Data Analyst Job Trends in London

Data Analyst
England > London

The median Data Analyst salary in London is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 July 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 221 230 161
Rank change year-on-year +9 -69 +48
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Analyst 215 169 439
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.94% 1.38% 2.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.01% 1.50% 2.28%
Number of salaries quoted 139 110 272
10th Percentile £32,000 £29,650 £38,800
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,188 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,125 £80,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +11.11%

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 21,286 11,232 19,283
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 91.66% 94.77%
Number of salaries quoted 14,596 7,335 13,598
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £50,034
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £117,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 +2 47 £57,375 +4.32% 5
West London -22 7 £30,000 -40.89% 2
East London - 5 £30,000 - 5
South London -8 1 £30,000 -53.85% 3
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 29 July 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.

1 131 (60.93%) SQL
2 97 (45.12%) Analytics
3 84 (39.07%) Python
4 79 (36.74%) Business Intelligence
5 73 (33.95%) Power BI
5 73 (33.95%) Power Platform
6 56 (26.05%) Data Quality
7 54 (25.12%) AI
7 54 (25.12%) Microsoft Excel
8 51 (23.72%) Data Analysis
9 50 (23.26%) Decision-Making
9 50 (23.26%) Microsoft
10 43 (20.00%) Data Modelling
11 40 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
11 40 (18.60%) Tableau
12 38 (17.67%) Azure
13 37 (17.21%) Actionable Insight
14 36 (16.74%) Visualisation
15 34 (15.81%) Data Analytics
16 26 (12.09%) Data Governance
17 24 (11.16%) Continuous Improvement
17 24 (11.16%) Data Visualisation
18 22 (10.23%) Degree
18 22 (10.23%) Stakeholder Management
19 21 (9.77%) Validation
20 19 (8.84%) Mentoring
21 18 (8.37%) ETL
22 17 (7.91%) Machine Learning
22 17 (7.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
23 16 (7.44%) Azure Certification

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 (2.33%) Palantir Foundry
2 4 (1.86%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.93%) SAS
4 1 (0.47%) CMS
4 1 (0.47%) WordPress
Applications
1 54 (25.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.40%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.47%) Acrobat
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.47%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.86%) Oracle Applications
1 4 (1.86%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.93%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.47%) FastStats
3 1 (0.47%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.47%) SystmOne
3 1 (0.47%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 73 (33.95%) Power Platform
2 38 (17.67%) Azure
3 15 (6.98%) Azure AI
4 12 (5.58%) Snowflake
5 11 (5.12%) AWS
6 9 (4.19%) dbt
6 9 (4.19%) GCP
7 6 (2.79%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (1.86%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (1.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (1.86%) Collibra
8 4 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (1.86%) Google Analytics
8 4 (1.86%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.40%) Power Automate
10 2 (0.93%) OCI
11 1 (0.47%) Anthropic Claude
11 1 (0.47%) GitHub
11 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (0.47%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.93%) Broadband
2 1 (0.47%) 5G
2 1 (0.47%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (33.95%) Power BI
2 40 (18.60%) Tableau
3 11 (5.12%) Looker
4 8 (3.72%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (3.72%) Power Query
5 7 (3.26%) Metadata
5 7 (3.26%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.79%) Data Mining
7 5 (2.33%) Semantic Layer
8 4 (1.86%) Oracle Discoverer
8 4 (1.86%) Star Schema
9 3 (1.40%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.93%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (0.93%) Geospatial Data
11 1 (0.47%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.47%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.47%) SAP BW
11 1 (0.47%) SAS EBI
11 1 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (1.86%) Postman
2 3 (1.40%) Git
3 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio
General
1 74 (34.42%) Social Skills
2 72 (33.49%) Analytical Skills
3 61 (28.37%) Finance
4 27 (12.56%) Marketing
5 20 (9.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (6.05%) Retail
7 7 (3.26%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.79%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.33%) Advertising
9 5 (2.33%) Banking
9 5 (2.33%) Law
10 4 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.40%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.40%) Legal
12 2 (0.93%) Back Office
12 2 (0.93%) Publishing
13 1 (0.47%) Digital Health
13 1 (0.47%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.47%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.86%) JSON
1 4 (1.86%) OpenAPI
1 4 (1.86%) REST
1 4 (1.86%) RESTful
1 4 (1.86%) Swagger
2 3 (1.40%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (0.93%) FpML
3 2 (0.93%) Matplotlib
3 2 (0.93%) NumPy
3 2 (0.93%) Pandas
3 2 (0.93%) Seaborn
4 1 (0.47%) PySpark
4 1 (0.47%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.37%) Data Structures
2 7 (3.26%) Analytical Mindset
2 7 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (1.40%) Derivative
3 3 (1.40%) FMCG
3 3 (1.40%) NHS
3 3 (1.40%) Product Ownership
3 3 (1.40%) Reference Data
4 2 (0.93%) Clustering
4 2 (0.93%) Housing Association
4 2 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (0.93%) Onboarding
4 2 (0.93%) Reinsurance
5 1 (0.47%) AI Agents
5 1 (0.47%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.47%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.47%) IoT
5 1 (0.47%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.47%) Smart Meter
5 1 (0.47%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (45.12%) Analytics
2 79 (36.74%) Business Intelligence
3 54 (25.12%) AI
4 51 (23.72%) Data Analysis
5 50 (23.26%) Decision-Making
6 43 (20.00%) Data Modelling
7 40 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (17.21%) Actionable Insight
9 36 (16.74%) Visualisation
10 34 (15.81%) Data Analytics
11 26 (12.09%) Data Governance
12 24 (11.16%) Continuous Improvement
12 24 (11.16%) Data Visualisation
13 22 (10.23%) Stakeholder Management
14 21 (9.77%) Validation
15 19 (8.84%) Mentoring
16 18 (8.37%) ETL
17 17 (7.91%) Machine Learning
17 17 (7.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 15 (6.98%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 131 (60.93%) SQL
2 84 (39.07%) Python
3 10 (4.65%) VBA
4 9 (4.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 9 (4.19%) R
5 2 (0.93%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.93%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.47%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 22 (10.23%) Degree
2 16 (7.44%) Azure Certification
3 10 (4.65%) Security Cleared
4 9 (4.19%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.33%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.40%) ACCA
6 3 (1.40%) CIMA
6 3 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.40%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.47%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (26.05%) Data Quality
2 13 (6.05%) QA
3 8 (3.72%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.72%) GDPR
4 2 (0.93%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.47%) PERC
5 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.47%) Solvency II
Vendors
1 50 (23.26%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.72%) Google
3 6 (2.79%) Foundry
4 5 (2.33%) Databricks
4 5 (2.33%) Oracle
4 5 (2.33%) Palantir
4 5 (2.33%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.86%) Informatica
6 3 (1.40%) TikTok
7 2 (0.93%) Adobe
7 2 (0.93%) Alteryx
7 2 (0.93%) HubSpot
7 2 (0.93%) SAP
8 1 (0.47%) Aderant
8 1 (0.47%) Cisco
8 1 (0.47%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.47%) Sage