Data Analysis Job Trends in England

Data Analysis
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Data Analysis skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 121 83
Rank change year-on-year -46 -38 +42
Permanent jobs citing Data Analysis 973 1,069 2,722
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.18% 2.71% 2.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.62% 2.92% 3.52%
Number of salaries quoted 580 591 1,449
10th Percentile £31,735 £28,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £47,085 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.32% - +0.96%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 60,235 36,560 77,318
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 72.97% 92.70% 82.34%
Number of salaries quoted 42,304 19,913 56,146
10th Percentile £30,625 £29,000 £29,266
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%

Data Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Data Analysis job vacancy trend in England

Data Analysis
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Analysis.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Analysis

Data Analysis
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Analysis in England over the 6 months to 13 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Analysis in England

Data Analysis
Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 13 June 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
London -68 279 £61,000 -12.86% 189
North of England +31 241 £44,000 -2.22% 106
South East -21 155 £50,000 -0.99% 117
South West -14 132 £40,000 -5.88% 56
Midlands -35 125 £40,000 -11.11% 83
North West +12 111 £43,250 -3.89% 59
Yorkshire +20 91 £40,000 +2.76% 33
West Midlands -23 87 £40,000 -25.16% 42
East of England -39 43 £40,000 +18.52% 54
North East -14 39 £55,000 +15.79% 15
East Midlands -53 38 £30,000 -24.85% 41
Data Analysis
UK

Data Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 31 (3.19%) Apache Airflow
2 29 (2.98%) Apache Spark
3 28 (2.88%) Apache
3 28 (2.88%) SharePoint
4 8 (0.82%) SAS
5 7 (0.72%) ArcGIS
5 7 (0.72%) IIS
6 6 (0.62%) Confluence
6 6 (0.62%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.41%) CICS
8 1 (0.10%) CMS
8 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 264 (27.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (5.24%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (3.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 31 (3.19%) MS Visio
4 23 (2.36%) Spreadsheet
5 7 (0.72%) CATIA
6 4 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.31%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.21%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.10%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 79 (8.12%) SAP PM
2 9 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.72%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.41%) iTrent
7 3 (0.31%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 3 (0.31%) Oracle Applications
7 3 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.21%) Dynamics GP
8 2 (0.21%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 2 (0.21%) Loan IQ
8 2 (0.21%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.21%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.21%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 207 (21.27%) Power Platform
2 103 (10.59%) Azure
3 73 (7.50%) AWS
4 43 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
5 34 (3.49%) SaaS
6 29 (2.98%) Power Automate
7 27 (2.77%) Amazon S3
8 26 (2.67%) Google Analytics
9 25 (2.57%) GCP
10 21 (2.16%) PowerApps
11 19 (1.95%) Snowflake
12 15 (1.54%) Dynamics 365
13 14 (1.44%) Serverless
14 13 (1.34%) Azure DevOps
14 13 (1.34%) dbt
14 13 (1.34%) OpenShift
15 11 (1.13%) Google Ads
15 11 (1.13%) Smartsheet
16 10 (1.03%) Entra ID
17 9 (0.92%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.82%) Broadband
2 6 (0.62%) 5G
3 4 (0.41%) HTTP
3 4 (0.41%) Internet
4 3 (0.31%) Network Security
4 3 (0.31%) SMS
5 2 (0.21%) Intranet
6 1 (0.10%) FTP
6 1 (0.10%) LAN
6 1 (0.10%) LTE
6 1 (0.10%) Modbus
6 1 (0.10%) MQTT
6 1 (0.10%) Software-Defined Radio
6 1 (0.10%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.10%) WAN
6 1 (0.10%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.10%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 202 (20.76%) Power BI
2 149 (15.31%) Tableau
3 72 (7.40%) Data Mining
4 41 (4.21%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (3.19%) Metadata
6 27 (2.77%) Relational Database
7 22 (2.26%) Power Query
7 22 (2.26%) SQL Server
8 15 (1.54%) Amazon Athena
9 14 (1.44%) Apache Hive
9 14 (1.44%) Impala
9 14 (1.44%) Oracle Database
9 14 (1.44%) Parquet
10 13 (1.34%) GIS
10 13 (1.34%) Looker
10 13 (1.34%) Spark SQL
10 13 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (0.92%) Big Data
12 8 (0.82%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 35 (3.60%) Git
2 27 (2.77%) JIRA
3 14 (1.44%) GitLab
4 13 (1.34%) IBM UrbanCode
5 11 (1.13%) Visual Studio
6 10 (1.03%) Postman
7 7 (0.72%) Rational DOORS
8 6 (0.62%) MLflow
9 4 (0.41%) Browser DevTools
9 4 (0.41%) ChangeMan
9 4 (0.41%) Gatling
9 4 (0.41%) Jenkins
9 4 (0.41%) JMeter
9 4 (0.41%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.10%) LabVIEW
11 1 (0.10%) LSMW
General
1 388 (39.88%) Analytical Skills
2 347 (35.66%) Finance
3 319 (32.79%) Social Skills
4 103 (10.59%) Manufacturing
5 74 (7.61%) Marketing
6 63 (6.47%) Legal
7 59 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 52 (5.34%) Public Sector
9 50 (5.14%) Retail
10 49 (5.04%) Law
11 47 (4.83%) Organisational Skills
12 40 (4.11%) Banking
13 28 (2.88%) Electronics
14 21 (2.16%) Aerospace
15 18 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
15 18 (1.85%) Investment Banking
16 16 (1.64%) Automotive
17 15 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
18 14 (1.44%) Advertising
19 13 (1.34%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 429 (44.09%) Analyst
2 233 (23.95%) Data Analyst
3 102 (10.48%) Senior
4 97 (9.97%) Business Analyst
5 71 (7.30%) Trainee
5 71 (7.30%) Trainee Analyst
5 71 (7.30%) Trainee Data Analyst
6 47 (4.83%) Developer
7 46 (4.73%) Senior Analyst
8 42 (4.32%) Lead
9 35 (3.60%) Support Analyst
10 34 (3.49%) Consultant
11 32 (3.29%) Financial Analyst
12 28 (2.88%) Data Scientist
13 27 (2.77%) Systems Support
14 24 (2.47%) Senior Data Analyst
14 24 (2.47%) Systems Analyst
15 22 (2.26%) Administrator
15 22 (2.26%) Applications Support
15 22 (2.26%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.47%) HTML
1 24 (2.47%) PySpark
2 23 (2.36%) CSS
2 23 (2.36%) JSON
3 20 (2.06%) Pandas
4 15 (1.54%) .NET
4 15 (1.54%) RESTful
5 14 (1.44%) Kafka
5 14 (1.44%) PyTorch
5 14 (1.44%) TensorFlow
6 10 (1.03%) OpenAPI
6 10 (1.03%) REST
6 10 (1.03%) Swagger
7 9 (0.92%) EDI
7 9 (0.92%) Middleware
7 9 (0.92%) Vue
8 7 (0.72%) scikit-learn
9 6 (0.62%) Flask
9 6 (0.62%) Oracle Fusion
9 6 (0.62%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 78 (8.02%) FMCG
2 57 (5.86%) Management Information System
3 48 (4.93%) Data Structures
4 30 (3.08%) Product Ownership
5 29 (2.98%) Analytical Mindset
6 28 (2.88%) Algorithms
7 25 (2.57%) Onboarding
7 25 (2.57%) Self-Motivation
8 20 (2.06%) Equities
9 18 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
10 14 (1.44%) PMI
11 10 (1.03%) Social Media
12 9 (0.92%) Derivative
12 9 (0.92%) FPGA
12 9 (0.92%) NHS
13 8 (0.82%) Clustering
13 8 (0.82%) Mobile App
14 7 (0.72%) Digital Media
15 6 (0.62%) Fixed Income
15 6 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 22 (2.26%) Windows
2 9 (0.92%) Linux
3 8 (0.82%) Unix
3 8 (0.82%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.41%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 339 (34.84%) Analytics
2 252 (25.90%) Decision-Making
3 232 (23.84%) Continuous Improvement
4 223 (22.92%) Problem-Solving
5 208 (21.38%) Business Intelligence
6 203 (20.86%) Data Analytics
7 156 (16.03%) Project Management
8 148 (15.21%) Visualisation
9 147 (15.11%) AI
10 139 (14.29%) Agile
11 125 (12.85%) Root Cause Analysis
12 119 (12.23%) Business Analysis
13 113 (11.61%) Actionable Insight
14 104 (10.69%) Validation
15 95 (9.76%) Data Modelling
16 92 (9.46%) Stakeholder Management
17 91 (9.35%) Data Visualisation
18 86 (8.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 78 (8.02%) Data Management
19 78 (8.02%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 427 (43.88%) SQL
2 312 (32.07%) Python
3 28 (2.88%) Java
3 28 (2.88%) VBA
4 22 (2.26%) JavaScript
4 22 (2.26%) R
5 20 (2.06%) C#
6 17 (1.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 13 (1.34%) MATLAB
8 10 (1.03%) T-SQL
9 8 (0.82%) Bash
9 8 (0.82%) PowerShell
10 5 (0.51%) VB
10 5 (0.51%) VBScript
11 4 (0.41%) COBOL
11 4 (0.41%) JCL
11 4 (0.41%) PHP
12 2 (0.21%) C
12 2 (0.21%) C++
12 2 (0.21%) Scala
Qualifications
1 176 (18.09%) Degree
2 45 (4.62%) Security Cleared
3 32 (3.29%) SC Cleared
4 30 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (1.85%) HNC
6 15 (1.54%) Master's Degree
6 15 (1.54%) PMI Certification
7 9 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (0.82%) CPIM
8 8 (0.82%) MBA
9 7 (0.72%) ACCA
9 7 (0.72%) APMP
9 7 (0.72%) CISSP
9 7 (0.72%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.62%) CIMA
10 6 (0.62%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.51%) CISM
11 5 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (0.51%) Numerate Degree
12 4 (0.41%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (12.74%) Data Quality
2 53 (5.45%) QA
3 27 (2.77%) GDPR
4 20 (2.06%) Actionable Recommendations
5 18 (1.85%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.64%) PMO
7 12 (1.23%) P3O
8 8 (0.82%) GMP
8 8 (0.82%) MiFID
9 7 (0.72%) IFRS
9 7 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 5 (0.51%) GAAP
10 5 (0.51%) SLA
11 4 (0.41%) EMIR
11 4 (0.41%) IFRS 17
11 4 (0.41%) NIST
12 3 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 12207
12 3 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 3 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (2.26%) Docker
2 7 (0.72%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.62%) Firmware
3 6 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.21%) IAG
4 2 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.10%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 21 (2.16%) Terraform
2 10 (1.03%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.51%) Grafana
3 5 (0.51%) Prometheus
3 5 (0.51%) SCCM
4 4 (0.41%) CA Endevor
5 3 (0.31%) Kubeflow
6 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (0.10%) Ansible
7 1 (0.10%) Autotask
7 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.10%) MOM
7 1 (0.10%) Packer
7 1 (0.10%) QRadar
Vendors
1 242 (24.87%) Microsoft
2 118 (12.13%) SAP
3 54 (5.55%) Oracle
4 42 (4.32%) Google
5 27 (2.77%) HubSpot
6 26 (2.67%) Salesforce
7 17 (1.75%) IBM
8 16 (1.64%) Adobe
9 14 (1.44%) Databricks
10 13 (1.34%) Red Hat
11 11 (1.13%) Alteryx
12 9 (0.92%) Hyperion
13 8 (0.82%) MuleSoft
13 8 (0.82%) Xilinx
14 7 (0.72%) ESRI
14 7 (0.72%) iManage
14 7 (0.72%) Intapp
15 6 (0.62%) VMware
16 5 (0.51%) Aderant
16 5 (0.51%) Informatica