Systems Analyst: market
A Systems Analyst turns business requirements into a technical specification: designs integrations and APIs, data models, scenarios and system states, and aligns solutions with engineering. We currently track 626 open positions for this role, 567 of them fresh. Postings expect SQL, REST and queue design, notations (UML, BPMN, sequence diagrams), OpenAPI, microservice architecture understanding and Jira and Confluence. By co-occurrence in requirements, SQL, Java, user stories and Salesforce appear most often. 33% of the postings allow fully remote work. Below is a live slice of the Systems Analyst market: geography, seniority, adjacent stack and sources.
The Systems Analyst market currently has 626 open roles, 567 of them freshly observed. Median salary $7,833/mo.
33% of Systems Analyst postings allow fully remote work; the share counts only postings that state the format.
⚠ salary known for 40 of 626 jobs; remote share from 516 with a stated format; 567 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Timeline: postings and sources
How many Systems Analyst postings appeared each week since 4 May, and from how many sources. The second line separates market growth from coverage growth: a jump in the week new sources were connected means we started seeing more, not that the market grew.
New postings and active sources per week
Sources over the period: 133
New sources connected: 11 May +4 · 18 May +7 · 25 May +1 · 1 Jun +1 · 8 Jun +1 · 15 Jun +1 · 22 Jun +4 · 29 Jun +29 · 6 Jul +10 · 13 Jul +9 · 20 Jul +13 · 27 Jul +2 · 3 Aug +4 · 10 Aug +3 · 17 Aug +2 · 24 Aug +1 · 31 Aug +1 · 7 Sept +5 · 14 Sept +1 · 21 Sept +11 · 28 Sept +5 · 5 Oct +4 · 12 Oct +10
Week = posting first-seen date, all statuses; postings are selected by the same rule as this page's counter. Sources are distinct collection channels; their names are not published.
Remote work over time
Share of Systems Analyst postings offering fully remote work, per week.
Remote postings, %
The share is among postings that state a format (remote, hybrid, office). Weeks with fewer than 10 such postings are left blank.
Technologies over time
How the share of Systems Analyst postings mentioning each of the top technologies changed.
Postings mentioning the technology, %
Share among postings with a tagged stack; the series starts on 10 Aug: earlier stack tags were assigned differently. Weeks with fewer than 20 tagged postings are left blank.
Countries over time
How the share of Systems Analyst postings in each of the top countries changed, per week.
Postings in the country, %
Share among postings with a known country; the chart shows the five countries with the most postings over six months. Weeks with fewer than 20 postings with a known country are left blank. A rising share can mean a newly connected source in that country rather than market growth.
Demand and observed supply: Systems Analyst
| Open demand | 626 |
| Observed supply | — not published |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Salary distribution: Systems Analyst
One in ten earns under $3,464, one in ten over $13,285. Half the market falls between $5,850 and $10,833. Sample: 40.
The range histogram for Systems Analyst uses only postings with an explicit compensation range; the median is computed over the same sample.
Demand geography: Systems Analyst
| country | jobs |
|---|---|
| US | 258 |
| RU | 120 |
| HK | 36 |
| PL | 31 |
| IN | 25 |
| GB | 25 |
| CA | 13 |
| AU | 9 |
| KZ | 9 |
| ZA | 8 |
The top country for Systems Analyst demand is the US (258 positions).
⚠ job counts only: salary by country is not published
Used together with
In Systems Analyst requirements the most frequently named skills and technologies are SQL, Java, user stories and Salesforce.
Demand by grade: Systems Analyst
| grade | jobs |
|---|---|
| senior | 189 |
| middle | 49 |
| lead | 38 |
| principal | 28 |
| junior | 20 |
Senior-and-above is about 79% of 324 Systems Analyst postings with an explicit grade.
⚠ demand side only: the grade of the observed pool is unknown for most of it
Employers: Systems Analyst
Demand is spread across 355 employers. The largest accounts for 5.7%, the top ten for 17.9%; the remaining 82.1% is long tail.
| share | value |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 5.7% |
| top-3 | 9.6% |
| top-10 | 17.9% |
| long tail | 82.1% |
Systems Analyst openings come from 355 distinct employers; the largest one accounts for only 5.7% of postings — the market is not tied to a single hirer.
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Where Zorky sees this market
Observed across 75 sources; the largest accounts for 12.8% — this market does not rest on a single channel.
Systems Analyst postings arrive mostly from ATS & career sites and job boards & aggregators.
Recent openings: Systems Analyst
- RQ11681/RQ11680 - Systems Analyst - Senior · CA
- Middle Systems Analyst - ведущий системный аналитик · BY
- Business Systems Analyst · US
- Associate Systems Analyst (12 month contract) · CA
- LACM Systems Analyst · US
- Computer Systems Analyst · US
- RQ11680 - Systems Analyst - Senior · CA · $12,940
- Senior Business Systems Analyst · US
Adjacent markets
⚠ adjacent markets for comparison are not defined yet
How this is measured
- Vacancy
- an open job that cleared the quality gate and lists at least two technologies
- Observed candidate
- a candidate whose stack contains this technology; an aggregate — not a single record leaves the perimeter
- Matchable candidate
- not counted yet
- Window
- jobs open at the moment the snapshot was built
About the data
- Some breakdowns are hidden: their data coverage is not yet sufficient.
- Statistics are shown only where the sample clears a quality gate.
- A missing block does not mean a value of zero.
Breakdowns currently hidden: 8.
Data as of 2026-10-24
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about the Systems Analyst role — short answers from the same data slice.
What does a Systems Analyst do?
A Systems Analyst turns business requirements into a technical specification: designs integrations and APIs, data models, scenarios and system states, and aligns solutions with engineering.
Which skills do Systems Analyst postings require?
Postings expect SQL, REST and queue design, notations (UML, BPMN, sequence diagrams), OpenAPI, microservice architecture understanding and Jira and Confluence. In the current slice, SQL, Java, user stories and Salesforce appear in requirements most often.
Does a systems analyst need to code?
Writing production code — no, but reading it, writing solid SQL and understanding how APIs and queues work is mandatory: otherwise the specification will not be implementable.
How remote-friendly are Systems Analyst jobs?
33% of postings with an explicit format allow fully remote work; the slice tracks 626 open positions.
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