Market Data Analyst

📊 Data Analyst / Market Analyst – European Markets | 12-Month Contract📍 London, King’s Cross | Hybrid💷 £38.36 per hour PAYE + holiday pay📅 12-month contract🏢 Tuesday–Thursday onsite | Monday & Friday remoteWe are recruiting for an experienced Data Analyst / Market Analyst to join a leading global technology and digital platform business on a 12-month contract.This is a strategic, commercially focused analytics role supporting a European business and go-to-market function. You’ll investigate performance across different European markets, identify opportunities and challenges, and turn complex data into clear recommendations for senior stakeholders.This is not a traditional reporting or dashboard-focused role. You’ll be given broad business questions, develop hypotheses, interrogate the data yourself and determine why something is happening and what the business should do about it.🔎 What you'll be doingConducting market and country-level analysis across Europe, identifying performance trends, opportunities and areas requiring further investigation.Comparing performance across European markets and identifying the commercial, customer or product factors driving differences.Taking ambiguous business questions and developing a structured, hypothesis-led analytical approach.Using SQL independently to extract, manipulate and analyse large datasets.Combining quantitative analysis with qualitative stakeholder insight to understand business performance.Translating complex analysis into clear insights, recommendations and action plans.Presenting findings directly to senior regional and country-level stakeholders.Partnering with Product, Marketing, Finance and Go-to-Market teams.Owning approximately 2–3 substantial strategic analytical projects per quarter.🎯 What we're looking forAround 4–5+ years' experience in an analytically intensive role such as Data Analyst, Business Analyst, Market Analyst, Market Intelligence Analyst, Commercial Analyst or Strategy Analyst.Strong hands-on SQL is essential — you should be comfortable independently writing queries to extract, manipulate and analyse data.Direct experience analysing European markets is particularly important, ideally involving country-level performance, market comparisons, customer behaviour, commercial performance or growth opportunities.Strong structured problem-solving skills and the ability to turn ambiguous questions into clear analytical hypotheses.Experience going beyond reporting to understand what is driving performance and what action should be taken.Confidence presenting your own analytical findings and recommendations to senior stakeholders.Excellent communication and data storytelling skills.🌍 Particularly relevant backgroundsWe are especially interested in candidates with experience in:Market analysis, business analysis or commercial/strategic analytics across European marketsTechnology, digital platforms, marketplaces, telecommunications, media, e-commerce or international consumer businessesManagement or strategy consultancy involving European market analysisFinancial services or other highly analytical commercial environments⭐ Nice to havePython or RTableau, Looker, Power BI or similarBigQuery or other large-scale cloud data environmentsExperimentation / A/B testingExperience covering multiple European countries or wider EMEA markets🧪 Interview processThere will be a technical assessment as part of the interview process, so candidates should be comfortable discussing and demonstrating both their SQL capability and analytical approach.