Analyst
UK

The median Analyst salary in the UK is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 16 22
Rank change year-on-year +3 +6 +3
Permanent jobs requiring an Analyst 9,742 12,330 16,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.94% 11.78% 10.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.50% 12.87% 10.82%
Number of salaries quoted 6,665 7,747 11,346
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,930 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £46,350 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% +5.88%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year - - +2.56%

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 92,756 95,826 148,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.56% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,592 60,202 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 27 April 2024.

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 27 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
England +4 8,833 £45,000 -5.26% 1,739
UK excluding London +1 6,410 £40,000 - 1,010
Work from Home +2 3,658 £45,249 -4.74% 672
London +5 3,009 £58,650 +5.87% 804
North of England 0 1,649 £39,634 -2.74% 294
South East 0 1,566 £40,000 -4.19% 214
Midlands 0 1,203 £37,500 -6.25% 183
North West +6 917 £40,000 -5.88% 170
West Midlands +1 812 £37,403 -6.49% 109
South West +4 680 £42,500 +10.39% 123
East of England +7 663 £39,373 -1.57% 116
Yorkshire -8 559 £39,003 -3.70% 88
Scotland -36 421 £42,500 +4.08% 60
East Midlands -5 384 £36,500 -5.19% 74
North East +1 173 £35,000 -12.50% 38
Wales -10 173 £36,476 +2.75% 35
Northern Ireland +21 37 £52,500 +40.00% 12
Isle of Man -1 24 £45,750 +1.67% 1
Channel Islands -3 1 - -

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 3,412 (35.02%) Social Skills
2 2,937 (30.15%) Finance
3 2,783 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
4 2,553 (26.21%) Microsoft
5 2,077 (21.32%) Problem-Solving
6 1,966 (20.18%) SQL
7 1,757 (18.04%) Degree
8 1,744 (17.90%) Agile
9 1,544 (15.85%) Microsoft Excel
10 1,246 (12.79%) Decision-Making
11 1,222 (12.54%) Windows
12 1,103 (11.32%) Microsoft 365
13 1,097 (11.26%) Azure
14 1,072 (11.00%) Microsoft Office
15 1,060 (10.88%) Customer Service
16 1,008 (10.35%) Power Platform
17 1,003 (10.30%) Business Intelligence
18 990 (10.16%) Actionable Insight
19 989 (10.15%) Active Directory
20 952 (9.77%) Analytics
21 939 (9.64%) Power BI
22 920 (9.44%) ITIL
23 829 (8.51%) Business Analysis
24 824 (8.46%) Mentoring
25 787 (8.08%) Data Analysis
26 754 (7.74%) Retail
27 715 (7.34%) Python
28 696 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
29 689 (7.07%) Influencing Skills
30 687 (7.05%) Cybersecurity

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
1 345 (3.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 324 (3.33%) SharePoint
3 143 (1.47%) Confluence
4 90 (0.92%) SAS
5 74 (0.76%) WebLogic
6 45 (0.46%) Oracle Service Bus
7 36 (0.37%) CMS
8 25 (0.26%) IIS
9 24 (0.25%) Apache
10 23 (0.24%) Apache Spark
11 17 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
12 14 (0.14%) IBM Notes
12 14 (0.14%) Skype for Business
13 8 (0.082%) ArcGIS
13 8 (0.082%) Moodle
13 8 (0.082%) WebSphere
13 8 (0.082%) WordPress
14 7 (0.072%) Exchange Server 2013
15 6 (0.062%) Exchange Server 2010
16 5 (0.051%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 1,544 (15.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 1,072 (11.00%) Microsoft Office
3 263 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 177 (1.82%) MS Visio
5 49 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
6 22 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
7 21 (0.22%) SPSS
8 14 (0.14%) Trello
9 6 (0.062%) LightWave 3D
9 6 (0.062%) SOLIDWORKS
10 3 (0.031%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.031%) Stata
11 2 (0.021%) EViews
11 2 (0.021%) LaTeX
11 2 (0.021%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 107 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 50 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
3 44 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
4 31 (0.32%) Aladdin
5 29 (0.30%) NEC Housing
6 28 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
7 26 (0.27%) Elite 3E
8 24 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
8 24 (0.25%) PlanetPress Connect
9 23 (0.24%) Endur
10 19 (0.20%) NetSuite
10 19 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
11 18 (0.18%) iTrent
11 18 (0.18%) thinkFolio
12 16 (0.16%) Infor SunSystems
13 15 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
13 15 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
13 15 (0.15%) Oracle Financials
14 14 (0.14%) Epicor Tropos
15 13 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 1,103 (11.32%) Microsoft 365
2 1,097 (11.26%) Azure
3 1,008 (10.35%) Power Platform
4 400 (4.11%) AWS
5 222 (2.28%) SaaS
6 183 (1.88%) Entra ID
7 177 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
8 137 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
9 79 (0.81%) GCP
10 69 (0.71%) PowerApps
11 67 (0.69%) Google Analytics
12 60 (0.62%) Power Automate
13 49 (0.50%) WhatsApp
14 48 (0.49%) Azure Sentinel
14 48 (0.49%) OneDrive
15 40 (0.41%) Mimecast
15 40 (0.41%) Snowflake
16 37 (0.38%) PaaS
17 28 (0.29%) Azure Data Factory
18 27 (0.28%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 515 (5.29%) Broadband
2 447 (4.59%) Firewall
3 270 (2.77%) LAN
4 268 (2.75%) DNS
5 256 (2.63%) WAN
6 189 (1.94%) TCP/IP
7 164 (1.68%) VPN
8 155 (1.59%) DHCP
9 147 (1.51%) Internet
10 110 (1.13%) VoIP
11 105 (1.08%) Wireless
12 103 (1.06%) SD-WAN
13 94 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
14 87 (0.89%) Network Security
15 72 (0.74%) WLAN
16 70 (0.72%) Intrusion Detection
17 62 (0.64%) MPLS
18 56 (0.57%) VLAN
19 50 (0.51%) BGP
19 50 (0.51%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 939 (9.64%) Power BI
2 452 (4.64%) Tableau
3 403 (4.14%) SQL Server
4 199 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
5 155 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 97 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 93 (0.95%) BigQuery
8 91 (0.93%) Relational Database
9 77 (0.79%) Oracle Database
10 76 (0.78%) Power Query
11 57 (0.59%) Data Mining
12 47 (0.48%) QlikView
13 46 (0.47%) Oracle Database 11g
14 45 (0.46%) Oracle Database 10g
14 45 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
14 45 (0.46%) VLDB
15 42 (0.43%) MySQL
16 40 (0.41%) Big Data
17 39 (0.40%) Looker
18 34 (0.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 388 (3.98%) JIRA
2 107 (1.10%) Git
3 59 (0.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 46 (0.47%) Selenium
5 35 (0.36%) Visual Studio
6 22 (0.23%) Eclipse
7 20 (0.21%) Postman
8 15 (0.15%) JMeter
9 14 (0.14%) TestRail
10 11 (0.11%) GitLab
10 11 (0.11%) Toad
11 9 (0.092%) Jenkins
11 9 (0.092%) Oracle Forms
11 9 (0.092%) Team Foundation Server
12 8 (0.082%) Burp Suite
12 8 (0.082%) Metasploit
13 7 (0.072%) NUnit
13 7 (0.072%) WebDriver
13 7 (0.072%) Zephyr
14 6 (0.062%) TeamCity
General
1 3,412 (35.02%) Social Skills
2 2,937 (30.15%) Finance
3 2,783 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
4 754 (7.74%) Retail
5 689 (7.07%) Influencing Skills
6 629 (6.46%) Law
7 617 (6.33%) Legal
8 616 (6.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 609 (6.25%) Banking
10 385 (3.95%) Organisational Skills
11 318 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
12 316 (3.24%) Marketing
13 303 (3.11%) Public Sector
14 271 (2.78%) Manufacturing
15 241 (2.47%) Investment Banking
16 174 (1.79%) Front Office
17 106 (1.09%) Police
18 104 (1.07%) Back Office
18 104 (1.07%) Telecoms
19 102 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (1.11%) .NET
2 74 (0.76%) JSON
3 68 (0.70%) Oracle Fusion
4 67 (0.69%) XML
5 65 (0.67%) REST
6 52 (0.53%) HTML
7 41 (0.42%) EDI
8 39 (0.40%) Web Services
9 34 (0.35%) FIX Protocol
10 30 (0.31%) Spring
11 29 (0.30%) J2EE
11 29 (0.30%) Java EE
12 28 (0.29%) CSS
13 22 (0.23%) OLE
14 19 (0.20%) .NET Framework
15 17 (0.17%) ARM Templates
15 17 (0.17%) Middleware
15 17 (0.17%) SOAP
16 16 (0.16%) Pandas
17 14 (0.14%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 435 (4.47%) Management Information System
2 430 (4.41%) Self-Motivation
3 274 (2.81%) Product Ownership
4 205 (2.10%) Onboarding
5 127 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 116 (1.19%) Derivative
6 116 (1.19%) Hedge funds
7 115 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
7 115 (1.18%) Fixed Income
8 103 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
9 96 (0.99%) Cyberattack
9 96 (0.99%) Driving Licence
10 93 (0.95%) Security Operations Centre
11 82 (0.84%) Life Science
12 73 (0.75%) Reinsurance
13 72 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
14 68 (0.70%) Data Centre
15 67 (0.69%) Equities
16 64 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
17 63 (0.65%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 1,222 (12.54%) Windows
2 423 (4.34%) Windows 10
3 381 (3.91%) Windows Server
4 266 (2.73%) Linux
5 173 (1.78%) Unix
6 96 (0.99%) Apple iOS
7 93 (0.95%) Android
8 68 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
9 66 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
10 63 (0.65%) Mac OS
11 60 (0.62%) Solaris
12 55 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
13 43 (0.44%) Windows 7
14 31 (0.32%) Mac OS X
15 23 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
16 19 (0.20%) Windows 8
17 14 (0.14%) VMS
18 12 (0.12%) Windows Vista
19 11 (0.11%) CentOS
19 11 (0.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,077 (21.32%) Problem-Solving
2 1,744 (17.90%) Agile
3 1,246 (12.79%) Decision-Making
4 1,060 (10.88%) Customer Service
5 1,003 (10.30%) Business Intelligence
6 990 (10.16%) Actionable Insight
7 952 (9.77%) Analytics
8 920 (9.44%) ITIL
9 829 (8.51%) Business Analysis
10 824 (8.46%) Mentoring
11 787 (8.08%) Data Analysis
12 696 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
13 687 (7.05%) Cybersecurity
14 647 (6.64%) Business Case
15 636 (6.53%) Visualisation
16 606 (6.22%) Stakeholder Management
17 555 (5.70%) Change Management
18 552 (5.67%) Project Management
19 551 (5.66%) Requirements Gathering
20 529 (5.43%) Budgeting and Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 1,966 (20.18%) SQL
2 715 (7.34%) Python
3 173 (1.78%) PowerShell
4 171 (1.76%) T-SQL
5 170 (1.75%) R
6 166 (1.70%) C#
7 98 (1.01%) VBA
8 94 (0.96%) Java
9 83 (0.85%) PL/SQL
10 72 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 65 (0.67%) JavaScript
12 39 (0.40%) Shell Script
13 38 (0.39%) Bash
14 32 (0.33%) C++
15 24 (0.25%) RPG
16 20 (0.21%) Perl
17 19 (0.20%) VB
18 13 (0.13%) PHP
18 13 (0.13%) VB.NET
19 12 (0.12%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1,757 (18.04%) Degree
2 538 (5.52%) Security Cleared
3 526 (5.40%) ACCA
4 523 (5.37%) CIMA
5 346 (3.55%) SC Cleared
6 209 (2.15%) CISSP
7 155 (1.59%) DBS Check
8 145 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
9 124 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
10 115 (1.18%) DV Cleared
10 115 (1.18%) Master's Degree
11 114 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
12 101 (1.04%) CompTIA Security+
13 92 (0.94%) CCNA
14 90 (0.92%) CISM
15 75 (0.77%) CISA
16 63 (0.65%) CCNP
17 58 (0.60%) A+ Certification
18 50 (0.51%) ISTQB
19 49 (0.50%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 382 (3.92%) SLA
2 273 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 262 (2.69%) Data Quality
4 231 (2.37%) QA
5 204 (2.09%) GDPR
6 173 (1.78%) NIST
7 111 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
8 97 (1.00%) PMO
9 77 (0.79%) GRC
10 58 (0.60%) PCI DSS
11 50 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 39 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 38 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
14 36 (0.37%) NCSC
15 34 (0.35%) ISO 9001
16 31 (0.32%) Accessibility
16 31 (0.32%) IFRS
17 28 (0.29%) COBIT
18 23 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 17025
18 23 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 989 (10.15%) Active Directory
2 155 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 67 (0.69%) Hyper-V
4 47 (0.48%) Oracle RAC
5 36 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
6 27 (0.28%) vSphere
7 23 (0.24%) Firmware
8 22 (0.23%) XenApp
9 21 (0.22%) XenDesktop
10 20 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
11 16 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
12 11 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
12 11 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
13 7 (0.072%) Docker
14 5 (0.051%) Terminal Services
15 4 (0.041%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.041%) VMware Workstation
16 2 (0.021%) BitLocker
16 2 (0.021%) Citrix Hypervisor
17 1 (0.010%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 195 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 156 (1.60%) SCCM
3 58 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
4 47 (0.48%) Data Guard
5 45 (0.46%) Oracle RMAN
6 42 (0.43%) CASB
7 34 (0.35%) WSUS
8 32 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
9 29 (0.30%) OpenSSO
10 24 (0.25%) Terraform
11 17 (0.17%) QRadar
12 16 (0.16%) EnCase
13 15 (0.15%) CSIRT
14 13 (0.13%) FortiGate
15 10 (0.10%) Grafana
16 9 (0.092%) Control-M
16 9 (0.092%) Failover Clustering
16 9 (0.092%) Progress Chef
16 9 (0.092%) vCenter Server
17 8 (0.082%) Nmap
Vendors
1 2,553 (26.21%) Microsoft
2 351 (3.60%) Oracle
3 260 (2.67%) SAP
4 257 (2.64%) VMware
5 196 (2.01%) Cisco
6 168 (1.72%) Salesforce
7 166 (1.70%) ServiceNow
8 163 (1.67%) Google
9 147 (1.51%) Citrix
10 125 (1.28%) Databricks
11 99 (1.02%) Apple
12 92 (0.94%) Alteryx
12 92 (0.94%) Remedy
13 89 (0.91%) Bloomberg
14 75 (0.77%) Splunk
15 73 (0.75%) Sun
16 70 (0.72%) Adobe
17 69 (0.71%) IBM
18 63 (0.65%) Dell
19 60 (0.62%) Sage