Data Analyst Jobs in England

Data Analyst
UK > England

The median Data Analyst salary in England is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 326 255 272
Rank change year-on-year -71 +17 +48
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Analyst 403 958 1,142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.83% 1.08% 1.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.91% 1.14% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 264 660 656
10th Percentile £25,313 £26,863 £31,146
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,463 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,834 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -3.51% -
75th Percentile £60,313 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £73,375
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,596 £45,000
% change year-on-year -1.31% +1.32% -5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 44,066 84,104 79,158
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.78% 94.65% 91.44%
Number of salaries quoted 23,206 62,399 50,596
10th Percentile £29,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analyst in England

Data Analyst
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Data Analyst in England

Data Analyst
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Analyst in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Analyst in England

Data Analyst
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 Analyst within the England region over the 6 months to 29 May 2025. 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 -74 163 £60,000 -7.69% 276
North of England +32 105 £40,000 +14.29% 311
North West +5 62 £41,250 +17.86% 141
Midlands -21 54 £42,500 +13.33% 286
Yorkshire +61 35 £26,813 -23.39% 125
South East +13 35 £45,000 +20.00% 411
West Midlands +13 28 £45,000 +14.65% 165
East Midlands -7 26 £27,000 -12.90% 105
South West +65 25 £25,625 -43.06% 161
East of England +17 16 £47,500 +29.55% 184
North East +37 8 £65,000 +85.71% 48
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 May 2025, 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 across the England region featuring Data Analyst in the job title.

1 258 (64.02%) SQL
2 231 (57.32%) Analytics
3 185 (45.91%) Social Skills
4 176 (43.67%) Power Platform
4 176 (43.67%) Power BI
5 175 (43.42%) Finance
6 164 (40.69%) Degree
7 163 (40.45%) Data Analysis
8 154 (38.21%) Visualisation
9 149 (36.97%) Analytical Skills
10 148 (36.72%) Business Intelligence
11 136 (33.75%) Python
12 135 (33.50%) Microsoft Excel
12 135 (33.50%) Data Analytics
13 122 (30.27%) Problem-Solving
14 104 (25.81%) Tableau
15 100 (24.81%) Data Quality
16 98 (24.32%) Mathematics
17 95 (23.57%) Statistics
18 76 (18.86%) Data Management
18 76 (18.86%) Storytelling
19 64 (15.88%) Decision-Making
20 57 (14.14%) Data Extraction
21 51 (12.66%) Management Information System
22 47 (11.66%) Economics
22 47 (11.66%) Actionable Insight
23 46 (11.41%) Computer Science
23 46 (11.41%) Predictive Modelling
23 46 (11.41%) SAP
24 43 (10.67%) Databricks

Data Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 8 (1.99%) SAS
2 6 (1.49%) Jupyter
3 4 (0.99%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.25%) Apache
5 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.25%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 135 (33.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.23%) Chatbot
3 8 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.24%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.50%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 5 (1.24%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.74%) Infor SunSystems
2 3 (0.74%) iTrent
2 3 (0.74%) Markit EDM
3 2 (0.50%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.25%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 176 (43.67%) Power Platform
2 36 (8.93%) Azure
3 20 (4.96%) Snowflake
4 15 (3.72%) AWS
5 14 (3.47%) Adobe Analytics
5 14 (3.47%) SaaS
6 9 (2.23%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (1.49%) GCP
7 6 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (1.24%) Google Analytics
8 5 (1.24%) Power Automate
8 5 (1.24%) Serverless
9 4 (0.99%) Azure App Service
9 4 (0.99%) Azure Functions
9 4 (0.99%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (0.99%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (0.74%) SuccessFactors
10 3 (0.74%) WhatsApp
11 2 (0.50%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (0.50%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.25%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (43.67%) Power BI
2 104 (25.81%) Tableau
3 37 (9.18%) Big Data
4 29 (7.20%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (2.73%) BusinessObjects
6 9 (2.23%) Data Mining
6 9 (2.23%) Power Query
7 8 (1.99%) Data Lake
7 8 (1.99%) SQL Server
8 7 (1.74%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (1.49%) Looker
10 5 (1.24%) Dremio
10 5 (1.24%) Metadata
10 5 (1.24%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (0.99%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.74%) Geospatial Data
12 3 (0.74%) GIS
12 3 (0.74%) Metadata Repository
12 3 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 31 (7.69%) Git
2 3 (0.74%) JIRA
2 3 (0.74%) RStudio
2 3 (0.74%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.25%) GitLab
3 1 (0.25%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.25%) Subversion
3 1 (0.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 185 (45.91%) Social Skills
2 175 (43.42%) Finance
3 149 (36.97%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (10.67%) Presentation Skills
5 40 (9.93%) Retail
6 38 (9.43%) Banking
7 33 (8.19%) Marketing
8 20 (4.96%) Law
9 18 (4.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 16 (3.97%) Manufacturing
11 13 (3.23%) Legal
12 9 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (1.74%) Automotive
15 6 (1.49%) Billing
16 5 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
16 5 (1.24%) Financial Institution
16 5 (1.24%) Public Sector
17 4 (0.99%) Advertising
17 4 (0.99%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.74%) Pandas
2 5 (1.24%) PySpark
3 3 (0.74%) JSON
3 3 (0.74%) Lightning Web Components
3 3 (0.74%) XML
4 1 (0.25%) CSS
4 1 (0.25%) HTML
4 1 (0.25%) LDAP
4 1 (0.25%) Matplotlib
4 1 (0.25%) Middleware
4 1 (0.25%) NumPy
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 51 (12.66%) Management Information System
2 10 (2.48%) Analytical Mindset
3 9 (2.23%) Pricing Data
4 7 (1.74%) Algorithms
4 7 (1.74%) Reference Data
5 6 (1.49%) Driving Licence
6 5 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.24%) Equities
6 5 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.24%) Onboarding
7 4 (0.99%) Data Structures
7 4 (0.99%) NHS
8 3 (0.74%) Autonomous Agent
8 3 (0.74%) Reinsurance
8 3 (0.74%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.50%) FMCG
9 2 (0.50%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.50%) Tandem
9 2 (0.50%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.25%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.99%) Linux
2 3 (0.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (57.32%) Analytics
2 163 (40.45%) Data Analysis
3 154 (38.21%) Visualisation
4 148 (36.72%) Business Intelligence
5 135 (33.50%) Data Analytics
6 122 (30.27%) Problem-Solving
7 98 (24.32%) Mathematics
8 95 (23.57%) Statistics
9 76 (18.86%) Data Management
9 76 (18.86%) Storytelling
10 64 (15.88%) Decision-Making
11 57 (14.14%) Data Extraction
12 47 (11.66%) Actionable Insight
12 47 (11.66%) Economics
13 46 (11.41%) Computer Science
13 46 (11.41%) Predictive Modelling
14 43 (10.67%) Data Pipeline
15 42 (10.42%) Data Visualisation
16 39 (9.68%) Process Improvement
17 38 (9.43%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 258 (64.02%) SQL
2 136 (33.75%) Python
3 15 (3.72%) R
4 13 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 9 (2.23%) VBA
6 7 (1.74%) C#
7 6 (1.49%) JavaScript
8 5 (1.24%) PowerShell
9 4 (0.99%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.50%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.25%) Bash
11 1 (0.25%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 164 (40.69%) Degree
2 32 (7.94%) Master's Degree
3 28 (6.95%) DBS Check
4 9 (2.23%) PhD
5 7 (1.74%) Azure Certification
5 7 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (1.49%) Numerate Degree
7 5 (1.24%) Security Cleared
8 4 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.25%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.25%) CCNA
10 1 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.25%) MCSA
10 1 (0.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (24.81%) Data Quality
2 16 (3.97%) GDPR
2 16 (3.97%) QA
3 7 (1.74%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.99%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.50%) SLA
6 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.25%) GRC
6 1 (0.25%) P3O
6 1 (0.25%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (0.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.25%) Ansible
1 1 (0.25%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.25%) Terraform
1 1 (0.25%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 46 (11.41%) SAP
2 43 (10.67%) Databricks
3 42 (10.42%) Microsoft
4 19 (4.71%) Google
5 15 (3.72%) Oracle
6 14 (3.47%) Adobe
7 9 (2.23%) PayPal
7 9 (2.23%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.74%) Omniture
9 6 (1.49%) Alteryx
9 6 (1.49%) Bloomberg
10 4 (0.99%) Duck Creek
10 4 (0.99%) Infor
10 4 (0.99%) Reuters
10 4 (0.99%) Splunk
11 3 (0.74%) Sun
12 2 (0.50%) Cerner
12 2 (0.50%) Cognos
12 2 (0.50%) Informatica
12 2 (0.50%) Refinitiv