Data Analyst Jobs

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 leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 279 288 313
Rank change year-on-year +9 +25 +15
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Analyst 882 990 2,228
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.98% 1.23% 1.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.03% 1.34% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 572 718 1,260
10th Percentile £29,025 £29,490 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £43,750 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -8.85% +6.67%
75th Percentile £68,750 £61,191 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,750 £38,693 £40,000
% change year-on-year +7.90% -3.27% +6.67%

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 85,709 74,085 167,386
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.83% 91.81% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 58,134 51,472 87,435
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,800 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%

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 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Analyst in the UK

Data Analyst
Top 18 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 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 +15 836 £50,000 +11.11% 94
London +57 439 £65,000 +13.04% 23
UK excluding London -42 418 £41,750 +7.90% 81
Work from Home +22 367 £46,899 +4.22% 51
Midlands -43 105 £38,000 - 20
South East +37 89 £40,000 - 23
North of England -25 89 £35,000 -6.67% 16
South West -8 80 £52,500 +31.25% 11
East Midlands +26 73 £30,750 -15.75% 7
North West -35 38 £42,500 +17.24% 7
West Midlands -77 32 £41,250 +8.55% 13
East of England -2 30 £36,664 -36.24% 5
North East -1 28 £24,960 -39.12% 4
Yorkshire +35 23 £37,500 - 5
Wales +11 10 £42,500 +36.00% 2
Scotland -77 10 £53,934 +25.43% 7
Northern Ireland +21 3 £45,000 +24.14% 1
Channel Islands - 1 £67,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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.

1 587 (66.55%) SQL
2 436 (49.43%) Data Analysis
3 374 (42.40%) Analytical Skills
4 370 (41.95%) Analytics
5 362 (41.04%) Social Skills
6 322 (36.51%) Python
7 308 (34.92%) Problem-Solving
8 298 (33.79%) Power Platform
9 297 (33.67%) Power BI
10 292 (33.11%) Visualisation
11 289 (32.77%) Tableau
12 282 (31.97%) Business Intelligence
13 263 (29.82%) Degree
14 237 (26.87%) Microsoft Excel
15 227 (25.74%) Retail
16 220 (24.94%) Actionable Insight
17 212 (24.04%) Statistics
18 196 (22.22%) Finance
19 195 (22.11%) Mathematics
20 193 (21.88%) Business Strategy
21 178 (20.18%) Decision-Making
22 173 (19.61%) Data Quality
23 170 (19.27%) Presentation Skills
24 167 (18.93%) Data Management
25 160 (18.14%) AWS
26 154 (17.46%) Data Pipeline
27 151 (17.12%) DBS Check
28 149 (16.89%) Databricks
29 142 (16.10%) Storytelling
30 137 (15.53%) Microsoft

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 15 (1.70%) SAS
2 11 (1.25%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.79%) Confluence
4 6 (0.68%) ArcGIS
4 6 (0.68%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (0.45%) Apache
5 4 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.45%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.11%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.11%) Luigi
6 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 237 (26.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (4.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 30 (3.40%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.79%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.34%) Stata
6 2 (0.23%) SPSS
7 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (1.25%) ResourceLink
2 7 (0.79%) SAP Business One
3 6 (0.68%) NEC Housing
4 5 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.45%) Finacle
5 4 (0.45%) FLEXCUBE
5 4 (0.45%) Temenos T24
6 2 (0.23%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.11%) Lorenzo
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.11%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.11%) SAP Payroll
7 1 (0.11%) SAP Retail
7 1 (0.11%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 298 (33.79%) Power Platform
2 160 (18.14%) AWS
3 81 (9.18%) Azure
4 27 (3.06%) Google Sheets
5 21 (2.38%) Google Docs
6 20 (2.27%) GCP
7 19 (2.15%) Google Analytics
8 17 (1.93%) Microsoft Purview
9 16 (1.81%) Snowflake
10 12 (1.36%) SuccessFactors
11 10 (1.13%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (1.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 8 (0.91%) dbt
14 7 (0.79%) Adobe Analytics
15 6 (0.68%) Collibra
16 5 (0.57%) Azure DevOps
16 5 (0.57%) Power Automate
16 5 (0.57%) PowerApps
17 4 (0.45%) Alation
17 4 (0.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.57%) Intranet
2 1 (0.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 297 (33.67%) Power BI
2 289 (32.77%) Tableau
3 86 (9.75%) Data Warehouse
4 44 (4.99%) SQL Server
5 28 (3.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 27 (3.06%) QlikView
7 26 (2.95%) Metadata
8 25 (2.83%) Power Query
9 22 (2.49%) Data Mining
10 18 (2.04%) Data Lake
11 17 (1.93%) Qlik Sense
11 17 (1.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 16 (1.81%) Big Data
13 14 (1.59%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 13 (1.47%) Amazon QuickSight
15 12 (1.36%) BigQuery
16 10 (1.13%) GIS
16 10 (1.13%) Looker
16 10 (1.13%) MS Access
17 9 (1.02%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 135 (15.31%) Git
2 15 (1.70%) JIRA
3 14 (1.59%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 7 (0.79%) Subversion
5 6 (0.68%) Toad
General
1 374 (42.40%) Analytical Skills
2 362 (41.04%) Social Skills
3 227 (25.74%) Retail
4 196 (22.22%) Finance
5 170 (19.27%) Presentation Skills
6 82 (9.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 64 (7.26%) Banking
8 54 (6.12%) Legal
9 52 (5.90%) Marketing
10 37 (4.20%) Law
11 20 (2.27%) Manufacturing
12 19 (2.15%) Local Government
13 15 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
13 15 (1.70%) Public Sector
14 13 (1.47%) Retail Banking
15 8 (0.91%) Electronics
15 8 (0.91%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.68%) Publishing
17 5 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (0.57%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.02%) Pandas
2 8 (0.91%) XML
3 6 (0.68%) HTML
4 5 (0.57%) Oracle Fusion
5 4 (0.45%) JSON
6 1 (0.11%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.11%) Plotly
6 1 (0.11%) PySpark
6 1 (0.11%) REST
6 1 (0.11%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 38 (4.31%) Management Information System
2 26 (2.95%) Onboarding
3 16 (1.81%) Data Structures
4 15 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (1.59%) Driving Licence
5 14 (1.59%) Reinsurance
6 11 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (0.91%) Data Centre
9 7 (0.79%) FMCG
9 7 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (0.79%) NHS
10 6 (0.68%) Algorithms
10 6 (0.68%) Blog
10 6 (0.68%) Housing Association
10 6 (0.68%) Reference Data
11 5 (0.57%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.45%) Credit Risk
12 4 (0.45%) IoT
12 4 (0.45%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.57%) Windows
2 4 (0.45%) Windows Vista
3 1 (0.11%) Android
3 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 436 (49.43%) Data Analysis
2 370 (41.95%) Analytics
3 308 (34.92%) Problem-Solving
4 292 (33.11%) Visualisation
5 282 (31.97%) Business Intelligence
6 220 (24.94%) Actionable Insight
7 212 (24.04%) Statistics
8 195 (22.11%) Mathematics
9 193 (21.88%) Business Strategy
10 178 (20.18%) Decision-Making
11 167 (18.93%) Data Management
12 154 (17.46%) Data Pipeline
13 142 (16.10%) Storytelling
14 132 (14.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 129 (14.63%) Root Cause Analysis
16 126 (14.29%) Customer Intelligence
17 121 (13.72%) Data Analytics
18 116 (13.15%) Data Modelling
19 103 (11.68%) Data Governance
20 102 (11.56%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 587 (66.55%) SQL
2 322 (36.51%) Python
3 60 (6.80%) R
4 40 (4.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 29 (3.29%) VBA
6 23 (2.61%) T-SQL
7 10 (1.13%) Julia
8 8 (0.91%) Java
9 6 (0.68%) Bash
9 6 (0.68%) JavaScript
10 4 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (0.45%) PHP
11 3 (0.34%) VB
12 2 (0.23%) C#
13 1 (0.11%) C++
13 1 (0.11%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.11%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 263 (29.82%) Degree
2 151 (17.12%) DBS Check
3 23 (2.61%) Security Cleared
4 19 (2.15%) Master's Degree
5 10 (1.13%) Numerate Degree
6 9 (1.02%) DV Cleared
7 8 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (0.91%) SC Cleared
8 6 (0.68%) PhD
9 4 (0.45%) MBA
10 3 (0.34%) CFA
10 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.23%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.23%) PMP
12 1 (0.11%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (19.61%) Data Quality
2 36 (4.08%) GDPR
3 19 (2.15%) SLA
4 9 (1.02%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.02%) QA
5 7 (0.79%) COBIT
6 5 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.23%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.11%) Grafana
1 1 (0.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 149 (16.89%) Databricks
2 137 (15.53%) Microsoft
3 61 (6.92%) Google
4 33 (3.74%) SAP
5 24 (2.72%) Oracle
6 22 (2.49%) Alteryx
7 15 (1.70%) Informatica
7 15 (1.70%) Salesforce
8 11 (1.25%) Kronos
9 7 (0.79%) Adobe
9 7 (0.79%) IBM
10 6 (0.68%) Civica
10 6 (0.68%) Jitterbit
10 6 (0.68%) NEC
10 6 (0.68%) Talend
11 5 (0.57%) ESRI
12 4 (0.45%) IFS
13 3 (0.34%) MicroStrategy
14 2 (0.23%) Cognos
14 2 (0.23%) Splunk