Business Analysis Job Trends

Business Analysis
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Business Analysis skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 219 228 208
Rank change year-on-year +9 -20 -73
Permanent jobs citing Business Analysis 1,016 688 978
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.86% 1.39% 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 1.56% 1.60%
Number of salaries quoted 710 522 578
10th Percentile £41,225 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,063 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £77,051
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £52,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year -2.86% +7.14% -2.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Business Analysis falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86,281 44,107 61,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.16% 89.14% 81.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,444 24,402 33,284
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,274
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.62% -2.88%
75th Percentile £79,091 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

Business Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Business Analysis relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Business Analysis job vacancy trend in the UK

Business Analysis
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Business Analysis.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Business Analysis

Business Analysis
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Analysis over the 6 months to 1 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Business Analysis in the UK

Business Analysis
Top 17 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 1 October 2026. 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 +13 912 £57,500 -8.00% 1,175
UK excluding London +10 561 £51,000 -2.86% 735
Work from Home +47 392 £55,000 -15.38% 479
London -33 370 £70,000 -6.67% 587
North of England -1 188 £52,473 -4.60% 198
South East -24 114 £55,000 -4.35% 175
Midlands -7 93 £51,250 -6.82% 120
Yorkshire +23 81 £55,000 +37.50% 72
North West -25 77 £50,000 -16.67% 101
South West -34 73 £45,000 +5.26% 79
West Midlands -23 69 £53,500 -2.73% 80
East of England +6 52 £46,661 -6.68% 58
North East -42 30 £43,999 +10.00% 26
East Midlands -20 24 £48,000 -18.64% 40
Scotland +11 20 £45,000 +12.50% 50
Wales -60 18 £52,500 -0.21% 24
Northern Ireland -87 7 - - 33

Business Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 71 (6.99%) Confluence
2 33 (3.25%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.49%) ColdFusion
4 4 (0.39%) CMS
5 2 (0.20%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.20%) WordPress
6 1 (0.098%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.098%) Appian
6 1 (0.098%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 75 (7.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (6.69%) Microsoft Office
3 66 (6.50%) MS Visio
4 34 (3.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 18 (1.77%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.69%) Moqups
7 6 (0.59%) Trello
8 3 (0.30%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.20%) InDesign
9 2 (0.20%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 20 (1.97%) NetSuite
2 14 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.89%) Fidessa
3 9 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.39%) Magento
4 4 (0.39%) Shopify
5 3 (0.30%) Exchequer
5 3 (0.30%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 3 (0.30%) Sage 50
5 3 (0.30%) Sage X3
5 3 (0.30%) SAP Business One
5 3 (0.30%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.30%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.20%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.20%) iTrent
6 2 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.20%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.20%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 119 (11.71%) Power Platform
2 117 (11.52%) Azure
3 60 (5.91%) Azure DevOps
4 48 (4.72%) Microsoft 365
5 45 (4.43%) AWS
6 43 (4.23%) SaaS
7 37 (3.64%) Dynamics 365
8 34 (3.35%) Power Automate
9 25 (2.46%) Lucidchart
9 25 (2.46%) Microsoft Copilot
10 17 (1.67%) Anthropic Claude
11 13 (1.28%) PowerApps
11 13 (1.28%) Zapier
12 12 (1.18%) GCP
12 12 (1.18%) Microsoft Purview
13 10 (0.98%) Copilot Studio
13 10 (0.98%) Figma
14 9 (0.89%) iPaaS
15 8 (0.79%) Boomi
15 8 (0.79%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.89%) Multicast
2 7 (0.69%) FIX Connectivity
3 4 (0.39%) Internet
4 1 (0.098%) DSL
4 1 (0.098%) Intranet
4 1 (0.098%) LAN
4 1 (0.098%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.098%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (10.24%) Power BI
2 24 (2.36%) Relational Database
3 22 (2.17%) Tableau
4 17 (1.67%) SQL Server
5 15 (1.48%) Metadata
6 10 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 8 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (0.59%) DTS
9 4 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.30%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (0.30%) Crystal Reports
10 3 (0.30%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.30%) MySQL
10 3 (0.30%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.30%) Spotfire
11 2 (0.20%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.20%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.20%) Data Mining
11 2 (0.20%) Looker
11 2 (0.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 138 (13.58%) JIRA
2 8 (0.79%) Claude Code
2 8 (0.79%) Cypress.io
2 8 (0.79%) Selenium
3 7 (0.69%) Postman
4 3 (0.30%) Artifactory
4 3 (0.30%) Git
4 3 (0.30%) GitLab
4 3 (0.30%) Hudson
4 3 (0.30%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.20%) Balsamiq
5 2 (0.20%) LSMW
6 1 (0.098%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.098%) JIRA Agile
6 1 (0.098%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 420 (41.34%) Social Skills
2 374 (36.81%) Finance
3 324 (31.89%) Analytical Skills
4 137 (13.48%) Public Sector
5 103 (10.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 78 (7.68%) Law
7 61 (6.00%) Documentation Skills
8 59 (5.81%) Legal
9 57 (5.61%) Organisational Skills
10 50 (4.92%) Influencing Skills
10 50 (4.92%) Presentation Skills
11 39 (3.84%) Manufacturing
12 38 (3.74%) Retail
13 30 (2.95%) Banking
14 28 (2.76%) Marketing
15 24 (2.36%) Local Government
16 23 (2.26%) Legal Technology
17 19 (1.87%) Aerospace
18 16 (1.57%) Front Office
19 15 (1.48%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 621 (61.12%) Analyst
2 521 (51.28%) Business Analyst
3 177 (17.42%) Senior
4 136 (13.39%) Senior Analyst
5 126 (12.40%) Senior Business Analyst
6 66 (6.50%) Lead
7 54 (5.31%) Consultant
8 44 (4.33%) Technical Analyst
9 42 (4.13%) Technical Business Analyst
10 37 (3.64%) Business Manager
11 35 (3.44%) Project Manager
12 32 (3.15%) Lead Business Analyst
13 29 (2.85%) Product Manager
13 29 (2.85%) Systems Analyst
14 28 (2.76%) Data Analyst
15 27 (2.66%) Applications Support
16 24 (2.36%) Business IT Analyst
16 24 (2.36%) Business Systems Analyst
16 24 (2.36%) IT Analyst
17 23 (2.26%) IT Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (1.97%) REST
2 19 (1.87%) FIX Protocol
3 17 (1.67%) .NET
4 11 (1.08%) Gherkin
4 11 (1.08%) SOAP
4 11 (1.08%) XML
5 10 (0.98%) Playwright
6 6 (0.59%) JSON
6 6 (0.59%) LangChain
7 5 (0.49%) CrewAI
7 5 (0.49%) LlamaIndex
7 5 (0.49%) Middleware
8 4 (0.39%) Lightning Web Components
8 4 (0.39%) Oracle Fusion
8 4 (0.39%) Terraform
9 3 (0.30%) .NET Core
9 3 (0.30%) EDI
9 3 (0.30%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (0.30%) PySpark
9 3 (0.30%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 122 (12.01%) Product Ownership
2 58 (5.71%) Management Information System
3 25 (2.46%) Low-Code
4 24 (2.36%) Data Structures
5 23 (2.26%) AI Agents
5 23 (2.26%) Onboarding
6 21 (2.07%) Analytical Mindset
6 21 (2.07%) Derivative
7 18 (1.77%) Fixed Income
7 18 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (1.28%) Blog
8 13 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 13 (1.28%) PMI
9 12 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (1.08%) NHS
11 10 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
12 9 (0.89%) Distributed Computing
12 9 (0.89%) Equities
12 9 (0.89%) Eurex
12 9 (0.89%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 26 (2.56%) Linux
2 19 (1.87%) Windows
3 3 (0.30%) Unix
3 3 (0.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 452 (44.49%) Agile
2 327 (32.19%) Stakeholder Management
3 321 (31.59%) Problem-Solving
4 302 (29.72%) Requirements Gathering
5 241 (23.72%) Workshop Facilitation
6 234 (23.03%) User Stories
7 221 (21.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 214 (21.06%) Process Improvement
9 207 (20.37%) Continuous Improvement
10 206 (20.28%) AI
11 168 (16.54%) Decision-Making
12 161 (15.85%) Project Management
13 158 (15.55%) Project Delivery
14 134 (13.19%) Scrum
15 132 (12.99%) Acceptance Criteria
16 126 (12.40%) Business Intelligence
17 125 (12.30%) User Acceptance Testing
18 121 (11.91%) Coaching
19 110 (10.83%) Change Management
20 107 (10.53%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 157 (15.45%) SQL
2 45 (4.43%) Python
3 25 (2.46%) JavaScript
4 24 (2.36%) Java
5 21 (2.07%) C++
6 16 (1.57%) C#
7 9 (0.89%) TypeScript
8 7 (0.69%) T-SQL
9 5 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.39%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.30%) Bash
11 3 (0.30%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.20%) Ada
13 1 (0.098%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.098%) R
13 1 (0.098%) RPG
13 1 (0.098%) SOQL
13 1 (0.098%) SOSL
13 1 (0.098%) VBA
Qualifications
1 177 (17.42%) Degree
2 107 (10.53%) Security Cleared
3 84 (8.27%) SC Cleared
4 32 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (2.76%) ACCA
6 27 (2.66%) CIMA
7 26 (2.56%) IIBA
8 24 (2.36%) PMI Certification
9 17 (1.67%) CBAP
10 15 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
11 14 (1.38%) PMP
12 12 (1.18%) DBS Check
12 12 (1.18%) DV Cleared
13 8 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (0.59%) CFA
14 6 (0.59%) ISEB
15 5 (0.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 4 (0.39%) Master's Degree
16 4 (0.39%) Postgraduate
16 4 (0.39%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (6.20%) QA
2 56 (5.51%) Data Quality
3 25 (2.46%) PMO
4 17 (1.67%) Accessibility
4 17 (1.67%) GDPR
5 13 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (0.98%) GAAP
7 4 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.39%) COBIT
7 4 (0.39%) NIST
8 3 (0.30%) GRC
8 3 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 3 (0.30%) NCSC
9 2 (0.20%) Good Clinical Practice
9 2 (0.20%) ISO 13485
9 2 (0.20%) MiFID
9 2 (0.20%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.20%) SOC 3
10 1 (0.098%) GxP
10 1 (0.098%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (0.30%) Docker
2 1 (0.098%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.098%) IAG
Systems Management
1 4 (0.39%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.30%) Grafana
2 3 (0.30%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.098%) Kibana
4 1 (0.098%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 175 (17.22%) Microsoft
2 40 (3.94%) Salesforce
3 38 (3.74%) SAP
4 24 (2.36%) Oracle
5 21 (2.07%) ServiceNow
6 20 (1.97%) Google
6 20 (1.97%) YouTube
7 15 (1.48%) JD Edwards
8 14 (1.38%) Workday
9 12 (1.18%) Intapp
10 10 (0.98%) Atlassian
11 9 (0.89%) Bloomberg
11 9 (0.89%) CQG
11 9 (0.89%) FIS
11 9 (0.89%) ION Trading
11 9 (0.89%) Patsystems
11 9 (0.89%) Reuters
11 9 (0.89%) Sage
11 9 (0.89%) SunGard
11 9 (0.89%) Trayport