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 10 January 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 15 24
Rank change year-on-year 0 +9 -1
Permanent jobs requiring an Analyst 375 404 388
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 7.42% 9.63% 8.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.96% 10.29% 8.57%
Number of salaries quoted 246 182 292
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,313 £23,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £29,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £61,250 £54,928 £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 4,710 3,928 4,525
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.25% 93.64% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 3,262 2,137 3,503
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £39,971
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £66,951
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.56% -4.88%

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 10 January 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 10 January 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 -8 106 £40,000 +14.29% 11
Gloucestershire +1 74 £37,500 +2.74% 13
Somerset +1 61 £40,000 +6.67% 14
Devon +28 50 £40,000 -5.88% 17
Wiltshire -3 48 £45,000 +28.57% 12
Dorset +25 34 £43,500 +3.88% 11
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 January 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.

1 153 (40.80%) Microsoft
2 97 (25.87%) SQL
3 91 (24.27%) Azure
4 81 (21.60%) Problem-Solving
5 77 (20.53%) Microsoft Excel
6 73 (19.47%) Business Intelligence
7 69 (18.40%) Power Platform
8 68 (18.13%) Azure Certification
8 68 (18.13%) Power BI
9 59 (15.73%) Python
10 57 (15.20%) Security Cleared
11 50 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
12 48 (12.80%) Tableau
13 46 (12.27%) Cybersecurity
13 46 (12.27%) Degree
14 45 (12.00%) Business Analysis
14 45 (12.00%) Windows
15 44 (11.73%) Agile
15 44 (11.73%) Mentoring
15 44 (11.73%) Project Management
16 41 (10.93%) AI
17 39 (10.40%) Microsoft 365
17 39 (10.40%) SC Cleared
18 37 (9.87%) Change Management
19 36 (9.60%) Customer Service
19 36 (9.60%) Data Analysis
20 35 (9.33%) Azure AI
21 33 (8.80%) CompTIA CySA+
21 33 (8.80%) CompTIA Security+
21 33 (8.80%) DV Cleared

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 18 (4.80%) SharePoint
2 16 (4.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (3.20%) Confluence
4 10 (2.67%) IIS
5 1 (0.27%) CMS
5 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 77 (20.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.33%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (2.13%) Visualfiles
2 5 (1.33%) Dynamics NAV
2 5 (1.33%) Magento
2 5 (1.33%) Shopify
3 3 (0.80%) SAP EWM
4 2 (0.53%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 2 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.53%) SAP WM
5 1 (0.27%) assyst
5 1 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.27%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 91 (24.27%) Azure
2 69 (18.40%) Power Platform
3 39 (10.40%) Microsoft 365
4 35 (9.33%) Azure AI
5 15 (4.00%) Entra ID
6 12 (3.20%) SaaS
7 10 (2.67%) AWS
8 9 (2.40%) OneDrive
9 8 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.07%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (0.80%) Power Automate
12 2 (0.53%) Snowflake
13 1 (0.27%) Amazon SageMaker
13 1 (0.27%) Azure Data Factory
13 1 (0.27%) Azure Machine Learning
13 1 (0.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 1 (0.27%) dbt
13 1 (0.27%) Fivetran
13 1 (0.27%) GitHub Actions
13 1 (0.27%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.87%) DNS
2 18 (4.80%) DHCP
2 18 (4.80%) Firewall
3 15 (4.00%) LAN
4 11 (2.93%) Internet
5 10 (2.67%) Kerberos
5 10 (2.67%) WAN
6 9 (2.40%) TCP/IP
7 6 (1.60%) DKIM
7 6 (1.60%) DMARC
7 6 (1.60%) VoIP
7 6 (1.60%) Wireless
8 5 (1.33%) Remote Desktop
8 5 (1.33%) VPN
9 4 (1.07%) Ethernet
9 4 (1.07%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (1.07%) Wireshark
10 3 (0.80%) Intranet
11 1 (0.27%) Network Security
11 1 (0.27%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (18.13%) Power BI
2 48 (12.80%) Tableau
3 10 (2.67%) Power Query
3 10 (2.67%) SQL Server
4 8 (2.13%) Data Mining
5 5 (1.33%) MySQL
5 5 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.07%) GIS
6 4 (1.07%) Looker
7 3 (0.80%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.53%) PowerPivot
8 2 (0.53%) Qlik Sense
8 2 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.27%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (5.60%) JIRA
2 3 (0.80%) Git
3 2 (0.53%) CircleCI
3 2 (0.53%) Cypress.io
3 2 (0.53%) Gatling
3 2 (0.53%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.53%) LoadRunner
3 2 (0.53%) Locust
3 2 (0.53%) Selenium
3 2 (0.53%) TestRail
3 2 (0.53%) Zephyr
General
1 176 (46.93%) Social Skills
2 66 (17.60%) Analytical Skills
3 64 (17.07%) Finance
4 14 (3.73%) Retail
5 12 (3.20%) Law
5 12 (3.20%) Legal
6 11 (2.93%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (2.67%) Local Government
7 10 (2.67%) Manufacturing
8 8 (2.13%) Back Office
9 7 (1.87%) Fire and Rescue
9 7 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.33%) Advertising
11 5 (1.33%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.07%) Automotive
12 4 (1.07%) Electronics
13 3 (0.80%) Public Sector
14 2 (0.53%) Marketing
14 2 (0.53%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.67%) LDAP
2 6 (1.60%) Middleware
3 5 (1.33%) REST
3 5 (1.33%) SOAP
4 4 (1.07%) Software Packaging
5 3 (0.80%) .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 (5.87%) Driving Licence
2 13 (3.47%) PKI
2 13 (3.47%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (2.40%) Onboarding
5 7 (1.87%) NHS
6 6 (1.60%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.33%) Cyber Defence
8 4 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.07%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.07%) PMI
8 4 (1.07%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (0.80%) Client/Server
9 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Licensing
9 3 (0.80%) Smartphone
10 2 (0.53%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.53%) Industry 4.0
10 2 (0.53%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.53%) SCADA
10 2 (0.53%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 45 (12.00%) Windows
2 32 (8.53%) Windows Server
3 19 (5.07%) Windows 10
4 10 (2.67%) Windows Server 2016
4 10 (2.67%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (1.33%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (21.60%) Problem-Solving
2 73 (19.47%) Business Intelligence
3 50 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 46 (12.27%) Cybersecurity
5 45 (12.00%) Business Analysis
6 44 (11.73%) Agile
6 44 (11.73%) Mentoring
6 44 (11.73%) Project Management
7 41 (10.93%) AI
8 37 (9.87%) Change Management
9 36 (9.60%) Customer Service
9 36 (9.60%) Data Analysis
10 33 (8.80%) ITSM
11 30 (8.00%) Service Management
12 27 (7.20%) Analytics
12 27 (7.20%) ITIL
13 23 (6.13%) Process Improvement
14 19 (5.07%) Decision-Making
15 17 (4.53%) Migration
16 15 (4.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 97 (25.87%) SQL
2 59 (15.73%) Python
3 19 (5.07%) PowerShell
4 11 (2.93%) VB
5 5 (1.33%) T-SQL
6 4 (1.07%) C
6 4 (1.07%) C++
6 4 (1.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (0.80%) R
8 2 (0.53%) Java
8 2 (0.53%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.53%) VBA
9 1 (0.27%) Julia
9 1 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 68 (18.13%) Azure Certification
2 57 (15.20%) Security Cleared
3 46 (12.27%) Degree
4 39 (10.40%) SC Cleared
5 33 (8.80%) CompTIA CySA+
5 33 (8.80%) CompTIA Security+
5 33 (8.80%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.13%) ACCA
6 8 (2.13%) CIMA
6 8 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (1.87%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.87%) PMI Certification
8 6 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.33%) MCP
10 4 (1.07%) A+ Certification
10 4 (1.07%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (0.80%) IIBA
11 3 (0.80%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (0.80%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.27%) SLA
2 8 (2.13%) QA
3 4 (1.07%) GDPR
3 4 (1.07%) PMO
4 2 (0.53%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.53%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.27%) NIST
5 1 (0.27%) P3O
5 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.27%) Solvency II
System Software
1 30 (8.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (2.67%) WSUS
3 8 (2.13%) SCCM
4 5 (1.33%) Autotask
5 4 (1.07%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 153 (40.80%) Microsoft
2 31 (8.27%) ForeScout
3 10 (2.67%) ServiceNow
4 7 (1.87%) Oracle
5 5 (1.33%) Apple
5 5 (1.33%) ConnectWise
5 5 (1.33%) Meraki
5 5 (1.33%) SAP
5 5 (1.33%) WooCommerce
6 2 (0.53%) Databricks
6 2 (0.53%) IBM
6 2 (0.53%) Liquidlogic
6 2 (0.53%) Remedy
6 2 (0.53%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.53%) Workday
7 1 (0.27%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.27%) Google
7 1 (0.27%) Talend
7 1 (0.27%) VMware
7 1 (0.27%) Zoho