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 2 December 2025.

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

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 186 222 194
Rank change year-on-year +36 -28 +25
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Analyst 217 248 308
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.66% 1.46% 1.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.83% 1.54% 1.76%
Number of salaries quoted 147 195 263
10th Percentile £32,010 £38,850 £37,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £42,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -19.05% +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 11,885 16,072 17,520
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.71% 94.55% 94.90%
Number of salaries quoted 7,769 9,745 14,287
10th Percentile £35,750 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.98% -2.50% -

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 2 December 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 2 December 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 +47 48 £62,500 +4.17% 20
South London +36 8 £65,000 +122.22% 16
West London +3 4 £38,250 -33.48% 19
East London - 4 £32,424 - 21
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 December 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.

1 131 (60.37%) Business Intelligence
2 128 (58.99%) Analytics
3 116 (53.46%) Python
4 112 (51.61%) SQL
5 101 (46.54%) Power BI
5 101 (46.54%) Power Platform
6 94 (43.32%) Data Analysis
7 80 (36.87%) Tableau
8 73 (33.64%) Microsoft Excel
9 68 (31.34%) Problem-Solving
10 66 (30.41%) Data Quality
11 65 (29.95%) Degree
12 56 (25.81%) Decision-Making
13 53 (24.42%) AI
14 47 (21.66%) Data Analytics
14 47 (21.66%) Microsoft
14 47 (21.66%) Visualisation
15 43 (19.82%) Migration
16 42 (19.35%) Business Strategy
17 41 (18.89%) Data Modelling
17 41 (18.89%) Data Science
18 40 (18.43%) Actionable Insight
19 39 (17.97%) Continuous Improvement
20 38 (17.51%) Risk Management
21 37 (17.05%) Risk Analytics
22 36 (16.59%) Alteryx
22 36 (16.59%) Portfolio Management
23 33 (15.21%) Asset Management
24 32 (14.75%) Azure
25 31 (14.29%) Mathematics

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 (2.30%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.38%) SAS
3 2 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.92%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.46%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.46%) Confluence
Applications
1 73 (33.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.92%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.46%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 101 (46.54%) Power Platform
2 32 (14.75%) Azure
3 10 (4.61%) GCP
3 10 (4.61%) SaaS
4 8 (3.69%) Azure Monitor
4 8 (3.69%) Collibra
5 7 (3.23%) Azure App Service
5 7 (3.23%) Azure Functions
5 7 (3.23%) Serverless
6 6 (2.76%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (2.30%) AWS
7 5 (2.30%) Power Automate
7 5 (2.30%) Snowflake
8 4 (1.84%) Google Analytics
8 4 (1.84%) PowerApps
9 3 (1.38%) Azure AI
9 3 (1.38%) Azure Stack
10 2 (0.92%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.92%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (46.54%) Power BI
2 80 (36.87%) Tableau
3 17 (7.83%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (5.53%) Data Mining
5 10 (4.61%) Power Query
5 10 (4.61%) Qlik Sense
6 9 (4.15%) Looker
7 8 (3.69%) Metadata
8 6 (2.76%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.38%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (1.38%) SAS EBI
10 2 (0.92%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.92%) KNIME
10 2 (0.92%) QlikView
11 1 (0.46%) Big Data
11 1 (0.46%) MySQL
11 1 (0.46%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.46%) Parquet
11 1 (0.46%) QGIS
11 1 (0.46%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (2.76%) Postman
2 2 (0.92%) Git
3 1 (0.46%) JIRA
3 1 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 128 (58.99%) Finance
2 122 (56.22%) Analytical Skills
3 74 (34.10%) Social Skills
4 48 (22.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 38 (17.51%) Banking
6 31 (14.29%) Financial Institution
7 28 (12.90%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (5.99%) Legal
8 13 (5.99%) Retail
9 9 (4.15%) Front Office
9 9 (4.15%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (4.15%) Law
10 8 (3.69%) Marketing
11 7 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (2.30%) Public Sector
13 4 (1.84%) Advertising
13 4 (1.84%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.92%) Electronics
14 2 (0.92%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.92%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.23%) RESTful
2 6 (2.76%) OpenAPI
2 6 (2.76%) Swagger
3 3 (1.38%) Altair
4 2 (0.92%) PySpark
5 1 (0.46%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.46%) Flask
5 1 (0.46%) JSON
5 1 (0.46%) Pandas
5 1 (0.46%) REST
5 1 (0.46%) Streamlit
5 1 (0.46%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (5.53%) Data Structures
3 7 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (2.76%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.30%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.38%) FMCG
6 3 (1.38%) Reference Data
7 2 (0.92%) Digital Media
7 2 (0.92%) Digital TV
7 2 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.92%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.46%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.46%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.46%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.46%) Derivative
8 1 (0.46%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.46%) EPoS
8 1 (0.46%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.46%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.46%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (60.37%) Business Intelligence
2 128 (58.99%) Analytics
3 94 (43.32%) Data Analysis
4 68 (31.34%) Problem-Solving
5 56 (25.81%) Decision-Making
6 53 (24.42%) AI
7 47 (21.66%) Data Analytics
7 47 (21.66%) Visualisation
8 43 (19.82%) Migration
9 42 (19.35%) Business Strategy
10 41 (18.89%) Data Modelling
10 41 (18.89%) Data Science
11 40 (18.43%) Actionable Insight
12 39 (17.97%) Continuous Improvement
13 38 (17.51%) Risk Management
14 37 (17.05%) Risk Analytics
15 36 (16.59%) Portfolio Management
16 33 (15.21%) Asset Management
17 31 (14.29%) Mathematics
17 31 (14.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 116 (53.46%) Python
2 112 (51.61%) SQL
3 9 (4.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 9 (4.15%) JavaScript
4 8 (3.69%) PowerShell
5 7 (3.23%) Kusto Query Language
6 6 (2.76%) R
7 5 (2.30%) VBA
8 2 (0.92%) VB
9 1 (0.46%) Bash
9 1 (0.46%) Fortran
9 1 (0.46%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 65 (29.95%) Degree
2 29 (13.36%) Numerate Degree
3 11 (5.07%) CISM
4 10 (4.61%) ACCA
4 10 (4.61%) CIMA
4 10 (4.61%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (4.15%) Azure Certification
6 7 (3.23%) CISA
6 7 (3.23%) CISSP
6 7 (3.23%) CRISC
6 7 (3.23%) Security Cleared
7 5 (2.30%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.84%) ISACA
9 3 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.46%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (30.41%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.61%) QA
3 7 (3.23%) COBIT
3 7 (3.23%) GRC
3 7 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.23%) ITGC
3 7 (3.23%) NIST
4 2 (0.92%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.92%) GDPR
5 1 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.46%) SLA
Systems Management
1 5 (2.30%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 47 (21.66%) Microsoft
2 36 (16.59%) Alteryx
3 29 (13.36%) Bloomberg
4 12 (5.53%) Databricks
5 11 (5.07%) Google
6 7 (3.23%) Anaplan
6 7 (3.23%) Progress
7 6 (2.76%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.76%) Splunk
8 5 (2.30%) Informatica
8 5 (2.30%) SAP
8 5 (2.30%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.38%) Oracle
10 2 (0.92%) Cisco
10 2 (0.92%) eFront
10 2 (0.92%) Talend
11 1 (0.46%) Apple
11 1 (0.46%) DataRobot
11 1 (0.46%) Foundry
11 1 (0.46%) Workday