Analyst
UK

The median Analyst salary in the UK is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 15 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
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 16 22
Rank change year-on-year +3 +6 +3
Permanent jobs requiring an Analyst 9,805 11,715 16,269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.89% 11.75% 10.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.44% 12.84% 10.59%
Number of salaries quoted 6,594 7,435 11,330
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £46,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +2.22% +3.45%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £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 93,908 91,208 153,609
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 91.47% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 67,161 57,434 84,375
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,950
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,173
% change year-on-year -5.66% +5.64% +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 15 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 15 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 8,912 £45,000 -5.26% 1,867
UK excluding London +1 6,446 £40,000 - 1,116
Work from Home +3 3,702 £45,249 -4.74% 890
London +4 3,040 £60,000 +8.11% 791
North of England -1 1,659 £39,000 -3.36% 310
South East 0 1,568 £40,000 -3.03% 291
Midlands 0 1,231 £37,500 -6.25% 214
North West +3 928 £40,000 -4.76% 174
West Midlands +2 817 £37,500 -6.25% 127
South West +2 700 £42,500 +10.39% 112
East of England +7 653 £38,500 -3.75% 121
Yorkshire -7 548 £37,500 -6.25% 110
Scotland -35 409 £42,592 +4.35% 57
East Midlands -1 407 £36,500 -5.19% 87
North East +4 183 £35,000 -12.50% 27
Wales -9 173 £36,476 +4.22% 31
Northern Ireland +27 37 £50,000 +33.33% 11
Isle of Man -1 22 £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 15 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 3,439 (35.07%) Social Skills
2 2,941 (29.99%) Finance
3 2,825 (28.81%) Analytical Skills
4 2,520 (25.70%) Microsoft
5 2,119 (21.61%) Problem-Solving
6 2,028 (20.68%) SQL
7 1,824 (18.60%) Degree
8 1,693 (17.27%) Agile
9 1,553 (15.84%) Microsoft Excel
10 1,251 (12.76%) Decision-Making
11 1,200 (12.24%) Windows
12 1,071 (10.92%) Azure
13 1,064 (10.85%) Microsoft 365
14 1,049 (10.70%) Customer Service
15 1,041 (10.62%) Microsoft Office
16 1,024 (10.44%) Actionable Insight
17 1,013 (10.33%) Power Platform
18 1,002 (10.22%) Analytics
19 996 (10.16%) Business Intelligence
20 951 (9.70%) Active Directory
21 945 (9.64%) Power BI
22 913 (9.31%) ITIL
23 836 (8.53%) Data Analysis
24 826 (8.42%) Business Analysis
25 816 (8.32%) Mentoring
26 807 (8.23%) Retail
27 765 (7.80%) Python
28 708 (7.22%) Continuous Improvement
29 696 (7.10%) Cybersecurity
29 696 (7.10%) Influencing Skills

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
1 327 (3.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 313 (3.19%) SharePoint
3 142 (1.45%) Confluence
4 92 (0.94%) SAS
5 70 (0.71%) WebLogic
6 44 (0.45%) Oracle Service Bus
7 36 (0.37%) CMS
8 25 (0.25%) IIS
9 22 (0.22%) Apache
10 20 (0.20%) Apache Spark
11 16 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
12 14 (0.14%) IBM Notes
13 13 (0.13%) Skype for Business
14 9 (0.092%) WordPress
15 8 (0.082%) ArcGIS
15 8 (0.082%) Moodle
15 8 (0.082%) WebSphere
16 7 (0.071%) Exchange Server 2013
17 6 (0.061%) Exchange Server 2010
18 5 (0.051%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1,553 (15.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 1,041 (10.62%) Microsoft Office
3 233 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 179 (1.83%) MS Visio
5 49 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
6 24 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
7 23 (0.23%) SPSS
8 14 (0.14%) Trello
9 6 (0.061%) LightWave 3D
9 6 (0.061%) SOLIDWORKS
10 4 (0.041%) Chatbot
11 3 (0.031%) Stata
12 2 (0.020%) EViews
12 2 (0.020%) LaTeX
13 1 (0.010%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 99 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 49 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
3 46 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
4 33 (0.34%) Aladdin
5 27 (0.28%) NEC Housing
6 26 (0.27%) Elite 3E
6 26 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
7 24 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
8 22 (0.22%) Endur
9 20 (0.20%) NetSuite
10 19 (0.19%) thinkFolio
11 18 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
11 18 (0.18%) PlanetPress Connect
12 17 (0.17%) iTrent
13 16 (0.16%) Infor SunSystems
13 16 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
14 14 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
14 14 (0.14%) Oracle Financials
15 13 (0.13%) Epicor Tropos
16 12 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 1,071 (10.92%) Azure
2 1,064 (10.85%) Microsoft 365
3 1,013 (10.33%) Power Platform
4 435 (4.44%) AWS
5 219 (2.23%) SaaS
6 186 (1.90%) Entra ID
7 183 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
8 123 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
9 81 (0.83%) GCP
10 68 (0.69%) Google Analytics
11 65 (0.66%) PowerApps
12 61 (0.62%) Power Automate
13 47 (0.48%) OneDrive
14 45 (0.46%) Azure Sentinel
15 42 (0.43%) Mimecast
16 41 (0.42%) PaaS
16 41 (0.42%) WhatsApp
17 38 (0.39%) Snowflake
18 27 (0.28%) IaaS
18 27 (0.28%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 508 (5.18%) Broadband
2 432 (4.41%) Firewall
3 268 (2.73%) DNS
4 263 (2.68%) LAN
5 247 (2.52%) WAN
6 180 (1.84%) TCP/IP
7 159 (1.62%) VPN
8 152 (1.55%) DHCP
9 150 (1.53%) Internet
10 104 (1.06%) VoIP
11 100 (1.02%) Wireless
12 99 (1.01%) SD-WAN
13 90 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
14 81 (0.83%) Network Security
15 72 (0.73%) WLAN
16 63 (0.64%) Intrusion Detection
17 59 (0.60%) MPLS
18 50 (0.51%) VLAN
19 47 (0.48%) BGP
19 47 (0.48%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 945 (9.64%) Power BI
2 503 (5.13%) Tableau
3 381 (3.89%) SQL Server
4 192 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
5 156 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 92 (0.94%) BigQuery
7 90 (0.92%) Relational Database
8 86 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 76 (0.78%) Power Query
10 73 (0.74%) Oracle Database
11 62 (0.63%) Data Mining
12 46 (0.47%) QlikView
13 44 (0.45%) Oracle Database 10g
13 44 (0.45%) Oracle Database 11g
13 44 (0.45%) VLDB
14 42 (0.43%) Looker
14 42 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
15 41 (0.42%) MySQL
16 40 (0.41%) Big Data
17 32 (0.33%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 364 (3.71%) JIRA
2 151 (1.54%) Git
3 52 (0.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 44 (0.45%) Selenium
5 35 (0.36%) Visual Studio
6 25 (0.25%) Eclipse
7 21 (0.21%) Postman
8 16 (0.16%) TestRail
9 15 (0.15%) 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 9 (0.092%) Jenkins
12 9 (0.092%) Oracle Forms
13 7 (0.071%) NUnit
13 7 (0.071%) TeamCity
13 7 (0.071%) WebDriver
14 6 (0.061%) Zephyr
General
1 3,439 (35.07%) Social Skills
2 2,941 (29.99%) Finance
3 2,825 (28.81%) Analytical Skills
4 807 (8.23%) Retail
5 696 (7.10%) Influencing Skills
6 675 (6.88%) Legal
7 630 (6.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 630 (6.43%) Law
8 627 (6.39%) Banking
9 392 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
10 359 (3.66%) Presentation Skills
11 325 (3.31%) Marketing
12 289 (2.95%) Public Sector
13 269 (2.74%) Manufacturing
14 231 (2.36%) Investment Banking
15 186 (1.90%) Front Office
16 114 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
17 109 (1.11%) Police
18 101 (1.03%) Back Office
19 99 (1.01%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (1.14%) .NET
2 66 (0.67%) REST
3 65 (0.66%) JSON
4 64 (0.65%) Oracle Fusion
5 62 (0.63%) XML
6 50 (0.51%) HTML
7 46 (0.47%) EDI
8 39 (0.40%) Web Services
9 34 (0.35%) FIX Protocol
10 30 (0.31%) CSS
11 27 (0.28%) Spring
12 26 (0.27%) J2EE
12 26 (0.27%) Java EE
13 22 (0.22%) OLE
14 18 (0.18%) .NET Framework
15 17 (0.17%) Middleware
16 16 (0.16%) SOAP
17 15 (0.15%) Pandas
18 14 (0.14%) ASP.NET
18 14 (0.14%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 430 (4.39%) Management Information System
2 390 (3.98%) Self-Motivation
3 270 (2.75%) Product Ownership
4 215 (2.19%) Onboarding
5 127 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 122 (1.24%) Hedge funds
7 120 (1.22%) Fixed Income
8 116 (1.18%) Derivative
9 107 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
10 106 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
11 105 (1.07%) Driving Licence
12 102 (1.04%) Cyberattack
13 89 (0.91%) Security Operations Centre
14 87 (0.89%) Life Science
15 72 (0.73%) Equities
16 70 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
17 69 (0.70%) Data Centre
18 68 (0.69%) Reinsurance
19 62 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
20 59 (0.60%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 1,200 (12.24%) Windows
2 429 (4.38%) Windows 10
3 378 (3.86%) Windows Server
4 258 (2.63%) Linux
5 167 (1.70%) Unix
6 101 (1.03%) Apple iOS
7 91 (0.93%) Android
8 68 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
9 63 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
10 62 (0.63%) Mac OS
11 58 (0.59%) Solaris
12 50 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
13 42 (0.43%) Windows 7
14 30 (0.31%) Mac OS X
15 18 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
16 15 (0.15%) Windows 8
17 13 (0.13%) VMS
18 12 (0.12%) Windows Vista
19 11 (0.11%) CentOS
19 11 (0.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,119 (21.61%) Problem-Solving
2 1,693 (17.27%) Agile
3 1,251 (12.76%) Decision-Making
4 1,049 (10.70%) Customer Service
5 1,024 (10.44%) Actionable Insight
6 1,002 (10.22%) Analytics
7 996 (10.16%) Business Intelligence
8 913 (9.31%) ITIL
9 836 (8.53%) Data Analysis
10 826 (8.42%) Business Analysis
11 816 (8.32%) Mentoring
12 708 (7.22%) Continuous Improvement
13 696 (7.10%) Cybersecurity
14 689 (7.03%) Visualisation
15 636 (6.49%) Business Case
16 572 (5.83%) Stakeholder Management
17 569 (5.80%) Mathematics
18 560 (5.71%) Project Management
19 545 (5.56%) Change Management
20 543 (5.54%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 2,028 (20.68%) SQL
2 765 (7.80%) Python
3 177 (1.81%) R
4 159 (1.62%) C#
4 159 (1.62%) T-SQL
5 155 (1.58%) PowerShell
6 98 (1.00%) VBA
7 89 (0.91%) Java
8 80 (0.82%) PL/SQL
9 73 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 67 (0.68%) JavaScript
11 35 (0.36%) Bash
11 35 (0.36%) Shell Script
12 26 (0.27%) C++
12 26 (0.27%) RPG
13 20 (0.20%) Perl
14 19 (0.19%) VB
15 14 (0.14%) MATLAB
16 13 (0.13%) PHP
16 13 (0.13%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,824 (18.60%) Degree
2 537 (5.48%) CIMA
2 537 (5.48%) Security Cleared
3 533 (5.44%) ACCA
4 347 (3.54%) SC Cleared
5 209 (2.13%) CISSP
6 203 (2.07%) DBS Check
7 126 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
7 126 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
8 120 (1.22%) DV Cleared
9 118 (1.20%) Master's Degree
10 104 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
11 100 (1.02%) CISM
12 90 (0.92%) CompTIA Security+
13 81 (0.83%) CCNA
14 77 (0.79%) CISA
15 59 (0.60%) CCNP
16 56 (0.57%) A+ Certification
17 51 (0.52%) ISTQB
18 46 (0.47%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 368 (3.75%) SLA
2 284 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 263 (2.68%) Data Quality
4 248 (2.53%) QA
5 227 (2.32%) GDPR
6 171 (1.74%) NIST
7 105 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
8 98 (1.00%) PMO
9 83 (0.85%) GRC
10 60 (0.61%) PCI DSS
11 52 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 39 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
13 37 (0.38%) ISO 9001
13 37 (0.38%) NCSC
14 33 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 32 (0.33%) Accessibility
15 32 (0.33%) IFRS
16 31 (0.32%) COBIT
17 23 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 17025
18 18 (0.18%) GLP
System Software
1 951 (9.70%) Active Directory
2 137 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 66 (0.67%) Hyper-V
4 46 (0.47%) Oracle RAC
5 37 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
6 27 (0.28%) XenApp
6 27 (0.28%) XenDesktop
7 26 (0.27%) vSphere
8 23 (0.23%) Firmware
9 20 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
10 16 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
11 11 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
11 11 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
12 6 (0.061%) Docker
12 6 (0.061%) Terminal Services
13 4 (0.041%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.041%) VMware Workstation
14 2 (0.020%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.010%) BitLocker
15 1 (0.010%) Snort
Systems Management
1 190 (1.94%) Microsoft Intune
2 154 (1.57%) SCCM
3 56 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
4 46 (0.47%) Data Guard
5 44 (0.45%) Oracle RMAN
6 38 (0.39%) CASB
7 34 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
7 34 (0.35%) WSUS
8 31 (0.32%) Terraform
9 26 (0.27%) OpenSSO
10 20 (0.20%) QRadar
11 15 (0.15%) EnCase
12 13 (0.13%) CSIRT
13 11 (0.11%) FortiGate
14 10 (0.10%) Grafana
14 10 (0.10%) Nmap
15 9 (0.092%) Failover Clustering
15 9 (0.092%) Nessus
15 9 (0.092%) vCenter Server
16 8 (0.082%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2,520 (25.70%) Microsoft
2 328 (3.35%) Oracle
3 274 (2.79%) SAP
4 242 (2.47%) VMware
5 186 (1.90%) Cisco
6 168 (1.71%) Databricks
7 167 (1.70%) Google
8 164 (1.67%) Salesforce
9 159 (1.62%) ServiceNow
10 144 (1.47%) Citrix
11 97 (0.99%) Apple
12 93 (0.95%) Alteryx
13 87 (0.89%) Remedy
14 86 (0.88%) Bloomberg
15 74 (0.75%) Splunk
16 72 (0.73%) Sun
17 70 (0.71%) IBM
18 69 (0.70%) Adobe
19 60 (0.61%) Dell
20 56 (0.57%) Sage