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 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 294 280 323
Rank change year-on-year -14 +43 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Analyst 988 1,308 1,913
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.00% 1.29% 1.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.05% 1.42% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 695 788 1,122
10th Percentile £26,750 £28,122 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,175 £35,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £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 £38,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -1.30% +2.67%

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 93,878 92,381 151,160
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,248 58,258 84,340
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 £81,000 £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 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Analyst in the UK

Data Analyst
Top 18 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 10 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 +21 921 £45,000 -5.26% 223
UK excluding London -71 533 £40,000 +5.26% 107
London +61 429 £60,000 +4.35% 120
Work from Home +5 414 £45,000 -5.26% 88
Midlands -34 135 £37,500 -1.32% 25
South East +19 124 £39,500 -7.06% 21
North of England -51 113 £35,000 -6.67% 30
South West -20 73 £45,000 +12.50% 13
East Midlands +34 68 £31,000 -6.06% 10
West Midlands -66 67 £40,000 +5.26% 15
North West -9 61 £35,000 -3.46% 15
East of England +5 43 £36,664 -33.34% 12
Yorkshire +14 33 £35,000 -2.52% 14
Scotland -84 28 £55,000 +29.41% 5
North East -33 19 £35,000 -12.50% 1
Wales -11 12 £42,500 +52.08% 3
Northern Ireland +24 4 £50,000 +33.33%
Channel Islands - 1 £67,500 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 10 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.

1 618 (62.55%) SQL
2 425 (43.02%) Analytical Skills
3 409 (41.40%) Data Analysis
4 404 (40.89%) Power Platform
5 402 (40.69%) Power BI
5 402 (40.69%) Analytics
6 382 (38.66%) Business Intelligence
7 371 (37.55%) Social Skills
8 351 (35.53%) Python
9 328 (33.20%) Visualisation
10 304 (30.77%) Microsoft Excel
11 291 (29.45%) Problem-Solving
12 290 (29.35%) Tableau
13 287 (29.05%) Degree
14 250 (25.30%) Finance
15 219 (22.17%) Statistics
16 213 (21.56%) Actionable Insight
17 211 (21.36%) Mathematics
18 185 (18.72%) Decision-Making
19 181 (18.32%) Retail
20 177 (17.91%) Data Quality
21 167 (16.90%) Business Strategy
22 159 (16.09%) Presentation Skills
23 154 (15.59%) Data Management
24 141 (14.27%) AWS
25 134 (13.56%) Data Pipeline
26 130 (13.16%) Microsoft
27 129 (13.06%) Databricks
28 124 (12.55%) DBS Check
29 123 (12.45%) Git

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 (2.53%) SAS
2 9 (0.91%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.71%) Confluence
4 6 (0.61%) ArcGIS
4 6 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (0.40%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.30%) Apache
6 3 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.10%) Luigi
Applications
1 304 (30.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (3.95%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (2.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.01%) Spreadsheet
4 10 (1.01%) SPSS
5 8 (0.81%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.30%) Stata
Business Applications
1 6 (0.61%) NEC Housing
1 6 (0.61%) ResourceLink
1 6 (0.61%) Sage 50
1 6 (0.61%) SAP Business One
2 5 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.40%) Finacle
3 4 (0.40%) FLEXCUBE
3 4 (0.40%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.20%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.10%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.10%) SAP Retail
5 1 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 404 (40.89%) Power Platform
2 141 (14.27%) AWS
3 91 (9.21%) Azure
4 26 (2.63%) Snowflake
5 22 (2.23%) GCP
6 19 (1.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 15 (1.52%) Azure Data Factory
8 14 (1.42%) Microsoft Purview
9 12 (1.21%) PowerApps
10 11 (1.11%) Google Analytics
11 9 (0.91%) GitHub
11 9 (0.91%) SuccessFactors
12 8 (0.81%) Adobe Analytics
12 8 (0.81%) Power Automate
12 8 (0.81%) SaaS
13 7 (0.71%) Microsoft 365
14 6 (0.61%) dbt
15 4 (0.40%) Azure Machine Learning
15 4 (0.40%) ChatGPT
15 4 (0.40%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.71%) Internet
2 5 (0.51%) Intranet
3 1 (0.10%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 402 (40.69%) Power BI
2 290 (29.35%) Tableau
3 70 (7.09%) Data Warehouse
4 52 (5.26%) SQL Server
5 43 (4.35%) Power Query
6 34 (3.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 27 (2.73%) Data Mining
7 27 (2.73%) Metadata
8 26 (2.63%) QlikView
9 18 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 14 (1.42%) Relational Database
11 13 (1.32%) Amazon QuickSight
12 12 (1.21%) Big Data
12 12 (1.21%) Looker
13 11 (1.11%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 11 (1.11%) Data Lake
13 11 (1.11%) GIS
14 10 (1.01%) MS Access
14 10 (1.01%) MySQL
15 9 (0.91%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 123 (12.45%) Git
2 16 (1.62%) JIRA
3 14 (1.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 6 (0.61%) GitLab
4 6 (0.61%) Toad
5 2 (0.20%) RStudio
General
1 425 (43.02%) Analytical Skills
2 371 (37.55%) Social Skills
3 250 (25.30%) Finance
4 181 (18.32%) Retail
5 159 (16.09%) Presentation Skills
6 82 (8.30%) Marketing
7 73 (7.39%) Banking
8 69 (6.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 55 (5.57%) Law
10 51 (5.16%) Legal
11 46 (4.66%) Organisational Skills
12 36 (3.64%) Manufacturing
13 23 (2.33%) Local Government
13 23 (2.33%) Public Sector
14 14 (1.42%) Games
15 12 (1.21%) Automotive
16 10 (1.01%) Telecoms
17 9 (0.91%) Electronics
17 9 (0.91%) Publishing
17 9 (0.91%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.11%) Pandas
2 8 (0.81%) XML
3 4 (0.40%) JSON
4 2 (0.20%) D3.js
4 2 (0.20%) HTML
4 2 (0.20%) NumPy
4 2 (0.20%) SQLAlchemy
5 1 (0.10%) Anaconda
5 1 (0.10%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (0.10%) Flask
5 1 (0.10%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.10%) Kafka
5 1 (0.10%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (0.10%) Matplotlib
5 1 (0.10%) MDX
5 1 (0.10%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.10%) REST
5 1 (0.10%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.10%) Seaborn
5 1 (0.10%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 56 (5.67%) Management Information System
2 52 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
3 22 (2.23%) Analytical Mindset
4 19 (1.92%) Onboarding
5 15 (1.52%) Data Structures
6 12 (1.21%) FMCG
6 12 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
7 11 (1.11%) Algorithms
7 11 (1.11%) Reinsurance
8 10 (1.01%) Product Ownership
9 9 (0.91%) Housing Association
9 9 (0.91%) Reference Data
10 7 (0.71%) Driving Licence
11 6 (0.61%) Blog
11 6 (0.61%) Data Centre
11 6 (0.61%) IoT
11 6 (0.61%) Pricing Data
12 5 (0.51%) Credit Risk
12 5 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (0.51%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.61%) Windows
2 2 (0.20%) Windows Vista
3 1 (0.10%) Android
3 1 (0.10%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.10%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 409 (41.40%) Data Analysis
2 402 (40.69%) Analytics
3 382 (38.66%) Business Intelligence
4 328 (33.20%) Visualisation
5 291 (29.45%) Problem-Solving
6 219 (22.17%) Statistics
7 213 (21.56%) Actionable Insight
8 211 (21.36%) Mathematics
9 185 (18.72%) Decision-Making
10 167 (16.90%) Business Strategy
11 154 (15.59%) Data Management
12 134 (13.56%) Data Pipeline
13 120 (12.15%) Data Visualisation
14 119 (12.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 117 (11.84%) Root Cause Analysis
16 114 (11.54%) Storytelling
17 113 (11.44%) Data Governance
18 112 (11.34%) Agile
18 112 (11.34%) Customer Intelligence
19 111 (11.23%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 618 (62.55%) SQL
2 351 (35.53%) Python
3 70 (7.09%) R
4 43 (4.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 39 (3.95%) T-SQL
6 28 (2.83%) VBA
7 8 (0.81%) Java
8 6 (0.61%) Bash
9 4 (0.40%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (0.40%) VB
10 3 (0.30%) C#
11 1 (0.10%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 287 (29.05%) Degree
2 124 (12.55%) DBS Check
3 24 (2.43%) Master's Degree
3 24 (2.43%) Security Cleared
4 19 (1.92%) Numerate Degree
5 13 (1.32%) DV Cleared
6 12 (1.21%) SC Cleared
7 10 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (0.51%) MBA
9 5 (0.51%) PhD
10 4 (0.40%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.20%) ACCA
11 2 (0.20%) CFA
11 2 (0.20%) CIMA
12 1 (0.10%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.10%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.10%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (17.91%) Data Quality
2 34 (3.44%) GDPR
3 13 (1.32%) QA
4 7 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
4 7 (0.71%) COBIT
5 6 (0.61%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.10%) NIST
7 1 (0.10%) PMO
7 1 (0.10%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (0.20%) Docker
2 1 (0.10%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 1 (0.10%) Oozie
Vendors
1 130 (13.16%) Microsoft
2 129 (13.06%) Databricks
3 47 (4.76%) Alteryx
4 37 (3.74%) Google
5 36 (3.64%) Salesforce
6 31 (3.14%) SAP
7 24 (2.43%) Oracle
8 12 (1.21%) Informatica
9 8 (0.81%) Adobe
9 8 (0.81%) Talend
10 7 (0.71%) IBM
11 6 (0.61%) Civica
11 6 (0.61%) Jitterbit
11 6 (0.61%) Kronos
11 6 (0.61%) NEC
11 6 (0.61%) Sage
12 5 (0.51%) ESRI
13 4 (0.40%) Anaplan
13 4 (0.40%) IFS
14 3 (0.30%) Meraki