Analyst
UK

The median Analyst salary in the UK is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 16 22
Rank change year-on-year +3 +6 +2
Permanent jobs requiring an Analyst 9,792 12,277 16,148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.93% 11.83% 10.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.49% 12.92% 10.74%
Number of salaries quoted 6,681 7,736 11,401
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% +4.65%
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
% change year-on-year - - +1.27%

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 93,314 94,990 150,394
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.53% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 66,914 59,752 85,367
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

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 3 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 3 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 8,889 £45,000 -5.26% 1,879
UK excluding London 0 6,443 £40,000 - 1,097
Work from Home +2 3,674 £45,249 -4.74% 762
London +5 3,027 £60,000 +8.11% 861
North of England -1 1,655 £39,634 -0.92% 302
South East 0 1,571 £40,000 -2.38% 232
Midlands -2 1,210 £37,500 -6.25% 221
North West +4 921 £40,000 -5.88% 157
West Midlands +1 813 £37,500 -6.25% 130
South West +1 706 £42,500 +10.39% 130
East of England +7 657 £39,372 -1.57% 129
Yorkshire -8 559 £38,500 -3.75% 106
Scotland -35 417 £42,683 +4.53% 69
East Midlands -3 390 £36,500 -5.19% 91
North East +1 175 £35,000 -12.50% 42
Wales -8 175 £36,476 +4.22% 33
Northern Ireland +24 36 £50,000 +33.33% 15
Isle of Man 0 23 £46,500 +3.33% 1
Channel Islands -3 1 - - 1

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 3 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 3,441 (35.14%) Social Skills
2 2,938 (30.00%) Finance
3 2,811 (28.71%) Analytical Skills
4 2,541 (25.95%) Microsoft
5 2,103 (21.48%) Problem-Solving
6 1,985 (20.27%) SQL
7 1,780 (18.18%) Degree
8 1,748 (17.85%) Agile
9 1,540 (15.73%) Microsoft Excel
10 1,251 (12.78%) Decision-Making
11 1,218 (12.44%) Windows
12 1,098 (11.21%) Azure
13 1,095 (11.18%) Microsoft 365
14 1,057 (10.79%) Microsoft Office
15 1,055 (10.77%) Customer Service
16 1,014 (10.36%) Power Platform
17 1,009 (10.30%) Business Intelligence
18 1,005 (10.26%) Actionable Insight
19 978 (9.99%) Active Directory
20 965 (9.85%) Analytics
21 945 (9.65%) Power BI
22 912 (9.31%) ITIL
23 835 (8.53%) Business Analysis
24 824 (8.42%) Mentoring
25 799 (8.16%) Data Analysis
26 765 (7.81%) Retail
27 736 (7.52%) Python
28 698 (7.13%) Continuous Improvement
29 694 (7.09%) Cybersecurity
30 688 (7.03%) 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
1 345 (3.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 323 (3.30%) SharePoint
3 145 (1.48%) Confluence
4 92 (0.94%) SAS
5 74 (0.76%) WebLogic
6 45 (0.46%) Oracle Service Bus
7 36 (0.37%) CMS
8 26 (0.27%) IIS
9 25 (0.26%) Apache
10 23 (0.23%) Apache Spark
11 17 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
12 14 (0.14%) IBM Notes
13 13 (0.13%) Skype for Business
14 8 (0.082%) ArcGIS
14 8 (0.082%) Moodle
14 8 (0.082%) WebSphere
14 8 (0.082%) WordPress
15 7 (0.071%) Exchange Server 2013
16 6 (0.061%) Exchange Server 2010
17 5 (0.051%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 1,540 (15.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 1,057 (10.79%) Microsoft Office
3 251 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 179 (1.83%) MS Visio
5 49 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
6 23 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
7 21 (0.21%) 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
12 2 (0.020%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 106 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 50 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
3 47 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
4 33 (0.34%) Aladdin
5 28 (0.29%) NEC Housing
5 28 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
6 26 (0.27%) Elite 3E
7 24 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
8 23 (0.23%) Endur
9 22 (0.22%) PlanetPress Connect
10 19 (0.19%) NetSuite
10 19 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
10 19 (0.19%) thinkFolio
11 18 (0.18%) iTrent
12 16 (0.16%) Infor SunSystems
12 16 (0.16%) Oracle Financials
13 15 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
13 15 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
14 14 (0.14%) Epicor Tropos
15 13 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 1,098 (11.21%) Azure
2 1,095 (11.18%) Microsoft 365
3 1,014 (10.36%) Power Platform
4 413 (4.22%) AWS
5 223 (2.28%) SaaS
6 184 (1.88%) Dynamics 365
7 181 (1.85%) Entra ID
8 136 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
9 81 (0.83%) GCP
10 69 (0.70%) Google Analytics
11 66 (0.67%) PowerApps
12 61 (0.62%) Power Automate
13 48 (0.49%) Azure Sentinel
13 48 (0.49%) OneDrive
14 46 (0.47%) WhatsApp
15 41 (0.42%) Mimecast
15 41 (0.42%) Snowflake
16 40 (0.41%) PaaS
17 27 (0.28%) Azure Data Factory
17 27 (0.28%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 512 (5.23%) Broadband
2 443 (4.52%) Firewall
3 268 (2.74%) DNS
4 267 (2.73%) LAN
5 252 (2.57%) WAN
6 187 (1.91%) TCP/IP
7 163 (1.66%) VPN
8 153 (1.56%) DHCP
9 149 (1.52%) Internet
10 109 (1.11%) VoIP
11 104 (1.06%) Wireless
12 102 (1.04%) SD-WAN
13 91 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
14 87 (0.89%) Network Security
15 72 (0.74%) WLAN
16 68 (0.69%) Intrusion Detection
17 62 (0.63%) MPLS
18 53 (0.54%) VLAN
19 50 (0.51%) BGP
19 50 (0.51%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 945 (9.65%) Power BI
2 469 (4.79%) Tableau
3 400 (4.08%) SQL Server
4 198 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
5 155 (1.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 95 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 94 (0.96%) BigQuery
8 93 (0.95%) Relational Database
9 76 (0.78%) Oracle Database
9 76 (0.78%) Power Query
10 57 (0.58%) Data Mining
11 47 (0.48%) QlikView
12 45 (0.46%) Oracle Database 10g
12 45 (0.46%) Oracle Database 11g
12 45 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
12 45 (0.46%) VLDB
13 41 (0.42%) Big Data
13 41 (0.42%) MySQL
14 40 (0.41%) Looker
15 34 (0.35%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 384 (3.92%) JIRA
2 118 (1.21%) Git
3 57 (0.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 46 (0.47%) Selenium
5 35 (0.36%) Visual Studio
6 22 (0.22%) Eclipse
7 20 (0.20%) Postman
8 15 (0.15%) JMeter
8 15 (0.15%) TestRail
9 11 (0.11%) GitLab
9 11 (0.11%) Toad
10 10 (0.10%) Team Foundation Server
11 9 (0.092%) Burp Suite
11 9 (0.092%) Jenkins
11 9 (0.092%) Metasploit
11 9 (0.092%) Oracle Forms
12 7 (0.071%) NUnit
12 7 (0.071%) TeamCity
12 7 (0.071%) WebDriver
13 6 (0.061%) Zephyr
General
1 3,441 (35.14%) Social Skills
2 2,938 (30.00%) Finance
3 2,811 (28.71%) Analytical Skills
4 765 (7.81%) Retail
5 688 (7.03%) Influencing Skills
6 653 (6.67%) Law
7 637 (6.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 622 (6.35%) Banking
8 622 (6.35%) Legal
9 389 (3.97%) Organisational Skills
10 332 (3.39%) Presentation Skills
11 319 (3.26%) Marketing
12 302 (3.08%) Public Sector
13 270 (2.76%) Manufacturing
14 248 (2.53%) Investment Banking
15 182 (1.86%) Front Office
16 107 (1.09%) Police
17 105 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
18 103 (1.05%) Telecoms
19 102 (1.04%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (1.12%) .NET
2 71 (0.73%) JSON
3 66 (0.67%) Oracle Fusion
3 66 (0.67%) XML
4 65 (0.66%) REST
5 53 (0.54%) HTML
6 44 (0.45%) EDI
7 39 (0.40%) Web Services
8 33 (0.34%) FIX Protocol
9 30 (0.31%) Spring
10 29 (0.30%) CSS
10 29 (0.30%) J2EE
10 29 (0.30%) Java EE
11 22 (0.22%) OLE
12 19 (0.19%) .NET Framework
13 17 (0.17%) Middleware
13 17 (0.17%) Pandas
14 16 (0.16%) SOAP
15 15 (0.15%) ARM Templates
16 14 (0.14%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 428 (4.37%) Management Information System
2 413 (4.22%) Self-Motivation
3 274 (2.80%) Product Ownership
4 205 (2.09%) Onboarding
5 132 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 119 (1.22%) Hedge funds
7 118 (1.21%) Fixed Income
8 116 (1.18%) Derivative
9 113 (1.15%) Cyber Threat
10 103 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
11 99 (1.01%) Cyberattack
12 97 (0.99%) Driving Licence
13 94 (0.96%) Security Operations Centre
14 83 (0.85%) Life Science
15 74 (0.76%) Reinsurance
16 72 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
17 69 (0.70%) Data Centre
17 69 (0.70%) Equities
18 63 (0.64%) Credit Risk
19 62 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1,218 (12.44%) Windows
2 422 (4.31%) Windows 10
3 387 (3.95%) Windows Server
4 263 (2.69%) Linux
5 169 (1.73%) Unix
6 98 (1.00%) Apple iOS
7 90 (0.92%) Android
8 67 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
9 65 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
10 61 (0.62%) Mac OS
11 59 (0.60%) Solaris
12 54 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
13 43 (0.44%) Windows 7
14 30 (0.31%) Mac OS X
15 22 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
16 19 (0.19%) Windows 8
17 14 (0.14%) VMS
18 12 (0.12%) Windows Vista
19 11 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
20 10 (0.10%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,103 (21.48%) Problem-Solving
2 1,748 (17.85%) Agile
3 1,251 (12.78%) Decision-Making
4 1,055 (10.77%) Customer Service
5 1,009 (10.30%) Business Intelligence
6 1,005 (10.26%) Actionable Insight
7 965 (9.85%) Analytics
8 912 (9.31%) ITIL
9 835 (8.53%) Business Analysis
10 824 (8.42%) Mentoring
11 799 (8.16%) Data Analysis
12 698 (7.13%) Continuous Improvement
13 694 (7.09%) Cybersecurity
14 648 (6.62%) Visualisation
15 645 (6.59%) Business Case
16 602 (6.15%) Stakeholder Management
17 555 (5.67%) Change Management
18 554 (5.66%) Project Management
19 552 (5.64%) Requirements Gathering
20 531 (5.42%) Budgeting and Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 1,985 (20.27%) SQL
2 736 (7.52%) Python
3 175 (1.79%) R
4 171 (1.75%) T-SQL
5 167 (1.71%) PowerShell
6 166 (1.70%) C#
7 98 (1.00%) VBA
8 94 (0.96%) Java
9 83 (0.85%) PL/SQL
10 72 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 66 (0.67%) JavaScript
12 38 (0.39%) Shell Script
13 37 (0.38%) Bash
14 29 (0.30%) C++
15 25 (0.26%) RPG
16 19 (0.19%) Perl
16 19 (0.19%) VB
17 13 (0.13%) MATLAB
17 13 (0.13%) PHP
17 13 (0.13%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,780 (18.18%) Degree
2 547 (5.59%) Security Cleared
3 528 (5.39%) ACCA
4 526 (5.37%) CIMA
5 352 (3.59%) SC Cleared
6 208 (2.12%) CISSP
7 168 (1.72%) DBS Check
8 140 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
9 124 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
10 119 (1.22%) DV Cleared
11 115 (1.17%) Master's Degree
12 113 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
13 98 (1.00%) CompTIA Security+
14 93 (0.95%) CISM
15 90 (0.92%) CCNA
16 74 (0.76%) CISA
17 62 (0.63%) CCNP
18 58 (0.59%) A+ Certification
19 50 (0.51%) ISTQB
20 46 (0.47%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 379 (3.87%) SLA
2 276 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 259 (2.65%) Data Quality
4 233 (2.38%) QA
5 204 (2.08%) GDPR
6 173 (1.77%) NIST
7 109 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
8 98 (1.00%) PMO
9 79 (0.81%) GRC
10 58 (0.59%) PCI DSS
11 50 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 39 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
13 37 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 37 (0.38%) NCSC
14 36 (0.37%) ISO 9001
15 32 (0.33%) IFRS
16 29 (0.30%) Accessibility
17 28 (0.29%) COBIT
18 23 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 17025
19 21 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 978 (9.99%) Active Directory
2 150 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 67 (0.68%) Hyper-V
4 47 (0.48%) Oracle RAC
5 36 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
6 27 (0.28%) vSphere
7 25 (0.26%) XenApp
8 24 (0.25%) XenDesktop
9 23 (0.23%) Firmware
10 20 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
11 16 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
12 11 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
12 11 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
13 7 (0.071%) Docker
14 5 (0.051%) Terminal Services
15 4 (0.041%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.041%) VMware Workstation
16 2 (0.020%) BitLocker
16 2 (0.020%) Citrix Hypervisor
17 1 (0.010%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 193 (1.97%) Microsoft Intune
2 157 (1.60%) SCCM
3 57 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
4 47 (0.48%) Data Guard
5 45 (0.46%) Oracle RMAN
6 40 (0.41%) CASB
7 34 (0.35%) WSUS
8 32 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
9 29 (0.30%) OpenSSO
10 28 (0.29%) Terraform
11 18 (0.18%) QRadar
12 16 (0.16%) EnCase
13 15 (0.15%) CSIRT
14 13 (0.13%) FortiGate
15 10 (0.10%) Grafana
16 9 (0.092%) Failover Clustering
16 9 (0.092%) Nessus
16 9 (0.092%) Nmap
16 9 (0.092%) Progress Chef
16 9 (0.092%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2,541 (25.95%) Microsoft
2 347 (3.54%) Oracle
3 264 (2.70%) SAP
4 254 (2.59%) VMware
5 191 (1.95%) Cisco
6 168 (1.72%) Salesforce
7 167 (1.71%) Google
8 164 (1.67%) ServiceNow
9 147 (1.50%) Citrix
10 137 (1.40%) Databricks
11 99 (1.01%) Apple
12 94 (0.96%) Alteryx
13 91 (0.93%) Remedy
14 87 (0.89%) Bloomberg
15 77 (0.79%) Splunk
16 75 (0.77%) Sun
17 70 (0.71%) IBM
18 69 (0.70%) Adobe
19 62 (0.63%) Dell
20 60 (0.61%) Sage