Data Analyst Job Trends in London

Data Analyst
England > London

The median Data Analyst salary in London is £52,328 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 January 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 211 193
Rank change year-on-year +47 -18 +37
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Analyst 234 235 304
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.67% 1.52% 1.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.83% 1.65% 1.74%
Number of salaries quoted 154 170 258
10th Percentile £32,010 £36,250 £37,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,328 £60,319 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.25% +0.53% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,250 £91,250
England median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -

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 12,761 14,282 17,445
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.16% 92.67% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 8,461 8,232 14,026
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,000 £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 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,800
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.81% -6.02%

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 13 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 13 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 +25 38 £61,250 +2.08% 9
East London - 6 £32,424 - 5
West London +3 4 £40,000 +6.67% 6
South London +32 2 £40,000 +36.75% 1
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 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.

1 144 (61.54%) Business Intelligence
2 129 (55.13%) Analytics
3 125 (53.42%) Python
4 122 (52.14%) SQL
5 104 (44.44%) Power BI
5 104 (44.44%) Power Platform
6 97 (41.45%) Tableau
7 95 (40.60%) Data Analysis
8 78 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
9 70 (29.91%) Data Quality
9 70 (29.91%) Problem-Solving
10 64 (27.35%) Degree
11 58 (24.79%) AI
12 57 (24.36%) Decision-Making
13 55 (23.50%) Data Modelling
14 47 (20.09%) Data Analytics
14 47 (20.09%) Visualisation
15 46 (19.66%) Business Strategy
15 46 (19.66%) Microsoft
16 42 (17.95%) Data Science
17 41 (17.52%) Migration
17 41 (17.52%) Risk Management
18 39 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
19 38 (16.24%) Asset Management
19 38 (16.24%) Portfolio Management
19 38 (16.24%) Risk Analytics
20 34 (14.53%) Project Management
21 33 (14.10%) Alteryx
21 33 (14.10%) Statistics
22 32 (13.68%) Bloomberg

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 (2.14%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.28%) SAS
3 2 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.85%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 78 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.56%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.71%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (1.28%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.43%) SAP Business ByDesign
5 1 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 104 (44.44%) Power Platform
2 26 (11.11%) Azure
3 10 (4.27%) GCP
4 9 (3.85%) Snowflake
5 5 (2.14%) AWS
5 5 (2.14%) Azure AI
5 5 (2.14%) Collibra
6 4 (1.71%) Google Analytics
7 3 (1.28%) Dataform
7 3 (1.28%) dbt
7 3 (1.28%) Power Automate
7 3 (1.28%) SaaS
8 2 (0.85%) Adobe Analytics
8 2 (0.85%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.85%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (0.85%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.43%) Google Ads
9 1 (0.43%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.43%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (44.44%) Power BI
2 97 (41.45%) Tableau
3 19 (8.12%) Data Mining
4 16 (6.84%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (5.13%) Looker
5 12 (5.13%) Metadata
5 12 (5.13%) Qlik Sense
6 10 (4.27%) BigQuery
7 7 (2.99%) Power Query
8 4 (1.71%) Big Data
9 3 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.28%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (1.28%) SAS EBI
10 2 (0.85%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.85%) KNIME
10 2 (0.85%) QlikView
10 2 (0.85%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.43%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.43%) Parquet
11 1 (0.43%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 10 (4.27%) Postman
2 5 (2.14%) Git
3 2 (0.85%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 129 (55.13%) Analytical Skills
1 129 (55.13%) Finance
2 79 (33.76%) Social Skills
3 57 (24.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 38 (16.24%) Banking
5 32 (13.68%) Financial Institution
6 27 (11.54%) Organisational Skills
7 20 (8.55%) Marketing
8 16 (6.84%) Retail
9 11 (4.70%) Legal
10 10 (4.27%) Law
11 9 (3.85%) Front Office
12 8 (3.42%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (2.56%) Games
13 6 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (2.56%) Publishing
14 5 (2.14%) iGaming
15 4 (1.71%) Public Sector
16 2 (0.85%) Investment Banking
16 2 (0.85%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.27%) OpenAPI
1 10 (4.27%) RESTful
1 10 (4.27%) Swagger
2 3 (1.28%) Altair
3 2 (0.85%) PySpark
3 2 (0.85%) Web Services
4 1 (0.43%) EDI
4 1 (0.43%) FastAPI
4 1 (0.43%) Flask
4 1 (0.43%) JSON
4 1 (0.43%) Pandas
4 1 (0.43%) REST
4 1 (0.43%) Streamlit
4 1 (0.43%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (13.68%) Self-Motivation
2 20 (8.55%) Data Structures
3 7 (2.99%) FMCG
4 6 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (2.56%) Mobile App
5 5 (2.14%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.14%) Reference Data
6 4 (1.71%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.85%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.85%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.43%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.43%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.43%) Derivative
9 1 (0.43%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.43%) EPoS
9 1 (0.43%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.43%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.43%) Sports Betting
9 1 (0.43%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (61.54%) Business Intelligence
2 129 (55.13%) Analytics
3 95 (40.60%) Data Analysis
4 70 (29.91%) Problem-Solving
5 58 (24.79%) AI
6 57 (24.36%) Decision-Making
7 55 (23.50%) Data Modelling
8 47 (20.09%) Data Analytics
8 47 (20.09%) Visualisation
9 46 (19.66%) Business Strategy
10 42 (17.95%) Data Science
11 41 (17.52%) Migration
11 41 (17.52%) Risk Management
12 39 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
13 38 (16.24%) Asset Management
13 38 (16.24%) Portfolio Management
13 38 (16.24%) Risk Analytics
14 34 (14.53%) Project Management
15 33 (14.10%) Statistics
16 32 (13.68%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 125 (53.42%) Python
2 122 (52.14%) SQL
3 9 (3.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 9 (3.85%) JavaScript
4 6 (2.56%) R
5 4 (1.71%) VBA
6 2 (0.85%) VB
7 1 (0.43%) Bash
Qualifications
1 64 (27.35%) Degree
2 30 (12.82%) Numerate Degree
3 12 (5.13%) ACCA
3 12 (5.13%) CIMA
4 7 (2.99%) CISA
4 7 (2.99%) CISM
4 7 (2.99%) CISSP
4 7 (2.99%) CRISC
5 5 (2.14%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.28%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.43%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.43%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (29.91%) Data Quality
2 13 (5.56%) QA
3 7 (2.99%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.99%) COBIT
3 7 (2.99%) GRC
3 7 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.99%) ITGC
3 7 (2.99%) NIST
4 5 (2.14%) GDPR
5 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.43%) SLA
Systems Management
1 5 (2.14%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 46 (19.66%) Microsoft
2 33 (14.10%) Alteryx
3 32 (13.68%) Bloomberg
4 19 (8.12%) Salesforce
5 10 (4.27%) Google
6 9 (3.85%) Databricks
7 7 (2.99%) Informatica
7 7 (2.99%) Progress
8 6 (2.56%) Anaplan
8 6 (2.56%) Cisco
9 5 (2.14%) SAP
9 5 (2.14%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.85%) Adobe
10 2 (0.85%) Charles River
10 2 (0.85%) eFront
10 2 (0.85%) Oracle
10 2 (0.85%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.85%) Talend
11 1 (0.43%) Amplitude
11 1 (0.43%) DataRobot