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 to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 601 839 933
Rank change year-on-year +238 +94 -155
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Analyst 314 141 270
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.14% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.15% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 194 80 142
10th Percentile £29,300 £35,725 £26,925
25th Percentile £41,036 £41,250 £33,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +11.11% -2.17%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £60,938
90th Percentile £80,000 £67,500 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £46,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year +5.43% +22.67% -12.08%

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 93,878 92,381 151,160
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,248 58,258 84,340
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

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 10 May 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 10 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 +257 298 £48,500 -3.00% 73
UK excluding London +151 208 £48,500 +5.43% 31
Work from Home +127 108 £48,500 -11.82% 32
London +127 96 £55,000 - 42
Midlands +69 91 £48,500 -15.65% 3
West Midlands +76 80 £48,500 -20.82% 2
South West +16 38 £48,500 +17.58% 5
North of England +62 30 £31,000 -39.51% 9
South East +22 28 £45,000 +4.65% 10
North West +12 17 £31,000 -39.51% 6
East of England +31 15 £30,000 -45.45% 5
East Midlands -7 11 £40,000 +33.33% 1
Yorkshire +89 9 £42,500 -10.53% 3
Scotland -53 6 £39,174 -
North East - 4 £37,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 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 88 (28.03%) Social Skills
2 83 (26.43%) Finance
3 69 (21.97%) Microsoft
4 66 (21.02%) Analytical Skills
5 59 (18.79%) Problem-Solving
6 58 (18.47%) LAN
7 57 (18.15%) WLAN
7 57 (18.15%) Continuous Improvement
8 54 (17.20%) SD-WAN
9 52 (16.56%) Degree
10 45 (14.33%) ITIL
10 45 (14.33%) Active Directory
11 43 (13.69%) SQL
11 43 (13.69%) WAN
12 40 (12.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 37 (11.78%) CCDP
13 37 (11.78%) Cisco Certification
13 37 (11.78%) CCIE
13 37 (11.78%) CCNP
13 37 (11.78%) MPLS
13 37 (11.78%) OSPF
13 37 (11.78%) BGP
14 35 (11.15%) Law
14 35 (11.15%) Customer Service
14 35 (11.15%) Roadmaps
15 34 (10.83%) Cybersecurity
15 34 (10.83%) Change Management
15 34 (10.83%) Microsoft Excel
15 34 (10.83%) Azure
16 33 (10.51%) Banking

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 5 (1.59%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.27%) IIS
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 34 (10.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (3.82%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.27%) Adaptiv
2 2 (0.64%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.32%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.32%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.32%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 34 (10.83%) Azure
2 30 (9.55%) Power Platform
3 21 (6.69%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (3.50%) AWS
5 9 (2.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (1.59%) SaaS
7 4 (1.27%) GCP
7 4 (1.27%) OCI
8 2 (0.64%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.32%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.32%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.32%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.32%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.32%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.32%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 58 (18.47%) LAN
2 57 (18.15%) WLAN
3 54 (17.20%) SD-WAN
4 43 (13.69%) WAN
5 37 (11.78%) BGP
5 37 (11.78%) MPLS
5 37 (11.78%) OSPF
6 28 (8.92%) VoIP
7 20 (6.37%) Firewall
8 11 (3.50%) TCP/IP
9 9 (2.87%) VPN
10 8 (2.55%) VLAN
11 7 (2.23%) DNS
12 6 (1.91%) EIGRP
12 6 (1.91%) HSRP
12 6 (1.91%) Spanning Tree
12 6 (1.91%) VRRP
12 6 (1.91%) Wireless
12 6 (1.91%) Wireshark
13 4 (1.27%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (9.55%) Power BI
2 18 (5.73%) Tableau
3 9 (2.87%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle OWB
4 1 (0.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (0.64%) JIRA
1 2 (0.64%) Postman
2 1 (0.32%) Eclipse
General
1 88 (28.03%) Social Skills
2 83 (26.43%) Finance
3 66 (21.02%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (12.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 35 (11.15%) Law
6 33 (10.51%) Banking
7 28 (8.92%) Retail
8 26 (8.28%) Organisational Skills
9 23 (7.32%) Investment Banking
10 13 (4.14%) Military
11 10 (3.18%) Manufacturing
11 10 (3.18%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (1.91%) Legal
12 6 (1.91%) Marketing
13 4 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.27%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.96%) Front Office
15 2 (0.64%) Aviation
15 2 (0.64%) Prime Brokerage
16 1 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.87%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (0.64%) OpenID
3 1 (0.32%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.60%) Self-Motivation
2 20 (6.37%) Fat Client
2 20 (6.37%) Thin Client
3 13 (4.14%) Cyberattack
4 12 (3.82%) Management Information System
5 11 (3.50%) Virtual Team
6 10 (3.18%) Biopharmaceutical
6 10 (3.18%) Data Centre
6 10 (3.18%) Security Operations Centre
7 7 (2.23%) FMCG
8 5 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.59%) Blog
8 5 (1.59%) Hedge funds
9 4 (1.27%) Credit Risk
9 4 (1.27%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (0.96%) Driving Licence
10 3 (0.96%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.64%) Low-Code
11 2 (0.64%) Reinsurance
11 2 (0.64%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 30 (9.55%) Windows
2 18 (5.73%) Linux
3 6 (1.91%) Windows 10
3 6 (1.91%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.59%) Unix
5 2 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.32%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (18.79%) Problem-Solving
2 57 (18.15%) Continuous Improvement
3 45 (14.33%) ITIL
4 35 (11.15%) Customer Service
4 35 (11.15%) Roadmaps
5 34 (10.83%) Change Management
5 34 (10.83%) Cybersecurity
6 31 (9.87%) Agile
7 28 (8.92%) Security Operations
8 26 (8.28%) Mentoring
8 26 (8.28%) Service Delivery
9 25 (7.96%) Business Intelligence
10 23 (7.32%) ERP
11 22 (7.01%) Process Improvement
12 21 (6.69%) Asset Management
13 20 (6.37%) Analytics
13 20 (6.37%) Project Planning
13 20 (6.37%) Tech Ops
14 19 (6.05%) Data Analysis
15 18 (5.73%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 43 (13.69%) SQL
2 26 (8.28%) Python
3 10 (3.18%) R
4 6 (1.91%) PowerShell
4 6 (1.91%) VBA
5 1 (0.32%) Bash
5 1 (0.32%) MATLAB
5 1 (0.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 52 (16.56%) Degree
2 37 (11.78%) CCDP
2 37 (11.78%) CCIE
2 37 (11.78%) CCNP
2 37 (11.78%) Cisco Certification
3 31 (9.87%) CCNA
4 21 (6.69%) Security Cleared
5 13 (4.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (3.50%) SC Cleared
7 9 (2.87%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.91%) CCIE Routing and Switching
9 5 (1.59%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.59%) NVQ Level 3
9 5 (1.59%) PhD
10 3 (0.96%) CISM
10 3 (0.96%) CISSP
11 2 (0.64%) CEH
11 2 (0.64%) CISA
11 2 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.64%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.82%) Data Quality
2 10 (3.18%) QA
3 9 (2.87%) GDPR
3 9 (2.87%) NIST
3 9 (2.87%) SLA
4 8 (2.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (1.91%) GxP
6 2 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.64%) EMIR
6 2 (0.64%) MiFID
6 2 (0.64%) Solvency II
System Software
1 45 (14.33%) Active Directory
2 12 (3.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.91%) Firmware
3 6 (1.91%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (1.91%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.27%) vSphere
5 1 (0.32%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 20 (6.37%) SCCM
2 4 (1.27%) Control-M
2 4 (1.27%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 4 (1.27%) SafeCom
3 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 69 (21.97%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.41%) Oracle
3 12 (3.82%) VMware
4 11 (3.50%) Cisco
4 11 (3.50%) SAP
5 9 (2.87%) Alteryx
5 9 (2.87%) Databricks
6 6 (1.91%) Citrix
6 6 (1.91%) CrowdStrike
6 6 (1.91%) Ekahau
6 6 (1.91%) Meraki
6 6 (1.91%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.59%) Apple
7 5 (1.59%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.27%) Cadence
8 4 (1.27%) SIMUL8
8 4 (1.27%) SolarWinds
8 4 (1.27%) Veritas
9 2 (0.64%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.64%) Symantec