Senior Data Analyst
UK

The median Senior Data Analyst salary in the UK is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 715 819 948
Rank change year-on-year +104 +129 -105
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Analyst 189 153 282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.15% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.17% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 95 74 110
10th Percentile £39,750 £39,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,500 £46,563 £45,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £64,375 £74,688 £66,875
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £78,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% +7.69%

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 93,776 92,678 150,788
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,209 58,362 84,200
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 £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Senior Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Analyst in the UK

Senior Data Analyst
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Data Analyst in the UK

Senior Data Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Analyst over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Data Analyst in the UK

Senior Data Analyst
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Data Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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 +138 178 £57,500 -11.54% 26
Work from Home +111 122 £55,000 -8.33% 14
London +146 107 £65,000 -7.14% 15
UK excluding London +6 80 £55,000 +15.79% 11
Midlands +20 37 £55,000 +16.93% 2
West Midlands +30 22 £57,500 +10.50% 1
East Midlands -4 15 £45,001 +27.66% 1
South East -11 11 £49,250 -17.92% 2
North of England +51 10 £42,560 -13.14% 1
South West -19 10 £60,000 +33.33% 2
Scotland -66 9 £55,000 +50.64% 2
Yorkshire +89 4 £42,500 -19.81% 1
North West +10 3 £31,000 -50.40%
North East -2 3 £43,750 +2.94%
East of England +5 2 £70,000 +27.27% 2
Channel Islands - 1 £67,500 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior Data Analyst in the job title.

1 171 (90.48%) SQL
2 147 (77.78%) Analytics
3 142 (75.13%) Python
4 124 (65.61%) Tableau
5 118 (62.43%) Data Analysis
6 111 (58.73%) Visualisation
7 110 (58.20%) Degree
7 110 (58.20%) Social Skills
8 109 (57.67%) Analytical Skills
9 107 (56.61%) Actionable Insight
10 100 (52.91%) Problem-Solving
11 91 (48.15%) Statistics
12 90 (47.62%) Databricks
13 88 (46.56%) Mathematics
14 86 (45.50%) Retail
15 84 (44.44%) Git
16 80 (42.33%) AWS
16 80 (42.33%) Presentation Skills
16 80 (42.33%) Business Strategy
17 79 (41.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 78 (41.27%) Customer Intelligence
18 78 (41.27%) Data Pipeline
18 78 (41.27%) Storytelling
18 78 (41.27%) Root Cause Analysis
19 77 (40.74%) DBS Check
20 66 (34.92%) Power BI
20 66 (34.92%) Power Platform
21 58 (30.69%) Business Intelligence
22 42 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
23 29 (15.34%) Data Modelling

Senior 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 42 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.06%) Stata
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) SAP Payroll
1 1 (0.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 80 (42.33%) AWS
2 66 (34.92%) Power Platform
3 22 (11.64%) Azure
4 9 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 5 (2.65%) GitHub
6 4 (2.12%) GCP
7 2 (1.06%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.06%) dbt
7 2 (1.06%) Google Analytics
7 2 (1.06%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.53%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.53%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.53%) Google Data Studio
8 1 (0.53%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.53%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (65.61%) Tableau
2 66 (34.92%) Power BI
3 14 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (4.23%) Looker
5 3 (1.59%) Ataccama
5 3 (1.59%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.59%) Metadata
5 3 (1.59%) MySQL
5 3 (1.59%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.06%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.06%) Big Data
6 2 (1.06%) Bigtable
6 2 (1.06%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.06%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.06%) QGIS
6 2 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.06%) Tableau Desktop
7 1 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.53%) NonStop SQL
7 1 (0.53%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 84 (44.44%) Git
2 4 (2.12%) JIRA
3 3 (1.59%) GitLab
General
1 110 (58.20%) Social Skills
2 109 (57.67%) Analytical Skills
3 86 (45.50%) Retail
4 80 (42.33%) Presentation Skills
5 17 (8.99%) Finance
6 16 (8.47%) Marketing
7 12 (6.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (5.29%) Law
9 9 (4.76%) Games
10 6 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (3.17%) Public Sector
11 4 (2.12%) Advertising
12 3 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (1.06%) Banking
13 2 (1.06%) Billing
13 2 (1.06%) Publishing
14 1 (0.53%) Automotive
14 1 (0.53%) Military
14 1 (0.53%) Social Housing
14 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.53%) GraphQL
1 1 (0.53%) JSON
1 1 (0.53%) REST
1 1 (0.53%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.41%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (3.70%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.17%) Reinsurance
4 5 (2.65%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.59%) Digital Media
5 3 (1.59%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.06%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.06%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.06%) IoT
6 2 (1.06%) New Media
6 2 (1.06%) Robotics
6 2 (1.06%) Social Media
7 1 (0.53%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.53%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.53%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.53%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.53%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.53%) Android
1 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (77.78%) Analytics
2 118 (62.43%) Data Analysis
3 111 (58.73%) Visualisation
4 107 (56.61%) Actionable Insight
5 100 (52.91%) Problem-Solving
6 91 (48.15%) Statistics
7 88 (46.56%) Mathematics
8 80 (42.33%) Business Strategy
9 79 (41.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 78 (41.27%) Customer Intelligence
10 78 (41.27%) Data Pipeline
10 78 (41.27%) Root Cause Analysis
10 78 (41.27%) Storytelling
11 58 (30.69%) Business Intelligence
12 29 (15.34%) Data Modelling
13 27 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
14 24 (12.70%) Data Science
15 23 (12.17%) Statistical Modelling
16 22 (11.64%) Data Analytics
16 22 (11.64%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 171 (90.48%) SQL
2 142 (75.13%) Python
3 16 (8.47%) R
4 8 (4.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.53%) VBA
Qualifications
1 110 (58.20%) Degree
2 77 (40.74%) DBS Check
3 14 (7.41%) Security Cleared
4 12 (6.35%) DV Cleared
5 6 (3.17%) SC Cleared
6 5 (2.65%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.59%) MBA
7 3 (1.59%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.99%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.70%) QA
3 3 (1.59%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.06%) GDPR
Vendors
1 90 (47.62%) Databricks
2 17 (8.99%) Microsoft
3 13 (6.88%) Alteryx
4 6 (3.17%) Google
5 2 (1.06%) Cognos
5 2 (1.06%) HubSpot
5 2 (1.06%) Oracle
5 2 (1.06%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.06%) Workday
6 1 (0.53%) Aderant
6 1 (0.53%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.53%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (0.53%) SAP
6 1 (0.53%) Sparx