Data Analyst Job Trends in London

Data Analyst
England > London

The median Data Analyst salary in London is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 May 2026.

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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 220 172
Rank change year-on-year +24 -48 +63
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Analyst 231 170 448
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.11% 1.41% 1.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.21% 1.57% 2.03%
Number of salaries quoted 155 95 284
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,200 £35,000
25th Percentile £39,300 £46,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -4.00% +7.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £74,375 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £42,700 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.11% +5.56% -5.26%

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 19,143 10,858 22,041
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.19% 89.97% 94.22%
Number of salaries quoted 13,094 6,935 16,595
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,250 £57,560 £53,500
% change year-on-year -4.01% +7.59% -12.01%

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 22 May 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 22 May 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 -14 41 £50,000 -9.09% 9
West London -17 9 £30,000 -45.45% 7
East London - 8 £35,000 - 4
South London +11 1 £40,000 -38.46% 3
North London - 1 £40,000 - 3
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 May 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.

1 147 (63.64%) SQL
2 104 (45.02%) Python
3 102 (44.16%) Business Intelligence
4 96 (41.56%) Analytics
5 88 (38.10%) Power BI
5 88 (38.10%) Power Platform
6 66 (28.57%) Data Modelling
7 64 (27.71%) Tableau
8 61 (26.41%) Microsoft
9 58 (25.11%) Microsoft Excel
10 55 (23.81%) Data Analysis
11 54 (23.38%) AI
11 54 (23.38%) Data Quality
12 46 (19.91%) Azure
13 44 (19.05%) Decision-Making
13 44 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
14 40 (17.32%) Data Governance
15 39 (16.88%) Data Analytics
16 38 (16.45%) Actionable Insight
17 35 (15.15%) ETL
18 28 (12.12%) Machine Learning
19 27 (11.69%) Mentoring
20 26 (11.26%) Degree
21 25 (10.82%) Visualisation
22 23 (9.96%) Salesforce
22 23 (9.96%) Validation
23 21 (9.09%) Azure Certification
24 20 (8.66%) Azure AI
24 20 (8.66%) Business Analysis
24 20 (8.66%) Data Visualisation

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 7 (3.03%) Palantir Foundry
2 2 (0.87%) SAS
3 1 (0.43%) Confluence
3 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 58 (25.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (3.90%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.73%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.87%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.43%) SAP Business ByDesign
Cloud Services
1 88 (38.10%) Power Platform
2 46 (19.91%) Azure
3 20 (8.66%) Azure AI
4 10 (4.33%) GCP
4 10 (4.33%) Snowflake
5 8 (3.46%) AWS
6 5 (2.16%) dbt
6 5 (2.16%) Google Analytics
7 4 (1.73%) SaaS
8 3 (1.30%) Adobe Analytics
8 3 (1.30%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (1.30%) Collibra
8 3 (1.30%) Dataform
8 3 (1.30%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (0.87%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.43%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.43%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.43%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.87%) Broadband
1 2 (0.87%) Intranet
2 1 (0.43%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (38.10%) Power BI
2 64 (27.71%) Tableau
3 15 (6.49%) Data Mining
3 15 (6.49%) Metadata
4 8 (3.46%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (3.03%) BigQuery
5 7 (3.03%) Looker
6 6 (2.60%) Power Query
6 6 (2.60%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.73%) Big Data
8 3 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.30%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.87%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (0.87%) Oracle Discoverer
9 2 (0.87%) Qlik Sense
9 2 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.43%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.43%) Mixpanel
10 1 (0.43%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 14 (6.06%) Postman
2 4 (1.73%) Git
3 2 (0.87%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.43%) JIRA
4 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio
General
1 80 (34.63%) Social Skills
2 73 (31.60%) Analytical Skills
3 64 (27.71%) Finance
4 30 (12.99%) Marketing
5 29 (12.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (7.36%) Retail
7 12 (5.19%) Law
8 10 (4.33%) Public Sector
9 9 (3.90%) Publishing
10 7 (3.03%) Banking
11 6 (2.60%) Games
11 6 (2.60%) iGaming
12 4 (1.73%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.30%) Investment Banking
13 3 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.87%) Advertising
14 2 (0.87%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.43%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.06%) OpenAPI
1 14 (6.06%) RESTful
1 14 (6.06%) Swagger
2 7 (3.03%) JSON
2 7 (3.03%) REST
3 3 (1.30%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (0.87%) FpML
4 2 (0.87%) Matplotlib
4 2 (0.87%) NumPy
4 2 (0.87%) Pandas
4 2 (0.87%) Seaborn
4 2 (0.87%) Web Services
5 1 (0.43%) .NET
5 1 (0.43%) EDI
5 1 (0.43%) PySpark
5 1 (0.43%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 34 (14.72%) Data Structures
2 11 (4.76%) FMCG
3 9 (3.90%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (3.03%) Mobile App
5 6 (2.60%) Reference Data
5 6 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.30%) Derivative
8 3 (1.30%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.30%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.87%) Clustering
9 2 (0.87%) Contract for Difference
9 2 (0.87%) NHS
10 1 (0.43%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.43%) Equity Derivative
10 1 (0.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.43%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.43%) Market Risk
10 1 (0.43%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (44.16%) Business Intelligence
2 96 (41.56%) Analytics
3 66 (28.57%) Data Modelling
4 55 (23.81%) Data Analysis
5 54 (23.38%) AI
6 44 (19.05%) Decision-Making
6 44 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (17.32%) Data Governance
8 39 (16.88%) Data Analytics
9 38 (16.45%) Actionable Insight
10 35 (15.15%) ETL
11 28 (12.12%) Machine Learning
12 27 (11.69%) Mentoring
13 25 (10.82%) Visualisation
14 23 (9.96%) Validation
15 20 (8.66%) Business Analysis
15 20 (8.66%) Data Visualisation
16 19 (8.23%) E-Commerce
16 19 (8.23%) Project Management
17 18 (7.79%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 147 (63.64%) SQL
2 104 (45.02%) Python
3 7 (3.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (2.16%) VBA
5 4 (1.73%) R
6 2 (0.87%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.43%) C#
7 1 (0.43%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (11.26%) Degree
2 21 (9.09%) Azure Certification
3 10 (4.33%) ACCA
3 10 (4.33%) CIMA
3 10 (4.33%) Security Cleared
4 8 (3.46%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.60%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.30%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.87%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.43%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (23.38%) Data Quality
2 14 (6.06%) Accessibility
3 12 (5.19%) QA
4 8 (3.46%) GDPR
5 2 (0.87%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.43%) SLA
6 1 (0.43%) Solvency II
Vendors
1 61 (26.41%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.96%) Salesforce
3 10 (4.33%) Foundry
4 8 (3.46%) Cisco
5 7 (3.03%) Palantir
6 6 (2.60%) Google
7 5 (2.16%) Informatica
8 4 (1.73%) Alteryx
8 4 (1.73%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.30%) Adobe
9 3 (1.30%) Oracle
9 3 (1.30%) SAP
9 3 (1.30%) TikTok
10 2 (0.87%) Charles River
10 2 (0.87%) Databricks
10 2 (0.87%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.87%) Talend
11 1 (0.43%) Amplitude
11 1 (0.43%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.43%) Sage