Data Analyst Job Trends in London

Data Analyst
England > London

The median Data Analyst salary in London is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 October 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 209 160 197
Rank change year-on-year -49 +37 +49
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Analyst 184 378 339
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.57% 2.10% 1.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.73% 2.20% 1.74%
Number of salaries quoted 131 233 287
10th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £37,000
25th Percentile £41,875 £52,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £69,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.42% +15.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -

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 10,658 17,176 19,436
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.01% 95.26% 95.09%
Number of salaries quoted 6,953 10,633 15,934
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £74,451 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.62% -0.73% +7.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £56,525 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.70% -5.79% -

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 +23 44 £62,500 +2.04% 40
South London +23 11 £65,000 +150.00% 18
West London +26 4 £46,500 -19.13% 15
East London - 2 £32,010 - 17
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 October 2025, 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.

1 101 (54.89%) SQL
2 98 (53.26%) Analytics
3 97 (52.72%) Business Intelligence
4 96 (52.17%) Analytical Skills
5 94 (51.09%) Finance
6 88 (47.83%) Power BI
6 88 (47.83%) Power Platform
7 80 (43.48%) Python
8 77 (41.85%) Social Skills
9 69 (37.50%) Data Analysis
10 63 (34.24%) Microsoft Excel
11 51 (27.72%) Degree
11 51 (27.72%) Problem-Solving
12 49 (26.63%) Tableau
13 47 (25.54%) Data Analytics
14 43 (23.37%) Visualisation
14 43 (23.37%) Decision-Making
15 39 (21.20%) Data Quality
16 37 (20.11%) Continuous Improvement
16 37 (20.11%) Microsoft
17 33 (17.93%) Actionable Insight
18 29 (15.76%) AI
18 29 (15.76%) Data Management
19 27 (14.67%) Data Science
20 26 (14.13%) Data Modelling
21 25 (13.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
22 24 (13.04%) Migration
22 24 (13.04%) Azure
23 22 (11.96%) Data Visualisation
24 21 (11.41%) Organisational Skills

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 5 (2.72%) SAS
1 5 (2.72%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.09%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.54%) Confluence
3 1 (0.54%) Jupyter
Applications
1 63 (34.24%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.54%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 88 (47.83%) Power Platform
2 24 (13.04%) Azure
3 13 (7.07%) SaaS
4 12 (6.52%) Azure Monitor
5 11 (5.98%) Azure App Service
5 11 (5.98%) Azure Functions
5 11 (5.98%) Serverless
6 10 (5.43%) Azure Sentinel
7 6 (3.26%) Collibra
7 6 (3.26%) GCP
8 5 (2.72%) Adobe Analytics
9 4 (2.17%) Google Analytics
9 4 (2.17%) Power Automate
9 4 (2.17%) PowerApps
9 4 (2.17%) Snowflake
10 3 (1.63%) AWS
10 3 (1.63%) Azure Stack
11 2 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.09%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (1.09%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (47.83%) Power BI
2 49 (26.63%) Tableau
3 19 (10.33%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (4.35%) Looker
5 5 (2.72%) Data Mining
5 5 (2.72%) Power Query
5 5 (2.72%) Qlik Sense
6 4 (2.17%) BigQuery
6 4 (2.17%) BusinessObjects
6 4 (2.17%) Metadata
6 4 (2.17%) SAS EBI
7 3 (1.63%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.09%) QlikView
9 1 (0.54%) Big Data
9 1 (0.54%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.54%) KNIME
9 1 (0.54%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.54%) Parquet
9 1 (0.54%) QGIS
9 1 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (1.09%) Git
2 1 (0.54%) JIRA
General
1 96 (52.17%) Analytical Skills
2 94 (51.09%) Finance
3 77 (41.85%) Social Skills
4 25 (13.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (11.41%) Organisational Skills
6 20 (10.87%) Banking
7 16 (8.70%) Legal
8 13 (7.07%) Financial Institution
9 12 (6.52%) Law
9 12 (6.52%) Retail
10 11 (5.98%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (5.43%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (3.26%) Front Office
12 6 (3.26%) Marketing
13 5 (2.72%) Advertising
14 4 (2.17%) Public Sector
15 3 (1.63%) Investment Banking
16 2 (1.09%) French Language
16 2 (1.09%) Games
16 2 (1.09%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.63%) Altair
1 3 (1.63%) XML
2 2 (1.09%) Pandas
3 1 (0.54%) JSON
3 1 (0.54%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (0.54%) PySpark
3 1 (0.54%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.43%) Analytical Mindset
1 10 (5.43%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (3.26%) Management Information System
3 4 (2.17%) Onboarding
3 4 (2.17%) Reinsurance
4 3 (1.63%) Autonomous Agent
5 2 (1.09%) Credit Risk
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%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.54%) Blog
6 1 (0.54%) Derivative
6 1 (0.54%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.54%) EPoS
6 1 (0.54%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.54%) FMCG
6 1 (0.54%) Podcast
6 1 (0.54%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.09%) Linux
2 1 (0.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (53.26%) Analytics
2 97 (52.72%) Business Intelligence
3 69 (37.50%) Data Analysis
4 51 (27.72%) Problem-Solving
5 47 (25.54%) Data Analytics
6 43 (23.37%) Decision-Making
6 43 (23.37%) Visualisation
7 37 (20.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 33 (17.93%) Actionable Insight
9 29 (15.76%) AI
9 29 (15.76%) Data Management
10 27 (14.67%) Data Science
11 26 (14.13%) Data Modelling
12 24 (13.04%) Migration
13 22 (11.96%) Data Visualisation
14 21 (11.41%) Data Governance
15 19 (10.33%) Dashboard Development
15 19 (10.33%) Mathematics
15 19 (10.33%) Risk Management
15 19 (10.33%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 101 (54.89%) SQL
2 80 (43.48%) Python
3 12 (6.52%) PowerShell
4 11 (5.98%) Kusto Query Language
5 9 (4.89%) JavaScript
5 9 (4.89%) R
6 5 (2.72%) VBA
7 2 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.09%) VB
8 1 (0.54%) Bash
8 1 (0.54%) Fortran
8 1 (0.54%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 51 (27.72%) Degree
2 14 (7.61%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (5.98%) CISM
3 11 (5.98%) Security Cleared
4 10 (5.43%) Azure Certification
4 10 (5.43%) Master's Degree
5 9 (4.89%) Numerate Degree
6 8 (4.35%) ACCA
6 8 (4.35%) CIMA
7 7 (3.80%) CISA
7 7 (3.80%) CISSP
7 7 (3.80%) CRISC
8 4 (2.17%) ISACA
9 1 (0.54%) CCNA
9 1 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.54%) MCSA
9 1 (0.54%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (21.20%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.43%) QA
3 7 (3.80%) COBIT
3 7 (3.80%) GRC
3 7 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.80%) ITGC
3 7 (3.80%) NIST
4 2 (1.09%) GDPR
5 1 (0.54%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
Systems Management
1 5 (2.72%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 37 (20.11%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.61%) Alteryx
3 10 (5.43%) Splunk
4 9 (4.89%) Bloomberg
4 9 (4.89%) Google
5 8 (4.35%) Databricks
6 7 (3.80%) Anaplan
6 7 (3.80%) Progress
7 5 (2.72%) Adobe
7 5 (2.72%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.17%) Salesforce
8 4 (2.17%) SAP
9 3 (1.63%) Informatica
10 2 (1.09%) eFront
10 2 (1.09%) Oracle
11 1 (0.54%) Apple
11 1 (0.54%) Cisco
11 1 (0.54%) Workday