Senior Analyst Jobs

Senior Analyst
UK

The median Senior Analyst salary in the UK is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 October 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 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 246 248
Rank change year-on-year +146 +2 +98
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 1,914 837 2,159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.52% 1.43% 1.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.65% 1.49% 1.60%
Number of salaries quoted 488 602 1,301
10th Percentile £39,700 £36,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,698 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.32% +4.91% +1.85%
75th Percentile £81,250 £72,042 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,120 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.19% +2.24% +5.26%

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 72,160 56,195 134,726
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.93% 95.71% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 37,655 40,750 78,298
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,874 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,900 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.66% - +5.00%

Senior Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Analyst in the UK

Senior Analyst
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Analyst in the UK

Senior Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Analyst over the 6 months to 26 October 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Analyst in the UK

Senior Analyst
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 26 October 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 +140 1,743 £65,000 +13.04% 207
Work from Home +209 1,178 £62,500 +5.13% 124
London +142 1,011 £75,000 +15.18% 97
UK excluding London +92 840 £50,000 -2.19% 112
South West +140 216 £55,000 +9.70% 16
North of England +33 153 £45,574 -9.43% 21
Midlands +25 144 £50,000 -4.76% 20
South East +13 144 £60,000 +4.35% 33
Scotland +59 123 £50,000 -0.28% 7
West Midlands +15 97 £50,000 -4.76% 8
North West +10 84 £45,000 -10.12% 11
Yorkshire +29 50 £46,148 -17.22% 9
East Midlands 0 47 £45,000 -7.69% 12
East of England -39 30 £35,000 -12.46% 15
Wales +9 26 £45,000 +2.20% 3
North East -18 19 £55,965 +40.79% 1
Northern Ireland +22 3 £49,715 -30.22%
Channel Islands - 1 £67,500 -
Isle of Man - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 26 October 2024, Senior 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 Senior Analyst in the job title.

1 1,075 (56.17%) Social Skills
2 933 (48.75%) Analytics
3 914 (47.75%) Problem-Solving
4 886 (46.29%) Broadband
5 794 (41.48%) Data Management
6 764 (39.92%) Data Governance
7 752 (39.29%) Customer Experience
8 743 (38.82%) Data Transformation
9 725 (37.88%) Data Hub
10 711 (37.15%) GCP
11 670 (35.01%) Influencing Skills
12 620 (32.39%) Continuous Improvement
13 609 (31.82%) CISA
14 585 (30.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 519 (27.12%) Data Analysis
16 504 (26.33%) Analytical Skills
17 501 (26.18%) Google
18 453 (23.67%) SQL
19 382 (19.96%) IT Audit
20 371 (19.38%) Finance
21 295 (15.41%) Agile
22 292 (15.26%) Microsoft
23 254 (13.27%) Degree
24 239 (12.49%) Risk Management
25 215 (11.23%) Azure
26 198 (10.34%) Python
27 188 (9.82%) Banking
28 185 (9.67%) Power Platform
28 185 (9.67%) Data Quality
28 185 (9.67%) Cybersecurity

Senior 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 78 (4.08%) SAS
2 46 (2.40%) SharePoint
3 19 (0.99%) Mule
4 15 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.42%) Confluence
6 1 (0.052%) CMS
6 1 (0.052%) IIS
6 1 (0.052%) Tornado
6 1 (0.052%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.052%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 140 (7.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 63 (3.29%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.10%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.10%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.052%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.052%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (0.63%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.37%) Unit4 Business World
3 6 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.21%) SAP SD
5 3 (0.16%) Endur
5 3 (0.16%) SAP PP
6 2 (0.10%) Lawson
6 2 (0.10%) Magento
6 2 (0.10%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.10%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.10%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.10%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.10%) Oracle Manufacturing
6 2 (0.10%) Oracle SCM
6 2 (0.10%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.10%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.052%) Shopify
7 1 (0.052%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 711 (37.15%) GCP
2 215 (11.23%) Azure
3 185 (9.67%) Power Platform
4 183 (9.56%) AWS
5 143 (7.47%) Collibra
6 80 (4.18%) Entra ID
7 66 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
8 64 (3.34%) Microsoft 365
9 54 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
9 54 (2.82%) PowerApps
10 47 (2.46%) Azure Logic Apps
10 47 (2.46%) IaaS
10 47 (2.46%) PaaS
11 42 (2.19%) Power Automate
12 41 (2.14%) Azure Functions
12 41 (2.14%) Serverless
13 23 (1.20%) SaaS
14 11 (0.57%) Azure Sentinel
15 9 (0.47%) Google Sheets
16 8 (0.42%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 886 (46.29%) Broadband
2 79 (4.13%) Network Security
3 58 (3.03%) Firewall
4 19 (0.99%) VoIP
5 16 (0.84%) TCP/IP
6 13 (0.68%) DHCP
6 13 (0.68%) DNS
7 12 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (0.57%) Internet
9 9 (0.47%) Intrusion Detection
9 9 (0.47%) VPN
9 9 (0.47%) Wireless
10 5 (0.26%) Remote Desktop
11 4 (0.21%) HTTP
12 3 (0.16%) LAN
12 3 (0.16%) RTP
12 3 (0.16%) VLAN
12 3 (0.16%) WAN
13 2 (0.10%) Cisco ASA
13 2 (0.10%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 725 (37.88%) Data Hub
2 155 (8.10%) BigQuery
3 149 (7.78%) Metadata
4 132 (6.90%) Power BI
5 124 (6.48%) Tableau
6 62 (3.24%) SQL Server
7 23 (1.20%) Data Mining
8 20 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (0.89%) Geospatial Data
10 10 (0.52%) Qlik Sense
11 8 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 7 (0.37%) Looker
13 6 (0.31%) Power Query
14 5 (0.26%) Big Data
14 5 (0.26%) MS Access
15 4 (0.21%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 4 (0.21%) Semantic Layer
15 4 (0.21%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 3 (0.16%) Data Lake
16 3 (0.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 54 (2.82%) Git
2 23 (1.20%) JIRA
3 22 (1.15%) Selenium
4 12 (0.63%) Postman
5 9 (0.47%) WebDriver
6 8 (0.42%) JMeter
7 7 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
8 6 (0.31%) SoapUI
9 5 (0.26%) JUnit
9 5 (0.26%) SpecFlow
9 5 (0.26%) TestNG
10 4 (0.21%) Subversion
11 3 (0.16%) TeamCity
12 2 (0.10%) Appium
12 2 (0.10%) Burp Suite
12 2 (0.10%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.10%) Metasploit
12 2 (0.10%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.10%) Visual Studio Code
13 1 (0.052%) Cucumber
General
1 1,075 (56.17%) Social Skills
2 670 (35.01%) Influencing Skills
3 504 (26.33%) Analytical Skills
4 371 (19.38%) Finance
5 188 (9.82%) Banking
6 169 (8.83%) Legal
7 100 (5.22%) Billing
8 93 (4.86%) Retail
9 91 (4.75%) Games
10 81 (4.23%) Presentation Skills
11 76 (3.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 46 (2.40%) Marketing
13 30 (1.57%) Manufacturing
14 26 (1.36%) Law
15 22 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
16 19 (0.99%) Advertising
16 19 (0.99%) Front Office
17 15 (0.78%) Investment Banking
18 12 (0.63%) Public Sector
19 11 (0.57%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (0.94%) HTML
2 12 (0.63%) .NET
3 9 (0.47%) SOAP
4 7 (0.37%) CSS
4 7 (0.37%) JSON
5 6 (0.31%) Pandas
5 6 (0.31%) REST
5 6 (0.31%) XML
6 5 (0.26%) NumPy
7 4 (0.21%) SailPoint
8 3 (0.16%) ASP.NET
8 3 (0.16%) Gherkin
8 3 (0.16%) JSP
8 3 (0.16%) Servlets
9 2 (0.10%) ATL
9 2 (0.10%) LDAP
9 2 (0.10%) Middleware
9 2 (0.10%) Playwright
9 2 (0.10%) RESTful
10 1 (0.052%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 163 (8.52%) Social Media
2 143 (7.47%) Over-the-Top Content
3 96 (5.02%) Management Information System
4 87 (4.55%) Cyber Threat
5 81 (4.23%) Cyberattack
6 67 (3.50%) Hybrid Cloud
7 66 (3.45%) Cloud Native
8 61 (3.19%) Onboarding
9 48 (2.51%) Data Structures
10 41 (2.14%) Credit Risk
11 37 (1.93%) Product Ownership
12 22 (1.15%) Derivative
13 16 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 16 (0.84%) Hedge funds
14 15 (0.78%) Equities
14 15 (0.78%) Security Posture
15 13 (0.68%) Cyber Defence
15 13 (0.68%) Fixed Income
16 12 (0.63%) Analytical Mindset
16 12 (0.63%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 68 (3.55%) Windows
2 27 (1.41%) Windows Server
3 16 (0.84%) Linux
3 16 (0.84%) Windows 10
4 8 (0.42%) Unix
5 4 (0.21%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.10%) Windows 7
7 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.052%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 933 (48.75%) Analytics
2 914 (47.75%) Problem-Solving
3 794 (41.48%) Data Management
4 764 (39.92%) Data Governance
5 752 (39.29%) Customer Experience
6 743 (38.82%) Data Transformation
7 620 (32.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 519 (27.12%) Data Analysis
9 382 (19.96%) IT Audit
10 295 (15.41%) Agile
11 239 (12.49%) Risk Management
12 185 (9.67%) Cybersecurity
13 152 (7.94%) Visualisation
14 149 (7.78%) Metadata Management
15 148 (7.73%) Data Lineage
16 135 (7.05%) Business Intelligence
17 132 (6.90%) DevOps
18 130 (6.79%) Business Strategy
19 125 (6.53%) Mathematics
20 123 (6.43%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 453 (23.67%) SQL
2 198 (10.34%) Python
3 57 (2.98%) PowerShell
4 41 (2.14%) R
5 38 (1.99%) VBA
6 16 (0.84%) C#
7 13 (0.68%) JavaScript
8 7 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
9 6 (0.31%) Java
9 6 (0.31%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.21%) Julia
12 3 (0.16%) Perl
12 3 (0.16%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.052%) C++
13 1 (0.052%) COBOL
13 1 (0.052%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.052%) RPG
13 1 (0.052%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.052%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 609 (31.82%) CISA
2 254 (13.27%) Degree
3 88 (4.60%) CCA
4 65 (3.40%) DBS Check
5 46 (2.40%) Azure Certification
5 46 (2.40%) CISSP
6 43 (2.25%) Security Cleared
7 38 (1.99%) SC Cleared
8 36 (1.88%) CISM
9 31 (1.62%) Master's Degree
10 29 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
11 13 (0.68%) CEH
12 11 (0.57%) MBA
13 10 (0.52%) ISTQB
14 9 (0.47%) CompTIA CySA+
15 8 (0.42%) ACCA
16 7 (0.37%) GIAC
17 6 (0.31%) IIBA
17 6 (0.31%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
17 6 (0.31%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 585 (30.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 185 (9.67%) Data Quality
3 111 (5.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 102 (5.33%) GDPR
5 95 (4.96%) NIST
6 66 (3.45%) HIPAA
7 19 (0.99%) QA
7 19 (0.99%) SLA
8 16 (0.84%) PMO
9 13 (0.68%) GRC
10 9 (0.47%) IFRS
11 7 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 6 (0.31%) SOC 2
13 5 (0.26%) PCI DSS
14 4 (0.21%) EMIR
15 3 (0.16%) FedRAMP
15 3 (0.16%) ISO 22301
16 2 (0.10%) ISO 9001
17 1 (0.052%) MiFID
System Software
1 94 (4.91%) Active Directory
2 68 (3.55%) Docker
3 50 (2.61%) RACF
4 10 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.21%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (0.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 66 (3.45%) Kubernetes
2 14 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (0.47%) SCCM
4 6 (0.31%) CSIRT
4 6 (0.31%) QRadar
5 4 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.16%) Nessus
7 2 (0.10%) Ansible
7 2 (0.10%) Grafana
7 2 (0.10%) NetBackup
7 2 (0.10%) Nmap
7 2 (0.10%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.10%) Puppet
8 1 (0.052%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 1 (0.052%) Control-M
8 1 (0.052%) Host Intrusion Detection System
8 1 (0.052%) SCOM
8 1 (0.052%) WSUS
Vendors
1 501 (26.18%) Google
2 292 (15.26%) Microsoft
3 159 (8.31%) Oracle
4 144 (7.52%) Informatica
5 143 (7.47%) Cloudera
6 65 (3.40%) Databricks
7 56 (2.93%) CyberArk
8 29 (1.52%) Salesforce
9 20 (1.04%) Cisco
9 20 (1.04%) SAP
10 16 (0.84%) VMware
11 13 (0.68%) Meraki
12 12 (0.63%) BISAM
12 12 (0.63%) Bloomberg
13 9 (0.47%) Alteryx
13 9 (0.47%) Avaya
13 9 (0.47%) Citrix
14 8 (0.42%) Pega
15 6 (0.31%) IBM
15 6 (0.31%) Palo Alto