Systems Analyst Jobs in the UK excluding London

System Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median System Analyst salary in the UK excluding London is £40,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 413 412 455
Rank change year-on-year -1 +43 +25
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Analyst 405 414 458
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.58% 0.67% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.75% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 321 213 402
10th Percentile £26,375 £31,250 £30,325
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,732 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +3.66%
75th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £51,250
90th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £57,725
UK median annual salary £47,500 £48,479 £47,000
% change year-on-year -2.02% +3.15% +10.59%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 66,438 55,416 67,544
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.80% 89.30% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,143 31,373 42,828
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,368
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,725 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.80% - +9.09%

Systems Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Analyst in the UK excluding London

Systems Analyst
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Systems Analyst in the UK excluding London

Systems Analyst
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Systems Analyst in the UK excluding London

Systems 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 Systems Analyst within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 April 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 +57 143 £40,000 -20.00% 13
North West +71 93 £40,000 -14.40% 5
East of England +58 79 £42,186 -10.72% 20
South East -53 63 £45,000 +5.88% 13
Midlands -1 45 £46,250 +8.82% 11
Yorkshire +35 34 £40,000 -27.27% 4
Scotland -50 34 £33,750 -20.12% 8
South West -9 33 £38,750 +2.65% 9
West Midlands +10 24 £45,000 +5.88% 8
East Midlands -15 21 £56,500 +26.97% 3
North East +12 16 £40,000 -10.11% 4
Wales +11 8 £39,134 -31.94% 2
Systems Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Systems 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 Systems Analyst in the job title.

1 146 (36.05%) Finance
2 121 (29.88%) Social Skills
3 103 (25.43%) Problem-Solving
4 94 (23.21%) Analytical Skills
5 87 (21.48%) SQL
6 79 (19.51%) ERP
7 76 (18.77%) Degree
8 75 (18.52%) Microsoft
9 67 (16.54%) Business Intelligence
9 67 (16.54%) Microsoft Excel
10 52 (12.84%) Power Platform
11 47 (11.60%) Power BI
12 45 (11.11%) Decision-Making
12 45 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
13 43 (10.62%) Legal
14 40 (9.88%) Business Analysis
15 39 (9.63%) Retail
15 39 (9.63%) SQL Server
16 37 (9.14%) Continuous Improvement
17 36 (8.89%) Oracle
18 31 (7.65%) SAP
18 31 (7.65%) Migration
19 30 (7.41%) Project Management
19 30 (7.41%) Customer Service
20 29 (7.16%) ITIL
21 27 (6.67%) Law
22 26 (6.42%) Manufacturing
22 26 (6.42%) Agile
22 26 (6.42%) Requirements Gathering
23 25 (6.17%) Management Information System

Systems 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 15 (3.70%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.48%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.25%) CMS
4 1 (0.25%) Confluence
4 1 (0.25%) Mule
Applications
1 67 (16.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.48%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 14 (3.46%) iTrent
2 10 (2.47%) Infor SunSystems
3 8 (1.98%) Misys Midas
4 7 (1.73%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (1.48%) Oracle Applications
6 5 (1.23%) Epicor Tropos
6 5 (1.23%) NetSuite
6 5 (1.23%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (1.23%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.99%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.99%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (0.99%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
9 2 (0.49%) SAP FI-GL
10 1 (0.25%) Carpe Diem
10 1 (0.25%) Elite 3E
10 1 (0.25%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 52 (12.84%) Power Platform
2 20 (4.94%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (4.69%) Dynamics 365
4 18 (4.44%) Azure
5 12 (2.96%) WhatsApp
6 8 (1.98%) SaaS
7 4 (0.99%) Mavenlink
8 3 (0.74%) Power Automate
8 3 (0.74%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (0.49%) AWS
9 2 (0.49%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.49%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.49%) GCP
9 2 (0.49%) Zapier
10 1 (0.25%) Google Sheets
10 1 (0.25%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.98%) VSAN
2 5 (1.23%) DHCP
2 5 (1.23%) DNS
2 5 (1.23%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.99%) Firewall
3 4 (0.99%) Internet
3 4 (0.99%) NAS
3 4 (0.99%) SAN
3 4 (0.99%) SSL
3 4 (0.99%) VLAN
3 4 (0.99%) VPN
4 2 (0.49%) Intranet
5 1 (0.25%) LAN
5 1 (0.25%) WAN
5 1 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (11.60%) Power BI
2 39 (9.63%) SQL Server
3 22 (5.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 10 (2.47%) BusinessObjects
5 9 (2.22%) Oracle Database
5 9 (2.22%) Relational Database
6 8 (1.98%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (1.73%) MS Access
8 5 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (1.23%) Tableau
9 3 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.74%) MySQL
9 3 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.49%) Oracle Database 11g
10 2 (0.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 1 (0.25%) Big Data
11 1 (0.25%) Crystal Reports
11 1 (0.25%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 17 (4.20%) JIRA
2 8 (1.98%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (0.49%) Android Studio
3 2 (0.49%) Git
3 2 (0.49%) IBM UrbanCode
3 2 (0.49%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.49%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.25%) TestRail
General
1 146 (36.05%) Finance
2 121 (29.88%) Social Skills
3 94 (23.21%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (10.62%) Legal
5 39 (9.63%) Retail
6 27 (6.67%) Law
7 26 (6.42%) Manufacturing
8 13 (3.21%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (1.98%) Public Sector
12 7 (1.73%) Games
13 4 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.74%) Banking
14 3 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.49%) Back Office
15 2 (0.49%) General Ledger
16 1 (0.25%) Arabic Language
16 1 (0.25%) Tech for Good
16 1 (0.25%) Urdu Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.47%) EDI
1 10 (2.47%) REST
1 10 (2.47%) XML
2 9 (2.22%) JSON
3 8 (1.98%) .NET
3 8 (1.98%) SOAP
4 7 (1.73%) Oracle Fusion
5 6 (1.48%) Middleware
6 3 (0.74%) ASP.NET
6 3 (0.74%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 3 (0.74%) RESTful
7 1 (0.25%) HTML
7 1 (0.25%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 25 (6.17%) Management Information System
2 18 (4.44%) Product Ownership
3 17 (4.20%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (3.21%) Operational Technology
5 8 (1.98%) Clustering
5 8 (1.98%) Onboarding
6 7 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (1.73%) Pricing Data
7 6 (1.48%) Client/Server
7 6 (1.48%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (1.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (1.23%) Low-Code
8 5 (1.23%) Smart Energy
8 5 (1.23%) Smart Meter
9 4 (0.99%) Data Centre
9 4 (0.99%) Data Structures
9 4 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (0.99%) Replication
10 2 (0.49%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.49%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.93%) Windows
2 16 (3.95%) Windows 10
2 16 (3.95%) Windows Server
3 8 (1.98%) Linux
4 5 (1.23%) Unix
5 2 (0.49%) Android
6 1 (0.25%) AIX
6 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (25.43%) Problem-Solving
2 79 (19.51%) ERP
3 67 (16.54%) Business Intelligence
4 45 (11.11%) Decision-Making
5 40 (9.88%) Business Analysis
6 37 (9.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 31 (7.65%) Migration
8 30 (7.41%) Customer Service
8 30 (7.41%) Project Management
9 29 (7.16%) ITIL
10 26 (6.42%) Agile
10 26 (6.42%) Requirements Gathering
11 24 (5.93%) Stakeholder Management
12 19 (4.69%) CRM
12 19 (4.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 18 (4.44%) Cybersecurity
13 18 (4.44%) Time Management
14 17 (4.20%) Data Modelling
14 17 (4.20%) SDLC
14 17 (4.20%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 87 (21.48%) SQL
2 19 (4.69%) C#
3 8 (1.98%) PowerShell
3 8 (1.98%) VB
4 7 (1.73%) Python
4 7 (1.73%) VBA
5 6 (1.48%) T-SQL
6 4 (0.99%) Java
7 2 (0.49%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.25%) ABAP
8 1 (0.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 76 (18.77%) Degree
2 11 (2.72%) ACCA
2 11 (2.72%) CIMA
3 10 (2.47%) DBS Check
4 8 (1.98%) A+ Certification
5 7 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.48%) MCP
6 6 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 5 (1.23%) Security Cleared
8 4 (0.99%) CCNA
8 4 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (0.99%) MCSA
8 4 (0.99%) MCSE
8 4 (0.99%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.49%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.25%) ISEB
10 1 (0.25%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.70%) QA
2 11 (2.72%) SLA
3 8 (1.98%) GDPR
4 7 (1.73%) PMO
5 5 (1.23%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 25 (6.17%) Active Directory
2 16 (3.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (2.22%) Hyper-V
4 8 (1.98%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (1.48%) vSphere
6 2 (0.49%) Docker
6 2 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (1.98%) Failover Clustering
2 6 (1.48%) SCCM
3 4 (0.99%) WSUS
Vendors
1 75 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 36 (8.89%) Oracle
3 31 (7.65%) SAP
4 16 (3.95%) VMware
5 11 (2.72%) Infor
6 10 (2.47%) Salesforce
6 10 (2.47%) Sun
7 9 (2.22%) Epicor
7 9 (2.22%) Workday
8 7 (1.73%) Concur
8 7 (1.73%) Sage
9 5 (1.23%) Citrix
9 5 (1.23%) iManage
10 4 (0.99%) Veeam
11 3 (0.74%) Google
11 3 (0.74%) JDA
11 3 (0.74%) RedPrairie
12 2 (0.49%) SYSPRO
13 1 (0.25%) Nintex
13 1 (0.25%) ServiceNow