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 21 November 2025.

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

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 194 210 199
Rank change year-on-year +16 -11 +26
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Analyst 211 257 315
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.62% 1.48% 1.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.78% 1.56% 1.76%
Number of salaries quoted 148 210 269
10th Percentile £32,010 £39,675 £37,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £76,250
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 11,825 16,458 17,881
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.81% 94.79% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 7,602 10,018 14,586
10th Percentile £35,750 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £118,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £54,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.09% -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 21 November 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 21 November 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 +62 47 £62,500 +4.17% 84
South London +30 10 £65,000 +122.22% 19
East London - 4 £32,424 - 27
West London 0 3 £38,250 -33.48% 29
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 November 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.

1 128 (60.66%) Analytics
1 128 (60.66%) Business Intelligence
2 109 (51.66%) Python
3 105 (49.76%) SQL
4 99 (46.92%) Power BI
4 99 (46.92%) Power Platform
5 90 (42.65%) Data Analysis
6 75 (35.55%) Microsoft Excel
6 75 (35.55%) Tableau
7 68 (32.23%) Problem-Solving
8 67 (31.75%) Degree
9 59 (27.96%) Data Quality
10 53 (25.12%) Decision-Making
11 50 (23.70%) Microsoft
12 49 (23.22%) AI
12 49 (23.22%) Data Analytics
13 47 (22.27%) Visualisation
14 41 (19.43%) Migration
15 40 (18.96%) Actionable Insight
15 40 (18.96%) Continuous Improvement
15 40 (18.96%) Data Science
16 39 (18.48%) Business Strategy
17 38 (18.01%) Data Modelling
18 36 (17.06%) Risk Management
19 35 (16.59%) Risk Analytics
20 34 (16.11%) Portfolio Management
21 33 (15.64%) Alteryx
22 31 (14.69%) Asset Management
22 31 (14.69%) Statistics
23 29 (13.74%) Azure

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 (2.37%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.42%) SAS
3 2 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.95%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.47%) Confluence
Applications
1 75 (35.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.37%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.47%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.47%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 99 (46.92%) Power Platform
2 29 (13.74%) Azure
3 11 (5.21%) SaaS
4 10 (4.74%) Azure Monitor
5 9 (4.27%) Azure App Service
5 9 (4.27%) Azure Functions
5 9 (4.27%) GCP
5 9 (4.27%) Serverless
6 8 (3.79%) Azure Sentinel
6 8 (3.79%) Collibra
7 5 (2.37%) Snowflake
8 4 (1.90%) AWS
8 4 (1.90%) Google Analytics
8 4 (1.90%) Power Automate
8 4 (1.90%) PowerApps
9 3 (1.42%) Azure Stack
10 2 (0.95%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.95%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.47%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.47%) Google Ads
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (46.92%) Power BI
2 75 (35.55%) Tableau
3 18 (8.53%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (5.21%) Data Mining
5 10 (4.74%) Power Query
5 10 (4.74%) Qlik Sense
6 9 (4.27%) Looker
7 6 (2.84%) BigQuery
8 5 (2.37%) Metadata
9 4 (1.90%) BusinessObjects
10 3 (1.42%) SAS EBI
11 2 (0.95%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.95%) KNIME
11 2 (0.95%) QlikView
12 1 (0.47%) Big Data
12 1 (0.47%) MySQL
12 1 (0.47%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.47%) Parquet
12 1 (0.47%) QGIS
12 1 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (1.90%) Postman
2 2 (0.95%) Git
3 1 (0.47%) JIRA
General
1 123 (58.29%) Analytical Skills
1 123 (58.29%) Finance
2 74 (35.07%) Social Skills
3 45 (21.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 36 (17.06%) Banking
5 30 (14.22%) Financial Institution
6 28 (13.27%) Organisational Skills
7 14 (6.64%) Legal
8 13 (6.16%) Retail
9 9 (4.27%) Front Office
9 9 (4.27%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (3.79%) Law
10 8 (3.79%) Marketing
11 7 (3.32%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (2.37%) Advertising
12 5 (2.37%) Public Sector
13 4 (1.90%) Investment Banking
14 3 (1.42%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.95%) Electronics
15 2 (0.95%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.37%) RESTful
2 4 (1.90%) OpenAPI
2 4 (1.90%) Swagger
3 3 (1.42%) Altair
4 2 (0.95%) PySpark
5 1 (0.47%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.47%) Flask
5 1 (0.47%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (0.47%) Pandas
5 1 (0.47%) Streamlit
5 1 (0.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (13.74%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (4.27%) Data Structures
3 8 (3.79%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (2.84%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.37%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.95%) Digital Media
6 2 (0.95%) Digital TV
6 2 (0.95%) FMCG
6 2 (0.95%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.47%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.47%) Blog
7 1 (0.47%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.47%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.47%) Derivative
7 1 (0.47%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.47%) EPoS
7 1 (0.47%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.47%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.47%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.47%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.47%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (60.66%) Analytics
1 128 (60.66%) Business Intelligence
2 90 (42.65%) Data Analysis
3 68 (32.23%) Problem-Solving
4 53 (25.12%) Decision-Making
5 49 (23.22%) AI
5 49 (23.22%) Data Analytics
6 47 (22.27%) Visualisation
7 41 (19.43%) Migration
8 40 (18.96%) Actionable Insight
8 40 (18.96%) Continuous Improvement
8 40 (18.96%) Data Science
9 39 (18.48%) Business Strategy
10 38 (18.01%) Data Modelling
11 36 (17.06%) Risk Management
12 35 (16.59%) Risk Analytics
13 34 (16.11%) Portfolio Management
14 31 (14.69%) Asset Management
14 31 (14.69%) Statistics
15 29 (13.74%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 109 (51.66%) Python
2 105 (49.76%) SQL
3 10 (4.74%) PowerShell
4 9 (4.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 9 (4.27%) JavaScript
4 9 (4.27%) Kusto Query Language
5 6 (2.84%) R
6 5 (2.37%) VBA
7 2 (0.95%) VB
8 1 (0.47%) Bash
8 1 (0.47%) Fortran
8 1 (0.47%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 67 (31.75%) Degree
2 27 (12.80%) Numerate Degree
3 12 (5.69%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (5.21%) CISM
5 9 (4.27%) ACCA
5 9 (4.27%) Azure Certification
5 9 (4.27%) CIMA
5 9 (4.27%) Security Cleared
6 7 (3.32%) CISA
6 7 (3.32%) CISSP
6 7 (3.32%) CRISC
7 5 (2.37%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.90%) ISACA
9 3 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.47%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (27.96%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.74%) QA
3 7 (3.32%) COBIT
3 7 (3.32%) GRC
3 7 (3.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.32%) ITGC
3 7 (3.32%) NIST
4 2 (0.95%) GDPR
5 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
Systems Management
1 5 (2.37%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 50 (23.70%) Microsoft
2 33 (15.64%) Alteryx
3 27 (12.80%) Bloomberg
4 12 (5.69%) Databricks
5 11 (5.21%) Google
6 8 (3.79%) Splunk
7 7 (3.32%) Anaplan
7 7 (3.32%) Progress
8 6 (2.84%) Salesforce
8 6 (2.84%) SAP
9 5 (2.37%) Informatica
9 5 (2.37%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.42%) Oracle
11 2 (0.95%) Cisco
11 2 (0.95%) eFront
12 1 (0.47%) Apple
12 1 (0.47%) DataRobot
12 1 (0.47%) Foundry
12 1 (0.47%) Talend
12 1 (0.47%) Workday