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 18 September 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 215 162
Rank change year-on-year -25 -53 +40
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Analyst 217 181 405
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.86% 1.51% 2.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.93% 1.66% 2.20%
Number of salaries quoted 133 133 242
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,402 £40,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,532 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £86,125
England median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -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 23,283 10,900 18,393
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.62% 91.21% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 16,005 7,112 11,567
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -0.68%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,313 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £59,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.18% - -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 18 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 18 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 +2 41 £58,750 -4.08% 35
West London -13 6 £30,000 -40.89% 7
East London -7 3 £30,000 -6.28% 1
South London -10 1 £30,000 -53.85% 3
North London - 1 £40,000 - 2
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 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.

1 133 (61.29%) SQL
2 100 (46.08%) Analytics
3 90 (41.47%) Business Intelligence
4 84 (38.71%) Power BI
4 84 (38.71%) Power Platform
5 79 (36.41%) Python
6 78 (35.94%) Data Quality
7 62 (28.57%) Decision-Making
8 61 (28.11%) Data Analysis
9 52 (23.96%) AI
10 50 (23.04%) Actionable Insight
10 50 (23.04%) Microsoft Excel
10 50 (23.04%) Problem-Solving
10 50 (23.04%) Visualisation
11 44 (20.28%) Data Modelling
12 38 (17.51%) Stakeholder Management
13 36 (16.59%) Microsoft
14 33 (15.21%) Dashboard Development
15 32 (14.75%) Tableau
16 31 (14.29%) Data Analytics
17 30 (13.82%) Azure
17 30 (13.82%) Data Governance
18 26 (11.98%) Data Visualisation
19 25 (11.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 24 (11.06%) Data Transformation
21 23 (10.60%) Continuous Improvement
21 23 (10.60%) Validation
22 21 (9.68%) Degree
23 18 (8.29%) Asset Management
23 18 (8.29%) AWS

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%) Palantir Foundry
1 3 (1.38%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.92%) Appian
2 2 (0.92%) SAS
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%) WordPress
Applications
1 50 (23.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.38%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.46%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.46%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.46%) InDesign
4 1 (0.46%) Inkscape
4 1 (0.46%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.84%) Oracle Applications
1 4 (1.84%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.92%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.46%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.46%) FastStats
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.46%) SystmOne
3 1 (0.46%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 84 (38.71%) Power Platform
2 30 (13.82%) Azure
3 18 (8.29%) AWS
4 17 (7.83%) dbt
4 17 (7.83%) Snowflake
5 8 (3.69%) Amazon S3
5 8 (3.69%) GCP
6 7 (3.23%) Azure AI
6 7 (3.23%) Microsoft Purview
7 6 (2.76%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (2.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (2.30%) Collibra
9 4 (1.84%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.84%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (1.38%) Google Analytics
10 3 (1.38%) Power Automate
10 3 (1.38%) SuccessFactors
11 2 (0.92%) OCI
11 2 (0.92%) SaaS
12 1 (0.46%) Adobe Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.92%) Broadband
2 1 (0.46%) 5G
2 1 (0.46%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (38.71%) Power BI
2 32 (14.75%) Tableau
3 13 (5.99%) Looker
4 11 (5.07%) Power Query
5 8 (3.69%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (3.69%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (3.69%) DynamoDB
5 8 (3.69%) Metadata
6 7 (3.23%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.76%) Semantic Layer
8 5 (2.30%) Star Schema
9 4 (1.84%) Oracle Discoverer
10 3 (1.38%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.46%) Ataccama
11 1 (0.46%) Geospatial Data
11 1 (0.46%) QGIS
11 1 (0.46%) SAP BW
11 1 (0.46%) SAS EBI
11 1 (0.46%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (1.38%) Git
2 1 (0.46%) JIRA
2 1 (0.46%) Visual Studio
General
1 91 (41.94%) Analytical Skills
2 81 (37.33%) Finance
3 72 (33.18%) Social Skills
4 30 (13.82%) Marketing
5 20 (9.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (5.07%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (4.15%) Banking
7 9 (4.15%) Legal
7 9 (4.15%) Retail
8 6 (2.76%) Advertising
8 6 (2.76%) Investment Banking
9 5 (2.30%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.84%) Front Office
11 3 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.38%) Law
12 2 (0.92%) Local Government
12 2 (0.92%) Publishing
13 1 (0.46%) Automotive
13 1 (0.46%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.46%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.38%) Matplotlib
1 3 (1.38%) NumPy
1 3 (1.38%) Oracle Fusion
1 3 (1.38%) Pandas
2 2 (0.92%) PySpark
2 2 (0.92%) Seaborn
3 1 (0.46%) EDI
3 1 (0.46%) FpML
3 1 (0.46%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.15%) Data Structures
2 8 (3.69%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (2.30%) Derivative
3 5 (2.30%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (1.38%) Blog
4 3 (1.38%) Credit Risk
4 3 (1.38%) Equities
4 3 (1.38%) Fixed Income
4 3 (1.38%) Hedge funds
4 3 (1.38%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.38%) Mobile App
4 3 (1.38%) Reference Data
5 2 (0.92%) Clustering
5 2 (0.92%) Housing Association
5 2 (0.92%) Life Science
5 2 (0.92%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.46%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.46%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.46%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.46%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (46.08%) Analytics
2 90 (41.47%) Business Intelligence
3 62 (28.57%) Decision-Making
4 61 (28.11%) Data Analysis
5 52 (23.96%) AI
6 50 (23.04%) Actionable Insight
6 50 (23.04%) Problem-Solving
6 50 (23.04%) Visualisation
7 44 (20.28%) Data Modelling
8 38 (17.51%) Stakeholder Management
9 33 (15.21%) Dashboard Development
10 31 (14.29%) Data Analytics
11 30 (13.82%) Data Governance
12 26 (11.98%) Data Visualisation
13 25 (11.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 24 (11.06%) Data Transformation
15 23 (10.60%) Continuous Improvement
15 23 (10.60%) Validation
16 18 (8.29%) Asset Management
16 18 (8.29%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 133 (61.29%) SQL
2 79 (36.41%) Python
3 11 (5.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 11 (5.07%) VBA
4 9 (4.15%) R
5 4 (1.84%) T-SQL
6 3 (1.38%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.46%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (9.68%) Degree
2 14 (6.45%) SC Cleared
2 14 (6.45%) Security Cleared
3 8 (3.69%) Azure Certification
4 4 (1.84%) DBS Check
5 3 (1.38%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.92%) ACCA
6 2 (0.92%) CIMA
6 2 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.46%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (35.94%) Data Quality
2 14 (6.45%) QA
3 10 (4.61%) GDPR
4 7 (3.23%) Accessibility
5 5 (2.30%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (1.38%) SLA
7 1 (0.46%) EMIR
7 1 (0.46%) ISO 19650
7 1 (0.46%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.46%) MiFID
7 1 (0.46%) PERC
7 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.46%) Solvency II
Systems Management
1 1 (0.46%) Grafana
Vendors
1 36 (16.59%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.69%) Databricks
3 7 (3.23%) Alteryx
4 6 (2.76%) Google
4 6 (2.76%) Oracle
5 4 (1.84%) Informatica
6 3 (1.38%) Adobe
6 3 (1.38%) Foundry
6 3 (1.38%) Palantir
6 3 (1.38%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.92%) eFront
7 2 (0.92%) HubSpot
7 2 (0.92%) SAP
7 2 (0.92%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.92%) TikTok
7 2 (0.92%) Workday
8 1 (0.46%) Aderant
8 1 (0.46%) Apple
8 1 (0.46%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.46%) Temenos