Analyst Jobs in the UK excluding London

Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Analyst salary in the UK excluding London is £40,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 May 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 14 16
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 +7
Permanent jobs requiring an Analyst 6,541 7,145 8,933
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.84% 12.30% 12.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.31% 13.81% 12.67%
Number of salaries quoted 4,275 4,148 6,186
10th Percentile £24,500 £25,000 £24,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £30,500 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
75th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £51,250
90th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £60,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,598 £45,000
% change year-on-year -1.31% +1.33% +2.27%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 70,239 51,739 70,521
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.92% 89.07% 95.69%
Number of salaries quoted 49,597 29,705 42,866
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Analyst in the UK excluding London

Analyst
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Analyst in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Analyst in the UK excluding London

Analyst
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Analyst in the UK excluding London

Analyst
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Analyst within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 May 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
North of England -2 1,656 £39,003 -2.49% 351
South East -1 1,591 £40,000 -2.38% 278
Midlands -1 1,279 £37,500 -6.25% 191
North West +2 942 £40,000 -5.88% 206
West Midlands +1 834 £37,500 -6.25% 111
South West +2 725 £41,500 +6.41% 134
East of England +6 669 £36,664 -7.76% 121
Yorkshire -10 535 £37,500 -6.25% 122
East Midlands 0 439 £36,500 -3.82% 80
Scotland -35 396 £41,000 +2.21% 76
North East +3 179 £35,000 -12.50% 26
Wales -8 177 £36,476 +4.22% 31
Northern Ireland +19 34 £45,000 +20.00% 20
Isle of Man 0 20 £46,500 +3.33%
Channel Islands -2 2 £67,500 +92.86% 1
Analyst
UK

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 28 May 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 2,229 (34.08%) Social Skills
2 1,838 (28.10%) Analytical Skills
3 1,740 (26.60%) Microsoft
4 1,581 (24.17%) Finance
5 1,571 (24.02%) Problem-Solving
6 1,133 (17.32%) Degree
7 1,055 (16.13%) SQL
8 1,034 (15.81%) Agile
9 953 (14.57%) Microsoft Excel
10 888 (13.58%) Customer Service
11 820 (12.54%) Decision-Making
11 820 (12.54%) Windows
12 775 (11.85%) Microsoft Office
13 768 (11.74%) Microsoft 365
14 742 (11.34%) Active Directory
15 679 (10.38%) Power Platform
16 659 (10.07%) Business Intelligence
17 658 (10.06%) Azure
18 641 (9.80%) ITIL
19 639 (9.77%) Power BI
20 595 (9.10%) Continuous Improvement
21 589 (9.00%) Business Analysis
22 574 (8.78%) Retail
23 561 (8.58%) Analytics
24 556 (8.50%) Actionable Insight
25 501 (7.66%) Legal
26 470 (7.19%) Cybersecurity
27 461 (7.05%) Mentoring
28 456 (6.97%) Data Analysis
29 446 (6.82%) Security Cleared

Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 218 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 188 (2.87%) SharePoint
3 112 (1.71%) Confluence
4 70 (1.07%) WebLogic
5 54 (0.83%) SAS
6 44 (0.67%) Oracle Service Bus
7 18 (0.28%) CMS
8 13 (0.20%) IIS
9 10 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
10 9 (0.14%) WebSphere
11 8 (0.12%) ArcGIS
12 7 (0.11%) Apache
13 6 (0.092%) Apache Spark
13 6 (0.092%) Exchange Server 2013
13 6 (0.092%) Moodle
14 4 (0.061%) IBM Notes
15 3 (0.046%) JBoss
15 3 (0.046%) Oracle Application Server
15 3 (0.046%) Skype for Business
15 3 (0.046%) Tomcat
Applications
1 953 (14.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 775 (11.85%) Microsoft Office
3 127 (1.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 124 (1.90%) MS Visio
5 35 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
6 19 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
7 10 (0.15%) Trello
8 7 (0.11%) SPSS
9 6 (0.092%) LightWave 3D
9 6 (0.092%) SOLIDWORKS
10 2 (0.031%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.031%) LaTeX
Business Applications
1 55 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 47 (0.72%) Remedy ITSM
3 32 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
4 21 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
5 16 (0.24%) iTrent
5 16 (0.24%) Maximo
5 16 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
6 14 (0.21%) Dynamics GP
7 13 (0.20%) Infor SunSystems
7 13 (0.20%) NEC Housing
7 13 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
7 13 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
8 12 (0.18%) Oracle Financials
9 11 (0.17%) NetSuite
9 11 (0.17%) ResourceLink
10 10 (0.15%) Misys Midas
11 8 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
11 8 (0.12%) SAP CO
11 8 (0.12%) SAP FI
11 8 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 768 (11.74%) Microsoft 365
2 679 (10.38%) Power Platform
3 658 (10.06%) Azure
4 164 (2.51%) Entra ID
5 159 (2.43%) AWS
6 155 (2.37%) SaaS
7 134 (2.05%) Dynamics 365
8 65 (0.99%) Azure DevOps
9 50 (0.76%) GCP
10 43 (0.66%) PowerApps
11 42 (0.64%) Power Automate
12 37 (0.57%) Azure Sentinel
13 34 (0.52%) Google Analytics
14 29 (0.44%) WhatsApp
15 23 (0.35%) Mimecast
16 21 (0.32%) Miro
16 21 (0.32%) SuccessFactors
17 19 (0.29%) PaaS
18 17 (0.26%) Adobe Analytics
19 16 (0.24%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 274 (4.19%) Firewall
2 265 (4.05%) Broadband
3 214 (3.27%) LAN
4 191 (2.92%) DNS
5 188 (2.87%) WAN
6 116 (1.77%) Internet
7 111 (1.70%) TCP/IP
8 105 (1.61%) DHCP
8 105 (1.61%) VPN
9 80 (1.22%) VoIP
10 71 (1.09%) WLAN
11 65 (0.99%) SD-WAN
12 58 (0.89%) Wireless
13 56 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
14 49 (0.75%) Network Security
15 43 (0.66%) MPLS
16 36 (0.55%) BGP
16 36 (0.55%) Intrusion Detection
16 36 (0.55%) OSPF
16 36 (0.55%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 639 (9.77%) Power BI
2 246 (3.76%) Tableau
3 191 (2.92%) SQL Server
4 113 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
5 80 (1.22%) BigQuery
6 79 (1.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 64 (0.98%) Power Query
8 62 (0.95%) Relational Database
9 56 (0.86%) Oracle Database
10 44 (0.67%) Oracle Database 10g
10 44 (0.67%) Oracle Database 11g
10 44 (0.67%) VLDB
11 34 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 29 (0.44%) QlikView
13 28 (0.43%) Data Mining
14 27 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
14 27 (0.41%) MySQL
15 24 (0.37%) MS Access
16 23 (0.35%) GIS
17 21 (0.32%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 240 (3.67%) JIRA
2 28 (0.43%) Git
3 27 (0.41%) Selenium
4 24 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 16 (0.24%) Eclipse
6 14 (0.21%) JMeter
7 12 (0.18%) TestRail
8 10 (0.15%) Postman
9 9 (0.14%) Visual Studio
10 8 (0.12%) WebDriver
11 7 (0.11%) NUnit
11 7 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
12 6 (0.092%) TeamCity
12 6 (0.092%) Zephyr
13 4 (0.061%) SpecFlow
13 4 (0.061%) Toad
14 3 (0.046%) Octopus Deploy
14 3 (0.046%) SoapUI
15 2 (0.031%) Android Studio
15 2 (0.031%) GitLab
General
1 2,229 (34.08%) Social Skills
2 1,838 (28.10%) Analytical Skills
3 1,581 (24.17%) Finance
4 574 (8.78%) Retail
5 501 (7.66%) Legal
6 405 (6.19%) Influencing Skills
7 386 (5.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 384 (5.87%) Law
9 331 (5.06%) Organisational Skills
10 321 (4.91%) Banking
11 244 (3.73%) Manufacturing
12 217 (3.32%) Marketing
13 212 (3.24%) Public Sector
14 170 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
15 134 (2.05%) Investment Banking
16 88 (1.35%) Police
17 85 (1.30%) Telecoms
18 81 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
19 60 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
20 56 (0.86%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (0.84%) .NET
2 47 (0.72%) XML
3 43 (0.66%) EDI
4 41 (0.63%) JSON
5 36 (0.55%) Oracle Fusion
6 33 (0.50%) REST
7 29 (0.44%) HTML
8 27 (0.41%) Spring
9 26 (0.40%) J2EE
9 26 (0.40%) Java EE
10 22 (0.34%) OLE
11 19 (0.29%) Web Services
12 15 (0.23%) Middleware
13 13 (0.20%) EDIFACT
14 11 (0.17%) .NET Framework
14 11 (0.17%) CSS
14 11 (0.17%) Lightning Web Components
14 11 (0.17%) SOAP
15 10 (0.15%) RESTful
15 10 (0.15%) XSL
Miscellaneous
1 317 (4.85%) Management Information System
2 224 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
3 129 (1.97%) Product Ownership
4 104 (1.59%) Driving Licence
5 98 (1.50%) Onboarding
6 84 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
7 71 (1.09%) Security Operations Centre
8 70 (1.07%) Cyber Threat
9 59 (0.90%) Cyberattack
10 48 (0.73%) Mobile App
11 44 (0.67%) NHS
12 43 (0.66%) Data Centre
12 43 (0.66%) Life Science
13 41 (0.63%) FMCG
14 40 (0.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 38 (0.58%) Credit Risk
16 37 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
16 37 (0.57%) Operational Technology
17 35 (0.54%) Smartphone
18 31 (0.47%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 820 (12.54%) Windows
2 298 (4.56%) Windows 10
3 281 (4.30%) Windows Server
4 170 (2.60%) Linux
5 122 (1.87%) Unix
6 80 (1.22%) Android
7 64 (0.98%) Apple iOS
8 53 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
9 47 (0.72%) Solaris
9 47 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
10 38 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
11 37 (0.57%) Windows 7
12 22 (0.34%) Mac OS
13 21 (0.32%) Mac OS X
14 15 (0.23%) Windows 8
15 10 (0.15%) VMS
15 10 (0.15%) Windows Vista
16 8 (0.12%) AIX
16 8 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
17 6 (0.092%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,571 (24.02%) Problem-Solving
2 1,034 (15.81%) Agile
3 888 (13.58%) Customer Service
4 820 (12.54%) Decision-Making
5 659 (10.07%) Business Intelligence
6 641 (9.80%) ITIL
7 595 (9.10%) Continuous Improvement
8 589 (9.00%) Business Analysis
9 561 (8.58%) Analytics
10 556 (8.50%) Actionable Insight
11 470 (7.19%) Cybersecurity
12 461 (7.05%) Mentoring
13 456 (6.97%) Data Analysis
14 400 (6.12%) Coaching
15 391 (5.98%) Visualisation
16 385 (5.89%) ERP
17 379 (5.79%) Requirements Gathering
18 377 (5.76%) Stakeholder Management
19 364 (5.56%) Project Management
20 361 (5.52%) Business Case
Programming Languages
1 1,055 (16.13%) SQL
2 286 (4.37%) Python
3 114 (1.74%) PowerShell
4 88 (1.35%) R
5 76 (1.16%) C#
6 69 (1.05%) T-SQL
7 60 (0.92%) Java
8 57 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 54 (0.83%) VBA
10 53 (0.81%) PL/SQL
11 38 (0.58%) JavaScript
12 30 (0.46%) Shell Script
13 24 (0.37%) RPG
14 15 (0.23%) VB
15 14 (0.21%) Bash
16 8 (0.12%) ActionScript
16 8 (0.12%) ActionScript 2.0
16 8 (0.12%) PHP
17 7 (0.11%) RPG IV
18 5 (0.076%) RPG/400
Qualifications
1 1,133 (17.32%) Degree
2 446 (6.82%) Security Cleared
3 287 (4.39%) CIMA
4 280 (4.28%) ACCA
5 261 (3.99%) SC Cleared
6 124 (1.90%) CISSP
7 86 (1.31%) DBS Check
8 85 (1.30%) DV Cleared
9 79 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
10 77 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
11 74 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
12 65 (0.99%) CompTIA Security+
13 59 (0.90%) CCNA
14 58 (0.89%) CISM
15 47 (0.72%) ISTQB
16 46 (0.70%) A+ Certification
16 46 (0.70%) Master's Degree
17 35 (0.54%) PMI Certification
18 34 (0.52%) CCDP
18 34 (0.52%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 288 (4.40%) SLA
2 181 (2.77%) GDPR
3 171 (2.61%) QA
4 157 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 115 (1.76%) Data Quality
6 91 (1.39%) NIST
7 80 (1.22%) PMO
8 60 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
9 51 (0.78%) PCI DSS
10 36 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 34 (0.52%) GRC
12 29 (0.44%) ISO 9001
13 24 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
14 22 (0.34%) Accessibility
14 22 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 17025
15 18 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 18 (0.28%) GLP
16 14 (0.21%) NCSC
17 13 (0.20%) IFRS
18 10 (0.15%) ITGC
System Software
1 742 (11.34%) Active Directory
2 84 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 59 (0.90%) Hyper-V
4 44 (0.67%) Oracle RAC
4 44 (0.67%) RACF
5 24 (0.37%) vSphere
6 17 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
7 12 (0.18%) XenApp
7 12 (0.18%) XenDesktop
8 11 (0.17%) Firmware
8 11 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.076%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.061%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 4 (0.061%) VMware Workstation
11 2 (0.031%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 2 (0.031%) Embedded Firmware
12 1 (0.015%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.015%) DFS Replication
12 1 (0.015%) Docker
Systems Management
1 122 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
2 112 (1.71%) SCCM
3 44 (0.67%) Data Guard
3 44 (0.67%) Oracle RMAN
4 42 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
5 34 (0.52%) CASB
6 29 (0.44%) WSUS
7 26 (0.40%) OpenSSO
8 15 (0.23%) EnCase
9 14 (0.21%) Terraform
10 11 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
11 9 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
12 8 (0.12%) Grafana
12 8 (0.12%) Progress Chef
13 7 (0.11%) Nagios
13 7 (0.11%) Nessus
14 6 (0.092%) Tivoli Storage Manager
15 5 (0.076%) FortiGate
15 5 (0.076%) Graphite
15 5 (0.076%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 1,740 (26.60%) Microsoft
2 204 (3.12%) Oracle
3 203 (3.10%) SAP
4 162 (2.48%) VMware
5 124 (1.90%) ServiceNow
6 112 (1.71%) Cisco
7 103 (1.57%) Salesforce
8 85 (1.30%) Google
9 82 (1.25%) Remedy
10 69 (1.05%) Citrix
11 59 (0.90%) Apple
12 58 (0.89%) Sun
13 55 (0.84%) Alteryx
14 53 (0.81%) Databricks
15 47 (0.72%) CyberArk
15 47 (0.72%) Dell
16 42 (0.64%) Adobe
17 41 (0.63%) Splunk
18 39 (0.60%) Sage
19 33 (0.50%) HP