Analyst Job Trends in the South West

Analyst
England > South West

The median Analyst salary in the South West is £38,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 November 2025.

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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 17 22
Rank change year-on-year -1 +5 +1
Permanent jobs requiring an Analyst 286 517 433
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 7.22% 8.50% 9.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.77% 9.01% 10.14%
Number of salaries quoted 217 252 329
10th Percentile £27,850 £26,250 £23,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £37,500 £39,634
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% -5.38% +4.30%
75th Percentile £47,500 £47,625 £53,750
90th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £65,322
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 3,680 5,735 4,270
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.88% 94.25% 95.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2,454 3,543 3,319
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £40,346
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £51,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.62% -1.90% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.83% -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 6 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 6 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 -7 98 £40,000 +9.59% 59
Somerset -7 48 £35,000 -3.45% 44
Gloucestershire -3 40 £35,532 -8.89% 55
Wiltshire -10 40 £37,075 -7.31% 39
Devon +14 28 £36,625 -33.41% 19
Dorset +14 28 £38,500 -4.13% 20
Cornwall -13 1 £30,750 -8.21%
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 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.

1 106 (37.06%) Microsoft
2 74 (25.87%) Problem-Solving
3 68 (23.78%) SQL
3 68 (23.78%) Windows
4 57 (19.93%) Microsoft 365
5 54 (18.88%) Business Intelligence
6 53 (18.53%) Active Directory
6 53 (18.53%) Windows Server
7 52 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
8 47 (16.43%) Power Platform
9 46 (16.08%) Power BI
10 45 (15.73%) Agile
11 43 (15.03%) Degree
12 41 (14.34%) Customer Service
13 40 (13.99%) Microsoft Excel
14 39 (13.64%) DNS
15 36 (12.59%) Data Analysis
16 35 (12.24%) DHCP
16 35 (12.24%) LAN
17 32 (11.19%) Azure
17 32 (11.19%) ITSM
18 30 (10.49%) Firewall
18 30 (10.49%) SharePoint
19 29 (10.14%) Decision-Making
19 29 (10.14%) Microsoft Exchange
19 29 (10.14%) Process Improvement
20 28 (9.79%) Project Management
20 28 (9.79%) Python
21 27 (9.44%) Analytics
21 27 (9.44%) Business Analysis

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 30 (10.49%) SharePoint
2 29 (10.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (5.94%) IIS
4 9 (3.15%) Confluence
5 2 (0.70%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.35%) CMS
6 1 (0.35%) SAS
6 1 (0.35%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.35%) Umbraco
Applications
1 40 (13.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.50%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.05%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (3.15%) Visualfiles
2 5 (1.75%) NetSuite
3 4 (1.40%) SAP EWM
3 4 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.40%) SAP WM
4 3 (1.05%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.70%) MFGPRO
5 2 (0.70%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.70%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.35%) assyst
6 1 (0.35%) iTrent
6 1 (0.35%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 57 (19.93%) Microsoft 365
2 47 (16.43%) Power Platform
3 32 (11.19%) Azure
4 22 (7.69%) Entra ID
5 17 (5.94%) OneDrive
6 15 (5.24%) AWS
7 12 (4.20%) SaaS
8 5 (1.75%) GCP
9 4 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.05%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.05%) Power Automate
10 3 (1.05%) Snowflake
11 2 (0.70%) GitHub
12 1 (0.35%) Azure Data Factory
12 1 (0.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 1 (0.35%) dbt
12 1 (0.35%) Fivetran
12 1 (0.35%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (0.35%) Google Data Studio
12 1 (0.35%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 39 (13.64%) DNS
2 35 (12.24%) DHCP
2 35 (12.24%) LAN
3 30 (10.49%) Firewall
4 22 (7.69%) WAN
5 21 (7.34%) Internet
6 17 (5.94%) Kerberos
7 14 (4.90%) Wireless
8 13 (4.55%) VPN
9 10 (3.50%) TCP/IP
10 9 (3.15%) VoIP
11 6 (2.10%) DKIM
11 6 (2.10%) DMARC
11 6 (2.10%) Remote Desktop
12 5 (1.75%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (1.40%) Ethernet
13 4 (1.40%) Intranet
13 4 (1.40%) Wireshark
14 2 (0.70%) Network Security
15 1 (0.35%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (16.08%) Power BI
2 17 (5.94%) SQL Server
3 15 (5.24%) Power Query
3 15 (5.24%) Tableau
4 6 (2.10%) MySQL
5 5 (1.75%) BigQuery
5 5 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.40%) Data Mining
7 2 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.70%) Looker
7 2 (0.70%) Qlik Sense
7 2 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.35%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.35%) GIS
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (4.90%) JIRA
2 4 (1.40%) Git
3 2 (0.70%) CircleCI
3 2 (0.70%) Cypress.io
3 2 (0.70%) Gatling
3 2 (0.70%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.70%) LoadRunner
3 2 (0.70%) Locust
3 2 (0.70%) Selenium
3 2 (0.70%) TestRail
3 2 (0.70%) WebSpeed
3 2 (0.70%) Zephyr
4 1 (0.35%) RStudio
General
1 145 (50.70%) Social Skills
2 71 (24.83%) Analytical Skills
3 59 (20.63%) Finance
4 26 (9.09%) Manufacturing
5 21 (7.34%) Law
6 17 (5.94%) Retail
7 11 (3.85%) Advertising
7 11 (3.85%) Public Sector
8 10 (3.50%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (3.50%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (2.80%) Legal
9 8 (2.80%) Local Government
10 7 (2.45%) Fire and Rescue
10 7 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (2.10%) Back Office
11 6 (2.10%) Marketing
12 5 (1.75%) Electronics
13 4 (1.40%) Banking
13 4 (1.40%) Games
14 3 (1.05%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.94%) LDAP
2 4 (1.40%) Software Packaging
3 3 (1.05%) .NET
3 3 (1.05%) EDI
3 3 (1.05%) RESTEasy
4 2 (0.70%) HTML
4 2 (0.70%) Pandas
5 1 (0.35%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.35%) Hugging Face
5 1 (0.35%) JSON
5 1 (0.35%) Middleware
5 1 (0.35%) NumPy
5 1 (0.35%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.35%) WPF
5 1 (0.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.44%) Driving Licence
2 20 (6.99%) PKI
2 20 (6.99%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (5.59%) Management Information System
4 12 (4.20%) Analytical Mindset
4 12 (4.20%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.15%) Smartphone
6 7 (2.45%) NHS
7 5 (1.75%) Cyber Defence
8 4 (1.40%) Freedom of Information
9 3 (1.05%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.05%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.05%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.05%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (1.05%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.70%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.70%) Industry 4.0
10 2 (0.70%) IoT
10 2 (0.70%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 68 (23.78%) Windows
2 53 (18.53%) Windows Server
3 25 (8.74%) Windows 10
4 17 (5.94%) Windows Server 2016
4 17 (5.94%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (2.45%) Linux
6 6 (2.10%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.35%) Android
7 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (25.87%) Problem-Solving
2 54 (18.88%) Business Intelligence
3 52 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
4 45 (15.73%) Agile
5 41 (14.34%) Customer Service
6 36 (12.59%) Data Analysis
7 32 (11.19%) ITSM
8 29 (10.14%) Decision-Making
8 29 (10.14%) Process Improvement
9 28 (9.79%) Project Management
10 27 (9.44%) Analytics
10 27 (9.44%) Business Analysis
11 23 (8.04%) Cybersecurity
12 22 (7.69%) Change Management
12 22 (7.69%) ITIL
13 20 (6.99%) CRM
13 20 (6.99%) Mentoring
14 18 (6.29%) Case Management
15 17 (5.94%) Data Loss Prevention
15 17 (5.94%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 68 (23.78%) SQL
2 28 (9.79%) Python
3 25 (8.74%) PowerShell
4 18 (6.29%) VB
5 10 (3.50%) R
6 9 (3.15%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.40%) C
7 4 (1.40%) C++
7 4 (1.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (1.40%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.70%) Java
8 2 (0.70%) VBA
8 2 (0.70%) X++
9 1 (0.35%) C#
9 1 (0.35%) Julia
9 1 (0.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 43 (15.03%) Degree
2 21 (7.34%) Security Cleared
3 18 (6.29%) SC Cleared
4 16 (5.59%) DV Cleared
5 12 (4.20%) ACCA
5 12 (4.20%) CIMA
5 12 (4.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.45%) MCP
8 6 (2.10%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.40%) A+ Certification
9 4 (1.40%) CEH
10 3 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.05%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (1.05%) ISTQB
10 3 (1.05%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 3 (1.05%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.05%) PMP
11 2 (0.70%) CISSP
11 2 (0.70%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.39%) SLA
2 12 (4.20%) GDPR
3 8 (2.80%) QA
4 6 (2.10%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.05%) PMO
7 2 (0.70%) NIST
7 2 (0.70%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.35%) GRC
8 1 (0.35%) P3O
8 1 (0.35%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.35%) Solvency II
System Software
1 53 (18.53%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.75%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 20 (6.99%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (5.94%) WSUS
3 13 (4.55%) Autotask
4 4 (1.40%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (0.70%) SCCM
6 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 106 (37.06%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.55%) Meraki
3 10 (3.50%) Apple
3 10 (3.50%) Google
4 7 (2.45%) Oracle
4 7 (2.45%) SAP
5 6 (2.10%) VMware
6 5 (1.75%) Alteryx
6 5 (1.75%) LexisNexis
7 4 (1.40%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.40%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.70%) Cisco
8 2 (0.70%) Databricks
8 2 (0.70%) DocuSign
8 2 (0.70%) QAD
8 2 (0.70%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.70%) Remedy
8 2 (0.70%) Workday
9 1 (0.35%) Adaptive Insights
9 1 (0.35%) OpenAI