Software Analyst Jobs in London

Software Analyst
England > London

The median Software Analyst salary in London is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 394 504 603
Rank change year-on-year +110 +99 +219
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Analyst 9 13 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.070% 0.055% 0.076%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.077% 0.059% 0.080%
Number of salaries quoted 5 7 17
10th Percentile £37,750 £37,700 £54,850
25th Percentile £41,875 £58,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +7.69% +23.81%
75th Percentile £70,000 £90,000 £68,000
90th Percentile £76,000 - £77,000
England median annual salary £45,748 £37,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +21.99% -16.67% +5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,673 22,210 32,647
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.29% 94.15% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 7,263 16,626 24,091
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Software Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Analyst in London

Software Analyst
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Software Analyst in London

Software Analyst
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Analyst in London over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Analyst in London

Software Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 14 May 2025, Software 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 London region featuring Software Analyst in the job title.

1 7 (77.78%) Agile
1 7 (77.78%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 5 (55.56%) ITIL
2 5 (55.56%) ServiceNow
3 4 (44.44%) DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) Software Asset Management
3 4 (44.44%) Software Licensing
3 4 (44.44%) Continuous Delivery
3 4 (44.44%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (44.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (44.44%) Finance
3 4 (44.44%) Asset Management
3 4 (44.44%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (44.44%) JIRA
3 4 (44.44%) Customer Service
3 4 (44.44%) Roadmaps
3 4 (44.44%) Technology Roadmap
3 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
4 3 (33.33%) User Stories
4 3 (33.33%) Operational Stability
4 3 (33.33%) AWS
4 3 (33.33%) Confluence
5 2 (22.22%) Release Management
5 2 (22.22%) Scrum
5 2 (22.22%) Java
5 2 (22.22%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (11.11%) Workshop Facilitation
6 1 (11.11%) Epics
6 1 (11.11%) Sprint Planning

Software Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 3 (33.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (77.78%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) GraphQL
1 1 (11.11%) LDAP
1 1 (11.11%) Node.js
1 1 (11.11%) OAuth
1 1 (11.11%) React
1 1 (11.11%) REST
1 1 (11.11%) SOAP
1 1 (11.11%) Spring
1 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 5 (55.56%) ITIL
3 4 (44.44%) Asset Management
3 4 (44.44%) Continuous Delivery
3 4 (44.44%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (44.44%) Customer Service
3 4 (44.44%) DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) Roadmaps
3 4 (44.44%) Software Asset Management
3 4 (44.44%) Software Licensing
3 4 (44.44%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (44.44%) Technology Roadmap
4 3 (33.33%) Operational Stability
4 3 (33.33%) User Stories
5 2 (22.22%) Release Management
5 2 (22.22%) Scrum
6 1 (11.11%) Information Security
6 1 (11.11%) Service Management
6 1 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (11.11%) PMO
2 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Grafana
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) ServiceNow
2 1 (11.11%) Atlassian
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft