System Analyst
UK

The median System Analyst salary in the UK is £47,500 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 416 473 630
Rank change year-on-year +57 +157 -28
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Analyst 612 603 785
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.60% 0.62% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.68% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 516 362 637
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,660
25th Percentile £36,188 £38,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.47%
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £66,250 £66,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £43,551
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.33% +3.44%

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%

Systems Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Analyst in the UK

Systems Analyst
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Systems Analyst in the UK

Systems Analyst
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Systems Analyst in the UK

Systems Analyst
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Systems 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 +40 540 £47,500 - 82
UK excluding London -8 403 £40,000 -11.11% 69
Work from Home +40 208 £47,500 -5.00% 39
London +159 179 £70,000 +27.27% 27
North of England +37 135 £40,000 -15.79% 21
North West +61 92 £40,000 -11.11% 12
East of England +34 80 £42,186 -11.19% 6
South East -48 63 £43,500 -0.57% 12
Midlands -7 52 £45,000 +5.88% 14
Scotland -44 34 £33,750 -22.64% 6
Yorkshire +8 31 £40,000 -23.81% 7
South West -39 30 £37,500 +8.87% 4
West Midlands +4 26 £43,750 +2.94% 7
East Midlands -11 26 £50,250 +11.67% 7
North East -1 12 £40,000 -9.09% 2
Wales +6 6 £39,134 -31.94% 2
Northern Ireland +22 3 £35,000 -6.67% 5

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

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

1 257 (41.99%) Finance
2 172 (28.10%) SQL
3 170 (27.78%) Social Skills
4 137 (22.39%) Problem-Solving
4 137 (22.39%) Analytical Skills
5 101 (16.50%) Degree
6 97 (15.85%) Microsoft
7 95 (15.52%) ERP
8 84 (13.73%) Power Platform
9 76 (12.42%) Microsoft Excel
10 74 (12.09%) Law
11 69 (11.27%) Power BI
12 66 (10.78%) Business Intelligence
13 65 (10.62%) Legal
14 55 (8.99%) SQL Server
15 54 (8.82%) Continuous Improvement
16 51 (8.33%) Migration
16 51 (8.33%) Decision-Making
17 50 (8.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 48 (7.84%) Microsoft Office
19 47 (7.68%) Agile
20 46 (7.52%) ITIL
20 46 (7.52%) Roadmaps
21 45 (7.35%) Systems Analysis
21 45 (7.35%) Business Analysis
22 43 (7.03%) Customer Service
23 41 (6.70%) Retail
23 41 (6.70%) Project Management
24 40 (6.54%) Oracle
25 36 (5.88%) SAP

Systems 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 23 (3.76%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.98%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (0.49%) Confluence
5 2 (0.33%) CMS
6 1 (0.16%) Liferay
6 1 (0.16%) Mule
6 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 76 (12.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (7.84%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.98%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.49%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 24 (3.92%) Elite 3E
2 14 (2.29%) Aladdin
2 14 (2.29%) thinkFolio
3 12 (1.96%) iTrent
4 11 (1.80%) Dynamics CRM
5 10 (1.63%) Infor SunSystems
5 10 (1.63%) NetSuite
6 8 (1.31%) Misys Midas
6 8 (1.31%) SAP S/4HANA
7 6 (0.98%) Oracle Applications
8 5 (0.82%) Epicor Tropos
8 5 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.82%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.65%) Dynamics NAV
9 4 (0.65%) Oracle Financials
10 3 (0.49%) SAP ERP
11 2 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
11 2 (0.33%) NEC Housing
11 2 (0.33%) SAP GTS
12 1 (0.16%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 84 (13.73%) Power Platform
2 34 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
3 33 (5.39%) Azure
3 33 (5.39%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (1.80%) WhatsApp
5 10 (1.63%) Power Automate
6 8 (1.31%) PowerApps
7 7 (1.14%) AWS
7 7 (1.14%) SuccessFactors
8 6 (0.98%) SaaS
9 4 (0.65%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (0.65%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (0.65%) Mavenlink
9 4 (0.65%) Snowflake
10 2 (0.33%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.33%) GCP
10 2 (0.33%) PaaS
10 2 (0.33%) Zapier
11 1 (0.16%) Boomi
11 1 (0.16%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.63%) DHCP
1 10 (1.63%) DNS
2 9 (1.47%) Firewall
3 8 (1.31%) VSAN
4 5 (0.82%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.65%) Internet
5 4 (0.65%) Intranet
5 4 (0.65%) NAS
5 4 (0.65%) SAN
5 4 (0.65%) SSL
5 4 (0.65%) VLAN
5 4 (0.65%) VPN
5 4 (0.65%) Wireless
6 1 (0.16%) LAN
6 1 (0.16%) WAN
6 1 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (11.27%) Power BI
2 55 (8.99%) SQL Server
3 50 (8.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 15 (2.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 14 (2.29%) Oracle Reports
6 10 (1.63%) BusinessObjects
6 10 (1.63%) Relational Database
7 9 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (1.14%) MS Access
10 6 (0.98%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (0.82%) Oracle Database
11 5 (0.82%) Tableau
12 3 (0.49%) MySQL
12 3 (0.49%) SAP HANA
13 2 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
14 1 (0.16%) Big Data
14 1 (0.16%) Crystal Reports
14 1 (0.16%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 19 (3.10%) JIRA
2 14 (2.29%) Visual Studio
3 6 (0.98%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (0.49%) Selenium
5 2 (0.33%) Android Studio
5 2 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.16%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.16%) Postman
General
1 257 (41.99%) Finance
2 170 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 137 (22.39%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (12.09%) Law
5 65 (10.62%) Legal
6 41 (6.70%) Retail
7 27 (4.41%) Manufacturing
8 26 (4.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (2.12%) Billing
11 12 (1.96%) Back Office
11 12 (1.96%) Public Sector
12 10 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (1.47%) Banking
14 7 (1.14%) Games
15 6 (0.98%) Police
16 5 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
17 4 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
17 4 (0.65%) International Banking
18 3 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.61%) EDI
2 15 (2.45%) Oracle Fusion
3 12 (1.96%) .NET
3 12 (1.96%) REST
3 12 (1.96%) XML
4 9 (1.47%) JSON
5 8 (1.31%) SOAP
6 7 (1.14%) Middleware
6 7 (1.14%) Web Services
7 5 (0.82%) HTML
8 4 (0.65%) ASP.NET
9 3 (0.49%) ASP.NET Web Forms
10 2 (0.33%) ADO
10 2 (0.33%) CSS
10 2 (0.33%) RESTful
11 1 (0.16%) Gherkin
11 1 (0.16%) jQuery
11 1 (0.16%) SailPoint
11 1 (0.16%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 32 (5.23%) Management Information System
2 28 (4.58%) Self-Motivation
3 22 (3.59%) Fixed Income
4 17 (2.78%) Product Ownership
5 16 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (2.12%) Operational Technology
7 8 (1.31%) Clustering
7 8 (1.31%) Hedge funds
7 8 (1.31%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (1.14%) Pricing Data
9 6 (0.98%) Client/Server
9 6 (0.98%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (0.82%) Data Centre
10 5 (0.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 5 (0.82%) Low-Code
10 5 (0.82%) Smart Energy
10 5 (0.82%) Smart Meter
11 4 (0.65%) Housing Association
11 4 (0.65%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 27 (4.41%) Windows
2 17 (2.78%) Windows Server
3 16 (2.61%) Windows 10
4 9 (1.47%) Linux
5 5 (0.82%) Unix
6 2 (0.33%) Android
7 1 (0.16%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (22.39%) Problem-Solving
2 95 (15.52%) ERP
3 66 (10.78%) Business Intelligence
4 54 (8.82%) Continuous Improvement
5 51 (8.33%) Decision-Making
5 51 (8.33%) Migration
6 47 (7.68%) Agile
7 46 (7.52%) ITIL
7 46 (7.52%) Roadmaps
8 45 (7.35%) Business Analysis
8 45 (7.35%) Systems Analysis
9 43 (7.03%) Customer Service
10 41 (6.70%) Project Management
11 34 (5.56%) Stakeholder Management
12 33 (5.39%) Requirements Gathering
13 31 (5.07%) Asset Management
14 29 (4.74%) Change Management
15 27 (4.41%) Order Management
16 25 (4.08%) SDLC
17 23 (3.76%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 172 (28.10%) SQL
2 27 (4.41%) T-SQL
3 17 (2.78%) C#
4 15 (2.45%) PowerShell
5 11 (1.80%) Python
5 11 (1.80%) VBA
6 9 (1.47%) Java
7 8 (1.31%) VB
8 6 (0.98%) VB.NET
9 4 (0.65%) RPG
10 3 (0.49%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.16%) ABAP
11 1 (0.16%) PHP
11 1 (0.16%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 101 (16.50%) Degree
2 18 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (1.63%) DBS Check
4 8 (1.31%) A+ Certification
4 8 (1.31%) ACCA
4 8 (1.31%) CIMA
5 6 (0.98%) MCP
5 6 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.65%) CCNA
7 4 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (0.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 4 (0.65%) MCSA
7 4 (0.65%) MCSE
7 4 (0.65%) Security Cleared
8 3 (0.49%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.16%) HNC
10 1 (0.16%) ISEB
10 1 (0.16%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.12%) QA
2 10 (1.63%) SLA
3 9 (1.47%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.31%) PMO
5 7 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (1.14%) GDPR
6 5 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 32 (5.23%) Active Directory
2 17 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.47%) Hyper-V
4 8 (1.31%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (0.98%) vSphere
6 2 (0.33%) Firmware
6 2 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (1.31%) Failover Clustering
1 8 (1.31%) SCCM
2 4 (0.65%) WSUS
3 2 (0.33%) Terraform
4 1 (0.16%) cPanel
Vendors
1 97 (15.85%) Microsoft
2 40 (6.54%) Oracle
3 36 (5.88%) SAP
4 22 (3.59%) Charles River
5 17 (2.78%) VMware
6 14 (2.29%) Aderant
6 14 (2.29%) Bloomberg
6 14 (2.29%) Concur
6 14 (2.29%) Salesforce
7 13 (2.12%) Sun
8 12 (1.96%) Workday
9 11 (1.80%) Infor
10 9 (1.47%) Epicor
10 9 (1.47%) IBM
11 8 (1.31%) Intapp
12 7 (1.14%) iManage
13 6 (0.98%) Sage
14 5 (0.82%) Citrix
15 4 (0.65%) Cognos
15 4 (0.65%) PeopleSoft