Senior Analyst
UK

The median Senior Analyst salary in the UK is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 186 170 295
Rank change year-on-year -16 +125 +37
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 1,571 2,225 2,200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.59% 2.15% 1.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.68% 2.35% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 839 815 1,285
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,000 £36,600
25th Percentile £47,250 £44,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £72,250 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +15.38%

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 93,479 94,643 151,222
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,031 59,595 85,375
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,611
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.49% - +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 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Senior Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Analyst in the UK

Senior Analyst
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Analyst in the UK

Senior Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Analyst over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Analyst in the UK

Senior Analyst
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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 -2 1,441 £57,500 +2.68% 327
UK excluding London -99 866 £52,500 +5.00% 148
Work from Home -49 680 £57,000 +3.64% 179
London +106 641 £70,000 +7.69% 188
South East +24 276 £50,000 -13.04% 37
North of England -142 197 £50,000 - 25
Midlands +46 165 £55,000 +15.79% 24
South West -6 110 £60,000 +32.68% 17
West Midlands +25 104 £55,000 +15.79% 15
Yorkshire -104 89 £51,528 -2.78% 10
North West +12 86 £52,500 +7.14% 15
East Midlands +22 58 £57,500 +30.68% 9
Scotland -77 54 £50,000 +2.04% 10
East of England -32 32 £41,400 -22.98% 23
Wales -13 29 £47,000 +20.51% 9
North East +8 22 £35,000 -32.69%
Northern Ireland +23 4 £63,150 +32.95% 4
Channel Islands - 1 £67,500 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, 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 featuring Senior Analyst in the job title.

1 649 (41.31%) Finance
2 632 (40.23%) Social Skills
3 624 (39.72%) Analytical Skills
4 467 (29.73%) Microsoft
5 450 (28.64%) Agile
6 432 (27.50%) Actionable Insight
7 393 (25.02%) Microsoft Excel
8 382 (24.32%) Degree
9 367 (23.36%) SQL
10 335 (21.32%) Decision-Making
11 300 (19.10%) Mentoring
12 266 (16.93%) Business Case
13 257 (16.36%) ACCA
14 252 (16.04%) CIMA
15 251 (15.98%) Broadband
15 251 (15.98%) Problem-Solving
16 250 (15.91%) Influencing Skills
17 248 (15.79%) Budgeting and Forecasting
18 239 (15.21%) Python
19 237 (15.09%) Analytics
20 235 (14.96%) Budgeting
21 204 (12.99%) Azure
22 188 (11.97%) Data Analysis
23 180 (11.46%) Visualisation
24 171 (10.88%) Tableau
25 161 (10.25%) Mathematics
26 157 (9.99%) Power BI
26 157 (9.99%) Power Platform
27 154 (9.80%) Retail
28 147 (9.36%) Business Intelligence

Senior 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 47 (2.99%) SAS
2 33 (2.10%) Confluence
3 29 (1.85%) WebLogic
4 24 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
5 18 (1.15%) Apache Spark
6 16 (1.02%) SharePoint
7 15 (0.95%) Apache
8 6 (0.38%) IIS
8 6 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (0.38%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.32%) IBM Notes
10 4 (0.25%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.13%) WordPress
12 1 (0.064%) Exchange Server 2013
12 1 (0.064%) Moodle
12 1 (0.064%) Mule
12 1 (0.064%) Skype for Business
12 1 (0.064%) Tornado
Applications
1 393 (25.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (3.69%) Microsoft Office
3 49 (3.12%) MS Visio
4 24 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.38%) SOLIDWORKS
7 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.13%) SPSS
7 2 (0.13%) Stata
Business Applications
1 14 (0.89%) Endur
2 8 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.38%) Oracle Applications
3 6 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.25%) Lawson
4 4 (0.25%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.19%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.13%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.064%) Academy Housing
7 1 (0.064%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.064%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.064%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.064%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.064%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.064%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.064%) SAP WM
7 1 (0.064%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.064%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 204 (12.99%) Azure
2 157 (9.99%) Power Platform
3 129 (8.21%) Microsoft 365
4 116 (7.38%) AWS
5 39 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (1.65%) SaaS
7 25 (1.59%) GCP
8 23 (1.46%) Miro
9 19 (1.21%) Entra ID
10 17 (1.08%) Azure Sentinel
11 11 (0.70%) Google Analytics
12 10 (0.64%) PaaS
13 9 (0.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 8 (0.51%) Cloud Computing
14 8 (0.51%) Rubrik
15 7 (0.45%) IaaS
16 6 (0.38%) GitHub
16 6 (0.38%) Mimecast
16 6 (0.38%) PowerApps
17 5 (0.32%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 251 (15.98%) Broadband
2 69 (4.39%) Firewall
3 22 (1.40%) TCP/IP
4 18 (1.15%) Internet
5 16 (1.02%) SD-WAN
5 16 (1.02%) VPN
6 13 (0.83%) VLAN
6 13 (0.83%) WAN
7 12 (0.76%) DNS
7 12 (0.76%) LAN
7 12 (0.76%) SAN
8 10 (0.64%) Network Security
8 10 (0.64%) Wireless
8 10 (0.64%) WPA
9 9 (0.57%) VoIP
10 7 (0.45%) Intrusion Detection
10 7 (0.45%) WLAN
11 6 (0.38%) DHCP
11 6 (0.38%) MPLS
11 6 (0.38%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (10.88%) Tableau
2 157 (9.99%) Power BI
3 45 (2.86%) SQL Server
4 38 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
5 29 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
6 25 (1.59%) Looker
7 21 (1.34%) Data Mining
8 19 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 15 (0.95%) Big Data
9 15 (0.95%) Relational Database
9 15 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 13 (0.83%) MS Access
11 10 (0.64%) BigQuery
12 9 (0.57%) Metadata
13 8 (0.51%) Essbase
14 7 (0.45%) GIS
15 6 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
16 5 (0.32%) MySQL
16 5 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 4 (0.25%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 79 (5.03%) Git
2 60 (3.82%) JIRA
3 9 (0.57%) Burp Suite
3 9 (0.57%) Metasploit
3 9 (0.57%) Selenium
4 6 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
5 5 (0.32%) TestRail
5 5 (0.32%) Visual Studio
6 4 (0.25%) JMeter
7 3 (0.19%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.19%) ERwin
7 3 (0.19%) GitLab
7 3 (0.19%) Visual Studio Team System
8 2 (0.13%) PowerBuilder
8 2 (0.13%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.13%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.13%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.064%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.064%) LoadRunner
General
1 649 (41.31%) Finance
2 632 (40.23%) Social Skills
3 624 (39.72%) Analytical Skills
4 250 (15.91%) Influencing Skills
5 154 (9.80%) Retail
6 141 (8.98%) Legal
7 131 (8.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 113 (7.19%) Banking
9 112 (7.13%) Presentation Skills
10 69 (4.39%) Law
11 53 (3.37%) Marketing
12 50 (3.18%) Public Sector
13 42 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
14 33 (2.10%) Police
15 25 (1.59%) Games
16 16 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
17 14 (0.89%) Front Office
18 13 (0.83%) Advertising
19 11 (0.70%) General Ledger
19 11 (0.70%) Retail Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (1.85%) J2EE
1 29 (1.85%) Java EE
1 29 (1.85%) Spring
2 22 (1.40%) REST
3 20 (1.27%) JSON
4 18 (1.15%) .NET
5 14 (0.89%) HTML
6 12 (0.76%) ARM Templates
6 12 (0.76%) CSS
7 10 (0.64%) Lightning Web Components
8 6 (0.38%) Oracle Fusion
9 5 (0.32%) .NET Core
9 5 (0.32%) Blazor
9 5 (0.32%) Entity Framework
10 4 (0.25%) D3.js
10 4 (0.25%) Laravel
10 4 (0.25%) Next.js
10 4 (0.25%) PySpark
10 4 (0.25%) React
10 4 (0.25%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 71 (4.52%) Onboarding
2 67 (4.26%) Management Information System
3 47 (2.99%) Product Ownership
4 32 (2.04%) Credit Risk
5 30 (1.91%) Security Operations Centre
5 30 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
6 29 (1.85%) Cyberattack
7 24 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
8 22 (1.40%) PMI
9 21 (1.34%) Reinsurance
10 14 (0.89%) Security Posture
11 13 (0.83%) Social Media
12 12 (0.76%) Cyber Threat
13 11 (0.70%) NHS
14 10 (0.64%) Analytical Mindset
14 10 (0.64%) Virtual Reality
15 9 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
15 9 (0.57%) Video\Live Streaming
16 8 (0.51%) Client/Server
16 8 (0.51%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 109 (6.94%) Windows
2 39 (2.48%) Unix
3 38 (2.42%) Windows Server
4 35 (2.23%) Linux
5 23 (1.46%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.38%) SUSE
6 6 (0.38%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 6 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (0.32%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.19%) Mac OS X
10 2 (0.13%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.064%) Android
11 1 (0.064%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 450 (28.64%) Agile
2 432 (27.50%) Actionable Insight
3 335 (21.32%) Decision-Making
4 300 (19.10%) Mentoring
5 266 (16.93%) Business Case
6 251 (15.98%) Problem-Solving
7 248 (15.79%) Budgeting and Forecasting
8 237 (15.09%) Analytics
9 235 (14.96%) Budgeting
10 188 (11.97%) Data Analysis
11 180 (11.46%) Visualisation
12 161 (10.25%) Mathematics
13 147 (9.36%) Business Intelligence
14 140 (8.91%) Cybersecurity
15 131 (8.34%) Statistics
16 128 (8.15%) Process Improvement
17 117 (7.45%) Stakeholder Management
18 112 (7.13%) Business Strategy
19 110 (7.00%) Business Analysis
19 110 (7.00%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 367 (23.36%) SQL
2 239 (15.21%) Python
3 54 (3.44%) R
4 35 (2.23%) PowerShell
5 34 (2.16%) Java
6 29 (1.85%) Shell Script
7 26 (1.65%) C#
8 23 (1.46%) T-SQL
9 18 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 14 (0.89%) VBA
11 10 (0.64%) PL/SQL
12 8 (0.51%) C++
12 8 (0.51%) JavaScript
13 7 (0.45%) PHP
14 5 (0.32%) C
14 5 (0.32%) VB.NET
15 4 (0.25%) Bicep
15 4 (0.25%) VB
16 3 (0.19%) RPG
16 3 (0.19%) VB6
Qualifications
1 382 (24.32%) Degree
2 257 (16.36%) ACCA
3 252 (16.04%) CIMA
4 118 (7.51%) Security Cleared
5 97 (6.17%) SC Cleared
6 72 (4.58%) DBS Check
7 48 (3.06%) CISSP
8 34 (2.16%) Master's Degree
9 26 (1.65%) PMI Certification
10 22 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
11 20 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
11 20 (1.27%) CompTIA Security+
12 18 (1.15%) DV Cleared
12 18 (1.15%) GIAC
13 17 (1.08%) CISM
14 16 (1.02%) CCNP
15 13 (0.83%) ISTQB
16 12 (0.76%) CISA
17 10 (0.64%) CompTIA CySA+
17 10 (0.64%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (5.35%) GDPR
2 37 (2.36%) Data Quality
3 34 (2.16%) QA
3 34 (2.16%) SLA
4 33 (2.10%) NIST
5 30 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 29 (1.85%) IFRS
7 18 (1.15%) CRD IV
8 16 (1.02%) GRC
9 15 (0.95%) IFRS 9
10 13 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
10 13 (0.83%) PCI DSS
11 12 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 11 (0.70%) PMO
13 10 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
13 10 (0.64%) COBIT
14 3 (0.19%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.13%) IFRS 17
15 2 (0.13%) ISO 22301
16 1 (0.064%) Accessibility
System Software
1 81 (5.16%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
2 9 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.38%) Firmware
4 5 (0.32%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.064%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.064%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.064%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (1.97%) Single Sign-On
2 29 (1.85%) OpenSSO
3 27 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
4 22 (1.40%) SCCM
5 9 (0.57%) Nmap
5 9 (0.57%) Terraform
6 8 (0.51%) QRadar
7 7 (0.45%) CASB
8 6 (0.38%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 4 (0.25%) CSIRT
10 2 (0.13%) cPanel
10 2 (0.13%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.064%) HP SiteScope
11 1 (0.064%) Microsoft Clustering
11 1 (0.064%) Perfmon
11 1 (0.064%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 467 (29.73%) Microsoft
2 90 (5.73%) Databricks
3 62 (3.95%) Oracle
4 39 (2.48%) Citrix
5 37 (2.36%) Cisco
6 35 (2.23%) SAP
7 31 (1.97%) VMware
8 30 (1.91%) Google
9 29 (1.85%) Remedy
10 28 (1.78%) Alteryx
11 25 (1.59%) Salesforce
12 22 (1.40%) SolarWinds
13 21 (1.34%) HP
14 16 (1.02%) CA
14 16 (1.02%) Palo Alto
14 16 (1.02%) Splunk
15 15 (0.95%) IBM
16 14 (0.89%) CrowdStrike
17 12 (0.76%) Dell
18 11 (0.70%) Hyperion