Data Analysis Jobs

Data Analysis
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Data Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Analysis over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 85 139 110
Rank change year-on-year +54 -29 +80
Permanent jobs citing Data Analysis 2,600 2,070 5,827
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.88% 2.57% 3.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.51% 2.69% 3.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,188 1,371 2,277
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £33,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,510 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% -5.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £43,067 £46,000
% change year-on-year +18.42% -6.38% +2.22%

All Process and 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 73,969 76,929 168,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.84% 95.34% 96.40%
Number of salaries quoted 48,628 50,249 85,709
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +6.06%

Data Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analysis in the UK

Data Analysis
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Analysis.

Salary trend for Data Analysis in the UK

Data Analysis
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Analysis over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 +52 2,357 £55,000 +4.76% 440
UK excluding London +52 1,782 £51,000 +18.42% 395
Work from Home +1 760 £55,000 +10.00% 227
London +34 724 £65,000 - 113
Midlands +41 665 £50,000 +17.65% 63
West Midlands +26 476 £52,000 +31.65% 39
North of England +65 386 £60,000 +60.00% 106
South East +22 282 £50,000 - 93
North West +37 203 £60,000 +60.00% 67
East Midlands +53 189 £39,000 -13.33% 25
South West +9 171 £54,325 +6.52% 67
Yorkshire +73 134 £61,000 +46.11% 26
Scotland -2 133 £58,000 +5.45% 16
East of England +19 115 £45,000 -10.89% 27
North East +11 49 £42,000 +6.87% 14
Wales +17 21 £54,000 +42.63% 4
Northern Ireland +26 8 £38,750 -6.06% 31

Data Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 73 (2.81%) SAS
2 39 (1.50%) SharePoint
3 24 (0.92%) Apache Spark
4 20 (0.77%) Confluence
5 17 (0.65%) Apache
6 15 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
7 12 (0.46%) CMS
7 12 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
8 11 (0.42%) ArcGIS
9 8 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.15%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.15%) WordPress
11 3 (0.12%) Moodle
12 2 (0.077%) MTS
13 1 (0.038%) IBM HTTP Server
13 1 (0.038%) Luigi
Applications
1 731 (28.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 470 (18.08%) Microsoft Office
3 76 (2.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (1.15%) Spreadsheet
5 19 (0.73%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.46%) SPSS
7 11 (0.42%) Trello
8 6 (0.23%) Windchill
9 5 (0.19%) SOLIDWORKS
10 4 (0.15%) Simulink
10 4 (0.15%) Stata
11 3 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.038%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.038%) InDesign
12 1 (0.038%) InVision
12 1 (0.038%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.038%) Sketch
12 1 (0.038%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 29 (1.12%) iTrent
2 13 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 11 (0.42%) NEC Housing
4 11 (0.42%) Primavera
5 7 (0.27%) SAP Business One
6 6 (0.23%) Oracle Applications
6 6 (0.23%) Teamcenter
7 4 (0.15%) SAP IBP
7 4 (0.15%) SAP SD
8 3 (0.12%) Raiser’s Edge
8 3 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
9 2 (0.077%) Eloqua
9 2 (0.077%) Exchequer
9 2 (0.077%) Magento
9 2 (0.077%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.077%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.077%) Oracle Financials
9 2 (0.077%) Sage 200
9 2 (0.077%) Sage 300 ERP
Cloud Services
1 510 (19.62%) Power Platform
2 374 (14.38%) AWS
3 352 (13.54%) Azure
4 69 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
5 57 (2.19%) GCP
6 54 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
7 53 (2.04%) Azure Data Factory
8 50 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
9 43 (1.65%) Google Sheets
10 42 (1.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 42 (1.62%) SaaS
11 33 (1.27%) Serverless
12 32 (1.23%) SuccessFactors
13 23 (0.88%) Snowflake
14 22 (0.85%) Dynamics 365
15 21 (0.81%) Google Docs
16 20 (0.77%) AWS Lambda
16 20 (0.77%) PowerApps
17 18 (0.69%) Adobe Analytics
17 18 (0.69%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 21 (0.81%) Network Security
2 14 (0.54%) Intranet
3 13 (0.50%) Firewall
3 13 (0.50%) HTTP
4 7 (0.27%) Ethernet
5 6 (0.23%) DNS
5 6 (0.23%) LAN
6 5 (0.19%) Intrusion Detection
6 5 (0.19%) WAN
6 5 (0.19%) Wireshark
7 4 (0.15%) FTP
7 4 (0.15%) MQTT
7 4 (0.15%) VPN
8 3 (0.12%) GPRS
8 3 (0.12%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.12%) WLAN
9 2 (0.077%) Internet
9 2 (0.077%) SAN
9 2 (0.077%) SNA
9 2 (0.077%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 501 (19.27%) Power BI
2 389 (14.96%) Tableau
3 200 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
4 124 (4.77%) SQL Server
5 66 (2.54%) Data Vault
6 56 (2.15%) Big Data
7 48 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 44 (1.69%) Metadata
9 43 (1.65%) GIS
10 42 (1.62%) Data Lake
10 42 (1.62%) NoSQL
11 40 (1.54%) Relational Database
12 36 (1.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 35 (1.35%) Data Mining
14 29 (1.12%) Power Query
14 29 (1.12%) QlikView
15 28 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
16 25 (0.96%) Hadoop
17 24 (0.92%) Geospatial Data
18 23 (0.88%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 165 (6.35%) Git
2 81 (3.12%) JIRA
3 19 (0.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 13 (0.50%) AdminStudio
4 13 (0.50%) InstallShield
4 13 (0.50%) MSI
5 9 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
6 7 (0.27%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.27%) Toad
6 7 (0.27%) Visual Studio
7 5 (0.19%) LabVIEW
8 4 (0.15%) Charles Proxy
9 3 (0.12%) Selenium
9 3 (0.12%) TestRail
10 2 (0.077%) GitLab
10 2 (0.077%) MLflow
10 2 (0.077%) Postman
10 2 (0.077%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.038%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.038%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,146 (44.08%) Social Skills
2 719 (27.65%) Analytical Skills
3 646 (24.85%) Finance
4 511 (19.65%) Presentation Skills
5 497 (19.12%) Retail
6 332 (12.77%) Military
7 262 (10.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 252 (9.69%) Legal
9 167 (6.42%) Law
10 151 (5.81%) Marketing
11 117 (4.50%) Banking
12 103 (3.96%) Public Sector
13 79 (3.04%) Manufacturing
14 78 (3.00%) Organisational Skills
15 54 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
16 52 (2.00%) Publishing
17 43 (1.65%) Investment Banking
18 42 (1.62%) Back Office
19 37 (1.42%) Local Government
20 29 (1.12%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 782 (30.08%) Analyst
2 436 (16.77%) Data Analyst
3 405 (15.58%) Senior
4 351 (13.50%) Graduate
5 207 (7.96%) Senior Analyst
6 206 (7.92%) Lead
7 131 (5.04%) Senior Data Analyst
8 108 (4.15%) Developer
9 98 (3.77%) Data Engineer
10 96 (3.69%) Software Engineer
11 79 (3.04%) Architect
12 72 (2.77%) Data Manager
13 60 (2.31%) Business Analyst
14 54 (2.08%) Data Architect
15 53 (2.04%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 52 (2.00%) Consultant
17 44 (1.69%) Data Scientist
18 43 (1.65%) AWS Engineer
19 42 (1.62%) AWS Software Engineer
20 41 (1.58%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (1.73%) HTML
2 43 (1.65%) CSS
3 40 (1.54%) .NET
3 40 (1.54%) React
4 37 (1.42%) Pandas
5 24 (0.92%) AngularJS
6 21 (0.81%) PySpark
7 19 (0.73%) Kafka
8 18 (0.69%) JSON
8 18 (0.69%) NumPy
9 16 (0.62%) .NET Core
9 16 (0.62%) Node.js
9 16 (0.62%) TensorFlow
10 15 (0.58%) Lambda Expressions
10 15 (0.58%) PyTorch
10 15 (0.58%) REST
11 14 (0.54%) ASP.NET
11 14 (0.54%) scikit-learn
11 14 (0.54%) XML
12 11 (0.42%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 673 (25.88%) Onboarding
2 146 (5.62%) Management Information System
3 130 (5.00%) Algorithms
4 79 (3.04%) Data Structures
5 78 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
6 56 (2.15%) Product Ownership
7 52 (2.00%) Credit Risk
8 44 (1.69%) Cloud Native
9 36 (1.38%) Reinsurance
10 33 (1.27%) STB
11 28 (1.08%) Data Centre
12 23 (0.88%) Life Science
13 21 (0.81%) IoT
14 20 (0.77%) Market Risk
15 19 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
15 19 (0.73%) Virtual Team
16 17 (0.65%) Driving Licence
16 17 (0.65%) Mobile App
16 17 (0.65%) Social Media
17 15 (0.58%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 50 (1.92%) Windows
2 36 (1.38%) Linux
3 15 (0.58%) Windows 10
4 13 (0.50%) Windows 7
5 9 (0.35%) Mac OS
6 7 (0.27%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.19%) Android
7 5 (0.19%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.19%) Windows Vista
8 4 (0.15%) Unix
9 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 911 (35.04%) Problem-Solving
2 765 (29.42%) Analytics
3 652 (25.08%) Customer Service
4 600 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 575 (22.12%) Business Intelligence
6 548 (21.08%) Visualisation
7 518 (19.92%) Mathematics
8 423 (16.27%) Process Improvement
9 406 (15.62%) Customer Experience
9 406 (15.62%) Logistics
10 354 (13.62%) Performance Metrics
11 348 (13.38%) Agile
12 345 (13.27%) Creative Thinking
12 345 (13.27%) Mentoring
13 341 (13.12%) Decision-Making
14 335 (12.88%) Contingency Planning
15 323 (12.42%) Actionable Insight
16 265 (10.19%) Data Management
17 263 (10.12%) Data Modelling
18 259 (9.96%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 849 (32.65%) SQL
2 617 (23.73%) Python
3 96 (3.69%) R
4 82 (3.15%) Java
5 65 (2.50%) JavaScript
6 64 (2.46%) C#
7 60 (2.31%) VBA
8 43 (1.65%) PowerShell
9 40 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 34 (1.31%) MATLAB
11 31 (1.19%) T-SQL
12 22 (0.85%) C++
13 19 (0.73%) Bash
13 19 (0.73%) VB
14 17 (0.65%) Scala
15 14 (0.54%) C
15 14 (0.54%) Go
15 14 (0.54%) TypeScript
16 8 (0.31%) Apex Code
17 7 (0.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,278 (49.15%) Degree
2 227 (8.73%) HNC
3 157 (6.04%) DBS Check
4 141 (5.42%) Master's Degree
5 106 (4.08%) Security Cleared
6 96 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 48 (1.85%) SC Cleared
8 39 (1.50%) DV Cleared
9 32 (1.23%) MBA
10 28 (1.08%) PhD
11 15 (0.58%) Numerate Degree
12 12 (0.46%) Six Sigma Black Belt
13 11 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
13 11 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
14 9 (0.35%) CISSP
15 8 (0.31%) CBAP
15 8 (0.31%) Six Sigma Green Belt
16 7 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
16 7 (0.27%) CISM
17 6 (0.23%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 226 (8.69%) Data Quality
2 64 (2.46%) QA
3 44 (1.69%) IFRS
4 40 (1.54%) IFRS 9
5 37 (1.42%) Accessibility
6 35 (1.35%) GDPR
7 17 (0.65%) PMO
8 15 (0.58%) Good Clinical Practice
9 14 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
10 9 (0.35%) ISO 9001
11 7 (0.27%) COBIT
12 5 (0.19%) NIST
12 5 (0.19%) SLA
13 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 4 (0.15%) MiFID
14 3 (0.12%) GRC
14 3 (0.12%) P3O
14 3 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.077%) Automotive SPICE
15 2 (0.077%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 38 (1.46%) Active Directory
2 30 (1.15%) Docker
3 16 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.50%) Microsoft App-V
5 10 (0.38%) Firmware
6 1 (0.038%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.038%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.038%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.038%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 34 (1.31%) Kubernetes
2 22 (0.85%) SCCM
3 13 (0.50%) WSUS
4 11 (0.42%) Terraform
5 7 (0.27%) SysTrack
6 4 (0.15%) Ansible
7 3 (0.12%) SCOM
8 2 (0.077%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.077%) Puppet
9 1 (0.038%) FTK
9 1 (0.038%) Grafana
9 1 (0.038%) Iperf
9 1 (0.038%) Kibana
9 1 (0.038%) logstash
9 1 (0.038%) Nmap
9 1 (0.038%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.038%) Rancher
Vendors
1 466 (17.92%) Microsoft
2 229 (8.81%) Databricks
3 104 (4.00%) Google
4 73 (2.81%) SAP
5 64 (2.46%) Oracle
6 38 (1.46%) ServiceNow
7 37 (1.42%) Informatica
8 35 (1.35%) Salesforce
9 26 (1.00%) Adobe
10 19 (0.73%) Alteryx
11 17 (0.65%) VMware
12 16 (0.62%) Splunk
13 13 (0.50%) Autodesk
14 12 (0.46%) Sparx
15 11 (0.42%) NEC
16 10 (0.38%) ESRI
17 8 (0.31%) Minitab
17 8 (0.31%) Snow
17 8 (0.31%) Workday
18 7 (0.27%) Sage