Data Analysis
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Data Analysis skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Analysis over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 122 130
Rank change year-on-year +21 +8 +58
Permanent jobs citing Data Analysis 2,644 2,913 4,725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.67% 2.88% 3.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.11% 3.02% 3.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,532 1,348 2,092
10th Percentile £30,528 £30,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +8.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,647 £71,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £89,125 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £46,500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -8.60% +8.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Analysis is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,917 96,578 150,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.59% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,883 56,844 82,330
10th Percentile £29,008 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,190 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.12% +1.98% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 10 May 2024.

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 10 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
England +21 2,333 £52,500 - 819
UK excluding London 0 1,772 £50,000 +17.65% 506
Work from Home +37 892 £52,000 +4.00% 370
London +40 767 £60,000 -7.69% 335
South East +48 435 £50,000 +11.11% 94
Midlands -13 403 £50,000 +17.65% 112
North of England -10 367 £55,000 +46.67% 139
West Midlands -1 301 £50,000 +25.00% 67
North West -23 218 £59,556 +60.32% 77
Scotland -4 194 £55,000 +50.64% 28
South West +20 183 £54,500 +49.83% 64
East of England +29 167 £50,000 -2.44% 59
Yorkshire +30 103 £52,500 +23.53% 48
East Midlands -12 102 £45,001 +0.00% 44
North East -2 46 £40,000 +6.73% 15
Wales -11 18 £47,750 +10.87% 16
Northern Ireland +21 5 £57,500 +27.78% 7

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 95 (3.59%) SAS
2 69 (2.61%) SharePoint
3 53 (2.00%) Apache Spark
4 39 (1.48%) Apache
5 35 (1.32%) Confluence
6 24 (0.91%) CMS
7 15 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
8 12 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
9 10 (0.38%) ArcGIS
9 10 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.19%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.15%) IIS
11 4 (0.15%) WordPress
12 3 (0.11%) Moodle
13 2 (0.076%) MTS
13 2 (0.076%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.038%) Luigi
Applications
1 571 (21.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 294 (11.12%) Microsoft Office
3 86 (3.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 45 (1.70%) Spreadsheet
5 26 (0.98%) MS Visio
6 24 (0.91%) SPSS
7 17 (0.64%) Windchill
8 14 (0.53%) Trello
9 8 (0.30%) Simulink
10 6 (0.23%) SOLIDWORKS
11 4 (0.15%) Stata
12 3 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.11%) Sketch
13 2 (0.076%) InDesign
13 2 (0.076%) InVision
13 2 (0.076%) LaTeX
13 2 (0.076%) Microsoft Project
13 2 (0.076%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.076%) Zeplin
14 1 (0.038%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 30 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.64%) Teamcenter
3 14 (0.53%) Primavera
4 13 (0.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 9 (0.34%) NEC Housing
6 6 (0.23%) Oracle Applications
6 6 (0.23%) Raiser’s Edge
6 6 (0.23%) SAP Business One
7 5 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.15%) BusinessWorks
8 4 (0.15%) Eloqua
8 4 (0.15%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.15%) Oracle Financials
8 4 (0.15%) SAP IBP
8 4 (0.15%) SAP SD
9 3 (0.11%) Sage 200
9 3 (0.11%) Sage 300 ERP
9 3 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
10 2 (0.076%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 585 (22.13%) Power Platform
2 428 (16.19%) AWS
3 384 (14.52%) Azure
4 88 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
5 81 (3.06%) Microsoft 365
6 59 (2.23%) Cloud Computing
7 58 (2.19%) GCP
8 49 (1.85%) SaaS
9 48 (1.82%) Azure Data Factory
10 46 (1.74%) Serverless
11 45 (1.70%) PowerApps
11 45 (1.70%) Snowflake
12 37 (1.40%) Power Automate
13 33 (1.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 26 (0.98%) Amazon S3
15 24 (0.91%) Dynamics 365
16 21 (0.79%) AWS Lambda
17 20 (0.76%) Google Sheets
18 18 (0.68%) Matillion
18 18 (0.68%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 18 (0.68%) DSL
2 14 (0.53%) HTTP
2 14 (0.53%) Intranet
3 11 (0.42%) Ethernet
3 11 (0.42%) Firewall
4 9 (0.34%) WAN
5 7 (0.26%) Internet
5 7 (0.26%) LAN
5 7 (0.26%) SD-WAN
5 7 (0.26%) TCP/IP
6 6 (0.23%) DNS
6 6 (0.23%) Network Security
6 6 (0.23%) WPA
7 5 (0.19%) NAS
7 5 (0.19%) SAN
7 5 (0.19%) Unified Communications
7 5 (0.19%) VPN
7 5 (0.19%) Wireshark
8 4 (0.15%) BGP
8 4 (0.15%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 561 (21.22%) Power BI
2 404 (15.28%) Tableau
3 217 (8.21%) Data Warehouse
4 164 (6.20%) SQL Server
5 99 (3.74%) Big Data
6 78 (2.95%) Data Lake
7 64 (2.42%) Metadata
8 62 (2.34%) Data Vault
9 58 (2.19%) NoSQL
10 53 (2.00%) Relational Database
11 51 (1.93%) Data Mining
11 51 (1.93%) GIS
12 47 (1.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 47 (1.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 39 (1.48%) Delta Lake
14 34 (1.29%) QlikView
15 26 (0.98%) Hadoop
16 25 (0.95%) Geospatial Data
16 25 (0.95%) MongoDB
16 25 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 161 (6.09%) Git
2 118 (4.46%) JIRA
3 19 (0.72%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 15 (0.57%) Visual Studio
5 11 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
6 9 (0.34%) GitLab
7 7 (0.26%) LabVIEW
7 7 (0.26%) Toad
8 5 (0.19%) Postman
8 5 (0.19%) SoapUI
9 4 (0.15%) AdminStudio
9 4 (0.15%) Charles Proxy
9 4 (0.15%) InstallShield
9 4 (0.15%) MSI
10 3 (0.11%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (0.076%) CANoe
11 2 (0.076%) ERwin
11 2 (0.076%) Visual Studio Team System
12 1 (0.038%) CircleCI
12 1 (0.038%) git-flow
General
1 996 (37.67%) Social Skills
2 834 (31.54%) Analytical Skills
3 821 (31.05%) Finance
4 388 (14.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 304 (11.50%) Presentation Skills
6 277 (10.48%) Retail
7 244 (9.23%) Legal
8 236 (8.93%) Law
9 223 (8.43%) Marketing
10 147 (5.56%) Banking
11 135 (5.11%) Military
12 101 (3.82%) Manufacturing
13 99 (3.74%) Public Sector
14 78 (2.95%) Organisational Skills
15 64 (2.42%) Investment Banking
16 60 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
17 58 (2.19%) Publishing
18 52 (1.97%) Back Office
18 52 (1.97%) Financial Institution
19 48 (1.82%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 819 (30.98%) Analyst
2 409 (15.47%) Data Analyst
3 399 (15.09%) Senior
4 213 (8.06%) Lead
5 204 (7.72%) Senior Analyst
6 194 (7.34%) Data Scientist
7 157 (5.94%) Graduate
8 156 (5.90%) Data Engineer
9 124 (4.69%) Developer
10 122 (4.61%) Senior Data Analyst
11 111 (4.20%) Software Engineer
12 94 (3.56%) Data Manager
13 92 (3.48%) Business Analyst
14 76 (2.87%) Architect
15 63 (2.38%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 55 (2.08%) Consultant
17 49 (1.85%) AWS Engineer
18 48 (1.82%) AWS Software Engineer
19 47 (1.78%) Administrator
19 47 (1.78%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (1.74%) .NET
2 35 (1.32%) HTML
2 35 (1.32%) Kafka
2 35 (1.32%) Pandas
3 34 (1.29%) CSS
4 33 (1.25%) React
5 30 (1.13%) Web Services
6 29 (1.10%) PySpark
7 27 (1.02%) JSON
8 23 (0.87%) AngularJS
8 23 (0.87%) Apache NiFi
9 22 (0.83%) XML
10 20 (0.76%) ASP.NET
11 19 (0.72%) NumPy
12 18 (0.68%) REST
13 16 (0.61%) .NET Core
14 15 (0.57%) Lambda Expressions
15 14 (0.53%) .NET Framework
15 14 (0.53%) Node.js
16 13 (0.49%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 308 (11.65%) Algorithms
2 269 (10.17%) Onboarding
3 227 (8.59%) Management Information System
4 125 (4.73%) Data Structures
5 120 (4.54%) Product Ownership
6 79 (2.99%) Cloud Native
7 78 (2.95%) Self-Motivation
8 62 (2.34%) Public Cloud
9 57 (2.16%) Credit Risk
10 52 (1.97%) Reinsurance
11 32 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
12 26 (0.98%) Taxonomies
13 23 (0.87%) Data Centre
13 23 (0.87%) Driving Licence
13 23 (0.87%) Market Risk
14 22 (0.83%) IoT
15 21 (0.79%) NHS
16 20 (0.76%) PMI
16 20 (0.76%) Social Media
17 19 (0.72%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 42 (1.59%) Windows
2 38 (1.44%) Linux
3 9 (0.34%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.26%) Android
4 7 (0.26%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.23%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.19%) Unix
6 5 (0.19%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.19%) Windows Vista
7 4 (0.15%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.076%) AIX
8 2 (0.076%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.038%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.038%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 891 (33.70%) Problem-Solving
2 811 (30.67%) Analytics
3 676 (25.57%) Business Intelligence
4 630 (23.83%) Visualisation
5 569 (21.52%) Decision-Making
6 493 (18.65%) Agile
7 461 (17.44%) Mathematics
8 398 (15.05%) Computer Science
8 398 (15.05%) Continuous Improvement
9 381 (14.41%) Data Science
10 362 (13.69%) Data Modelling
11 353 (13.35%) ETL
12 321 (12.14%) Data Visualisation
13 318 (12.03%) Coaching
14 317 (11.99%) Data Management
15 316 (11.95%) Actionable Insight
16 299 (11.31%) Data Pipeline
17 292 (11.04%) Machine Learning
18 291 (11.01%) Statistics
19 282 (10.67%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 961 (36.35%) SQL
2 717 (27.12%) Python
3 145 (5.48%) R
4 102 (3.86%) Java
5 80 (3.03%) C#
6 78 (2.95%) JavaScript
7 65 (2.46%) T-SQL
8 43 (1.63%) VBA
9 42 (1.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 37 (1.40%) Scala
11 34 (1.29%) PowerShell
12 29 (1.10%) MATLAB
13 27 (1.02%) PL/SQL
14 22 (0.83%) C
15 18 (0.68%) VB
16 17 (0.64%) C++
16 17 (0.64%) TypeScript
17 16 (0.61%) Go
18 14 (0.53%) Bash
19 10 (0.38%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,069 (40.43%) Degree
2 159 (6.01%) DBS Check
3 152 (5.75%) Master's Degree
4 119 (4.50%) Security Cleared
5 86 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 60 (2.27%) SC Cleared
7 48 (1.82%) PhD
8 45 (1.70%) DV Cleared
9 32 (1.21%) MBA
10 30 (1.13%) HNC
10 30 (1.13%) Numerate Degree
11 26 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
12 21 (0.79%) PMI Certification
13 19 (0.72%) CIMA
14 17 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
15 15 (0.57%) CFA
16 12 (0.45%) APMP
17 8 (0.30%) Six Sigma Green Belt
18 7 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
19 6 (0.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 254 (9.61%) Data Quality
2 99 (3.74%) QA
3 53 (2.00%) Accessibility
4 51 (1.93%) GDPR
5 48 (1.82%) IFRS
6 40 (1.51%) IFRS 9
7 29 (1.10%) PMO
8 28 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
9 25 (0.95%) SLA
10 9 (0.34%) ISO 9001
11 7 (0.26%) COBIT
11 7 (0.26%) Good Clinical Practice
11 7 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 6 (0.23%) NIST
13 4 (0.15%) CDISC
14 3 (0.11%) MiFID
14 3 (0.11%) P3O
15 2 (0.076%) JSP 440
15 2 (0.076%) WCAG
System Software
1 38 (1.44%) Active Directory
2 29 (1.10%) Docker
3 12 (0.45%) Firmware
4 9 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.19%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.076%) HDFS
8 1 (0.038%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.038%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.038%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 50 (1.89%) Kubernetes
2 13 (0.49%) SCOM
3 12 (0.45%) SCCM
4 8 (0.30%) Terraform
5 7 (0.26%) Progress Chef
5 7 (0.26%) SysTrack
6 6 (0.23%) WSUS
7 4 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
8 3 (0.11%) Ansible
8 3 (0.11%) Puppet
9 2 (0.076%) Functional Safety
9 2 (0.076%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.038%) Grafana
10 1 (0.038%) Iperf
10 1 (0.038%) Nmap
10 1 (0.038%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 467 (17.66%) Microsoft
2 296 (11.20%) Databricks
3 117 (4.43%) Oracle
4 82 (3.10%) Google
5 67 (2.53%) Informatica
6 57 (2.16%) Alteryx
7 50 (1.89%) SAP
8 48 (1.82%) Salesforce
9 41 (1.55%) ServiceNow
10 29 (1.10%) Adobe
11 24 (0.91%) Cognos
12 18 (0.68%) Sybase
13 15 (0.57%) HP
14 14 (0.53%) VMware
15 13 (0.49%) Dynatrace
15 13 (0.49%) Riverbed
15 13 (0.49%) Sparx
16 11 (0.42%) ESRI
16 11 (0.42%) Sage
17 9 (0.34%) NEC