Data Analysis Job Trends in the South East

Data Analysis
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Data Analysis skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 81 97
Rank change year-on-year -85 +16 +59
Permanent jobs citing Data Analysis 184 283 315
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.00% 3.15% 2.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 3.58% 3.04%
Number of salaries quoted 100 135 114
10th Percentile £33,400 £30,000 £35,300
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,625 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +1.00% -8.26%
75th Percentile £66,250 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £71,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £56,252
% change year-on-year - -6.67% +2.28%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

Data Analysis falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,107 7,907 10,362
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.52% 88.04% 80.64%
Number of salaries quoted 9,396 4,166 5,928
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -7.26%

Data Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Analysis relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Data Analysis job vacancy trend in the South East

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Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data Analysis.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data Analysis

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Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Analysis in the South East over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Analysis in the South East

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Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Analysis within the South East region over the 6 months to 15 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
Thames Valley -9 92 £52,500 +3.45% 103
Berkshire -1 52 £46,500 +12.73% 40
Hampshire -58 52 £57,500 +35.29% 51
Buckinghamshire -2 23 £48,750 -0.51% 29
Oxfordshire -31 17 £60,000 +9.09% 35
Isle of Wight +8 16 £87,200 +16.27% 5
Surrey -37 8 £46,500 +11.38% 30
East Sussex -10 7 £95,000 +216.67% 13
Kent -38 3 £62,500 +4.17% 9
West Sussex -52 3 - - 10
Data Analysis
England

Data Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 21 (11.41%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.72%) SAS
3 4 (2.17%) CICS
4 3 (1.63%) Confluence
5 1 (0.54%) WordPress
Applications
1 58 (31.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.80%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.63%) CATIA
3 3 (1.63%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (3.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.09%) Academy Housing
2 2 (1.09%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.09%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.54%) Finacle
3 1 (0.54%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.54%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.54%) Yoast SEO
Cloud Services
1 49 (26.63%) Power Platform
2 17 (9.24%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (8.70%) Azure
4 8 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (4.35%) PowerApps
5 7 (3.80%) AWS
6 4 (2.17%) Google Analytics
7 3 (1.63%) Amazon S3
7 3 (1.63%) ChatGPT
7 3 (1.63%) GCP
7 3 (1.63%) GitHub
7 3 (1.63%) WeChat
8 2 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.09%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.09%) Google Gemini
8 2 (1.09%) Google Sheets
8 2 (1.09%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (1.09%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.54%) Modbus
1 1 (0.54%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (21.74%) Power BI
2 10 (5.43%) Tableau
3 8 (4.35%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (2.72%) Db2
5 4 (2.17%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (2.17%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.63%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (1.63%) Looker
6 3 (1.63%) Metadata
7 2 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.09%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.09%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.54%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.54%) GIS
8 1 (0.54%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (3.80%) JIRA
2 4 (2.17%) ChangeMan
2 4 (2.17%) Git
2 4 (2.17%) GitLab
3 3 (1.63%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.54%) MLflow
General
1 74 (40.22%) Analytical Skills
2 72 (39.13%) Finance
3 55 (29.89%) Social Skills
4 25 (13.59%) Manufacturing
4 25 (13.59%) Organisational Skills
5 20 (10.87%) Aerospace
6 14 (7.61%) Electronics
6 14 (7.61%) Retail
7 12 (6.52%) Marketing
8 11 (5.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (5.98%) Legal
9 6 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (2.72%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (2.17%) Banking
11 4 (2.17%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.63%) Local Government
12 3 (1.63%) Mandarin Language
13 2 (1.09%) Billing
13 2 (1.09%) Fire and Rescue
13 2 (1.09%) Law
Job Titles
1 65 (35.33%) Analyst
2 34 (18.48%) Senior
3 32 (17.39%) Data Analyst
4 23 (12.50%) Consultant
5 17 (9.24%) Developer
6 15 (8.15%) Lead
7 14 (7.61%) Business Analyst
7 14 (7.61%) Senior Analyst
8 13 (7.07%) Systems Engineer
9 10 (5.43%) Electronics Engineer
9 10 (5.43%) Financial Analyst
9 10 (5.43%) Principal Engineer
9 10 (5.43%) Principal Systems Engineer
10 9 (4.89%) Business Developer
10 9 (4.89%) Systems Developer
11 8 (4.35%) Senior Consultant
12 7 (3.80%) Analytics Manager
12 7 (3.80%) SAP Support
13 6 (3.26%) EDI Specialist
13 6 (3.26%) Payroll Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.89%) Middleware
2 7 (3.80%) EDI
3 6 (3.26%) SAP XI
4 5 (2.72%) XML
5 4 (2.17%) .NET
5 4 (2.17%) .NET Core
5 4 (2.17%) RESTful
5 4 (2.17%) WPF
6 3 (1.63%) HTML
6 3 (1.63%) PySpark
7 2 (1.09%) XSLT
7 2 (1.09%) YAML
8 1 (0.54%) CSS
8 1 (0.54%) PyTorch
8 1 (0.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.70%) Onboarding
2 14 (7.61%) Management Information System
3 10 (5.43%) FPGA
4 8 (4.35%) Algorithms
5 6 (3.26%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.17%) Client/Server
6 4 (2.17%) Legacy Code
6 4 (2.17%) VSAM
7 3 (1.63%) Social Media
8 2 (1.09%) Housing Association
9 1 (0.54%) Blog
9 1 (0.54%) Freedom of Information
9 1 (0.54%) IoT
9 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing Execution System
9 1 (0.54%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.54%) SCADA
9 1 (0.54%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.54%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.17%) zOS
2 3 (1.63%) Windows
3 1 (0.54%) Linux
3 1 (0.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (36.96%) Problem-Solving
2 56 (30.43%) Decision-Making
3 53 (28.80%) Continuous Improvement
4 48 (26.09%) Business Intelligence
5 43 (23.37%) Analytics
6 38 (20.65%) Agile
7 33 (17.93%) AI
8 31 (16.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 24 (13.04%) Mentoring
10 23 (12.50%) Computer Science
10 23 (12.50%) Project Delivery
10 23 (12.50%) Validation
11 22 (11.96%) ERP
11 22 (11.96%) Process Improvement
11 22 (11.96%) Visualisation
12 19 (10.33%) Actionable Insight
12 19 (10.33%) Data Visualisation
12 19 (10.33%) Requirements Gathering
13 18 (9.78%) Data Science
14 17 (9.24%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 53 (28.80%) SQL
2 38 (20.65%) Python
3 9 (4.89%) VBA
4 6 (3.26%) C
4 6 (3.26%) MATLAB
5 5 (2.72%) COBOL
6 4 (2.17%) C#
6 4 (2.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (2.17%) JCL
7 3 (1.63%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.63%) R
7 3 (1.63%) SAS Macro
7 3 (1.63%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.09%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.54%) Micro Focus COBOL
9 1 (0.54%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 65 (35.33%) Degree
2 22 (11.96%) Security Cleared
3 17 (9.24%) BPSS Clearance
4 15 (8.15%) SC Cleared
5 11 (5.98%) DBS Check
5 11 (5.98%) Master's Degree
6 10 (5.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.17%) ACCA
7 4 (2.17%) CIMA
8 3 (1.63%) Chartered Engineer
8 3 (1.63%) PhD
8 3 (1.63%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 2 (1.09%) City & Guilds
9 2 (1.09%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.09%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.09%) PMP
10 1 (0.54%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.54%) ISEB
10 1 (0.54%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.96%) Data Quality
2 12 (6.52%) QA
3 6 (3.26%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.72%) CDISC
4 5 (2.72%) GDPR
5 3 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 3 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 2 (1.09%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (3.26%) Embedded Firmware
1 6 (3.26%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (2.17%) CA Endevor
2 1 (0.54%) MOM
Vendors
1 34 (18.48%) Microsoft
2 20 (10.87%) SAP
3 19 (10.33%) Oracle
4 10 (5.43%) Xilinx
5 9 (4.89%) Alteryx
5 9 (4.89%) Hyperion
6 7 (3.80%) Google
7 5 (2.72%) Salesforce
8 4 (2.17%) CA Agile Central
9 3 (1.63%) IBM
9 3 (1.63%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.09%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.09%) Thales
11 1 (0.54%) Callidus
11 1 (0.54%) Databricks
11 1 (0.54%) FIS
11 1 (0.54%) Infor
11 1 (0.54%) Temenos
11 1 (0.54%) WooCommerce
11 1 (0.54%) YouTube