Data Analyst: market
A Data Analyst answers business questions with data: builds reports and dashboards, computes metrics, finds the causes of changes and helps teams make decisions. We currently track 1 975 open positions for this role, 1 855 of them fresh. The baseline is solid SQL, a BI tool (Power BI, Tableau, Looker), Excel or Google Sheets, statistics basics and Python for non-standard tasks. By co-occurrence in requirements, SQL, Python, dbt and Databricks appear most often. 39% of the postings allow fully remote work. Below is a live slice of the Data Analyst market: geography, seniority, adjacent stack and sources.
The Data Analyst market currently has 1,975 open roles, 1,855 of them freshly observed. Median salary $6,340/mo.
39% of Data Analyst postings allow fully remote work; the share counts only postings that state the format.
⚠ salary known for 153 of 1975 jobs; remote share from 1744 with a stated format; 1855 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Timeline: postings and sources
How many Data Analyst postings appeared each week since 4 May, and from how many sources. The second line separates market growth from coverage growth: a jump in the week new sources were connected means we started seeing more, not that the market grew.
New postings and active sources per week
Sources over the period: 245
New sources connected: 11 May +8 · 18 May +5 · 25 May +4 · 1 Jun +8 · 8 Jun +3 · 15 Jun +3 · 22 Jun +19 · 29 Jun +39 · 6 Jul +29 · 13 Jul +18 · 20 Jul +26 · 27 Jul +12 · 3 Aug +10 · 10 Aug +4 · 17 Aug +1 · 24 Aug +3 · 31 Aug +4 · 7 Sept +2 · 14 Sept +7 · 21 Sept +6 · 28 Sept +3 · 5 Oct +8 · 12 Oct +7
Week = posting first-seen date, all statuses; postings are selected by the same rule as this page's counter. Sources are distinct collection channels; their names are not published.
Salaries over time
Median Data Analyst salary per week, USD per month.
Median salary, USD per month
Only postings with a USD salary and a known period (month or year), $500–$50,000 per month. Weeks with fewer than 10 such postings are left blank — that means no data, not zero.
Remote work over time
Share of Data Analyst postings offering fully remote work, per week.
Remote postings, %
The share is among postings that state a format (remote, hybrid, office). Weeks with fewer than 10 such postings are left blank.
Technologies over time
How the share of Data Analyst postings mentioning each of the top technologies changed.
Postings mentioning the technology, %
Share among postings with a tagged stack; the series starts on 10 Aug: earlier stack tags were assigned differently. Weeks with fewer than 20 tagged postings are left blank.
Countries over time
How the share of Data Analyst postings in each of the top countries changed, per week.
Postings in the country, %
Share among postings with a known country; the chart shows the five countries with the most postings over six months. Weeks with fewer than 20 postings with a known country are left blank. A rising share can mean a newly connected source in that country rather than market growth.
Demand and observed supply: Data Analyst
| Open demand | 1,975 |
| Observed supply | — not published |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Salary distribution: Data Analyst
One in ten earns under $2,750, one in ten over $11,258. Half the market falls between $4,619 and $9,083. Sample: 153.
The range histogram for Data Analyst uses only postings with an explicit compensation range; the median is computed over the same sample.
Demand geography: Data Analyst
| country | jobs |
|---|---|
| US | 384 |
| GB | 175 |
| PL | 171 |
| IN | 94 |
| FR | 75 |
| RU | 66 |
| CA | 61 |
| DE | 58 |
| HK | 48 |
| ES | 41 |
The top country for Data Analyst demand is the US (384 positions).
⚠ job counts only: salary by country is not published
Used together with
In Data Analyst requirements the most frequently named skills and technologies are SQL, Python, dbt and Databricks.
Demand by grade: Data Analyst
| grade | jobs |
|---|---|
| senior | 577 |
| lead | 102 |
| middle | 89 |
| principal | 73 |
| junior | 71 |
Senior-and-above is about 82% of 912 Data Analyst postings with an explicit grade.
⚠ demand side only: the grade of the observed pool is unknown for most of it
Employers: Data Analyst
Demand is spread across 1,077 employers. The largest accounts for 4.8%, the top ten for 12.1%; the remaining 87.9% is long tail.
| share | value |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 4.8% |
| top-3 | 7.6% |
| top-10 | 12.1% |
| long tail | 87.9% |
Data Analyst openings come from 1 077 distinct employers; the largest one accounts for only 4.8% of postings — the market is not tied to a single hirer.
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Where Zorky sees this market
Observed across 104 sources; the largest accounts for 18.2% — this market does not rest on a single channel.
Data Analyst postings arrive mostly from ATS & career sites and job boards & aggregators.
Recent openings: Data Analyst
- Sr. Data Analyst, Compliance · CA
- Data Analyst · CA · $5,107
- Senior Data Analyst ● REF NO: FPR 38/26 · ZA
- Global HR Data Analyst II · PL
- Data analyst (domaine qualité) F/H · FR
- Senior Product Data Analyst · US
- Senior Quantitative Data Analyst · US
- Data Analyst, Commercial Analytics · INT
Adjacent markets
⚠ adjacent markets for comparison are not defined yet
How this is measured
- Vacancy
- an open job that cleared the quality gate and lists at least two technologies
- Observed candidate
- a candidate whose stack contains this technology; an aggregate — not a single record leaves the perimeter
- Matchable candidate
- not counted yet
- Window
- jobs open at the moment the snapshot was built
About the data
- Some breakdowns are hidden: their data coverage is not yet sufficient.
- Statistics are shown only where the sample clears a quality gate.
- A missing block does not mean a value of zero.
Breakdowns currently hidden: 8.
Data as of 2026-10-24
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about the Data Analyst role — short answers from the same data slice.
What does a Data Analyst do?
A Data Analyst answers business questions with data: builds reports and dashboards, computes metrics, finds the causes of changes and helps teams make decisions.
Which skills do Data Analyst postings require?
The baseline is solid SQL, a BI tool (Power BI, Tableau, Looker), Excel or Google Sheets, statistics basics and Python for non-standard tasks. In the current slice, SQL, Python, dbt and Databricks appear in requirements most often.
Where should I start on the Data Analyst path?
With SQL and one BI tool: that is the minimum of nearly every posting. Then statistics, A/B tests and Python; a portfolio of a couple of analyzed real datasets helps noticeably in screening.
How remote-friendly are Data Analyst jobs?
39% of postings with an explicit format allow fully remote work; the slice tracks 1 975 open positions.
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