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 3 August 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 220 262
Rank change year-on-year +156 +42 -25
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Analyst 501 100 84
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.32% 1.04% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.44% 1.18% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 206 58 69
10th Percentile £32,742 £30,750 -
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 £52,500 £54,500 £47,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £64,184 £52,750
England median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £52,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -8.65% +15.56%

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 20,525 8,474 14,230
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 88.39% 95.03%
Number of salaries quoted 14,951 4,580 10,041
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -2.00% -8.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 3 August 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 3 August 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 +89 232 £42,000 -1.18% 30
North West +105 210 £45,000 - 32
North East 0 59 £40,000 -16.23% 13
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 August 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.

1 281 (56.09%) SQL
2 275 (54.89%) Business Intelligence
3 268 (53.49%) Microsoft Excel
4 265 (52.89%) Power BI
4 265 (52.89%) Power Platform
5 264 (52.69%) Microsoft
6 253 (50.50%) Python
7 249 (49.70%) Tableau
8 222 (44.31%) AI
9 219 (43.71%) Azure
10 214 (42.71%) Azure Certification
11 212 (42.32%) Azure AI
12 92 (18.36%) Data Analysis
13 81 (16.17%) Analytics
14 65 (12.97%) Decision-Making
15 47 (9.38%) Data Quality
16 45 (8.98%) Continuous Improvement
17 40 (7.98%) Data Analytics
18 39 (7.78%) Dashboard Development
19 33 (6.59%) Visualisation
20 32 (6.39%) Stakeholder Management
21 29 (5.79%) Project Management
22 28 (5.59%) Business Analysis
23 27 (5.39%) Actionable Insight
23 27 (5.39%) Data Mining
24 26 (5.19%) DBS Check
25 25 (4.99%) Problem-Solving
26 24 (4.79%) System Testing
26 24 (4.79%) Workday
27 19 (3.79%) 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
1 268 (53.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.80%) iTrent
1 4 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 265 (52.89%) Power Platform
2 219 (43.71%) Azure
3 212 (42.32%) Azure AI
4 12 (2.40%) Snowflake
5 6 (1.20%) GCP
6 5 (1.00%) AWS
6 5 (1.00%) dbt
7 4 (0.80%) SuccessFactors
8 3 (0.60%) SaaS
9 2 (0.40%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.40%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (0.40%) Cloud Composer
9 2 (0.40%) Dagster
9 2 (0.40%) Google Analytics
9 2 (0.40%) Google Tag Manager
9 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (0.40%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.20%) Alation
10 1 (0.20%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.20%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 265 (52.89%) Power BI
2 249 (49.70%) Tableau
3 27 (5.39%) 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
7 6 (1.20%) Power Query
8 5 (1.00%) SQL Server
8 5 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (0.80%) Data Lake
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
1 247 (49.30%) Social Skills
2 103 (20.56%) Analytical Skills
3 66 (13.17%) Finance
4 16 (3.19%) Retail
5 15 (2.99%) Legal
6 12 (2.40%) Marketing
7 9 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.40%) Public Sector
9 6 (1.20%) Law
10 4 (0.80%) Banking
10 4 (0.80%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.40%) Advertising
12 2 (0.40%) Billing
12 2 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.40%) Local Government
13 1 (0.20%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.20%) Back Office
13 1 (0.20%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.20%) Social Science
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.20%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 20 (3.99%) Management Information System
2 4 (0.80%) Algorithms
2 4 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (0.60%) Data Structures
4 2 (0.40%) Public Cloud
4 2 (0.40%) Security Posture
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%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.40%) Windows
1 2 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (54.89%) Business Intelligence
2 222 (44.31%) AI
3 92 (18.36%) Data Analysis
4 81 (16.17%) Analytics
5 65 (12.97%) Decision-Making
6 45 (8.98%) Continuous Improvement
7 40 (7.98%) Data Analytics
8 39 (7.78%) Dashboard Development
9 33 (6.59%) Visualisation
10 32 (6.39%) Stakeholder Management
11 29 (5.79%) Project Management
12 28 (5.59%) Business Analysis
13 27 (5.39%) Actionable Insight
14 25 (4.99%) Problem-Solving
15 24 (4.79%) System Testing
16 19 (3.79%) Data Modelling
17 16 (3.19%) Data Visualisation
18 14 (2.79%) Validation
19 12 (2.40%) Data-Driven Decision Making
19 12 (2.40%) Disruptive Innovation
Programming Languages
1 281 (56.09%) SQL
2 253 (50.50%) Python
3 6 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (0.60%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.20%) R
5 1 (0.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 214 (42.71%) Azure Certification
2 26 (5.19%) DBS Check
3 9 (1.80%) Degree
4 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.40%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.20%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.20%) CBAP
6 1 (0.20%) CISM
6 1 (0.20%) CISSP
6 1 (0.20%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.20%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (9.38%) 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%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.40%) GRC
7 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.20%) NIST
7 1 (0.20%) PMO
Systems Management
1 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 264 (52.69%) Microsoft
2 24 (4.79%) Workday
3 6 (1.20%) Databricks
4 5 (1.00%) Google
5 4 (0.80%) Oracle
5 4 (0.80%) SAP
6 3 (0.60%) Alteryx
7 2 (0.40%) Dataiku
7 2 (0.40%) Foundry
7 2 (0.40%) Informatica
7 2 (0.40%) Vertica
8 1 (0.20%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.20%) Palantir
8 1 (0.20%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.20%) Splunk
8 1 (0.20%) TOWER Software