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 4 February 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 586 508 524
Rank change year-on-year -78 +16 +314
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Analyst 73 194 286
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.38% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.41% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 39 69 156
10th Percentile £30,625 £29,700 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,500 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year - -7.22% +13.45%
75th Percentile £63,125 £65,000 £60,313
90th Percentile £76,000 £68,000 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £40,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -17.53% +15.48%

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 58,749 46,938 69,506
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.97% 91.97% 94.99%
Number of salaries quoted 36,633 24,273 54,572
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £74,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.75% +9.59% -4.76%

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 4 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Operations Analyst in the UK

Operations Analyst
Top 16 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 4 February 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 -53 64 £45,000 -5.26% 25
UK excluding London -81 40 £45,000 +12.50% 19
London +27 30 £70,000 +12.00% 11
Work from Home -9 19 £40,000 -17.95% 10
North of England -47 13 £31,250 -25.21% 1
South East -4 8 £45,000 -5.26% 9
Midlands +8 7 £33,000 -17.51% 6
Yorkshire -30 7 £31,250 -51.92% 1
East of England +20 6 £45,000 +80.07%
West Midlands +25 4 £32,000 -20.00% 2
North West -18 3 £64,250 +60.63%
Scotland -41 3 - -
East Midlands - 3 £37,000 - 4
North East - 3 - -
Channel Islands - 2 - -
Wales -2 1 £50,000 +25.00%

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

For the 6 months to 4 February 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 18 (24.66%) Cybersecurity
2 16 (21.92%) Degree
3 15 (20.55%) Continuous Improvement
4 13 (17.81%) Security Operations
5 12 (16.44%) Python
5 12 (16.44%) SQL
6 10 (13.70%) Analytics
6 10 (13.70%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (13.70%) VBA
6 10 (13.70%) Windows
7 9 (12.33%) Azure
7 9 (12.33%) Microsoft
7 9 (12.33%) Microsoft Excel
8 8 (10.96%) Batch Scripting
8 8 (10.96%) Blue Prism
8 8 (10.96%) Business Strategy
8 8 (10.96%) Data Analysis
8 8 (10.96%) Incident Response
8 8 (10.96%) Pega
8 8 (10.96%) TDD
8 8 (10.96%) Test Automation
9 7 (9.59%) Agile
9 7 (9.59%) Incident Management
9 7 (9.59%) Information Security
9 7 (9.59%) ITIL
9 7 (9.59%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (9.59%) Power BI
9 7 (9.59%) Power Platform
9 7 (9.59%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (9.59%) Visualisation

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 4 (5.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.74%) FactoryTalk
2 2 (2.74%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.74%) WinCC
Applications
1 9 (12.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (8.22%) AutoCAD
3 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.37%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 9 (12.33%) Azure
2 7 (9.59%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (9.59%) Power Platform
3 5 (6.85%) AWS
4 4 (5.48%) Power Automate
5 3 (4.11%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (4.11%) SaaS
6 2 (2.74%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.74%) GCP
6 2 (2.74%) IaaS
6 2 (2.74%) PaaS
6 2 (2.74%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.37%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.37%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.37%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.37%) GitHub
7 1 (1.37%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.37%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.37%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.22%) Firewall
2 5 (6.85%) VPN
3 2 (2.74%) DHCP
3 2 (2.74%) DNS
3 2 (2.74%) Ethernet
4 1 (1.37%) Broadband
4 1 (1.37%) IPv4
4 1 (1.37%) IPv6
4 1 (1.37%) LAN
4 1 (1.37%) MPLS
4 1 (1.37%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.37%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.59%) Power BI
2 6 (8.22%) Geospatial Data
2 6 (8.22%) GIS
2 6 (8.22%) Metadata
2 6 (8.22%) QGIS
2 6 (8.22%) Spatial Data
3 4 (5.48%) Power Query
3 4 (5.48%) PowerPivot
4 3 (4.11%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.37%) Looker
5 1 (1.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (2.74%) JIRA
2 1 (1.37%) GitLab
General
1 29 (39.73%) Social Skills
2 16 (21.92%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (21.92%) Legal
3 10 (13.70%) Banking
3 10 (13.70%) Finance
4 9 (12.33%) Retail
5 8 (10.96%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (10.96%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (6.85%) Automotive
7 3 (4.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (4.11%) Law
8 2 (2.74%) Marketing
8 2 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.37%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.74%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.07%) Security Operations Centre
2 8 (10.96%) Mobile App
3 7 (9.59%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (8.22%) Renewable Energy
4 6 (8.22%) Security Posture
5 4 (5.48%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (5.48%) Operational Technology
6 3 (4.11%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (4.11%) Cyber Security Posture
7 2 (2.74%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (2.74%) Insider Threat
7 2 (2.74%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.74%) SCADA
8 1 (1.37%) Blog
8 1 (1.37%) Clustering
8 1 (1.37%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 1 (1.37%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.37%) Podcast
8 1 (1.37%) Smart Meter
8 1 (1.37%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 10 (13.70%) Windows
2 6 (8.22%) Linux
3 4 (5.48%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.74%) Mac OS
4 2 (2.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (24.66%) Cybersecurity
2 15 (20.55%) Continuous Improvement
3 13 (17.81%) Security Operations
4 10 (13.70%) Analytics
4 10 (13.70%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (10.96%) Batch Scripting
5 8 (10.96%) Business Strategy
5 8 (10.96%) Data Analysis
5 8 (10.96%) Incident Response
5 8 (10.96%) TDD
5 8 (10.96%) Test Automation
6 7 (9.59%) Agile
6 7 (9.59%) Incident Management
6 7 (9.59%) Information Security
6 7 (9.59%) ITIL
6 7 (9.59%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (9.59%) Visualisation
7 6 (8.22%) Data Visualisation
7 6 (8.22%) ITSM
7 6 (8.22%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 12 (16.44%) Python
1 12 (16.44%) SQL
2 10 (13.70%) VBA
3 4 (5.48%) Bash
3 4 (5.48%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (21.92%) Degree
2 5 (6.85%) CISSP
2 5 (6.85%) SSCP
3 4 (5.48%) Security Cleared
4 3 (4.11%) CompTIA Security+
4 3 (4.11%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.74%) GCIA
5 2 (2.74%) GCIH
5 2 (2.74%) GIAC
5 2 (2.74%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.37%) CBAP
6 1 (1.37%) CCNA
6 1 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.37%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.22%) QA
2 2 (2.74%) GDPR
2 2 (2.74%) NIST
2 2 (2.74%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.37%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (8.22%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.48%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.74%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (4.11%) SCCM
2 2 (2.74%) AssetCenter
2 2 (2.74%) Grafana
2 2 (2.74%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (1.37%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
3 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (12.33%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.96%) Blue Prism
2 8 (10.96%) Pega
3 6 (8.22%) ESRI
3 6 (8.22%) ServiceNow
4 4 (5.48%) VMware
5 3 (4.11%) Palo Alto
6 2 (2.74%) Apple
6 2 (2.74%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.74%) Cisco
6 2 (2.74%) Kepware
6 2 (2.74%) Rapid7
6 2 (2.74%) Rockwell
6 2 (2.74%) Siemens
7 1 (1.37%) Dell
7 1 (1.37%) Google
7 1 (1.37%) HP
7 1 (1.37%) Meraki
7 1 (1.37%) Okta