The invention provides a method for analyzing the content of main elements in a nickel cobalt lithium manganate positive electrode material. The analyzing method comprises the following steps: (1) carrying out tabletting treatment on a standard sample, then testing the tableted sample by adopting an X-ray fluorescence spectrometer, selecting a model calibration curve spectrogram, preprocessing the curve spectrogram, and establishing a corresponding standard curve; and (2) carrying out tabletting treatment on a to-be-detected sample, then testing the tableted sample by adopting the X-ray fluorescence spectrometer, and obtaining the content of the main elements in the to-be-detected sample according to the corresponding standard curve in the step (1). According to the method, the X-ray fluorescence spectrophotometer is adopted to analyze multiple elements such as Ni, Co and Mn in NCM at a time, and the method is easy to operate, high in analysis speed, safe, rapid, low in cost, high in accuracy, good in stability, high in detection efficiency, high in practicability and suitable for actual production.