Operations Analyst Job Trends

Operations Analyst
UK

The median Operations Analyst salary in the UK is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 August 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 668 607 557
Rank change year-on-year -61 -50 +135
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Analyst 126 88 269
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.18% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.20% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 87 42 116
10th Percentile £34,000 £38,275 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,525 £43,358 £39,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £58,750 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.40% +21.13% -3.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £86,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £90,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £43,905 £45,000
% change year-on-year -8.89% -2.43% -6.25%

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 98,527 44,645 79,471
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.16% 90.04% 94.94%
Number of salaries quoted 67,450 26,505 53,682
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,991
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -6.54%

Operations Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Operations Analyst job vacancy trend in the UK

Operations Analyst
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Operations Analyst job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Operations Analyst job vacancies in the UK

Operations Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Operations Analyst over the 6 months to 6 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Operations Analyst in the UK

Operations Analyst
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 6 August 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 -42 119 £40,000 -37.25% 57
UK excluding London -72 69 £40,000 -8.89% 53
London -29 50 £55,000 -21.43% 17
Work from Home -30 33 £40,000 -30.43% 10
South East -22 26 £40,000 -27.27% 15
North of England -37 23 £38,350 +0.92% 17
Midlands -27 16 £47,500 +6.00% 9
West Midlands -18 14 £47,500 +6.00% 4
Yorkshire -21 12 £32,500 -14.47% 5
North West -5 11 £40,000 - 10
East of England -24 4 £32,000 -25.58% 4
East Midlands -16 2 - - 5

Operations Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 6 August 2026, Operations 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 Operations Analyst in the job title.

1 32 (25.40%) Security Operations
2 21 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 21 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (15.87%) Cybersecurity
4 15 (11.90%) Business Intelligence
4 15 (11.90%) DataOps
4 15 (11.90%) ITIL
5 14 (11.11%) Data Analysis
5 14 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
5 14 (11.11%) Process Improvement
6 13 (10.32%) Power BI
6 13 (10.32%) Power Platform
7 12 (9.52%) Decision-Making
7 12 (9.52%) Microsoft
7 12 (9.52%) SQL
8 11 (8.73%) Customer Service
8 11 (8.73%) Degree
8 11 (8.73%) Incident Management
8 11 (8.73%) Information Security
8 11 (8.73%) Security Cleared
8 11 (8.73%) Windows
9 10 (7.94%) Patch Management
9 10 (7.94%) SIEM
10 9 (7.14%) Analytics
10 9 (7.14%) Incident Response
10 9 (7.14%) Service Delivery
11 8 (6.35%) AI
11 8 (6.35%) BPSS Clearance
12 7 (5.56%) Actionable Insight
12 7 (5.56%) Active Directory

Operations 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 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (2.38%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.79%) CMS
2 1 (0.79%) Confluence
Applications
1 14 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (10.32%) Power Platform
2 7 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (4.76%) AWS
3 6 (4.76%) Azure
4 3 (2.38%) Entra ID
4 3 (2.38%) Power Automate
4 3 (2.38%) WeChat
5 2 (1.59%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (1.59%) GCP
6 1 (0.79%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.79%) Datadog
6 1 (0.79%) dbt
6 1 (0.79%) SaaS
6 1 (0.79%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.76%) Firewall
2 5 (3.97%) DNS
2 5 (3.97%) VPN
3 4 (3.17%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.38%) LAN
4 3 (2.38%) WAN
5 2 (1.59%) Wireless
6 1 (0.79%) DHCP
6 1 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.32%) Power BI
2 6 (4.76%) Tableau
3 5 (3.97%) Power Query
4 4 (3.17%) Crystal Reports
5 3 (2.38%) Metadata
5 3 (2.38%) PowerPivot
6 2 (1.59%) Looker
6 2 (1.59%) MySQL
7 1 (0.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (1.59%) JIRA
2 1 (0.79%) GitLab
General
1 28 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 22 (17.46%) Finance
2 22 (17.46%) Social Skills
3 9 (7.14%) Law
4 7 (5.56%) Automotive
4 7 (5.56%) Legal
5 6 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.97%) Retail
7 4 (3.17%) Aerospace
7 4 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.38%) Banking
8 3 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.38%) Local Government
8 3 (2.38%) Mandarin Language
8 3 (2.38%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.59%) Billing
10 1 (0.79%) Marketing
10 1 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.94%) Operational Technology
2 7 (5.56%) Management Information System
3 6 (4.76%) Security Operations Centre
4 5 (3.97%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.17%) Replication
6 3 (2.38%) Housing Association
6 3 (2.38%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.59%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.59%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.59%) SCADA
7 2 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.79%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.79%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.79%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.79%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.73%) Windows
2 7 (5.56%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.38%) Linux
4 1 (0.79%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (25.40%) Security Operations
2 21 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 21 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (15.87%) Cybersecurity
4 15 (11.90%) Business Intelligence
4 15 (11.90%) DataOps
4 15 (11.90%) ITIL
5 14 (11.11%) Data Analysis
5 14 (11.11%) Process Improvement
6 12 (9.52%) Decision-Making
7 11 (8.73%) Customer Service
7 11 (8.73%) Incident Management
7 11 (8.73%) Information Security
8 10 (7.94%) Patch Management
8 10 (7.94%) SIEM
9 9 (7.14%) Analytics
9 9 (7.14%) Incident Response
9 9 (7.14%) Service Delivery
10 8 (6.35%) AI
11 7 (5.56%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 12 (9.52%) SQL
2 7 (5.56%) PowerShell
2 7 (5.56%) Python
3 1 (0.79%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (8.73%) Degree
1 11 (8.73%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.35%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (5.56%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.17%) CEH
4 4 (3.17%) CISSP
4 4 (3.17%) DBS Check
5 3 (2.38%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (2.38%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.38%) GIAC
5 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.59%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.59%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 2 (1.59%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.59%) MCSE
7 1 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.79%) CCSP
7 1 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (3.97%) GRC
3 4 (3.17%) GDPR
3 4 (3.17%) NIST
4 3 (2.38%) PMO
4 3 (2.38%) SLA
5 2 (1.59%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.59%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.79%) QA
System Software
1 7 (5.56%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.17%) Hyper-V
2 4 (3.17%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.59%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (2.38%) Grafana
1 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.59%) SCCM
3 1 (0.79%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.79%) Kibana
3 1 (0.79%) SCOM
Vendors
1 12 (9.52%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.76%) Veeam
3 4 (3.17%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.38%) SAP
4 3 (2.38%) TikTok
5 2 (1.59%) Splunk
5 2 (1.59%) VMware
6 1 (0.79%) Apple
6 1 (0.79%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.79%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.79%) Meraki
6 1 (0.79%) Pega
6 1 (0.79%) SolarWinds