Data Analyst Job Trends in London

Data Analyst
England > London

The median Data Analyst salary in London is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 August 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 231 158
Rank change year-on-year +1 -73 +60
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Analyst 228 173 425
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.95% 1.43% 2.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.02% 1.56% 2.30%
Number of salaries quoted 138 117 258
10th Percentile £31,750 £30,650 £40,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £69,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% -6.47% +20.87%
75th Percentile £66,875 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £47,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% -10.00% +16.67%

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 22,271 11,121 18,498
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.88% 91.68% 95.16%
Number of salaries quoted 15,238 7,224 12,690
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £71,217
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +1.80% -2.44%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £118,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 +5 52 £57,500 +4.55% 18
West London -18 7 £30,000 -40.89% 3
East London -4 5 £30,000 -6.28% 8
South London -6 1 £30,000 -53.85% 4
North London - 1 £40,000 - 1
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 August 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.

1 138 (60.53%) SQL
2 105 (46.05%) Analytics
3 87 (38.16%) Python
4 81 (35.53%) Business Intelligence
5 75 (32.89%) Power BI
5 75 (32.89%) Power Platform
6 66 (28.95%) Data Quality
7 56 (24.56%) Data Analysis
8 54 (23.68%) Decision-Making
9 52 (22.81%) Microsoft Excel
10 51 (22.37%) AI
11 46 (20.18%) Actionable Insight
11 46 (20.18%) Problem-Solving
12 44 (19.30%) Data Modelling
13 43 (18.86%) Visualisation
14 42 (18.42%) Microsoft
15 35 (15.35%) Tableau
16 34 (14.91%) Data Analytics
17 31 (13.60%) Azure
17 31 (13.60%) Stakeholder Management
18 30 (13.16%) Data Governance
19 26 (11.40%) Data Visualisation
20 25 (10.96%) Continuous Improvement
21 23 (10.09%) Dashboard Development
22 22 (9.65%) Validation
23 21 (9.21%) Data Transformation
23 21 (9.21%) Degree
24 20 (8.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
25 19 (8.33%) Mentoring
26 17 (7.46%) Data Pipeline

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 (2.19%) Palantir Foundry
2 4 (1.75%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.88%) SAS
4 1 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.44%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.44%) CMS
4 1 (0.44%) WordPress
Applications
1 52 (22.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.32%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.44%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.44%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.75%) Oracle Applications
1 4 (1.75%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.44%) FastStats
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.44%) SystmOne
3 1 (0.44%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 75 (32.89%) Power Platform
2 31 (13.60%) Azure
3 17 (7.46%) dbt
4 16 (7.02%) Snowflake
5 13 (5.70%) AWS
6 11 (4.82%) Azure AI
7 8 (3.51%) GCP
8 7 (3.07%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (2.19%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (1.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (1.75%) Collibra
10 4 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (1.32%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.32%) Google Analytics
11 3 (1.32%) Power Automate
12 2 (0.88%) OCI
12 2 (0.88%) SaaS
13 1 (0.44%) GitHub
13 1 (0.44%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.88%) Broadband
2 1 (0.44%) 5G
2 1 (0.44%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (32.89%) Power BI
2 35 (15.35%) Tableau
3 13 (5.70%) Looker
4 8 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (3.51%) Power Query
5 7 (3.07%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.63%) Metadata
7 5 (2.19%) Semantic Layer
8 4 (1.75%) Data Mining
8 4 (1.75%) Oracle Discoverer
8 4 (1.75%) Star Schema
9 3 (1.32%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.32%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.32%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.88%) Electronic Patient Records
11 1 (0.44%) Ataccama
11 1 (0.44%) Geospatial Data
11 1 (0.44%) SAP BW
11 1 (0.44%) SAS EBI
11 1 (0.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (1.32%) Git
2 1 (0.44%) Visual Studio
General
1 86 (37.72%) Analytical Skills
2 76 (33.33%) Finance
3 72 (31.58%) Social Skills
4 32 (14.04%) Marketing
5 19 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (5.26%) Retail
7 8 (3.51%) Banking
7 8 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (3.07%) Advertising
8 7 (3.07%) Public Sector
9 6 (2.63%) Investment Banking
10 5 (2.19%) Legal
11 4 (1.75%) Front Office
12 3 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.32%) Law
12 3 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.44%) Digital Health
13 1 (0.44%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.44%) Local Government
13 1 (0.44%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (0.88%) FpML
2 2 (0.88%) Matplotlib
2 2 (0.88%) NumPy
2 2 (0.88%) Pandas
2 2 (0.88%) PySpark
2 2 (0.88%) Seaborn
3 1 (0.44%) JSON
3 1 (0.44%) REST
3 1 (0.44%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.70%) Data Structures
2 7 (3.07%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (2.63%) Derivative
3 6 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (1.75%) Hedge funds
4 4 (1.75%) Product Ownership
4 4 (1.75%) Reference Data
5 3 (1.32%) Blog
5 3 (1.32%) Credit Risk
5 3 (1.32%) Equities
5 3 (1.32%) Fixed Income
5 3 (1.32%) Mobile App
5 3 (1.32%) NHS
6 2 (0.88%) Clustering
6 2 (0.88%) FMCG
6 2 (0.88%) Housing Association
6 2 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (0.88%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.88%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.88%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (46.05%) Analytics
2 81 (35.53%) Business Intelligence
3 56 (24.56%) Data Analysis
4 54 (23.68%) Decision-Making
5 51 (22.37%) AI
6 46 (20.18%) Actionable Insight
6 46 (20.18%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (19.30%) Data Modelling
8 43 (18.86%) Visualisation
9 34 (14.91%) Data Analytics
10 31 (13.60%) Stakeholder Management
11 30 (13.16%) Data Governance
12 26 (11.40%) Data Visualisation
13 25 (10.96%) Continuous Improvement
14 23 (10.09%) Dashboard Development
15 22 (9.65%) Validation
16 21 (9.21%) Data Transformation
17 20 (8.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 19 (8.33%) Mentoring
19 17 (7.46%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 138 (60.53%) SQL
2 87 (38.16%) Python
3 11 (4.82%) R
3 11 (4.82%) VBA
4 9 (3.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (1.32%) T-SQL
6 2 (0.88%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.44%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 21 (9.21%) Degree
2 12 (5.26%) Azure Certification
3 11 (4.82%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.82%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.19%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.32%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.88%) ACCA
6 2 (0.88%) CIMA
6 2 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.44%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.44%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (28.95%) Data Quality
2 14 (6.14%) QA
3 9 (3.95%) Accessibility
3 9 (3.95%) GDPR
4 3 (1.32%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (1.32%) SLA
5 2 (0.88%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.44%) PERC
6 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.44%) Solvency II
Systems Management
1 1 (0.44%) Grafana
Vendors
1 42 (18.42%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.07%) Google
3 5 (2.19%) Alteryx
3 5 (2.19%) Databricks
3 5 (2.19%) Foundry
3 5 (2.19%) Oracle
3 5 (2.19%) Palantir
4 4 (1.75%) Informatica
5 3 (1.32%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.32%) TikTok
6 2 (0.88%) HubSpot
6 2 (0.88%) SAP
7 1 (0.44%) Aderant
7 1 (0.44%) Adobe
7 1 (0.44%) Apple
7 1 (0.44%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.44%) Sage