Analyst Job Trends in the South West

Analyst
England > South West

The median Analyst salary in the South West is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 December 2025.

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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 17 24
Rank change year-on-year -1 +7 -2
Permanent jobs requiring an Analyst 333 492 385
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 7.15% 8.97% 8.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.71% 9.54% 9.28%
Number of salaries quoted 228 234 309
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,250 £23,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +6.31%
75th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £67,500
England median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.53% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 West with a recognized job title 4,319 5,157 4,148
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.68% 93.97% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 2,930 3,061 3,247
10th Percentile £27,707 £30,000 £30,635
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £40,560
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £51,422 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.63% -2.05% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,272 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% -

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Analyst job vacancy trend in the South West

Analyst
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies in the South West.

Salary distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies in the South West

Analyst
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analyst in the South West over the 6 months to 1 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Analyst in the South West

Analyst
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Analyst within the South West region over the 6 months to 1 December 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
Bristol -5 107 £40,000 +6.67% 43
Somerset -6 59 £35,000 +4.48% 26
Wiltshire -6 50 £42,750 +6.88% 31
Gloucestershire -8 43 £34,500 -8.00% 38
Devon +22 40 £40,000 -11.11% 15
Dorset +19 31 £38,500 -4.50% 22
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 December 2025, 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 West region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 140 (42.04%) Microsoft
2 84 (25.23%) SQL
3 74 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
4 70 (21.02%) Problem-Solving
5 69 (20.72%) Azure
6 68 (20.42%) Microsoft Excel
7 66 (19.82%) Power Platform
8 65 (19.52%) Power BI
9 60 (18.02%) Windows
10 55 (16.52%) Continuous Improvement
11 50 (15.02%) Python
12 48 (14.41%) Active Directory
12 48 (14.41%) Microsoft 365
12 48 (14.41%) Windows Server
13 46 (13.81%) Agile
14 44 (13.21%) Degree
15 42 (12.61%) Azure Certification
16 40 (12.01%) Cybersecurity
17 39 (11.71%) Customer Service
17 39 (11.71%) Tableau
18 37 (11.11%) Data Analysis
18 37 (11.11%) DNS
19 36 (10.81%) Project Management
20 35 (10.51%) Mentoring
21 33 (9.91%) Business Analysis
21 33 (9.91%) DHCP
22 31 (9.31%) LAN
23 30 (9.01%) Analytics
23 30 (9.01%) ITSM
24 29 (8.71%) Decision-Making

Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 26 (7.81%) SharePoint
2 24 (7.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (5.11%) IIS
4 10 (3.00%) Confluence
5 1 (0.30%) CMS
5 1 (0.30%) SAS
Applications
1 68 (20.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.50%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (2.70%) Visualfiles
2 5 (1.50%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.60%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 2 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.60%) SAP EWM
3 2 (0.60%) SAP PM
3 2 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.60%) SAP WM
4 1 (0.30%) assyst
4 1 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 69 (20.72%) Azure
2 66 (19.82%) Power Platform
3 48 (14.41%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (6.31%) Azure AI
4 21 (6.31%) Entra ID
5 15 (4.50%) OneDrive
6 13 (3.90%) AWS
7 12 (3.60%) SaaS
8 5 (1.50%) GCP
9 4 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.60%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.60%) Power Automate
10 2 (0.60%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.30%) Amazon SageMaker
11 1 (0.30%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 1 (0.30%) dbt
11 1 (0.30%) Fivetran
11 1 (0.30%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.30%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 37 (11.11%) DNS
2 33 (9.91%) DHCP
3 31 (9.31%) LAN
4 27 (8.11%) Firewall
5 20 (6.01%) WAN
6 19 (5.71%) Internet
7 17 (5.11%) Kerberos
8 12 (3.60%) Wireless
9 11 (3.30%) TCP/IP
9 11 (3.30%) VPN
10 7 (2.10%) VoIP
11 6 (1.80%) DKIM
11 6 (1.80%) DMARC
11 6 (1.80%) Remote Desktop
12 5 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (1.20%) Ethernet
13 4 (1.20%) Intranet
13 4 (1.20%) Wireshark
14 2 (0.60%) Network Security
15 1 (0.30%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (19.52%) Power BI
2 39 (11.71%) Tableau
3 15 (4.50%) Power Query
4 13 (3.90%) SQL Server
5 7 (2.10%) BigQuery
5 7 (2.10%) Data Mining
6 5 (1.50%) MySQL
6 5 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.20%) Looker
8 2 (0.60%) Qlik Sense
8 2 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.30%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.30%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.30%) GIS
9 1 (0.30%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.30%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.30%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (4.20%) JIRA
2 3 (0.90%) Git
3 2 (0.60%) CircleCI
3 2 (0.60%) Cypress.io
3 2 (0.60%) Gatling
3 2 (0.60%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.60%) LoadRunner
3 2 (0.60%) Locust
3 2 (0.60%) Selenium
3 2 (0.60%) TestRail
3 2 (0.60%) Zephyr
4 1 (0.30%) RStudio
General
1 179 (53.75%) Social Skills
2 73 (21.92%) Analytical Skills
3 63 (18.92%) Finance
4 22 (6.61%) Law
5 19 (5.71%) Retail
6 14 (4.20%) Manufacturing
7 10 (3.00%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (3.00%) Public Sector
8 9 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (2.70%) Legal
9 8 (2.40%) Advertising
9 8 (2.40%) Local Government
10 7 (2.10%) Fire and Rescue
10 7 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.50%) Back Office
12 4 (1.20%) Automotive
12 4 (1.20%) Electronics
13 3 (0.90%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.90%) Banking
13 3 (0.90%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.11%) LDAP
2 4 (1.20%) Software Packaging
3 2 (0.60%) .NET
4 1 (0.30%) EDI
4 1 (0.30%) Hugging Face
4 1 (0.30%) JSON
4 1 (0.30%) Middleware
4 1 (0.30%) NumPy
4 1 (0.30%) Pandas
4 1 (0.30%) RESTEasy
4 1 (0.30%) scikit-learn
4 1 (0.30%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (7.21%) Driving Licence
2 20 (6.01%) PKI
3 17 (5.11%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (3.30%) Management Information System
5 10 (3.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 10 (3.00%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.10%) NHS
6 7 (2.10%) Smartphone
7 5 (1.50%) Cyber Defence
8 4 (1.20%) Freedom of Information
8 4 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.90%) Client/Server
9 3 (0.90%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.90%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.60%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.60%) e-Learning
10 2 (0.60%) Industry 4.0
10 2 (0.60%) IoT
10 2 (0.60%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (0.60%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 60 (18.02%) Windows
2 48 (14.41%) Windows Server
3 24 (7.21%) Windows 10
4 17 (5.11%) Windows Server 2016
4 17 (5.11%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (1.80%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.50%) Linux
7 1 (0.30%) Android
7 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
2 70 (21.02%) Problem-Solving
3 55 (16.52%) Continuous Improvement
4 46 (13.81%) Agile
5 40 (12.01%) Cybersecurity
6 39 (11.71%) Customer Service
7 37 (11.11%) Data Analysis
8 36 (10.81%) Project Management
9 35 (10.51%) Mentoring
10 33 (9.91%) Business Analysis
11 30 (9.01%) Analytics
11 30 (9.01%) ITSM
12 29 (8.71%) Decision-Making
13 27 (8.11%) AI
13 27 (8.11%) Process Improvement
14 26 (7.81%) Change Management
15 21 (6.31%) ITIL
16 17 (5.11%) Data Loss Prevention
16 17 (5.11%) Service Management
17 15 (4.50%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 84 (25.23%) SQL
2 50 (15.02%) Python
3 25 (7.51%) PowerShell
4 18 (5.41%) VB
5 9 (2.70%) R
6 7 (2.10%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.20%) C
7 4 (1.20%) C++
7 4 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.60%) Java
8 2 (0.60%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.60%) VBA
9 1 (0.30%) Julia
Qualifications
1 44 (13.21%) Degree
2 42 (12.61%) Azure Certification
3 24 (7.21%) Security Cleared
4 22 (6.61%) CompTIA Security+
5 21 (6.31%) CompTIA CySA+
5 21 (6.31%) SC Cleared
6 17 (5.11%) DV Cleared
7 14 (4.20%) ACCA
7 14 (4.20%) CIMA
8 9 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (2.10%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.80%) MCP
12 4 (1.20%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.90%) CEH
13 3 (0.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 3 (0.90%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.90%) PMP
14 2 (0.60%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.91%) SLA
2 12 (3.60%) GDPR
3 6 (1.80%) QA
4 5 (1.50%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.90%) PMO
6 2 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.60%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.30%) NIST
7 1 (0.30%) P3O
7 1 (0.30%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.30%) Solvency II
System Software
1 48 (14.41%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.90%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 18 (5.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (5.11%) WSUS
3 11 (3.30%) Autotask
4 4 (1.20%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (0.60%) SCCM
5 2 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 140 (42.04%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.71%) ForeScout
3 11 (3.30%) Meraki
4 8 (2.40%) Apple
4 8 (2.40%) Google
5 7 (2.10%) Oracle
6 6 (1.80%) SAP
7 5 (1.50%) Alteryx
8 4 (1.20%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.20%) VMware
9 3 (0.90%) LexisNexis
10 2 (0.60%) Cisco
10 2 (0.60%) Databricks
10 2 (0.60%) IBM
10 2 (0.60%) Remedy
10 2 (0.60%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.60%) Workday
11 1 (0.30%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.30%) BMC
11 1 (0.30%) DocuSign