Technical Analyst
UK

The median Technical Analyst salary in the UK is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 476 592 607
Rank change year-on-year +116 +15 -64
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Analyst 486 452 770
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.49% 0.44% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.48% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 349 311 623
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,750 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £91,000 £77,500 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,750 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -20.56% +5.88% -

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 93,212 94,769 150,357
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.51% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 66,814 59,630 85,382
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,225
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Technical Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Analyst in the UK

Technical Analyst
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Technical Analyst in the UK

Technical Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Analyst over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Technical Analyst in the UK

Technical Analyst
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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 +107 429 £52,500 +5.00% 76
UK excluding London +42 300 £35,750 -20.56% 49
London +102 163 £75,000 +25.00% 33
Work from Home +66 162 £55,000 +4.76% 30
North of England +58 92 £35,000 -22.22% 9
North West +53 76 £37,500 - 7
South East +30 58 £42,500 -2.86% 11
South West +5 49 £34,000 -25.23% 7
Midlands +21 40 £38,750 -18.42% 5
West Midlands +21 31 £37,500 -21.05% 4
East of England +10 26 £35,000 -11.95% 9
Scotland -68 15 £35,000 -44.00% 5
Yorkshire +69 12 £45,000 - 2
Wales +22 11 £35,000 +4.48% 4
East Midlands -13 9 £40,250 -21.46% 1
Northern Ireland +29 5 - -
North East -1 4 £30,000 -38.46%
Isle of Man - 4 - -

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Technical 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 Technical Analyst in the job title.

1 161 (33.13%) Social Skills
2 134 (27.57%) SQL
3 122 (25.10%) Finance
4 114 (23.46%) Analytical Skills
4 114 (23.46%) Problem-Solving
5 80 (16.46%) Degree
6 79 (16.26%) Agile
7 75 (15.43%) Windows
8 68 (13.99%) ITIL
9 62 (12.76%) Microsoft
9 62 (12.76%) Azure
10 61 (12.55%) Python
11 59 (12.14%) Active Directory
11 59 (12.14%) User Stories
12 56 (11.52%) Customer Service
13 54 (11.11%) Banking
13 54 (11.11%) SQL Server
14 48 (9.88%) Asset Management
15 45 (9.26%) Public Sector
16 39 (8.02%) Hedge funds
17 38 (7.82%) Windows Server
18 37 (7.61%) C#
19 36 (7.41%) Front Office
19 36 (7.41%) Back Office
19 36 (7.41%) Business Analysis
19 36 (7.41%) Analytics
19 36 (7.41%) Security Cleared
19 36 (7.41%) Investment Management
19 36 (7.41%) Power Platform
20 35 (7.20%) Mathematics

Technical 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 15 (3.09%) Confluence
1 15 (3.09%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.23%) WebSphere
3 5 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.41%) Apache
4 2 (0.41%) IIS
4 2 (0.41%) Moodle
4 2 (0.41%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.21%) Appian
Applications
1 28 (5.76%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (2.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.23%) Trello
4 5 (1.03%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 21 (4.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (2.67%) NEC Housing
3 5 (1.03%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.41%) Misys Midas
5 1 (0.21%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 62 (12.76%) Azure
2 36 (7.41%) Power Platform
3 33 (6.79%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (5.56%) SaaS
5 22 (4.53%) AWS
6 12 (2.47%) Power Automate
7 7 (1.44%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (1.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (1.03%) Entra ID
8 5 (1.03%) Google Workspace
9 4 (0.82%) GCP
9 4 (0.82%) GitHub
10 3 (0.62%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (0.62%) PowerApps
11 2 (0.41%) Cloud Computing
12 1 (0.21%) Apigee
12 1 (0.21%) Boomi
12 1 (0.21%) Mimecast
12 1 (0.21%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.26%) Firewall
2 8 (1.65%) LAN
3 6 (1.23%) DNS
3 6 (1.23%) SAN
3 6 (1.23%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.03%) HTTP
4 5 (1.03%) VSAT
4 5 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (0.82%) DHCP
5 4 (0.82%) Wireless
6 3 (0.62%) Internet
6 3 (0.62%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (0.62%) VLAN
6 3 (0.62%) WAN
7 2 (0.41%) FTP
7 2 (0.41%) SMTP
8 1 (0.21%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 33 (6.79%) Power BI
3 29 (5.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 11 (2.26%) Tableau
5 10 (2.06%) Big Data
6 9 (1.85%) Relational Database
6 9 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 8 (1.65%) Crystal Reports
8 6 (1.23%) Snowflake Schema
8 6 (1.23%) Star Schema
9 4 (0.82%) Ataccama
9 4 (0.82%) Metadata
10 3 (0.62%) MySQL
10 3 (0.62%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.41%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 1 (0.21%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.21%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.21%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.21%) Looker
Development Applications
1 30 (6.17%) JIRA
2 8 (1.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 4 (0.82%) Git
3 4 (0.82%) GitLab
4 1 (0.21%) JMeter
4 1 (0.21%) LoadRunner
General
1 161 (33.13%) Social Skills
2 122 (25.10%) Finance
3 114 (23.46%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (11.11%) Banking
5 45 (9.26%) Public Sector
6 36 (7.41%) Back Office
6 36 (7.41%) Front Office
7 30 (6.17%) Organisational Skills
8 21 (4.32%) Retail
9 19 (3.91%) Law
10 17 (3.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (2.88%) Legal
12 13 (2.67%) Manufacturing
13 12 (2.47%) Investment Banking
14 8 (1.65%) French Language
14 8 (1.65%) Military
15 7 (1.44%) Billing
15 7 (1.44%) Health Technology
15 7 (1.44%) Telecoms
16 6 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.29%) .NET
2 10 (2.06%) FIX Protocol
3 7 (1.44%) .NET Framework
4 5 (1.03%) React
5 4 (0.82%) Laravel
5 4 (0.82%) Next.js
5 4 (0.82%) React Native
5 4 (0.82%) REST
6 3 (0.62%) ASP.NET
6 3 (0.62%) HTML
7 2 (0.41%) LAMP
7 2 (0.41%) LDAP
7 2 (0.41%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (0.41%) XML
8 1 (0.21%) ADO
8 1 (0.21%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.21%) Entity Framework
8 1 (0.21%) FpML
8 1 (0.21%) JSON
8 1 (0.21%) Murex MxML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (8.02%) Hedge funds
2 31 (6.38%) Derivative
3 29 (5.97%) Management Information System
4 26 (5.35%) Product Ownership
5 25 (5.14%) Self-Motivation
6 22 (4.53%) PMI
7 21 (4.32%) Onboarding
8 16 (3.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 13 (2.67%) Fixed Income
10 10 (2.06%) Equities
11 9 (1.85%) Housing Association
11 9 (1.85%) Renewable Energy
12 8 (1.65%) Reference Data
13 7 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (1.23%) Data Centre
14 6 (1.23%) Social Media
15 5 (1.03%) Data Structures
15 5 (1.03%) Low-Code
15 5 (1.03%) SCADA
16 4 (0.82%) Interest Rate Derivative
Operating Systems
1 75 (15.43%) Windows
2 38 (7.82%) Windows Server
3 31 (6.38%) Windows 10
4 27 (5.56%) Linux
5 17 (3.50%) Windows Server 2016
5 17 (3.50%) Windows Server 2019
6 10 (2.06%) Windows Server 2012
7 7 (1.44%) Apple iOS
8 6 (1.23%) SUSE
8 6 (1.23%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 3 (0.62%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.41%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (23.46%) Problem-Solving
2 79 (16.26%) Agile
3 68 (13.99%) ITIL
4 59 (12.14%) User Stories
5 56 (11.52%) Customer Service
6 48 (9.88%) Asset Management
7 36 (7.41%) Analytics
7 36 (7.41%) Business Analysis
7 36 (7.41%) Investment Management
8 35 (7.20%) Mathematics
9 34 (7.00%) Mentoring
10 32 (6.58%) CRM
10 32 (6.58%) Process Improvement
11 31 (6.38%) Change Management
12 30 (6.17%) ETL
12 30 (6.17%) Migration
12 30 (6.17%) Stakeholder Management
13 29 (5.97%) Information Security
14 27 (5.56%) Business Intelligence
15 26 (5.35%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 134 (27.57%) SQL
2 61 (12.55%) Python
3 37 (7.61%) C#
4 27 (5.56%) T-SQL
5 25 (5.14%) PL/SQL
6 11 (2.26%) Java
7 8 (1.65%) R
8 4 (0.82%) PHP
9 3 (0.62%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.41%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.21%) Bash
11 1 (0.21%) C
11 1 (0.21%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.21%) VBA
Qualifications
1 80 (16.46%) Degree
2 36 (7.41%) Security Cleared
3 23 (4.73%) SC Cleared
4 22 (4.53%) PMI Certification
5 14 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (1.85%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 6 (1.23%) DBS Check
8 6 (1.23%) IIBA
8 6 (1.23%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.82%) HND
10 2 (0.41%) CISA
10 2 (0.41%) CISSP
11 1 (0.21%) CCNA
11 1 (0.21%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.21%) CISM
11 1 (0.21%) CRISC
11 1 (0.21%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.21%) ISEB
11 1 (0.21%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.88%) SLA
2 13 (2.67%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.62%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (0.41%) GDPR
4 2 (0.41%) GRC
4 2 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.41%) NIST
4 2 (0.41%) QA
5 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.21%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 59 (12.14%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (1.44%) vSphere
3 5 (1.03%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 4 (0.82%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.41%) XenApp
5 2 (0.41%) XenDesktop
6 1 (0.21%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 8 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (1.44%) Progress Chef
3 6 (1.23%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 5 (1.03%) Jamf Pro
5 4 (0.82%) SCCM
6 2 (0.41%) Terraform
7 1 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.21%) Grafana
7 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 62 (12.76%) Microsoft
2 17 (3.50%) Oracle
2 17 (3.50%) VMware
3 14 (2.88%) IFS
4 13 (2.67%) NEC
5 9 (1.85%) Adobe
5 9 (1.85%) Apple
5 9 (1.85%) F5
5 9 (1.85%) Snow
6 8 (1.65%) IBM
6 8 (1.65%) ServiceNow
6 8 (1.65%) Veeam
7 7 (1.44%) Charles River
7 7 (1.44%) Commvault
8 4 (0.82%) Citrix
8 4 (0.82%) UiPath
9 3 (0.62%) eFront
9 3 (0.62%) Google
10 2 (0.41%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.41%) Salesforce