Data Analyst
UK

The median Data Analyst salary in the UK is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 280 285 329
Rank change year-on-year +5 +44 -24
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Analyst 1,010 1,291 2,003
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.01% 1.30% 1.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.07% 1.42% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 690 772 1,151
10th Percentile £26,750 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,525 £35,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £61,375
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £39,250 £38,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year +3.29% -1.30% +2.67%

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 94,627 91,047 156,403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 91.54% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,562 57,571 85,106
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,750 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analyst in the UK

Data Analyst
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Analyst in the UK

Data Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Analyst over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Analyst in the UK

Data Analyst
Top 18 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 20 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 +9 943 £45,000 -5.26% 276
UK excluding London -61 534 £39,250 +3.29% 159
London +66 450 £62,500 +6.84% 136
Work from Home +33 437 £45,000 -5.26% 99
Midlands -28 140 £37,500 -1.32% 32
South East +24 124 £38,250 -10.00% 39
North of England -59 110 £35,000 -6.67% 41
South West -25 75 £45,000 +12.50% 13
East Midlands +34 71 £30,500 -6.87% 9
West Midlands -51 69 £39,250 +3.29% 23
North West -15 60 £35,000 -0.58% 21
East of England -10 40 £36,664 -33.34% 22
Yorkshire +3 32 £35,000 -2.52% 18
Scotland -88 28 £55,000 +29.41% 11
North East -28 18 £35,000 -12.50% 2
Wales -9 12 £42,500 +52.08% 5
Northern Ireland +33 4 £50,000 +33.33%
Channel Islands - 1 £67,500 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 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 featuring Data Analyst in the job title.

1 639 (63.27%) SQL
2 441 (43.66%) Analytical Skills
3 426 (42.18%) Data Analysis
4 420 (41.58%) Analytics
5 399 (39.50%) Power Platform
6 398 (39.41%) Power BI
7 389 (38.51%) Social Skills
8 378 (37.43%) Business Intelligence
9 372 (36.83%) Python
10 345 (34.16%) Visualisation
11 314 (31.09%) Problem-Solving
12 311 (30.79%) Tableau
13 310 (30.69%) Microsoft Excel
14 308 (30.50%) Degree
15 251 (24.85%) Finance
16 246 (24.36%) Statistics
17 236 (23.37%) Actionable Insight
18 231 (22.87%) Mathematics
19 207 (20.50%) Retail
20 194 (19.21%) Decision-Making
21 187 (18.51%) Business Strategy
22 178 (17.62%) Presentation Skills
23 174 (17.23%) Data Quality
24 159 (15.74%) AWS
25 157 (15.54%) Data Management
26 153 (15.15%) Data Pipeline
27 152 (15.05%) Databricks
28 146 (14.46%) DBS Check
29 140 (13.86%) Git
30 136 (13.47%) Storytelling

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:

Application Platforms
1 25 (2.48%) SAS
2 9 (0.89%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.69%) Confluence
4 6 (0.59%) ArcGIS
4 6 (0.59%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (0.40%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.30%) Apache
7 2 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.099%) Luigi
Applications
1 310 (30.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (4.16%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (2.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.99%) Spreadsheet
4 10 (0.99%) SPSS
5 8 (0.79%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.30%) Stata
Business Applications
1 11 (1.09%) ResourceLink
2 6 (0.59%) NEC Housing
2 6 (0.59%) Sage 50
2 6 (0.59%) SAP Business One
3 5 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.40%) Finacle
4 4 (0.40%) FLEXCUBE
4 4 (0.40%) Temenos T24
5 2 (0.20%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.099%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.099%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.099%) SAP Retail
6 1 (0.099%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 399 (39.50%) Power Platform
2 159 (15.74%) AWS
3 90 (8.91%) Azure
4 25 (2.48%) Snowflake
5 20 (1.98%) GCP
6 18 (1.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 15 (1.49%) Microsoft Purview
8 14 (1.39%) SuccessFactors
9 12 (1.19%) Azure Data Factory
9 12 (1.19%) Google Analytics
9 12 (1.19%) PowerApps
10 9 (0.89%) GitHub
11 8 (0.79%) Adobe Analytics
11 8 (0.79%) Power Automate
11 8 (0.79%) SaaS
12 5 (0.50%) dbt
12 5 (0.50%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (0.40%) Azure Machine Learning
13 4 (0.40%) ChatGPT
13 4 (0.40%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.69%) Internet
2 5 (0.50%) Intranet
3 1 (0.099%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 398 (39.41%) Power BI
2 311 (30.79%) Tableau
3 67 (6.63%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (4.85%) SQL Server
5 44 (4.36%) Power Query
6 33 (3.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 27 (2.67%) Data Mining
8 26 (2.57%) QlikView
9 25 (2.48%) Metadata
10 17 (1.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 14 (1.39%) Relational Database
12 13 (1.29%) Amazon QuickSight
12 13 (1.29%) Data Lake
13 12 (1.19%) Big Data
14 11 (1.09%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 11 (1.09%) GIS
15 10 (0.99%) Looker
15 10 (0.99%) MS Access
15 10 (0.99%) MySQL
15 10 (0.99%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 140 (13.86%) Git
2 15 (1.49%) JIRA
3 14 (1.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 6 (0.59%) GitLab
4 6 (0.59%) Toad
5 2 (0.20%) RStudio
6 1 (0.099%) Subversion
General
1 441 (43.66%) Analytical Skills
2 389 (38.51%) Social Skills
3 251 (24.85%) Finance
4 207 (20.50%) Retail
5 178 (17.62%) Presentation Skills
6 82 (8.12%) Marketing
7 72 (7.13%) Banking
7 72 (7.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 57 (5.64%) Legal
9 54 (5.35%) Law
10 47 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
11 36 (3.56%) Manufacturing
12 23 (2.28%) Local Government
12 23 (2.28%) Public Sector
13 14 (1.39%) Games
14 12 (1.19%) Automotive
15 10 (0.99%) Retail Banking
15 10 (0.99%) Telecoms
16 9 (0.89%) Electronics
17 8 (0.79%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (0.99%) Pandas
2 8 (0.79%) XML
3 4 (0.40%) JSON
4 2 (0.20%) D3.js
4 2 (0.20%) HTML
4 2 (0.20%) NumPy
5 1 (0.099%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (0.099%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.099%) Kafka
5 1 (0.099%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (0.099%) Matplotlib
5 1 (0.099%) MDX
5 1 (0.099%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.099%) PySpark
5 1 (0.099%) REST
5 1 (0.099%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.099%) Seaborn
5 1 (0.099%) SQLAlchemy
5 1 (0.099%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 57 (5.64%) Management Information System
2 51 (5.05%) Self-Motivation
3 22 (2.18%) Analytical Mindset
4 19 (1.88%) Onboarding
5 14 (1.39%) Data Structures
6 13 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (1.19%) Driving Licence
7 12 (1.19%) FMCG
7 12 (1.19%) Reinsurance
8 11 (1.09%) Algorithms
9 10 (0.99%) Product Ownership
10 9 (0.89%) Housing Association
10 9 (0.89%) Reference Data
11 6 (0.59%) Blog
11 6 (0.59%) Data Centre
11 6 (0.59%) IoT
11 6 (0.59%) Pricing Data
12 5 (0.50%) Credit Risk
12 5 (0.50%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (0.50%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.59%) Windows
2 2 (0.20%) Windows Vista
3 1 (0.099%) Android
3 1 (0.099%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.099%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 426 (42.18%) Data Analysis
2 420 (41.58%) Analytics
3 378 (37.43%) Business Intelligence
4 345 (34.16%) Visualisation
5 314 (31.09%) Problem-Solving
6 246 (24.36%) Statistics
7 236 (23.37%) Actionable Insight
8 231 (22.87%) Mathematics
9 194 (19.21%) Decision-Making
10 187 (18.51%) Business Strategy
11 157 (15.54%) Data Management
12 153 (15.15%) Data Pipeline
13 136 (13.47%) Storytelling
14 135 (13.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 133 (13.17%) Root Cause Analysis
16 128 (12.67%) Customer Intelligence
17 117 (11.58%) Data Visualisation
18 113 (11.19%) Data Analytics
19 111 (10.99%) Agile
19 111 (10.99%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 639 (63.27%) SQL
2 372 (36.83%) Python
3 71 (7.03%) R
4 44 (4.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 38 (3.76%) T-SQL
6 27 (2.67%) VBA
7 8 (0.79%) Java
8 6 (0.59%) Bash
9 4 (0.40%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (0.40%) VB
10 3 (0.30%) C#
11 1 (0.099%) Julia
11 1 (0.099%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 308 (30.50%) Degree
2 146 (14.46%) DBS Check
3 24 (2.38%) Master's Degree
4 23 (2.28%) Security Cleared
5 18 (1.78%) Numerate Degree
6 13 (1.29%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.09%) SC Cleared
8 9 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
9 6 (0.59%) SnowPro
10 5 (0.50%) MBA
10 5 (0.50%) PhD
11 4 (0.40%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.20%) ACCA
12 2 (0.20%) CFA
12 2 (0.20%) CIMA
13 1 (0.099%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.099%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.099%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (17.23%) Data Quality
2 34 (3.37%) GDPR
3 12 (1.19%) QA
4 7 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
4 7 (0.69%) COBIT
5 6 (0.59%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.099%) NIST
7 1 (0.099%) PMO
7 1 (0.099%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.099%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.099%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 1 (0.099%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.099%) Oozie
Vendors
1 152 (15.05%) Databricks
2 133 (13.17%) Microsoft
3 46 (4.55%) Alteryx
4 37 (3.66%) Google
5 36 (3.56%) Salesforce
5 36 (3.56%) SAP
6 24 (2.38%) Oracle
7 11 (1.09%) Informatica
7 11 (1.09%) Kronos
8 8 (0.79%) Adobe
9 7 (0.69%) IBM
9 7 (0.69%) Talend
10 6 (0.59%) Civica
10 6 (0.59%) Jitterbit
10 6 (0.59%) NEC
10 6 (0.59%) Sage
11 5 (0.50%) ESRI
12 4 (0.40%) Anaplan
12 4 (0.40%) IFS
13 3 (0.30%) Meraki