Exploratory Data Analysis Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Exploratory Data Analysis skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 504 546 521
Rank change year-on-year +42 -25 +239
Permanent jobs citing Exploratory Data Analysis 2 26 46
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.005% 0.072% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.006% 0.081% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1 12 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £59,617 £37,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,418 £40,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +53.55% -38.46% +44.44%
75th Percentile £63,220 £47,500 £70,000
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £69,459 £40,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +73.65% -38.46% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Exploratory 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 33,128 31,909 30,715
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 78.51% 88.95% 88.65%
Number of salaries quoted 19,079 14,313 22,914
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Exploratory Data Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Exploratory Data Analysis job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Exploratory Data Analysis
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Exploratory 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 Exploratory Data Analysis within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 January 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 West +27 1 £61,418 +11.67%
North of England +27 1 £61,418 +11.67%
Midlands +14 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 - -
Exploratory Data Analysis
UK

Exploratory 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 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Scientist
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Data Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Data Scientist
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Ontologies
2 1 (50.00%) Operations Research
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Statistical Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft