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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 122 131
Rank change year-on-year +21 +9 +56
Permanent jobs citing Data Analysis 2,654 2,912 4,719
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.68% 2.87% 3.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.13% 3.01% 3.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,532 1,348 2,090
10th Percentile £30,528 £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 £68,750 £72,647 £71,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £46,500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -8.60% +8.14%

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 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,550
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 9 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 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 +21 2,338 £52,500 - 833
UK excluding London +5 1,782 £50,000 +17.65% 499
Work from Home +35 890 £52,000 +4.00% 353
London +38 766 £60,000 -7.69% 353
South East +40 435 £50,000 +11.11% 90
Midlands -9 405 £48,750 +14.71% 114
North of England -5 370 £55,000 +46.67% 134
West Midlands -5 302 £50,000 +21.95% 68
North West -23 220 £59,556 +60.32% 74
Scotland -12 196 £55,000 +50.64% 26
South West +21 184 £54,500 +49.83% 65
East of England +34 167 £50,000 -2.44% 61
Yorkshire +31 104 £52,500 +23.53% 46
East Midlands -9 103 £45,001 +0.00% 45
North East -2 46 £40,000 +6.73% 15
Wales -13 19 £47,750 +10.87% 16
Northern Ireland +27 6 £57,500 +27.78% 7

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 (3.58%) SAS
2 69 (2.60%) SharePoint
3 53 (2.00%) Apache Spark
4 39 (1.47%) Apache
5 35 (1.32%) Confluence
6 24 (0.90%) CMS
7 15 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
8 12 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
9 10 (0.38%) ArcGIS
9 10 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.19%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.15%) IIS
11 4 (0.15%) WordPress
12 3 (0.11%) Moodle
13 2 (0.075%) MTS
13 2 (0.075%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.038%) Luigi
Applications
1 567 (21.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 294 (11.08%) Microsoft Office
3 86 (3.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 45 (1.70%) Spreadsheet
5 26 (0.98%) MS Visio
6 24 (0.90%) SPSS
7 17 (0.64%) Windchill
8 14 (0.53%) Trello
9 8 (0.30%) Simulink
10 6 (0.23%) SOLIDWORKS
11 4 (0.15%) Stata
12 3 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.11%) Sketch
13 2 (0.075%) InDesign
13 2 (0.075%) InVision
13 2 (0.075%) LaTeX
13 2 (0.075%) Microsoft Project
13 2 (0.075%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.075%) Zeplin
14 1 (0.038%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 30 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.64%) Teamcenter
3 14 (0.53%) Primavera
4 13 (0.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 9 (0.34%) 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%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.15%) BusinessWorks
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 (0.11%) Sage 200
9 3 (0.11%) Sage 300 ERP
9 3 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
10 2 (0.075%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 583 (21.97%) Power Platform
2 427 (16.09%) AWS
3 396 (14.92%) Azure
4 101 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
5 81 (3.05%) Microsoft 365
6 59 (2.22%) Cloud Computing
7 58 (2.19%) GCP
8 50 (1.88%) SaaS
9 48 (1.81%) Azure Data Factory
10 46 (1.73%) Serverless
11 45 (1.70%) PowerApps
11 45 (1.70%) Snowflake
12 37 (1.39%) Power Automate
13 33 (1.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 26 (0.98%) Amazon S3
15 24 (0.90%) Dynamics 365
16 21 (0.79%) AWS Lambda
17 20 (0.75%) Google Sheets
18 19 (0.72%) WhatsApp
19 18 (0.68%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 18 (0.68%) DSL
2 14 (0.53%) HTTP
2 14 (0.53%) Intranet
3 11 (0.41%) Ethernet
3 11 (0.41%) Firewall
4 9 (0.34%) WAN
5 7 (0.26%) Internet
5 7 (0.26%) LAN
5 7 (0.26%) SD-WAN
5 7 (0.26%) 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%) BGP
8 4 (0.15%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 559 (21.06%) Power BI
2 402 (15.15%) Tableau
3 216 (8.14%) Data Warehouse
4 161 (6.07%) SQL Server
5 100 (3.77%) Big Data
6 78 (2.94%) Data Lake
7 64 (2.41%) Metadata
8 62 (2.34%) Data Vault
9 58 (2.19%) NoSQL
10 53 (2.00%) Relational Database
11 51 (1.92%) Data Mining
11 51 (1.92%) GIS
12 46 (1.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 46 (1.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 39 (1.47%) Delta Lake
14 34 (1.28%) QlikView
15 26 (0.98%) Hadoop
16 25 (0.94%) Geospatial Data
16 25 (0.94%) MongoDB
16 25 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 159 (5.99%) Git
2 118 (4.45%) JIRA
3 21 (0.79%) GitLab
4 19 (0.72%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 15 (0.57%) Visual Studio
6 13 (0.49%) Jenkins
7 12 (0.45%) SonarQube
8 11 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
9 7 (0.26%) LabVIEW
9 7 (0.26%) 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 (0.11%) Octopus Deploy
13 2 (0.075%) CANoe
13 2 (0.075%) ERwin
13 2 (0.075%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 991 (37.34%) Social Skills
2 834 (31.42%) Analytical Skills
3 821 (30.93%) Finance
4 388 (14.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 301 (11.34%) Presentation Skills
6 275 (10.36%) Retail
7 245 (9.23%) Legal
8 236 (8.89%) Law
9 223 (8.40%) Marketing
10 147 (5.54%) Banking
11 135 (5.09%) Military
12 101 (3.81%) Manufacturing
13 99 (3.73%) Public Sector
14 78 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
15 64 (2.41%) Investment Banking
16 60 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
17 59 (2.22%) Publishing
18 52 (1.96%) Back Office
18 52 (1.96%) Financial Institution
19 48 (1.81%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 816 (30.75%) Analyst
2 405 (15.26%) Data Analyst
3 395 (14.88%) Senior
4 212 (7.99%) Lead
5 200 (7.54%) Senior Analyst
6 194 (7.31%) Data Scientist
7 157 (5.92%) Graduate
8 156 (5.88%) Data Engineer
9 126 (4.75%) Developer
10 118 (4.45%) Senior Data Analyst
11 112 (4.22%) Software Engineer
12 94 (3.54%) Data Manager
13 93 (3.50%) Business Analyst
14 76 (2.86%) Architect
15 63 (2.37%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 55 (2.07%) Consultant
17 49 (1.85%) AWS Engineer
18 48 (1.81%) AWS Software Engineer
19 47 (1.77%) Administrator
19 47 (1.77%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (1.77%) .NET
2 35 (1.32%) HTML
2 35 (1.32%) Kafka
2 35 (1.32%) Pandas
3 34 (1.28%) CSS
4 33 (1.24%) React
5 31 (1.17%) Web Services
6 29 (1.09%) PySpark
7 28 (1.06%) JSON
8 23 (0.87%) AngularJS
8 23 (0.87%) Apache NiFi
8 23 (0.87%) XML
9 21 (0.79%) ASP.NET
10 19 (0.72%) NumPy
11 18 (0.68%) REST
12 17 (0.64%) .NET Core
13 15 (0.57%) .NET Framework
13 15 (0.57%) Lambda Expressions
14 14 (0.53%) Elastic Stack
14 14 (0.53%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 309 (11.64%) Algorithms
2 269 (10.14%) Onboarding
3 228 (8.59%) Management Information System
4 126 (4.75%) Data Structures
5 120 (4.52%) Product Ownership
6 79 (2.98%) Cloud Native
7 78 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
8 74 (2.79%) Public Cloud
9 57 (2.15%) Credit Risk
10 52 (1.96%) Reinsurance
11 32 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
12 26 (0.98%) Taxonomies
13 23 (0.87%) Data Centre
13 23 (0.87%) Driving Licence
13 23 (0.87%) Market Risk
14 22 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
14 22 (0.83%) IoT
15 21 (0.79%) NHS
16 20 (0.75%) PMI
16 20 (0.75%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 54 (2.03%) Windows
2 51 (1.92%) Linux
3 9 (0.34%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.26%) Android
4 7 (0.26%) 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 (0.075%) AIX
8 2 (0.075%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.038%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.038%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 889 (33.50%) Problem-Solving
2 820 (30.90%) Analytics
3 673 (25.36%) Business Intelligence
4 628 (23.66%) Visualisation
5 569 (21.44%) Decision-Making
6 505 (19.03%) Agile
7 460 (17.33%) Mathematics
8 398 (15.00%) Computer Science
8 398 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 380 (14.32%) Data Science
10 363 (13.68%) Data Modelling
11 352 (13.26%) ETL
12 326 (12.28%) Actionable Insight
13 321 (12.09%) Data Visualisation
14 318 (11.98%) Coaching
15 317 (11.94%) Data Management
16 297 (11.19%) Data Pipeline
17 292 (11.00%) Machine Learning
18 290 (10.93%) Statistics
19 282 (10.63%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 956 (36.02%) SQL
2 717 (27.02%) Python
3 144 (5.43%) R
4 103 (3.88%) Java
5 83 (3.13%) C#
6 79 (2.98%) JavaScript
7 65 (2.45%) T-SQL
8 46 (1.73%) PowerShell
9 43 (1.62%) VBA
10 42 (1.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 36 (1.36%) Scala
12 29 (1.09%) MATLAB
13 27 (1.02%) PL/SQL
14 26 (0.98%) Bash
15 22 (0.83%) C
16 18 (0.68%) C++
17 17 (0.64%) TypeScript
17 17 (0.64%) VB
18 16 (0.60%) Go
19 10 (0.38%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,066 (40.17%) Degree
2 157 (5.92%) DBS Check
3 152 (5.73%) Master's Degree
4 119 (4.48%) Security Cleared
5 86 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 60 (2.26%) SC Cleared
7 48 (1.81%) PhD
8 45 (1.70%) DV Cleared
9 32 (1.21%) MBA
10 31 (1.17%) HNC
11 30 (1.13%) Numerate Degree
12 26 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
13 21 (0.79%) PMI Certification
14 19 (0.72%) CIMA
15 17 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
16 15 (0.57%) CFA
17 12 (0.45%) APMP
18 8 (0.30%) Six Sigma Green Belt
19 7 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
20 6 (0.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 255 (9.61%) Data Quality
2 100 (3.77%) QA
3 53 (2.00%) Accessibility
4 50 (1.88%) GDPR
5 48 (1.81%) IFRS
6 40 (1.51%) IFRS 9
7 29 (1.09%) PMO
8 28 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
9 25 (0.94%) SLA
10 9 (0.34%) ISO 9001
11 7 (0.26%) COBIT
11 7 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.23%) Good Clinical Practice
12 6 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 6 (0.23%) NIST
13 4 (0.15%) CDISC
14 3 (0.11%) MiFID
14 3 (0.11%) P3O
15 2 (0.075%) JSP 440
15 2 (0.075%) WCAG
System Software
1 41 (1.54%) Docker
2 38 (1.43%) Active Directory
3 12 (0.45%) Firmware
4 9 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.19%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.075%) HDFS
8 1 (0.038%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.038%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.038%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 62 (2.34%) Kubernetes
2 20 (0.75%) Terraform
3 15 (0.57%) Ansible
4 13 (0.49%) Grafana
4 13 (0.49%) Prometheus
4 13 (0.49%) SCOM
5 12 (0.45%) SCCM
6 7 (0.26%) Progress Chef
6 7 (0.26%) SysTrack
7 6 (0.23%) WSUS
8 4 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (0.11%) Puppet
10 2 (0.075%) Functional Safety
10 2 (0.075%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.038%) Iperf
11 1 (0.038%) Nmap
Vendors
1 463 (17.45%) Microsoft
2 294 (11.08%) Databricks
3 117 (4.41%) Oracle
4 82 (3.09%) Google
5 67 (2.52%) Informatica
6 57 (2.15%) Alteryx
7 50 (1.88%) SAP
8 47 (1.77%) Salesforce
9 41 (1.54%) ServiceNow
10 29 (1.09%) Adobe
11 24 (0.90%) Cognos
12 18 (0.68%) Sybase
13 15 (0.57%) HP
14 14 (0.53%) VMware
15 13 (0.49%) Dynatrace
15 13 (0.49%) Riverbed
15 13 (0.49%) Sparx
16 11 (0.41%) ESRI
16 11 (0.41%) Sage
17 9 (0.34%) NEC