Data Analyst Job Trends in London

Data Analyst
England > London

The median Data Analyst salary in London is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 May 2026.

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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 225 185
Rank change year-on-year +26 -40 +58
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Analyst 240 173 414
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.18% 1.36% 1.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.28% 1.50% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 161 101 284
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% -5.26%

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 18,695 11,503 21,967
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.89% 90.28% 94.11%
Number of salaries quoted 12,647 7,456 16,676
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,084
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -11.18%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 40 £45,000 -18.18% 29
East London - 9 £32,838 - 9
West London -25 8 £30,000 -50.00% 11
South London +18 1 £40,000 -38.46% 5
North London - 1 £40,000 - 4
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 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.

1 150 (62.50%) SQL
2 116 (48.33%) Python
3 112 (46.67%) Business Intelligence
4 103 (42.92%) Analytics
5 94 (39.17%) Power BI
5 94 (39.17%) Power Platform
6 76 (31.67%) Tableau
7 71 (29.58%) Data Modelling
8 69 (28.75%) Microsoft
9 65 (27.08%) Data Analysis
9 65 (27.08%) Microsoft Excel
10 61 (25.42%) Data Quality
11 54 (22.50%) AI
12 52 (21.67%) Problem-Solving
13 47 (19.58%) Azure
14 43 (17.92%) Actionable Insight
14 43 (17.92%) Decision-Making
15 39 (16.25%) Data Analytics
16 37 (15.42%) ETL
17 35 (14.58%) Data Governance
18 31 (12.92%) Degree
19 29 (12.08%) Mentoring
20 27 (11.25%) Machine Learning
21 26 (10.83%) Project Management
22 24 (10.00%) Salesforce
23 23 (9.58%) Business Analysis
24 22 (9.17%) Azure Certification
24 22 (9.17%) Data Pipeline
24 22 (9.17%) Visualisation
25 21 (8.75%) Azure AI

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 (2.08%) Palantir Foundry
2 2 (0.83%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.42%) Confluence
3 1 (0.42%) SAS
Applications
1 65 (27.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (4.17%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.67%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.83%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.83%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.42%) SAP Business ByDesign
4 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 94 (39.17%) Power Platform
2 47 (19.58%) Azure
3 21 (8.75%) Azure AI
4 9 (3.75%) GCP
5 8 (3.33%) Snowflake
6 6 (2.50%) AWS
7 5 (2.08%) dbt
7 5 (2.08%) Google Analytics
8 3 (1.25%) Adobe Analytics
8 3 (1.25%) Collibra
8 3 (1.25%) Dataform
8 3 (1.25%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (1.25%) SaaS
9 2 (0.83%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (0.83%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.42%) Anthropic Claude
10 1 (0.42%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.42%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.42%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.83%) Intranet
2 1 (0.42%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (39.17%) Power BI
2 76 (31.67%) Tableau
3 18 (7.50%) Data Mining
4 14 (5.83%) Metadata
5 10 (4.17%) Power Query
6 8 (3.33%) BigQuery
7 7 (2.92%) Looker
8 6 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (2.08%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.67%) Big Data
11 3 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.25%) Qlik Sense
11 3 (1.25%) SQL Server
12 2 (0.83%) Electronic Patient Records
12 2 (0.83%) Oracle Discoverer
12 2 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.42%) BusinessObjects
13 1 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
13 1 (0.42%) SAP BW
13 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (7.08%) Postman
2 4 (1.67%) Git
3 2 (0.83%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.42%) JIRA
General
1 81 (33.75%) Social Skills
2 78 (32.50%) Analytical Skills
3 68 (28.33%) Finance
4 35 (14.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 29 (12.08%) Marketing
6 18 (7.50%) Retail
7 14 (5.83%) Law
8 12 (5.00%) Banking
9 10 (4.17%) Publishing
10 9 (3.75%) Financial Institution
11 8 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (2.92%) Public Sector
13 6 (2.50%) Games
13 6 (2.50%) iGaming
14 4 (1.67%) Investment Banking
15 3 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.83%) Manufacturing
17 1 (0.42%) Advertising
17 1 (0.42%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.08%) OpenAPI
1 17 (7.08%) RESTful
1 17 (7.08%) Swagger
2 7 (2.92%) JSON
2 7 (2.92%) REST
3 3 (1.25%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (0.83%) FpML
4 2 (0.83%) Matplotlib
4 2 (0.83%) NumPy
4 2 (0.83%) Pandas
4 2 (0.83%) Seaborn
4 2 (0.83%) Web Services
5 1 (0.42%) .NET
5 1 (0.42%) EDI
5 1 (0.42%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.42%) Flask
5 1 (0.42%) PySpark
5 1 (0.42%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 38 (15.83%) Data Structures
2 12 (5.00%) FMCG
3 11 (4.58%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.92%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.08%) Reference Data
7 3 (1.25%) Derivative
7 3 (1.25%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.83%) Contract for Difference
8 2 (0.83%) NHS
8 2 (0.83%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.42%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.42%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.42%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.42%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.42%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.42%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (46.67%) Business Intelligence
2 103 (42.92%) Analytics
3 71 (29.58%) Data Modelling
4 65 (27.08%) Data Analysis
5 54 (22.50%) AI
6 52 (21.67%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (17.92%) Actionable Insight
7 43 (17.92%) Decision-Making
8 39 (16.25%) Data Analytics
9 37 (15.42%) ETL
10 35 (14.58%) Data Governance
11 29 (12.08%) Mentoring
12 27 (11.25%) Machine Learning
13 26 (10.83%) Project Management
14 23 (9.58%) Business Analysis
15 22 (9.17%) Data Pipeline
15 22 (9.17%) Visualisation
16 21 (8.75%) Data Science
17 20 (8.33%) E-Commerce
17 20 (8.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 150 (62.50%) SQL
2 116 (48.33%) Python
3 11 (4.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (2.08%) VBA
5 3 (1.25%) R
6 2 (0.83%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.42%) C#
7 1 (0.42%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (12.92%) Degree
2 22 (9.17%) Azure Certification
3 10 (4.17%) ACCA
3 10 (4.17%) CIMA
4 7 (2.92%) Numerate Degree
4 7 (2.92%) Security Cleared
5 5 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.08%) SC Cleared
6 4 (1.67%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.25%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (25.42%) Data Quality
2 12 (5.00%) Accessibility
3 11 (4.58%) QA
4 8 (3.33%) GDPR
5 2 (0.83%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.42%) SLA
6 1 (0.42%) Solvency II
Vendors
1 69 (28.75%) Microsoft
2 24 (10.00%) Salesforce
3 9 (3.75%) Alteryx
3 9 (3.75%) Bloomberg
4 8 (3.33%) Cisco
4 8 (3.33%) Foundry
5 6 (2.50%) Google
6 5 (2.08%) Informatica
6 5 (2.08%) Palantir
7 4 (1.67%) SAP
8 3 (1.25%) Adobe
8 3 (1.25%) Oracle
8 3 (1.25%) TikTok
9 2 (0.83%) Charles River
9 2 (0.83%) Databricks
9 2 (0.83%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.83%) Talend
10 1 (0.42%) Amplitude
10 1 (0.42%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.42%) Sage