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 £38,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 335 271 311
Rank change year-on-year -64 +40 -9
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Analyst 558 679 843
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.70% 1.23% 1.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 1.38% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 411 367 491
10th Percentile £24,960 £26,250 £28,700
25th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £39,000 £38,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% +1.30% +2.67%
75th Percentile £51,250 £48,750 £50,000
90th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £61,250
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +0.00% -5.26% +5.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 75,991 49,070 72,896
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 88.81% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 53,059 29,227 42,783
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,519 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
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 12 June 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 12 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
Midlands -42 143 £37,500 -1.32% 23
North of England -55 132 £32,000 -14.67% 38
South East +9 119 £37,500 -21.05% 27
South West -47 81 £45,950 +13.86% 18
East Midlands +25 72 £31,500 -11.27% 9
West Midlands -72 71 £38,500 +1.32% 14
North West -32 63 £35,000 -6.67% 21
East of England -23 40 £36,664 -33.34% 15
North East -20 36 £24,960 -47.45% 7
Yorkshire -2 33 £35,000 -6.67% 10
Scotland -89 25 £55,000 +27.91% 17
Wales -6 12 £42,500 +35.56% 4
Northern Ireland +21 4 £50,000 +33.33%
South Coast - 1 £35,000 -
Channel Islands - 1 £67,500 -
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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.

1 296 (53.05%) SQL
2 255 (45.70%) Business Intelligence
3 247 (44.27%) Power BI
3 247 (44.27%) Power Platform
4 225 (40.32%) Analytical Skills
5 216 (38.71%) Analytics
6 199 (35.66%) Microsoft Excel
7 175 (31.36%) Data Analysis
8 168 (30.11%) Social Skills
9 159 (28.49%) Visualisation
10 158 (28.32%) Problem-Solving
11 151 (27.06%) Python
12 146 (26.16%) Finance
13 130 (23.30%) Tableau
14 127 (22.76%) Degree
15 120 (21.51%) Decision-Making
16 95 (17.03%) Retail
16 95 (17.03%) Microsoft
17 88 (15.77%) Data Management
18 87 (15.59%) Statistics
19 83 (14.87%) Data Quality
20 79 (14.16%) Actionable Insight
21 75 (13.44%) Data Visualisation
22 73 (13.08%) Mathematics
23 68 (12.19%) Data Analytics
24 59 (10.57%) Marketing
25 58 (10.39%) Data Modelling
25 58 (10.39%) Continuous Improvement
26 53 (9.50%) Data Science
27 51 (9.14%) Legal

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 (3.76%) SAS
2 7 (1.25%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.08%) ArcGIS
3 6 (1.08%) Confluence
4 4 (0.72%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.18%) Apache
5 1 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.18%) Luigi
Applications
1 199 (35.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (5.38%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (2.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.25%) SPSS
5 5 (0.90%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (1.97%) ResourceLink
2 7 (1.25%) SAP Business One
3 4 (0.72%) NEC Housing
3 4 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.36%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.18%) Lorenzo
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.18%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.18%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 247 (44.27%) Power Platform
2 34 (6.09%) AWS
2 34 (6.09%) Azure
3 14 (2.51%) SuccessFactors
4 12 (2.15%) GCP
5 10 (1.79%) PowerApps
5 10 (1.79%) Snowflake
6 9 (1.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 9 (1.61%) SaaS
7 7 (1.25%) Power Automate
8 5 (0.90%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (0.72%) ChatGPT
9 4 (0.72%) Google Analytics
10 3 (0.54%) Google Sheets
10 3 (0.54%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (0.36%) Adobe Analytics
11 2 (0.36%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.36%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (0.36%) GitHub
12 1 (0.18%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.25%) Internet
2 5 (0.90%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 247 (44.27%) Power BI
2 130 (23.30%) Tableau
3 38 (6.81%) Data Warehouse
4 37 (6.63%) Power Query
5 25 (4.48%) SQL Server
6 20 (3.58%) Data Mining
7 18 (3.23%) QlikView
7 18 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 12 (2.15%) Relational Database
8 12 (2.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (1.79%) Big Data
9 10 (1.79%) GIS
9 10 (1.79%) MS Access
10 9 (1.61%) Data Lake
10 9 (1.61%) MySQL
10 9 (1.61%) Qlik Sense
11 8 (1.43%) Amazon QuickSight
11 8 (1.43%) Metadata
12 5 (0.90%) Geospatial Data
12 5 (0.90%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 26 (4.66%) Git
2 9 (1.61%) JIRA
3 5 (0.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (0.72%) Toad
5 3 (0.54%) Subversion
6 2 (0.36%) RStudio
General
1 225 (40.32%) Analytical Skills
2 168 (30.11%) Social Skills
3 146 (26.16%) Finance
4 95 (17.03%) Retail
5 59 (10.57%) Marketing
6 51 (9.14%) Legal
7 43 (7.71%) Law
7 43 (7.71%) Presentation Skills
8 39 (6.99%) Organisational Skills
9 36 (6.45%) Manufacturing
10 32 (5.73%) Banking
11 25 (4.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 19 (3.41%) Public Sector
13 15 (2.69%) Local Government
14 11 (1.97%) Games
15 10 (1.79%) Automotive
16 9 (1.61%) Electronics
17 8 (1.43%) French Language
17 8 (1.43%) Telecoms
18 6 (1.08%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.43%) Pandas
1 8 (1.43%) XML
2 2 (0.36%) HTML
2 2 (0.36%) JSON
3 1 (0.18%) D3.js
3 1 (0.18%) GraphQL
3 1 (0.18%) MDX
3 1 (0.18%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.18%) REST
3 1 (0.18%) SQLAlchemy
3 1 (0.18%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 32 (5.73%) Self-Motivation
2 20 (3.58%) Analytical Mindset
3 13 (2.33%) Driving Licence
3 13 (2.33%) Management Information System
4 12 (2.15%) FMCG
5 6 (1.08%) IoT
5 6 (1.08%) Pricing Data
6 5 (0.90%) NHS
7 4 (0.72%) Algorithms
7 4 (0.72%) Credit Risk
7 4 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (0.72%) Data Structures
7 4 (0.72%) Onboarding
7 4 (0.72%) Robotics
8 3 (0.54%) Housing Association
8 3 (0.54%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (0.54%) Social Media
8 3 (0.54%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.36%) EPoS
9 2 (0.36%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.90%) Windows
2 2 (0.36%) Windows Vista
3 1 (0.18%) Android
3 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (45.70%) Business Intelligence
2 216 (38.71%) Analytics
3 175 (31.36%) Data Analysis
4 159 (28.49%) Visualisation
5 158 (28.32%) Problem-Solving
6 120 (21.51%) Decision-Making
7 88 (15.77%) Data Management
8 87 (15.59%) Statistics
9 79 (14.16%) Actionable Insight
10 75 (13.44%) Data Visualisation
11 73 (13.08%) Mathematics
12 68 (12.19%) Data Analytics
13 58 (10.39%) Continuous Improvement
13 58 (10.39%) Data Modelling
14 53 (9.50%) Data Science
15 47 (8.42%) Dashboard Development
16 46 (8.24%) Data Governance
17 44 (7.89%) Agile
17 44 (7.89%) Business Strategy
18 43 (7.71%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 296 (53.05%) SQL
2 151 (27.06%) Python
3 39 (6.99%) R
4 35 (6.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 24 (4.30%) T-SQL
6 18 (3.23%) VBA
7 6 (1.08%) Java
8 5 (0.90%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.72%) Bash
9 4 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (0.72%) VB
10 3 (0.54%) Julia
11 1 (0.18%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 127 (22.76%) Degree
2 35 (6.27%) DBS Check
3 14 (2.51%) Security Cleared
4 10 (1.79%) Master's Degree
5 9 (1.61%) DV Cleared
5 9 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (1.61%) Numerate Degree
6 6 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (1.08%) SnowPro
7 4 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (0.72%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.36%) CFA
9 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.18%) CCA
9 1 (0.18%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (14.87%) Data Quality
2 26 (4.66%) GDPR
3 18 (3.23%) SLA
4 6 (1.08%) QA
5 5 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.54%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.18%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (0.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.18%) Grafana
1 1 (0.18%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 95 (17.03%) Microsoft
2 38 (6.81%) SAP
3 31 (5.56%) Databricks
4 26 (4.66%) Salesforce
5 23 (4.12%) Alteryx
6 19 (3.41%) Google
7 16 (2.87%) Oracle
8 11 (1.97%) Kronos
9 9 (1.61%) Informatica
10 7 (1.25%) IBM
10 7 (1.25%) Talend
11 6 (1.08%) Jitterbit
12 5 (0.90%) ESRI
13 4 (0.72%) Civica
13 4 (0.72%) IFS
13 4 (0.72%) NEC
14 3 (0.54%) Meraki
15 2 (0.36%) HubSpot
15 2 (0.36%) Snow
15 2 (0.36%) Workday