Senior Operations Analyst Jobs

Senior Operations Analyst
UK

The median Senior Operations Analyst salary in the UK is £63,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 680 858 927
Rank change year-on-year +178 +69 +307
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Operations Analyst 22 49 41
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.039% 0.047% 0.043%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.050% 0.047%
Number of salaries quoted 6 22 15
10th Percentile £48,750 £43,250 -
25th Percentile £51,875 £50,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.87% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £78,438 £72,500 £69,375
90th Percentile £87,500 £76,250 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% +10.00%

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 50,444 98,297 87,491
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.33% 94.81% 91.34%
Number of salaries quoted 26,384 69,991 55,965
10th Percentile £28,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,748 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +2.00% -6.54% +6.49%

Senior Operations Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Operations Analyst in the UK

Senior Operations Analyst
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Operations Analyst in the UK

Senior Operations Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Operations Analyst over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Operations Analyst in the UK

Senior Operations Analyst
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Operations Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 31 May 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 +144 18 £63,750 +10.87% 20
UK excluding London +167 16 £57,500 - 5
North of England +39 7 - -
North West +3 7 - -
London +98 6 £65,000 -10.34% 16
Work from Home +117 4 £60,000 -17.24% 10
Scotland - 4 - - 1
South East +77 3 £57,500 - 2
South West - 1 £85,000 - 1
East of England - 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Operations Analyst in the job title.

1 11 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 10 (45.45%) DataOps
3 9 (40.91%) Data Collection
3 9 (40.91%) Banking
4 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
5 6 (27.27%) Agile
5 6 (27.27%) Finance
6 5 (22.73%) Degree
6 5 (22.73%) User Experience
7 4 (18.18%) SDLC
7 4 (18.18%) Power Platform
7 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
7 4 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (18.18%) Power BI
8 3 (13.64%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (13.64%) Functional Testing
8 3 (13.64%) Test Automation
8 3 (13.64%) Azure
8 3 (13.64%) SLA
8 3 (13.64%) Bloomberg
8 3 (13.64%) Financial Institution
8 3 (13.64%) Scrum
8 3 (13.64%) Customer Service
9 2 (9.09%) Tenable
9 2 (9.09%) PowerApps
9 2 (9.09%) Requirements Gathering
9 2 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (9.09%) Vulnerability Management
9 2 (9.09%) Data Science
9 2 (9.09%) Decision-Making

Senior 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 2 (9.09%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.55%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (18.18%) Power Platform
2 3 (13.64%) Azure
2 3 (13.64%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (9.09%) AWS
3 2 (9.09%) PowerApps
4 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) Power BI
2 1 (4.55%) Semantic Layer
General
1 9 (40.91%) Banking
2 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
3 6 (27.27%) Finance
4 3 (13.64%) Financial Institution
5 2 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.55%) Educational Technology
1 1 (4.55%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 10 (45.45%) DataOps
3 9 (40.91%) Data Collection
4 6 (27.27%) Agile
5 5 (22.73%) User Experience
6 4 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (18.18%) SDLC
7 3 (13.64%) Customer Service
7 3 (13.64%) Functional Testing
7 3 (13.64%) Scrum
7 3 (13.64%) Test Automation
8 2 (9.09%) Data Science
8 2 (9.09%) Decision-Making
8 2 (9.09%) DevOps
8 2 (9.09%) Requirements Gathering
8 2 (9.09%) Security Operations
8 2 (9.09%) SIEM
8 2 (9.09%) Time Management
8 2 (9.09%) UX Design
8 2 (9.09%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.09%) Python
1 2 (9.09%) VBA
2 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) Degree
2 2 (9.09%) DV Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) Master's Degree
2 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) SLA
2 1 (4.55%) GDPR
2 1 (4.55%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.55%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Bloomberg
2 2 (9.09%) Splunk
2 2 (9.09%) Tenable
3 1 (4.55%) Salesforce