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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 120 136
Rank change year-on-year +20 +16 +50
Permanent jobs citing Data Analysis 2,588 3,017 4,618
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.62% 2.91% 2.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.05% 3.04% 3.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1,535 1,381 2,103
10th Percentile £30,781 £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 £69,750 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -10.53% +11.76%

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 84,746 99,225 149,638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.94% 95.61% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 59,834 58,281 83,297
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,750 £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 3 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 3 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 +19 2,272 £52,500 - 803
UK excluding London +2 1,735 £50,000 +17.65% 483
Work from Home +39 875 £52,500 +2.44% 358
London +35 747 £60,000 -7.69% 333
South East +28 436 £50,000 +13.64% 93
Midlands -18 367 £47,500 +11.76% 101
North of England -10 362 £55,000 +46.67% 130
West Midlands -14 271 £50,000 +19.76% 67
North West -21 213 £59,556 +60.32% 70
Scotland -19 197 £55,000 +50.64% 28
South West +18 182 £54,500 +47.30% 68
East of England +31 167 £50,000 -2.44% 61
Yorkshire +20 103 £55,000 +29.41% 41
East Midlands -13 96 £45,001 +0.00% 33
North East 0 46 £40,000 +6.73% 20
Wales -11 19 £47,750 +10.87% 17
Northern Ireland +28 5 £57,500 +27.78% 5

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 94 (3.63%) SAS
2 72 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 52 (2.01%) Apache Spark
4 37 (1.43%) Confluence
5 34 (1.31%) Apache
6 24 (0.93%) CMS
7 12 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
8 11 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
9 10 (0.39%) ArcGIS
9 10 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.23%) Jupyter
11 5 (0.19%) IIS
12 4 (0.15%) WordPress
13 3 (0.12%) Moodle
13 3 (0.12%) Tomcat
14 2 (0.077%) MTS
Applications
1 525 (20.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 255 (9.85%) Microsoft Office
3 89 (3.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 45 (1.74%) Spreadsheet
5 26 (1.00%) MS Visio
6 23 (0.89%) SPSS
7 17 (0.66%) Windchill
8 14 (0.54%) Trello
9 8 (0.31%) Simulink
10 6 (0.23%) SOLIDWORKS
11 4 (0.15%) Stata
12 3 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.12%) Sketch
13 2 (0.077%) InDesign
13 2 (0.077%) InVision
13 2 (0.077%) LaTeX
13 2 (0.077%) Microsoft Project
13 2 (0.077%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.077%) Zeplin
14 1 (0.039%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 31 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.66%) Teamcenter
3 14 (0.54%) Primavera
4 13 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 9 (0.35%) 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%) BusinessWorks
7 5 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
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 (0.12%) Sage 200
9 3 (0.12%) Sage 300 ERP
9 3 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
10 2 (0.077%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 583 (22.53%) Power Platform
2 410 (15.84%) AWS
3 399 (15.42%) Azure
4 101 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
5 82 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
6 61 (2.36%) Cloud Computing
7 60 (2.32%) GCP
8 50 (1.93%) Azure Data Factory
8 50 (1.93%) SaaS
9 47 (1.82%) Serverless
10 46 (1.78%) PowerApps
10 46 (1.78%) Snowflake
11 37 (1.43%) Power Automate
12 34 (1.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 27 (1.04%) Amazon S3
14 23 (0.89%) Dynamics 365
15 21 (0.81%) AWS Lambda
16 20 (0.77%) Google Sheets
16 20 (0.77%) Matillion
17 19 (0.73%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 18 (0.70%) DSL
2 14 (0.54%) HTTP
2 14 (0.54%) Intranet
3 11 (0.43%) Ethernet
3 11 (0.43%) Firewall
4 9 (0.35%) WAN
5 7 (0.27%) Internet
5 7 (0.27%) LAN
5 7 (0.27%) SD-WAN
5 7 (0.27%) 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%) Broadband
8 4 (0.15%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 559 (21.60%) Power BI
2 386 (14.91%) Tableau
3 216 (8.35%) Data Warehouse
4 160 (6.18%) SQL Server
5 98 (3.79%) Big Data
6 80 (3.09%) Data Lake
7 63 (2.43%) Metadata
8 62 (2.40%) Data Vault
9 59 (2.28%) NoSQL
10 51 (1.97%) GIS
10 51 (1.97%) Relational Database
11 50 (1.93%) Data Mining
12 47 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 44 (1.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 39 (1.51%) Delta Lake
15 34 (1.31%) QlikView
16 28 (1.08%) Hadoop
17 25 (0.97%) Geospatial Data
18 24 (0.93%) MongoDB
18 24 (0.93%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 144 (5.56%) Git
2 119 (4.60%) JIRA
3 22 (0.85%) GitLab
4 19 (0.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 15 (0.58%) Visual Studio
6 14 (0.54%) Jenkins
7 12 (0.46%) SonarQube
8 11 (0.43%) Oracle Forms
9 7 (0.27%) LabVIEW
9 7 (0.27%) Toad
10 6 (0.23%) Postman
10 6 (0.23%) SoapUI
11 4 (0.15%) AdminStudio
11 4 (0.15%) Charles Proxy
11 4 (0.15%) InstallShield
11 4 (0.15%) MSI
12 3 (0.12%) Octopus Deploy
12 3 (0.12%) Visual Studio Team System
13 2 (0.077%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.077%) CANoe
General
1 970 (37.48%) Social Skills
2 823 (31.80%) Finance
3 818 (31.61%) Analytical Skills
4 384 (14.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 281 (10.86%) Presentation Skills
6 253 (9.78%) Retail
7 247 (9.54%) Legal
8 231 (8.93%) Law
9 226 (8.73%) Marketing
10 152 (5.87%) Banking
11 102 (3.94%) Manufacturing
12 98 (3.79%) Public Sector
13 96 (3.71%) Military
14 78 (3.01%) Organisational Skills
15 65 (2.51%) Investment Banking
16 60 (2.32%) Influencing Skills
17 59 (2.28%) Publishing
18 53 (2.05%) Financial Institution
19 52 (2.01%) Back Office
20 51 (1.97%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 799 (30.87%) Analyst
2 388 (14.99%) Data Analyst
3 377 (14.57%) Senior
4 207 (8.00%) Lead
5 191 (7.38%) Data Scientist
6 184 (7.11%) Senior Analyst
7 156 (6.03%) Data Engineer
8 129 (4.98%) Developer
9 116 (4.48%) Graduate
10 110 (4.25%) Software Engineer
11 102 (3.94%) Senior Data Analyst
12 94 (3.63%) Data Manager
13 91 (3.52%) Business Analyst
14 76 (2.94%) Architect
15 61 (2.36%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 54 (2.09%) Consultant
17 49 (1.89%) AWS Engineer
18 48 (1.85%) AWS Software Engineer
19 47 (1.82%) Administrator
19 47 (1.82%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (1.78%) .NET
2 35 (1.35%) HTML
3 33 (1.28%) CSS
3 33 (1.28%) Kafka
3 33 (1.28%) Pandas
3 33 (1.28%) React
4 32 (1.24%) Web Services
5 29 (1.12%) JSON
6 27 (1.04%) PySpark
7 25 (0.97%) XML
8 23 (0.89%) AngularJS
8 23 (0.89%) Apache NiFi
9 22 (0.85%) ASP.NET
10 19 (0.73%) NumPy
11 17 (0.66%) .NET Core
11 17 (0.66%) REST
12 16 (0.62%) EDI
13 15 (0.58%) .NET Framework
14 14 (0.54%) Elastic Stack
14 14 (0.54%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 309 (11.94%) Algorithms
2 227 (8.77%) Management Information System
3 219 (8.46%) Onboarding
4 127 (4.91%) Data Structures
5 120 (4.64%) Product Ownership
6 79 (3.05%) Cloud Native
6 79 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
7 74 (2.86%) Public Cloud
8 56 (2.16%) Credit Risk
9 50 (1.93%) Reinsurance
10 32 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
11 26 (1.00%) Taxonomies
12 23 (0.89%) Data Centre
12 23 (0.89%) Driving Licence
12 23 (0.89%) Market Risk
13 22 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
13 22 (0.85%) IoT
13 22 (0.85%) NHS
14 21 (0.81%) PMI
15 20 (0.77%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 54 (2.09%) Windows
2 51 (1.97%) Linux
3 9 (0.35%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.27%) Android
4 7 (0.27%) 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 (0.077%) AIX
8 2 (0.077%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.039%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.039%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 865 (33.42%) Problem-Solving
2 799 (30.87%) Analytics
3 673 (26.00%) Business Intelligence
4 608 (23.49%) Visualisation
5 569 (21.99%) Decision-Making
6 502 (19.40%) Agile
7 434 (16.77%) Mathematics
8 396 (15.30%) Computer Science
9 380 (14.68%) Data Science
10 366 (14.14%) Data Modelling
11 361 (13.95%) Continuous Improvement
12 352 (13.60%) ETL
13 320 (12.36%) Data Visualisation
14 318 (12.29%) Coaching
15 313 (12.09%) Data Management
16 312 (12.06%) Actionable Insight
17 292 (11.28%) Machine Learning
18 281 (10.86%) Data Pipeline
19 278 (10.74%) Data Analytics
20 275 (10.63%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 940 (36.32%) SQL
2 695 (26.85%) Python
3 143 (5.53%) R
4 100 (3.86%) Java
5 82 (3.17%) C#
6 80 (3.09%) JavaScript
7 67 (2.59%) T-SQL
8 46 (1.78%) PowerShell
9 43 (1.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 43 (1.66%) VBA
10 35 (1.35%) Scala
11 28 (1.08%) MATLAB
11 28 (1.08%) PL/SQL
12 27 (1.04%) Bash
13 22 (0.85%) C
14 19 (0.73%) C++
15 18 (0.70%) TypeScript
16 17 (0.66%) VB
17 16 (0.62%) Go
18 10 (0.39%) Perl
Qualifications
1 996 (38.49%) Degree
2 149 (5.76%) Master's Degree
3 140 (5.41%) DBS Check
4 120 (4.64%) Security Cleared
5 85 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 61 (2.36%) SC Cleared
7 46 (1.78%) PhD
8 45 (1.74%) DV Cleared
9 32 (1.24%) MBA
10 28 (1.08%) Numerate Degree
11 26 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
12 25 (0.97%) HNC
13 22 (0.85%) PMI Certification
14 19 (0.73%) CIMA
15 17 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
16 15 (0.58%) CFA
17 12 (0.46%) APMP
18 8 (0.31%) Six Sigma Green Belt
19 7 (0.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
19 7 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 254 (9.81%) Data Quality
2 102 (3.94%) QA
3 52 (2.01%) Accessibility
3 52 (2.01%) GDPR
4 48 (1.85%) IFRS
5 40 (1.55%) IFRS 9
6 30 (1.16%) PMO
7 28 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
8 25 (0.97%) SLA
9 9 (0.35%) ISO 9001
10 8 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (0.27%) COBIT
12 6 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 6 (0.23%) NIST
13 4 (0.15%) CDISC
13 4 (0.15%) Good Clinical Practice
14 3 (0.12%) P3O
15 2 (0.077%) Disclosure Scotland
15 2 (0.077%) ISO 26262
15 2 (0.077%) MiFID
System Software
1 42 (1.62%) Docker
2 38 (1.47%) Active Directory
3 12 (0.46%) Firmware
4 9 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.19%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.077%) HDFS
8 1 (0.039%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.039%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.039%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 61 (2.36%) Kubernetes
2 20 (0.77%) Terraform
3 15 (0.58%) Ansible
4 13 (0.50%) Grafana
4 13 (0.50%) Prometheus
4 13 (0.50%) SCOM
5 12 (0.46%) SCCM
6 7 (0.27%) Progress Chef
6 7 (0.27%) SysTrack
7 6 (0.23%) WSUS
8 4 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (0.12%) Puppet
10 2 (0.077%) Functional Safety
10 2 (0.077%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.039%) Iperf
11 1 (0.039%) Nmap
Vendors
1 461 (17.81%) Microsoft
2 278 (10.74%) Databricks
3 119 (4.60%) Oracle
4 84 (3.25%) Google
5 66 (2.55%) Informatica
6 57 (2.20%) Alteryx
7 50 (1.93%) SAP
8 46 (1.78%) Salesforce
9 43 (1.66%) ServiceNow
10 29 (1.12%) Adobe
11 24 (0.93%) Cognos
12 18 (0.70%) Sybase
13 15 (0.58%) HP
14 14 (0.54%) VMware
15 13 (0.50%) Dynatrace
15 13 (0.50%) Riverbed
15 13 (0.50%) Sparx
16 11 (0.43%) ESRI
16 11 (0.43%) Sage
17 9 (0.35%) NEC