Operations Analyst Jobs in the UK excluding London

Operations Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Operations Analyst salary in the UK excluding London is £48,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 557 681 678
Rank change year-on-year +124 -3 -27
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Analyst 214 55 168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.28% 0.097% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.11% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 115 39 70
10th Percentile £29,000 £36,000 £26,425
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £48,000 £35,875
Median % change year-on-year +1.04% +33.80% -15.89%
75th Percentile £50,250 £57,500 £46,984
90th Percentile - £63,750 £63,075
UK median annual salary £48,500 £55,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -11.82% +29.41% -7.61%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 72,166 50,263 70,760
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.90% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,782 29,433 42,686
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Operations Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Analyst in the UK excluding London

Operations Analyst
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Operations Analyst in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Operations Analyst in the UK excluding London

Operations Analyst
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Operations Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Operations Analyst in the UK excluding London

Operations Analyst
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Analyst within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Midlands +60 84 £48,500 -15.65% 5
West Midlands +52 73 £48,500 -15.65% 4
North of England +53 38 £43,750 -20.45% 16
South West +10 38 £48,500 -4.67% 4
South East +11 34 £40,000 -10.11% 18
North West +12 23 £45,000 -5.26% 12
East of England +11 14 £28,250 -48.64% 2
East Midlands -11 11 £40,000 +33.33% 1
Yorkshire +62 10 £42,500 -32.00% 4
Scotland -62 6 £39,174 -12.95% 1
North East - 5 £41,250 -
Operations Analyst
UK

Operations Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Operations Analyst in the job title.

1 75 (35.05%) Social Skills
2 65 (30.37%) Analytical Skills
3 56 (26.17%) Microsoft
4 53 (24.77%) Finance
5 52 (24.30%) LAN
6 51 (23.83%) WLAN
6 51 (23.83%) Problem-Solving
7 48 (22.43%) SD-WAN
8 47 (21.96%) Continuous Improvement
9 41 (19.16%) ITIL
10 37 (17.29%) WAN
11 36 (16.82%) Degree
12 32 (14.95%) BGP
12 32 (14.95%) OSPF
13 31 (14.49%) Customer Service
13 31 (14.49%) MPLS
13 31 (14.49%) CCIE
13 31 (14.49%) CCNP
13 31 (14.49%) CCDP
13 31 (14.49%) Cisco Certification
13 31 (14.49%) Change Management
14 28 (13.08%) Power BI
14 28 (13.08%) VoIP
14 28 (13.08%) Power Platform
15 26 (12.15%) Self-Motivation
15 26 (12.15%) Active Directory
16 25 (11.68%) CCNA
16 25 (11.68%) Microsoft Excel
16 25 (11.68%) Service Delivery
16 25 (11.68%) Agile

Operations Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (1.87%) IIS
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 25 (11.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.93%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 28 (13.08%) Power Platform
2 18 (8.41%) Azure
3 8 (3.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 6 (2.80%) AWS
5 4 (1.87%) GCP
5 4 (1.87%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.47%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (0.47%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.47%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 52 (24.30%) LAN
2 51 (23.83%) WLAN
3 48 (22.43%) SD-WAN
4 37 (17.29%) WAN
5 32 (14.95%) BGP
5 32 (14.95%) OSPF
6 31 (14.49%) MPLS
7 28 (13.08%) VoIP
8 20 (9.35%) Firewall
9 9 (4.21%) VPN
10 7 (3.27%) EIGRP
11 6 (2.80%) HSRP
11 6 (2.80%) Spanning Tree
11 6 (2.80%) VLAN
11 6 (2.80%) VRRP
11 6 (2.80%) Wireless
11 6 (2.80%) Wireshark
12 5 (2.34%) TCP/IP
13 4 (1.87%) FTP
14 3 (1.40%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (13.08%) Power BI
2 16 (7.48%) Tableau
3 1 (0.47%) SQL Server
General
1 75 (35.05%) Social Skills
2 65 (30.37%) Analytical Skills
3 53 (24.77%) Finance
4 25 (11.68%) Organisational Skills
5 19 (8.88%) Banking
5 19 (8.88%) Investment Banking
5 19 (8.88%) Law
5 19 (8.88%) Retail
6 17 (7.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (6.07%) Military
8 12 (5.61%) Pharmaceutical
9 11 (5.14%) Manufacturing
10 8 (3.74%) Marketing
11 4 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.87%) Legal
11 4 (1.87%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.93%) Front Office
12 2 (0.93%) Prime Brokerage
13 1 (0.47%) Advertising
13 1 (0.47%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.47%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 26 (12.15%) Self-Motivation
2 20 (9.35%) Fat Client
2 20 (9.35%) Thin Client
3 13 (6.07%) Virtual Team
4 12 (5.61%) Biopharmaceutical
5 11 (5.14%) Security Operations Centre
6 8 (3.74%) Management Information System
7 7 (3.27%) FMCG
8 4 (1.87%) Cyberattack
9 3 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.40%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.40%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.40%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.40%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.93%) Cyber Defence
10 2 (0.93%) Hedge funds
10 2 (0.93%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.93%) PMI
11 1 (0.47%) Life Science
11 1 (0.47%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.54%) Windows
2 12 (5.61%) Linux
3 6 (2.80%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.47%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (23.83%) Problem-Solving
2 47 (21.96%) Continuous Improvement
3 41 (19.16%) ITIL
4 31 (14.49%) Change Management
4 31 (14.49%) Customer Service
5 25 (11.68%) Agile
5 25 (11.68%) Service Delivery
6 24 (11.21%) Business Intelligence
7 21 (9.81%) Cybersecurity
8 20 (9.35%) ERP
8 20 (9.35%) Project Delivery
8 20 (9.35%) Project Planning
9 17 (7.94%) Asset Management
9 17 (7.94%) Data Analysis
10 16 (7.48%) Tech Ops
11 15 (7.01%) Project Management
12 14 (6.54%) Scenario Testing
12 14 (6.54%) Security Operations
13 13 (6.07%) Incident Management
13 13 (6.07%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (8.41%) Python
2 14 (6.54%) SQL
3 5 (2.34%) R
3 5 (2.34%) VBA
4 1 (0.47%) Bash
4 1 (0.47%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 36 (16.82%) Degree
2 31 (14.49%) CCDP
2 31 (14.49%) CCIE
2 31 (14.49%) CCNP
2 31 (14.49%) Cisco Certification
3 25 (11.68%) CCNA
4 19 (8.88%) Security Cleared
5 13 (6.07%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (3.74%) SC Cleared
7 6 (2.80%) CCIE Routing and Switching
8 5 (2.34%) DV Cleared
8 5 (2.34%) NVQ Level 3
9 3 (1.40%) CISM
9 3 (1.40%) CISSP
10 2 (0.93%) CISA
10 2 (0.93%) CompTIA CySA+
10 2 (0.93%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.61%) QA
2 9 (4.21%) NIST
3 8 (3.74%) GDPR
4 6 (2.80%) GxP
4 6 (2.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.40%) SLA
6 2 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.93%) EMIR
6 2 (0.93%) MiFID
7 1 (0.47%) Data Quality
System Software
1 26 (12.15%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.80%) Firmware
3 4 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.87%) vSphere
4 1 (0.47%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 20 (9.35%) SCCM
2 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.47%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (26.17%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.61%) Cisco
3 8 (3.74%) Alteryx
3 8 (3.74%) Databricks
3 8 (3.74%) SAP
4 6 (2.80%) Ekahau
5 5 (2.34%) Meraki
5 5 (2.34%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.34%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.87%) Cadence
6 4 (1.87%) SIMUL8
6 4 (1.87%) VMware
7 3 (1.40%) Apple
8 2 (0.93%) HubSpot
8 2 (0.93%) Sun
9 1 (0.47%) Fortinet