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 15 January 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 577 515 496
Rank change year-on-year -62 -19 +342
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Analyst 72 200 223
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.37% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.40% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 37 72 103
10th Percentile £30,625 £30,000 £33,200
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,125 £38,131
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,819 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -5.53% +9.30%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £60,625
90th Percentile £86,000 £67,500 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £40,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -17.53% +16.87%

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 54,710 49,797 52,819
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.74% 92.91% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 33,899 25,819 40,678
10th Percentile £28,560 £33,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,325
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -5.18%

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 15 January 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 15 January 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 -45 63 £45,000 -5.26% 28
UK excluding London -68 40 £45,000 +12.50% 24
London +42 29 £75,000 +36.36% 8
Work from Home +3 18 £36,875 -22.37% 15
North of England -33 15 £38,000 -12.77% 9
Yorkshire -26 9 £31,250 -51.92% 2
South East +5 8 £45,000 -5.26% 11
East of England +29 7 £45,000 -
Midlands +16 4 £66,250 +65.61% 2
North West -11 3 £64,250 +60.63% 7
Scotland -14 3 - -
North East - 3 - -
West Midlands +13 2 - - 1
East Midlands - 2 £66,250 - 1
Channel Islands - 2 - -
Wales +6 1 £50,000 +25.00%

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

For the 6 months to 15 January 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 (25.00%) Degree
2 17 (23.61%) Cybersecurity
3 14 (19.44%) Continuous Improvement
4 12 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 12 (16.67%) SQL
5 11 (15.28%) Python
6 10 (13.89%) Business Strategy
6 10 (13.89%) Microsoft Excel
6 10 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (13.89%) VBA
7 9 (12.50%) Security Operations
7 9 (12.50%) Windows
8 8 (11.11%) Batch Scripting
8 8 (11.11%) Blue Prism
8 8 (11.11%) Pega
8 8 (11.11%) Power Platform
8 8 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (11.11%) TDD
8 8 (11.11%) Test Automation
9 7 (9.72%) Active Directory
9 7 (9.72%) Data Analysis
9 7 (9.72%) Firewall
9 7 (9.72%) Incident Response
9 7 (9.72%) ITIL
9 7 (9.72%) ITSM
9 7 (9.72%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (9.72%) Visualisation
9 7 (9.72%) Vulnerability Management
10 6 (8.33%) Agile
10 6 (8.33%) Analytics

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 5 (6.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.78%) FactoryTalk
2 2 (2.78%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.78%) WinCC
3 1 (1.39%) CMS
Applications
1 10 (13.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (8.33%) AutoCAD
3 5 (6.94%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (4.17%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (11.11%) Power Platform
2 7 (9.72%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (8.33%) Azure
4 4 (5.56%) AWS
4 4 (5.56%) PowerApps
5 3 (4.17%) IaaS
5 3 (4.17%) PaaS
5 3 (4.17%) Power Automate
5 3 (4.17%) SaaS
6 2 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.78%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.78%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.39%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.39%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.39%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.39%) GCP
7 1 (1.39%) GitHub
7 1 (1.39%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.39%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.72%) Firewall
2 6 (8.33%) VPN
3 3 (4.17%) DHCP
3 3 (4.17%) DNS
4 2 (2.78%) Ethernet
4 2 (2.78%) Network Security
5 1 (1.39%) Broadband
5 1 (1.39%) IPv4
5 1 (1.39%) IPv6
5 1 (1.39%) LAN
5 1 (1.39%) MPLS
5 1 (1.39%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.33%) Geospatial Data
1 6 (8.33%) GIS
1 6 (8.33%) Metadata
1 6 (8.33%) Power BI
1 6 (8.33%) QGIS
1 6 (8.33%) Spatial Data
2 3 (4.17%) Power Query
2 3 (4.17%) PowerPivot
2 3 (4.17%) Relational Database
2 3 (4.17%) Tableau
3 1 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.39%) Looker
Development Applications
1 3 (4.17%) JIRA
2 1 (1.39%) GitLab
General
1 32 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 19 (26.39%) Legal
3 18 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (13.89%) Finance
5 9 (12.50%) Banking
5 9 (12.50%) Retail
6 8 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (5.56%) Law
8 3 (4.17%) Automotive
8 3 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (4.17%) Marketing
9 1 (1.39%) Aviation
9 1 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.39%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.78%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.28%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (11.11%) Mobile App
2 8 (11.11%) Security Operations Centre
3 6 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
3 6 (8.33%) Operational Technology
3 6 (8.33%) Renewable Energy
4 5 (6.94%) Security Posture
5 4 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (5.56%) SCADA
6 3 (4.17%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 3 (4.17%) Cyber Security Posture
7 2 (2.78%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (1.39%) Blog
8 1 (1.39%) Clustering
8 1 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.39%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.39%) Podcast
8 1 (1.39%) Smart Energy
8 1 (1.39%) Smart Meter
8 1 (1.39%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.50%) Windows
2 5 (6.94%) Linux
3 4 (5.56%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.17%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (23.61%) Cybersecurity
2 14 (19.44%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (13.89%) Business Strategy
3 10 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (12.50%) Security Operations
5 8 (11.11%) Batch Scripting
5 8 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (11.11%) TDD
5 8 (11.11%) Test Automation
6 7 (9.72%) Data Analysis
6 7 (9.72%) Incident Response
6 7 (9.72%) ITIL
6 7 (9.72%) ITSM
6 7 (9.72%) Visualisation
6 7 (9.72%) Vulnerability Management
7 6 (8.33%) Agile
7 6 (8.33%) Analytics
7 6 (8.33%) Data Management
7 6 (8.33%) Data Visualisation
7 6 (8.33%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 12 (16.67%) SQL
2 11 (15.28%) Python
3 10 (13.89%) VBA
4 4 (5.56%) PowerShell
5 3 (4.17%) Bash
Qualifications
1 18 (25.00%) Degree
2 6 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 5 (6.94%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.94%) SSCP
4 4 (5.56%) CISSP
5 3 (4.17%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (2.78%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.39%) CBAP
7 1 (1.39%) GCIA
7 1 (1.39%) GCIH
7 1 (1.39%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.33%) QA
2 3 (4.17%) NIST
3 1 (1.39%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.39%) GDPR
3 1 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.39%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.39%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (9.72%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.56%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (5.56%) SCCM
2 3 (4.17%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (2.78%) AssetCenter
3 2 (2.78%) Grafana
3 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.39%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 12 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 8 (11.11%) Blue Prism
2 8 (11.11%) Pega
3 6 (8.33%) ESRI
3 6 (8.33%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.17%) Palo Alto
4 3 (4.17%) VMware
5 2 (2.78%) Apple
5 2 (2.78%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.78%) Cisco
5 2 (2.78%) Google
5 2 (2.78%) Kepware
5 2 (2.78%) Okta
5 2 (2.78%) Rockwell
5 2 (2.78%) Siemens
6 1 (1.39%) Adobe
6 1 (1.39%) Dell
6 1 (1.39%) HP
6 1 (1.39%) Meraki