Data Analyst Jobs in the South West

Data Analyst
England > South West

The median Data Analyst salary in the South West is £37,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 January 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 190 206
Rank change year-on-year +61 +16 -29
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Analyst 94 46 72
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.80% 0.89% 1.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.90% 0.93% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 37 32 42
10th Percentile £25,000 £27,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £27,104 £35,211 £31,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £39,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +1.35%
75th Percentile £43,750 £56,599 £47,500
90th Percentile £52,500 £61,665 £57,875
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +17.65%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 South West with a recognized job title 4,937 4,955 6,522
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.58% 96.10% 94.85%
Number of salaries quoted 2,294 3,526 4,131
10th Percentile £30,913 £29,470 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,658 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% +0.50% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,778 £66,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £62,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -7.26% +3.33%

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analyst in the South West

Data Analyst
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Analyst in the South West.

Salary trend for Data Analyst in the South West

Data Analyst
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Analyst in the South West over the 6 months to 16 January 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Analyst in the South West

Data Analyst
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Analyst within the South West region over the 6 months to 16 January 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
Devon - 29 £43,750 - 3
Bristol +27 25 £25,625 -34.29% 6
Gloucestershire +33 22 - - 5
Wiltshire +17 12 £40,000 +33.33% 1
Somerset -7 6 £37,500 +25.00% 9
Data Analyst
England

Data Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 16 January 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 South West region featuring Data Analyst in the job title.

1 71 (75.53%) Analytics
2 69 (73.40%) Social Skills
3 59 (62.77%) Problem-Solving
3 59 (62.77%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (57.45%) Data Management
5 46 (48.94%) Data Governance
5 46 (48.94%) Data Quality
6 45 (47.87%) Data Transformation
6 45 (47.87%) Broadband
6 45 (47.87%) Data Hub
6 45 (47.87%) Customer Experience
7 39 (41.49%) Oracle
8 37 (39.36%) SQL
8 37 (39.36%) Informatica
8 37 (39.36%) BigQuery
8 37 (39.36%) GCP
8 37 (39.36%) Over-the-Top Content
8 37 (39.36%) Data Lineage
8 37 (39.36%) Metadata Management
8 37 (39.36%) Cloudera
8 37 (39.36%) Metadata
8 37 (39.36%) Collibra
9 28 (29.79%) Visualisation
10 24 (25.53%) Power BI
10 24 (25.53%) Power Platform
11 23 (24.47%) Finance
11 23 (24.47%) Data Analysis
12 22 (23.40%) Decision-Making
13 21 (22.34%) Business Intelligence
14 17 (18.09%) Microsoft Excel

Data Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (2.13%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.06%) ArcGIS
2 1 (1.06%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 17 (18.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 37 (39.36%) Collibra
1 37 (39.36%) GCP
2 24 (25.53%) Power Platform
3 5 (5.32%) Azure
3 5 (5.32%) Snowflake
4 3 (3.19%) AWS
4 3 (3.19%) Google Analytics
4 3 (3.19%) WhatsApp
5 2 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.06%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 45 (47.87%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (47.87%) Data Hub
2 37 (39.36%) BigQuery
2 37 (39.36%) Metadata
3 24 (25.53%) Power BI
4 15 (15.96%) Tableau
5 8 (8.51%) Big Data
6 4 (4.26%) GIS
7 3 (3.19%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (3.19%) Qlik Sense
8 2 (2.13%) Data Lake
8 2 (2.13%) Power Query
8 2 (2.13%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.06%) MySQL
9 1 (1.06%) Oracle BI EE
9 1 (1.06%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (3.19%) JIRA
2 1 (1.06%) Git
2 1 (1.06%) RStudio
2 1 (1.06%) Subversion
General
1 69 (73.40%) Social Skills
2 59 (62.77%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (24.47%) Finance
4 11 (11.70%) Influencing Skills
4 11 (11.70%) Retail
5 10 (10.64%) Banking
6 7 (7.45%) Marketing
6 7 (7.45%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.19%) Humanities
7 3 (3.19%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.06%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.13%) NumPy
1 2 (2.13%) Pandas
1 2 (2.13%) scikit-learn
2 1 (1.06%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (39.36%) Over-the-Top Content
2 3 (3.19%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (3.19%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (2.13%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.13%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.06%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (75.53%) Analytics
2 59 (62.77%) Problem-Solving
3 54 (57.45%) Data Management
4 46 (48.94%) Data Governance
5 45 (47.87%) Customer Experience
5 45 (47.87%) Data Transformation
6 37 (39.36%) Data Lineage
6 37 (39.36%) Metadata Management
7 28 (29.79%) Visualisation
8 23 (24.47%) Data Analysis
9 22 (23.40%) Decision-Making
10 21 (22.34%) Business Intelligence
11 17 (18.09%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (17.02%) Data Visualisation
13 15 (15.96%) Data Analytics
14 14 (14.89%) Actionable Insight
15 11 (11.70%) Data Extraction
16 10 (10.64%) Predictive Modelling
16 10 (10.64%) Statistical Modelling
16 10 (10.64%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 37 (39.36%) SQL
2 14 (14.89%) Python
3 8 (8.51%) VBA
4 6 (6.38%) R
5 3 (3.19%) Julia
5 3 (3.19%) VB
6 1 (1.06%) PHP
Qualifications
1 17 (18.09%) Degree
2 8 (8.51%) CISA
3 5 (5.32%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.06%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.06%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (48.94%) Data Quality
2 8 (8.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.06%) GDPR
Vendors
1 39 (41.49%) Oracle
2 37 (39.36%) Cloudera
2 37 (39.36%) Informatica
3 7 (7.45%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.19%) Alteryx
4 3 (3.19%) Avature
4 3 (3.19%) Google
5 2 (2.13%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.06%) SAP