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 £45,037 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 October 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 221 234
Rank change year-on-year +114 +13 -19
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Analyst 351 81 77
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.46% 0.84% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.57% 0.97% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 203 66 56
10th Percentile £31,350 £30,750 -
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £24,960
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,037 £42,500 £31,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.97% +34.92% -12.50%
75th Percentile £65,000 £54,500 £43,188
90th Percentile - £59,375 £50,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -16.67% +8.00%

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 22,394 8,380 12,738
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.85% 87.34% 94.98%
Number of salaries quoted 16,270 4,320 7,070
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,500 £39,285
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -7.83%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £78,775 £78,525
England median annual salary £59,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.18% - -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 6 October 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 6 October 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 +85 179 £50,000 +17.65% 87
Yorkshire +50 137 £65,000 +54.30% 67
North East -37 35 £40,000 - 20
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 October 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.

1 117 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 111 (31.62%) Power BI
2 111 (31.62%) Power Platform
3 104 (29.63%) SQL
4 101 (28.77%) Data Analysis
5 93 (26.50%) Microsoft Excel
6 81 (23.08%) Microsoft
7 77 (21.94%) Python
8 76 (21.65%) AI
9 69 (19.66%) Azure
10 68 (19.37%) Tableau
11 62 (17.66%) Azure Certification
12 61 (17.38%) Azure AI
13 60 (17.09%) Decision-Making
14 49 (13.96%) Analytics
15 43 (12.25%) Data Quality
16 32 (9.12%) Dashboard Development
17 30 (8.55%) Continuous Improvement
18 29 (8.26%) Visualisation
19 28 (7.98%) Actionable Insight
19 28 (7.98%) Stakeholder Management
20 21 (5.98%) Data Modelling
21 20 (5.70%) DBS Check
22 19 (5.41%) Problem-Solving
23 18 (5.13%) System Testing
23 18 (5.13%) Workday
24 13 (3.70%) Data Visualisation
25 12 (3.42%) Disruptive Innovation
25 12 (3.42%) Validation
26 11 (3.13%) Business Strategy

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 2 (0.57%) IIS
2 1 (0.28%) Apache
2 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.28%) Apache Superset
2 1 (0.28%) Jupyter
Applications
1 93 (26.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.28%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.14%) iTrent
1 4 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 111 (31.62%) Power Platform
2 69 (19.66%) Azure
3 61 (17.38%) Azure AI
4 8 (2.28%) Snowflake
5 5 (1.42%) GCP
6 4 (1.14%) dbt
6 4 (1.14%) SuccessFactors
7 3 (0.85%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (0.85%) SaaS
8 2 (0.57%) Alation
8 2 (0.57%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.57%) AWS
8 2 (0.57%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.57%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.28%) Cloud Composer
9 1 (0.28%) Google Analytics
9 1 (0.28%) Google Data Studio
9 1 (0.28%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (31.62%) Power BI
2 68 (19.37%) Tableau
3 8 (2.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 7 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (1.71%) Power Query
5 6 (1.71%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (1.14%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.14%) Looker
8 2 (0.57%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.28%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.28%) GIS
9 1 (0.28%) MySQL
9 1 (0.28%) OLAP
9 1 (0.28%) OLAP Cube
9 1 (0.28%) OLTP
9 1 (0.28%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.28%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.28%) SAP BW
9 1 (0.28%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 1 (0.28%) JIRA
General
1 88 (25.07%) Social Skills
2 68 (19.37%) Analytical Skills
3 44 (12.54%) Finance
4 15 (4.27%) Legal
4 15 (4.27%) Retail
5 10 (2.85%) Marketing
6 8 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.42%) Law
7 5 (1.42%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.14%) Banking
9 3 (0.85%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.57%) Local Government
10 2 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.57%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.28%) Advertising
11 1 (0.28%) Back Office
11 1 (0.28%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.28%) Social Science
11 1 (0.28%) Welsh Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.28%) NumPy
1 1 (0.28%) Pandas
1 1 (0.28%) pgvector
1 1 (0.28%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 12 (3.42%) Management Information System
2 4 (1.14%) Algorithms
2 4 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (0.85%) Data Structures
4 2 (0.57%) Public Cloud
4 2 (0.57%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.28%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.28%) NHS
5 1 (0.28%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.28%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.28%) SystemC
5 1 (0.28%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.57%) Windows
1 2 (0.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 101 (28.77%) Data Analysis
3 76 (21.65%) AI
4 60 (17.09%) Decision-Making
5 49 (13.96%) Analytics
6 32 (9.12%) Dashboard Development
7 30 (8.55%) Continuous Improvement
8 29 (8.26%) Visualisation
9 28 (7.98%) Actionable Insight
9 28 (7.98%) Stakeholder Management
10 21 (5.98%) Data Modelling
11 19 (5.41%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (5.13%) System Testing
13 13 (3.70%) Data Visualisation
14 12 (3.42%) Disruptive Innovation
14 12 (3.42%) Validation
15 11 (3.13%) Business Strategy
15 11 (3.13%) Data-Driven Decision Making
16 10 (2.85%) Data Analytics
16 10 (2.85%) Data Collection
Programming Languages
1 104 (29.63%) SQL
2 77 (21.94%) Python
3 5 (1.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
4 3 (0.85%) T-SQL
5 2 (0.57%) R
5 2 (0.57%) VBA
6 1 (0.28%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 62 (17.66%) Azure Certification
2 20 (5.70%) DBS Check
3 6 (1.71%) Degree
4 3 (0.85%) SC Cleared
4 3 (0.85%) Security Cleared
5 2 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (12.25%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.28%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.71%) QA
4 3 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.57%) GRC
6 1 (0.28%) PMO
Systems Management
1 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 81 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 18 (5.13%) Workday
3 10 (2.85%) SAP
4 6 (1.71%) Google
5 4 (1.14%) Oracle
6 3 (0.85%) Ariba
7 2 (0.57%) Dataiku
7 2 (0.57%) Informatica
7 2 (0.57%) Sage
8 1 (0.28%) Foundry
8 1 (0.28%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.28%) Trend Micro