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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 128 193
Rank change year-on-year -79 +65 -62
Permanent jobs citing Data Analytics 269 327 320
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.05% 2.75% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 2.92% 1.87%
Number of salaries quoted 163 146 163
10th Percentile £40,500 £42,500 £43,125
25th Percentile £58,199 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,500 £71,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.56% -2.07% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,250 £130,000 £103,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - - -6.72%

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 20,692 11,181 17,126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 80.73% 94.17% 89.48%
Number of salaries quoted 13,893 7,064 10,320
10th Percentile £41,000 £38,500 £40,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.98% -6.40%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 -28 24 £100,000 +21.21% 97
West London -6 14 £50,000 -23.08% 29
East London - 4 £115,000 - 6
South London +3 1 £30,000 -71.43% 5
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 29 (10.78%) SAS
2 6 (2.23%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.74%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.37%) Apache
5 1 (0.37%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.37%) nginx
5 1 (0.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 32 (11.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (10.41%) SPSS
3 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.37%) InDesign
4 1 (0.37%) Inkscape
Business Applications
1 4 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.37%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.37%) Maximo
2 1 (0.37%) SAP IBP
2 1 (0.37%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 66 (24.54%) Power Platform
2 43 (15.99%) Azure
3 31 (11.52%) AWS
4 21 (7.81%) Dropbox
5 15 (5.58%) GCP
6 13 (4.83%) GitHub
7 12 (4.46%) Snowflake
8 10 (3.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 10 (3.72%) dbt
8 10 (3.72%) Google Analytics
9 9 (3.35%) SaaS
10 8 (2.97%) GitHub Copilot
10 8 (2.97%) Serverless
11 7 (2.60%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (1.86%) Azure Machine Learning
12 5 (1.86%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (1.86%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (1.49%) Amazon S3
13 4 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
14 3 (1.12%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.86%) Network Security
2 4 (1.49%) CHAP
2 4 (1.49%) Internet
3 1 (0.37%) DSL
3 1 (0.37%) Firewall
3 1 (0.37%) GoToMeeting
3 1 (0.37%) NGFW
3 1 (0.37%) OpenVPN
3 1 (0.37%) Skype
3 1 (0.37%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (23.79%) Power BI
2 37 (13.75%) Big Data
3 28 (10.41%) EDRMS
4 27 (10.04%) Tableau
5 15 (5.58%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (4.09%) MongoDB
7 10 (3.72%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (2.97%) Looker
8 8 (2.97%) Power Query
9 7 (2.60%) Relational Database
9 7 (2.60%) Star Schema
10 6 (2.23%) Metadata
10 6 (2.23%) Semantic Layer
11 4 (1.49%) Data Lake
12 3 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.12%) BigQuery
12 3 (1.12%) Delta Lake
12 3 (1.12%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
13 2 (0.74%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 4 (1.49%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.12%) Git
2 3 (1.12%) JIRA
2 3 (1.12%) MLflow
3 1 (0.37%) GitLab
General
1 127 (47.21%) Finance
2 97 (36.06%) Social Skills
3 65 (24.16%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (15.24%) Marketing
5 32 (11.90%) Legal
6 29 (10.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 28 (10.41%) Legal Technology
8 25 (9.29%) Law
9 23 (8.55%) Banking
10 15 (5.58%) Financial Institution
11 14 (5.20%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (4.46%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (4.09%) Retail
14 8 (2.97%) Public Sector
15 7 (2.60%) Aerospace
16 5 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (1.86%) Telecoms
17 4 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
17 4 (1.49%) Publishing
18 3 (1.12%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 47 (17.47%) Senior
2 44 (16.36%) Analyst
3 37 (13.75%) Lead
4 33 (12.27%) Data Analyst
5 32 (11.90%) Analytics Manager
6 31 (11.52%) Architect
7 28 (10.41%) Data Analytics Manager
8 22 (8.18%) Solutions Architect
9 21 (7.81%) Forensic Manager
9 21 (7.81%) Senior Manager
10 19 (7.06%) Data Manager
11 18 (6.69%) Senior Analytics Manager
12 16 (5.95%) Data Engineer
13 15 (5.58%) Audit Manager
14 14 (5.20%) Data Model Manager
15 12 (4.46%) Data Analytics Architect
15 12 (4.46%) Developer
16 11 (4.09%) Lead Architect
16 11 (4.09%) Lead Solutions Architect
17 10 (3.72%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.09%) .NET
2 9 (3.35%) .NET Core
2 9 (3.35%) ASP.NET
2 9 (3.35%) ASP.NET Core
3 8 (2.97%) Terraform
4 7 (2.60%) AngularJS
4 7 (2.60%) CSS
4 7 (2.60%) HTML
4 7 (2.60%) SubSonic
4 7 (2.60%) Vue
5 4 (1.49%) NumPy
6 3 (1.12%) Kafka
6 3 (1.12%) Matplotlib
6 3 (1.12%) Pandas
7 2 (0.74%) Entity Framework
7 2 (0.74%) PySpark
7 2 (0.74%) REST
8 1 (0.37%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.37%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.37%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.41%) Cybercrime
2 21 (7.81%) Management Information System
3 10 (3.72%) Onboarding
4 7 (2.60%) Data Structures
4 7 (2.60%) Educational Technology
5 6 (2.23%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (2.23%) Social Media
6 5 (1.86%) AI Agents
6 5 (1.86%) Cloud Native
6 5 (1.86%) Data Fabric
6 5 (1.86%) Housing Association
7 4 (1.49%) Digital Media
7 4 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.12%) Blog
8 3 (1.12%) Credit Risk
8 3 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.12%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.12%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.12%) Reinsurance
9 2 (0.74%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.49%) Windows
2 2 (0.74%) Linux
2 2 (0.74%) Unix
3 1 (0.37%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 268 (99.63%) Analytics
2 97 (36.06%) AI
3 89 (33.09%) Business Intelligence
4 53 (19.70%) Decision-Making
5 51 (18.96%) Machine Learning
6 48 (17.84%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (16.73%) Information Security
7 45 (16.73%) Visualisation
8 44 (16.36%) Actionable Insight
8 44 (16.36%) Continuous Improvement
9 39 (14.50%) Data Modelling
10 38 (14.13%) Agile
11 34 (12.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 33 (12.27%) Stakeholder Management
13 32 (11.90%) Fintech
14 30 (11.15%) Data Governance
14 30 (11.15%) SDLC
15 29 (10.78%) Anti-Money Laundering
15 29 (10.78%) Data Analysis
15 29 (10.78%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 80 (29.74%) SQL
2 54 (20.07%) Python
3 12 (4.46%) C#
4 9 (3.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 8 (2.97%) TypeScript
6 6 (2.23%) VBA
7 4 (1.49%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.49%) R
8 3 (1.12%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.74%) Java
10 1 (0.37%) Ada
10 1 (0.37%) C
10 1 (0.37%) C++
10 1 (0.37%) Groovy
10 1 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 76 (28.25%) Degree
2 12 (4.46%) CISSP
3 10 (3.72%) CISM
3 10 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (3.35%) CISA
5 7 (2.60%) Master's Degree
6 6 (2.23%) Security Cleared
7 5 (1.86%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.86%) CGEIT
8 4 (1.49%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.49%) FFIEC
8 4 (1.49%) SANS
9 3 (1.12%) APMG
9 3 (1.12%) CCIE
9 3 (1.12%) CCNP
9 3 (1.12%) CCSE
9 3 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.74%) ACCA
10 2 (0.74%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.74%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (15.24%) Data Quality
2 17 (6.32%) QA
3 9 (3.35%) GDPR
4 8 (2.97%) Actionable Recommendations
5 6 (2.23%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.86%) COBIT
6 5 (1.86%) NIST
7 4 (1.49%) PMO
8 3 (1.12%) PERC
9 2 (0.74%) GRC
10 1 (0.37%) COSO
10 1 (0.37%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.37%) Solvency II
System Software
1 9 (3.35%) Docker
2 3 (1.12%) IAG
3 2 (0.74%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (7.81%) EnCase
1 21 (7.81%) FTK
2 10 (3.72%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.37%) Ansible
3 1 (0.37%) Kibana
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.37%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 27 (10.04%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.81%) Cellebrite
3 18 (6.69%) Databricks
4 12 (4.46%) Google
5 11 (4.09%) Salesforce
6 10 (3.72%) SAP
7 7 (2.60%) Nuix
7 7 (2.60%) Relativity
8 4 (1.49%) Alteryx
8 4 (1.49%) Cisco
8 4 (1.49%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.12%) Arista
9 3 (1.12%) CheckPoint
9 3 (1.12%) F5
9 3 (1.12%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.12%) Informatica
9 3 (1.12%) Oracle
9 3 (1.12%) Talend
10 2 (0.74%) Foundry
10 2 (0.74%) Palantir