Analyst
UK

The median Analyst salary in the UK is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 16 22
Rank change year-on-year +3 +6 +2
Permanent jobs requiring an Analyst 9,770 12,229 16,160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.92% 11.81% 10.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.48% 12.90% 10.75%
Number of salaries quoted 6,662 7,719 11,405
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £46,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +2.22% +4.65%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £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 - - +2.37%

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 93,212 94,769 150,357
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.51% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 66,814 59,630 85,382
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,225
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +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 4 May 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 4 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 8,866 £45,000 -5.26% 1,858
UK excluding London -1 6,435 £40,000 - 1,058
Work from Home +2 3,669 £45,249 -4.74% 774
London +5 3,014 £60,000 +8.31% 872
North of England -1 1,650 £39,692 -0.77% 287
South East 0 1,567 £40,000 -2.44% 238
Midlands -2 1,211 £37,500 -6.25% 201
North West +3 918 £40,000 -5.88% 151
West Midlands +1 813 £37,500 -6.25% 116
South West +1 706 £42,500 +10.39% 121
East of England +7 655 £39,186 -2.04% 127
Yorkshire -8 557 £38,500 -3.75% 100
Scotland -34 419 £42,592 +4.31% 69
East Midlands -5 391 £36,500 -5.19% 85
North East +1 175 £35,000 -12.50% 38
Wales -8 175 £36,476 +4.22% 32
Northern Ireland +21 36 £50,000 +33.33% 15
Isle of Man 0 23 £46,500 +3.33% 1
Channel Islands -3 1 - - 1

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 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 featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 3,433 (35.14%) Social Skills
2 2,925 (29.94%) Finance
3 2,810 (28.76%) Analytical Skills
4 2,537 (25.97%) Microsoft
5 2,101 (21.50%) Problem-Solving
6 1,980 (20.27%) SQL
7 1,778 (18.20%) Degree
8 1,740 (17.81%) Agile
9 1,538 (15.74%) Microsoft Excel
10 1,250 (12.79%) Decision-Making
11 1,214 (12.43%) Windows
12 1,094 (11.20%) Azure
13 1,093 (11.19%) Microsoft 365
14 1,054 (10.79%) Microsoft Office
15 1,053 (10.78%) Customer Service
16 1,012 (10.36%) Power Platform
17 1,007 (10.31%) Business Intelligence
18 1,006 (10.30%) Actionable Insight
19 973 (9.96%) Active Directory
20 963 (9.86%) Analytics
21 943 (9.65%) Power BI
22 911 (9.32%) ITIL
23 834 (8.54%) Business Analysis
24 822 (8.41%) Mentoring
25 799 (8.18%) Data Analysis
26 763 (7.81%) Retail
27 733 (7.50%) Python
28 698 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
29 693 (7.09%) Cybersecurity
30 688 (7.04%) 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
1 342 (3.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 321 (3.29%) SharePoint
3 144 (1.47%) Confluence
4 92 (0.94%) SAS
5 74 (0.76%) WebLogic
6 45 (0.46%) Oracle Service Bus
7 36 (0.37%) CMS
8 26 (0.27%) IIS
9 25 (0.26%) Apache
10 23 (0.24%) Apache Spark
11 17 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
12 14 (0.14%) IBM Notes
13 13 (0.13%) Skype for Business
14 8 (0.082%) ArcGIS
14 8 (0.082%) Moodle
14 8 (0.082%) WebSphere
14 8 (0.082%) WordPress
15 7 (0.072%) Exchange Server 2013
16 6 (0.061%) Exchange Server 2010
17 5 (0.051%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1,538 (15.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 1,054 (10.79%) Microsoft Office
3 249 (2.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 178 (1.82%) MS Visio
5 49 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
6 23 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
7 21 (0.21%) SPSS
8 14 (0.14%) Trello
9 6 (0.061%) LightWave 3D
9 6 (0.061%) SOLIDWORKS
10 4 (0.041%) Chatbot
11 3 (0.031%) Stata
12 2 (0.020%) EViews
12 2 (0.020%) LaTeX
12 2 (0.020%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 105 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 50 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
3 47 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
4 33 (0.34%) 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
9 23 (0.24%) Endur
10 22 (0.23%) PlanetPress Connect
11 19 (0.19%) NetSuite
11 19 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
11 19 (0.19%) thinkFolio
12 18 (0.18%) iTrent
13 16 (0.16%) Infor SunSystems
13 16 (0.16%) Oracle Financials
14 15 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
14 15 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
15 14 (0.14%) Epicor Tropos
16 13 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 1,094 (11.20%) Azure
2 1,093 (11.19%) Microsoft 365
3 1,012 (10.36%) Power Platform
4 414 (4.24%) AWS
5 222 (2.27%) SaaS
6 184 (1.88%) Dynamics 365
7 181 (1.85%) Entra ID
8 135 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
9 81 (0.83%) GCP
10 69 (0.71%) Google Analytics
11 66 (0.68%) PowerApps
12 61 (0.62%) Power Automate
13 48 (0.49%) Azure Sentinel
13 48 (0.49%) OneDrive
14 46 (0.47%) WhatsApp
15 41 (0.42%) Mimecast
15 41 (0.42%) Snowflake
16 40 (0.41%) PaaS
17 27 (0.28%) Azure Data Factory
17 27 (0.28%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 512 (5.24%) Broadband
2 442 (4.52%) Firewall
3 268 (2.74%) DNS
4 266 (2.72%) LAN
5 251 (2.57%) WAN
6 186 (1.90%) TCP/IP
7 163 (1.67%) VPN
8 153 (1.57%) DHCP
9 149 (1.53%) Internet
10 109 (1.12%) VoIP
11 103 (1.05%) Wireless
12 102 (1.04%) SD-WAN
13 91 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
14 87 (0.89%) Network Security
15 72 (0.74%) WLAN
16 68 (0.70%) Intrusion Detection
17 62 (0.63%) MPLS
18 53 (0.54%) VLAN
19 50 (0.51%) BGP
19 50 (0.51%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 943 (9.65%) Power BI
2 470 (4.81%) Tableau
3 399 (4.08%) SQL Server
4 198 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
5 155 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 94 (0.96%) BigQuery
6 94 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 93 (0.95%) Relational Database
8 76 (0.78%) Oracle Database
8 76 (0.78%) Power Query
9 57 (0.58%) Data Mining
10 47 (0.48%) QlikView
11 45 (0.46%) Oracle Database 10g
11 45 (0.46%) Oracle Database 11g
11 45 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
11 45 (0.46%) VLDB
12 41 (0.42%) Big Data
12 41 (0.42%) MySQL
13 40 (0.41%) Looker
14 34 (0.35%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 383 (3.92%) JIRA
2 119 (1.22%) Git
3 57 (0.58%) 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 10 (0.10%) Team Foundation Server
11 9 (0.092%) Burp Suite
11 9 (0.092%) Jenkins
11 9 (0.092%) Metasploit
11 9 (0.092%) Oracle Forms
12 7 (0.072%) NUnit
12 7 (0.072%) TeamCity
12 7 (0.072%) WebDriver
13 6 (0.061%) Zephyr
General
1 3,433 (35.14%) Social Skills
2 2,925 (29.94%) Finance
3 2,810 (28.76%) Analytical Skills
4 763 (7.81%) Retail
5 688 (7.04%) Influencing Skills
6 650 (6.65%) Law
7 637 (6.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 622 (6.37%) Legal
9 617 (6.32%) Banking
10 389 (3.98%) Organisational Skills
11 333 (3.41%) Presentation Skills
12 318 (3.25%) Marketing
13 301 (3.08%) Public Sector
14 271 (2.77%) Manufacturing
15 245 (2.51%) Investment Banking
16 181 (1.85%) Front Office
17 107 (1.10%) Police
18 106 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
19 103 (1.05%) Telecoms
20 100 (1.02%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (1.12%) .NET
2 70 (0.72%) JSON
3 66 (0.68%) Oracle Fusion
3 66 (0.68%) XML
4 65 (0.67%) REST
5 53 (0.54%) HTML
6 44 (0.45%) EDI
7 39 (0.40%) Web Services
8 32 (0.33%) FIX Protocol
9 30 (0.31%) Spring
10 29 (0.30%) CSS
10 29 (0.30%) J2EE
10 29 (0.30%) Java EE
11 22 (0.23%) OLE
12 19 (0.19%) .NET Framework
13 17 (0.17%) Middleware
13 17 (0.17%) Pandas
14 16 (0.16%) SOAP
15 15 (0.15%) ARM Templates
16 14 (0.14%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 427 (4.37%) Management Information System
2 411 (4.21%) Self-Motivation
3 272 (2.78%) Product Ownership
4 203 (2.08%) Onboarding
5 130 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 118 (1.21%) Hedge funds
7 117 (1.20%) Fixed Income
8 115 (1.18%) Derivative
9 112 (1.15%) Cyber Threat
10 103 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
11 99 (1.01%) Cyberattack
12 97 (0.99%) Driving Licence
13 94 (0.96%) Security Operations Centre
14 83 (0.85%) Life Science
15 74 (0.76%) Reinsurance
16 72 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
17 69 (0.71%) Data Centre
17 69 (0.71%) Equities
18 62 (0.63%) Credit Risk
18 62 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1,214 (12.43%) Windows
2 421 (4.31%) Windows 10
3 387 (3.96%) Windows Server
4 263 (2.69%) Linux
5 168 (1.72%) Unix
6 98 (1.00%) Apple iOS
7 90 (0.92%) Android
8 67 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
9 65 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
10 61 (0.62%) Mac OS
11 58 (0.59%) Solaris
12 53 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
13 42 (0.43%) Windows 7
14 30 (0.31%) Mac OS X
15 21 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
16 19 (0.19%) Windows 8
17 13 (0.13%) VMS
18 12 (0.12%) Windows Vista
19 11 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
20 10 (0.10%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,101 (21.50%) Problem-Solving
2 1,740 (17.81%) Agile
3 1,250 (12.79%) Decision-Making
4 1,053 (10.78%) Customer Service
5 1,007 (10.31%) Business Intelligence
6 1,006 (10.30%) Actionable Insight
7 963 (9.86%) Analytics
8 911 (9.32%) ITIL
9 834 (8.54%) Business Analysis
10 822 (8.41%) Mentoring
11 799 (8.18%) Data Analysis
12 698 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
13 693 (7.09%) Cybersecurity
14 649 (6.64%) Visualisation
15 645 (6.60%) Business Case
16 598 (6.12%) Stakeholder Management
17 554 (5.67%) Change Management
17 554 (5.67%) Project Management
18 549 (5.62%) Requirements Gathering
19 532 (5.45%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 1,980 (20.27%) SQL
2 733 (7.50%) Python
3 175 (1.79%) R
4 168 (1.72%) T-SQL
5 165 (1.69%) C#
5 165 (1.69%) PowerShell
6 98 (1.00%) VBA
7 93 (0.95%) Java
8 82 (0.84%) PL/SQL
9 72 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 66 (0.68%) JavaScript
11 38 (0.39%) Shell Script
12 36 (0.37%) Bash
13 29 (0.30%) C++
14 25 (0.26%) RPG
15 19 (0.19%) Perl
15 19 (0.19%) VB
16 13 (0.13%) MATLAB
16 13 (0.13%) PHP
16 13 (0.13%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,778 (18.20%) Degree
2 543 (5.56%) Security Cleared
3 528 (5.40%) ACCA
4 526 (5.38%) CIMA
5 350 (3.58%) SC Cleared
6 206 (2.11%) CISSP
7 169 (1.73%) DBS Check
8 139 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
9 124 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
10 117 (1.20%) DV Cleared
11 115 (1.18%) Master's Degree
12 113 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
13 96 (0.98%) CompTIA Security+
14 92 (0.94%) CISM
15 89 (0.91%) CCNA
16 73 (0.75%) CISA
17 62 (0.63%) CCNP
18 58 (0.59%) A+ Certification
19 50 (0.51%) ISTQB
20 46 (0.47%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 378 (3.87%) SLA
2 274 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 259 (2.65%) Data Quality
4 232 (2.37%) QA
5 204 (2.09%) GDPR
6 173 (1.77%) NIST
7 106 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
8 98 (1.00%) PMO
9 79 (0.81%) GRC
10 58 (0.59%) PCI DSS
11 50 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 39 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
13 37 (0.38%) NCSC
14 36 (0.37%) ISO 9001
15 34 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 32 (0.33%) IFRS
17 28 (0.29%) Accessibility
17 28 (0.29%) COBIT
18 23 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 17025
19 21 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 973 (9.96%) Active Directory
2 150 (1.54%) 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 25 (0.26%) XenApp
8 24 (0.25%) XenDesktop
9 23 (0.24%) Firmware
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
1 193 (1.98%) Microsoft Intune
2 157 (1.61%) SCCM
3 57 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
4 47 (0.48%) Data Guard
5 45 (0.46%) Oracle RMAN
6 40 (0.41%) CASB
7 34 (0.35%) WSUS
8 32 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
9 29 (0.30%) OpenSSO
10 28 (0.29%) Terraform
11 18 (0.18%) QRadar
12 16 (0.16%) EnCase
13 15 (0.15%) CSIRT
14 13 (0.13%) FortiGate
15 10 (0.10%) Grafana
16 9 (0.092%) Failover Clustering
16 9 (0.092%) Nessus
16 9 (0.092%) Nmap
16 9 (0.092%) Progress Chef
16 9 (0.092%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2,537 (25.97%) Microsoft
2 345 (3.53%) Oracle
3 264 (2.70%) SAP
4 254 (2.60%) VMware
5 190 (1.94%) Cisco
6 167 (1.71%) Google
6 167 (1.71%) Salesforce
7 163 (1.67%) ServiceNow
8 147 (1.50%) Citrix
9 137 (1.40%) Databricks
10 99 (1.01%) Apple
11 94 (0.96%) Alteryx
12 91 (0.93%) Remedy
13 87 (0.89%) Bloomberg
14 77 (0.79%) Splunk
15 75 (0.77%) Sun
16 70 (0.72%) IBM
17 69 (0.71%) Adobe
18 62 (0.63%) Dell
19 59 (0.60%) Sage