Data Analyst Jobs in England

Data Analyst
UK > England

The median Data Analyst salary in England is £45,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 340 257 266
Rank change year-on-year -83 +9 +55
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Analyst 400 953 1,156
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.83% 1.08% 1.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.91% 1.14% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 262 656 670
10th Percentile £25,313 £26,813 £30,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,575 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,750 £45,346 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.89% -4.53% -
75th Percentile £60,438 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £73,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -1.10% +1.11% -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 43,919 83,679 79,671
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.79% 94.64% 91.48%
Number of salaries quoted 23,116 62,210 50,998
10th Percentile £29,250 £28,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,084 £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 28 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 28 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 -66 164 £60,000 -7.69% 196
North of England +29 102 £41,500 +18.57% 71
North West -3 60 £42,500 +21.43% 31
Midlands -23 53 £42,750 +14.00% 72
Yorkshire +65 35 £26,813 -23.39% 28
South East +5 35 £45,000 +20.00% 54
West Midlands +20 27 £45,000 +14.65% 55
East Midlands -4 26 £27,000 -12.90% 15
South West +65 25 £25,625 -43.06% 31
East of England +19 16 £47,500 +29.55% 21
North East +38 7 £67,500 +92.86% 14
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 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.

1 259 (64.75%) SQL
2 233 (58.25%) Analytics
3 184 (46.00%) Social Skills
4 174 (43.50%) Power Platform
4 174 (43.50%) Power BI
4 174 (43.50%) Finance
5 163 (40.75%) Degree
6 162 (40.50%) Data Analysis
7 152 (38.00%) Visualisation
8 147 (36.75%) Business Intelligence
8 147 (36.75%) Analytical Skills
9 137 (34.25%) Data Analytics
9 137 (34.25%) Python
10 133 (33.25%) Microsoft Excel
11 122 (30.50%) Problem-Solving
12 104 (26.00%) Tableau
13 100 (25.00%) Data Quality
14 97 (24.25%) Mathematics
15 96 (24.00%) Statistics
16 76 (19.00%) Data Management
16 76 (19.00%) Storytelling
17 64 (16.00%) Decision-Making
18 57 (14.25%) Data Extraction
19 50 (12.50%) Management Information System
20 48 (12.00%) Actionable Insight
21 47 (11.75%) SAP
21 47 (11.75%) Economics
22 46 (11.50%) Predictive Modelling
23 45 (11.25%) Computer Science
24 43 (10.75%) 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 (2.00%) SAS
2 6 (1.50%) Jupyter
3 3 (0.75%) 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
1 133 (33.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.25%) Chatbot
3 7 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.00%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.50%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 5 (1.25%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.75%) Infor SunSystems
2 3 (0.75%) iTrent
2 3 (0.75%) 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
1 174 (43.50%) Power Platform
2 36 (9.00%) Azure
3 20 (5.00%) Snowflake
4 15 (3.75%) AWS
5 14 (3.50%) Adobe Analytics
5 14 (3.50%) SaaS
6 9 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (1.50%) GCP
7 6 (1.50%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (1.25%) Google Analytics
8 5 (1.25%) Power Automate
8 5 (1.25%) Serverless
9 4 (1.00%) Azure App Service
9 4 (1.00%) Azure Functions
9 4 (1.00%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (1.00%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (0.75%) SuccessFactors
10 3 (0.75%) WhatsApp
11 2 (0.50%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.50%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.25%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (43.50%) Power BI
2 104 (26.00%) Tableau
3 37 (9.25%) Big Data
4 28 (7.00%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (2.75%) BusinessObjects
6 10 (2.50%) Data Mining
7 9 (2.25%) Power Query
8 8 (2.00%) Data Lake
9 7 (1.75%) Relational Database
9 7 (1.75%) SQL Server
9 7 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (1.50%) Looker
11 5 (1.25%) Dremio
11 5 (1.25%) Metadata
11 5 (1.25%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (1.00%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.75%) Geospatial Data
13 3 (0.75%) GIS
13 3 (0.75%) Metadata Repository
13 3 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 31 (7.75%) Git
2 3 (0.75%) JIRA
2 3 (0.75%) RStudio
2 3 (0.75%) 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
1 184 (46.00%) Social Skills
2 174 (43.50%) Finance
3 147 (36.75%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (10.75%) Presentation Skills
5 41 (10.25%) Retail
6 38 (9.50%) Banking
7 32 (8.00%) Marketing
8 20 (5.00%) Law
9 17 (4.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (4.25%) Manufacturing
10 13 (3.25%) Legal
11 9 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.75%) Automotive
14 6 (1.50%) Billing
15 5 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (1.25%) Financial Institution
15 5 (1.25%) Public Sector
16 4 (1.00%) Advertising
16 4 (1.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.75%) Pandas
2 5 (1.25%) PySpark
3 3 (0.75%) JSON
3 3 (0.75%) Lightning Web Components
3 3 (0.75%) 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 50 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 10 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
3 9 (2.25%) Pricing Data
4 8 (2.00%) Algorithms
5 7 (1.75%) Reference Data
6 6 (1.50%) Driving Licence
7 5 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.25%) Equities
7 5 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.25%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.00%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.00%) NHS
9 3 (0.75%) Autonomous Agent
9 3 (0.75%) Reinsurance
9 3 (0.75%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.50%) FMCG
10 2 (0.50%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.50%) Tandem
10 2 (0.50%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.25%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.00%) Linux
2 3 (0.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (58.25%) Analytics
2 162 (40.50%) Data Analysis
3 152 (38.00%) Visualisation
4 147 (36.75%) Business Intelligence
5 137 (34.25%) Data Analytics
6 122 (30.50%) Problem-Solving
7 97 (24.25%) Mathematics
8 96 (24.00%) Statistics
9 76 (19.00%) Data Management
9 76 (19.00%) Storytelling
10 64 (16.00%) Decision-Making
11 57 (14.25%) Data Extraction
12 48 (12.00%) Actionable Insight
13 47 (11.75%) Economics
14 46 (11.50%) Predictive Modelling
15 45 (11.25%) Computer Science
16 43 (10.75%) Data Pipeline
17 42 (10.50%) Data Visualisation
18 39 (9.75%) Process Improvement
19 38 (9.50%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 259 (64.75%) SQL
2 137 (34.25%) Python
3 15 (3.75%) R
4 13 (3.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 9 (2.25%) VBA
6 7 (1.75%) C#
7 6 (1.50%) JavaScript
8 5 (1.25%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.00%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.50%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.25%) Bash
11 1 (0.25%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 163 (40.75%) Degree
2 32 (8.00%) Master's Degree
3 28 (7.00%) DBS Check
4 9 (2.25%) PhD
5 7 (1.75%) Azure Certification
5 7 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (1.50%) Numerate Degree
7 5 (1.25%) Security Cleared
8 4 (1.00%) 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 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 16 (4.00%) GDPR
3 15 (3.75%) QA
4 7 (1.75%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.50%) SLA
7 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.25%) GRC
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 47 (11.75%) SAP
2 43 (10.75%) Databricks
3 40 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 18 (4.50%) Google
5 15 (3.75%) Oracle
6 14 (3.50%) Adobe
7 9 (2.25%) PayPal
7 9 (2.25%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.75%) Omniture
9 6 (1.50%) Bloomberg
10 5 (1.25%) Alteryx
11 4 (1.00%) Duck Creek
11 4 (1.00%) Infor
11 4 (1.00%) Reuters
11 4 (1.00%) Splunk
12 3 (0.75%) Sun
13 2 (0.50%) Cerner
13 2 (0.50%) Cognos
13 2 (0.50%) Informatica
13 2 (0.50%) Refinitiv