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 21 September 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 215 251
Rank change year-on-year +114 +36 -22
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Analyst 383 79 81
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.60% 0.84% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.72% 0.97% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 197 65 60
10th Percentile £34,600 £30,750 -
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £24,960
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +30.77% -12.16%
75th Percentile £65,000 £54,500 £43,188
90th Percentile - £59,500 £50,124
England median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +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 22,304 8,160 13,343
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.34% 87.08% 94.98%
Number of salaries quoted 16,200 4,372 7,875
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,192
England median annual salary £59,773 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.68% - -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 21 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 21 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 +83 186 £45,019 +4.69% 65
Yorkshire +63 158 £45,000 +5.88% 44
North East -26 39 £42,500 +20.57% 20
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 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.

1 161 (42.04%) Business Intelligence
2 157 (40.99%) Power BI
2 157 (40.99%) Power Platform
3 149 (38.90%) SQL
4 137 (35.77%) Microsoft Excel
5 124 (32.38%) Microsoft
6 123 (32.11%) Python
7 119 (31.07%) AI
8 115 (30.03%) Tableau
9 113 (29.50%) Azure
10 108 (28.20%) Azure Certification
11 106 (27.68%) Azure AI
12 85 (22.19%) Data Analysis
13 68 (17.75%) Decision-Making
14 50 (13.05%) Analytics
15 48 (12.53%) Data Quality
16 37 (9.66%) Dashboard Development
17 36 (9.40%) Continuous Improvement
18 35 (9.14%) Stakeholder Management
19 27 (7.05%) Actionable Insight
19 27 (7.05%) Visualisation
20 26 (6.79%) DBS Check
21 24 (6.27%) System Testing
21 24 (6.27%) Workday
22 23 (6.01%) Data Modelling
23 18 (4.70%) Problem-Solving
24 14 (3.66%) Validation
25 13 (3.39%) Data Visualisation
26 12 (3.13%) Business Strategy
26 12 (3.13%) 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 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.52%) Confluence
2 2 (0.52%) IIS
3 1 (0.26%) Apache
3 1 (0.26%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.26%) Apache Superset
3 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 137 (35.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.26%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.04%) iTrent
1 4 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 157 (40.99%) Power Platform
2 113 (29.50%) Azure
3 106 (27.68%) Azure AI
4 11 (2.87%) Snowflake
5 7 (1.83%) dbt
6 5 (1.31%) AWS
6 5 (1.31%) GCP
7 4 (1.04%) SaaS
7 4 (1.04%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (0.52%) Alation
8 2 (0.52%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.52%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.52%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (0.52%) Cloud Composer
8 2 (0.52%) Dagster
8 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.26%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.26%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (40.99%) Power BI
2 115 (30.03%) Tableau
3 10 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (2.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 6 (1.57%) Power Query
5 6 (1.57%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.31%) Looker
6 5 (1.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (1.04%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.52%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.52%) Data Vault
8 2 (0.52%) Metadata
8 2 (0.52%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.26%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.26%) GIS
9 1 (0.26%) Metabase
9 1 (0.26%) OLAP
9 1 (0.26%) OLTP
9 1 (0.26%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.26%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 4 (1.04%) JIRA
General
1 133 (34.73%) Social Skills
2 76 (19.84%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (10.44%) Finance
4 15 (3.92%) Legal
5 14 (3.66%) Retail
6 9 (2.35%) Marketing
7 8 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.31%) Law
8 5 (1.31%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.04%) Banking
9 4 (1.04%) Public Sector
10 3 (0.78%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.52%) Local Government
11 2 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.26%) Advertising
12 1 (0.26%) Back Office
12 1 (0.26%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.26%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.26%) Welsh Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.26%) FHIR
1 1 (0.26%) NumPy
1 1 (0.26%) Pandas
1 1 (0.26%) pgvector
1 1 (0.26%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 12 (3.13%) Management Information System
2 4 (1.04%) Algorithms
2 4 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (0.78%) Data Structures
4 2 (0.52%) NHS
4 2 (0.52%) Public Cloud
4 2 (0.52%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.26%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.26%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.26%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.26%) PMI
5 1 (0.26%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.26%) SystemC
5 1 (0.26%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.52%) Windows
1 2 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (42.04%) Business Intelligence
2 119 (31.07%) AI
3 85 (22.19%) Data Analysis
4 68 (17.75%) Decision-Making
5 50 (13.05%) Analytics
6 37 (9.66%) Dashboard Development
7 36 (9.40%) Continuous Improvement
8 35 (9.14%) Stakeholder Management
9 27 (7.05%) Actionable Insight
9 27 (7.05%) Visualisation
10 24 (6.27%) System Testing
11 23 (6.01%) Data Modelling
12 18 (4.70%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (3.66%) Validation
14 13 (3.39%) Data Visualisation
15 12 (3.13%) Business Strategy
15 12 (3.13%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 12 (3.13%) Disruptive Innovation
16 10 (2.61%) Data Analytics
16 10 (2.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 149 (38.90%) SQL
2 123 (32.11%) Python
3 5 (1.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (0.78%) T-SQL
5 2 (0.52%) R
5 2 (0.52%) VBA
6 1 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.26%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 108 (28.20%) Azure Certification
2 26 (6.79%) DBS Check
3 7 (1.83%) Degree
4 3 (0.78%) Security Cleared
5 2 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.52%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.26%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.26%) CBAP
6 1 (0.26%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (12.53%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.09%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.31%) QA
4 2 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (0.52%) GRC
5 1 (0.26%) PMO
Systems Management
1 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 124 (32.38%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.27%) Workday
3 8 (2.09%) SAP
4 4 (1.04%) Databricks
4 4 (1.04%) Google
4 4 (1.04%) Oracle
5 3 (0.78%) Ariba
5 3 (0.78%) Dataiku
6 2 (0.52%) Foundry
6 2 (0.52%) Informatica
6 2 (0.52%) Sage
7 1 (0.26%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.26%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.26%) Palantir
7 1 (0.26%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.26%) Splunk
7 1 (0.26%) Trend Micro