Operations Analyst Job Trends

Operations Analyst
UK

The median Operations Analyst salary in the UK is £46,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 June 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 637 566 588
Rank change year-on-year -71 +22 +161
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Analyst 107 97 338
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.21% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.24% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 70 38 189
10th Percentile £31,250 £38,575 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,325 £43,769 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £61,250 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year -24.49% +26.29% -11.82%
75th Percentile £60,000 £82,813 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £90,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £43,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -6.98% -4.44% -10.00%

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 89,332 40,653 100,647
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.05% 89.51% 94.74%
Number of salaries quoted 61,290 23,209 72,638
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,622 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,042 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.08% - -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 26 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Operations Analyst in the UK

Operations Analyst
Top 13 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 26 June 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 -35 98 £45,000 -30.77% 51
UK excluding London -63 54 £40,000 -6.98% 48
London -19 45 £60,000 -11.11% 19
Work from Home +6 31 £40,000 -33.33% 6
Midlands -3 20 £47,500 +6.00% 7
South East -27 19 £40,000 -21.95% 11
West Midlands -6 15 £47,500 +6.00% 3
North of England -43 12 £32,500 -7.14% 19
Yorkshire -33 8 £31,250 - 4
East Midlands -17 5 £37,000 -10.84% 4
North West -9 4 £38,100 - 11
Channel Islands - 2 - -
East of England -20 1 - - 3

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

For the 6 months to 26 June 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 35 (32.71%) Security Operations
2 27 (25.23%) Cybersecurity
3 18 (16.82%) Continuous Improvement
4 17 (15.89%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (13.08%) SIEM
6 13 (12.15%) Analytics
7 12 (11.21%) Microsoft
7 12 (11.21%) Microsoft Excel
8 11 (10.28%) Incident Response
8 11 (10.28%) Security Cleared
8 11 (10.28%) Windows
9 10 (9.35%) Business Intelligence
9 10 (9.35%) Information Security
9 10 (9.35%) ITIL
9 10 (9.35%) Power BI
9 10 (9.35%) Power Platform
10 9 (8.41%) Azure
10 9 (8.41%) Data Analysis
10 9 (8.41%) Patch Management
11 8 (7.48%) Active Directory
11 8 (7.48%) BPSS Clearance
11 8 (7.48%) DataOps
11 8 (7.48%) Incident Management
11 8 (7.48%) Power Query
11 8 (7.48%) Process Improvement
12 7 (6.54%) Cloud Security
12 7 (6.54%) Firewall
12 7 (6.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 7 (6.54%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (6.54%) SC Cleared

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 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (1.87%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.93%) CMS
2 1 (0.93%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (11.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (9.35%) Power Platform
2 9 (8.41%) Azure
3 7 (6.54%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (5.61%) Power Automate
5 5 (4.67%) AWS
6 4 (3.74%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (2.80%) GCP
8 2 (1.87%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.93%) SaaS
9 1 (0.93%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.54%) Firewall
2 4 (3.74%) DNS
2 4 (3.74%) TCP/IP
2 4 (3.74%) VPN
3 2 (1.87%) LAN
3 2 (1.87%) WAN
3 2 (1.87%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.35%) Power BI
2 8 (7.48%) Power Query
3 6 (5.61%) PowerPivot
4 4 (3.74%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (0.93%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (0.93%) GitLab
General
1 20 (18.69%) Social Skills
2 16 (14.95%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (12.15%) Finance
4 9 (8.41%) Automotive
4 9 (8.41%) Law
5 5 (4.67%) Legal
5 5 (4.67%) Retail
6 4 (3.74%) Banking
7 3 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.87%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.87%) Marketing
8 2 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.93%) Legal Technology
9 1 (0.93%) Local Government
9 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.35%) Operational Technology
1 10 (9.35%) Security Operations Centre
2 4 (3.74%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (3.74%) Management Information System
2 4 (3.74%) Replication
3 3 (2.80%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (2.80%) Cyber Defence
3 3 (2.80%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.87%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.87%) Low-Code
4 2 (1.87%) SCADA
4 2 (1.87%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.93%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (0.93%) Housing Association
5 1 (0.93%) Insider Threat
5 1 (0.93%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.93%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (10.28%) Windows
2 7 (6.54%) Windows Server
3 5 (4.67%) Linux
4 1 (0.93%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (32.71%) Security Operations
2 27 (25.23%) Cybersecurity
3 18 (16.82%) Continuous Improvement
4 17 (15.89%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (13.08%) SIEM
6 13 (12.15%) Analytics
7 11 (10.28%) Incident Response
8 10 (9.35%) Business Intelligence
8 10 (9.35%) Information Security
8 10 (9.35%) ITIL
9 9 (8.41%) Data Analysis
9 9 (8.41%) Patch Management
10 8 (7.48%) DataOps
10 8 (7.48%) Incident Management
10 8 (7.48%) Process Improvement
11 7 (6.54%) Cloud Security
11 7 (6.54%) Security Monitoring
11 7 (6.54%) Service Delivery
12 6 (5.61%) Data Analytics
12 6 (5.61%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 4 (3.74%) PowerShell
1 4 (3.74%) Python
1 4 (3.74%) SQL
2 1 (0.93%) Bash
2 1 (0.93%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (10.28%) Security Cleared
2 8 (7.48%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (6.54%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.61%) Degree
5 5 (4.67%) CISSP
6 4 (3.74%) CEH
6 4 (3.74%) DBS Check
6 4 (3.74%) GIAC
7 3 (2.80%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (2.80%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.87%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.87%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.87%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 2 (1.87%) MCSE
8 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.93%) CCNA
9 1 (0.93%) CCSP
9 1 (0.93%) CompTIA CySA+
9 1 (0.93%) GCIA
9 1 (0.93%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (4.67%) GDPR
2 5 (4.67%) GRC
2 5 (4.67%) NIST
3 3 (2.80%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.87%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.87%) SLA
5 1 (0.93%) PMO
5 1 (0.93%) QA
System Software
1 8 (7.48%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.67%) Hyper-V
3 4 (3.74%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (2.80%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.87%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (1.87%) SCCM
2 1 (0.93%) Grafana
2 1 (0.93%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (0.93%) Kibana
Vendors
1 12 (11.21%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.61%) Veeam
3 4 (3.74%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.80%) TikTok
4 3 (2.80%) VMware
5 2 (1.87%) Rapid7
5 2 (1.87%) Splunk
6 1 (0.93%) Apple
6 1 (0.93%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.93%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.93%) Meraki
6 1 (0.93%) Pega
6 1 (0.93%) SAP