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 10 August 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 215 257
Rank change year-on-year +152 +42 -18
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Analyst 484 97 86
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.19% 1.01% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.32% 1.14% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 209 55 70
10th Percentile £33,347 £29,250 £24,960
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,125 £24,970
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +21.43% -6.67%
75th Percentile £55,000 £54,500 £47,188
90th Percentile £65,000 £65,868 £52,625
England median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £52,250
% change year-on-year -5.26% -9.09% +16.11%

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 20,896 8,498 14,347
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.65% 88.38% 95.09%
Number of salaries quoted 15,254 4,591 9,871
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% -8.41%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £77,500
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 10 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 10 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 +93 221 £45,000 +5.88% 31
North West +100 206 £45,000 +2.86% 31
North East -7 57 £40,000 +31.15% 8
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 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.

1 259 (53.51%) SQL
2 258 (53.31%) Business Intelligence
3 248 (51.24%) Power BI
3 248 (51.24%) Power Platform
4 245 (50.62%) Microsoft Excel
5 244 (50.41%) Microsoft
6 232 (47.93%) Python
7 227 (46.90%) Tableau
8 207 (42.77%) AI
9 204 (42.15%) Azure
10 198 (40.91%) Azure Certification
11 196 (40.50%) Azure AI
12 90 (18.60%) Data Analysis
13 77 (15.91%) Analytics
14 63 (13.02%) Decision-Making
15 49 (10.12%) Data Quality
16 46 (9.50%) Continuous Improvement
17 37 (7.64%) Dashboard Development
18 36 (7.44%) Data Analytics
19 33 (6.82%) Stakeholder Management
20 32 (6.61%) Visualisation
21 26 (5.37%) Actionable Insight
21 26 (5.37%) DBS Check
22 24 (4.96%) Problem-Solving
22 24 (4.96%) Project Management
22 24 (4.96%) System Testing
22 24 (4.96%) Workday
23 23 (4.75%) Business Analysis
24 22 (4.55%) Data Mining
25 19 (3.93%) 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 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.41%) Confluence
2 2 (0.41%) IIS
3 1 (0.21%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 245 (50.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.83%) iTrent
1 4 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 248 (51.24%) Power Platform
2 204 (42.15%) Azure
3 196 (40.50%) Azure AI
4 13 (2.69%) Snowflake
5 7 (1.45%) GCP
6 6 (1.24%) dbt
7 5 (1.03%) AWS
8 4 (0.83%) SuccessFactors
9 3 (0.62%) SaaS
10 2 (0.41%) Alation
10 2 (0.41%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.41%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.41%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (0.41%) Cloud Composer
10 2 (0.41%) Dagster
10 2 (0.41%) Google Analytics
10 2 (0.41%) Google Tag Manager
10 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (0.41%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.21%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 248 (51.24%) Power BI
2 227 (46.90%) Tableau
3 22 (4.55%) Data Mining
4 11 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (1.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (1.45%) Looker
7 6 (1.24%) BigQuery
7 6 (1.24%) Power Query
7 6 (1.24%) SQL Server
8 5 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (0.83%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.41%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.41%) Metadata
11 1 (0.21%) Big Data
11 1 (0.21%) GIS
11 1 (0.21%) Spark SQL
11 1 (0.21%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (0.83%) JIRA
General
1 232 (47.93%) Social Skills
2 100 (20.66%) Analytical Skills
3 63 (13.02%) Finance
4 16 (3.31%) Legal
4 16 (3.31%) Retail
5 10 (2.07%) Marketing
6 9 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.45%) Public Sector
8 6 (1.24%) Law
9 5 (1.03%) Manufacturing
10 4 (0.83%) Banking
11 2 (0.41%) Advertising
11 2 (0.41%) Billing
11 2 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.41%) Local Government
11 2 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.21%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.21%) Back Office
12 1 (0.21%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.21%) Social Science
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.21%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 20 (4.13%) Management Information System
2 4 (0.83%) Algorithms
2 4 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (0.62%) Data Structures
4 2 (0.41%) Public Cloud
4 2 (0.41%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.21%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.21%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.21%) NHS
5 1 (0.21%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.21%) PMI
5 1 (0.21%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.21%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.41%) Windows
1 2 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 258 (53.31%) Business Intelligence
2 207 (42.77%) AI
3 90 (18.60%) Data Analysis
4 77 (15.91%) Analytics
5 63 (13.02%) Decision-Making
6 46 (9.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 37 (7.64%) Dashboard Development
8 36 (7.44%) Data Analytics
9 33 (6.82%) Stakeholder Management
10 32 (6.61%) Visualisation
11 26 (5.37%) Actionable Insight
12 24 (4.96%) Problem-Solving
12 24 (4.96%) Project Management
12 24 (4.96%) System Testing
13 23 (4.75%) Business Analysis
14 19 (3.93%) Data Modelling
15 15 (3.10%) Data Visualisation
16 14 (2.89%) Validation
17 12 (2.48%) Disruptive Innovation
18 11 (2.27%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Programming Languages
1 259 (53.51%) SQL
2 232 (47.93%) Python
3 6 (1.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (0.62%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.21%) R
5 1 (0.21%) VBA
Qualifications
1 198 (40.91%) Azure Certification
2 26 (5.37%) DBS Check
3 7 (1.45%) Degree
4 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.41%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.21%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.21%) CBAP
6 1 (0.21%) CISM
6 1 (0.21%) CISSP
6 1 (0.21%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.21%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (10.12%) Data Quality
2 11 (2.27%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.65%) GMP
4 5 (1.03%) GDPR
5 3 (0.62%) QA
6 2 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.41%) GRC
7 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.21%) NIST
7 1 (0.21%) PMO
Systems Management
1 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 244 (50.41%) Microsoft
2 24 (4.96%) Workday
3 6 (1.24%) Databricks
3 6 (1.24%) Google
4 4 (0.83%) Oracle
4 4 (0.83%) SAP
5 3 (0.62%) Dataiku
6 2 (0.41%) Foundry
6 2 (0.41%) Informatica
6 2 (0.41%) Vertica
7 1 (0.21%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.21%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.21%) Palantir
7 1 (0.21%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.21%) Splunk
7 1 (0.21%) TOWER Software