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 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 181 173 287
Rank change year-on-year -8 +114 +54
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 1,602 2,193 2,205
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.61% 2.17% 1.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.71% 2.37% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 829 797 1,286
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,500 £44,000 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £72,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £83,125
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 93,878 92,381 151,160
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,248 58,258 84,340
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 £81,000 £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 10 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 10 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 +3 1,468 £57,500 +3.60% 313
UK excluding London -99 885 £52,500 +5.00% 146
Work from Home -49 696 £57,000 +3.64% 168
London +112 655 £70,000 +7.69% 173
South East +22 275 £51,250 -10.87% 35
North of England -134 207 £50,000 - 35
Midlands +32 172 £55,000 +15.79% 25
South West +11 108 £59,000 +30.47% 15
West Midlands +8 107 £55,000 +15.79% 16
Yorkshire -105 92 £51,528 -4.47% 13
North West +6 91 £52,500 +7.14% 20
East Midlands +24 62 £57,500 +30.68% 9
Scotland -68 59 £50,000 +2.04% 8
East of England -30 32 £41,400 -22.98% 21
Wales -20 29 £47,000 +20.51% 6
North East +12 24 £35,000 -20.45% 2
Northern Ireland +21 4 £63,150 +32.95% 3
Channel Islands - 1 £67,500 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 10 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.

1 675 (42.13%) Finance
2 645 (40.26%) Social Skills
3 632 (39.45%) Analytical Skills
4 468 (29.21%) Microsoft
5 441 (27.53%) Agile
5 441 (27.53%) Actionable Insight
6 398 (24.84%) Microsoft Excel
7 395 (24.66%) Degree
8 386 (24.09%) SQL
9 331 (20.66%) Decision-Making
10 300 (18.73%) Mentoring
11 263 (16.42%) Business Case
12 262 (16.35%) Problem-Solving
13 259 (16.17%) ACCA
14 257 (16.04%) Python
15 253 (15.79%) CIMA
16 251 (15.67%) Broadband
17 250 (15.61%) Influencing Skills
18 249 (15.54%) Analytics
19 248 (15.48%) Budgeting and Forecasting
20 234 (14.61%) Budgeting
21 204 (12.73%) Data Analysis
22 202 (12.61%) Azure
23 196 (12.23%) Visualisation
24 189 (11.80%) Tableau
25 179 (11.17%) Mathematics
26 168 (10.49%) Retail
27 163 (10.17%) Legal
28 160 (9.99%) Power BI
28 160 (9.99%) Power Platform

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 (2.93%) SAS
2 33 (2.06%) Confluence
3 27 (1.69%) WebLogic
4 23 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
5 18 (1.12%) Apache Spark
6 16 (1.00%) SharePoint
7 15 (0.94%) Apache
8 6 (0.37%) IIS
8 6 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (0.37%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.31%) IBM Notes
10 4 (0.25%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.12%) WordPress
12 1 (0.062%) Exchange Server 2013
12 1 (0.062%) Moodle
12 1 (0.062%) Mule
12 1 (0.062%) Skype for Business
12 1 (0.062%) Tornado
Applications
1 398 (24.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (3.62%) Microsoft Office
3 49 (3.06%) MS Visio
4 23 (1.44%) 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 14 (0.87%) Endur
2 8 (0.50%) 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
1 202 (12.61%) Azure
2 160 (9.99%) Power Platform
3 128 (7.99%) AWS
4 126 (7.87%) Microsoft 365
5 37 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (1.56%) GCP
6 25 (1.56%) SaaS
7 23 (1.44%) Miro
8 20 (1.25%) Entra ID
9 18 (1.12%) Azure Sentinel
10 11 (0.69%) Google Analytics
11 10 (0.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 9 (0.56%) PaaS
13 8 (0.50%) Cloud Computing
13 8 (0.50%) Rubrik
14 7 (0.44%) IaaS
15 6 (0.37%) GitHub
15 6 (0.37%) Mimecast
16 5 (0.31%) OneDrive
16 5 (0.31%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 251 (15.67%) Broadband
2 69 (4.31%) Firewall
3 21 (1.31%) TCP/IP
4 18 (1.12%) Internet
5 15 (0.94%) SD-WAN
6 14 (0.87%) VPN
7 13 (0.81%) VLAN
7 13 (0.81%) WAN
8 12 (0.75%) LAN
8 12 (0.75%) SAN
9 11 (0.69%) DNS
10 10 (0.62%) Wireless
10 10 (0.62%) WPA
11 9 (0.56%) Network Security
11 9 (0.56%) VoIP
12 7 (0.44%) Intrusion Detection
12 7 (0.44%) WLAN
13 6 (0.37%) DHCP
13 6 (0.37%) MPLS
13 6 (0.37%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 189 (11.80%) Tableau
2 160 (9.99%) Power BI
3 47 (2.93%) SQL Server
4 39 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
5 27 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
6 26 (1.62%) Looker
7 23 (1.44%) Data Mining
8 19 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 15 (0.94%) Big Data
9 15 (0.94%) Relational Database
9 15 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 12 (0.75%) MS Access
11 10 (0.62%) BigQuery
11 10 (0.62%) Metadata
12 8 (0.50%) Essbase
13 7 (0.44%) GIS
14 6 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
15 5 (0.31%) MySQL
16 4 (0.25%) Electronic Patient Records
16 4 (0.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 93 (5.81%) Git
2 60 (3.75%) JIRA
3 10 (0.62%) Burp Suite
3 10 (0.62%) Metasploit
4 9 (0.56%) Selenium
5 6 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
6 5 (0.31%) TestRail
6 5 (0.31%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.25%) JMeter
8 3 (0.19%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.19%) ERwin
8 3 (0.19%) GitLab
9 2 (0.12%) PowerBuilder
9 2 (0.12%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.12%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio Team System
9 2 (0.12%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.062%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.062%) LoadRunner
General
1 675 (42.13%) Finance
2 645 (40.26%) Social Skills
3 632 (39.45%) Analytical Skills
4 250 (15.61%) Influencing Skills
5 168 (10.49%) Retail
6 163 (10.17%) Legal
7 134 (8.36%) Banking
8 125 (7.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 124 (7.74%) Presentation Skills
10 66 (4.12%) Law
11 52 (3.25%) Marketing
12 48 (3.00%) Public Sector
13 42 (2.62%) Organisational Skills
14 33 (2.06%) Police
15 25 (1.56%) Games
16 17 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
17 15 (0.94%) Front Office
18 13 (0.81%) Advertising
19 11 (0.69%) General Ledger
19 11 (0.69%) Retail Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (1.69%) J2EE
1 27 (1.69%) Java EE
1 27 (1.69%) Spring
2 23 (1.44%) REST
3 19 (1.19%) .NET
4 18 (1.12%) JSON
5 14 (0.87%) HTML
6 12 (0.75%) CSS
7 10 (0.62%) ARM Templates
7 10 (0.62%) Lightning Web Components
8 6 (0.37%) Oracle Fusion
9 5 (0.31%) .NET Core
9 5 (0.31%) Blazor
9 5 (0.31%) Entity Framework
9 5 (0.31%) PySpark
10 4 (0.25%) AngularJS
10 4 (0.25%) Laravel
10 4 (0.25%) Next.js
10 4 (0.25%) React
10 4 (0.25%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 72 (4.49%) Onboarding
2 65 (4.06%) Management Information System
3 45 (2.81%) Product Ownership
4 33 (2.06%) Credit Risk
5 30 (1.87%) Cyberattack
6 29 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
7 27 (1.69%) Security Operations Centre
8 24 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
9 22 (1.37%) PMI
10 20 (1.25%) Reinsurance
11 13 (0.81%) Cyber Threat
11 13 (0.81%) Security Posture
11 13 (0.81%) Social Media
12 11 (0.69%) NHS
13 10 (0.62%) Analytical Mindset
13 10 (0.62%) Virtual Reality
14 9 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
14 9 (0.56%) Video\Live Streaming
15 8 (0.50%) Client/Server
15 8 (0.50%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 107 (6.68%) Windows
2 38 (2.37%) Unix
3 37 (2.31%) Windows Server
4 35 (2.18%) Linux
5 23 (1.44%) 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
1 441 (27.53%) Actionable Insight
1 441 (27.53%) Agile
2 331 (20.66%) Decision-Making
3 300 (18.73%) Mentoring
4 263 (16.42%) Business Case
5 262 (16.35%) Problem-Solving
6 249 (15.54%) Analytics
7 248 (15.48%) Budgeting and Forecasting
8 234 (14.61%) Budgeting
9 204 (12.73%) Data Analysis
10 196 (12.23%) Visualisation
11 179 (11.17%) Mathematics
12 149 (9.30%) Business Intelligence
12 149 (9.30%) Process Improvement
13 146 (9.11%) Statistics
14 140 (8.74%) Cybersecurity
15 132 (8.24%) Business Strategy
16 121 (7.55%) Impact Assessments
17 115 (7.18%) Stakeholder Management
18 114 (7.12%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 386 (24.09%) SQL
2 257 (16.04%) Python
3 55 (3.43%) R
4 33 (2.06%) PowerShell
5 32 (2.00%) Java
6 27 (1.69%) Shell Script
7 26 (1.62%) C#
8 23 (1.44%) T-SQL
9 16 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 14 (0.87%) VBA
11 11 (0.69%) PL/SQL
12 8 (0.50%) C++
12 8 (0.50%) JavaScript
13 7 (0.44%) PHP
14 5 (0.31%) C
14 5 (0.31%) VB.NET
15 4 (0.25%) Bicep
15 4 (0.25%) VB
16 3 (0.19%) RPG
16 3 (0.19%) VB6
Qualifications
1 395 (24.66%) Degree
2 259 (16.17%) ACCA
3 253 (15.79%) CIMA
4 116 (7.24%) Security Cleared
5 95 (5.93%) SC Cleared
6 86 (5.37%) DBS Check
7 47 (2.93%) CISSP
8 34 (2.12%) Master's Degree
9 26 (1.62%) PMI Certification
10 21 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
11 20 (1.25%) CompTIA Security+
12 19 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
13 17 (1.06%) DV Cleared
13 17 (1.06%) GIAC
14 16 (1.00%) CISM
15 15 (0.94%) CCNP
16 13 (0.81%) ISTQB
17 11 (0.69%) CISA
18 10 (0.62%) CompTIA CySA+
18 10 (0.62%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (6.55%) GDPR
2 37 (2.31%) Data Quality
3 33 (2.06%) QA
3 33 (2.06%) SLA
4 31 (1.94%) IFRS
4 31 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 31 (1.94%) NIST
5 18 (1.12%) CRD IV
6 16 (1.00%) GRC
7 15 (0.94%) IFRS 9
8 14 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
9 13 (0.81%) PCI DSS
10 12 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 10 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
11 10 (0.62%) COBIT
11 10 (0.62%) PMO
12 4 (0.25%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.19%) ISO 22301
14 2 (0.12%) IFRS 17
15 1 (0.062%) Accessibility
System Software
1 80 (4.99%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
2 9 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.37%) Firmware
4 5 (0.31%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.062%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.062%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.062%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
2 27 (1.69%) OpenSSO
3 26 (1.62%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (1.25%) SCCM
5 10 (0.62%) Nmap
6 9 (0.56%) QRadar
6 9 (0.56%) Terraform
7 7 (0.44%) CASB
8 6 (0.37%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 4 (0.25%) CSIRT
10 2 (0.12%) cPanel
10 2 (0.12%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.062%) HP SiteScope
11 1 (0.062%) Microsoft Clustering
11 1 (0.062%) Perfmon
11 1 (0.062%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 468 (29.21%) Microsoft
2 103 (6.43%) Databricks
3 60 (3.75%) Oracle
4 36 (2.25%) Cisco
4 36 (2.25%) Citrix
4 36 (2.25%) SAP
5 30 (1.87%) Google
6 29 (1.81%) VMware
7 28 (1.75%) Alteryx
8 27 (1.69%) Remedy
9 26 (1.62%) Salesforce
10 20 (1.25%) SolarWinds
11 19 (1.19%) HP
12 17 (1.06%) CA
13 16 (1.00%) IBM
13 16 (1.00%) Splunk
14 15 (0.94%) Palo Alto
15 14 (0.87%) CrowdStrike
16 12 (0.75%) Hyperion
17 10 (0.62%) Adobe