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 19 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 13 20
Rank change year-on-year -2 +7 +3
Permanent jobs requiring an Analyst 289 641 446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 8.24% 8.50% 9.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.88% 8.97% 10.06%
Number of salaries quoted 237 325 359
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,250 £23,450
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £28,212
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.80%
75th Percentile £50,250 £50,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £59,450 £60,000 £65,000
England median annual salary £44,905 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -0.21% -5.26% -

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 3,254 7,147 4,435
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.79% 93.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,133 4,613 3,468
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,027 £51,000 £54,736
Median % change year-on-year -11.71% -6.83% +9.47%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings that featured Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Analyst 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -3 98 £42,500 +6.25% 28
Wiltshire -4 46 £37,250 -6.88% 24
Gloucestershire +15 39 £35,016 -17.61% 21
Somerset -4 38 £35,000 -6.67% 37
Devon +17 30 £30,500 -12.86% 25
Dorset -10 30 £40,000 -0.78% 21
Cornwall -7 6 £30,000 -7.69%
Analyst
England

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 19 September 2025, Analyst job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South West region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 132 (45.67%) Social Skills
2 113 (39.10%) Microsoft
3 73 (25.26%) SQL
4 69 (23.88%) Analytical Skills
5 62 (21.45%) Windows
6 60 (20.76%) Problem-Solving
7 58 (20.07%) Microsoft 365
8 56 (19.38%) Business Intelligence
9 53 (18.34%) Finance
10 52 (17.99%) Active Directory
10 52 (17.99%) Windows Server
11 51 (17.65%) Power Platform
12 50 (17.30%) Power BI
13 49 (16.96%) Continuous Improvement
14 44 (15.22%) Azure
15 43 (14.88%) DNS
16 42 (14.53%) DHCP
17 40 (13.84%) Degree
18 39 (13.49%) Firewall
19 37 (12.80%) Microsoft Excel
20 35 (12.11%) LAN
21 31 (10.73%) Cybersecurity
21 31 (10.73%) Decision-Making
22 29 (10.03%) Customer Service
23 28 (9.69%) Manufacturing
23 28 (9.69%) SharePoint
23 28 (9.69%) Agile
24 26 (9.00%) PowerShell
25 24 (8.30%) Python
25 24 (8.30%) Microsoft Exchange

Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 28 (9.69%) SharePoint
2 24 (8.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 20 (6.92%) IIS
4 9 (3.11%) Confluence
5 2 (0.69%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.35%) CMS
6 1 (0.35%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.35%) Umbraco
Applications
1 37 (12.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.73%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (2.77%) Visualfiles
2 5 (1.73%) NetSuite
3 4 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.38%) SAP EWM
3 4 (1.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.38%) SAP WM
4 3 (1.04%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.69%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 2 (0.69%) MFGPRO
5 2 (0.69%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.35%) assyst
6 1 (0.35%) Infor CloudSuite
6 1 (0.35%) iTrent
6 1 (0.35%) Magento
6 1 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.35%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 58 (20.07%) Microsoft 365
2 51 (17.65%) Power Platform
3 44 (15.22%) Azure
4 19 (6.57%) AWS
5 16 (5.54%) Entra ID
6 14 (4.84%) OneDrive
7 9 (3.11%) SaaS
8 8 (2.77%) GCP
9 6 (2.08%) GitHub
9 6 (2.08%) Power Automate
10 5 (1.73%) Snowflake
11 3 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (0.69%) Azure DevOps
13 1 (0.35%) Amazon SageMaker
13 1 (0.35%) Azure Machine Learning
13 1 (0.35%) dbt
13 1 (0.35%) Fivetran
13 1 (0.35%) GitHub Actions
13 1 (0.35%) Google Data Studio
13 1 (0.35%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 43 (14.88%) DNS
2 42 (14.53%) DHCP
3 39 (13.49%) Firewall
4 35 (12.11%) LAN
5 22 (7.61%) WAN
6 21 (7.27%) Internet
7 20 (6.92%) VPN
8 17 (5.88%) Kerberos
9 14 (4.84%) Wireless
10 12 (4.15%) VoIP
11 7 (2.42%) TCP/IP
11 7 (2.42%) VLAN
12 4 (1.38%) Intranet
12 4 (1.38%) Remote Desktop
13 3 (1.04%) ADSL
13 3 (1.04%) DKIM
13 3 (1.04%) DMARC
13 3 (1.04%) Network Security
14 1 (0.35%) 2G
14 1 (0.35%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (17.30%) Power BI
2 21 (7.27%) SQL Server
3 13 (4.50%) Power Query
3 13 (4.50%) Tableau
4 7 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (2.08%) MySQL
6 5 (1.73%) BigQuery
6 5 (1.73%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (1.38%) FileMaker
7 4 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.04%) Data Hub
8 3 (1.04%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.69%) Looker
10 1 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.35%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.35%) GIS
10 1 (0.35%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 10 (3.46%) JIRA
2 5 (1.73%) Git
3 3 (1.04%) CircleCI
3 3 (1.04%) Cypress.io
3 3 (1.04%) Gatling
3 3 (1.04%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.04%) LoadRunner
3 3 (1.04%) Locust
3 3 (1.04%) Selenium
3 3 (1.04%) TestRail
3 3 (1.04%) Zephyr
4 2 (0.69%) WebSpeed
5 1 (0.35%) RStudio
General
1 132 (45.67%) Social Skills
2 69 (23.88%) Analytical Skills
3 53 (18.34%) Finance
4 28 (9.69%) Manufacturing
5 22 (7.61%) Law
6 19 (6.57%) Retail
7 16 (5.54%) Marketing
8 12 (4.15%) Games
9 11 (3.81%) Advertising
9 11 (3.81%) Public Sector
10 8 (2.77%) Local Government
11 7 (2.42%) Banking
11 7 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (2.08%) Tech for Good
13 5 (1.73%) Back Office
14 4 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (1.04%) Aerospace
15 3 (1.04%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.88%) LDAP
2 8 (2.77%) .NET
2 8 (2.77%) XML
3 6 (2.08%) ASP.NET
3 6 (2.08%) WPF
4 3 (1.04%) EDI
4 3 (1.04%) RESTEasy
5 2 (0.69%) HTML
5 2 (0.69%) Pandas
6 1 (0.35%) ADO
6 1 (0.35%) Hugging Face
6 1 (0.35%) JSON
6 1 (0.35%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (0.35%) Middleware
6 1 (0.35%) NumPy
6 1 (0.35%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.92%) Driving Licence
1 20 (6.92%) PKI
2 18 (6.23%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (5.54%) Management Information System
4 9 (3.11%) Smartphone
5 7 (2.42%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (1.73%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.38%) Freedom of Information
7 4 (1.38%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.04%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.04%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.04%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.69%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.35%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.35%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.35%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.35%) Operational Technology
10 1 (0.35%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.35%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 62 (21.45%) Windows
2 52 (17.99%) Windows Server
3 20 (6.92%) Windows 10
4 17 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
4 17 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
5 14 (4.84%) Linux
6 2 (0.69%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.35%) Android
7 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (20.76%) Problem-Solving
2 56 (19.38%) Business Intelligence
3 49 (16.96%) Continuous Improvement
4 31 (10.73%) Cybersecurity
4 31 (10.73%) Decision-Making
5 29 (10.03%) Customer Service
6 28 (9.69%) Agile
7 24 (8.30%) Analytics
8 23 (7.96%) Mentoring
9 22 (7.61%) CRM
9 22 (7.61%) ITIL
10 21 (7.27%) Data Analysis
11 20 (6.92%) Process Improvement
12 18 (6.23%) Business Analysis
12 18 (6.23%) ITSM
13 17 (5.88%) Data Loss Prevention
13 17 (5.88%) Disaster Recovery
13 17 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
14 16 (5.54%) Line Management
14 16 (5.54%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 73 (25.26%) SQL
2 26 (9.00%) PowerShell
3 24 (8.30%) Python
4 17 (5.88%) VB
5 15 (5.19%) R
6 10 (3.46%) C#
6 10 (3.46%) JavaScript
7 8 (2.77%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.04%) Java
9 2 (0.69%) VBA
9 2 (0.69%) X++
10 1 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.35%) Julia
10 1 (0.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 40 (13.84%) Degree
2 15 (5.19%) Security Cleared
3 14 (4.84%) SC Cleared
4 13 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (4.15%) ACCA
5 12 (4.15%) CIMA
5 12 (4.15%) DV Cleared
6 11 (3.81%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (3.46%) MCP
8 8 (2.77%) A+ Certification
9 6 (2.08%) MCSE
10 5 (1.73%) Network+ Certification
11 4 (1.38%) ISTQB
12 3 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.04%) CEH
12 3 (1.04%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (1.04%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.69%) Six Sigma Black Belt
14 1 (0.35%) CISA
14 1 (0.35%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.30%) SLA
2 11 (3.81%) GDPR
2 11 (3.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (3.81%) QA
3 5 (1.73%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.69%) PMO
5 1 (0.35%) GRC
5 1 (0.35%) NIST
5 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 52 (17.99%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.73%) Hyper-V
2 5 (1.73%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (7.61%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (5.88%) WSUS
3 13 (4.50%) Autotask
4 4 (1.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 113 (39.10%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.50%) Google
2 13 (4.50%) Meraki
3 7 (2.42%) Oracle
3 7 (2.42%) SAP
4 6 (2.08%) Apple
4 6 (2.08%) Salesforce
5 5 (1.73%) Alteryx
5 5 (1.73%) LexisNexis
5 5 (1.73%) VMware
6 2 (0.69%) Cisco
6 2 (0.69%) DocuSign
6 2 (0.69%) QAD
6 2 (0.69%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.35%) BMC
7 1 (0.35%) Infor
7 1 (0.35%) Remedy
7 1 (0.35%) Splunk
7 1 (0.35%) Talend
7 1 (0.35%) Zoho