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 16 December 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 184 211 201
Rank change year-on-year +27 -10 +22
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Analyst 223 242 296
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.66% 1.50% 1.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.84% 1.60% 1.74%
Number of salaries quoted 151 181 256
10th Percentile £32,010 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £42,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -19.05% +5.00% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 12,151 15,170 16,969
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.70% 93.86% 94.96%
Number of salaries quoted 8,066 9,041 13,727
10th Percentile £35,750 £42,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +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% - -

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 16 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 16 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 +45 43 £61,250 +2.08% 13
South London +37 7 £65,000 +122.22% 12
West London +2 5 £46,500 +24.00% 16
East London - 5 £32,838 - 15
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 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
2 128 (57.40%) Analytics
3 124 (55.61%) Python
4 118 (52.91%) SQL
5 103 (46.19%) Power BI
5 103 (46.19%) Power Platform
6 98 (43.95%) Data Analysis
7 89 (39.91%) Tableau
8 76 (34.08%) Microsoft Excel
9 70 (31.39%) Problem-Solving
10 67 (30.04%) Data Quality
11 64 (28.70%) Degree
12 60 (26.91%) AI
13 57 (25.56%) Decision-Making
14 49 (21.97%) Microsoft
15 46 (20.63%) Data Analytics
15 46 (20.63%) Visualisation
16 44 (19.73%) Migration
17 43 (19.28%) Business Strategy
17 43 (19.28%) Data Modelling
18 42 (18.83%) Data Science
19 40 (17.94%) Actionable Insight
19 40 (17.94%) Risk Management
20 38 (17.04%) Risk Analytics
21 37 (16.59%) Portfolio Management
22 36 (16.14%) Continuous Improvement
23 35 (15.70%) Alteryx
24 34 (15.25%) Asset Management
25 33 (14.80%) Statistics
26 32 (14.35%) Workflow

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
4 1 (0.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 76 (34.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.35%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.45%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.45%) SAP Business ByDesign
3 1 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 103 (46.19%) Power Platform
2 31 (13.90%) Azure
3 11 (4.93%) GCP
4 8 (3.59%) SaaS
5 7 (3.14%) Snowflake
6 6 (2.69%) Azure Monitor
6 6 (2.69%) Collibra
7 5 (2.24%) AWS
7 5 (2.24%) Azure AI
7 5 (2.24%) Azure App Service
7 5 (2.24%) Azure Functions
7 5 (2.24%) Google Analytics
7 5 (2.24%) Serverless
8 4 (1.79%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (1.79%) Power Automate
9 3 (1.35%) dbt
9 3 (1.35%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.90%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (0.90%) Azure Stack
10 2 (0.90%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (46.19%) Power BI
2 89 (39.91%) Tableau
3 17 (7.62%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (7.17%) Data Mining
5 12 (5.38%) Looker
6 11 (4.93%) Qlik Sense
7 10 (4.48%) BigQuery
8 9 (4.04%) Metadata
9 8 (3.59%) Power Query
10 3 (1.35%) Big Data
10 3 (1.35%) BusinessObjects
10 3 (1.35%) SAS EBI
11 2 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.90%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.90%) KNIME
11 2 (0.90%) QlikView
12 1 (0.45%) MySQL
12 1 (0.45%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.45%) Parquet
12 1 (0.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (2.69%) Postman
2 4 (1.79%) Git
3 1 (0.45%) JIRA
3 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 131 (58.74%) Finance
2 125 (56.05%) Analytical Skills
3 75 (33.63%) Social Skills
4 49 (21.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 38 (17.04%) Banking
6 32 (14.35%) Financial Institution
7 28 (12.56%) Organisational Skills
8 14 (6.28%) Retail
9 12 (5.38%) Legal
10 9 (4.04%) Front Office
10 9 (4.04%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (4.04%) Marketing
11 8 (3.59%) Law
12 6 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (2.24%) Public Sector
14 3 (1.35%) Investment Banking
14 3 (1.35%) Publishing
15 2 (0.90%) Advertising
15 2 (0.90%) Electronics
15 2 (0.90%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.14%) RESTful
2 6 (2.69%) OpenAPI
2 6 (2.69%) Swagger
3 3 (1.35%) Altair
4 2 (0.90%) PySpark
5 1 (0.45%) EDI
5 1 (0.45%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.45%) Flask
5 1 (0.45%) JSON
5 1 (0.45%) Pandas
5 1 (0.45%) REST
5 1 (0.45%) Streamlit
5 1 (0.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (14.35%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (5.83%) Data Structures
3 6 (2.69%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.24%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (1.79%) FMCG
5 4 (1.79%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.35%) Reference Data
7 2 (0.90%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.45%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.45%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.45%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.45%) Derivative
8 1 (0.45%) Digital Media
8 1 (0.45%) Digital TV
8 1 (0.45%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.45%) EPoS
8 1 (0.45%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.45%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (60.99%) Business Intelligence
2 128 (57.40%) Analytics
3 98 (43.95%) Data Analysis
4 70 (31.39%) Problem-Solving
5 60 (26.91%) AI
6 57 (25.56%) Decision-Making
7 46 (20.63%) Data Analytics
7 46 (20.63%) Visualisation
8 44 (19.73%) Migration
9 43 (19.28%) Business Strategy
9 43 (19.28%) Data Modelling
10 42 (18.83%) Data Science
11 40 (17.94%) Actionable Insight
11 40 (17.94%) Risk Management
12 38 (17.04%) Risk Analytics
13 37 (16.59%) Portfolio Management
14 36 (16.14%) Continuous Improvement
15 34 (15.25%) Asset Management
16 33 (14.80%) Statistics
17 32 (14.35%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 124 (55.61%) Python
2 118 (52.91%) SQL
3 9 (4.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 9 (4.04%) JavaScript
4 6 (2.69%) PowerShell
4 6 (2.69%) R
4 6 (2.69%) VBA
5 5 (2.24%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (0.90%) VB
7 1 (0.45%) Bash
7 1 (0.45%) Fortran
7 1 (0.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 64 (28.70%) Degree
2 30 (13.45%) Numerate Degree
3 11 (4.93%) ACCA
3 11 (4.93%) CIMA
4 10 (4.48%) CISM
5 9 (4.04%) Azure Certification
6 8 (3.59%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (3.14%) CISA
7 7 (3.14%) CISSP
7 7 (3.14%) CRISC
8 5 (2.24%) Security Cleared
9 4 (1.79%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.35%) ISACA
11 1 (0.45%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (30.04%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.48%) 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 4 (1.79%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.35%) GDPR
6 1 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.45%) SLA
Systems Management
1 5 (2.24%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 49 (21.97%) Microsoft
2 35 (15.70%) Alteryx
3 30 (13.45%) Bloomberg
4 11 (4.93%) Databricks
4 11 (4.93%) Google
5 8 (3.59%) Salesforce
6 7 (3.14%) Anaplan
6 7 (3.14%) Progress
7 6 (2.69%) SAP
8 5 (2.24%) Informatica
8 5 (2.24%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.79%) Splunk
10 3 (1.35%) Oracle
11 2 (0.90%) Adobe
11 2 (0.90%) Cisco
11 2 (0.90%) eFront
11 2 (0.90%) Talend
12 1 (0.45%) DataRobot
12 1 (0.45%) Foundry
12 1 (0.45%) Workday