Analyst
UK

The median Analyst salary in the UK is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 April 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 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 13 16
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 +5
Permanent jobs requiring an Analyst 4,770 9,603 12,526
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.15% 9.89% 11.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.23% 10.45% 12.88%
Number of salaries quoted 2,765 6,663 7,849
10th Percentile £26,750 £25,750 £26,854
25th Percentile £35,500 £31,250 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £46,298
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -2.80% +2.88%
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £60,769
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 46,641 91,861 97,284
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.43% 94.62% 91.62%
Number of salaries quoted 27,168 66,209 60,975
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,686 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.14% -12.19% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

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 21 April 2025.

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 21 April 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
England -4 4,348 £47,500 +5.56% 3,260
UK excluding London -6 2,744 £42,500 +6.25% 1,646
London +1 1,882 £65,000 +13.04% 1,979
Work from Home -5 1,388 £51,075 +12.88% 1,529
North of England -14 776 £40,000 +0.63% 364
Midlands -5 592 £42,500 +13.33% 291
North West -15 513 £41,000 +2.50% 207
South East -20 497 £45,000 +12.50% 481
West Midlands -10 333 £45,250 +21.48% 178
East of England -2 316 £47,500 +20.63% 167
Scotland +32 285 £43,250 +0.95% 109
East Midlands +9 257 £38,500 +5.48% 106
South West -3 220 £40,000 -5.88% 182
Yorkshire -9 217 £30,500 -22.43% 122
North East -9 46 £39,100 +11.71% 37
Northern Ireland +28 36 £31,250 -43.18% 58
Wales -41 18 £50,000 +39.91% 34
Isle of Man +1 7 £38,000 -15.56% 2

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 21 April 2025, 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 2,179 (45.68%) Social Skills
2 1,852 (38.83%) Finance
3 1,540 (32.29%) Analytical Skills
4 1,449 (30.38%) Degree
5 1,054 (22.10%) Problem-Solving
6 1,045 (21.91%) SQL
7 948 (19.87%) Microsoft
8 806 (16.90%) Decision-Making
9 803 (16.83%) Banking
10 751 (15.74%) Risk Management
11 718 (15.05%) Agile
12 683 (14.32%) Analytics
13 671 (14.07%) Windows
14 645 (13.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 625 (13.10%) Asset Management
16 587 (12.31%) Azure
17 585 (12.26%) Microsoft 365
18 579 (12.14%) Business Intelligence
19 561 (11.76%) Power Platform
20 556 (11.66%) Master's Degree
21 552 (11.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
22 549 (11.51%) Fixed Income
23 544 (11.40%) Business Strategy
24 529 (11.09%) Portfolio Management
25 518 (10.86%) Power BI
26 493 (10.34%) Risk Assessment
26 493 (10.34%) Microsoft Excel
27 487 (10.21%) Python
28 484 (10.15%) Financial Modelling
29 480 (10.06%) Financial Institution

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
1 218 (4.57%) SharePoint
2 149 (3.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 114 (2.39%) Confluence
4 45 (0.94%) SAS
5 36 (0.75%) IBM Domino
6 31 (0.65%) IIS
7 13 (0.27%) Apache Spark
8 9 (0.19%) Apache
9 8 (0.17%) Jupyter
10 6 (0.13%) Alfresco
10 6 (0.13%) Documentum
10 6 (0.13%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.084%) Apache Airflow
11 4 (0.084%) Cloud Foundry
11 4 (0.084%) Mule
12 2 (0.042%) CMS
12 2 (0.042%) Skype for Business
13 1 (0.021%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.021%) IBM Notes
13 1 (0.021%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 552 (11.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 493 (10.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 335 (7.02%) Microsoft Office
4 67 (1.40%) MS Visio
5 19 (0.40%) Chatbot
6 17 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
7 16 (0.34%) SPSS
8 12 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
9 6 (0.13%) Trello
10 3 (0.063%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.042%) Acrobat
11 2 (0.042%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.021%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.021%) Notion
12 1 (0.021%) Simulink
12 1 (0.021%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 49 (1.03%) Aladdin
2 38 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
3 27 (0.57%) Dynamics AX
3 27 (0.57%) thinkFolio
4 20 (0.42%) SAP FI
5 19 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
6 16 (0.34%) Fidessa
6 16 (0.34%) NetSuite
6 16 (0.34%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 14 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
7 14 (0.29%) SAP HCM
8 12 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
9 11 (0.23%) Endur
9 11 (0.23%) Infor M3
9 11 (0.23%) SAP Payroll
10 10 (0.21%) SAP HR
11 9 (0.19%) Oracle Applications
12 8 (0.17%) iTrent
13 7 (0.15%) Infor SunSystems
13 7 (0.15%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 587 (12.31%) Azure
2 585 (12.26%) Microsoft 365
3 561 (11.76%) Power Platform
4 159 (3.33%) AWS
5 129 (2.70%) Entra ID
6 102 (2.14%) SaaS
7 90 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
8 60 (1.26%) Azure Sentinel
9 52 (1.09%) OneDrive
10 43 (0.90%) GCP
10 43 (0.90%) Google Analytics
11 36 (0.75%) Azure Logic Apps
12 35 (0.73%) Azure DevOps
13 29 (0.61%) Snowflake
14 27 (0.57%) Power Automate
15 26 (0.55%) Azure Data Factory
15 26 (0.55%) Mimecast
16 24 (0.50%) Cloud Computing
16 24 (0.50%) PowerApps
17 18 (0.38%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 238 (4.99%) Firewall
2 137 (2.87%) DNS
3 103 (2.16%) DHCP
4 85 (1.78%) TCP/IP
5 84 (1.76%) VPN
6 74 (1.55%) VoIP
7 60 (1.26%) LAN
8 58 (1.22%) WAN
9 53 (1.11%) Network Security
10 48 (1.01%) Broadband
11 42 (0.88%) VLAN
12 37 (0.78%) Wireless
13 36 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
14 33 (0.69%) Internet
15 27 (0.57%) Cisco IOS
16 25 (0.52%) Intrusion Detection
17 20 (0.42%) Remote Desktop
17 20 (0.42%) SSL
18 19 (0.40%) SAN
19 13 (0.27%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 518 (10.86%) Power BI
2 232 (4.86%) Tableau
3 175 (3.67%) SQL Server
4 101 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
5 86 (1.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 73 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 63 (1.32%) Relational Database
8 59 (1.24%) Big Data
9 36 (0.75%) Data Mining
10 34 (0.71%) Data Lake
11 32 (0.67%) DB2
12 29 (0.61%) Looker
13 28 (0.59%) Power Query
14 23 (0.48%) MySQL
15 20 (0.42%) BusinessObjects
16 18 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
17 17 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
18 15 (0.31%) BigQuery
19 13 (0.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
20 12 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 226 (4.74%) JIRA
2 47 (0.99%) Git
3 32 (0.67%) Selenium
4 21 (0.44%) eggPlant
5 19 (0.40%) Postman
6 17 (0.36%) Visual Studio
7 15 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 13 (0.27%) Burp Suite
8 13 (0.27%) JMeter
9 12 (0.25%) Cypress.io
10 9 (0.19%) Eclipse
11 8 (0.17%) Appium
11 8 (0.17%) TestNG
12 7 (0.15%) Cucumber
13 6 (0.13%) Jenkins
13 6 (0.13%) JUnit
13 6 (0.13%) TestRail
14 5 (0.10%) Log4j
14 5 (0.10%) Maven
15 4 (0.084%) Subversion
General
1 2,179 (45.68%) Social Skills
2 1,852 (38.83%) Finance
3 1,540 (32.29%) Analytical Skills
4 803 (16.83%) Banking
5 645 (13.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 480 (10.06%) Financial Institution
7 448 (9.39%) German Language
8 435 (9.12%) French Language
9 330 (6.92%) Law
10 222 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
11 212 (4.44%) Legal
12 201 (4.21%) Retail
13 194 (4.07%) Influencing Skills
14 157 (3.29%) Marketing
15 140 (2.94%) Front Office
16 138 (2.89%) Presentation Skills
17 97 (2.03%) Telecoms
18 96 (2.01%) Billing
18 96 (2.01%) Manufacturing
19 86 (1.80%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (1.22%) .NET
2 47 (0.99%) HTML
3 44 (0.92%) JSON
4 39 (0.82%) XML
5 37 (0.78%) REST
5 37 (0.78%) Web Services
6 32 (0.67%) SOAP
7 24 (0.50%) FIX Protocol
8 21 (0.44%) Oracle Fusion
9 20 (0.42%) Pandas
10 18 (0.38%) CSS
10 18 (0.38%) Middleware
11 12 (0.25%) ASP.NET
11 12 (0.25%) EDI
11 12 (0.25%) RESTful
12 11 (0.23%) .NET Framework
12 11 (0.23%) PySpark
13 9 (0.19%) Gherkin
13 9 (0.19%) SAP Fiori
14 8 (0.17%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 549 (11.51%) Fixed Income
2 472 (9.90%) Credit Risk
3 236 (4.95%) Management Information System
4 158 (3.31%) Product Ownership
5 146 (3.06%) Onboarding
6 129 (2.70%) Hedge funds
7 120 (2.52%) Derivative
8 104 (2.18%) Analytical Mindset
9 97 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
10 80 (1.68%) Social Media
11 66 (1.38%) Equities
12 60 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 60 (1.26%) Security Posture
13 58 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
13 58 (1.22%) Video Conferencing
14 42 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
15 41 (0.86%) Driving Licence
16 35 (0.73%) Data Centre
16 35 (0.73%) Mobile App
17 34 (0.71%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 671 (14.07%) Windows
2 183 (3.84%) Windows 10
3 179 (3.75%) Linux
4 168 (3.52%) Windows Server
5 76 (1.59%) Apple iOS
6 61 (1.28%) Unix
7 47 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
8 41 (0.86%) Mac OS
9 33 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
10 31 (0.65%) Android
11 27 (0.57%) Mac OS X
12 23 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
13 21 (0.44%) Windows Vista
14 12 (0.25%) CentOS
14 12 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 12 (0.25%) zOS
15 11 (0.23%) Solaris
16 9 (0.19%) Windows 7
17 8 (0.17%) Rocky
18 6 (0.13%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,054 (22.10%) Problem-Solving
2 806 (16.90%) Decision-Making
3 751 (15.74%) Risk Management
4 718 (15.05%) Agile
5 683 (14.32%) Analytics
6 625 (13.10%) Asset Management
7 579 (12.14%) Business Intelligence
8 544 (11.40%) Business Strategy
9 529 (11.09%) Portfolio Management
10 493 (10.34%) Risk Assessment
11 484 (10.15%) Financial Modelling
12 457 (9.58%) Data Analysis
13 452 (9.48%) Cybersecurity
14 448 (9.39%) ITIL
15 445 (9.33%) Customer Service
16 442 (9.27%) Business Analysis
17 436 (9.14%) Credit Risk Analysis
18 399 (8.36%) Stakeholder Management
19 385 (8.07%) Project Management
20 368 (7.71%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,045 (21.91%) SQL
2 487 (10.21%) Python
3 132 (2.77%) PowerShell
4 100 (2.10%) C#
5 83 (1.74%) JavaScript
6 75 (1.57%) T-SQL
7 73 (1.53%) R
8 49 (1.03%) Java
9 48 (1.01%) PL/SQL
10 42 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 36 (0.75%) Bash
12 34 (0.71%) C++
13 33 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
14 31 (0.65%) VB.NET
15 25 (0.52%) VBA
16 16 (0.34%) Perl
17 15 (0.31%) TypeScript
18 11 (0.23%) Shell Script
19 10 (0.21%) ABAP
20 9 (0.19%) VB
Qualifications
1 1,449 (30.38%) Degree
2 556 (11.66%) Master's Degree
3 439 (9.20%) CFA
4 207 (4.34%) CISSP
5 158 (3.31%) CISM
6 152 (3.19%) Security Cleared
7 147 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
8 135 (2.83%) CBAP
9 134 (2.81%) DBS Check
10 104 (2.18%) CESG Certified Professional
11 98 (2.05%) SC Cleared
12 83 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
13 79 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
14 67 (1.40%) CompTIA Security+
15 64 (1.34%) ACCA
16 61 (1.28%) CIMA
17 57 (1.19%) A+ Certification
18 52 (1.09%) ISTQB
19 48 (1.01%) PhD
20 46 (0.96%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 219 (4.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 207 (4.34%) NIST
3 188 (3.94%) Data Quality
4 172 (3.61%) QA
5 129 (2.70%) SLA
6 104 (2.18%) JSP 440
6 104 (2.18%) RMADS
7 72 (1.51%) GDPR
8 56 (1.17%) PMO
9 53 (1.11%) Accessibility
10 48 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 46 (0.96%) GRC
12 40 (0.84%) PCI DSS
13 31 (0.65%) MiFID
14 30 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
15 23 (0.48%) EMIR
16 21 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
17 15 (0.31%) NCSC
18 13 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
19 7 (0.15%) ITGC
System Software
1 435 (9.12%) Active Directory
2 50 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
4 21 (0.44%) Hyper-V
5 20 (0.42%) Docker
5 20 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.25%) Firmware
7 8 (0.17%) DFS Replication
7 8 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
7 8 (0.17%) XenApp
8 5 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.063%) RACF
10 2 (0.042%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.042%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.021%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.021%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.021%) Snort
Systems Management
1 148 (3.10%) Microsoft Intune
2 59 (1.24%) SCCM
3 14 (0.29%) Grafana
4 12 (0.25%) QRadar
5 10 (0.21%) Terraform
6 9 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 7 (0.15%) Ansible
8 7 (0.15%) CSIRT
9 6 (0.13%) Graylog
9 6 (0.13%) WSUS
9 6 (0.13%) ZABBIX
10 5 (0.10%) CASB
10 5 (0.10%) Kubernetes
10 5 (0.10%) Nessus
11 4 (0.084%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (0.084%) Prometheus
11 4 (0.084%) Puppet
12 3 (0.063%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.063%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 948 (19.87%) Microsoft
2 470 (9.85%) Bloomberg
3 184 (3.86%) SAP
4 173 (3.63%) ServiceNow
5 127 (2.66%) Oracle
6 116 (2.43%) VMware
7 78 (1.64%) Google
7 78 (1.64%) Salesforce
8 74 (1.55%) Cisco
9 67 (1.40%) Alteryx
10 66 (1.38%) Databricks
11 52 (1.09%) Citrix
12 45 (0.94%) BISAM
13 33 (0.69%) Charles River
14 30 (0.63%) Apple
14 30 (0.63%) iManage
15 27 (0.57%) Adobe
15 27 (0.57%) Splunk
16 26 (0.55%) Reuters
17 25 (0.52%) Infor