Systems Analyst Jobs in the Midlands

System Analyst
England > Midlands

The median System Analyst salary in the Midlands is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 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
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 220 268 261
Rank change year-on-year +48 -7 -15
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Analyst 35 48 53
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.49% 0.40% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.42% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 29 43 47
10th Percentile £39,000 £24,000 £31,989
25th Percentile £42,500 £35,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,125 £50,000
90th Percentile £67,000 £67,500 £57,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% +5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 6,607 11,337 8,175
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.39% 94.39% 89.60%
Number of salaries quoted 2,820 8,397 4,580
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,250 £28,738
25th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,741 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £56,800 £53,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.17% -12.83% +1.33%

Systems Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Analyst in the Midlands

Systems Analyst
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Systems Analyst in the Midlands.

Salary trend for Systems Analyst in the Midlands

Systems Analyst
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Analyst in the Midlands over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Systems Analyst in the Midlands

Systems Analyst
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Analyst within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 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
East Midlands +16 18 £50,000 -20.00% 8
West Midlands +47 17 £45,000 +2.86% 26
Systems Analyst
England

Systems Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 17 May 2025, 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 Midlands region featuring Systems Analyst in the job title.

1 18 (51.43%) Requirements Gathering
2 17 (48.57%) SQL
3 14 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 14 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (34.29%) Finance
4 12 (34.29%) Process Improvement
5 10 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (28.57%) SDLC
5 10 (28.57%) Decision-Making
6 9 (25.71%) Agile
6 9 (25.71%) Project Management
7 8 (22.86%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (22.86%) Change Management
7 8 (22.86%) NetSuite
7 8 (22.86%) Roadmaps
8 7 (20.00%) Order to Cash
8 7 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
8 7 (20.00%) Record to Report
8 7 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
8 7 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
8 7 (20.00%) Thought Leadership
8 7 (20.00%) Backlog Management
8 7 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (20.00%) Taxonomies
8 7 (20.00%) Test Scripting
8 7 (20.00%) Business Transformation
8 7 (20.00%) User Stories
8 7 (20.00%) Procure-to-Pay
8 7 (20.00%) Salesforce
8 7 (20.00%) CRM

Systems Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (22.86%) NetSuite
2 1 (2.86%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (2.86%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
2 1 (2.86%) iTrent
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (2.86%) SAP Business One
2 1 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (11.43%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (5.71%) Power Platform
2 2 (5.71%) SaaS
3 1 (2.86%) Azure
3 1 (2.86%) Serverless
3 1 (2.86%) SuccessFactors
3 1 (2.86%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) Firewall
1 1 (2.86%) LAN
1 1 (2.86%) VPN
1 1 (2.86%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.57%) Oracle Database
2 2 (5.71%) Power BI
3 1 (2.86%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (2.86%) MS Access
3 1 (2.86%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Oracle APEX
General
1 14 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (34.29%) Finance
3 10 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.57%) Manufacturing
4 3 (8.57%) Retail
5 2 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.71%) Law
6 1 (2.86%) Advertising
6 1 (2.86%) Billing
6 1 (2.86%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.71%) EDI
2 1 (2.86%) JSON
2 1 (2.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
1 7 (20.00%) Taxonomies
2 1 (2.86%) Driving Licence
2 1 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) Linux
1 2 (5.71%) Windows
2 1 (2.86%) AIX
2 1 (2.86%) Unix
2 1 (2.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (51.43%) Requirements Gathering
2 14 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (34.29%) Process Improvement
4 10 (28.57%) Decision-Making
4 10 (28.57%) SDLC
5 9 (25.71%) Agile
5 9 (25.71%) Project Management
6 8 (22.86%) Change Management
6 8 (22.86%) Roadmaps
6 8 (22.86%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
7 7 (20.00%) Backlog Management
7 7 (20.00%) Business Transformation
7 7 (20.00%) CRM
7 7 (20.00%) Order to Cash
7 7 (20.00%) Procure-to-Pay
7 7 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
7 7 (20.00%) Record to Report
7 7 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
7 7 (20.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 17 (48.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.86%) Degree
1 1 (2.86%) GISP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.86%) COBIT
1 1 (2.86%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.86%) GDPR
1 1 (2.86%) QA
1 1 (2.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (2.86%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.86%) Hyper-V
1 1 (2.86%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 7 (20.00%) Oracle
1 7 (20.00%) Salesforce
2 5 (14.29%) SAP
3 2 (5.71%) JD Edwards
3 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.71%) VMware
4 1 (2.86%) Barracuda Networks
4 1 (2.86%) Cognos
4 1 (2.86%) Guidewire
4 1 (2.86%) IBM
4 1 (2.86%) Infor