Data Analyst Job Trends in the North of England

Data Analyst
England > North of England

The median Data Analyst salary in the North of England is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 September 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 225 251
Rank change year-on-year +134 +26 -14
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Analyst 398 73 78
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.70% 0.78% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.81% 0.89% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 199 59 58
10th Percentile £34,800 £30,250 -
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,250 £24,960
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £33,750
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +25.93% -10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £54,500 £43,563
90th Percentile - £60,500 £50,372
England median annual salary £50,000 £45,390 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.16% -13.54% +10.53%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 21,992 8,190 13,385
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 87.23% 94.98%
Number of salaries quoted 16,037 4,398 8,099
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,000
England median annual salary £59,853 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.82% - -8.33%

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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 the North of England.

Data Analyst job vacancy trend in the North of England

Data Analyst
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for Data Analyst job vacancies in the North of England.

Salary distribution trend for Data Analyst job vacancies in the North of England

Data Analyst
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Analyst in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Analyst in the North of England

Data Analyst
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Analyst within the North of England region over the 6 months to 14 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
North West +104 189 £45,000 - 59
Yorkshire +74 167 £45,000 +5.88% 45
North East -24 42 £41,250 +35.25% 22
Data Analyst
England

Data Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 14 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 North of England region featuring Data Analyst in the job title.

1 175 (43.97%) Business Intelligence
2 170 (42.71%) Power BI
2 170 (42.71%) Power Platform
3 163 (40.95%) SQL
4 148 (37.19%) Microsoft Excel
5 139 (34.92%) Microsoft
6 136 (34.17%) Python
7 134 (33.67%) AI
8 130 (32.66%) Tableau
9 129 (32.41%) Azure
10 123 (30.90%) Azure Certification
11 121 (30.40%) Azure AI
12 85 (21.36%) Data Analysis
13 66 (16.58%) Decision-Making
14 49 (12.31%) Analytics
15 48 (12.06%) Data Quality
16 38 (9.55%) Dashboard Development
17 35 (8.79%) Continuous Improvement
18 33 (8.29%) Stakeholder Management
19 27 (6.78%) Actionable Insight
20 26 (6.53%) DBS Check
20 26 (6.53%) Visualisation
21 24 (6.03%) System Testing
21 24 (6.03%) Workday
22 23 (5.78%) Data Modelling
23 17 (4.27%) Problem-Solving
24 13 (3.27%) Data Visualisation
24 13 (3.27%) Validation
25 12 (3.02%) Business Strategy
25 12 (3.02%) Data-Driven Decision Making

Data Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 4 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.50%) Confluence
2 2 (0.50%) IIS
3 1 (0.25%) Apache
3 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.25%) Apache Superset
3 1 (0.25%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 148 (37.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.01%) iTrent
1 4 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 170 (42.71%) Power Platform
2 129 (32.41%) Azure
3 121 (30.40%) Azure AI
4 11 (2.76%) Snowflake
5 7 (1.76%) dbt
6 6 (1.51%) GCP
7 5 (1.26%) AWS
8 4 (1.01%) SaaS
8 4 (1.01%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (0.50%) Alation
9 2 (0.50%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.50%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.50%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (0.50%) Cloud Composer
9 2 (0.50%) Dagster
9 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.25%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.25%) Google Analytics
10 1 (0.25%) Google Tag Manager
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (42.71%) Power BI
2 130 (32.66%) Tableau
3 10 (2.51%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (2.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 6 (1.51%) Looker
5 6 (1.51%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.26%) Power Query
6 5 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (1.01%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.75%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.50%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.50%) Metadata
9 2 (0.50%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.25%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.25%) GIS
10 1 (0.25%) Metabase
10 1 (0.25%) OLAP
10 1 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.25%) SAP BW
10 1 (0.25%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 4 (1.01%) JIRA
General
1 147 (36.93%) Social Skills
2 74 (18.59%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (10.05%) Finance
4 15 (3.77%) Legal
5 14 (3.52%) Retail
6 9 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (2.26%) Marketing
7 5 (1.26%) Law
7 5 (1.26%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.01%) Banking
9 3 (0.75%) Aerospace
9 3 (0.75%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.50%) Local Government
10 2 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.25%) Advertising
11 1 (0.25%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.25%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.25%) Social Science
11 1 (0.25%) Welsh Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.25%) FHIR
1 1 (0.25%) NumPy
1 1 (0.25%) Pandas
1 1 (0.25%) pgvector
1 1 (0.25%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 11 (2.76%) Management Information System
2 4 (1.01%) Algorithms
2 4 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (0.75%) Data Structures
4 2 (0.50%) Public Cloud
4 2 (0.50%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.25%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.25%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.25%) NHS
5 1 (0.25%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.25%) PMI
5 1 (0.25%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.25%) SystemC
5 1 (0.25%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.50%) Windows
1 2 (0.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (43.97%) Business Intelligence
2 134 (33.67%) AI
3 85 (21.36%) Data Analysis
4 66 (16.58%) Decision-Making
5 49 (12.31%) Analytics
6 38 (9.55%) Dashboard Development
7 35 (8.79%) Continuous Improvement
8 33 (8.29%) Stakeholder Management
9 27 (6.78%) Actionable Insight
10 26 (6.53%) Visualisation
11 24 (6.03%) System Testing
12 23 (5.78%) Data Modelling
13 17 (4.27%) Problem-Solving
14 13 (3.27%) Data Visualisation
14 13 (3.27%) Validation
15 12 (3.02%) Business Strategy
15 12 (3.02%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 12 (3.02%) Disruptive Innovation
16 11 (2.76%) Agile
17 10 (2.51%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 163 (40.95%) SQL
2 136 (34.17%) Python
3 5 (1.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (0.75%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.25%) R
5 1 (0.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 123 (30.90%) Azure Certification
2 26 (6.53%) DBS Check
3 7 (1.76%) Degree
4 3 (0.75%) Security Cleared
5 2 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.50%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.25%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.25%) CBAP
6 1 (0.25%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (12.06%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.26%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.01%) QA
4 2 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (0.50%) GRC
5 1 (0.25%) PMO
Systems Management
1 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 139 (34.92%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.03%) Workday
3 8 (2.01%) SAP
4 5 (1.26%) Google
5 4 (1.01%) Databricks
5 4 (1.01%) Oracle
6 3 (0.75%) Ariba
6 3 (0.75%) Dataiku
7 2 (0.50%) Foundry
7 2 (0.50%) Informatica
7 2 (0.50%) Sage
8 1 (0.25%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.25%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.25%) Palantir
8 1 (0.25%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.25%) Splunk
8 1 (0.25%) Trend Micro