Operations Analyst Jobs

Operations Analyst
UK

The median Operations Analyst salary in the UK is £48,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 568 726 932
Rank change year-on-year +158 +206 -102
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Analyst 288 161 345
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.20% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.22% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 137 105 124
10th Percentile £29,000 £36,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £40,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £50,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +17.65% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £63,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £67,500 £71,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £48,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +28.00% -9.64%

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 85,709 74,085 167,386
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.83% 91.81% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 58,134 51,472 87,435
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,800 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%

Operations Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Operations Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Operations Analyst in the UK

Operations Analyst
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Operations Analyst.

Salary trend for Operations Analyst in the UK

Operations Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Operations Analyst over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Operations Analyst in the UK

Operations Analyst
Top 15 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 July 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 +138 257 £48,500 -11.82% 23
UK excluding London +75 182 £45,000 -6.25% 14
London +78 78 £55,000 - 8
Work from Home +75 69 £48,500 -15.65% 16
Midlands +12 46 £48,500 -15.65% 1
South East +29 44 £45,000 -2.17% 4
South West +31 39 £46,750 -15.00% 4
North of England +28 39 £45,000 -18.18% 4
West Midlands +25 39 £48,500 -15.65% 1
North West +9 23 £49,342 +31.58% 2
Yorkshire +55 11 £42,500 -32.00% 2
East of England +5 11 £30,000 -16.67%
East Midlands -23 7 £33,500 -
North East - 5 £41,250 -
Scotland -53 3 £39,000 -23.98% 1

Operations Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, Operations 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 Operations Analyst in the job title.

1 87 (30.21%) Finance
2 86 (29.86%) Social Skills
3 69 (23.96%) Microsoft
4 63 (21.88%) Analytical Skills
5 56 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
6 50 (17.36%) Continuous Improvement
7 46 (15.97%) Degree
8 44 (15.28%) Change Management
9 40 (13.89%) Microsoft Excel
9 40 (13.89%) Security Operations
10 39 (13.54%) Active Directory
10 39 (13.54%) Firewall
11 37 (12.85%) Banking
11 37 (12.85%) ITIL
11 37 (12.85%) VoIP
11 37 (12.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 35 (12.15%) Law
12 35 (12.15%) Agile
13 29 (10.07%) Retail
13 29 (10.07%) Customer Service
14 28 (9.72%) WLAN
14 28 (9.72%) LAN
14 28 (9.72%) SIEM
15 27 (9.38%) Cybersecurity
15 27 (9.38%) SQL
15 27 (9.38%) Windows
15 27 (9.38%) Mentoring
16 26 (9.03%) Organisational Skills
16 26 (9.03%) Business Intelligence
17 25 (8.68%) Incident Management

Operations 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 4 (1.39%) Confluence
1 4 (1.39%) IIS
2 2 (0.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 40 (13.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.74%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.35%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 22 (7.64%) Power Platform
2 19 (6.60%) AWS
3 17 (5.90%) Azure
4 9 (3.13%) SaaS
5 7 (2.43%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (1.39%) GCP
6 4 (1.39%) OCI
7 3 (1.04%) Slack
8 2 (0.69%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (0.69%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (0.69%) IaaS
8 2 (0.69%) PaaS
8 2 (0.69%) Serverless
9 1 (0.35%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 39 (13.54%) Firewall
2 37 (12.85%) VoIP
3 28 (9.72%) LAN
3 28 (9.72%) WLAN
4 25 (8.68%) SD-WAN
5 20 (6.94%) BGP
5 20 (6.94%) OSPF
6 19 (6.60%) WAN
7 14 (4.86%) MPLS
8 13 (4.51%) Intrusion Detection
9 12 (4.17%) EIGRP
10 11 (3.82%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (2.78%) HSRP
11 8 (2.78%) VLAN
11 8 (2.78%) VPN
12 6 (2.08%) Spanning Tree
12 6 (2.08%) VRRP
12 6 (2.08%) Wireless
12 6 (2.08%) Wireshark
13 4 (1.39%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.64%) Power BI
2 3 (1.04%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (1.04%) Tableau
3 1 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.35%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 10 (3.47%) JIRA
2 2 (0.69%) Postman
3 1 (0.35%) Eclipse
General
1 87 (30.21%) Finance
2 86 (29.86%) Social Skills
3 63 (21.88%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (12.85%) Banking
4 37 (12.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 35 (12.15%) Law
6 29 (10.07%) Retail
7 26 (9.03%) Organisational Skills
8 18 (6.25%) Investment Banking
9 14 (4.86%) Pharmaceutical
10 13 (4.51%) Manufacturing
10 13 (4.51%) Marketing
11 10 (3.47%) Billing
11 10 (3.47%) Public Sector
12 7 (2.43%) Military
13 6 (2.08%) Legal
14 4 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.69%) Aviation
15 2 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.69%) Prime Brokerage
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.04%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (0.69%) OpenID
3 1 (0.35%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.64%) Management Information System
2 20 (6.94%) Fat Client
2 20 (6.94%) Thin Client
3 19 (6.60%) Security Operations Centre
4 18 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (4.86%) Biopharmaceutical
5 14 (4.86%) Virtual Team
6 11 (3.82%) Cyberattack
7 10 (3.47%) Cyber Defence
8 9 (3.13%) Smart Home
9 8 (2.78%) Onboarding
10 7 (2.43%) FMCG
11 5 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.74%) Blog
12 4 (1.39%) Low-Code
13 3 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
14 2 (0.69%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 2 (0.69%) Hedge funds
14 2 (0.69%) Product Ownership
14 2 (0.69%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 27 (9.38%) Windows
2 24 (8.33%) Linux
3 7 (2.43%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.39%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.69%) Unix
6 1 (0.35%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.35%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
2 50 (17.36%) Continuous Improvement
3 44 (15.28%) Change Management
4 40 (13.89%) Security Operations
5 37 (12.85%) ITIL
6 35 (12.15%) Agile
7 29 (10.07%) Customer Service
8 28 (9.72%) SIEM
9 27 (9.38%) Cybersecurity
9 27 (9.38%) Mentoring
10 26 (9.03%) Business Intelligence
11 25 (8.68%) Incident Management
11 25 (8.68%) Incident Response
12 23 (7.99%) Asset Management
12 23 (7.99%) Service Delivery
13 22 (7.64%) ERP
14 21 (7.29%) Tech Ops
15 20 (6.94%) Project Delivery
15 20 (6.94%) Project Planning
16 19 (6.60%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 27 (9.38%) SQL
2 16 (5.56%) Python
3 6 (2.08%) R
4 4 (1.39%) PowerShell
5 3 (1.04%) Bash
5 3 (1.04%) MATLAB
6 2 (0.69%) VBA
7 1 (0.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 46 (15.97%) Degree
2 20 (6.94%) Security Cleared
3 16 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
4 14 (4.86%) CCDP
4 14 (4.86%) CCIE
4 14 (4.86%) CCNP
5 13 (4.51%) CISA
5 13 (4.51%) CISM
5 13 (4.51%) CISSP
5 13 (4.51%) SC Cleared
6 11 (3.82%) CompTIA CySA+
6 11 (3.82%) Master's Degree
7 8 (2.78%) CCNA
8 6 (2.08%) CCIE Routing and Switching
9 5 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.74%) PhD
10 2 (0.69%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.69%) CCSP
10 2 (0.69%) CEH
10 2 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.86%) QA
2 10 (3.47%) Data Quality
2 10 (3.47%) GDPR
3 7 (2.43%) NIST
3 7 (2.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 7 (2.43%) SLA
4 6 (2.08%) GxP
5 2 (0.69%) FedRAMP
5 2 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.35%) EMIR
6 1 (0.35%) MiFID
6 1 (0.35%) Solvency II
System Software
1 39 (13.54%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.08%) Firmware
2 6 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.39%) vSphere
4 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 20 (6.94%) SCCM
2 4 (1.39%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 69 (23.96%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.21%) Cisco
3 11 (3.82%) Salesforce
4 9 (3.13%) SAP
5 8 (2.78%) Apple
6 7 (2.43%) Meraki
6 7 (2.43%) Oracle
7 6 (2.08%) Ekahau
7 6 (2.08%) VMware
8 4 (1.39%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (1.39%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.04%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.69%) Adobe
10 2 (0.69%) Cadence
10 2 (0.69%) CheckPoint
10 2 (0.69%) IBM
10 2 (0.69%) Nintex
10 2 (0.69%) Qualys
10 2 (0.69%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.69%) Symantec