Senior Analyst Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Senior Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Analyst salary in the UK excluding London is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 January 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 214 264
Rank change year-on-year -16 +50 -101
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 335 469 369
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.79% 1.31% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.88% 1.41% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 166 221 279
10th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,981 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £72,433
UK median annual salary £61,500 £62,500 £59,000
% change year-on-year -1.60% +5.93% +2.61%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 38,179 33,328 33,027
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.48% 92.91% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 23,318 16,178 25,075
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

Senior Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Analyst' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Senior Analyst job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Senior Analyst
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Senior Analyst job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Analyst job vacancies 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 13 January 2026.

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 13 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
South East +42 131 £57,500 - 67
North of England -6 62 £55,000 +9.94% 26
Midlands -19 60 £55,000 +22.22% 30
Scotland +3 41 £54,500 +9.00% 6
North West +5 39 £50,000 -4.76% 20
West Midlands +12 36 £56,400 +4.44% 23
East Midlands -46 23 £51,058 +13.46% 7
South West -45 22 £51,356 -0.28% 5
Yorkshire -19 17 £65,000 +44.44% 5
East of England +18 11 £36,125 -9.69% 6
Northern Ireland -14 7 - -
North East +5 6 £65,000 +9.37% 1
Wales -4 2 £60,000 +17.65% 1
Senior Analyst
UK

Senior Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 13 January 2026, Senior 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Analyst in the job title.

1 107 (31.94%) Problem-Solving
2 95 (28.36%) SQL
3 94 (28.06%) Data Management
4 91 (27.16%) User Acceptance Testing
5 79 (23.58%) Translating Business Requirements
6 70 (20.90%) Logistics
6 70 (20.90%) SAP
7 60 (17.91%) Incident Management
7 60 (17.91%) Technical Leadership
8 59 (17.61%) Architectural Design
8 59 (17.61%) Data Collection
9 58 (17.31%) Quality Management
10 57 (17.01%) Decision Quality
10 57 (17.01%) Impact Analysis
10 57 (17.01%) SAP Implementation
10 57 (17.01%) SAP S/4HANA
11 55 (16.42%) Business Intelligence
12 52 (15.52%) Mentoring
13 48 (14.33%) Agile
13 48 (14.33%) Continuous Improvement
14 44 (13.13%) Roadmaps
15 43 (12.84%) Decision-Making
16 41 (12.24%) Microsoft
16 41 (12.24%) Power BI
16 41 (12.24%) Power Platform
17 38 (11.34%) Degree
18 36 (10.75%) Coaching
18 36 (10.75%) ERP
19 35 (10.45%) Analytics
20 34 (10.15%) Asset Management

Senior Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (1.79%) Confluence
2 3 (0.90%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.30%) Appian
3 1 (0.30%) CMS
Applications
1 25 (7.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (5.67%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (4.18%) Oracle Smart View
4 8 (2.39%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 57 (17.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 28 (8.36%) Oracle Assets
2 28 (8.36%) Oracle Financials
2 28 (8.36%) Oracle General Ledger
2 28 (8.36%) Oracle Payables
2 28 (8.36%) Oracle Receivables
3 18 (5.37%) Oracle ERP
4 14 (4.18%) Hyperion Planning
5 8 (2.39%) NEC Housing
6 4 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (1.19%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (1.19%) Magento
6 4 (1.19%) Shopify
7 3 (0.90%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.90%) SAP GRC
8 2 (0.60%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.60%) SAP IBP
8 2 (0.60%) SAP MM
9 1 (0.30%) Q-Pulse
9 1 (0.30%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 41 (12.24%) Power Platform
2 28 (8.36%) AWS
3 22 (6.57%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (5.37%) Azure
5 10 (2.99%) SaaS
6 8 (2.39%) Azure Sentinel
7 6 (1.79%) Snowflake
8 5 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.49%) GCP
9 4 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.19%) OCI
10 2 (0.60%) Fivetran
10 2 (0.60%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.60%) Slack
11 1 (0.30%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.30%) Google Ads
11 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.30%) Miro
11 1 (0.30%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.48%) Remote Desktop
2 7 (2.09%) Broadband
3 6 (1.79%) Internet
4 5 (1.49%) Firewall
4 5 (1.49%) WPA
5 3 (0.90%) Network Security
6 1 (0.30%) DHCP
6 1 (0.30%) DNS
6 1 (0.30%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (12.24%) Power BI
2 23 (6.87%) Tableau
3 14 (4.18%) Essbase
3 14 (4.18%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 8 (2.39%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.79%) Looker
6 5 (1.49%) BigQuery
6 5 (1.49%) Metadata
6 5 (1.49%) MySQL
6 5 (1.49%) Qlik Sense
7 4 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (1.19%) Data Mining
7 4 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.60%) Power Query
8 2 (0.60%) PowerPivot
8 2 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.30%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.30%) Parquet
9 1 (0.30%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 28 (8.36%) Oracle Forms
2 22 (6.57%) JIRA
3 11 (3.28%) Postman
4 10 (2.99%) Selenium
4 10 (2.99%) SoapUI
4 10 (2.99%) Team Foundation Server
4 10 (2.99%) WebDriver
5 1 (0.30%) Git
General
1 164 (48.96%) Finance
2 150 (44.78%) Social Skills
3 78 (23.28%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (19.10%) Manufacturing
5 60 (17.91%) Marketing
6 17 (5.07%) French Language
6 17 (5.07%) Retail
7 15 (4.48%) Swedish Language
8 13 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (3.28%) Legal
9 11 (3.28%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (2.69%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (2.39%) Public Sector
12 7 (2.09%) Banking
12 7 (2.09%) Law
13 5 (1.49%) Local Government
14 4 (1.19%) Back Office
14 4 (1.19%) Front Office
14 4 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.19%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.18%) SOAP
2 12 (3.58%) .NET
3 11 (3.28%) Flash
4 10 (2.99%) HTML
5 5 (1.49%) Lightning Web Components
6 4 (1.19%) Middleware
6 4 (1.19%) REST
7 2 (0.60%) PySpark
8 1 (0.30%) Apache Avro
8 1 (0.30%) EDI
8 1 (0.30%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 13 (3.88%) Security Posture
1 13 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (2.99%) Management Information System
3 8 (2.39%) NHS
4 7 (2.09%) Product Ownership
5 5 (1.49%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.19%) Driving Licence
6 4 (1.19%) Operational Technology
6 4 (1.19%) Reinsurance
6 4 (1.19%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (0.90%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.60%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.60%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (0.60%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.60%) Mashup
9 1 (0.30%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.30%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.90%) Windows
2 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.30%) Linux
2 1 (0.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (31.94%) Problem-Solving
2 94 (28.06%) Data Management
3 91 (27.16%) User Acceptance Testing
4 79 (23.58%) Translating Business Requirements
5 70 (20.90%) Logistics
6 60 (17.91%) Incident Management
6 60 (17.91%) Technical Leadership
7 59 (17.61%) Architectural Design
7 59 (17.61%) Data Collection
8 58 (17.31%) Quality Management
9 57 (17.01%) Decision Quality
9 57 (17.01%) Impact Analysis
9 57 (17.01%) SAP Implementation
10 55 (16.42%) Business Intelligence
11 52 (15.52%) Mentoring
12 48 (14.33%) Agile
12 48 (14.33%) Continuous Improvement
13 44 (13.13%) Roadmaps
14 43 (12.84%) Decision-Making
15 36 (10.75%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 95 (28.36%) SQL
2 25 (7.46%) Python
3 14 (4.18%) Groovy
4 12 (3.58%) C#
5 11 (3.28%) T-SQL
6 10 (2.99%) Java
7 9 (2.69%) VBA
8 5 (1.49%) R
9 3 (0.90%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.60%) Bash
10 2 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 38 (11.34%) Degree
2 18 (5.37%) AWS Certification
3 17 (5.07%) SC Cleared
3 17 (5.07%) Security Cleared
4 15 (4.48%) A+ Certification
4 15 (4.48%) ACCA
4 15 (4.48%) MCSE
4 15 (4.48%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (4.18%) CIMA
6 13 (3.88%) AAT
7 10 (2.99%) ISTQB
7 10 (2.99%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 8 (2.39%) CISSP
8 8 (2.39%) DV Cleared
9 7 (2.09%) CompTIA Security+
10 6 (1.79%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.49%) DBS Check
12 4 (1.19%) HNC
12 4 (1.19%) NVQ Level 4
13 3 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (2.69%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.39%) GDPR
3 8 (2.39%) NIST
4 5 (1.49%) GRC
4 5 (1.49%) QA
5 4 (1.19%) PMO
5 4 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.90%) IFRS
6 3 (0.90%) SLA
7 1 (0.30%) GAAP
System Software
1 15 (4.48%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.60%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (1.19%) Nessus
2 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 70 (20.90%) SAP
2 41 (12.24%) Microsoft
3 29 (8.66%) Oracle
4 25 (7.46%) ServiceNow
5 15 (4.48%) VMware
6 14 (4.18%) Hyperion
7 11 (3.28%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.39%) Northgate
8 8 (2.39%) Tenable
9 5 (1.49%) Blue Prism
9 5 (1.49%) Google
9 5 (1.49%) HubSpot
9 5 (1.49%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.49%) Pega
10 4 (1.19%) Charles River
10 4 (1.19%) ConnectWise
10 4 (1.19%) Databricks
10 4 (1.19%) EXASOL
10 4 (1.19%) WooCommerce
11 2 (0.60%) Liquidlogic