Systems Analysis
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Systems Analysis skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Systems Analysis over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 764 765 834
Rank change year-on-year +1 +69 -166
Permanent jobs citing Systems Analysis 137 195 408
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.19% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.20% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 109 156 322
10th Percentile £33,100 £41,098 £35,800
25th Percentile £41,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £56,750
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +5.73% +8.10%
75th Percentile £87,500 £81,438 £72,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £60,000 £49,500
% change year-on-year -29.17% +21.21% +4.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Systems Analysis is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,952 96,876 150,957
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.60% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 59,894 57,115 82,331
10th Percentile £29,002 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Systems Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Systems Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Systems Analysis in the UK

Systems Analysis
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Systems Analysis.

Salary trend for Systems Analysis in the UK

Systems Analysis
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Analysis over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Systems Analysis in the UK

Systems Analysis
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Analysis within the UK over the 6 months to 12 May 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 +46 134 £70,000 +7.69% 42
UK excluding London -31 75 £42,500 -29.17% 26
London +107 61 £85,000 +21.43% 17
Work from Home +64 56 £45,000 -25.00% 15
South East +16 30 £38,500 -35.83% 11
East of England +14 13 £58,750 -2.08% 9
West Midlands +19 12 £55,000 -15.38% 2
Midlands -11 12 £55,000 -10.20% 3
North of England +48 11 £60,000 +42.53% 2
North West 0 8 £60,000 +42.53% 2
South West -38 7 £83,577 +28.58%
Yorkshire +82 3 £47,263 +46.55%
Northern Ireland +18 1 - -
Scotland - 1 £32,500 - 2

Systems Analysis
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 4 (2.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.73%) Apache
2 1 (0.73%) IIS
2 1 (0.73%) nginx
2 1 (0.73%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 14 (10.22%) Aladdin
1 14 (10.22%) thinkFolio
2 3 (2.19%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (1.46%) SAP FI-GL
4 1 (0.73%) Carpe Diem
4 1 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.73%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.73%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (9.49%) SaaS
2 12 (8.76%) AWS
3 10 (7.30%) Azure
4 9 (6.57%) Amazon S3
4 9 (6.57%) Amazon SQS
4 9 (6.57%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (6.57%) AWS Step Functions
4 9 (6.57%) Serverless
5 6 (4.38%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (3.65%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.92%) GCP
8 2 (1.46%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.46%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.46%) Boomi
8 2 (1.46%) dbt
8 2 (1.46%) iPaaS
8 2 (1.46%) PaaS
8 2 (1.46%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.46%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.46%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.11%) Firewall
2 6 (4.38%) WAN
2 6 (4.38%) Wireless
3 5 (3.65%) BGP
4 4 (2.92%) DHCP
4 4 (2.92%) DNS
4 4 (2.92%) Internet
4 4 (2.92%) LAN
4 4 (2.92%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (1.46%) Network Security
5 2 (1.46%) VoIP
6 1 (0.73%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.73%) MPLS
6 1 (0.73%) NX-OS
6 1 (0.73%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (18.98%) SQL Server
2 14 (10.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 14 (10.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 9 (6.57%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.92%) MySQL
4 4 (2.92%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.46%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.46%) Power BI
5 2 (1.46%) Tableau
6 1 (0.73%) Metadata
6 1 (0.73%) Redis
6 1 (0.73%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (10.95%) Git
2 10 (7.30%) Eclipse
3 6 (4.38%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.65%) Visual Studio
5 4 (2.92%) IBM UrbanCode
5 4 (2.92%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (1.46%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (1.46%) TeamCity
General
1 41 (29.93%) Finance
2 20 (14.60%) Analytical Skills
2 20 (14.60%) Social Skills
3 10 (7.30%) Back Office
3 10 (7.30%) Billing
4 9 (6.57%) Front Office
5 6 (4.38%) Advertising
5 6 (4.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (4.38%) Law
6 5 (3.65%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.65%) Retail
7 4 (2.92%) Banking
7 4 (2.92%) Local Government
8 3 (2.19%) Automotive
9 2 (1.46%) General Ledger
9 2 (1.46%) Legal
9 2 (1.46%) Marketing
9 2 (1.46%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 77 (56.20%) Analyst
2 46 (33.58%) Systems Analyst
3 29 (21.17%) Lead
4 20 (14.60%) Business Analyst
5 18 (13.14%) Senior
6 17 (12.41%) Business Systems Analyst
7 13 (9.49%) Developer
8 10 (7.30%) Analyst Programmer
8 10 (7.30%) Charles River Analyst
8 10 (7.30%) Programmer
9 9 (6.57%) Insurance Business Analyst
9 9 (6.57%) Project Manager
10 7 (5.11%) Engineering Manager
10 7 (5.11%) Senior Manager
10 7 (5.11%) Technical Analyst
11 6 (4.38%) Senior Analyst
11 6 (4.38%) Senior Systems Analyst
11 6 (4.38%) Team Leader
12 5 (3.65%) Digital Project Manager
12 5 (3.65%) Payroll Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (16.06%) EDI
2 13 (9.49%) .NET
3 11 (8.03%) Web Services
4 10 (7.30%) JSON
4 10 (7.30%) REST
4 10 (7.30%) XML
4 10 (7.30%) XSL
5 9 (6.57%) .NET Core
5 9 (6.57%) .NET Framework
5 9 (6.57%) React
5 9 (6.57%) Unity DI Container
6 4 (2.92%) ASP.NET
6 4 (2.92%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (1.46%) GraphQL
7 2 (1.46%) HTML
7 2 (1.46%) HTML5
7 2 (1.46%) Middleware
7 2 (1.46%) RESTful
7 2 (1.46%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 1 (0.73%) IDoc
Miscellaneous
1 24 (17.52%) Fixed Income
2 19 (13.87%) Hedge funds
3 15 (10.95%) Management Information System
4 10 (7.30%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (6.57%) Blog
5 9 (6.57%) Private Cloud
6 5 (3.65%) Derivative
6 5 (3.65%) Legacy Applications
6 5 (3.65%) N-Tier
7 4 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.92%) Fat Client
7 4 (2.92%) Thin Client
8 3 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (2.19%) IoT
9 1 (0.73%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.73%) FMCG
9 1 (0.73%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.73%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.73%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.73%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.57%) Windows
2 6 (4.38%) Windows Server
3 5 (3.65%) Linux
4 4 (2.92%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.73%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (25.55%) Asset Management
2 34 (24.82%) Business Analysis
3 29 (21.17%) Agile
4 22 (16.06%) SDLC
5 21 (15.33%) Scrum
6 20 (14.60%) Requirements Gathering
7 19 (13.87%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (12.41%) Business Process Mapping
9 16 (11.68%) People Management
10 15 (10.95%) Investment Management
11 14 (10.22%) Computer Science
12 13 (9.49%) Software Engineering
12 13 (9.49%) Software Testing
13 12 (8.76%) Containerisation
13 12 (8.76%) ITIL
13 12 (8.76%) Project Management
13 12 (8.76%) Translating Business Requirements
14 11 (8.03%) Continuous Improvement
14 11 (8.03%) Data Pipeline
14 11 (8.03%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 57 (41.61%) SQL
2 15 (10.95%) Python
3 13 (9.49%) C#
4 11 (8.03%) Java
4 11 (8.03%) JavaScript
5 10 (7.30%) RPG
6 9 (6.57%) TypeScript
7 7 (5.11%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.46%) C++
9 1 (0.73%) ABAP
9 1 (0.73%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.73%) VB
9 1 (0.73%) VBA
Qualifications
1 29 (21.17%) Degree
2 10 (7.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.92%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.19%) Master's Degree
4 3 (2.19%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.46%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.46%) HND
5 2 (1.46%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (1.46%) PhD
6 1 (0.73%) CBAP
6 1 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.03%) QA
2 3 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.46%) ECSS
3 2 (1.46%) GDPR
4 1 (0.73%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (5.11%) Docker
2 6 (4.38%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.46%) vSphere
5 1 (0.73%) Shibboleth
5 1 (0.73%) Varnish
5 1 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (4.38%) Ansible
2 3 (2.19%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 24 (17.52%) Charles River
2 19 (13.87%) Bloomberg
3 8 (5.84%) Microsoft
4 7 (5.11%) VMware
5 5 (3.65%) Cisco
5 5 (3.65%) Citrix
6 4 (2.92%) Google
6 4 (2.92%) NetApp
6 4 (2.92%) Oracle
7 3 (2.19%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.19%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.19%) SAP
8 2 (1.46%) HubSpot
8 2 (1.46%) IBM
8 2 (1.46%) Jitterbit
8 2 (1.46%) Talend
8 2 (1.46%) Zoho
9 1 (0.73%) HP
9 1 (0.73%) iManage
9 1 (0.73%) QAD