Analyst
UK

The median Analyst salary in the UK is £47,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 December 2023.

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

6 months to
2 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 12 17 21
Rank change year-on-year +5 +4 +3
Permanent jobs requiring an Analyst 6,704 14,707 13,158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.56% 11.73% 10.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.16% 12.31% 10.70%
Number of salaries quoted 4,737 10,057 10,016
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,985 £25,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +2.27%
75th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £41,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -3.61% +3.75% +6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 50,923 119,491 123,020
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.43% 95.34% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 37,248 74,881 84,496
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £32,005
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Analyst in the UK

Analyst
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Analyst.

Salary trend for Analyst in the UK

Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analyst over the 6 months to 2 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Analyst in the UK

Analyst
Top 19 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 2 December 2023. 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 +5 6,017 £47,500 - 2,415
UK excluding London +3 3,823 £40,000 -3.61% 1,588
London +6 2,659 £60,000 +9.09% 991
Work from Home +4 2,464 £50,000 - 966
South East +2 1,060 £42,892 -1.40% 363
North of England +3 959 £40,125 +0.31% 440
Midlands -1 616 £40,000 -5.88% 273
West Midlands +3 480 £39,000 -8.24% 172
North West +4 468 £41,000 +2.50% 237
Yorkshire +4 451 £41,000 +2.50% 158
South West -7 384 £40,000 +6.67% 188
Scotland -6 292 £45,000 +5.88% 144
East of England +5 261 £37,500 -6.25% 148
Wales +1 203 £37,500 -6.25% 45
East Midlands -14 131 £41,000 +2.50% 101
Northern Ireland +7 41 £40,000 - 23
North East 0 40 £37,500 -13.29% 47
Isle of Man +2 12 £45,000 +28.57% 1
Channel Islands +6 4 £47,000 -6.00%

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 December 2023, 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 featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 2,333 (34.80%) Social Skills
2 2,143 (31.97%) Finance
3 1,611 (24.03%) Microsoft
4 1,514 (22.58%) Analytical Skills
5 1,329 (19.82%) Problem-Solving
6 1,322 (19.72%) SQL
7 1,223 (18.24%) Degree
8 1,129 (16.84%) Agile
9 978 (14.59%) Windows
10 871 (12.99%) Business Intelligence
11 829 (12.37%) Microsoft 365
12 816 (12.17%) Azure
13 804 (11.99%) ITIL
14 781 (11.65%) Power Platform
15 769 (11.47%) Analytics
16 755 (11.26%) Microsoft Excel
17 721 (10.75%) Power BI
18 694 (10.35%) Microsoft Office
19 682 (10.17%) Stakeholder Management
20 678 (10.11%) Active Directory
21 671 (10.01%) Customer Service
22 648 (9.67%) Business Analysis
23 596 (8.89%) Banking
24 525 (7.83%) Cybersecurity
25 512 (7.64%) Data Analysis
26 498 (7.43%) Decision-Making
27 477 (7.12%) Python
28 462 (6.89%) Project Management
29 460 (6.86%) Change Management
30 439 (6.55%) Service Management

Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 284 (4.24%) SharePoint
2 96 (1.43%) Confluence
3 91 (1.36%) WebLogic
4 80 (1.19%) SAS
5 58 (0.87%) IIS
6 44 (0.66%) MS Exchange
7 23 (0.34%) WebSphere
8 20 (0.30%) CMS
9 16 (0.24%) Apache Spark
10 15 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
11 14 (0.21%) Apache
12 10 (0.15%) Oracle Application Server
13 8 (0.12%) Oracle Service Bus
14 4 (0.060%) Apache Airflow
14 4 (0.060%) Skype for Business
15 3 (0.045%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 3 (0.045%) Exchange Server 2010
15 3 (0.045%) Jupyter
15 3 (0.045%) Oracle Workflow
16 2 (0.030%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 755 (11.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 694 (10.35%) Microsoft Office
3 303 (4.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 100 (1.49%) MS Visio
5 50 (0.75%) SOLIDWORKS
6 31 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
7 28 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
8 10 (0.15%) SPSS
8 10 (0.15%) Trello
9 7 (0.10%) Chatbot
10 6 (0.089%) Stata
11 3 (0.045%) 1Password
11 3 (0.045%) Oracle Smart View
12 2 (0.030%) EViews
12 2 (0.030%) LightWave 3D
12 2 (0.030%) Photoshop
12 2 (0.030%) S-PLUS
13 1 (0.015%) Acrobat
13 1 (0.015%) AutoCAD
13 1 (0.015%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 101 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 51 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
3 37 (0.55%) SAP FI
4 35 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
4 35 (0.52%) PlanetPress Connect
4 35 (0.52%) SAP CO
4 35 (0.52%) SAP FI/CO
5 32 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
6 31 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
7 22 (0.33%) NetSuite
7 22 (0.33%) SAP MM
8 21 (0.31%) Elite 3E
8 21 (0.31%) iTrent
9 20 (0.30%) SAP SD
10 15 (0.22%) SAP BPC
11 14 (0.21%) Fidessa
12 13 (0.19%) SAP PP
13 12 (0.18%) Oracle Financials
13 12 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
13 12 (0.18%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 829 (12.37%) Microsoft 365
2 816 (12.17%) Azure
3 781 (11.65%) Power Platform
4 201 (3.00%) AWS
5 137 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
6 125 (1.86%) Entra ID
7 124 (1.85%) SaaS
8 100 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
9 93 (1.39%) Google Analytics
10 89 (1.33%) GCP
11 60 (0.89%) PowerApps
12 51 (0.76%) WhatsApp
13 47 (0.70%) Snowflake
14 46 (0.69%) Google Sheets
15 36 (0.54%) OneDrive
16 32 (0.48%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
17 31 (0.46%) Azure Data Factory
18 26 (0.39%) IaaS
19 25 (0.37%) Power Automate
20 24 (0.36%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 345 (5.15%) Firewall
2 192 (2.86%) VPN
3 169 (2.52%) WAN
4 168 (2.51%) LAN
5 158 (2.36%) TCP/IP
6 152 (2.27%) Network Security
7 126 (1.88%) DNS
8 104 (1.55%) DHCP
9 86 (1.28%) Internet
10 70 (1.04%) Wireless
11 64 (0.95%) VoIP
11 64 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
12 63 (0.94%) Intrusion Detection
13 51 (0.76%) HTTP
14 50 (0.75%) Broadband
15 42 (0.63%) FTP
15 42 (0.63%) SMTP
16 37 (0.55%) Intranet
17 34 (0.51%) 5G
18 33 (0.49%) Sourcefire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 721 (10.75%) Power BI
2 400 (5.97%) SQL Server
3 258 (3.85%) Tableau
4 232 (3.46%) Data Warehouse
5 114 (1.70%) Electronic Patient Records
6 103 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 96 (1.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 94 (1.40%) Looker
9 87 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
10 56 (0.84%) Relational Database
11 51 (0.76%) BusinessObjects
11 51 (0.76%) Oracle Database
12 42 (0.63%) MySQL
13 41 (0.61%) BigQuery
13 41 (0.61%) Power Query
14 38 (0.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 35 (0.52%) Data Mining
16 33 (0.49%) Big Data
17 31 (0.46%) Metadata
18 29 (0.43%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 337 (5.03%) JIRA
2 57 (0.85%) Git
3 56 (0.84%) Selenium
4 41 (0.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 40 (0.60%) GitLab
6 34 (0.51%) Postman
7 27 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
8 25 (0.37%) Jenkins
8 25 (0.37%) SoapUI
9 23 (0.34%) Robot Framework
10 18 (0.27%) JMeter
11 17 (0.25%) Cucumber
12 16 (0.24%) Oracle APEX
12 16 (0.24%) REST Assured
12 16 (0.24%) Visual Studio
13 14 (0.21%) JUnit
13 14 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
14 13 (0.19%) eggPlant
14 13 (0.19%) The Grinder
15 12 (0.18%) Maven
General
1 2,333 (34.80%) Social Skills
2 2,143 (31.97%) Finance
3 1,514 (22.58%) Analytical Skills
4 596 (8.89%) Banking
5 436 (6.50%) Retail
6 413 (6.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 387 (5.77%) Law
8 343 (5.12%) Manufacturing
9 337 (5.03%) Legal
10 247 (3.68%) Marketing
11 242 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
12 220 (3.28%) Investment Banking
13 213 (3.18%) Presentation Skills
14 167 (2.49%) Public Sector
15 130 (1.94%) Local Government
16 108 (1.61%) Front Office
17 95 (1.42%) Billing
18 94 (1.40%) Telecoms
19 92 (1.37%) Back Office
20 77 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (1.86%) .NET
2 88 (1.31%) J2EE
3 84 (1.25%) HTML
3 84 (1.25%) Java EE
4 83 (1.24%) Spring
5 70 (1.04%) XML
6 64 (0.95%) JSON
7 52 (0.78%) Middleware
8 48 (0.72%) LDAP
9 41 (0.61%) FIX Protocol
10 31 (0.46%) EDI
11 25 (0.37%) REST
12 23 (0.34%) Oracle Fusion
13 22 (0.33%) .NET Framework
14 21 (0.31%) CSS
15 20 (0.30%) React
16 19 (0.28%) SOAP
17 18 (0.27%) ASP.NET
18 17 (0.25%) Flask
19 16 (0.24%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 385 (5.74%) Self-Motivation
2 338 (5.04%) Management Information System
3 179 (2.67%) Product Ownership
4 122 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
5 106 (1.58%) Onboarding
5 106 (1.58%) Security Operations Centre
6 104 (1.55%) Cyber Threat
7 83 (1.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 76 (1.13%) Derivative
9 75 (1.12%) Credit Risk
10 70 (1.04%) Fixed Income
11 69 (1.03%) Equities
12 59 (0.88%) Driving Licence
13 58 (0.87%) Data Structures
13 58 (0.87%) Hedge funds
14 57 (0.85%) Video Conferencing
15 56 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
16 55 (0.82%) Security Posture
17 46 (0.69%) Data Centre
18 44 (0.66%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 978 (14.59%) Windows
2 312 (4.65%) Windows 10
3 275 (4.10%) Windows Server
4 234 (3.49%) Linux
5 217 (3.24%) Unix
6 88 (1.31%) Android
7 86 (1.28%) Apple iOS
8 47 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
9 45 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
10 42 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
11 37 (0.55%) Mac OS
12 34 (0.51%) Windows 7
13 26 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 25 (0.37%) Solaris
15 23 (0.34%) Windows 8
16 16 (0.24%) Ubuntu
17 15 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
18 14 (0.21%) Mac OS X
19 13 (0.19%) CentOS
20 12 (0.18%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,329 (19.82%) Problem-Solving
2 1,129 (16.84%) Agile
3 871 (12.99%) Business Intelligence
4 804 (11.99%) ITIL
5 769 (11.47%) Analytics
6 682 (10.17%) Stakeholder Management
7 671 (10.01%) Customer Service
8 648 (9.67%) Business Analysis
9 525 (7.83%) Cybersecurity
10 512 (7.64%) Data Analysis
11 498 (7.43%) Decision-Making
12 462 (6.89%) Project Management
13 460 (6.86%) Change Management
14 439 (6.55%) Service Management
15 379 (5.65%) Visualisation
16 377 (5.62%) Project Delivery
17 375 (5.59%) Information Security
18 349 (5.21%) Actionable Insight
18 349 (5.21%) CRM
19 340 (5.07%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,322 (19.72%) SQL
2 477 (7.12%) Python
3 196 (2.92%) PowerShell
4 185 (2.76%) Java
5 161 (2.40%) R
6 158 (2.36%) C#
7 120 (1.79%) T-SQL
8 80 (1.19%) JavaScript
9 68 (1.01%) Shell Script
10 62 (0.92%) VBA
11 53 (0.79%) C++
11 53 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 47 (0.70%) PL/SQL
13 30 (0.45%) Perl
14 28 (0.42%) PHP
15 26 (0.39%) C
16 25 (0.37%) VBScript
17 24 (0.36%) Bash
18 17 (0.25%) MATLAB
19 14 (0.21%) RPG
Qualifications
1 1,223 (18.24%) Degree
2 436 (6.50%) Security Cleared
3 259 (3.86%) SC Cleared
4 118 (1.76%) CISSP
5 111 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
6 110 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
7 96 (1.43%) Master's Degree
8 91 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
9 87 (1.30%) DV Cleared
10 82 (1.22%) ITIL Certification
11 71 (1.06%) CISM
12 67 (1.00%) CompTIA Security+
13 66 (0.98%) CCNA
14 62 (0.92%) CEH
15 54 (0.81%) HNC
16 53 (0.79%) Network+ Certification
17 51 (0.76%) ACCA
17 51 (0.76%) CISA
18 48 (0.72%) DBS Check
19 45 (0.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 317 (4.73%) SLA
2 224 (3.34%) QA
3 220 (3.28%) Data Quality
4 188 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 152 (2.27%) NIST
6 123 (1.83%) PMO
7 101 (1.51%) GDPR
8 78 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
9 66 (0.98%) GRC
10 62 (0.92%) PCI DSS
11 27 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
12 26 (0.39%) COBIT
12 26 (0.39%) IFRS
13 25 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 23 (0.34%) Accessibility
15 20 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 18 (0.27%) SOC 2
17 17 (0.25%) MiFID
18 15 (0.22%) CRD IV
19 13 (0.19%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 678 (10.11%) Active Directory
2 97 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (0.28%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.24%) Docker
6 15 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 13 (0.19%) vSphere
8 10 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
10 7 (0.10%) Firmware
10 7 (0.10%) XenApp
11 5 (0.075%) XenDesktop
12 4 (0.060%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
13 3 (0.045%) IAG
13 3 (0.045%) vCloud
14 2 (0.030%) DFS Replication
14 2 (0.030%) NFS
14 2 (0.030%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.030%) VMware Server
15 1 (0.015%) Snort
Systems Management
1 140 (2.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 125 (1.86%) SCCM
3 88 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
4 83 (1.24%) OpenSSO
5 35 (0.52%) AirWatch
6 34 (0.51%) FortiGate
7 17 (0.25%) CSIRT
7 17 (0.25%) Nessus
8 16 (0.24%) Kubernetes
9 15 (0.22%) CASB
10 13 (0.19%) Control-M
11 12 (0.18%) ServiceCenter
11 12 (0.18%) Terraform
12 11 (0.16%) HP Quality Center
12 11 (0.16%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 11 (0.16%) SafeCom
13 9 (0.13%) SCOM
13 9 (0.13%) SCSM
14 8 (0.12%) Data Guard
14 8 (0.12%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 1,611 (24.03%) Microsoft
2 395 (5.89%) Oracle
3 218 (3.25%) SAP
4 199 (2.97%) Google
5 198 (2.95%) Salesforce
6 187 (2.79%) ServiceNow
7 173 (2.58%) Cisco
8 165 (2.46%) VMware
9 149 (2.22%) Citrix
10 104 (1.55%) Apple
11 99 (1.48%) Bloomberg
12 79 (1.18%) Remedy
13 76 (1.13%) Splunk
14 68 (1.01%) HP
15 65 (0.97%) Juniper
16 56 (0.84%) Dell
17 55 (0.82%) IBM
18 48 (0.72%) Palo Alto
19 44 (0.66%) SolarWinds
20 43 (0.64%) CheckPoint