Data Analysis
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Data Analysis skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 99 101
Rank change year-on-year -43 +2 +11
Permanent jobs citing Data Analysis 1,242 1,293 2,476
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.43% 3.10% 2.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.90% 3.33% 3.04%
Number of salaries quoted 701 615 1,499
10th Percentile £34,500 £31,250 £30,781
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -3.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.79% -5.00% +17.65%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 65,473 38,805 81,335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.33% 92.93% 85.93%
Number of salaries quoted 40,444 22,598 59,573
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.94% +5.20% -8.90%

Data Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Data Analysis job vacancy trend in the UK

Data Analysis
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Data Analysis

Data Analysis
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Analysis over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Analysis in the UK

Data Analysis
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 19 April 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
England -49 1,099 £47,042 -10.40% 560
UK excluding London -45 796 £40,000 -15.79% 456
London -15 347 £62,500 -10.71% 203
Work from Home -52 319 £55,000 +10.00% 223
North of England -19 238 £40,000 -9.35% 115
South East -40 177 £50,000 -4.76% 128
Midlands -97 126 £40,000 -15.79% 89
South West -15 124 £40,000 -5.88% 43
North West -25 105 £42,500 +2.69% 62
West Midlands -77 102 £40,000 -23.81% 47
Yorkshire -9 93 £40,000 -15.79% 37
East of England +15 75 £40,000 -38.46% 48
Scotland -44 43 £40,000 -36.00% 23
North East -4 40 £57,500 -11.54% 18
East Midlands -103 24 £35,000 -18.13% 42
Wales -18 12 £40,000 -15.79% 14
Northern Ireland -35 7 £40,000 +23.08% 8

Data Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 45 (3.62%) SharePoint
2 29 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (2.17%) ArcGIS
4 24 (1.93%) Apache
5 23 (1.85%) Apache Spark
6 9 (0.72%) Confluence
7 5 (0.40%) CMS
7 5 (0.40%) SAS
8 2 (0.16%) Drupal
8 2 (0.16%) IIS
8 2 (0.16%) WordPress
9 1 (0.081%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 433 (34.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 88 (7.09%) Microsoft Office
3 53 (4.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 35 (2.82%) MS Visio
5 24 (1.93%) Spreadsheet
6 11 (0.89%) CATIA
7 7 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.24%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.24%) InVision
8 3 (0.24%) Sketch
9 2 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.16%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.16%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.081%) Notion
10 1 (0.081%) Simulink
10 1 (0.081%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 79 (6.36%) SAP PM
2 9 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.24%) Dynamics GP
5 3 (0.24%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 3 (0.24%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.24%) ResourceLink
6 2 (0.16%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 2 (0.16%) iTrent
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.16%) Sage X3
6 2 (0.16%) SAP CRM
6 2 (0.16%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.081%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.081%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.081%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.081%) Q-Pulse
7 1 (0.081%) SAP Business ByDesign
Cloud Services
1 273 (21.98%) Power Platform
2 166 (13.37%) Azure
3 91 (7.33%) AWS
4 53 (4.27%) Power Automate
5 50 (4.03%) Microsoft 365
6 42 (3.38%) Azure Data Factory
7 38 (3.06%) Google Analytics
8 32 (2.58%) PowerApps
9 28 (2.25%) GitHub
10 27 (2.17%) SaaS
11 25 (2.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 24 (1.93%) Azure DevOps
13 22 (1.77%) Amazon S3
14 21 (1.69%) GCP
14 21 (1.69%) Serverless
15 19 (1.53%) dbt
15 19 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
16 13 (1.05%) OpenShift
17 11 (0.89%) Smartsheet
18 10 (0.81%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.56%) Internet
2 4 (0.32%) HTTP
3 2 (0.16%) Broadband
3 2 (0.16%) Intranet
3 2 (0.16%) Network Security
3 2 (0.16%) SMS
4 1 (0.081%) DNS
4 1 (0.081%) LTE
4 1 (0.081%) Software-Defined Radio
4 1 (0.081%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.081%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 271 (21.82%) Power BI
2 248 (19.97%) Tableau
3 153 (12.32%) Data Mining
4 62 (4.99%) SQL Server
5 50 (4.03%) GIS
6 45 (3.62%) Data Warehouse
7 39 (3.14%) Metadata
8 34 (2.74%) Power Query
9 31 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
9 31 (2.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 30 (2.42%) Relational Database
11 21 (1.69%) QGIS
11 21 (1.69%) Spatial Data
12 17 (1.37%) Looker
12 17 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 16 (1.29%) Apache Hive
13 16 (1.29%) Impala
14 14 (1.13%) Big Data
14 14 (1.13%) Oracle Database
14 14 (1.13%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 37 (2.98%) JIRA
2 36 (2.90%) Git
3 15 (1.21%) Postman
3 15 (1.21%) Visual Studio
4 13 (1.05%) IBM UrbanCode
5 10 (0.81%) Rational DOORS
6 6 (0.48%) MLflow
7 5 (0.40%) GitLab
8 4 (0.32%) Browser DevTools
8 4 (0.32%) Gatling
8 4 (0.32%) JMeter
8 4 (0.32%) LoadRunner
9 3 (0.24%) Jenkins
10 2 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.081%) LabVIEW
11 1 (0.081%) RStudio
General
1 551 (44.36%) Analytical Skills
2 522 (42.03%) Finance
3 461 (37.12%) Social Skills
4 107 (8.62%) Manufacturing
5 100 (8.05%) Marketing
6 94 (7.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 76 (6.12%) Legal
8 72 (5.80%) Organisational Skills
9 71 (5.72%) Banking
10 67 (5.39%) Retail
11 62 (4.99%) Law
12 59 (4.75%) Public Sector
13 42 (3.38%) Presentation Skills
14 31 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
15 30 (2.42%) Financial Institution
16 23 (1.85%) Advertising
16 23 (1.85%) Electronics
17 21 (1.69%) Telecoms
18 18 (1.45%) Investment Banking
19 16 (1.29%) German Language
Job Titles
1 548 (44.12%) Analyst
2 297 (23.91%) Data Analyst
3 152 (12.24%) Trainee
4 149 (12.00%) Trainee Analyst
4 149 (12.00%) Trainee Data Analyst
5 110 (8.86%) Business Analyst
6 92 (7.41%) Senior
7 66 (5.31%) Developer
8 64 (5.15%) Consultant
9 44 (3.54%) Lead
10 42 (3.38%) Financial Analyst
11 41 (3.30%) Support Analyst
12 37 (2.98%) Senior Analyst
13 32 (2.58%) Systems Support
14 27 (2.17%) Administrator
14 27 (2.17%) Systems Analyst
15 25 (2.01%) Data Scientist
15 25 (2.01%) IT Analyst
16 24 (1.93%) Applications Support
16 24 (1.93%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (5.23%) HTML
2 46 (3.70%) JSON
3 38 (3.06%) CSS
3 38 (3.06%) PyTorch
4 33 (2.66%) XML
5 29 (2.33%) Regular Expression
6 23 (1.85%) Pandas
7 20 (1.61%) PySpark
8 18 (1.45%) TensorFlow
9 17 (1.37%) Kafka
9 17 (1.37%) RESTful
9 17 (1.37%) Vue
10 15 (1.21%) Flask
10 15 (1.21%) OpenAPI
10 15 (1.21%) React
10 15 (1.21%) Swagger
11 11 (0.89%) .NET
11 11 (0.89%) Django
12 10 (0.81%) EDI
12 10 (0.81%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 76 (6.12%) FMCG
2 73 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 65 (5.23%) Self-Motivation
4 54 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
5 52 (4.19%) Algorithms
6 51 (4.11%) Onboarding
7 49 (3.95%) Data Structures
8 34 (2.74%) Product Ownership
9 30 (2.42%) Linux Command Line
10 20 (1.61%) Equities
11 19 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
12 16 (1.29%) Digital Media
12 16 (1.29%) PMI
13 14 (1.13%) Derivative
14 12 (0.97%) Social Media
15 11 (0.89%) Fixed Income
16 10 (0.81%) Driving Licence
16 10 (0.81%) Reference Data
17 9 (0.72%) Mobile App
18 8 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 34 (2.74%) Unix
2 16 (1.29%) Windows
3 8 (0.64%) Linux
4 4 (0.32%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.081%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 498 (40.10%) Analytics
2 313 (25.20%) Problem-Solving
3 305 (24.56%) Business Intelligence
4 298 (23.99%) Project Management
5 293 (23.59%) Decision-Making
6 279 (22.46%) Data Analytics
7 271 (21.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 245 (19.73%) AI
9 206 (16.59%) Business Analysis
10 201 (16.18%) Visualisation
11 183 (14.73%) Agile
12 143 (11.51%) Actionable Insight
13 132 (10.63%) Data Science
14 118 (9.50%) Data Modelling
15 116 (9.34%) Process Improvement
16 112 (9.02%) Stakeholder Management
17 111 (8.94%) Root Cause Analysis
18 107 (8.62%) Validation
19 102 (8.21%) Data Visualisation
20 99 (7.97%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 532 (42.83%) SQL
2 451 (36.31%) Python
3 52 (4.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 44 (3.54%) VBA
5 37 (2.98%) JavaScript
6 32 (2.58%) R
7 27 (2.17%) Java
8 16 (1.29%) C#
9 15 (1.21%) MATLAB
10 14 (1.13%) PowerShell
11 13 (1.05%) T-SQL
12 9 (0.72%) Bash
13 6 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.40%) VB
14 5 (0.40%) VBScript
15 4 (0.32%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.24%) C++
16 3 (0.24%) PHP
17 2 (0.16%) TypeScript
18 1 (0.081%) Go
Qualifications
1 279 (22.46%) Degree
2 56 (4.51%) Security Cleared
3 36 (2.90%) Master's Degree
4 32 (2.58%) SC Cleared
5 25 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
6 19 (1.53%) PMI Certification
7 18 (1.45%) Numerate Degree
8 16 (1.29%) ACCA
8 16 (1.29%) HNC
9 15 (1.21%) CIMA
10 13 (1.05%) DV Cleared
10 13 (1.05%) MBA
11 12 (0.97%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 11 (0.89%) APMP
13 9 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
14 6 (0.48%) CISSP
14 6 (0.48%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (0.40%) CISM
15 5 (0.40%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 162 (13.04%) Data Quality
2 76 (6.12%) QA
3 42 (3.38%) Accessibility
4 36 (2.90%) Actionable Recommendations
5 22 (1.77%) GDPR
6 16 (1.29%) PMO
7 15 (1.21%) MiFID
8 12 (0.97%) P3O
8 12 (0.97%) SLA
9 10 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 8 (0.64%) GMP
11 5 (0.40%) COREP
11 5 (0.40%) EMIR
11 5 (0.40%) IFRS
12 4 (0.32%) IFRS 17
12 4 (0.32%) NIST
13 3 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 3 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 3 (0.24%) PSD2
14 2 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 28 (2.25%) Docker
2 6 (0.48%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.32%) Firmware
5 1 (0.081%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.081%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.081%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (1.77%) Terraform
2 10 (0.81%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.48%) Grafana
4 5 (0.40%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.40%) SCCM
5 2 (0.16%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.16%) MOM
6 1 (0.081%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 380 (30.60%) Microsoft
2 137 (11.03%) SAP
3 55 (4.43%) Google
4 49 (3.95%) Oracle
5 26 (2.09%) Alteryx
5 26 (2.09%) Salesforce
6 21 (1.69%) HubSpot
6 21 (1.69%) IBM
7 20 (1.61%) Adobe
8 17 (1.37%) Bloomberg
9 13 (1.05%) Databricks
9 13 (1.05%) Red Hat
10 9 (0.72%) ESRI
10 9 (0.72%) Hyperion
11 7 (0.56%) Informatica
12 6 (0.48%) Foundry
12 6 (0.48%) MuleSoft
12 6 (0.48%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 6 (0.48%) ServiceNow
13 5 (0.40%) iManage