 (21.18%) Data Governance
6 72 (21.18%) Decision-Making
7 63 (18.53%) Risk Management
8 62 (18.24%) Data Modelling
9 59 (17.35%) Problem-Solving
10 56 (16.47%) Coaching
11 53 (15.59%) Internal Audit
12 45 (13.24%) ETL
13 44 (12.94%) Information Security
14 41 (12.06%) Cybersecurity
15 40 (11.76%) Machine Learning
15 40 (11.76%) Scrum
15 40 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 40 (11.76%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 112 (32.94%) SQL
2 110 (32.35%) Python
3 22 (6.47%) Scala
4 12 (3.53%) JavaScript
5 9 (2.65%) R
6 6 (1.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 6 (1.76%) Java
7 3 (0.88%) C#
8 2 (0.59%) C
8 2 (0.59%) Perl
8 2 (0.59%) PHP
8 2 (0.59%) VBA
9 1 (0.29%) C++
9 1 (0.29%) Go
9 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.29%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.29%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 76 (22.35%) Degree
2 38 (11.18%) CISA
2 38 (11.18%) CISSP
3 34 (10.00%) CISM
4 25 (7.35%) CGEIT
4 25 (7.35%) FFIEC
4 25 (7.35%) SANS
5 16 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (4.41%) Master's Degree
7 13 (3.82%) ACCA
8 12 (3.53%) Security Cleared
9 7 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (2.06%) PhD
10 6 (1.76%) AWS Certification
10 6 (1.76%) SC Cleared
11 4 (1.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (1.18%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.88%) CRISC
12 3 (0.88%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (13.82%) Data Quality
2 33 (9.71%) GDPR
3 27 (7.94%) NIST
4 26 (7.65%) COBIT
5 10 (2.94%) IFRS
6 9 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (2.65%) MiFID
7 8 (2.35%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (1.18%) IFRS 17
8 4 (1.18%) PERC
9 3 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.88%) ITGC
9 3 (0.88%) QA
9 3 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.59%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.29%) EMIR
11 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (5.88%) Docker
2 1 (0.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (5.59%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.65%) Terraform
3 7 (2.06%) EnCase
3 7 (2.06%) FTK
4 2 (0.59%) Ansible
4 2 (0.59%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 69 (20.29%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.59%) Oracle
3 17 (5.00%) Databricks
4 12 (3.53%) Salesforce
5 9 (2.65%) Cisco
5 9 (2.65%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.35%) Google
7 7 (2.06%) Cellebrite
7 7 (2.06%) Informatica
8 6 (1.76%) Alteryx
8 6 (1.76%) Fortinet
8 6 (1.76%) Palo Alto
9 5 (1.47%) GoldenSource
10 4 (1.18%) SAP
10 4 (1.18%) Talend
11 3 (0.88%) Arista
11 3 (0.88%) Bloomberg
11 3 (0.88%) CheckPoint
11 3 (0.88%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (0.88%) F5