Data Analysis Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Data Analysis
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Data Analysis skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 142 93
Rank change year-on-year -34 -49 +30
Permanent jobs citing Data Analysis 773 759 1,912
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.08% 2.25% 2.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 2.54% 3.27%
Number of salaries quoted 477 390 915
10th Percentile £30,750 £26,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.37% -5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £66,459
90th Percentile £66,250 £68,177 £84,964
UK median annual salary £46,792 £52,500 £53,023
% change year-on-year -10.87% -0.99% +1.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 50,529 29,863 58,539
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.59% 88.35% 79.99%
Number of salaries quoted 35,494 16,025 40,293
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,851 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £79,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,201 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.89% +4.00% -8.84%

Data Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Data Analysis job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Data Analysis
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Analysis.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Analysis

Data Analysis
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Analysis in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Analysis in the UK excluding London

Data Analysis
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Analysis within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 July 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 of England +37 240 £45,497 +1.10% 100
South East -23 168 £52,500 - 132
South West -8 151 £41,500 -2.64% 47
Midlands -30 131 £40,000 -11.11% 72
North West +1 107 £45,000 - 51
Yorkshire +24 92 £44,500 +14.32% 34
West Midlands -24 88 £40,000 -23.81% 34
East Midlands -64 43 £38,600 -10.75% 38
North East -26 41 £55,000 +22.22% 15
East of England -55 41 £40,000 +18.52% 56
Scotland -12 33 £40,000 -23.81% 10
Wales -47 13 £50,000 -13.04% 10
Northern Ireland -62 2 £40,000 +23.08% 5
Data Analysis
UK

Data Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 31 (4.01%) SharePoint
2 14 (1.81%) Apache
2 14 (1.81%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.16%) Confluence
5 8 (1.03%) Jupyter
6 7 (0.91%) ArcGIS
7 5 (0.65%) IIS
8 4 (0.52%) CICS
8 4 (0.52%) SAS
9 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.13%) CMS
10 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 230 (29.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (4.14%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (2.72%) MS Visio
4 19 (2.46%) Spreadsheet
5 13 (1.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (1.16%) CATIA
7 3 (0.39%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.26%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.13%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 79 (10.22%) SAP PM
2 11 (1.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.52%) iTrent
4 2 (0.26%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.26%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 2 (0.26%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.13%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.13%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.13%) Shopify
5 1 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 174 (22.51%) Power Platform
2 53 (6.86%) Azure
3 47 (6.08%) Microsoft 365
4 36 (4.66%) AWS
5 24 (3.10%) PowerApps
6 19 (2.46%) Power Automate
7 17 (2.20%) Google Analytics
8 13 (1.68%) Amazon S3
9 12 (1.55%) GCP
9 12 (1.55%) SaaS
10 11 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
11 10 (1.29%) Entra ID
12 9 (1.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (1.16%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (1.16%) Serverless
13 8 (1.03%) Amazon ECR
13 8 (1.03%) Amazon EMR
13 8 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
13 8 (1.03%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.39%) SMS
2 2 (0.26%) Network Security
3 1 (0.13%) 5G
3 1 (0.13%) Broadband
3 1 (0.13%) Firewall
3 1 (0.13%) LAN
3 1 (0.13%) Modbus
3 1 (0.13%) MQTT
3 1 (0.13%) VLAN
3 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (21.86%) Power BI
2 97 (12.55%) Tableau
3 56 (7.24%) Data Mining
4 25 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (2.85%) Power Query
6 19 (2.46%) Relational Database
7 14 (1.81%) Metadata
8 13 (1.68%) SQL Server
9 12 (1.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 11 (1.42%) GIS
11 9 (1.16%) Looker
12 8 (1.03%) Amazon Athena
12 8 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 7 (0.91%) Geospatial Data
14 6 (0.78%) Data Lake
14 6 (0.78%) DynamoDB
14 6 (0.78%) Star Schema
15 4 (0.52%) Apache Hive
15 4 (0.52%) Oracle Database
15 4 (0.52%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 28 (3.62%) JIRA
2 16 (2.07%) Git
3 15 (1.94%) GitLab
4 9 (1.16%) Rational DOORS
5 4 (0.52%) Browser DevTools
5 4 (0.52%) ChangeMan
5 4 (0.52%) IBM UrbanCode
6 3 (0.39%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.39%) MLflow
6 3 (0.39%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.13%) LabVIEW
General
1 289 (37.39%) Analytical Skills
2 230 (29.75%) Finance
3 222 (28.72%) Social Skills
4 112 (14.49%) Manufacturing
5 49 (6.34%) Retail
6 46 (5.95%) Marketing
7 45 (5.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 45 (5.82%) Public Sector
8 39 (5.05%) Organisational Skills
9 28 (3.62%) Electronics
10 26 (3.36%) Legal
11 23 (2.98%) Aerospace
11 23 (2.98%) Law
12 13 (1.68%) Automotive
12 13 (1.68%) Local Government
13 12 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
14 11 (1.42%) Advertising
15 8 (1.03%) Banking
16 7 (0.91%) Military
17 6 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 342 (44.24%) Analyst
2 207 (26.78%) Data Analyst
3 69 (8.93%) Senior
4 56 (7.24%) Business Analyst
5 55 (7.12%) Trainee
5 55 (7.12%) Trainee Analyst
5 55 (7.12%) Trainee Data Analyst
6 41 (5.30%) Lead
7 38 (4.92%) Developer
8 35 (4.53%) Senior Analyst
9 28 (3.62%) Support Analyst
10 25 (3.23%) Consultant
10 25 (3.23%) Systems Engineer
11 23 (2.98%) Applications Support
12 22 (2.85%) Administrator
12 22 (2.85%) Senior Data Analyst
13 21 (2.72%) Systems Support
14 19 (2.46%) Junior
15 18 (2.33%) Systems Analyst
16 16 (2.07%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.72%) HTML
2 17 (2.20%) CSS
3 12 (1.55%) PySpark
4 11 (1.42%) Middleware
5 10 (1.29%) JSON
6 8 (1.03%) .NET
6 8 (1.03%) Vue
7 6 (0.78%) EDI
7 6 (0.78%) Pandas
7 6 (0.78%) XML
8 5 (0.65%) Flask
8 5 (0.65%) PyTorch
8 5 (0.65%) RESTful
8 5 (0.65%) TensorFlow
9 4 (0.52%) .NET Core
9 4 (0.52%) WPF
10 3 (0.39%) Django
10 3 (0.39%) OAuth
10 3 (0.39%) OpenID
10 3 (0.39%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 77 (9.96%) FMCG
2 70 (9.06%) Management Information System
3 28 (3.62%) Data Structures
4 24 (3.10%) Product Ownership
5 21 (2.72%) Algorithms
6 20 (2.59%) Analytical Mindset
7 17 (2.20%) Onboarding
8 12 (1.55%) NHS
9 11 (1.42%) FPGA
10 9 (1.16%) PMI
11 7 (0.91%) Mobile App
12 5 (0.65%) Social Media
13 4 (0.52%) Client/Server
13 4 (0.52%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (0.52%) Legacy Code
13 4 (0.52%) Operational Technology
13 4 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.52%) VSAM
14 3 (0.39%) Analogue Electronics
14 3 (0.39%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 22 (2.85%) Windows
2 10 (1.29%) Windows Server
3 4 (0.52%) zOS
4 3 (0.39%) Linux
5 1 (0.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (29.88%) Analytics
2 223 (28.85%) Continuous Improvement
3 191 (24.71%) Decision-Making
4 172 (22.25%) Problem-Solving
5 161 (20.83%) Business Intelligence
6 144 (18.63%) Data Analytics
7 114 (14.75%) Project Management
8 101 (13.07%) Root Cause Analysis
9 100 (12.94%) Agile
10 96 (12.42%) Visualisation
11 91 (11.77%) Actionable Insight
12 88 (11.38%) Business Analysis
13 87 (11.25%) Validation
14 77 (9.96%) Order Management
14 77 (9.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 74 (9.57%) Cost Control
15 74 (9.57%) Predictive Maintenance
15 74 (9.57%) Preventative Maintenance
15 74 (9.57%) Proactive Maintenance
16 72 (9.31%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 306 (39.59%) SQL
2 199 (25.74%) Python
3 22 (2.85%) VBA
4 20 (2.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 17 (2.20%) R
6 14 (1.81%) JavaScript
6 14 (1.81%) MATLAB
7 13 (1.68%) C#
8 10 (1.29%) T-SQL
9 7 (0.91%) C
10 5 (0.65%) Java
11 4 (0.52%) COBOL
11 4 (0.52%) JCL
11 4 (0.52%) PHP
12 3 (0.39%) C++
12 3 (0.39%) SAS Macro
13 2 (0.26%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.26%) Scala
14 1 (0.13%) Bash
14 1 (0.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 142 (18.37%) Degree
2 42 (5.43%) Security Cleared
3 33 (4.27%) BPSS Clearance
4 27 (3.49%) SC Cleared
5 17 (2.20%) HNC
6 16 (2.07%) Master's Degree
7 14 (1.81%) DBS Check
8 10 (1.29%) PMI Certification
9 8 (1.03%) CPIM
10 7 (0.91%) ACCA
10 7 (0.91%) CIMA
11 6 (0.78%) APMP
11 6 (0.78%) MBA
12 5 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
13 4 (0.52%) DV Cleared
14 3 (0.39%) Chartered Engineer
14 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.39%) Numerate Degree
15 2 (0.26%) Azure Certification
15 2 (0.26%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (11.00%) Data Quality
2 42 (5.43%) QA
3 19 (2.46%) Accessibility
4 17 (2.20%) GDPR
5 15 (1.94%) Actionable Recommendations
6 13 (1.68%) PMO
7 9 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 8 (1.03%) GMP
8 8 (1.03%) P3O
9 5 (0.65%) SLA
10 3 (0.39%) CDISC
10 3 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 17025
11 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (1.68%) Docker
2 10 (1.29%) Firmware
3 8 (1.03%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.78%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.26%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (1.55%) Terraform
2 4 (0.52%) CA Endevor
3 3 (0.39%) Kubeflow
4 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.13%) Autotask
5 1 (0.13%) Grafana
5 1 (0.13%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.13%) MOM
Vendors
1 182 (23.54%) Microsoft
2 113 (14.62%) SAP
3 34 (4.40%) Oracle
4 25 (3.23%) Google
5 14 (1.81%) HubSpot
5 14 (1.81%) IBM
5 14 (1.81%) Salesforce
6 12 (1.55%) Alteryx
7 11 (1.42%) Xilinx
8 9 (1.16%) ESRI
8 9 (1.16%) Hyperion
9 7 (0.91%) MuleSoft
10 6 (0.78%) Databricks
11 5 (0.65%) Aderant
11 5 (0.65%) Adobe
11 5 (0.65%) CA Agile Central
11 5 (0.65%) iManage
11 5 (0.65%) Intapp
12 4 (0.52%) Informatica
12 4 (0.52%) Siemens