Data & Analytics
Roles focused on collecting, analysing, and interpreting data to drive business decisions. In demand across every industry.
Roles in this skill area
A Data Analyst collects, cleans, and interprets structured and unstructured data to help organisations make better decisions. Core work i...
Estimated salary: £28,000–£50,000 (junior to mid-level, UK). Senior Data Analyst roles £50,000–£70,000+. London and fintech roles command a premium.
View role →A BI (Business Intelligence) Developer designs, builds, and maintains the reporting and analytics infrastructure that organisations use t...
Estimated salary: £28,000–£45,000 (junior to mid-level, UK). Senior BI Developers £45,000–£65,000. BI Architects and data platform leads £65,000–£90,000+. Financial services and technology sector roles in London typically sit at the higher end of each band.
View role →A Data Quality Analyst ensures that the data an organisation relies on for decisions, reporting, and operations is accurate, complete, co...
Estimated salary: £28,000–£45,000 (entry to mid-level, UK). Senior Data Quality Analysts £45,000–£60,000. Data Quality Managers and Heads of Data Governance £60,000–£85,000+. Financial services and healthcare roles in London typically sit at the higher end of each band.
View role →A Junior Actuary applies statistical and mathematical techniques to assess financial risk and uncertainty, typically within insurance, pe...
Estimated salary: £28,000–£40,000 (graduate / junior entry, UK). Mid-level actuaries in examination progress £40,000–£60,000. Qualified actuaries (FIA or FFA) £70,000–£120,000+. London market and consulting roles at the higher end. Exam progress directly impacts salary progression at most firms.
View role →An MLOps Support Analyst helps an organisation deploy, monitor, and maintain machine learning models in production, bridging the gap betw...
Estimated salary: £30,000–£48,000 (entry to mid-level, UK). Senior MLOps Engineers £50,000–£75,000. ML Platform Engineers and Heads of MLOps £75,000–£110,000+. Financial services, tech, and AI-native company roles in London sit at the higher end. The discipline is in high demand and salaries have risen significantly since 2022.
View role →A Healthcare Data Analyst extracts, processes, and analyses clinical and operational data to help healthcare organisations understand pat...
Estimated salary: £27,000–£40,000 (entry to mid-level, UK, NHS Agenda for Change Band 5–6). Senior Healthcare Data Analysts £40,000–£55,000 (Band 7). Principal Analysts and Heads of Analytics £55,000–£75,000+ (Band 8a–8b). Private sector and NHS Improvement/NHS England roles may sit outside AfC pay scales and can be higher.
View role →A Health Informatics Specialist works at the intersection of healthcare, information technology, and data management — designing, impleme...
Estimated salary: £32,000–£48,000 (entry to mid-level, NHS Band 5–6). Senior Health Informatics Specialists £48,000–£65,000 (Band 7). Principal Informatics and Heads of Digital £65,000–£90,000+ (Band 8a–8b). Private sector health IT roles and NHS England senior roles often exceed NHS Agenda for Change scales.
View role →An Energy Data Analyst collects, processes, and analyses data on energy consumption, generation, and costs to help organisations reduce t...
Estimated salary: £27,000–£42,000 (entry to mid-level, UK). Senior Energy Data Analysts £42,000–£58,000. Energy Managers and Heads of Energy £58,000–£85,000+. Energy suppliers, grid operators, and large industrial users at the higher end. Consulting roles in energy advisory practices offer competitive salaries with faster progression.
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Data, Analytics & AI
Data Analyst
A Data Analyst collects, cleans, and interprets structured and unstructured data to help organisations make better decisions. Core work includes writing SQL queries, building dashboards and reports in tools like Power BI or Tableau, conducting statistical analysis, and communicating findings clearly to non-technical stakeholders. Analysts work across departments — marketing, operations, finance, product — translating business questions into data queries and turning results into actionable insight. The role sits on a spectrum between reporting (descriptive analytics) and more advanced analysis involving predictive modelling, A/B testing, or machine learning. Modern Data Analysts are expected to be proficient in SQL and at least one scripting language (typically Python or R), comfortable with cloud data platforms (e.g. BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks), and capable of designing analyses that are reproducible and well-documented. Data storytelling — presenting findings in a way that influences decisions — is an equally important skill.
Qualifications (summary)
No single mandatory qualification. Most employers assess candidates on SQL proficiency and portfolio work. Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate and Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst (PL-300) are widely recognised entry-level credentials. Python (via Codecademy, DataCamp, or university courses) is increasingly a baseline expectation. For more senior roles, knowledge of dbt, Airflow, or Spark, alongside cloud certifications (AWS/Azure/GCP data track), strengthens a profile significantly. A GitHub portfolio demonstrating real analytical projects is highly regarded.
Salary (if available)
£28,000–£50,000 (junior to mid-level, UK). Senior Data Analyst roles £50,000–£70,000+. London and fintech roles command a premium.
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