Data Analyst Jobs in the UK excluding London

Data Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Analyst salary in the UK excluding London is £39,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 338 271 302
Rank change year-on-year -67 +31 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Analyst 533 719 816
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.74% 1.22% 1.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.78% 1.37% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 385 387 502
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £29,750 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,500 £38,000 £38,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.95% -1.30% +2.67%
75th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £50,000
90th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £61,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 67,926 52,593 68,736
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 89.19% 95.74%
Number of salaries quoted 47,990 30,014 42,465
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analyst in the UK excluding London

Data Analyst
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Analyst in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Data Analyst in the UK excluding London

Data Analyst
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Analyst in the UK excluding London

Data Analyst
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
Midlands -27 139 £37,500 -1.32% 30
South East +17 124 £38,250 -10.00% 35
North of England -46 111 £35,000 -5.09% 36
South West -29 74 £45,000 +12.50% 13
East Midlands +43 71 £30,500 -6.87% 11
West Midlands -52 68 £40,000 +5.26% 19
North West -8 60 £35,000 +2.47% 19
East of England -12 40 £36,664 -33.34% 19
Yorkshire +6 32 £35,000 -2.52% 16
Scotland -85 28 £55,000 +29.41% 6
North East -32 19 £35,000 -12.50% 1
Wales -11 12 £42,500 +52.08% 5
Northern Ireland +23 4 £50,000 +33.33%
Channel Islands - 1 £67,500 - 1
Data Analyst
UK

Data Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 18 May 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Data Analyst in the job title.

1 287 (53.85%) SQL
2 246 (46.15%) Power BI
2 246 (46.15%) Power Platform
3 245 (45.97%) Business Intelligence
4 225 (42.21%) Analytical Skills
5 212 (39.77%) Analytics
6 197 (36.96%) Microsoft Excel
7 164 (30.77%) Data Analysis
8 157 (29.46%) Visualisation
9 151 (28.33%) Python
10 149 (27.95%) Finance
11 145 (27.20%) Social Skills
12 139 (26.08%) Problem-Solving
13 129 (24.20%) Tableau
14 126 (23.64%) Degree
15 114 (21.39%) Decision-Making
16 87 (16.32%) Microsoft
16 87 (16.32%) Statistics
17 81 (15.20%) Retail
18 79 (14.82%) Actionable Insight
19 77 (14.45%) Data Quality
20 73 (13.70%) Data Management
20 73 (13.70%) Mathematics
21 69 (12.95%) Data Visualisation
22 67 (12.57%) Data Analytics
23 60 (11.26%) Continuous Improvement
23 60 (11.26%) Marketing
24 55 (10.32%) Data Science
25 51 (9.57%) Legal
26 50 (9.38%) Data Governance

Data Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 21 (3.94%) SAS
2 7 (1.31%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.13%) ArcGIS
3 6 (1.13%) Confluence
4 4 (0.75%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.19%) Apache
5 1 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.19%) Luigi
Applications
1 197 (36.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (5.63%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (2.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.31%) SPSS
5 5 (0.94%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (2.06%) ResourceLink
2 6 (1.13%) SAP Business One
3 4 (0.75%) NEC Housing
3 4 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.38%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.19%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 246 (46.15%) Power Platform
2 33 (6.19%) AWS
3 32 (6.00%) Azure
4 14 (2.63%) SuccessFactors
5 12 (2.25%) GCP
5 12 (2.25%) Snowflake
6 10 (1.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 10 (1.88%) PowerApps
7 7 (1.31%) Power Automate
7 7 (1.31%) SaaS
8 4 (0.75%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (0.75%) ChatGPT
8 4 (0.75%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (0.56%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.38%) Adobe Analytics
10 2 (0.38%) dbt
10 2 (0.38%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.38%) GitHub
10 2 (0.38%) Google Analytics
10 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.31%) Internet
2 5 (0.94%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 246 (46.15%) Power BI
2 129 (24.20%) Tableau
3 41 (7.69%) Power Query
4 33 (6.19%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (4.32%) SQL Server
6 18 (3.38%) QlikView
7 17 (3.19%) Data Mining
7 17 (3.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 12 (2.25%) Relational Database
9 10 (1.88%) GIS
9 10 (1.88%) MS Access
9 10 (1.88%) MySQL
9 10 (1.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (1.69%) Data Lake
10 9 (1.69%) Metadata
11 8 (1.50%) Amazon QuickSight
11 8 (1.50%) Big Data
12 7 (1.31%) Oracle BI EE
13 6 (1.13%) Qlik Sense
14 5 (0.94%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 23 (4.32%) Git
2 10 (1.88%) JIRA
3 5 (0.94%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (0.75%) Toad
5 2 (0.38%) RStudio
General
1 225 (42.21%) Analytical Skills
2 149 (27.95%) Finance
3 145 (27.20%) Social Skills
4 81 (15.20%) Retail
5 60 (11.26%) Marketing
6 51 (9.57%) Legal
7 46 (8.63%) Law
8 42 (7.88%) Presentation Skills
9 37 (6.94%) Organisational Skills
10 36 (6.75%) Manufacturing
11 35 (6.57%) Banking
12 23 (4.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 18 (3.38%) Public Sector
14 15 (2.81%) Local Government
15 12 (2.25%) Games
16 11 (2.06%) Automotive
17 9 (1.69%) Electronics
18 8 (1.50%) French Language
18 8 (1.50%) Telecoms
19 6 (1.13%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.50%) Pandas
2 7 (1.31%) XML
3 2 (0.38%) HTML
3 2 (0.38%) JSON
4 1 (0.19%) D3.js
4 1 (0.19%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.19%) MDX
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.19%) REST
4 1 (0.19%) SQLAlchemy
4 1 (0.19%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 39 (7.32%) Self-Motivation
2 19 (3.56%) Analytical Mindset
3 16 (3.00%) Management Information System
4 12 (2.25%) Driving Licence
4 12 (2.25%) FMCG
5 6 (1.13%) IoT
5 6 (1.13%) Pricing Data
6 4 (0.75%) Algorithms
6 4 (0.75%) Credit Risk
6 4 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (0.75%) NHS
6 4 (0.75%) Onboarding
6 4 (0.75%) Robotics
7 3 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (0.56%) Housing Association
7 3 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (0.56%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.38%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.38%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.38%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.94%) Windows
2 2 (0.38%) Windows Vista
3 1 (0.19%) Android
3 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (45.97%) Business Intelligence
2 212 (39.77%) Analytics
3 164 (30.77%) Data Analysis
4 157 (29.46%) Visualisation
5 139 (26.08%) Problem-Solving
6 114 (21.39%) Decision-Making
7 87 (16.32%) Statistics
8 79 (14.82%) Actionable Insight
9 73 (13.70%) Data Management
9 73 (13.70%) Mathematics
10 69 (12.95%) Data Visualisation
11 67 (12.57%) Data Analytics
12 60 (11.26%) Continuous Improvement
13 55 (10.32%) Data Science
14 50 (9.38%) Data Governance
15 49 (9.19%) Data Modelling
16 46 (8.63%) Agile
16 46 (8.63%) CRM
17 45 (8.44%) Business Strategy
18 43 (8.07%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 287 (53.85%) SQL
2 151 (28.33%) Python
3 35 (6.57%) R
4 32 (6.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 22 (4.13%) T-SQL
6 19 (3.56%) VBA
7 6 (1.13%) Java
8 4 (0.75%) Bash
8 4 (0.75%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (0.75%) VB
Qualifications
1 126 (23.64%) Degree
2 34 (6.38%) DBS Check
3 12 (2.25%) Security Cleared
4 10 (1.88%) Master's Degree
5 9 (1.69%) DV Cleared
5 9 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (1.50%) Numerate Degree
7 6 (1.13%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (0.75%) SC Cleared
9 3 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.38%) CFA
11 1 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.19%) CCA
11 1 (0.19%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (14.45%) Data Quality
2 28 (5.25%) GDPR
3 5 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
4 4 (0.75%) QA
5 3 (0.56%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.19%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (0.19%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 87 (16.32%) Microsoft
2 35 (6.57%) SAP
3 33 (6.19%) Databricks
4 32 (6.00%) Salesforce
5 25 (4.69%) Alteryx
6 18 (3.38%) Google
7 17 (3.19%) Oracle
8 11 (2.06%) Kronos
9 10 (1.88%) Informatica
10 7 (1.31%) IBM
10 7 (1.31%) Talend
11 6 (1.13%) Jitterbit
12 5 (0.94%) ESRI
13 4 (0.75%) Civica
13 4 (0.75%) IFS
13 4 (0.75%) NEC
14 3 (0.56%) Meraki
15 2 (0.38%) Adobe
15 2 (0.38%) HubSpot
15 2 (0.38%) Workday