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 £42,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 June 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 204 261
Rank change year-on-year +143 +57 -37
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Analyst 492 98 129
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.44% 1.17% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.58% 1.32% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 184 57 105
10th Percentile £31,735 £25,000 £24,960
25th Percentile £35,000 £25,313 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £32,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +25.00% -14.67%
75th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £43,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £60,711 £50,250
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £46,899
% change year-on-year - -4.05% -1.27%

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 19,048 7,412 19,014
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.33% 88.12% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 13,889 3,794 14,634
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.86%

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 22 June 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 22 June 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
Yorkshire +87 231 £40,000 +49.18% 16
North West +105 205 £45,000 +5.88% 33
North East +1 56 £40,000 -16.23% 8
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 June 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.

1 315 (64.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 314 (63.82%) SQL
3 299 (60.77%) Microsoft
4 298 (60.57%) Business Intelligence
5 291 (59.15%) Python
6 290 (58.94%) Power BI
6 290 (58.94%) Power Platform
7 286 (58.13%) Tableau
8 251 (51.02%) AI
8 251 (51.02%) Azure
9 244 (49.59%) Azure Certification
10 242 (49.19%) Azure AI
11 86 (17.48%) Data Analysis
12 82 (16.67%) Analytics
13 64 (13.01%) Decision-Making
14 44 (8.94%) Data Analytics
15 43 (8.74%) Continuous Improvement
16 42 (8.54%) Data Quality
17 38 (7.72%) Project Management
18 37 (7.52%) Business Analysis
18 37 (7.52%) Data Mining
19 34 (6.91%) DBS Check
20 33 (6.71%) Dashboard Development
21 31 (6.30%) Stakeholder Management
22 30 (6.10%) Workday
23 28 (5.69%) Problem-Solving
23 28 (5.69%) Visualisation
24 24 (4.88%) Actionable Insight
24 24 (4.88%) System Testing
25 19 (3.86%) Data Modelling

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 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.41%) Confluence
2 2 (0.41%) IIS
3 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 315 (64.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.24%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.22%) Workday HCM
2 4 (0.81%) iTrent
2 4 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 290 (58.94%) Power Platform
2 251 (51.02%) Azure
3 242 (49.19%) Azure AI
4 11 (2.24%) Snowflake
5 6 (1.22%) AWS
6 5 (1.02%) GCP
7 4 (0.81%) dbt
7 4 (0.81%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (0.41%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (0.41%) Cloud Composer
8 2 (0.41%) Dagster
8 2 (0.41%) Google Analytics
8 2 (0.41%) Google Tag Manager
8 2 (0.41%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (0.41%) Power Automate
8 2 (0.41%) SaaS
9 1 (0.20%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.20%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.20%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.20%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 290 (58.94%) Power BI
2 286 (58.13%) Tableau
3 37 (7.52%) Data Mining
4 11 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (1.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (1.42%) Looker
7 6 (1.22%) BigQuery
8 5 (1.02%) Power Query
8 5 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (0.81%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.81%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.41%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.41%) Metadata
11 1 (0.20%) Big Data
11 1 (0.20%) GIS
11 1 (0.20%) Spark SQL
11 1 (0.20%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (0.81%) JIRA
General
1 283 (57.52%) Social Skills
2 108 (21.95%) Analytical Skills
3 66 (13.41%) Finance
4 18 (3.66%) Retail
5 10 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (2.03%) Public Sector
6 9 (1.83%) Marketing
7 5 (1.02%) Legal
8 3 (0.61%) Manufacturing
8 3 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.41%) Advertising
9 2 (0.41%) Billing
9 2 (0.41%) Law
9 2 (0.41%) Local Government
10 1 (0.20%) Social Science
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.20%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 21 (4.27%) Management Information System
2 4 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (0.41%) Data Structures
4 2 (0.41%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.20%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.20%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.20%) NHS
5 1 (0.20%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.20%) PMI
5 1 (0.20%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.20%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.61%) Windows
2 2 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 298 (60.57%) Business Intelligence
2 251 (51.02%) AI
3 86 (17.48%) Data Analysis
4 82 (16.67%) Analytics
5 64 (13.01%) Decision-Making
6 44 (8.94%) Data Analytics
7 43 (8.74%) Continuous Improvement
8 38 (7.72%) Project Management
9 37 (7.52%) Business Analysis
10 33 (6.71%) Dashboard Development
11 31 (6.30%) Stakeholder Management
12 28 (5.69%) Problem-Solving
12 28 (5.69%) Visualisation
13 24 (4.88%) Actionable Insight
13 24 (4.88%) System Testing
14 19 (3.86%) Data Modelling
15 15 (3.05%) Data Visualisation
16 14 (2.85%) Disruptive Innovation
17 12 (2.44%) Agile
18 11 (2.24%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 314 (63.82%) SQL
2 291 (59.15%) Python
3 3 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (0.61%) T-SQL
4 2 (0.41%) R
5 1 (0.20%) C
Qualifications
1 244 (49.59%) Azure Certification
2 34 (6.91%) DBS Check
3 9 (1.83%) Degree
4 4 (0.81%) Security Cleared
5 3 (0.61%) CISM
5 3 (0.61%) CISSP
5 3 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (0.61%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.20%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.20%) CBAP
6 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (8.54%) Data Quality
2 12 (2.44%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.63%) GMP
4 6 (1.22%) GDPR
5 3 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.61%) NIST
5 3 (0.61%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 299 (60.77%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.10%) Workday
3 6 (1.22%) Databricks
4 4 (0.81%) Google
4 4 (0.81%) Oracle
4 4 (0.81%) SAP
5 3 (0.61%) Alteryx
6 2 (0.41%) Foundry
6 2 (0.41%) Informatica
6 2 (0.41%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.41%) Vertica
7 1 (0.20%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.20%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.20%) Palantir
7 1 (0.20%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.20%) Splunk
7 1 (0.20%) TOWER Software