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 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 300 276 331
Rank change year-on-year -24 +55 -26
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Analyst 943 1,327 1,890
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.96% 1.28% 1.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.01% 1.40% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 696 802 1,120
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,575 £35,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £38,500 £37,795
% change year-on-year +3.90% +1.87% +0.79%

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 93,314 94,990 150,394
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.53% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 66,914 59,752 85,367
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.49% - +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%

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 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Analyst in the UK

Data Analyst
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 Analyst 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 +5 880 £45,000 -5.26% 238
UK excluding London -66 507 £40,000 +3.90% 115
London +53 410 £60,000 +4.35% 127
Work from Home +10 393 £45,000 -5.26% 92
Midlands -23 129 £37,500 -1.32% 24
South East +14 119 £40,000 -5.88% 21
North of England -63 103 £35,000 -6.67% 34
South West -19 72 £45,000 +8.79% 13
West Midlands -60 65 £39,250 +3.29% 12
East Midlands +40 64 £30,500 -7.58% 12
North West -15 57 £35,000 -6.67% 13
East of England +2 43 £36,664 -33.34% 13
Yorkshire -1 29 £35,000 -6.67% 15
Scotland -93 24 £55,000 +29.41% 8
North East -33 17 £35,000 -12.50% 6
Wales -11 12 £42,500 +52.08% 3
Northern Ireland +32 5 £45,000 +20.00%

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

For the 6 months to 3 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.

1 597 (63.31%) SQL
2 405 (42.95%) Analytical Skills
3 398 (42.21%) Power Platform
4 396 (41.99%) Power BI
5 388 (41.15%) Data Analysis
6 387 (41.04%) Analytics
7 380 (40.30%) Business Intelligence
8 353 (37.43%) Social Skills
9 333 (35.31%) Python
10 309 (32.77%) Visualisation
11 293 (31.07%) Microsoft Excel
12 275 (29.16%) Tableau
13 271 (28.74%) Problem-Solving
14 266 (28.21%) Degree
15 230 (24.39%) Finance
16 195 (20.68%) Statistics
17 194 (20.57%) Actionable Insight
18 192 (20.36%) Mathematics
19 188 (19.94%) Decision-Making
20 175 (18.56%) Data Quality
21 162 (17.18%) Retail
22 147 (15.59%) Business Strategy
23 143 (15.16%) Presentation Skills
24 132 (14.00%) Data Management
25 125 (13.26%) AWS
26 122 (12.94%) Microsoft
27 120 (12.73%) Data Visualisation
28 119 (12.62%) Agile
28 119 (12.62%) Data Pipeline
29 114 (12.09%) Data Modelling

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 (2.65%) SAS
2 9 (0.95%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.74%) Confluence
4 6 (0.64%) ArcGIS
4 6 (0.64%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (0.42%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.32%) Apache
6 3 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.11%) Luigi
Applications
1 293 (31.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (2.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.06%) Spreadsheet
4 10 (1.06%) SPSS
5 8 (0.85%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.32%) Stata
Business Applications
1 6 (0.64%) NEC Housing
1 6 (0.64%) Sage 50
1 6 (0.64%) SAP Business One
2 5 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.42%) Finacle
3 4 (0.42%) FLEXCUBE
3 4 (0.42%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.21%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.11%) ResourceLink
5 1 (0.11%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.11%) SAP Retail
5 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 398 (42.21%) Power Platform
2 125 (13.26%) AWS
3 93 (9.86%) Azure
4 27 (2.86%) Snowflake
5 24 (2.55%) GCP
6 19 (2.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 16 (1.70%) Azure Data Factory
8 13 (1.38%) Microsoft Purview
9 12 (1.27%) PowerApps
10 10 (1.06%) Google Analytics
11 9 (0.95%) GitHub
12 8 (0.85%) Adobe Analytics
12 8 (0.85%) Power Automate
12 8 (0.85%) SaaS
13 6 (0.64%) dbt
13 6 (0.64%) Microsoft 365
14 5 (0.53%) Azure DevOps
15 4 (0.42%) ChatGPT
15 4 (0.42%) Google Sheets
15 4 (0.42%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.74%) Internet
2 5 (0.53%) Intranet
3 1 (0.11%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 396 (41.99%) Power BI
2 275 (29.16%) Tableau
3 70 (7.42%) Data Warehouse
4 50 (5.30%) SQL Server
5 42 (4.45%) Power Query
6 31 (3.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 29 (3.08%) Metadata
8 27 (2.86%) Data Mining
9 26 (2.76%) QlikView
10 18 (1.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 14 (1.48%) Relational Database
12 13 (1.38%) Amazon QuickSight
13 12 (1.27%) Looker
14 11 (1.17%) Big Data
14 11 (1.17%) GIS
15 10 (1.06%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 10 (1.06%) MS Access
15 10 (1.06%) MySQL
16 9 (0.95%) BigQuery
16 9 (0.95%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 105 (11.13%) Git
2 17 (1.80%) JIRA
3 14 (1.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 6 (0.64%) GitLab
4 6 (0.64%) Toad
5 2 (0.21%) RStudio
General
1 405 (42.95%) Analytical Skills
2 353 (37.43%) Social Skills
3 230 (24.39%) Finance
4 162 (17.18%) Retail
5 143 (15.16%) Presentation Skills
6 80 (8.48%) Marketing
7 68 (7.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 55 (5.83%) Law
9 52 (5.51%) Banking
10 44 (4.67%) Organisational Skills
11 36 (3.82%) Manufacturing
12 23 (2.44%) Local Government
13 22 (2.33%) Legal
13 22 (2.33%) Public Sector
14 14 (1.48%) Games
15 12 (1.27%) Automotive
16 10 (1.06%) Telecoms
17 9 (0.95%) Electronics
17 9 (0.95%) Publishing
18 8 (0.85%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.17%) Pandas
2 9 (0.95%) XML
3 4 (0.42%) JSON
4 3 (0.32%) HTML
5 2 (0.21%) D3.js
5 2 (0.21%) NumPy
5 2 (0.21%) SQLAlchemy
6 1 (0.11%) Anaconda
6 1 (0.11%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (0.11%) Flask
6 1 (0.11%) Kafka
6 1 (0.11%) Lambda Expressions
6 1 (0.11%) Matplotlib
6 1 (0.11%) MDX
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.11%) Plotly
6 1 (0.11%) PySpark
6 1 (0.11%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.11%) Seaborn
6 1 (0.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 54 (5.73%) Management Information System
2 52 (5.51%) Self-Motivation
3 22 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
4 19 (2.01%) Onboarding
5 17 (1.80%) Data Structures
6 12 (1.27%) FMCG
6 12 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
7 11 (1.17%) Algorithms
7 11 (1.17%) Reinsurance
8 10 (1.06%) Product Ownership
9 9 (0.95%) Housing Association
9 9 (0.95%) Reference Data
10 6 (0.64%) Blog
10 6 (0.64%) Data Centre
10 6 (0.64%) IoT
10 6 (0.64%) Pricing Data
11 5 (0.53%) Credit Risk
11 5 (0.53%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (0.53%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (0.53%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.64%) Windows
2 2 (0.21%) Windows Vista
3 1 (0.11%) Android
3 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 388 (41.15%) Data Analysis
2 387 (41.04%) Analytics
3 380 (40.30%) Business Intelligence
4 309 (32.77%) Visualisation
5 271 (28.74%) Problem-Solving
6 195 (20.68%) Statistics
7 194 (20.57%) Actionable Insight
8 192 (20.36%) Mathematics
9 188 (19.94%) Decision-Making
10 147 (15.59%) Business Strategy
11 132 (14.00%) Data Management
12 120 (12.73%) Data Visualisation
13 119 (12.62%) Agile
13 119 (12.62%) Data Pipeline
14 114 (12.09%) Data Modelling
15 111 (11.77%) Data Analytics
16 102 (10.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 99 (10.50%) Root Cause Analysis
18 96 (10.18%) Storytelling
19 94 (9.97%) Customer Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 597 (63.31%) SQL
2 333 (35.31%) Python
3 67 (7.10%) R
4 43 (4.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 39 (4.14%) T-SQL
6 28 (2.97%) VBA
7 8 (0.85%) Java
8 6 (0.64%) Bash
9 4 (0.42%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (0.42%) VB
10 3 (0.32%) C#
11 1 (0.11%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 266 (28.21%) Degree
2 106 (11.24%) DBS Check
3 24 (2.55%) Master's Degree
3 24 (2.55%) Security Cleared
4 17 (1.80%) Numerate Degree
5 13 (1.38%) DV Cleared
5 13 (1.38%) SC Cleared
6 10 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (0.53%) MBA
8 5 (0.53%) PhD
9 3 (0.32%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.21%) ACCA
10 2 (0.21%) CFA
10 2 (0.21%) CIMA
11 1 (0.11%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.11%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.11%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (18.56%) Data Quality
2 13 (1.38%) QA
3 10 (1.06%) GDPR
4 7 (0.74%) Accessibility
4 7 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
4 7 (0.74%) COBIT
5 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.11%) NIST
5 1 (0.11%) PMO
5 1 (0.11%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (0.21%) Docker
2 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 1 (0.11%) Oozie
Vendors
1 122 (12.94%) Microsoft
2 112 (11.88%) Databricks
3 47 (4.98%) Alteryx
4 38 (4.03%) Google
5 36 (3.82%) Salesforce
6 26 (2.76%) SAP
7 25 (2.65%) Oracle
8 13 (1.38%) Informatica
9 8 (0.85%) Adobe
9 8 (0.85%) Talend
10 7 (0.74%) IBM
11 6 (0.64%) Civica
11 6 (0.64%) Jitterbit
11 6 (0.64%) NEC
11 6 (0.64%) Sage
12 5 (0.53%) ESRI
13 4 (0.42%) Anaplan
13 4 (0.42%) IFS
14 3 (0.32%) F5
14 3 (0.32%) Meraki