System Analyst
UK

The median System Analyst salary in the UK is £47,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 416 481 650
Rank change year-on-year +65 +169 -61
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Analyst 609 600 773
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.60% 0.61% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.67% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 516 365 629
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £33,400
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.47%
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £66,250 £66,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £44,750
% change year-on-year -11.11% +0.56% +6.42%

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 95,996 89,726 157,614
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.76% 91.49% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 68,581 56,645 84,697
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 £70,001 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%

Systems Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Systems Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Systems Analyst in the UK

Systems Analyst
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Systems Analyst.

Salary trend for Systems Analyst in the UK

Systems Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Analyst over the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Systems Analyst in the UK

Systems Analyst
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 24 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 +47 537 £47,500 - 91
UK excluding London -22 398 £40,000 -11.11% 76
Work from Home +51 207 £47,500 -5.00% 48
London +113 180 £70,000 +27.27% 29
North of England +31 134 £40,000 -15.79% 18
North West +53 91 £40,000 -11.11% 11
East of England +50 80 £42,186 -11.19% 8
South East -30 61 £43,000 -1.71% 20
Midlands -19 49 £45,000 +5.88% 18
Scotland -49 34 £33,750 -22.64% 8
South West -30 31 £37,500 +8.70% 6
Yorkshire +13 30 £40,000 -23.81% 4
West Midlands +8 26 £43,750 +2.94% 9
East Midlands -9 23 £56,500 +25.56% 8
North East -1 13 £40,000 -9.09% 3
Wales +17 6 £39,134 -31.94% 1
Northern Ireland +26 3 £35,000 -6.67%

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

For the 6 months to 24 May 2024, Systems 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 Systems Analyst in the job title.

1 258 (42.36%) Finance
2 172 (28.24%) SQL
2 172 (28.24%) Social Skills
3 138 (22.66%) Problem-Solving
4 137 (22.50%) Analytical Skills
5 100 (16.42%) Degree
6 98 (16.09%) Microsoft
7 96 (15.76%) ERP
8 85 (13.96%) Power Platform
9 76 (12.48%) Microsoft Excel
10 74 (12.15%) Law
11 70 (11.49%) Power BI
12 67 (11.00%) Business Intelligence
13 65 (10.67%) Legal
14 57 (9.36%) SQL Server
15 54 (8.87%) Continuous Improvement
16 52 (8.54%) Decision-Making
17 51 (8.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 51 (8.37%) Migration
18 48 (7.88%) Agile
18 48 (7.88%) Microsoft Office
19 47 (7.72%) ITIL
19 47 (7.72%) Roadmaps
20 46 (7.55%) Systems Analysis
21 45 (7.39%) Business Analysis
22 43 (7.06%) Customer Service
23 42 (6.90%) Retail
24 41 (6.73%) Oracle
24 41 (6.73%) Project Management
25 36 (5.91%) SAP

Systems 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 23 (3.78%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.99%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (0.49%) Confluence
5 2 (0.33%) CMS
6 1 (0.16%) Liferay
6 1 (0.16%) Mule
6 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 76 (12.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (7.88%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.99%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.49%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 24 (3.94%) Elite 3E
2 14 (2.30%) Aladdin
2 14 (2.30%) thinkFolio
3 12 (1.97%) iTrent
4 11 (1.81%) Dynamics CRM
5 10 (1.64%) Infor SunSystems
5 10 (1.64%) NetSuite
6 8 (1.31%) Misys Midas
6 8 (1.31%) SAP S/4HANA
7 6 (0.99%) Oracle Applications
8 5 (0.82%) Epicor Tropos
8 5 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.82%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.66%) Dynamics NAV
9 4 (0.66%) Oracle Financials
10 3 (0.49%) SAP ERP
11 2 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
11 2 (0.33%) NEC Housing
11 2 (0.33%) SAP GTS
12 1 (0.16%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 85 (13.96%) Power Platform
2 35 (5.75%) Dynamics 365
3 33 (5.42%) Azure
3 33 (5.42%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (1.81%) WhatsApp
5 10 (1.64%) Power Automate
6 8 (1.31%) PowerApps
7 7 (1.15%) AWS
7 7 (1.15%) SaaS
7 7 (1.15%) SuccessFactors
8 4 (0.66%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (0.66%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (0.66%) Mavenlink
8 4 (0.66%) Snowflake
9 3 (0.49%) GCP
10 2 (0.33%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.33%) PaaS
10 2 (0.33%) Zapier
11 1 (0.16%) Boomi
11 1 (0.16%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.64%) DHCP
1 10 (1.64%) DNS
2 9 (1.48%) Firewall
3 8 (1.31%) VSAN
4 5 (0.82%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.66%) Internet
5 4 (0.66%) Intranet
5 4 (0.66%) NAS
5 4 (0.66%) SAN
5 4 (0.66%) SSL
5 4 (0.66%) VLAN
5 4 (0.66%) VPN
5 4 (0.66%) Wireless
6 1 (0.16%) LAN
6 1 (0.16%) WAN
6 1 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (11.49%) Power BI
2 57 (9.36%) SQL Server
3 51 (8.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 16 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 14 (2.30%) Oracle Reports
6 10 (1.64%) BusinessObjects
6 10 (1.64%) Relational Database
7 9 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (1.15%) MS Access
10 6 (0.99%) Oracle Database
10 6 (0.99%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (0.82%) Tableau
12 3 (0.49%) MySQL
12 3 (0.49%) SAP HANA
13 2 (0.33%) Big Data
13 2 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
14 1 (0.16%) Crystal Reports
14 1 (0.16%) Data Lake
14 1 (0.16%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 19 (3.12%) JIRA
2 14 (2.30%) Visual Studio
3 7 (1.15%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (0.49%) Selenium
5 2 (0.33%) Android Studio
5 2 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.16%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.16%) Git
6 1 (0.16%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (0.16%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.16%) Postman
General
1 258 (42.36%) Finance
2 172 (28.24%) Social Skills
3 137 (22.50%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (12.15%) Law
5 65 (10.67%) Legal
6 42 (6.90%) Retail
7 27 (4.43%) Manufacturing
8 26 (4.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (2.46%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (2.13%) Billing
11 12 (1.97%) Back Office
11 12 (1.97%) Public Sector
12 11 (1.81%) Banking
13 10 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (1.15%) Games
15 6 (0.99%) Police
16 5 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
17 4 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
17 4 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
17 4 (0.66%) International Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.63%) EDI
1 16 (2.63%) Oracle Fusion
2 12 (1.97%) .NET
2 12 (1.97%) REST
2 12 (1.97%) XML
3 9 (1.48%) JSON
4 8 (1.31%) SOAP
5 7 (1.15%) Middleware
5 7 (1.15%) Web Services
6 5 (0.82%) HTML
7 4 (0.66%) ASP.NET
8 3 (0.49%) ASP.NET Web Forms
9 2 (0.33%) ADO
9 2 (0.33%) CSS
9 2 (0.33%) RESTful
10 1 (0.16%) Gherkin
10 1 (0.16%) jQuery
10 1 (0.16%) SailPoint
10 1 (0.16%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 33 (5.42%) Management Information System
2 28 (4.60%) Self-Motivation
3 22 (3.61%) Fixed Income
4 17 (2.79%) Product Ownership
5 16 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (2.13%) Operational Technology
7 8 (1.31%) Clustering
7 8 (1.31%) Hedge funds
7 8 (1.31%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (1.15%) Pricing Data
9 6 (0.99%) Client/Server
9 6 (0.99%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (0.82%) Data Centre
10 5 (0.82%) Data Structures
10 5 (0.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 5 (0.82%) Low-Code
10 5 (0.82%) Smart Energy
10 5 (0.82%) Smart Meter
11 4 (0.66%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 27 (4.43%) Windows
2 17 (2.79%) Windows Server
3 16 (2.63%) Windows 10
4 9 (1.48%) Linux
5 5 (0.82%) Unix
6 2 (0.33%) Android
7 1 (0.16%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (22.66%) Problem-Solving
2 96 (15.76%) ERP
3 67 (11.00%) Business Intelligence
4 54 (8.87%) Continuous Improvement
5 52 (8.54%) Decision-Making
6 51 (8.37%) Migration
7 48 (7.88%) Agile
8 47 (7.72%) ITIL
8 47 (7.72%) Roadmaps
9 46 (7.55%) Systems Analysis
10 45 (7.39%) Business Analysis
11 43 (7.06%) Customer Service
12 41 (6.73%) Project Management
13 34 (5.58%) Stakeholder Management
14 32 (5.25%) Asset Management
14 32 (5.25%) Requirements Gathering
15 29 (4.76%) Change Management
16 27 (4.43%) Order Management
17 25 (4.11%) SDLC
18 23 (3.78%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 172 (28.24%) SQL
2 27 (4.43%) T-SQL
3 17 (2.79%) C#
4 15 (2.46%) PowerShell
5 11 (1.81%) Python
5 11 (1.81%) VBA
6 9 (1.48%) Java
7 8 (1.31%) VB
8 6 (0.99%) VB.NET
9 4 (0.66%) RPG
10 3 (0.49%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.16%) ABAP
11 1 (0.16%) PHP
11 1 (0.16%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 100 (16.42%) Degree
2 18 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (1.64%) DBS Check
4 8 (1.31%) A+ Certification
4 8 (1.31%) ACCA
4 8 (1.31%) CIMA
5 6 (0.99%) MCP
5 6 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.66%) CCNA
7 4 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (0.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 4 (0.66%) MCSA
7 4 (0.66%) MCSE
7 4 (0.66%) Security Cleared
8 3 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (0.49%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.16%) HNC
9 1 (0.16%) ISEB
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.13%) QA
2 10 (1.64%) Data Quality
2 10 (1.64%) SLA
3 8 (1.31%) PMO
4 7 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
4 7 (1.15%) GDPR
5 5 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 32 (5.25%) Active Directory
2 17 (2.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.48%) Hyper-V
4 8 (1.31%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (0.99%) vSphere
6 2 (0.33%) Firmware
6 2 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.16%) Docker
7 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (1.31%) Failover Clustering
1 8 (1.31%) SCCM
2 4 (0.66%) WSUS
3 2 (0.33%) Terraform
4 1 (0.16%) cPanel
Vendors
1 98 (16.09%) Microsoft
2 41 (6.73%) Oracle
3 36 (5.91%) SAP
4 22 (3.61%) Charles River
5 17 (2.79%) VMware
6 14 (2.30%) Aderant
6 14 (2.30%) Bloomberg
6 14 (2.30%) Concur
6 14 (2.30%) Salesforce
7 13 (2.13%) Sun
8 12 (1.97%) Workday
9 11 (1.81%) Infor
10 9 (1.48%) Epicor
10 9 (1.48%) IBM
11 8 (1.31%) Intapp
12 7 (1.15%) iManage
13 6 (0.99%) Sage
14 5 (0.82%) Citrix
15 4 (0.66%) Cognos
15 4 (0.66%) PeopleSoft