Data Analysis
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Data Analysis skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Analysis over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 128 125
Rank change year-on-year +33 -3 +60
Permanent jobs citing Data Analysis 2,756 2,718 5,192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.69% 2.79% 3.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.19% 2.92% 3.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,539 1,307 2,183
10th Percentile £30,500 £30,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +8.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,393 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £46,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -7.61% +2.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Analysis is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86,445 93,025 160,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.24% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,550 54,985 83,280
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Data Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analysis in the UK

Data Analysis
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Analysis in the UK

Data Analysis
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Data Analysis in the UK

Data Analysis
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Analysis 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 +35 2,431 £52,500 - 956
UK excluding London +21 1,867 £50,000 +17.65% 588
Work from Home +35 919 £52,250 +4.50% 345
London +36 780 £60,000 -7.69% 384
Midlands +5 472 £50,000 +21.95% 125
South East +60 452 £50,000 +10.50% 124
North of England -4 363 £55,000 +46.67% 161
West Midlands +9 350 £50,000 +27.39% 75
North West -4 223 £60,000 +71.43% 93
Scotland -2 198 £55,000 +50.26% 41
South West +14 188 £54,500 +30.29% 71
East of England +20 165 £50,000 -2.44% 59
East Midlands +13 122 £45,000 +0.00% 50
Yorkshire +19 96 £50,000 +17.65% 45
North East -3 44 £40,000 +2.56% 24
Wales -13 21 £53,000 +23.06% 13
Northern Ireland +24 8 £57,500 +27.78% 11

Data Analysis
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:

Application Platforms
1 96 (3.48%) SAS
2 61 (2.21%) SharePoint
3 50 (1.81%) Apache Spark
4 39 (1.42%) Apache
5 34 (1.23%) Confluence
6 24 (0.87%) CMS
7 16 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
8 12 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
9 10 (0.36%) ArcGIS
9 10 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.18%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.15%) WordPress
12 3 (0.11%) Moodle
13 2 (0.073%) IIS
13 2 (0.073%) MTS
14 1 (0.036%) Luigi
14 1 (0.036%) Tomcat
Applications
1 644 (23.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 350 (12.70%) Microsoft Office
3 80 (2.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 46 (1.67%) Spreadsheet
5 24 (0.87%) MS Visio
5 24 (0.87%) SPSS
6 17 (0.62%) Windchill
7 14 (0.51%) Trello
8 8 (0.29%) Simulink
9 6 (0.22%) SOLIDWORKS
10 4 (0.15%) Stata
11 3 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.073%) InDesign
12 2 (0.073%) InVision
12 2 (0.073%) LaTeX
12 2 (0.073%) Microsoft Project
12 2 (0.073%) Photoshop
12 2 (0.073%) Sketch
12 2 (0.073%) Zeplin
13 1 (0.036%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 28 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.62%) Teamcenter
3 14 (0.51%) Primavera
4 12 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 10 (0.36%) NEC Housing
6 6 (0.22%) Oracle Applications
6 6 (0.22%) Raiser’s Edge
6 6 (0.22%) SAP Business One
7 5 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.15%) Eloqua
8 4 (0.15%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.15%) Oracle Financials
8 4 (0.15%) SAP IBP
8 4 (0.15%) SAP SD
9 3 (0.11%) Sage 200
9 3 (0.11%) Sage 300 ERP
9 3 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
10 2 (0.073%) Magento
10 2 (0.073%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 619 (22.46%) Power Platform
2 459 (16.65%) AWS
3 415 (15.06%) Azure
4 89 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
5 77 (2.79%) Microsoft 365
6 59 (2.14%) Cloud Computing
7 58 (2.10%) GCP
8 52 (1.89%) SaaS
9 46 (1.67%) Azure Data Factory
10 43 (1.56%) Serverless
11 42 (1.52%) PowerApps
11 42 (1.52%) Snowflake
12 36 (1.31%) Power Automate
13 32 (1.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 25 (0.91%) Dynamics 365
15 22 (0.80%) Amazon S3
16 21 (0.76%) AWS Lambda
16 21 (0.76%) Google Sheets
17 18 (0.65%) Google Analytics
17 18 (0.65%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 17 (0.62%) DSL
2 15 (0.54%) Firewall
3 14 (0.51%) HTTP
3 14 (0.51%) Intranet
4 13 (0.47%) Network Security
5 11 (0.40%) Ethernet
6 9 (0.33%) WAN
7 7 (0.25%) DNS
7 7 (0.25%) Internet
7 7 (0.25%) LAN
7 7 (0.25%) SD-WAN
7 7 (0.25%) TCP/IP
8 6 (0.22%) WPA
9 5 (0.18%) NAS
9 5 (0.18%) SAN
9 5 (0.18%) Unified Communications
9 5 (0.18%) VPN
9 5 (0.18%) Wireshark
10 4 (0.15%) Broadband
10 4 (0.15%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 597 (21.66%) Power BI
2 450 (16.33%) Tableau
3 237 (8.60%) Data Warehouse
4 161 (5.84%) SQL Server
5 98 (3.56%) Big Data
6 85 (3.08%) Data Vault
7 78 (2.83%) Data Lake
8 64 (2.32%) Metadata
9 57 (2.07%) NoSQL
10 52 (1.89%) GIS
10 52 (1.89%) Relational Database
11 51 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 47 (1.71%) Data Mining
13 42 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 35 (1.27%) Delta Lake
15 34 (1.23%) QlikView
16 27 (0.98%) Hadoop
17 26 (0.94%) Geospatial Data
17 26 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
18 24 (0.87%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 175 (6.35%) Git
2 111 (4.03%) JIRA
3 19 (0.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 15 (0.54%) Visual Studio
5 11 (0.40%) Oracle Forms
6 9 (0.33%) GitLab
7 7 (0.25%) LabVIEW
7 7 (0.25%) Toad
8 6 (0.22%) AdminStudio
8 6 (0.22%) InstallShield
8 6 (0.22%) MSI
9 5 (0.18%) Postman
9 5 (0.18%) SoapUI
10 4 (0.15%) Charles Proxy
11 3 (0.11%) Octopus Deploy
12 2 (0.073%) ERwin
12 2 (0.073%) Jenkins
12 2 (0.073%) MLflow
12 2 (0.073%) Selenium
12 2 (0.073%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 1,037 (37.63%) Social Skills
2 828 (30.04%) Analytical Skills
3 813 (29.50%) Finance
4 407 (14.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 346 (12.55%) Presentation Skills
6 281 (10.20%) Retail
7 252 (9.14%) Legal
8 232 (8.42%) Law
9 226 (8.20%) Marketing
10 198 (7.18%) Military
11 136 (4.93%) Banking
12 102 (3.70%) Manufacturing
13 97 (3.52%) Public Sector
14 79 (2.87%) Organisational Skills
15 63 (2.29%) Investment Banking
16 59 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
17 58 (2.10%) Publishing
18 54 (1.96%) Back Office
19 48 (1.74%) Financial Institution
20 47 (1.71%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 840 (30.48%) Analyst
2 441 (16.00%) Data Analyst
3 437 (15.86%) Senior
4 226 (8.20%) Lead
4 226 (8.20%) Senior Analyst
5 220 (7.98%) Graduate
6 189 (6.86%) Data Scientist
7 149 (5.41%) Data Engineer
8 140 (5.08%) Senior Data Analyst
9 119 (4.32%) Developer
10 114 (4.14%) Software Engineer
11 95 (3.45%) Architect
12 94 (3.41%) Data Manager
13 90 (3.27%) Business Analyst
14 69 (2.50%) Data Architect
15 66 (2.39%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 59 (2.14%) Consultant
17 48 (1.74%) AWS Engineer
17 48 (1.74%) AWS Software Engineer
18 46 (1.67%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (1.67%) .NET
2 38 (1.38%) CSS
2 38 (1.38%) HTML
3 36 (1.31%) Pandas
4 34 (1.23%) Kafka
5 33 (1.20%) React
6 28 (1.02%) JSON
6 28 (1.02%) PySpark
6 28 (1.02%) Web Services
7 22 (0.80%) AngularJS
7 22 (0.80%) Apache NiFi
7 22 (0.80%) XML
8 19 (0.69%) ASP.NET
8 19 (0.69%) NumPy
9 16 (0.58%) .NET Core
9 16 (0.58%) REST
10 15 (0.54%) Lambda Expressions
10 15 (0.54%) Node.js
11 14 (0.51%) .NET Framework
11 14 (0.51%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 328 (11.90%) Onboarding
2 308 (11.18%) Algorithms
3 230 (8.35%) Management Information System
4 123 (4.46%) Data Structures
5 119 (4.32%) Product Ownership
6 78 (2.83%) Cloud Native
6 78 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
7 57 (2.07%) Credit Risk
7 57 (2.07%) Public Cloud
8 50 (1.81%) Reinsurance
9 33 (1.20%) Life Science
10 32 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
11 26 (0.94%) Data Centre
12 25 (0.91%) Taxonomies
13 24 (0.87%) Market Risk
14 23 (0.83%) Driving Licence
14 23 (0.83%) IoT
15 21 (0.76%) NHS
16 20 (0.73%) Mobile App
16 20 (0.73%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 46 (1.67%) Windows
2 44 (1.60%) Linux
3 10 (0.36%) Windows Server
4 8 (0.29%) Windows 10
5 7 (0.25%) Android
5 7 (0.25%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.22%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.22%) Unix
6 6 (0.22%) Windows 7
7 5 (0.18%) Windows Vista
8 2 (0.073%) AIX
8 2 (0.073%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.036%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.036%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.036%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 943 (34.22%) Problem-Solving
2 859 (31.17%) Analytics
3 702 (25.47%) Business Intelligence
4 649 (23.55%) Visualisation
5 575 (20.86%) Decision-Making
6 482 (17.49%) Agile
7 471 (17.09%) Mathematics
8 463 (16.80%) Continuous Improvement
9 412 (14.95%) Computer Science
10 409 (14.84%) Data Science
11 379 (13.75%) Data Modelling
12 338 (12.26%) Actionable Insight
13 336 (12.19%) ETL
14 327 (11.87%) Data Management
15 326 (11.83%) Data Visualisation
16 322 (11.68%) Customer Service
17 317 (11.50%) Process Improvement
18 314 (11.39%) Coaching
19 310 (11.25%) Data Pipeline
20 304 (11.03%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 982 (35.63%) SQL
2 736 (26.71%) Python
3 141 (5.12%) R
4 101 (3.66%) Java
5 81 (2.94%) C#
6 80 (2.90%) JavaScript
7 58 (2.10%) T-SQL
8 44 (1.60%) VBA
9 41 (1.49%) PowerShell
10 40 (1.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 37 (1.34%) Scala
12 32 (1.16%) MATLAB
13 26 (0.94%) PL/SQL
14 22 (0.80%) C
15 19 (0.69%) VB
16 18 (0.65%) C++
17 17 (0.62%) TypeScript
18 16 (0.58%) Go
19 14 (0.51%) Bash
20 10 (0.36%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,174 (42.60%) Degree
2 175 (6.35%) DBS Check
3 152 (5.52%) Master's Degree
4 120 (4.35%) Security Cleared
5 93 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 61 (2.21%) SC Cleared
7 48 (1.74%) PhD
8 47 (1.71%) DV Cleared
9 32 (1.16%) MBA
10 31 (1.12%) Numerate Degree
11 30 (1.09%) HNC
12 25 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
13 19 (0.69%) CIMA
14 16 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
15 15 (0.54%) CFA
16 12 (0.44%) APMP
16 12 (0.44%) PMI Certification
17 8 (0.29%) Six Sigma Green Belt
18 7 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
18 7 (0.25%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 257 (9.33%) Data Quality
2 103 (3.74%) QA
3 53 (1.92%) Accessibility
4 48 (1.74%) GDPR
4 48 (1.74%) IFRS
5 40 (1.45%) IFRS 9
6 29 (1.05%) PMO
7 28 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
8 25 (0.91%) SLA
9 18 (0.65%) Good Clinical Practice
10 10 (0.36%) ISO 9001
11 7 (0.25%) COBIT
11 7 (0.25%) NIST
12 5 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 4 (0.15%) CDISC
13 4 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.11%) MiFID
14 3 (0.11%) P3O
15 2 (0.073%) JSP 440
15 2 (0.073%) WCAG
System Software
1 41 (1.49%) Active Directory
2 29 (1.05%) Docker
3 12 (0.44%) Firmware
4 11 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.22%) Microsoft App-V
6 5 (0.18%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.073%) HDFS
9 1 (0.036%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.036%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.036%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 50 (1.81%) Kubernetes
2 14 (0.51%) SCCM
3 13 (0.47%) SCOM
4 9 (0.33%) Terraform
5 8 (0.29%) WSUS
6 7 (0.25%) SysTrack
7 4 (0.15%) Ansible
7 4 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
7 4 (0.15%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.11%) Puppet
9 2 (0.073%) Functional Safety
9 2 (0.073%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.036%) FTK
10 1 (0.036%) Grafana
10 1 (0.036%) Iperf
10 1 (0.036%) Nmap
10 1 (0.036%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 483 (17.53%) Microsoft
2 308 (11.18%) Databricks
3 111 (4.03%) Oracle
4 83 (3.01%) Google
5 64 (2.32%) Informatica
6 54 (1.96%) Alteryx
7 50 (1.81%) SAP
8 44 (1.60%) Salesforce
9 42 (1.52%) ServiceNow
10 29 (1.05%) Adobe
11 23 (0.83%) Cognos
12 17 (0.62%) Sybase
13 16 (0.58%) VMware
14 15 (0.54%) HP
15 13 (0.47%) Dynatrace
15 13 (0.47%) Riverbed
16 12 (0.44%) Sparx
17 11 (0.40%) ESRI
17 11 (0.40%) Sage
18 10 (0.36%) NEC