Senior Systems Analyst Jobs in England

Senior System Analyst
UK > England

The median Senior System Analyst salary in England is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 646 796 754
Rank change year-on-year +150 -42 +359
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Systems Analyst 40 37 169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.081% 0.043% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.089% 0.045% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 29 30 64
10th Percentile £51,250 - £38,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £63,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.73% +15.91% +9.35%
75th Percentile £85,000 £70,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £85,750 £87,500 £67,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% +13.64% +9.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 44,992 81,767 80,747
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.03% 94.55% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 24,381 60,882 51,425
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,125 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £53,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +5.66% -12.83% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,320 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.37% -12.50% -

Senior Systems Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Systems Analyst in England

Senior Systems Analyst
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior Systems Analyst in England

Senior Systems Analyst
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Systems Analyst in England over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Systems Analyst in England

Senior Systems Analyst
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Systems Analyst within the England region over the 6 months to 19 May 2025. 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
London +124 24 £80,000 -5.88% 9
South East +93 7 £48,750 -2.50% 7
Midlands +65 6 £62,500 -3.85% 1
East Midlands +19 5 £62,500 -3.85%
North of England +45 3 £52,500 -12.50%
North West -5 3 £52,500 -12.50%
West Midlands - 1 - - 1
Senior Systems Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 May 2025, Senior Systems 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 across the England region featuring Senior Systems Analyst in the job title.

1 20 (50.00%) SQL
2 19 (47.50%) Workflow
3 18 (45.00%) Law
4 15 (37.50%) Finance
5 13 (32.50%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (27.50%) Business Intelligence
7 10 (25.00%) Change Management
7 10 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
7 10 (25.00%) Telecoms
7 10 (25.00%) PACS
7 10 (25.00%) Integration Testing
7 10 (25.00%) Issue Tracking
7 10 (25.00%) Workflow Analysis
7 10 (25.00%) Customer Service
7 10 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (22.50%) Agile
9 8 (20.00%) Billing
9 8 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 8 (20.00%) Legal
9 8 (20.00%) T-SQL
9 8 (20.00%) Power Platform
9 8 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
9 8 (20.00%) Aderant
9 8 (20.00%) Power BI
9 8 (20.00%) Systems Analysis
9 8 (20.00%) Azure
9 8 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (17.50%) Data Visualisation
10 7 (17.50%) Visualisation
10 7 (17.50%) Collaborative Working

Senior Systems Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (2.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 8 (20.00%) Azure
1 8 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
1 8 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.00%) Power BI
1 8 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 3 (7.50%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (7.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 3 (7.50%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (5.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 2 (5.00%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.50%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (2.50%) MS Access
4 1 (2.50%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Eclipse
2 2 (5.00%) JIRA
3 1 (2.50%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (2.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (45.00%) Law
2 15 (37.50%) Finance
3 13 (32.50%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 10 (25.00%) Telecoms
5 8 (20.00%) Billing
5 8 (20.00%) Legal
6 5 (12.50%) Banking
7 4 (10.00%) Social Skills
8 3 (7.50%) Retail
9 2 (5.00%) General Ledger
10 1 (2.50%) Back Office
10 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.00%) RESTful
2 3 (7.50%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.00%) PACS
2 4 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.50%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.00%) Linux
2 1 (2.50%) AIX
2 1 (2.50%) Unix
2 1 (2.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (47.50%) Workflow
2 11 (27.50%) Business Intelligence
3 10 (25.00%) Change Management
3 10 (25.00%) Customer Service
3 10 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 10 (25.00%) Issue Tracking
3 10 (25.00%) Workflow Analysis
4 9 (22.50%) Agile
5 8 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
5 8 (20.00%) Systems Analysis
6 7 (17.50%) Collaborative Working
6 7 (17.50%) Data Visualisation
6 7 (17.50%) Visualisation
7 6 (15.00%) Analytics
8 5 (12.50%) Data Analysis
9 4 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (10.00%) Data Modelling
9 4 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
9 4 (10.00%) Scrum
9 4 (10.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 20 (50.00%) SQL
2 8 (20.00%) T-SQL
3 4 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (2.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (2.50%) Hyper-V
1 1 (2.50%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 8 (20.00%) Aderant
2 6 (15.00%) Oracle
3 3 (7.50%) Concur
3 3 (7.50%) IBM
4 2 (5.00%) Guidewire
4 2 (5.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.50%) VMware