Analyst Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Analyst
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The median Analyst salary in Cambridgeshire is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 41 24
Rank change year-on-year +32 -17 +14
Permanent jobs requiring an Analyst 90 41 52
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridgeshire 10.27% 4.69% 7.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.46% 5.12% 7.98%
Number of salaries quoted 73 12 45
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,350 £24,200
25th Percentile £27,000 £26,000 £25,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,500 £33,516
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% +20.84% -10.62%
75th Percentile £53,750 £56,959 £43,750
90th Percentile £59,500 £67,250 £53,551
East of England median annual salary £45,000 £46,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +24.00% -6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Cambridgeshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. 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 Cambridgeshire with a recognized job title 785 801 652
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.61% 91.54% 93.81%
Number of salaries quoted 549 387 451
10th Percentile £28,200 £30,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £72,750 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £88,750
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,250
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.48% -3.91%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Analyst' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Analyst job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Analyst
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies in Cambridgeshire.

Salary distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies in Cambridgeshire

Analyst
Salary Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analyst in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Analyst in Cambridgeshire

Analyst
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Analyst within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Cambridge +32 56 £30,000 -20.00% 9
Peterborough +2 24 £37,500 +47.06% 16
St Neots - 2 £35,250 -
Analyst
East of England

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire

For the 6 months to 14 January 2026, Analyst job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Cambridgeshire region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 42 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (34.44%) Power BI
2 31 (34.44%) Power Platform
3 30 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 28 (31.11%) Azure
4 28 (31.11%) Microsoft Excel
5 26 (28.89%) Data Analysis
6 24 (26.67%) Analytics
7 23 (25.56%) Data Analytics
8 21 (23.33%) DBS Check
8 21 (23.33%) Microsoft
8 21 (23.33%) SQL
9 18 (20.00%) Business Analysis
10 17 (18.89%) Customer Service
10 17 (18.89%) Process Improvement
10 17 (18.89%) Stakeholder Management
11 15 (16.67%) Agile
12 13 (14.44%) Python
13 12 (13.33%) Asset Management
13 12 (13.33%) Tableau
14 10 (11.11%) Azure Certification
14 10 (11.11%) Change Management
14 10 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
14 10 (11.11%) Project Management
14 10 (11.11%) User Stories
14 10 (11.11%) Workshop Facilitation
15 8 (8.89%) Degree
15 8 (8.89%) Software Asset Management
16 7 (7.78%) Accessibility
16 7 (7.78%) Cybersecurity

Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.11%) Confluence
1 1 (1.11%) SAS
Applications
1 28 (31.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 31 (34.44%) Power Platform
2 28 (31.11%) Azure
3 5 (5.56%) Azure AI
4 3 (3.33%) Power Automate
5 2 (2.22%) OCI
5 2 (2.22%) SaaS
6 1 (1.11%) AWS
6 1 (1.11%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (1.11%) dbt
6 1 (1.11%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.11%) Fivetran
6 1 (1.11%) GCP
6 1 (1.11%) GitHub
6 1 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.11%) Google Data Studio
6 1 (1.11%) IaaS
6 1 (1.11%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (1.11%) PaaS
6 1 (1.11%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.11%) DHCP
1 1 (1.11%) DNS
1 1 (1.11%) Firewall
1 1 (1.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (34.44%) Power BI
2 12 (13.33%) Tableau
3 6 (6.67%) Data Mining
4 4 (4.44%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.22%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (2.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.11%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.11%) Looker
Development Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Git
1 1 (1.11%) JIRA
General
1 29 (32.22%) Social Skills
2 16 (17.78%) Finance
3 15 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.89%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (7.78%) Law
6 5 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.11%) Marketing
7 1 (1.11%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.78%) HTML
2 1 (1.11%) Hugging Face
2 1 (1.11%) NumPy
2 1 (1.11%) Pandas
2 1 (1.11%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.22%) Management Information System
1 2 (2.22%) PropTech
1 2 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
1 2 (2.22%) Virtual Team
2 1 (1.11%) Data Structures
2 1 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (1.11%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.56%) Windows
2 3 (3.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 26 (28.89%) Data Analysis
4 24 (26.67%) Analytics
5 23 (25.56%) Data Analytics
6 18 (20.00%) Business Analysis
7 17 (18.89%) Customer Service
7 17 (18.89%) Process Improvement
7 17 (18.89%) Stakeholder Management
8 15 (16.67%) Agile
9 12 (13.33%) Asset Management
10 10 (11.11%) Change Management
10 10 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
10 10 (11.11%) Project Management
10 10 (11.11%) User Stories
10 10 (11.11%) Workshop Facilitation
11 8 (8.89%) Software Asset Management
12 7 (7.78%) Cybersecurity
12 7 (7.78%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 7 (7.78%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 21 (23.33%) SQL
2 13 (14.44%) Python
3 3 (3.33%) T-SQL
4 1 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 21 (23.33%) DBS Check
2 10 (11.11%) Azure Certification
3 8 (8.89%) Degree
4 5 (5.56%) CompTIA CySA+
4 5 (5.56%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (2.22%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.11%) CISSP
6 1 (1.11%) IIBA
6 1 (1.11%) PMP
6 1 (1.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.78%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.44%) QA
3 1 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.11%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (2.22%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.11%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 21 (23.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.56%) ForeScout
2 5 (5.56%) Oracle
2 5 (5.56%) Snow
3 2 (2.22%) SAP
4 1 (1.11%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.11%) Apple
4 1 (1.11%) Citrix
4 1 (1.11%) Google
4 1 (1.11%) HubSpot
4 1 (1.11%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.11%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.11%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.11%) Talend
4 1 (1.11%) Zoho