Want to become a data analyst? You need three things: the skills, proof of them, and real experience using them. Never worked with data? You learn SQL, Excel and Power BI from the ground up and train for CompTIA Data+. We'll train you for CompTIA Data+ and place you on a live, fully remote data project for a real business within 48 hours. Three months later, you have the commercial experience every advert asks for.
A data analyst takes raw business data, cleans it, analyses it and turns it into answers people can act on. The core toolkit is SQL, Excel and a visualisation tool such as Power BI. If you are researching how to become a data analyst, start by getting comfortable with those three.
Next, prove it. A recognised certification such as CompTIA Data+ shows employers you know the fundamentals. Then comes the step most people skip: real experience. If you are working out how to become a data analyst with no experience, understand that employers want someone who has worked with live data, colleagues and deadlines.
Experiencely covers all three. You train for CompTIA Data+ with around 50 hours of training, and you are placed with a UK business within 48 hours to do at least 3 months of real data analyst work. Then we rebuild your CV, prep you for interviews and put you forward to employers.
Data+ is an industry certification that proves you understand the full data analysis process. You won't be left alone with a textbook. You'll train online with guidance from a mentor, and practise on the same kind of data you're using in your placement.
Databases, data types and where business data actually lives.
Collecting, cleaning and shaping data so it can be trusted.
Statistics and techniques to find trends and answer questions.
Dashboards and reports that people understand and use.
Quality, privacy and security: handling data properly.
Skip the training track. Same programme, straight into your placement.
Instructor-led training for just one certification can cost £1,000 to £2,500 in the UK. And you still finish with no experience.
Course prices based on published UK instructor-led CCNA and AZ-104 courses, 2026.
This is what a hiring manager screens for on a junior data role. Your qualification gets you to the starting line. Without commercial experience, you're one of 205 applicants per digital and IT graduate role, and you look the same as everyone else.
Applications per role: Institute of Student Employers, 2024
Two tracks run side by side, so you're never just studying. You're placed within 48 hours and building real experience from week one.
On a phone? Swipe the chart sideways to see all 12 weeks. Example timeline. [Confirm training length.] Already have a data qualification? Skip the training track and go straight into your placement.
Real client, real data, real feedback. All online, in your own time. This is the commercial experience that gets you past the CV screen. Example workspace for illustration.
You could be placed with any of these kinds of businesses, each bringing a live data problem they need solved.
Analyse a quarter of delivery data and build a dashboard the ops team uses weekly.
Combine sales and returns data to show the product lines driving profit.
Explore usage and billing data to spot customers at risk of cancelling.
No. Here's exactly what you're paying for.
Briefs are chosen and shaped so you practise the exact skills employers hire for, not to fill a business to-do list.
You are never left alone to figure it out. Every task is reviewed, with feedback that makes you better each week.
It goes on your CV as a real role, with a client, results you can quote and references who have seen your work.
Three months later, the experience section employers read first is no longer empty. It has a job title, a client, real numbers and references.
Example CV for illustration.
Degree, course or certificate in data
"I’m currently doing a work-from-home mentorship with a senior data analyst, and it’s been an incredible experience so far. The mentorship is very hands-on, and I’m learning step by step…"
"I am having a great experience with Experiencely because of the Data mentorship programme that offers me the opportunity to have tasks, hands on experience and the collaboration with my mentor in finding solutions to data analytics issues in excel, SQL etc."
"I was skeptical about signing up for the program at first but was really impressed with the overall organization. After joining the program, I was assigned a mentor who happened to be an eperienced data professional who provided one on one guidance and feedbacks."
Reviews copied word for word from our Trustpilot and Google profiles.
Everything on the receipt above: CompTIA Data+ training, a live remote placement within 48 hours, mentor reviews, references, CV rebuild, interview prep and being put forward to employers.
Our recruitment team puts you forward to employers hiring analysts, preps you for interviews and helps with your own applications.
Tell us where you are, ask anything, and find out if you're eligible for funding. No pressure, no hard sell.
On Experiencely, training is around 50 hours and the placement is at least 3 months, done in as little as 1 hour a day.
Yes, but you need to build it before you apply. A placement with a UK business gives you real projects and a reference to talk about.
You need to be comfortable with numbers and logic, but day-to-day work is more about SQL, Excel and clear communication than advanced maths.
The steps are the same. Career changers often have useful business experience, and a placement shows they can apply it to data work.
Yes. Your project, your client and your mentor calls all happen online. You can take part from anywhere in the UK.
Yes. It takes as little as 1 hour a day, on evenings, weekends or both.
Yes. Funding is available for university graduates. Book a free call and we will check your eligibility.
Complete your 3 months, actively apply with our support, and if you have not landed a role within 60 days of completion, you get your money back. No questions asked.
Train for CompTIA Data+ and do real data analyst work for a UK business, in as little as 1 hour a day. Hired within 60 days of completion, or your money back.
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