Analyst
UK

The median Analyst salary in the UK is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 16 22
Rank change year-on-year +3 +6 +4
Permanent jobs requiring an Analyst 9,760 12,383 15,978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.94% 11.77% 10.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.51% 12.86% 10.81%
Number of salaries quoted 6,696 7,763 11,303
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £46,242 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% +2.76% +5.88%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,769 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year - - +2.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 92,894 96,310 147,847
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.58% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,756 60,420 85,018
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.80% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Analyst in the UK

Analyst
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Analyst in the UK

Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analyst over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Analyst in the UK

Analyst
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 25 April 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 +3 8,847 £45,000 -5.26% 1,781
UK excluding London +1 6,419 £40,000 - 1,030
Work from Home +2 3,647 £45,249 -4.74% 693
London +5 3,020 £57,500 +4.55% 829
North of England 0 1,650 £39,750 -1.85% 302
South East 0 1,571 £40,000 -3.61% 216
Midlands 0 1,205 £37,306 -6.74% 184
North West +6 920 £40,000 -5.88% 177
West Midlands +1 815 £37,306 -6.74% 105
South West +3 675 £42,500 +13.33% 120
East of England +7 664 £39,373 -1.57% 120
Yorkshire -8 560 £39,005 -3.69% 89
Scotland -37 421 £42,500 +5.31% 69
East Midlands -6 383 £36,500 -5.19% 79
Wales -9 173 £36,476 +4.22% 35
North East +2 170 £35,000 -12.50% 38
Northern Ireland +17 40 £52,500 +40.00% 11
Isle of Man -1 25 £45,000 - 1
Channel Islands -3 1 - -

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, 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 Analyst in the job title.

1 3,412 (34.96%) Social Skills
2 2,939 (30.11%) Finance
3 2,769 (28.37%) Analytical Skills
4 2,563 (26.26%) Microsoft
5 2,071 (21.22%) Problem-Solving
6 1,955 (20.03%) SQL
7 1,746 (17.89%) Degree
8 1,745 (17.88%) Agile
9 1,544 (15.82%) Microsoft Excel
10 1,248 (12.79%) Decision-Making
11 1,231 (12.61%) Windows
12 1,109 (11.36%) Microsoft 365
13 1,102 (11.29%) Azure
14 1,078 (11.05%) Microsoft Office
15 1,061 (10.87%) Customer Service
16 1,010 (10.35%) Power Platform
17 1,006 (10.31%) Business Intelligence
18 996 (10.20%) Active Directory
19 978 (10.02%) Actionable Insight
20 944 (9.67%) Analytics
21 941 (9.64%) Power BI
22 921 (9.44%) ITIL
23 833 (8.53%) Business Analysis
24 826 (8.46%) Mentoring
25 773 (7.92%) Data Analysis
26 745 (7.63%) Retail
27 698 (7.15%) Python
28 694 (7.11%) Continuous Improvement
29 693 (7.10%) Cybersecurity
30 689 (7.06%) Influencing Skills

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
1 346 (3.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 326 (3.34%) SharePoint
3 141 (1.44%) Confluence
4 90 (0.92%) SAS
5 74 (0.76%) WebLogic
6 45 (0.46%) Oracle Service Bus
7 37 (0.38%) CMS
8 26 (0.27%) IIS
9 24 (0.25%) Apache
10 23 (0.24%) Apache Spark
11 17 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
12 14 (0.14%) IBM Notes
12 14 (0.14%) Skype for Business
13 8 (0.082%) ArcGIS
13 8 (0.082%) Moodle
13 8 (0.082%) WebSphere
13 8 (0.082%) WordPress
14 7 (0.072%) Exchange Server 2013
15 6 (0.061%) Exchange Server 2010
16 5 (0.051%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 1,544 (15.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 1,078 (11.05%) Microsoft Office
3 268 (2.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 177 (1.81%) MS Visio
5 49 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
6 22 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
7 21 (0.22%) SPSS
8 14 (0.14%) Trello
9 6 (0.061%) LightWave 3D
9 6 (0.061%) SOLIDWORKS
10 3 (0.031%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.031%) Stata
11 2 (0.020%) EViews
11 2 (0.020%) LaTeX
11 2 (0.020%) S-PLUS
12 1 (0.010%) 1Password
Business Applications
1 107 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 50 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
3 44 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
4 31 (0.32%) Aladdin
5 28 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
6 27 (0.28%) NEC Housing
7 26 (0.27%) Elite 3E
8 24 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
8 24 (0.25%) PlanetPress Connect
9 23 (0.24%) Endur
10 19 (0.19%) NetSuite
10 19 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
11 18 (0.18%) iTrent
11 18 (0.18%) thinkFolio
12 16 (0.16%) Infor SunSystems
13 15 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
13 15 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
13 15 (0.15%) Oracle Financials
14 14 (0.14%) Epicor Tropos
14 14 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 1,109 (11.36%) Microsoft 365
2 1,102 (11.29%) Azure
3 1,010 (10.35%) Power Platform
4 389 (3.99%) AWS
5 224 (2.30%) SaaS
6 183 (1.88%) Entra ID
7 176 (1.80%) Dynamics 365
8 136 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
9 79 (0.81%) GCP
10 68 (0.70%) PowerApps
11 67 (0.69%) Google Analytics
12 59 (0.60%) Power Automate
13 50 (0.51%) WhatsApp
14 49 (0.50%) Azure Sentinel
15 48 (0.49%) OneDrive
16 41 (0.42%) Mimecast
17 40 (0.41%) Snowflake
18 36 (0.37%) PaaS
19 28 (0.29%) Azure Data Factory
20 27 (0.28%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 515 (5.28%) Broadband
2 452 (4.63%) Firewall
3 268 (2.75%) DNS
3 268 (2.75%) LAN
4 254 (2.60%) WAN
5 191 (1.96%) TCP/IP
6 166 (1.70%) VPN
7 155 (1.59%) DHCP
8 148 (1.52%) Internet
9 109 (1.12%) VoIP
10 104 (1.07%) SD-WAN
10 104 (1.07%) Wireless
11 94 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
12 86 (0.88%) Network Security
13 72 (0.74%) WLAN
14 70 (0.72%) Intrusion Detection
15 62 (0.64%) MPLS
16 56 (0.57%) VLAN
17 50 (0.51%) BGP
17 50 (0.51%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 941 (9.64%) Power BI
2 440 (4.51%) Tableau
3 406 (4.16%) SQL Server
4 200 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
5 154 (1.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 99 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 93 (0.95%) BigQuery
8 91 (0.93%) Relational Database
9 79 (0.81%) Oracle Database
10 76 (0.78%) Power Query
11 57 (0.58%) Data Mining
12 47 (0.48%) Oracle Database 11g
12 47 (0.48%) QlikView
13 45 (0.46%) Oracle Database 10g
13 45 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
13 45 (0.46%) VLDB
14 43 (0.44%) MySQL
15 40 (0.41%) Big Data
16 39 (0.40%) Looker
17 34 (0.35%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 390 (4.00%) JIRA
2 96 (0.98%) Git
3 59 (0.60%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 46 (0.47%) Selenium
5 35 (0.36%) Visual Studio
6 22 (0.23%) Eclipse
7 20 (0.20%) Postman
8 15 (0.15%) JMeter
8 15 (0.15%) TestRail
9 11 (0.11%) GitLab
9 11 (0.11%) Toad
10 9 (0.092%) Jenkins
10 9 (0.092%) Oracle Forms
10 9 (0.092%) Team Foundation Server
11 8 (0.082%) Burp Suite
11 8 (0.082%) Metasploit
12 7 (0.072%) NUnit
12 7 (0.072%) WebDriver
13 6 (0.061%) TeamCity
13 6 (0.061%) Zephyr
General
1 3,412 (34.96%) Social Skills
2 2,939 (30.11%) Finance
3 2,769 (28.37%) Analytical Skills
4 745 (7.63%) Retail
5 689 (7.06%) Influencing Skills
6 625 (6.40%) Law
7 620 (6.35%) Legal
8 611 (6.26%) Banking
9 606 (6.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 381 (3.90%) Organisational Skills
11 312 (3.20%) Marketing
12 304 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
13 302 (3.09%) Public Sector
14 271 (2.78%) Manufacturing
15 240 (2.46%) Investment Banking
16 174 (1.78%) Front Office
17 106 (1.09%) Back Office
18 105 (1.08%) Telecoms
19 103 (1.06%) Police
20 100 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (1.12%) .NET
2 75 (0.77%) JSON
3 70 (0.72%) Oracle Fusion
4 68 (0.70%) XML
5 66 (0.68%) REST
6 53 (0.54%) HTML
7 40 (0.41%) EDI
8 38 (0.39%) Web Services
9 34 (0.35%) FIX Protocol
10 30 (0.31%) Spring
11 29 (0.30%) J2EE
11 29 (0.30%) Java EE
12 28 (0.29%) CSS
13 22 (0.23%) OLE
14 19 (0.19%) .NET Framework
15 18 (0.18%) SOAP
16 17 (0.17%) ARM Templates
16 17 (0.17%) Middleware
17 16 (0.16%) Pandas
18 14 (0.14%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 437 (4.48%) Self-Motivation
2 435 (4.46%) Management Information System
3 278 (2.85%) Product Ownership
4 207 (2.12%) Onboarding
5 128 (1.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 116 (1.19%) Derivative
6 116 (1.19%) Hedge funds
7 115 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
7 115 (1.18%) Fixed Income
8 103 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
9 97 (0.99%) Driving Licence
10 96 (0.98%) Cyberattack
11 94 (0.96%) Security Operations Centre
12 80 (0.82%) Life Science
13 73 (0.75%) Reinsurance
14 72 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
15 68 (0.70%) Data Centre
16 66 (0.68%) Equities
17 65 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
18 64 (0.66%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 1,231 (12.61%) Windows
2 423 (4.33%) Windows 10
3 384 (3.93%) Windows Server
4 269 (2.76%) Linux
5 174 (1.78%) Unix
6 96 (0.98%) Apple iOS
7 93 (0.95%) Android
8 67 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
8 67 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
9 62 (0.64%) Mac OS
10 61 (0.63%) Solaris
11 57 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
12 44 (0.45%) Windows 7
13 32 (0.33%) Mac OS X
14 24 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
15 19 (0.19%) Windows 8
16 15 (0.15%) VMS
17 12 (0.12%) Windows Vista
18 11 (0.11%) CentOS
18 11 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,071 (21.22%) Problem-Solving
2 1,745 (17.88%) Agile
3 1,248 (12.79%) Decision-Making
4 1,061 (10.87%) Customer Service
5 1,006 (10.31%) Business Intelligence
6 978 (10.02%) Actionable Insight
7 944 (9.67%) Analytics
8 921 (9.44%) ITIL
9 833 (8.53%) Business Analysis
10 826 (8.46%) Mentoring
11 773 (7.92%) Data Analysis
12 694 (7.11%) Continuous Improvement
13 693 (7.10%) Cybersecurity
14 646 (6.62%) Business Case
15 624 (6.39%) Visualisation
16 610 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
17 555 (5.69%) Requirements Gathering
18 553 (5.67%) Change Management
19 548 (5.61%) Project Management
20 529 (5.42%) Budgeting and Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 1,955 (20.03%) SQL
2 698 (7.15%) Python
3 172 (1.76%) PowerShell
3 172 (1.76%) T-SQL
4 167 (1.71%) C#
4 167 (1.71%) R
5 98 (1.00%) VBA
6 95 (0.97%) Java
7 84 (0.86%) PL/SQL
8 73 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 65 (0.67%) JavaScript
10 39 (0.40%) Shell Script
11 37 (0.38%) Bash
12 33 (0.34%) C++
13 24 (0.25%) RPG
14 20 (0.20%) Perl
15 19 (0.19%) VB
16 13 (0.13%) VB.NET
17 12 (0.12%) MATLAB
17 12 (0.12%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,746 (17.89%) Degree
2 540 (5.53%) Security Cleared
3 526 (5.39%) ACCA
4 523 (5.36%) CIMA
5 350 (3.59%) SC Cleared
6 208 (2.13%) CISSP
7 145 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
8 143 (1.47%) DBS Check
9 125 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
10 116 (1.19%) DV Cleared
10 116 (1.19%) Master's Degree
11 113 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
12 101 (1.03%) CompTIA Security+
13 92 (0.94%) CCNA
14 90 (0.92%) CISM
15 75 (0.77%) CISA
16 64 (0.66%) CCNP
17 58 (0.59%) A+ Certification
18 50 (0.51%) ISTQB
19 49 (0.50%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 384 (3.93%) SLA
2 278 (2.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 261 (2.67%) Data Quality
4 233 (2.39%) QA
5 205 (2.10%) GDPR
6 176 (1.80%) NIST
7 115 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
8 96 (0.98%) PMO
9 77 (0.79%) GRC
10 59 (0.60%) PCI DSS
11 50 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 41 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 38 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
14 36 (0.37%) NCSC
15 35 (0.36%) ISO 9001
16 31 (0.32%) IFRS
17 28 (0.29%) Accessibility
17 28 (0.29%) COBIT
18 24 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 17025
19 23 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 996 (10.20%) Active Directory
2 155 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 67 (0.69%) Hyper-V
4 47 (0.48%) Oracle RAC
5 36 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
6 27 (0.28%) vSphere
7 23 (0.24%) Firmware
8 22 (0.23%) XenApp
9 21 (0.22%) XenDesktop
10 20 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
11 16 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
12 11 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
12 11 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
13 7 (0.072%) Docker
14 5 (0.051%) Terminal Services
15 4 (0.041%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.041%) VMware Workstation
16 2 (0.020%) BitLocker
16 2 (0.020%) Citrix Hypervisor
17 1 (0.010%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 196 (2.01%) Microsoft Intune
2 156 (1.60%) SCCM
3 58 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
4 47 (0.48%) Data Guard
5 45 (0.46%) Oracle RMAN
6 41 (0.42%) CASB
7 34 (0.35%) WSUS
8 32 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
9 29 (0.30%) OpenSSO
10 23 (0.24%) Terraform
11 17 (0.17%) EnCase
11 17 (0.17%) QRadar
12 14 (0.14%) CSIRT
13 13 (0.13%) FortiGate
14 11 (0.11%) Grafana
15 10 (0.10%) Control-M
16 9 (0.092%) Kibana
16 9 (0.092%) Nessus
16 9 (0.092%) Progress Chef
16 9 (0.092%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2,563 (26.26%) Microsoft
2 356 (3.65%) Oracle
3 262 (2.68%) SAP
4 258 (2.64%) VMware
5 195 (2.00%) Cisco
6 168 (1.72%) ServiceNow
7 167 (1.71%) Salesforce
8 163 (1.67%) Google
9 150 (1.54%) Citrix
10 113 (1.16%) Databricks
11 100 (1.02%) Apple
12 92 (0.94%) Alteryx
12 92 (0.94%) Remedy
13 89 (0.91%) Bloomberg
14 75 (0.77%) Splunk
15 73 (0.75%) Sun
16 70 (0.72%) Adobe
17 69 (0.71%) IBM
18 63 (0.65%) Dell
19 60 (0.61%) Sage