Data Analyst
UK

The median Data Analyst salary in the UK is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 303 281 330
Rank change year-on-year -22 +49 -22
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Analyst 929 1,354 1,836
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.95% 1.29% 1.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.00% 1.41% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 697 820 1,098
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £46,900
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +1.28% +4.22%
75th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £71,400
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £38,500 £38,500
% change year-on-year +3.90% - +2.67%

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 92,901 95,961 148,050
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.57% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,751 60,281 85,224
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,495
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analyst in the UK

Data Analyst
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Analyst in the UK

Data Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Analyst over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Analyst in the UK

Data Analyst
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 Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 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 +2 865 £45,000 -5.26% 214
UK excluding London -79 509 £40,000 +3.90% 112
London +48 394 £60,000 +4.35% 110
Work from Home -1 380 £45,000 -5.26% 84
Midlands -29 129 £37,500 -1.32% 23
South East +33 120 £40,000 -5.88% 20
North of England -62 104 £35,000 -6.67% 33
South West -19 71 £45,000 +6.22% 14
West Midlands -44 66 £40,000 +5.26% 12
East Midlands +28 63 £30,500 -7.58% 11
North West -13 57 £35,000 -5.09% 14
East of England +9 43 £36,664 -33.34% 11
Yorkshire +14 30 £35,000 -6.67% 10
Scotland -91 24 £55,000 +29.41% 9
North East -29 17 £35,000 -12.50% 9
Wales -9 13 £42,500 +52.08% 3
Northern Ireland +29 5 £45,000 +20.00% 1

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, 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 Data Analyst in the job title.

1 581 (62.54%) SQL
2 396 (42.63%) Power Platform
3 393 (42.30%) Power BI
4 392 (42.20%) Analytical Skills
5 379 (40.80%) Business Intelligence
6 376 (40.47%) Data Analysis
7 372 (40.04%) Analytics
8 336 (36.17%) Social Skills
9 315 (33.91%) Python
10 295 (31.75%) Visualisation
11 292 (31.43%) Microsoft Excel
12 259 (27.88%) Problem-Solving
13 256 (27.56%) Tableau
14 252 (27.13%) Degree
15 234 (25.19%) Finance
16 186 (20.02%) Decision-Making
17 179 (19.27%) Statistics
17 179 (19.27%) Actionable Insight
18 178 (19.16%) Data Quality
19 177 (19.05%) Mathematics
20 148 (15.93%) Retail
21 131 (14.10%) Data Management
21 131 (14.10%) Business Strategy
22 129 (13.89%) Presentation Skills
23 122 (13.13%) Microsoft
24 120 (12.92%) Data Visualisation
25 118 (12.70%) Agile
26 114 (12.27%) Data Modelling
27 110 (11.84%) Data Analytics
27 110 (11.84%) AWS

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:

Application Platforms
1 25 (2.69%) SAS
2 9 (0.97%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.75%) Confluence
4 6 (0.65%) ArcGIS
4 6 (0.65%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (0.43%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.22%) Apache
6 2 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 292 (31.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (2.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.08%) Spreadsheet
4 10 (1.08%) SPSS
5 8 (0.86%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.32%) Stata
Business Applications
1 6 (0.65%) NEC Housing
1 6 (0.65%) Sage 50
1 6 (0.65%) SAP Business One
2 5 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.43%) Finacle
3 4 (0.43%) FLEXCUBE
3 4 (0.43%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.22%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.22%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.11%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.11%) SAP Retail
5 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 396 (42.63%) Power Platform
2 110 (11.84%) AWS
3 93 (10.01%) Azure
4 26 (2.80%) Snowflake
5 22 (2.37%) GCP
6 19 (2.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 17 (1.83%) Azure Data Factory
8 13 (1.40%) Microsoft Purview
8 13 (1.40%) PowerApps
9 9 (0.97%) GitHub
9 9 (0.97%) Google Analytics
10 8 (0.86%) Adobe Analytics
10 8 (0.86%) Power Automate
10 8 (0.86%) SaaS
11 6 (0.65%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (0.65%) dbt
11 6 (0.65%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (0.43%) Azure Machine Learning
12 4 (0.43%) ChatGPT
12 4 (0.43%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.75%) Internet
2 5 (0.54%) Intranet
3 1 (0.11%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 393 (42.30%) Power BI
2 256 (27.56%) Tableau
3 70 (7.53%) Data Warehouse
4 50 (5.38%) SQL Server
5 42 (4.52%) Power Query
6 30 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 29 (3.12%) Metadata
8 27 (2.91%) Data Mining
9 26 (2.80%) QlikView
10 19 (2.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 14 (1.51%) Relational Database
12 13 (1.40%) Amazon QuickSight
13 11 (1.18%) GIS
13 11 (1.18%) Looker
14 10 (1.08%) Big Data
14 10 (1.08%) MS Access
14 10 (1.08%) MySQL
15 9 (0.97%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 9 (0.97%) Qlik Sense
15 9 (0.97%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 91 (9.80%) Git
2 18 (1.94%) JIRA
3 14 (1.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 6 (0.65%) GitLab
4 6 (0.65%) Toad
5 2 (0.22%) RStudio
6 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 392 (42.20%) Analytical Skills
2 336 (36.17%) Social Skills
3 234 (25.19%) Finance
4 148 (15.93%) Retail
5 129 (13.89%) Presentation Skills
6 80 (8.61%) Marketing
7 66 (7.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 56 (6.03%) Law
9 51 (5.49%) Banking
10 44 (4.74%) Organisational Skills
11 36 (3.88%) Manufacturing
12 23 (2.48%) Local Government
13 22 (2.37%) Legal
13 22 (2.37%) Public Sector
14 14 (1.51%) Games
15 12 (1.29%) Automotive
16 10 (1.08%) Telecoms
17 9 (0.97%) Electronics
17 9 (0.97%) Publishing
18 8 (0.86%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.08%) Pandas
2 9 (0.97%) XML
3 4 (0.43%) JSON
4 3 (0.32%) HTML
5 2 (0.22%) D3.js
5 2 (0.22%) NumPy
6 1 (0.11%) Anaconda
6 1 (0.11%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (0.11%) Flask
6 1 (0.11%) Kafka
6 1 (0.11%) Lambda Expressions
6 1 (0.11%) Matplotlib
6 1 (0.11%) MDX
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.11%) Plotly
6 1 (0.11%) PySpark
6 1 (0.11%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.11%) Seaborn
6 1 (0.11%) SQLAlchemy
6 1 (0.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 54 (5.81%) Management Information System
2 51 (5.49%) Self-Motivation
3 22 (2.37%) Analytical Mindset
4 19 (2.05%) Onboarding
5 17 (1.83%) Data Structures
6 13 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (1.29%) FMCG
8 10 (1.08%) Algorithms
8 10 (1.08%) Product Ownership
8 10 (1.08%) Reinsurance
9 9 (0.97%) Housing Association
9 9 (0.97%) Reference Data
10 6 (0.65%) Blog
10 6 (0.65%) Data Centre
10 6 (0.65%) IoT
10 6 (0.65%) Pricing Data
11 5 (0.54%) Credit Risk
11 5 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (0.54%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (0.54%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.65%) Windows
2 2 (0.22%) Windows Vista
3 1 (0.11%) Android
3 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 379 (40.80%) Business Intelligence
2 376 (40.47%) Data Analysis
3 372 (40.04%) Analytics
4 295 (31.75%) Visualisation
5 259 (27.88%) Problem-Solving
6 186 (20.02%) Decision-Making
7 179 (19.27%) Actionable Insight
7 179 (19.27%) Statistics
8 177 (19.05%) Mathematics
9 131 (14.10%) Business Strategy
9 131 (14.10%) Data Management
10 120 (12.92%) Data Visualisation
11 118 (12.70%) Agile
12 114 (12.27%) Data Modelling
13 110 (11.84%) Data Analytics
14 105 (11.30%) Data Pipeline
15 91 (9.80%) Data Governance
16 88 (9.47%) Data Science
17 87 (9.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 85 (9.15%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 581 (62.54%) SQL
2 315 (33.91%) Python
3 67 (7.21%) R
4 43 (4.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 39 (4.20%) T-SQL
6 28 (3.01%) VBA
7 8 (0.86%) Java
8 6 (0.65%) Bash
9 4 (0.43%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (0.43%) VB
10 3 (0.32%) C#
11 1 (0.11%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 252 (27.13%) Degree
2 92 (9.90%) DBS Check
3 25 (2.69%) Security Cleared
4 24 (2.58%) Master's Degree
5 16 (1.72%) Numerate Degree
6 14 (1.51%) SC Cleared
7 13 (1.40%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (0.54%) MBA
10 5 (0.54%) PhD
11 4 (0.43%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.22%) ACCA
12 2 (0.22%) CFA
12 2 (0.22%) CIMA
13 1 (0.11%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.11%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.11%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (19.16%) Data Quality
2 12 (1.29%) QA
3 11 (1.18%) GDPR
4 7 (0.75%) Accessibility
4 7 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
4 7 (0.75%) COBIT
5 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.11%) NIST
5 1 (0.11%) PMO
5 1 (0.11%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (0.22%) Docker
2 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 1 (0.11%) Oozie
Vendors
1 122 (13.13%) Microsoft
2 96 (10.33%) Databricks
3 48 (5.17%) Alteryx
4 36 (3.88%) Google
4 36 (3.88%) Salesforce
5 26 (2.80%) Oracle
5 26 (2.80%) SAP
6 14 (1.51%) Informatica
7 8 (0.86%) Adobe
7 8 (0.86%) Talend
8 7 (0.75%) IBM
9 6 (0.65%) Civica
9 6 (0.65%) Jitterbit
9 6 (0.65%) NEC
9 6 (0.65%) Sage
10 5 (0.54%) ESRI
11 4 (0.43%) Anaplan
11 4 (0.43%) IFS
12 3 (0.32%) F5
12 3 (0.32%) Meraki