Quick answer: the median permanent Data Analyst job ad in the UK over the six months to 30 October 2026 pays £57,500 (IT Jobs Watch), up from £42,500 in the same period of 2025. The middle half of ads runs from £40,000 to £65,000, entry-level roles start at £28,000–£35,000, and London adds only a small premium in current ads. This Data Analyst Salary in the UK guide keeps every figure tied to its source, so you can see which market each number comes from.
Data Analyst Salary in the UK 2026–27 Guide — Pay by Level, City and Skill, by Source
Data Analyst Salary in the UK pay in 2026 is best read from live job ads, because that is where most published analyst figures come from. Job ads show what employers are offering right now, not what people already in post are earning, so they run higher than employer surveys and move faster when hiring heats up or cools down. The headline figures in this guide come from IT Jobs Watch, which tracks permanent Data Analyst job ads across the UK.
All figures in this Data Analyst Salary in the UK guide are gross annual base salaries in pounds, before tax and National Insurance, unless a figure is explicitly labelled net. No bonus, equity, or contractor day rate is included in any headline figure. The "2026–27" in the title reflects the 2026–27 tax year used in the net example; no published 2027 pay scale is quoted, and anything about 2027 in this guide is outlook only.
How this guide is organised: the first sections give the IT Jobs Watch ad medians and percentiles, then the excluding-London split, the entry-level band, and the London reading, before a worked net-pay example and a short section on using the figures for a job offer. Each figure is labelled with its source and its market, so a London recruiter median is never mixed up with an England employer average.
IT Jobs Watch — Permanent Data Analyst Job Ads, UK — Data Analyst Salary in the UK
The headline Data Analyst Salary in the UK figure from IT Jobs Watch is the median of permanent Data Analyst job ads in the UK over the six months to 30 October 2026: £57,500. The same measure stood at £42,500 in the same period of 2025 and £53,500 in 2024, so the median has jumped by £15,000 in a year after dipping the year before. Treat that swing as a sign of how volatile ad medians are, not as proof that every analyst got a £15,000 rise.
| Percentile (IT Jobs Watch, permanent Data Analyst ads, UK, 6 months to 30 Oct 2026) — Data Analyst Salary in the UK | Salary |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | £31,250 |
| 25th percentile | £40,000 |
| Median (50th percentile) | £57,500 |
| 75th percentile | £65,000 |
| 90th percentile | £68,875 |
| Median, same period 2025 | £42,500 |
| Median, same period 2024 | £53,500 |
Read the spread, not just the median, when you judge a Data Analyst Salary in the UK offer. The middle half of ads sits between £40,000 and £65,000, and the top tenth reaches £68,875, while the bottom tenth starts at £31,250. An offer of £45,000 is solidly mid-market for an analyst with some experience, while £70,000 is above nine ads in ten — unless the role is a specialist or senior title, which these ad figures do not separate out.
Ad medians also move with the mix of roles advertised. A month heavy in senior or specialist ads lifts the median even if no individual role's pay changed, and a month heavy in junior ads pulls it down. That mix effect is one reason the median fell to £42,500 in 2025 and rose to £57,500 in 2026: the market being advertised changed, not just the pay. Compare the percentiles across years where they are published, and treat any single-year jump with caution.
UK Excluding London and Business Data Analyst — Data Analyst Salary in the UK
Stripping London out of the same IT Jobs Watch data barely moves the median: the UK excluding London median is £55,000, against £57,500 UK-wide, and £40,750 in the same period of 2025. That £2,500 gap is the first clue that the London premium in current analyst ads is small — a point the London section below takes up directly.
| Measure (IT Jobs Watch, permanent ads) — Data Analyst Salary in the UK | Median |
|---|---|
| Data Analyst, UK | £57,500 |
| Data Analyst, UK excluding London | £55,000 (2025: £40,750) |
| Business Data Analyst, UK | £60,000 |
| Business Data Analyst, UK excluding London | £46,250 |
Business Data Analyst ads pay more at the headline — a £60,000 median — but show a much bigger London gap than the plain title: £46,250 excluding London, a £13,750 difference. If your offer says Business Data Analyst rather than Data Analyst, judge it against the £60,000 figure and the £46,250 excluding-London figure, not against the general Data Analyst Salary in the UK median of £57,500.
Entry Level and Early Career — Data Analyst Salary in the UK
Entry-level Data Analyst Salary in the UK pay starts at £28,000–£35,000, according to The Work Project, citing Institute of Student Employers and ONS data. Data science roles open higher than that band, so do not use it for a data scientist offer. Graduate and junior analyst ads cluster at the bottom of the IT Jobs Watch spread — the 10th percentile of £31,250 sits inside this entry band — which is a useful cross-check that the two sources are describing the same junior market.
| Early-career benchmark — Data Analyst Salary in the UK | Figure |
|---|---|
| Entry-level Data Analyst (The Work Project, citing ISE / ONS) | £28,000–£35,000 |
| IT Jobs Watch 10th percentile, permanent ads | £31,250 |
| ONS ASHE national median, all occupations (context only) | £37,430 |
The ONS ASHE national median full-time salary of £37,430 covers all occupations, not data analysts, and is included here only as context: it shows that even the entry-level analyst band sits close to the all-occupation median, while the experienced analyst median of £57,500 sits well above it. Do not quote £37,430 as a data-analyst figure.
Graduate schemes and junior roles often add training and certification support that the base salary does not show. When two junior offers are close on pay, compare the training, the tools you will learn, and the progression path, not just the starting salary — the first two years of analyst experience are worth more in the next salary negotiation than a small starting difference.
London — Data Analyst Salary in the UK
A secondary reading of the same IT Jobs Watch data puts London at about £60,000 for permanent Data Analyst ads. Label that figure carefully: it is a secondary reading, not a headline IT Jobs Watch publication, and it should not be quoted as an official London median.
| Market (IT Jobs Watch data) — Data Analyst Salary in the UK | Median |
|---|---|
| UK-wide | £57,500 |
| UK excluding London | £55,000 |
| London, secondary reading | ~£60,000 |
That reading implies only a small London premium in current ads: the UK-wide Data Analyst Salary in the UK median of £57,500 against £55,000 excluding London leaves a gap of just £2,500, and even the secondary London reading of about £60,000 is only £5,000 above the excluding-London figure. London analyst roles may still pay more once bonuses and sector are counted, but on base salary in current ads, the premium is far smaller than the London gaps seen in accountancy or finance guides.
What £55,000 Gross Means in Net Pay (UK, 2026–27) — Data Analyst Salary in the UK
Net example, labelled as an independent 2026 estimate for England, Wales and Northern Ireland, not the site calculator's output: £55,000 gross a year, tax year 2026–27, tax code 1257L, no pension auto-enrolment, no student loan, no benefits. Personal allowance £12,570; basic rate 20% on taxable income up to £37,700 (gross to £50,270); higher rate 40% from £50,271 to £125,140; employee National Insurance 8% on earnings from £12,570 to £50,270 and 2% above.
| £55,000 gross breakdown (independent 2026 estimate) — Data Analyst Salary in the UK | Amount |
|---|---|
| Gross salary | £55,000 |
| Income tax | £9,432 |
| Employee National Insurance | £3,110.60 |
| Net pay | £42,457.40 a year (£3,538.12 a month) |
In other words, a Data Analyst Salary in the UK at the IT Jobs Watch median leaves about £3,538 a month after income tax and employee National Insurance, before pension contributions, student loan repayments, or any salary-sacrifice arrangement. Scotland is not modelled here because it uses different income-tax bands.
Check the net figure against your own circumstances before you rely on it. Pension auto-enrolment, a student loan, salary-sacrifice arrangements, and benefits such as a company car all change take-home pay, and none is included above. The UK salary calculator on this site lets you test your exact gross with those deductions included.
What This Guide Does Not Include — and How to Use It for a Job Offer — Data Analyst Salary in the UK
This guide does not include bonuses, equity, overtime, or contractor day rates; none of the headline figures is a total package. It does not split pay by industry, by tool, or by seniority beyond the entry-level band, because the supplied sources do not support those splits. It does not model Scotland, and it quotes no published 2027 pay scale.
- Use this Data Analyst Salary in the UK guide as a benchmark, not a verdict: compare your offer with the median and the percentiles for the same title and the same market (London or excluding London).
- Check the title on the offer: Business Data Analyst ads run higher (£60,000 median) than plain Data Analyst ads (£57,500).
- Run your exact gross through the UK salary calculator before you accept, and check pension and student-loan deductions separately — the net example above excludes both.
- If an offer sits below the 25th percentile (£40,000), ask what the role includes that the ad median does not — training, progression, or a lower-experience brief — before treating it as below market.
When you use the figures for a job offer, match title, market, and percentile before you negotiate. A Business Data Analyst offer in London should be judged against the Business Data Analyst and London figures, not the general UK median, and a junior offer should be judged against the entry band and the 10th percentile, not the headline median. Bring the source with you: an employer is more likely to move on a figure tied to a published survey than on a round number from memory.
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Sources — Data Analyst Salary in the UK
Job-ad medians and percentiles: IT Jobs Watch — Data Analyst jobs in the UK (permanent ads, six months to 30 October 2026). Entry-level band: The Work Project — High-paying entry-level jobs in the UK, citing Institute of Student Employers and ONS data. All-occupation context: ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), national median full-time salary £37,430 — cited in text without a link, as no verified deep URL was supplied. Figures in this Data Analyst Salary in the UK guide are planning estimates, not salary guarantees; 2027 figures are outlook only.
Disclaimer: All figures on this page are survey and job-ad benchmarks for planning only. Actual pay depends on employer, city, experience, title and benefits. This Data Analyst Salary in the UK guide is not a salary guarantee and does not replace the source surveys or a qualified adviser.