Data Analysis Job Trends in the East of England

Data Analysis
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Data Analysis skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 132 76
Rank change year-on-year +13 -56 +36
Permanent jobs citing Data Analysis 70 24 168
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.11% 0.93% 2.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 1.00% 3.42%
Number of salaries quoted 26 18 121
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,390 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,438 £35,529
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +30.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £56,564 £93,125 £54,000
90th Percentile £58,750 £100,000 £63,750
England median annual salary £47,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.48% - -3.31%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

Data Analysis 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 the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,445 2,394 4,909
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 70.49% 92.50% 81.23%
Number of salaries quoted 2,603 1,388 3,669
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,000 £25,809
25th Percentile £35,750 £37,943 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,295 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £78,750 £76,250
England median annual salary £59,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.67% +9.09% -12.00%

Data Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Analysis relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Data Analysis job vacancy trend in the East of England

Data Analysis
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Data Analysis.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Data Analysis

Data Analysis
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Analysis in the East of England over the 6 months to 26 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Analysis in the East of England

Data Analysis
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Analysis within the East of England region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Cambridgeshire +7 35 £46,877 -14.77% 10
Bedfordshire +10 10 £55,000 +10.00% 5
Essex -29 10 £40,000 -60.00% 9
Hertfordshire -20 8 £30,000 -55.56% 9
Suffolk - 6 £42,500 - 6
Norfolk - 1 £37,500 - 7
Data Analysis
England

Data Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 5 (7.14%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.29%) Apache
2 3 (4.29%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 20 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (11.43%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (5.71%) MS Visio
4 3 (4.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (5.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (4.29%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (1.43%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 8 (11.43%) Power Platform
2 6 (8.57%) AWS
3 3 (4.29%) Amazon S3
3 3 (4.29%) Google Analytics
3 3 (4.29%) OpenShift
3 3 (4.29%) Power Automate
4 2 (2.86%) Azure
4 2 (2.86%) GCP
5 1 (1.43%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.43%) LTE
1 1 (1.43%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (1.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.29%) Tableau
2 8 (11.43%) Power BI
3 6 (8.57%) GIS
4 4 (5.71%) Data Mining
5 3 (4.29%) Apache Hive
5 3 (4.29%) Impala
5 3 (4.29%) Oracle Database
5 3 (4.29%) Parquet
5 3 (4.29%) Spark SQL
6 2 (2.86%) Big Data
6 2 (2.86%) Hadoop
6 2 (2.86%) Metadata
6 2 (2.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (5.71%) Git
2 3 (4.29%) GitLab
2 3 (4.29%) IBM UrbanCode
2 3 (4.29%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.29%) JIRA
3 1 (1.43%) Visual Studio
General
1 22 (31.43%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (22.86%) Finance
2 16 (22.86%) Social Skills
3 8 (11.43%) Organisational Skills
4 7 (10.00%) German Language
5 4 (5.71%) Marketing
6 3 (4.29%) Banking
6 3 (4.29%) Investment Banking
6 3 (4.29%) Retail
7 2 (2.86%) Automotive
8 1 (1.43%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.43%) Electronics
8 1 (1.43%) Legal
8 1 (1.43%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.43%) Online Betting
8 1 (1.43%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.43%) Tech for Good
8 1 (1.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (41.43%) Analyst
2 7 (10.00%) Business Analyst
2 7 (10.00%) Data Analyst
3 6 (8.57%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
4 5 (7.14%) Developer
5 4 (5.71%) Configuration Specialist
5 4 (5.71%) Trainee
5 4 (5.71%) Trainee Analyst
5 4 (5.71%) Trainee Data Analyst
6 3 (4.29%) Banking Analyst
6 3 (4.29%) Commercial Analyst
6 3 (4.29%) Data Business Analyst
6 3 (4.29%) Integration Engineer
6 3 (4.29%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
6 3 (4.29%) PMO Analyst
6 3 (4.29%) Pricing Analyst
6 3 (4.29%) Systems Engineer
6 3 (4.29%) Systems Integration Engineer
6 3 (4.29%) Transformation Analyst
6 3 (4.29%) Validation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (28.57%) HTML
1 20 (28.57%) JSON
1 20 (28.57%) XML
2 19 (27.14%) Regular Expression
3 6 (8.57%) Pandas
4 3 (4.29%) NumPy
4 3 (4.29%) PySpark
4 3 (4.29%) PyTorch
5 2 (2.86%) Matplotlib
5 2 (2.86%) scikit-learn
5 2 (2.86%) Seaborn
5 2 (2.86%) TensorFlow
6 1 (1.43%) CSS
6 1 (1.43%) Django
6 1 (1.43%) REST
6 1 (1.43%) SciPy
6 1 (1.43%) Shiny
6 1 (1.43%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 23 (32.86%) Onboarding
2 19 (27.14%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (4.29%) Algorithms
3 3 (4.29%) PropTech
3 3 (4.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.43%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.43%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.43%) FPGA
4 1 (1.43%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.43%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.43%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 19 (27.14%) Unix
2 1 (1.43%) Linux
2 1 (1.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (40.00%) AI
2 21 (30.00%) LLM
3 13 (18.57%) Validation
4 12 (17.14%) Analytics
5 11 (15.71%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (15.71%) User Acceptance Testing
6 9 (12.86%) Business Intelligence
6 9 (12.86%) Data Analytics
6 9 (12.86%) Decision-Making
7 8 (11.43%) Project Management
8 7 (10.00%) Agile
9 6 (8.57%) Business Analysis
10 5 (7.14%) Change Management
10 5 (7.14%) Data Transformation
10 5 (7.14%) ERP
10 5 (7.14%) Scrum
10 5 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
11 4 (5.71%) Machine Learning
11 4 (5.71%) Performance Tuning
11 4 (5.71%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 35 (50.00%) Python
2 19 (27.14%) SQL
3 3 (4.29%) R
3 3 (4.29%) VBA
4 2 (2.86%) C++
5 1 (1.43%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.43%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 28 (40.00%) Degree
2 2 (2.86%) SC Cleared
2 2 (2.86%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.43%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.43%) Postgraduate
3 1 (1.43%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.57%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.14%) QA
3 3 (4.29%) PMO
4 1 (1.43%) ISO 9001
4 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 4 (5.71%) Firmware
2 1 (1.43%) Docker
Vendors
1 17 (24.29%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.57%) SAP
3 3 (4.29%) Google
3 3 (4.29%) IBM
3 3 (4.29%) Oracle
3 3 (4.29%) Red Hat