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 3 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 108 115
Rank change year-on-year +2 +7 +25
Permanent jobs citing Data Analysis 1,393 2,352 3,341
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.76% 2.53% 3.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.95% 2.92% 3.18%
Number of salaries quoted 655 1,455 1,474
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,208 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,125 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,000 £54,377
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -2.53% +1.64%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £89,500 £87,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,739 £50,000 £41,829
% change year-on-year -0.52% +19.53% -11.94%

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 47,277 80,571 105,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.52% 86.76% 95.68%
Number of salaries quoted 25,823 58,144 61,428
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,250 £34,000
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 £73,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £99,404 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year +5.20% -8.26% +3.81%

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 3 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 3 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 +12 1,253 £55,000 +2.80% 2,518
UK excluding London +19 938 £49,739 -0.52% 1,185
Work from Home +12 423 £52,500 - 985
London -21 376 £70,000 +12.00% 1,541
Midlands +38 303 £45,000 -10.00% 184
North of England +34 246 £47,500 -13.64% 305
West Midlands +27 223 £52,000 +4.00% 111
South East +5 215 £52,609 +5.22% 325
North West +12 162 £47,500 -20.83% 184
East Midlands +55 80 £42,500 -10.53% 68
South West +12 79 £42,038 -22.62% 112
Scotland +20 63 £61,250 +11.36% 75
Yorkshire +47 57 £45,000 -10.00% 83
North East +31 27 £65,000 +62.50% 41
East of England -56 27 £65,000 +30.00% 166
Northern Ireland +37 4 £32,500 -43.48% 23
Wales +30 4 £47,500 - 22

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 17 (1.22%) SAS
4 14 (1.01%) Confluence
5 13 (0.93%) CMS
6 7 (0.50%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.36%) WordPress
9 4 (0.29%) Mule
10 3 (0.22%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.22%) IBM Domino
10 3 (0.22%) nginx
11 2 (0.14%) Drupal
12 1 (0.072%) Apache
12 1 (0.072%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 395 (28.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 208 (14.93%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (1.36%) SPSS
5 17 (1.22%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.79%) Photoshop
6 11 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
8 5 (0.36%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.22%) Trello
10 2 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.14%) Simulink
11 1 (0.072%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.072%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.072%) Notion
11 1 (0.072%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.072%) Revit
11 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%) Actimize
9 1 (0.072%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 351 (25.20%) Power Platform
2 189 (13.57%) Azure
3 117 (8.40%) AWS
4 56 (4.02%) Microsoft 365
5 50 (3.59%) GCP
6 47 (3.37%) PowerApps
7 46 (3.30%) Google Analytics
8 40 (2.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 34 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
10 33 (2.37%) Power Automate
11 25 (1.79%) 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
17 14 (1.01%) 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%) Firewall
4 4 (0.29%) Intranet
4 4 (0.29%) LoRaWAN
5 3 (0.22%) DHCP
5 3 (0.22%) DNS
5 3 (0.22%) Network Security
6 2 (0.14%) Broadband
6 2 (0.14%) FTP
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
1 345 (24.77%) Power BI
2 168 (12.06%) Tableau
3 91 (6.53%) Big Data
4 82 (5.89%) Data Warehouse
5 62 (4.45%) Data Lake
6 56 (4.02%) SQL Server
7 40 (2.87%) Relational Database
8 31 (2.23%) Power Query
9 29 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 24 (1.72%) 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
16 12 (0.86%) 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
1 511 (36.68%) Social Skills
2 461 (33.09%) Finance
3 441 (31.66%) Analytical Skills
4 146 (10.48%) Law
5 125 (8.97%) Manufacturing
6 110 (7.90%) Marketing
7 88 (6.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 71 (5.10%) Banking
9 62 (4.45%) Presentation Skills
10 42 (3.02%) Legal
11 40 (2.87%) Public Sector
11 40 (2.87%) Retail
12 35 (2.51%) Telecoms
13 33 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
14 32 (2.30%) Advertising
15 27 (1.94%) 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
1 448 (32.16%) Analyst
2 183 (13.14%) Senior
3 158 (11.34%) Data Analyst
4 140 (10.05%) Lead
5 139 (9.98%) Graduate
6 112 (8.04%) Business Analyst
7 108 (7.75%) Data Scientist
8 86 (6.17%) Senior Analyst
9 68 (4.88%) Data Engineer
10 63 (4.52%) Developer
10 63 (4.52%) Systems Engineer
11 60 (4.31%) Project Engineer
12 59 (4.24%) Logistics Engineer
13 43 (3.09%) Senior Data Scientist
14 36 (2.58%) Project Manager
15 31 (2.23%) Financial Analyst
16 29 (2.08%) 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
5 16 (1.15%) PyTorch
5 16 (1.15%) TensorFlow
6 14 (1.01%) REST
7 13 (0.93%) .NET
8 12 (0.86%) Oracle Fusion
9 10 (0.72%) JAX
10 9 (0.65%) JSON
10 9 (0.65%) React
11 8 (0.57%) Google JAX
11 8 (0.57%) Kafka
12 7 (0.50%) EDI
13 6 (0.43%) Plotly
13 6 (0.43%) RESTful
14 5 (0.36%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 116 (8.33%) 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 28 (2.01%) 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 (4.59%) Linux
2 59 (4.24%) Windows
3 12 (0.86%) Unix
4 10 (0.72%) 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 2 (0.14%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 439 (31.51%) Analytics
2 356 (25.56%) Problem-Solving
3 332 (23.83%) Business Intelligence
4 322 (23.12%) Visualisation
5 301 (21.61%) Decision-Making
6 296 (21.25%) Continuous Improvement
7 254 (18.23%) Process Improvement
8 238 (17.09%) Agile
9 224 (16.08%) Data Management
10 205 (14.72%) Logistics
11 201 (14.43%) Customer Experience
12 191 (13.71%) Data Science
13 185 (13.28%) Customer Service
14 181 (12.99%) Computer Science
15 179 (12.85%) Data Analytics
15 179 (12.85%) Performance Metrics
16 169 (12.13%) Project Management
17 160 (11.49%) Artificial Intelligence
18 154 (11.06%) Actionable Insight
19 153 (10.98%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 392 (28.14%) SQL
2 299 (21.46%) Python
3 74 (5.31%) Java
4 58 (4.16%) R
5 54 (3.88%) JavaScript
6 44 (3.16%) 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%) PowerShell
11 17 (1.22%) VBA
12 15 (1.08%) MATLAB
13 7 (0.50%) Perl
13 7 (0.50%) PHP
13 7 (0.50%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.50%) VB
14 6 (0.43%) Scala
14 6 (0.43%) TypeScript
15 3 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 682 (48.96%) Degree
2 105 (7.54%) Master's Degree
3 85 (6.10%) Security Cleared
4 62 (4.45%) DV Cleared
5 55 (3.95%) DBS Check
6 51 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 39 (2.80%) HND
8 33 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
9 32 (2.30%) Numerate Degree
10 30 (2.15%) PhD
11 28 (2.01%) PMI Certification
12 27 (1.94%) MBA
13 25 (1.79%) SC Cleared
14 24 (1.72%) PMP
15 23 (1.65%) Chartered Engineer
16 18 (1.29%) HNC
17 17 (1.22%) Azure Certification
18 9 (0.65%) ACCA
18 9 (0.65%) CIMA
18 9 (0.65%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (12.49%) Data Quality
2 33 (2.37%) 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%) COBIT
12 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 19770
12 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 1 (0.072%) CDISC
13 1 (0.072%) IFRS
13 1 (0.072%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.072%) Solvency II
13 1 (0.072%) WCAG
System Software
1 46 (3.30%) Docker
2 23 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.29%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.22%) Firmware
4 3 (0.22%) Samba
5 2 (0.14%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.072%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.072%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 41 (2.94%) 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
1 233 (16.73%) Microsoft
2 93 (6.68%) SAP
3 89 (6.39%) Google
4 54 (3.88%) Databricks
5 33 (2.37%) Salesforce
6 30 (2.15%) ServiceNow
7 26 (1.87%) Oracle
8 25 (1.79%) Adobe
9 23 (1.65%) Workday
10 22 (1.58%) Concur
11 14 (1.01%) VMware
12 12 (0.86%) Capita
13 11 (0.79%) Informatica
14 10 (0.72%) Broadcom
14 10 (0.72%) Symantec
15 9 (0.65%) Bloomberg
16 8 (0.57%) IBM
16 8 (0.57%) Marketo
16 8 (0.57%) Reuters
16 8 (0.57%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud