Analyst
UK

The median Analyst salary in the UK is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 16 23
Rank change year-on-year +3 +7 +2
Permanent jobs requiring an Analyst 9,845 11,597 16,578
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.75% 11.77% 10.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.30% 12.87% 10.53%
Number of salaries quoted 6,604 7,396 11,411
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,000 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £46,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,960 £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 95,626 90,111 157,385
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.75% 91.48% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 68,292 56,801 84,606
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,250 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,250 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.10% +6.13% +5.63%

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 23 May 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 23 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
England +3 8,952 £45,000 -5.26% 2,138
UK excluding London +1 6,490 £40,000 - 1,361
Work from Home +3 3,738 £45,249 -4.74% 882
London +4 3,033 £60,000 +9.09% 1,017
North of England -1 1,655 £39,567 -1.52% 333
South East 0 1,573 £40,000 -2.38% 470
Midlands 0 1,264 £37,500 -6.25% 203
North West +3 937 £40,000 -5.88% 201
West Midlands +1 827 £37,500 -6.25% 117
South West +2 707 £42,500 +6.25% 127
East of England +8 660 £36,664 -7.76% 137
Yorkshire -9 538 £37,500 -6.25% 110
East Midlands +3 430 £36,500 -3.95% 83
Scotland -35 406 £42,500 +5.95% 79
North East +4 180 £35,000 -12.50% 25
Wales -9 176 £36,476 +4.22% 27
Northern Ireland +26 35 £47,500 +26.67% 16
Isle of Man 0 20 £46,500 +3.33%
Channel Islands -2 2 £67,500 +92.86% 1

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 23 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 featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 3,387 (34.40%) Social Skills
2 2,962 (30.09%) Finance
3 2,804 (28.48%) Analytical Skills
4 2,542 (25.82%) Microsoft
5 2,109 (21.42%) Problem-Solving
6 2,078 (21.11%) SQL
7 1,805 (18.33%) Degree
8 1,726 (17.53%) Agile
9 1,547 (15.71%) Microsoft Excel
10 1,262 (12.82%) Decision-Making
11 1,197 (12.16%) Windows
12 1,050 (10.67%) Microsoft 365
13 1,049 (10.66%) Customer Service
14 1,047 (10.63%) Azure
15 1,015 (10.31%) Microsoft Office
15 1,015 (10.31%) Actionable Insight
16 1,009 (10.25%) Power Platform
17 998 (10.14%) Analytics
18 989 (10.05%) Active Directory
19 982 (9.97%) Business Intelligence
20 942 (9.57%) Power BI
21 901 (9.15%) ITIL
22 832 (8.45%) Data Analysis
23 818 (8.31%) Mentoring
24 817 (8.30%) Business Analysis
25 813 (8.26%) Retail
26 767 (7.79%) Python
27 733 (7.45%) Legal
28 718 (7.29%) Cybersecurity
29 712 (7.23%) Continuous Improvement

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
1 325 (3.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 312 (3.17%) SharePoint
3 142 (1.44%) Confluence
4 87 (0.88%) SAS
5 70 (0.71%) WebLogic
6 44 (0.45%) Oracle Service Bus
7 37 (0.38%) CMS
8 23 (0.23%) IIS
9 20 (0.20%) Apache
10 16 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
11 14 (0.14%) Apache Spark
11 14 (0.14%) IBM Notes
12 12 (0.12%) Skype for Business
13 10 (0.10%) WordPress
14 8 (0.081%) ArcGIS
14 8 (0.081%) Moodle
14 8 (0.081%) WebSphere
15 6 (0.061%) Exchange Server 2010
15 6 (0.061%) Exchange Server 2013
16 5 (0.051%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1,547 (15.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 1,015 (10.31%) Microsoft Office
3 221 (2.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 176 (1.79%) MS Visio
5 47 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
6 24 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
7 21 (0.21%) SPSS
8 14 (0.14%) Trello
9 6 (0.061%) LightWave 3D
9 6 (0.061%) SOLIDWORKS
10 4 (0.041%) Chatbot
11 3 (0.030%) Stata
12 2 (0.020%) LaTeX
13 1 (0.010%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 97 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 48 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
3 44 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
4 32 (0.33%) Aladdin
5 29 (0.29%) Elite 3E
6 28 (0.28%) NEC Housing
7 25 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
8 24 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
9 22 (0.22%) Endur
10 20 (0.20%) NetSuite
11 18 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
11 18 (0.18%) thinkFolio
12 17 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
13 16 (0.16%) Infor SunSystems
13 16 (0.16%) iTrent
13 16 (0.16%) PlanetPress Connect
14 14 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
15 13 (0.13%) Maximo
15 13 (0.13%) Oracle Financials
16 12 (0.12%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 1,050 (10.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1,047 (10.63%) Azure
3 1,009 (10.25%) Power Platform
4 430 (4.37%) AWS
5 233 (2.37%) Entra ID
6 210 (2.13%) SaaS
7 181 (1.84%) Dynamics 365
8 119 (1.21%) Azure DevOps
9 78 (0.79%) GCP
10 65 (0.66%) Google Analytics
11 63 (0.64%) PowerApps
12 60 (0.61%) Power Automate
13 47 (0.48%) OneDrive
14 45 (0.46%) Mimecast
15 44 (0.45%) Azure Sentinel
16 43 (0.44%) PaaS
17 39 (0.40%) WhatsApp
18 36 (0.37%) Snowflake
19 27 (0.27%) SuccessFactors
20 26 (0.26%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 504 (5.12%) Broadband
2 429 (4.36%) Firewall
3 268 (2.72%) DNS
4 261 (2.65%) LAN
5 245 (2.49%) WAN
6 177 (1.80%) TCP/IP
7 154 (1.56%) DHCP
8 152 (1.54%) VPN
9 149 (1.51%) Internet
10 102 (1.04%) VoIP
11 97 (0.99%) Wireless
12 95 (0.96%) SD-WAN
13 85 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
14 83 (0.84%) Network Security
15 72 (0.73%) WLAN
16 61 (0.62%) Intrusion Detection
17 57 (0.58%) MPLS
18 48 (0.49%) VLAN
19 46 (0.47%) BGP
19 46 (0.47%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 942 (9.57%) Power BI
2 503 (5.11%) Tableau
3 366 (3.72%) SQL Server
4 192 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
5 156 (1.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 90 (0.91%) BigQuery
7 87 (0.88%) Relational Database
8 81 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 77 (0.78%) Power Query
10 71 (0.72%) Oracle Database
11 62 (0.63%) Data Mining
12 44 (0.45%) Oracle Database 10g
12 44 (0.45%) Oracle Database 11g
12 44 (0.45%) QlikView
12 44 (0.45%) VLDB
13 43 (0.44%) Big Data
14 42 (0.43%) MySQL
15 41 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
16 39 (0.40%) Looker
17 32 (0.33%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 350 (3.56%) JIRA
2 150 (1.52%) Git
3 50 (0.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 44 (0.45%) Selenium
5 35 (0.36%) Visual Studio
6 27 (0.27%) Eclipse
7 20 (0.20%) Postman
8 17 (0.17%) TestRail
9 16 (0.16%) JMeter
10 11 (0.11%) GitLab
11 10 (0.10%) Burp Suite
11 10 (0.10%) Metasploit
11 10 (0.10%) Team Foundation Server
11 10 (0.10%) Toad
12 8 (0.081%) NUnit
12 8 (0.081%) Oracle Forms
13 7 (0.071%) Jenkins
13 7 (0.071%) TeamCity
13 7 (0.071%) WebDriver
14 6 (0.061%) Zephyr
General
1 3,387 (34.40%) Social Skills
2 2,962 (30.09%) Finance
3 2,804 (28.48%) Analytical Skills
4 813 (8.26%) Retail
5 733 (7.45%) Legal
6 683 (6.94%) Influencing Skills
7 664 (6.74%) Banking
8 620 (6.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 620 (6.30%) Law
9 385 (3.91%) Organisational Skills
10 358 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
11 325 (3.30%) Marketing
12 284 (2.88%) Public Sector
13 270 (2.74%) Manufacturing
14 228 (2.32%) Investment Banking
15 192 (1.95%) Front Office
16 116 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
17 107 (1.09%) Police
18 102 (1.04%) Back Office
19 100 (1.02%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (1.16%) .NET
2 67 (0.68%) REST
3 63 (0.64%) JSON
4 61 (0.62%) Oracle Fusion
5 60 (0.61%) XML
6 51 (0.52%) HTML
7 45 (0.46%) EDI
8 39 (0.40%) Web Services
9 35 (0.36%) FIX Protocol
10 31 (0.31%) CSS
11 27 (0.27%) Spring
12 26 (0.26%) J2EE
12 26 (0.26%) Java EE
13 22 (0.22%) OLE
14 18 (0.18%) .NET Framework
15 17 (0.17%) Middleware
16 16 (0.16%) SOAP
17 14 (0.14%) ASP.NET
17 14 (0.14%) RESTful
17 14 (0.14%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 479 (4.87%) Management Information System
2 377 (3.83%) Self-Motivation
3 272 (2.76%) Product Ownership
4 216 (2.19%) Onboarding
5 130 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 127 (1.29%) Hedge funds
7 126 (1.28%) Fixed Income
8 123 (1.25%) Derivative
9 104 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
9 104 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
9 104 (1.06%) Driving Licence
10 102 (1.04%) Cyberattack
11 89 (0.90%) Security Operations Centre
12 85 (0.86%) Life Science
13 78 (0.79%) Equities
14 71 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
15 70 (0.71%) Data Centre
16 67 (0.68%) Reinsurance
17 60 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
18 56 (0.57%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1,197 (12.16%) Windows
2 436 (4.43%) Windows 10
3 376 (3.82%) Windows Server
4 262 (2.66%) Linux
5 168 (1.71%) Unix
6 104 (1.06%) Apple iOS
7 94 (0.95%) Android
8 71 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
9 61 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
10 59 (0.60%) Solaris
11 57 (0.58%) Mac OS
12 50 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
13 42 (0.43%) Windows 7
14 30 (0.30%) Mac OS X
15 17 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
16 15 (0.15%) Windows 8
17 13 (0.13%) VMS
18 12 (0.12%) CentOS
18 12 (0.12%) Ubuntu
18 12 (0.12%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,109 (21.42%) Problem-Solving
2 1,726 (17.53%) Agile
3 1,262 (12.82%) Decision-Making
4 1,049 (10.66%) Customer Service
5 1,015 (10.31%) Actionable Insight
6 998 (10.14%) Analytics
7 982 (9.97%) Business Intelligence
8 901 (9.15%) ITIL
9 832 (8.45%) Data Analysis
10 818 (8.31%) Mentoring
11 817 (8.30%) Business Analysis
12 718 (7.29%) Cybersecurity
13 712 (7.23%) Continuous Improvement
14 695 (7.06%) Visualisation
15 636 (6.46%) Business Case
16 575 (5.84%) Stakeholder Management
17 571 (5.80%) Mathematics
18 548 (5.57%) Requirements Gathering
19 545 (5.54%) Project Management
20 542 (5.51%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 2,078 (21.11%) SQL
2 767 (7.79%) Python
3 203 (2.06%) PowerShell
4 167 (1.70%) R
5 159 (1.62%) C#
6 146 (1.48%) T-SQL
7 100 (1.02%) VBA
8 86 (0.87%) Java
9 82 (0.83%) PL/SQL
10 75 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 69 (0.70%) JavaScript
12 36 (0.37%) Bash
13 35 (0.36%) Shell Script
14 27 (0.27%) RPG
15 26 (0.26%) C++
16 21 (0.21%) Perl
17 19 (0.19%) VB
18 14 (0.14%) PHP
19 13 (0.13%) VB.NET
20 12 (0.12%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1,805 (18.33%) Degree
2 536 (5.44%) CIMA
2 536 (5.44%) Security Cleared
3 532 (5.40%) ACCA
4 344 (3.49%) SC Cleared
5 212 (2.15%) DBS Check
6 209 (2.12%) CISSP
7 122 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 122 (1.24%) DV Cleared
8 117 (1.19%) Master's Degree
9 116 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
10 103 (1.05%) CISM
11 97 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
12 84 (0.85%) CompTIA Security+
13 77 (0.78%) CCNA
13 77 (0.78%) CISA
14 57 (0.58%) A+ Certification
15 55 (0.56%) CCNP
16 52 (0.53%) ISTQB
17 46 (0.47%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 360 (3.66%) SLA
2 285 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 264 (2.68%) Data Quality
4 252 (2.56%) QA
5 222 (2.25%) GDPR
6 170 (1.73%) NIST
7 102 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
8 96 (0.98%) PMO
9 86 (0.87%) GRC
10 62 (0.63%) PCI DSS
11 52 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 37 (0.38%) ISO 9001
12 37 (0.38%) NCSC
13 34 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
13 34 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 32 (0.33%) Accessibility
14 32 (0.33%) COBIT
15 26 (0.26%) IFRS
16 22 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 17025
17 18 (0.18%) GLP
System Software
1 989 (10.05%) Active Directory
2 135 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 65 (0.66%) Hyper-V
4 48 (0.49%) RACF
5 46 (0.47%) Oracle RAC
6 39 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 34 (0.35%) XenApp
7 34 (0.35%) 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 6 (0.061%) Terminal Services
15 5 (0.051%) Docker
16 4 (0.041%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 4 (0.041%) VMware Workstation
17 2 (0.020%) Citrix Hypervisor
18 1 (0.010%) Snort
Systems Management
1 191 (1.94%) Microsoft Intune
2 154 (1.56%) SCCM
3 58 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
4 46 (0.47%) Data Guard
5 44 (0.45%) Oracle RMAN
6 38 (0.39%) Terraform
7 37 (0.38%) CASB
8 34 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
8 34 (0.35%) WSUS
9 26 (0.26%) OpenSSO
10 21 (0.21%) QRadar
11 15 (0.15%) EnCase
12 13 (0.13%) CSIRT
13 12 (0.12%) FortiGate
14 10 (0.10%) Grafana
14 10 (0.10%) Nmap
15 9 (0.091%) Control-M
15 9 (0.091%) Failover Clustering
15 9 (0.091%) Nessus
15 9 (0.091%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2,542 (25.82%) Microsoft
2 321 (3.26%) Oracle
3 264 (2.68%) SAP
4 246 (2.50%) VMware
5 187 (1.90%) Cisco
6 176 (1.79%) Databricks
7 164 (1.67%) Salesforce
8 159 (1.62%) Google
9 157 (1.59%) ServiceNow
10 146 (1.48%) Citrix
11 91 (0.92%) Alteryx
12 90 (0.91%) Apple
13 88 (0.89%) Bloomberg
14 87 (0.88%) Remedy
15 73 (0.74%) Splunk
16 71 (0.72%) Sun
17 68 (0.69%) IBM
18 64 (0.65%) Adobe
19 56 (0.57%) iManage
20 55 (0.56%) Dell