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 23 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 184 174 291
Rank change year-on-year -10 +117 +42
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 1,537 2,262 2,132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.57% 2.14% 1.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.66% 2.34% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 840 829 1,263
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,000 £37,400
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - +9.45%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £68,125
90th Percentile £83,750 £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 92,477 96,786 147,852
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.57% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 66,588 60,676 85,408
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,075
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 23 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 23 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 1,406 £57,500 +4.04% 264
UK excluding London -100 868 £52,500 +5.00% 140
Work from Home -56 646 £55,000 - 123
London +112 605 £70,000 +7.69% 139
South East +23 276 £50,000 -13.04% 28
North of England -141 199 £50,764 +1.53% 32
Midlands +42 162 £55,000 +15.79% 24
South West +16 112 £60,000 +32.68% 14
West Midlands +20 103 £55,000 +11.61% 16
Yorkshire -104 90 £51,528 -2.78% 12
North West -6 87 £53,500 +9.18% 18
East Midlands +25 56 £52,500 +19.32% 8
Scotland -79 55 £51,528 +5.16% 13
East of England -18 32 £41,400 -24.73% 17
Wales -28 27 £47,000 +20.51% 13
North East +19 22 £35,000 -41.67% 2
Northern Ireland +25 7 £63,150 +32.95% 3

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

For the 6 months to 23 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.

1 655 (42.62%) Finance
2 597 (38.84%) Social Skills
3 588 (38.26%) Analytical Skills
4 466 (30.32%) Microsoft
5 455 (29.60%) Agile
6 399 (25.96%) Actionable Insight
7 389 (25.31%) Microsoft Excel
8 349 (22.71%) Degree
9 332 (21.60%) Decision-Making
10 331 (21.54%) SQL
11 300 (19.52%) Mentoring
12 266 (17.31%) Business Case
13 256 (16.66%) ACCA
14 251 (16.33%) CIMA
14 251 (16.33%) Broadband
15 250 (16.27%) Influencing Skills
16 246 (16.01%) Budgeting and Forecasting
17 235 (15.29%) Budgeting
18 218 (14.18%) Problem-Solving
19 209 (13.60%) Azure
20 208 (13.53%) Analytics
21 201 (13.08%) Python
22 158 (10.28%) Power BI
22 158 (10.28%) Power Platform
23 157 (10.21%) Data Analysis
24 149 (9.69%) Business Intelligence
25 146 (9.50%) Visualisation
26 141 (9.17%) Legal
27 139 (9.04%) Tableau
28 133 (8.65%) Cybersecurity

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 (3.06%) SAS
2 34 (2.21%) Confluence
3 29 (1.89%) WebLogic
4 28 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
5 18 (1.17%) Apache Spark
6 15 (0.98%) Apache
6 15 (0.98%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.39%) IIS
7 6 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
7 6 (0.39%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.33%) IBM Notes
9 4 (0.26%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.13%) WordPress
11 1 (0.065%) Exchange Server 2013
11 1 (0.065%) Moodle
11 1 (0.065%) Mule
11 1 (0.065%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.065%) Tornado
Applications
1 389 (25.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (3.71%) Microsoft Office
3 48 (3.12%) MS Visio
4 24 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.39%) SOLIDWORKS
7 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.13%) SPSS
8 2 (0.13%) Stata
Business Applications
1 14 (0.91%) Endur
2 10 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.39%) NEC Housing
3 6 (0.39%) Oracle Applications
3 6 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.26%) Lawson
5 3 (0.20%) Infor M3
5 3 (0.20%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.13%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.065%) Academy Housing
7 1 (0.065%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.065%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.065%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.065%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.065%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.065%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.065%) SAP WM
7 1 (0.065%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.065%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 209 (13.60%) Azure
2 158 (10.28%) Power Platform
3 131 (8.52%) Microsoft 365
4 84 (5.47%) AWS
5 42 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (1.56%) GCP
7 23 (1.50%) Miro
7 23 (1.50%) SaaS
8 22 (1.43%) Entra ID
9 17 (1.11%) Azure Sentinel
10 10 (0.65%) PaaS
11 9 (0.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 9 (0.59%) Cloud Computing
11 9 (0.59%) Google Analytics
11 9 (0.59%) Rubrik
12 7 (0.46%) OCI
12 7 (0.46%) PowerApps
13 6 (0.39%) GitHub
13 6 (0.39%) IaaS
13 6 (0.39%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 251 (16.33%) Broadband
2 70 (4.55%) Firewall
3 22 (1.43%) TCP/IP
4 18 (1.17%) Internet
4 18 (1.17%) SD-WAN
5 17 (1.11%) VPN
6 13 (0.85%) SAN
6 13 (0.85%) VLAN
7 12 (0.78%) DNS
7 12 (0.78%) WAN
8 11 (0.72%) LAN
9 10 (0.65%) Network Security
9 10 (0.65%) Wireless
9 10 (0.65%) WPA
10 9 (0.59%) VoIP
11 7 (0.46%) Intrusion Detection
11 7 (0.46%) WLAN
12 6 (0.39%) MPLS
12 6 (0.39%) OSPF
12 6 (0.39%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (10.28%) Power BI
2 139 (9.04%) Tableau
3 48 (3.12%) SQL Server
4 37 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
5 29 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
6 24 (1.56%) Looker
7 21 (1.37%) Data Mining
7 21 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 15 (0.98%) Big Data
8 15 (0.98%) Relational Database
9 14 (0.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 13 (0.85%) MS Access
11 9 (0.59%) BigQuery
11 9 (0.59%) Metadata
12 8 (0.52%) Essbase
13 7 (0.46%) GIS
13 7 (0.46%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 6 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
15 5 (0.33%) MySQL
16 4 (0.26%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 63 (4.10%) JIRA
2 48 (3.12%) Git
3 8 (0.52%) Burp Suite
3 8 (0.52%) Metasploit
3 8 (0.52%) Selenium
4 6 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
5 5 (0.33%) TestRail
5 5 (0.33%) Visual Studio
6 4 (0.26%) Visual Studio Team System
7 3 (0.20%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.20%) ERwin
7 3 (0.20%) GitLab
7 3 (0.20%) JMeter
8 2 (0.13%) PowerBuilder
8 2 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.065%) Appium
9 1 (0.065%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.065%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.065%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.065%) WebDriver
General
1 655 (42.62%) Finance
2 597 (38.84%) Social Skills
3 588 (38.26%) Analytical Skills
4 250 (16.27%) Influencing Skills
5 141 (9.17%) Legal
6 132 (8.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 124 (8.07%) Retail
8 112 (7.29%) Banking
9 81 (5.27%) Presentation Skills
10 76 (4.94%) Law
11 50 (3.25%) Public Sector
12 47 (3.06%) Marketing
13 42 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
14 33 (2.15%) Police
15 25 (1.63%) Games
16 16 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
17 13 (0.85%) Advertising
17 13 (0.85%) Front Office
18 11 (0.72%) General Ledger
18 11 (0.72%) Retail Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (1.89%) J2EE
1 29 (1.89%) Java EE
1 29 (1.89%) Spring
2 25 (1.63%) JSON
3 22 (1.43%) REST
4 17 (1.11%) .NET
5 14 (0.91%) ARM Templates
5 14 (0.91%) HTML
6 12 (0.78%) CSS
7 10 (0.65%) Lightning Web Components
8 9 (0.59%) Oracle Fusion
9 5 (0.33%) .NET Core
9 5 (0.33%) Blazor
9 5 (0.33%) Entity Framework
10 4 (0.26%) AngularJS
10 4 (0.26%) D3.js
10 4 (0.26%) PySpark
10 4 (0.26%) XML
11 3 (0.20%) RESTful
11 3 (0.20%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 71 (4.62%) Onboarding
2 70 (4.55%) Management Information System
3 48 (3.12%) Product Ownership
4 32 (2.08%) Credit Risk
5 30 (1.95%) Security Operations Centre
5 30 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
6 26 (1.69%) Cyberattack
7 23 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
8 22 (1.43%) PMI
9 21 (1.37%) Reinsurance
10 14 (0.91%) Social Media
11 13 (0.85%) Security Posture
12 11 (0.72%) NHS
12 11 (0.72%) Virtual Reality
13 10 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
14 9 (0.59%) Cyber Threat
14 9 (0.59%) Data Centre
14 9 (0.59%) Data Protection Act
14 9 (0.59%) Video\Live Streaming
15 8 (0.52%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 106 (6.90%) Windows
2 38 (2.47%) Unix
2 38 (2.47%) Windows Server
3 35 (2.28%) Linux
4 23 (1.50%) Windows 10
5 7 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (0.39%) SUSE
6 6 (0.39%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 5 (0.33%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.20%) Mac OS X
10 2 (0.13%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.065%) Android
11 1 (0.065%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 455 (29.60%) Agile
2 399 (25.96%) Actionable Insight
3 332 (21.60%) Decision-Making
4 300 (19.52%) Mentoring
5 266 (17.31%) Business Case
6 246 (16.01%) Budgeting and Forecasting
7 235 (15.29%) Budgeting
8 218 (14.18%) Problem-Solving
9 208 (13.53%) Analytics
10 157 (10.21%) Data Analysis
11 149 (9.69%) Business Intelligence
12 146 (9.50%) Visualisation
13 133 (8.65%) Cybersecurity
14 127 (8.26%) Process Improvement
15 126 (8.20%) Mathematics
16 121 (7.87%) Stakeholder Management
17 113 (7.35%) Requirements Gathering
18 110 (7.16%) Business Analysis
19 102 (6.64%) Information Security
20 101 (6.57%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 331 (21.54%) SQL
2 201 (13.08%) Python
3 49 (3.19%) R
4 40 (2.60%) PowerShell
5 34 (2.21%) Java
6 29 (1.89%) Shell Script
7 26 (1.69%) T-SQL
8 25 (1.63%) C#
9 19 (1.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 14 (0.91%) VBA
11 12 (0.78%) PL/SQL
12 9 (0.59%) C++
13 7 (0.46%) JavaScript
14 6 (0.39%) PHP
15 5 (0.33%) C
15 5 (0.33%) VB.NET
16 4 (0.26%) Bicep
16 4 (0.26%) VB
17 3 (0.20%) Bash
17 3 (0.20%) Scala
Qualifications
1 349 (22.71%) Degree
2 256 (16.66%) ACCA
3 251 (16.33%) CIMA
4 114 (7.42%) Security Cleared
5 94 (6.12%) SC Cleared
6 46 (2.99%) CISSP
7 41 (2.67%) DBS Check
8 34 (2.21%) Master's Degree
9 26 (1.69%) PMI Certification
10 22 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
11 21 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
12 20 (1.30%) CompTIA Security+
13 18 (1.17%) CCNP
13 18 (1.17%) DV Cleared
13 18 (1.17%) GIAC
14 16 (1.04%) CISM
15 12 (0.78%) ISTQB
16 11 (0.72%) CISA
17 10 (0.65%) CompTIA CySA+
17 10 (0.65%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (5.40%) GDPR
2 39 (2.54%) Data Quality
3 34 (2.21%) SLA
4 32 (2.08%) QA
5 31 (2.02%) NIST
6 28 (1.82%) IFRS
6 28 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (1.17%) CRD IV
8 16 (1.04%) GRC
9 15 (0.98%) IFRS 9
10 13 (0.85%) PCI DSS
11 12 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
11 12 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 11 (0.72%) PMO
13 10 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
13 10 (0.65%) COBIT
14 2 (0.13%) IFRS 17
14 2 (0.13%) ISO 22301
14 2 (0.13%) ISO 9001
15 1 (0.065%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 85 (5.53%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.39%) Firmware
5 5 (0.33%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.065%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.065%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.065%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (2.15%) Single Sign-On
2 29 (1.89%) OpenSSO
3 27 (1.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 22 (1.43%) SCCM
5 9 (0.59%) Terraform
6 8 (0.52%) Nmap
7 7 (0.46%) CASB
7 7 (0.46%) 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 (0.065%) HP SiteScope
11 1 (0.065%) Microsoft Clustering
11 1 (0.065%) Perfmon
11 1 (0.065%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 466 (30.32%) Microsoft
2 65 (4.23%) Oracle
3 58 (3.77%) Databricks
4 44 (2.86%) Citrix
5 40 (2.60%) Cisco
6 36 (2.34%) SAP
7 35 (2.28%) VMware
8 29 (1.89%) Alteryx
8 29 (1.89%) Remedy
9 28 (1.82%) Google
10 25 (1.63%) Salesforce
10 25 (1.63%) SolarWinds
11 21 (1.37%) HP
12 20 (1.30%) Palo Alto
13 16 (1.04%) CA
14 15 (0.98%) Splunk
15 14 (0.91%) CrowdStrike
16 13 (0.85%) IBM
17 12 (0.78%) Dell
17 12 (0.78%) Juniper