Data Analyst Job Trends in London

Data Analyst
England > London

The median Data Analyst salary in London is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 February 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 241 202
Rank change year-on-year +79 -39 +20
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Analyst 244 203 330
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.65% 1.33% 1.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.80% 1.45% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 164 150 272
10th Percentile £32,157 £36,475 £33,875
25th Percentile £35,000 £47,125 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,319 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% +0.53% +4.35%
75th Percentile £66,250 £80,000 £79,063
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £87,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -15.79% - -5.00%

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 13,527 14,036 20,111
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.29% 91.75% 94.68%
Number of salaries quoted 8,954 8,010 16,268
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% -2.03%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 2 February 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 2 February 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 +32 38 £55,000 -6.38% 17
East London - 7 £32,838 - 6
West London -5 4 £40,000 +6.67% 6
South London +28 2 £40,000 +23.08%
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 February 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.

1 153 (62.70%) Business Intelligence
2 137 (56.15%) SQL
3 136 (55.74%) Analytics
4 134 (54.92%) Python
5 109 (44.67%) Power BI
5 109 (44.67%) Power Platform
6 101 (41.39%) Tableau
7 97 (39.75%) Data Analysis
8 80 (32.79%) Microsoft Excel
9 77 (31.56%) Data Quality
10 73 (29.92%) Problem-Solving
11 71 (29.10%) Data Modelling
12 64 (26.23%) AI
12 64 (26.23%) Decision-Making
13 63 (25.82%) Degree
14 55 (22.54%) Microsoft
15 50 (20.49%) Business Strategy
15 50 (20.49%) Data Analytics
16 47 (19.26%) Actionable Insight
17 45 (18.44%) Visualisation
18 44 (18.03%) Data Science
19 38 (15.57%) Asset Management
19 38 (15.57%) Portfolio Management
19 38 (15.57%) Risk Management
20 37 (15.16%) Migration
21 36 (14.75%) Data Governance
22 35 (14.34%) Azure
22 35 (14.34%) Risk Analytics
23 34 (13.93%) Alteryx
23 34 (13.93%) Project Management

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 4 (1.64%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.23%) SAS
3 2 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.82%) Jupyter
3 2 (0.82%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 80 (32.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (4.10%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.64%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (1.23%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.41%) SAP Business ByDesign
5 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 109 (44.67%) Power Platform
2 35 (14.34%) Azure
3 12 (4.92%) GCP
4 10 (4.10%) Snowflake
5 7 (2.87%) AWS
5 7 (2.87%) Azure AI
6 6 (2.46%) Collibra
7 5 (2.05%) dbt
8 4 (1.64%) Google Analytics
8 4 (1.64%) Power Automate
9 3 (1.23%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.23%) Dataform
9 3 (1.23%) SaaS
10 2 (0.82%) Adobe Analytics
10 2 (0.82%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.82%) PowerApps
11 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.41%) Miro
11 1 (0.41%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.82%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (44.67%) Power BI
2 101 (41.39%) Tableau
3 20 (8.20%) Data Mining
4 16 (6.56%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (5.33%) Metadata
6 12 (4.92%) Qlik Sense
7 11 (4.51%) BigQuery
7 11 (4.51%) Looker
8 9 (3.69%) Power Query
9 5 (2.05%) Big Data
10 3 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.23%) BusinessObjects
10 3 (1.23%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.23%) SAS EBI
11 2 (0.82%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.82%) KNIME
11 2 (0.82%) QlikView
11 2 (0.82%) SQL Server
11 2 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (6.15%) Postman
2 5 (2.05%) Git
3 2 (0.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.41%) JIRA
General
1 132 (54.10%) Analytical Skills
2 124 (50.82%) Finance
3 84 (34.43%) Social Skills
4 62 (25.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 37 (15.16%) Banking
6 33 (13.52%) Financial Institution
7 27 (11.07%) Marketing
8 25 (10.25%) Organisational Skills
9 15 (6.15%) Retail
10 12 (4.92%) Law
11 11 (4.51%) Legal
12 10 (4.10%) Publishing
13 9 (3.69%) Front Office
14 6 (2.46%) Games
14 6 (2.46%) iGaming
14 6 (2.46%) Public Sector
15 5 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (1.64%) Manufacturing
17 2 (0.82%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.15%) OpenAPI
1 15 (6.15%) RESTful
1 15 (6.15%) Swagger
2 3 (1.23%) JSON
2 3 (1.23%) REST
3 2 (0.82%) PySpark
3 2 (0.82%) Web Services
4 1 (0.41%) .NET
4 1 (0.41%) EDI
4 1 (0.41%) FastAPI
4 1 (0.41%) Flask
4 1 (0.41%) Pandas
4 1 (0.41%) Streamlit
4 1 (0.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (13.52%) Self-Motivation
2 31 (12.70%) Data Structures
3 11 (4.51%) FMCG
4 10 (4.10%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.87%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.05%) Reference Data
7 2 (0.82%) Contract for Difference
7 2 (0.82%) Credit Risk
7 2 (0.82%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.82%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.41%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.41%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.41%) Derivative
8 1 (0.41%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.41%) EPoS
8 1 (0.41%) Market Risk
8 1 (0.41%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.41%) Sports Betting
8 1 (0.41%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (62.70%) Business Intelligence
2 136 (55.74%) Analytics
3 97 (39.75%) Data Analysis
4 73 (29.92%) Problem-Solving
5 71 (29.10%) Data Modelling
6 64 (26.23%) AI
6 64 (26.23%) Decision-Making
7 50 (20.49%) Business Strategy
7 50 (20.49%) Data Analytics
8 47 (19.26%) Actionable Insight
9 45 (18.44%) Visualisation
10 44 (18.03%) Data Science
11 38 (15.57%) Asset Management
11 38 (15.57%) Portfolio Management
11 38 (15.57%) Risk Management
12 37 (15.16%) Migration
13 36 (14.75%) Data Governance
14 35 (14.34%) Risk Analytics
15 34 (13.93%) Project Management
16 33 (13.52%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 137 (56.15%) SQL
2 134 (54.92%) Python
3 11 (4.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 9 (3.69%) JavaScript
5 5 (2.05%) R
6 1 (0.41%) Bash
6 1 (0.41%) C#
6 1 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 63 (25.82%) Degree
2 30 (12.30%) Numerate Degree
3 13 (5.33%) ACCA
3 13 (5.33%) CIMA
4 7 (2.87%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.64%) CISA
6 4 (1.64%) CISM
6 4 (1.64%) CISSP
6 4 (1.64%) CRISC
7 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.82%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.82%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.41%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.41%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (31.56%) Data Quality
2 15 (6.15%) QA
3 9 (3.69%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.46%) GDPR
5 4 (1.64%) COBIT
5 4 (1.64%) GRC
5 4 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.64%) ITGC
5 4 (1.64%) NIST
6 1 (0.41%) SLA
Systems Management
1 4 (1.64%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 55 (22.54%) Microsoft
2 34 (13.93%) Alteryx
3 32 (13.11%) Bloomberg
4 24 (9.84%) Salesforce
5 10 (4.10%) Google
6 9 (3.69%) Cisco
6 9 (3.69%) Databricks
7 8 (3.28%) Informatica
8 5 (2.05%) Foundry
8 5 (2.05%) SAP
9 4 (1.64%) Progress
9 4 (1.64%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.23%) Anaplan
10 3 (1.23%) Talend
11 2 (0.82%) Adobe
11 2 (0.82%) Charles River
11 2 (0.82%) Oracle
11 2 (0.82%) Palantir
11 2 (0.82%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 1 (0.41%) Apple