Data Analyst Job Trends in London

Data Analyst
England > London

The median Data Analyst salary in London is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 October 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 207 159
Rank change year-on-year -45 -48 +38
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Analyst 224 185 372
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.85% 1.58% 2.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.92% 1.73% 2.18%
Number of salaries quoted 137 130 232
10th Percentile £35,592 £31,934 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,000 £52,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,750 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -8.93% +16.67%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £90,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -18.18% +10.00%

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 24,219 10,667 17,046
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 90.95% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 16,067 6,965 10,633
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +7.27% -4.35% -4.17%

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 October 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 October 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 35 £60,000 -4.00% 3
East London -8 5 £30,000 -6.28% 1
West London -19 4 £28,500 -38.71%
South London -14 2 £50,000 -23.08% 1
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 October 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.

1 137 (61.16%) SQL
2 111 (49.55%) Analytics
3 96 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
4 94 (41.96%) Data Quality
5 85 (37.95%) Power BI
5 85 (37.95%) Power Platform
6 79 (35.27%) Python
7 76 (33.93%) Data Analysis
8 67 (29.91%) Decision-Making
9 59 (26.34%) Actionable Insight
9 59 (26.34%) AI
10 58 (25.89%) Visualisation
11 53 (23.66%) Stakeholder Management
12 50 (22.32%) Problem-Solving
13 49 (21.88%) Microsoft Excel
14 46 (20.54%) Data Modelling
15 40 (17.86%) Dashboard Development
16 39 (17.41%) Data Governance
17 35 (15.63%) Tableau
18 33 (14.73%) Data Analytics
19 32 (14.29%) Microsoft
20 30 (13.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
21 28 (12.50%) Data Visualisation
22 27 (12.05%) Azure
22 27 (12.05%) Data Transformation
22 27 (12.05%) Process Improvement
23 25 (11.16%) Continuous Improvement
24 23 (10.27%) Degree
24 23 (10.27%) Snowflake
25 21 (9.38%) Validation

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 3 (1.34%) Apache Spark
1 3 (1.34%) Appian
1 3 (1.34%) Palantir Foundry
1 3 (1.34%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.45%) Apache Superset
2 1 (0.45%) CMS
2 1 (0.45%) Confluence
2 1 (0.45%) SAS
2 1 (0.45%) WordPress
Applications
1 49 (21.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.45%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.45%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.45%) InDesign
4 1 (0.45%) Inkscape
4 1 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.45%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.89%) Oracle Applications
1 2 (0.89%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (0.89%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.45%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.45%) FastStats
2 1 (0.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.45%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.45%) SystmOne
2 1 (0.45%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 85 (37.95%) Power Platform
2 27 (12.05%) Azure
3 23 (10.27%) Snowflake
4 20 (8.93%) dbt
5 18 (8.04%) AWS
6 9 (4.02%) Azure Data Factory
6 9 (4.02%) GCP
6 9 (4.02%) SaaS
7 8 (3.57%) Amazon S3
7 8 (3.57%) Google Analytics
8 7 (3.13%) Microsoft Purview
9 6 (2.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (2.23%) Collibra
10 5 (2.23%) SuccessFactors
11 3 (1.34%) Dataform
11 3 (1.34%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.34%) Power Automate
12 2 (0.89%) Azure Databricks
12 2 (0.89%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (0.89%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.89%) Broadband
2 1 (0.45%) 5G
2 1 (0.45%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.45%) PPP
2 1 (0.45%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (37.95%) Power BI
2 35 (15.63%) Tableau
3 20 (8.93%) Looker
4 10 (4.46%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (4.02%) Power Query
6 8 (3.57%) Amazon Athena
6 8 (3.57%) DynamoDB
7 7 (3.13%) Metadata
7 7 (3.13%) MySQL
7 7 (3.13%) Relational Database
7 7 (3.13%) Semantic Layer
8 6 (2.68%) Star Schema
9 4 (1.79%) Big Data
9 4 (1.79%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.34%) SQL Server
11 2 (0.89%) Oracle Discoverer
11 2 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.45%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.45%) SAP BW
12 1 (0.45%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 3 (1.34%) Git
2 1 (0.45%) JIRA
2 1 (0.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 103 (45.98%) Analytical Skills
2 89 (39.73%) Finance
3 76 (33.93%) Social Skills
4 35 (15.63%) Marketing
5 21 (9.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (6.25%) Legal
6 14 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
7 11 (4.91%) Public Sector
8 9 (4.02%) Banking
9 7 (3.13%) Front Office
10 6 (2.68%) Advertising
10 6 (2.68%) Retail
11 5 (2.23%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.79%) Law
13 3 (1.34%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.89%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.89%) Local Government
14 2 (0.89%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.89%) PySpark
2 1 (0.45%) EDI
2 1 (0.45%) HTML
2 1 (0.45%) JSON
2 1 (0.45%) Matplotlib
2 1 (0.45%) NumPy
2 1 (0.45%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (0.45%) Pandas
2 1 (0.45%) Streamlit
2 1 (0.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.91%) Data Structures
2 8 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
2 8 (3.57%) Management Information System
3 6 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.23%) Educational Technology
4 5 (2.23%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.79%) Credit Risk
5 4 (1.79%) Housing Association
5 4 (1.79%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.79%) Reference Data
6 3 (1.34%) Blog
6 3 (1.34%) Derivative
6 3 (1.34%) Equities
6 3 (1.34%) Fixed Income
6 3 (1.34%) Hedge funds
6 3 (1.34%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.89%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.89%) Clustering
7 2 (0.89%) Life Science
7 2 (0.89%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (49.55%) Analytics
2 96 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
3 76 (33.93%) Data Analysis
4 67 (29.91%) Decision-Making
5 59 (26.34%) Actionable Insight
5 59 (26.34%) AI
6 58 (25.89%) Visualisation
7 53 (23.66%) Stakeholder Management
8 50 (22.32%) Problem-Solving
9 46 (20.54%) Data Modelling
10 40 (17.86%) Dashboard Development
11 39 (17.41%) Data Governance
12 33 (14.73%) Data Analytics
13 30 (13.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 28 (12.50%) Data Visualisation
15 27 (12.05%) Data Transformation
15 27 (12.05%) Process Improvement
16 25 (11.16%) Continuous Improvement
17 21 (9.38%) Validation
18 20 (8.93%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 137 (61.16%) SQL
2 79 (35.27%) Python
3 13 (5.80%) R
4 9 (4.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 8 (3.57%) VBA
6 3 (1.34%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.45%) C#
7 1 (0.45%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.45%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 23 (10.27%) Degree
2 15 (6.70%) SC Cleared
2 15 (6.70%) Security Cleared
3 4 (1.79%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.34%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.89%) ACCA
5 2 (0.89%) CIMA
5 2 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.45%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.45%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (41.96%) Data Quality
2 14 (6.25%) QA
3 11 (4.91%) Actionable Recommendations
4 10 (4.46%) GDPR
5 7 (3.13%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.34%) SLA
7 1 (0.45%) EMIR
7 1 (0.45%) ISO 19650
7 1 (0.45%) MiFID
7 1 (0.45%) PERC
Systems Management
1 1 (0.45%) Grafana
1 1 (0.45%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 32 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.80%) Databricks
3 11 (4.91%) Google
4 8 (3.57%) Alteryx
5 5 (2.23%) Oracle
5 5 (2.23%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.23%) Workday
6 4 (1.79%) HubSpot
6 4 (1.79%) Informatica
6 4 (1.79%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.34%) Adobe
7 3 (1.34%) eFront
7 3 (1.34%) Foundry
7 3 (1.34%) Palantir
7 3 (1.34%) SAP
8 1 (0.45%) Aderant
8 1 (0.45%) Apple
8 1 (0.45%) FactSet
8 1 (0.45%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.45%) Temenos