Data Analysis Jobs

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 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 135 125
Rank change year-on-year +36 -10 +54
Permanent jobs citing Data Analysis 2,788 2,541 5,334
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.61% 2.71% 3.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.13% 2.84% 3.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,557 1,313 2,203
10th Percentile £30,500 £30,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -3.70% +8.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £46,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -7.61% +2.22%

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 89,168 89,599 164,158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.34% 95.45% 95.91%
Number of salaries quoted 61,788 54,096 83,725
10th Percentile £29,500 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 6 June 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 6 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 +40 2,470 £52,500 - 871
UK excluding London +28 1,880 £50,000 +17.65% 557
Work from Home +25 936 £52,500 +5.00% 362
London +40 800 £60,000 -7.69% 327
Midlands +2 481 £50,000 +21.95% 117
South East +56 455 £50,000 +5.26% 120
North of England +9 365 £55,000 +46.67% 165
West Midlands +7 358 £50,000 +26.58% 72
North West +3 226 £57,250 +63.57% 95
South West +11 192 £54,500 +25.27% 66
Scotland -11 191 £55,000 +49.87% 41
East of England +14 165 £50,000 -2.44% 46
East Midlands +10 123 £45,000 +0.00% 45
Yorkshire +30 98 £52,500 +23.53% 42
North East -15 41 £42,250 +8.33% 30
Wales -8 22 £53,500 +24.23% 8
Northern Ireland +26 8 £57,500 +27.78% 6

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 (3.41%) SAS
2 61 (2.19%) SharePoint
3 48 (1.72%) Apache Spark
4 37 (1.33%) Apache
5 34 (1.22%) Confluence
6 22 (0.79%) CMS
7 16 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
8 12 (0.43%) Oracle Workflow
9 10 (0.36%) ArcGIS
9 10 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.18%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.14%) WordPress
12 3 (0.11%) Moodle
13 2 (0.072%) MTS
14 1 (0.036%) Luigi
Applications
1 643 (23.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 350 (12.55%) Microsoft Office
3 79 (2.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 46 (1.65%) Spreadsheet
5 24 (0.86%) MS Visio
5 24 (0.86%) SPSS
6 17 (0.61%) Windchill
7 14 (0.50%) Trello
8 8 (0.29%) Simulink
9 6 (0.22%) SOLIDWORKS
10 4 (0.14%) Stata
11 3 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.072%) InDesign
12 2 (0.072%) InVision
12 2 (0.072%) LaTeX
12 2 (0.072%) Microsoft Project
12 2 (0.072%) Photoshop
12 2 (0.072%) Sketch
12 2 (0.072%) Zeplin
13 1 (0.036%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 26 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.61%) Teamcenter
3 14 (0.50%) Primavera
4 12 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 10 (0.36%) NEC Housing
6 6 (0.22%) Oracle Applications
6 6 (0.22%) Raiser’s Edge
6 6 (0.22%) SAP Business One
7 5 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.14%) Eloqua
8 4 (0.14%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.14%) Oracle Financials
8 4 (0.14%) SAP IBP
8 4 (0.14%) SAP SD
9 3 (0.11%) Sage 200
9 3 (0.11%) Sage 300 ERP
9 3 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
10 2 (0.072%) Magento
10 2 (0.072%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 631 (22.63%) Power Platform
2 463 (16.61%) AWS
3 422 (15.14%) Azure
4 89 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
5 74 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
6 58 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
6 58 (2.08%) GCP
7 53 (1.90%) SaaS
8 48 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
9 43 (1.54%) Serverless
10 42 (1.51%) Snowflake
11 40 (1.43%) PowerApps
12 35 (1.26%) Power Automate
13 34 (1.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 26 (0.93%) Dynamics 365
15 22 (0.79%) Amazon S3
16 21 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
16 21 (0.75%) Google Sheets
17 18 (0.65%) GitHub
17 18 (0.65%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 16 (0.57%) Network Security
2 15 (0.54%) DSL
2 15 (0.54%) Firewall
3 14 (0.50%) HTTP
3 14 (0.50%) Intranet
4 11 (0.39%) Ethernet
5 7 (0.25%) DNS
5 7 (0.25%) Internet
5 7 (0.25%) LAN
5 7 (0.25%) WAN
6 6 (0.22%) WPA
7 5 (0.18%) Broadband
7 5 (0.18%) Intrusion Detection
7 5 (0.18%) NAS
7 5 (0.18%) SAN
7 5 (0.18%) SD-WAN
7 5 (0.18%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.18%) Unified Communications
7 5 (0.18%) VPN
7 5 (0.18%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 610 (21.88%) Power BI
2 455 (16.32%) Tableau
3 242 (8.68%) Data Warehouse
4 161 (5.77%) SQL Server
5 94 (3.37%) Big Data
6 85 (3.05%) Data Vault
7 76 (2.73%) Data Lake
8 67 (2.40%) Metadata
9 55 (1.97%) NoSQL
10 54 (1.94%) Relational Database
10 54 (1.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 52 (1.87%) GIS
12 46 (1.65%) Data Mining
13 45 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 37 (1.33%) QlikView
15 34 (1.22%) Delta Lake
16 28 (1.00%) Hadoop
17 27 (0.97%) Geospatial Data
17 27 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
18 25 (0.90%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 176 (6.31%) Git
2 113 (4.05%) JIRA
3 19 (0.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 16 (0.57%) Visual Studio
5 11 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
6 9 (0.32%) GitLab
7 7 (0.25%) AdminStudio
7 7 (0.25%) InstallShield
7 7 (0.25%) LabVIEW
7 7 (0.25%) MSI
7 7 (0.25%) Toad
8 5 (0.18%) Postman
8 5 (0.18%) SoapUI
9 4 (0.14%) Charles Proxy
10 3 (0.11%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (0.072%) CANoe
11 2 (0.072%) ERwin
11 2 (0.072%) Jenkins
11 2 (0.072%) MLflow
11 2 (0.072%) Selenium
General
1 1,053 (37.77%) Social Skills
2 829 (29.73%) Analytical Skills
3 820 (29.41%) Finance
4 406 (14.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 342 (12.27%) Presentation Skills
6 277 (9.94%) Retail
7 252 (9.04%) Legal
8 226 (8.11%) Law
9 225 (8.07%) Marketing
10 198 (7.10%) Military
11 136 (4.88%) Banking
12 103 (3.69%) Manufacturing
13 101 (3.62%) Public Sector
14 81 (2.91%) Organisational Skills
15 61 (2.19%) Investment Banking
16 60 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
17 58 (2.08%) Publishing
18 55 (1.97%) Back Office
19 48 (1.72%) Local Government
20 47 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 863 (30.95%) Analyst
2 453 (16.25%) Data Analyst
3 446 (16.00%) Senior
4 230 (8.25%) Lead
4 230 (8.25%) Senior Analyst
5 221 (7.93%) Graduate
6 191 (6.85%) Data Scientist
7 147 (5.27%) Data Engineer
8 142 (5.09%) Senior Data Analyst
9 123 (4.41%) Developer
10 112 (4.02%) Software Engineer
11 95 (3.41%) Architect
12 94 (3.37%) Business Analyst
12 94 (3.37%) Data Manager
13 69 (2.47%) Data Architect
14 67 (2.40%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 62 (2.22%) Consultant
16 48 (1.72%) AWS Engineer
16 48 (1.72%) AWS Software Engineer
17 44 (1.58%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (1.61%) .NET
2 40 (1.43%) Pandas
3 39 (1.40%) CSS
3 39 (1.40%) HTML
4 34 (1.22%) React
5 32 (1.15%) Kafka
6 30 (1.08%) PySpark
7 28 (1.00%) JSON
8 26 (0.93%) Web Services
9 22 (0.79%) AngularJS
9 22 (0.79%) XML
10 20 (0.72%) Apache NiFi
10 20 (0.72%) NumPy
11 18 (0.65%) ASP.NET
12 17 (0.61%) .NET Core
13 15 (0.54%) Lambda Expressions
13 15 (0.54%) Node.js
13 15 (0.54%) PyTorch
13 15 (0.54%) scikit-learn
13 15 (0.54%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 332 (11.91%) Onboarding
2 307 (11.01%) Algorithms
3 230 (8.25%) Management Information System
4 122 (4.38%) Data Structures
5 115 (4.12%) Product Ownership
6 80 (2.87%) Self-Motivation
7 74 (2.65%) Cloud Native
8 57 (2.04%) Credit Risk
9 54 (1.94%) Public Cloud
9 54 (1.94%) Reinsurance
10 34 (1.22%) Life Science
11 32 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
12 26 (0.93%) Data Centre
13 24 (0.86%) Driving Licence
13 24 (0.86%) Market Risk
14 23 (0.82%) IoT
14 23 (0.82%) Taxonomies
15 21 (0.75%) Mobile App
15 21 (0.75%) Reference Data
15 21 (0.75%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 47 (1.69%) Windows
2 45 (1.61%) Linux
3 10 (0.36%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.32%) Windows 10
5 7 (0.25%) Android
5 7 (0.25%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.25%) Windows 7
6 6 (0.22%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.22%) Unix
7 5 (0.18%) Windows Vista
8 2 (0.072%) AIX
8 2 (0.072%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.036%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.036%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.036%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 949 (34.04%) Problem-Solving
2 861 (30.88%) Analytics
3 714 (25.61%) Business Intelligence
4 658 (23.60%) Visualisation
5 576 (20.66%) Decision-Making
6 478 (17.14%) Agile
6 478 (17.14%) Mathematics
7 464 (16.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 419 (15.03%) Computer Science
9 412 (14.78%) Data Science
10 381 (13.67%) Data Modelling
11 345 (12.37%) Actionable Insight
12 336 (12.05%) Data Management
12 336 (12.05%) Data Visualisation
13 330 (11.84%) ETL
14 323 (11.59%) Customer Service
15 316 (11.33%) Process Improvement
16 315 (11.30%) Coaching
17 306 (10.98%) Data Pipeline
18 304 (10.90%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 997 (35.76%) SQL
2 748 (26.83%) Python
3 139 (4.99%) R
4 100 (3.59%) Java
5 80 (2.87%) C#
6 78 (2.80%) JavaScript
7 56 (2.01%) T-SQL
8 44 (1.58%) VBA
9 42 (1.51%) PowerShell
10 39 (1.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 35 (1.26%) Scala
12 32 (1.15%) MATLAB
13 23 (0.82%) PL/SQL
14 22 (0.79%) C
15 20 (0.72%) C++
15 20 (0.72%) VB
16 17 (0.61%) Go
16 17 (0.61%) TypeScript
17 14 (0.50%) Bash
18 10 (0.36%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,184 (42.47%) Degree
2 176 (6.31%) DBS Check
3 156 (5.60%) Master's Degree
4 125 (4.48%) Security Cleared
5 99 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 63 (2.26%) SC Cleared
7 48 (1.72%) PhD
8 47 (1.69%) DV Cleared
9 35 (1.26%) MBA
10 31 (1.11%) Numerate Degree
11 30 (1.08%) HNC
12 26 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
13 19 (0.68%) CIMA
14 16 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
15 15 (0.54%) CFA
16 10 (0.36%) APMP
16 10 (0.36%) PMI Certification
17 9 (0.32%) CISSP
18 8 (0.29%) Six Sigma Green Belt
19 7 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 266 (9.54%) Data Quality
2 101 (3.62%) QA
3 53 (1.90%) Accessibility
4 48 (1.72%) IFRS
5 46 (1.65%) GDPR
6 40 (1.43%) IFRS 9
7 28 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
7 28 (1.00%) PMO
8 23 (0.82%) SLA
9 19 (0.68%) Good Clinical Practice
10 10 (0.36%) ISO 9001
11 7 (0.25%) COBIT
11 7 (0.25%) NIST
12 4 (0.14%) CDISC
12 4 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 4 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.11%) MiFID
13 3 (0.11%) P3O
14 2 (0.072%) Disclosure Scotland
14 2 (0.072%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 38 (1.36%) Active Directory
2 29 (1.04%) Docker
3 13 (0.47%) Firmware
4 12 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.11%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.072%) HDFS
9 1 (0.036%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.036%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.036%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 49 (1.76%) Kubernetes
2 15 (0.54%) SCCM
3 11 (0.39%) SCOM
4 9 (0.32%) Terraform
4 9 (0.32%) WSUS
5 7 (0.25%) SysTrack
6 4 (0.14%) Ansible
6 4 (0.14%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.11%) Puppet
8 2 (0.072%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (0.072%) Functional Safety
8 2 (0.072%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.036%) FTK
9 1 (0.036%) Grafana
9 1 (0.036%) Iperf
9 1 (0.036%) Nmap
9 1 (0.036%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 484 (17.36%) Microsoft
2 303 (10.87%) Databricks
3 106 (3.80%) Oracle
4 82 (2.94%) Google
5 65 (2.33%) Informatica
6 51 (1.83%) Alteryx
7 49 (1.76%) SAP
8 43 (1.54%) Salesforce
9 42 (1.51%) ServiceNow
10 29 (1.04%) Adobe
11 21 (0.75%) Cognos
12 15 (0.54%) Sybase
12 15 (0.54%) VMware
13 13 (0.47%) HP
13 13 (0.47%) Splunk
14 12 (0.43%) Sparx
15 11 (0.39%) Dynatrace
15 11 (0.39%) ESRI
15 11 (0.39%) Riverbed
15 11 (0.39%) Sage