Analyst
UK

The median Analyst salary in the UK is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 June 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
5 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 14 23
Rank change year-on-year +1 +9 +2
Permanent jobs requiring an Analyst 10,063 11,263 16,975
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.45% 12.06% 9.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.96% 13.22% 10.39%
Number of salaries quoted 6,699 7,185 11,499
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,000 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,696 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +1.55% +1.48%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £39,634 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -0.92% - -

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 101,029 85,188 163,395
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.90% 91.21% 95.99%
Number of salaries quoted 71,463 55,074 85,023
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,296
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 9,180 £45,000 -5.26% 1,815
UK excluding London -2 6,686 £39,634 -0.92% 1,126
Work from Home +1 3,756 £45,249 -4.74% 771
London +1 3,050 £60,000 +9.09% 733
North of England -4 1,717 £39,750 -1.77% 336
South East -2 1,606 £40,000 -2.38% 257
Midlands -1 1,328 £37,403 -6.49% 181
North West +2 977 £40,000 -5.88% 205
West Midlands -1 850 £37,500 -6.25% 102
South West 0 739 £41,250 +3.13% 146
East of England +6 681 £35,640 -9.77% 109
Yorkshire -9 541 £37,500 -6.25% 101
East Midlands +2 472 £35,000 -9.09% 79
Scotland -39 380 £41,000 +2.21% 90
North East +7 199 £32,500 -18.75% 34
Wales -9 184 £36,476 +4.22% 25
Northern Ireland +21 35 £47,500 +26.67% 11
Isle of Man 0 20 £46,500 +3.33%
Channel Islands 0 3 £63,750 +82.14%

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 5 June 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 3,404 (33.83%) Social Skills
2 2,962 (29.43%) Finance
3 2,807 (27.89%) Analytical Skills
4 2,558 (25.42%) Microsoft
5 2,156 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
6 2,112 (20.99%) SQL
7 1,833 (18.22%) Degree
8 1,706 (16.95%) Agile
9 1,558 (15.48%) Microsoft Excel
10 1,273 (12.65%) Decision-Making
11 1,220 (12.12%) Windows
12 1,065 (10.58%) Customer Service
13 1,054 (10.47%) Microsoft 365
14 1,048 (10.41%) Azure
15 1,020 (10.14%) Actionable Insight
16 1,019 (10.13%) Power Platform
17 1,008 (10.02%) Business Intelligence
18 1,006 (10.00%) Active Directory
19 1,004 (9.98%) Microsoft Office
19 1,004 (9.98%) Analytics
20 955 (9.49%) Power BI
21 915 (9.09%) ITIL
22 860 (8.55%) Data Analysis
23 838 (8.33%) Retail
24 812 (8.07%) Mentoring
25 811 (8.06%) Business Analysis
26 778 (7.73%) Python
27 775 (7.70%) Legal
28 730 (7.25%) Continuous Improvement
29 723 (7.18%) Cybersecurity

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
1 329 (3.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 313 (3.11%) SharePoint
3 145 (1.44%) Confluence
4 93 (0.92%) SAS
5 70 (0.70%) WebLogic
6 44 (0.44%) Oracle Service Bus
7 38 (0.38%) CMS
8 20 (0.20%) IIS
9 17 (0.17%) Apache
9 17 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
10 14 (0.14%) IBM Notes
11 12 (0.12%) Skype for Business
12 10 (0.099%) WordPress
13 9 (0.089%) Apache Spark
13 9 (0.089%) WebSphere
14 8 (0.079%) ArcGIS
14 8 (0.079%) Moodle
15 6 (0.060%) Exchange Server 2010
15 6 (0.060%) Exchange Server 2013
16 5 (0.050%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1,558 (15.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 1,004 (9.98%) Microsoft Office
3 201 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 174 (1.73%) MS Visio
5 48 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
6 22 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
7 21 (0.21%) SPSS
8 14 (0.14%) Trello
9 6 (0.060%) LightWave 3D
9 6 (0.060%) SOLIDWORKS
10 4 (0.040%) Chatbot
11 3 (0.030%) Stata
12 2 (0.020%) LaTeX
Business Applications
1 93 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 48 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
3 43 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
4 31 (0.31%) Aladdin
5 28 (0.28%) Elite 3E
6 27 (0.27%) NEC Housing
7 24 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
8 23 (0.23%) Endur
8 23 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
9 21 (0.21%) NetSuite
9 21 (0.21%) SAP CO
9 21 (0.21%) SAP FI
9 21 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
10 18 (0.18%) iTrent
10 18 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
11 17 (0.17%) Maximo
12 16 (0.16%) Infor SunSystems
12 16 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
12 16 (0.16%) thinkFolio
13 14 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 1,054 (10.47%) Microsoft 365
2 1,048 (10.41%) Azure
3 1,019 (10.13%) Power Platform
4 444 (4.41%) AWS
5 240 (2.38%) Entra ID
6 208 (2.07%) SaaS
7 187 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
8 115 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
9 73 (0.73%) GCP
10 63 (0.63%) Google Analytics
11 61 (0.61%) PowerApps
12 58 (0.58%) Power Automate
13 48 (0.48%) Mimecast
14 45 (0.45%) Azure Sentinel
14 45 (0.45%) OneDrive
15 43 (0.43%) PaaS
16 39 (0.39%) WhatsApp
17 34 (0.34%) Snowflake
18 27 (0.27%) Cloud Computing
19 26 (0.26%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 505 (5.02%) Broadband
2 447 (4.44%) Firewall
3 266 (2.64%) DNS
4 259 (2.57%) LAN
5 242 (2.40%) WAN
6 177 (1.76%) TCP/IP
7 161 (1.60%) DHCP
8 154 (1.53%) Internet
9 152 (1.51%) VPN
10 109 (1.08%) VoIP
11 95 (0.94%) Wireless
12 91 (0.90%) SD-WAN
13 87 (0.86%) Network Security
14 82 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
15 70 (0.70%) WLAN
16 68 (0.68%) Intrusion Detection
17 54 (0.54%) MPLS
18 50 (0.50%) VLAN
19 44 (0.44%) BGP
19 44 (0.44%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 955 (9.49%) Power BI
2 507 (5.04%) Tableau
3 359 (3.57%) SQL Server
4 192 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
5 154 (1.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 89 (0.88%) BigQuery
6 89 (0.88%) Relational Database
7 77 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 72 (0.72%) Power Query
9 69 (0.69%) Oracle Database
10 63 (0.63%) Data Mining
11 45 (0.45%) Big Data
12 44 (0.44%) Oracle Database 10g
12 44 (0.44%) Oracle Database 11g
12 44 (0.44%) VLDB
13 42 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
13 42 (0.42%) QlikView
14 41 (0.41%) MySQL
15 38 (0.38%) Looker
16 37 (0.37%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 341 (3.39%) JIRA
2 150 (1.49%) Git
3 48 (0.48%) Selenium
4 47 (0.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 35 (0.35%) Visual Studio
6 28 (0.28%) Eclipse
7 19 (0.19%) JMeter
8 17 (0.17%) Postman
9 16 (0.16%) TestRail
10 11 (0.11%) GitLab
10 11 (0.11%) Toad
11 10 (0.099%) Burp Suite
11 10 (0.099%) Metasploit
11 10 (0.099%) Team Foundation Server
12 9 (0.089%) WebDriver
13 8 (0.079%) NUnit
13 8 (0.079%) TeamCity
14 7 (0.070%) Oracle Forms
15 6 (0.060%) Jenkins
15 6 (0.060%) Zephyr
General
1 3,404 (33.83%) Social Skills
2 2,962 (29.43%) Finance
3 2,807 (27.89%) Analytical Skills
4 838 (8.33%) Retail
5 775 (7.70%) Legal
6 678 (6.74%) Influencing Skills
7 625 (6.21%) Banking
8 620 (6.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 605 (6.01%) Law
10 390 (3.88%) Organisational Skills
11 336 (3.34%) Marketing
11 336 (3.34%) Presentation Skills
12 284 (2.82%) Manufacturing
13 258 (2.56%) Public Sector
14 205 (2.04%) Investment Banking
15 192 (1.91%) Front Office
16 121 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
17 107 (1.06%) Police
18 103 (1.02%) Telecoms
19 101 (1.00%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (1.10%) .NET
2 66 (0.66%) REST
3 63 (0.63%) Oracle Fusion
4 58 (0.58%) XML
5 57 (0.57%) JSON
6 53 (0.53%) HTML
7 50 (0.50%) EDI
8 40 (0.40%) Web Services
9 38 (0.38%) FIX Protocol
10 32 (0.32%) CSS
11 27 (0.27%) Spring
12 26 (0.26%) J2EE
12 26 (0.26%) Java EE
13 22 (0.22%) OLE
14 17 (0.17%) Middleware
15 16 (0.16%) .NET Framework
16 15 (0.15%) RESTful
17 14 (0.14%) ASP.NET
17 14 (0.14%) SAML
17 14 (0.14%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 489 (4.86%) Management Information System
2 353 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
3 272 (2.70%) Product Ownership
4 218 (2.17%) Onboarding
5 133 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 127 (1.26%) Fixed Income
7 125 (1.24%) Hedge funds
8 124 (1.23%) Derivative
9 108 (1.07%) Driving Licence
10 106 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
11 102 (1.01%) Cyber Threat
12 101 (1.00%) Cyberattack
13 98 (0.97%) Security Operations Centre
14 85 (0.84%) Life Science
15 83 (0.82%) Equities
16 70 (0.70%) Data Centre
17 67 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
17 67 (0.67%) Reinsurance
18 56 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
19 55 (0.55%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1,220 (12.12%) Windows
2 440 (4.37%) Windows 10
3 381 (3.79%) Windows Server
4 275 (2.73%) Linux
5 168 (1.67%) Unix
6 104 (1.03%) Apple iOS
7 100 (0.99%) Android
8 75 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
9 62 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
10 60 (0.60%) Solaris
11 55 (0.55%) Mac OS
12 51 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
13 41 (0.41%) Windows 7
14 28 (0.28%) Mac OS X
15 16 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
15 16 (0.16%) Windows Vista
16 15 (0.15%) CentOS
16 15 (0.15%) Windows 8
17 13 (0.13%) Ubuntu
17 13 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,156 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
2 1,706 (16.95%) Agile
3 1,273 (12.65%) Decision-Making
4 1,065 (10.58%) Customer Service
5 1,020 (10.14%) Actionable Insight
6 1,008 (10.02%) Business Intelligence
7 1,004 (9.98%) Analytics
8 915 (9.09%) ITIL
9 860 (8.55%) Data Analysis
10 812 (8.07%) Mentoring
11 811 (8.06%) Business Analysis
12 730 (7.25%) Continuous Improvement
13 723 (7.18%) Cybersecurity
14 708 (7.04%) Visualisation
15 616 (6.12%) Business Case
16 588 (5.84%) Mathematics
17 553 (5.50%) Stakeholder Management
18 550 (5.47%) Requirements Gathering
19 548 (5.45%) Change Management
20 545 (5.42%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 2,112 (20.99%) SQL
2 778 (7.73%) Python
3 202 (2.01%) PowerShell
4 159 (1.58%) R
5 155 (1.54%) C#
6 145 (1.44%) T-SQL
7 115 (1.14%) VBA
8 91 (0.90%) Java
9 84 (0.83%) PL/SQL
10 79 (0.79%) JavaScript
11 76 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 40 (0.40%) Bash
13 35 (0.35%) Shell Script
14 29 (0.29%) RPG
15 27 (0.27%) C++
16 23 (0.23%) Perl
17 19 (0.19%) VB
18 14 (0.14%) PHP
19 13 (0.13%) Ruby
19 13 (0.13%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,833 (18.22%) Degree
2 554 (5.51%) Security Cleared
3 539 (5.36%) CIMA
4 535 (5.32%) ACCA
5 354 (3.52%) SC Cleared
6 215 (2.14%) CISSP
6 215 (2.14%) DBS Check
7 128 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 128 (1.27%) DV Cleared
8 122 (1.21%) Master's Degree
9 111 (1.10%) CISM
10 108 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
11 104 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
12 83 (0.82%) CompTIA Security+
13 80 (0.79%) CISA
14 74 (0.74%) CCNA
15 63 (0.63%) A+ Certification
16 59 (0.59%) ISTQB
17 53 (0.53%) CCNP
18 45 (0.45%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 386 (3.84%) SLA
2 293 (2.91%) Data Quality
3 290 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 277 (2.75%) QA
5 225 (2.24%) GDPR
6 171 (1.70%) NIST
7 104 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
8 99 (0.98%) PMO
9 85 (0.84%) GRC
10 62 (0.62%) PCI DSS
11 56 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 38 (0.38%) NCSC
13 35 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
13 35 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 35 (0.35%) ISO 9001
14 32 (0.32%) Accessibility
14 32 (0.32%) COBIT
15 21 (0.21%) IFRS
16 20 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 17025
17 18 (0.18%) GLP
System Software
1 1,006 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 139 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 64 (0.64%) Hyper-V
4 50 (0.50%) RACF
5 46 (0.46%) Oracle RAC
6 40 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 39 (0.39%) XenApp
7 39 (0.39%) XenDesktop
8 26 (0.26%) vSphere
9 23 (0.23%) Firmware
10 20 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
11 16 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
12 12 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
13 11 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
14 8 (0.079%) Terminal Services
15 5 (0.050%) VMware Workstation
16 4 (0.040%) Docker
16 4 (0.040%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 2 (0.020%) Citrix Hypervisor
18 1 (0.010%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 192 (1.91%) Microsoft Intune
2 161 (1.60%) SCCM
3 60 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
4 46 (0.46%) Data Guard
5 44 (0.44%) Oracle RMAN
6 40 (0.40%) Terraform
7 36 (0.36%) WSUS
8 34 (0.34%) CASB
9 33 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
10 26 (0.26%) OpenSSO
11 21 (0.21%) QRadar
12 13 (0.13%) EnCase
12 13 (0.13%) FortiGate
13 12 (0.12%) CSIRT
14 10 (0.099%) Grafana
14 10 (0.099%) Nessus
14 10 (0.099%) Nmap
15 9 (0.089%) Failover Clustering
16 8 (0.079%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 8 (0.079%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2,558 (25.42%) Microsoft
2 317 (3.15%) Oracle
3 286 (2.84%) SAP
4 255 (2.53%) VMware
5 189 (1.88%) Cisco
6 173 (1.72%) Databricks
7 159 (1.58%) ServiceNow
8 155 (1.54%) Google
9 149 (1.48%) Citrix
9 149 (1.48%) Salesforce
10 90 (0.89%) Bloomberg
11 88 (0.87%) Alteryx
11 88 (0.87%) Remedy
12 86 (0.85%) Apple
13 69 (0.69%) IBM
13 69 (0.69%) Splunk
13 69 (0.69%) Sun
14 64 (0.64%) Adobe
15 60 (0.60%) iManage
16 56 (0.56%) Sage