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 September 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 212 163
Rank change year-on-year -8 -49 +48
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Analyst 226 181 420
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.94% 1.51% 2.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.01% 1.65% 2.28%
Number of salaries quoted 143 128 248
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,782 £40,350
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,070 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £63,750 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.80% -8.93% +16.67%
75th Percentile £68,125 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% +10.53%

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 22,409 10,982 18,460
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.95% 91.39% 95.35%
Number of salaries quoted 15,406 7,165 12,202
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £118,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 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 1 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 +6 47 £57,500 +4.55% 17
West London -24 6 £30,000 -40.89% 7
East London 0 5 £30,000 -6.28% 4
South London -10 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 1 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.

1 136 (60.18%) SQL
2 103 (45.58%) Analytics
3 85 (37.61%) Business Intelligence
4 82 (36.28%) Python
5 79 (34.96%) Power BI
5 79 (34.96%) Power Platform
6 73 (32.30%) Data Quality
7 60 (26.55%) Decision-Making
8 59 (26.11%) Data Analysis
9 52 (23.01%) AI
10 50 (22.12%) Microsoft Excel
11 49 (21.68%) Problem-Solving
11 49 (21.68%) Visualisation
12 47 (20.80%) Actionable Insight
13 43 (19.03%) Data Modelling
14 38 (16.81%) Microsoft
15 34 (15.04%) Stakeholder Management
15 34 (15.04%) Tableau
16 31 (13.72%) Azure
16 31 (13.72%) Data Analytics
17 29 (12.83%) Data Governance
18 28 (12.39%) Dashboard Development
19 26 (11.50%) Data Visualisation
20 24 (10.62%) Continuous Improvement
20 24 (10.62%) Validation
21 23 (10.18%) Data Transformation
21 23 (10.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
22 21 (9.29%) Degree
23 20 (8.85%) Mentoring
24 17 (7.52%) Asset 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 5 (2.21%) Palantir Foundry
2 3 (1.33%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.88%) Appian
3 2 (0.88%) SAS
4 1 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.44%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.44%) CMS
4 1 (0.44%) WordPress
Applications
1 50 (22.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.33%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.44%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.44%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.44%) InDesign
4 1 (0.44%) Inkscape
4 1 (0.44%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.77%) Oracle Applications
1 4 (1.77%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.44%) FastStats
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.44%) SystmOne
3 1 (0.44%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 79 (34.96%) Power Platform
2 31 (13.72%) Azure
3 17 (7.52%) AWS
3 17 (7.52%) dbt
4 16 (7.08%) Snowflake
5 9 (3.98%) Azure AI
6 8 (3.54%) GCP
7 7 (3.10%) Amazon S3
7 7 (3.10%) Microsoft Purview
8 5 (2.21%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (1.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (1.77%) Collibra
9 4 (1.77%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.33%) Google Analytics
10 3 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (1.33%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.88%) OCI
11 2 (0.88%) SaaS
11 2 (0.88%) SuccessFactors
12 1 (0.44%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.88%) Broadband
2 1 (0.44%) 5G
2 1 (0.44%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (34.96%) Power BI
2 34 (15.04%) Tableau
3 13 (5.75%) Looker
4 9 (3.98%) Power Query
5 7 (3.10%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (3.10%) DynamoDB
5 7 (3.10%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.21%) Metadata
6 5 (2.21%) Semantic Layer
7 4 (1.77%) Oracle Discoverer
7 4 (1.77%) Star Schema
8 3 (1.33%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.88%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.88%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.44%) GIS
10 1 (0.44%) SAP BW
10 1 (0.44%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (1.33%) Git
2 1 (0.44%) Visual Studio
General
1 92 (40.71%) Analytical Skills
2 82 (36.28%) Finance
3 74 (32.74%) Social Skills
4 31 (13.72%) Marketing
5 19 (8.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (4.87%) Retail
7 10 (4.42%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (3.98%) Banking
9 8 (3.54%) Legal
10 7 (3.10%) Advertising
10 7 (3.10%) Public Sector
11 6 (2.65%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.77%) Front Office
13 3 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.33%) Law
14 2 (0.88%) Local Government
14 2 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.88%) Publishing
15 1 (0.44%) Back Office
15 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.33%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (0.88%) FpML
2 2 (0.88%) Matplotlib
2 2 (0.88%) NumPy
2 2 (0.88%) Pandas
2 2 (0.88%) PySpark
2 2 (0.88%) Seaborn
3 1 (0.44%) EDI
3 1 (0.44%) JSON
3 1 (0.44%) REST
3 1 (0.44%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.75%) Data Structures
2 7 (3.10%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (2.65%) Derivative
4 5 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.77%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.33%) Blog
6 3 (1.33%) Credit Risk
6 3 (1.33%) Equities
6 3 (1.33%) Fixed Income
6 3 (1.33%) Hedge funds
6 3 (1.33%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.33%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.33%) NHS
6 3 (1.33%) Reference Data
7 2 (0.88%) Clustering
7 2 (0.88%) Housing Association
7 2 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.88%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.88%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.44%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (45.58%) Analytics
2 85 (37.61%) Business Intelligence
3 60 (26.55%) Decision-Making
4 59 (26.11%) Data Analysis
5 52 (23.01%) AI
6 49 (21.68%) Problem-Solving
6 49 (21.68%) Visualisation
7 47 (20.80%) Actionable Insight
8 43 (19.03%) Data Modelling
9 34 (15.04%) Stakeholder Management
10 31 (13.72%) Data Analytics
11 29 (12.83%) Data Governance
12 28 (12.39%) Dashboard Development
13 26 (11.50%) Data Visualisation
14 24 (10.62%) Continuous Improvement
14 24 (10.62%) Validation
15 23 (10.18%) Data Transformation
15 23 (10.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 20 (8.85%) Mentoring
17 17 (7.52%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 136 (60.18%) SQL
2 82 (36.28%) Python
3 11 (4.87%) VBA
4 10 (4.42%) R
5 9 (3.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (1.77%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 21 (9.29%) Degree
2 15 (6.64%) SC Cleared
2 15 (6.64%) Security Cleared
3 10 (4.42%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.21%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.77%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.88%) ACCA
6 2 (0.88%) CIMA
6 2 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.44%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (32.30%) Data Quality
2 15 (6.64%) QA
3 9 (3.98%) Accessibility
3 9 (3.98%) GDPR
4 4 (1.77%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.33%) SLA
6 2 (0.88%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.44%) ISO 19650
7 1 (0.44%) PERC
7 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.44%) Solvency II
Systems Management
1 1 (0.44%) Grafana
Vendors
1 38 (16.81%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.10%) Alteryx
2 7 (3.10%) Databricks
2 7 (3.10%) Google
3 5 (2.21%) Foundry
3 5 (2.21%) Oracle
3 5 (2.21%) Palantir
4 4 (1.77%) Informatica
5 3 (1.33%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.33%) TikTok
6 2 (0.88%) Adobe
6 2 (0.88%) eFront
6 2 (0.88%) HubSpot
6 2 (0.88%) SAP
7 1 (0.44%) Aderant
7 1 (0.44%) Apple
7 1 (0.44%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.44%) Sage
7 1 (0.44%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.44%) Workday