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 1 October 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 221 170
Rank change year-on-year -22 -51 +32
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Analyst 216 178 385
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.83% 1.51% 2.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.90% 1.65% 2.15%
Number of salaries quoted 133 131 237
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,010 £40,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,875 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £69,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% -5.80% +15.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +8.14%

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 23,968 10,756 17,941
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.44% 91.07% 95.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,211 6,970 11,037
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 1 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 1 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 -6 38 £60,000 -4.00% 44
West London -11 6 £30,000 -35.48% 7
East London -6 4 £30,000 -6.28% 3
South London -9 2 £50,000 -23.08% 2
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 128 (59.26%) SQL
2 103 (47.69%) Analytics
3 86 (39.81%) Business Intelligence
4 85 (39.35%) Data Quality
5 78 (36.11%) Power BI
5 78 (36.11%) Power Platform
5 78 (36.11%) Python
6 65 (30.09%) Data Analysis
7 63 (29.17%) Decision-Making
8 53 (24.54%) Actionable Insight
8 53 (24.54%) AI
8 53 (24.54%) Visualisation
9 50 (23.15%) Problem-Solving
10 49 (22.69%) Microsoft Excel
11 45 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
12 44 (20.37%) Data Modelling
13 37 (17.13%) Data Governance
14 36 (16.67%) Dashboard Development
15 35 (16.20%) Microsoft
16 32 (14.81%) Tableau
17 31 (14.35%) Data Analytics
18 27 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 26 (12.04%) Azure
19 26 (12.04%) Data Visualisation
20 25 (11.57%) Continuous Improvement
21 24 (11.11%) Data Transformation
22 22 (10.19%) Validation
23 21 (9.72%) Degree
23 21 (9.72%) Process Improvement
24 20 (9.26%) Snowflake

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 (1.39%) Palantir Foundry
1 3 (1.39%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.93%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.93%) Appian
3 1 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.46%) Apache Superset
3 1 (0.46%) CMS
3 1 (0.46%) Confluence
3 1 (0.46%) SAS
3 1 (0.46%) WordPress
Applications
1 49 (22.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.46%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.46%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.46%) InDesign
4 1 (0.46%) Inkscape
4 1 (0.46%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.85%) Oracle Applications
1 4 (1.85%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.93%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.46%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.46%) FastStats
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.46%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.46%) SystmOne
3 1 (0.46%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 78 (36.11%) Power Platform
2 26 (12.04%) Azure
3 20 (9.26%) Snowflake
4 19 (8.80%) dbt
5 18 (8.33%) AWS
6 9 (4.17%) GCP
7 8 (3.70%) Amazon S3
8 7 (3.24%) Microsoft Purview
9 6 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (2.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (2.31%) Collibra
10 5 (2.31%) SaaS
11 4 (1.85%) Azure AI
11 4 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (1.85%) SuccessFactors
12 3 (1.39%) Google Analytics
12 3 (1.39%) Power Automate
13 2 (0.93%) Dataform
13 2 (0.93%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.93%) Broadband
2 1 (0.46%) 5G
2 1 (0.46%) PPP
2 1 (0.46%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (36.11%) Power BI
2 32 (14.81%) Tableau
3 16 (7.41%) Looker
4 11 (5.09%) Power Query
5 9 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (3.70%) Amazon Athena
6 8 (3.70%) DynamoDB
6 8 (3.70%) Metadata
7 6 (2.78%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.78%) Semantic Layer
8 5 (2.31%) Star Schema
9 4 (1.85%) Oracle Discoverer
10 3 (1.39%) Big Data
10 3 (1.39%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.93%) MySQL
12 1 (0.46%) GIS
12 1 (0.46%) SAP BW
12 1 (0.46%) SQL Server
12 1 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (1.39%) Git
2 1 (0.46%) JIRA
2 1 (0.46%) Visual Studio
General
1 95 (43.98%) Analytical Skills
2 84 (38.89%) Finance
3 70 (32.41%) Social Skills
4 30 (13.89%) Marketing
5 21 (9.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (5.09%) Legal
6 11 (5.09%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (4.17%) Retail
8 8 (3.70%) Banking
8 8 (3.70%) Public Sector
9 6 (2.78%) Advertising
10 4 (1.85%) Front Office
10 4 (1.85%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.39%) Law
12 2 (0.93%) Local Government
12 2 (0.93%) Publishing
13 1 (0.46%) Back Office
13 1 (0.46%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.46%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.39%) Matplotlib
1 3 (1.39%) NumPy
1 3 (1.39%) Oracle Fusion
1 3 (1.39%) Pandas
2 2 (0.93%) PySpark
2 2 (0.93%) Seaborn
3 1 (0.46%) EDI
3 1 (0.46%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.17%) Data Structures
2 7 (3.24%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (1.85%) Management Information System
4 4 (1.85%) Product Ownership
4 4 (1.85%) Reference Data
5 3 (1.39%) Blog
5 3 (1.39%) Credit Risk
5 3 (1.39%) Derivative
5 3 (1.39%) Equities
5 3 (1.39%) Fixed Income
5 3 (1.39%) Hedge funds
5 3 (1.39%) Housing Association
5 3 (1.39%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.93%) Clustering
6 2 (0.93%) Educational Technology
6 2 (0.93%) Life Science
6 2 (0.93%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.93%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.46%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.46%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (47.69%) Analytics
2 86 (39.81%) Business Intelligence
3 65 (30.09%) Data Analysis
4 63 (29.17%) Decision-Making
5 53 (24.54%) Actionable Insight
5 53 (24.54%) AI
5 53 (24.54%) Visualisation
6 50 (23.15%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
8 44 (20.37%) Data Modelling
9 37 (17.13%) Data Governance
10 36 (16.67%) Dashboard Development
11 31 (14.35%) Data Analytics
12 27 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 26 (12.04%) Data Visualisation
14 25 (11.57%) Continuous Improvement
15 24 (11.11%) Data Transformation
16 22 (10.19%) Validation
17 21 (9.72%) Process Improvement
18 18 (8.33%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 128 (59.26%) SQL
2 78 (36.11%) Python
3 11 (5.09%) R
4 10 (4.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 10 (4.63%) VBA
5 3 (1.39%) PowerShell
5 3 (1.39%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.46%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (9.72%) Degree
2 14 (6.48%) SC Cleared
2 14 (6.48%) Security Cleared
3 4 (1.85%) Azure Certification
3 4 (1.85%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.39%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.93%) ACCA
5 2 (0.93%) CIMA
5 2 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.46%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (39.35%) Data Quality
2 14 (6.48%) QA
3 9 (4.17%) Actionable Recommendations
3 9 (4.17%) GDPR
4 6 (2.78%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.39%) SLA
6 1 (0.46%) EMIR
6 1 (0.46%) ISO 19650
6 1 (0.46%) MiFID
6 1 (0.46%) PERC
6 1 (0.46%) Solvency II
Systems Management
1 1 (0.46%) Grafana
1 1 (0.46%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 35 (16.20%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.63%) Databricks
3 7 (3.24%) Alteryx
4 6 (2.78%) Google
4 6 (2.78%) Oracle
5 4 (1.85%) Informatica
5 4 (1.85%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.85%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.85%) Workday
6 3 (1.39%) Adobe
6 3 (1.39%) Foundry
6 3 (1.39%) HubSpot
6 3 (1.39%) Palantir
6 3 (1.39%) SAP
7 2 (0.93%) eFront
8 1 (0.46%) Aderant
8 1 (0.46%) Apple
8 1 (0.46%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.46%) Temenos
8 1 (0.46%) TikTok