Analyst Job Trends in the East of England

Analyst
England > East of England

The median Analyst salary in the East of England is £45,000 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 24 17 10
Rank change year-on-year -7 -7 +3
Permanent jobs requiring an Analyst 287 338 292
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 6.86% 9.58% 11.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.68% 10.71% 12.61%
Number of salaries quoted 175 147 239
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £23,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £33,173 £26,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £46,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +24.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £55,000 £50,967 £47,500
90th Percentile £57,500 £67,500 £58,750
England median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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 East of England with a recognized job title 3,738 3,155 2,316
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.40% 89.45% 95.03%
Number of salaries quoted 2,268 1,416 1,758
10th Percentile £28,000 £28,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,625 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,250
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.48% -3.91%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -6.50%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Analyst job vacancy trend in the East of England

Analyst
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies in the East of England.

Salary distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies in the East of England

Analyst
Salary Histogram in the East of England

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

Salary histogram for Analyst in the East of England

Analyst
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Analyst within the East of England 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
Cambridgeshire +32 90 £40,000 -1.23% 27
Suffolk +3 58 £46,750 +20.65% 9
Hertfordshire -34 54 £45,000 -7.69% 27
Essex -11 53 £45,000 -5.26% 14
Bedfordshire +30 29 £40,000 -21.52% 10
Norfolk +7 24 £55,000 +22.22% 19
Analyst
England

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England

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 East of England region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 111 (38.68%) Microsoft
2 85 (29.62%) Azure
3 80 (27.87%) Problem-Solving
4 76 (26.48%) Business Intelligence
4 76 (26.48%) Power Platform
5 75 (26.13%) Power BI
6 64 (22.30%) SQL
7 63 (21.95%) Microsoft Excel
8 42 (14.63%) Agile
8 42 (14.63%) Degree
9 41 (14.29%) Azure Certification
9 41 (14.29%) Customer Service
10 39 (13.59%) Python
11 38 (13.24%) Data Analysis
12 34 (11.85%) HTML
12 34 (11.85%) Tableau
13 32 (11.15%) Microsoft 365
13 32 (11.15%) User Stories
14 31 (10.80%) Analytics
15 30 (10.45%) Collaborative Working
16 29 (10.10%) Change Management
16 29 (10.10%) Cybersecurity
17 28 (9.76%) Business Analysis
17 28 (9.76%) Workshop Facilitation
18 27 (9.41%) Mentoring
18 27 (9.41%) Windows
19 26 (9.06%) Data Analytics
19 26 (9.06%) E-Commerce
20 25 (8.71%) Accessibility
20 25 (8.71%) Digital Transformation Programme

Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.35%) Confluence
2 1 (0.35%) SAS
Applications
1 63 (21.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (6.62%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.05%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.70%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (0.35%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.35%) Postilion
Cloud Services
1 85 (29.62%) Azure
2 76 (26.48%) Power Platform
3 32 (11.15%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (6.97%) Azure AI
5 15 (5.23%) Entra ID
6 11 (3.83%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (2.44%) AWS
8 5 (1.74%) IaaS
9 4 (1.39%) PaaS
10 3 (1.05%) Google Workspace
10 3 (1.05%) Power Automate
10 3 (1.05%) SaaS
11 2 (0.70%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.70%) OCI
12 1 (0.35%) Amazon SageMaker
12 1 (0.35%) Azure Machine Learning
12 1 (0.35%) GCP
12 1 (0.35%) Google Data Studio
12 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Copilot
12 1 (0.35%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.27%) Firewall
2 6 (2.09%) FTP
3 5 (1.74%) VPN
4 4 (1.39%) DHCP
4 4 (1.39%) DNS
4 4 (1.39%) VoIP
5 3 (1.05%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (0.70%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.70%) WAN
7 1 (0.35%) ATM
7 1 (0.35%) Broadband
7 1 (0.35%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.35%) IPv4
7 1 (0.35%) IPv6
7 1 (0.35%) LAN
7 1 (0.35%) MPLS
7 1 (0.35%) SAN
7 1 (0.35%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (26.13%) Power BI
2 34 (11.85%) Tableau
3 16 (5.57%) SQL Server
4 11 (3.83%) Data Mining
5 8 (2.79%) Oracle Reports
6 6 (2.09%) GIS
6 6 (2.09%) MySQL
6 6 (2.09%) Oracle Database
7 5 (1.74%) Crystal Reports
8 3 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.70%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (0.70%) PowerPivot
9 2 (0.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.35%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.35%) Looker
Development Applications
1 5 (1.74%) JIRA
2 1 (0.35%) Git
General
1 118 (41.11%) Social Skills
2 49 (17.07%) Analytical Skills
2 49 (17.07%) Finance
3 25 (8.71%) Law
4 17 (5.92%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (1.74%) Marketing
6 4 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.05%) Advertising
7 3 (1.05%) Aviation
7 3 (1.05%) Health Technology
7 3 (1.05%) Legal
7 3 (1.05%) Retail
8 2 (0.70%) Automotive
8 2 (0.70%) Banking
8 2 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (0.70%) Publishing
9 1 (0.35%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.35%) Local Government
9 1 (0.35%) Online Betting
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (11.85%) HTML
2 6 (2.09%) JSON
2 6 (2.09%) REST
2 6 (2.09%) SOAP
2 6 (2.09%) Web Services
2 6 (2.09%) XML
3 3 (1.05%) CSS
4 2 (0.70%) .NET
5 1 (0.35%) Hugging Face
5 1 (0.35%) NumPy
5 1 (0.35%) Pandas
5 1 (0.35%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.27%) Driving Licence
2 5 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (1.39%) Life Science
4 3 (1.05%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (1.05%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.05%) Security Posture
5 2 (0.70%) Clustering
5 2 (0.70%) Data Structures
5 2 (0.70%) FMCG
5 2 (0.70%) LIMS
5 2 (0.70%) Operational Technology
5 2 (0.70%) PropTech
5 2 (0.70%) Reinsurance
5 2 (0.70%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.35%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.35%) CMDB
6 1 (0.35%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.35%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.35%) NHS
6 1 (0.35%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 27 (9.41%) Windows
2 18 (6.27%) Windows Server
3 14 (4.88%) Mac OS
3 14 (4.88%) Windows Server 2019
4 5 (1.74%) Linux
5 1 (0.35%) AIX
5 1 (0.35%) Android
5 1 (0.35%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.35%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (27.87%) Problem-Solving
2 76 (26.48%) Business Intelligence
3 42 (14.63%) Agile
4 41 (14.29%) Customer Service
5 38 (13.24%) Data Analysis
6 32 (11.15%) User Stories
7 31 (10.80%) Analytics
8 30 (10.45%) Collaborative Working
9 29 (10.10%) Change Management
9 29 (10.10%) Cybersecurity
10 28 (9.76%) Business Analysis
10 28 (9.76%) Workshop Facilitation
11 27 (9.41%) Mentoring
12 26 (9.06%) Data Analytics
12 26 (9.06%) E-Commerce
13 25 (8.71%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 25 (8.71%) User Experience
13 25 (8.71%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 24 (8.36%) Computer Science
15 23 (8.01%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 64 (22.30%) SQL
2 39 (13.59%) Python
3 7 (2.44%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.05%) Apex Code
4 3 (1.05%) T-SQL
5 2 (0.70%) VBA
6 1 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.35%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 42 (14.63%) Degree
2 41 (14.29%) Azure Certification
3 22 (7.67%) CompTIA CySA+
3 22 (7.67%) CompTIA Security+
4 21 (7.32%) DBS Check
5 12 (4.18%) ACCA
5 12 (4.18%) CIMA
6 5 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.74%) Security Cleared
7 2 (0.70%) GSEC
7 2 (0.70%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.35%) CCNA
8 1 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.35%) CISSP
8 1 (0.35%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.35%) IIBA
8 1 (0.35%) ISEB
8 1 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.71%) Accessibility
2 5 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (1.74%) QA
3 4 (1.39%) GDPR
3 4 (1.39%) NIST
4 2 (0.70%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.70%) SLA
5 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.35%) GRC
5 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (7.67%) Active Directory
2 12 (4.18%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (1.05%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (5.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (1.39%) SCCM
3 2 (0.70%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (0.70%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 111 (38.68%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.97%) ForeScout
3 11 (3.83%) Oracle
4 7 (2.44%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.09%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.74%) SAP
6 5 (1.74%) Snow
7 4 (1.39%) Google
8 2 (0.70%) Citrix
8 2 (0.70%) Computacenter
8 2 (0.70%) Okta
8 2 (0.70%) Sage
9 1 (0.35%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.35%) Cisco
9 1 (0.35%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.35%) IBM
9 1 (0.35%) Nimble Storage
9 1 (0.35%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.35%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.35%) Zscaler