Data Analysis Job Trends in Leicester

Data Analysis
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leicester requiring Data Analysis 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 31 20 28
Rank change year-on-year -11 +8 +12
Permanent jobs citing Data Analysis 7 12 22
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicester 2.05% 6.42% 7.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.46% 6.78% 8.56%
Number of salaries quoted 7 5 22
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,750 £36,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £32,500 £38,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £35,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% -26.32% +31.94%
75th Percentile £50,750 £38,750 £48,750
90th Percentile £51,750 £41,750 £56,775
Leicestershire median annual salary £47,500 £35,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +35.71% -26.32% +31.94%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leicester

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 Leicester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 284 177 257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 83.04% 94.65% 85.67%
Number of salaries quoted 209 95 216
10th Percentile £29,550 £26,400 £27,125
25th Percentile £41,000 £34,375 £38,690
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £51,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.62% -1.90% +10.53%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £64,148
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,300 £70,000
Leicestershire median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £49,990
% change year-on-year +5.88% -14.98% +5.24%

Data Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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

Data Analysis job vacancy trend in Leicester

Data Analysis
Salary Trend in Leicester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Data Analysis.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Data Analysis

Data Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicester 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:

Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (57.14%) Data Lake
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (28.57%) Data Mining
2 2 (28.57%) Tableau
3 1 (14.29%) Looker
General
1 6 (85.71%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (71.43%) Finance
3 4 (57.14%) Law
4 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) DBA
2 3 (42.86%) SQL DBA
3 2 (28.57%) Administrator
3 2 (28.57%) Trainee
4 1 (14.29%) Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Data Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Developer
4 1 (14.29%) SQL Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) SQL Data Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Analytics
1 5 (71.43%) ETL
2 4 (57.14%) Reverse Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) AI
3 2 (28.57%) Business Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Data Cleansing
3 2 (28.57%) Data Science
3 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
3 2 (28.57%) Mathematics
3 2 (28.57%) Statistical Modelling
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Data Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Data Management
4 1 (14.29%) Data Strategy
4 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 1 (14.29%) Kalman Filter
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (14.29%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (57.14%) T-SQL
3 3 (42.86%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Databricks