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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 129 71
Rank change year-on-year +34 -58 +43
Permanent jobs citing Data Analysis 70 36 160
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.39% 1.24% 3.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 1.34% 3.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26 21 121
10th Percentile - £37,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,750 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +30.00% +2.59%
75th Percentile £56,564 £80,000 £54,000
90th Percentile £58,750 £100,000 £63,750
England median annual salary £47,750 £54,793 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.85% +4.37% -4.55%

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 3,652 2,680 4,405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 72.43% 92.13% 83.95%
Number of salaries quoted 2,110 1,294 3,365
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,150 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 9 March 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 9 March 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 +26 38 £40,000 -20.21% 8
Hertfordshire -4 12 £37,750 -44.07% 8
Bedfordshire +29 11 £40,000 - 3
Essex -20 4 £37,500 -52.53% 5
Suffolk - 4 £43,500 - 3
Norfolk -5 1 £37,500 - 5
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 21 (30.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (11.43%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (5.71%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (4.29%) Integrated Workplace Management System
1 3 (4.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.43%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 7 (10.00%) Power Platform
2 6 (8.57%) AWS
3 3 (4.29%) Amazon S3
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%) Google Analytics
5 1 (1.43%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.29%) Internet
2 1 (1.43%) LTE
2 1 (1.43%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (20.00%) Tableau
2 8 (11.43%) Data Mining
3 7 (10.00%) Power BI
4 6 (8.57%) GIS
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
General
1 27 (38.57%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (27.14%) Finance
3 15 (21.43%) Social Skills
4 8 (11.43%) German Language
4 8 (11.43%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (5.71%) Marketing
6 3 (4.29%) Aerospace
6 3 (4.29%) Banking
6 3 (4.29%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.43%) Automotive
7 1 (1.43%) Electronics
7 1 (1.43%) Legal
7 1 (1.43%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.43%) Online Betting
7 1 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.43%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.43%) Retail
7 1 (1.43%) Tech for Good
7 1 (1.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (38.57%) Analyst
2 10 (14.29%) Data Analyst
3 8 (11.43%) Business Analyst
3 8 (11.43%) Trainee
3 8 (11.43%) Trainee Analyst
3 8 (11.43%) Trainee Data Analyst
4 7 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
5 4 (5.71%) Developer
6 3 (4.29%) Banking Analyst
6 3 (4.29%) Configuration Specialist
6 3 (4.29%) Data Business Analyst
6 3 (4.29%) Digital Transformation
6 3 (4.29%) Integration Engineer
6 3 (4.29%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
6 3 (4.29%) Senior
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
7 2 (2.86%) Data Science Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (32.86%) HTML
1 23 (32.86%) JSON
1 23 (32.86%) XML
2 22 (31.43%) 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 25 (35.71%) Onboarding
2 22 (31.43%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (4.29%) Algorithms
3 3 (4.29%) IoT
3 3 (4.29%) PropTech
3 3 (4.29%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.43%) FPGA
4 1 (1.43%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.43%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.43%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.43%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 22 (31.43%) Unix
2 1 (1.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (48.57%) AI
2 24 (34.29%) LLM
3 15 (21.43%) Analytics
4 13 (18.57%) Data Analytics
5 12 (17.14%) Validation
6 11 (15.71%) Business Analysis
7 10 (14.29%) Decision-Making
7 10 (14.29%) Project Management
7 10 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
8 8 (11.43%) Business Intelligence
9 7 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (8.57%) Agile
11 5 (7.14%) Data Transformation
11 5 (7.14%) Visualisation
12 4 (5.71%) Data Governance
12 4 (5.71%) Machine Learning
12 4 (5.71%) Performance Tuning
12 4 (5.71%) Translating Business Requirements
12 4 (5.71%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 44 (62.86%) Python
2 17 (24.29%) SQL
3 4 (5.71%) C++
4 3 (4.29%) Java
4 3 (4.29%) R
5 1 (1.43%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 32 (45.71%) Degree
2 5 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 5 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.29%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.43%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.43%) Postgraduate
4 1 (1.43%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.57%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 3 (4.29%) Firmware
2 1 (1.43%) Docker
Vendors
1 18 (25.71%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.14%) SAP
3 3 (4.29%) IBM
3 3 (4.29%) Oracle
3 3 (4.29%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.43%) Google