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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 101 119
Rank change year-on-year -8 +18 +15
Permanent jobs citing Data Analysis 1,360 2,570 3,051
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.61% 2.61% 2.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.80% 3.03% 3.07%
Number of salaries quoted 693 1,528 1,394
10th Percentile £31,400 £30,781 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £39,000 £36,510
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £72,912
90th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +0.11% +17.65% -9.57%

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 48,568 84,685 99,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.32% 85.99% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,511 59,837 58,366
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £76,009 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 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
England -14 1,204 £55,000 +4.76% 1,913
UK excluding London -3 869 £50,055 +0.11% 1,039
Work from Home +16 431 £50,000 -4.76% 903
London -13 398 £70,000 +16.67% 1,098
Midlands +18 267 £47,500 -5.00% 136
North of England -7 215 £50,055 -8.99% 254
South East 0 214 £55,000 +10.00% 377
West Midlands +1 182 £53,750 +7.50% 75
North West -18 159 £50,055 -15.95% 167
East Midlands +39 85 £43,000 -4.45% 50
South West +24 77 £42,500 -22.02% 91
Scotland +27 62 £60,000 +9.09% 54
Yorkshire +19 44 £48,750 -11.36% 66
East of England -60 25 £65,000 +30.00% 119
North East +17 12 £65,000 +57.58% 24
Northern Ireland +35 5 £32,500 -43.48% 23
Wales +32 5 £57,500 +20.42% 17

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 56 (4.12%) SharePoint
2 35 (2.57%) Jupyter
3 16 (1.18%) SAS
4 15 (1.10%) CMS
4 15 (1.10%) Confluence
5 10 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.66%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.37%) WordPress
8 4 (0.29%) Mule
9 3 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.22%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.22%) IBM Domino
9 3 (0.22%) nginx
10 2 (0.15%) Drupal
11 1 (0.074%) Apache
11 1 (0.074%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 306 (22.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 134 (9.85%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (1.54%) SPSS
5 16 (1.18%) MS Visio
5 16 (1.18%) Photoshop
6 14 (1.03%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.51%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.22%) Trello
10 2 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.15%) Sketch
11 1 (0.074%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.074%) Notion
11 1 (0.074%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.074%) Revit
11 1 (0.074%) Simulink
11 1 (0.074%) SPSS Modeler
Business Applications
1 16 (1.18%) Raiser’s Edge
2 14 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.37%) Markit EDM
5 4 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.29%) Maximo
6 3 (0.22%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.22%) Q-Pulse
6 3 (0.22%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.15%) Cloudability
7 2 (0.15%) Endur
7 2 (0.15%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 2 (0.15%) Infor SunSystems
7 2 (0.15%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.15%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.074%) Sprinklr
8 1 (0.074%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 365 (26.84%) Power Platform
2 218 (16.03%) Azure
3 122 (8.97%) AWS
4 64 (4.71%) Google Analytics
5 56 (4.12%) Microsoft 365
6 55 (4.04%) GCP
6 55 (4.04%) PowerApps
7 44 (3.24%) Power Automate
8 38 (2.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 36 (2.65%) Azure Data Factory
10 35 (2.57%) SaaS
11 31 (2.28%) Adobe Analytics
12 24 (1.76%) Azure DevOps
13 23 (1.69%) Snowflake
14 19 (1.40%) Google Ads
15 18 (1.32%) Microsoft Purview
16 17 (1.25%) GitHub
16 17 (1.25%) Serverless
17 16 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
18 14 (1.03%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.69%) Wireshark
2 14 (1.03%) Internet
3 10 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (0.59%) Firewall
5 7 (0.51%) DHCP
5 7 (0.51%) DNS
6 6 (0.44%) Network Security
7 5 (0.37%) Intranet
8 4 (0.29%) Ethernet
8 4 (0.29%) LoRaWAN
9 2 (0.15%) Broadband
10 1 (0.074%) DAB
10 1 (0.074%) FTP
10 1 (0.074%) HTTP
10 1 (0.074%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.074%) Multicast
10 1 (0.074%) SMS
10 1 (0.074%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.074%) WAN
10 1 (0.074%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 358 (26.32%) Power BI
2 186 (13.68%) Tableau
3 90 (6.62%) Big Data
4 81 (5.96%) Data Warehouse
5 71 (5.22%) Data Lake
6 55 (4.04%) SQL Server
7 40 (2.94%) Relational Database
8 36 (2.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 33 (2.43%) Power Query
10 26 (1.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 22 (1.62%) Metadata
12 21 (1.54%) Data Mining
13 20 (1.47%) MySQL
14 19 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
15 17 (1.25%) NoSQL
16 14 (1.03%) BigQuery
17 12 (0.88%) Dremio
17 12 (0.88%) Looker
17 12 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
17 12 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 37 (2.72%) JIRA
2 25 (1.84%) Rational DOORS
3 14 (1.03%) Git
4 6 (0.44%) GitLab
5 4 (0.29%) SonarQube
5 4 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (0.15%) LabVIEW
6 2 (0.15%) Selenium
6 2 (0.15%) Visual Studio Team System
6 2 (0.15%) Visual Website Optimizer
7 1 (0.074%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.074%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.074%) Katalon Studio
7 1 (0.074%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 521 (38.31%) Social Skills
2 447 (32.87%) Finance
3 431 (31.69%) Analytical Skills
4 163 (11.99%) Law
5 148 (10.88%) Marketing
6 103 (7.57%) Manufacturing
7 98 (7.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 72 (5.29%) Banking
9 63 (4.63%) Presentation Skills
10 51 (3.75%) Retail
11 43 (3.16%) Legal
12 42 (3.09%) Public Sector
13 37 (2.72%) Advertising
14 35 (2.57%) Electronics
15 34 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
16 31 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
17 28 (2.06%) Telecoms
18 19 (1.40%) Billing
19 16 (1.18%) Automotive
20 13 (0.96%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 454 (33.38%) Analyst
2 179 (13.16%) Lead
3 169 (12.43%) Data Analyst
3 169 (12.43%) Senior
4 111 (8.16%) Business Analyst
5 100 (7.35%) Data Scientist
6 82 (6.03%) Senior Analyst
7 76 (5.59%) Systems Engineer
8 69 (5.07%) Data Engineer
9 67 (4.93%) Graduate
10 58 (4.26%) Developer
11 46 (3.38%) Project Engineer
12 45 (3.31%) Logistics Engineer
13 43 (3.16%) Senior Data Scientist
14 34 (2.50%) Financial Analyst
15 30 (2.21%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 27 (1.99%) Insight Analyst
17 26 (1.91%) Electronics Engineer
17 26 (1.91%) Procurement Analyst
18 23 (1.69%) Principal Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (1.91%) PySpark
2 18 (1.32%) CSS
2 18 (1.32%) HTML
3 17 (1.25%) Pandas
4 16 (1.18%) REST
5 15 (1.10%) scikit-learn
6 13 (0.96%) NumPy
7 12 (0.88%) .NET
7 12 (0.88%) JSON
7 12 (0.88%) PyTorch
7 12 (0.88%) TensorFlow
8 11 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
9 8 (0.59%) EDI
9 8 (0.59%) XML
10 7 (0.51%) Kafka
10 7 (0.51%) React
11 6 (0.44%) SOAP
12 5 (0.37%) Plotly
12 5 (0.37%) RESTful
12 5 (0.37%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 111 (8.16%) Management Information System
2 99 (7.28%) Algorithms
3 51 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
4 46 (3.38%) Cyberattack
5 39 (2.87%) Product Ownership
6 32 (2.35%) Social Media
7 31 (2.28%) Data Structures
8 27 (1.99%) Onboarding
9 20 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
9 20 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (1.10%) FMCG
11 12 (0.88%) Derivative
12 11 (0.81%) Reference Data
13 10 (0.74%) Cloud Native
13 10 (0.74%) Credit Risk
14 9 (0.66%) Distributed Computing
14 9 (0.66%) IoT
14 9 (0.66%) NHS
15 8 (0.59%) Linux Command Line
15 8 (0.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 57 (4.19%) Windows
2 55 (4.04%) Linux
3 12 (0.88%) Unix
4 11 (0.81%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.44%) Ubuntu
5 6 (0.44%) Windows 7
6 5 (0.37%) AIX
6 5 (0.37%) Debian
6 5 (0.37%) Solaris
6 5 (0.37%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 456 (33.53%) Analytics
2 366 (26.91%) Problem-Solving
3 343 (25.22%) Business Intelligence
4 330 (24.26%) Visualisation
5 293 (21.54%) Decision-Making
6 248 (18.24%) Agile
7 220 (16.18%) Continuous Improvement
8 214 (15.74%) Data Management
9 201 (14.78%) Data Analytics
10 184 (13.53%) Computer Science
11 183 (13.46%) Data Science
11 183 (13.46%) Process Improvement
12 167 (12.28%) Artificial Intelligence
13 164 (12.06%) Project Management
14 163 (11.99%) Data Visualisation
15 153 (11.25%) Actionable Insight
16 140 (10.29%) Requirements Gathering
17 139 (10.22%) Mathematics
18 138 (10.15%) Statistics
19 135 (9.93%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 425 (31.25%) SQL
2 298 (21.91%) Python
3 75 (5.51%) Java
4 58 (4.26%) JavaScript
5 52 (3.82%) R
6 43 (3.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 34 (2.50%) T-SQL
8 33 (2.43%) C#
9 30 (2.21%) MATLAB
10 27 (1.99%) C
11 25 (1.84%) C++
12 24 (1.76%) PowerShell
13 14 (1.03%) VBA
14 10 (0.74%) PL/SQL
15 9 (0.66%) TypeScript
16 8 (0.59%) Scala
17 7 (0.51%) Perl
17 7 (0.51%) PHP
18 5 (0.37%) VB
19 3 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 620 (45.59%) Degree
2 103 (7.57%) Master's Degree
3 90 (6.62%) Security Cleared
4 60 (4.41%) DV Cleared
5 58 (4.26%) DBS Check
6 53 (3.90%) HND
7 49 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
8 48 (3.53%) BPSS Clearance
9 33 (2.43%) HNC
10 32 (2.35%) Numerate Degree
11 30 (2.21%) Azure Certification
12 29 (2.13%) PMI Certification
13 27 (1.99%) SC Cleared
14 25 (1.84%) PMP
15 24 (1.76%) PhD
16 23 (1.69%) Chartered Engineer
16 23 (1.69%) MBA
17 10 (0.74%) IIBA
18 9 (0.66%) AWS Certification
18 9 (0.66%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 203 (14.93%) Data Quality
2 47 (3.46%) GDPR
3 40 (2.94%) Accessibility
4 24 (1.76%) QA
5 20 (1.47%) Actionable Recommendations
6 12 (0.88%) SLA
7 7 (0.51%) PMO
8 6 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.37%) MiFID
10 4 (0.29%) COREP
10 4 (0.29%) NIST
11 3 (0.22%) EMIR
12 2 (0.15%) Basel III
12 2 (0.15%) COBIT
12 2 (0.15%) GRC
12 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 19770
12 2 (0.15%) Solvency II
13 1 (0.074%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.074%) PSD2
13 1 (0.074%) WCAG
System Software
1 46 (3.38%) Docker
2 23 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (0.59%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.44%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.22%) Firmware
6 3 (0.22%) Samba
7 1 (0.074%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.074%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.074%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 46 (3.38%) Kubernetes
2 17 (1.25%) Terraform
3 8 (0.59%) Ansible
4 4 (0.29%) Argo
5 3 (0.22%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.15%) Grafana
6 2 (0.15%) Kubeflow
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (0.15%) Packer
6 2 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.074%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.074%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.074%) Puppet
7 1 (0.074%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.074%) vRealize
Vendors
1 263 (19.34%) Microsoft
2 112 (8.24%) Google
3 79 (5.81%) SAP
4 53 (3.90%) Databricks
5 39 (2.87%) Adobe
5 39 (2.87%) Salesforce
6 37 (2.72%) ServiceNow
7 27 (1.99%) Workday
8 26 (1.91%) Oracle
9 22 (1.62%) Concur
10 19 (1.40%) Informatica
11 16 (1.18%) IBM
12 14 (1.03%) VMware
13 13 (0.96%) Marketo
13 13 (0.96%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 12 (0.88%) Capita
15 10 (0.74%) Broadcom
15 10 (0.74%) Symantec
16 8 (0.59%) Alteryx
16 8 (0.59%) Bloomberg