Business Data Analyst Job Trends

Business Data Analyst
UK

The median Business Data Analyst salary in the UK is £78,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 September 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 656 776 737
Rank change year-on-year +120 -39 +424
Permanent jobs requiring a Business Data Analyst 7 18 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.023% 0.064%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.016% 0.024% 0.068%
Number of salaries quoted 6 17 30
10th Percentile £53,750 £36,250 £35,200
25th Percentile £63,125 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.15% -3.70% +22.73%
75th Percentile £95,938 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £71,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary - £37,500 £38,000
% change year-on-year - -1.32% -29.63%

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 44,334 74,253 58,491
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.67% 95.25% 93.90%
Number of salaries quoted 26,030 45,319 45,191
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £74,258 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -

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

Salary distribution trend for Business Data Analyst job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Business Data Analyst job vacancies in the UK

Business Data Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Data Analyst over the 6 months to 14 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Business Data Analyst in the UK

Business Data Analyst
Top 3 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 14 September 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 +105 7 £78,750 +21.15% 7
London +72 7 £78,750 +12.50% 5
Work from Home +75 3 £100,000 +73.91% 2

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

For the 6 months to 14 September 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 5 (71.43%) Data Analysis
1 5 (71.43%) Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Power Platform
2 4 (57.14%) Power BI
3 3 (42.86%) Requirements Gathering
3 3 (42.86%) Finance
3 3 (42.86%) Business Analysis
4 2 (28.57%) Visualisation
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Data Transformation
4 2 (28.57%) Business Process Modelling
4 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (28.57%) Degree
4 2 (28.57%) Project Governance
5 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
5 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
5 1 (14.29%) Talend
5 1 (14.29%) Analytics
5 1 (14.29%) Dimensional Modelling
5 1 (14.29%) Data Architecture
5 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
5 1 (14.29%) BigQuery
5 1 (14.29%) GCP
5 1 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
5 1 (14.29%) Fintech

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 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) SaaS
2 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Power BI
2 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (14.29%) BigQuery
3 1 (14.29%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
3 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Banking
4 1 (14.29%) Investment Banking
4 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
1 1 (14.29%) Fixed Income
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) Data Analysis
2 3 (42.86%) Business Analysis
2 3 (42.86%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (28.57%) Business Process Modelling
3 2 (28.57%) Data Transformation
3 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Project Governance
3 2 (28.57%) Visualisation
4 1 (14.29%) Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Data Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) Data Governance
4 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
4 1 (14.29%) Dimensional Modelling
4 1 (14.29%) ETL
4 1 (14.29%) GAP Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Project Management
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Google
1 1 (14.29%) Informatica
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Talend