Data Analyst Job Trends in London

Data Analyst
England > London

The median Data Analyst salary in London is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 May 2026.

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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 234 171
Rank change year-on-year +44 -63 +58
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Analyst 234 170 442
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.14% 1.38% 1.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.24% 1.53% 2.00%
Number of salaries quoted 158 95 284
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,200 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% -2.04% +6.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £74,375 £75,000
90th Percentile £74,000 £81,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% -5.26%

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 18,888 11,123 22,052
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.13% 90.06% 94.20%
Number of salaries quoted 12,900 7,207 16,628
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,560 £53,500
% change year-on-year -4.45% +7.59% -12.01%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 -13 42 £45,000 -18.18% 28
East London - 9 £32,838 - 8
West London -18 8 £30,000 -50.00% 11
South London +14 1 £40,000 -38.46% 4
North London - 1 £40,000 - 4
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 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.

1 149 (63.68%) SQL
2 110 (47.01%) Python
3 109 (46.58%) Business Intelligence
4 99 (42.31%) Analytics
5 93 (39.74%) Power BI
5 93 (39.74%) Power Platform
6 70 (29.91%) Tableau
7 69 (29.49%) Data Modelling
8 68 (29.06%) Microsoft
9 63 (26.92%) Microsoft Excel
10 60 (25.64%) Data Analysis
10 60 (25.64%) Data Quality
11 55 (23.50%) AI
12 48 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
13 46 (19.66%) Azure
14 43 (18.38%) Actionable Insight
15 41 (17.52%) Decision-Making
16 38 (16.24%) Data Governance
17 37 (15.81%) Data Analytics
18 36 (15.38%) ETL
19 30 (12.82%) Mentoring
20 28 (11.97%) Degree
20 28 (11.97%) Machine Learning
21 25 (10.68%) Project Management
22 24 (10.26%) Salesforce
23 23 (9.83%) Validation
23 23 (9.83%) Visualisation
24 22 (9.40%) Azure Certification
24 22 (9.40%) Data Pipeline
25 21 (8.97%) 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 6 (2.56%) Palantir Foundry
2 2 (0.85%) SAS
2 2 (0.85%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.43%) Confluence
Applications
1 63 (26.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.28%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (4.27%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.71%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.85%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.85%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.43%) SAP Business ByDesign
Cloud Services
1 93 (39.74%) Power Platform
2 46 (19.66%) Azure
3 21 (8.97%) Azure AI
4 9 (3.85%) GCP
4 9 (3.85%) Snowflake
5 7 (2.99%) AWS
6 5 (2.14%) dbt
6 5 (2.14%) Google Analytics
7 4 (1.71%) Collibra
7 4 (1.71%) SaaS
8 3 (1.28%) Adobe Analytics
8 3 (1.28%) Dataform
8 3 (1.28%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (0.85%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (0.85%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.43%) Anthropic Claude
10 1 (0.43%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.43%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.43%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.85%) Broadband
1 2 (0.85%) Intranet
2 1 (0.43%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (39.74%) Power BI
2 70 (29.91%) Tableau
3 16 (6.84%) Data Mining
4 15 (6.41%) Metadata
5 10 (4.27%) Power Query
6 8 (3.42%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (2.99%) BigQuery
8 6 (2.56%) Looker
9 5 (2.14%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.71%) Big Data
11 3 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.28%) SQL Server
11 3 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.85%) Electronic Patient Records
12 2 (0.85%) Oracle Discoverer
12 2 (0.85%) Qlik Sense
12 2 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 1 (0.43%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.43%) Mixpanel
13 1 (0.43%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 15 (6.41%) Postman
2 4 (1.71%) Git
3 2 (0.85%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.43%) JIRA
4 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio
General
1 82 (35.04%) Social Skills
2 76 (32.48%) Analytical Skills
3 65 (27.78%) Finance
4 33 (14.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 29 (12.39%) Marketing
6 18 (7.69%) Retail
7 12 (5.13%) Law
8 10 (4.27%) Banking
8 10 (4.27%) Publishing
9 8 (3.42%) Public Sector
10 7 (2.99%) Financial Institution
10 7 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (2.56%) Games
11 6 (2.56%) iGaming
12 4 (1.71%) Investment Banking
13 3 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.85%) Advertising
14 2 (0.85%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.43%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.41%) OpenAPI
1 15 (6.41%) RESTful
1 15 (6.41%) Swagger
2 7 (2.99%) JSON
2 7 (2.99%) REST
3 3 (1.28%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (0.85%) FpML
4 2 (0.85%) Matplotlib
4 2 (0.85%) NumPy
4 2 (0.85%) Pandas
4 2 (0.85%) Seaborn
4 2 (0.85%) Web Services
5 1 (0.43%) .NET
5 1 (0.43%) EDI
5 1 (0.43%) PySpark
5 1 (0.43%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 35 (14.96%) Data Structures
2 12 (5.13%) FMCG
3 10 (4.27%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (2.99%) Mobile App
6 6 (2.56%) Reference Data
7 5 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.28%) Derivative
8 3 (1.28%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.28%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.85%) Contract for Difference
9 2 (0.85%) NHS
10 1 (0.43%) Clustering
10 1 (0.43%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.43%) Equity Derivative
10 1 (0.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.43%) Market Risk
10 1 (0.43%) Sports Betting
10 1 (0.43%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (46.58%) Business Intelligence
2 99 (42.31%) Analytics
3 69 (29.49%) Data Modelling
4 60 (25.64%) Data Analysis
5 55 (23.50%) AI
6 48 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (18.38%) Actionable Insight
8 41 (17.52%) Decision-Making
9 38 (16.24%) Data Governance
10 37 (15.81%) Data Analytics
11 36 (15.38%) ETL
12 30 (12.82%) Mentoring
13 28 (11.97%) Machine Learning
14 25 (10.68%) Project Management
15 23 (9.83%) Validation
15 23 (9.83%) Visualisation
16 22 (9.40%) Data Pipeline
17 21 (8.97%) Business Analysis
18 20 (8.55%) Continuous Improvement
18 20 (8.55%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 149 (63.68%) SQL
2 110 (47.01%) Python
3 11 (4.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (2.14%) VBA
5 3 (1.28%) R
6 2 (0.85%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.43%) C#
7 1 (0.43%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (11.97%) Degree
2 22 (9.40%) Azure Certification
3 10 (4.27%) ACCA
3 10 (4.27%) CIMA
4 8 (3.42%) Security Cleared
5 6 (2.56%) SC Cleared
6 5 (2.14%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.14%) Numerate Degree
7 3 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.28%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.43%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (25.64%) Data Quality
2 13 (5.56%) Accessibility
3 12 (5.13%) QA
4 8 (3.42%) GDPR
5 2 (0.85%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.43%) SLA
6 1 (0.43%) Solvency II
Vendors
1 68 (29.06%) Microsoft
2 24 (10.26%) Salesforce
3 9 (3.85%) Foundry
4 8 (3.42%) Cisco
5 7 (2.99%) Alteryx
5 7 (2.99%) Bloomberg
6 6 (2.56%) Google
6 6 (2.56%) Informatica
6 6 (2.56%) Palantir
7 3 (1.28%) Adobe
7 3 (1.28%) Oracle
7 3 (1.28%) SAP
7 3 (1.28%) TikTok
8 2 (0.85%) Charles River
8 2 (0.85%) Databricks
8 2 (0.85%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 2 (0.85%) Talend
9 1 (0.43%) Amplitude
9 1 (0.43%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.43%) Sage