Senior Analyst
UK

The median Senior Analyst salary in the UK is £57,500 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 178 175 289
Rank change year-on-year -3 +114 +65
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 1,667 2,085 2,385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.62% 2.14% 1.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.71% 2.34% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 816 787 1,323
10th Percentile £39,268 £37,954 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £44,269 £42,526
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,313 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%

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 97,260 88,990 160,374
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 91.41% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 69,382 56,369 85,188
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,663
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 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%

Senior Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Analyst in the UK

Senior Analyst
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Analyst in the UK

Senior Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Analyst over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Analyst in the UK

Senior Analyst
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Analyst within the UK 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
England +2 1,534 £57,500 +3.60% 284
UK excluding London -78 930 £52,500 +5.00% 138
Work from Home -23 755 £57,500 +4.55% 144
London +104 679 £70,000 +7.69% 160
South East +24 281 £52,500 -8.70% 26
North of England -117 222 £50,000 - 42
Midlands +57 188 £55,000 +15.18% 19
West Midlands +30 115 £55,000 +9.45% 11
South West +3 108 £55,000 +15.79% 10
North West +32 101 £50,000 +1.01% 24
Yorkshire -102 93 £51,528 +2.77% 18
East Midlands +32 71 £62,500 +42.05% 8
Scotland -67 62 £50,000 +2.04% 8
East of England -43 38 £35,000 -34.88% 16
Wales -24 29 £45,000 +15.38% 10
North East +17 28 £35,000 -31.71%
Northern Ireland +19 3 £58,800 +23.79% 9
Channel Islands - 1 £67,500 -

Senior Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior Analyst in the job title.

1 706 (42.35%) Finance
2 660 (39.59%) Social Skills
3 633 (37.97%) Analytical Skills
4 518 (31.07%) Microsoft
5 471 (28.25%) SQL
6 467 (28.01%) Agile
7 462 (27.71%) Actionable Insight
8 406 (24.36%) Microsoft Excel
9 403 (24.18%) Degree
10 338 (20.28%) Decision-Making
11 294 (17.64%) Mentoring
12 282 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
13 272 (16.32%) Python
14 265 (15.90%) Analytics
15 261 (15.66%) Business Case
16 260 (15.60%) ACCA
17 254 (15.24%) CIMA
18 251 (15.06%) Broadband
19 250 (15.00%) Influencing Skills
20 249 (14.94%) Budgeting and Forecasting
21 234 (14.04%) Budgeting
22 226 (13.56%) Data Analysis
23 225 (13.50%) Visualisation
24 209 (12.54%) Legal
24 209 (12.54%) Tableau
25 197 (11.82%) Mathematics
26 187 (11.22%) Azure
27 184 (11.04%) Cybersecurity
28 176 (10.56%) Banking
28 176 (10.56%) Retail

Senior 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 41 (2.46%) SAS
2 33 (1.98%) Confluence
3 26 (1.56%) WebLogic
4 18 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (0.90%) SharePoint
6 7 (0.42%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.36%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.36%) IIS
7 6 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
8 5 (0.30%) IBM Notes
9 4 (0.24%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.18%) Apache
11 2 (0.12%) WordPress
12 1 (0.060%) Moodle
12 1 (0.060%) Mule
12 1 (0.060%) Tornado
12 1 (0.060%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 406 (24.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (3.54%) Microsoft Office
3 48 (2.88%) MS Visio
4 23 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.36%) SOLIDWORKS
7 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.12%) SPSS
7 2 (0.12%) Stata
Business Applications
1 12 (0.72%) Endur
2 8 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.36%) Oracle Applications
3 6 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.24%) Lawson
4 4 (0.24%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.18%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.12%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.060%) Academy Housing
7 1 (0.060%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.060%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.060%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.060%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.060%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.060%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.060%) SAP WM
7 1 (0.060%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 187 (11.22%) Azure
2 162 (9.72%) Power Platform
3 152 (9.12%) AWS
4 111 (6.66%) Microsoft 365
5 69 (4.14%) Entra ID
6 32 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (1.56%) SaaS
8 25 (1.50%) GCP
9 23 (1.38%) Miro
10 19 (1.14%) Azure Sentinel
11 12 (0.72%) Google Analytics
12 10 (0.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 9 (0.54%) PaaS
14 8 (0.48%) Cloud Computing
14 8 (0.48%) Rubrik
15 7 (0.42%) IaaS
16 6 (0.36%) Dynamics 365
16 6 (0.36%) GitHub
16 6 (0.36%) Mimecast
17 5 (0.30%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 251 (15.06%) Broadband
2 72 (4.32%) Firewall
3 19 (1.14%) TCP/IP
4 18 (1.08%) Internet
5 13 (0.78%) SD-WAN
5 13 (0.78%) VLAN
5 13 (0.78%) WAN
6 12 (0.72%) LAN
6 12 (0.72%) SAN
6 12 (0.72%) VoIP
7 11 (0.66%) VPN
8 10 (0.60%) Intrusion Detection
8 10 (0.60%) WPA
9 9 (0.54%) DNS
9 9 (0.54%) Network Security
9 9 (0.54%) Wireless
10 7 (0.42%) WLAN
11 6 (0.36%) EIGRP
11 6 (0.36%) MPLS
11 6 (0.36%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 209 (12.54%) Tableau
2 162 (9.72%) Power BI
3 48 (2.88%) SQL Server
4 40 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
5 26 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
6 25 (1.50%) Looker
7 24 (1.44%) Data Mining
8 15 (0.90%) Big Data
8 15 (0.90%) Relational Database
8 15 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 13 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 12 (0.72%) Metadata
11 11 (0.66%) BigQuery
11 11 (0.66%) MS Access
12 8 (0.48%) Essbase
13 7 (0.42%) GIS
14 6 (0.36%) Geospatial Data
14 6 (0.36%) Oracle Reports
15 5 (0.30%) MySQL
16 4 (0.24%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 108 (6.48%) Git
2 56 (3.36%) JIRA
3 11 (0.66%) Selenium
4 10 (0.60%) Burp Suite
4 10 (0.60%) Metasploit
5 6 (0.36%) JMeter
5 6 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
6 5 (0.30%) TestRail
6 5 (0.30%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.18%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.18%) ERwin
7 3 (0.18%) GitLab
7 3 (0.18%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.18%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.18%) WebDriver
8 2 (0.12%) PowerBuilder
8 2 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio Team System
9 1 (0.060%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.060%) TestNG
General
1 706 (42.35%) Finance
2 660 (39.59%) Social Skills
3 633 (37.97%) Analytical Skills
4 250 (15.00%) Influencing Skills
5 209 (12.54%) Legal
6 176 (10.56%) Banking
6 176 (10.56%) Retail
7 134 (8.04%) Presentation Skills
8 113 (6.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 55 (3.30%) Law
10 53 (3.18%) Marketing
11 44 (2.64%) Public Sector
12 39 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
13 33 (1.98%) Police
14 24 (1.44%) Games
15 19 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
16 14 (0.84%) Advertising
16 14 (0.84%) Front Office
17 11 (0.66%) Manufacturing
18 10 (0.60%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (1.56%) J2EE
1 26 (1.56%) Java EE
1 26 (1.56%) Spring
2 22 (1.32%) REST
3 19 (1.14%) .NET
4 13 (0.78%) HTML
4 13 (0.78%) JSON
5 12 (0.72%) CSS
6 10 (0.60%) Lightning Web Components
7 6 (0.36%) ARM Templates
7 6 (0.36%) Oracle Fusion
8 5 (0.30%) .NET Core
8 5 (0.30%) Blazor
8 5 (0.30%) Entity Framework
8 5 (0.30%) PySpark
9 4 (0.24%) AngularJS
9 4 (0.24%) Laravel
9 4 (0.24%) Next.js
9 4 (0.24%) React
9 4 (0.24%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 118 (7.08%) Management Information System
2 72 (4.32%) Onboarding
3 42 (2.52%) Product Ownership
4 29 (1.74%) Cyberattack
4 29 (1.74%) Security Operations Centre
5 26 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
6 24 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
7 22 (1.32%) PMI
8 20 (1.20%) Credit Risk
9 18 (1.08%) Reinsurance
10 14 (0.84%) Cyber Threat
11 13 (0.78%) Social Media
12 12 (0.72%) Security Posture
13 11 (0.66%) NHS
14 10 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
14 10 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
14 10 (0.60%) Virtual Reality
14 10 (0.60%) Virtual Team
15 9 (0.54%) Biopharmaceutical
15 9 (0.54%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 100 (6.00%) Windows
2 38 (2.28%) Unix
3 36 (2.16%) Linux
4 32 (1.92%) Windows Server
5 23 (1.38%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.36%) SUSE
6 6 (0.36%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 6 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (0.30%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.18%) Mac OS X
10 2 (0.12%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.060%) Android
11 1 (0.060%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 467 (28.01%) Agile
2 462 (27.71%) Actionable Insight
3 338 (20.28%) Decision-Making
4 294 (17.64%) Mentoring
5 282 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
6 265 (15.90%) Analytics
7 261 (15.66%) Business Case
8 249 (14.94%) Budgeting and Forecasting
9 234 (14.04%) Budgeting
10 226 (13.56%) Data Analysis
11 225 (13.50%) Visualisation
12 197 (11.82%) Mathematics
13 184 (11.04%) Cybersecurity
14 157 (9.42%) Statistics
15 155 (9.30%) Business Strategy
16 154 (9.24%) Information Security
17 151 (9.06%) Business Intelligence
18 147 (8.82%) Process Improvement
19 119 (7.14%) Impact Assessments
20 118 (7.08%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 471 (28.25%) SQL
2 272 (16.32%) Python
3 79 (4.74%) PowerShell
4 42 (2.52%) R
5 31 (1.86%) Java
6 27 (1.62%) C#
7 26 (1.56%) Shell Script
8 20 (1.20%) T-SQL
9 19 (1.14%) VBA
10 16 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 12 (0.72%) PL/SQL
12 10 (0.60%) JavaScript
13 7 (0.42%) C++
13 7 (0.42%) PHP
14 5 (0.30%) VB.NET
15 4 (0.24%) Bicep
15 4 (0.24%) C
15 4 (0.24%) VB
16 3 (0.18%) RPG
16 3 (0.18%) VB6
Qualifications
1 403 (24.18%) Degree
2 260 (15.60%) ACCA
3 254 (15.24%) CIMA
4 113 (6.78%) Security Cleared
5 109 (6.54%) DBS Check
6 94 (5.64%) SC Cleared
7 52 (3.12%) CISSP
8 33 (1.98%) Master's Degree
9 26 (1.56%) PMI Certification
10 21 (1.26%) CISM
11 20 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
12 19 (1.14%) CompTIA Security+
13 17 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
14 16 (0.96%) DV Cleared
15 14 (0.84%) CISA
15 14 (0.84%) GIAC
15 14 (0.84%) ISTQB
16 13 (0.78%) CCNP
16 13 (0.78%) CompTIA CySA+
17 10 (0.60%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (6.18%) GDPR
2 44 (2.64%) Data Quality
3 34 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 33 (1.98%) QA
5 31 (1.86%) SLA
6 30 (1.80%) NIST
7 20 (1.20%) IFRS
8 16 (0.96%) GRC
9 13 (0.78%) PCI DSS
10 12 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
10 12 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 10 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
12 9 (0.54%) COBIT
12 9 (0.54%) PMO
13 6 (0.36%) CRD IV
14 4 (0.24%) ISO 22301
14 4 (0.24%) ISO 9001
15 3 (0.18%) IFRS 9
16 2 (0.12%) IFRS 17
17 1 (0.060%) Accessibility
System Software
1 121 (7.26%) Active Directory
2 50 (3.00%) RACF
3 9 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
3 9 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.36%) Firmware
5 5 (0.30%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.060%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.060%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.060%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
2 26 (1.56%) OpenSSO
3 21 (1.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (0.90%) SCCM
5 10 (0.60%) Nmap
6 9 (0.54%) QRadar
7 8 (0.48%) Terraform
8 7 (0.42%) CASB
9 6 (0.36%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 4 (0.24%) CSIRT
11 2 (0.12%) cPanel
11 2 (0.12%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.060%) Control-M
12 1 (0.060%) HP SiteScope
12 1 (0.060%) Microsoft Clustering
12 1 (0.060%) Perfmon
12 1 (0.060%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 518 (31.07%) Microsoft
2 127 (7.62%) Databricks
3 62 (3.72%) Oracle
4 51 (3.06%) CyberArk
5 35 (2.10%) SAP
6 34 (2.04%) Cisco
7 30 (1.80%) Google
8 29 (1.74%) Citrix
9 26 (1.56%) Alteryx
9 26 (1.56%) Remedy
9 26 (1.56%) Salesforce
10 24 (1.44%) VMware
11 17 (1.02%) CA
11 17 (1.02%) IBM
12 16 (0.96%) HP
12 16 (0.96%) SolarWinds
13 15 (0.90%) Splunk
14 14 (0.84%) CrowdStrike
15 13 (0.78%) Hyperion
15 13 (0.78%) Palo Alto