Senior Analyst Job Trends in the South East

Senior Analyst
England > South East

The median Senior Analyst salary in the South East is £54,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 190 208
Rank change year-on-year +38 +18 -10
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 128 112 61
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.24% 1.21% 0.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.35% 1.32% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 45 58 37
10th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £37,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £69,500 £74,375 £70,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +1.69%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 9,501 8,467 7,340
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.69% 91.58% 94.58%
Number of salaries quoted 5,887 4,565 5,336
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £29,618
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £56,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +6.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%

Senior Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Analyst' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Senior Analyst job vacancy trend in the South East

Senior Analyst
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for Senior Analyst job vacancies in the South East.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Analyst job vacancies in the South East

Senior Analyst
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Analyst in the South East over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Analyst in the South East

Senior Analyst
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Analyst within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 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
Thames Valley +67 84 £63,500 +5.83% 11
Berkshire +58 68 £47,500 - 9
Buckinghamshire +5 15 £65,000 -16.13% 2
Hampshire -10 15 £47,000 -10.48% 9
Kent -10 14 £63,750 +41.67% 5
Surrey +12 9 £42,500 -26.09% 6
Middlesex +4 3 - -
Oxfordshire +21 1 £52,500 -9.48%
East Sussex +6 1 £39,500 -
West Sussex +2 1 £57,500 +27.78% 2
Senior Analyst
England

Senior Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 1 January 2026, Senior Analyst job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South East region featuring Senior Analyst in the job title.

1 66 (51.56%) Problem-Solving
2 61 (47.66%) Logistics
2 61 (47.66%) Translating Business Requirements
2 61 (47.66%) User Acceptance Testing
3 60 (46.88%) SAP
3 60 (46.88%) Technical Leadership
4 59 (46.09%) Architectural Design
4 59 (46.09%) Data Management
5 57 (44.53%) Data Collection
5 57 (44.53%) Decision Quality
5 57 (44.53%) Impact Analysis
5 57 (44.53%) Incident Management
5 57 (44.53%) Quality Management
5 57 (44.53%) SAP Implementation
5 57 (44.53%) SAP S/4HANA
6 24 (18.75%) Degree
7 23 (17.97%) Mentoring
7 23 (17.97%) SQL
8 22 (17.19%) Agile
9 19 (14.84%) Microsoft
10 14 (10.94%) AWS
10 14 (10.94%) JIRA
11 13 (10.16%) Microsoft 365
11 13 (10.16%) Power BI
11 13 (10.16%) Power Platform
11 13 (10.16%) Python
11 13 (10.16%) ServiceNow
12 12 (9.38%) .NET
12 12 (9.38%) Scrum
13 11 (8.59%) API Testing

Senior Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (1.56%) Confluence
1 2 (1.56%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 9 (7.03%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 57 (44.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.34%) SAP GRC
3 2 (1.56%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (1.56%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.78%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.78%) Q-Pulse
4 1 (0.78%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 14 (10.94%) AWS
2 13 (10.16%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (10.16%) Power Platform
3 10 (7.81%) Azure
4 5 (3.91%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (1.56%) Fivetran
5 2 (1.56%) PowerApps
5 2 (1.56%) Snowflake
6 1 (0.78%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.78%) GCP
6 1 (0.78%) Google Ads
6 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (0.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.03%) Remote Desktop
2 4 (3.13%) Network Security
3 2 (1.56%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.16%) Power BI
2 8 (6.25%) Tableau
3 5 (3.91%) Metadata
4 4 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.34%) Qlik Sense
6 2 (1.56%) Looker
6 2 (1.56%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.78%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (10.94%) JIRA
2 11 (8.59%) Postman
2 11 (8.59%) Selenium
2 11 (8.59%) SoapUI
2 11 (8.59%) Team Foundation Server
2 11 (8.59%) WebDriver
3 1 (0.78%) Git
General
1 90 (70.31%) Social Skills
2 81 (63.28%) Finance
3 60 (46.88%) Manufacturing
4 58 (45.31%) Marketing
5 17 (13.28%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (8.59%) French Language
7 9 (7.03%) Swedish Language
8 5 (3.91%) Retail
9 4 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.34%) Advertising
10 3 (2.34%) Law
10 3 (2.34%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.56%) Banking
11 2 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.56%) Legal
11 2 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.56%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.38%) .NET
2 11 (8.59%) HTML
2 11 (8.59%) SOAP
3 1 (0.78%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.03%) Security Posture
1 9 (7.03%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (3.91%) Security Operations Centre
3 3 (2.34%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.56%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.56%) NHS
5 1 (0.78%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.78%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.78%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (51.56%) Problem-Solving
2 61 (47.66%) Logistics
2 61 (47.66%) Translating Business Requirements
2 61 (47.66%) User Acceptance Testing
3 60 (46.88%) Technical Leadership
4 59 (46.09%) Architectural Design
4 59 (46.09%) Data Management
5 57 (44.53%) Data Collection
5 57 (44.53%) Decision Quality
5 57 (44.53%) Impact Analysis
5 57 (44.53%) Incident Management
5 57 (44.53%) Quality Management
5 57 (44.53%) SAP Implementation
6 23 (17.97%) Mentoring
7 22 (17.19%) Agile
8 12 (9.38%) Scrum
9 11 (8.59%) Business Intelligence
9 11 (8.59%) Software Testing
9 11 (8.59%) Test Management
9 11 (8.59%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 23 (17.97%) SQL
2 13 (10.16%) Python
3 11 (8.59%) C#
3 11 (8.59%) Java
4 3 (2.34%) Kusto Query Language
4 3 (2.34%) R
4 3 (2.34%) VBA
5 2 (1.56%) Bash
5 2 (1.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (18.75%) Degree
2 11 (8.59%) ISTQB
2 11 (8.59%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 9 (7.03%) A+ Certification
3 9 (7.03%) AWS Certification
3 9 (7.03%) MCSE
3 9 (7.03%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (5.47%) Security Cleared
5 6 (4.69%) SC Cleared
6 5 (3.91%) CompTIA Security+
7 4 (3.13%) CISSP
8 3 (2.34%) CGEIT
8 3 (2.34%) CRISC
8 3 (2.34%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.34%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (1.56%) CEH
9 2 (1.56%) CompTIA CySA+
9 2 (1.56%) GCIH
9 2 (1.56%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.78%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.91%) Data Quality
1 5 (3.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (3.91%) NIST
2 4 (3.13%) GRC
2 4 (3.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (2.34%) GDPR
4 2 (1.56%) SLA
5 1 (0.78%) IFRS
System Software
1 9 (7.03%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (3.13%) Nessus
Vendors
1 60 (46.88%) SAP
2 19 (14.84%) Microsoft
3 13 (10.16%) ServiceNow
4 9 (7.03%) VMware
5 5 (3.91%) Tenable
6 3 (2.34%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.78%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.78%) Google
7 1 (0.78%) IBM
7 1 (0.78%) OpenText
7 1 (0.78%) Pega
7 1 (0.78%) Sage
7 1 (0.78%) Splunk