Senior Analyst Job Trends

Senior Analyst
UK

The median Senior Analyst salary in the UK is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 December 2025.

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

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 243 179 231
Rank change year-on-year -64 +52 -23
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 531 922 754
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.90% 1.67% 1.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.99% 1.78% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 264 488 582
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,925 £38,500
25th Percentile £48,165 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £59,451
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.13% +4.30%
75th Percentile £76,938 £80,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £89,625 £90,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

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 53,660 51,710 49,133
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.45% 93.38% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 33,065 27,370 37,929
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,125 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,549 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,458 £77,715
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

Senior Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Analyst' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Senior Analyst job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior Analyst
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Senior Analyst job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Analyst job vacancies in the UK

Senior Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Analyst over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Analyst in the UK

Senior Analyst
Top 17 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 29 December 2025. 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 -65 462 £60,000 -7.69% 372
UK excluding London -23 320 £52,500 +5.00% 257
London -83 186 £75,000 - 160
Work from Home -29 170 £60,000 - 146
South East +48 129 £54,500 -0.91% 96
Midlands -26 57 £53,500 +18.89% 47
North of England -46 53 £53,750 +7.44% 57
Scotland +10 42 £54,500 +9.00% 11
North West -5 37 £50,000 -4.76% 35
West Midlands +6 34 £55,000 +1.85% 27
East Midlands -46 22 £51,058 +13.46% 20
South West -47 18 £47,250 -12.50% 23
East of England +27 13 £36,125 -9.69% 17
Yorkshire -22 13 £65,000 +44.44% 16
Northern Ireland -8 7 - - 2
North East +8 3 £55,000 -7.45% 6
Wales -8 2 £60,000 +33.33% 5

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

For the 6 months to 29 December 2025, Senior 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 Senior Analyst in the job title.

1 153 (28.81%) SQL
2 130 (24.48%) Problem-Solving
3 108 (20.34%) Business Intelligence
4 107 (20.15%) User Acceptance Testing
5 105 (19.77%) Agile
6 97 (18.27%) Data Management
6 97 (18.27%) Decision-Making
7 93 (17.51%) Microsoft
8 88 (16.57%) Power BI
8 88 (16.57%) Power Platform
9 87 (16.38%) Degree
10 84 (15.82%) Mentoring
11 80 (15.07%) Translating Business Requirements
12 79 (14.88%) SAP
13 75 (14.12%) Logistics
14 74 (13.94%) Architectural Design
15 71 (13.37%) Continuous Improvement
16 70 (13.18%) Analytics
17 67 (12.62%) Data Analysis
18 65 (12.24%) Incident Management
18 65 (12.24%) Python
19 64 (12.05%) Data Collection
20 63 (11.86%) Quality Management
21 62 (11.68%) Impact Analysis
22 61 (11.49%) Technical Leadership
23 59 (11.11%) Process Improvement
24 58 (10.92%) SAP S/4HANA
24 58 (10.92%) Tableau
25 57 (10.73%) Decision Quality
25 57 (10.73%) SAP Implementation

Senior 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 15 (2.82%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.51%) Confluence
3 7 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.38%) Appian
6 1 (0.19%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.19%) CMS
6 1 (0.19%) SAS
Applications
1 46 (8.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (6.40%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (2.64%) Oracle Smart View
4 8 (1.51%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 58 (10.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 28 (5.27%) Oracle Assets
2 28 (5.27%) Oracle Financials
2 28 (5.27%) Oracle General Ledger
2 28 (5.27%) Oracle Payables
2 28 (5.27%) Oracle Receivables
3 18 (3.39%) Oracle ERP
4 14 (2.64%) Hyperion Planning
5 6 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (1.13%) NEC Housing
5 6 (1.13%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.75%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.75%) Magento
6 4 (0.75%) SAP PP
6 4 (0.75%) Shopify
7 3 (0.56%) SAP GRC
8 2 (0.38%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.38%) SAP IBP
8 2 (0.38%) SAP MM
8 2 (0.38%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 88 (16.57%) Power Platform
2 52 (9.79%) Microsoft 365
3 45 (8.47%) AWS
4 39 (7.34%) Azure
5 28 (5.27%) Snowflake
6 17 (3.20%) Fivetran
7 15 (2.82%) Entra ID
8 14 (2.64%) SaaS
9 11 (2.07%) GCP
10 6 (1.13%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (1.13%) Azure Sentinel
10 6 (1.13%) dbt
11 5 (0.94%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (0.75%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (0.75%) OCI
12 4 (0.75%) OneDrive
13 3 (0.56%) OpenShift
14 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Purview
14 2 (0.38%) Power Automate
14 2 (0.38%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 24 (4.52%) Remote Desktop
2 16 (3.01%) Firewall
3 12 (2.26%) VPN
4 8 (1.51%) Broadband
4 8 (1.51%) Wireless
5 6 (1.13%) DHCP
5 6 (1.13%) DNS
5 6 (1.13%) Internet
6 5 (0.94%) Network Security
6 5 (0.94%) WPA
7 4 (0.75%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (0.75%) LAN
7 4 (0.75%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.75%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.75%) WAN
7 4 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.56%) Multicast
9 1 (0.19%) DKIM
9 1 (0.19%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (16.57%) Power BI
2 58 (10.92%) Tableau
3 31 (5.84%) Looker
4 25 (4.71%) SQL Server
5 15 (2.82%) Qlik Sense
6 14 (2.64%) Essbase
6 14 (2.64%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 12 (2.26%) BigQuery
8 8 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (1.13%) Metadata
11 5 (0.94%) Data Mining
11 5 (0.94%) MySQL
12 3 (0.56%) Big Data
12 3 (0.56%) BusinessObjects
12 3 (0.56%) Semantic Layer
13 2 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
13 2 (0.38%) Power Query
13 2 (0.38%) PowerPivot
13 2 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 28 (5.27%) JIRA
1 28 (5.27%) Oracle Forms
2 13 (2.45%) Postman
3 12 (2.26%) Selenium
4 11 (2.07%) SoapUI
4 11 (2.07%) Team Foundation Server
4 11 (2.07%) WebDriver
5 4 (0.75%) Git
6 1 (0.19%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.19%) GitLab
General
1 271 (51.04%) Finance
2 240 (45.20%) Social Skills
3 141 (26.55%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (13.75%) Marketing
5 64 (12.05%) Manufacturing
6 41 (7.72%) French Language
7 31 (5.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 28 (5.27%) Retail
9 27 (5.08%) Banking
9 27 (5.08%) Law
10 24 (4.52%) Swedish Language
11 21 (3.95%) Advertising
12 17 (3.20%) Legal
13 16 (3.01%) Public Sector
14 15 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
14 15 (2.82%) Front Office
15 13 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
16 9 (1.69%) Telecoms
17 7 (1.32%) Back Office
17 7 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.01%) SOAP
2 11 (2.07%) .NET
2 11 (2.07%) Flash
2 11 (2.07%) HTML
3 5 (0.94%) Lightning Web Components
3 5 (0.94%) REST
4 4 (0.75%) Middleware
5 3 (0.56%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (0.38%) PySpark
6 2 (0.38%) XML
7 1 (0.19%) Apache Avro
7 1 (0.19%) EDI
7 1 (0.19%) JSON
7 1 (0.19%) Web Services
7 1 (0.19%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 22 (4.14%) Management Information System
2 20 (3.77%) Product Ownership
3 15 (2.82%) Reinsurance
4 14 (2.64%) Security Posture
5 13 (2.45%) Onboarding
6 12 (2.26%) Mobile App
6 12 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.51%) Driving Licence
7 8 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (1.51%) Fixed Income
7 8 (1.51%) NHS
8 7 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
8 7 (1.32%) Security Operations Centre
9 6 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.75%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (0.75%) Insider Threat
10 4 (0.75%) iPad
10 4 (0.75%) iPhone
10 4 (0.75%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 19 (3.58%) Windows
2 8 (1.51%) Windows 10
3 6 (1.13%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.94%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.94%) Linux
4 5 (0.94%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (24.48%) Problem-Solving
2 108 (20.34%) Business Intelligence
3 107 (20.15%) User Acceptance Testing
4 105 (19.77%) Agile
5 97 (18.27%) Data Management
5 97 (18.27%) Decision-Making
6 84 (15.82%) Mentoring
7 80 (15.07%) Translating Business Requirements
8 75 (14.12%) Logistics
9 74 (13.94%) Architectural Design
10 71 (13.37%) Continuous Improvement
11 70 (13.18%) Analytics
12 67 (12.62%) Data Analysis
13 65 (12.24%) Incident Management
14 64 (12.05%) Data Collection
15 63 (11.86%) Quality Management
16 62 (11.68%) Impact Analysis
17 61 (11.49%) Technical Leadership
18 59 (11.11%) Process Improvement
19 57 (10.73%) SAP Implementation
Programming Languages
1 153 (28.81%) SQL
2 65 (12.24%) Python
3 14 (2.64%) Groovy
3 14 (2.64%) Java
3 14 (2.64%) VBA
4 13 (2.45%) C#
5 12 (2.26%) T-SQL
6 9 (1.69%) JavaScript
7 8 (1.51%) R
8 5 (0.94%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (0.75%) ABAP
10 3 (0.56%) C++
10 3 (0.56%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.38%) Bash
Qualifications
1 87 (16.38%) Degree
2 27 (5.08%) AWS Certification
3 26 (4.90%) ACCA
4 25 (4.71%) Security Cleared
5 24 (4.52%) A+ Certification
5 24 (4.52%) CIMA
5 24 (4.52%) MCSE
5 24 (4.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 19 (3.58%) SC Cleared
7 15 (2.82%) CISSP
8 13 (2.45%) AAT
8 13 (2.45%) Master's Degree
9 12 (2.26%) ISTQB
10 11 (2.07%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 9 (1.69%) CompTIA Security+
12 7 (1.32%) CISM
13 6 (1.13%) DV Cleared
14 5 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (0.94%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.75%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (3.77%) Data Quality
2 15 (2.82%) GDPR
2 15 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (2.26%) QA
4 11 (2.07%) NIST
5 10 (1.88%) PMO
6 8 (1.51%) GRC
7 7 (1.32%) SLA
8 6 (1.13%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.94%) IFRS
9 5 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.19%) EMIR
11 1 (0.19%) GAAP
11 1 (0.19%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.19%) MiFID
11 1 (0.19%) NIST 800
System Software
1 28 (5.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (3.39%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.94%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (3.20%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (0.75%) CSIRT
2 4 (0.75%) Nessus
3 1 (0.19%) Nmap
Vendors
1 93 (17.51%) Microsoft
2 79 (14.88%) SAP
3 37 (6.97%) ServiceNow
4 32 (6.03%) Oracle
5 28 (5.27%) VMware
6 18 (3.39%) Salesforce
7 14 (2.64%) Hyperion
8 12 (2.26%) Databricks
9 9 (1.69%) Google
10 8 (1.51%) Blue Prism
10 8 (1.51%) Cisco
10 8 (1.51%) Pega
11 6 (1.13%) Meraki
11 6 (1.13%) Northgate
11 6 (1.13%) Splunk
11 6 (1.13%) Tenable
12 5 (0.94%) Guidewire
12 5 (0.94%) HubSpot
12 5 (0.94%) MuleSoft
12 5 (0.94%) Workday