Data Analytics Job Trends in the East of England

Data Analytics
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Data Analytics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 158 131
Rank change year-on-year +40 -27 +13
Permanent jobs citing Data Analytics 41 26 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.98% 0.74% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% 0.84% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 34 15 10
10th Percentile - - £42,500
25th Percentile £26,250 £25,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,500 £60,000 £69,000
Median % change year-on-year -54.17% -13.04% +10.40%
75th Percentile £45,000 £70,750 £104,688
90th Percentile £51,125 £81,500 £111,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £61,469
% change year-on-year - -2.39% -9.60%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

Data Analytics 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 3,101 3,079 2,100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 74.17% 87.30% 86.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,821 1,190 1,578
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £42,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,750 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Data Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Data Analytics job vacancy trend in the East of England

Data Analytics
Salary Trend in the East of England

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

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

Data Analytics
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Analytics in the East of England over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Analytics in the East of England

Data Analytics
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 Analytics within the East of England region over the 6 months to 14 January 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 +38 28 £27,500 -72.50% 5
Hertfordshire +7 8 £100,000 +270.37% 12
Bedfordshire +34 3 £40,000 -37.50% 8
Essex - 2 £62,500 - 19
Data Analytics
England

Data Analytics
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 3 (7.32%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.44%) CMS
2 1 (2.44%) Confluence
Applications
1 29 (70.73%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 25 (60.98%) Azure
2 23 (56.10%) Power Platform
3 5 (12.20%) AWS
4 3 (7.32%) GCP
5 2 (4.88%) Amazon Bedrock
5 2 (4.88%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (4.88%) Amazon EventBridge
5 2 (4.88%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (4.88%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (4.88%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (4.88%) Azure AKS
5 2 (4.88%) OCI
5 2 (4.88%) Serverless
6 1 (2.44%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.44%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.44%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (56.10%) Power BI
2 12 (29.27%) Tableau
3 9 (21.95%) Data Mining
4 3 (7.32%) Big Data
4 3 (7.32%) Hadoop
5 2 (4.88%) DynamoDB
5 2 (4.88%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
General
1 13 (31.71%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (21.95%) Finance
3 1 (2.44%) Games
3 1 (2.44%) Law
3 1 (2.44%) Legal
3 1 (2.44%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 26 (63.41%) Analyst
2 15 (36.59%) Support Analyst
3 9 (21.95%) Data Analyst
3 9 (21.95%) Trainee
3 9 (21.95%) Trainee Analyst
3 9 (21.95%) Trainee Data Analyst
4 5 (12.20%) Business Support Analyst
4 5 (12.20%) Coordinator
4 5 (12.20%) Systems Analyst
4 5 (12.20%) Systems Support
4 5 (12.20%) Systems Support Analyst
5 3 (7.32%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 3 (7.32%) Data Science Developer
5 3 (7.32%) Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Applications Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Cloud Software Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Principal Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Principal Software Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.32%) Matplotlib
1 3 (7.32%) NumPy
1 3 (7.32%) Pandas
1 3 (7.32%) PyTorch
1 3 (7.32%) scikit-learn
1 3 (7.32%) Seaborn
1 3 (7.32%) TensorFlow
2 2 (4.88%) AngularJS
2 2 (4.88%) Hugging Face
2 2 (4.88%) Kafka
2 2 (4.88%) Node.js
2 2 (4.88%) Nuxt
2 2 (4.88%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (4.88%) React
2 2 (4.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.32%) Algorithms
2 2 (4.88%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.44%) Biopharmaceutical
3 1 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.44%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (100.00%) Analytics
2 32 (78.05%) Data Analysis
3 24 (58.54%) Business Intelligence
4 22 (53.66%) Stakeholder Management
5 21 (51.22%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (48.78%) Customer Service
6 20 (48.78%) Process Improvement
7 9 (21.95%) Business Analysis
7 9 (21.95%) Project Management
8 7 (17.07%) AI
9 6 (14.63%) Data Science
9 6 (14.63%) LLM
10 5 (12.20%) Machine Learning
10 5 (12.20%) Visualisation
11 4 (9.76%) Agile
11 4 (9.76%) Decision-Making
12 3 (7.32%) Data Munging
12 3 (7.32%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 3 (7.32%) Microservices
12 3 (7.32%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 14 (34.15%) Python
2 10 (24.39%) SQL
3 4 (9.76%) R
4 1 (2.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (51.22%) DBS Check
2 2 (4.88%) AWS Certification
2 2 (4.88%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (2.44%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.44%) Degree
3 1 (2.44%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.44%) PhD
3 1 (2.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.88%) Data Quality
1 2 (4.88%) GDPR
1 2 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (4.88%) PCI DSS
1 2 (4.88%) SOC 2
2 1 (2.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (4.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (31.71%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.88%) OpenAI
2 2 (4.88%) Oracle
3 1 (2.44%) Adobe