Analyst
UK

The median Analyst salary in the UK is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 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 9,825 11,749 16,468
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.83% 11.81% 10.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.38% 12.90% 10.63%
Number of salaries quoted 6,599 7,498 11,386
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,693 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,000 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £46,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,769 £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 94,634 91,081 154,945
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,599 57,631 84,466
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 £70,974 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,183 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.98% +6.37% +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 19 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 19 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 8,923 £45,000 -5.26% 2,185
UK excluding London +1 6,466 £40,000 - 1,331
Work from Home +3 3,707 £45,249 -4.74% 950
London +4 3,037 £60,000 +9.09% 1,024
North of England -1 1,657 £39,000 -3.36% 352
South East 0 1,568 £40,000 -2.38% 405
Midlands 0 1,238 £37,500 -6.25% 228
North West +3 929 £40,000 -5.88% 199
West Midlands +1 819 £37,500 -6.25% 143
South West +3 707 £42,500 +9.25% 133
East of England +7 656 £38,000 -1.30% 123
Yorkshire -8 546 £37,500 -6.25% 128
East Midlands -1 412 £36,500 -3.95% 85
Scotland -35 410 £42,500 +4.72% 73
North East +2 182 £35,000 -10.83% 26
Wales -8 178 £36,476 +4.22% 33
Northern Ireland +24 37 £47,500 +26.67% 14
Isle of Man -1 21 £46,500 +3.33%
Channel Islands -2 2 £67,500 +92.86% 1

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 19 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 3,418 (34.79%) Social Skills
2 2,949 (30.02%) Finance
3 2,823 (28.73%) Analytical Skills
4 2,529 (25.74%) Microsoft
5 2,120 (21.58%) Problem-Solving
6 2,049 (20.85%) SQL
7 1,820 (18.52%) Degree
8 1,716 (17.47%) Agile
9 1,551 (15.79%) Microsoft Excel
10 1,259 (12.81%) Decision-Making
11 1,198 (12.19%) Windows
12 1,065 (10.84%) Azure
13 1,058 (10.77%) Microsoft 365
14 1,047 (10.66%) Customer Service
15 1,031 (10.49%) Actionable Insight
16 1,028 (10.46%) Microsoft Office
17 1,012 (10.30%) Power Platform
18 994 (10.12%) Analytics
19 984 (10.02%) Business Intelligence
20 966 (9.83%) Active Directory
21 945 (9.62%) Power BI
22 903 (9.19%) ITIL
23 828 (8.43%) Data Analysis
24 816 (8.31%) Mentoring
25 811 (8.25%) Retail
25 811 (8.25%) Business Analysis
26 769 (7.83%) Python
27 708 (7.21%) Continuous Improvement
28 698 (7.10%) Cybersecurity
29 693 (7.05%) Visualisation

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
1 326 (3.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 312 (3.18%) SharePoint
3 143 (1.46%) Confluence
4 92 (0.94%) SAS
5 70 (0.71%) WebLogic
6 44 (0.45%) Oracle Service Bus
7 36 (0.37%) CMS
8 24 (0.24%) Apache
8 24 (0.24%) IIS
9 20 (0.20%) Apache Spark
10 16 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
11 14 (0.14%) IBM Notes
12 13 (0.13%) Skype for Business
13 9 (0.092%) 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%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1,551 (15.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 1,028 (10.46%) Microsoft Office
3 230 (2.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 178 (1.81%) 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 (0.031%) Stata
12 2 (0.020%) EViews
12 2 (0.020%) LaTeX
13 1 (0.010%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 97 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 48 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
3 46 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
4 33 (0.34%) Aladdin
5 28 (0.28%) Elite 3E
6 27 (0.27%) NEC Housing
7 25 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
8 24 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
9 22 (0.22%) Endur
10 20 (0.20%) NetSuite
11 19 (0.19%) thinkFolio
12 18 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
13 17 (0.17%) iTrent
14 16 (0.16%) Infor SunSystems
14 16 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
14 16 (0.16%) PlanetPress Connect
15 14 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
15 14 (0.14%) Oracle Financials
16 13 (0.13%) Maximo
17 12 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 1,065 (10.84%) Azure
2 1,058 (10.77%) Microsoft 365
3 1,012 (10.30%) Power Platform
4 437 (4.45%) AWS
5 220 (2.24%) SaaS
6 207 (2.11%) Entra ID
7 182 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
8 123 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
9 78 (0.79%) GCP
10 68 (0.69%) Google Analytics
11 64 (0.65%) PowerApps
12 60 (0.61%) Power Automate
13 46 (0.47%) OneDrive
14 45 (0.46%) Azure Sentinel
15 43 (0.44%) Mimecast
16 42 (0.43%) PaaS
17 40 (0.41%) WhatsApp
18 38 (0.39%) Snowflake
19 27 (0.27%) SuccessFactors
20 26 (0.26%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 504 (5.13%) Broadband
2 427 (4.35%) Firewall
3 267 (2.72%) DNS
4 262 (2.67%) LAN
5 246 (2.50%) WAN
6 177 (1.80%) TCP/IP
7 156 (1.59%) VPN
8 151 (1.54%) DHCP
9 150 (1.53%) Internet
10 103 (1.05%) VoIP
11 98 (1.00%) SD-WAN
12 97 (0.99%) Wireless
13 91 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
14 82 (0.83%) Network Security
15 72 (0.73%) WLAN
16 62 (0.63%) Intrusion Detection
17 59 (0.60%) MPLS
18 48 (0.49%) VLAN
19 47 (0.48%) BGP
19 47 (0.48%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 945 (9.62%) Power BI
2 506 (5.15%) Tableau
3 378 (3.85%) SQL Server
4 191 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
5 156 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 91 (0.93%) BigQuery
7 89 (0.91%) Relational Database
8 82 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 78 (0.79%) Power Query
10 73 (0.74%) Oracle Database
11 62 (0.63%) Data Mining
12 45 (0.46%) QlikView
13 44 (0.45%) Oracle Database 10g
13 44 (0.45%) Oracle Database 11g
13 44 (0.45%) VLDB
14 42 (0.43%) Big Data
14 42 (0.43%) MySQL
14 42 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
15 41 (0.42%) Looker
16 31 (0.32%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 359 (3.65%) JIRA
2 152 (1.55%) Git
3 50 (0.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 45 (0.46%) Selenium
5 35 (0.36%) Visual Studio
6 25 (0.25%) Eclipse
7 21 (0.21%) Postman
8 17 (0.17%) TestRail
9 16 (0.16%) JMeter
10 11 (0.11%) GitLab
11 10 (0.10%) Burp Suite
11 10 (0.10%) Metasploit
11 10 (0.10%) Team Foundation Server
11 10 (0.10%) Toad
12 9 (0.092%) Jenkins
12 9 (0.092%) Oracle Forms
13 8 (0.081%) NUnit
14 7 (0.071%) TeamCity
14 7 (0.071%) WebDriver
15 6 (0.061%) Zephyr
General
1 3,418 (34.79%) Social Skills
2 2,949 (30.02%) Finance
3 2,823 (28.73%) Analytical Skills
4 811 (8.25%) Retail
5 692 (7.04%) Legal
6 686 (6.98%) Influencing Skills
7 645 (6.56%) Banking
8 631 (6.42%) Law
9 625 (6.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 388 (3.95%) Organisational Skills
11 362 (3.68%) Presentation Skills
12 327 (3.33%) Marketing
13 289 (2.94%) Public Sector
14 271 (2.76%) Manufacturing
15 231 (2.35%) Investment Banking
16 189 (1.92%) Front Office
17 114 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
18 109 (1.11%) Police
19 101 (1.03%) Back Office
20 99 (1.01%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (1.15%) .NET
2 66 (0.67%) REST
3 65 (0.66%) JSON
4 62 (0.63%) Oracle Fusion
5 60 (0.61%) XML
6 51 (0.52%) HTML
7 46 (0.47%) EDI
8 39 (0.40%) Web Services
9 33 (0.34%) FIX Protocol
10 30 (0.31%) CSS
11 27 (0.27%) Spring
12 26 (0.26%) J2EE
12 26 (0.26%) Java EE
13 22 (0.22%) OLE
14 18 (0.18%) .NET Framework
15 17 (0.17%) Middleware
16 16 (0.16%) SOAP
17 15 (0.15%) Pandas
18 14 (0.14%) ASP.NET
18 14 (0.14%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 450 (4.58%) Management Information System
2 386 (3.93%) Self-Motivation
3 272 (2.77%) Product Ownership
4 213 (2.17%) Onboarding
5 128 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 125 (1.27%) Hedge funds
7 122 (1.24%) Fixed Income
8 120 (1.22%) Derivative
9 107 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
10 104 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
10 104 (1.06%) Driving Licence
11 102 (1.04%) Cyberattack
12 91 (0.93%) Security Operations Centre
13 88 (0.90%) Life Science
14 74 (0.75%) Equities
15 70 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
16 69 (0.70%) Data Centre
17 67 (0.68%) Reinsurance
18 61 (0.62%) Greenfield Project
19 59 (0.60%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 1,198 (12.19%) Windows
2 428 (4.36%) Windows 10
3 380 (3.87%) Windows Server
4 259 (2.64%) Linux
5 168 (1.71%) Unix
6 101 (1.03%) Apple iOS
7 91 (0.93%) Android
8 69 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
9 62 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
10 61 (0.62%) Mac OS
11 58 (0.59%) Solaris
12 50 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
13 42 (0.43%) Windows 7
14 30 (0.31%) Mac OS X
15 17 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
16 15 (0.15%) Windows 8
17 13 (0.13%) VMS
18 12 (0.12%) Windows Vista
19 11 (0.11%) CentOS
19 11 (0.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,120 (21.58%) Problem-Solving
2 1,716 (17.47%) Agile
3 1,259 (12.81%) Decision-Making
4 1,047 (10.66%) Customer Service
5 1,031 (10.49%) Actionable Insight
6 994 (10.12%) Analytics
7 984 (10.02%) Business Intelligence
8 903 (9.19%) ITIL
9 828 (8.43%) Data Analysis
10 816 (8.31%) Mentoring
11 811 (8.25%) Business Analysis
12 708 (7.21%) Continuous Improvement
13 698 (7.10%) Cybersecurity
14 693 (7.05%) Visualisation
15 636 (6.47%) Business Case
16 577 (5.87%) Mathematics
17 574 (5.84%) Stakeholder Management
18 561 (5.71%) Project Management
19 546 (5.56%) Requirements Gathering
20 542 (5.52%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 2,049 (20.85%) SQL
2 769 (7.83%) Python
3 177 (1.80%) R
4 176 (1.79%) PowerShell
5 161 (1.64%) C#
6 158 (1.61%) T-SQL
7 97 (0.99%) VBA
8 88 (0.90%) Java
9 80 (0.81%) PL/SQL
10 74 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 67 (0.68%) JavaScript
12 35 (0.36%) Bash
12 35 (0.36%) Shell Script
13 27 (0.27%) C++
13 27 (0.27%) RPG
14 20 (0.20%) Perl
15 19 (0.19%) VB
16 14 (0.14%) MATLAB
16 14 (0.14%) PHP
17 13 (0.13%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,820 (18.52%) Degree
2 541 (5.51%) Security Cleared
3 537 (5.47%) CIMA
4 533 (5.42%) ACCA
5 348 (3.54%) SC Cleared
6 208 (2.12%) CISSP
6 208 (2.12%) DBS Check
7 122 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 122 (1.24%) DV Cleared
8 120 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
9 119 (1.21%) Master's Degree
10 102 (1.04%) CISM
11 100 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
12 88 (0.90%) CompTIA Security+
13 79 (0.80%) CCNA
14 77 (0.78%) CISA
15 58 (0.59%) CCNP
16 57 (0.58%) A+ Certification
17 52 (0.53%) ISTQB
18 46 (0.47%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 366 (3.73%) SLA
2 282 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 257 (2.62%) Data Quality
4 239 (2.43%) QA
5 224 (2.28%) GDPR
6 170 (1.73%) NIST
7 103 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
8 99 (1.01%) PMO
9 84 (0.85%) GRC
10 59 (0.60%) PCI DSS
11 52 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 39 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
13 37 (0.38%) ISO 9001
13 37 (0.38%) NCSC
14 33 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 32 (0.33%) Accessibility
15 32 (0.33%) IFRS
16 31 (0.32%) COBIT
17 22 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 17025
18 18 (0.18%) GLP
System Software
1 966 (9.83%) Active Directory
2 135 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 66 (0.67%) Hyper-V
4 46 (0.47%) Oracle RAC
5 38 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
6 29 (0.30%) XenApp
6 29 (0.30%) XenDesktop
7 26 (0.26%) vSphere
8 23 (0.23%) Firmware
9 20 (0.20%) RACF
9 20 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
10 16 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
11 12 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
12 11 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
13 6 (0.061%) Docker
13 6 (0.061%) 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
Systems Management
1 191 (1.94%) Microsoft Intune
2 154 (1.57%) SCCM
3 57 (0.58%) 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%) Terraform
7 34 (0.35%) WSUS
8 26 (0.26%) OpenSSO
9 21 (0.21%) QRadar
10 15 (0.15%) EnCase
11 13 (0.13%) CSIRT
12 12 (0.12%) FortiGate
13 10 (0.10%) Nmap
14 9 (0.092%) Control-M
14 9 (0.092%) Failover Clustering
14 9 (0.092%) Grafana
14 9 (0.092%) Nessus
14 9 (0.092%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2,529 (25.74%) Microsoft
2 327 (3.33%) Oracle
3 272 (2.77%) SAP
4 244 (2.48%) VMware
5 183 (1.86%) Cisco
6 173 (1.76%) Databricks
7 164 (1.67%) Google
8 163 (1.66%) Salesforce
9 157 (1.60%) ServiceNow
10 145 (1.48%) Citrix
11 96 (0.98%) Apple
12 92 (0.94%) Alteryx
13 88 (0.90%) Remedy
14 85 (0.87%) Bloomberg
15 74 (0.75%) Splunk
16 72 (0.73%) Sun
17 71 (0.72%) IBM
18 69 (0.70%) Adobe
19 58 (0.59%) Dell
20 55 (0.56%) Sage