IT Analyst Jobs in the UK excluding London

IT Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median IT Analyst salary in the UK excluding London is £30,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 276 256 309
Rank change year-on-year -20 +53 -57
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Analyst 384 794 621
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.98% 1.06% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.08% 1.12% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 318 654 490
10th Percentile £21,250 £23,575 £22,000
25th Percentile £25,750 £26,000 £24,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £32,000 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £40,188 £40,000 £40,250
90th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £48,750
UK median annual salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000

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 35,540 70,800 51,694
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.25% 94.95% 89.10%
Number of salaries quoted 17,956 49,914 29,611
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,000 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -6.54% +6.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

IT Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Analyst in the UK excluding London

IT Analyst
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for IT Analyst in the UK excluding London

IT Analyst
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for IT Analyst in the UK excluding London

IT 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 IT Analyst within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 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 +5 143 £28,000 -6.67% 34
South East -7 91 £35,000 +2.94% 71
Midlands +23 79 £28,000 -6.67% 26
Yorkshire +44 65 £28,500 -5.00% 12
North West -27 61 £25,500 -19.05% 19
East Midlands +19 41 £24,000 -17.24% 8
South West +43 39 £40,000 +14.29% 21
West Midlands +20 38 £30,000 - 14
East of England -30 20 £35,000 +16.67% 11
North East +50 17 £29,000 +18.37% 6
Scotland +83 10 £33,750 -2.17% 7
Isle of Man +11 1 £34,500 -
Channel Islands - 1 £34,000 - 1
IT Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 May 2025, IT 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 IT Analyst in the job title.

1 178 (46.35%) Social Skills
2 172 (44.79%) Windows
2 172 (44.79%) Microsoft
3 168 (43.75%) Microsoft 365
4 128 (33.33%) Active Directory
5 104 (27.08%) Problem-Solving
6 90 (23.44%) ITIL
7 82 (21.35%) Windows Server
8 79 (20.57%) Customer Service
9 75 (19.53%) Law
10 72 (18.75%) Azure
11 69 (17.97%) SQL
12 68 (17.71%) Windows 10
13 64 (16.67%) SharePoint
14 60 (15.63%) ITSM
15 55 (14.32%) Firewall
16 53 (13.80%) Cybersecurity
17 50 (13.02%) SLA
18 49 (12.76%) Finance
19 44 (11.46%) ERP
20 42 (10.94%) Agile
21 40 (10.42%) Degree
22 39 (10.16%) JIRA
22 39 (10.16%) Incident Management
22 39 (10.16%) Microsoft Office
23 36 (9.38%) VoIP
24 35 (9.11%) SAP
24 35 (9.11%) Microsoft Intune
25 33 (8.59%) Root Cause Analysis
25 33 (8.59%) VPN

IT 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 64 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 32 (8.33%) Confluence
3 30 (7.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (2.60%) IIS
5 1 (0.26%) Alfresco
5 1 (0.26%) Documentum
5 1 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (0.26%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 39 (10.16%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.52%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (4.17%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 16 (4.17%) SAP FI
2 9 (2.34%) Dynamics NAV
3 6 (1.56%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.78%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.52%) Sage 1000
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.26%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 168 (43.75%) Microsoft 365
2 72 (18.75%) Azure
3 15 (3.91%) OneDrive
3 15 (3.91%) Power Automate
3 15 (3.91%) Power Platform
4 14 (3.65%) Entra ID
5 9 (2.34%) Microsoft Copilot
6 8 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (2.08%) Google Workspace
7 7 (1.82%) PowerApps
8 6 (1.56%) Mimecast
9 5 (1.30%) AWS
9 5 (1.30%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.52%) IaaS
10 2 (0.52%) PaaS
11 1 (0.26%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.26%) GCP
11 1 (0.26%) Nutanix
11 1 (0.26%) Rubrik
11 1 (0.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 55 (14.32%) Firewall
2 36 (9.38%) VoIP
3 33 (8.59%) VPN
4 32 (8.33%) DHCP
5 26 (6.77%) DNS
6 20 (5.21%) VLAN
7 18 (4.69%) LAN
7 18 (4.69%) WAN
8 15 (3.91%) TCP/IP
9 12 (3.13%) Cisco IOS
10 10 (2.60%) ADSL
10 10 (2.60%) Wi-Fi
10 10 (2.60%) Wireless
11 6 (1.56%) Network Security
11 6 (1.56%) SAN
12 2 (0.52%) NAS
12 2 (0.52%) Remote Desktop
13 1 (0.26%) Intranet
13 1 (0.26%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.91%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (3.65%) SQL Server
3 11 (2.86%) Power BI
4 6 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 6 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (1.04%) FileMaker
6 2 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.52%) Tableau
7 1 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.26%) MySQL
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.26%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 39 (10.16%) JIRA
2 1 (0.26%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (0.26%) Selenium
General
1 178 (46.35%) Social Skills
2 75 (19.53%) Law
3 49 (12.76%) Finance
4 33 (8.59%) Telecoms
5 30 (7.81%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (7.03%) Pharmaceutical
7 25 (6.51%) Manufacturing
8 13 (3.39%) Retail
9 9 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.56%) Local Government
10 6 (1.56%) Tech for Good
11 5 (1.30%) Advertising
12 4 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.04%) Legal
12 4 (1.04%) Public Sector
13 3 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.52%) Police
14 2 (0.52%) Social Housing
14 2 (0.52%) Swedish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.04%) HTML
2 3 (0.78%) .NET
2 3 (0.78%) CSS
3 2 (0.52%) ASP.NET
3 2 (0.52%) EDI
4 1 (0.26%) EDIFACT
4 1 (0.26%) IDoc
4 1 (0.26%) Playwright
4 1 (0.26%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 20 (5.21%) Driving Licence
2 13 (3.39%) EPoS
3 12 (3.13%) Management Information System
3 12 (3.13%) Onboarding
4 10 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (2.34%) FMCG
6 6 (1.56%) iPhone
7 5 (1.30%) iPad
8 4 (1.04%) Biopharmaceutical
8 4 (1.04%) Security Posture
9 3 (0.78%) CCTV
9 3 (0.78%) Data Centre
9 3 (0.78%) Life Science
10 2 (0.52%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.52%) Blackberry
10 2 (0.52%) Cyber Defence
10 2 (0.52%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.52%) Learning Management System
10 2 (0.52%) Video Conferencing
11 1 (0.26%) TRADACOMS
Operating Systems
1 172 (44.79%) Windows
2 82 (21.35%) Windows Server
3 68 (17.71%) Windows 10
4 31 (8.07%) Linux
5 16 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
6 13 (3.39%) Mac OS X
7 12 (3.13%) Mac OS
8 11 (2.86%) Apple iOS
9 5 (1.30%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.26%) Android
10 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (27.08%) Problem-Solving
2 90 (23.44%) ITIL
3 79 (20.57%) Customer Service
4 60 (15.63%) ITSM
5 53 (13.80%) Cybersecurity
6 44 (11.46%) ERP
7 42 (10.94%) Agile
8 39 (10.16%) Incident Management
9 33 (8.59%) Root Cause Analysis
9 33 (8.59%) Service Delivery
10 30 (7.81%) Disaster Recovery
11 27 (7.03%) Service Management
12 23 (5.99%) Continuous Improvement
13 22 (5.73%) Project Management
14 20 (5.21%) Asset Management
14 20 (5.21%) Time Management
15 19 (4.95%) Business Continuity
16 18 (4.69%) Stakeholder Management
16 18 (4.69%) Strategic Thinking
17 17 (4.43%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 69 (17.97%) SQL
2 23 (5.99%) PowerShell
3 13 (3.39%) Python
4 6 (1.56%) C#
4 6 (1.56%) T-SQL
5 4 (1.04%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.52%) VB.NET
6 2 (0.52%) VBA
7 1 (0.26%) Bash
7 1 (0.26%) Java
7 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (10.42%) Degree
2 27 (7.03%) Microsoft Certification
3 22 (5.73%) A+ Certification
4 18 (4.69%) DBS Check
5 11 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (2.86%) ITIL Certification
5 11 (2.86%) Network+ Certification
6 9 (2.34%) CCNP
7 8 (2.08%) MCSA
8 6 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.30%) MCP
10 4 (1.04%) CCNA
11 3 (0.78%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.78%) CRISC
11 3 (0.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.78%) MCSE
12 2 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.52%) MCSD
12 2 (0.52%) SC Cleared
12 2 (0.52%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (13.02%) SLA
2 5 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.04%) COBIT
3 4 (1.04%) GRC
4 2 (0.52%) ISO 9001
4 2 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.26%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.26%) GDPR
5 1 (0.26%) NIST
5 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.26%) PMO
5 1 (0.26%) QA
System Software
1 128 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 12 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.56%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.26%) Docker
5 1 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.26%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 35 (9.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (3.39%) SCCM
3 4 (1.04%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (0.52%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.26%) Ansible
5 1 (0.26%) Nessus
5 1 (0.26%) OpenVAS
5 1 (0.26%) QRadar
5 1 (0.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 172 (44.79%) Microsoft
2 35 (9.11%) SAP
3 22 (5.73%) ServiceNow
4 18 (4.69%) Cisco
4 18 (4.69%) VMware
5 13 (3.39%) Sage
6 10 (2.60%) Apple
6 10 (2.60%) Google
7 7 (1.82%) Veeam
8 6 (1.56%) Aruba
8 6 (1.56%) Fortinet
9 5 (1.30%) Freshdesk
9 5 (1.30%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.30%) Sophos
10 4 (1.04%) Adobe
10 4 (1.04%) MobileIron
10 4 (1.04%) Progress
11 3 (0.78%) HubSpot
11 3 (0.78%) Riverbed
11 3 (0.78%) Trend Micro