Analyst
UK

The median Analyst salary in the UK is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 May 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
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 16 22
Rank change year-on-year +3 +6 +3
Permanent jobs requiring an Analyst 9,812 11,921 16,314
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.91% 11.78% 10.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.47% 12.86% 10.69%
Number of salaries quoted 6,621 7,587 11,415
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,000 £32,600
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £46,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +2.22% +3.45%
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

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 93,699 92,665 152,640
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.54% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,079 58,510 84,912
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,611
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,719 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,173
% change year-on-year -5.66% +5.64% +5.63%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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 +3 8,917 £45,000 -5.26% 1,931
UK excluding London +1 6,457 £40,000 - 1,103
Work from Home +2 3,707 £45,249 -4.74% 802
London +4 3,038 £60,000 +8.11% 880
North of England -1 1,665 £39,500 -1.25% 287
South East 0 1,564 £40,000 -3.61% 280
Midlands -1 1,229 £37,500 -6.25% 215
North West +3 930 £40,000 -4.19% 155
West Midlands +1 822 £37,500 -6.25% 131
South West +1 706 £42,500 +10.39% 115
East of England +8 653 £39,000 -1.89% 125
Yorkshire -8 555 £38,500 -3.75% 106
Scotland -35 413 £43,000 +5.26% 67
East Midlands -1 400 £36,500 -5.19% 84
North East +5 180 £35,000 -12.50% 27
Wales -8 174 £36,476 +4.22% 29
Northern Ireland +27 37 £50,000 +33.33% 13
Isle of Man -1 22 £46,500 +3.33% 1
Channel Islands -2 2 £67,500 +92.86% 1

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 13 May 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 3,431 (34.97%) Social Skills
2 2,949 (30.06%) Finance
3 2,825 (28.79%) Analytical Skills
4 2,524 (25.72%) Microsoft
5 2,113 (21.53%) Problem-Solving
6 2,015 (20.54%) SQL
7 1,817 (18.52%) Degree
8 1,710 (17.43%) Agile
9 1,549 (15.79%) Microsoft Excel
10 1,249 (12.73%) Decision-Making
11 1,198 (12.21%) Windows
12 1,089 (11.10%) Azure
13 1,084 (11.05%) Microsoft 365
14 1,048 (10.68%) Customer Service
15 1,042 (10.62%) Microsoft Office
16 1,020 (10.40%) Power Platform
17 1,015 (10.34%) Actionable Insight
18 1,002 (10.21%) Business Intelligence
19 994 (10.13%) Analytics
20 962 (9.80%) Active Directory
21 951 (9.69%) Power BI
22 917 (9.35%) ITIL
23 831 (8.47%) Business Analysis
24 825 (8.41%) Data Analysis
25 821 (8.37%) Mentoring
26 798 (8.13%) Retail
27 758 (7.73%) Python
28 708 (7.22%) Continuous Improvement
29 697 (7.10%) Cybersecurity
30 696 (7.09%) Influencing Skills

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
1 336 (3.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 319 (3.25%) SharePoint
3 142 (1.45%) Confluence
4 95 (0.97%) SAS
5 70 (0.71%) WebLogic
6 44 (0.45%) Oracle Service Bus
7 36 (0.37%) CMS
8 25 (0.25%) Apache
8 25 (0.25%) IIS
9 23 (0.23%) Apache Spark
10 16 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
11 14 (0.14%) IBM Notes
12 13 (0.13%) Skype for Business
13 9 (0.092%) WordPress
14 8 (0.082%) ArcGIS
14 8 (0.082%) Moodle
14 8 (0.082%) WebSphere
15 7 (0.071%) Exchange Server 2013
16 6 (0.061%) Exchange Server 2010
17 5 (0.051%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1,549 (15.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 1,042 (10.62%) Microsoft Office
3 232 (2.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 179 (1.82%) MS Visio
5 49 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
6 24 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
7 23 (0.23%) SPSS
8 14 (0.14%) Trello
9 6 (0.061%) LightWave 3D
9 6 (0.061%) SOLIDWORKS
10 4 (0.041%) Chatbot
11 3 (0.031%) Stata
12 2 (0.020%) EViews
12 2 (0.020%) LaTeX
12 2 (0.020%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 103 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 49 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
3 46 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
4 33 (0.34%) Aladdin
5 28 (0.29%) NEC Housing
6 26 (0.26%) Elite 3E
6 26 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
7 24 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
8 22 (0.22%) Endur
9 20 (0.20%) NetSuite
9 20 (0.20%) PlanetPress Connect
10 19 (0.19%) thinkFolio
11 18 (0.18%) iTrent
11 18 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
12 16 (0.16%) Infor SunSystems
12 16 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
13 14 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
13 14 (0.14%) Epicor Tropos
13 14 (0.14%) Oracle Financials
14 12 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 1,089 (11.10%) Azure
2 1,084 (11.05%) Microsoft 365
3 1,020 (10.40%) Power Platform
4 431 (4.39%) AWS
5 218 (2.22%) SaaS
6 185 (1.89%) Entra ID
7 183 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
8 130 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
9 80 (0.82%) GCP
10 68 (0.69%) Google Analytics
11 66 (0.67%) PowerApps
12 61 (0.62%) Power Automate
13 48 (0.49%) OneDrive
14 47 (0.48%) Azure Sentinel
15 44 (0.45%) WhatsApp
16 43 (0.44%) Mimecast
17 41 (0.42%) PaaS
18 38 (0.39%) Snowflake
19 27 (0.28%) IaaS
20 26 (0.26%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 508 (5.18%) Broadband
2 433 (4.41%) Firewall
3 272 (2.77%) DNS
4 262 (2.67%) LAN
5 246 (2.51%) WAN
6 184 (1.88%) TCP/IP
7 160 (1.63%) VPN
8 155 (1.58%) DHCP
9 148 (1.51%) Internet
10 105 (1.07%) VoIP
11 101 (1.03%) SD-WAN
12 98 (1.00%) Wireless
13 90 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
14 82 (0.84%) Network Security
15 72 (0.73%) WLAN
16 64 (0.65%) Intrusion Detection
17 61 (0.62%) MPLS
18 50 (0.51%) VLAN
19 49 (0.50%) BGP
19 49 (0.50%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 951 (9.69%) Power BI
2 493 (5.02%) Tableau
3 391 (3.98%) SQL Server
4 195 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
5 159 (1.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 91 (0.93%) BigQuery
6 91 (0.93%) Relational Database
7 89 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 75 (0.76%) Power Query
9 73 (0.74%) Oracle Database
10 60 (0.61%) Data Mining
11 46 (0.47%) QlikView
12 44 (0.45%) Oracle Database 10g
12 44 (0.45%) Oracle Database 11g
12 44 (0.45%) VLDB
13 43 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
14 41 (0.42%) Looker
15 40 (0.41%) Big Data
15 40 (0.41%) MySQL
16 32 (0.33%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 372 (3.79%) JIRA
2 142 (1.45%) Git
3 54 (0.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 44 (0.45%) Selenium
5 35 (0.36%) Visual Studio
6 24 (0.24%) Eclipse
7 20 (0.20%) Postman
8 15 (0.15%) JMeter
8 15 (0.15%) TestRail
9 11 (0.11%) GitLab
10 10 (0.10%) Burp Suite
10 10 (0.10%) Metasploit
10 10 (0.10%) Team Foundation Server
10 10 (0.10%) Toad
11 9 (0.092%) Jenkins
11 9 (0.092%) Oracle Forms
12 7 (0.071%) NUnit
12 7 (0.071%) TeamCity
12 7 (0.071%) WebDriver
13 6 (0.061%) Zephyr
General
1 3,431 (34.97%) Social Skills
2 2,949 (30.06%) Finance
3 2,825 (28.79%) Analytical Skills
4 798 (8.13%) Retail
5 696 (7.09%) Influencing Skills
6 675 (6.88%) Legal
7 638 (6.50%) Law
8 631 (6.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 624 (6.36%) Banking
10 391 (3.98%) Organisational Skills
11 353 (3.60%) Presentation Skills
12 323 (3.29%) Marketing
13 294 (3.00%) Public Sector
14 270 (2.75%) Manufacturing
15 231 (2.35%) Investment Banking
16 185 (1.89%) Front Office
17 111 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
18 108 (1.10%) Police
19 101 (1.03%) Back Office
20 100 (1.02%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (1.13%) .NET
2 67 (0.68%) JSON
3 66 (0.67%) REST
4 65 (0.66%) Oracle Fusion
5 62 (0.63%) XML
6 50 (0.51%) HTML
7 46 (0.47%) EDI
8 39 (0.40%) Web Services
9 33 (0.34%) FIX Protocol
10 29 (0.30%) CSS
11 27 (0.28%) Spring
12 26 (0.26%) J2EE
12 26 (0.26%) Java EE
13 22 (0.22%) OLE
14 19 (0.19%) .NET Framework
15 16 (0.16%) Middleware
15 16 (0.16%) SOAP
16 15 (0.15%) Pandas
16 15 (0.15%) SAML
17 14 (0.14%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 428 (4.36%) Management Information System
2 393 (4.01%) Self-Motivation
3 268 (2.73%) Product Ownership
4 217 (2.21%) Onboarding
5 129 (1.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 121 (1.23%) Hedge funds
7 119 (1.21%) Fixed Income
8 117 (1.19%) Derivative
9 107 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
10 106 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
11 102 (1.04%) Cyberattack
12 99 (1.01%) Driving Licence
13 90 (0.92%) Security Operations Centre
14 86 (0.88%) Life Science
15 71 (0.72%) Equities
16 70 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
17 69 (0.70%) Data Centre
17 69 (0.70%) Reinsurance
18 63 (0.64%) Credit Risk
19 62 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1,198 (12.21%) Windows
2 423 (4.31%) Windows 10
3 379 (3.86%) Windows Server
4 257 (2.62%) Linux
5 166 (1.69%) Unix
6 100 (1.02%) Apple iOS
7 91 (0.93%) Android
8 65 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
9 61 (0.62%) Mac OS
9 61 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
10 58 (0.59%) Solaris
11 50 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
12 40 (0.41%) Windows 7
13 30 (0.31%) Mac OS X
14 18 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
15 17 (0.17%) Windows 8
16 13 (0.13%) VMS
17 12 (0.12%) Windows Vista
18 11 (0.11%) CentOS
18 11 (0.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,113 (21.53%) Problem-Solving
2 1,710 (17.43%) Agile
3 1,249 (12.73%) Decision-Making
4 1,048 (10.68%) Customer Service
5 1,015 (10.34%) Actionable Insight
6 1,002 (10.21%) Business Intelligence
7 994 (10.13%) Analytics
8 917 (9.35%) ITIL
9 831 (8.47%) Business Analysis
10 825 (8.41%) Data Analysis
11 821 (8.37%) Mentoring
12 708 (7.22%) Continuous Improvement
13 697 (7.10%) Cybersecurity
14 678 (6.91%) Visualisation
15 639 (6.51%) Business Case
16 580 (5.91%) Stakeholder Management
17 566 (5.77%) Mathematics
18 558 (5.69%) Project Management
19 549 (5.60%) Change Management
20 546 (5.56%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 2,015 (20.54%) SQL
2 758 (7.73%) Python
3 180 (1.83%) R
4 165 (1.68%) T-SQL
5 162 (1.65%) C#
6 158 (1.61%) PowerShell
7 97 (0.99%) VBA
8 88 (0.90%) Java
9 81 (0.83%) PL/SQL
10 71 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 66 (0.67%) JavaScript
12 36 (0.37%) Bash
13 35 (0.36%) Shell Script
14 29 (0.30%) C++
15 26 (0.26%) RPG
16 20 (0.20%) Perl
17 19 (0.19%) VB
18 14 (0.14%) MATLAB
19 13 (0.13%) VB.NET
20 12 (0.12%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,817 (18.52%) Degree
2 537 (5.47%) CIMA
2 537 (5.47%) Security Cleared
3 533 (5.43%) ACCA
4 343 (3.50%) SC Cleared
5 206 (2.10%) CISSP
6 193 (1.97%) DBS Check
7 128 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
8 125 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
9 119 (1.21%) DV Cleared
10 118 (1.20%) Master's Degree
11 107 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
12 96 (0.98%) CISM
13 93 (0.95%) CompTIA Security+
14 83 (0.85%) CCNA
15 77 (0.78%) CISA
16 61 (0.62%) CCNP
17 57 (0.58%) A+ Certification
18 51 (0.52%) ISTQB
19 46 (0.47%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 366 (3.73%) SLA
2 280 (2.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 262 (2.67%) Data Quality
4 247 (2.52%) QA
5 229 (2.33%) GDPR
6 174 (1.77%) NIST
7 106 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
8 97 (0.99%) PMO
9 82 (0.84%) GRC
10 59 (0.60%) PCI DSS
11 50 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 38 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
13 37 (0.38%) ISO 9001
13 37 (0.38%) NCSC
14 35 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 35 (0.36%) IFRS
15 31 (0.32%) Accessibility
15 31 (0.32%) COBIT
16 23 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 17025
17 18 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 962 (9.80%) Active Directory
2 141 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 67 (0.68%) Hyper-V
4 46 (0.47%) Oracle RAC
5 37 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
6 27 (0.28%) XenApp
7 26 (0.26%) vSphere
7 26 (0.26%) XenDesktop
8 23 (0.23%) Firmware
9 20 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
10 16 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
11 11 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
11 11 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
12 6 (0.061%) Docker
13 5 (0.051%) Terminal Services
14 4 (0.041%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.041%) VMware Workstation
15 2 (0.020%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 1 (0.010%) DFS Replication
16 1 (0.010%) IAG
Systems Management
1 191 (1.95%) Microsoft Intune
2 154 (1.57%) SCCM
3 55 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
4 46 (0.47%) Data Guard
5 44 (0.45%) Oracle RMAN
6 38 (0.39%) CASB
7 34 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
7 34 (0.35%) WSUS
8 31 (0.32%) Terraform
9 26 (0.26%) OpenSSO
10 20 (0.20%) QRadar
11 15 (0.15%) EnCase
12 13 (0.13%) CSIRT
13 11 (0.11%) FortiGate
14 10 (0.10%) Grafana
14 10 (0.10%) Nmap
15 9 (0.092%) Failover Clustering
15 9 (0.092%) Nessus
15 9 (0.092%) vCenter Server
16 8 (0.082%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2,524 (25.72%) Microsoft
2 331 (3.37%) Oracle
3 272 (2.77%) SAP
4 246 (2.51%) VMware
5 185 (1.89%) Cisco
6 166 (1.69%) Google
7 165 (1.68%) Salesforce
8 161 (1.64%) ServiceNow
9 159 (1.62%) Databricks
10 146 (1.49%) Citrix
11 98 (1.00%) Apple
12 94 (0.96%) Alteryx
13 87 (0.89%) Remedy
14 85 (0.87%) Bloomberg
15 75 (0.76%) Splunk
16 73 (0.74%) Sun
17 70 (0.71%) IBM
18 69 (0.70%) Adobe
19 61 (0.62%) Dell
20 58 (0.59%) Sage