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 25 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
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 15 16
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 +7
Permanent jobs requiring an Analyst 6,505 7,174 8,856
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.89% 12.29% 12.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.36% 13.79% 12.70%
Number of salaries quoted 4,264 4,170 6,142
10th Percentile £24,500 £25,000 £24,034
25th Percentile £29,000 £30,500 £29,750
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 69,492 52,026 69,727
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.92% 89.14% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 49,104 29,723 42,553
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%
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 25 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 25 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 1,656 £39,003 -3.44% 359
South East 0 1,577 £40,000 -2.38% 458
Midlands -1 1,268 £37,500 -6.25% 208
North West +2 934 £40,000 -5.88% 214
West Midlands +1 830 £37,500 -6.25% 117
South West +1 716 £41,500 +3.75% 127
East of England +8 660 £36,664 -7.18% 137
Yorkshire -9 542 £37,500 -6.25% 117
East Midlands +1 431 £36,500 -3.82% 87
Scotland -36 403 £42,000 +4.85% 78
North East +4 180 £35,000 -12.50% 31
Wales -9 176 £36,476 +4.22% 32
Northern Ireland +19 35 £47,500 +26.67% 22
Isle of Man 0 20 £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 25 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 2,234 (34.34%) Social Skills
2 1,844 (28.35%) Analytical Skills
3 1,733 (26.64%) Microsoft
4 1,584 (24.35%) Finance
5 1,569 (24.12%) Problem-Solving
6 1,141 (17.54%) Degree
7 1,056 (16.23%) SQL
8 1,041 (16.00%) Agile
9 949 (14.59%) Microsoft Excel
10 880 (13.53%) Customer Service
11 817 (12.56%) Decision-Making
12 810 (12.45%) Windows
13 771 (11.85%) Microsoft Office
14 768 (11.81%) Microsoft 365
15 736 (11.31%) Active Directory
16 677 (10.41%) Power Platform
17 657 (10.10%) Azure
18 653 (10.04%) Business Intelligence
19 644 (9.90%) ITIL
20 636 (9.78%) Power BI
21 599 (9.21%) Continuous Improvement
22 594 (9.13%) Business Analysis
23 578 (8.89%) Retail
24 564 (8.67%) Analytics
25 555 (8.53%) Actionable Insight
26 498 (7.66%) Legal
27 472 (7.26%) Cybersecurity
28 461 (7.09%) Mentoring
29 457 (7.03%) Data Analysis
30 434 (6.67%) 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 (3.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 189 (2.91%) SharePoint
3 113 (1.74%) Confluence
4 70 (1.08%) WebLogic
5 56 (0.86%) SAS
6 44 (0.68%) Oracle Service Bus
7 19 (0.29%) CMS
8 14 (0.22%) IIS
9 10 (0.15%) Apache
9 10 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
10 9 (0.14%) Apache Spark
11 8 (0.12%) ArcGIS
11 8 (0.12%) WebSphere
12 6 (0.092%) Exchange Server 2013
12 6 (0.092%) Moodle
13 4 (0.061%) IBM Notes
14 3 (0.046%) JBoss
14 3 (0.046%) Oracle Application Server
14 3 (0.046%) Skype for Business
14 3 (0.046%) Tomcat
Applications
1 949 (14.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 771 (11.85%) Microsoft Office
3 126 (1.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 124 (1.91%) MS Visio
5 35 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
6 20 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
7 10 (0.15%) Trello
8 7 (0.11%) SPSS
9 6 (0.092%) LightWave 3D
9 6 (0.092%) SOLIDWORKS
10 2 (0.031%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.031%) LaTeX
Business Applications
1 56 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 47 (0.72%) Remedy ITSM
3 32 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
4 21 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
5 16 (0.25%) iTrent
5 16 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
6 14 (0.22%) Dynamics GP
6 14 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
7 13 (0.20%) Infor SunSystems
7 13 (0.20%) Maximo
7 13 (0.20%) NEC Housing
7 13 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
8 12 (0.18%) Oracle Financials
9 11 (0.17%) Epicor Tropos
9 11 (0.17%) NetSuite
9 11 (0.17%) ResourceLink
10 10 (0.15%) Misys Midas
11 8 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
11 8 (0.12%) SAP FI
11 8 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 768 (11.81%) Microsoft 365
2 677 (10.41%) Power Platform
3 657 (10.10%) Azure
4 164 (2.52%) Entra ID
5 160 (2.46%) AWS
6 157 (2.41%) SaaS
7 134 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
8 66 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
9 51 (0.78%) GCP
10 43 (0.66%) PowerApps
11 42 (0.65%) Power Automate
12 37 (0.57%) Azure Sentinel
13 33 (0.51%) Google Analytics
14 28 (0.43%) WhatsApp
15 22 (0.34%) Mimecast
16 21 (0.32%) Miro
16 21 (0.32%) SuccessFactors
17 19 (0.29%) PaaS
18 16 (0.25%) Snowflake
19 14 (0.22%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 272 (4.18%) Firewall
2 265 (4.07%) Broadband
3 214 (3.29%) LAN
4 190 (2.92%) DNS
5 188 (2.89%) WAN
6 114 (1.75%) Internet
7 111 (1.71%) TCP/IP
8 104 (1.60%) DHCP
8 104 (1.60%) VPN
9 80 (1.23%) VoIP
10 71 (1.09%) WLAN
11 65 (1.00%) SD-WAN
12 58 (0.89%) Wireless
13 57 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
14 49 (0.75%) Network Security
15 43 (0.66%) MPLS
16 36 (0.55%) BGP
16 36 (0.55%) Intrusion Detection
16 36 (0.55%) OSPF
16 36 (0.55%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 636 (9.78%) Power BI
2 242 (3.72%) Tableau
3 196 (3.01%) SQL Server
4 112 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
5 82 (1.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 80 (1.23%) BigQuery
7 68 (1.05%) Power Query
8 62 (0.95%) Relational Database
9 57 (0.88%) Oracle Database
10 44 (0.68%) Oracle Database 10g
10 44 (0.68%) Oracle Database 11g
10 44 (0.68%) VLDB
11 34 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 30 (0.46%) QlikView
13 28 (0.43%) Data Mining
14 27 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
14 27 (0.42%) MySQL
15 25 (0.38%) GIS
16 24 (0.37%) MS Access
17 20 (0.31%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 242 (3.72%) JIRA
2 28 (0.43%) Git
3 26 (0.40%) Selenium
4 24 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 16 (0.25%) Eclipse
6 13 (0.20%) JMeter
7 12 (0.18%) TestRail
8 10 (0.15%) Postman
9 9 (0.14%) Visual Studio
10 8 (0.12%) Oracle Forms
11 7 (0.11%) NUnit
11 7 (0.11%) WebDriver
12 6 (0.092%) Zephyr
13 5 (0.077%) TeamCity
14 4 (0.061%) Toad
15 3 (0.046%) Jenkins
15 3 (0.046%) Octopus Deploy
15 3 (0.046%) SoapUI
15 3 (0.046%) SpecFlow
16 2 (0.031%) Android Studio
General
1 2,234 (34.34%) Social Skills
2 1,844 (28.35%) Analytical Skills
3 1,584 (24.35%) Finance
4 578 (8.89%) Retail
5 498 (7.66%) Legal
6 406 (6.24%) Influencing Skills
7 388 (5.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 385 (5.92%) Law
9 330 (5.07%) Organisational Skills
10 326 (5.01%) Banking
11 243 (3.74%) Manufacturing
12 217 (3.34%) Public Sector
13 213 (3.27%) Marketing
14 178 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
15 134 (2.06%) Investment Banking
16 88 (1.35%) Police
17 85 (1.31%) Telecoms
18 79 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
19 60 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
20 58 (0.89%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (0.86%) .NET
2 48 (0.74%) XML
3 43 (0.66%) EDI
4 42 (0.65%) JSON
5 37 (0.57%) Oracle Fusion
6 34 (0.52%) 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 (0.18%) SOAP
15 11 (0.17%) .NET Framework
15 11 (0.17%) Lightning Web Components
16 10 (0.15%) CSS
16 10 (0.15%) RESTful
16 10 (0.15%) XSL
Miscellaneous
1 315 (4.84%) Management Information System
2 227 (3.49%) Self-Motivation
3 129 (1.98%) Product Ownership
4 102 (1.57%) Driving Licence
5 101 (1.55%) Onboarding
6 84 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
7 71 (1.09%) Security Operations Centre
8 70 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
9 59 (0.91%) Cyberattack
10 48 (0.74%) Mobile App
11 43 (0.66%) Life Science
11 43 (0.66%) NHS
12 42 (0.65%) Data Centre
13 41 (0.63%) FMCG
14 40 (0.61%) Credit Risk
14 40 (0.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 39 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
16 36 (0.55%) Operational Technology
17 34 (0.52%) Smartphone
18 31 (0.48%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 810 (12.45%) Windows
2 292 (4.49%) Windows 10
3 280 (4.30%) Windows Server
4 170 (2.61%) Linux
5 124 (1.91%) Unix
6 79 (1.21%) Android
7 63 (0.97%) Apple iOS
8 51 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
9 47 (0.72%) Solaris
10 45 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
11 37 (0.57%) Windows Server 2012
12 36 (0.55%) Windows 7
13 22 (0.34%) 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 (0.092%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,569 (24.12%) Problem-Solving
2 1,041 (16.00%) Agile
3 880 (13.53%) Customer Service
4 817 (12.56%) Decision-Making
5 653 (10.04%) Business Intelligence
6 644 (9.90%) ITIL
7 599 (9.21%) Continuous Improvement
8 594 (9.13%) Business Analysis
9 564 (8.67%) Analytics
10 555 (8.53%) Actionable Insight
11 472 (7.26%) Cybersecurity
12 461 (7.09%) Mentoring
13 457 (7.03%) Data Analysis
14 399 (6.13%) Coaching
15 391 (6.01%) Visualisation
16 387 (5.95%) ERP
17 384 (5.90%) Stakeholder Management
18 376 (5.78%) Requirements Gathering
19 365 (5.61%) Business Case
19 365 (5.61%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1,056 (16.23%) SQL
2 290 (4.46%) Python
3 112 (1.72%) PowerShell
4 91 (1.40%) R
5 79 (1.21%) C#
6 69 (1.06%) T-SQL
7 59 (0.91%) Java
8 58 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 54 (0.83%) VBA
10 53 (0.81%) PL/SQL
11 36 (0.55%) JavaScript
12 30 (0.46%) Shell Script
13 23 (0.35%) RPG
14 15 (0.23%) VB
15 14 (0.22%) Bash
16 8 (0.12%) ActionScript
16 8 (0.12%) ActionScript 2.0
16 8 (0.12%) PHP
17 7 (0.11%) RPG IV
18 6 (0.092%) C
Qualifications
1 1,141 (17.54%) Degree
2 434 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 286 (4.40%) CIMA
4 279 (4.29%) ACCA
5 257 (3.95%) SC Cleared
6 123 (1.89%) CISSP
7 86 (1.32%) DBS Check
8 80 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
9 76 (1.17%) DV Cleared
10 74 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
10 74 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
11 65 (1.00%) CompTIA Security+
12 60 (0.92%) CCNA
13 57 (0.88%) CISM
14 46 (0.71%) Master's Degree
15 45 (0.69%) ISTQB
16 44 (0.68%) A+ Certification
17 35 (0.54%) PMI Certification
18 34 (0.52%) CCDP
18 34 (0.52%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 286 (4.40%) SLA
2 181 (2.78%) GDPR
3 169 (2.60%) QA
4 155 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 116 (1.78%) Data Quality
6 90 (1.38%) NIST
7 79 (1.21%) PMO
8 61 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
9 51 (0.78%) PCI DSS
10 36 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 34 (0.52%) GRC
12 29 (0.45%) ISO 9001
13 24 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
14 22 (0.34%) Accessibility
14 22 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 17025
15 19 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 18 (0.28%) GLP
17 16 (0.25%) IFRS
18 13 (0.20%) NCSC
19 10 (0.15%) ITGC
System Software
1 736 (11.31%) Active Directory
2 84 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 61 (0.94%) Hyper-V
4 44 (0.68%) Oracle RAC
4 44 (0.68%) RACF
5 24 (0.37%) vSphere
6 17 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (0.17%) Firmware
8 11 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
8 11 (0.17%) XenApp
8 11 (0.17%) XenDesktop
9 5 (0.077%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.061%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 4 (0.061%) VMware Workstation
11 2 (0.031%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 2 (0.031%) Docker
11 2 (0.031%) Embedded Firmware
12 1 (0.015%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.015%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 120 (1.84%) Microsoft Intune
2 109 (1.68%) SCCM
3 44 (0.68%) Data Guard
3 44 (0.68%) Oracle RMAN
4 41 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
5 34 (0.52%) CASB
6 28 (0.43%) WSUS
7 26 (0.40%) OpenSSO
8 15 (0.23%) EnCase
9 13 (0.20%) Terraform
10 11 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
11 9 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
12 8 (0.12%) Grafana
12 8 (0.12%) Progress Chef
13 7 (0.11%) Nagios
14 6 (0.092%) Nessus
14 6 (0.092%) Tivoli Storage Manager
15 5 (0.077%) FortiGate
15 5 (0.077%) Graphite
15 5 (0.077%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 1,733 (26.64%) Microsoft
2 206 (3.17%) Oracle
3 203 (3.12%) SAP
4 160 (2.46%) VMware
5 125 (1.92%) ServiceNow
6 112 (1.72%) Cisco
7 107 (1.64%) Salesforce
8 84 (1.29%) Google
9 82 (1.26%) Remedy
10 67 (1.03%) Citrix
11 60 (0.92%) Apple
12 58 (0.89%) Sun
13 55 (0.85%) Alteryx
14 53 (0.81%) Databricks
15 50 (0.77%) Dell
16 47 (0.72%) CyberArk
17 41 (0.63%) Splunk
18 39 (0.60%) Adobe
18 39 (0.60%) Sage
19 32 (0.49%) HP