Junior data & analytics salaries in the UK

Transparency

Most of these employers will not say what they pay

66 of 210 junior data & analytics listings publish a salary. The other 144 say “competitive”, or “dependent on experience”, or nothing at all — which for somebody applying to their first job means finding out how much it pays after the interview.

31% of junior data & analytics roles state a salary. Every figure on this page comes from that minority, and no honest number can come from anywhere else.

Geography

Where the roles actually are

London carries 98 roles of the 144 we could place — 68% of the located data & analytics listings on the board. The rest are spread thinly enough that most regions have fewer roles than a single London borough.

• London98
• North West12
• South East7
• East Midlands6
• Scotland6
• Yorkshire & the Humber6

Of 210 listings, 144 name a region specific enough to count. The rest give a town we could not place, or are advertised UK-wide.

Comparison

How this compares with other junior work

The medians across every family we can measure sit within a few thousand pounds of each other, and their middle halves overlap almost completely. The spread inside data & analytics alone is £10,000 — wider than the gap between the best and worst paid family on the board.

Which field you enter matters less to your first salary than which employer you land in.

Requirements

What these listings ask for

The skills named most often across junior data & analytics adverts on the board. They are what the listings say, not what the job needs — a distinction worth keeping in mind when one of them looks surprising.

• Excel
• Recruitment
• Analytics
• SQL
• Python
• Compliance
• Microsoft 365
• Agile