Analyst Job Trends

Analyst
UK

The median Analyst salary in the UK is £42,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 January 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 14 12
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 +3
Permanent jobs requiring an Analyst 5,235 5,525 6,904
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 8.59% 10.40% 11.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.46% 11.23% 12.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2,943 2,789 5,138
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,438 £36,250 £32,852
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £48,500 £45,295
Median % change year-on-year -12.37% +7.08% -4.64%
75th Percentile £58,750 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £83,750 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £41,750 £40,000
% change year-on-year -4.19% +4.38% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 55,337 49,207 56,763
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.81% 92.65% 95.19%
Number of salaries quoted 34,211 25,429 43,890
10th Percentile £28,697 £33,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,528 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -4.76%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Analyst job vacancy trend in the UK

Analyst
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies in the UK

Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analyst over the 6 months to 19 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Analyst in the UK

Analyst
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 19 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
England -2 4,610 £42,500 -15.00% 1,245
UK excluding London -4 3,782 £40,000 -4.19% 1,196
Work from Home +2 1,383 £45,000 -2.70% 540
London -8 1,233 £60,000 -7.69% 352
South East +19 1,055 £37,500 -16.67% 411
North of England -10 880 £40,000 - 267
Midlands -7 675 £40,000 -5.88% 210
North West -15 397 £42,000 +1.20% 152
South West 0 392 £40,000 +11.89% 94
Yorkshire +11 386 £32,500 -10.96% 84
West Midlands -8 373 £42,500 0.00% 140
Scotland +1 304 £40,000 -0.53% 61
East Midlands +8 298 £35,000 -17.65% 70
East of England -10 297 £45,000 -3.23% 109
Wales +9 112 £44,500 +11.25% 45
North East +10 97 £40,000 +6.67% 35
Northern Ireland +12 78 £40,500 -1.22% 18
Channel Islands - 2 - -

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 19 January 2026, 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 featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 1,875 (35.82%) Microsoft
2 1,314 (25.10%) SQL
3 1,194 (22.81%) Problem-Solving
4 1,184 (22.62%) Azure
5 1,066 (20.36%) Business Intelligence
6 1,001 (19.12%) Power Platform
7 999 (19.08%) Microsoft Excel
8 941 (17.98%) Power BI
9 898 (17.15%) Degree
10 813 (15.53%) Python
11 665 (12.70%) Azure Certification
12 657 (12.55%) Tableau
13 636 (12.15%) Agile
14 613 (11.71%) Mentoring
15 602 (11.50%) Analytics
16 601 (11.48%) Cybersecurity
16 601 (11.48%) Microsoft 365
17 590 (11.27%) Customer Service
18 578 (11.04%) Business Analysis
19 576 (11.00%) Continuous Improvement
20 542 (10.35%) AI
21 527 (10.07%) Data Analysis
22 526 (10.05%) ITIL
22 526 (10.05%) Windows
23 447 (8.54%) Microsoft Office
24 445 (8.50%) Decision-Making
24 445 (8.50%) Project Management
25 363 (6.93%) CompTIA Security+
26 350 (6.69%) Active Directory
27 343 (6.55%) CompTIA CySA+

Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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
1 122 (2.33%) SharePoint
2 99 (1.89%) Confluence
3 82 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (0.38%) SAS
5 14 (0.27%) IIS
5 14 (0.27%) Skype for Business
6 11 (0.21%) CMS
7 3 (0.057%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.057%) Umbraco
7 3 (0.057%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.057%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.038%) Appian
8 2 (0.038%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.038%) Exchange Server 2013
8 2 (0.038%) FactoryTalk
8 2 (0.038%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.038%) Moodle
8 2 (0.038%) WinCC
9 1 (0.019%) HCL Notes
9 1 (0.019%) Tomcat
Applications
1 999 (19.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 447 (8.54%) Microsoft Office
3 108 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 64 (1.22%) MS Visio
5 33 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
6 17 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
7 15 (0.29%) Oracle Smart View
8 9 (0.17%) Trello
9 7 (0.13%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.019%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.019%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.019%) GNU Octave
10 1 (0.019%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 115 (2.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 50 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 37 (0.71%) Oracle Payables
3 37 (0.71%) Oracle Receivables
4 31 (0.59%) Oracle General Ledger
5 30 (0.57%) Oracle Assets
6 28 (0.53%) Oracle Financials
7 27 (0.52%) NetSuite
8 20 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
9 17 (0.32%) Endur
10 14 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
10 14 (0.27%) Hyperion Planning
10 14 (0.27%) NEC Housing
11 13 (0.25%) Workday HCM
12 12 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
13 11 (0.21%) Elite 3E
13 11 (0.21%) Fidessa
13 11 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
14 10 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
14 10 (0.19%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 1,184 (22.62%) Azure
2 1,001 (19.12%) Power Platform
3 601 (11.48%) Microsoft 365
4 330 (6.30%) Azure AI
5 262 (5.00%) AWS
6 145 (2.77%) Entra ID
7 130 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
7 130 (2.48%) Dynamics 365
8 102 (1.95%) SaaS
9 60 (1.15%) PowerApps
10 58 (1.11%) Snowflake
11 57 (1.09%) Power Automate
12 55 (1.05%) GCP
13 32 (0.61%) OneDrive
14 27 (0.52%) Azure Sentinel
14 27 (0.52%) PaaS
15 24 (0.46%) Google Analytics
16 22 (0.42%) Google Workspace
16 22 (0.42%) Microsoft Purview
17 19 (0.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 162 (3.09%) Firewall
2 97 (1.85%) DNS
3 89 (1.70%) DHCP
4 87 (1.66%) VPN
5 60 (1.15%) LAN
6 59 (1.13%) Remote Desktop
7 54 (1.03%) WAN
8 52 (0.99%) TCP/IP
9 45 (0.86%) Wireless
10 25 (0.48%) Network Security
11 23 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
12 22 (0.42%) Internet
13 20 (0.38%) Broadband
13 20 (0.38%) SD-WAN
14 19 (0.36%) VoIP
14 19 (0.36%) WebEx
15 16 (0.31%) Intrusion Detection
15 16 (0.31%) Wireshark
16 15 (0.29%) Unified Communications
17 14 (0.27%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 941 (17.98%) Power BI
2 657 (12.55%) Tableau
3 145 (2.77%) SQL Server
4 135 (2.58%) Data Mining
5 61 (1.17%) Relational Database
6 57 (1.09%) Looker
7 54 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
8 47 (0.90%) Power Query
9 42 (0.80%) Metadata
10 41 (0.78%) Data Lake
11 40 (0.76%) SAP BW
12 35 (0.67%) GIS
13 34 (0.65%) BigQuery
14 33 (0.63%) Oracle Reports
15 32 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 29 (0.55%) MySQL
17 26 (0.50%) Qlik Sense
18 20 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
19 19 (0.36%) Oracle BI Publisher
20 18 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 252 (4.81%) JIRA
2 40 (0.76%) eCATT
3 38 (0.73%) Oracle Forms
4 36 (0.69%) Postman
5 34 (0.65%) Git
6 30 (0.57%) Selenium
7 25 (0.48%) Team Foundation Server
8 22 (0.42%) SoapUI
9 19 (0.36%) WebDriver
10 13 (0.25%) Visual Studio
11 12 (0.23%) NeoLoad
12 7 (0.13%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.13%) Burp Suite
12 7 (0.13%) Jenkins
12 7 (0.13%) Metasploit
13 4 (0.076%) Cypress.io
13 4 (0.076%) GitLab
13 4 (0.076%) LabVIEW
13 4 (0.076%) SpecFlow
14 3 (0.057%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 2,402 (45.88%) Social Skills
2 1,513 (28.90%) Finance
3 1,156 (22.08%) Analytical Skills
4 264 (5.04%) Marketing
5 243 (4.64%) Law
5 243 (4.64%) Manufacturing
6 222 (4.24%) Organisational Skills
7 219 (4.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 213 (4.07%) Legal
9 199 (3.80%) Retail
10 185 (3.53%) Banking
11 172 (3.29%) French Language
12 123 (2.35%) Swedish Language
13 94 (1.80%) Public Sector
14 90 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
15 87 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
16 81 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
16 81 (1.55%) Telecoms
17 63 (1.20%) Advertising
18 59 (1.13%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (1.38%) HTML
2 64 (1.22%) .NET
3 39 (0.74%) SOAP
4 29 (0.55%) EDI
5 28 (0.53%) REST
6 27 (0.52%) JSON
7 23 (0.44%) FIX Protocol
8 22 (0.42%) Oracle Fusion
9 20 (0.38%) XML
10 17 (0.32%) CSS
10 17 (0.32%) Web Services
11 16 (0.31%) RESTful
12 14 (0.27%) Flash
12 14 (0.27%) OpenAPI
12 14 (0.27%) Swagger
13 9 (0.17%) LDAP
13 9 (0.17%) React
14 8 (0.15%) Middleware
15 7 (0.13%) Playwright
16 5 (0.096%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 180 (3.44%) Onboarding
2 167 (3.19%) Management Information System
3 142 (2.71%) Product Ownership
4 141 (2.69%) Self-Motivation
5 110 (2.10%) Analytical Mindset
6 97 (1.85%) Driving Licence
7 64 (1.22%) Data Structures
8 51 (0.97%) Security Posture
9 48 (0.92%) Video Conferencing
10 44 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
11 43 (0.82%) Cyber Threat
12 39 (0.74%) NHS
13 36 (0.69%) FMCG
14 35 (0.67%) Mobile App
15 34 (0.65%) Cyber Defence
16 32 (0.61%) Legacy Systems
17 30 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
17 30 (0.57%) Security Operations Centre
18 28 (0.53%) Data Centre
19 27 (0.52%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 526 (10.05%) Windows
2 128 (2.45%) Windows Server
3 105 (2.01%) Windows 10
4 86 (1.64%) Linux
5 59 (1.13%) Mac OS
6 56 (1.07%) Apple iOS
7 48 (0.92%) Android
8 23 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
9 20 (0.38%) Unix
10 17 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
11 6 (0.11%) Mac OS X
12 5 (0.096%) Solaris
13 3 (0.057%) Ubuntu
13 3 (0.057%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.057%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.038%) VMS
15 1 (0.019%) AIX
15 1 (0.019%) Windows 7
15 1 (0.019%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,194 (22.81%) Problem-Solving
2 1,066 (20.36%) Business Intelligence
3 636 (12.15%) Agile
4 613 (11.71%) Mentoring
5 602 (11.50%) Analytics
6 601 (11.48%) Cybersecurity
7 590 (11.27%) Customer Service
8 578 (11.04%) Business Analysis
9 576 (11.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 542 (10.35%) AI
11 527 (10.07%) Data Analysis
12 526 (10.05%) ITIL
13 445 (8.50%) Decision-Making
13 445 (8.50%) Project Management
14 334 (6.38%) Change Management
15 331 (6.32%) ERP
16 318 (6.07%) ITSM
17 316 (6.04%) Process Improvement
18 289 (5.52%) Stakeholder Management
19 263 (5.02%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1,314 (25.10%) SQL
2 813 (15.53%) Python
3 86 (1.64%) PowerShell
4 72 (1.38%) C#
5 63 (1.20%) VBA
6 49 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 48 (0.92%) Java
8 38 (0.73%) T-SQL
9 35 (0.67%) JavaScript
10 34 (0.65%) R
11 22 (0.42%) Bash
12 14 (0.27%) Groovy
13 13 (0.25%) VB
14 12 (0.23%) C++
15 11 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
15 11 (0.21%) VB.NET
16 10 (0.19%) PL/SQL
17 7 (0.13%) Bicep
17 7 (0.13%) C
17 7 (0.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 898 (17.15%) Degree
2 665 (12.70%) Azure Certification
3 363 (6.93%) CompTIA Security+
4 343 (6.55%) CompTIA CySA+
5 222 (4.24%) Microsoft Certification
6 221 (4.22%) Security Cleared
7 161 (3.08%) AWS Certification
8 146 (2.79%) MCSE
9 140 (2.67%) SC Cleared
10 123 (2.35%) ACCA
11 120 (2.29%) CIMA
12 67 (1.28%) CISSP
13 60 (1.15%) DBS Check
14 59 (1.13%) A+ Certification
15 55 (1.05%) DV Cleared
16 51 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
17 46 (0.88%) ISTQB
18 42 (0.80%) Master's Degree
18 42 (0.80%) Numerate Degree
19 37 (0.71%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 303 (5.79%) QA
2 225 (4.30%) Data Quality
3 119 (2.27%) SLA
4 112 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 94 (1.80%) NIST
6 82 (1.57%) Accessibility
7 79 (1.51%) GDPR
8 51 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
9 47 (0.90%) GRC
9 47 (0.90%) PMO
10 28 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 26 (0.50%) PCI DSS
12 21 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 15 (0.29%) COBIT
14 13 (0.25%) MiFID
15 11 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
15 11 (0.21%) IFRS
16 10 (0.19%) SOC 2
17 9 (0.17%) ITGC
18 8 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 350 (6.69%) Active Directory
2 61 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (0.48%) Hyper-V
4 23 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
5 17 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.15%) Docker
7 4 (0.076%) vSphere
8 3 (0.057%) BitLocker
8 3 (0.057%) Firmware
8 3 (0.057%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.038%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.019%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.019%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 134 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 57 (1.09%) SCCM
3 40 (0.76%) HP ALM
4 14 (0.27%) Kubernetes
4 14 (0.27%) QRadar
5 12 (0.23%) Nessus
6 11 (0.21%) Grafana
6 11 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
6 11 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (0.21%) Terraform
7 10 (0.19%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.15%) Control-M
8 8 (0.15%) CSIRT
8 8 (0.15%) WSUS
9 6 (0.11%) Ansible
10 5 (0.096%) Autotask
10 5 (0.096%) RSA Archer
11 3 (0.057%) ArcSight ESM
11 3 (0.057%) VxRail
12 2 (0.038%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 1,875 (35.82%) Microsoft
2 330 (6.30%) ForeScout
3 274 (5.23%) SAP
4 246 (4.70%) ServiceNow
5 143 (2.73%) Oracle
6 116 (2.22%) Salesforce
7 87 (1.66%) Cisco
8 76 (1.45%) Google
9 72 (1.38%) VMware
10 49 (0.94%) Alteryx
10 49 (0.94%) HP
11 47 (0.90%) Adobe
12 44 (0.84%) Bloomberg
13 38 (0.73%) Apple
14 36 (0.69%) Meraki
15 34 (0.65%) Databricks
16 27 (0.52%) Palo Alto
16 27 (0.52%) Workday
17 24 (0.46%) Blue Prism
18 22 (0.42%) Splunk