Analyst Job Trends in the South West

Analyst
England > South West

The median Analyst salary in the South West is £42,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 October 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 16 15
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 +4
Permanent jobs requiring an Analyst 660 289 615
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 6.24% 8.12% 9.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.74% 8.73% 9.82%
Number of salaries quoted 441 228 275
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,500 £31,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £39,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £55,000 £48,750 £49,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £57,875 £60,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% -

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 9,793 3,311 6,260
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.53% 93.03% 94.43%
Number of salaries quoted 6,727 2,147 3,869
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,125 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £59,522 £55,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year +8.22% -2.65% -5.83%

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 13 October 2026.

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 13 October 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
Bristol -4 185 £50,000 +25.00% 30
Gloucestershire -7 143 £45,000 +26.65% 35
Somerset +4 121 £35,000 - 30
Devon +12 84 £30,000 -1.64% 16
Wiltshire -2 67 £45,000 +22.78% 28
Dorset -2 32 £33,000 -18.52% 13
Cornwall +15 7 £60,000 +19.11% 1
Avon - 3 £48,750 - 8
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 October 2026, 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.

1 148 (22.42%) Microsoft
2 142 (21.52%) SQL
3 130 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
4 91 (13.79%) Business Intelligence
5 84 (12.73%) Power Platform
6 78 (11.82%) Power BI
7 74 (11.21%) Windows
8 72 (10.91%) Microsoft 365
9 65 (9.85%) Azure
10 63 (9.55%) Agile
10 63 (9.55%) AI
11 60 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
12 58 (8.79%) Customer Service
13 57 (8.64%) Stakeholder Management
14 56 (8.48%) Microsoft Excel
15 55 (8.33%) ERP
16 52 (7.88%) Security Cleared
17 51 (7.73%) Business Analysis
17 51 (7.73%) Data Analysis
17 51 (7.73%) ITIL
18 50 (7.58%) Degree
19 46 (6.97%) Decision-Making
20 43 (6.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
21 42 (6.36%) Analytics
21 42 (6.36%) Python
22 41 (6.21%) Continuous Improvement
23 40 (6.06%) Azure Certification
24 39 (5.91%) Microsoft Office
24 39 (5.91%) Process Improvement
25 37 (5.61%) Active Directory

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 19 (2.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (1.97%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.36%) Confluence
4 2 (0.30%) Oracle Application Server
4 2 (0.30%) SAS
5 1 (0.15%) Apache
5 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.15%) Site Server
Applications
1 56 (8.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (5.91%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.97%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.15%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 8 (1.21%) Visualfiles
2 5 (0.76%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 5 (0.76%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.45%) Infor LN
4 2 (0.30%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.15%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 84 (12.73%) Power Platform
2 72 (10.91%) Microsoft 365
3 65 (9.85%) Azure
4 34 (5.15%) SaaS
5 20 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
6 19 (2.88%) AWS
7 16 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (2.42%) Entra ID
8 14 (2.12%) Azure AI
9 13 (1.97%) PowerApps
10 12 (1.82%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 12 (1.82%) Azure Functions
10 12 (1.82%) Azure Key Vault
10 12 (1.82%) Azure Monitor
10 12 (1.82%) GitHub
10 12 (1.82%) IaaS
10 12 (1.82%) PaaS
10 12 (1.82%) Serverless
11 9 (1.36%) Intacct
11 9 (1.36%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.73%) VPN
2 15 (2.27%) Broadband
3 12 (1.82%) 4G
4 7 (1.06%) WAN
5 4 (0.61%) Firewall
5 4 (0.61%) Internet
6 3 (0.45%) LAN
7 2 (0.30%) DMZ
7 2 (0.30%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.30%) MPLS
7 2 (0.30%) NGFW
7 2 (0.30%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.30%) Structured Cabling
7 2 (0.30%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.15%) DHCP
8 1 (0.15%) DNS
8 1 (0.15%) NAS
8 1 (0.15%) SSH
8 1 (0.15%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (11.82%) Power BI
2 29 (4.39%) Tableau
3 22 (3.33%) SQL Server
4 14 (2.12%) Relational Database
5 12 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (1.36%) Power Query
7 5 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (0.76%) Star Schema
8 3 (0.45%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.45%) Data Vault
8 3 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.45%) PowerPivot
9 2 (0.30%) Semantic Layer
10 1 (0.15%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.15%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.15%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (0.15%) Looker
10 1 (0.15%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (2.88%) JIRA
2 14 (2.12%) Git
3 2 (0.30%) Postman
3 2 (0.30%) Selenium
4 1 (0.15%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.15%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 194 (29.39%) Social Skills
2 105 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
3 104 (15.76%) Finance
4 29 (4.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 29 (4.39%) Manufacturing
5 26 (3.94%) Organisational Skills
6 24 (3.64%) Aerospace
7 22 (3.33%) Public Sector
8 21 (3.18%) Retail
9 19 (2.88%) Law
9 19 (2.88%) Legal
10 14 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (1.52%) Swedish Language
12 9 (1.36%) General Ledger
12 9 (1.36%) Marketing
13 5 (0.76%) Advertising
14 4 (0.61%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.45%) Banking
15 3 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.30%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.03%) XML
2 17 (2.58%) HTML
3 15 (2.27%) .NET
4 13 (1.97%) CSS
5 12 (1.82%) .NET Framework
5 12 (1.82%) Terraform
5 12 (1.82%) Web Services
6 4 (0.61%) JSON
7 3 (0.45%) EDI
7 3 (0.45%) Middleware
8 2 (0.30%) Playwright
8 2 (0.30%) REST
9 1 (0.15%) RESTful
9 1 (0.15%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 30 (4.55%) Onboarding
2 27 (4.09%) Self-Motivation
3 20 (3.03%) Security Posture
4 18 (2.73%) Analytical Mindset
5 16 (2.42%) Cyber Threat
5 16 (2.42%) Management Information System
6 13 (1.97%) Product Ownership
7 12 (1.82%) Podcast
7 12 (1.82%) Public Cloud
8 10 (1.52%) Security Operations Centre
9 9 (1.36%) Driving Licence
10 5 (0.76%) Data Structures
10 5 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.61%) Blog
11 4 (0.61%) Client/Server
12 3 (0.45%) iPad
12 3 (0.45%) iPhone
12 3 (0.45%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.45%) Operational Technology
13 2 (0.30%) Manufacturing Execution System
Operating Systems
1 74 (11.21%) Windows
2 19 (2.88%) Windows Server
3 15 (2.27%) Android
4 14 (2.12%) Windows 10
5 12 (1.82%) VMS
6 6 (0.91%) Linux
7 4 (0.61%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.45%) macOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
2 91 (13.79%) Business Intelligence
3 63 (9.55%) Agile
3 63 (9.55%) AI
4 60 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
5 58 (8.79%) Customer Service
6 57 (8.64%) Stakeholder Management
7 55 (8.33%) ERP
8 51 (7.73%) Business Analysis
8 51 (7.73%) Data Analysis
8 51 (7.73%) ITIL
9 46 (6.97%) Decision-Making
10 43 (6.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 42 (6.36%) Analytics
12 41 (6.21%) Continuous Improvement
13 39 (5.91%) Process Improvement
14 30 (4.55%) Project Delivery
14 30 (4.55%) Requirements Gathering
14 30 (4.55%) Scrum
15 28 (4.24%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 142 (21.52%) SQL
2 42 (6.36%) Python
3 18 (2.73%) Kusto Query Language
3 18 (2.73%) PowerShell
4 17 (2.58%) C#
5 14 (2.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 12 (1.82%) Bash
6 12 (1.82%) Bicep
7 9 (1.36%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.61%) R
8 4 (0.61%) VB
8 4 (0.61%) VBA
9 3 (0.45%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.15%) Java
10 1 (0.15%) PHP
Qualifications
1 52 (7.88%) Security Cleared
2 50 (7.58%) Degree
3 40 (6.06%) Azure Certification
4 25 (3.79%) DV Cleared
5 24 (3.64%) SC Cleared
6 22 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (2.12%) CompTIA CySA+
7 14 (2.12%) CompTIA Security+
8 13 (1.97%) A+ Certification
9 12 (1.82%) ACCA
9 12 (1.82%) CIMA
10 10 (1.52%) AWS Certification
10 10 (1.52%) MCSE
11 7 (1.06%) AAT
12 6 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (0.76%) ISTQB
14 4 (0.61%) CISM
14 4 (0.61%) CISSP
14 4 (0.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 3 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (3.64%) QA
2 23 (3.48%) Data Quality
3 15 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (1.36%) PMO
5 8 (1.21%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (1.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 8 (1.21%) GDPR
5 8 (1.21%) SLA
6 6 (0.91%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.76%) NIST
8 3 (0.45%) NCSC
9 2 (0.30%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.15%) GRC
10 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 37 (5.61%) Active Directory
2 19 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.97%) vSphere
4 12 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.91%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 10 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.30%) SCCM
3 1 (0.15%) Proxmox
3 1 (0.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 148 (22.42%) Microsoft
2 19 (2.88%) VMware
3 14 (2.12%) ForeScout
3 14 (2.12%) ServiceNow
4 12 (1.82%) ScienceLogic
4 12 (1.82%) Starlink
5 11 (1.67%) Sage
6 9 (1.36%) Oracle
7 8 (1.21%) Salesforce
8 6 (0.91%) Google
9 5 (0.76%) IBM
10 3 (0.45%) Cognos
10 3 (0.45%) Infor
10 3 (0.45%) MicroStrategy
11 2 (0.30%) Epicor
11 2 (0.30%) SAP
11 2 (0.30%) Splunk
12 1 (0.15%) Cisco
12 1 (0.15%) Remedy
12 1 (0.15%) Siemens