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 5 January 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 214 193
Rank change year-on-year +47 -21 +33
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Analyst 230 231 289
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.67% 1.49% 1.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.84% 1.60% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 154 172 245
10th Percentile £32,010 £36,275 £37,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,319 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% +0.53% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £89,250
England median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% - -

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 12,509 14,421 16,968
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.90% 92.71% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 8,294 8,343 13,685
10th Percentile £36,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,204 £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 £95,125 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.44%

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 5 January 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 5 January 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 +38 38 £62,500 +4.17% 31
East London - 5 £32,838 - 13
South London +35 4 £52,500 +79.49% 11
West London -2 4 £46,500 +24.00% 16
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 January 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.

1 139 (60.43%) Business Intelligence
2 126 (54.78%) Analytics
3 125 (54.35%) Python
4 120 (52.17%) SQL
5 100 (43.48%) Power BI
5 100 (43.48%) Power Platform
6 96 (41.74%) Data Analysis
6 96 (41.74%) Tableau
7 75 (32.61%) Microsoft Excel
8 71 (30.87%) Data Quality
9 70 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
10 62 (26.96%) Degree
11 60 (26.09%) AI
12 54 (23.48%) Decision-Making
13 53 (23.04%) Data Modelling
14 48 (20.87%) Microsoft
15 45 (19.57%) Business Strategy
15 45 (19.57%) Data Analytics
15 45 (19.57%) Visualisation
16 43 (18.70%) Data Science
17 42 (18.26%) Migration
18 40 (17.39%) Risk Management
19 38 (16.52%) Actionable Insight
19 38 (16.52%) Asset Management
19 38 (16.52%) Risk Analytics
20 37 (16.09%) Portfolio Management
21 34 (14.78%) Project Management
22 33 (14.35%) Alteryx
22 33 (14.35%) Business Analysis
22 33 (14.35%) Continuous Improvement

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 (2.17%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.30%) SAS
3 2 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.87%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 75 (32.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (2.17%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.74%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (1.30%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.43%) SAP Business ByDesign
5 1 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 100 (43.48%) Power Platform
2 28 (12.17%) Azure
3 10 (4.35%) GCP
4 9 (3.91%) Snowflake
5 5 (2.17%) AWS
5 5 (2.17%) Azure AI
5 5 (2.17%) Collibra
5 5 (2.17%) Google Analytics
6 4 (1.74%) dbt
6 4 (1.74%) SaaS
7 3 (1.30%) Dataform
7 3 (1.30%) Power Automate
8 2 (0.87%) Azure App Service
8 2 (0.87%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (0.87%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.87%) Azure Functions
8 2 (0.87%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (0.87%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (0.87%) PowerApps
8 2 (0.87%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (43.48%) Power BI
2 96 (41.74%) Tableau
3 19 (8.26%) Data Mining
4 17 (7.39%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (5.22%) Looker
6 11 (4.78%) Metadata
6 11 (4.78%) Qlik Sense
7 10 (4.35%) BigQuery
8 7 (3.04%) Power Query
9 4 (1.74%) Big Data
10 3 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.30%) BusinessObjects
10 3 (1.30%) SAS EBI
11 2 (0.87%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.87%) KNIME
11 2 (0.87%) QlikView
12 1 (0.43%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
12 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (3.91%) Postman
2 5 (2.17%) Git
3 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 129 (56.09%) Finance
2 128 (55.65%) Analytical Skills
3 79 (34.35%) Social Skills
4 54 (23.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 37 (16.09%) Banking
6 32 (13.91%) Financial Institution
7 28 (12.17%) Organisational Skills
8 19 (8.26%) Marketing
9 16 (6.96%) Retail
10 11 (4.78%) Legal
11 9 (3.91%) Front Office
11 9 (3.91%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (3.91%) Law
12 6 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (2.17%) Games
13 5 (2.17%) Publishing
14 4 (1.74%) iGaming
14 4 (1.74%) Public Sector
15 2 (0.87%) Electronics
15 2 (0.87%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.91%) OpenAPI
1 9 (3.91%) RESTful
1 9 (3.91%) Swagger
2 3 (1.30%) Altair
3 2 (0.87%) PySpark
3 2 (0.87%) Web Services
4 1 (0.43%) EDI
4 1 (0.43%) FastAPI
4 1 (0.43%) Flask
4 1 (0.43%) JSON
4 1 (0.43%) Pandas
4 1 (0.43%) REST
4 1 (0.43%) Streamlit
4 1 (0.43%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (13.91%) Self-Motivation
2 18 (7.83%) Data Structures
3 6 (2.61%) FMCG
4 5 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (2.17%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.17%) Mobile App
4 5 (2.17%) Reference Data
5 4 (1.74%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.87%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.43%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.43%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.43%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.43%) Derivative
8 1 (0.43%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.43%) EPoS
8 1 (0.43%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.43%) Sports Betting
8 1 (0.43%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (60.43%) Business Intelligence
2 126 (54.78%) Analytics
3 96 (41.74%) Data Analysis
4 70 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
5 60 (26.09%) AI
6 54 (23.48%) Decision-Making
7 53 (23.04%) Data Modelling
8 45 (19.57%) Business Strategy
8 45 (19.57%) Data Analytics
8 45 (19.57%) Visualisation
9 43 (18.70%) Data Science
10 42 (18.26%) Migration
11 40 (17.39%) Risk Management
12 38 (16.52%) Actionable Insight
12 38 (16.52%) Asset Management
12 38 (16.52%) Risk Analytics
13 37 (16.09%) Portfolio Management
14 34 (14.78%) Project Management
15 33 (14.35%) Business Analysis
15 33 (14.35%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 125 (54.35%) Python
2 120 (52.17%) SQL
3 9 (3.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 9 (3.91%) JavaScript
4 6 (2.61%) R
5 4 (1.74%) VBA
6 2 (0.87%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (0.87%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.87%) VB
7 1 (0.43%) Bash
Qualifications
1 62 (26.96%) Degree
2 30 (13.04%) Numerate Degree
3 12 (5.22%) ACCA
3 12 (5.22%) CIMA
4 7 (3.04%) CISA
4 7 (3.04%) CISM
4 7 (3.04%) CISSP
4 7 (3.04%) CRISC
5 6 (2.61%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.30%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.87%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.43%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (30.87%) Data Quality
2 12 (5.22%) QA
3 7 (3.04%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.04%) COBIT
3 7 (3.04%) GRC
3 7 (3.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.04%) ITGC
3 7 (3.04%) NIST
4 5 (2.17%) GDPR
5 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.43%) SLA
Systems Management
1 5 (2.17%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 48 (20.87%) Microsoft
2 33 (14.35%) Alteryx
3 32 (13.91%) Bloomberg
4 17 (7.39%) Salesforce
5 11 (4.78%) Google
6 10 (4.35%) Databricks
7 7 (3.04%) Anaplan
7 7 (3.04%) Informatica
7 7 (3.04%) Progress
8 5 (2.17%) Cisco
8 5 (2.17%) SAP
8 5 (2.17%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.87%) Adobe
9 2 (0.87%) Charles River
9 2 (0.87%) eFront
9 2 (0.87%) Oracle
9 2 (0.87%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.87%) Talend
10 1 (0.43%) Amplitude
10 1 (0.43%) DataRobot