Senior Analyst Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Analyst salary in the UK excluding London is £49,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 June 2025.

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

6 months to
8 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 362 222 143
Rank change year-on-year -140 -79 +115
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 250 941 1,342
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.62% 1.20% 2.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 1.26% 2.70%
Number of salaries quoted 149 440 384
10th Percentile £38,750 £35,000 £34,825
25th Percentile £43,099 £42,500 £41,809
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,275 £58,750
90th Percentile £68,241 £68,750 £67,200
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -

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 36,336 74,603 49,727
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.22% 95.07% 88.84%
Number of salaries quoted 18,608 52,193 29,374
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,600 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.20% -6.54% +5.94%
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% -

Senior Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Analyst in the UK excluding London

Senior Analyst
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Senior Analyst in the UK excluding London

Senior Analyst
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Analyst in the UK excluding London

Senior 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 Senior Analyst within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 June 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 -77 72 £50,000 - 57
South East -70 67 £47,500 -9.52% 198
North West -54 53 £51,250 +2.50% 37
Midlands -55 49 £48,500 -11.82% 28
Scotland +90 34 £47,500 -8.65% 30
East Midlands -8 27 £45,000 -28.00% 12
West Midlands -31 22 £50,000 -9.09% 15
Yorkshire -14 18 £48,500 -3.00% 17
South West +19 12 £48,894 -13.08% 48
East of England +2 10 £55,000 +57.14% 23
Northern Ireland +45 5 - - 12
North East +20 1 £50,000 +42.86% 3
Wales +17 1 - - 12
Senior Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 June 2025, Senior 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 Senior Analyst in the job title.

1 94 (37.60%) Social Skills
2 82 (32.80%) Finance
3 72 (28.80%) Microsoft
4 64 (25.60%) SQL
5 58 (23.20%) Stakeholder Management
6 50 (20.00%) Agile
7 47 (18.80%) Problem-Solving
8 44 (17.60%) Analytical Skills
8 44 (17.60%) Python
9 43 (17.20%) Data Analysis
9 43 (17.20%) Analytics
10 39 (15.60%) Business Intelligence
11 38 (15.20%) Degree
12 35 (14.00%) Banking
12 35 (14.00%) Azure
13 32 (12.80%) Data Modelling
13 32 (12.80%) Power BI
13 32 (12.80%) Power Platform
14 31 (12.40%) Actionable Insight
15 30 (12.00%) ERP
16 28 (11.20%) Incident Response
17 27 (10.80%) Mentoring
18 26 (10.40%) Customer Experience
18 26 (10.40%) Retail
19 25 (10.00%) ITIL
19 25 (10.00%) Project Management
20 24 (9.60%) Windows
21 23 (9.20%) SAP
21 23 (9.20%) Waterfall
22 22 (8.80%) JIRA

Senior 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 14 (5.60%) SAS
2 7 (2.80%) Confluence
3 4 (1.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 18 (7.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.80%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (6.40%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 16 (6.40%) SAP FI
2 3 (1.20%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.80%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.40%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.40%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 35 (14.00%) Azure
2 32 (12.80%) Power Platform
3 11 (4.40%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (3.20%) Azure Logic Apps
4 8 (3.20%) Azure Sentinel
5 5 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (2.00%) GitHub
5 5 (2.00%) SaaS
6 4 (1.60%) Snowflake
7 3 (1.20%) PowerApps
8 2 (0.80%) AWS
8 2 (0.80%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (0.80%) GCP
8 2 (0.80%) Google Analytics
9 1 (0.40%) Adobe Analytics
9 1 (0.40%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (0.40%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.40%) Figma
9 1 (0.40%) Google Tag Manager
9 1 (0.40%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.60%) Firewall
2 12 (4.80%) Broadband
3 10 (4.00%) VPN
4 6 (2.40%) TCP/IP
5 5 (2.00%) Network Security
6 3 (1.20%) LAN
6 3 (1.20%) SAN
6 3 (1.20%) WAN
7 2 (0.80%) DHCP
7 2 (0.80%) DNS
8 1 (0.40%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (12.80%) Power BI
2 8 (3.20%) Tableau
3 6 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.60%) BusinessObjects
4 4 (1.60%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (1.20%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 3 (1.20%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.80%) Big Data
6 2 (0.80%) Looker
6 2 (0.80%) Metadata
6 2 (0.80%) Metadata Repository
6 2 (0.80%) MS Access
6 2 (0.80%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.80%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.80%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.40%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.40%) OLAP
7 1 (0.40%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 22 (8.80%) JIRA
2 11 (4.40%) eggPlant
3 3 (1.20%) Selenium
4 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle Forms
General
1 94 (37.60%) Social Skills
2 82 (32.80%) Finance
3 44 (17.60%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (14.00%) Banking
5 26 (10.40%) Retail
6 22 (8.80%) Law
7 12 (4.80%) Wholesale Banking
8 10 (4.00%) Manufacturing
9 8 (3.20%) Marketing
10 7 (2.80%) Financial Institution
10 7 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (2.40%) Billing
11 6 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (2.40%) Public Sector
12 5 (2.00%) Advertising
12 5 (2.00%) Automotive
13 4 (1.60%) Legal
13 4 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.40%) HTML
2 3 (1.20%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (0.80%) Middleware
3 2 (0.80%) Playwright
4 1 (0.40%) CSS
4 1 (0.40%) EDI
4 1 (0.40%) EDIFACT
4 1 (0.40%) IDoc
4 1 (0.40%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (0.40%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.40%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.80%) Social Media
2 10 (4.00%) Onboarding
3 9 (3.60%) Management Information System
4 7 (2.80%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (2.00%) Security Operations Centre
6 4 (1.60%) Credit Risk
6 4 (1.60%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (1.60%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.80%) NHS
7 2 (0.80%) Operational Technology
7 2 (0.80%) Security Posture
7 2 (0.80%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.40%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.40%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.40%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.40%) Housing Association
8 1 (0.40%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.40%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.40%) TRADACOMS
Operating Systems
1 24 (9.60%) Windows
2 7 (2.80%) Linux
3 3 (1.20%) Windows 10
3 3 (1.20%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.80%) Android
4 2 (0.80%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.40%) AIX
5 1 (0.40%) Unix
5 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (23.20%) Stakeholder Management
2 50 (20.00%) Agile
3 47 (18.80%) Problem-Solving
4 43 (17.20%) Analytics
4 43 (17.20%) Data Analysis
5 39 (15.60%) Business Intelligence
6 32 (12.80%) Data Modelling
7 31 (12.40%) Actionable Insight
8 30 (12.00%) ERP
9 28 (11.20%) Incident Response
10 27 (10.80%) Mentoring
11 26 (10.40%) Customer Experience
12 25 (10.00%) ITIL
12 25 (10.00%) Project Management
13 23 (9.20%) Waterfall
14 21 (8.40%) Customer Service
14 21 (8.40%) Service Management
14 21 (8.40%) SIEM
15 20 (8.00%) Business Analysis
15 20 (8.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 64 (25.60%) SQL
2 44 (17.60%) Python
3 16 (6.40%) R
4 12 (4.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 10 (4.00%) Kusto Query Language
6 6 (2.40%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.20%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.20%) VBA
8 2 (0.80%) Bash
8 2 (0.80%) C#
9 1 (0.40%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.40%) X++
Qualifications
1 38 (15.20%) Degree
2 17 (6.80%) Security Cleared
3 16 (6.40%) DBS Check
4 15 (6.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (4.40%) DV Cleared
6 8 (3.20%) ISTQB
7 6 (2.40%) CISSP
7 6 (2.40%) SC Cleared
8 5 (2.00%) CISM
9 4 (1.60%) A+ Certification
9 4 (1.60%) ACCA
9 4 (1.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 4 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.20%) CIMA
10 3 (1.20%) MOS
11 2 (0.80%) CCSP
11 2 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.80%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.80%) GCIA
11 2 (0.80%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.20%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.80%) GRC
2 7 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (2.80%) NIST
2 7 (2.80%) QA
3 6 (2.40%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (2.40%) GDPR
4 3 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (1.20%) SLA
5 2 (0.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.80%) PMO
5 2 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.40%) COBIT
6 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (3.20%) Docker
2 7 (2.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.40%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (1.20%) SCCM
2 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 72 (28.80%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.20%) SAP
3 11 (4.40%) Keysight
3 11 (4.40%) Splunk
4 10 (4.00%) Oracle
5 9 (3.60%) VMware
6 5 (2.00%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.20%) Bloomberg
7 3 (1.20%) BT
7 3 (1.20%) Concur
7 3 (1.20%) Google
7 3 (1.20%) IBM
8 2 (0.80%) Databricks
8 2 (0.80%) HP
8 2 (0.80%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.80%) Sophos
9 1 (0.40%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.40%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.40%) Maxymiser
9 1 (0.40%) Tagetik