Analyst
UK

The median Analyst salary in the UK is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 16 22
Rank change year-on-year +3 +6 +3
Permanent jobs requiring an Analyst 9,747 11,932 16,131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.90% 11.75% 10.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.46% 12.85% 10.66%
Number of salaries quoted 6,627 7,564 11,340
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,000 £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 93,191 92,882 151,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.46% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 66,790 58,425 84,716
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,517
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £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%

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 7 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 7 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 8,847 £45,000 -5.26% 2,076
UK excluding London 0 6,424 £40,000 - 1,152
Work from Home +2 3,658 £45,249 -4.74% 851
London +5 3,005 £59,850 +7.84% 983
North of England 0 1,656 £39,692 -0.77% 307
South East 0 1,555 £40,000 -2.38% 270
Midlands -1 1,207 £37,500 -6.25% 239
North West +3 925 £40,000 -5.33% 168
West Midlands +1 808 £37,500 -6.25% 144
South West +2 706 £42,500 +10.39% 121
East of England +8 656 £39,186 -2.04% 139
Yorkshire -8 555 £39,000 -2.50% 109
Scotland -35 416 £42,500 +4.08% 65
East Midlands -3 392 £36,500 -5.19% 95
North East +2 176 £35,000 -12.50% 32
Wales -7 176 £36,476 +4.22% 34
Northern Ireland +28 35 £50,000 +25.00% 16
Isle of Man 0 23 £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 7 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 3,429 (35.18%) Social Skills
2 2,923 (29.99%) Finance
3 2,799 (28.72%) Analytical Skills
4 2,515 (25.80%) Microsoft
5 2,094 (21.48%) Problem-Solving
6 1,979 (20.30%) SQL
7 1,768 (18.14%) Degree
8 1,720 (17.65%) Agile
9 1,533 (15.73%) Microsoft Excel
10 1,244 (12.76%) Decision-Making
11 1,204 (12.35%) Windows
12 1,085 (11.13%) Azure
12 1,085 (11.13%) Microsoft 365
13 1,055 (10.82%) Customer Service
14 1,049 (10.76%) Microsoft Office
15 1,009 (10.35%) Power Platform
16 1,004 (10.30%) Actionable Insight
17 997 (10.23%) Business Intelligence
18 965 (9.90%) Active Directory
18 965 (9.90%) Analytics
19 940 (9.64%) Power BI
20 904 (9.27%) ITIL
21 827 (8.48%) Business Analysis
22 821 (8.42%) Mentoring
23 802 (8.23%) Data Analysis
24 764 (7.84%) Retail
25 734 (7.53%) Python
26 694 (7.12%) Continuous Improvement
27 689 (7.07%) Influencing Skills
28 688 (7.06%) 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
1 336 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 316 (3.24%) SharePoint
3 142 (1.46%) Confluence
4 92 (0.94%) SAS
5 74 (0.76%) WebLogic
6 45 (0.46%) Oracle Service Bus
7 36 (0.37%) CMS
8 25 (0.26%) Apache
8 25 (0.26%) IIS
9 23 (0.24%) Apache Spark
10 17 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
11 14 (0.14%) IBM Notes
12 13 (0.13%) Skype for Business
13 8 (0.082%) ArcGIS
13 8 (0.082%) Moodle
13 8 (0.082%) WebSphere
13 8 (0.082%) WordPress
14 7 (0.072%) Exchange Server 2013
15 6 (0.062%) Exchange Server 2010
16 5 (0.051%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1,533 (15.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 1,049 (10.76%) Microsoft Office
3 241 (2.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 178 (1.83%) MS Visio
5 49 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
6 23 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
7 21 (0.22%) SPSS
8 14 (0.14%) Trello
9 6 (0.062%) LightWave 3D
9 6 (0.062%) SOLIDWORKS
10 4 (0.041%) Chatbot
11 3 (0.031%) Stata
12 2 (0.021%) EViews
12 2 (0.021%) LaTeX
12 2 (0.021%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 103 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 50 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
3 47 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
4 33 (0.34%) Aladdin
5 27 (0.28%) NEC Housing
5 27 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
6 26 (0.27%) Elite 3E
7 24 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
8 23 (0.24%) Endur
9 20 (0.21%) PlanetPress Connect
10 19 (0.19%) NetSuite
10 19 (0.19%) thinkFolio
11 18 (0.18%) iTrent
11 18 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
12 16 (0.16%) Infor SunSystems
12 16 (0.16%) Oracle Financials
13 15 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
13 15 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
14 14 (0.14%) Epicor Tropos
15 13 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 1,085 (11.13%) Azure
1 1,085 (11.13%) Microsoft 365
2 1,009 (10.35%) Power Platform
3 412 (4.23%) AWS
4 220 (2.26%) SaaS
5 183 (1.88%) Dynamics 365
6 180 (1.85%) Entra ID
7 132 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
8 82 (0.84%) GCP
9 69 (0.71%) Google Analytics
10 65 (0.67%) PowerApps
11 61 (0.63%) Power Automate
12 48 (0.49%) Azure Sentinel
12 48 (0.49%) OneDrive
13 45 (0.46%) WhatsApp
14 42 (0.43%) Mimecast
15 40 (0.41%) PaaS
15 40 (0.41%) Snowflake
16 28 (0.29%) IaaS
17 27 (0.28%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 511 (5.24%) Broadband
2 436 (4.47%) Firewall
3 269 (2.76%) DNS
4 265 (2.72%) LAN
5 250 (2.56%) WAN
6 186 (1.91%) TCP/IP
7 160 (1.64%) VPN
8 154 (1.58%) DHCP
9 150 (1.54%) Internet
10 108 (1.11%) VoIP
11 102 (1.05%) SD-WAN
11 102 (1.05%) Wireless
12 90 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
13 85 (0.87%) Network Security
14 72 (0.74%) WLAN
15 66 (0.68%) Intrusion Detection
16 61 (0.63%) MPLS
17 52 (0.53%) VLAN
18 49 (0.50%) BGP
18 49 (0.50%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 940 (9.64%) Power BI
2 470 (4.82%) Tableau
3 391 (4.01%) SQL Server
4 196 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
5 156 (1.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 93 (0.95%) BigQuery
7 91 (0.93%) Relational Database
7 91 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 74 (0.76%) Oracle Database
8 74 (0.76%) Power Query
9 56 (0.57%) Data Mining
10 46 (0.47%) QlikView
11 45 (0.46%) Oracle Database 10g
11 45 (0.46%) Oracle Database 11g
11 45 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
11 45 (0.46%) VLDB
12 41 (0.42%) MySQL
13 40 (0.41%) Big Data
13 40 (0.41%) Looker
14 34 (0.35%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 375 (3.85%) JIRA
2 122 (1.25%) Git
3 55 (0.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 46 (0.47%) Selenium
5 35 (0.36%) Visual Studio
6 23 (0.24%) Eclipse
7 20 (0.21%) Postman
8 15 (0.15%) JMeter
8 15 (0.15%) TestRail
9 11 (0.11%) GitLab
9 11 (0.11%) Toad
10 10 (0.10%) Team Foundation Server
11 9 (0.092%) Burp Suite
11 9 (0.092%) Jenkins
11 9 (0.092%) Metasploit
11 9 (0.092%) Oracle Forms
12 7 (0.072%) NUnit
12 7 (0.072%) TeamCity
12 7 (0.072%) WebDriver
13 6 (0.062%) Zephyr
General
1 3,429 (35.18%) Social Skills
2 2,923 (29.99%) Finance
3 2,799 (28.72%) Analytical Skills
4 764 (7.84%) Retail
5 689 (7.07%) Influencing Skills
6 645 (6.62%) Law
7 642 (6.59%) Legal
8 635 (6.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 618 (6.34%) Banking
10 390 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
11 334 (3.43%) Presentation Skills
12 321 (3.29%) Marketing
13 296 (3.04%) Public Sector
14 266 (2.73%) Manufacturing
15 236 (2.42%) Investment Banking
16 183 (1.88%) Front Office
17 107 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
18 106 (1.09%) Police
19 101 (1.04%) Back Office
20 100 (1.03%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (1.11%) .NET
2 68 (0.70%) JSON
3 66 (0.68%) Oracle Fusion
3 66 (0.68%) REST
4 64 (0.66%) XML
5 52 (0.53%) HTML
6 46 (0.47%) EDI
7 39 (0.40%) Web Services
8 32 (0.33%) FIX Protocol
9 30 (0.31%) Spring
10 29 (0.30%) CSS
10 29 (0.30%) J2EE
10 29 (0.30%) Java EE
11 22 (0.23%) OLE
12 19 (0.19%) .NET Framework
13 16 (0.16%) Middleware
13 16 (0.16%) Pandas
13 16 (0.16%) SOAP
14 14 (0.14%) ASP.NET
14 14 (0.14%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 426 (4.37%) Management Information System
2 399 (4.09%) Self-Motivation
3 270 (2.77%) Product Ownership
4 201 (2.06%) Onboarding
5 128 (1.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 120 (1.23%) Hedge funds
7 118 (1.21%) Fixed Income
8 113 (1.16%) Derivative
9 111 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
10 103 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
11 100 (1.03%) Cyberattack
12 97 (1.00%) Driving Licence
13 92 (0.94%) Security Operations Centre
14 83 (0.85%) Life Science
15 72 (0.74%) Reinsurance
16 71 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
17 69 (0.71%) Data Centre
17 69 (0.71%) Equities
18 62 (0.64%) Credit Risk
19 61 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1,204 (12.35%) Windows
2 423 (4.34%) Windows 10
3 383 (3.93%) Windows Server
4 261 (2.68%) Linux
5 168 (1.72%) Unix
6 100 (1.03%) Apple iOS
7 90 (0.92%) Android
8 68 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
9 66 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
10 62 (0.64%) Mac OS
11 58 (0.60%) Solaris
12 53 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
13 42 (0.43%) Windows 7
14 30 (0.31%) Mac OS X
15 20 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
16 19 (0.19%) Windows 8
17 13 (0.13%) VMS
18 12 (0.12%) Windows Vista
19 11 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
20 10 (0.10%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,094 (21.48%) Problem-Solving
2 1,720 (17.65%) Agile
3 1,244 (12.76%) Decision-Making
4 1,055 (10.82%) Customer Service
5 1,004 (10.30%) Actionable Insight
6 997 (10.23%) Business Intelligence
7 965 (9.90%) Analytics
8 904 (9.27%) ITIL
9 827 (8.48%) Business Analysis
10 821 (8.42%) Mentoring
11 802 (8.23%) Data Analysis
12 694 (7.12%) Continuous Improvement
13 688 (7.06%) Cybersecurity
14 650 (6.67%) Visualisation
15 641 (6.58%) Business Case
16 590 (6.05%) Stakeholder Management
17 550 (5.64%) Project Management
18 548 (5.62%) Change Management
19 547 (5.61%) Requirements Gathering
20 536 (5.50%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 1,979 (20.30%) SQL
2 734 (7.53%) Python
3 176 (1.81%) R
4 166 (1.70%) T-SQL
5 162 (1.66%) C#
6 160 (1.64%) PowerShell
7 94 (0.96%) VBA
8 91 (0.93%) Java
9 82 (0.84%) PL/SQL
10 70 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 66 (0.68%) JavaScript
12 38 (0.39%) Shell Script
13 35 (0.36%) Bash
14 27 (0.28%) C++
15 25 (0.26%) RPG
16 19 (0.19%) Perl
16 19 (0.19%) VB
17 13 (0.13%) MATLAB
17 13 (0.13%) PHP
17 13 (0.13%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,768 (18.14%) Degree
2 538 (5.52%) Security Cleared
3 533 (5.47%) CIMA
4 529 (5.43%) ACCA
5 347 (3.56%) SC Cleared
6 205 (2.10%) CISSP
7 172 (1.76%) DBS Check
8 134 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
9 124 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
10 117 (1.20%) DV Cleared
11 113 (1.16%) Master's Degree
12 109 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
13 96 (0.98%) CompTIA Security+
14 93 (0.95%) CISM
15 86 (0.88%) CCNA
16 74 (0.76%) CISA
17 62 (0.64%) CCNP
18 57 (0.58%) A+ Certification
19 51 (0.52%) ISTQB
20 46 (0.47%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 377 (3.87%) SLA
2 275 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 259 (2.66%) Data Quality
4 231 (2.37%) QA
5 215 (2.21%) GDPR
6 171 (1.75%) NIST
7 105 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
8 97 (1.00%) PMO
9 80 (0.82%) GRC
10 57 (0.58%) PCI DSS
11 51 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 37 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
12 37 (0.38%) NCSC
13 36 (0.37%) ISO 9001
14 35 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 32 (0.33%) IFRS
16 29 (0.30%) Accessibility
16 29 (0.30%) COBIT
17 23 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 17025
18 19 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 965 (9.90%) Active Directory
2 148 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 67 (0.69%) Hyper-V
4 47 (0.48%) Oracle RAC
5 36 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
6 27 (0.28%) vSphere
7 24 (0.25%) XenApp
8 23 (0.24%) Firmware
8 23 (0.24%) XenDesktop
9 20 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
10 16 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
11 11 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
11 11 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
12 7 (0.072%) Docker
13 5 (0.051%) Terminal Services
14 4 (0.041%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.041%) VMware Workstation
15 2 (0.021%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 1 (0.010%) DFS Replication
16 1 (0.010%) IAG
Systems Management
1 191 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
2 155 (1.59%) SCCM
3 57 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
4 47 (0.48%) Data Guard
5 45 (0.46%) Oracle RMAN
6 38 (0.39%) CASB
7 34 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
7 34 (0.35%) WSUS
8 29 (0.30%) OpenSSO
9 27 (0.28%) Terraform
10 19 (0.19%) QRadar
11 16 (0.16%) EnCase
12 13 (0.13%) CSIRT
12 13 (0.13%) FortiGate
13 10 (0.10%) Grafana
14 9 (0.092%) Failover Clustering
14 9 (0.092%) Nessus
14 9 (0.092%) Nmap
14 9 (0.092%) vCenter Server
15 8 (0.082%) Control-M
Vendors
1 2,515 (25.80%) Microsoft
2 340 (3.49%) Oracle
3 265 (2.72%) SAP
4 250 (2.56%) VMware
5 187 (1.92%) Cisco
6 168 (1.72%) Google
7 166 (1.70%) Salesforce
8 162 (1.66%) ServiceNow
9 145 (1.49%) Citrix
10 138 (1.42%) Databricks
11 100 (1.03%) Apple
12 94 (0.96%) Alteryx
13 91 (0.93%) Remedy
14 85 (0.87%) Bloomberg
15 76 (0.78%) Splunk
16 74 (0.76%) Sun
17 71 (0.73%) IBM
18 69 (0.71%) Adobe
19 62 (0.64%) Dell
20 59 (0.61%) Sage