Analyst
UK

The median Analyst salary in the UK is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 15 23
Rank change year-on-year +2 +8 +2
Permanent jobs requiring an Analyst 10,031 11,443 16,931
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.53% 12.07% 10.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.05% 13.22% 10.42%
Number of salaries quoted 6,705 7,293 11,502
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,000 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,850 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.85% +1.89% +2.27%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 99,838 86,540 162,414
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.86% 91.29% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,991 55,953 84,888
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,676
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,238
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.49% +5.76%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Analyst in the UK

Analyst
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Analyst.

Salary trend for Analyst in the UK

Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analyst over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Analyst in the UK

Analyst
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +2 9,155 £45,000 -5.26% 1,918
UK excluding London -2 6,660 £40,000 - 1,161
Work from Home +1 3,764 £45,249 -4.74% 757
London +1 3,043 £60,000 +9.09% 812
North of England -4 1,714 £39,003 -3.70% 348
South East -1 1,604 £40,000 -2.38% 269
Midlands -1 1,320 £37,500 -6.25% 179
North West +2 968 £40,000 -5.88% 219
West Midlands -1 847 £37,500 -6.25% 104
South West +2 734 £41,500 +3.75% 147
East of England +6 681 £36,500 -8.75% 110
Yorkshire -10 546 £37,500 -6.25% 99
East Midlands -1 467 £35,750 -5.92% 75
Scotland -42 377 £41,000 +2.21% 89
North East +8 200 £32,500 -17.20% 36
Wales -9 180 £36,476 +4.22% 33
Northern Ireland +19 35 £47,500 +26.67% 16
Isle of Man -1 20 £46,500 +3.33%
Channel Islands 0 3 £63,750 +82.14%

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Analyst job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 3,393 (33.83%) Social Skills
2 2,962 (29.53%) Finance
3 2,811 (28.02%) Analytical Skills
4 2,546 (25.38%) Microsoft
5 2,151 (21.44%) Problem-Solving
6 2,106 (20.99%) SQL
7 1,835 (18.29%) Degree
8 1,712 (17.07%) Agile
9 1,555 (15.50%) Microsoft Excel
10 1,268 (12.64%) Decision-Making
11 1,213 (12.09%) Windows
12 1,065 (10.62%) Customer Service
13 1,051 (10.48%) Microsoft 365
14 1,043 (10.40%) Azure
15 1,021 (10.18%) Power Platform
16 1,018 (10.15%) Actionable Insight
17 1,005 (10.02%) Analytics
18 1,004 (10.01%) Business Intelligence
19 1,003 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
20 999 (9.96%) Active Directory
21 958 (9.55%) Power BI
22 917 (9.14%) ITIL
23 848 (8.45%) Data Analysis
24 845 (8.42%) Retail
25 815 (8.12%) Business Analysis
25 815 (8.12%) Mentoring
26 777 (7.75%) Python
27 764 (7.62%) Legal
28 728 (7.26%) Continuous Improvement
29 722 (7.20%) Cybersecurity

Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 328 (3.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 309 (3.08%) SharePoint
3 144 (1.44%) Confluence
4 92 (0.92%) SAS
5 70 (0.70%) WebLogic
6 44 (0.44%) Oracle Service Bus
7 38 (0.38%) CMS
8 22 (0.22%) IIS
9 19 (0.19%) Apache
10 16 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
11 14 (0.14%) IBM Notes
12 12 (0.12%) Skype for Business
13 11 (0.11%) Apache Spark
14 10 (0.100%) WordPress
15 9 (0.090%) WebSphere
16 8 (0.080%) ArcGIS
16 8 (0.080%) Moodle
17 6 (0.060%) Exchange Server 2010
17 6 (0.060%) Exchange Server 2013
18 5 (0.050%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1,555 (15.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1,003 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
3 204 (2.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 174 (1.73%) MS Visio
5 47 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
6 23 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
7 21 (0.21%) SPSS
8 14 (0.14%) Trello
9 6 (0.060%) LightWave 3D
9 6 (0.060%) SOLIDWORKS
10 4 (0.040%) Chatbot
11 3 (0.030%) Stata
12 2 (0.020%) LaTeX
Business Applications
1 91 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 48 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
3 43 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
4 32 (0.32%) Aladdin
5 28 (0.28%) Elite 3E
6 27 (0.27%) NEC Housing
7 24 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
8 23 (0.23%) Endur
8 23 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
9 21 (0.21%) NetSuite
9 21 (0.21%) SAP CO
9 21 (0.21%) SAP FI
9 21 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
10 18 (0.18%) iTrent
10 18 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
11 17 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
11 17 (0.17%) thinkFolio
12 16 (0.16%) Infor SunSystems
12 16 (0.16%) Maximo
13 14 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 1,051 (10.48%) Microsoft 365
2 1,043 (10.40%) Azure
3 1,021 (10.18%) Power Platform
4 441 (4.40%) AWS
5 237 (2.36%) Entra ID
6 210 (2.09%) SaaS
7 185 (1.84%) Dynamics 365
8 115 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
9 74 (0.74%) GCP
10 65 (0.65%) Google Analytics
11 60 (0.60%) PowerApps
12 58 (0.58%) Power Automate
13 47 (0.47%) Mimecast
14 45 (0.45%) Azure Sentinel
14 45 (0.45%) OneDrive
15 43 (0.43%) PaaS
16 39 (0.39%) WhatsApp
17 35 (0.35%) Snowflake
18 27 (0.27%) Cloud Computing
19 26 (0.26%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 505 (5.03%) Broadband
2 442 (4.41%) Firewall
3 268 (2.67%) DNS
4 260 (2.59%) LAN
5 243 (2.42%) WAN
6 177 (1.76%) TCP/IP
7 158 (1.58%) DHCP
8 155 (1.55%) Internet
9 152 (1.52%) VPN
10 107 (1.07%) VoIP
11 95 (0.95%) Wireless
12 92 (0.92%) SD-WAN
13 87 (0.87%) Network Security
14 84 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
15 70 (0.70%) WLAN
16 67 (0.67%) Intrusion Detection
17 54 (0.54%) MPLS
18 49 (0.49%) VLAN
19 43 (0.43%) BGP
19 43 (0.43%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 958 (9.55%) Power BI
2 510 (5.08%) Tableau
3 360 (3.59%) SQL Server
4 193 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
5 156 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 90 (0.90%) BigQuery
7 88 (0.88%) Relational Database
8 77 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 74 (0.74%) Power Query
10 70 (0.70%) Oracle Database
11 63 (0.63%) Data Mining
12 46 (0.46%) Big Data
13 44 (0.44%) Oracle Database 10g
13 44 (0.44%) Oracle Database 11g
13 44 (0.44%) VLDB
14 43 (0.43%) MySQL
14 43 (0.43%) QlikView
15 42 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
16 38 (0.38%) Looker
17 36 (0.36%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 344 (3.43%) JIRA
2 150 (1.50%) Git
3 47 (0.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 46 (0.46%) Selenium
5 35 (0.35%) Visual Studio
6 28 (0.28%) Eclipse
7 19 (0.19%) Postman
8 17 (0.17%) JMeter
8 17 (0.17%) TestRail
9 11 (0.11%) GitLab
10 10 (0.100%) Burp Suite
10 10 (0.100%) Metasploit
10 10 (0.100%) Team Foundation Server
10 10 (0.100%) Toad
11 8 (0.080%) NUnit
11 8 (0.080%) TeamCity
11 8 (0.080%) WebDriver
12 7 (0.070%) Oracle Forms
13 6 (0.060%) Jenkins
13 6 (0.060%) Zephyr
General
1 3,393 (33.83%) Social Skills
2 2,962 (29.53%) Finance
3 2,811 (28.02%) Analytical Skills
4 845 (8.42%) Retail
5 764 (7.62%) Legal
6 680 (6.78%) Influencing Skills
7 628 (6.26%) Banking
8 620 (6.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 611 (6.09%) Law
10 389 (3.88%) Organisational Skills
11 337 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
12 335 (3.34%) Marketing
13 278 (2.77%) Manufacturing
14 262 (2.61%) Public Sector
15 207 (2.06%) Investment Banking
16 191 (1.90%) Front Office
17 120 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
18 107 (1.07%) Police
19 103 (1.03%) Back Office
19 103 (1.03%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (1.12%) .NET
2 66 (0.66%) REST
3 63 (0.63%) Oracle Fusion
4 59 (0.59%) JSON
4 59 (0.59%) XML
5 53 (0.53%) HTML
6 48 (0.48%) EDI
7 39 (0.39%) Web Services
8 36 (0.36%) FIX Protocol
9 32 (0.32%) CSS
10 27 (0.27%) Spring
11 26 (0.26%) J2EE
11 26 (0.26%) Java EE
12 22 (0.22%) OLE
13 17 (0.17%) .NET Framework
13 17 (0.17%) Middleware
14 15 (0.15%) RESTful
14 15 (0.15%) SOAP
15 14 (0.14%) ASP.NET
15 14 (0.14%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 491 (4.89%) Management Information System
2 355 (3.54%) Self-Motivation
3 273 (2.72%) Product Ownership
4 218 (2.17%) Onboarding
5 130 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 126 (1.26%) Fixed Income
7 124 (1.24%) Hedge funds
8 123 (1.23%) Derivative
9 108 (1.08%) Driving Licence
10 105 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
11 104 (1.04%) Cyberattack
12 103 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
13 95 (0.95%) Security Operations Centre
14 84 (0.84%) Life Science
15 80 (0.80%) Equities
16 70 (0.70%) Data Centre
17 67 (0.67%) Reinsurance
18 66 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
19 55 (0.55%) Greenfield Project
19 55 (0.55%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1,213 (12.09%) Windows
2 438 (4.37%) Windows 10
3 383 (3.82%) Windows Server
4 267 (2.66%) Linux
5 165 (1.64%) Unix
6 103 (1.03%) Apple iOS
7 99 (0.99%) Android
8 75 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
9 62 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
10 59 (0.59%) Solaris
11 54 (0.54%) Mac OS
12 51 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
13 41 (0.41%) Windows 7
14 28 (0.28%) Mac OS X
15 17 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
16 16 (0.16%) Windows Vista
17 15 (0.15%) Windows 8
18 13 (0.13%) CentOS
18 13 (0.13%) VMS
19 12 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,151 (21.44%) Problem-Solving
2 1,712 (17.07%) Agile
3 1,268 (12.64%) Decision-Making
4 1,065 (10.62%) Customer Service
5 1,018 (10.15%) Actionable Insight
6 1,005 (10.02%) Analytics
7 1,004 (10.01%) Business Intelligence
8 917 (9.14%) ITIL
9 848 (8.45%) Data Analysis
10 815 (8.12%) Business Analysis
10 815 (8.12%) Mentoring
11 728 (7.26%) Continuous Improvement
12 722 (7.20%) Cybersecurity
13 706 (7.04%) Visualisation
14 617 (6.15%) Business Case
15 583 (5.81%) Mathematics
16 557 (5.55%) Stakeholder Management
17 554 (5.52%) Requirements Gathering
18 546 (5.44%) Change Management
18 546 (5.44%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 2,106 (20.99%) SQL
2 777 (7.75%) Python
3 200 (1.99%) PowerShell
4 164 (1.63%) R
5 154 (1.54%) C#
6 145 (1.45%) T-SQL
7 112 (1.12%) VBA
8 90 (0.90%) Java
9 83 (0.83%) PL/SQL
10 75 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 75 (0.75%) JavaScript
11 37 (0.37%) Bash
12 35 (0.35%) Shell Script
13 29 (0.29%) RPG
14 28 (0.28%) C++
15 21 (0.21%) Perl
16 19 (0.19%) VB
17 15 (0.15%) PHP
18 13 (0.13%) MATLAB
18 13 (0.13%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,835 (18.29%) Degree
2 555 (5.53%) Security Cleared
3 539 (5.37%) CIMA
4 535 (5.33%) ACCA
5 350 (3.49%) SC Cleared
6 214 (2.13%) CISSP
6 214 (2.13%) DBS Check
7 133 (1.33%) DV Cleared
8 125 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
9 120 (1.20%) Master's Degree
10 110 (1.10%) CISM
11 108 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
12 103 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
13 83 (0.83%) CompTIA Security+
14 81 (0.81%) CISA
15 73 (0.73%) CCNA
16 61 (0.61%) A+ Certification
17 57 (0.57%) ISTQB
18 53 (0.53%) CCNP
19 46 (0.46%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 379 (3.78%) SLA
2 290 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 288 (2.87%) Data Quality
4 278 (2.77%) QA
5 225 (2.24%) GDPR
6 172 (1.71%) NIST
7 105 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
8 99 (0.99%) PMO
9 87 (0.87%) GRC
10 62 (0.62%) PCI DSS
11 53 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 38 (0.38%) NCSC
13 36 (0.36%) ISO 9001
14 35 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
14 35 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 32 (0.32%) Accessibility
15 32 (0.32%) COBIT
16 23 (0.23%) IFRS
17 21 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 17025
18 18 (0.18%) GLP
System Software
1 999 (9.96%) Active Directory
2 141 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 66 (0.66%) Hyper-V
4 50 (0.50%) RACF
5 46 (0.46%) Oracle RAC
6 40 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 39 (0.39%) XenApp
7 39 (0.39%) XenDesktop
8 26 (0.26%) vSphere
9 23 (0.23%) Firmware
10 20 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
11 16 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
12 12 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
13 11 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
14 8 (0.080%) Terminal Services
15 5 (0.050%) VMware Workstation
16 4 (0.040%) Docker
16 4 (0.040%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 2 (0.020%) Citrix Hypervisor
18 1 (0.010%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 192 (1.91%) Microsoft Intune
2 159 (1.59%) SCCM
3 59 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
4 46 (0.46%) Data Guard
5 44 (0.44%) Oracle RMAN
6 40 (0.40%) Terraform
7 37 (0.37%) CASB
8 36 (0.36%) WSUS
9 33 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
10 26 (0.26%) OpenSSO
11 21 (0.21%) QRadar
12 14 (0.14%) EnCase
13 13 (0.13%) CSIRT
14 12 (0.12%) FortiGate
15 11 (0.11%) Grafana
16 10 (0.100%) Nessus
16 10 (0.100%) Nmap
17 9 (0.090%) Failover Clustering
18 8 (0.080%) Kibana
18 8 (0.080%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2,546 (25.38%) Microsoft
2 321 (3.20%) Oracle
3 285 (2.84%) SAP
4 255 (2.54%) VMware
5 186 (1.85%) Cisco
6 174 (1.73%) Databricks
7 157 (1.57%) Google
7 157 (1.57%) ServiceNow
8 153 (1.53%) Salesforce
9 149 (1.49%) Citrix
10 89 (0.89%) Alteryx
10 89 (0.89%) Bloomberg
11 88 (0.88%) Remedy
12 84 (0.84%) Apple
13 70 (0.70%) Splunk
13 70 (0.70%) Sun
14 69 (0.69%) IBM
15 64 (0.64%) Adobe
16 57 (0.57%) iManage
17 56 (0.56%) Sage