Analyst Jobs in the UK excluding London

Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Analyst salary in the UK excluding London is £39,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 16 16
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 +3
Permanent jobs requiring an Analyst 5,329 5,431 9,010
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.16% 11.28% 11.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.60% 12.58% 12.12%
Number of salaries quoted 3,037 3,803 6,188
10th Percentile £24,960 £25,000 £24,750
25th Percentile £29,750 £30,500 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,500 £40,000 £40,310
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% -0.77% +0.78%
75th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
90th Percentile £60,000 £61,016 £60,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,154
% change year-on-year - -4.57% +6.34%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 61,941 43,162 74,370
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.90% 89.65% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 41,460 27,696 44,286
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Analyst in the UK excluding London

Analyst
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Analyst in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Analyst in the UK excluding London

Analyst
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Analyst in the UK excluding London

Analyst
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Analyst within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
North of England -2 1,318 £40,000 - 158
South East +1 1,280 £40,000 - 163
Midlands -5 1,059 £37,500 -6.25% 130
North West 0 781 £40,000 - 100
South West +7 676 £42,500 +6.25% 91
West Midlands -6 648 £37,500 -6.25% 87
East of England +8 497 £35,000 -4.11% 55
East Midlands +6 408 £35,000 -11.95% 43
Yorkshire -9 369 £37,500 -5.06% 46
Scotland -33 313 £38,500 -7.62% 63
North East +8 168 £37,500 +3.52% 12
Wales -2 152 £35,738 +2.11% 22
Northern Ireland +17 26 £40,000 +3.23% 51
Isle of Man -7 12 £46,500 +3.33% 3
Channel Islands -3 3 £62,000 +55.00%
South Coast - 1 £35,000 -
Analyst
UK

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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 UK excluding London region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 1,847 (34.66%) Social Skills
2 1,538 (28.86%) Analytical Skills
3 1,495 (28.05%) Microsoft
4 1,321 (24.79%) Finance
5 1,261 (23.66%) Problem-Solving
6 919 (17.25%) Degree
7 853 (16.01%) SQL
8 842 (15.80%) Microsoft Excel
9 836 (15.69%) Agile
10 766 (14.37%) Customer Service
11 713 (13.38%) Decision-Making
12 684 (12.84%) Windows
13 612 (11.48%) Microsoft Office
14 601 (11.28%) Active Directory
15 597 (11.20%) Microsoft 365
16 589 (11.05%) Retail
17 585 (10.98%) Business Analysis
18 565 (10.60%) Continuous Improvement
19 546 (10.25%) ITIL
20 515 (9.66%) Business Intelligence
21 488 (9.16%) Legal
22 485 (9.10%) Power Platform
23 481 (9.03%) Actionable Insight
24 460 (8.63%) Azure
25 455 (8.54%) Power BI
26 419 (7.86%) Analytics
27 414 (7.77%) Data Analysis
28 383 (7.19%) Cybersecurity
29 379 (7.11%) Influencing Skills
30 367 (6.89%) Coaching

Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 178 (3.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 169 (3.17%) SharePoint
3 89 (1.67%) Confluence
4 81 (1.52%) SAS
5 39 (0.73%) WebLogic
6 27 (0.51%) Oracle Service Bus
7 11 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
8 8 (0.15%) IIS
8 8 (0.15%) WebSphere
9 7 (0.13%) ArcGIS
10 6 (0.11%) CMS
11 4 (0.075%) Apache
11 4 (0.075%) Oracle Application Server
12 3 (0.056%) GlassFish
12 3 (0.056%) IBM Domino
12 3 (0.056%) JBoss
12 3 (0.056%) Skype for Business
12 3 (0.056%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.038%) Apache Spark
13 2 (0.038%) Moodle
Applications
1 842 (15.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 612 (11.48%) Microsoft Office
3 122 (2.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 102 (1.91%) MS Visio
5 24 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
7 8 (0.15%) Trello
8 6 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
9 4 (0.075%) SPSS
10 3 (0.056%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.019%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 51 (0.96%) iTrent
2 39 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 31 (0.58%) Remedy ITSM
4 18 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
4 18 (0.34%) Maximo
4 18 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
5 16 (0.30%) NEC Housing
6 15 (0.28%) SAP CO
6 15 (0.28%) SAP FI
6 15 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
7 13 (0.24%) Infor SunSystems
8 11 (0.21%) ResourceLink
9 10 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
10 8 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
10 8 (0.15%) Magento
10 8 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
10 8 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
10 8 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
10 8 (0.15%) SAP Business One
11 6 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 597 (11.20%) Microsoft 365
2 485 (9.10%) Power Platform
3 460 (8.63%) Azure
4 140 (2.63%) AWS
5 139 (2.61%) Entra ID
6 116 (2.18%) SaaS
7 107 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
8 49 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
9 47 (0.88%) SuccessFactors
10 33 (0.62%) GCP
11 32 (0.60%) Azure Sentinel
11 32 (0.60%) PowerApps
12 30 (0.56%) Google Sheets
12 30 (0.56%) Mimecast
12 30 (0.56%) Power Automate
13 22 (0.41%) Google Docs
14 21 (0.39%) Miro
15 19 (0.36%) WhatsApp
16 18 (0.34%) Google Analytics
16 18 (0.34%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 259 (4.86%) Broadband
2 225 (4.22%) Firewall
3 164 (3.08%) LAN
4 141 (2.65%) WAN
5 119 (2.23%) DNS
6 99 (1.86%) TCP/IP
7 95 (1.78%) DHCP
8 84 (1.58%) Internet
9 73 (1.37%) VPN
10 62 (1.16%) Wireless
11 58 (1.09%) WLAN
12 55 (1.03%) VoIP
13 33 (0.62%) Network Security
14 32 (0.60%) SD-WAN
15 31 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
16 30 (0.56%) VLAN
17 29 (0.54%) Intrusion Detection
18 23 (0.43%) Remote Desktop
19 21 (0.39%) BGP
19 21 (0.39%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 455 (8.54%) Power BI
2 219 (4.11%) Tableau
3 131 (2.46%) SQL Server
4 75 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
5 54 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 47 (0.88%) Power Query
7 46 (0.86%) Relational Database
8 45 (0.84%) Oracle Database
9 44 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 38 (0.71%) Data Mining
11 35 (0.66%) BigQuery
12 27 (0.51%) Big Data
12 27 (0.51%) Oracle Database 10g
12 27 (0.51%) Oracle Database 11g
12 27 (0.51%) VLDB
13 26 (0.49%) QlikView
14 25 (0.47%) MySQL
15 24 (0.45%) Qlik Sense
16 23 (0.43%) BusinessObjects
16 23 (0.43%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 189 (3.55%) JIRA
2 36 (0.68%) Git
3 27 (0.51%) Selenium
4 18 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 17 (0.32%) JMeter
6 15 (0.28%) Postman
7 10 (0.19%) WebDriver
8 9 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
8 9 (0.17%) Subversion
8 9 (0.17%) TestRail
9 8 (0.15%) Eclipse
10 7 (0.13%) SpecFlow
10 7 (0.13%) Visual Studio
11 6 (0.11%) SoapUI
12 5 (0.094%) TeamCity
13 4 (0.075%) NUnit
13 4 (0.075%) Toad
14 3 (0.056%) JUnit
14 3 (0.056%) TestNG
14 3 (0.056%) Zephyr
General
1 1,847 (34.66%) Social Skills
2 1,538 (28.86%) Analytical Skills
3 1,321 (24.79%) Finance
4 589 (11.05%) Retail
5 488 (9.16%) Legal
6 379 (7.11%) Influencing Skills
7 328 (6.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 313 (5.87%) Law
9 306 (5.74%) Banking
10 255 (4.79%) Organisational Skills
11 207 (3.88%) Manufacturing
12 150 (2.81%) Marketing
13 140 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
14 139 (2.61%) Public Sector
15 124 (2.33%) Investment Banking
16 96 (1.80%) Telecoms
17 88 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
18 51 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
18 51 (0.96%) Police
19 45 (0.84%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (0.71%) .NET
2 31 (0.58%) XML
3 29 (0.54%) HTML
4 26 (0.49%) EDI
5 25 (0.47%) Oracle Fusion
6 19 (0.36%) REST
7 17 (0.32%) JSON
7 17 (0.32%) OLE
8 14 (0.26%) Web Services
9 12 (0.23%) J2EE
9 12 (0.23%) Java EE
9 12 (0.23%) Spring
10 11 (0.21%) Lightning Web Components
10 11 (0.21%) RESTful
10 11 (0.21%) SOAP
11 10 (0.19%) CSS
12 9 (0.17%) ADO
12 9 (0.17%) Middleware
12 9 (0.17%) Pandas
13 7 (0.13%) EDIFACT
Miscellaneous
1 231 (4.33%) Management Information System
2 128 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
3 90 (1.69%) Product Ownership
4 84 (1.58%) Driving Licence
5 63 (1.18%) Onboarding
6 55 (1.03%) Security Operations Centre
7 52 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
8 50 (0.94%) Cyber Threat
9 48 (0.90%) NHS
10 45 (0.84%) Credit Risk
11 40 (0.75%) Mobile App
11 40 (0.75%) Smartphone
12 39 (0.73%) Cyberattack
13 38 (0.71%) Operational Technology
14 35 (0.66%) Data Centre
15 34 (0.64%) FMCG
15 34 (0.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 31 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
16 31 (0.58%) Social Media
17 28 (0.53%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 684 (12.84%) Windows
2 275 (5.16%) Windows 10
3 212 (3.98%) Windows Server
4 129 (2.42%) Linux
5 81 (1.52%) Android
6 71 (1.33%) Apple iOS
7 65 (1.22%) Unix
8 38 (0.71%) Windows 7
9 37 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
10 30 (0.56%) Solaris
10 30 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
11 22 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
12 19 (0.36%) Mac OS
13 18 (0.34%) Windows Vista
14 12 (0.23%) Mac OS X
15 11 (0.21%) Windows 8
16 6 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
17 5 (0.094%) SUSE
17 5 (0.094%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
18 4 (0.075%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,261 (23.66%) Problem-Solving
2 836 (15.69%) Agile
3 766 (14.37%) Customer Service
4 713 (13.38%) Decision-Making
5 585 (10.98%) Business Analysis
6 565 (10.60%) Continuous Improvement
7 546 (10.25%) ITIL
8 515 (9.66%) Business Intelligence
9 481 (9.03%) Actionable Insight
10 419 (7.86%) Analytics
11 414 (7.77%) Data Analysis
12 383 (7.19%) Cybersecurity
13 367 (6.89%) Coaching
14 354 (6.64%) Mentoring
15 326 (6.12%) Change Management
16 311 (5.84%) Business Case
17 301 (5.65%) Process Improvement
18 288 (5.40%) Mathematics
19 284 (5.33%) Stakeholder Management
20 270 (5.07%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 853 (16.01%) SQL
2 244 (4.58%) Python
3 93 (1.75%) PowerShell
4 79 (1.48%) VBA
5 71 (1.33%) R
6 56 (1.05%) C#
7 49 (0.92%) T-SQL
8 46 (0.86%) Java
9 39 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 39 (0.73%) PL/SQL
10 38 (0.71%) JavaScript
11 20 (0.38%) RPG
12 18 (0.34%) Bash
13 16 (0.30%) VB
14 12 (0.23%) Shell Script
15 10 (0.19%) Julia
15 10 (0.19%) PHP
16 7 (0.13%) Kusto Query Language
16 7 (0.13%) RPG IV
17 6 (0.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 919 (17.25%) Degree
2 339 (6.36%) Security Cleared
3 288 (5.40%) CIMA
4 280 (5.25%) ACCA
5 207 (3.88%) SC Cleared
6 99 (1.86%) CISSP
7 66 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
8 61 (1.14%) DBS Check
9 59 (1.11%) DV Cleared
10 56 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
11 54 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
12 50 (0.94%) CISM
13 49 (0.92%) CompTIA Security+
14 45 (0.84%) ISTQB
15 44 (0.83%) Master's Degree
16 41 (0.77%) A+ Certification
17 29 (0.54%) CCNA
18 26 (0.49%) CISA
19 22 (0.41%) PMI Certification
20 21 (0.39%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 248 (4.65%) SLA
2 204 (3.83%) QA
3 167 (3.13%) GDPR
4 124 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 110 (2.06%) Data Quality
6 82 (1.54%) NIST
7 54 (1.01%) PMO
8 47 (0.88%) PCI DSS
9 41 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 40 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
11 35 (0.66%) NCSC
12 34 (0.64%) GRC
13 22 (0.41%) Accessibility
14 20 (0.38%) IFRS
15 18 (0.34%) GLP
16 16 (0.30%) ISO 9001
16 16 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 17025
17 15 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
18 13 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
19 11 (0.21%) GAAP
System Software
1 601 (11.28%) Active Directory
2 89 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 46 (0.86%) RACF
4 41 (0.77%) Hyper-V
5 27 (0.51%) Oracle RAC
6 24 (0.45%) XenApp
7 23 (0.43%) XenDesktop
8 19 (0.36%) vSphere
9 13 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
10 11 (0.21%) Firmware
11 10 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
11 10 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
12 6 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.075%) VMware Workstation
14 3 (0.056%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.038%) Embedded Firmware
16 1 (0.019%) Docker
16 1 (0.019%) Microsoft App-V
16 1 (0.019%) Snort
16 1 (0.019%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 98 (1.84%) Microsoft Intune
1 98 (1.84%) SCCM
2 27 (0.51%) Data Guard
2 27 (0.51%) Oracle RMAN
3 24 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
4 17 (0.32%) Terraform
4 17 (0.32%) WSUS
5 12 (0.23%) OpenSSO
6 11 (0.21%) EnCase
7 9 (0.17%) CASB
7 9 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
7 9 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
8 8 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (0.11%) Grafana
9 6 (0.11%) Kibana
10 5 (0.094%) Backup Exec
10 5 (0.094%) FortiGate
10 5 (0.094%) Graphite
10 5 (0.094%) Nessus
10 5 (0.094%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 1,495 (28.05%) Microsoft
2 220 (4.13%) SAP
3 156 (2.93%) Oracle
4 150 (2.81%) VMware
5 103 (1.93%) ServiceNow
6 102 (1.91%) Cisco
7 78 (1.46%) Google
8 56 (1.05%) Salesforce
9 55 (1.03%) Citrix
10 52 (0.98%) Remedy
11 47 (0.88%) CyberArk
12 45 (0.84%) Alteryx
13 42 (0.79%) IFS
14 39 (0.73%) Dell
15 35 (0.66%) Apple
16 31 (0.58%) Adobe
16 31 (0.58%) Databricks
17 30 (0.56%) Sun
18 29 (0.54%) HP
19 28 (0.53%) IBM