Analyst Jobs in the UK excluding London

Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Analyst salary in the UK excluding London is £42,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 14 15
Rank change year-on-year -9 +1 0
Permanent jobs requiring an Analyst 2,702 6,437 7,619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.34% 9.16% 12.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.15% 9.66% 13.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,623 4,299 4,352
10th Percentile £25,313 £24,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £29,000 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -
75th Percentile £53,375 £50,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £46,499
% change year-on-year +5.56% -3.22% +3.33%

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 33,156 66,640 54,781
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.03% 94.78% 89.23%
Number of salaries quoted 18,505 47,222 31,088
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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
North of England -15 770 £40,000 - 431
Midlands -10 576 £42,500 +13.33% 299
North West -19 509 £41,416 +3.54% 236
South East -22 508 £45,000 +12.50% 645
West Midlands -14 329 £45,000 +20.00% 182
East of England -3 317 £47,500 +20.64% 207
East Midlands +2 246 £38,500 +5.48% 100
Scotland +36 242 £45,000 +5.88% 114
South West -5 233 £40,000 -5.88% 161
Yorkshire -11 218 £30,500 -21.80% 154
North East -15 43 £38,500 +10.00% 43
Northern Ireland +28 33 £30,000 -40.00% 33
Wales -44 17 £50,393 +38.16% 32
Isle of Man +1 7 £38,000 -16.94% 2
Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 UK excluding London region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 1,191 (44.08%) Social Skills
2 792 (29.31%) Finance
3 705 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
4 687 (25.43%) Degree
5 681 (25.20%) Problem-Solving
6 590 (21.84%) Microsoft
7 556 (20.58%) SQL
8 394 (14.58%) Analytics
9 377 (13.95%) Agile
10 357 (13.21%) Windows
11 354 (13.10%) Power Platform
12 352 (13.03%) Business Intelligence
13 347 (12.84%) Microsoft 365
14 342 (12.66%) Customer Service
15 336 (12.44%) Power BI
16 330 (12.21%) Azure
17 284 (10.51%) Decision-Making
18 275 (10.18%) Cybersecurity
19 272 (10.07%) Project Management
20 265 (9.81%) Data Analysis
20 265 (9.81%) Continuous Improvement
21 261 (9.66%) Banking
22 259 (9.59%) Active Directory
22 259 (9.59%) Microsoft Excel
23 247 (9.14%) Business Analysis
24 243 (8.99%) Risk Management
25 240 (8.88%) Stakeholder Management
26 239 (8.85%) ITIL
27 228 (8.44%) Data Analytics
28 223 (8.25%) Change Management

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
1 145 (5.37%) SharePoint
2 72 (2.66%) Confluence
3 58 (2.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 36 (1.33%) IBM Domino
5 33 (1.22%) SAS
6 26 (0.96%) IIS
7 8 (0.30%) Jupyter
8 7 (0.26%) Apache Spark
9 6 (0.22%) Apache
10 3 (0.11%) Mule
11 2 (0.074%) Alfresco
11 2 (0.074%) Documentum
11 2 (0.074%) Exchange Server 2013
11 2 (0.074%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.037%) Exchange Server 2010
12 1 (0.037%) IBM Notes
12 1 (0.037%) Moodle
12 1 (0.037%) Oracle Service Bus
12 1 (0.037%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.037%) WordPress
Applications
1 259 (9.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 190 (7.03%) Microsoft Office
3 89 (3.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (0.74%) Chatbot
5 19 (0.70%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.44%) SPSS
7 8 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.074%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.037%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.037%) Notion
9 1 (0.037%) Trello
Business Applications
1 39 (1.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (0.89%) Dynamics AX
3 18 (0.67%) SAP FI
4 16 (0.59%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 16 (0.59%) SAP HCM
5 13 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
5 13 (0.48%) SAP Payroll
6 12 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
6 12 (0.44%) SAP HR
7 9 (0.33%) Infor M3
8 8 (0.30%) NetSuite
8 8 (0.30%) Oracle Applications
9 7 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
10 6 (0.22%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
10 6 (0.22%) ResourceLink
10 6 (0.22%) SAP ERP
11 5 (0.19%) Endur
11 5 (0.19%) Infor CloudSuite
11 5 (0.19%) Markit EDM
11 5 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 354 (13.10%) Power Platform
2 347 (12.84%) Microsoft 365
3 330 (12.21%) Azure
4 82 (3.03%) AWS
5 79 (2.92%) SaaS
6 66 (2.44%) Entra ID
7 63 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
8 35 (1.30%) Azure Sentinel
9 29 (1.07%) OneDrive
10 25 (0.93%) Azure Logic Apps
11 22 (0.81%) Snowflake
12 20 (0.74%) Power Automate
13 19 (0.70%) GCP
14 18 (0.67%) Azure DevOps
14 18 (0.67%) Google Analytics
15 16 (0.59%) PowerApps
16 15 (0.56%) Cloud Computing
17 12 (0.44%) Mimecast
17 12 (0.44%) SuccessFactors
18 11 (0.41%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 151 (5.59%) Firewall
2 82 (3.03%) DNS
3 68 (2.52%) DHCP
4 63 (2.33%) VoIP
5 54 (2.00%) VPN
6 52 (1.92%) TCP/IP
7 36 (1.33%) WAN
8 32 (1.18%) LAN
9 30 (1.11%) VLAN
10 24 (0.89%) Cisco IOS
10 24 (0.89%) Network Security
10 24 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
11 16 (0.59%) Wireless
12 14 (0.52%) Remote Desktop
13 12 (0.44%) FTP
14 10 (0.37%) ADSL
15 9 (0.33%) Internet
15 9 (0.33%) SAN
16 8 (0.30%) SSL
17 4 (0.15%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 336 (12.44%) Power BI
2 115 (4.26%) Tableau
3 79 (2.92%) SQL Server
4 56 (2.07%) Big Data
5 51 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
6 40 (1.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 27 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 24 (0.89%) Relational Database
9 22 (0.81%) Data Lake
9 22 (0.81%) Data Mining
9 22 (0.81%) MySQL
10 16 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
10 16 (0.59%) BusinessObjects
11 12 (0.44%) Power Query
11 12 (0.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 11 (0.41%) RDBMS
13 10 (0.37%) Looker
14 9 (0.33%) BigQuery
14 9 (0.33%) Oracle Reports
15 7 (0.26%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 139 (5.14%) JIRA
2 21 (0.78%) eggPlant
3 19 (0.70%) Selenium
4 15 (0.56%) Postman
5 12 (0.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 11 (0.41%) Git
7 9 (0.33%) Cypress.io
8 8 (0.30%) Appium
9 7 (0.26%) Cucumber
9 7 (0.26%) JMeter
10 6 (0.22%) TestRail
11 4 (0.15%) Subversion
12 3 (0.11%) Maven
12 3 (0.11%) TortoiseSVN
13 2 (0.074%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.074%) GitLab
13 2 (0.074%) Jenkins
13 2 (0.074%) JUnit
13 2 (0.074%) LoadRunner
13 2 (0.074%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,191 (44.08%) Social Skills
2 792 (29.31%) Finance
3 705 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
4 261 (9.66%) Banking
5 173 (6.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 165 (6.11%) Law
7 145 (5.37%) Organisational Skills
8 133 (4.92%) Influencing Skills
9 127 (4.70%) Retail
10 95 (3.52%) Marketing
11 90 (3.33%) Manufacturing
12 89 (3.29%) Legal
13 68 (2.52%) Telecoms
14 67 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
15 60 (2.22%) Financial Institution
16 59 (2.18%) Public Sector
17 40 (1.48%) French Language
17 40 (1.48%) German Language
18 35 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
19 28 (1.04%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (1.22%) Web Services
2 31 (1.15%) JSON
3 29 (1.07%) HTML
3 29 (1.07%) XML
4 28 (1.04%) REST
5 27 (1.00%) SOAP
6 17 (0.63%) .NET
7 15 (0.56%) Oracle Fusion
8 13 (0.48%) Middleware
9 12 (0.44%) Pandas
10 11 (0.41%) SAP Fiori
11 10 (0.37%) EDI
12 9 (0.33%) Gherkin
13 7 (0.26%) Playwright
14 6 (0.22%) CSS
14 6 (0.22%) PySpark
15 5 (0.19%) ASP.NET
16 4 (0.15%) FHIR
16 4 (0.15%) Regular Expression
16 4 (0.15%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 140 (5.18%) Management Information System
2 74 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
3 73 (2.70%) Onboarding
4 67 (2.48%) Credit Risk
5 65 (2.41%) Product Ownership
6 51 (1.89%) Cyber Threat
7 50 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
8 41 (1.52%) Fixed Income
8 41 (1.52%) Security Posture
9 33 (1.22%) Driving Licence
10 24 (0.89%) Security Operations Centre
11 23 (0.85%) Social Media
12 21 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
12 21 (0.78%) Mobile App
13 20 (0.74%) FMCG
14 19 (0.70%) Data Centre
15 16 (0.59%) Algorithms
15 16 (0.59%) Market Risk
16 15 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
16 15 (0.56%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 357 (13.21%) Windows
2 120 (4.44%) Windows Server
3 93 (3.44%) Linux
4 84 (3.11%) Windows 10
5 33 (1.22%) Mac OS
6 32 (1.18%) Windows Server 2019
7 27 (1.00%) Apple iOS
8 24 (0.89%) Mac OS X
9 21 (0.78%) Android
9 21 (0.78%) Windows Vista
10 19 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
11 13 (0.48%) Unix
12 7 (0.26%) zOS
13 6 (0.22%) Windows 7
13 6 (0.22%) Windows 8
14 5 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.15%) Solaris
16 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
17 1 (0.037%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 681 (25.20%) Problem-Solving
2 394 (14.58%) Analytics
3 377 (13.95%) Agile
4 352 (13.03%) Business Intelligence
5 342 (12.66%) Customer Service
6 284 (10.51%) Decision-Making
7 275 (10.18%) Cybersecurity
8 272 (10.07%) Project Management
9 265 (9.81%) Continuous Improvement
9 265 (9.81%) Data Analysis
10 247 (9.14%) Business Analysis
11 243 (8.99%) Risk Management
12 240 (8.88%) Stakeholder Management
13 239 (8.85%) ITIL
14 228 (8.44%) Data Analytics
15 223 (8.25%) Change Management
16 221 (8.18%) ERP
17 203 (7.51%) Visualisation
18 179 (6.62%) Collaborative Working
19 176 (6.51%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 556 (20.58%) SQL
2 193 (7.14%) Python
3 68 (2.52%) PowerShell
4 60 (2.22%) JavaScript
5 46 (1.70%) C#
6 38 (1.41%) R
7 29 (1.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 29 (1.07%) T-SQL
8 28 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
9 23 (0.85%) Java
10 16 (0.59%) Bash
11 15 (0.56%) TypeScript
12 14 (0.52%) PL/SQL
13 13 (0.48%) VBA
14 12 (0.44%) ABAP
15 11 (0.41%) Shell Script
16 10 (0.37%) C++
17 9 (0.33%) C-shell
17 9 (0.33%) Korn
18 8 (0.30%) Perl
Qualifications
1 687 (25.43%) Degree
2 142 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
3 123 (4.55%) CBAP
4 116 (4.29%) CISSP
5 111 (4.11%) CISM
6 106 (3.92%) Security Cleared
7 95 (3.52%) DBS Check
7 95 (3.52%) Master's Degree
8 87 (3.22%) CESG Certified Professional
9 69 (2.55%) Microsoft Certification
10 66 (2.44%) SC Cleared
11 54 (2.00%) ACCA
12 51 (1.89%) CIMA
13 43 (1.59%) ISTQB
14 42 (1.55%) CFA
15 40 (1.48%) A+ Certification
16 38 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
17 30 (1.11%) DV Cleared
18 24 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
19 23 (0.85%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (5.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 129 (4.77%) NIST
3 119 (4.40%) Data Quality
4 117 (4.33%) QA
5 109 (4.03%) SLA
6 87 (3.22%) JSP 440
6 87 (3.22%) RMADS
7 46 (1.70%) GDPR
8 32 (1.18%) PMO
8 32 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 29 (1.07%) GRC
10 26 (0.96%) Accessibility
11 21 (0.78%) PCI DSS
12 18 (0.67%) EMIR
12 18 (0.67%) MiFID
13 13 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
14 10 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.30%) SOC 2
16 6 (0.22%) NCSC
16 6 (0.22%) NIST 800
System Software
1 259 (9.59%) Active Directory
2 32 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (0.67%) Docker
4 16 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (0.48%) Hyper-V
7 9 (0.33%) Firmware
8 8 (0.30%) DFS Replication
9 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.11%) XenApp
10 2 (0.074%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.074%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.074%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.037%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.037%) RACF
11 1 (0.037%) Snort
Systems Management
1 66 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (0.70%) SCCM
3 7 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (0.22%) Kubernetes
5 5 (0.19%) Graylog
5 5 (0.19%) ZABBIX
6 4 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (0.15%) Nessus
7 3 (0.11%) Ansible
7 3 (0.11%) CSIRT
7 3 (0.11%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.11%) NetBackup
8 2 (0.074%) Backup Exec
8 2 (0.074%) Grafana
8 2 (0.074%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.074%) QRadar
8 2 (0.074%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
9 1 (0.037%) OpenVAS
9 1 (0.037%) Opsview
9 1 (0.037%) Terraform
Vendors
1 590 (21.84%) Microsoft
2 171 (6.33%) SAP
3 81 (3.00%) ServiceNow
4 78 (2.89%) Oracle
5 69 (2.55%) VMware
6 64 (2.37%) Alteryx
7 48 (1.78%) Bloomberg
8 46 (1.70%) Cisco
9 39 (1.44%) Salesforce
10 38 (1.41%) Google
11 36 (1.33%) Databricks
12 21 (0.78%) Keysight
13 20 (0.74%) PayPal
14 19 (0.70%) Apple
15 18 (0.67%) YouTube
16 16 (0.59%) Symantec
17 15 (0.56%) Infor
18 14 (0.52%) Citrix
19 13 (0.48%) Dell
19 13 (0.48%) Splunk