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 28 December 2025.

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

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 219 199
Rank change year-on-year +48 -20 +36
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Analyst 223 234 286
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.62% 1.48% 1.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.79% 1.58% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 148 176 243
10th Percentile £32,010 £36,250 £36,400
25th Percentile £35,000 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,319 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.53% +0.53% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £42,500 £50,027 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.05% +0.05% -

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 12,466 14,802 17,002
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.78% 93.31% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 8,254 8,692 13,733
10th Percentile £35,750 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%

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 28 December 2025.

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 28 December 2025. 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 £62,500 +4.17% 57
South London +30 5 £65,000 +122.22% 15
East London - 5 £32,838 - 6
West London -3 4 £46,500 +24.00% 13
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 December 2025, 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 (60.99%) Business Intelligence
2 125 (56.05%) Python
3 124 (55.61%) Analytics
4 119 (53.36%) SQL
5 98 (43.95%) Power BI
5 98 (43.95%) Power Platform
6 94 (42.15%) Data Analysis
7 92 (41.26%) Tableau
8 74 (33.18%) Microsoft Excel
9 68 (30.49%) Data Quality
9 68 (30.49%) Problem-Solving
10 60 (26.91%) AI
10 60 (26.91%) Degree
11 55 (24.66%) Decision-Making
12 50 (22.42%) Data Modelling
13 48 (21.52%) Microsoft
14 45 (20.18%) Data Analytics
15 44 (19.73%) Business Strategy
15 44 (19.73%) Migration
16 43 (19.28%) Visualisation
17 42 (18.83%) Data Science
18 40 (17.94%) Risk Management
19 38 (17.04%) Actionable Insight
19 38 (17.04%) Risk Analytics
20 37 (16.59%) Portfolio Management
21 36 (16.14%) Asset Management
22 34 (15.25%) Continuous Improvement
23 33 (14.80%) Alteryx
23 33 (14.80%) Project Management
23 33 (14.80%) Statistics

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 (2.24%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.35%) SAS
3 2 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.90%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 74 (33.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.79%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.90%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.90%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.45%) SAP Business ByDesign
3 1 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 98 (43.95%) Power Platform
2 28 (12.56%) Azure
3 10 (4.48%) GCP
4 8 (3.59%) Snowflake
5 5 (2.24%) AWS
5 5 (2.24%) Azure AI
5 5 (2.24%) Collibra
5 5 (2.24%) SaaS
6 4 (1.79%) dbt
6 4 (1.79%) Google Analytics
7 3 (1.35%) Azure App Service
7 3 (1.35%) Azure Functions
7 3 (1.35%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (1.35%) Power Automate
7 3 (1.35%) Serverless
8 2 (0.90%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.90%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (0.90%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (0.90%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (43.95%) Power BI
2 92 (41.26%) Tableau
3 18 (8.07%) Data Mining
4 17 (7.62%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (5.38%) Looker
6 11 (4.93%) Qlik Sense
7 10 (4.48%) BigQuery
8 9 (4.04%) Metadata
9 7 (3.14%) Power Query
10 4 (1.79%) Big Data
11 3 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.35%) BusinessObjects
11 3 (1.35%) SAS EBI
12 2 (0.90%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.90%) KNIME
12 2 (0.90%) QlikView
13 1 (0.45%) Oracle Database
13 1 (0.45%) Parquet
13 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (3.59%) Postman
2 5 (2.24%) Git
3 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 129 (57.85%) Finance
2 124 (55.61%) Analytical Skills
3 76 (34.08%) Social Skills
4 52 (23.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 37 (16.59%) Banking
6 32 (14.35%) Financial Institution
7 28 (12.56%) Organisational Skills
8 15 (6.73%) Retail
9 13 (5.83%) Marketing
10 11 (4.93%) Legal
11 9 (4.04%) Front Office
11 9 (4.04%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (3.59%) Law
13 6 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.79%) Public Sector
14 4 (1.79%) Publishing
15 2 (0.90%) Electronics
15 2 (0.90%) Games
15 2 (0.90%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.90%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.59%) OpenAPI
1 8 (3.59%) RESTful
1 8 (3.59%) Swagger
2 3 (1.35%) Altair
3 2 (0.90%) PySpark
4 1 (0.45%) EDI
4 1 (0.45%) FastAPI
4 1 (0.45%) Flask
4 1 (0.45%) JSON
4 1 (0.45%) Pandas
4 1 (0.45%) REST
4 1 (0.45%) Streamlit
4 1 (0.45%) Web Services
4 1 (0.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (14.35%) Self-Motivation
2 16 (7.17%) Data Structures
3 5 (2.24%) FMCG
3 5 (2.24%) Management Information System
4 4 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (1.79%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.35%) Reference Data
6 2 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (0.90%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.90%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.45%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.45%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.45%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.45%) Derivative
7 1 (0.45%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.45%) EPoS
7 1 (0.45%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.45%) Sports Betting
7 1 (0.45%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (60.99%) Business Intelligence
2 124 (55.61%) Analytics
3 94 (42.15%) Data Analysis
4 68 (30.49%) Problem-Solving
5 60 (26.91%) AI
6 55 (24.66%) Decision-Making
7 50 (22.42%) Data Modelling
8 45 (20.18%) Data Analytics
9 44 (19.73%) Business Strategy
9 44 (19.73%) Migration
10 43 (19.28%) Visualisation
11 42 (18.83%) Data Science
12 40 (17.94%) Risk Management
13 38 (17.04%) Actionable Insight
13 38 (17.04%) Risk Analytics
14 37 (16.59%) Portfolio Management
15 36 (16.14%) Asset Management
16 34 (15.25%) Continuous Improvement
17 33 (14.80%) Project Management
17 33 (14.80%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 125 (56.05%) Python
2 119 (53.36%) SQL
3 9 (4.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 9 (4.04%) JavaScript
4 6 (2.69%) R
4 6 (2.69%) VBA
5 3 (1.35%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (1.35%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.90%) VB
7 1 (0.45%) Bash
7 1 (0.45%) Fortran
7 1 (0.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 60 (26.91%) Degree
2 30 (13.45%) Numerate Degree
3 11 (4.93%) ACCA
3 11 (4.93%) CIMA
4 8 (3.59%) CISM
5 7 (3.14%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.14%) CISA
5 7 (3.14%) CISSP
5 7 (3.14%) CRISC
6 6 (2.69%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.35%) Security Cleared
8 2 (0.90%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.45%) ISACA
9 1 (0.45%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (30.49%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.93%) QA
3 7 (3.14%) COBIT
3 7 (3.14%) GRC
3 7 (3.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.14%) ITGC
3 7 (3.14%) NIST
4 5 (2.24%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.79%) GDPR
6 1 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.45%) SLA
Systems Management
1 5 (2.24%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 48 (21.52%) Microsoft
2 33 (14.80%) Alteryx
3 31 (13.90%) Bloomberg
4 13 (5.83%) Salesforce
5 10 (4.48%) Databricks
5 10 (4.48%) Google
6 7 (3.14%) Anaplan
6 7 (3.14%) Progress
7 6 (2.69%) Informatica
7 6 (2.69%) SAP
8 5 (2.24%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.79%) Cisco
10 3 (1.35%) Oracle
11 2 (0.90%) Adobe
11 2 (0.90%) eFront
11 2 (0.90%) Splunk
11 2 (0.90%) Talend
12 1 (0.45%) Amplitude
12 1 (0.45%) DataRobot
12 1 (0.45%) Workday