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 20 July 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 219 276
Rank change year-on-year +159 +57 -28
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Analyst 500 95 108
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.38% 1.01% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.51% 1.14% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 198 53 89
10th Percentile £33,925 £30,850 -
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £24,960
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +21.43% -6.67%
75th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £45,625
90th Percentile £65,000 £67,221 £52,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £46,842 £48,500
% change year-on-year -3.93% -3.42% +7.78%

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 19,922 8,327 16,498
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.77% 88.20% 95.16%
Number of salaries quoted 14,527 4,486 12,287
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -8.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,399
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.11% -9.34%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 +100 234 £40,000 -5.88% 22
North West +101 207 £45,000 +5.88% 29
North East +8 59 £40,000 -16.23% 12
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 July 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.

1 295 (59.00%) SQL
2 293 (58.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 283 (56.60%) Business Intelligence
4 279 (55.80%) Microsoft
5 275 (55.00%) Power BI
5 275 (55.00%) Power Platform
6 271 (54.20%) Python
7 266 (53.20%) Tableau
8 236 (47.20%) AI
9 234 (46.80%) Azure
10 229 (45.80%) Azure Certification
11 227 (45.40%) Azure AI
12 89 (17.80%) Data Analysis
13 77 (15.40%) Analytics
14 67 (13.40%) Decision-Making
15 44 (8.80%) Continuous Improvement
15 44 (8.80%) Data Quality
16 40 (8.00%) Data Analytics
17 34 (6.80%) Dashboard Development
18 33 (6.60%) Project Management
19 32 (6.40%) Business Analysis
19 32 (6.40%) Data Mining
19 32 (6.40%) DBS Check
20 30 (6.00%) Stakeholder Management
20 30 (6.00%) Workday
21 29 (5.80%) Problem-Solving
22 28 (5.60%) Visualisation
23 24 (4.80%) Actionable Insight
23 24 (4.80%) System Testing
24 21 (4.20%) 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 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.40%) Confluence
2 2 (0.40%) IIS
3 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 293 (58.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.20%) Workday HCM
2 4 (0.80%) iTrent
2 4 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 275 (55.00%) Power Platform
2 234 (46.80%) Azure
3 227 (45.40%) Azure AI
4 11 (2.20%) Snowflake
5 5 (1.00%) AWS
5 5 (1.00%) GCP
6 4 (0.80%) dbt
6 4 (0.80%) SuccessFactors
7 3 (0.60%) SaaS
8 2 (0.40%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.40%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (0.40%) Cloud Composer
8 2 (0.40%) Dagster
8 2 (0.40%) Google Analytics
8 2 (0.40%) Google Tag Manager
8 2 (0.40%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.20%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.20%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.20%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 275 (55.00%) Power BI
2 266 (53.20%) Tableau
3 32 (6.40%) Data Mining
4 11 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (1.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (1.40%) Looker
7 6 (1.20%) BigQuery
8 5 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (0.80%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.80%) Power Query
9 4 (0.80%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.40%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.20%) Big Data
11 1 (0.20%) GIS
11 1 (0.20%) Metadata
11 1 (0.20%) Spark SQL
11 1 (0.20%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (0.80%) JIRA
General
1 266 (53.20%) Social Skills
2 105 (21.00%) Analytical Skills
3 70 (14.00%) Finance
4 18 (3.60%) Retail
5 14 (2.80%) Legal
6 12 (2.40%) Marketing
7 9 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (1.40%) Public Sector
9 3 (0.60%) Law
9 3 (0.60%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.40%) Advertising
10 2 (0.40%) Banking
10 2 (0.40%) Billing
10 2 (0.40%) Local Government
11 1 (0.20%) Back Office
11 1 (0.20%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.20%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.20%) Social Science
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.20%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 20 (4.00%) Management Information System
2 4 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (0.60%) Data Structures
3 3 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (0.40%) Algorithms
4 2 (0.40%) 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%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.20%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.40%) Windows
1 2 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (56.60%) Business Intelligence
2 236 (47.20%) AI
3 89 (17.80%) Data Analysis
4 77 (15.40%) Analytics
5 67 (13.40%) Decision-Making
6 44 (8.80%) Continuous Improvement
7 40 (8.00%) Data Analytics
8 34 (6.80%) Dashboard Development
9 33 (6.60%) Project Management
10 32 (6.40%) Business Analysis
11 30 (6.00%) Stakeholder Management
12 29 (5.80%) Problem-Solving
13 28 (5.60%) Visualisation
14 24 (4.80%) Actionable Insight
14 24 (4.80%) System Testing
15 21 (4.20%) Data Modelling
16 15 (3.00%) Data Visualisation
17 14 (2.80%) Disruptive Innovation
18 12 (2.40%) Validation
19 11 (2.20%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 295 (59.00%) SQL
2 271 (54.20%) Python
3 5 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (0.60%) T-SQL
5 2 (0.40%) R
6 1 (0.20%) C
Qualifications
1 229 (45.80%) Azure Certification
2 32 (6.40%) DBS Check
3 10 (2.00%) Degree
4 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.40%) CISM
5 2 (0.40%) CISSP
5 2 (0.40%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (0.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.40%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.20%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.20%) CBAP
6 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.20%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (8.80%) Data Quality
2 11 (2.20%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.60%) GMP
4 5 (1.00%) GDPR
5 3 (0.60%) QA
6 2 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.40%) NIST
7 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.20%) GRC
7 1 (0.20%) PMO
Systems Management
1 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 279 (55.80%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.00%) Workday
3 6 (1.20%) Databricks
4 4 (0.80%) Google
4 4 (0.80%) Oracle
4 4 (0.80%) SAP
5 3 (0.60%) Alteryx
6 2 (0.40%) Foundry
6 2 (0.40%) Informatica
6 2 (0.40%) 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