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 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 183 175 297
Rank change year-on-year -8 +122 +46
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 1,618 2,150 2,288
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.62% 2.17% 1.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.71% 2.37% 1.48%
Number of salaries quoted 820 794 1,299
10th Percentile £39,750 £38,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £46,306 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,625 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,689
% change year-on-year +5.00% -1.36% +6.71%

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 94,593 90,744 154,424
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.51% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,603 57,335 84,442
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
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 18 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 18 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 +1 1,484 £57,500 +3.60% 334
UK excluding London -89 894 £52,500 +5.00% 174
Work from Home -41 711 £57,500 +4.55% 187
London +109 662 £70,000 +7.69% 182
South East +26 278 £52,500 -8.70% 59
North of England -122 208 £50,000 - 47
Midlands +42 178 £55,000 +15.79% 22
West Midlands +23 109 £55,000 +12.82% 15
South West 0 106 £57,500 +21.05% 12
North West +20 93 £50,000 +1.01% 25
Yorkshire -106 90 £51,528 -1.85% 20
East Midlands +35 66 £62,500 +42.05% 7
Scotland -75 58 £50,000 +2.04% 5
East of England -40 33 £41,400 -22.98% 23
Wales -19 30 £45,000 +15.38% 7
North East +13 25 £35,000 -20.45% 2
Northern Ireland +21 4 £63,150 +32.95% 2
Channel Islands - 1 £67,500 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 18 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.

1 677 (41.84%) Finance
2 659 (40.73%) Social Skills
3 641 (39.62%) Analytical Skills
4 475 (29.36%) Microsoft
5 458 (28.31%) Actionable Insight
6 441 (27.26%) Agile
7 413 (25.53%) SQL
8 408 (25.22%) Degree
9 400 (24.72%) Microsoft Excel
10 333 (20.58%) Decision-Making
11 294 (18.17%) Mentoring
12 278 (17.18%) Problem-Solving
13 271 (16.75%) Python
14 265 (16.38%) Analytics
15 262 (16.19%) Business Case
16 260 (16.07%) ACCA
17 254 (15.70%) CIMA
18 251 (15.51%) Broadband
19 250 (15.45%) Influencing Skills
20 249 (15.39%) Budgeting and Forecasting
21 234 (14.46%) Budgeting
22 221 (13.66%) Data Analysis
23 214 (13.23%) Visualisation
24 205 (12.67%) Tableau
25 195 (12.05%) Mathematics
26 192 (11.87%) Azure
27 181 (11.19%) Retail
28 171 (10.57%) Legal
29 161 (9.95%) Statistics
30 155 (9.58%) Power BI

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 44 (2.72%) SAS
2 33 (2.04%) Confluence
3 26 (1.61%) WebLogic
4 21 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (0.93%) Apache Spark
5 15 (0.93%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.74%) Apache
7 6 (0.37%) IIS
7 6 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
7 6 (0.37%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.31%) IBM Notes
9 4 (0.25%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.12%) WordPress
11 1 (0.062%) Exchange Server 2013
11 1 (0.062%) Moodle
11 1 (0.062%) Mule
11 1 (0.062%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.062%) Tornado
Applications
1 400 (24.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (3.65%) Microsoft Office
3 49 (3.03%) MS Visio
4 23 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.37%) SOLIDWORKS
7 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.12%) SPSS
7 2 (0.12%) Stata
Business Applications
1 13 (0.80%) Endur
2 7 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.37%) Oracle Applications
3 6 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.25%) Lawson
4 4 (0.25%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.19%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.12%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.062%) Academy Housing
7 1 (0.062%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.062%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.062%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.062%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.062%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.062%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.062%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.062%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.062%) SAP WM
7 1 (0.062%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.062%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 192 (11.87%) Azure
2 155 (9.58%) Power Platform
3 144 (8.90%) AWS
4 118 (7.29%) Microsoft 365
5 34 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (1.85%) Entra ID
7 25 (1.55%) GCP
7 25 (1.55%) SaaS
8 23 (1.42%) Miro
9 19 (1.17%) Azure Sentinel
10 11 (0.68%) Google Analytics
11 10 (0.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 9 (0.56%) PaaS
13 8 (0.49%) Cloud Computing
13 8 (0.49%) Rubrik
14 7 (0.43%) IaaS
15 6 (0.37%) GitHub
15 6 (0.37%) Mimecast
16 5 (0.31%) OneDrive
16 5 (0.31%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 251 (15.51%) Broadband
2 70 (4.33%) Firewall
3 19 (1.17%) TCP/IP
4 18 (1.11%) Internet
5 14 (0.87%) SD-WAN
6 13 (0.80%) VLAN
6 13 (0.80%) VPN
6 13 (0.80%) WAN
7 12 (0.74%) LAN
7 12 (0.74%) SAN
8 10 (0.62%) Wireless
8 10 (0.62%) WPA
9 9 (0.56%) DNS
9 9 (0.56%) VoIP
10 8 (0.49%) Network Security
11 7 (0.43%) Intrusion Detection
11 7 (0.43%) WLAN
12 6 (0.37%) BGP
12 6 (0.37%) MPLS
12 6 (0.37%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 205 (12.67%) Tableau
2 155 (9.58%) Power BI
3 44 (2.72%) SQL Server
4 39 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
5 26 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
6 25 (1.55%) Looker
7 24 (1.48%) Data Mining
8 16 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 15 (0.93%) Big Data
9 15 (0.93%) Relational Database
10 13 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 11 (0.68%) MS Access
12 10 (0.62%) BigQuery
12 10 (0.62%) Metadata
13 8 (0.49%) Essbase
14 7 (0.43%) GIS
15 6 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
16 5 (0.31%) MySQL
17 4 (0.25%) Data Lake
17 4 (0.25%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 109 (6.74%) Git
2 58 (3.58%) JIRA
3 10 (0.62%) Burp Suite
3 10 (0.62%) Metasploit
3 10 (0.62%) Selenium
4 6 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
5 5 (0.31%) JMeter
5 5 (0.31%) TestRail
5 5 (0.31%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.19%) ER Studio
6 3 (0.19%) ERwin
6 3 (0.19%) GitLab
7 2 (0.12%) PowerBuilder
7 2 (0.12%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.12%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio Team System
7 2 (0.12%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.062%) Appium
8 1 (0.062%) Bitbucket
General
1 677 (41.84%) Finance
2 659 (40.73%) Social Skills
3 641 (39.62%) Analytical Skills
4 250 (15.45%) Influencing Skills
5 181 (11.19%) Retail
6 171 (10.57%) Legal
7 143 (8.84%) Banking
8 138 (8.53%) Presentation Skills
9 118 (7.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 63 (3.89%) Law
11 51 (3.15%) Marketing
12 44 (2.72%) Public Sector
13 40 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
14 33 (2.04%) Police
15 25 (1.55%) Games
16 18 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
17 14 (0.87%) Advertising
17 14 (0.87%) Front Office
18 11 (0.68%) Retail Finance
19 10 (0.62%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (1.61%) J2EE
1 26 (1.61%) Java EE
1 26 (1.61%) Spring
2 23 (1.42%) REST
3 19 (1.17%) .NET
4 16 (0.99%) JSON
5 13 (0.80%) HTML
6 12 (0.74%) CSS
7 10 (0.62%) Lightning Web Components
8 8 (0.49%) ARM Templates
9 6 (0.37%) Oracle Fusion
10 5 (0.31%) .NET Core
10 5 (0.31%) Blazor
10 5 (0.31%) Entity Framework
10 5 (0.31%) PySpark
11 4 (0.25%) D3.js
11 4 (0.25%) Laravel
11 4 (0.25%) Next.js
11 4 (0.25%) React
11 4 (0.25%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 75 (4.64%) Management Information System
2 70 (4.33%) Onboarding
3 44 (2.72%) Product Ownership
4 29 (1.79%) Credit Risk
4 29 (1.79%) Cyberattack
5 28 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
6 27 (1.67%) Security Operations Centre
7 24 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
8 22 (1.36%) PMI
9 19 (1.17%) Reinsurance
10 14 (0.87%) Cyber Threat
11 13 (0.80%) Social Media
12 12 (0.74%) Security Posture
13 11 (0.68%) NHS
14 10 (0.62%) Analytical Mindset
14 10 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
14 10 (0.62%) Virtual Reality
15 9 (0.56%) Video\Live Streaming
15 9 (0.56%) Virtual Team
16 8 (0.49%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 106 (6.55%) Windows
2 38 (2.35%) Unix
3 36 (2.22%) Windows Server
4 35 (2.16%) Linux
5 23 (1.42%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.37%) SUSE
6 6 (0.37%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 6 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (0.31%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.19%) Mac OS X
10 2 (0.12%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.062%) Android
11 1 (0.062%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 458 (28.31%) Actionable Insight
2 441 (27.26%) Agile
3 333 (20.58%) Decision-Making
4 294 (18.17%) Mentoring
5 278 (17.18%) Problem-Solving
6 265 (16.38%) Analytics
7 262 (16.19%) Business Case
8 249 (15.39%) Budgeting and Forecasting
9 234 (14.46%) Budgeting
10 221 (13.66%) Data Analysis
11 214 (13.23%) Visualisation
12 195 (12.05%) Mathematics
13 161 (9.95%) Statistics
14 149 (9.21%) Business Strategy
14 149 (9.21%) Process Improvement
15 147 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
16 146 (9.02%) Business Intelligence
17 119 (7.35%) Impact Assessments
18 118 (7.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 116 (7.17%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 413 (25.53%) SQL
2 271 (16.75%) Python
3 52 (3.21%) R
4 42 (2.60%) PowerShell
5 31 (1.92%) Java
6 26 (1.61%) C#
6 26 (1.61%) Shell Script
7 20 (1.24%) T-SQL
8 16 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 13 (0.80%) VBA
10 11 (0.68%) PL/SQL
11 8 (0.49%) JavaScript
12 7 (0.43%) C++
12 7 (0.43%) PHP
13 5 (0.31%) VB.NET
14 4 (0.25%) Bicep
14 4 (0.25%) C
14 4 (0.25%) VB
15 3 (0.19%) RPG
15 3 (0.19%) VB6
Qualifications
1 408 (25.22%) Degree
2 260 (16.07%) ACCA
3 254 (15.70%) CIMA
4 113 (6.98%) Security Cleared
5 104 (6.43%) DBS Check
6 94 (5.81%) SC Cleared
7 49 (3.03%) CISSP
8 34 (2.10%) Master's Degree
9 26 (1.61%) PMI Certification
10 20 (1.24%) CompTIA Security+
10 20 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
11 18 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
11 18 (1.11%) CISM
12 16 (0.99%) DV Cleared
12 16 (0.99%) GIAC
13 14 (0.87%) CCNP
14 13 (0.80%) ISTQB
15 11 (0.68%) CISA
16 10 (0.62%) CompTIA CySA+
16 10 (0.62%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (6.37%) GDPR
2 37 (2.29%) Data Quality
3 34 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 32 (1.98%) SLA
5 31 (1.92%) QA
6 30 (1.85%) NIST
7 29 (1.79%) IFRS
8 16 (0.99%) GRC
9 15 (0.93%) CRD IV
10 13 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
10 13 (0.80%) PCI DSS
11 12 (0.74%) IFRS 9
11 12 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 10 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
12 10 (0.62%) PMO
13 9 (0.56%) COBIT
14 4 (0.25%) ISO 22301
14 4 (0.25%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.12%) IFRS 17
16 1 (0.062%) Accessibility
System Software
1 86 (5.32%) Active Directory
2 10 (0.62%) RACF
3 9 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
3 9 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.37%) Firmware
5 5 (0.31%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.062%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.062%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.062%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (1.73%) Single Sign-On
2 26 (1.61%) OpenSSO
3 24 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
4 18 (1.11%) SCCM
5 10 (0.62%) Nmap
6 9 (0.56%) QRadar
7 8 (0.49%) Terraform
8 7 (0.43%) CASB
9 6 (0.37%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 4 (0.25%) CSIRT
11 2 (0.12%) cPanel
11 2 (0.12%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.062%) Control-M
12 1 (0.062%) HP SiteScope
12 1 (0.062%) Microsoft Clustering
12 1 (0.062%) Perfmon
12 1 (0.062%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 475 (29.36%) Microsoft
2 122 (7.54%) Databricks
3 61 (3.77%) Oracle
4 36 (2.22%) SAP
5 35 (2.16%) Cisco
6 33 (2.04%) Citrix
7 30 (1.85%) Google
8 27 (1.67%) Alteryx
8 27 (1.67%) Salesforce
9 26 (1.61%) Remedy
9 26 (1.61%) VMware
10 18 (1.11%) HP
10 18 (1.11%) SolarWinds
11 17 (1.05%) CA
12 16 (0.99%) IBM
13 15 (0.93%) Splunk
14 14 (0.87%) CrowdStrike
14 14 (0.87%) Palo Alto
15 13 (0.80%) Hyperion
16 11 (0.68%) CyberArk