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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 132 153
Rank change year-on-year +11 +21 -11
Permanent jobs citing Data Analytics 326 371 393
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.34% 2.40% 2.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.67% 2.53% 2.32%
Number of salaries quoted 196 151 292
10th Percentile £35,000 £49,750 £51,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £57,342
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +12.28% -5.00%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £88,750
90th Percentile £130,000 £110,000 £106,125
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% -7.41%

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 12,196 14,640 16,967
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 87.67% 94.56% 92.41%
Number of salaries quoted 7,788 8,072 13,608
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 -13 47 £95,000 +10.14% 24
East London +3 18 £87,500 - 17
South London +45 9 £40,000 -30.43% 11
West London +2 4 £30,000 -62.50% 20
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 15 (4.60%) Apache Spark
2 14 (4.29%) SAS
3 10 (3.07%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.23%) Apache
5 2 (0.61%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.31%) Confluence
6 1 (0.31%) Jupyter
Applications
1 49 (15.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (3.68%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (3.07%) SPSS
4 6 (1.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.31%) Notion
Business Applications
1 8 (2.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.92%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.61%) Relativity
5 1 (0.31%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 1 (0.31%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 82 (25.15%) Power Platform
2 67 (20.55%) Azure
3 51 (15.64%) AWS
4 25 (7.67%) SaaS
5 22 (6.75%) GCP
6 17 (5.21%) Snowflake
7 13 (3.99%) dbt
8 12 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (3.07%) Amazon S3
9 10 (3.07%) Dropbox
9 10 (3.07%) Serverless
10 9 (2.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 8 (2.45%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (2.45%) Azure Data Factory
11 8 (2.45%) GitHub
12 6 (1.84%) Fivetran
13 4 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (1.23%) Azure Machine Learning
13 4 (1.23%) Matillion
13 4 (1.23%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.29%) CHAP
2 12 (3.68%) Broadband
3 2 (0.61%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (24.85%) Power BI
2 53 (16.26%) Tableau
3 45 (13.80%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (10.43%) Big Data
5 24 (7.36%) Data Mining
6 16 (4.91%) Metadata
6 16 (4.91%) NoSQL
7 15 (4.60%) Amazon Redshift
8 14 (4.29%) Hadoop
9 11 (3.37%) Data Lake
10 10 (3.07%) EDRMS
10 10 (3.07%) Qlik Sense
11 9 (2.76%) Power Query
11 9 (2.76%) SQL Server
12 7 (2.15%) Star Schema
13 6 (1.84%) Looker
14 5 (1.53%) Amazon Athena
15 4 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
15 4 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
15 4 (1.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (3.37%) Jenkins
1 11 (3.37%) TeamCity
2 5 (1.53%) Git
3 4 (1.23%) MLflow
4 3 (0.92%) JIRA
5 2 (0.61%) ER Studio
General
1 157 (48.16%) Finance
2 116 (35.58%) Social Skills
3 90 (27.61%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (15.03%) Law
5 40 (12.27%) Banking
6 35 (10.74%) Marketing
7 32 (9.82%) Financial Institution
8 31 (9.51%) Legal
9 25 (7.67%) Games
10 24 (7.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 22 (6.75%) Front Office
12 17 (5.21%) Presentation Skills
13 10 (3.07%) Retail
14 8 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
16 6 (1.84%) Public Sector
17 4 (1.23%) International Banking
17 4 (1.23%) Manufacturing
18 3 (0.92%) Local Government
18 3 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 63 (19.33%) Analyst
2 62 (19.02%) Senior
3 47 (14.42%) Data Analyst
4 31 (9.51%) Data Engineer
5 27 (8.28%) Auditor
5 27 (8.28%) Lead
5 27 (8.28%) Senior Manager
6 25 (7.67%) Audit Manager
6 25 (7.67%) Internal Auditor
7 23 (7.06%) Architect
8 22 (6.75%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 21 (6.44%) Developer
10 18 (5.52%) Trainee
10 18 (5.52%) Trainee Analyst
10 18 (5.52%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 15 (4.60%) Compliance Officer
11 15 (4.60%) Data Analytics Analyst
11 15 (4.60%) Senior Analyst
12 14 (4.29%) IT Manager
12 14 (4.29%) Senior Audit Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.99%) Kafka
2 11 (3.37%) Akka
3 9 (2.76%) PySpark
4 5 (1.53%) PyXLL
5 4 (1.23%) React
6 3 (0.92%) Middleware
7 2 (0.61%) CSS
7 2 (0.61%) HTML
7 2 (0.61%) XML
8 1 (0.31%) JSON
8 1 (0.31%) LangChain
8 1 (0.31%) LangGraph
8 1 (0.31%) NumPy
8 1 (0.31%) Pandas
8 1 (0.31%) scikit-learn
8 1 (0.31%) Semantic Kernel
8 1 (0.31%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 36 (11.04%) Algorithms
2 35 (10.74%) Management Information System
3 20 (6.13%) Onboarding
3 20 (6.13%) Product Ownership
4 18 (5.52%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (3.37%) Over-the-Top Content
5 11 (3.37%) Video\Live Streaming
6 10 (3.07%) Cybercrime
7 9 (2.76%) Equities
7 9 (2.76%) FMCG
8 8 (2.45%) Blockchain
9 7 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (2.15%) Fixed Income
10 6 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.53%) Credit Risk
11 5 (1.53%) Market Risk
12 4 (1.23%) Cloud Native
12 4 (1.23%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.23%) Reinsurance
13 3 (0.92%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.07%) Unix
2 9 (2.76%) Linux
3 8 (2.45%) Windows
4 1 (0.31%) AIX
4 1 (0.31%) Android
4 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 326 (100.00%) Analytics
2 109 (33.44%) Business Intelligence
3 101 (30.98%) AI
4 76 (23.31%) Decision-Making
5 71 (21.78%) Agile
6 69 (21.17%) Data Modelling
7 68 (20.86%) Problem-Solving
8 66 (20.25%) Data Governance
9 60 (18.40%) Project Management
10 58 (17.79%) Data Analysis
10 58 (17.79%) Risk Management
11 53 (16.26%) Visualisation
12 51 (15.64%) Cybersecurity
13 47 (14.42%) Data Engineering
13 47 (14.42%) ETL
14 45 (13.80%) Machine Learning
15 44 (13.50%) DevOps
16 43 (13.19%) Business Strategy
17 42 (12.88%) SDLC
18 38 (11.66%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 134 (41.10%) Python
2 110 (33.74%) SQL
3 18 (5.52%) Scala
4 12 (3.68%) Java
5 11 (3.37%) R
6 10 (3.07%) JavaScript
7 8 (2.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 7 (2.15%) C#
9 6 (1.84%) C++
10 4 (1.23%) Fortran
10 4 (1.23%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.92%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.61%) C
12 2 (0.61%) Perl
13 1 (0.31%) Go
13 1 (0.31%) PHP
13 1 (0.31%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 92 (28.22%) Degree
2 44 (13.50%) CISA
3 40 (12.27%) CISSP
4 37 (11.35%) Master's Degree
5 31 (9.51%) CISM
6 27 (8.28%) PhD
7 19 (5.83%) ACCA
8 15 (4.60%) FFIEC
9 14 (4.29%) CGEIT
9 14 (4.29%) CRISC
9 14 (4.29%) SANS
10 9 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (2.45%) AWS Certification
11 8 (2.45%) Security Cleared
12 7 (2.15%) CIMA
13 6 (1.84%) SC Cleared
14 3 (0.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 3 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.92%) CFA
14 3 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (15.34%) Data Quality
2 27 (8.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (7.06%) NIST
4 22 (6.75%) COBIT
4 22 (6.75%) GDPR
5 11 (3.37%) IFRS
6 10 (3.07%) QA
7 7 (2.15%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (2.15%) GRC
7 7 (2.15%) ITGC
7 7 (2.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (1.84%) MiFID
9 5 (1.53%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.61%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.61%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.31%) EMIR
11 1 (0.31%) GAAP
System Software
1 15 (4.60%) Docker
2 1 (0.31%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (4.29%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.76%) Terraform
3 8 (2.45%) EnCase
3 8 (2.45%) FTK
4 5 (1.53%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 56 (17.18%) Microsoft
2 26 (7.98%) Databricks
3 13 (3.99%) SAP
4 10 (3.07%) Oracle
5 9 (2.76%) Google
6 8 (2.45%) Cellebrite
6 8 (2.45%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.15%) Progress
8 5 (1.53%) GoldenSource
8 5 (1.53%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.23%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (1.23%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.23%) Palo Alto
10 3 (0.92%) Alteryx
10 3 (0.92%) Informatica
11 2 (0.61%) Adobe
11 2 (0.61%) Cisco
11 2 (0.61%) EMC
11 2 (0.61%) HP
11 2 (0.61%) Intel