Business Analyst Jobs in the UK excluding London

Business Analyst (BA)
UK > UK excluding London

The median Business Analyst (BA) salary in the UK excluding London is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 November 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 293 196 138
Rank change year-on-year -97 -58 +8
Permanent jobs requiring a Business Analyst 422 613 1,738
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.78% 1.83% 2.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 1.91% 2.70%
Number of salaries quoted 259 481 1,273
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,350
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,800 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.47% +3.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £60,125 £62,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £67,600 £71,250 £67,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,907
% change year-on-year +8.33% +3.61% +7.37%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 51,389 32,173 64,386
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.43% 95.94% 95.38%
Number of salaries quoted 25,354 22,021 38,524
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £66,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +4.35%

Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Analyst in the UK excluding London

Business Analyst
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Business Analyst in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Business Analyst in the UK excluding London

Business Analyst
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 November 2024.

Salary histogram for Business Analyst in the UK excluding London

Business Analyst
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 November 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
North of England -44 152 £45,564 -17.16% 97
Midlands -13 120 £52,500 +1.94% 52
North West -84 71 £52,500 -4.55% 55
East Midlands -3 63 £45,000 -5.26% 19
North East +20 62 £37,500 -40.00% 13
West Midlands -38 57 £52,500 - 33
South East -100 53 £62,500 +13.64% 59
Scotland -20 34 £56,250 +12.50% 15
South West -14 30 £45,000 -9.09% 30
East of England -58 23 £46,500 -7.00% 31
Yorkshire -24 19 £52,500 +2.44% 31
Wales +15 7 £45,000 +20.00% 6
Northern Ireland +21 4 £59,430 -8.57% 19
Channel Islands -8 2 £61,000 +29.79%
Business Analyst
UK

Business Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 14 November 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Business Analyst in the job title.

1 256 (60.66%) Business Analysis
2 158 (37.44%) Social Skills
3 135 (31.99%) Retail
4 108 (25.59%) Agile
4 108 (25.59%) Degree
5 101 (23.93%) Analytical Skills
6 95 (22.51%) QA
7 84 (19.91%) Process Improvement
8 82 (19.43%) SQL
8 82 (19.43%) SDLC
9 80 (18.96%) Stakeholder Management
9 80 (18.96%) Business Process Analysis
10 77 (18.25%) Finance
11 76 (18.01%) ITIL
11 76 (18.01%) Continuous Improvement
12 74 (17.54%) Software Testing
13 73 (17.30%) Impact Assessments
14 72 (17.06%) Coaching
14 72 (17.06%) GAP Analysis
15 70 (16.59%) Requirements Gathering
16 69 (16.35%) Logistics
17 66 (15.64%) Problem-Solving
18 63 (14.93%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
18 63 (14.93%) Legal
19 62 (14.69%) Requirements Analysis
19 62 (14.69%) Feasibility Study
20 61 (14.45%) Customer Service
20 61 (14.45%) Business Process Improvement
21 60 (14.22%) Change Control
21 60 (14.22%) Resource Allocation

Business Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 22 (5.21%) Confluence
2 7 (1.66%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.47%) CMS
4 1 (0.24%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.24%) Umbraco
Applications
1 15 (3.55%) MS Visio
2 14 (3.32%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (1.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.47%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.24%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (1.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.95%) SAP WM
2 4 (0.95%) Teamcenter
3 3 (0.71%) Maximo
3 3 (0.71%) Oracle Applications
3 3 (0.71%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.47%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.47%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.47%) Oracle Manufacturing
4 2 (0.47%) Oracle SCM
4 2 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.24%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.24%) Magento
5 1 (0.24%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.24%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 25 (5.92%) Azure
2 12 (2.84%) Dynamics 365
2 12 (2.84%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (2.84%) Power Platform
3 8 (1.90%) AWS
4 6 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (1.42%) SaaS
5 4 (0.95%) GCP
5 4 (0.95%) Miro
6 2 (0.47%) Power Automate
6 2 (0.47%) PowerApps
6 2 (0.47%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 2 (0.47%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (0.24%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.24%) Lucidchart
7 1 (0.24%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.95%) RFID
2 3 (0.71%) ASN.1
2 3 (0.71%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.61%) Power BI
2 5 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (0.71%) Tableau
4 2 (0.47%) Big Data
4 2 (0.47%) Semantic Layer
4 2 (0.47%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.24%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.24%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.24%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.24%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.24%) Sisense
5 1 (0.24%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.24%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 34 (8.06%) JIRA
2 1 (0.24%) Git
2 1 (0.24%) Subversion
2 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio
General
1 158 (37.44%) Social Skills
2 135 (31.99%) Retail
3 101 (23.93%) Analytical Skills
4 77 (18.25%) Finance
5 63 (14.93%) Legal
6 25 (5.92%) Law
7 21 (4.98%) Banking
8 19 (4.50%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (3.32%) Public Sector
10 13 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (2.61%) Manufacturing
12 10 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (1.90%) Marketing
14 6 (1.42%) Publishing
15 5 (1.18%) Back Office
15 5 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (1.18%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.95%) Automotive
17 3 (0.71%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.90%) XML
2 6 (1.42%) JSON
2 6 (1.42%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (1.18%) .NET
4 1 (0.24%) ADO
4 1 (0.24%) HTML
4 1 (0.24%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (0.24%) Middleware
4 1 (0.24%) PostGIS
4 1 (0.24%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 35 (8.29%) Product Ownership
2 19 (4.50%) Analytical Mindset
2 19 (4.50%) Management Information System
3 9 (2.13%) FMCG
4 4 (0.95%) Operational Technology
5 3 (0.71%) Virtual Team
6 2 (0.47%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (0.47%) Derivative
6 2 (0.47%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (0.47%) Fixed Income
6 2 (0.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (0.47%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.47%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.24%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.24%) Device Driver
7 1 (0.24%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.24%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.24%) Oculus
7 1 (0.24%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.24%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.71%) Windows
2 2 (0.47%) Unix
3 1 (0.24%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (60.66%) Business Analysis
2 108 (25.59%) Agile
3 84 (19.91%) Process Improvement
4 82 (19.43%) SDLC
5 80 (18.96%) Business Process Analysis
5 80 (18.96%) Stakeholder Management
6 76 (18.01%) Continuous Improvement
6 76 (18.01%) ITIL
7 74 (17.54%) Software Testing
8 73 (17.30%) Impact Assessments
9 72 (17.06%) Coaching
9 72 (17.06%) GAP Analysis
10 70 (16.59%) Requirements Gathering
11 69 (16.35%) Logistics
12 66 (15.64%) Problem-Solving
13 63 (14.93%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
14 62 (14.69%) Feasibility Study
14 62 (14.69%) Requirements Analysis
15 61 (14.45%) Business Process Improvement
15 61 (14.45%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 82 (19.43%) SQL
2 5 (1.18%) Python
3 4 (0.95%) Java
4 2 (0.47%) C#
4 2 (0.47%) R
5 1 (0.24%) C
5 1 (0.24%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 108 (25.59%) Degree
2 21 (4.98%) CBAP
3 18 (4.27%) Security Cleared
4 13 (3.08%) SC Cleared
5 8 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.66%) IIBA
7 4 (0.95%) ISEB
7 4 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.47%) APMG
8 2 (0.47%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.24%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (22.51%) QA
2 10 (2.37%) PMO
3 4 (0.95%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.95%) ISO 20022
3 4 (0.95%) SEPA
3 4 (0.95%) SLA
3 4 (0.95%) TARGET2
4 2 (0.47%) GDPR
5 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.24%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (0.24%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 34 (8.06%) IFS
2 27 (6.40%) Microsoft
3 15 (3.55%) SAP
4 12 (2.84%) Salesforce
5 10 (2.37%) Oracle
6 5 (1.18%) Guidewire
7 4 (0.95%) Databricks
7 4 (0.95%) Siemens
8 3 (0.71%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 3 (0.71%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.47%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.24%) Adobe
10 1 (0.24%) Pega