Analyst
UK

The median Analyst salary in the UK is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 14 23
Rank change year-on-year +1 +9 +2
Permanent jobs requiring an Analyst 10,143 11,140 17,089
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.35% 11.97% 9.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.87% 13.12% 10.36%
Number of salaries quoted 6,727 7,199 11,534
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,000 £32,905
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,696 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +1.55% +1.48%
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 102,753 84,908 164,946
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.75% 91.21% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 72,538 55,143 85,388
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,524 £45,000 £42,750
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 £50,296
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9,254 £45,000 -5.26% 1,824
UK excluding London -2 6,742 £40,000 - 1,155
Work from Home +1 3,775 £45,249 -4.74% 768
London +1 3,064 £60,000 +9.09% 727
North of England -4 1,739 £40,000 -1.23% 342
South East -2 1,618 £40,000 -2.38% 271
Midlands -3 1,336 £37,500 -6.25% 172
North West +2 996 £40,000 -5.88% 216
West Midlands -2 850 £37,500 -6.25% 98
South West +1 754 £41,000 +2.50% 146
East of England +6 684 £35,640 -7.43% 114
Yorkshire -11 544 £37,500 -6.25% 94
East Midlands 0 480 £35,500 -7.79% 74
Scotland -41 374 £41,000 +2.21% 96
North East +6 199 £32,500 -18.75% 36
Wales -8 186 £35,738 +2.11% 29
Northern Ireland +16 35 £47,500 +26.67% 11
Isle of Man 0 20 £46,500 +3.33% 2
Channel Islands 0 3 £63,750 +82.14%

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 9 June 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 3,416 (33.68%) Social Skills
2 2,968 (29.26%) Finance
3 2,822 (27.82%) Analytical Skills
4 2,576 (25.40%) Microsoft
5 2,164 (21.33%) Problem-Solving
6 2,128 (20.98%) SQL
7 1,855 (18.29%) Degree
8 1,703 (16.79%) Agile
9 1,569 (15.47%) Microsoft Excel
10 1,271 (12.53%) Decision-Making
11 1,228 (12.11%) Windows
12 1,072 (10.57%) Customer Service
13 1,056 (10.41%) Microsoft 365
14 1,052 (10.37%) Azure
15 1,029 (10.14%) Power Platform
16 1,025 (10.11%) Business Intelligence
17 1,023 (10.09%) Actionable Insight
18 1,015 (10.01%) Analytics
19 1,006 (9.92%) Active Directory
20 1,002 (9.88%) Microsoft Office
21 964 (9.50%) Power BI
22 926 (9.13%) ITIL
23 866 (8.54%) Data Analysis
24 840 (8.28%) Retail
25 814 (8.03%) Mentoring
26 811 (8.00%) Business Analysis
27 787 (7.76%) Python
28 786 (7.75%) Legal
29 735 (7.25%) Continuous Improvement
30 722 (7.12%) Cybersecurity

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
1 324 (3.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 316 (3.12%) SharePoint
3 143 (1.41%) Confluence
4 94 (0.93%) SAS
5 68 (0.67%) WebLogic
6 43 (0.42%) Oracle Service Bus
7 38 (0.37%) CMS
8 20 (0.20%) IIS
9 18 (0.18%) Apache
10 17 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
11 14 (0.14%) IBM Notes
12 12 (0.12%) Skype for Business
13 10 (0.099%) WordPress
14 9 (0.089%) WebSphere
15 8 (0.079%) Apache Spark
15 8 (0.079%) ArcGIS
15 8 (0.079%) Moodle
16 6 (0.059%) Exchange Server 2010
16 6 (0.059%) Exchange Server 2013
17 5 (0.049%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1,569 (15.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 1,002 (9.88%) Microsoft Office
3 198 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 174 (1.72%) MS Visio
5 49 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
6 22 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
7 21 (0.21%) SPSS
8 14 (0.14%) Trello
9 7 (0.069%) SOLIDWORKS
10 6 (0.059%) LightWave 3D
11 4 (0.039%) Chatbot
12 3 (0.030%) Stata
13 2 (0.020%) LaTeX
14 1 (0.010%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 90 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 47 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
3 43 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
4 31 (0.31%) Aladdin
5 28 (0.28%) Elite 3E
5 28 (0.28%) NEC Housing
6 25 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
7 22 (0.22%) Endur
8 21 (0.21%) NetSuite
8 21 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
8 21 (0.21%) SAP CO
8 21 (0.21%) SAP FI
8 21 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
9 19 (0.19%) iTrent
10 18 (0.18%) Maximo
10 18 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
11 16 (0.16%) Infor SunSystems
11 16 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
11 16 (0.16%) thinkFolio
12 14 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 1,056 (10.41%) Microsoft 365
2 1,052 (10.37%) Azure
3 1,029 (10.14%) Power Platform
4 455 (4.49%) AWS
5 240 (2.37%) Entra ID
6 213 (2.10%) SaaS
7 192 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
8 112 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
9 72 (0.71%) GCP
10 65 (0.64%) Google Analytics
11 62 (0.61%) PowerApps
12 58 (0.57%) Power Automate
13 50 (0.49%) Mimecast
14 46 (0.45%) Azure Sentinel
15 44 (0.43%) OneDrive
15 44 (0.43%) PaaS
16 39 (0.38%) WhatsApp
17 33 (0.33%) Snowflake
18 27 (0.27%) Cloud Computing
18 27 (0.27%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 505 (4.98%) Broadband
2 452 (4.46%) Firewall
3 261 (2.57%) LAN
4 257 (2.53%) DNS
5 243 (2.40%) WAN
6 179 (1.76%) TCP/IP
7 157 (1.55%) Internet
8 156 (1.54%) DHCP
9 152 (1.50%) VPN
10 110 (1.08%) VoIP
11 96 (0.95%) Wireless
12 87 (0.86%) Network Security
12 87 (0.86%) SD-WAN
13 85 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
14 69 (0.68%) Intrusion Detection
14 69 (0.68%) WLAN
15 51 (0.50%) MPLS
16 50 (0.49%) VLAN
17 42 (0.41%) BGP
17 42 (0.41%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 964 (9.50%) Power BI
2 513 (5.06%) Tableau
3 354 (3.49%) SQL Server
4 190 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
5 155 (1.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 91 (0.90%) Relational Database
7 89 (0.88%) BigQuery
8 76 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 72 (0.71%) Power Query
10 69 (0.68%) Oracle Database
11 65 (0.64%) Data Mining
12 47 (0.46%) Big Data
13 43 (0.42%) Oracle Database 10g
13 43 (0.42%) Oracle Database 11g
13 43 (0.42%) VLDB
14 42 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
15 41 (0.40%) MySQL
15 41 (0.40%) QlikView
16 39 (0.38%) Metadata
17 37 (0.36%) Looker
Development Applications
1 338 (3.33%) JIRA
2 151 (1.49%) Git
3 48 (0.47%) Selenium
4 45 (0.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 35 (0.35%) Visual Studio
6 28 (0.28%) Eclipse
7 19 (0.19%) JMeter
8 18 (0.18%) Postman
9 16 (0.16%) TestRail
10 11 (0.11%) Toad
11 10 (0.099%) Burp Suite
11 10 (0.099%) GitLab
11 10 (0.099%) Metasploit
11 10 (0.099%) Team Foundation Server
12 9 (0.089%) WebDriver
13 8 (0.079%) NUnit
13 8 (0.079%) Oracle Forms
13 8 (0.079%) TeamCity
14 6 (0.059%) Zephyr
15 5 (0.049%) Jenkins
General
1 3,416 (33.68%) Social Skills
2 2,968 (29.26%) Finance
3 2,822 (27.82%) Analytical Skills
4 840 (8.28%) Retail
5 786 (7.75%) Legal
6 680 (6.70%) Influencing Skills
7 622 (6.13%) Banking
8 617 (6.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 604 (5.95%) Law
10 392 (3.86%) Organisational Skills
11 340 (3.35%) Marketing
12 338 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
13 288 (2.84%) Manufacturing
14 258 (2.54%) Public Sector
15 204 (2.01%) Investment Banking
16 191 (1.88%) Front Office
17 127 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
18 108 (1.06%) Police
19 105 (1.04%) Telecoms
20 101 (1.00%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (1.12%) .NET
2 69 (0.68%) REST
3 64 (0.63%) Oracle Fusion
4 62 (0.61%) XML
5 59 (0.58%) JSON
6 56 (0.55%) HTML
7 54 (0.53%) EDI
8 41 (0.40%) Web Services
9 38 (0.37%) FIX Protocol
10 32 (0.32%) CSS
11 25 (0.25%) J2EE
11 25 (0.25%) Java EE
11 25 (0.25%) Spring
12 22 (0.22%) OLE
13 18 (0.18%) Middleware
14 17 (0.17%) SOAP
15 16 (0.16%) .NET Framework
15 16 (0.16%) ASP.NET
16 15 (0.15%) RESTful
17 14 (0.14%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 493 (4.86%) Management Information System
2 344 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
3 269 (2.65%) Product Ownership
4 228 (2.25%) Onboarding
5 133 (1.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 127 (1.25%) Fixed Income
7 125 (1.23%) Hedge funds
8 124 (1.22%) Derivative
9 108 (1.06%) Driving Licence
10 107 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
11 102 (1.01%) Cyberattack
12 101 (1.00%) Cyber Threat
13 99 (0.98%) Security Operations Centre
14 87 (0.86%) Life Science
15 83 (0.82%) Equities
16 70 (0.69%) Data Centre
17 69 (0.68%) Reinsurance
18 68 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
19 55 (0.54%) Mobile App
20 54 (0.53%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1,228 (12.11%) Windows
2 440 (4.34%) Windows 10
3 385 (3.80%) Windows Server
4 276 (2.72%) Linux
5 167 (1.65%) Unix
6 102 (1.01%) Apple iOS
7 100 (0.99%) Android
8 76 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
9 61 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
10 59 (0.58%) Solaris
11 56 (0.55%) Mac OS
12 51 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
13 42 (0.41%) Windows 7
14 27 (0.27%) Mac OS X
15 18 (0.18%) Windows Vista
16 16 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
17 15 (0.15%) CentOS
17 15 (0.15%) Windows 8
18 13 (0.13%) Ubuntu
18 13 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,164 (21.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1,703 (16.79%) Agile
3 1,271 (12.53%) Decision-Making
4 1,072 (10.57%) Customer Service
5 1,025 (10.11%) Business Intelligence
6 1,023 (10.09%) Actionable Insight
7 1,015 (10.01%) Analytics
8 926 (9.13%) ITIL
9 866 (8.54%) Data Analysis
10 814 (8.03%) Mentoring
11 811 (8.00%) Business Analysis
12 735 (7.25%) Continuous Improvement
13 722 (7.12%) Cybersecurity
14 718 (7.08%) Visualisation
15 618 (6.09%) Business Case
16 597 (5.89%) Mathematics
17 558 (5.50%) Stakeholder Management
18 555 (5.47%) Requirements Gathering
19 554 (5.46%) Change Management
20 546 (5.38%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 2,128 (20.98%) SQL
2 787 (7.76%) Python
3 197 (1.94%) PowerShell
4 159 (1.57%) R
5 157 (1.55%) C#
6 144 (1.42%) T-SQL
7 119 (1.17%) VBA
8 91 (0.90%) Java
9 83 (0.82%) PL/SQL
10 81 (0.80%) JavaScript
11 78 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 40 (0.39%) Bash
13 34 (0.34%) Shell Script
14 31 (0.31%) RPG
15 27 (0.27%) C++
16 23 (0.23%) Perl
17 20 (0.20%) VB
18 14 (0.14%) PHP
19 13 (0.13%) Ruby
19 13 (0.13%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,855 (18.29%) Degree
2 555 (5.47%) Security Cleared
3 542 (5.34%) CIMA
4 538 (5.30%) ACCA
5 354 (3.49%) SC Cleared
6 218 (2.15%) DBS Check
7 214 (2.11%) CISSP
8 129 (1.27%) Master's Degree
9 127 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
9 127 (1.25%) DV Cleared
10 111 (1.09%) CISM
11 104 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
12 103 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
13 81 (0.80%) CISA
13 81 (0.80%) CompTIA Security+
14 71 (0.70%) CCNA
15 62 (0.61%) A+ Certification
16 60 (0.59%) ISTQB
17 49 (0.48%) CCNP
18 45 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 391 (3.85%) SLA
2 299 (2.95%) Data Quality
3 291 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 278 (2.74%) QA
5 225 (2.22%) GDPR
6 170 (1.68%) NIST
7 107 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
8 99 (0.98%) PMO
9 84 (0.83%) GRC
10 61 (0.60%) PCI DSS
11 55 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 37 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 37 (0.36%) NCSC
13 35 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
14 34 (0.34%) Accessibility
14 34 (0.34%) ISO 9001
15 33 (0.33%) COBIT
16 21 (0.21%) IFRS
17 20 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 17025
18 18 (0.18%) GLP
System Software
1 1,006 (9.92%) Active Directory
2 139 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 64 (0.63%) Hyper-V
4 50 (0.49%) RACF
5 45 (0.44%) Oracle RAC
6 41 (0.40%) XenApp
6 41 (0.40%) XenDesktop
7 38 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
8 26 (0.26%) vSphere
9 23 (0.23%) Firmware
10 19 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
11 16 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
12 12 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
13 11 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
14 8 (0.079%) Terminal Services
15 6 (0.059%) VMware Workstation
16 4 (0.039%) Docker
16 4 (0.039%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 2 (0.020%) Citrix Hypervisor
18 1 (0.010%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 191 (1.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 162 (1.60%) SCCM
3 59 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
4 45 (0.44%) Data Guard
5 43 (0.42%) Oracle RMAN
6 41 (0.40%) Terraform
7 37 (0.36%) WSUS
8 34 (0.34%) CASB
9 33 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
10 25 (0.25%) OpenSSO
11 21 (0.21%) QRadar
12 13 (0.13%) EnCase
12 13 (0.13%) FortiGate
13 12 (0.12%) CSIRT
14 10 (0.099%) Grafana
14 10 (0.099%) Nessus
14 10 (0.099%) Nmap
15 9 (0.089%) Failover Clustering
16 8 (0.079%) Kibana
16 8 (0.079%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2,576 (25.40%) Microsoft
2 314 (3.10%) Oracle
3 292 (2.88%) SAP
4 256 (2.52%) VMware
5 189 (1.86%) Cisco
6 172 (1.70%) Databricks
7 158 (1.56%) ServiceNow
8 156 (1.54%) Google
9 147 (1.45%) Citrix
10 146 (1.44%) Salesforce
11 90 (0.89%) Bloomberg
12 86 (0.85%) Alteryx
12 86 (0.85%) Remedy
13 85 (0.84%) Apple
14 69 (0.68%) IBM
14 69 (0.68%) Splunk
15 68 (0.67%) Sun
16 65 (0.64%) Adobe
17 62 (0.61%) iManage
18 56 (0.55%) Sage