Technical Analyst Jobs

Technical Analyst
UK

The median Technical Analyst salary in the UK is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 July 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 600 521 551
Rank change year-on-year -79 +30 +105
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Analyst 137 408 371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.41% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.43% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 92 284 316
10th Percentile £25,438 £26,250 £24,250
25th Percentile £31,375 £32,000 £33,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.89% +1.00% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £68,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £73,750 £79,625 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £34,500 £35,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -1.43% -12.50% -4.76%

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 53,874 95,222 77,637
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.56% 94.83% 91.63%
Number of salaries quoted 29,775 66,170 53,203
10th Percentile £27,250 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,439 £44,192
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,000 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year - -5.66% +3.67%

Technical Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Analyst in the UK

Technical Analyst
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Technical Analyst in the UK

Technical Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Analyst over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Analyst in the UK

Technical Analyst
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 17 July 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 -82 126 £47,500 -9.52% 115
UK excluding London -34 81 £34,500 -1.43% 53
London +34 51 £60,000 -11.76% 74
Work from Home -18 23 £47,500 -13.64% 47
North of England +4 22 £29,375 -16.07% 8
South East +33 20 £37,000 -12.94% 18
East of England +24 17 £50,000 +42.86% 6
Yorkshire +49 14 £26,000 -17.46% 4
Midlands +34 11 £50,000 +5.26% 10
West Midlands +21 8 £55,000 +41.94% 4
North West -53 7 £52,500 +50.00% 2
Wales +24 6 £25,875 -42.50% 1
South West +48 5 £29,500 -1.67% 6
East Midlands +40 3 £45,000 -21.74% 6
North East +38 1 £45,000 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 17 July 2025, Technical 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 Technical Analyst in the job title.

1 60 (43.80%) Social Skills
2 48 (35.04%) Microsoft
3 46 (33.58%) Windows
4 35 (25.55%) Active Directory
4 35 (25.55%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (24.82%) Microsoft 365
6 33 (24.09%) Firewall
7 32 (23.36%) Agile
8 31 (22.63%) Azure
9 30 (21.90%) SQL
9 30 (21.90%) Entra ID
10 28 (20.44%) Finance
10 28 (20.44%) Degree
11 24 (17.52%) Analytical Skills
11 24 (17.52%) User Stories
11 24 (17.52%) Customer Service
12 23 (16.79%) Windows Server
13 19 (13.87%) Microsoft Intune
14 18 (13.14%) ITIL
15 17 (12.41%) Microsoft Certification
15 17 (12.41%) JIRA
15 17 (12.41%) Requirements Gathering
16 16 (11.68%) Project Management
16 16 (11.68%) VPN
16 16 (11.68%) DNS
16 16 (11.68%) SharePoint
16 16 (11.68%) VoIP
17 15 (10.95%) Windows 10
17 15 (10.95%) Virtual Desktop
18 14 (10.22%) Windows Server 2019

Technical 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 16 (11.68%) SharePoint
2 14 (10.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (7.30%) Confluence
4 2 (1.46%) Oracle Service Bus
4 2 (1.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.73%) Alfresco
5 1 (0.73%) Documentum
5 1 (0.73%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (5.84%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (5.84%) MS Visio
2 6 (4.38%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.46%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.46%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.73%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.73%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.73%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 34 (24.82%) Microsoft 365
2 31 (22.63%) Azure
3 30 (21.90%) Entra ID
4 9 (6.57%) Power Platform
5 6 (4.38%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (4.38%) OneDrive
6 5 (3.65%) SaaS
7 4 (2.92%) Nutanix
8 3 (2.19%) AWS
9 2 (1.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (1.46%) Figma
9 2 (1.46%) OCI
9 2 (1.46%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.46%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.73%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.73%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.73%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.73%) Google Sheets
10 1 (0.73%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 1 (0.73%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 33 (24.09%) Firewall
2 16 (11.68%) DNS
2 16 (11.68%) VoIP
2 16 (11.68%) VPN
3 11 (8.03%) DHCP
4 8 (5.84%) Broadband
4 8 (5.84%) TCP/IP
5 6 (4.38%) IP Telephony
5 6 (4.38%) LAN
5 6 (4.38%) Wireless
6 4 (2.92%) Network Security
6 4 (2.92%) Remote Desktop
6 4 (2.92%) VLAN
7 2 (1.46%) ADSL
7 2 (1.46%) BGP
7 2 (1.46%) MPLS
7 2 (1.46%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.46%) WAN
7 2 (1.46%) WebEx
7 2 (1.46%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.11%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.92%) Power BI
3 3 (2.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (1.46%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.46%) Oracle ODI
4 2 (1.46%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.73%) DB2
5 1 (0.73%) DTS
5 1 (0.73%) Looker
5 1 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.73%) Star Schema
5 1 (0.73%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (12.41%) JIRA
2 1 (0.73%) Git
2 1 (0.73%) InstallShield
2 1 (0.73%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.73%) JMeter
2 1 (0.73%) LoadRunner
2 1 (0.73%) MSI
2 1 (0.73%) Postman
2 1 (0.73%) Visual Studio
General
1 60 (43.80%) Social Skills
2 28 (20.44%) Finance
3 24 (17.52%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.03%) Telecoms
5 9 (6.57%) Law
6 8 (5.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (4.38%) Banking
7 6 (4.38%) Legal
8 5 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.92%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.92%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.92%) Public Sector
10 3 (2.19%) Marketing
10 3 (2.19%) Retail
11 2 (1.46%) Billing
11 2 (1.46%) Electronics
11 2 (1.46%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.46%) Health Technology
11 2 (1.46%) Retail Banking
11 2 (1.46%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.65%) .NET
2 4 (2.92%) HTML
2 4 (2.92%) REST
2 4 (2.92%) SOAP
3 3 (2.19%) ASP.NET
3 3 (2.19%) CSS
3 3 (2.19%) Middleware
3 3 (2.19%) XML
4 2 (1.46%) JSON
4 2 (1.46%) Spring
4 2 (1.46%) Spring Boot
4 2 (1.46%) Web Services
4 2 (1.46%) XSLT
5 1 (0.73%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (0.73%) OAuth
5 1 (0.73%) Playwright
5 1 (0.73%) PySpark
5 1 (0.73%) React
5 1 (0.73%) RESTful
5 1 (0.73%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.84%) Management Information System
2 5 (3.65%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.92%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.46%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.46%) Handset
4 2 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.73%) Autonomous Agent
5 1 (0.73%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.73%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.73%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.73%) PKI
5 1 (0.73%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.73%) Smartcard
5 1 (0.73%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 46 (33.58%) Windows
2 23 (16.79%) Windows Server
3 15 (10.95%) Windows 10
4 14 (10.22%) Mac OS
4 14 (10.22%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (4.38%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (2.92%) Apple iOS
7 3 (2.19%) Unix
8 2 (1.46%) Linux
9 1 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (25.55%) Problem-Solving
2 32 (23.36%) Agile
3 24 (17.52%) Customer Service
3 24 (17.52%) User Stories
4 18 (13.14%) ITIL
5 17 (12.41%) Requirements Gathering
6 16 (11.68%) Project Management
7 14 (10.22%) Change Management
8 13 (9.49%) Business Analysis
8 13 (9.49%) Data Analysis
8 13 (9.49%) ITSM
9 12 (8.76%) Mentoring
9 12 (8.76%) SDLC
9 12 (8.76%) Server Management
10 11 (8.03%) Preventative Maintenance
10 11 (8.03%) User Experience
11 10 (7.30%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (6.57%) Migration
12 9 (6.57%) Scrum
12 9 (6.57%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 30 (21.90%) SQL
2 6 (4.38%) Python
3 4 (2.92%) C#
3 4 (2.92%) Java
4 3 (2.19%) Bash
4 3 (2.19%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.19%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.46%) Perl
5 2 (1.46%) PL/SQL
5 2 (1.46%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.73%) R
6 1 (0.73%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.73%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 28 (20.44%) Degree
2 17 (12.41%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (4.38%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.65%) MCSA
4 5 (3.65%) MCSE
5 4 (2.92%) CCNA
5 4 (2.92%) CISA
5 4 (2.92%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (2.92%) CISM
5 4 (2.92%) CISSP
5 4 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.92%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.19%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.46%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.73%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.73%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.73%) PMP
8 1 (0.73%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.92%) QA
3 2 (1.46%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.46%) ISO 22301
3 2 (1.46%) ISO 9001
3 2 (1.46%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.46%) SLA
4 1 (0.73%) PMO
System Software
1 35 (25.55%) Active Directory
2 15 (10.95%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (4.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.73%) Docker
4 1 (0.73%) Firmware
4 1 (0.73%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.73%) VMware Server
4 1 (0.73%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 19 (13.87%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (2.92%) Autotask
3 2 (1.46%) Grafana
4 1 (0.73%) Ansible
4 1 (0.73%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.73%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.73%) SCCM
4 1 (0.73%) Terraform
Vendors
1 48 (35.04%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.30%) Salesforce
3 8 (5.84%) Cisco
3 8 (5.84%) Citrix
4 7 (5.11%) VMware
5 6 (4.38%) Meraki
5 6 (4.38%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.19%) Adobe
7 2 (1.46%) Aruba
7 2 (1.46%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.46%) Avaya
7 2 (1.46%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.46%) Google
7 2 (1.46%) Huawei
7 2 (1.46%) Oracle
7 2 (1.46%) Polycom
7 2 (1.46%) SAP
7 2 (1.46%) TOWER Software
8 1 (0.73%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.73%) Rapid7