Business Data Analyst Jobs

Business Data Analyst
UK

The median Business Data Analyst salary in the UK is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 January 2025.

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

6 months to
11 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 744 701 953
Rank change year-on-year -43 +252 +54
Permanent jobs requiring a Business Data Analyst 12 33 62
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% 0.056% 0.057%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.020% 0.059% 0.059%
Number of salaries quoted 11 30 52
10th Percentile £36,250 £50,375 £35,763
25th Percentile £38,125 £53,550 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £78,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,625 £97,290
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,500 £55,000 £39,000
% change year-on-year -24.55% +41.03% -19.79%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 60,724 56,083 104,395
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.06% 95.46% 95.31%
Number of salaries quoted 28,191 41,125 67,762
10th Percentile £34,750 £30,213 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -4.17% +1.51%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £96,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +6.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Business Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Data Analyst in the UK

Business Data Analyst
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Business Data Analyst in the UK

Business Data Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Data Analyst over the 6 months to 11 January 2025.

Salary histogram for Business Data Analyst in the UK

Business Data Analyst
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Business Data Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 11 January 2025. 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 -52 11 £62,500 -1.96% 6
London -1 6 £77,500 +14.81% 2
UK excluding London -32 6 £41,500 -24.55% 4
Work from Home +26 5 £72,500 +31.14% 9
South West +19 3 £37,500 -29.33%
Scotland +9 1 - -
Midlands -21 1 £62,500 +13.64% 1
West Midlands -32 1 £62,500 +13.64%
South East - 1 £41,500 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 11 January 2025, Business Data 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 Data Analyst in the job title.

1 8 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (58.33%) SQL
3 6 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (50.00%) Finance
3 6 (50.00%) Analytics
3 6 (50.00%) Power BI
3 6 (50.00%) Power Platform
4 4 (33.33%) Data Management
4 4 (33.33%) User Stories
4 4 (33.33%) Data Analytics
4 4 (33.33%) Visualisation
4 4 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
4 4 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
5 3 (25.00%) Data Collection
5 3 (25.00%) Epics
5 3 (25.00%) Semantic Layer
5 3 (25.00%) Azure
5 3 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (25.00%) DevOps
5 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (25.00%) Scrum
5 3 (25.00%) Agile
6 2 (16.67%) ETL
6 2 (16.67%) Data Analysis
6 2 (16.67%) Business Analysis
6 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (16.67%) PHP
6 2 (16.67%) Python

Business Data 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 1 (8.33%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (8.33%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Google Analytics
3 1 (8.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) Power BI
2 3 (25.00%) Semantic Layer
3 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (8.33%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (8.33%) Data Mining
4 1 (8.33%) MySQL
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (8.33%) Star Schema
4 1 (8.33%) Tableau
General
1 6 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (8.33%) Marketing
5 1 (8.33%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) HTML
1 1 (8.33%) JSON
1 1 (8.33%) Middleware
1 1 (8.33%) OAuth
1 1 (8.33%) RESTful
1 1 (8.33%) Web Services
1 1 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (16.67%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (50.00%) Analytics
3 4 (33.33%) Data Analytics
3 4 (33.33%) Data Management
3 4 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
3 4 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (33.33%) User Stories
3 4 (33.33%) Visualisation
4 3 (25.00%) Agile
4 3 (25.00%) Data Collection
4 3 (25.00%) DevOps
4 3 (25.00%) Epics
4 3 (25.00%) Scrum
5 2 (16.67%) Business Analysis
5 2 (16.67%) Business Process Mapping
5 2 (16.67%) Data Analysis
5 2 (16.67%) Kanban
5 2 (16.67%) Project Planning
5 2 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) PHP
2 2 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.33%) R
3 1 (8.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Facebook
1 1 (8.33%) Google
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle