Data Analysis Jobs

Data Analysis
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Data Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Analysis over the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 108 114
Rank change year-on-year +3 +6 +27
Permanent jobs citing Data Analysis 1,392 2,351 3,354
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.75% 2.54% 3.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.94% 2.92% 3.17%
Number of salaries quoted 653 1,456 1,482
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,208 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,188 £36,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,000 £54,888
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -3.44% +2.59%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £89,750 £87,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £41,665
% change year-on-year - +20.01% -12.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Analysis falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 47,280 80,404 105,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.55% 86.78% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 25,837 58,088 61,888
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,250 £34,095
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.51% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £54,590
% change year-on-year +5.20% -8.41% +3.98%

Data Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analysis in the UK

Data Analysis
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Analysis in the UK

Data Analysis
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Analysis over the 6 months to 2 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Analysis in the UK

Data Analysis
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 Analysis within the UK over the 6 months to 2 April 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 +10 1,253 £55,000 +3.77% 2,572
UK excluding London +20 939 £50,000 - 1,258
Work from Home +16 422 £52,500 - 1,172
London -26 375 £70,000 +12.00% 1,531
Midlands +40 302 £45,500 -4.21% 196
North of England +36 247 £48,750 -11.36% 329
West Midlands +24 223 £52,000 +4.00% 121
South East -1 216 £52,609 +5.22% 335
North West +12 163 £48,750 -18.75% 199
East Midlands +51 79 £42,500 -10.53% 69
South West +17 79 £42,038 -22.62% 120
Scotland +24 63 £61,250 +11.36% 78
Yorkshire +35 57 £45,000 -10.00% 91
North East +31 27 £65,000 +62.50% 42
East of England -58 27 £65,000 +30.00% 180
Northern Ireland +39 4 £32,500 -43.48% 23
Wales +30 4 £47,500 +18.75% 24

Data Analysis
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 48 (3.45%) SharePoint
2 35 (2.51%) Jupyter
3 18 (1.29%) SAS
4 14 (1.01%) Confluence
5 13 (0.93%) CMS
6 7 (0.50%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.36%) WordPress
8 4 (0.29%) Mule
9 3 (0.22%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.22%) IBM Domino
9 3 (0.22%) nginx
10 2 (0.14%) Drupal
11 1 (0.072%) Apache
11 1 (0.072%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 392 (28.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 206 (14.80%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (1.36%) SPSS
5 17 (1.22%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.72%) Photoshop
8 7 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
9 6 (0.43%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.22%) Trello
11 2 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.14%) Simulink
12 1 (0.072%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.072%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.072%) Notion
12 1 (0.072%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.072%) Revit
12 1 (0.072%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 16 (1.15%) Raiser’s Edge
2 13 (0.93%) Teamcenter
3 11 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.36%) Markit EDM
6 4 (0.29%) Maximo
7 3 (0.22%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.14%) Cloudability
8 2 (0.14%) Endur
8 2 (0.14%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 2 (0.14%) Infor SunSystems
8 2 (0.14%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.14%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
8 2 (0.14%) SystmOne
8 2 (0.14%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.072%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.072%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 349 (25.07%) Power Platform
2 190 (13.65%) Azure
3 118 (8.48%) AWS
4 55 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
5 51 (3.66%) GCP
6 47 (3.38%) PowerApps
7 45 (3.23%) Google Analytics
8 41 (2.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 35 (2.51%) Azure Data Factory
10 33 (2.37%) Power Automate
11 25 (1.80%) SaaS
12 23 (1.65%) Snowflake
13 19 (1.36%) GitHub
14 18 (1.29%) Adobe Analytics
14 18 (1.29%) Serverless
15 16 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
16 15 (1.08%) Amazon SageMaker
17 14 (1.01%) AWS Lambda
17 14 (1.01%) Dynamics 365
18 13 (0.93%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.65%) Wireshark
2 13 (0.93%) Internet
3 10 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (0.29%) Ethernet
4 4 (0.29%) Intranet
4 4 (0.29%) LoRaWAN
5 3 (0.22%) Firewall
6 2 (0.14%) Broadband
6 2 (0.14%) DHCP
6 2 (0.14%) DNS
6 2 (0.14%) FTP
6 2 (0.14%) Network Security
7 1 (0.072%) DAB
7 1 (0.072%) HTTP
7 1 (0.072%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.072%) Multicast
7 1 (0.072%) RS-232
7 1 (0.072%) SMS
7 1 (0.072%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.072%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 343 (24.64%) Power BI
2 167 (12.00%) Tableau
3 91 (6.54%) Big Data
4 82 (5.89%) Data Warehouse
5 62 (4.45%) Data Lake
6 56 (4.02%) SQL Server
7 39 (2.80%) Relational Database
8 31 (2.23%) Power Query
9 29 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 26 (1.87%) Data Mining
11 22 (1.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 19 (1.36%) MySQL
13 16 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
13 16 (1.15%) NoSQL
14 14 (1.01%) Metadata
15 13 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
15 13 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
16 12 (0.86%) BigQuery
16 12 (0.86%) Dremio
17 11 (0.79%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 33 (2.37%) JIRA
2 18 (1.29%) Git
3 10 (0.72%) Rational DOORS
4 7 (0.50%) GitLab
5 4 (0.29%) SonarQube
5 4 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (0.14%) LabVIEW
6 2 (0.14%) Selenium
6 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio Team System
7 1 (0.072%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.072%) Hudson
7 1 (0.072%) Katalon Studio
7 1 (0.072%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.072%) Visual Studio
General
1 509 (36.57%) Social Skills
2 460 (33.05%) Finance
3 440 (31.61%) Analytical Skills
4 147 (10.56%) Law
5 125 (8.98%) Manufacturing
6 109 (7.83%) Marketing
7 88 (6.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 71 (5.10%) Banking
9 61 (4.38%) Presentation Skills
10 41 (2.95%) Legal
11 40 (2.87%) Public Sector
11 40 (2.87%) Retail
12 35 (2.51%) Telecoms
13 33 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
14 31 (2.23%) Advertising
15 26 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
16 23 (1.65%) Electronics
17 20 (1.44%) Billing
18 16 (1.15%) Front Office
19 14 (1.01%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 447 (32.11%) Analyst
2 183 (13.15%) Senior
3 158 (11.35%) Data Analyst
4 140 (10.06%) Lead
5 139 (9.99%) Graduate
6 113 (8.12%) Business Analyst
7 109 (7.83%) Data Scientist
8 86 (6.18%) Senior Analyst
9 69 (4.96%) Data Engineer
10 63 (4.53%) Developer
10 63 (4.53%) Systems Engineer
11 60 (4.31%) Project Engineer
12 59 (4.24%) Logistics Engineer
13 43 (3.09%) Senior Data Scientist
14 36 (2.59%) Project Manager
15 30 (2.16%) Financial Analyst
16 28 (2.01%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 26 (1.87%) Procurement Analyst
17 26 (1.87%) Senior Business Analyst
18 24 (1.72%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (1.51%) NumPy
2 19 (1.36%) Pandas
3 18 (1.29%) PySpark
3 18 (1.29%) scikit-learn
4 17 (1.22%) CSS
4 17 (1.22%) HTML
4 17 (1.22%) PyTorch
4 17 (1.22%) TensorFlow
5 14 (1.01%) REST
6 13 (0.93%) .NET
7 12 (0.86%) Oracle Fusion
8 10 (0.72%) JAX
9 9 (0.65%) JSON
9 9 (0.65%) React
10 8 (0.57%) Google JAX
10 8 (0.57%) Kafka
11 7 (0.50%) EDI
12 6 (0.43%) Plotly
12 6 (0.43%) RESTful
13 5 (0.36%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 117 (8.41%) Management Information System
2 111 (7.97%) Algorithms
3 46 (3.30%) Cyberattack
4 45 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
5 35 (2.51%) Product Ownership
6 29 (2.08%) Onboarding
7 27 (1.94%) Social Media
8 23 (1.65%) Data Structures
9 20 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
10 18 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
11 14 (1.01%) FMCG
12 11 (0.79%) Cloud Native
12 11 (0.79%) NHS
13 10 (0.72%) Distributed Computing
13 10 (0.72%) Linux Command Line
14 9 (0.65%) Credit Risk
14 9 (0.65%) Derivative
14 9 (0.65%) IoT
15 8 (0.57%) Equities
15 8 (0.57%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 64 (4.60%) Linux
2 58 (4.17%) Windows
3 12 (0.86%) Unix
4 9 (0.65%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.57%) AIX
5 8 (0.57%) Solaris
5 8 (0.57%) Ubuntu
6 7 (0.50%) Debian
7 5 (0.36%) Windows Vista
8 1 (0.072%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 439 (31.54%) Analytics
2 355 (25.50%) Problem-Solving
3 331 (23.78%) Business Intelligence
4 323 (23.20%) Visualisation
5 302 (21.70%) Decision-Making
6 297 (21.34%) Continuous Improvement
7 253 (18.18%) Process Improvement
8 237 (17.03%) Agile
9 224 (16.09%) Data Management
10 205 (14.73%) Logistics
11 201 (14.44%) Customer Experience
12 194 (13.94%) Data Science
13 184 (13.22%) Computer Science
13 184 (13.22%) Customer Service
14 179 (12.86%) Data Analytics
14 179 (12.86%) Performance Metrics
15 169 (12.14%) Project Management
16 161 (11.57%) Artificial Intelligence
17 154 (11.06%) Machine Learning
18 153 (10.99%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 393 (28.23%) SQL
2 303 (21.77%) Python
3 74 (5.32%) Java
4 60 (4.31%) R
5 54 (3.88%) JavaScript
6 45 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 34 (2.44%) T-SQL
8 29 (2.08%) C
9 28 (2.01%) C#
10 27 (1.94%) C++
11 17 (1.22%) VBA
12 16 (1.15%) PowerShell
13 15 (1.08%) MATLAB
14 7 (0.50%) Perl
14 7 (0.50%) PHP
14 7 (0.50%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.50%) VB
15 6 (0.43%) Scala
15 6 (0.43%) TypeScript
16 3 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 686 (49.28%) Degree
2 107 (7.69%) Master's Degree
3 85 (6.11%) Security Cleared
4 62 (4.45%) DV Cleared
5 54 (3.88%) DBS Check
6 52 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 39 (2.80%) HND
8 33 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
9 32 (2.30%) Numerate Degree
10 31 (2.23%) PhD
11 28 (2.01%) PMI Certification
12 27 (1.94%) MBA
13 25 (1.80%) SC Cleared
14 24 (1.72%) PMP
15 23 (1.65%) Chartered Engineer
16 18 (1.29%) HNC
17 16 (1.15%) Azure Certification
18 9 (0.65%) ACCA
18 9 (0.65%) CIMA
18 9 (0.65%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (12.57%) Data Quality
2 32 (2.30%) GDPR
3 29 (2.08%) Accessibility
4 23 (1.65%) QA
5 17 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
6 16 (1.15%) SLA
7 12 (0.86%) PMO
8 9 (0.65%) COREP
9 6 (0.43%) MiFID
10 4 (0.29%) NIST
11 3 (0.22%) EMIR
12 2 (0.14%) Basel III
12 2 (0.14%) CDISC
12 2 (0.14%) COBIT
12 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 19770
12 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 1 (0.072%) IFRS
13 1 (0.072%) IFRS 9
13 1 (0.072%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.072%) WCAG
System Software
1 47 (3.38%) Docker
2 23 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.22%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.22%) Firmware
4 3 (0.22%) Samba
5 2 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.072%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.072%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.072%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 42 (3.02%) Kubernetes
2 10 (0.72%) Terraform
3 7 (0.50%) Ansible
4 5 (0.36%) Argo
5 3 (0.22%) Packer
5 3 (0.22%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.14%) Grafana
6 2 (0.14%) Kubeflow
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.072%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.072%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.072%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.072%) Puppet
7 1 (0.072%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.072%) vRealize
Vendors
1 232 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 93 (6.68%) SAP
3 89 (6.39%) Google
4 55 (3.95%) Databricks
5 33 (2.37%) Salesforce
6 30 (2.16%) ServiceNow
7 26 (1.87%) Oracle
8 25 (1.80%) Adobe
9 22 (1.58%) Concur
9 22 (1.58%) Workday
10 14 (1.01%) VMware
11 12 (0.86%) Capita
12 11 (0.79%) Informatica
13 10 (0.72%) Broadcom
13 10 (0.72%) Symantec
14 9 (0.65%) Bloomberg
15 8 (0.57%) IBM
15 8 (0.57%) Marketo
15 8 (0.57%) Reuters
15 8 (0.57%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud