In Lithuania's labour market the search term “analyst” covers at least four separate jobs, and the median advertised salary differs by €900 between them. The lowest median of the four belongs to the job with the most listings right now: listings offer a business analyst a median of €2,600 gross, and a data engineer €3,500.
The word in front of “analyst” sets the price.
Four jobs under one word
A business analyst maps processes and requirements, and is most often sought by software developers and banks. A financial analyst prepares forecasts and reports, usually from inside a finance department or a bank. A data analyst turns existing data into insights, while a data engineer builds the systems that collect and prepare that data. The last two jobs in Lithuania appear mostly at technology companies.
The medians stated in listings line up like this:
| Role | Advertised median (gross) | Listings |
|---|---|---|
| Data Engineer | €3,500 | 5 |
| Data Analyst | €3,000 | 3 |
| Financial Analyst | €2,870 | 3 |
| Business Analyst | €2,600 | 6 |
Active listings with a salary are few: three to six per role. The median is computed on a broader base that includes recently expired offers, so each row rests on roughly nine to seventeen listings. The middle of the table is fragile all the same — a few new offers could swap the financial and data analyst rows. The outer rows are firmer.
The table splits into two halves. The business and financial analyst medians are €270 apart, which is essentially the same level of offer. Both sit inside a business function and are judged on domain knowledge, so the market does not yet separate their pay. On the data side the step is larger: €500 from data analyst to data engineer, a sixth of the salary, even though the same word “data” repeats in both titles.
Where the bands meet
The middle half of business analyst offers falls between €2,270 and €3,040. The data engineer's middle half begins at exactly €3,040. The figures match to the euro: the most expensive quarter of business analyst offers starts where the cheapest quarter of data engineer offers ends. On the listings market the route between these two jobs looks reachable, though it starts at the bottom of the new band. Data engineer offers reach highest of the four: the upper bound of their middle half is €4,000.
The widest band belongs to the data analyst: €2,700 to €3,800. A €1,100 gap under a single title suggests it holds both beginners producing reports and specialists building more complex models. Even the lower bound of that band sits above the business analyst median. The business analyst band is narrower, at €770. It is too early to say anything about the spread of financial analyst offers: their base is the thinnest of the four, so only the median is computed from it.
The data analyst row has one more feature. Active listings with a salary number just three, while the median rests on a base of roughly seventeen offers: such listings appear and expire quickly, so on any given day a search shows few of them.
What the technical layer costs
The four jobs differ in more than name. Business and financial analyst work turns mostly on domain knowledge: processes, accounting or risk rules. On the data side a layer of tooling is added: query languages and databases, plus programming in the engineer's case. Set the outer rows of the table side by side, and listing medians value that extra layer at roughly €900 a month. The figure is approximate, since it compares different jobs rather than one person's path.
Almost every listing is in Vilnius
Vilnius is the only city where these jobs gather at least three active listings with a salary, and the capital's medians barely differ from the overall ones: €2,600 for a business analyst (5 listings), €2,870 for a financial analyst (3), €3,490 for a data engineer (4). Data analyst listings are scattered across cities such that none of them clears that bar. Outside the capital these jobs are barely advertised at all; for anyone living in another city, that means such offers have to be sought from Vilnius employers. All current offers can be reviewed in the job search.
For anyone choosing a direction, the table says one thing: the “analyst” part of the title is the least informative about pay. More is offered on the data side, which fits the wider picture of the IT sector, examined separately. The next quarter will show whether the €3,040 junction between the business analyst and data engineer bands holds.