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 £48,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 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
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 444 407 399
Rank change year-on-year -37 -8 +70
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Analyst 144 400 407
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.36% 0.56% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.59% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 109 325 211
10th Percentile £32,500 £26,985 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £33,000 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.25% -11.11% +3.33%
75th Percentile £58,750 £50,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £63,250 £58,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -2.06% +2.11%

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 35,898 67,972 52,779
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.59% 94.88% 89.24%
Number of salaries quoted 18,484 47,985 30,138
10th Percentile £26,951 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -5.66% +6.00%
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% -

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 21 May 2025.

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 21 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 -43 48 £52,500 +31.25% 21
North West -56 37 £52,500 +31.25% 13
South East +62 35 £42,500 -2.30% 37
Midlands +48 35 £47,500 +5.56% 33
East Midlands +33 18 £50,000 -20.00% 8
West Midlands +48 17 £45,000 +2.86% 23
East of England -23 15 £47,500 +11.76% 24
North East +31 6 £47,500 +18.75%
South West +97 5 £57,500 +53.33% 10
Yorkshire +39 5 £47,500 +18.75% 8
Scotland +89 2 £41,750 +23.70% 8
Wales +41 2 £57,500 +46.93% 2
Northern Ireland +39 2 £50,000 +42.86% 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 21 May 2025, 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 58 (40.28%) Finance
2 55 (38.19%) SQL
3 53 (36.81%) Social Skills
4 47 (32.64%) Problem-Solving
5 33 (22.92%) Process Improvement
5 33 (22.92%) ERP
6 31 (21.53%) Decision-Making
7 30 (20.83%) Requirements Gathering
7 30 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
8 28 (19.44%) Degree
9 26 (18.06%) SharePoint
9 26 (18.06%) SAP
10 25 (17.36%) Management Information System
11 24 (16.67%) Agile
12 23 (15.97%) Microsoft
13 21 (14.58%) Data Analysis
13 21 (14.58%) Data Quality
14 20 (13.89%) BPSS Clearance
15 19 (13.19%) Change Management
15 19 (13.19%) Oracle
16 18 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
16 18 (12.50%) SDLC
16 18 (12.50%) User Stories
16 18 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
17 17 (11.81%) Business Intelligence
18 16 (11.11%) ACCA
18 16 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
18 16 (11.11%) CIMA
18 16 (11.11%) Financial Analysis
18 16 (11.11%) Budgeting

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 26 (18.06%) SharePoint
2 6 (4.17%) Confluence
3 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.69%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 18 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (7.64%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (3.47%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (5.56%) NetSuite
3 5 (3.47%) PeopleSoft Financials
4 3 (2.08%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (2.08%) SAP BPC
5 2 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (1.39%) iTrent
5 2 (1.39%) SystmOne
6 1 (0.69%) Eloqua
6 1 (0.69%) Infor CloudSuite
6 1 (0.69%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
6 1 (0.69%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.69%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.69%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.69%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (10.42%) Power Platform
2 11 (7.64%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (2.78%) Azure
3 4 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (2.78%) SaaS
4 1 (0.69%) AWS
4 1 (0.69%) Lucidchart
4 1 (0.69%) OneDrive
4 1 (0.69%) Power Automate
4 1 (0.69%) PowerApps
4 1 (0.69%) Serverless
4 1 (0.69%) SuccessFactors
4 1 (0.69%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.47%) Intranet
2 2 (1.39%) FTP
2 2 (1.39%) LAN
2 2 (1.39%) VoIP
2 2 (1.39%) WAN
3 1 (0.69%) Firewall
3 1 (0.69%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.42%) Power BI
2 6 (4.17%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.47%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 5 (3.47%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.78%) Crystal Reports
4 4 (2.78%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (2.08%) Big Data
5 3 (2.08%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.39%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (1.39%) MS Access
6 2 (1.39%) MySQL
6 2 (1.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.69%) DB2
7 1 (0.69%) QlikView
7 1 (0.69%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (4.86%) JIRA
2 2 (1.39%) Postman
2 2 (1.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.69%) Oracle APEX
General
1 58 (40.28%) Finance
2 53 (36.81%) Social Skills
3 30 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (9.72%) Law
5 10 (6.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (4.86%) Banking
6 7 (4.86%) Legal
6 7 (4.86%) Retail
7 6 (4.17%) Manufacturing
7 6 (4.17%) Pharmaceutical
7 6 (4.17%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.78%) Marketing
8 4 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.39%) Billing
9 2 (1.39%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.69%) Advertising
10 1 (0.69%) Back Office
10 1 (0.69%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.17%) Oracle Fusion
1 6 (4.17%) XML
2 5 (3.47%) JSON
2 5 (3.47%) REST
2 5 (3.47%) SOAP
3 2 (1.39%) EDI
3 2 (1.39%) HTML
3 2 (1.39%) Node.js
3 2 (1.39%) Web Services
4 1 (0.69%) .NET
4 1 (0.69%) OAuth
4 1 (0.69%) OpenID
4 1 (0.69%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (17.36%) Management Information System
2 9 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (4.86%) Taxonomies
4 6 (4.17%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.47%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.08%) NHS
6 3 (2.08%) PACS
7 2 (1.39%) FMCG
7 2 (1.39%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.69%) AS400
8 1 (0.69%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.69%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.69%) Market Risk
8 1 (0.69%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.69%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.86%) Windows
2 5 (3.47%) Windows 10
3 4 (2.78%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (1.39%) Linux
5 1 (0.69%) AIX
5 1 (0.69%) Unix
5 1 (0.69%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (32.64%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (22.92%) ERP
2 33 (22.92%) Process Improvement
3 31 (21.53%) Decision-Making
4 30 (20.83%) Requirements Gathering
5 24 (16.67%) Agile
6 21 (14.58%) Data Analysis
7 19 (13.19%) Change Management
8 18 (12.50%) SDLC
8 18 (12.50%) User Stories
9 17 (11.81%) Business Intelligence
10 16 (11.11%) Budgeting
10 16 (11.11%) Budgeting and Forecasting
10 16 (11.11%) Financial Analysis
10 16 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
11 15 (10.42%) Project Management
12 14 (9.72%) Analytics
13 13 (9.03%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (9.03%) CRM
14 12 (8.33%) Business Transformation
Programming Languages
1 55 (38.19%) SQL
2 2 (1.39%) Python
2 2 (1.39%) T-SQL
2 2 (1.39%) TypeScript
2 2 (1.39%) VB
2 2 (1.39%) X++
3 1 (0.69%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.69%) R
3 1 (0.69%) RPG
3 1 (0.69%) RPG IV
3 1 (0.69%) VBA
3 1 (0.69%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 28 (19.44%) Degree
2 20 (13.89%) BPSS Clearance
3 16 (11.11%) ACCA
3 16 (11.11%) CIMA
4 3 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.39%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (1.39%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.39%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.69%) GISP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (14.58%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.39%) GDPR
2 2 (1.39%) PMO
3 1 (0.69%) COBIT
3 1 (0.69%) QA
3 1 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.69%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (4.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.69%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (18.06%) SAP
2 23 (15.97%) Microsoft
3 19 (13.19%) Oracle
4 10 (6.94%) Salesforce
5 6 (4.17%) Intapp
6 5 (3.47%) Concur
6 5 (3.47%) IBM
6 5 (3.47%) PeopleSoft
6 5 (3.47%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.47%) Workday
7 4 (2.78%) Progress
8 3 (2.08%) Hyperion
9 2 (1.39%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.39%) Fiserv
9 2 (1.39%) Guidewire
9 2 (1.39%) JD Edwards
9 2 (1.39%) TSYS
9 2 (1.39%) VMware
10 1 (0.69%) Barracuda Networks
10 1 (0.69%) Infor