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 26 July 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 312 266
Rank change year-on-year +205 -46 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Analyst 1,763 447 889
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.74% 0.91% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.85% 1.01% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 652 295 579
10th Percentile £30,050 £28,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £41,500
% change year-on-year +5.88% +2.41% +7.26%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 95,392 44,432 84,355
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.35% 90.12% 94.77%
Number of salaries quoted 65,258 26,408 58,586
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £96,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.12%

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Data Analyst' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Data Analyst job vacancy trend in the UK

Data Analyst
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Data Analyst job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Data Analyst job vacancies in the UK

Data Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Analyst over the 6 months to 26 July 2026.

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 26 July 2026. 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 +192 1,571 £45,000 -5.26% 263
UK excluding London +230 1,513 £45,000 +5.88% 239
North of England +157 506 £45,000 +5.88% 62
Midlands +101 282 £42,500 - 41
South East +147 281 £42,500 -8.11% 82
Yorkshire +98 239 £40,000 -5.88% 22
London +12 219 £55,000 -15.38% 87
Work from Home +2 213 £45,500 -2.03% 80
North West +104 206 £45,000 +5.88% 29
South West +65 179 £43,500 +22.42% 22
East Midlands +57 146 £42,500 +6.25% 20
West Midlands +71 136 £40,000 -11.11% 21
East of England +69 115 £55,000 +17.42% 16
Scotland +79 86 £65,000 +100.00% 8
North East +5 61 £40,000 -16.23% 11
Wales - 56 £52,500 - 8
Northern Ireland -47 22 £40,000 - 4

Data Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 July 2026, Data Analyst job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Data Analyst in the job title.

1 1,186 (67.27%) SQL
2 1,068 (60.58%) Business Intelligence
3 1,048 (59.44%) Python
4 1,047 (59.39%) Power BI
4 1,047 (59.39%) Power Platform
5 1,025 (58.14%) Microsoft Excel
6 968 (54.91%) Microsoft
7 950 (53.89%) Tableau
8 902 (51.16%) AI
9 880 (49.91%) Azure
10 830 (47.08%) Azure Certification
11 827 (46.91%) Azure AI
12 301 (17.07%) Analytics
13 289 (16.39%) Data Analysis
14 232 (13.16%) Decision-Making
15 174 (9.87%) Data Quality
16 143 (8.11%) Problem-Solving
17 138 (7.83%) Data Analytics
18 123 (6.98%) Actionable Insight
19 100 (5.67%) Visualisation
20 95 (5.39%) Continuous Improvement
21 94 (5.33%) Data Modelling
22 77 (4.37%) Business Analysis
23 74 (4.20%) Validation
24 73 (4.14%) Data Governance
24 73 (4.14%) Project Management
25 72 (4.08%) Dashboard Development
26 63 (3.57%) Data Mining
26 63 (3.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
26 63 (3.57%) Stakeholder Management

Data Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
1 6 (0.34%) SharePoint
2 5 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (0.28%) IIS
3 4 (0.23%) SAS
4 3 (0.17%) Confluence
5 2 (0.11%) WordPress
6 1 (0.057%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.057%) CMS
6 1 (0.057%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 1,025 (58.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.17%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.057%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.057%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 5 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.23%) iTrent
2 4 (0.23%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.23%) Oracle Applications
2 4 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.17%) Academy Housing
4 2 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.057%) FastStats
5 1 (0.057%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.057%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.057%) SystmOne
5 1 (0.057%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,047 (59.39%) Power Platform
2 880 (49.91%) Azure
3 827 (46.91%) Azure AI
4 30 (1.70%) Snowflake
5 26 (1.47%) SaaS
6 20 (1.13%) GCP
7 19 (1.08%) AWS
8 17 (0.96%) dbt
9 11 (0.62%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (0.51%) Collibra
10 9 (0.51%) Dynamics 365
10 9 (0.51%) Power Automate
11 7 (0.40%) Microsoft Purview
12 6 (0.34%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (0.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (0.34%) Entra ID
12 6 (0.34%) Google Analytics
13 5 (0.28%) Alation
13 5 (0.28%) SuccessFactors
14 3 (0.17%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.17%) Broadband
1 3 (0.17%) Internet
2 1 (0.057%) 5G
2 1 (0.057%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,047 (59.39%) Power BI
2 950 (53.89%) Tableau
3 63 (3.57%) Data Mining
4 36 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
5 32 (1.82%) Power Query
6 26 (1.47%) Looker
7 20 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 18 (1.02%) Metadata
8 18 (1.02%) Relational Database
9 17 (0.96%) BigQuery
10 13 (0.74%) SQL Server
11 11 (0.62%) Semantic Layer
12 10 (0.57%) Data Lake
13 9 (0.51%) MySQL
13 9 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 8 (0.45%) PowerPivot
15 7 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
16 6 (0.34%) Amazon Redshift
17 5 (0.28%) Geospatial Data
17 5 (0.28%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (0.51%) JIRA
2 6 (0.34%) Git
3 5 (0.28%) Postman
4 1 (0.057%) Toad
4 1 (0.057%) Visual Studio
General
1 985 (55.87%) Social Skills
2 315 (17.87%) Analytical Skills
3 275 (15.60%) Finance
4 67 (3.80%) Retail
5 66 (3.74%) Marketing
6 46 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 38 (2.16%) Legal
8 20 (1.13%) Public Sector
9 16 (0.91%) Manufacturing
10 15 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
11 14 (0.79%) Law
12 12 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (0.57%) Banking
14 9 (0.51%) Automotive
15 7 (0.40%) Advertising
15 7 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (0.34%) Documentation Skills
16 6 (0.34%) Local Government
17 4 (0.23%) Agriculture
17 4 (0.23%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (0.91%) JSON
2 7 (0.40%) XML
3 6 (0.34%) REST
4 5 (0.28%) OpenAPI
4 5 (0.28%) Oracle Fusion
4 5 (0.28%) RESTful
4 5 (0.28%) Swagger
5 3 (0.17%) CSS
5 3 (0.17%) HTML
5 3 (0.17%) Pandas
6 2 (0.11%) FpML
6 2 (0.11%) Matplotlib
6 2 (0.11%) NumPy
6 2 (0.11%) Seaborn
6 2 (0.11%) Streamlit
7 1 (0.057%) FHIR
7 1 (0.057%) PySpark
7 1 (0.057%) PyTorch
7 1 (0.057%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 40 (2.27%) Data Structures
2 36 (2.04%) Management Information System
3 25 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
4 13 (0.74%) Onboarding
5 10 (0.57%) Housing Association
5 10 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (0.51%) Data Centre
7 7 (0.40%) Product Ownership
8 6 (0.34%) NHS
9 5 (0.28%) Algorithms
9 5 (0.28%) Derivative
9 5 (0.28%) FMCG
9 5 (0.28%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (0.28%) Reference Data
9 5 (0.28%) Social Media
10 4 (0.23%) Clustering
10 4 (0.23%) Renewable Energy
10 4 (0.23%) SystemC
11 3 (0.17%) Smart Meter
12 2 (0.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.34%) Windows
2 5 (0.28%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,068 (60.58%) Business Intelligence
2 902 (51.16%) AI
3 301 (17.07%) Analytics
4 289 (16.39%) Data Analysis
5 232 (13.16%) Decision-Making
6 143 (8.11%) Problem-Solving
7 138 (7.83%) Data Analytics
8 123 (6.98%) Actionable Insight
9 100 (5.67%) Visualisation
10 95 (5.39%) Continuous Improvement
11 94 (5.33%) Data Modelling
12 77 (4.37%) Business Analysis
13 74 (4.20%) Validation
14 73 (4.14%) Data Governance
14 73 (4.14%) Project Management
15 72 (4.08%) Dashboard Development
16 63 (3.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 63 (3.57%) Stakeholder Management
17 61 (3.46%) Data Visualisation
18 49 (2.78%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 1,186 (67.27%) SQL
2 1,048 (59.44%) Python
3 31 (1.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 25 (1.42%) R
5 20 (1.13%) VBA
6 15 (0.85%) T-SQL
7 8 (0.45%) PowerShell
8 4 (0.23%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.17%) PHP
10 1 (0.057%) Bash
10 1 (0.057%) C
10 1 (0.057%) LookML
Qualifications
1 830 (47.08%) Azure Certification
2 53 (3.01%) Degree
3 33 (1.87%) DBS Check
4 23 (1.30%) Security Cleared
5 18 (1.02%) SC Cleared
6 8 (0.45%) ACCA
6 8 (0.45%) CIMA
6 8 (0.45%) DV Cleared
7 7 (0.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.23%) CISM
8 4 (0.23%) CISSP
8 4 (0.23%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (0.17%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.11%) CITP
11 1 (0.057%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.057%) CBAP
11 1 (0.057%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.057%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.057%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (9.87%) Data Quality
2 24 (1.36%) Accessibility
3 23 (1.30%) QA
4 16 (0.91%) GDPR
5 10 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (0.45%) GMP
7 5 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.23%) NIST
8 4 (0.23%) PMO
9 2 (0.11%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.057%) GRC
10 1 (0.057%) PERC
10 1 (0.057%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.057%) Solvency II
System Software
1 6 (0.34%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 968 (54.91%) Microsoft
2 31 (1.76%) SAP
3 25 (1.42%) Oracle
4 24 (1.36%) Workday
5 20 (1.13%) Databricks
6 16 (0.91%) Alteryx
6 16 (0.91%) Google
7 15 (0.85%) Salesforce
8 11 (0.62%) Informatica
9 9 (0.51%) Hyperion
10 8 (0.45%) Foundry
11 7 (0.40%) CA Agile Central
12 6 (0.34%) Palantir
13 5 (0.28%) Adobe
14 3 (0.17%) TikTok
15 2 (0.11%) Dataiku
15 2 (0.11%) HubSpot
15 2 (0.11%) NetApp
15 2 (0.11%) Splunk
15 2 (0.11%) Vertica