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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 138 142
Rank change year-on-year +7 +4 +6
Permanent jobs citing Data Analytics 337 360 471
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.11% 2.47% 2.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.45% 2.58% 2.43%
Number of salaries quoted 203 143 346
10th Percentile £35,000 £49,500 £44,375
25th Percentile £53,750 £68,125 £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 £96,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £121,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.88%

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 13,729 13,977 19,414
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 86.15% 95.81% 91.92%
Number of salaries quoted 8,879 7,752 15,593
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,893 £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 25 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 25 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 -32 45 £85,000 -2.86% 33
East London +11 26 £87,500 - 8
South London +43 10 £40,000 -30.43% 1
West London -4 8 £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 (5.34%) Apache Airflow
1 18 (5.34%) SAS
2 14 (4.15%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.67%) Apache
4 3 (0.89%) Confluence
4 3 (0.89%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 55 (16.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (3.26%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (2.97%) SPSS
4 8 (2.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (1.48%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.30%) Notion
Business Applications
1 5 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.89%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.59%) Relativity
3 2 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.30%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 77 (22.85%) Power Platform
2 59 (17.51%) Azure
3 50 (14.84%) AWS
4 24 (7.12%) GCP
5 23 (6.82%) SaaS
6 17 (5.04%) Snowflake
7 13 (3.86%) Amazon S3
7 13 (3.86%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (3.56%) dbt
9 10 (2.97%) Dropbox
9 10 (2.97%) GitHub
10 7 (2.08%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (1.78%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (1.78%) Fivetran
11 6 (1.78%) Serverless
12 5 (1.48%) Azure Machine Learning
12 5 (1.48%) OpenShift
13 4 (1.19%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (1.19%) Matillion
13 4 (1.19%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.93%) CHAP
2 18 (5.34%) Broadband
3 2 (0.59%) Internet
3 2 (0.59%) Network Security
4 1 (0.30%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (22.55%) Power BI
2 56 (16.62%) Tableau
3 37 (10.98%) Data Warehouse
4 27 (8.01%) Big Data
4 27 (8.01%) Data Mining
5 12 (3.56%) Data Lake
5 12 (3.56%) NoSQL
6 10 (2.97%) EDRMS
6 10 (2.97%) Qlik Sense
7 9 (2.67%) SQL Server
8 8 (2.37%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (2.37%) Hadoop
8 8 (2.37%) Metadata
8 8 (2.37%) Star Schema
9 7 (2.08%) Apache Hive
9 7 (2.08%) Impala
10 6 (1.78%) BigQuery
10 6 (1.78%) Looker
10 6 (1.78%) Power Query
11 5 (1.48%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 17 (5.04%) Jenkins
1 17 (5.04%) TeamCity
2 11 (3.26%) Git
3 5 (1.48%) IBM UrbanCode
3 5 (1.48%) JIRA
3 5 (1.48%) MLflow
General
1 175 (51.93%) Finance
2 128 (37.98%) Social Skills
3 99 (29.38%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (15.43%) Banking
5 33 (9.79%) Law
6 31 (9.20%) Legal
7 30 (8.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 30 (8.90%) Marketing
8 28 (8.31%) Financial Institution
9 21 (6.23%) Retail
10 20 (5.93%) Presentation Skills
11 16 (4.75%) Games
12 12 (3.56%) Front Office
13 9 (2.67%) Investment Banking
14 7 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (2.08%) Retail Banking
15 6 (1.78%) Public Sector
16 5 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
17 4 (1.19%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 86 (25.52%) Senior
2 81 (24.04%) Analyst
3 55 (16.32%) Data Analyst
4 35 (10.39%) Auditor
5 34 (10.09%) Data Engineer
6 31 (9.20%) Senior Manager
7 24 (7.12%) Audit Manager
8 23 (6.82%) Architect
8 23 (6.82%) Trainee
8 23 (6.82%) Trainee Analyst
8 23 (6.82%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 22 (6.53%) Internal Auditor
9 22 (6.53%) Senior Analyst
10 19 (5.64%) Security Auditor
11 18 (5.34%) Lead
12 17 (5.04%) Business Analyst
13 15 (4.45%) Senior Audit Manager
13 15 (4.45%) Software Engineer
14 14 (4.15%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 13 (3.86%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.04%) Akka
2 14 (4.15%) PySpark
3 6 (1.78%) Pandas
4 5 (1.48%) React
5 3 (0.89%) CSS
5 3 (0.89%) HTML
5 3 (0.89%) Middleware
6 2 (0.59%) Kafka
6 2 (0.59%) LangChain
6 2 (0.59%) Streamlit
6 2 (0.59%) 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%) scikit-learn
7 1 (0.30%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 35 (10.39%) Management Information System
2 22 (6.53%) Algorithms
2 22 (6.53%) Self-Motivation
3 18 (5.34%) Video\Live Streaming
4 17 (5.04%) Onboarding
4 17 (5.04%) Over-the-Top Content
5 16 (4.75%) Product Ownership
6 12 (3.56%) Blockchain
7 10 (2.97%) Cybercrime
7 10 (2.97%) Fixed Income
8 6 (1.78%) Derivative
8 6 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.78%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.48%) OTC Derivatives
9 5 (1.48%) Reinsurance
10 4 (1.19%) Cloud Native
10 4 (1.19%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.19%) Equities
11 3 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.37%) Unix
2 6 (1.78%) Linux
2 6 (1.78%) Windows
3 2 (0.59%) AIX
4 1 (0.30%) Android
4 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 337 (100.00%) Analytics
2 101 (29.97%) Business Intelligence
3 99 (29.38%) AI
4 86 (25.52%) Agile
5 81 (24.04%) Decision-Making
6 72 (21.36%) Project Management
7 65 (19.29%) Data Modelling
7 65 (19.29%) Risk Management
8 63 (18.69%) Data Analysis
8 63 (18.69%) Data Governance
9 59 (17.51%) Problem-Solving
10 51 (15.13%) Coaching
11 49 (14.54%) Visualisation
12 44 (13.06%) Cybersecurity
12 44 (13.06%) ETL
12 44 (13.06%) Information Security
12 44 (13.06%) Internal Audit
13 43 (12.76%) Machine Learning
14 40 (11.87%) Business Analysis
15 38 (11.28%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 126 (37.39%) Python
2 113 (33.53%) SQL
3 22 (6.53%) Scala
4 11 (3.26%) JavaScript
5 9 (2.67%) R
6 8 (2.37%) Java
7 5 (1.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (0.89%) C#
9 2 (0.59%) C
9 2 (0.59%) Perl
9 2 (0.59%) PHP
9 2 (0.59%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.30%) C++
10 1 (0.30%) Go
10 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.30%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.30%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 81 (24.04%) Degree
2 40 (11.87%) CISSP
3 39 (11.57%) CISA
4 35 (10.39%) CISM
5 24 (7.12%) Master's Degree
6 20 (5.93%) CGEIT
6 20 (5.93%) FFIEC
6 20 (5.93%) SANS
7 16 (4.75%) ACCA
8 14 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (4.15%) PhD
9 10 (2.97%) CRISC
10 9 (2.67%) AWS Certification
10 9 (2.67%) Security Cleared
11 6 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (1.78%) SC Cleared
12 4 (1.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (1.19%) CIMA
13 3 (0.89%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (14.54%) Data Quality
2 26 (7.72%) GDPR
3 25 (7.42%) NIST
4 24 (7.12%) COBIT
5 18 (5.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (3.86%) IFRS
7 10 (2.97%) MiFID
8 9 (2.67%) Actionable Recommendations
9 7 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (1.78%) ITGC
10 6 (1.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (1.19%) IFRS 17
11 4 (1.19%) QA
12 3 (0.89%) GRC
13 2 (0.59%) Accessibility
14 1 (0.30%) EMIR
14 1 (0.30%) GAAP
14 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (6.23%) Docker
2 1 (0.30%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (5.93%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.26%) Terraform
3 8 (2.37%) EnCase
3 8 (2.37%) FTK
4 3 (0.89%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 66 (19.58%) Microsoft
2 21 (6.23%) Databricks
3 14 (4.15%) Oracle
4 13 (3.86%) Salesforce
5 9 (2.67%) Google
6 8 (2.37%) Cellebrite
6 8 (2.37%) Cisco
7 6 (1.78%) Alteryx
7 6 (1.78%) Fortinet
7 6 (1.78%) Informatica
7 6 (1.78%) Palo Alto
7 6 (1.78%) SAP
8 5 (1.48%) GoldenSource
8 5 (1.48%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.19%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (1.19%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.89%) Progress
10 3 (0.89%) Talend
11 2 (0.59%) HP
11 2 (0.59%) IBM