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 29 September 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 222 166
Rank change year-on-year -27 -56 +35
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Analyst 214 174 388
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.83% 1.49% 2.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.90% 1.63% 2.16%
Number of salaries quoted 131 129 238
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,858 £40,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £52,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -10.71% +16.67%
75th Percentile £70,625 £77,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +10.04%

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 23,813 10,663 17,945
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 91.01% 95.35%
Number of salaries quoted 16,162 6,902 11,066
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% - -3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 29 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 29 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 39 £60,000 -4.00% 49
West London -9 6 £30,000 -35.48% 7
East London -4 3 £30,000 -6.28% 1
South London -7 2 £50,000 -23.08% 2
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 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.

1 127 (59.35%) SQL
2 99 (46.26%) Analytics
3 84 (39.25%) Business Intelligence
4 80 (37.38%) Data Quality
5 78 (36.45%) Python
6 76 (35.51%) Power BI
6 76 (35.51%) Power Platform
7 63 (29.44%) Data Analysis
8 62 (28.97%) Decision-Making
9 53 (24.77%) AI
10 51 (23.83%) Visualisation
11 50 (23.36%) Actionable Insight
11 50 (23.36%) Microsoft Excel
12 49 (22.90%) Problem-Solving
13 44 (20.56%) Data Modelling
14 42 (19.63%) Stakeholder Management
15 35 (16.36%) Dashboard Development
15 35 (16.36%) Microsoft
16 33 (15.42%) Data Governance
17 31 (14.49%) Data Analytics
17 31 (14.49%) Tableau
18 27 (12.62%) Azure
19 25 (11.68%) Continuous Improvement
19 25 (11.68%) Data Visualisation
19 25 (11.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 24 (11.21%) Data Transformation
21 22 (10.28%) Validation
22 21 (9.81%) Degree
23 20 (9.35%) Snowflake
24 19 (8.88%) Process Improvement

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 (1.40%) Palantir Foundry
1 3 (1.40%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.93%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.93%) Appian
3 1 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.47%) Apache Superset
3 1 (0.47%) CMS
3 1 (0.47%) Confluence
3 1 (0.47%) SAS
3 1 (0.47%) WordPress
Applications
1 50 (23.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.47%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.47%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.47%) InDesign
4 1 (0.47%) Inkscape
4 1 (0.47%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.87%) Oracle Applications
1 4 (1.87%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.93%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.47%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.47%) FastStats
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.47%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.47%) SystmOne
3 1 (0.47%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 76 (35.51%) Power Platform
2 27 (12.62%) Azure
3 20 (9.35%) Snowflake
4 18 (8.41%) AWS
4 18 (8.41%) dbt
5 8 (3.74%) Amazon S3
5 8 (3.74%) GCP
6 7 (3.27%) Microsoft Purview
7 6 (2.80%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (2.34%) Azure AI
8 5 (2.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (2.34%) Collibra
9 4 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.87%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (1.87%) SaaS
10 3 (1.40%) Google Analytics
10 3 (1.40%) Power Automate
10 3 (1.40%) SuccessFactors
11 2 (0.93%) Dataform
11 2 (0.93%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.93%) Broadband
2 1 (0.47%) 5G
2 1 (0.47%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (35.51%) Power BI
2 31 (14.49%) Tableau
3 14 (6.54%) Looker
4 11 (5.14%) Power Query
5 8 (3.74%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (3.74%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (3.74%) DynamoDB
5 8 (3.74%) Metadata
6 6 (2.80%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.80%) Semantic Layer
7 5 (2.34%) Star Schema
8 4 (1.87%) Oracle Discoverer
9 3 (1.40%) Big Data
9 3 (1.40%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.47%) Ataccama
10 1 (0.47%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (0.47%) GIS
10 1 (0.47%) QGIS
10 1 (0.47%) SAP BW
10 1 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (1.40%) Git
2 1 (0.47%) JIRA
2 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio
General
1 94 (43.93%) Analytical Skills
2 82 (38.32%) Finance
3 68 (31.78%) Social Skills
4 28 (13.08%) Marketing
5 20 (9.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (5.14%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (4.67%) Legal
8 9 (4.21%) Banking
9 8 (3.74%) Retail
10 6 (2.80%) Advertising
11 5 (2.34%) Investment Banking
11 5 (2.34%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.87%) Front Office
13 3 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.40%) Law
14 2 (0.93%) Local Government
14 2 (0.93%) Publishing
15 1 (0.47%) Automotive
15 1 (0.47%) Back Office
15 1 (0.47%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.40%) Matplotlib
1 3 (1.40%) NumPy
1 3 (1.40%) Oracle Fusion
1 3 (1.40%) Pandas
2 2 (0.93%) PySpark
2 2 (0.93%) Seaborn
3 1 (0.47%) EDI
3 1 (0.47%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.21%) Data Structures
2 8 (3.74%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (1.87%) Derivative
4 4 (1.87%) Management Information System
4 4 (1.87%) Product Ownership
4 4 (1.87%) Reference Data
5 3 (1.40%) Blog
5 3 (1.40%) Credit Risk
5 3 (1.40%) Equities
5 3 (1.40%) Fixed Income
5 3 (1.40%) Hedge funds
5 3 (1.40%) Housing Association
5 3 (1.40%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.93%) Clustering
6 2 (0.93%) Life Science
6 2 (0.93%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.47%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (0.47%) FMCG
7 1 (0.47%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (46.26%) Analytics
2 84 (39.25%) Business Intelligence
3 63 (29.44%) Data Analysis
4 62 (28.97%) Decision-Making
5 53 (24.77%) AI
6 51 (23.83%) Visualisation
7 50 (23.36%) Actionable Insight
8 49 (22.90%) Problem-Solving
9 44 (20.56%) Data Modelling
10 42 (19.63%) Stakeholder Management
11 35 (16.36%) Dashboard Development
12 33 (15.42%) Data Governance
13 31 (14.49%) Data Analytics
14 25 (11.68%) Continuous Improvement
14 25 (11.68%) Data Visualisation
14 25 (11.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 24 (11.21%) Data Transformation
16 22 (10.28%) Validation
17 19 (8.88%) Process Improvement
18 18 (8.41%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 127 (59.35%) SQL
2 78 (36.45%) Python
3 11 (5.14%) R
4 10 (4.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 10 (4.67%) VBA
5 3 (1.40%) PowerShell
5 3 (1.40%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.47%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (9.81%) Degree
2 13 (6.07%) SC Cleared
2 13 (6.07%) Security Cleared
3 5 (2.34%) Azure Certification
4 4 (1.87%) DBS Check
5 3 (1.40%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.93%) ACCA
6 2 (0.93%) CIMA
6 2 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.47%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (37.38%) Data Quality
2 13 (6.07%) QA
3 9 (4.21%) GDPR
4 7 (3.27%) Actionable Recommendations
5 6 (2.80%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.40%) SLA
7 1 (0.47%) EMIR
7 1 (0.47%) ISO 19650
7 1 (0.47%) MiFID
7 1 (0.47%) PERC
7 1 (0.47%) Solvency II
Systems Management
1 1 (0.47%) Grafana
1 1 (0.47%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 35 (16.36%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.67%) Databricks
3 7 (3.27%) Alteryx
4 6 (2.80%) Google
4 6 (2.80%) Oracle
5 4 (1.87%) Informatica
6 3 (1.40%) Adobe
6 3 (1.40%) Foundry
6 3 (1.40%) Palantir
6 3 (1.40%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.40%) SAP
6 3 (1.40%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.40%) Workday
7 2 (0.93%) eFront
7 2 (0.93%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.47%) Aderant
8 1 (0.47%) Apple
8 1 (0.47%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.47%) Temenos
8 1 (0.47%) TikTok