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 15 July 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 236 173
Rank change year-on-year +8 -63 +42
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Analyst 213 154 450
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.96% 1.23% 1.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.03% 1.35% 2.06%
Number of salaries quoted 145 102 288
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,850 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,875 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%

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 20,657 11,392 21,886
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 91.27% 94.37%
Number of salaries quoted 14,210 7,379 16,005
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +3.77% -11.67%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 49 £55,000 - 7
West London -9 6 £30,000 -40.89% 4
East London - 6 £35,000 - 3
South London +1 1 £30,000 -53.85% 2
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 15 July 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 (63.38%) SQL
2 93 (43.66%) Analytics
3 86 (40.38%) Python
4 81 (38.03%) Business Intelligence
5 78 (36.62%) Power BI
5 78 (36.62%) Power Platform
6 52 (24.41%) AI
6 52 (24.41%) Data Quality
7 51 (23.94%) Data Modelling
7 51 (23.94%) Microsoft
8 50 (23.47%) Microsoft Excel
9 47 (22.07%) Data Analysis
10 44 (20.66%) Decision-Making
11 43 (20.19%) Azure
12 40 (18.78%) Tableau
13 37 (17.37%) Data Analytics
14 36 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
15 34 (15.96%) Actionable Insight
16 28 (13.15%) Data Governance
17 25 (11.74%) Validation
17 25 (11.74%) Visualisation
18 23 (10.80%) ETL
18 23 (10.80%) Mentoring
19 21 (9.86%) Continuous Improvement
20 19 (8.92%) Machine Learning
21 18 (8.45%) Data Visualisation
22 17 (7.98%) Azure Certification
22 17 (7.98%) Data Engineering
22 17 (7.98%) Data Pipeline
22 17 (7.98%) Degree

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 7 (3.29%) Palantir Foundry
2 2 (0.94%) SAS
2 2 (0.94%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.47%) CMS
Applications
1 50 (23.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.41%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.88%) Oracle Applications
1 4 (1.88%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.41%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.94%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.47%) FastStats
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.47%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 78 (36.62%) Power Platform
2 43 (20.19%) Azure
3 16 (7.51%) Azure AI
4 11 (5.16%) Snowflake
5 10 (4.69%) AWS
6 9 (4.23%) GCP
7 5 (2.35%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (2.35%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (1.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (1.88%) Collibra
8 4 (1.88%) dbt
8 4 (1.88%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.41%) Google Analytics
9 3 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.41%) Power Automate
10 2 (0.94%) OCI
10 2 (0.94%) SaaS
11 1 (0.47%) Adobe Analytics
11 1 (0.47%) Anthropic Claude
11 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.94%) Broadband
2 1 (0.47%) 5G
2 1 (0.47%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (36.62%) Power BI
2 40 (18.78%) Tableau
3 10 (4.69%) Power Query
4 9 (4.23%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (3.76%) Metadata
5 8 (3.76%) Relational Database
6 7 (3.29%) Data Mining
6 7 (3.29%) Looker
7 5 (2.35%) Semantic Layer
8 4 (1.88%) Oracle Discoverer
8 4 (1.88%) Star Schema
9 3 (1.41%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.94%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.94%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (0.94%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.47%) Big Data
11 1 (0.47%) SAP BW
11 1 (0.47%) SAS EBI
11 1 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (3.76%) Postman
2 1 (0.47%) Git
2 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio
General
1 75 (35.21%) Social Skills
2 64 (30.05%) Analytical Skills
3 54 (25.35%) Finance
4 28 (13.15%) Marketing
5 20 (9.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (7.04%) Retail
7 10 (4.69%) Public Sector
8 8 (3.76%) Law
9 5 (2.35%) Advertising
9 5 (2.35%) Banking
10 4 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.41%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.41%) Publishing
12 2 (0.94%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.94%) Legal
13 1 (0.47%) Back Office
13 1 (0.47%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.47%) iGaming
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.76%) OpenAPI
1 8 (3.76%) RESTful
1 8 (3.76%) Swagger
2 6 (2.82%) JSON
2 6 (2.82%) REST
3 3 (1.41%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (0.94%) FpML
4 2 (0.94%) Matplotlib
4 2 (0.94%) NumPy
4 2 (0.94%) Pandas
4 2 (0.94%) Seaborn
5 1 (0.47%) .NET
5 1 (0.47%) PySpark
5 1 (0.47%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 26 (12.21%) Data Structures
2 6 (2.82%) Analytical Mindset
2 6 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (2.35%) FMCG
4 4 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.41%) Derivative
5 3 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.41%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.41%) Reference Data
6 2 (0.94%) Clustering
6 2 (0.94%) Contract for Difference
6 2 (0.94%) Housing Association
6 2 (0.94%) NHS
6 2 (0.94%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.94%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.47%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.47%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.47%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.47%) Smart Meter
7 1 (0.47%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (43.66%) Analytics
2 81 (38.03%) Business Intelligence
3 52 (24.41%) AI
4 51 (23.94%) Data Modelling
5 47 (22.07%) Data Analysis
6 44 (20.66%) Decision-Making
7 37 (17.37%) Data Analytics
8 36 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
9 34 (15.96%) Actionable Insight
10 28 (13.15%) Data Governance
11 25 (11.74%) Validation
11 25 (11.74%) Visualisation
12 23 (10.80%) ETL
12 23 (10.80%) Mentoring
13 21 (9.86%) Continuous Improvement
14 19 (8.92%) Machine Learning
15 18 (8.45%) Data Visualisation
16 17 (7.98%) Data Engineering
16 17 (7.98%) Data Pipeline
16 17 (7.98%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 135 (63.38%) SQL
2 86 (40.38%) Python
3 11 (5.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (3.76%) VBA
5 7 (3.29%) R
6 2 (0.94%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.94%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.47%) C#
7 1 (0.47%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 17 (7.98%) Azure Certification
1 17 (7.98%) Degree
2 11 (5.16%) Security Cleared
3 9 (4.23%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.82%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.35%) ACCA
5 5 (2.35%) CIMA
6 3 (1.41%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.47%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (24.41%) Data Quality
2 15 (7.04%) QA
3 9 (4.23%) Accessibility
4 7 (3.29%) GDPR
5 2 (0.94%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.47%) Solvency II
Vendors
1 51 (23.94%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.23%) Foundry
3 7 (3.29%) Google
3 7 (3.29%) Palantir
3 7 (3.29%) Salesforce
4 5 (2.35%) Databricks
4 5 (2.35%) Oracle
5 4 (1.88%) Informatica
6 3 (1.41%) Cisco
6 3 (1.41%) TikTok
7 2 (0.94%) Alteryx
7 2 (0.94%) SAP
8 1 (0.47%) Aderant
8 1 (0.47%) Adobe
8 1 (0.47%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.47%) Sage
8 1 (0.47%) Talend