Business Analysis
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Business Analysis skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Business Analysis over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 208 162 174
Rank change year-on-year -46 +12 -6
Permanent jobs citing Business Analysis 1,451 2,272 3,817
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.45% 2.29% 2.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.71% 2.40% 2.49%
Number of salaries quoted 792 1,537 2,553
10th Percentile £34,300 £41,250 £37,548
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Business Analysis is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,075 94,861 153,532
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.25% 95.59% 95.75%
Number of salaries quoted 59,840 55,938 82,447
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,714
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Business Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Business Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Business Analysis in the UK

Business Analysis
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Business Analysis in the UK

Business Analysis
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Analysis over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Business Analysis in the UK

Business Analysis
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Business Analysis within the UK over the 6 months to 17 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 -35 1,250 £55,000 -8.33% 299
UK excluding London -28 1,024 £50,000 -9.09% 182
Work from Home -76 527 £55,000 -8.33% 131
London -58 377 £70,000 +7.69% 137
North of England -29 202 £52,500 -4.55% 55
South East -54 197 £52,500 -8.70% 38
Midlands -42 177 £47,500 -9.52% 34
East of England +94 163 £47,500 -5.00% 14
North West -23 128 £47,500 -20.83% 27
Scotland -30 127 £45,237 -17.75% 10
South West -28 126 £49,000 -10.91% 28
West Midlands -23 125 £47,500 -9.52% 23
East Midlands -26 51 £48,093 -8.39% 11
Yorkshire -29 50 £52,500 -1.42% 21
North East +4 24 £52,500 -12.50% 7
Wales -17 15 £49,000 +8.89% 3
Northern Ireland +16 12 £58,800 +23.79% 2
Isle of Man - 5 £54,000 -

Business Analysis
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 77 (5.31%) Confluence
2 29 (2.00%) Apache
3 22 (1.52%) SharePoint
4 11 (0.76%) IIS
5 5 (0.34%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.34%) BizTalk Server
5 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.14%) Moodle
6 2 (0.14%) SAS
7 1 (0.069%) CMS
7 1 (0.069%) Drupal
7 1 (0.069%) SharePoint 2013
7 1 (0.069%) WordPress
Applications
1 151 (10.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 92 (6.34%) Microsoft Office
3 60 (4.14%) MS Visio
4 55 (3.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 23 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.55%) Trello
7 5 (0.34%) Sketch
8 4 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.069%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 28 (1.93%) Salesforce CRM
2 18 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
4 14 (0.96%) SAP CO
4 14 (0.96%) SAP FI
4 14 (0.96%) SAP FI/CO
5 12 (0.83%) iTrent
6 10 (0.69%) Infor SunSystems
7 7 (0.48%) BPCS
8 5 (0.34%) NEC Housing
9 4 (0.28%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.28%) Workday HCM
10 2 (0.14%) Aladdin
10 2 (0.14%) Endur
10 2 (0.14%) Magento
10 2 (0.14%) Maximo
10 2 (0.14%) SAP GRC
10 2 (0.14%) SAP HR
10 2 (0.14%) Shopify
11 1 (0.069%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 139 (9.58%) Azure
2 131 (9.03%) Power Platform
3 105 (7.24%) AWS
4 55 (3.79%) SaaS
5 50 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
6 38 (2.62%) Microsoft 365
7 28 (1.93%) PowerApps
8 24 (1.65%) Dynamics 365
9 23 (1.59%) Miro
10 19 (1.31%) GCP
10 19 (1.31%) Power Automate
11 17 (1.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 14 (0.96%) IBM Cloud
13 12 (0.83%) Serverless
14 11 (0.76%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (0.76%) PaaS
15 10 (0.69%) Amazon S3
15 10 (0.69%) Amazon SQS
15 10 (0.69%) AWS Step Functions
16 9 (0.62%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 22 (1.52%) Firewall
1 22 (1.52%) Wireless
2 14 (0.96%) HTTP
2 14 (0.96%) LAN
2 14 (0.96%) WAN
3 12 (0.83%) BGP
3 12 (0.83%) OSPF
3 12 (0.83%) VLAN
4 10 (0.69%) DNS
5 9 (0.62%) TCP/IP
5 9 (0.62%) VoIP
6 7 (0.48%) EIGRP
6 7 (0.48%) HSRP
6 7 (0.48%) MPLS
6 7 (0.48%) Network Security
6 7 (0.48%) SD-WAN
6 7 (0.48%) Spanning Tree
6 7 (0.48%) VRRP
6 7 (0.48%) Wireshark
6 7 (0.48%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (7.93%) Power BI
2 47 (3.24%) Tableau
3 44 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
4 35 (2.41%) SQL Server
5 26 (1.79%) Relational Database
6 25 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 22 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 21 (1.45%) BusinessObjects
9 18 (1.24%) NoSQL
10 17 (1.17%) Big Data
10 17 (1.17%) Data Lake
11 9 (0.62%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 9 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (0.55%) Metadata
12 8 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
13 7 (0.48%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
13 7 (0.48%) Data Mining
13 7 (0.48%) MySQL
13 7 (0.48%) Qlik Sense
13 7 (0.48%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 144 (9.92%) JIRA
2 13 (0.90%) Git
2 13 (0.90%) Visual Studio
3 10 (0.69%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 4 (0.28%) Postman
6 2 (0.14%) Android Studio
6 2 (0.14%) Balsamiq
6 2 (0.14%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.14%) Hudson
6 2 (0.14%) JUnit
6 2 (0.14%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (0.14%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.069%) Bugzilla
7 1 (0.069%) JMeter
7 1 (0.069%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.069%) Selenium
7 1 (0.069%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.069%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.069%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 447 (30.81%) Social Skills
2 425 (29.29%) Finance
3 397 (27.36%) Analytical Skills
4 185 (12.75%) Retail
5 167 (11.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 145 (9.99%) Presentation Skills
7 138 (9.51%) Law
8 115 (7.93%) Banking
9 109 (7.51%) Legal
10 101 (6.96%) Public Sector
11 91 (6.27%) Marketing
12 67 (4.62%) Investment Banking
13 56 (3.86%) Influencing Skills
14 35 (2.41%) Front Office
15 30 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
15 30 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
16 27 (1.86%) Local Government
17 26 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
18 24 (1.65%) Games
19 22 (1.52%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 818 (56.37%) Analyst
2 646 (44.52%) Business Analyst
3 185 (12.75%) Senior
4 99 (6.82%) Project Manager
4 99 (6.82%) Senior Analyst
5 86 (5.93%) Senior Business Analyst
6 80 (5.51%) Principal Business Analyst
7 74 (5.10%) Lead
8 64 (4.41%) Developer
9 59 (4.07%) Architect
9 59 (4.07%) Consultant
10 49 (3.38%) Systems Analyst
11 41 (2.83%) IT Analyst
12 40 (2.76%) Senior Manager
13 36 (2.48%) Technical Analyst
13 36 (2.48%) Technical Business Analyst
14 35 (2.41%) IT Manager
15 34 (2.34%) Business Manager
16 33 (2.27%) Service Analyst
17 32 (2.21%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (3.79%) .NET
2 31 (2.14%) React
3 28 (1.93%) Web Services
4 24 (1.65%) EDI
5 21 (1.45%) .NET Framework
5 21 (1.45%) Apache NiFi
6 20 (1.38%) ASP.NET
7 18 (1.24%) JSON
8 16 (1.10%) SOAP
8 16 (1.10%) XML
9 15 (1.03%) Keras
9 15 (1.03%) NumPy
9 15 (1.03%) TensorFlow
10 14 (0.96%) REST
11 12 (0.83%) .NET Core
12 10 (0.69%) CSS
12 10 (0.69%) HTML
12 10 (0.69%) Unity DI Container
13 9 (0.62%) BAPI
13 9 (0.62%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 87 (6.00%) Product Ownership
2 84 (5.79%) Management Information System
3 49 (3.38%) Self-Motivation
4 41 (2.83%) Cloud Native
5 35 (2.41%) Algorithms
6 34 (2.34%) Data Structures
7 28 (1.93%) Derivative
7 28 (1.93%) Taxonomies
8 24 (1.65%) Onboarding
9 22 (1.52%) Mobile App
10 21 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
11 19 (1.31%) Virtual Team
12 16 (1.10%) Reinsurance
13 14 (0.96%) Blockchain
13 14 (0.96%) Hedge funds
14 13 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
15 12 (0.83%) FMCG
15 12 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 12 (0.83%) IoT
16 11 (0.76%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 18 (1.24%) Windows
2 12 (0.83%) Android
3 10 (0.69%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.48%) Linux
5 6 (0.41%) Unix
6 3 (0.21%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.14%) AIX
7 2 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 522 (35.98%) Agile
2 462 (31.84%) Problem-Solving
3 316 (21.78%) Project Management
4 256 (17.64%) Decision-Making
5 250 (17.23%) Requirements Gathering
6 247 (17.02%) Change Management
7 227 (15.64%) Coaching
8 218 (15.02%) Stakeholder Management
9 195 (13.44%) Analytics
10 172 (11.85%) User Stories
11 157 (10.82%) Business Intelligence
12 151 (10.41%) Data Analysis
13 142 (9.79%) Roadmaps
14 138 (9.51%) Continuous Improvement
15 137 (9.44%) Workshop Facilitation
16 135 (9.30%) Scrum
17 129 (8.89%) Business Case
18 123 (8.48%) Data Modelling
19 119 (8.20%) Project Delivery
20 109 (7.51%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 180 (12.41%) SQL
2 125 (8.61%) Python
3 34 (2.34%) JavaScript
4 32 (2.21%) T-SQL
5 29 (2.00%) C#
6 23 (1.59%) Java
7 17 (1.17%) PowerShell
8 16 (1.10%) TypeScript
9 15 (1.03%) MATLAB
10 14 (0.96%) R
11 13 (0.90%) VBA
12 11 (0.76%) VB
13 8 (0.55%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.48%) RPG
14 7 (0.48%) RPG IV
15 5 (0.34%) GLSL
16 4 (0.28%) C++
16 4 (0.28%) Go
17 3 (0.21%) Ruby
17 3 (0.21%) Scala
Qualifications
1 342 (23.57%) Degree
2 146 (10.06%) Security Cleared
3 87 (6.00%) SC Cleared
4 48 (3.31%) Master's Degree
5 35 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (2.21%) DV Cleared
7 27 (1.86%) PMI Certification
8 25 (1.72%) PMP
9 19 (1.31%) DBS Check
10 18 (1.24%) CISM
10 18 (1.24%) CISSP
10 18 (1.24%) MBA
11 17 (1.17%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 16 (1.10%) GIAC
12 16 (1.10%) IIBA
13 15 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
14 14 (0.96%) ISEB
15 13 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
16 12 (0.83%) CCIE
17 11 (0.76%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (5.93%) QA
2 39 (2.69%) PMO
3 23 (1.59%) Data Quality
4 20 (1.38%) GDPR
5 17 (1.17%) Accessibility
5 17 (1.17%) COBIT
6 14 (0.96%) SLA
7 8 (0.55%) NIST
8 6 (0.41%) Web Application Security Consortium
9 5 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.34%) SEPA
9 5 (0.34%) TARGET2
10 4 (0.28%) EMIR
10 4 (0.28%) MiFID
10 4 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.21%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.14%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.14%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.14%) JSP 440
System Software
1 7 (0.48%) Firmware
2 5 (0.34%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.34%) Docker
3 4 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (1.03%) Ansible
2 10 (0.69%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.41%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 5 (0.34%) Graphite
4 5 (0.34%) SCCM
5 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.21%) Terraform
7 2 (0.14%) Kibana
7 2 (0.14%) Nagios
7 2 (0.14%) Netcool
7 2 (0.14%) RSA Archer
7 2 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.14%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.069%) MIIS
8 1 (0.069%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.069%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 203 (13.99%) Microsoft
2 56 (3.86%) SAP
3 54 (3.72%) Salesforce
4 31 (2.14%) Databricks
5 27 (1.86%) IBM
5 27 (1.86%) Oracle
6 17 (1.17%) Google
7 16 (1.10%) Cisco
7 16 (1.10%) Sage
8 11 (0.76%) Workday
9 10 (0.69%) Alibaba
9 10 (0.69%) Infor
10 9 (0.62%) VMware
11 7 (0.48%) Bloomberg
11 7 (0.48%) Ekahau
12 6 (0.41%) MicroStrategy
12 6 (0.41%) ServiceNow
13 5 (0.34%) Atlassian
13 5 (0.34%) Northgate
13 5 (0.34%) Splunk