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 26 January 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 231 199
Rank change year-on-year +54 -32 +35
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Analyst 240 217 322
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.64% 1.40% 1.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.80% 1.53% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 160 159 268
10th Percentile £32,010 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £47,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,639 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% +1.06% +4.35%
75th Percentile £68,750 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £90,375
England median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% -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 13,343 14,229 19,318
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.32% 92.03% 94.85%
Number of salaries quoted 8,803 8,133 15,609
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £53,750
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 £112,500 £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 26 January 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 26 January 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 +31 38 £55,000 -8.33% 13
East London - 7 £32,838 - 5
West London +2 4 £40,000 +6.67% 7
South London +40 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 26 January 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.

1 150 (62.50%) Business Intelligence
2 134 (55.83%) Analytics
3 132 (55.00%) SQL
4 130 (54.17%) Python
5 107 (44.58%) Power BI
5 107 (44.58%) Power Platform
6 97 (40.42%) Data Analysis
6 97 (40.42%) Tableau
7 78 (32.50%) Microsoft Excel
8 75 (31.25%) Data Quality
9 74 (30.83%) Problem-Solving
10 64 (26.67%) Data Modelling
11 63 (26.25%) Decision-Making
11 63 (26.25%) Degree
12 62 (25.83%) AI
13 52 (21.67%) Microsoft
14 48 (20.00%) Business Strategy
15 47 (19.58%) Data Analytics
16 46 (19.17%) Visualisation
17 44 (18.33%) Actionable Insight
18 43 (17.92%) Data Science
19 38 (15.83%) Asset Management
19 38 (15.83%) Migration
19 38 (15.83%) Portfolio Management
19 38 (15.83%) Risk Management
20 35 (14.58%) Data Governance
20 35 (14.58%) Risk Analytics
21 33 (13.75%) Alteryx
21 33 (13.75%) Azure
21 33 (13.75%) 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 (1.67%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.25%) SAS
3 2 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.83%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.42%) Confluence
Applications
1 78 (32.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (3.33%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.67%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (1.25%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.42%) SAP Business ByDesign
5 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 107 (44.58%) Power Platform
2 33 (13.75%) Azure
3 11 (4.58%) GCP
4 10 (4.17%) Snowflake
5 6 (2.50%) AWS
5 6 (2.50%) Azure AI
5 6 (2.50%) Collibra
6 5 (2.08%) dbt
7 4 (1.67%) Google Analytics
7 4 (1.67%) Power Automate
8 3 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.25%) Dataform
8 3 (1.25%) SaaS
9 2 (0.83%) Adobe Analytics
9 2 (0.83%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (0.83%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (0.83%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.42%) Google Ads
10 1 (0.42%) Miro
10 1 (0.42%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.83%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (44.58%) Power BI
2 97 (40.42%) Tableau
3 19 (7.92%) Data Mining
4 16 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (5.42%) Metadata
6 12 (5.00%) Qlik Sense
7 11 (4.58%) Looker
8 10 (4.17%) BigQuery
9 7 (2.92%) Power Query
10 5 (2.08%) Big Data
11 3 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.25%) BusinessObjects
11 3 (1.25%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.25%) SAS EBI
12 2 (0.83%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.83%) KNIME
12 2 (0.83%) QlikView
12 2 (0.83%) SQL Server
12 2 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 1 (0.42%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 14 (5.83%) Postman
2 5 (2.08%) Git
3 2 (0.83%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.42%) JIRA
General
1 131 (54.58%) Analytical Skills
2 123 (51.25%) Finance
3 86 (35.83%) Social Skills
4 59 (24.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 37 (15.42%) Banking
6 33 (13.75%) Financial Institution
7 26 (10.83%) Organisational Skills
8 25 (10.42%) Marketing
9 15 (6.25%) Retail
10 11 (4.58%) Law
10 11 (4.58%) Legal
11 9 (3.75%) Front Office
12 8 (3.33%) Publishing
13 6 (2.50%) Games
13 6 (2.50%) iGaming
13 6 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (2.08%) Public Sector
15 4 (1.67%) Manufacturing
16 2 (0.83%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.83%) OpenAPI
1 14 (5.83%) RESTful
1 14 (5.83%) Swagger
2 2 (0.83%) Altair
2 2 (0.83%) JSON
2 2 (0.83%) PySpark
2 2 (0.83%) REST
2 2 (0.83%) Web Services
3 1 (0.42%) .NET
3 1 (0.42%) EDI
3 1 (0.42%) FastAPI
3 1 (0.42%) Flask
3 1 (0.42%) Pandas
3 1 (0.42%) Streamlit
3 1 (0.42%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (14.17%) Self-Motivation
2 28 (11.67%) Data Structures
3 9 (3.75%) FMCG
4 8 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.92%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.08%) Reference Data
7 4 (1.67%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.83%) Contract for Difference
9 2 (0.83%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.83%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.83%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.42%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.42%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.42%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.42%) Derivative
10 1 (0.42%) EPoS
10 1 (0.42%) Market Risk
10 1 (0.42%) Sports Betting
10 1 (0.42%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.42%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (62.50%) Business Intelligence
2 134 (55.83%) Analytics
3 97 (40.42%) Data Analysis
4 74 (30.83%) Problem-Solving
5 64 (26.67%) Data Modelling
6 63 (26.25%) Decision-Making
7 62 (25.83%) AI
8 48 (20.00%) Business Strategy
9 47 (19.58%) Data Analytics
10 46 (19.17%) Visualisation
11 44 (18.33%) Actionable Insight
12 43 (17.92%) Data Science
13 38 (15.83%) Asset Management
13 38 (15.83%) Migration
13 38 (15.83%) Portfolio Management
13 38 (15.83%) Risk Management
14 35 (14.58%) Data Governance
14 35 (14.58%) Risk Analytics
15 33 (13.75%) Project Management
15 33 (13.75%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 132 (55.00%) SQL
2 130 (54.17%) Python
3 9 (3.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 9 (3.75%) JavaScript
4 5 (2.08%) R
5 3 (1.25%) VBA
6 1 (0.42%) Bash
6 1 (0.42%) C#
Qualifications
1 63 (26.25%) Degree
2 30 (12.50%) Numerate Degree
3 12 (5.00%) ACCA
3 12 (5.00%) CIMA
4 6 (2.50%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.67%) CISA
6 4 (1.67%) CISM
6 4 (1.67%) CISSP
6 4 (1.67%) CRISC
7 3 (1.25%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.83%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.42%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.42%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (31.25%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.83%) QA
3 9 (3.75%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.50%) GDPR
5 4 (1.67%) COBIT
5 4 (1.67%) GRC
5 4 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.67%) ITGC
5 4 (1.67%) NIST
6 1 (0.42%) SLA
Systems Management
1 4 (1.67%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 52 (21.67%) Microsoft
2 33 (13.75%) Alteryx
3 32 (13.33%) Bloomberg
4 21 (8.75%) Salesforce
5 10 (4.17%) Google
6 9 (3.75%) Databricks
7 8 (3.33%) Cisco
7 8 (3.33%) Informatica
8 5 (2.08%) Foundry
8 5 (2.08%) SAP
9 4 (1.67%) Anaplan
9 4 (1.67%) Progress
9 4 (1.67%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.83%) Adobe
10 2 (0.83%) Charles River
10 2 (0.83%) Oracle
10 2 (0.83%) Palantir
10 2 (0.83%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.83%) Talend
11 1 (0.42%) Apple