Analyst Jobs in the North of England

Analyst
England > North of England

The median Analyst salary in the North of England is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 April 2025.

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

6 months to
1 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -12 +1 -1
Permanent jobs requiring an Analyst 755 1,638 2,644
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 7.51% 10.06% 14.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.09% 10.56% 16.24%
Number of salaries quoted 452 1,273 1,243
10th Percentile £24,500 £24,150 £24,750
25th Percentile £27,435 £28,500 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
75th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £58,750 £58,700 £63,400
England median annual salary £48,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% -5.26% +5.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North 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 North of England with a recognized job title 9,329 15,509 16,277
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 95.24% 90.00%
Number of salaries quoted 5,656 12,028 8,566
10th Percentile £28,083 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £63,900 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,560 £55,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year +4.65% -8.71% +0.42%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Analyst in the North of England

Analyst
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Analyst in the North of England.

Salary trend for Analyst in the North of England

Analyst
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analyst in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Analyst in the North of England

Analyst
Job Locations in the North 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 1 April 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
North West -11 501 £41,000 +2.50% 190
Yorkshire -11 204 £31,000 -22.50% 113
North East -10 50 £39,100 +11.71% 36
Analyst
England

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 1 April 2025, 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 North of England region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 326 (43.18%) Social Skills
2 245 (32.45%) Degree
3 232 (30.73%) Finance
4 194 (25.70%) Agile
5 180 (23.84%) Analytical Skills
6 173 (22.91%) Problem-Solving
7 161 (21.32%) SQL
8 153 (20.26%) Analytics
9 144 (19.07%) Power Platform
10 140 (18.54%) Power BI
11 135 (17.88%) Windows
12 129 (17.09%) Business Intelligence
13 125 (16.56%) Microsoft
14 110 (14.57%) Data Analytics
15 101 (13.38%) Data Analysis
16 97 (12.85%) Customer Service
17 95 (12.58%) Microsoft Excel
18 91 (12.05%) Active Directory
19 85 (11.26%) Microsoft 365
20 83 (10.99%) Organisational Skills
21 76 (10.07%) Artificial Intelligence
22 75 (9.93%) Law
22 75 (9.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
23 73 (9.67%) Banking
24 72 (9.54%) Azure
24 72 (9.54%) Project Delivery
25 71 (9.40%) Visualisation
25 71 (9.40%) Process Improvement
26 70 (9.27%) Stakeholder Management
27 69 (9.14%) Decision-Making

Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 50 (6.62%) SharePoint
2 36 (4.77%) Confluence
3 19 (2.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (2.12%) SAS
5 7 (0.93%) Jupyter
6 6 (0.79%) IBM Domino
7 3 (0.40%) IIS
8 2 (0.26%) CMS
9 1 (0.13%) Moodle
9 1 (0.13%) Mule
9 1 (0.13%) Totara
Applications
1 95 (12.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 55 (7.28%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (2.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (1.46%) Chatbot
4 11 (1.46%) SPSS
5 5 (0.66%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.66%) Dynamics AX
1 5 (0.66%) Markit EDM
2 4 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.26%) Infor M3
4 2 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.26%) SAP GRC
4 2 (0.26%) Siebel CRM
4 2 (0.26%) SystmOne
5 1 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.13%) iTrent
5 1 (0.13%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 144 (19.07%) Power Platform
2 85 (11.26%) Microsoft 365
3 72 (9.54%) Azure
4 16 (2.12%) AWS
5 14 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
6 13 (1.72%) Entra ID
7 9 (1.19%) Cloud Computing
7 9 (1.19%) Google Analytics
7 9 (1.19%) Mimecast
7 9 (1.19%) SaaS
8 8 (1.06%) GCP
8 8 (1.06%) Microsoft Copilot
9 6 (0.79%) OneDrive
10 5 (0.66%) Snowflake
11 4 (0.53%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (0.53%) Boomi
11 4 (0.53%) IaaS
12 3 (0.40%) PaaS
12 3 (0.40%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
12 3 (0.40%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 40 (5.30%) Firewall
2 24 (3.18%) DNS
2 24 (3.18%) WAN
3 22 (2.91%) LAN
4 20 (2.65%) VoIP
5 19 (2.52%) Cisco IOS
5 19 (2.52%) DHCP
6 16 (2.12%) Wireless
7 14 (1.85%) VPN
8 9 (1.19%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.53%) Broadband
9 4 (0.53%) Internet
9 4 (0.53%) Network Security
9 4 (0.53%) Remote Desktop
9 4 (0.53%) SAN
9 4 (0.53%) VLAN
10 3 (0.40%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.40%) SNMP
10 3 (0.40%) VSAN
11 2 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (18.54%) Power BI
2 37 (4.90%) Tableau
3 18 (2.38%) Big Data
3 18 (2.38%) SQL Server
4 7 (0.93%) BigQuery
4 7 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (0.93%) Dremio
4 7 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 6 (0.79%) Power Query
6 5 (0.66%) Data Lake
6 5 (0.66%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 4 (0.53%) BusinessObjects
7 4 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (0.40%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.40%) Qlik Sense
8 3 (0.40%) QlikView
8 3 (0.40%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.26%) GIS
9 2 (0.26%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 65 (8.61%) JIRA
2 21 (2.78%) eggPlant
3 7 (0.93%) Postman
4 5 (0.66%) Selenium
5 4 (0.53%) Cypress.io
5 4 (0.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (0.40%) JMeter
6 3 (0.40%) TestRail
7 2 (0.26%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.26%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.26%) JUnit
7 2 (0.26%) Maven
7 2 (0.26%) TestNG
7 2 (0.26%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.13%) Git
8 1 (0.13%) GitLab
8 1 (0.13%) LSMW
8 1 (0.13%) Toad
8 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.13%) YouTrack
General
1 326 (43.18%) Social Skills
2 232 (30.73%) Finance
3 180 (23.84%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (10.99%) Organisational Skills
5 75 (9.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 75 (9.93%) Law
6 73 (9.67%) Banking
7 43 (5.70%) Retail
8 42 (5.56%) Manufacturing
9 38 (5.03%) Legal
10 31 (4.11%) Marketing
11 23 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
12 20 (2.65%) Public Sector
13 14 (1.85%) Telecoms
14 10 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
15 9 (1.19%) Back Office
15 9 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.93%) Financial Institution
17 6 (0.79%) Games
18 5 (0.66%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.19%) REST
1 9 (1.19%) SOAP
2 7 (0.93%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (0.53%) JSON
3 4 (0.53%) SAML
3 4 (0.53%) Web Services
3 4 (0.53%) XML
4 3 (0.40%) EDI
5 2 (0.26%) Regular Expression
6 1 (0.13%) .NET
6 1 (0.13%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.13%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (0.13%) OAuth
6 1 (0.13%) OpenID
6 1 (0.13%) SAP Smart Forms
Miscellaneous
1 57 (7.55%) Management Information System
2 41 (5.43%) Product Ownership
3 23 (3.05%) Onboarding
4 21 (2.78%) Social Media
5 16 (2.12%) Analytical Mindset
6 12 (1.59%) FMCG
6 12 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (1.32%) Operational Technology
8 8 (1.06%) Manufacturing Execution System
8 8 (1.06%) Replication
8 8 (1.06%) Security Posture
9 6 (0.79%) Cyber Threat
9 6 (0.79%) Driving Licence
9 6 (0.79%) Equities
10 5 (0.66%) Data Structures
10 5 (0.66%) Reference Data
11 4 (0.53%) Credit Risk
11 4 (0.53%) Cyber Defence
11 4 (0.53%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.40%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 135 (17.88%) Windows
2 49 (6.49%) Windows Server
3 39 (5.17%) Linux
4 37 (4.90%) Windows 10
5 20 (2.65%) Mac OS X
6 17 (2.25%) Windows Server 2019
7 16 (2.12%) Windows Vista
8 13 (1.72%) Mac OS
9 10 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.66%) Windows 7
10 5 (0.66%) Windows 8
10 5 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.40%) Android
11 3 (0.40%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.13%) Unix
12 1 (0.13%) VMS
12 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (25.70%) Agile
2 173 (22.91%) Problem-Solving
3 153 (20.26%) Analytics
4 129 (17.09%) Business Intelligence
5 110 (14.57%) Data Analytics
6 101 (13.38%) Data Analysis
7 97 (12.85%) Customer Service
8 76 (10.07%) Artificial Intelligence
9 72 (9.54%) Project Delivery
10 71 (9.40%) Process Improvement
10 71 (9.40%) Visualisation
11 70 (9.27%) Stakeholder Management
12 69 (9.14%) Decision-Making
13 66 (8.74%) Time Management
14 64 (8.48%) Technology Transformation
15 59 (7.81%) Digital Strategy
16 57 (7.55%) ERP
16 57 (7.55%) ITIL
16 57 (7.55%) ITSM
17 56 (7.42%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 161 (21.32%) SQL
2 60 (7.95%) Python
3 17 (2.25%) PowerShell
4 10 (1.32%) JavaScript
5 8 (1.06%) C-shell
5 8 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 8 (1.06%) Korn
5 8 (1.06%) R
5 8 (1.06%) Shell Script
6 7 (0.93%) C#
7 6 (0.79%) Java
7 6 (0.79%) PL/SQL
8 5 (0.66%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.40%) Bash
9 3 (0.40%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.40%) VB
10 2 (0.26%) C++
10 2 (0.26%) Go
10 2 (0.26%) Ruby
10 2 (0.26%) VBA
Qualifications
1 245 (32.45%) Degree
2 29 (3.84%) DBS Check
3 22 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
3 22 (2.91%) Microsoft Certification
4 19 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.38%) PhD
6 16 (2.12%) Security Cleared
7 15 (1.99%) AAT
8 14 (1.85%) ACCA
8 14 (1.85%) CIMA
9 13 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (1.72%) CISSP
10 12 (1.59%) CISM
11 11 (1.46%) Master's Degree
11 11 (1.46%) MCSA
12 10 (1.32%) CCNP
13 8 (1.06%) SC Cleared
14 6 (0.79%) CBAP
14 6 (0.79%) CEH
15 5 (0.66%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (7.15%) Data Quality
2 52 (6.89%) QA
3 44 (5.83%) SLA
4 18 (2.38%) NIST
5 17 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.59%) PMO
7 9 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (0.93%) GRC
9 5 (0.66%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.66%) GDPR
10 3 (0.40%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.26%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.26%) ITGC
11 2 (0.26%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.13%) IFRS
12 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 91 (12.05%) Active Directory
2 14 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (1.06%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.26%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 16 (2.12%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (1.32%) SCCM
3 4 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.40%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.26%) Ansible
5 2 (0.26%) NetBackup
5 2 (0.26%) SCOM
6 1 (0.13%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.13%) Nessus
6 1 (0.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 125 (16.56%) Microsoft
2 59 (7.81%) Alteryx
3 39 (5.17%) SAP
4 35 (4.64%) VMware
5 31 (4.11%) Oracle
6 29 (3.84%) Cisco
7 23 (3.05%) ServiceNow
8 21 (2.78%) Keysight
9 14 (1.85%) Salesforce
10 12 (1.59%) Symantec
11 11 (1.46%) Google
12 10 (1.32%) Broadcom
12 10 (1.32%) PayPal
13 9 (1.19%) Databricks
13 9 (1.19%) iManage
14 8 (1.06%) Bloomberg
15 6 (0.79%) Sophos
16 5 (0.66%) Citrix
16 5 (0.66%) Concur
16 5 (0.66%) Reuters