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 9 September 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 236 212 166
Rank change year-on-year -24 -46 +47
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Analyst 222 182 412
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.90% 1.52% 2.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.97% 1.67% 2.26%
Number of salaries quoted 139 132 244
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,010 £40,725
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £45,390 £54,000
% change year-on-year +4.65% -15.94% +13.68%

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 22,865 10,917 18,197
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.90% 91.27% 95.40%
Number of salaries quoted 15,794 7,107 11,680
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £52,282
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -0.68%
75th Percentile £97,500 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £118,750
England median annual salary £58,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.45% - -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 9 September 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 9 September 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 +8 44 £57,500 +4.55% 16
West London -18 6 £30,000 -40.89% 6
East London -3 5 £30,000 -6.28% 3
South London -12 1 £30,000 -53.85% 1
North London - 1 £40,000 - 3
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 September 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.

1 135 (60.81%) SQL
2 104 (46.85%) Analytics
3 88 (39.64%) Business Intelligence
4 83 (37.39%) Python
5 82 (36.94%) Power BI
5 82 (36.94%) Power Platform
6 74 (33.33%) Data Quality
7 61 (27.48%) Data Analysis
7 61 (27.48%) Decision-Making
8 52 (23.42%) AI
8 52 (23.42%) Microsoft Excel
9 51 (22.97%) Problem-Solving
10 49 (22.07%) Actionable Insight
10 49 (22.07%) Visualisation
11 44 (19.82%) Data Modelling
12 39 (17.57%) Microsoft
13 35 (15.77%) Stakeholder Management
13 35 (15.77%) Tableau
14 33 (14.86%) Data Analytics
15 31 (13.96%) Azure
16 30 (13.51%) Dashboard Development
17 29 (13.06%) Data Governance
18 25 (11.26%) Continuous Improvement
18 25 (11.26%) Data Transformation
18 25 (11.26%) Data Visualisation
18 25 (11.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 23 (10.36%) Validation
20 21 (9.46%) Degree
21 20 (9.01%) Mentoring
22 18 (8.11%) AWS

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 (2.25%) Palantir Foundry
2 3 (1.35%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.90%) Appian
3 2 (0.90%) SAS
4 1 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.45%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.45%) CMS
4 1 (0.45%) WordPress
Applications
1 52 (23.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.35%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.90%) 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%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.80%) Oracle Applications
1 4 (1.80%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.90%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.45%) FastStats
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.45%) SystmOne
3 1 (0.45%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 82 (36.94%) Power Platform
2 31 (13.96%) Azure
3 18 (8.11%) AWS
4 17 (7.66%) dbt
5 16 (7.21%) Snowflake
6 9 (4.05%) Azure AI
7 8 (3.60%) Amazon S3
7 8 (3.60%) GCP
8 7 (3.15%) Microsoft Purview
9 6 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (2.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (1.80%) Collibra
11 4 (1.80%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (1.80%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (1.35%) Google Analytics
12 3 (1.35%) Power Automate
13 2 (0.90%) OCI
13 2 (0.90%) SaaS
13 2 (0.90%) SuccessFactors
14 1 (0.45%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.90%) Broadband
2 1 (0.45%) 5G
2 1 (0.45%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (36.94%) Power BI
2 35 (15.77%) Tableau
3 13 (5.86%) Looker
4 10 (4.50%) Power Query
5 8 (3.60%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (3.60%) DynamoDB
6 7 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (3.15%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.70%) Semantic Layer
8 5 (2.25%) Metadata
8 5 (2.25%) Star Schema
9 4 (1.80%) Oracle Discoverer
10 3 (1.35%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.90%) Data Mining
11 2 (0.90%) Electronic Patient Records
12 1 (0.45%) GIS
12 1 (0.45%) SAP BW
12 1 (0.45%) SQL Server
12 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (1.35%) Git
2 1 (0.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 95 (42.79%) Analytical Skills
2 82 (36.94%) Finance
3 74 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 30 (13.51%) Marketing
5 19 (8.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (4.95%) Organisational Skills
6 11 (4.95%) Retail
7 9 (4.05%) Banking
8 8 (3.60%) Legal
9 7 (3.15%) Advertising
9 7 (3.15%) Public Sector
10 6 (2.70%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.80%) Front Office
12 3 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.35%) Law
13 2 (0.90%) Local Government
13 2 (0.90%) Publishing
14 1 (0.45%) Back Office
14 1 (0.45%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.45%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.35%) Matplotlib
1 3 (1.35%) NumPy
1 3 (1.35%) Oracle Fusion
1 3 (1.35%) Pandas
2 2 (0.90%) FpML
2 2 (0.90%) PySpark
2 2 (0.90%) Seaborn
3 1 (0.45%) EDI
3 1 (0.45%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.41%) Data Structures
2 7 (3.15%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (2.70%) Derivative
4 5 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.80%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.35%) Blog
6 3 (1.35%) Credit Risk
6 3 (1.35%) Equities
6 3 (1.35%) Fixed Income
6 3 (1.35%) Hedge funds
6 3 (1.35%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.35%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.35%) NHS
6 3 (1.35%) Reference Data
7 2 (0.90%) Clustering
7 2 (0.90%) Housing Association
7 2 (0.90%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.45%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.45%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.45%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (46.85%) Analytics
2 88 (39.64%) Business Intelligence
3 61 (27.48%) Data Analysis
3 61 (27.48%) Decision-Making
4 52 (23.42%) AI
5 51 (22.97%) Problem-Solving
6 49 (22.07%) Actionable Insight
6 49 (22.07%) Visualisation
7 44 (19.82%) Data Modelling
8 35 (15.77%) Stakeholder Management
9 33 (14.86%) Data Analytics
10 30 (13.51%) Dashboard Development
11 29 (13.06%) Data Governance
12 25 (11.26%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (11.26%) Data Transformation
12 25 (11.26%) Data Visualisation
12 25 (11.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 23 (10.36%) Validation
14 20 (9.01%) Mentoring
15 17 (7.66%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 135 (60.81%) SQL
2 83 (37.39%) Python
3 11 (4.95%) VBA
4 10 (4.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 9 (4.05%) R
6 4 (1.80%) T-SQL
7 3 (1.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 21 (9.46%) Degree
2 16 (7.21%) SC Cleared
2 16 (7.21%) Security Cleared
3 10 (4.50%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.25%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.80%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.90%) ACCA
6 2 (0.90%) CIMA
6 2 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.45%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 15 (6.76%) QA
3 9 (4.05%) Accessibility
3 9 (4.05%) GDPR
4 5 (2.25%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.35%) SLA
6 2 (0.90%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.45%) ISO 19650
7 1 (0.45%) PERC
7 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.45%) Solvency II
Systems Management
1 1 (0.45%) Grafana
Vendors
1 39 (17.57%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.15%) Alteryx
2 7 (3.15%) Databricks
2 7 (3.15%) Google
3 5 (2.25%) Foundry
3 5 (2.25%) Oracle
3 5 (2.25%) Palantir
4 4 (1.80%) Informatica
5 3 (1.35%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.35%) TikTok
6 2 (0.90%) Adobe
6 2 (0.90%) eFront
6 2 (0.90%) HubSpot
6 2 (0.90%) SAP
7 1 (0.45%) Aderant
7 1 (0.45%) Apple
7 1 (0.45%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.45%) Sage
7 1 (0.45%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.45%) Workday