Systems Analysis Job Trends in England

Systems Analysis
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Systems Analysis skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 523 588 585
Rank change year-on-year +65 -3 +139
Permanent jobs citing Systems Analysis 79 91 84
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.15% 0.19% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.21% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 53 55 76
10th Percentile £38,200 £48,500 £33,125
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,125 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - -3.45% +20.83%
75th Percentile £111,250 £83,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £94,511 £107,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% +7.69% +8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Systems Analysis falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 42,581 44,028 42,509
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.75% 90.38% 90.78%
Number of salaries quoted 25,429 21,729 32,838
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Systems Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Systems Analysis relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Systems Analysis job vacancy trend in England

Systems Analysis
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Systems Analysis.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Systems Analysis

Systems Analysis
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Analysis in England over the 6 months to 5 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Systems Analysis in England

Systems Analysis
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Analysis within the England region over the 6 months to 5 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
London +64 43 £107,500 +41.91% 6
North of England +39 19 £40,000 -66.67% 10
Yorkshire +6 15 £40,000 -54.35% 7
Midlands +22 12 £57,500 +9.52% 3
West Midlands +20 7 £58,750 +12.98% 3
East Midlands -1 5 £57,500 -36.11%
North West +22 4 £63,900 -57.40% 3
South East -15 3 £67,500 +35.00% 11
East of England +25 2 £61,250 +16.67% 2
Systems Analysis
UK

Systems Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 9 (11.39%) Confluence
2 2 (2.53%) CMS
2 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 18 (22.78%) MS Visio
2 10 (12.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (12.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (10.13%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (8.86%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (8.86%) Shopify
2 4 (5.06%) SAP ERP
3 2 (2.53%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 2 (2.53%) SAP CO
3 2 (2.53%) SAP FI
3 2 (2.53%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (2.53%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (1.27%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 12 (15.19%) Microsoft 365
1 12 (15.19%) Power Platform
2 9 (11.39%) Azure
3 8 (10.13%) AWS
4 7 (8.86%) Microsoft Copilot
5 3 (3.80%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (3.80%) SaaS
6 2 (2.53%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.53%) GCP
6 2 (2.53%) IaaS
6 2 (2.53%) PaaS
7 1 (1.27%) ClickUp
7 1 (1.27%) IBM Cloud
7 1 (1.27%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 12 (15.19%) Multicast
2 9 (11.39%) VPN
2 9 (11.39%) WAN
3 8 (10.13%) Wireless
4 7 (8.86%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (7.59%) BGP
5 6 (7.59%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (7.59%) Cisco Nexus
5 6 (7.59%) EIGRP
5 6 (7.59%) Firewall
5 6 (7.59%) LAN
5 6 (7.59%) OSPF
5 6 (7.59%) TACACS
5 6 (7.59%) WAAS
6 4 (5.06%) Cisco Wireless
6 4 (5.06%) HSRP
6 4 (5.06%) Network Security
6 4 (5.06%) SNMP
7 2 (2.53%) TCP/IP
8 1 (1.27%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.19%) Power BI
1 12 (15.19%) SQL Server
2 9 (11.39%) DB2
2 9 (11.39%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.53%) Crystal Reports
3 2 (2.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (13.92%) JIRA
2 9 (11.39%) Bitbucket
2 9 (11.39%) Cucumber
2 9 (11.39%) Jenkins
2 9 (11.39%) Selenium
2 9 (11.39%) TeamCity
General
1 47 (59.49%) Finance
2 31 (39.24%) Social Skills
3 23 (29.11%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (16.46%) Front Office
5 12 (15.19%) Banking
6 9 (11.39%) Manufacturing
6 9 (11.39%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (8.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (7.59%) Marketing
9 5 (6.33%) Retail
10 4 (5.06%) Back Office
10 4 (5.06%) Legal
11 3 (3.80%) Electronics
11 3 (3.80%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (3.80%) Law
12 2 (2.53%) Aerospace
12 2 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (1.27%) Investment Banking
13 1 (1.27%) Private Banking
13 1 (1.27%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 29 (36.71%) Analyst
2 22 (27.85%) Developer
3 12 (15.19%) C++ Developer
4 9 (11.39%) Java Developer
4 9 (11.39%) Project Manager
4 9 (11.39%) Senior
4 9 (11.39%) Systems Analyst
5 8 (10.13%) Business Analyst
5 8 (10.13%) IT Analyst
5 8 (10.13%) IT Support
5 8 (10.13%) IT Support Analyst
5 8 (10.13%) Support Analyst
6 7 (8.86%) Agile Developer
6 7 (8.86%) Agile Java Developer
7 6 (7.59%) Network Engineer
7 6 (7.59%) Senior Network Engineer
8 5 (6.33%) Digital Analyst
9 4 (5.06%) Business Systems Analyst
9 4 (5.06%) Product Analyst
10 3 (3.80%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (15.19%) FIX Protocol
2 10 (12.66%) RESTful
3 9 (11.39%) CSS
3 9 (11.39%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (11.39%) Gherkin
3 9 (11.39%) HTML
3 9 (11.39%) Node.js
3 9 (11.39%) React
4 4 (5.06%) 802.1X
5 3 (3.80%) .NET
6 2 (2.53%) Web Services
7 1 (1.27%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.27%) Express.js
7 1 (1.27%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.19%) Derivative
2 10 (12.66%) Greenfield Project
2 10 (12.66%) Management Information System
3 9 (11.39%) Data Centre
4 7 (8.86%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (2.53%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.53%) Augmented Reality
5 2 (2.53%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.53%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.53%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.53%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.27%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.27%) FMCG
6 1 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.27%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (15.19%) Linux
1 12 (15.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 9 (11.39%) Windows
3 1 (1.27%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (31.65%) Agile
2 21 (26.58%) Unit Testing
3 18 (22.78%) Project Management
4 15 (18.99%) Business Intelligence
4 15 (18.99%) Process Improvement
5 14 (17.72%) ERP
6 13 (16.46%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (16.46%) SOA
6 13 (16.46%) Sprint Planning
6 13 (16.46%) User Experience
7 12 (15.19%) Concurrent Programming
7 12 (15.19%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (15.19%) Low Latency
8 11 (13.92%) Customer Service
9 10 (12.66%) CI/CD
9 10 (12.66%) Logistics
9 10 (12.66%) Microservices
9 10 (12.66%) Scrum
10 9 (11.39%) CRM
10 9 (11.39%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 15 (18.99%) SQL
2 13 (16.46%) C++
3 9 (11.39%) Java
3 9 (11.39%) JavaScript
4 7 (8.86%) Python
5 3 (3.80%) C#
6 2 (2.53%) VB.NET
7 1 (1.27%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.27%) RPG
7 1 (1.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (36.71%) Degree
2 8 (10.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (8.86%) CCNP
3 7 (8.86%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (7.59%) CCIE
5 4 (5.06%) CBAP
6 2 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.53%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (2.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 2 (2.53%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.27%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.27%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.27%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.27%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (1.27%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.27%) PMP
7 1 (1.27%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.39%) QA
2 7 (8.86%) Accessibility
3 6 (7.59%) GDPR
3 6 (7.59%) PMO
4 2 (2.53%) GAAP
4 2 (2.53%) IFRS
5 1 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (12.66%) Docker
2 4 (5.06%) ProxySG
2 4 (5.06%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.27%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (12.66%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.27%) Ansible
2 1 (1.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (34.18%) Microsoft
2 12 (15.19%) Red Hat
3 9 (11.39%) Atlassian
4 6 (7.59%) Cisco
4 6 (7.59%) Infoblox
4 6 (7.59%) Motorola
4 6 (7.59%) SAP
4 6 (7.59%) SolarWinds
5 4 (5.06%) Blue Coat
5 4 (5.06%) CheckPoint
5 4 (5.06%) F5
5 4 (5.06%) Oracle
6 2 (2.53%) IBM
6 2 (2.53%) Infor
6 2 (2.53%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.53%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.53%) Workday
7 1 (1.27%) Databricks
7 1 (1.27%) EMC
7 1 (1.27%) IFS