Analyst Jobs in the UK excluding London

Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Analyst salary in the UK excluding London is £40,000 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 14 15 16
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 +8
Permanent jobs requiring an Analyst 6,464 7,253 8,811
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.03% 12.30% 12.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.52% 13.79% 12.82%
Number of salaries quoted 4,248 4,219 6,179
10th Percentile £24,500 £25,000 £24,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £30,500 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
75th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £51,250
90th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £60,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £46,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -2.17% +2.22% +2.27%

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 67,926 52,593 68,736
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 89.19% 95.74%
Number of salaries quoted 47,990 30,014 42,465
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
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%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Analyst in the UK excluding London

Analyst
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Analyst in the UK excluding London

Analyst
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Analyst in the UK excluding London

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 Analyst within the UK excluding London region 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
North of England -1 1,658 £39,000 -2.93% 333
South East 0 1,569 £40,000 -2.38% 376
Midlands 0 1,237 £37,500 -6.25% 220
North West +3 930 £40,000 -5.88% 189
West Midlands +1 819 £37,500 -6.25% 133
South West +3 705 £42,500 +9.25% 123
East of England +8 656 £38,000 -1.30% 127
Yorkshire -8 545 £37,500 -6.25% 119
East Midlands +1 411 £36,500 -3.95% 87
Scotland -33 410 £42,500 +4.72% 62
North East +3 183 £35,000 -12.50% 26
Wales -9 177 £36,476 +4.22% 34
Northern Ireland +21 37 £47,500 +26.67% 13
Isle of Man -1 21 £46,500 +3.33%
Channel Islands -2 2 £67,500 +92.86% 1
Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 2,272 (35.15%) Social Skills
2 1,855 (28.70%) Analytical Skills
3 1,704 (26.36%) Microsoft
4 1,579 (24.43%) Problem-Solving
5 1,562 (24.16%) Finance
6 1,157 (17.90%) Degree
7 1,031 (15.95%) SQL
8 1,024 (15.84%) Agile
9 952 (14.73%) Microsoft Excel
10 872 (13.49%) Customer Service
11 814 (12.59%) Decision-Making
12 813 (12.58%) Windows
13 780 (12.07%) Microsoft Office
14 773 (11.96%) Microsoft 365
15 703 (10.88%) Active Directory
16 680 (10.52%) Power Platform
17 678 (10.49%) Azure
18 659 (10.19%) Business Intelligence
19 646 (9.99%) ITIL
20 639 (9.89%) Power BI
21 598 (9.25%) Continuous Improvement
22 591 (9.14%) Business Analysis
23 574 (8.88%) Retail
24 572 (8.85%) Analytics
25 571 (8.83%) Actionable Insight
26 460 (7.12%) Mentoring
27 456 (7.05%) Data Analysis
28 454 (7.02%) Legal
29 451 (6.98%) Cybersecurity
30 440 (6.81%) Security Cleared

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
1 214 (3.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 190 (2.94%) SharePoint
3 114 (1.76%) Confluence
4 70 (1.08%) WebLogic
5 61 (0.94%) SAS
6 44 (0.68%) Oracle Service Bus
7 19 (0.29%) CMS
8 16 (0.25%) Apache
8 16 (0.25%) IIS
9 15 (0.23%) Apache Spark
10 10 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
11 8 (0.12%) ArcGIS
11 8 (0.12%) WebSphere
12 7 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2013
13 6 (0.093%) Moodle
14 4 (0.062%) IBM Notes
14 4 (0.062%) Oracle Application Server
14 4 (0.062%) Skype for Business
15 3 (0.046%) GlassFish
15 3 (0.046%) Tomcat
Applications
1 952 (14.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 780 (12.07%) Microsoft Office
3 132 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 124 (1.92%) MS Visio
5 35 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
6 20 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
7 10 (0.15%) Trello
8 9 (0.14%) SPSS
9 6 (0.093%) LightWave 3D
9 6 (0.093%) SOLIDWORKS
10 2 (0.031%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.031%) EViews
10 2 (0.031%) LaTeX
Business Applications
1 55 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 47 (0.73%) Remedy ITSM
3 34 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
4 21 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
5 17 (0.26%) iTrent
6 16 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
7 15 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
8 14 (0.22%) Dynamics GP
8 14 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
9 13 (0.20%) Infor SunSystems
9 13 (0.20%) Maximo
10 12 (0.19%) NEC Housing
10 12 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
11 11 (0.17%) Epicor Tropos
11 11 (0.17%) NetSuite
11 11 (0.17%) ResourceLink
12 10 (0.15%) Misys Midas
13 8 (0.12%) PlanetPress Connect
13 8 (0.12%) SAP FI
13 8 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 773 (11.96%) Microsoft 365
2 680 (10.52%) Power Platform
3 678 (10.49%) Azure
4 170 (2.63%) AWS
5 166 (2.57%) SaaS
6 131 (2.03%) Entra ID
7 130 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
8 68 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
9 51 (0.79%) GCP
10 43 (0.67%) PowerApps
11 40 (0.62%) Power Automate
12 38 (0.59%) Azure Sentinel
13 35 (0.54%) Google Analytics
14 28 (0.43%) WhatsApp
15 21 (0.32%) Miro
15 21 (0.32%) SuccessFactors
16 20 (0.31%) Mimecast
17 19 (0.29%) PaaS
17 19 (0.29%) Snowflake
18 15 (0.23%) Adobe Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 272 (4.21%) Firewall
2 265 (4.10%) Broadband
3 214 (3.31%) LAN
4 190 (2.94%) DNS
5 188 (2.91%) WAN
6 114 (1.76%) Internet
7 112 (1.73%) TCP/IP
8 106 (1.64%) VPN
9 103 (1.59%) DHCP
10 81 (1.25%) VoIP
11 71 (1.10%) WLAN
12 67 (1.04%) SD-WAN
13 63 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
14 56 (0.87%) Wireless
15 48 (0.74%) Network Security
16 45 (0.70%) MPLS
17 37 (0.57%) BGP
17 37 (0.57%) OSPF
18 36 (0.56%) Intrusion Detection
18 36 (0.56%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 639 (9.89%) Power BI
2 246 (3.81%) Tableau
3 207 (3.20%) SQL Server
4 113 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
5 82 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 80 (1.24%) BigQuery
7 67 (1.04%) Power Query
8 62 (0.96%) Relational Database
9 59 (0.91%) Oracle Database
10 44 (0.68%) Oracle Database 10g
10 44 (0.68%) Oracle Database 11g
10 44 (0.68%) VLDB
11 34 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 30 (0.46%) QlikView
13 28 (0.43%) Data Mining
14 27 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
15 26 (0.40%) MySQL
16 25 (0.39%) GIS
17 24 (0.37%) MS Access
18 20 (0.31%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 249 (3.85%) JIRA
2 28 (0.43%) Git
3 26 (0.40%) Selenium
4 25 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 16 (0.25%) Eclipse
6 13 (0.20%) JMeter
7 12 (0.19%) TestRail
8 10 (0.15%) Postman
9 9 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
9 9 (0.14%) Visual Studio
10 7 (0.11%) NUnit
10 7 (0.11%) WebDriver
11 6 (0.093%) Zephyr
12 5 (0.077%) TeamCity
13 4 (0.062%) Jenkins
13 4 (0.062%) Toad
14 3 (0.046%) Octopus Deploy
14 3 (0.046%) SoapUI
14 3 (0.046%) SpecFlow
15 2 (0.031%) Android Studio
General
1 2,272 (35.15%) Social Skills
2 1,855 (28.70%) Analytical Skills
3 1,562 (24.16%) Finance
4 574 (8.88%) Retail
5 454 (7.02%) Legal
6 413 (6.39%) Influencing Skills
7 401 (6.20%) Law
8 393 (6.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 331 (5.12%) Organisational Skills
10 303 (4.69%) Banking
11 245 (3.79%) Manufacturing
12 217 (3.36%) Public Sector
13 212 (3.28%) Marketing
14 186 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
15 135 (2.09%) Investment Banking
16 89 (1.38%) Police
17 85 (1.31%) Telecoms
18 77 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
19 61 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
20 59 (0.91%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (0.87%) .NET
2 48 (0.74%) XML
3 43 (0.67%) JSON
4 42 (0.65%) EDI
5 39 (0.60%) Oracle Fusion
6 33 (0.51%) REST
7 28 (0.43%) HTML
8 27 (0.42%) Spring
9 26 (0.40%) J2EE
9 26 (0.40%) Java EE
10 22 (0.34%) OLE
11 19 (0.29%) Web Services
12 15 (0.23%) Middleware
13 13 (0.20%) EDIFACT
14 12 (0.19%) SOAP
15 11 (0.17%) .NET Framework
15 11 (0.17%) Lightning Web Components
16 10 (0.15%) RESTful
16 10 (0.15%) XSL
17 9 (0.14%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 281 (4.35%) Management Information System
2 228 (3.53%) Self-Motivation
3 132 (2.04%) Product Ownership
4 101 (1.56%) Driving Licence
4 101 (1.56%) Onboarding
5 87 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
6 72 (1.11%) Security Operations Centre
7 69 (1.07%) Cyber Threat
8 60 (0.93%) Cyberattack
9 48 (0.74%) Credit Risk
10 47 (0.73%) Mobile App
11 46 (0.71%) Life Science
12 41 (0.63%) Data Centre
12 41 (0.63%) NHS
13 40 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
13 40 (0.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 39 (0.60%) FMCG
15 37 (0.57%) Operational Technology
16 34 (0.53%) Smartphone
17 31 (0.48%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 813 (12.58%) Windows
2 288 (4.46%) Windows Server
3 284 (4.39%) Windows 10
4 170 (2.63%) Linux
5 125 (1.93%) Unix
6 76 (1.18%) Android
7 60 (0.93%) Apple iOS
8 49 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
9 47 (0.73%) Solaris
10 45 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
11 36 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
12 35 (0.54%) Windows 7
13 25 (0.39%) Mac OS
14 21 (0.32%) Mac OS X
15 15 (0.23%) Windows 8
16 10 (0.15%) VMS
17 9 (0.14%) Windows Vista
18 8 (0.12%) AIX
18 8 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
19 6 (0.093%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,579 (24.43%) Problem-Solving
2 1,024 (15.84%) Agile
3 872 (13.49%) Customer Service
4 814 (12.59%) Decision-Making
5 659 (10.19%) Business Intelligence
6 646 (9.99%) ITIL
7 598 (9.25%) Continuous Improvement
8 591 (9.14%) Business Analysis
9 572 (8.85%) Analytics
10 571 (8.83%) Actionable Insight
11 460 (7.12%) Mentoring
12 456 (7.05%) Data Analysis
13 451 (6.98%) Cybersecurity
14 391 (6.05%) Visualisation
15 388 (6.00%) ERP
16 383 (5.93%) Stakeholder Management
17 380 (5.88%) Project Management
18 378 (5.85%) Requirements Gathering
19 364 (5.63%) Business Case
20 359 (5.55%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 1,031 (15.95%) SQL
2 296 (4.58%) Python
3 97 (1.50%) R
4 79 (1.22%) T-SQL
5 78 (1.21%) C#
5 78 (1.21%) PowerShell
6 58 (0.90%) Java
7 57 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 54 (0.84%) VBA
9 52 (0.80%) PL/SQL
10 34 (0.53%) JavaScript
11 30 (0.46%) Shell Script
12 23 (0.36%) RPG
13 15 (0.23%) VB
14 14 (0.22%) Bash
15 8 (0.12%) ActionScript
15 8 (0.12%) ActionScript 2.0
15 8 (0.12%) PHP
16 7 (0.11%) RPG IV
17 6 (0.093%) C
Qualifications
1 1,157 (17.90%) Degree
2 440 (6.81%) Security Cleared
3 286 (4.42%) CIMA
4 279 (4.32%) ACCA
5 263 (4.07%) SC Cleared
6 121 (1.87%) CISSP
7 85 (1.31%) DBS Check
8 82 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
9 76 (1.18%) DV Cleared
10 74 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
11 73 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
12 65 (1.01%) CompTIA Security+
13 63 (0.97%) CCNA
14 57 (0.88%) CISM
15 46 (0.71%) Master's Degree
16 45 (0.70%) ISTQB
17 43 (0.67%) A+ Certification
18 36 (0.56%) CCDP
18 36 (0.56%) CCIE
18 36 (0.56%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 289 (4.47%) SLA
2 183 (2.83%) GDPR
3 162 (2.51%) QA
4 158 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 115 (1.78%) Data Quality
6 89 (1.38%) NIST
7 78 (1.21%) PMO
8 65 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
9 49 (0.76%) PCI DSS
10 36 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 34 (0.53%) GRC
12 29 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
12 29 (0.45%) ISO 9001
13 22 (0.34%) Accessibility
13 22 (0.34%) IFRS
13 22 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 17025
14 19 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 18 (0.28%) GLP
16 14 (0.22%) CRD IV
17 13 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 703 (10.88%) Active Directory
2 84 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 62 (0.96%) Hyper-V
4 44 (0.68%) Oracle RAC
5 24 (0.37%) vSphere
6 17 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (0.17%) Firmware
8 11 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
9 9 (0.14%) RACF
10 8 (0.12%) XenApp
10 8 (0.12%) XenDesktop
11 5 (0.077%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.062%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.062%) VMware Workstation
13 3 (0.046%) Docker
14 2 (0.031%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 2 (0.031%) Embedded Firmware
15 1 (0.015%) BitLocker
15 1 (0.015%) Snort
Systems Management
1 120 (1.86%) Microsoft Intune
2 107 (1.66%) SCCM
3 44 (0.68%) Data Guard
3 44 (0.68%) Oracle RMAN
4 40 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
5 35 (0.54%) CASB
6 28 (0.43%) WSUS
7 26 (0.40%) OpenSSO
8 15 (0.23%) EnCase
9 11 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
9 11 (0.17%) Terraform
10 9 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
11 8 (0.12%) Grafana
11 8 (0.12%) Progress Chef
12 7 (0.11%) Nagios
13 6 (0.093%) Nessus
13 6 (0.093%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 5 (0.077%) FortiGate
14 5 (0.077%) Graphite
14 5 (0.077%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 1,704 (26.36%) Microsoft
2 214 (3.31%) Oracle
3 208 (3.22%) SAP
4 159 (2.46%) VMware
5 124 (1.92%) ServiceNow
6 110 (1.70%) Cisco
7 108 (1.67%) Salesforce
8 88 (1.36%) Google
9 82 (1.27%) Remedy
10 66 (1.02%) Apple
10 66 (1.02%) Citrix
11 59 (0.91%) Sun
12 55 (0.85%) Alteryx
13 54 (0.84%) Dell
14 53 (0.82%) Databricks
15 46 (0.71%) Adobe
16 41 (0.63%) Splunk
17 39 (0.60%) Sage
18 34 (0.53%) Meraki
19 32 (0.50%) HP