Data Analyst Job Trends in London

Data Analyst
England > London

The median Data Analyst salary in London is £56,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 June 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 236 168
Rank change year-on-year +28 -68 +54
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Analyst 230 157 476
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.05% 1.28% 1.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.13% 1.41% 2.09%
Number of salaries quoted 158 95 311
10th Percentile £31,750 £29,750 £35,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +2.50%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 20,332 11,131 22,775
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 90.98% 94.38%
Number of salaries quoted 14,001 7,096 16,864
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,284
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.50%

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Data Analyst' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Data Analyst job vacancy trend 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 30 June 2026.

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 30 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
Central London -5 49 £55,000 - 4
West London -14 7 £30,000 -45.45% 2
East London - 7 £30,000 - 2
South London +6 1 £30,000 -53.85%
North London - 1 £40,000 - 1
Data Analyst
England

Data Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 30 June 2026, Data Analyst job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Data Analyst in the job title.

1 143 (62.17%) SQL
2 101 (43.91%) Analytics
3 94 (40.87%) Python
4 93 (40.43%) Business Intelligence
5 88 (38.26%) Power BI
5 88 (38.26%) Power Platform
6 60 (26.09%) Data Modelling
7 53 (23.04%) Data Quality
8 52 (22.61%) Microsoft
9 51 (22.17%) Data Analysis
9 51 (22.17%) Microsoft Excel
10 50 (21.74%) AI
11 46 (20.00%) Tableau
12 45 (19.57%) Azure
13 43 (18.70%) Data Analytics
13 43 (18.70%) Decision-Making
14 42 (18.26%) Problem-Solving
15 36 (15.65%) Actionable Insight
16 34 (14.78%) Data Governance
17 29 (12.61%) Visualisation
18 27 (11.74%) ETL
19 26 (11.30%) Mentoring
19 26 (11.30%) Validation
20 24 (10.43%) Machine Learning
21 23 (10.00%) Degree
22 21 (9.13%) Data Visualisation
23 18 (7.83%) Continuous Improvement
24 17 (7.39%) Azure Certification
24 17 (7.39%) Data Pipeline
25 16 (6.96%) Azure AI

Data Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 7 (3.04%) Palantir Foundry
2 2 (0.87%) SAS
2 2 (0.87%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.43%) CMS
3 1 (0.43%) Confluence
Applications
1 51 (22.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.30%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.61%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.74%) Oracle Applications
2 4 (1.74%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.87%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.43%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.43%) FastStats
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.43%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 88 (38.26%) Power Platform
2 45 (19.57%) Azure
3 16 (6.96%) Azure AI
4 11 (4.78%) Snowflake
5 10 (4.35%) AWS
6 9 (3.91%) GCP
7 5 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (2.17%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (1.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (1.74%) Collibra
9 3 (1.30%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.30%) SaaS
10 2 (0.87%) dbt
10 2 (0.87%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.87%) Google Analytics
10 2 (0.87%) OCI
10 2 (0.87%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.43%) Anthropic Claude
11 1 (0.43%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.43%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.87%) Broadband
1 2 (0.87%) Intranet
2 1 (0.43%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (38.26%) Power BI
2 46 (20.00%) Tableau
3 11 (4.78%) Metadata
4 10 (4.35%) Power Query
4 10 (4.35%) Relational Database
5 8 (3.48%) Data Mining
5 8 (3.48%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.74%) Looker
6 4 (1.74%) Oracle Discoverer
6 4 (1.74%) Semantic Layer
6 4 (1.74%) Star Schema
7 2 (0.87%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.87%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (0.87%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (0.87%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.43%) Big Data
8 1 (0.43%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (0.43%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 11 (4.78%) Postman
2 1 (0.43%) Git
2 1 (0.43%) JIRA
2 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio
General
1 75 (32.61%) Social Skills
2 72 (31.30%) Analytical Skills
3 54 (23.48%) Finance
4 35 (15.22%) Marketing
5 27 (11.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (6.52%) Retail
7 10 (4.35%) Law
7 10 (4.35%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.61%) Publishing
9 5 (2.17%) Advertising
9 5 (2.17%) Banking
9 5 (2.17%) iGaming
10 4 (1.74%) Games
10 4 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.30%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.87%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.87%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.43%) Back Office
13 1 (0.43%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.78%) OpenAPI
1 11 (4.78%) RESTful
1 11 (4.78%) Swagger
2 6 (2.61%) JSON
2 6 (2.61%) REST
3 3 (1.30%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (0.87%) FpML
4 2 (0.87%) Matplotlib
4 2 (0.87%) NumPy
4 2 (0.87%) Pandas
4 2 (0.87%) Seaborn
5 1 (0.43%) .NET
5 1 (0.43%) PySpark
5 1 (0.43%) Streamlit
5 1 (0.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 29 (12.61%) Data Structures
2 8 (3.48%) FMCG
3 6 (2.61%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (2.61%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.17%) Mobile App
5 4 (1.74%) Reference Data
6 3 (1.30%) Derivative
6 3 (1.30%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.87%) Clustering
7 2 (0.87%) Contract for Difference
7 2 (0.87%) Housing Association
7 2 (0.87%) NHS
7 2 (0.87%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.87%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.43%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.43%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.43%) IoT
8 1 (0.43%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (43.91%) Analytics
2 93 (40.43%) Business Intelligence
3 60 (26.09%) Data Modelling
4 51 (22.17%) Data Analysis
5 50 (21.74%) AI
6 43 (18.70%) Data Analytics
6 43 (18.70%) Decision-Making
7 42 (18.26%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (15.65%) Actionable Insight
9 34 (14.78%) Data Governance
10 29 (12.61%) Visualisation
11 27 (11.74%) ETL
12 26 (11.30%) Mentoring
12 26 (11.30%) Validation
13 24 (10.43%) Machine Learning
14 21 (9.13%) Data Visualisation
15 18 (7.83%) Continuous Improvement
16 17 (7.39%) Data Pipeline
17 16 (6.96%) Data Engineering
17 16 (6.96%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Programming Languages
1 143 (62.17%) SQL
2 94 (40.87%) Python
3 11 (4.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (3.48%) VBA
5 7 (3.04%) R
6 2 (0.87%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.87%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.43%) C#
7 1 (0.43%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 23 (10.00%) Degree
2 17 (7.39%) Azure Certification
3 11 (4.78%) Security Cleared
4 9 (3.91%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.04%) ACCA
5 7 (3.04%) CIMA
6 6 (2.61%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.30%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.30%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (23.04%) Data Quality
2 16 (6.96%) QA
3 10 (4.35%) Accessibility
4 8 (3.48%) GDPR
5 2 (0.87%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.43%) Solvency II
Vendors
1 52 (22.61%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.52%) Salesforce
3 10 (4.35%) Foundry
4 7 (3.04%) Palantir
5 6 (2.61%) Cisco
5 6 (2.61%) Google
6 5 (2.17%) Informatica
6 5 (2.17%) Oracle
7 4 (1.74%) Databricks
8 3 (1.30%) TikTok
9 2 (0.87%) SAP
10 1 (0.43%) Aderant
10 1 (0.43%) Adobe
10 1 (0.43%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.43%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.43%) Charles River
10 1 (0.43%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.43%) Sage
10 1 (0.43%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.43%) Talend