Senior Technical Analyst Job Trends

Senior Technical Analyst
UK

The median Senior Technical Analyst salary in the UK is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 January 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 620 687 709
Rank change year-on-year +67 +22 +283
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Technical Analyst 22 20 26
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.037% 0.037% 0.046%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.041% 0.040% 0.049%
Number of salaries quoted 15 14 24
10th Percentile £48,979 £40,975 £37,500
25th Percentile £52,615 £49,738 £37,746
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £53,100 £40,019
Median % change year-on-year +17.70% +32.69% -22.29%
75th Percentile £63,750 £78,125 £55,696
90th Percentile £72,500 £83,750 £79,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,979 £52,000 £39,984
% change year-on-year -5.81% +30.05% -5.92%

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 53,744 49,685 53,403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.63% 92.91% 95.27%
Number of salaries quoted 33,208 25,763 41,197
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £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 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

Senior Technical Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Senior Technical Analyst job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior Technical Analyst
Salary Trend

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

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

Senior Technical Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Technical Analyst over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Technical Analyst in the UK

Senior Technical Analyst
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Technical Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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 +82 16 £62,500 +13.48% 5
Work from Home +63 11 £62,500 +18.69%
London +62 11 £62,500 -24.24% 1
UK excluding London +43 10 £48,979 -5.81% 5
North West +33 5 £48,979 -14.82% 3
North of England +11 5 £48,979 -14.82% 3
Scotland - 4 - -
Wales -2 1 £60,000 +13.70%

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

For the 6 months to 12 January 2026, Senior Technical 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 Technical Analyst in the job title.

1 9 (40.91%) Agile
1 9 (40.91%) Continuous Improvement
2 7 (31.82%) User Acceptance Testing
2 7 (31.82%) User Stories
3 6 (27.27%) Regression Testing
3 6 (27.27%) SQL
3 6 (27.27%) Test Automation
4 5 (22.73%) Azure
4 5 (22.73%) Data Analysis
4 5 (22.73%) Mentoring
4 5 (22.73%) SDLC
4 5 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (18.18%) Acceptance Criteria
5 4 (18.18%) Actionable Insight
5 4 (18.18%) Asset Management
5 4 (18.18%) AWS
5 4 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (18.18%) Charles River
5 4 (18.18%) Coaching
5 4 (18.18%) Data Integration
5 4 (18.18%) Decision-Making
5 4 (18.18%) DevOps
5 4 (18.18%) EXASOL
5 4 (18.18%) HNC
5 4 (18.18%) Investment Management
5 4 (18.18%) NVQ Level 4
5 4 (18.18%) Order Management
5 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (18.18%) Requirements Gathering
5 4 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis

Senior Technical 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 1 (4.55%) Confluence
1 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.55%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (22.73%) Azure
2 4 (18.18%) AWS
2 4 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (13.64%) OpenShift
4 1 (4.55%) GCP
4 1 (4.55%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 17 (77.27%) Finance
2 9 (40.91%) Social Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Front Office
3 4 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (13.64%) Banking
4 3 (13.64%) Games
4 3 (13.64%) Telecoms
5 1 (4.55%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (4.55%) REST
2 1 (4.55%) SOAP
2 1 (4.55%) Web Services
2 1 (4.55%) XML
2 1 (4.55%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Product Ownership
2 4 (18.18%) Driving Licence
3 3 (13.64%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (13.64%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (13.64%) Equities
3 3 (13.64%) Fixed Income
4 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.55%) Low-Code
4 1 (4.55%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) Agile
1 9 (40.91%) Continuous Improvement
2 7 (31.82%) User Acceptance Testing
2 7 (31.82%) User Stories
3 6 (27.27%) Regression Testing
3 6 (27.27%) Test Automation
4 5 (22.73%) Data Analysis
4 5 (22.73%) Mentoring
4 5 (22.73%) SDLC
4 5 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (18.18%) Acceptance Criteria
5 4 (18.18%) Actionable Insight
5 4 (18.18%) Coaching
5 4 (18.18%) Data Integration
5 4 (18.18%) DevOps
5 4 (18.18%) Order Management
5 4 (18.18%) Requirements Gathering
5 4 (18.18%) Sprint Planning
5 4 (18.18%) Sprint Retrospective
5 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 6 (27.27%) SQL
2 3 (13.64%) C++
2 3 (13.64%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) HNC
1 4 (18.18%) NVQ Level 4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) GDPR
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Charles River
1 4 (18.18%) EXASOL
2 1 (4.55%) IBM
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle
2 1 (4.55%) Salesforce
2 1 (4.55%) Workday