Data Analyst Salary in Jeddah (2026)
Analyst pay in Jeddah, band by band, how far it sits behind Riyadh, and what closes the gap without relocating.
A fresh graduate data analyst in Jeddah earns SAR 4,500 to 7,000 a month. At mid level, three to six years in, the range is SAR 10,500 to 15,000 a month, with a median of SAR 12,500.
Compiled from published salary sources, last reviewed 10 September 2026. These are estimates for the role, not a quote for any one job.
Salary by experience
| Level | Experience | Range per month | Median | What the job is |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fresh graduate | 0 to 1 years | SAR 4,500 to 7,000 | SAR 5,800 | Reporting support inside finance or operations. Excel first, BI tool second. |
| Junior | 1 to 3 years | SAR 7,000 to 10,500 | SAR 8,700 | One dashboard, one stakeholder group, your own SQL. |
| Mid level | 3 to 6 years | SAR 10,500 to 15,000 | SAR 12,500 | Trusted with the numbers that go to management. Automation expected. |
| Senior | 6 to 10 years | SAR 15,000 to 21,000 | SAR 17,500 | Owning a function's reporting outright, often as the only senior analyst in it. |
| Lead / Manager | 10+ years | SAR 21,000 to 30,000 | SAR 24,500 | Small team, wide remit. Frequently reports into finance rather than technology. |
What the package actually includes
Saudi offers quote a basic salary first, with housing and transport allowances paid on top, so the money that reaches you is meaningfully more than the basic. How much more is set by the employer rather than by law, and it varies enough between employers that a published average would mislead you about your own offer. Every figure on this page is the basic. Compare offers on the basic, then ask each employer for the allowance breakdown in writing and compare those separately.
Jeddah's analyst market is smaller and more concentrated than Riyadh's, with roughly one open role for every three in the capital. It leans towards logistics, aviation, FMCG and healthcare rather than banking and government technology. The practical effect is that Jeddah analysts tend to be generalists who own a whole reporting function, where a Riyadh analyst of the same age might specialise inside a larger team.
Skills that move you up a band
These are the differences the Jeddah market pays for. They are listed in rough order of how much they matter, and the reason each one matters is stated so you can judge it against the job you are actually going for.
We do not put a monthly figure against each skill. Nobody publishes per skill pay premiums for this role in this city, so any number here would be invented, and an invented number next to a real band makes the real band look invented too. What a specific skill is worth to a specific employer is a question for the offer conversation, and the section below on negotiating is about exactly that.
Python for analysis: pandas, automation
Carries a premiumJeddah teams are smaller than Riyadh teams, so the analyst who automates their own reporting frees up the most visible amount of time. It is the fastest route out of the junior band here.
Find courses: Python for Data AnalysisArabic and English reporting
Carries a premiumWorth more in Jeddah than in Dubai. A large share of the employer base is family owned or public sector, where board level reporting is produced in Arabic.
Cloud warehouse: BigQuery, Snowflake or Databricks
Carries a premiumFewer Jeddah employers have migrated than in Riyadh, so the premium is smaller, but the scarcity is higher. Logistics and healthcare are the two sectors hiring for it.
Find courses: Data Engineering FoundationsPower BI beyond drag and drop: DAX, row level security
Carries a premiumPower BI is the more common requirement in Jeddah, more so than Tableau. Depth in one tool beats familiarity with three.
Find courses: Advanced Power BISupply chain and logistics domain knowledge
Carries a premiumJeddah is the kingdom's port city and its analyst demand reflects that. Understanding inventory, lead time and freight cost data is worth more here than anywhere else in Saudi Arabia.
Find courses: Supply Chain AnalyticsSQL: joins at scale, window functions
Expected, not a differentiatorBaseline everywhere. Above entry level in Jeddah it is close to universal.
Find courses: SQL Fundamentals
How Jeddah compares
Employers in this market
Employers that hire for this role in Jeddah, and the part of the market each one sits in. This is a standing list by sector, not a count of open roles: we read no job board. We do not publish a pay range per employer either: nobody publishes that, and putting a range against a named company would be guessing about that company's payroll in public. Use the sector to work out which bands above are realistic for the kind of employer you are applying to.
| Employer | Where they sit in the market |
|---|---|
| Red Sea Global | Giga project, new build data teams |
| Alinma Bank | Banking, western region operations |
| Saudia | Aviation, operations and revenue |
| Almarai | FMCG, supply chain analytics |
| Bupa Arabia | Insurance, claims and actuarial support |
Reading a Saudi Arabia offer letter
A Saudi offer is quoted as a basic salary with allowances listed separately, usually housing and transport. The basic is the number that matters beyond your monthly income, because end of service benefit is calculated on it. Two offers with the same total can therefore be worth different amounts by the time you leave, and the one with the higher basic is normally the better of the two even when the headline is identical.
If you are a Saudi national, hiring you counts towards the employer's Saudization position, which is a commercial fact and belongs near the top of your CV rather than in a personal details block at the bottom. If you are not, it changes where you apply more than what your CV says: an established employer with an existing sponsorship process is a materially easier application than a small company close to its threshold.
Our guide to basic salary versus allowances goes through each line of a Gulf offer, and Saudization explained for job seekers covers the quota from a candidate's point of view rather than an employer's.
Before you negotiate
On the bands published here, Jeddah offers sit around ten percent below Riyadh, and employers know candidates compare the two. The strongest position is not to demand the Riyadh figure but to price the absence of a relocation cost: you are already here, already housed, and available immediately. Giga project employers in the western region are the exception and often pay at or above Riyadh rates.
Anchor on the band, not on your last salary. The employer knows the range for the level they are hiring at, and quoting your previous pay hands them the number for free. Say which band your experience places you in, name the figure at the top of it, and let them counter downwards from there.
Then price the gap. If a skill on the list above is missing from your CV, you are negotiating at the lower end of the band by default, and no amount of framing fixes that in the call. Closing one of those gaps is usually worth more over a year than anything you win in the conversation itself.
Common questions
Is a data analyst salary in Jeddah tax free?
Yes. Saudi Arabia has no personal income tax, so the offer figure is close to what lands in your account. Saudi nationals have GOSI deducted; expatriate employees generally do not have a pension deduction.
How much less does Jeddah pay than Riyadh?
Jeddah sits below Riyadh at every band, and the gap is smallest at entry level and widest at senior, because senior analyst demand in Saudi Arabia is heavily concentrated in Riyadh. Giga project employers in the western region are the main exception.
Which sectors hire the most analysts in Jeddah?
Logistics and aviation first, then FMCG, healthcare and insurance, then banking. This is close to the inverse of Riyadh, where banking, telecom and government technology lead. It changes which domain knowledge is worth money.
Is it worth relocating to Riyadh for the pay?
For a mid level analyst the gap is roughly SAR 1,500 a month before housing costs, and Riyadh housing is more expensive. The stronger argument for relocating is not the salary but the number of senior roles available to move into later.
What do employers in Jeddah ask for most?
SQL and Power BI are close to universal above entry level. After that the differentiators are Python, Arabic reporting, and supply chain or logistics domain knowledge.
How these figures were built
These bands are a compiled estimate, read across the public salary compilations listed below and then broken into experience bands. They are not a census of advertised roles, and they describe what the role pays rather than what any one employer will offer you. Those compilations do not agree with each other. Read on 18 September 2026, Indeed and Glassdoor differed by 59% to 72% on the same role in the same city, in the same direction every time: Indeed derives its figures from job adverts and skews junior, Glassdoor's are self-reported and skew senior. A third source we consult, Payscale, does not break out cities at all. So these bands are our reading across sources that disagree, not a point where they converged, and the top bands are the least supported part of the ladder. This page names 5 employers. Last reviewed 10 September 2026.
- Indeed: Indeed salary pages for the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, which report an average, a range and the number of salaries behind it. Read 2026-09-18.
- Glassdoor: Glassdoor city salary pages, which report a median total pay and the number of submissions behind it. Read 2026-09-18.
- Payscale: Payscale country pages for Saudi Arabia and the UAE, which report a country average and percentiles but do not break out cities. Read 2026-09-18.
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