Analyst
UK

The median Analyst salary in the UK is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 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
12 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 9,839 11,934 16,205
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.91% 11.78% 10.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.47% 12.87% 10.69%
Number of salaries quoted 6,649 7,591 11,344
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,114 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £46,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +2.22% +3.45%
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

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 93,937 92,745 151,578
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.52% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 67,282 58,546 84,308
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,604
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,627 £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%

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 12 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 12 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 8,936 £45,000 -5.26% 1,902
UK excluding London +1 6,474 £40,000 - 1,101
Work from Home +3 3,706 £45,249 -4.74% 812
London +4 3,047 £60,000 +7.14% 860
North of England -1 1,668 £39,500 -1.25% 293
South East 0 1,567 £40,000 -3.61% 268
Midlands -1 1,225 £37,500 -6.25% 218
North West +3 932 £40,000 -4.19% 158
West Midlands +1 818 £37,500 -6.25% 132
South West +2 711 £42,500 +10.39% 116
East of England +8 656 £39,186 -1.42% 124
Yorkshire -8 556 £38,000 -5.00% 109
Scotland -34 419 £42,592 +4.26% 63
East Midlands -3 400 £36,500 -5.19% 86
North East +4 180 £35,000 -12.50% 27
Wales -8 174 £36,476 +4.22% 32
Northern Ireland +25 38 £50,000 +33.33% 18
Isle of Man -1 22 £46,500 +3.33% 1
Channel Islands -2 2 £67,500 +92.86% 1

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 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 3,446 (35.02%) Social Skills
2 2,956 (30.04%) Finance
3 2,828 (28.74%) Analytical Skills
4 2,534 (25.75%) Microsoft
5 2,120 (21.55%) Problem-Solving
6 2,019 (20.52%) SQL
7 1,815 (18.45%) Degree
8 1,716 (17.44%) Agile
9 1,556 (15.81%) Microsoft Excel
10 1,251 (12.71%) Decision-Making
11 1,204 (12.24%) Windows
12 1,091 (11.09%) Azure
13 1,088 (11.06%) Microsoft 365
14 1,052 (10.69%) Customer Service
15 1,048 (10.65%) Microsoft Office
16 1,026 (10.43%) Power Platform
17 1,013 (10.30%) Actionable Insight
18 1,009 (10.26%) Business Intelligence
19 995 (10.11%) Analytics
20 969 (9.85%) Active Directory
21 957 (9.73%) Power BI
22 911 (9.26%) ITIL
23 829 (8.43%) Business Analysis
24 824 (8.37%) Mentoring
25 823 (8.36%) Data Analysis
26 794 (8.07%) Retail
27 759 (7.71%) Python
28 709 (7.21%) Continuous Improvement
29 699 (7.10%) Cybersecurity
30 696 (7.07%) 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
1 338 (3.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 321 (3.26%) SharePoint
3 142 (1.44%) Confluence
4 95 (0.97%) SAS
5 70 (0.71%) WebLogic
6 44 (0.45%) Oracle Service Bus
7 36 (0.37%) CMS
8 25 (0.25%) Apache
8 25 (0.25%) IIS
9 23 (0.23%) Apache Spark
10 16 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
11 14 (0.14%) IBM Notes
12 13 (0.13%) Skype for Business
13 9 (0.091%) WordPress
14 8 (0.081%) ArcGIS
14 8 (0.081%) Moodle
14 8 (0.081%) WebSphere
15 7 (0.071%) Exchange Server 2013
16 6 (0.061%) Exchange Server 2010
17 5 (0.051%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1,556 (15.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 1,048 (10.65%) Microsoft Office
3 235 (2.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 180 (1.83%) MS Visio
5 49 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
6 24 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
7 23 (0.23%) SPSS
8 14 (0.14%) Trello
9 6 (0.061%) LightWave 3D
9 6 (0.061%) SOLIDWORKS
10 4 (0.041%) Chatbot
11 3 (0.030%) Stata
12 2 (0.020%) EViews
12 2 (0.020%) LaTeX
12 2 (0.020%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 102 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 49 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
3 47 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
4 33 (0.34%) Aladdin
5 28 (0.28%) NEC Housing
6 26 (0.26%) Elite 3E
6 26 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
7 24 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
8 23 (0.23%) Endur
9 20 (0.20%) NetSuite
9 20 (0.20%) PlanetPress Connect
10 19 (0.19%) iTrent
10 19 (0.19%) thinkFolio
11 18 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
12 16 (0.16%) Infor SunSystems
12 16 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
13 15 (0.15%) Oracle Financials
14 14 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
14 14 (0.14%) Epicor Tropos
15 12 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 1,091 (11.09%) Azure
2 1,088 (11.06%) Microsoft 365
3 1,026 (10.43%) Power Platform
4 430 (4.37%) AWS
5 220 (2.24%) SaaS
6 185 (1.88%) Dynamics 365
6 185 (1.88%) Entra ID
7 130 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
8 81 (0.82%) GCP
9 69 (0.70%) Google Analytics
10 66 (0.67%) PowerApps
11 61 (0.62%) Power Automate
12 48 (0.49%) OneDrive
13 47 (0.48%) Azure Sentinel
14 45 (0.46%) WhatsApp
15 43 (0.44%) Mimecast
16 41 (0.42%) PaaS
17 39 (0.40%) Snowflake
18 27 (0.27%) IaaS
19 26 (0.26%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 508 (5.16%) Broadband
2 433 (4.40%) Firewall
3 272 (2.76%) DNS
4 262 (2.66%) LAN
5 246 (2.50%) WAN
6 185 (1.88%) TCP/IP
7 160 (1.63%) VPN
8 155 (1.58%) DHCP
9 148 (1.50%) Internet
10 107 (1.09%) VoIP
11 101 (1.03%) SD-WAN
12 98 (1.00%) Wireless
13 90 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
14 83 (0.84%) Network Security
15 72 (0.73%) WLAN
16 64 (0.65%) Intrusion Detection
17 61 (0.62%) MPLS
18 50 (0.51%) VLAN
19 49 (0.50%) BGP
19 49 (0.50%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 957 (9.73%) Power BI
2 495 (5.03%) Tableau
3 396 (4.02%) SQL Server
4 199 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
5 159 (1.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 91 (0.92%) BigQuery
6 91 (0.92%) Relational Database
6 91 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 75 (0.76%) Power Query
8 73 (0.74%) Oracle Database
9 60 (0.61%) Data Mining
10 46 (0.47%) QlikView
11 44 (0.45%) Oracle Database 10g
11 44 (0.45%) Oracle Database 11g
11 44 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
11 44 (0.45%) VLDB
12 41 (0.42%) Big Data
12 41 (0.42%) Looker
12 41 (0.42%) MySQL
13 33 (0.34%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 374 (3.80%) JIRA
2 140 (1.42%) Git
3 54 (0.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 44 (0.45%) Selenium
5 35 (0.36%) Visual Studio
6 24 (0.24%) Eclipse
7 20 (0.20%) Postman
8 15 (0.15%) JMeter
8 15 (0.15%) TestRail
9 11 (0.11%) GitLab
10 10 (0.10%) Burp Suite
10 10 (0.10%) Metasploit
10 10 (0.10%) Team Foundation Server
10 10 (0.10%) Toad
11 9 (0.091%) Jenkins
11 9 (0.091%) Oracle Forms
12 7 (0.071%) NUnit
12 7 (0.071%) TeamCity
12 7 (0.071%) WebDriver
13 6 (0.061%) Zephyr
General
1 3,446 (35.02%) Social Skills
2 2,956 (30.04%) Finance
3 2,828 (28.74%) Analytical Skills
4 794 (8.07%) Retail
5 696 (7.07%) Influencing Skills
6 669 (6.80%) Legal
7 641 (6.51%) Law
8 635 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 627 (6.37%) Banking
10 391 (3.97%) Organisational Skills
11 351 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
12 324 (3.29%) Marketing
13 298 (3.03%) Public Sector
14 269 (2.73%) Manufacturing
15 235 (2.39%) Investment Banking
16 185 (1.88%) Front Office
17 111 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
18 108 (1.10%) Police
19 101 (1.03%) Back Office
19 101 (1.03%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (1.13%) .NET
2 67 (0.68%) JSON
3 66 (0.67%) REST
4 65 (0.66%) Oracle Fusion
5 62 (0.63%) XML
6 51 (0.52%) HTML
7 46 (0.47%) EDI
8 39 (0.40%) Web Services
9 33 (0.34%) FIX Protocol
10 29 (0.29%) CSS
11 27 (0.27%) Spring
12 26 (0.26%) J2EE
12 26 (0.26%) Java EE
13 22 (0.22%) OLE
14 19 (0.19%) .NET Framework
15 16 (0.16%) Middleware
15 16 (0.16%) Pandas
15 16 (0.16%) SOAP
16 15 (0.15%) RESTful
16 15 (0.15%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 428 (4.35%) Management Information System
2 396 (4.02%) Self-Motivation
3 270 (2.74%) Product Ownership
4 217 (2.21%) Onboarding
5 129 (1.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 121 (1.23%) Hedge funds
7 119 (1.21%) Fixed Income
8 117 (1.19%) Derivative
9 108 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
10 105 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
11 102 (1.04%) Cyberattack
12 101 (1.03%) Driving Licence
13 90 (0.91%) Security Operations Centre
14 86 (0.87%) Life Science
15 71 (0.72%) Equities
15 71 (0.72%) Reinsurance
16 70 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
17 69 (0.70%) Data Centre
18 64 (0.65%) Credit Risk
19 62 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1,204 (12.24%) Windows
2 425 (4.32%) Windows 10
3 381 (3.87%) Windows Server
4 258 (2.62%) Linux
5 167 (1.70%) Unix
6 100 (1.02%) Apple iOS
7 91 (0.92%) Android
8 67 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
9 64 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
10 61 (0.62%) Mac OS
11 58 (0.59%) Solaris
12 51 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
13 41 (0.42%) Windows 7
14 30 (0.30%) Mac OS X
15 19 (0.19%) Windows 8
15 19 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
16 13 (0.13%) VMS
17 12 (0.12%) Windows Vista
18 11 (0.11%) CentOS
18 11 (0.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,120 (21.55%) Problem-Solving
2 1,716 (17.44%) Agile
3 1,251 (12.71%) Decision-Making
4 1,052 (10.69%) Customer Service
5 1,013 (10.30%) Actionable Insight
6 1,009 (10.26%) Business Intelligence
7 995 (10.11%) Analytics
8 911 (9.26%) ITIL
9 829 (8.43%) Business Analysis
10 824 (8.37%) Mentoring
11 823 (8.36%) Data Analysis
12 709 (7.21%) Continuous Improvement
13 699 (7.10%) Cybersecurity
14 680 (6.91%) Visualisation
15 640 (6.50%) Business Case
16 584 (5.94%) Stakeholder Management
17 564 (5.73%) Mathematics
18 560 (5.69%) Project Management
19 551 (5.60%) Change Management
20 548 (5.57%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 2,019 (20.52%) SQL
2 759 (7.71%) Python
3 180 (1.83%) R
4 167 (1.70%) T-SQL
5 162 (1.65%) C#
6 158 (1.61%) PowerShell
7 100 (1.02%) VBA
8 88 (0.89%) Java
9 81 (0.82%) PL/SQL
10 71 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 66 (0.67%) JavaScript
12 36 (0.37%) Bash
13 35 (0.36%) Shell Script
14 29 (0.29%) C++
15 26 (0.26%) RPG
16 20 (0.20%) Perl
17 19 (0.19%) VB
18 14 (0.14%) MATLAB
19 13 (0.13%) PHP
19 13 (0.13%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,815 (18.45%) Degree
2 540 (5.49%) Security Cleared
3 537 (5.46%) CIMA
4 533 (5.42%) ACCA
5 345 (3.51%) SC Cleared
6 206 (2.09%) CISSP
7 191 (1.94%) DBS Check
8 128 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
9 125 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
10 119 (1.21%) DV Cleared
11 118 (1.20%) Master's Degree
12 107 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
13 96 (0.98%) CISM
14 93 (0.95%) CompTIA Security+
15 83 (0.84%) CCNA
16 77 (0.78%) CISA
17 61 (0.62%) CCNP
18 57 (0.58%) A+ Certification
19 51 (0.52%) ISTQB
20 46 (0.47%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 368 (3.74%) SLA
2 281 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 263 (2.67%) Data Quality
4 240 (2.44%) QA
5 229 (2.33%) GDPR
6 174 (1.77%) NIST
7 107 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
8 98 (1.00%) PMO
9 82 (0.83%) GRC
10 59 (0.60%) PCI DSS
11 51 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 38 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
12 38 (0.39%) ISO 9001
13 37 (0.38%) NCSC
14 35 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 35 (0.36%) IFRS
15 31 (0.32%) Accessibility
15 31 (0.32%) COBIT
16 24 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 17025
17 18 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 969 (9.85%) Active Directory
2 142 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 68 (0.69%) Hyper-V
4 46 (0.47%) Oracle RAC
5 37 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
6 27 (0.27%) XenApp
7 26 (0.26%) vSphere
7 26 (0.26%) XenDesktop
8 23 (0.23%) Firmware
9 20 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
10 16 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
11 11 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
11 11 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
12 7 (0.071%) Docker
13 5 (0.051%) Terminal Services
14 4 (0.041%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.041%) VMware Workstation
15 2 (0.020%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 1 (0.010%) DFS Replication
16 1 (0.010%) IAG
Systems Management
1 191 (1.94%) Microsoft Intune
2 154 (1.57%) SCCM
3 55 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
4 46 (0.47%) Data Guard
5 44 (0.45%) Oracle RMAN
6 38 (0.39%) CASB
7 34 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
7 34 (0.35%) WSUS
8 31 (0.32%) Terraform
9 26 (0.26%) OpenSSO
10 20 (0.20%) QRadar
11 16 (0.16%) EnCase
12 13 (0.13%) CSIRT
13 11 (0.11%) FortiGate
14 10 (0.10%) Grafana
14 10 (0.10%) Nmap
15 9 (0.091%) Failover Clustering
15 9 (0.091%) Nessus
15 9 (0.091%) vCenter Server
16 8 (0.081%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2,534 (25.75%) Microsoft
2 335 (3.40%) Oracle
3 272 (2.76%) SAP
4 247 (2.51%) VMware
5 186 (1.89%) Cisco
6 167 (1.70%) Google
7 165 (1.68%) Salesforce
8 161 (1.64%) ServiceNow
9 156 (1.59%) Databricks
10 146 (1.48%) Citrix
11 100 (1.02%) Apple
12 94 (0.96%) Alteryx
13 87 (0.88%) Remedy
14 86 (0.87%) Bloomberg
15 75 (0.76%) Splunk
16 73 (0.74%) Sun
17 70 (0.71%) IBM
18 69 (0.70%) Adobe
19 62 (0.63%) Dell
20 59 (0.60%) Sage