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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 138 128
Rank change year-on-year +11 -10 +18
Permanent jobs citing Data Analytics 329 360 485
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.14% 2.39% 2.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.47% 2.51% 2.51%
Number of salaries quoted 202 145 363
10th Percentile £35,000 £52,500 £45,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £68,750 £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 £113,500 £114,500
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 13,300 14,369 19,324
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 86.57% 95.32% 91.78%
Number of salaries quoted 8,582 7,881 15,560
10th Percentile £37,500 £43,750 £39,085
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,200 £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 £98,750 £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 12 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 12 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 £92,500 +5.71% 31
East London +11 23 £87,500 - 4
South London +47 9 £40,000 -30.43% 3
West London -2 6 £30,000 -52.00% 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 17 (5.17%) SAS
2 12 (3.65%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (3.34%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.22%) Apache
5 3 (0.91%) Confluence
5 3 (0.91%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 51 (15.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (3.34%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (3.04%) SPSS
4 7 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.30%) Notion
Business Applications
1 5 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.91%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.61%) Relativity
5 1 (0.30%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 80 (24.32%) Power Platform
2 62 (18.84%) Azure
3 50 (15.20%) AWS
4 24 (7.29%) GCP
5 23 (6.99%) SaaS
6 16 (4.86%) Snowflake
7 12 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (3.65%) dbt
8 10 (3.04%) Dropbox
9 9 (2.74%) Amazon S3
9 9 (2.74%) GitHub
9 9 (2.74%) Serverless
10 8 (2.43%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (1.82%) Fivetran
13 5 (1.52%) Azure Machine Learning
13 5 (1.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 4 (1.22%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (1.22%) LangSmith
14 4 (1.22%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.78%) CHAP
2 18 (5.47%) Broadband
3 2 (0.61%) Internet
4 1 (0.30%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (24.01%) Power BI
2 48 (14.59%) Tableau
3 41 (12.46%) Data Warehouse
4 27 (8.21%) Big Data
5 24 (7.29%) Data Mining
6 13 (3.95%) NoSQL
7 12 (3.65%) Metadata
8 11 (3.34%) Data Lake
9 10 (3.04%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (3.04%) EDRMS
9 10 (3.04%) Hadoop
9 10 (3.04%) Qlik Sense
10 9 (2.74%) Power Query
10 9 (2.74%) SQL Server
11 7 (2.13%) Star Schema
12 6 (1.82%) Looker
13 5 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
13 5 (1.52%) Relational Database
14 4 (1.22%) BigQuery
14 4 (1.22%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 17 (5.17%) Jenkins
1 17 (5.17%) TeamCity
2 6 (1.82%) Git
3 5 (1.52%) MLflow
4 4 (1.22%) JIRA
5 1 (0.30%) ER Studio
General
1 161 (48.94%) Finance
2 122 (37.08%) Social Skills
3 92 (27.96%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (14.29%) Banking
5 37 (11.25%) Law
6 32 (9.73%) Legal
7 30 (9.12%) Financial Institution
7 30 (9.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 29 (8.81%) Marketing
9 20 (6.08%) Games
10 18 (5.47%) Presentation Skills
11 17 (5.17%) Front Office
12 15 (4.56%) Retail
13 7 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.52%) Public Sector
15 4 (1.22%) Investment Banking
15 4 (1.22%) Manufacturing
15 4 (1.22%) Retail Banking
16 3 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 80 (24.32%) Senior
2 74 (22.49%) Analyst
3 52 (15.81%) Data Analyst
4 35 (10.64%) Auditor
4 35 (10.64%) Data Engineer
5 28 (8.51%) Senior Manager
6 26 (7.90%) Internal Auditor
7 23 (6.99%) Audit Manager
7 23 (6.99%) Lead
8 22 (6.69%) Architect
8 22 (6.69%) Senior Analyst
9 20 (6.08%) Trainee
9 20 (6.08%) Trainee Analyst
9 20 (6.08%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 19 (5.78%) Security Auditor
11 18 (5.47%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 18 (5.47%) Developer
12 15 (4.56%) Senior Audit Manager
12 15 (4.56%) Software Engineer
13 12 (3.65%) Data Analytics Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.17%) Akka
2 9 (2.74%) PySpark
3 6 (1.82%) Kafka
4 5 (1.52%) React
5 3 (0.91%) Middleware
5 3 (0.91%) PyXLL
6 2 (0.61%) CSS
6 2 (0.61%) HTML
6 2 (0.61%) LangChain
6 2 (0.61%) Streamlit
6 2 (0.61%) XML
7 1 (0.30%) JSON
7 1 (0.30%) LangGraph
7 1 (0.30%) LlamaIndex
7 1 (0.30%) Next.js
7 1 (0.30%) NumPy
7 1 (0.30%) Pandas
7 1 (0.30%) scikit-learn
7 1 (0.30%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 35 (10.64%) Management Information System
2 28 (8.51%) Algorithms
3 21 (6.38%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (5.47%) Product Ownership
4 18 (5.47%) Video\Live Streaming
5 17 (5.17%) Over-the-Top Content
6 15 (4.56%) Onboarding
7 12 (3.65%) Blockchain
8 11 (3.34%) Fixed Income
9 10 (3.04%) Cybercrime
10 6 (1.82%) Derivative
10 6 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.82%) Equities
11 5 (1.52%) FMCG
11 5 (1.52%) OTC Derivatives
11 5 (1.52%) Reinsurance
12 4 (1.22%) Cloud Native
12 4 (1.22%) Public Cloud
13 3 (0.91%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.43%) Unix
2 6 (1.82%) Linux
2 6 (1.82%) Windows
3 2 (0.61%) AIX
4 1 (0.30%) Android
4 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 329 (100.00%) Analytics
2 106 (32.22%) Business Intelligence
3 103 (31.31%) AI
4 81 (24.62%) Decision-Making
5 78 (23.71%) Agile
6 67 (20.36%) Data Modelling
6 67 (20.36%) Project Management
7 64 (19.45%) Data Governance
8 63 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
9 62 (18.84%) Risk Management
10 57 (17.33%) Data Analysis
11 49 (14.89%) Visualisation
12 47 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
12 47 (14.29%) Machine Learning
13 46 (13.98%) Coaching
14 45 (13.68%) ETL
15 43 (13.07%) Data Engineering
15 43 (13.07%) Information Security
16 40 (12.16%) Internal Audit
17 39 (11.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 127 (38.60%) Python
2 107 (32.52%) SQL
3 25 (7.60%) Scala
4 11 (3.34%) JavaScript
5 9 (2.74%) Java
5 9 (2.74%) R
6 8 (2.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 5 (1.52%) C#
8 4 (1.22%) 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 (0.30%) Go
10 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.30%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 88 (26.75%) Degree
2 42 (12.77%) CISA
3 38 (11.55%) CISSP
4 32 (9.73%) CISM
5 30 (9.12%) Master's Degree
6 20 (6.08%) FFIEC
6 20 (6.08%) PhD
7 19 (5.78%) CGEIT
7 19 (5.78%) SANS
8 16 (4.86%) ACCA
9 12 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (3.34%) CRISC
11 9 (2.74%) AWS Certification
12 8 (2.43%) Security Cleared
13 6 (1.82%) SC Cleared
14 4 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (1.22%) CIMA
15 3 (0.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 3 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
16 2 (0.61%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (13.98%) Data Quality
2 28 (8.51%) GDPR
3 25 (7.60%) NIST
4 24 (7.29%) COBIT
5 20 (6.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (3.95%) IFRS
7 10 (3.04%) MiFID
8 9 (2.74%) Actionable Recommendations
9 7 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (1.82%) QA
10 6 (1.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (1.22%) GRC
11 4 (1.22%) IFRS 17
11 4 (1.22%) ITGC
12 2 (0.61%) Accessibility
13 1 (0.30%) EMIR
13 1 (0.30%) GAAP
System Software
1 21 (6.38%) Docker
2 1 (0.30%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (6.08%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.04%) Terraform
3 8 (2.43%) EnCase
3 8 (2.43%) FTK
4 4 (1.22%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 63 (19.15%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.29%) Databricks
3 13 (3.95%) Salesforce
4 9 (2.74%) Oracle
5 8 (2.43%) Cellebrite
5 8 (2.43%) Google
5 8 (2.43%) SAP
6 6 (1.82%) Cisco
6 6 (1.82%) Informatica
7 5 (1.52%) Alteryx
7 5 (1.52%) GoldenSource
7 5 (1.52%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.22%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (1.22%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.22%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.22%) Progress
9 3 (0.91%) Talend
10 2 (0.61%) HP
10 2 (0.61%) IBM
10 2 (0.61%) iManage