Data Analyst Jobs in the North of England

Data Analyst
England > North of England

The median Data Analyst salary in the North of England is £40,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 242 278 221
Rank change year-on-year +36 -57 +98
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Analyst 97 111 231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.83% 0.63% 1.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.90% 0.66% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 54 88 75
10th Percentile £25,000 £24,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,313 £29,000 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,750 £35,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.43% -6.67% +1.35%
75th Percentile £53,750 £45,781 £43,750
90th Percentile £72,934 £52,500 £53,250
England median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 10,805 16,797 15,139
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.10% 94.98% 89.58%
Number of salaries quoted 5,774 12,987 8,121
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £36,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +7.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £69,649
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £56,000 £53,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +5.66% -12.83% +1.33%

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Data Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analyst in the North of England

Data Analyst
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Analyst in the North of England.

Salary trend for Data Analyst 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 May 2025.

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 May 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
North West -12 56 £40,000 +14.29% 57
Yorkshire +72 33 £25,625 -26.79% 44
North East +30 8 £67,500 +92.86% 12
Data Analyst
England

Data Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 20 May 2025, Data Analyst job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number 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 65 (67.01%) Finance
1 65 (67.01%) Degree
2 59 (60.82%) Visualisation
2 59 (60.82%) Analytics
3 49 (50.52%) Data Analytics
4 46 (47.42%) SQL
5 45 (46.39%) Power BI
5 45 (46.39%) Power Platform
6 43 (44.33%) Social Skills
6 43 (44.33%) Data Analysis
7 42 (43.30%) Data Quality
8 40 (41.24%) Microsoft Excel
9 31 (31.96%) SAP
10 30 (30.93%) Data Management
10 30 (30.93%) Mathematics
11 29 (29.90%) Process Improvement
12 28 (28.87%) Management Information System
13 27 (27.84%) ERP
13 27 (27.84%) Economics
13 27 (27.84%) Statistics
14 26 (26.80%) Indirect Procurement
14 26 (26.80%) Source to Pay
15 22 (22.68%) Business Intelligence
16 20 (20.62%) Data Extraction
17 19 (19.59%) Tableau
17 19 (19.59%) Storytelling
18 18 (18.56%) Statistical Modelling
18 18 (18.56%) Big Data
18 18 (18.56%) Predictive Modelling
18 18 (18.56%) Banking

Data Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (6.19%) Jupyter
2 3 (3.09%) SAS
3 1 (1.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 40 (41.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (9.28%) Chatbot
3 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.03%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (1.03%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 4 (4.12%) Markit EDM
2 1 (1.03%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (1.03%) iTrent
2 1 (1.03%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 45 (46.39%) Power Platform
2 7 (7.22%) Snowflake
3 6 (6.19%) Azure
4 3 (3.09%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (3.09%) Google Analytics
5 2 (2.06%) AWS
5 2 (2.06%) GCP
6 1 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.03%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.03%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.03%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (46.39%) Power BI
2 19 (19.59%) Tableau
3 18 (18.56%) Big Data
4 6 (6.19%) Dremio
5 5 (5.15%) SQL Server
6 4 (4.12%) Data Lake
7 3 (3.09%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (3.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (2.06%) Data Mining
8 2 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.06%) GIS
8 2 (2.06%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.03%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.03%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
9 1 (1.03%) MySQL
9 1 (1.03%) Power Query
9 1 (1.03%) Qlik Sense
9 1 (1.03%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 2 (2.06%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (1.03%) Git
2 1 (1.03%) JIRA
2 1 (1.03%) Subversion
2 1 (1.03%) Visual Studio
General
1 65 (67.01%) Finance
2 43 (44.33%) Social Skills
3 18 (18.56%) Banking
4 12 (12.37%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (8.25%) Marketing
6 5 (5.15%) Back Office
7 2 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.06%) Law
7 2 (2.06%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.06%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.06%) Retail
8 1 (1.03%) Billing
8 1 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.03%) Legal
8 1 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.03%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.03%) Matplotlib
1 1 (1.03%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 28 (28.87%) Management Information System
2 5 (5.15%) Equities
3 4 (4.12%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.12%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.03%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.03%) Derivative
4 1 (1.03%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (60.82%) Analytics
1 59 (60.82%) Visualisation
2 49 (50.52%) Data Analytics
3 43 (44.33%) Data Analysis
4 30 (30.93%) Data Management
4 30 (30.93%) Mathematics
5 29 (29.90%) Process Improvement
6 27 (27.84%) Economics
6 27 (27.84%) ERP
6 27 (27.84%) Statistics
7 26 (26.80%) Indirect Procurement
7 26 (26.80%) Source to Pay
8 22 (22.68%) Business Intelligence
9 20 (20.62%) Data Extraction
10 19 (19.59%) Storytelling
11 18 (18.56%) Predictive Modelling
11 18 (18.56%) Statistical Modelling
12 14 (14.43%) Computer Science
13 11 (11.34%) Data Science
14 10 (10.31%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 46 (47.42%) SQL
2 16 (16.49%) Python
3 2 (2.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.03%) Bash
4 1 (1.03%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.03%) R
4 1 (1.03%) VBA
Qualifications
1 65 (67.01%) Degree
2 9 (9.28%) Master's Degree
2 9 (9.28%) PhD
3 1 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.03%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.03%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (43.30%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.03%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.03%) GDPR
2 1 (1.03%) QA
Vendors
1 31 (31.96%) SAP
2 9 (9.28%) PayPal
3 6 (6.19%) Databricks
4 4 (4.12%) Bloomberg
4 4 (4.12%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.12%) Reuters
5 3 (3.09%) Alteryx
5 3 (3.09%) Google
6 1 (1.03%) HubSpot
6 1 (1.03%) NEC