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 £49,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 229 159 130
Rank change year-on-year -70 -29 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Business Analyst 926 1,243 2,084
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.16% 2.25% 2.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.22% 2.53% 2.86%
Number of salaries quoted 539 861 1,573
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £66,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £70,600 £65,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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 75,991 49,070 72,896
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 88.81% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 53,059 29,227 42,783
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,519 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

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 12 June 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 12 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
East of England +34 197 £49,500 -10.00% 12
North of England -90 183 £50,000 -9.09% 35
Midlands -67 179 £42,500 -15.00% 27
South East -99 153 £58,250 +5.91% 28
North West -63 118 £50,000 -13.04% 19
South West -45 108 £47,250 -10.00% 14
West Midlands -68 89 £43,000 -14.00% 17
East Midlands -25 87 £42,500 -14.95% 10
Scotland -80 66 £42,500 -19.05% 13
Yorkshire -28 59 £47,500 -5.00% 15
Wales +3 20 £45,000 +0.37% 3
Northern Ireland +30 13 £67,500 +46.74% 3
Isle of Man - 8 £48,250 -
North East -39 6 £50,000 -9.09% 1
Channel Islands - 1 £60,000 -
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Business Analyst in the job title.

1 465 (50.22%) Business Analysis
2 368 (39.74%) Agile
3 336 (36.29%) Problem-Solving
4 302 (32.61%) Analytical Skills
5 267 (28.83%) Requirements Gathering
6 242 (26.13%) Social Skills
7 211 (22.79%) User Stories
8 207 (22.35%) Degree
9 199 (21.49%) Retail
10 188 (20.30%) Coaching
11 163 (17.60%) Change Management
12 161 (17.39%) Decision-Making
13 153 (16.52%) Finance
13 153 (16.52%) Stakeholder Management
14 137 (14.79%) JIRA
15 122 (13.17%) Project Management
16 121 (13.07%) Process Improvement
16 121 (13.07%) Workshop Facilitation
17 117 (12.63%) Security Cleared
18 114 (12.31%) SDLC
19 110 (11.88%) GAP Analysis
20 97 (10.48%) Scrum
21 96 (10.37%) SC Cleared
22 95 (10.26%) QA
23 90 (9.72%) Microsoft
24 89 (9.61%) Roadmaps
25 84 (9.07%) Legal
26 82 (8.86%) Waterfall
27 79 (8.53%) Acceptance Criteria
27 79 (8.53%) Continuous Improvement

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 63 (6.80%) Confluence
2 5 (0.54%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 74 (7.99%) Microsoft Office
2 60 (6.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 59 (6.37%) MS Visio
4 40 (4.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.65%) Trello
7 2 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (1.40%) Maximo
2 7 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.65%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.32%) SAP WM
6 1 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.11%) SAP PP
6 1 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 51 (5.51%) Azure
2 50 (5.40%) Power Platform
3 36 (3.89%) SaaS
4 24 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (2.27%) Miro
6 19 (2.05%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (0.86%) AWS
7 8 (0.86%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (0.86%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 7 (0.76%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 6 (0.65%) Power Automate
10 3 (0.32%) Mavenlink
10 3 (0.32%) OCI
11 2 (0.22%) Figma
11 2 (0.22%) GCP
11 2 (0.22%) PowerApps
11 2 (0.22%) Smartsheet
12 1 (0.11%) Amazon EMR
12 1 (0.11%) Entra ID
12 1 (0.11%) Google Docs
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.08%) Broadband
1 10 (1.08%) Internet
1 10 (1.08%) WPA
2 3 (0.32%) RFID
3 2 (0.22%) DSL
3 2 (0.22%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (4.97%) Power BI
2 21 (2.27%) Tableau
3 19 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (1.19%) Electronic Patient Records
4 11 (1.19%) Relational Database
5 6 (0.65%) Big Data
5 6 (0.65%) Snowflake Schema
5 6 (0.65%) Star Schema
6 5 (0.54%) Qlik Sense
7 3 (0.32%) SAP BW
8 2 (0.22%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (0.22%) QlikView
8 2 (0.22%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.11%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.11%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.11%) MS Access
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.11%) PowerPivot
9 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 137 (14.79%) JIRA
2 2 (0.22%) Balsamiq
2 2 (0.22%) Git
2 2 (0.22%) Postman
3 1 (0.11%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.11%) Maven
3 1 (0.11%) Protractor
General
1 302 (32.61%) Analytical Skills
2 242 (26.13%) Social Skills
3 199 (21.49%) Retail
4 153 (16.52%) Finance
5 84 (9.07%) Legal
6 55 (5.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 54 (5.83%) Law
8 49 (5.29%) Public Sector
9 48 (5.18%) Influencing Skills
10 32 (3.46%) Manufacturing
11 30 (3.24%) Presentation Skills
12 25 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
13 21 (2.27%) Banking
14 17 (1.84%) Investment Banking
15 14 (1.51%) Marketing
16 13 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
17 10 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
18 7 (0.76%) Aerospace
18 7 (0.76%) Health Technology
19 5 (0.54%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.19%) Lightning Web Components
2 9 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
3 8 (0.86%) .NET
4 6 (0.65%) Web Services
5 3 (0.32%) .NET Framework
5 3 (0.32%) HTML
5 3 (0.32%) JSON
5 3 (0.32%) REST
5 3 (0.32%) RESTful
5 3 (0.32%) XML
6 2 (0.22%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.22%) Gherkin
6 2 (0.22%) JSON Schema
6 2 (0.22%) Swagger
7 1 (0.11%) ADO
7 1 (0.11%) Django
7 1 (0.11%) EDI
7 1 (0.11%) Jest
7 1 (0.11%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 72 (7.78%) Product Ownership
2 46 (4.97%) Management Information System
3 35 (3.78%) Self-Motivation
4 21 (2.27%) Virtual Team
5 20 (2.16%) Onboarding
6 12 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (1.30%) NHS
7 10 (1.08%) Biopharmaceutical
8 9 (0.97%) Driving Licence
8 9 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 8 (0.86%) Derivative
9 8 (0.86%) Reference Data
10 7 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (0.76%) Credit Derivative
10 7 (0.76%) Fixed Income
10 7 (0.76%) Hedge funds
10 7 (0.76%) Interest Rate Derivative
11 6 (0.65%) FMCG
11 6 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (0.54%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.22%) Android
1 2 (0.22%) Apple iOS
1 2 (0.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 465 (50.22%) Business Analysis
2 368 (39.74%) Agile
3 336 (36.29%) Problem-Solving
4 267 (28.83%) Requirements Gathering
5 211 (22.79%) User Stories
6 188 (20.30%) Coaching
7 163 (17.60%) Change Management
8 161 (17.39%) Decision-Making
9 153 (16.52%) Stakeholder Management
10 122 (13.17%) Project Management
11 121 (13.07%) Process Improvement
11 121 (13.07%) Workshop Facilitation
12 114 (12.31%) SDLC
13 110 (11.88%) GAP Analysis
14 97 (10.48%) Scrum
15 89 (9.61%) Roadmaps
16 82 (8.86%) Waterfall
17 79 (8.53%) Acceptance Criteria
17 79 (8.53%) Continuous Improvement
18 78 (8.42%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 48 (5.18%) SQL
2 14 (1.51%) Python
3 7 (0.76%) R
3 7 (0.76%) T-SQL
4 5 (0.54%) C#
5 2 (0.22%) Java
5 2 (0.22%) VBA
6 1 (0.11%) ABAP
6 1 (0.11%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 207 (22.35%) Degree
2 117 (12.63%) Security Cleared
3 96 (10.37%) SC Cleared
4 17 (1.84%) IIBA
5 14 (1.51%) Master's Degree
6 12 (1.30%) CBAP
7 11 (1.19%) DV Cleared
8 9 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (0.97%) DBS Check
9 7 (0.76%) HND
9 7 (0.76%) ISEB
10 3 (0.32%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.32%) NVQ Level 4
11 2 (0.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.22%) NVQ Level 3
11 2 (0.22%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 1 (0.11%) CCA
12 1 (0.11%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.11%) SAP Certification
12 1 (0.11%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (10.26%) QA
2 13 (1.40%) PMO
3 6 (0.65%) GxP
3 6 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (0.54%) SEPA
4 5 (0.54%) TARGET2
5 4 (0.43%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.32%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.22%) EMIR
7 2 (0.22%) GDPR
7 2 (0.22%) MiFID
8 1 (0.11%) GRC
8 1 (0.11%) IFRS
8 1 (0.11%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.11%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (0.54%) Graphite
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.11%) Progress Chef
2 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 90 (9.72%) Microsoft
2 36 (3.89%) Salesforce
3 32 (3.46%) SAP
4 19 (2.05%) Oracle
5 7 (0.76%) F5
6 4 (0.43%) IFS
6 4 (0.43%) YouTube
7 3 (0.32%) Alteryx
7 3 (0.32%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.32%) Google
7 3 (0.32%) Intapp
7 3 (0.32%) MicroStrategy
7 3 (0.32%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.22%) Sage
8 2 (0.22%) UiPath
9 1 (0.11%) Epicor
9 1 (0.11%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.11%) JD Edwards
9 1 (0.11%) Pega
9 1 (0.11%) Reuters