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 28 December 2025.

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

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 15 23
Rank change year-on-year -2 +8 -1
Permanent jobs requiring an Analyst 370 408 388
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 7.33% 9.35% 8.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.87% 9.98% 9.19%
Number of salaries quoted 239 183 299
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,250 £23,450
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
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 £55,000
90th Percentile £56,250 £59,750 £67,500
England median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 4,702 4,090 4,224
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.11% 93.74% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 3,230 2,286 3,267
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,813 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,310 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% -2.27% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%

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 28 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 28 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 -6 110 £40,000 +6.67% 44
Gloucestershire -1 70 £35,536 -5.24% 53
Somerset 0 60 £35,526 -5.27% 38
Devon +24 48 £40,000 -8.57% 51
Wiltshire -3 48 £44,000 +25.89% 29
Dorset +20 32 £38,500 -3.75% 28
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 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.

1 161 (43.51%) Microsoft
2 99 (26.76%) SQL
3 92 (24.86%) Azure
4 78 (21.08%) Business Intelligence
5 77 (20.81%) Microsoft Excel
6 75 (20.27%) Problem-Solving
7 73 (19.73%) Power Platform
8 72 (19.46%) Power BI
9 68 (18.38%) Azure Certification
10 60 (16.22%) Python
11 53 (14.32%) Continuous Improvement
12 50 (13.51%) Cybersecurity
12 50 (13.51%) Windows
13 49 (13.24%) Tableau
14 45 (12.16%) Degree
15 44 (11.89%) Security Cleared
16 43 (11.62%) Agile
16 43 (11.62%) Mentoring
17 41 (11.08%) AI
17 41 (11.08%) Customer Service
18 40 (10.81%) Microsoft 365
18 40 (10.81%) Project Management
19 39 (10.54%) Business Analysis
20 38 (10.27%) Windows Server
21 36 (9.73%) Change Management
22 35 (9.46%) Active Directory
22 35 (9.46%) Azure AI
22 35 (9.46%) Data Analysis
23 34 (9.19%) ITSM
24 33 (8.92%) CompTIA CySA+

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 20 (5.41%) SharePoint
2 18 (4.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (3.51%) IIS
4 12 (3.24%) Confluence
5 1 (0.27%) CMS
5 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 77 (20.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (3.78%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.35%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (2.43%) Visualfiles
2 8 (2.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.35%) Dynamics NAV
3 5 (1.35%) Magento
3 5 (1.35%) Shopify
4 3 (0.81%) SAP EWM
5 2 (0.54%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 2 (0.54%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.54%) SAP WM
6 1 (0.27%) assyst
6 1 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.27%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.27%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 92 (24.86%) Azure
2 73 (19.73%) Power Platform
3 40 (10.81%) Microsoft 365
4 35 (9.46%) Azure AI
5 16 (4.32%) Entra ID
6 12 (3.24%) SaaS
7 10 (2.70%) AWS
7 10 (2.70%) OneDrive
8 8 (2.16%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.54%) GCP
10 2 (0.54%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.27%) Azure Machine Learning
11 1 (0.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 1 (0.27%) dbt
11 1 (0.27%) Fivetran
11 1 (0.27%) GitHub
11 1 (0.27%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.27%) Google Data Studio
11 1 (0.27%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 27 (7.30%) DNS
2 23 (6.22%) DHCP
3 21 (5.68%) Firewall
4 19 (5.14%) LAN
5 14 (3.78%) Internet
6 13 (3.51%) Kerberos
6 13 (3.51%) WAN
7 10 (2.70%) TCP/IP
8 7 (1.89%) Wireless
9 6 (1.62%) DKIM
9 6 (1.62%) DMARC
9 6 (1.62%) Remote Desktop
9 6 (1.62%) VoIP
9 6 (1.62%) VPN
10 4 (1.08%) Ethernet
10 4 (1.08%) Intranet
10 4 (1.08%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (1.08%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.27%) Network Security
11 1 (0.27%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (19.46%) Power BI
2 49 (13.24%) Tableau
3 12 (3.24%) SQL Server
4 11 (2.97%) Power Query
5 7 (1.89%) Data Mining
6 5 (1.35%) MySQL
6 5 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.08%) BigQuery
7 4 (1.08%) Looker
8 3 (0.81%) GIS
9 2 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.54%) Qlik Sense
9 2 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.27%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.27%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (5.68%) JIRA
2 3 (0.81%) Git
3 2 (0.54%) CircleCI
3 2 (0.54%) Cypress.io
3 2 (0.54%) Gatling
3 2 (0.54%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.54%) LoadRunner
3 2 (0.54%) Locust
3 2 (0.54%) Selenium
3 2 (0.54%) TestRail
3 2 (0.54%) Zephyr
General
1 185 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 70 (18.92%) Analytical Skills
3 64 (17.30%) Finance
4 16 (4.32%) Law
4 16 (4.32%) Retail
5 11 (2.97%) Manufacturing
6 10 (2.70%) Legal
7 9 (2.43%) Back Office
7 9 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (2.16%) Local Government
8 8 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (1.89%) Fire and Rescue
9 7 (1.89%) Public Sector
10 6 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.35%) Advertising
11 5 (1.35%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.08%) Automotive
12 4 (1.08%) Electronics
13 2 (0.54%) Marketing
13 2 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.51%) LDAP
2 6 (1.62%) Middleware
3 5 (1.35%) REST
3 5 (1.35%) SOAP
4 4 (1.08%) Software Packaging
5 3 (0.81%) .NET
6 1 (0.27%) EDI
6 1 (0.27%) Hugging Face
6 1 (0.27%) JSON
6 1 (0.27%) NumPy
6 1 (0.27%) Pandas
6 1 (0.27%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (5.95%) Driving Licence
2 16 (4.32%) PKI
3 15 (4.05%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (2.43%) Onboarding
6 7 (1.89%) NHS
7 6 (1.62%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.35%) Cyber Defence
8 5 (1.35%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.08%) Smartphone
10 3 (0.81%) Client/Server
10 3 (0.81%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.81%) Security Operations Centre
11 2 (0.54%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.54%) e-Learning
11 2 (0.54%) IoT
11 2 (0.54%) PMI
11 2 (0.54%) SCADA
11 2 (0.54%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 50 (13.51%) Windows
2 38 (10.27%) Windows Server
3 21 (5.68%) Windows 10
4 13 (3.51%) Windows Server 2016
4 13 (3.51%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (1.35%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (21.08%) Business Intelligence
2 75 (20.27%) Problem-Solving
3 53 (14.32%) Continuous Improvement
4 50 (13.51%) Cybersecurity
5 43 (11.62%) Agile
5 43 (11.62%) Mentoring
6 41 (11.08%) AI
6 41 (11.08%) Customer Service
7 40 (10.81%) Project Management
8 39 (10.54%) Business Analysis
9 36 (9.73%) Change Management
10 35 (9.46%) Data Analysis
11 34 (9.19%) ITSM
12 31 (8.38%) Service Management
13 28 (7.57%) Analytics
14 27 (7.30%) ITIL
15 23 (6.22%) Decision-Making
16 22 (5.95%) Process Improvement
17 17 (4.59%) Migration
18 16 (4.32%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 99 (26.76%) SQL
2 60 (16.22%) Python
3 22 (5.95%) PowerShell
4 14 (3.78%) VB
5 7 (1.89%) T-SQL
6 5 (1.35%) R
7 4 (1.08%) C
7 4 (1.08%) C++
7 4 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (1.08%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.54%) Java
8 2 (0.54%) VBA
9 1 (0.27%) Julia
9 1 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 68 (18.38%) Azure Certification
2 45 (12.16%) Degree
3 44 (11.89%) Security Cleared
4 33 (8.92%) CompTIA CySA+
4 33 (8.92%) CompTIA Security+
4 33 (8.92%) SC Cleared
5 28 (7.57%) DV Cleared
6 11 (2.97%) ACCA
6 11 (2.97%) CIMA
7 8 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (1.89%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.62%) MCP
10 5 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.35%) PMI Certification
11 4 (1.08%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.81%) A+ Certification
12 3 (0.81%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 3 (0.81%) PMP
13 2 (0.54%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.14%) SLA
2 9 (2.43%) GDPR
3 7 (1.89%) QA
4 4 (1.08%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.08%) PMO
5 2 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.54%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.27%) NIST
6 1 (0.27%) P3O
6 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.27%) Solvency II
System Software
1 35 (9.46%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (4.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (3.51%) WSUS
3 7 (1.89%) SCCM
4 6 (1.62%) Autotask
5 4 (1.08%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 161 (43.51%) Microsoft
2 31 (8.38%) ForeScout
3 10 (2.70%) ServiceNow
4 7 (1.89%) Oracle
5 6 (1.62%) Meraki
5 6 (1.62%) SAP
6 5 (1.35%) Apple
6 5 (1.35%) ConnectWise
6 5 (1.35%) WooCommerce
7 2 (0.54%) Alteryx
7 2 (0.54%) Databricks
7 2 (0.54%) Google
7 2 (0.54%) IBM
7 2 (0.54%) Remedy
7 2 (0.54%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.54%) Workday
8 1 (0.27%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.27%) IFS
8 1 (0.27%) Talend
8 1 (0.27%) Zoho