Analyst Jobs in the UK excluding London

Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Analyst salary in the UK excluding London is £40,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 22 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
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 15 16
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 +7
Permanent jobs requiring an Analyst 6,475 7,174 8,841
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.02% 12.20% 12.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.51% 13.68% 12.74%
Number of salaries quoted 4,235 4,179 6,159
10th Percentile £24,500 £25,000 £24,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £30,500 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
75th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £51,250
90th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £60,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £46,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -2.17% +2.22% +2.27%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 68,121 52,440 69,419
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 89.17% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 48,105 29,890 42,562
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +7.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Analyst in the UK excluding London

Analyst
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Analyst in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Analyst in the UK excluding London

Analyst
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Analyst in the UK excluding London

Analyst
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Analyst within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 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
North of England -1 1,654 £39,000 -3.45% 339
South East 0 1,570 £40,000 -2.38% 279
Midlands 0 1,259 £37,500 -6.25% 211
North West +3 936 £40,000 -5.88% 192
West Midlands +1 824 £37,500 -6.25% 126
South West +2 704 £42,500 +7.59% 119
East of England +6 656 £38,000 -3.80% 116
Yorkshire -9 537 £37,500 -6.25% 111
East Midlands +2 428 £36,500 -3.95% 85
Scotland -35 407 £42,592 +6.18% 72
North East +4 181 £35,000 -9.09% 39
Wales -9 175 £36,476 +4.22% 28
Northern Ireland +26 35 £47,500 +26.67% 16
Isle of Man -1 21 £46,500 +3.33%
Channel Islands -2 2 £67,500 +92.86% 1
Analyst
UK

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 22 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 2,242 (34.63%) Social Skills
2 1,846 (28.51%) Analytical Skills
3 1,728 (26.69%) Microsoft
4 1,585 (24.48%) Finance
5 1,571 (24.26%) Problem-Solving
6 1,150 (17.76%) Degree
7 1,054 (16.28%) SQL
8 1,045 (16.14%) Agile
9 947 (14.63%) Microsoft Excel
10 875 (13.51%) Customer Service
11 816 (12.60%) Decision-Making
12 809 (12.49%) Windows
13 774 (11.95%) Microsoft Office
14 767 (11.85%) Microsoft 365
15 730 (11.27%) Active Directory
16 678 (10.47%) Power Platform
17 660 (10.19%) Azure
18 655 (10.12%) Business Intelligence
19 646 (9.98%) ITIL
20 637 (9.84%) Power BI
21 603 (9.31%) Continuous Improvement
22 597 (9.22%) Business Analysis
23 579 (8.94%) Retail
24 564 (8.71%) Analytics
25 554 (8.56%) Actionable Insight
26 495 (7.64%) Legal
27 469 (7.24%) Cybersecurity
28 460 (7.10%) Mentoring
29 457 (7.06%) Data Analysis
30 435 (6.72%) Security Cleared

Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 210 (3.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 189 (2.92%) SharePoint
3 114 (1.76%) Confluence
4 70 (1.08%) WebLogic
5 57 (0.88%) SAS
6 44 (0.68%) Oracle Service Bus
7 19 (0.29%) CMS
8 16 (0.25%) IIS
9 13 (0.20%) Apache
10 12 (0.19%) Apache Spark
11 10 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
12 8 (0.12%) ArcGIS
12 8 (0.12%) WebSphere
13 6 (0.093%) Exchange Server 2013
13 6 (0.093%) Moodle
14 4 (0.062%) IBM Notes
15 3 (0.046%) JBoss
15 3 (0.046%) Oracle Application Server
15 3 (0.046%) Skype for Business
15 3 (0.046%) Tomcat
Applications
1 947 (14.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 774 (11.95%) Microsoft Office
3 132 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 124 (1.92%) MS Visio
5 35 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
6 19 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
7 10 (0.15%) Trello
8 7 (0.11%) SPSS
9 6 (0.093%) LightWave 3D
9 6 (0.093%) SOLIDWORKS
10 2 (0.031%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.031%) LaTeX
Business Applications
1 55 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 47 (0.73%) Remedy ITSM
3 33 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
4 21 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
5 16 (0.25%) iTrent
5 16 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
6 14 (0.22%) Dynamics GP
6 14 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
7 13 (0.20%) Infor SunSystems
7 13 (0.20%) Maximo
7 13 (0.20%) NEC Housing
7 13 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
8 12 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
9 11 (0.17%) Epicor Tropos
9 11 (0.17%) NetSuite
9 11 (0.17%) ResourceLink
10 10 (0.15%) Misys Midas
11 8 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
11 8 (0.12%) SAP FI
11 8 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 767 (11.85%) Microsoft 365
2 678 (10.47%) Power Platform
3 660 (10.19%) Azure
4 161 (2.49%) AWS
4 161 (2.49%) SaaS
5 160 (2.47%) Entra ID
6 130 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
7 66 (1.02%) Azure DevOps
8 50 (0.77%) GCP
9 43 (0.66%) PowerApps
10 41 (0.63%) Power Automate
11 37 (0.57%) Azure Sentinel
12 34 (0.53%) Google Analytics
13 28 (0.43%) WhatsApp
14 21 (0.32%) Miro
14 21 (0.32%) SuccessFactors
15 20 (0.31%) Mimecast
16 19 (0.29%) PaaS
17 17 (0.26%) Snowflake
18 15 (0.23%) Adobe Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 271 (4.19%) Firewall
2 265 (4.09%) Broadband
3 213 (3.29%) LAN
4 189 (2.92%) DNS
5 187 (2.89%) WAN
6 116 (1.79%) Internet
7 111 (1.71%) TCP/IP
8 105 (1.62%) VPN
9 103 (1.59%) DHCP
10 80 (1.24%) VoIP
11 71 (1.10%) WLAN
12 65 (1.00%) SD-WAN
13 59 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
14 58 (0.90%) Wireless
15 48 (0.74%) Network Security
16 43 (0.66%) MPLS
17 36 (0.56%) BGP
17 36 (0.56%) Intrusion Detection
17 36 (0.56%) OSPF
17 36 (0.56%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 637 (9.84%) Power BI
2 244 (3.77%) Tableau
3 196 (3.03%) SQL Server
4 113 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
5 82 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 80 (1.24%) BigQuery
7 68 (1.05%) Power Query
8 62 (0.96%) Relational Database
9 58 (0.90%) Oracle Database
10 44 (0.68%) Oracle Database 10g
10 44 (0.68%) Oracle Database 11g
10 44 (0.68%) VLDB
11 35 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 30 (0.46%) QlikView
13 28 (0.43%) Data Mining
14 27 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
15 26 (0.40%) MySQL
16 25 (0.39%) GIS
17 24 (0.37%) MS Access
18 20 (0.31%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 246 (3.80%) JIRA
2 28 (0.43%) Git
3 26 (0.40%) Selenium
4 25 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 16 (0.25%) Eclipse
6 13 (0.20%) JMeter
7 12 (0.19%) TestRail
8 10 (0.15%) Postman
9 9 (0.14%) Visual Studio
10 8 (0.12%) Oracle Forms
11 7 (0.11%) NUnit
11 7 (0.11%) WebDriver
12 6 (0.093%) Zephyr
13 5 (0.077%) TeamCity
14 4 (0.062%) Toad
15 3 (0.046%) Jenkins
15 3 (0.046%) Octopus Deploy
15 3 (0.046%) SoapUI
15 3 (0.046%) SpecFlow
16 2 (0.031%) Android Studio
General
1 2,242 (34.63%) Social Skills
2 1,846 (28.51%) Analytical Skills
3 1,585 (24.48%) Finance
4 579 (8.94%) Retail
5 495 (7.64%) Legal
6 406 (6.27%) Influencing Skills
7 391 (6.04%) Law
8 389 (6.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 331 (5.11%) Organisational Skills
10 326 (5.03%) Banking
11 245 (3.78%) Manufacturing
12 216 (3.34%) Public Sector
13 211 (3.26%) Marketing
14 182 (2.81%) Presentation Skills
15 134 (2.07%) Investment Banking
16 88 (1.36%) Police
17 85 (1.31%) Telecoms
18 77 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
19 60 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
20 58 (0.90%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (0.86%) .NET
2 48 (0.74%) XML
3 42 (0.65%) EDI
3 42 (0.65%) JSON
4 38 (0.59%) Oracle Fusion
5 34 (0.53%) REST
6 27 (0.42%) HTML
6 27 (0.42%) Spring
7 26 (0.40%) J2EE
7 26 (0.40%) Java EE
8 22 (0.34%) OLE
9 19 (0.29%) Web Services
10 15 (0.23%) Middleware
11 13 (0.20%) EDIFACT
12 12 (0.19%) SOAP
13 11 (0.17%) .NET Framework
13 11 (0.17%) Lightning Web Components
14 10 (0.15%) CSS
14 10 (0.15%) RESTful
14 10 (0.15%) XSL
Miscellaneous
1 312 (4.82%) Management Information System
2 227 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
3 130 (2.01%) Product Ownership
4 102 (1.58%) Onboarding
5 100 (1.54%) Driving Licence
6 86 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
7 71 (1.10%) Security Operations Centre
8 69 (1.07%) Cyber Threat
9 60 (0.93%) Cyberattack
10 48 (0.74%) Mobile App
11 43 (0.66%) Credit Risk
11 43 (0.66%) Life Science
12 41 (0.63%) Data Centre
12 41 (0.63%) NHS
13 40 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
13 40 (0.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 39 (0.60%) FMCG
15 36 (0.56%) Operational Technology
16 34 (0.53%) Smartphone
17 31 (0.48%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 809 (12.49%) Windows
2 289 (4.46%) Windows 10
3 280 (4.32%) Windows Server
4 169 (2.61%) Linux
5 124 (1.92%) Unix
6 77 (1.19%) Android
7 62 (0.96%) Apple iOS
8 50 (0.77%) Windows Server 2019
9 47 (0.73%) Solaris
10 45 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
11 36 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
12 35 (0.54%) Windows 7
13 24 (0.37%) Mac OS
14 21 (0.32%) Mac OS X
15 15 (0.23%) Windows 8
16 10 (0.15%) VMS
17 9 (0.14%) Windows Vista
18 8 (0.12%) AIX
18 8 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
19 6 (0.093%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,571 (24.26%) Problem-Solving
2 1,045 (16.14%) Agile
3 875 (13.51%) Customer Service
4 816 (12.60%) Decision-Making
5 655 (10.12%) Business Intelligence
6 646 (9.98%) ITIL
7 603 (9.31%) Continuous Improvement
8 597 (9.22%) Business Analysis
9 564 (8.71%) Analytics
10 554 (8.56%) Actionable Insight
11 469 (7.24%) Cybersecurity
12 460 (7.10%) Mentoring
13 457 (7.06%) Data Analysis
14 394 (6.08%) Coaching
15 390 (6.02%) Visualisation
16 388 (5.99%) ERP
17 386 (5.96%) Stakeholder Management
18 375 (5.79%) Requirements Gathering
19 367 (5.67%) Project Management
20 363 (5.61%) Business Case
Programming Languages
1 1,054 (16.28%) SQL
2 292 (4.51%) Python
3 106 (1.64%) PowerShell
4 94 (1.45%) R
5 78 (1.20%) C#
6 69 (1.07%) T-SQL
7 58 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 58 (0.90%) Java
8 53 (0.82%) PL/SQL
9 52 (0.80%) VBA
10 35 (0.54%) JavaScript
11 30 (0.46%) Shell Script
12 23 (0.36%) RPG
13 15 (0.23%) VB
14 14 (0.22%) Bash
15 8 (0.12%) ActionScript
15 8 (0.12%) ActionScript 2.0
16 7 (0.11%) PHP
16 7 (0.11%) RPG IV
17 6 (0.093%) C
Qualifications
1 1,150 (17.76%) Degree
2 435 (6.72%) Security Cleared
3 286 (4.42%) CIMA
4 279 (4.31%) ACCA
5 259 (4.00%) SC Cleared
6 122 (1.88%) CISSP
7 86 (1.33%) DBS Check
8 81 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
9 75 (1.16%) DV Cleared
10 74 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
11 73 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
12 65 (1.00%) CompTIA Security+
13 61 (0.94%) CCNA
14 57 (0.88%) CISM
15 46 (0.71%) Master's Degree
16 45 (0.69%) ISTQB
17 43 (0.66%) A+ Certification
18 35 (0.54%) PMI Certification
19 34 (0.53%) CCDP
19 34 (0.53%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 288 (4.45%) SLA
2 181 (2.80%) GDPR
3 170 (2.63%) QA
4 155 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 116 (1.79%) Data Quality
6 89 (1.37%) NIST
7 79 (1.22%) PMO
8 61 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
9 50 (0.77%) PCI DSS
10 36 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 34 (0.53%) GRC
12 29 (0.45%) ISO 9001
13 24 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
14 22 (0.34%) Accessibility
14 22 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 17025
15 19 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 19 (0.29%) IFRS
16 18 (0.28%) GLP
17 13 (0.20%) NCSC
18 11 (0.17%) CRD IV
System Software
1 730 (11.27%) Active Directory
2 83 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 60 (0.93%) Hyper-V
4 44 (0.68%) Oracle RAC
5 40 (0.62%) RACF
6 24 (0.37%) vSphere
7 17 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
8 12 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
9 11 (0.17%) Firmware
9 11 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (0.12%) XenApp
10 8 (0.12%) XenDesktop
11 5 (0.077%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.062%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.062%) VMware Workstation
13 2 (0.031%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 2 (0.031%) Docker
13 2 (0.031%) Embedded Firmware
14 1 (0.015%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.015%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 119 (1.84%) Microsoft Intune
2 108 (1.67%) SCCM
3 44 (0.68%) Data Guard
3 44 (0.68%) Oracle RMAN
4 40 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
5 35 (0.54%) CASB
6 28 (0.43%) WSUS
7 26 (0.40%) OpenSSO
8 15 (0.23%) EnCase
9 11 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
9 11 (0.17%) Terraform
10 9 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
11 8 (0.12%) Grafana
11 8 (0.12%) Progress Chef
12 7 (0.11%) Nagios
13 6 (0.093%) Nessus
13 6 (0.093%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 5 (0.077%) FortiGate
14 5 (0.077%) Kibana
14 5 (0.077%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 1,728 (26.69%) Microsoft
2 208 (3.21%) Oracle
3 202 (3.12%) SAP
4 156 (2.41%) VMware
5 127 (1.96%) ServiceNow
6 112 (1.73%) Cisco
7 107 (1.65%) Salesforce
8 85 (1.31%) Google
9 82 (1.27%) Remedy
10 64 (0.99%) Apple
10 64 (0.99%) Citrix
11 58 (0.90%) Sun
12 55 (0.85%) Alteryx
13 53 (0.82%) Databricks
14 51 (0.79%) Dell
15 43 (0.66%) Adobe
15 43 (0.66%) CyberArk
16 40 (0.62%) Splunk
17 39 (0.60%) Sage
18 32 (0.49%) HP