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 20 November 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 17 22
Rank change year-on-year -2 +5 +1
Permanent jobs requiring an Analyst 316 510 404
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 7.23% 8.68% 9.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.81% 9.22% 9.57%
Number of salaries quoted 233 247 313
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,550 £23,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £29,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £66,778
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 4,044 5,532 4,223
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.58% 94.16% 95.39%
Number of salaries quoted 2,739 3,353 3,261
10th Percentile £27,707 £30,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £40,443
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £51,198 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.11% -2.48% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £54,292 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.58% -4.17% -

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 20 November 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 20 November 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 -5 106 £40,000 +8.84% 58
Somerset -7 53 £35,000 +2.19% 28
Wiltshire -7 47 £42,500 +6.25% 31
Gloucestershire -5 42 £35,532 -7.11% 36
Devon +21 34 £40,000 -27.27% 17
Dorset +16 30 £38,500 -4.13% 19
Cornwall -19 1 £30,750 -10.87% 2
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 November 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.

1 123 (38.92%) Microsoft
2 76 (24.05%) SQL
3 75 (23.73%) Problem-Solving
4 67 (21.20%) Windows
5 64 (20.25%) Business Intelligence
6 57 (18.04%) Continuous Improvement
7 56 (17.72%) Microsoft 365
7 56 (17.72%) Power Platform
8 55 (17.41%) Power BI
9 54 (17.09%) Microsoft Excel
10 53 (16.77%) Active Directory
11 52 (16.46%) Windows Server
12 46 (14.56%) Azure
13 45 (14.24%) Agile
13 45 (14.24%) Degree
14 41 (12.97%) Customer Service
15 39 (12.34%) Data Analysis
16 38 (12.03%) DNS
17 36 (11.39%) Project Management
17 36 (11.39%) Python
18 35 (11.08%) Business Analysis
19 34 (10.76%) DHCP
19 34 (10.76%) LAN
20 33 (10.44%) Analytics
21 32 (10.13%) ITSM
21 32 (10.13%) Process Improvement
22 30 (9.49%) Cybersecurity
23 29 (9.18%) Decision-Making
23 29 (9.18%) Firewall
23 29 (9.18%) SharePoint

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 29 (9.18%) SharePoint
2 28 (8.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (5.38%) IIS
4 10 (3.16%) Confluence
5 2 (0.63%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.32%) CMS
6 1 (0.32%) SAS
6 1 (0.32%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 54 (17.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (3.48%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.27%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (2.85%) Visualfiles
2 5 (1.58%) NetSuite
3 4 (1.27%) SAP EWM
3 4 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.27%) SAP WM
4 3 (0.95%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.63%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 2 (0.63%) MFGPRO
5 2 (0.63%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.63%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.32%) assyst
6 1 (0.32%) iTrent
6 1 (0.32%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 56 (17.72%) Microsoft 365
1 56 (17.72%) Power Platform
2 46 (14.56%) Azure
3 22 (6.96%) Entra ID
4 16 (5.06%) OneDrive
5 14 (4.43%) AWS
6 12 (3.80%) SaaS
7 7 (2.22%) Azure AI
8 5 (1.58%) GCP
9 4 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (0.95%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (0.95%) Power Automate
10 3 (0.95%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.32%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.32%) Azure Machine Learning
11 1 (0.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 1 (0.32%) dbt
11 1 (0.32%) Fivetran
11 1 (0.32%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.32%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 38 (12.03%) DNS
2 34 (10.76%) DHCP
2 34 (10.76%) LAN
3 29 (9.18%) Firewall
4 22 (6.96%) WAN
5 20 (6.33%) Internet
6 17 (5.38%) Kerberos
7 13 (4.11%) Wireless
8 12 (3.80%) VPN
9 10 (3.16%) TCP/IP
10 9 (2.85%) VoIP
11 6 (1.90%) DKIM
11 6 (1.90%) DMARC
11 6 (1.90%) Remote Desktop
12 5 (1.58%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (1.27%) Ethernet
13 4 (1.27%) Intranet
13 4 (1.27%) Wireshark
14 2 (0.63%) Network Security
15 1 (0.32%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (17.41%) Power BI
2 25 (7.91%) Tableau
3 17 (5.38%) SQL Server
4 15 (4.75%) Power Query
5 7 (2.22%) Data Mining
6 6 (1.90%) MySQL
7 5 (1.58%) BigQuery
7 5 (1.58%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.63%) Looker
8 2 (0.63%) Qlik Sense
8 2 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.32%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.32%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.32%) GIS
9 1 (0.32%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.32%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.32%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (4.75%) JIRA
2 3 (0.95%) Git
3 2 (0.63%) CircleCI
3 2 (0.63%) Cypress.io
3 2 (0.63%) Gatling
3 2 (0.63%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.63%) LoadRunner
3 2 (0.63%) Locust
3 2 (0.63%) Selenium
3 2 (0.63%) TestRail
3 2 (0.63%) WebSpeed
3 2 (0.63%) Zephyr
4 1 (0.32%) RStudio
General
1 161 (50.95%) Social Skills
2 76 (24.05%) Analytical Skills
3 70 (22.15%) Finance
4 25 (7.91%) Manufacturing
5 21 (6.65%) Law
6 18 (5.70%) Retail
7 11 (3.48%) Advertising
7 11 (3.48%) Public Sector
8 10 (3.16%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (2.85%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (2.53%) Legal
10 8 (2.53%) Local Government
11 7 (2.22%) Fire and Rescue
11 7 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.90%) Back Office
12 6 (1.90%) Marketing
13 5 (1.58%) Electronics
14 4 (1.27%) Banking
15 3 (0.95%) Games
15 3 (0.95%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.38%) LDAP
2 4 (1.27%) Software Packaging
3 3 (0.95%) EDI
4 2 (0.63%) .NET
4 2 (0.63%) HTML
4 2 (0.63%) RESTEasy
5 1 (0.32%) Hugging Face
5 1 (0.32%) JSON
5 1 (0.32%) Middleware
5 1 (0.32%) NumPy
5 1 (0.32%) Pandas
5 1 (0.32%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.32%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.54%) Driving Licence
2 20 (6.33%) PKI
2 20 (6.33%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (4.75%) Management Information System
4 12 (3.80%) Analytical Mindset
4 12 (3.80%) Onboarding
5 9 (2.85%) Smartphone
6 7 (2.22%) NHS
7 5 (1.58%) Cyber Defence
8 4 (1.27%) Freedom of Information
8 4 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.95%) Client/Server
9 3 (0.95%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.95%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.63%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.63%) e-Learning
10 2 (0.63%) Industry 4.0
10 2 (0.63%) IoT
10 2 (0.63%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.63%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 67 (21.20%) Windows
2 52 (16.46%) Windows Server
3 25 (7.91%) Windows 10
4 17 (5.38%) Windows Server 2016
4 17 (5.38%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (2.22%) Linux
6 6 (1.90%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.32%) Android
7 1 (0.32%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (23.73%) Problem-Solving
2 64 (20.25%) Business Intelligence
3 57 (18.04%) Continuous Improvement
4 45 (14.24%) Agile
5 41 (12.97%) Customer Service
6 39 (12.34%) Data Analysis
7 36 (11.39%) Project Management
8 35 (11.08%) Business Analysis
9 33 (10.44%) Analytics
10 32 (10.13%) ITSM
10 32 (10.13%) Process Improvement
11 30 (9.49%) Cybersecurity
12 29 (9.18%) Decision-Making
13 26 (8.23%) Change Management
13 26 (8.23%) Mentoring
14 22 (6.96%) ITIL
15 19 (6.01%) CRM
16 18 (5.70%) Case Management
17 17 (5.38%) Data Loss Prevention
17 17 (5.38%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 76 (24.05%) SQL
2 36 (11.39%) Python
3 25 (7.91%) PowerShell
4 18 (5.70%) VB
5 9 (2.85%) JavaScript
5 9 (2.85%) R
6 4 (1.27%) C
6 4 (1.27%) C++
6 4 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (1.27%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.63%) Java
7 2 (0.63%) VBA
7 2 (0.63%) X++
8 1 (0.32%) Julia
8 1 (0.32%) PHP
Qualifications
1 45 (14.24%) Degree
2 21 (6.65%) Security Cleared
3 18 (5.70%) SC Cleared
4 16 (5.06%) Azure Certification
4 16 (5.06%) DV Cleared
5 14 (4.43%) ACCA
5 14 (4.43%) CIMA
6 11 (3.48%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (3.16%) CompTIA Security+
8 9 (2.85%) CompTIA CySA+
9 8 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (2.22%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.90%) MCP
12 4 (1.27%) A+ Certification
12 4 (1.27%) CEH
12 4 (1.27%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.95%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 3 (0.95%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.95%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.59%) SLA
2 12 (3.80%) GDPR
3 8 (2.53%) QA
4 5 (1.58%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.95%) PMO
7 2 (0.63%) NIST
7 2 (0.63%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.32%) GRC
8 1 (0.32%) P3O
8 1 (0.32%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.32%) Solvency II
System Software
1 53 (16.77%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.58%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 19 (6.01%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (5.38%) WSUS
3 12 (3.80%) Autotask
4 4 (1.27%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (0.63%) SCCM
5 2 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 123 (38.92%) Microsoft
2 12 (3.80%) Meraki
3 10 (3.16%) Apple
3 10 (3.16%) Google
4 9 (2.85%) SAP
5 7 (2.22%) ForeScout
5 7 (2.22%) Oracle
6 6 (1.90%) VMware
7 5 (1.58%) Alteryx
7 5 (1.58%) LexisNexis
8 4 (1.27%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.27%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.63%) Cisco
9 2 (0.63%) Databricks
9 2 (0.63%) DocuSign
9 2 (0.63%) IBM
9 2 (0.63%) QAD
9 2 (0.63%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.63%) Remedy
9 2 (0.63%) Workday