Data Analyst Jobs

Data Analyst
UK

The median Data Analyst salary in the UK is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 June 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 346 286 270
Rank change year-on-year -60 -16 +51
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Analyst 447 1,065 1,207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.80% 0.96% 1.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.89% 1.02% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 289 748 720
10th Percentile £25,313 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,001 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year 0.00% +0.00% -5.26%
75th Percentile £58,750 £64,063 £62,500
90th Percentile £74,000 £75,000 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £38,500 £39,000
% change year-on-year +3.90% -1.28% -2.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 50,366 104,718 83,671
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.89% 94.79% 91.17%
Number of salaries quoted 26,574 73,870 54,667
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £38,603 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +6.47%

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 15 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Analyst in the UK

Data Analyst
Top 16 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 15 June 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 -68 401 £45,000 -0.76% 744
UK excluding London +20 276 £40,000 +3.90% 475
Work from Home -4 240 £37,500 -16.67% 313
London -81 153 £60,000 -7.69% 399
North of England +43 103 £40,000 +25.00% 101
North West +21 62 £41,250 +17.86% 40
Midlands -3 57 £42,750 +14.00% 47
South East +13 38 £43,750 +14.38% 235
Yorkshire +64 35 £28,000 -20.00% 42
West Midlands +33 31 £45,000 +16.88% 28
Scotland +119 28 £25,625 -53.41% 18
South West +62 27 £25,625 -45.36% 39
East Midlands +10 26 £27,000 -14.29% 19
East of England +22 19 £46,842 +27.76% 25
North East +23 6 £65,000 +160.42% 23
Northern Ireland +37 4 - - 8

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

For the 6 months to 15 June 2025, 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.

1 288 (64.43%) SQL
2 249 (55.70%) Analytics
3 203 (45.41%) Social Skills
4 195 (43.62%) Finance
5 192 (42.95%) Power Platform
5 192 (42.95%) Power BI
6 177 (39.60%) Data Analysis
7 176 (39.37%) Degree
8 167 (37.36%) Analytical Skills
9 165 (36.91%) Visualisation
10 163 (36.47%) Business Intelligence
11 161 (36.02%) Data Analytics
12 143 (31.99%) Microsoft Excel
13 137 (30.65%) Python
14 122 (27.29%) Problem-Solving
15 115 (25.73%) Data Quality
16 109 (24.38%) Tableau
17 104 (23.27%) Statistics
17 104 (23.27%) Mathematics
18 90 (20.13%) Data Management
19 80 (17.90%) Storytelling
20 78 (17.45%) Data Extraction
21 71 (15.88%) Decision-Making
22 57 (12.75%) Predictive Modelling
23 54 (12.08%) Actionable Insight
24 53 (11.86%) Microsoft
25 52 (11.63%) Data Visualisation
26 50 (11.19%) Economics
27 49 (10.96%) Banking
27 49 (10.96%) Big Data

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 9 (2.01%) SAS
2 6 (1.34%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.67%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.22%) Apache
5 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.22%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 143 (31.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.79%) Chatbot
2 8 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.57%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.67%) SPSS
6 2 (0.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.12%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.67%) iTrent
3 2 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.45%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.22%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.22%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 192 (42.95%) Power Platform
2 43 (9.62%) Azure
3 28 (6.26%) Snowflake
4 24 (5.37%) AWS
5 17 (3.80%) SaaS
6 14 (3.13%) Adobe Analytics
7 10 (2.24%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (1.79%) GCP
8 8 (1.79%) Serverless
9 7 (1.57%) Azure App Service
9 7 (1.57%) Azure Functions
9 7 (1.57%) Azure Monitor
9 7 (1.57%) Azure Sentinel
9 7 (1.57%) Google Analytics
9 7 (1.57%) Power Automate
10 5 (1.12%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (1.12%) SuccessFactors
11 4 (0.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (0.89%) dbt
12 3 (0.67%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (42.95%) Power BI
2 109 (24.38%) Tableau
3 49 (10.96%) Big Data
4 31 (6.94%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (2.68%) Power Query
6 10 (2.24%) BusinessObjects
6 10 (2.24%) Looker
6 10 (2.24%) SQL Server
7 9 (2.01%) Relational Database
8 8 (1.79%) Data Mining
9 7 (1.57%) Metadata
9 7 (1.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (1.34%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.12%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (0.89%) BigQuery
12 4 (0.89%) GIS
13 3 (0.67%) Dremio
13 3 (0.67%) Geospatial Data
13 3 (0.67%) Metadata Repository
13 3 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 26 (5.82%) Git
2 5 (1.12%) RStudio
3 3 (0.67%) JIRA
3 3 (0.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.45%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.22%) GitLab
5 1 (0.22%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.22%) Subversion
5 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 203 (45.41%) Social Skills
2 195 (43.62%) Finance
3 167 (37.36%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (10.96%) Banking
5 41 (9.17%) Presentation Skills
6 36 (8.05%) Retail
7 33 (7.38%) Marketing
8 24 (5.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 22 (4.92%) Law
10 17 (3.80%) Influencing Skills
10 17 (3.80%) Manufacturing
11 12 (2.68%) Legal
12 10 (2.24%) Automotive
13 7 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.57%) Public Sector
14 6 (1.34%) Billing
15 5 (1.12%) Advertising
15 5 (1.12%) Financial Institution
16 4 (0.89%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.01%) JSON
2 8 (1.79%) Pandas
3 5 (1.12%) Lightning Web Components
3 5 (1.12%) PySpark
4 3 (0.67%) XML
5 1 (0.22%) CSS
5 1 (0.22%) HTML
5 1 (0.22%) Matplotlib
5 1 (0.22%) Middleware
5 1 (0.22%) NumPy
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 47 (10.51%) Management Information System
2 12 (2.68%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (1.79%) Algorithms
3 8 (1.79%) Pricing Data
4 7 (1.57%) Driving Licence
5 6 (1.34%) NHS
6 5 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (0.89%) Onboarding
7 4 (0.89%) Reference Data
7 4 (0.89%) Reinsurance
8 3 (0.67%) Autonomous Agent
8 3 (0.67%) Data Structures
8 3 (0.67%) FMCG
8 3 (0.67%) Tandem
8 3 (0.67%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.45%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.45%) Equities
9 2 (0.45%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.45%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.67%) Linux
1 3 (0.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (55.70%) Analytics
2 177 (39.60%) Data Analysis
3 165 (36.91%) Visualisation
4 163 (36.47%) Business Intelligence
5 161 (36.02%) Data Analytics
6 122 (27.29%) Problem-Solving
7 104 (23.27%) Mathematics
7 104 (23.27%) Statistics
8 90 (20.13%) Data Management
9 80 (17.90%) Storytelling
10 78 (17.45%) Data Extraction
11 71 (15.88%) Decision-Making
12 57 (12.75%) Predictive Modelling
13 54 (12.08%) Actionable Insight
14 52 (11.63%) Data Visualisation
15 50 (11.19%) Economics
16 47 (10.51%) Data Science
17 45 (10.07%) Computer Science
17 45 (10.07%) Data Governance
18 43 (9.62%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 288 (64.43%) SQL
2 137 (30.65%) Python
3 22 (4.92%) R
4 13 (2.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 12 (2.68%) JavaScript
6 8 (1.79%) PowerShell
7 7 (1.57%) C#
7 7 (1.57%) Kusto Query Language
7 7 (1.57%) VBA
8 2 (0.45%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.22%) Bash
9 1 (0.22%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 176 (39.37%) Degree
2 31 (6.94%) Master's Degree
3 22 (4.92%) DBS Check
4 12 (2.68%) Azure Certification
4 12 (2.68%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (1.79%) PhD
6 7 (1.57%) Security Cleared
7 6 (1.34%) Numerate Degree
8 5 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.45%) CCNA
9 2 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.45%) MCSA
10 1 (0.22%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.22%) CISM
10 1 (0.22%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (25.73%) Data Quality
2 20 (4.47%) QA
3 15 (3.36%) GDPR
4 11 (2.46%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.89%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.45%) GRC
7 2 (0.45%) SLA
8 1 (0.22%) P3O
8 1 (0.22%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (0.22%) Ansible
1 1 (0.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 53 (11.86%) Microsoft
2 47 (10.51%) SAP
3 38 (8.50%) Databricks
4 23 (5.15%) Google
5 17 (3.80%) Oracle
6 14 (3.13%) Adobe
6 14 (3.13%) Salesforce
7 8 (1.79%) Alteryx
7 8 (1.79%) PayPal
8 7 (1.57%) Splunk
9 6 (1.34%) Omniture
10 4 (0.89%) Bloomberg
10 4 (0.89%) Informatica
11 2 (0.45%) Cerner
11 2 (0.45%) Cognos
11 2 (0.45%) Duck Creek
11 2 (0.45%) NEC
11 2 (0.45%) Refinitiv
11 2 (0.45%) Reuters
11 2 (0.45%) Sage