Senior Analyst
UK

The median Senior Analyst salary in the UK is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 185 174 294
Rank change year-on-year -11 +120 +43
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 1,555 2,255 2,146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.59% 2.15% 1.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.68% 2.35% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 842 830 1,270
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,000 £37,379
25th Percentile £47,500 £44,653 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - +7.84%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £84,875 £82,500 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +16.67%

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 92,756 95,826 148,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.56% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,592 60,202 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +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 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Senior Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Analyst in the UK

Senior Analyst
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Analyst in the UK

Senior Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Analyst over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Analyst in the UK

Senior 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 Senior Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 -1 1,427 £57,500 +3.60% 263
UK excluding London -98 866 £52,500 +5.00% 114
Work from Home -50 663 £55,000 - 100
London +107 626 £70,000 +7.69% 154
South East +34 276 £50,000 -13.04% 27
North of England -136 199 £50,000 - 23
Midlands +31 162 £55,000 +15.79% 23
South West +26 112 £60,000 +32.73% 12
West Midlands +21 103 £55,000 +10.80% 16
Yorkshire -102 90 £51,528 -2.78% 7
North West +6 87 £52,500 +7.14% 15
East Midlands +21 56 £57,500 +30.68% 7
Scotland -82 54 £50,764 +3.60% 5
East of England -36 33 £41,400 -24.73% 16
Wales -17 27 £47,000 +20.51% 8
North East +14 22 £35,000 -41.67% 1
Northern Ireland +31 5 £58,800 +23.79% 2

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Senior 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 Senior Analyst in the job title.

1 652 (41.93%) Finance
2 614 (39.49%) Social Skills
3 607 (39.04%) Analytical Skills
4 467 (30.03%) Microsoft
5 451 (29.00%) Agile
6 415 (26.69%) Actionable Insight
7 390 (25.08%) Microsoft Excel
8 366 (23.54%) Degree
9 353 (22.70%) SQL
10 332 (21.35%) Decision-Making
11 302 (19.42%) Mentoring
12 266 (17.11%) Business Case
13 256 (16.46%) ACCA
14 251 (16.14%) CIMA
14 251 (16.14%) Broadband
15 250 (16.08%) Influencing Skills
16 246 (15.82%) Budgeting and Forecasting
17 235 (15.11%) Problem-Solving
17 235 (15.11%) Budgeting
18 224 (14.41%) Analytics
19 221 (14.21%) Python
20 209 (13.44%) Azure
21 174 (11.19%) Data Analysis
22 162 (10.42%) Visualisation
23 156 (10.03%) Power BI
23 156 (10.03%) Power Platform
24 154 (9.90%) Tableau
25 148 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
26 145 (9.32%) Mathematics
27 140 (9.00%) Retail

Senior 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 47 (3.02%) SAS
2 33 (2.12%) Confluence
3 29 (1.86%) WebLogic
4 27 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
5 18 (1.16%) Apache Spark
6 15 (0.96%) Apache
6 15 (0.96%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.39%) IIS
7 6 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
7 6 (0.39%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.32%) IBM Notes
9 4 (0.26%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.13%) WordPress
11 1 (0.064%) Exchange Server 2013
11 1 (0.064%) Moodle
11 1 (0.064%) Mule
11 1 (0.064%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.064%) Tornado
Applications
1 390 (25.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (3.67%) Microsoft Office
3 48 (3.09%) MS Visio
4 24 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.39%) SOLIDWORKS
7 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.13%) SPSS
7 2 (0.13%) Stata
Business Applications
1 14 (0.90%) Endur
2 9 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.39%) Oracle Applications
3 6 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.32%) NEC Housing
5 4 (0.26%) Lawson
6 3 (0.19%) SAP Payroll
7 2 (0.13%) Infor M3
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.13%) SAP HCM
8 1 (0.064%) Academy Housing
8 1 (0.064%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.064%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.064%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.064%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.064%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.064%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.064%) SAP WM
8 1 (0.064%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.064%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 209 (13.44%) Azure
2 156 (10.03%) Power Platform
3 131 (8.42%) Microsoft 365
4 101 (6.50%) AWS
5 42 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (1.54%) GCP
6 24 (1.54%) SaaS
7 23 (1.48%) Miro
8 22 (1.41%) Entra ID
9 17 (1.09%) Azure Sentinel
10 10 (0.64%) PaaS
11 9 (0.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 9 (0.58%) Cloud Computing
11 9 (0.58%) Google Analytics
11 9 (0.58%) Rubrik
12 7 (0.45%) PowerApps
13 6 (0.39%) GitHub
13 6 (0.39%) IaaS
13 6 (0.39%) Mimecast
14 5 (0.32%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 251 (16.14%) Broadband
2 69 (4.44%) Firewall
3 22 (1.41%) TCP/IP
4 18 (1.16%) Internet
5 17 (1.09%) SD-WAN
5 17 (1.09%) VPN
6 13 (0.84%) SAN
6 13 (0.84%) VLAN
7 12 (0.77%) DNS
7 12 (0.77%) WAN
8 11 (0.71%) LAN
9 10 (0.64%) Network Security
9 10 (0.64%) Wireless
9 10 (0.64%) WPA
10 9 (0.58%) VoIP
11 7 (0.45%) Intrusion Detection
11 7 (0.45%) WLAN
12 6 (0.39%) DHCP
12 6 (0.39%) MPLS
12 6 (0.39%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (10.03%) Power BI
2 154 (9.90%) Tableau
3 48 (3.09%) SQL Server
4 38 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
5 29 (1.86%) Elasticsearch
6 24 (1.54%) Looker
7 21 (1.35%) Data Mining
7 21 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 15 (0.96%) Big Data
8 15 (0.96%) Relational Database
8 15 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 13 (0.84%) MS Access
10 9 (0.58%) BigQuery
10 9 (0.58%) Metadata
11 8 (0.51%) Essbase
12 7 (0.45%) GIS
12 7 (0.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 6 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
14 5 (0.32%) MySQL
15 4 (0.26%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 64 (4.12%) Git
2 60 (3.86%) JIRA
3 9 (0.58%) Selenium
4 8 (0.51%) Burp Suite
4 8 (0.51%) Metasploit
5 6 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
6 5 (0.32%) TestRail
6 5 (0.32%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.26%) JMeter
7 4 (0.26%) Visual Studio Team System
8 3 (0.19%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.19%) ERwin
8 3 (0.19%) GitLab
9 2 (0.13%) PowerBuilder
9 2 (0.13%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.13%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.13%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.064%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.064%) LoadRunner
General
1 652 (41.93%) Finance
2 614 (39.49%) Social Skills
3 607 (39.04%) Analytical Skills
4 250 (16.08%) Influencing Skills
5 140 (9.00%) Retail
6 139 (8.94%) Legal
7 133 (8.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 112 (7.20%) Banking
9 97 (6.24%) Presentation Skills
10 71 (4.57%) Law
11 50 (3.22%) Marketing
11 50 (3.22%) Public Sector
12 42 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
13 33 (2.12%) Police
14 25 (1.61%) Games
15 16 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
16 14 (0.90%) Advertising
16 14 (0.90%) Front Office
17 11 (0.71%) General Ledger
17 11 (0.71%) Retail Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (1.86%) J2EE
1 29 (1.86%) Java EE
1 29 (1.86%) Spring
2 24 (1.54%) JSON
3 21 (1.35%) REST
4 18 (1.16%) .NET
5 14 (0.90%) ARM Templates
5 14 (0.90%) HTML
6 12 (0.77%) CSS
7 10 (0.64%) Lightning Web Components
8 6 (0.39%) Oracle Fusion
9 5 (0.32%) .NET Core
9 5 (0.32%) Blazor
9 5 (0.32%) Entity Framework
10 4 (0.26%) D3.js
10 4 (0.26%) Laravel
10 4 (0.26%) Next.js
10 4 (0.26%) PySpark
10 4 (0.26%) React
10 4 (0.26%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 71 (4.57%) Onboarding
2 70 (4.50%) Management Information System
3 47 (3.02%) Product Ownership
4 32 (2.06%) Credit Risk
5 30 (1.93%) Security Operations Centre
5 30 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
6 27 (1.74%) Cyberattack
7 24 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
8 22 (1.41%) PMI
9 21 (1.35%) Reinsurance
10 13 (0.84%) Security Posture
10 13 (0.84%) Social Media
11 11 (0.71%) Cyber Threat
11 11 (0.71%) NHS
12 10 (0.64%) Analytical Mindset
12 10 (0.64%) Virtual Reality
13 9 (0.58%) Data Centre
13 9 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (0.58%) Video\Live Streaming
14 8 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 107 (6.88%) Windows
2 39 (2.51%) Unix
3 38 (2.44%) Windows Server
4 35 (2.25%) Linux
5 23 (1.48%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (0.39%) SUSE
7 6 (0.39%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 5 (0.32%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.19%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.13%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.064%) Android
12 1 (0.064%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 451 (29.00%) Agile
2 415 (26.69%) Actionable Insight
3 332 (21.35%) Decision-Making
4 302 (19.42%) Mentoring
5 266 (17.11%) Business Case
6 246 (15.82%) Budgeting and Forecasting
7 235 (15.11%) Budgeting
7 235 (15.11%) Problem-Solving
8 224 (14.41%) Analytics
9 174 (11.19%) Data Analysis
10 162 (10.42%) Visualisation
11 148 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
12 145 (9.32%) Mathematics
13 135 (8.68%) Cybersecurity
14 127 (8.17%) Process Improvement
15 119 (7.65%) Stakeholder Management
16 116 (7.46%) Statistics
17 111 (7.14%) Requirements Gathering
18 109 (7.01%) Business Analysis
19 103 (6.62%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 353 (22.70%) SQL
2 221 (14.21%) Python
3 52 (3.34%) R
4 40 (2.57%) PowerShell
5 34 (2.19%) Java
6 29 (1.86%) Shell Script
7 26 (1.67%) C#
8 25 (1.61%) T-SQL
9 19 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 14 (0.90%) VBA
11 11 (0.71%) PL/SQL
12 9 (0.58%) C++
13 8 (0.51%) JavaScript
14 7 (0.45%) PHP
15 5 (0.32%) C
15 5 (0.32%) VB.NET
16 4 (0.26%) Bicep
16 4 (0.26%) VB
17 3 (0.19%) RPG
17 3 (0.19%) VB6
Qualifications
1 366 (23.54%) Degree
2 256 (16.46%) ACCA
3 251 (16.14%) CIMA
4 116 (7.46%) Security Cleared
5 96 (6.17%) SC Cleared
6 57 (3.67%) DBS Check
7 47 (3.02%) CISSP
8 34 (2.19%) Master's Degree
9 26 (1.67%) PMI Certification
10 21 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
10 21 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
11 20 (1.29%) CompTIA Security+
12 18 (1.16%) DV Cleared
12 18 (1.16%) GIAC
13 17 (1.09%) CCNP
14 16 (1.03%) CISM
15 13 (0.84%) ISTQB
16 11 (0.71%) CISA
17 10 (0.64%) CompTIA CySA+
17 10 (0.64%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (5.34%) GDPR
2 38 (2.44%) Data Quality
3 34 (2.19%) SLA
4 33 (2.12%) QA
5 31 (1.99%) NIST
6 28 (1.80%) IFRS
6 28 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (1.16%) CRD IV
8 16 (1.03%) GRC
9 15 (0.96%) IFRS 9
10 13 (0.84%) PCI DSS
11 12 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
11 12 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 11 (0.71%) PMO
13 10 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
13 10 (0.64%) COBIT
14 2 (0.13%) IFRS 17
14 2 (0.13%) ISO 22301
14 2 (0.13%) ISO 9001
15 1 (0.064%) Accessibility
System Software
1 85 (5.47%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.39%) Firmware
5 5 (0.32%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.064%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.064%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.064%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (2.12%) Single Sign-On
2 29 (1.86%) OpenSSO
3 27 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
4 22 (1.41%) SCCM
5 9 (0.58%) Terraform
6 8 (0.51%) Nmap
7 7 (0.45%) CASB
7 7 (0.45%) QRadar
8 6 (0.39%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 4 (0.26%) CSIRT
10 2 (0.13%) cPanel
10 2 (0.13%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.064%) HP SiteScope
11 1 (0.064%) Microsoft Clustering
11 1 (0.064%) Perfmon
11 1 (0.064%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 467 (30.03%) Microsoft
2 75 (4.82%) Databricks
3 62 (3.99%) Oracle
4 43 (2.77%) Citrix
5 39 (2.51%) Cisco
6 35 (2.25%) SAP
6 35 (2.25%) VMware
7 29 (1.86%) Remedy
8 28 (1.80%) Alteryx
8 28 (1.80%) Google
9 25 (1.61%) Salesforce
9 25 (1.61%) SolarWinds
10 21 (1.35%) HP
11 18 (1.16%) Palo Alto
12 16 (1.03%) CA
13 15 (0.96%) Splunk
14 14 (0.90%) CrowdStrike
14 14 (0.90%) IBM
15 12 (0.77%) Dell
16 11 (0.71%) Juniper