Senior Analyst Jobs in the West Midlands

Senior Analyst
England > West Midlands

The median Senior Analyst salary in the West Midlands is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 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
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 179 142 175
Rank change year-on-year -37 +33 -17
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 21 107 102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.48% 1.45% 1.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 1.54% 1.76%
Number of salaries quoted 13 68 50
10th Percentile £44,400 £39,268 £32,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,716 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +12.82% +14.04%
75th Percentile £62,288 £61,250 £56,813
90th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £62,251
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% +3.60% +0.91%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 3,930 6,948 5,785
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.55% 94.17% 90.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,781 5,218 3,296
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £35,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,387 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.77% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,688 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Senior Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Analyst in the West Midlands

Senior Analyst
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Analyst in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Senior Analyst in the West Midlands

Senior Analyst
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Analyst in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Analyst in the West Midlands

Senior Analyst
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Analyst within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 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
Birmingham +8 12 £55,000 +10.00% 11
Solihull +9 4 £50,000 -9.09% 1
Staffordshire +25 2 - - 7
Warwickshire -20 2 - - 7
Worcestershire +8 1 £75,000 +30.43%
Senior Analyst
England

Senior Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 13 May 2025, Senior 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 across the West Midlands region featuring Senior Analyst in the job title.

1 9 (42.86%) Social Skills
1 9 (42.86%) SQL
1 9 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
1 9 (42.86%) Power BI
1 9 (42.86%) Power Platform
2 8 (38.10%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
3 6 (28.57%) Requirements Gathering
3 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (28.57%) Agile
4 5 (23.81%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (23.81%) Microsoft
4 5 (23.81%) Finance
4 5 (23.81%) Analytics
5 4 (19.05%) DevOps
5 4 (19.05%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 4 (19.05%) Data Protection
5 4 (19.05%) Azure
5 4 (19.05%) Customer Engagement
5 4 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (19.05%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (19.05%) Scenario Testing
5 4 (19.05%) Project Management
5 4 (19.05%) Data Modelling
5 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Excel
5 4 (19.05%) ISTQB
5 4 (19.05%) Data Analysis
5 4 (19.05%) JIRA
5 4 (19.05%) QA
5 4 (19.05%) User Acceptance Testing

Senior Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (4.76%) Mule
1 1 (4.76%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 9 (42.86%) Power Platform
2 4 (19.05%) Azure
2 4 (19.05%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (9.52%) SaaS
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Machine Learning
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (42.86%) Power BI
2 2 (9.52%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (9.52%) Metadata
2 2 (9.52%) Metadata Repository
2 2 (9.52%) MS Access
2 2 (9.52%) Tableau
3 1 (4.76%) Big Data
3 1 (4.76%) Data Vault
3 1 (4.76%) Looker
3 1 (4.76%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) JIRA
2 2 (9.52%) Selenium
General
1 9 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 8 (38.10%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (23.81%) Finance
4 3 (14.29%) Retail
5 2 (9.52%) Automotive
5 2 (9.52%) Banking
5 2 (9.52%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (9.52%) Legal
5 2 (9.52%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (4.76%) Law
6 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
6 1 (4.76%) Marketing
6 1 (4.76%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) Middleware
1 2 (9.52%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (9.52%) Virtual Team
2 1 (4.76%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (4.76%) Housing Association
2 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.76%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
2 6 (28.57%) Agile
2 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (28.57%) Requirements Gathering
3 5 (23.81%) Analytics
3 5 (23.81%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (19.05%) Customer Engagement
4 4 (19.05%) Data Analysis
4 4 (19.05%) Data Modelling
4 4 (19.05%) Data Protection
4 4 (19.05%) DevOps
4 4 (19.05%) Project Management
4 4 (19.05%) Scenario Testing
4 4 (19.05%) System Testing
4 4 (19.05%) Test Scripting
4 4 (19.05%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (14.29%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) SQL
2 3 (14.29%) Python
3 2 (9.52%) C#
4 1 (4.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (4.76%) R
4 1 (4.76%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) ISTQB
1 4 (19.05%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 2 (9.52%) Degree
3 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.76%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) QA
2 2 (9.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 2 (9.52%) Data Quality
2 2 (9.52%) GDPR
3 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft
2 3 (14.29%) Oracle
3 2 (9.52%) Databricks
4 1 (4.76%) Alteryx
4 1 (4.76%) SAP
4 1 (4.76%) Tagetik