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 11 October 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 207 164
Rank change year-on-year -32 -43 +32
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Analyst 218 185 378
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.84% 1.58% 2.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.91% 1.73% 2.16%
Number of salaries quoted 132 132 233
10th Percentile £35,099 £31,326 £40,000
25th Percentile £43,688 £41,250 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -7.41% +12.50%
75th Percentile £71,563 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £53,750
% change year-on-year +11.11% -16.28% +7.50%

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 23,974 10,679 17,512
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 91.01% 95.33%
Number of salaries quoted 15,972 6,958 10,774
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £52,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -2.03% -1.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% -1.79% -6.67%

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 +4 34 £60,000 -4.00% 49
East London -7 4 £30,000 -6.28%
West London -20 4 £28,500 -38.71% 7
South London -10 2 £50,000 -23.08% 5
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 October 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.

1 132 (60.55%) SQL
2 106 (48.62%) Analytics
3 92 (42.20%) Business Intelligence
4 89 (40.83%) Data Quality
5 82 (37.61%) Power BI
5 82 (37.61%) Power Platform
6 79 (36.24%) Python
7 71 (32.57%) Data Analysis
8 64 (29.36%) Decision-Making
9 56 (25.69%) Actionable Insight
9 56 (25.69%) AI
9 56 (25.69%) Visualisation
10 51 (23.39%) Microsoft Excel
11 49 (22.48%) Problem-Solving
12 48 (22.02%) Stakeholder Management
13 45 (20.64%) Data Modelling
14 37 (16.97%) Dashboard Development
14 37 (16.97%) Data Governance
15 34 (15.60%) Microsoft
16 33 (15.14%) Tableau
17 31 (14.22%) Data Analytics
18 27 (12.39%) Data Visualisation
18 27 (12.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 26 (11.93%) Azure
19 26 (11.93%) Data Transformation
20 24 (11.01%) Continuous Improvement
20 24 (11.01%) Process Improvement
21 22 (10.09%) Snowflake
21 22 (10.09%) Validation
22 21 (9.63%) 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 3 (1.38%) Appian
1 3 (1.38%) Palantir Foundry
1 3 (1.38%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.92%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.46%) Apache Superset
3 1 (0.46%) CMS
3 1 (0.46%) Confluence
3 1 (0.46%) SAS
3 1 (0.46%) WordPress
Applications
1 51 (23.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.38%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.46%) Acrobat
3 1 (0.46%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.46%) InDesign
3 1 (0.46%) Inkscape
3 1 (0.46%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (1.38%) Oracle Applications
1 3 (1.38%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.92%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.46%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.46%) FastStats
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.46%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.46%) SystmOne
3 1 (0.46%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 82 (37.61%) Power Platform
2 26 (11.93%) Azure
3 22 (10.09%) Snowflake
4 20 (9.17%) dbt
5 18 (8.26%) AWS
6 9 (4.13%) GCP
7 8 (3.67%) Amazon S3
8 7 (3.21%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (3.21%) Microsoft Purview
8 7 (3.21%) SaaS
9 6 (2.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (2.75%) Google Analytics
10 5 (2.29%) Collibra
10 5 (2.29%) SuccessFactors
11 4 (1.83%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (1.38%) Azure AI
12 3 (1.38%) Dataform
12 3 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (1.38%) Power Automate
13 2 (0.92%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.92%) Broadband
2 1 (0.46%) 5G
2 1 (0.46%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.46%) PPP
2 1 (0.46%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (37.61%) Power BI
2 33 (15.14%) Tableau
3 19 (8.72%) Looker
4 11 (5.05%) Power Query
5 9 (4.13%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (3.67%) Amazon Athena
6 8 (3.67%) DynamoDB
7 7 (3.21%) Metadata
7 7 (3.21%) Semantic Layer
8 6 (2.75%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.75%) Star Schema
9 4 (1.83%) MySQL
10 3 (1.38%) Big Data
10 3 (1.38%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.38%) Oracle Discoverer
11 1 (0.46%) Ataccama
11 1 (0.46%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.46%) Geospatial Data
11 1 (0.46%) Mixpanel
11 1 (0.46%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 3 (1.38%) Git
2 1 (0.46%) JIRA
2 1 (0.46%) Visual Studio
General
1 98 (44.95%) Analytical Skills
2 85 (38.99%) Finance
3 74 (33.94%) Social Skills
4 33 (15.14%) Marketing
5 21 (9.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (5.96%) Legal
7 12 (5.50%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (4.59%) Public Sector
9 8 (3.67%) Banking
10 6 (2.75%) Advertising
10 6 (2.75%) Retail
11 4 (1.83%) Front Office
11 4 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.83%) Investment Banking
12 3 (1.38%) Law
13 2 (0.92%) Local Government
13 2 (0.92%) Publishing
14 1 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.46%) General Ledger
14 1 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.38%) Matplotlib
1 3 (1.38%) NumPy
1 3 (1.38%) Pandas
2 2 (0.92%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (0.92%) PySpark
2 2 (0.92%) Seaborn
3 1 (0.46%) EDI
3 1 (0.46%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.13%) Data Structures
2 7 (3.21%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.29%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.83%) Educational Technology
5 4 (1.83%) Housing Association
5 4 (1.83%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.83%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.83%) Reference Data
6 3 (1.38%) Blog
6 3 (1.38%) Credit Risk
6 3 (1.38%) Derivative
6 3 (1.38%) Equities
6 3 (1.38%) Fixed Income
6 3 (1.38%) Hedge funds
6 3 (1.38%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.92%) Clustering
7 2 (0.92%) Life Science
7 2 (0.92%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.46%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.46%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (48.62%) Analytics
2 92 (42.20%) Business Intelligence
3 71 (32.57%) Data Analysis
4 64 (29.36%) Decision-Making
5 56 (25.69%) Actionable Insight
5 56 (25.69%) AI
5 56 (25.69%) Visualisation
6 49 (22.48%) Problem-Solving
7 48 (22.02%) Stakeholder Management
8 45 (20.64%) Data Modelling
9 37 (16.97%) Dashboard Development
9 37 (16.97%) Data Governance
10 31 (14.22%) Data Analytics
11 27 (12.39%) Data Visualisation
11 27 (12.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 26 (11.93%) Data Transformation
13 24 (11.01%) Continuous Improvement
13 24 (11.01%) Process Improvement
14 22 (10.09%) Validation
15 19 (8.72%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 132 (60.55%) SQL
2 79 (36.24%) Python
3 11 (5.05%) R
4 10 (4.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 10 (4.59%) VBA
5 3 (1.38%) PowerShell
5 3 (1.38%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.46%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (9.63%) Degree
2 15 (6.88%) SC Cleared
2 15 (6.88%) Security Cleared
3 4 (1.83%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.38%) Azure Certification
4 3 (1.38%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.92%) ACCA
5 2 (0.92%) CIMA
5 2 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.46%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (40.83%) Data Quality
2 13 (5.96%) QA
3 11 (5.05%) Actionable Recommendations
4 10 (4.59%) GDPR
5 6 (2.75%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.38%) SLA
7 1 (0.46%) EMIR
7 1 (0.46%) ISO 19650
7 1 (0.46%) MiFID
7 1 (0.46%) PERC
Systems Management
1 1 (0.46%) Grafana
1 1 (0.46%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 34 (15.60%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.59%) Databricks
3 9 (4.13%) Google
4 8 (3.67%) Alteryx
5 5 (2.29%) Oracle
5 5 (2.29%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.29%) Workday
6 4 (1.83%) Informatica
7 3 (1.38%) Adobe
7 3 (1.38%) eFront
7 3 (1.38%) Foundry
7 3 (1.38%) HubSpot
7 3 (1.38%) Palantir
7 3 (1.38%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.38%) SAP
8 1 (0.46%) Aderant
8 1 (0.46%) Apple
8 1 (0.46%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.46%) Temenos