Data Analyst

This role may be located in one of the following locations: Leeds, Manchester or Newcastle. Please find further information on the Corporate hub locations here.

Job Summary

We’re happy to speak about any reasonable adjustments you need.

Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. For further information, please see 'Selection process details'.

DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support some of the most vulnerable people in our society.

This role is fundamental to helping tens of thousands of colleagues across the organisation collaborate and communicate with each other more efficiently and effectively. You’ll be improving their experience of the digital services they use every day. And achieving this using fresh ideas and cutting-edge technology.

By helping people in the organisation work better together, you’ll have an impact on how we achieve DWP’s aim to improve people’s day-to-day lives and help them build financial resilience and a more secure and prosperous future.

If you’re curious about user behaviour and enjoy finding meaning in complexity, join DWP Digital as a data analyst, and help us get this right.

Job Description

DWP teams need information about how our digital services are being used and whether they meet our users’ expectations and needs. Gathering and analysing this insight helps us make better, more-informed choices.

Your mission will be to create innovative analytical solutions to uncover previously unidentified or hard to isolate insights. To do this, you’ll need to understand the data problem the service needs to solve or question that needs to be answered and implement data collection and analysis solutions.

As a Data Analyst, You Will:

• Provide expert advice and make sure you deliver high quality analysis, refining and challenging requests to ensure the most useful analysis is produced.
• Work autonomously, embedded within a multi-disciplinary product team but also being part of a supportive data and analytics team.
• Make sure the product team has access to the best evidence possible and are using it in designing and optimising a cross-organisation collaboration service.
• Influence strategy and business outcomes by making sure evidence is reliable, trustworthy and robust.
• Be skilled in digital performance analysis and configuring and deploying digital log analytics solutions, particularly using Azure and Power BI.
• Produce data models and understand where to use different types of models.

Person specification

See selection process for further details.

If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact Caicy.sanford1@dwp.gov.uk.

Salary information

Pay for this role is from £42,614 to £45,081. The maximum salary for the grade is £45,081, however a Digital Allowance of up to £5,215 per annum is available for exceptional candidates. Digital Allowance is non-salary, and non-pensionable, and is classed as a temporary allowance. It is reviewed annually where it could be retained, amended, or removed.

Our offer to successful candidates will be based on an assessment of your skills and experience as demonstrated at interview.

Selection process details

Stage 1: Application

Your Application Will Consist Of Three Parts:

• A personal details application form.
• Employment history - this should contain your work experience and any skills, qualifications and accomplishments relevant to the jobs you have completed in line with the essential criteria below:
• You can recognise and identify appropriate ways to collect, collate and prepare data, and can decide if data is accurate and fit for purpose, preparing and cleansing data with limited guidance.
• You can present analysis and visualisations in clear ways to communicate complex messages.
• You can write SQL or KQL queries and know how to extract data using SQL or KQL.
• You can work with others to identify areas for improvement and simplify processes to use fewer resources, and use technology to increase efficiency.
• Performance measurement exercise. Details of the exercise are included in the personal statement section in the application form. Use the personal statement box to give us your response to the exercise. There is a 500-word limit.

Stage 2: Interview

If you’re successful at sift stage we will invite you to a video interview via Microsoft Teams. There, we will assess you against the experiences listed above.

We will ask you to do a 10-minute data analysis exercise. We’ll provide further details to candidates invited to interview.

Interviews will take place from late May 2025. Interview dates to be confirmed.

Important Information

• The application form asks you to complete your employment history – enter any information that you would customarily share on a CV.
• You must remove personal details that could be used to identify you, including your name, contact details and address.
• If your employment history or performance measurement exercise contain any personal details we’ll withdraw your application.
• We recognise that AI may be helpful when applying for this role, but it’s important to use it in the right way. Read the DWP AI Candidate Guide to understand how you can make the best use of GenAI while making sure your application remains authentic and effective.

Security Clearance Requirement

You must meet the security requirements before you can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check.

For meaningful checks to be carried out, you will need to have lived in the UK for a sufficient period of time, to enable appropriate checks to be carried out and produce a result which provides the required level of assurance. Whilst a lack of UK residency in itself is not necessarily a bar to a security clearance, and expectation of UK residency may range from 3 to 5 years. Failure to meet the residency requirements needed for the role may result in the withdrawal of provisional jobs offers.

Reasonable Adjustment

At DWP we value diversity and inclusion and actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including those that are underrepresented in our workforce.

We consider visible and non-visible disabilities, neurodiversity or learning differences, chronic medical conditions, or mental ill health. Examples include dyslexia, epilepsy, autism, chronic fatigue, or schizophrenia.

If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should: Contact Government Recruitment Service via DigitalRecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.

Feedback

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Contact point for applicants

Job Contact:

• Name: Caicy Sandford
• Email: Caicy.sanford1@dwp.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email: digitalrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk