Lead Data Analyst Jobs

Lead Data Analyst
UK

The median Lead Data Analyst salary in the UK is £63,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 859 921 1186
Rank change year-on-year +62 +265 -278
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Data Analyst 48 26 75
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.027% 0.044%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.048% 0.030% 0.046%
Number of salaries quoted 16 21 39
10th Percentile £48,285 £37,235 £36,744
25th Percentile £53,750 £46,250 £53,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.93% +8.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £45,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +27.78% -22.41% +10.48%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

Lead Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Data Analyst in the UK

Lead Data Analyst
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Lead Data Analyst in the UK

Lead Data Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Data Analyst over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Data Analyst in the UK

Lead Data Analyst
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Data Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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 +59 48 £63,500 -5.93% 7
Work from Home +73 42 £67,000 +48.89% 4
London +125 33 £69,000 +2.22% 1
UK excluding London -21 15 £57,500 +27.78% 7
Midlands -6 9 £57,500 +27.78% 1
East Midlands - 6 - -
South West - 4 £61,250 - 2
West Midlands -13 3 £57,500 +27.78% 1
North of England +33 1 £40,000 -15.79% 1
East of England - 1 £62,000 - 1
North West - 1 £40,000 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Lead 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 Lead Data Analyst in the job title.

1 41 (85.42%) SQL
2 39 (81.25%) Analytics
2 39 (81.25%) Analytical Skills
3 37 (77.08%) Actionable Insight
4 36 (75.00%) Degree
5 35 (72.92%) Mathematics
5 35 (72.92%) Python
5 35 (72.92%) Statistics
5 35 (72.92%) Social Skills
6 34 (70.83%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (70.83%) Data Analysis
6 34 (70.83%) Git
6 34 (70.83%) Visualisation
6 34 (70.83%) Tableau
7 33 (68.75%) Retail
7 33 (68.75%) Presentation Skills
8 32 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
8 32 (66.67%) Storytelling
8 32 (66.67%) Business Strategy
8 32 (66.67%) Databricks
8 32 (66.67%) DBS Check
8 32 (66.67%) AWS
8 32 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 32 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
8 32 (66.67%) Customer Intelligence
9 11 (22.92%) Business Intelligence
10 10 (20.83%) Power BI
10 10 (20.83%) Power Platform
11 7 (14.58%) SQL Server
12 6 (12.50%) Data Modelling

Lead 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:

Applications
1 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 32 (66.67%) AWS
2 10 (20.83%) Power Platform
3 3 (6.25%) Azure
4 1 (2.08%) Azure Pipelines
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (70.83%) Tableau
2 10 (20.83%) Power BI
3 7 (14.58%) SQL Server
4 4 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (4.17%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (2.08%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.08%) Metadata
6 1 (2.08%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 34 (70.83%) Git
2 2 (4.17%) Subversion
General
1 39 (81.25%) Analytical Skills
2 35 (72.92%) Social Skills
3 33 (68.75%) Presentation Skills
3 33 (68.75%) Retail
4 2 (4.17%) Finance
5 1 (2.08%) Local Government
5 1 (2.08%) Marketing
5 1 (2.08%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.08%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.25%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (81.25%) Analytics
2 37 (77.08%) Actionable Insight
3 35 (72.92%) Mathematics
3 35 (72.92%) Statistics
4 34 (70.83%) Data Analysis
4 34 (70.83%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (70.83%) Visualisation
5 32 (66.67%) Business Strategy
5 32 (66.67%) Customer Intelligence
5 32 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
5 32 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
5 32 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 32 (66.67%) Storytelling
6 11 (22.92%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (12.50%) Data Modelling
8 5 (10.42%) Agile
9 4 (8.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 4 (8.33%) Decision-Making
10 3 (6.25%) Dashboard Development
10 3 (6.25%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 41 (85.42%) SQL
2 35 (72.92%) Python
3 3 (6.25%) R
4 2 (4.17%) Julia
5 1 (2.08%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (75.00%) Degree
2 32 (66.67%) DBS Check
3 3 (6.25%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.42%) Data Quality
2 4 (8.33%) QA
3 1 (2.08%) Actionable Recommendations
Vendors
1 32 (66.67%) Databricks
2 3 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.17%) Oracle