Senior Data Analyst
UK

The median Senior Data Analyst salary in the UK is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 697 805 904
Rank change year-on-year +108 +99 -55
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Analyst 219 147 344
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.15% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.17% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 101 70 123
10th Percentile £39,750 £38,675 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,105 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +12.15% -2.73%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,625 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,625 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £45,900
% change year-on-year +22.22% -1.96% +2.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 97,260 88,990 160,374
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 91.41% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 69,382 56,369 85,188
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,663
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%

Senior Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Senior Data Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Analyst in the UK

Senior Data Analyst
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Data Analyst.

Salary trend for Senior Data Analyst in the UK

Senior Data Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Analyst over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Data Analyst in the UK

Senior Data Analyst
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Data Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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
England +148 208 £57,500 -14.81% 27
Work from Home +138 151 £55,000 -4.35% 8
London +216 137 £70,000 - 17
UK excluding London -14 80 £55,000 +22.22% 11
Midlands +26 37 £55,000 +29.41% 1
West Midlands +27 20 £57,500 +11.49%
East Midlands -1 17 £45,001 +27.66% 1
South East -8 11 £49,250 -17.92% 2
North of England +48 10 £42,560 -2.72% 4
South West -24 10 £60,000 +33.33% 1
Scotland -58 9 £55,000 +50.64% 1
Yorkshire +79 4 £42,500 - 3
North West +4 3 £31,000 -31.11% 1
North East -4 3 £43,750 +2.94%
East of England -19 2 £70,000 +27.27% 3
Channel Islands - 1 £67,500 -

Senior Data Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, Senior Data Analyst job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Senior Data Analyst in the job title.

1 200 (91.32%) SQL
2 171 (78.08%) Analytics
3 165 (75.34%) Python
4 147 (67.12%) Tableau
5 143 (65.30%) Social Skills
6 140 (63.93%) Data Analysis
7 135 (61.64%) Visualisation
7 135 (61.64%) Degree
8 131 (59.82%) Actionable Insight
9 126 (57.53%) Analytical Skills
10 125 (57.08%) Problem-Solving
11 116 (52.97%) Statistics
12 115 (52.51%) Databricks
13 113 (51.60%) Mathematics
14 111 (50.68%) Retail
15 106 (48.40%) Business Strategy
16 104 (47.49%) AWS
16 104 (47.49%) Presentation Skills
17 103 (47.03%) Data Pipeline
17 103 (47.03%) Storytelling
18 102 (46.58%) DBS Check
19 101 (46.12%) Git
20 96 (43.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 96 (43.84%) Customer Intelligence
20 96 (43.84%) Root Cause Analysis
21 69 (31.51%) Power BI
21 69 (31.51%) Power Platform
22 61 (27.85%) Business Intelligence
23 48 (21.92%) Microsoft Excel
24 31 (14.16%) Decision-Making

Senior Data Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 48 (21.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.91%) Stata
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 104 (47.49%) AWS
2 69 (31.51%) Power Platform
3 22 (10.05%) Azure
4 9 (4.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 5 (2.28%) GCP
5 5 (2.28%) GitHub
6 4 (1.83%) dbt
7 3 (1.37%) Google Analytics
8 2 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.91%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.46%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.46%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.46%) Google Data Studio
9 1 (0.46%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.46%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (67.12%) Tableau
2 69 (31.51%) Power BI
3 15 (6.85%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (4.11%) SQL Server
5 7 (3.20%) Looker
6 4 (1.83%) BigQuery
7 3 (1.37%) Ataccama
7 3 (1.37%) Metadata
7 3 (1.37%) MySQL
8 2 (0.91%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.91%) Big Data
8 2 (0.91%) Bigtable
8 2 (0.91%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.91%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.91%) QGIS
8 2 (0.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.46%) GIS
9 1 (0.46%) Mixpanel
9 1 (0.46%) NonStop SQL
9 1 (0.46%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 101 (46.12%) Git
2 3 (1.37%) GitLab
2 3 (1.37%) JIRA
General
1 143 (65.30%) Social Skills
2 126 (57.53%) Analytical Skills
3 111 (50.68%) Retail
4 104 (47.49%) Presentation Skills
5 22 (10.05%) Finance
6 16 (7.31%) Marketing
7 11 (5.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (4.11%) Law
9 8 (3.65%) Games
10 6 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (2.74%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.83%) Advertising
12 3 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.91%) Banking
13 2 (0.91%) Billing
14 1 (0.46%) Automotive
14 1 (0.46%) Military
14 1 (0.46%) Publishing
14 1 (0.46%) Social Housing
14 1 (0.46%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.46%) GraphQL
1 1 (0.46%) JSON
1 1 (0.46%) REST
1 1 (0.46%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.94%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (3.20%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (3.20%) Product Ownership
3 6 (2.74%) Reinsurance
4 5 (2.28%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.37%) Digital Media
5 3 (1.37%) Reference Data
6 2 (0.91%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (0.91%) Data Centre
6 2 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (0.91%) IoT
6 2 (0.91%) New Media
6 2 (0.91%) Robotics
6 2 (0.91%) Social Media
7 1 (0.46%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.46%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.46%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.46%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.46%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.46%) Android
1 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (78.08%) Analytics
2 140 (63.93%) Data Analysis
3 135 (61.64%) Visualisation
4 131 (59.82%) Actionable Insight
5 125 (57.08%) Problem-Solving
6 116 (52.97%) Statistics
7 113 (51.60%) Mathematics
8 106 (48.40%) Business Strategy
9 103 (47.03%) Data Pipeline
9 103 (47.03%) Storytelling
10 96 (43.84%) Customer Intelligence
10 96 (43.84%) Root Cause Analysis
10 96 (43.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 61 (27.85%) Business Intelligence
12 31 (14.16%) Decision-Making
13 28 (12.79%) Data Analytics
13 28 (12.79%) Data Modelling
14 26 (11.87%) Data Visualisation
15 23 (10.50%) Statistical Modelling
16 22 (10.05%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 200 (91.32%) SQL
2 165 (75.34%) Python
3 15 (6.85%) R
4 8 (3.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.46%) VBA
Qualifications
1 135 (61.64%) Degree
2 102 (46.58%) DBS Check
3 13 (5.94%) Security Cleared
4 12 (5.48%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.28%) Master's Degree
5 5 (2.28%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.37%) MBA
6 3 (1.37%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.85%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.74%) QA
3 3 (1.37%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (0.91%) GDPR
Vendors
1 115 (52.51%) Databricks
2 22 (10.05%) Microsoft
3 13 (5.94%) Alteryx
4 7 (3.20%) Google
5 2 (0.91%) Cognos
5 2 (0.91%) HubSpot
5 2 (0.91%) Oracle
5 2 (0.91%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.91%) Workday
6 1 (0.46%) Aderant
6 1 (0.46%) Amplitude
6 1 (0.46%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.46%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (0.46%) SAP