# Data Analyst > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/data-analyst/244316a0-640f-4d25-8d6e-5416fb04fd3f - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/data-analyst/244316a0-640f-4d25-8d6e-5416fb04fd3f.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) - **Location:** 3rd Floor, 3 Piccadilly Place - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Administrative and IT - **Grade:** Band 5 - **Salary:** £32,073 - £39,043 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, Home or remote working, Compressed hours, 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-08-23T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-17T08:10:50.080Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Manchester/NICE_National_Institute_Health_Care_Excellence/Data_Analyst/Data_Analyst-v8209464 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8209464?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.nice.org.uk/ ## Job Content ### Job overview Do you want to do meaningful work that makes a genuine difference to society? Our main purpose here at The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is to improve health and wellbeing by putting science and evidence at the heart of health and care decision making. As an organisation we all collaborate to achieve this same goal through empowering our workforce to do great things! Please note that this role may not be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route, please refer to the Direct Gov website for more information with regards to eligibility ### Main duties of the job The Data Analyst will play a key role in supporting the team’s data management needs, focusing on the extraction, cleaning, quality assurance, and reporting of data to enable effective decision-making and operational delivery. The post-holder will work closely with colleagues across the BMU and wider organisation to ensure data is accurate, accessible, and presented in a clear and actionable format. Key duties include: - Extract, clean, and quality assure data from multiple sources, ensuring accuracy and consistency. - Develop, maintain, and update databases, spreadsheets, and records systems, primarily using Excel and Power BI. - Prepare, analyse, and present regular and ad hoc reports for internal and external audiences, including dashboards and visualisations in Power BI. - Support the team in the migration and standardisation of data, including preparation for system transitions (e.g., from Excel to project management tools). - Assist in the development and documentation of standard operating procedures for data handling and reporting. To do this, you’ll need: - Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, including advanced functions for data manipulation and analysis. - Experience with Power BI for data visualisation and reporting. - Ability to extract, clean, and quality assure data from multiple sources ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Important - Due to NICE’s use of anonymised recruitment practices we ask all candidates not to include any personal details within their application. Please ensure you provide sufficient detail in the supporting information section to allow our team to make an informed judgement about your suitability for this role at this stage. CV’s will not be considered. We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further submissions when we have received sufficient applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role. Please note that applications may be rejected or subject to disciplinary action if evidence of plagiarism is detected. Examples of plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experience of others, or generated by artificial intelligence (AI), as your own. Please contact resourcing@nice.org.uk if you wish to discuss any additional needs or reasonable adjustments which may support you with your application and/or at interview. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Experience developing and maintaining databases, spreadsheets, and reporting systems. - Experience preparing and presenting reports and dashboards for varied audiences. ### Skills/Knowledge **Essential** - Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, including advanced functions for data manipulation and analysis. - Experience with Power BI for data visualisation and reporting. - Ability to extract, clean, and quality assure data from multiple sources. ### Education/Qualifications **Essential** - Educated to degree level or equivalent experience in a relevant field (e.g., data management, business administration, information systems). ## Documents - [staff benefits (pdf, 272.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2146) - [reference guidance (pdf, 119.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2145) - [band 5 data analyst jdps bmu 2026 (pdf, 392.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10516473) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.