Data Analyst Jobs in the UK excluding London

Data Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Analyst salary in the UK excluding London is £41,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 May 2025.

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

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 334 331 285
Rank change year-on-year -3 -46 +26
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Analyst 274 553 696
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.69% 0.74% 1.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 0.78% 1.36%
Number of salaries quoted 189 405 368
10th Percentile £25,000 £24,960 £26,250
25th Percentile £26,250 £29,000 £32,231
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £38,500 £39,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.79% -1.28% +1.30%
75th Percentile £53,750 £51,000 £47,813
90th Percentile £60,650 £60,000 £57,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,806 71,101 51,023
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.22% 94.94% 89.01%
Number of salaries quoted 18,138 50,103 29,550
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,750 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -6.54% +6.49%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Data Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analyst in the UK excluding London

Data Analyst
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Analyst in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Data Analyst in the UK excluding London

Data Analyst
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Analyst in the UK excluding London

Data Analyst
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 Analyst within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
North of England +10 106 £40,750 +27.34% 70
North West 0 62 £41,250 +17.86% 28
Midlands -19 54 £42,500 +13.33% 79
Yorkshire +61 36 £28,000 -20.00% 24
South East -7 36 £43,750 +16.67% 63
Scotland +124 28 £25,625 -53.41% 24
West Midlands +14 28 £45,000 +16.88% 59
South West +60 26 £25,625 -43.06% 34
East Midlands +1 26 £27,000 -12.90% 18
East of England +29 19 £47,500 +29.55% 25
North East +23 8 £65,000 +160.42% 20
Northern Ireland +42 4 - - 14
Wales +30 1 £40,000 -5.88% 7
Data Analyst
UK

Data Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 31 May 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 UK excluding London region featuring Data Analyst in the job title.

1 168 (61.31%) SQL
2 151 (55.11%) Analytics
3 131 (47.81%) Finance
4 126 (45.99%) Degree
5 123 (44.89%) Visualisation
6 119 (43.43%) Data Analysis
7 116 (42.34%) Power BI
7 116 (42.34%) Power Platform
8 112 (40.88%) Social Skills
8 112 (40.88%) Data Analytics
9 95 (34.67%) Microsoft Excel
10 94 (34.31%) Business Intelligence
11 79 (28.83%) Analytical Skills
12 78 (28.47%) Mathematics
13 71 (25.91%) Statistics
14 70 (25.55%) Data Quality
15 66 (24.09%) Data Extraction
16 63 (22.99%) Python
17 61 (22.26%) Tableau
18 54 (19.71%) Data Management
19 51 (18.61%) Storytelling
20 49 (17.88%) Problem-Solving
20 49 (17.88%) Big Data
21 44 (16.06%) Statistical Modelling
21 44 (16.06%) Decision-Making
22 43 (15.69%) Banking
22 43 (15.69%) SAP
23 41 (14.96%) Predictive Modelling
24 38 (13.87%) Economics
25 37 (13.50%) Management Information System

Data Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (3.28%) SAS
2 6 (2.19%) Jupyter
3 3 (1.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 95 (34.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.28%) Chatbot
3 6 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (1.09%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.73%) SPSS
7 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.82%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.09%) iTrent
2 3 (1.09%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.36%) Infor M3
3 1 (0.36%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 116 (42.34%) Power Platform
2 25 (9.12%) Snowflake
3 22 (8.03%) Azure
4 18 (6.57%) AWS
5 9 (3.28%) SaaS
6 5 (1.82%) GCP
7 4 (1.46%) Google Analytics
7 4 (1.46%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (1.46%) Power Automate
8 3 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (0.73%) dbt
10 1 (0.36%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.36%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.36%) Collibra
10 1 (0.36%) Google Sheets
10 1 (0.36%) Matillion
10 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.36%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.36%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (42.34%) Power BI
2 61 (22.26%) Tableau
3 49 (17.88%) Big Data
4 12 (4.38%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (3.28%) Power Query
6 8 (2.92%) Data Lake
7 7 (2.55%) BusinessObjects
7 7 (2.55%) Data Mining
7 7 (2.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (2.19%) Looker
8 6 (2.19%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.19%) SQL Server
9 5 (1.82%) Dremio
9 5 (1.82%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (1.46%) Metadata
11 3 (1.09%) Data Hub
11 3 (1.09%) Metadata Repository
12 2 (0.73%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.73%) GIS
12 2 (0.73%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 11 (4.01%) Git
2 3 (1.09%) RStudio
2 3 (1.09%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (0.73%) JIRA
4 1 (0.36%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.36%) Subversion
4 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio
General
1 131 (47.81%) Finance
2 112 (40.88%) Social Skills
3 79 (28.83%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (15.69%) Banking
5 23 (8.39%) Marketing
6 20 (7.30%) Retail
7 17 (6.20%) Presentation Skills
8 15 (5.47%) Manufacturing
9 14 (5.11%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (3.65%) Automotive
11 7 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.46%) Law
13 4 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (1.09%) Back Office
14 3 (1.09%) Legal
14 3 (1.09%) Public Sector
14 3 (1.09%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.73%) Electronics
15 2 (0.73%) Multimedia
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.19%) JSON
2 5 (1.82%) Pandas
2 5 (1.82%) PySpark
3 1 (0.36%) CSS
3 1 (0.36%) HTML
3 1 (0.36%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (0.36%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 37 (13.50%) Management Information System
2 7 (2.55%) Algorithms
2 7 (2.55%) Pricing Data
3 5 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (1.82%) Driving Licence
4 3 (1.09%) Data Structures
4 3 (1.09%) Equities
4 3 (1.09%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.09%) Reference Data
5 2 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (0.73%) FMCG
5 2 (0.73%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (0.73%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.36%) Multi-touch
6 1 (0.36%) Online Games
6 1 (0.36%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.36%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.36%) Smart Meter
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (55.11%) Analytics
2 123 (44.89%) Visualisation
3 119 (43.43%) Data Analysis
4 112 (40.88%) Data Analytics
5 94 (34.31%) Business Intelligence
6 78 (28.47%) Mathematics
7 71 (25.91%) Statistics
8 66 (24.09%) Data Extraction
9 54 (19.71%) Data Management
10 51 (18.61%) Storytelling
11 49 (17.88%) Problem-Solving
12 44 (16.06%) Decision-Making
12 44 (16.06%) Statistical Modelling
13 41 (14.96%) Predictive Modelling
14 38 (13.87%) Economics
15 33 (12.04%) Process Improvement
16 32 (11.68%) ERP
17 31 (11.31%) Actionable Insight
17 31 (11.31%) Data Visualisation
18 26 (9.49%) Source to Pay
Programming Languages
1 168 (61.31%) SQL
2 63 (22.99%) Python
3 11 (4.01%) R
4 10 (3.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 7 (2.55%) C#
5 7 (2.55%) JavaScript
6 5 (1.82%) VBA
7 2 (0.73%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.36%) Bash
8 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.36%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 126 (45.99%) Degree
2 18 (6.57%) Master's Degree
3 9 (3.28%) DBS Check
3 9 (3.28%) PhD
4 4 (1.46%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (0.73%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (25.55%) Data Quality
2 10 (3.65%) QA
3 8 (2.92%) GDPR
4 4 (1.46%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.73%) GRC
7 1 (0.36%) P3O
7 1 (0.36%) PMO
7 1 (0.36%) SLA
Vendors
1 43 (15.69%) SAP
2 26 (9.49%) Microsoft
3 23 (8.39%) Databricks
4 14 (5.11%) Google
5 13 (4.74%) Oracle
6 9 (3.28%) PayPal
7 7 (2.55%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.82%) Alteryx
9 3 (1.09%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.09%) Reuters
10 2 (0.73%) Cognos
10 2 (0.73%) Informatica
11 1 (0.36%) Adobe
11 1 (0.36%) Epicor
11 1 (0.36%) HubSpot
11 1 (0.36%) IBM
11 1 (0.36%) Infor
11 1 (0.36%) NEC
11 1 (0.36%) Remedy
11 1 (0.36%) Tagetik