Business Analyst Jobs

Business Analyst (BA)
UK

The median Business Analyst (BA) salary in the UK is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 205 143 164
Rank change year-on-year -62 +21 -23
Permanent jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,487 2,376 4,413
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.37% 2.55% 2.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.45% 2.80% 2.68%
Number of salaries quoted 988 1,777 3,505
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £37,739
25th Percentile £45,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,600 £70,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £82,500 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,500 £52,500 £48,000
% change year-on-year -5.71% +9.38% +6.67%

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 102,753 84,908 164,946
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.75% 91.21% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 72,538 55,143 85,388
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,524 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,296
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%

Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Analyst in the UK

Business Analyst
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Business Analyst in the UK

Business Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Analyst over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Business Analyst in the UK

Business 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 Business Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 9 June 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 -53 1,352 £55,000 -8.33% 279
UK excluding London -75 930 £49,500 -5.71% 141
Work from Home -57 626 £53,000 -7.83% 144
London -48 518 £75,000 +15.38% 144
East of England +30 198 £49,500 -10.00% 14
North of England -88 183 £50,000 -9.09% 41
Midlands -63 179 £42,500 -15.00% 29
South East -85 155 £57,875 +5.23% 27
North West -52 118 £50,000 -13.04% 22
South West -34 106 £47,000 -10.48% 13
East Midlands -30 88 £42,500 -14.95% 13
West Midlands -68 88 £42,750 -14.50% 16
Scotland -72 69 £42,500 -19.05% 13
Yorkshire -33 59 £47,500 -5.00% 17
Wales +3 20 £45,000 +0.37% 1
Northern Ireland +28 13 £67,500 +46.74% 3
Isle of Man - 8 £48,250 -
North East -38 6 £50,000 -9.09% 2
Channel Islands - 1 £60,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 2024, Business 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 Business Analyst in the job title.

1 645 (43.38%) Business Analysis
2 611 (41.09%) Agile
3 413 (27.77%) Problem-Solving
4 406 (27.30%) Analytical Skills
5 384 (25.82%) Social Skills
6 354 (23.81%) Requirements Gathering
7 338 (22.73%) Finance
8 305 (20.51%) User Stories
9 301 (20.24%) Degree
10 233 (15.67%) Stakeholder Management
11 222 (14.93%) Retail
12 214 (14.39%) Change Management
13 208 (13.99%) Coaching
14 189 (12.71%) Decision-Making
14 189 (12.71%) SQL
15 181 (12.17%) JIRA
16 178 (11.97%) Workshop Facilitation
17 175 (11.77%) Product Ownership
18 171 (11.50%) Project Management
19 169 (11.37%) Roadmaps
20 157 (10.56%) Process Improvement
21 150 (10.09%) Security Cleared
22 140 (9.41%) Scrum
23 137 (9.21%) SDLC
24 135 (9.08%) Waterfall
24 135 (9.08%) GAP Analysis
24 135 (9.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
25 123 (8.27%) SC Cleared
26 115 (7.73%) Legal
27 112 (7.53%) QA

Business 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 87 (5.85%) Confluence
2 10 (0.67%) Apache
3 6 (0.40%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.40%) WordPress
4 2 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.067%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.067%) Appian
Applications
1 94 (6.32%) Microsoft Office
2 92 (6.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 88 (5.92%) MS Visio
4 47 (3.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.40%) Trello
7 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (1.01%) Aladdin
2 13 (0.87%) Endur
2 13 (0.87%) Maximo
3 9 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
4 8 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.20%) Magento
5 3 (0.20%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.13%) SAP WM
6 2 (0.13%) Shopify
7 1 (0.067%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.067%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.067%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.067%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.067%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.067%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.067%) SAP PP
7 1 (0.067%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 73 (4.91%) AWS
2 72 (4.84%) Power Platform
3 71 (4.77%) Azure
4 45 (3.03%) SaaS
5 31 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (1.61%) Miro
7 23 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
8 10 (0.67%) dbt
8 10 (0.67%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (0.54%) Figma
9 8 (0.54%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 7 (0.47%) OCI
10 7 (0.47%) Power Automate
10 7 (0.47%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 4 (0.27%) GCP
12 3 (0.20%) Asana
12 3 (0.20%) Mavenlink
13 2 (0.13%) PowerApps
13 2 (0.13%) Smartsheet
13 2 (0.13%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.67%) Broadband
1 10 (0.67%) Internet
1 10 (0.67%) WPA
2 2 (0.13%) DSL
2 2 (0.13%) HTTP
2 2 (0.13%) RFID
3 1 (0.067%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (4.57%) Power BI
2 35 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
3 32 (2.15%) Tableau
4 16 (1.08%) Big Data
5 13 (0.87%) Relational Database
6 11 (0.74%) Electronic Patient Records
7 10 (0.67%) Apache Arrow
7 10 (0.67%) Data Lake
7 10 (0.67%) Dremio
8 7 (0.47%) SQL Server
9 6 (0.40%) Snowflake Schema
9 6 (0.40%) Star Schema
10 5 (0.34%) Qlik Sense
11 4 (0.27%) SAP BW
12 3 (0.20%) QlikView
13 2 (0.13%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (0.13%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.13%) PowerPivot
13 2 (0.13%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.13%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 181 (12.17%) JIRA
2 2 (0.13%) Balsamiq
2 2 (0.13%) Git
2 2 (0.13%) Postman
2 2 (0.13%) PowerBuilder
3 1 (0.067%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.067%) JMeter
3 1 (0.067%) LoadRunner
3 1 (0.067%) Maven
3 1 (0.067%) Protractor
3 1 (0.067%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 406 (27.30%) Analytical Skills
2 384 (25.82%) Social Skills
3 338 (22.73%) Finance
4 222 (14.93%) Retail
5 135 (9.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 115 (7.73%) Legal
7 87 (5.85%) Banking
8 84 (5.65%) Law
9 75 (5.04%) Front Office
10 72 (4.84%) Public Sector
11 64 (4.30%) Influencing Skills
12 53 (3.56%) Presentation Skills
13 45 (3.03%) Investment Banking
14 36 (2.42%) Manufacturing
15 29 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
16 24 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
16 24 (1.61%) Marketing
17 23 (1.55%) Back Office
18 16 (1.08%) Advertising
19 13 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (0.94%) .NET
2 12 (0.81%) Lightning Web Components
3 10 (0.67%) Oracle Fusion
3 10 (0.67%) XML
4 8 (0.54%) .NET Framework
5 6 (0.40%) JSON
5 6 (0.40%) Web Services
6 5 (0.34%) React
7 4 (0.27%) Laravel
7 4 (0.27%) Next.js
7 4 (0.27%) React Native
7 4 (0.27%) REST
7 4 (0.27%) RESTful
8 3 (0.20%) ADO
8 3 (0.20%) FIX Protocol
8 3 (0.20%) Gherkin
8 3 (0.20%) HTML
8 3 (0.20%) XSLT
9 2 (0.13%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.13%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 175 (11.77%) Product Ownership
2 83 (5.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 81 (5.45%) Fixed Income
4 74 (4.98%) Derivative
5 71 (4.77%) Equities
6 69 (4.64%) Hedge funds
7 61 (4.10%) Management Information System
8 46 (3.09%) Self-Motivation
9 25 (1.68%) Reinsurance
10 24 (1.61%) Onboarding
10 24 (1.61%) Virtual Team
11 14 (0.94%) NHS
12 13 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
12 13 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
13 10 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
13 10 (0.67%) Biopharmaceutical
13 10 (0.67%) Reference Data
14 9 (0.61%) Driving Licence
15 8 (0.54%) FMCG
16 7 (0.47%) Credit Derivative
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.27%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.13%) Android
2 2 (0.13%) Linux
2 2 (0.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 645 (43.38%) Business Analysis
2 611 (41.09%) Agile
3 413 (27.77%) Problem-Solving
4 354 (23.81%) Requirements Gathering
5 305 (20.51%) User Stories
6 233 (15.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 214 (14.39%) Change Management
8 208 (13.99%) Coaching
9 189 (12.71%) Decision-Making
10 178 (11.97%) Workshop Facilitation
11 171 (11.50%) Project Management
12 169 (11.37%) Roadmaps
13 157 (10.56%) Process Improvement
14 140 (9.41%) Scrum
15 137 (9.21%) SDLC
16 135 (9.08%) GAP Analysis
16 135 (9.08%) Waterfall
17 107 (7.20%) Business Case
18 105 (7.06%) Analytics
19 102 (6.86%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 189 (12.71%) SQL
2 92 (6.19%) Python
3 9 (0.61%) R
4 8 (0.54%) Java
5 7 (0.47%) T-SQL
6 6 (0.40%) C#
6 6 (0.40%) VBA
7 4 (0.27%) PHP
8 2 (0.13%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.067%) ABAP
9 1 (0.067%) JCL
9 1 (0.067%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.067%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.067%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 301 (20.24%) Degree
2 150 (10.09%) Security Cleared
3 123 (8.27%) SC Cleared
4 27 (1.82%) DV Cleared
5 20 (1.34%) IIBA
6 19 (1.28%) Master's Degree
7 18 (1.21%) CBAP
8 15 (1.01%) DBS Check
9 13 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (0.74%) ISEB
11 10 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (0.54%) PMI Certification
13 7 (0.47%) HND
14 6 (0.40%) PMP
15 5 (0.34%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 4 (0.27%) CFA
16 4 (0.27%) CIMA
17 3 (0.20%) NVQ Level 4
18 2 (0.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
18 2 (0.13%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (7.53%) QA
2 17 (1.14%) PMO
3 8 (0.54%) ISO 20022
4 7 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (0.40%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.40%) Data Quality
5 6 (0.40%) GxP
5 6 (0.40%) PSD2
6 5 (0.34%) EMIR
6 5 (0.34%) IFRS
6 5 (0.34%) MiFID
6 5 (0.34%) SEPA
6 5 (0.34%) SLA
6 5 (0.34%) TARGET2
7 4 (0.27%) IFRS 17
8 3 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.20%) GDPR
9 1 (0.067%) GRC
9 1 (0.067%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.067%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.067%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.067%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (0.34%) Graphite
2 2 (0.13%) Data Guard
2 2 (0.13%) Kibana
3 1 (0.067%) Grafana
3 1 (0.067%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.067%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.067%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.067%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 111 (7.46%) Microsoft
2 55 (3.70%) Salesforce
3 48 (3.23%) SAP
4 39 (2.62%) Oracle
5 24 (1.61%) Bloomberg
6 14 (0.94%) BISAM
7 11 (0.74%) Atlassian
8 7 (0.47%) F5
9 5 (0.34%) Google
9 5 (0.34%) ION Trading
9 5 (0.34%) ServiceNow
9 5 (0.34%) YouTube
10 4 (0.27%) IFS
10 4 (0.27%) Marketo
10 4 (0.27%) MicroStrategy
11 3 (0.20%) Alteryx
11 3 (0.20%) Conga
11 3 (0.20%) Intapp
11 3 (0.20%) JD Edwards
12 2 (0.13%) UiPath