Data Analyst Job Trends in London

Data Analyst
England > London

The median Data Analyst salary in London is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 September 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 219 163 211
Rank change year-on-year -56 +48 +55
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Analyst 183 413 359
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.53% 2.16% 1.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.68% 2.26% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 133 244 304
10th Percentile £31,402 £40,725 £37,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £52,500 £46,454
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £45,390 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -13.54% +10.53% -5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 10,921 18,287 21,640
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.25% 95.44% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 7,134 11,721 17,831
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £53,982
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year - -0.68% +4.29%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £119,050 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analyst in London

Data Analyst
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for Data Analyst job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for Data Analyst job vacancies in London

Data Analyst
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Analyst in London over the 6 months to 13 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Analyst in London

Data Analyst
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Analyst within the London region over the 6 months to 13 September 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
Central London +4 46 £57,500 -4.17% 92
South London +18 12 £65,000 +52.94% 21
West London +48 6 £50,750 -15.42% 19
East London - 2 £32,010 - 14
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 September 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 London region featuring Data Analyst in the job title.

1 105 (57.38%) SQL
2 90 (49.18%) Analytics
3 87 (47.54%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (46.45%) Business Intelligence
4 85 (46.45%) Power BI
4 85 (46.45%) Power Platform
5 82 (44.81%) Social Skills
6 78 (42.62%) Finance
7 74 (40.44%) Python
8 63 (34.43%) Data Analysis
9 60 (32.79%) Microsoft Excel
10 51 (27.87%) Problem-Solving
11 43 (23.50%) Data Analytics
11 43 (23.50%) Visualisation
12 41 (22.40%) Degree
13 40 (21.86%) Tableau
13 40 (21.86%) Decision-Making
14 39 (21.31%) Microsoft
15 37 (20.22%) Continuous Improvement
16 36 (19.67%) Data Quality
17 34 (18.58%) Actionable Insight
18 31 (16.94%) Data Management
19 27 (14.75%) Azure
20 25 (13.66%) Data Modelling
21 22 (12.02%) Agile
21 22 (12.02%) Data Visualisation
22 21 (11.48%) Data Governance
22 21 (11.48%) Dashboard Development
22 21 (11.48%) Data Warehouse
23 20 (10.93%) Organisational Skills

Data Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 5 (2.73%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.09%) SAS
3 1 (0.55%) Apache
3 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.55%) Confluence
Applications
1 60 (32.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.55%) NEC Housing
1 1 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 85 (46.45%) Power Platform
2 27 (14.75%) Azure
3 15 (8.20%) SaaS
4 13 (7.10%) Azure Monitor
4 13 (7.10%) Serverless
5 12 (6.56%) Azure App Service
5 12 (6.56%) Azure Functions
6 11 (6.01%) Azure Sentinel
7 7 (3.83%) Snowflake
8 6 (3.28%) Adobe Analytics
8 6 (3.28%) AWS
8 6 (3.28%) Collibra
8 6 (3.28%) GCP
9 5 (2.73%) Google Analytics
10 4 (2.19%) Power Automate
11 3 (1.64%) Azure Stack
11 3 (1.64%) PowerApps
12 2 (1.09%) dbt
12 2 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (1.09%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (46.45%) Power BI
2 40 (21.86%) Tableau
3 21 (11.48%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (4.92%) Looker
5 5 (2.73%) BigQuery
6 4 (2.19%) Metadata
6 4 (2.19%) Power Query
7 3 (1.64%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (1.09%) Data Mining
8 2 (1.09%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.09%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.55%) Big Data
9 1 (0.55%) QlikView
9 1 (0.55%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.55%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.55%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.55%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Git
1 1 (0.55%) GitLab
1 1 (0.55%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.55%) JIRA
General
1 87 (47.54%) Analytical Skills
2 82 (44.81%) Social Skills
3 78 (42.62%) Finance
4 20 (10.93%) Organisational Skills
5 17 (9.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (9.29%) Legal
6 13 (7.10%) Law
7 12 (6.56%) Retail
8 11 (6.01%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (5.46%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (4.92%) Banking
11 5 (2.73%) Advertising
11 5 (2.73%) Financial Institution
11 5 (2.73%) Marketing
12 4 (2.19%) Investment Banking
12 4 (2.19%) Public Sector
13 3 (1.64%) Games
14 2 (1.09%) French Language
14 2 (1.09%) Front Office
15 1 (0.55%) Arabic Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.64%) Altair
2 2 (1.09%) JSON
2 2 (1.09%) Pandas
2 2 (1.09%) XML
3 1 (0.55%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (0.55%) Middleware
3 1 (0.55%) NumPy
3 1 (0.55%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.55%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.46%) Analytical Mindset
2 7 (3.83%) Management Information System
3 5 (2.73%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.64%) Autonomous Agent
4 3 (1.64%) Reinsurance
5 2 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.09%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.09%) Digital Media
5 2 (1.09%) Digital TV
5 2 (1.09%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.09%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.55%) Blog
6 1 (0.55%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.55%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.55%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.55%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.55%) EPoS
6 1 (0.55%) FMCG
6 1 (0.55%) Podcast
6 1 (0.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.09%) Linux
1 2 (1.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (49.18%) Analytics
2 85 (46.45%) Business Intelligence
3 63 (34.43%) Data Analysis
4 51 (27.87%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (23.50%) Data Analytics
5 43 (23.50%) Visualisation
6 40 (21.86%) Decision-Making
7 37 (20.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 34 (18.58%) Actionable Insight
9 31 (16.94%) Data Management
10 25 (13.66%) Data Modelling
11 22 (12.02%) Agile
11 22 (12.02%) Data Visualisation
12 21 (11.48%) Dashboard Development
12 21 (11.48%) Data Governance
13 19 (10.38%) Data Science
14 18 (9.84%) Data Cleansing
14 18 (9.84%) Data Collection
15 17 (9.29%) Mentoring
16 16 (8.74%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 105 (57.38%) SQL
2 74 (40.44%) Python
3 13 (7.10%) PowerShell
4 12 (6.56%) Kusto Query Language
5 8 (4.37%) R
6 6 (3.28%) VBA
7 5 (2.73%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.09%) VB
9 1 (0.55%) Fortran
9 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (22.40%) Degree
2 15 (8.20%) Microsoft Certification
3 12 (6.56%) Azure Certification
3 12 (6.56%) Master's Degree
3 12 (6.56%) Security Cleared
4 10 (5.46%) CISM
5 8 (4.37%) ACCA
5 8 (4.37%) CIMA
6 6 (3.28%) CISA
6 6 (3.28%) CISSP
6 6 (3.28%) CRISC
7 4 (2.19%) ISACA
8 2 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.55%) CCNA
9 1 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.55%) MCSA
9 1 (0.55%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.55%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (19.67%) Data Quality
2 13 (7.10%) QA
3 6 (3.28%) COBIT
3 6 (3.28%) GRC
3 6 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.28%) ITGC
3 6 (3.28%) NIST
4 4 (2.19%) GDPR
5 3 (1.64%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.55%) SLA
Systems Management
1 4 (2.19%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.55%) Ansible
2 1 (0.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 39 (21.31%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.01%) Google
2 11 (6.01%) Splunk
3 7 (3.83%) Anaplan
4 6 (3.28%) Adobe
4 6 (3.28%) Progress
5 5 (2.73%) Databricks
6 4 (2.19%) Alteryx
6 4 (2.19%) Informatica
6 4 (2.19%) Oracle
6 4 (2.19%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.64%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.64%) SAP
8 2 (1.09%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.09%) eFront
9 1 (0.55%) Apple
9 1 (0.55%) JD Edwards
9 1 (0.55%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.55%) StreamSets
9 1 (0.55%) Workday