Data Analyst
UK

The median Data Analyst salary in the UK is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 December 2023.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 268 285 311
Rank change year-on-year +17 +26 +34
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Analyst 673 1,602 1,544
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.26% 1.29% 1.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.32% 1.35% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 535 1,115 1,162
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +12.94% -5.56%
75th Percentile £65,875 £62,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £69,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year - +3.90% +3.36%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 50,985 118,425 121,174
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.43% 95.37% 95.14%
Number of salaries quoted 37,346 74,222 83,417
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analyst in the UK

Data Analyst
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Analyst in the UK

Data Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Analyst over the 6 months to 5 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Data Analyst in the UK

Data Analyst
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 Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 5 December 2023. 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 +23 619 £50,000 - 298
UK excluding London +21 345 £40,000 - 173
London +14 305 £60,000 +9.09% 146
Work from Home +62 292 £50,000 +11.11% 129
North of England +75 93 £35,000 -9.96% 46
Midlands +68 66 £40,000 +5.26% 29
South West +62 59 £40,000 +0.80% 19
South East +23 58 £50,000 +11.11% 47
North West +75 49 £35,000 -12.50% 31
West Midlands +61 39 £40,000 +5.26% 19
Yorkshire +81 33 £37,500 -0.32% 13
Scotland +32 31 £55,000 +34.97% 14
East of England +97 27 £42,500 -5.56% 12
East Midlands +46 27 £47,500 +25.00% 10
North East +37 11 £40,000 +14.29% 2
Wales +8 7 £30,000 -12.41% 6
Northern Ireland +30 4 £38,750 -0.08% 2

Data Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 5 December 2023, 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 featuring Data Analyst in the job title.

1 407 (60.48%) SQL
2 314 (46.66%) Power Platform
3 312 (46.36%) Power BI
4 305 (45.32%) Business Intelligence
5 256 (38.04%) Data Analysis
6 239 (35.51%) Analytics
7 236 (35.07%) Finance
8 207 (30.76%) Social Skills
9 184 (27.34%) Visualisation
10 183 (27.19%) Analytical Skills
11 168 (24.96%) Python
11 168 (24.96%) Problem-Solving
12 137 (20.36%) Data Quality
13 136 (20.21%) Degree
14 135 (20.06%) Microsoft Excel
15 134 (19.91%) Data Modelling
15 134 (19.91%) Tableau
16 132 (19.61%) Agile
17 112 (16.64%) Data Visualisation
18 108 (16.05%) Data Management
19 105 (15.60%) Azure
20 102 (15.16%) Data Warehouse
21 97 (14.41%) Decision-Making
22 96 (14.26%) Microsoft
23 93 (13.82%) ETL
24 86 (12.78%) Data Analytics
25 73 (10.85%) Machine Learning
26 70 (10.40%) Retail
27 67 (9.96%) Data Science
28 66 (9.81%) Banking

Data Analyst Skill Set
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 23 (3.42%) SAS
2 11 (1.63%) Confluence
3 5 (0.74%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.59%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.45%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.15%) Luigi
Applications
1 135 (20.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (5.65%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (2.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.19%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.89%) SPSS
6 5 (0.74%) Stata
7 4 (0.59%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.59%) iTrent
3 3 (0.45%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.30%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.15%) GoldMine
5 1 (0.15%) Magento
5 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.15%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.15%) SAP MDM
5 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.15%) Shopify
5 1 (0.15%) Siebel CRM
5 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.15%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 314 (46.66%) Power Platform
2 105 (15.60%) Azure
3 37 (5.50%) AWS
4 32 (4.75%) GCP
5 30 (4.46%) Snowflake
6 25 (3.71%) Azure Data Factory
7 18 (2.67%) Google Analytics
8 12 (1.78%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (1.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 10 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (1.34%) Collibra
12 6 (0.89%) PowerApps
13 5 (0.74%) dbt
14 4 (0.59%) Microsoft Purview
15 3 (0.45%) Dynamics 365
15 3 (0.45%) Firebase
15 3 (0.45%) Google Data Studio
15 3 (0.45%) WhatsApp
16 2 (0.30%) Amazon S3
16 2 (0.30%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.30%) Internet
2 1 (0.15%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 312 (46.36%) Power BI
2 134 (19.91%) Tableau
3 102 (15.16%) Data Warehouse
4 36 (5.35%) SQL Server
5 32 (4.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 28 (4.16%) Metadata
7 20 (2.97%) Big Data
7 20 (2.97%) Hadoop
7 20 (2.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 16 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
8 16 (2.38%) BigQuery
8 16 (2.38%) Looker
8 16 (2.38%) QlikView
9 12 (1.78%) BusinessObjects
9 12 (1.78%) Data Lake
9 12 (1.78%) GIS
9 12 (1.78%) Relational Database
10 11 (1.63%) Power Query
10 11 (1.63%) Qlik Sense
11 9 (1.34%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 24 (3.57%) JIRA
2 4 (0.59%) Git
2 4 (0.59%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (0.45%) Visual Studio Team System
4 1 (0.15%) GitLab
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.15%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 236 (35.07%) Finance
2 207 (30.76%) Social Skills
3 183 (27.19%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (10.40%) Retail
5 66 (9.81%) Banking
6 56 (8.32%) Marketing
7 49 (7.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 32 (4.75%) Presentation Skills
9 24 (3.57%) Law
10 20 (2.97%) Legal
11 16 (2.38%) Financial Institution
11 16 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
12 15 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
13 13 (1.93%) Public Sector
14 8 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.19%) Manufacturing
15 7 (1.04%) Advertising
15 7 (1.04%) Investment Banking
15 7 (1.04%) Local Government
16 5 (0.74%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.53%) HTML
2 13 (1.93%) Pandas
3 9 (1.34%) Django
3 9 (1.34%) scikit-learn
4 6 (0.89%) React
5 5 (0.74%) D3.js
5 5 (0.74%) Flask
5 5 (0.74%) Plotly
5 5 (0.74%) PyTorch
5 5 (0.74%) Seaborn
5 5 (0.74%) TensorFlow
6 4 (0.59%) Leaflet
6 4 (0.59%) Statsmodels
6 4 (0.59%) XML
7 3 (0.45%) JSON
7 3 (0.45%) NumPy
7 3 (0.45%) PySpark
7 3 (0.45%) Universal Windows Platform
8 2 (0.30%) Lambda Expressions
8 2 (0.30%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 29 (4.31%) Self-Motivation
2 26 (3.86%) Management Information System
3 16 (2.38%) Social Media
4 14 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
4 14 (2.08%) Pricing Data
5 13 (1.93%) Data Structures
6 11 (1.63%) Algorithms
6 11 (1.63%) Cyberattack
7 10 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
7 10 (1.49%) Mobile App
8 9 (1.34%) Credit Risk
8 9 (1.34%) Public Cloud
9 8 (1.19%) FMCG
9 8 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 8 (1.19%) Product Ownership
10 5 (0.74%) NHS
11 4 (0.59%) Cloud Native
11 4 (0.59%) Renewable Energy
12 3 (0.45%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.04%) Windows
2 4 (0.59%) Windows Vista
3 1 (0.15%) Linux
3 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.15%) Unix
3 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 305 (45.32%) Business Intelligence
2 256 (38.04%) Data Analysis
3 239 (35.51%) Analytics
4 184 (27.34%) Visualisation
5 168 (24.96%) Problem-Solving
6 134 (19.91%) Data Modelling
7 132 (19.61%) Agile
8 112 (16.64%) Data Visualisation
9 108 (16.05%) Data Management
10 97 (14.41%) Decision-Making
11 93 (13.82%) ETL
12 86 (12.78%) Data Analytics
13 73 (10.85%) Machine Learning
14 67 (9.96%) Data Science
15 66 (9.81%) Stakeholder Management
16 64 (9.51%) Migration
17 63 (9.36%) Data Governance
17 63 (9.36%) Mathematics
18 55 (8.17%) Statistics
19 50 (7.43%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 407 (60.48%) SQL
2 168 (24.96%) Python
3 58 (8.62%) R
4 38 (5.65%) T-SQL
5 16 (2.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 13 (1.93%) VBA
7 9 (1.34%) JavaScript
8 5 (0.74%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.45%) Java
9 3 (0.45%) MATLAB
10 2 (0.30%) LookML
10 2 (0.30%) VB
11 1 (0.15%) Bash
11 1 (0.15%) C#
11 1 (0.15%) Scala
11 1 (0.15%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 136 (20.21%) Degree
2 28 (4.16%) Security Cleared
3 20 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
4 18 (2.67%) Master's Degree
5 17 (2.53%) SC Cleared
6 12 (1.78%) Numerate Degree
7 9 (1.34%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.89%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.45%) ACCA
9 3 (0.45%) Tableau Certification
10 2 (0.30%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.15%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (20.36%) Data Quality
2 26 (3.86%) GDPR
3 14 (2.08%) QA
4 6 (0.89%) Basel III
5 5 (0.74%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.59%) MiFID
7 2 (0.30%) PMO
8 1 (0.15%) HL7
8 1 (0.15%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 3 (0.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (0.30%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 96 (14.26%) Microsoft
2 56 (8.32%) Google
3 33 (4.90%) Oracle
4 25 (3.71%) Alteryx
5 23 (3.42%) Salesforce
6 14 (2.08%) Databricks
7 12 (1.78%) SAP
8 11 (1.63%) Informatica
9 10 (1.49%) Dataiku
10 7 (1.04%) FactSet
11 4 (0.59%) Sage
12 3 (0.45%) Adobe
12 3 (0.45%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 2 (0.30%) Cognos
13 2 (0.30%) DoubleClick
13 2 (0.30%) Hotjar
13 2 (0.30%) Sun
14 1 (0.15%) Atlassian
14 1 (0.15%) MicroStrategy
14 1 (0.15%) Siebel