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 25 February 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 232 212
Rank change year-on-year +54 -20 +7
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Analyst 238 197 315
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.49% 1.35% 1.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.63% 1.48% 1.58%
Number of salaries quoted 153 144 265
10th Percentile £33,271 £36,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £46,813 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £79,500 £88,750 £87,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -15.79% - -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 14,561 13,318 19,948
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.37% 91.29% 94.45%
Number of salaries quoted 9,696 7,790 16,061
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,594 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,750 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +3.45% -0.20%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%

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 25 February 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 25 February 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 +18 30 £55,000 -4.35% 15
West London -11 5 £30,000 -20.00% 9
East London - 5 £40,000 - 5
South London +35 2 £40,000 +23.08% 3
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 February 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.

1 146 (61.34%) Business Intelligence
1 146 (61.34%) SQL
2 144 (60.50%) Python
3 143 (60.08%) Analytics
4 108 (45.38%) Tableau
5 102 (42.86%) Power BI
5 102 (42.86%) Power Platform
6 99 (41.60%) Data Analysis
7 75 (31.51%) Microsoft Excel
8 74 (31.09%) Data Quality
9 73 (30.67%) Data Modelling
10 70 (29.41%) AI
11 68 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
12 66 (27.73%) Microsoft
13 64 (26.89%) Degree
14 58 (24.37%) Decision-Making
15 55 (23.11%) Data Analytics
16 49 (20.59%) Business Strategy
17 45 (18.91%) Data Science
18 41 (17.23%) Azure
19 38 (15.97%) Project Management
20 37 (15.55%) Actionable Insight
20 37 (15.55%) ETL
20 37 (15.55%) Portfolio Management
20 37 (15.55%) Risk Management
21 36 (15.13%) Visualisation
22 35 (14.71%) Asset Management
22 35 (14.71%) Migration
23 34 (14.29%) Alteryx
23 34 (14.29%) Data Governance

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 (1.26%) SAS
2 2 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.84%) Jupyter
2 2 (0.84%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.42%) Confluence
3 1 (0.42%) SharePoint
Applications
1 75 (31.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (4.20%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.68%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (1.26%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.42%) SAP Business ByDesign
5 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 102 (42.86%) Power Platform
2 41 (17.23%) Azure
3 12 (5.04%) GCP
4 11 (4.62%) Azure AI
5 9 (3.78%) Snowflake
6 6 (2.52%) AWS
7 5 (2.10%) dbt
7 5 (2.10%) Google Analytics
8 4 (1.68%) Power Automate
9 3 (1.26%) Adobe Analytics
9 3 (1.26%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (1.26%) Collibra
9 3 (1.26%) Dataform
9 3 (1.26%) SaaS
10 2 (0.84%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.84%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.84%) PowerApps
11 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.42%) Miro
11 1 (0.42%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.84%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (45.38%) Tableau
2 102 (42.86%) Power BI
3 24 (10.08%) Data Mining
4 13 (5.46%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (5.46%) Metadata
5 12 (5.04%) Qlik Sense
6 11 (4.62%) BigQuery
7 10 (4.20%) Looker
8 9 (3.78%) Power Query
9 4 (1.68%) Big Data
10 3 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.26%) BusinessObjects
10 3 (1.26%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.26%) SAS EBI
11 2 (0.84%) KNIME
11 2 (0.84%) QlikView
11 2 (0.84%) SQL Server
11 2 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.42%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (7.98%) Postman
2 5 (2.10%) Git
3 2 (0.84%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.42%) JIRA
General
1 118 (49.58%) Analytical Skills
2 113 (47.48%) Finance
3 70 (29.41%) Social Skills
4 56 (23.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 36 (15.13%) Banking
6 32 (13.45%) Financial Institution
7 27 (11.34%) Marketing
8 15 (6.30%) Law
9 13 (5.46%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (5.46%) Retail
10 10 (4.20%) Publishing
11 9 (3.78%) Front Office
12 6 (2.52%) Games
12 6 (2.52%) iGaming
12 6 (2.52%) Public Sector
13 5 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.68%) Manufacturing
15 3 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.84%) Back Office
16 2 (0.84%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (7.98%) OpenAPI
1 19 (7.98%) RESTful
1 19 (7.98%) Swagger
2 6 (2.52%) JSON
2 6 (2.52%) REST
3 2 (0.84%) PySpark
3 2 (0.84%) Web Services
4 1 (0.42%) .NET
4 1 (0.42%) EDI
4 1 (0.42%) FastAPI
4 1 (0.42%) Flask
4 1 (0.42%) Pandas
4 1 (0.42%) Streamlit
4 1 (0.42%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (15.13%) Data Structures
2 34 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (5.04%) FMCG
4 10 (4.20%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.94%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.10%) Reference Data
7 2 (0.84%) Contract for Difference
7 2 (0.84%) Credit Risk
7 2 (0.84%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.84%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.42%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.42%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.42%) Derivative
8 1 (0.42%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.42%) EPoS
8 1 (0.42%) Market Risk
8 1 (0.42%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.42%) Sports Betting
8 1 (0.42%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.42%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (61.34%) Business Intelligence
2 143 (60.08%) Analytics
3 99 (41.60%) Data Analysis
4 73 (30.67%) Data Modelling
5 70 (29.41%) AI
6 68 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
7 58 (24.37%) Decision-Making
8 55 (23.11%) Data Analytics
9 49 (20.59%) Business Strategy
10 45 (18.91%) Data Science
11 38 (15.97%) Project Management
12 37 (15.55%) Actionable Insight
12 37 (15.55%) ETL
12 37 (15.55%) Portfolio Management
12 37 (15.55%) Risk Management
13 36 (15.13%) Visualisation
14 35 (14.71%) Asset Management
14 35 (14.71%) Migration
15 34 (14.29%) Data Governance
15 34 (14.29%) Risk Analytics
Programming Languages
1 146 (61.34%) SQL
2 144 (60.50%) Python
3 11 (4.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 10 (4.20%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.68%) R
6 1 (0.42%) Bash
6 1 (0.42%) C#
6 1 (0.42%) VBA
Qualifications
1 64 (26.89%) Degree
2 30 (12.61%) Numerate Degree
3 11 (4.62%) ACCA
3 11 (4.62%) Azure Certification
3 11 (4.62%) CIMA
4 6 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.26%) CISA
5 3 (1.26%) CISM
5 3 (1.26%) CISSP
5 3 (1.26%) CRISC
5 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.26%) Security Cleared
6 2 (0.84%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.42%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.42%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (31.09%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.78%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.52%) GDPR
4 5 (2.10%) QA
5 3 (1.26%) COBIT
5 3 (1.26%) GRC
5 3 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.26%) ITGC
5 3 (1.26%) NIST
6 1 (0.42%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (1.26%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 66 (27.73%) Microsoft
2 34 (14.29%) Alteryx
3 32 (13.45%) Bloomberg
4 25 (10.50%) Salesforce
5 10 (4.20%) Cisco
6 9 (3.78%) Databricks
6 9 (3.78%) Google
7 6 (2.52%) Foundry
8 5 (2.10%) Informatica
8 5 (2.10%) SAP
9 3 (1.26%) Adobe
9 3 (1.26%) Progress
9 3 (1.26%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.26%) Talend
10 2 (0.84%) Charles River
10 2 (0.84%) Palantir
10 2 (0.84%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 1 (0.42%) Anaplan
11 1 (0.42%) Apple
11 1 (0.42%) Oracle