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 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 299 280 332
Rank change year-on-year -19 +52 -31
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Analyst 1,002 1,289 1,980
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.00% 1.30% 1.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.06% 1.42% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 686 771 1,142
10th Percentile £26,750 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £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 £62,188 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £39,500 £38,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year +3.95% -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 94,593 90,744 154,424
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.51% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,603 57,335 84,442
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
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 18 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 18 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 +7 935 £45,000 -5.26% 257
UK excluding London -67 533 £39,500 +3.95% 139
London +67 443 £62,500 +6.84% 131
Work from Home +18 430 £45,000 -5.26% 98
Midlands -27 139 £37,500 -1.32% 30
South East +17 124 £38,250 -10.00% 34
North of England -46 111 £35,000 -5.09% 35
South West -29 74 £45,000 +12.50% 13
East Midlands +43 71 £30,500 -6.87% 11
West Midlands -52 68 £40,000 +5.26% 19
North West -8 60 £35,000 +2.47% 18
East of England -12 40 £36,664 -33.34% 20
Yorkshire +6 32 £35,000 -2.52% 16
Scotland -85 28 £55,000 +29.41% 6
North East -32 19 £35,000 -12.50% 1
Wales -11 12 £42,500 +52.08% 5
Northern Ireland +23 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 18 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.

1 631 (62.97%) SQL
2 439 (43.81%) Analytical Skills
3 423 (42.22%) Data Analysis
4 414 (41.32%) Analytics
5 396 (39.52%) Power Platform
6 395 (39.42%) Power BI
7 382 (38.12%) Social Skills
8 376 (37.52%) Business Intelligence
9 366 (36.53%) Python
10 341 (34.03%) Visualisation
11 309 (30.84%) Problem-Solving
12 308 (30.74%) Microsoft Excel
13 307 (30.64%) Tableau
14 304 (30.34%) Degree
15 249 (24.85%) Finance
16 242 (24.15%) Statistics
17 232 (23.15%) Actionable Insight
18 227 (22.65%) Mathematics
19 203 (20.26%) Retail
20 190 (18.96%) Decision-Making
21 185 (18.46%) Business Strategy
22 174 (17.37%) Presentation Skills
22 174 (17.37%) Data Quality
23 157 (15.67%) Data Management
24 155 (15.47%) AWS
25 149 (14.87%) Data Pipeline
26 148 (14.77%) Databricks
27 142 (14.17%) DBS Check
28 139 (13.87%) Git
29 135 (13.47%) Stakeholder Engagement

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 (2.50%) SAS
2 9 (0.90%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.70%) Confluence
4 6 (0.60%) ArcGIS
4 6 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (0.40%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.30%) Apache
7 2 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.100%) Luigi
Applications
1 308 (30.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (4.19%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (2.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
4 10 (1.00%) SPSS
5 8 (0.80%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.30%) Stata
Business Applications
1 11 (1.10%) ResourceLink
2 6 (0.60%) NEC Housing
2 6 (0.60%) Sage 50
2 6 (0.60%) SAP Business One
3 5 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.40%) Finacle
4 4 (0.40%) FLEXCUBE
4 4 (0.40%) Temenos T24
5 2 (0.20%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.100%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.100%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.100%) SAP Retail
6 1 (0.100%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 396 (39.52%) Power Platform
2 155 (15.47%) AWS
3 89 (8.88%) Azure
4 26 (2.59%) Snowflake
5 20 (2.00%) GCP
6 18 (1.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 15 (1.50%) Microsoft Purview
8 14 (1.40%) SuccessFactors
9 12 (1.20%) Azure Data Factory
9 12 (1.20%) PowerApps
10 11 (1.10%) Google Analytics
11 9 (0.90%) GitHub
12 8 (0.80%) Adobe Analytics
12 8 (0.80%) Power Automate
12 8 (0.80%) SaaS
13 6 (0.60%) dbt
14 5 (0.50%) Microsoft 365
15 4 (0.40%) Azure Machine Learning
15 4 (0.40%) ChatGPT
15 4 (0.40%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.70%) Internet
2 5 (0.50%) Intranet
3 1 (0.100%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 395 (39.42%) Power BI
2 307 (30.64%) Tableau
3 66 (6.59%) Data Warehouse
4 47 (4.69%) SQL Server
5 44 (4.39%) Power Query
6 33 (3.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 27 (2.69%) Data Mining
8 26 (2.59%) QlikView
9 25 (2.50%) Metadata
10 17 (1.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 14 (1.40%) Relational Database
12 13 (1.30%) Amazon QuickSight
12 13 (1.30%) Data Lake
13 12 (1.20%) Big Data
14 11 (1.10%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 11 (1.10%) GIS
14 11 (1.10%) Looker
15 10 (1.00%) MS Access
15 10 (1.00%) MySQL
16 9 (0.90%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 139 (13.87%) Git
2 15 (1.50%) JIRA
3 14 (1.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 6 (0.60%) GitLab
4 6 (0.60%) Toad
5 2 (0.20%) RStudio
General
1 439 (43.81%) Analytical Skills
2 382 (38.12%) Social Skills
3 249 (24.85%) Finance
4 203 (20.26%) Retail
5 174 (17.37%) Presentation Skills
6 82 (8.18%) Marketing
7 72 (7.19%) Banking
8 71 (7.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 57 (5.69%) Legal
10 54 (5.39%) Law
11 47 (4.69%) Organisational Skills
12 36 (3.59%) Manufacturing
13 23 (2.30%) Local Government
13 23 (2.30%) Public Sector
14 14 (1.40%) Games
15 12 (1.20%) Automotive
16 10 (1.00%) Retail Banking
16 10 (1.00%) Telecoms
17 9 (0.90%) Electronics
18 8 (0.80%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.00%) Pandas
2 8 (0.80%) XML
3 4 (0.40%) JSON
4 2 (0.20%) D3.js
4 2 (0.20%) HTML
4 2 (0.20%) NumPy
5 1 (0.100%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (0.100%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.100%) Kafka
5 1 (0.100%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (0.100%) Matplotlib
5 1 (0.100%) MDX
5 1 (0.100%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.100%) PySpark
5 1 (0.100%) REST
5 1 (0.100%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.100%) Seaborn
5 1 (0.100%) SQLAlchemy
5 1 (0.100%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 57 (5.69%) Management Information System
2 51 (5.09%) Self-Motivation
3 22 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
4 19 (1.90%) Onboarding
5 13 (1.30%) Data Structures
5 13 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
6 12 (1.20%) Driving Licence
6 12 (1.20%) FMCG
6 12 (1.20%) Reinsurance
7 11 (1.10%) Algorithms
8 10 (1.00%) Product Ownership
9 9 (0.90%) Housing Association
9 9 (0.90%) Reference Data
10 6 (0.60%) Blog
10 6 (0.60%) Data Centre
10 6 (0.60%) IoT
10 6 (0.60%) Pricing Data
11 5 (0.50%) Credit Risk
11 5 (0.50%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (0.50%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.60%) Windows
2 2 (0.20%) Windows Vista
3 1 (0.100%) Android
3 1 (0.100%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.100%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 423 (42.22%) Data Analysis
2 414 (41.32%) Analytics
3 376 (37.52%) Business Intelligence
4 341 (34.03%) Visualisation
5 309 (30.84%) Problem-Solving
6 242 (24.15%) Statistics
7 232 (23.15%) Actionable Insight
8 227 (22.65%) Mathematics
9 190 (18.96%) Decision-Making
10 185 (18.46%) Business Strategy
11 157 (15.67%) Data Management
12 149 (14.87%) Data Pipeline
13 135 (13.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 133 (13.27%) Root Cause Analysis
15 132 (13.17%) Storytelling
16 128 (12.77%) Customer Intelligence
17 117 (11.68%) Data Visualisation
18 111 (11.08%) Data Governance
19 110 (10.98%) Agile
20 109 (10.88%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 631 (62.97%) SQL
2 366 (36.53%) Python
3 70 (6.99%) R
4 44 (4.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 38 (3.79%) T-SQL
6 27 (2.69%) VBA
7 8 (0.80%) Java
8 6 (0.60%) 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 (0.100%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 304 (30.34%) Degree
2 142 (14.17%) DBS Check
3 24 (2.40%) Master's Degree
4 23 (2.30%) Security Cleared
5 18 (1.80%) Numerate Degree
6 13 (1.30%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.10%) SC Cleared
8 9 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (0.50%) MBA
10 5 (0.50%) PhD
11 4 (0.40%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.20%) ACCA
12 2 (0.20%) CFA
12 2 (0.20%) CIMA
13 1 (0.100%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.100%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.100%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (17.37%) Data Quality
2 34 (3.39%) GDPR
3 12 (1.20%) QA
4 7 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
4 7 (0.70%) COBIT
5 6 (0.60%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.100%) NIST
7 1 (0.100%) PMO
7 1 (0.100%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.100%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.100%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 1 (0.100%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.100%) Oozie
Vendors
1 148 (14.77%) Databricks
2 131 (13.07%) Microsoft
3 46 (4.59%) Alteryx
4 36 (3.59%) Google
4 36 (3.59%) Salesforce
4 36 (3.59%) SAP
5 24 (2.40%) Oracle
6 11 (1.10%) Informatica
6 11 (1.10%) Kronos
7 8 (0.80%) Adobe
8 7 (0.70%) IBM
8 7 (0.70%) Talend
9 6 (0.60%) Civica
9 6 (0.60%) Jitterbit
9 6 (0.60%) NEC
9 6 (0.60%) Sage
10 5 (0.50%) ESRI
11 4 (0.40%) Anaplan
11 4 (0.40%) IFS
12 3 (0.30%) Meraki