Data analyst: salary in the UK
ONS occupation: Data analysts (SOC 3544)
About £33,217 a year after tax (England, Wales and Northern Ireland, 2026/27)
median salary a year, full-time, +5.6% on last year
£3,437 a month About £2,768 a month after tax 69 thousand full-time jobs
Gross pay before tax, including bonuses, commission and overtime. Not included: benefits in kind such as a company car. About the data
Pay range
The dark part is the middle half of full-time employees (25% to 75%); the light bar runs from 10% to 90%. ONS doesn't publish the highest or lowest salary, and x means a figure wasn't published.
Pay by year
The median went from £31,643 in 2021 to £41,247 in 2026 (+30%); for all full-time employees in the UK it changed by +31% over the same years.
Figures by year
| P10 | P25 | Median | P75 | P90 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | £21,340 | £25,570 | £31,643 | £39,284 | x |
| 2022 | £21,588 | £26,964 | £31,230 | £36,644 | x |
| 2023 | £25,150 | £28,667 | £33,977 | £40,693 | x |
| 2024 | x | £28,554 | £34,910 | £41,266 | x |
| 2025 | £27,082 | £30,922 | £39,042 | £47,683 | x |
| 2026 | £28,498 | £34,079 | £41,247 | £50,448 | x |
ONS figures for each year, not adjusted for inflation. Years before 2021 used a different occupation classification, so they can't be compared. Earlier years are ONS's revised figures; the latest is provisional.
Half of full-time employees in this occupation earn less than £41,247 a year and half earn more. That is about the same as the median for all full-time employees in the UK (£40,911).
The middle half earn between £34,079 and £50,448; one in ten earns less than £28,498.
Ranked by median, it is number 142 of the 362 occupations with a published figure.
The mean (£48,475) is well above the median: a minority in this job earn much more than most.
At the median salary, take-home pay after Income Tax and National Insurance is about £2,768 a month in England, Wales or Northern Ireland and £2,762 in Scotland.
The median for men is £42,808 and for women £39,655, a gap of 7% in men's favour. This compares full-time salaries only and doesn't account for seniority or hours.
Percentiles
| Percentile | Annual | Monthly |
|---|---|---|
| 10th (P10) | £28,498 | £2,375 |
| 20th | £31,644 | £2,637 |
| 25th (P25) | £34,079 | £2,840 |
| 30th | £35,473 | £2,956 |
| 40th | £38,266 | £3,189 |
| Median (50th) | £41,247 | £3,437 |
| 60th | £44,311 | £3,693 |
| 70th | £48,378 | £4,031 |
| 75th (P75) | £50,448 | £4,204 |
| 80th | £53,946 | £4,495 |
| 90th (P90) | x | x |
Men and women
| Median | Mean | Jobs (thousands) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men | £42,808 | £52,349 | 39 |
| Women | £39,655 | £43,268 | 29 |
Take-home pay at the median
| Where you live | Per year | Per month |
|---|---|---|
| England, Wales, NI | £33,217 | £2,768 |
| Scotland | £33,140 | £2,762 |
After Income Tax and National Insurance for 2026 to 2027, with the standard tax code and no pension or student loan. Work out your own take-home pay · Take-home pay on £41,000
Job titles in this occupation
ONS codes these 30 job titles to SOC 3544 Data analysts. Pay figures are for the whole occupation, not for each title.
- Analyst
- Business support analyst
- Clinical coding analyst
- Conversational analytics specialist
- Data analyst
- Data management analyst
- Data officer
- Data quality analyst
- Forecast analyst
- Geographical information systems analyst
- Innovation analyst
- Insight analyst
- Legal analyst
- Logistics analyst
- Management analyst
- Management information analyst
- Market analyst
- Marketing data analyst
- Methods analyst
- Mi analyst
- O&m analyst
- Operational research analyst
- Organisation and methods analyst
- Performance analyst
- Sales analyst
- Sales operations analyst
- Tachograph analyst
- Time and motion analyst
- Value analyst
- Work study analyst
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Source: ONS, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2026 provisional, Table 14.7a (full-time employees, gross annual pay, UK, tax year ending 5 April 2026). Provisional figures may be revised.