Business Analysis Job Trends

Business Analysis
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Business Analysis skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 221 213 137
Rank change year-on-year -8 -76 +14
Permanent jobs citing Business Analysis 706 991 1,430
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.43% 1.27% 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% 1.57% 2.48%
Number of salaries quoted 533 586 1,082
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £39,775
25th Percentile £49,250 £43,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - +1.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £96,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,285 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.28% -5.00% -4.49%

All Process and 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 43,797 63,176 57,561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.73% 81.14% 94.37%
Number of salaries quoted 24,693 35,881 43,260
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +2.86%

Business Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Business Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Business Analysis 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 17 September 2025.

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 17 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 -11 641 £62,500 +4.17% 992
UK excluding London -37 337 £54,285 +14.28% 852
London +61 332 £75,000 +7.14% 341
Work from Home -7 228 £65,000 +8.33% 213
North of England +4 102 £55,000 +37.50% 233
South East +9 77 £60,000 +33.33% 254
North West +21 73 £60,000 +20.00% 129
Midlands -50 59 £55,000 +8.91% 146
West Midlands +15 48 £55,000 +10.00% 91
South West +3 32 £42,750 -18.57% 71
East of England -1 29 £50,000 -24.53% 67
Scotland +47 25 £40,000 -5.88% 42
Yorkshire +21 22 £40,000 -23.81% 70
East Midlands -53 11 £64,500 +13.66% 54
Northern Ireland +23 10 £67,500 +12.50% 16
North East -28 7 £40,000 +6.67% 38
Wales +11 5 £55,000 +13.99% 28

Business Analysis
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 46 (6.52%) Confluence
2 20 (2.83%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.28%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.28%) CMS
4 2 (0.28%) SAS
5 1 (0.14%) Apache
5 1 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.14%) IIS
Applications
1 96 (13.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (4.53%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (4.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (3.54%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 36 (5.10%) Aladdin
2 33 (4.67%) thinkFolio
3 12 (1.70%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (1.13%) SAP WM
6 5 (0.71%) Maximo
6 5 (0.71%) Unit4 Business World
7 4 (0.57%) Dynamics AX
7 4 (0.57%) Elite 3E
7 4 (0.57%) Sage X3
8 3 (0.42%) Adaptiv
8 3 (0.42%) Fidessa
9 2 (0.28%) Bloomberg AIM
9 2 (0.28%) Endur
9 2 (0.28%) iTrent
9 2 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
10 1 (0.14%) OpenText VIM for SAP
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (0.14%) SAP EWM
10 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 70 (9.92%) Power Platform
2 53 (7.51%) Azure
3 32 (4.53%) SaaS
4 25 (3.54%) AWS
5 23 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (2.97%) Dynamics 365
7 17 (2.41%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 15 (2.12%) Microsoft 365
9 14 (1.98%) Power Automate
10 9 (1.27%) PowerApps
11 8 (1.13%) Lucidchart
12 6 (0.85%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (0.85%) GCP
12 6 (0.85%) Snowflake
13 5 (0.71%) PaaS
14 3 (0.42%) Matillion
14 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Copilot
14 3 (0.42%) OneDrive
15 2 (0.28%) Google Drive
15 2 (0.28%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (0.85%) BGP
2 6 (0.85%) EIGRP
2 6 (0.85%) Firewall
2 6 (0.85%) HSRP
2 6 (0.85%) IPsec
2 6 (0.85%) OSPF
2 6 (0.85%) SNMP
2 6 (0.85%) VPN
2 6 (0.85%) VRRP
3 4 (0.57%) HTTP
3 4 (0.57%) Unified Communications
4 3 (0.42%) FIX Connectivity
4 3 (0.42%) LAN
4 3 (0.42%) Multicast
4 3 (0.42%) WAN
5 1 (0.14%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.14%) RFID
5 1 (0.14%) RTP
5 1 (0.14%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (8.92%) Power BI
2 32 (4.53%) Tableau
3 31 (4.39%) Data Mining
4 23 (3.26%) SQL Server
5 22 (3.12%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (0.99%) BusinessObjects
8 7 (0.99%) Data Lake
8 7 (0.99%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.85%) MS Access
10 5 (0.71%) SAP HANA
11 3 (0.42%) Big Data
11 3 (0.42%) GIS
11 3 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (0.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 2 (0.28%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.28%) Metadata
12 2 (0.28%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.28%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 70 (9.92%) JIRA
2 4 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (0.42%) Maven
4 2 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.14%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.14%) Git
5 1 (0.14%) GitLab
5 1 (0.14%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.14%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 332 (47.03%) Finance
2 289 (40.93%) Social Skills
3 187 (26.49%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (8.50%) Marketing
5 59 (8.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 55 (7.79%) Banking
7 44 (6.23%) Legal
8 43 (6.09%) Front Office
9 39 (5.52%) Retail
10 35 (4.96%) Manufacturing
11 30 (4.25%) Influencing Skills
12 28 (3.97%) Organisational Skills
13 24 (3.40%) Law
13 24 (3.40%) Public Sector
14 22 (3.12%) Documentation Skills
15 17 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
16 10 (1.42%) Back Office
17 9 (1.27%) Investment Banking
18 8 (1.13%) German Language
18 8 (1.13%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 438 (62.04%) Analyst
2 346 (49.01%) Business Analyst
3 101 (14.31%) Senior
4 59 (8.36%) Senior Analyst
5 54 (7.65%) Lead
5 54 (7.65%) Senior Business Analyst
6 51 (7.22%) Business Manager
7 47 (6.66%) Project Manager
7 47 (6.66%) Trainee
8 44 (6.23%) Data Analyst
9 43 (6.09%) Trainee Analyst
10 39 (5.52%) Lead Business Analyst
11 38 (5.38%) Architect
12 37 (5.24%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
13 36 (5.10%) Financial Analyst
14 34 (4.82%) Developer
15 27 (3.82%) IT Manager
16 24 (3.40%) Consultant
16 24 (3.40%) Finance Business Analyst
17 22 (3.12%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.84%) .NET
2 7 (0.99%) FIX Protocol
2 7 (0.99%) Middleware
3 6 (0.85%) Gherkin
4 5 (0.71%) React
4 5 (0.71%) SAP Fiori
4 5 (0.71%) SAPUI5
4 5 (0.71%) XML
5 4 (0.57%) REST
5 4 (0.57%) Web Services
6 3 (0.42%) EDI
6 3 (0.42%) MACH
7 2 (0.28%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.28%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.28%) HTML
7 2 (0.28%) OAuth
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (0.28%) Pandas
7 2 (0.28%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.28%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 59 (8.36%) Product Ownership
2 46 (6.52%) Onboarding
3 44 (6.23%) Management Information System
4 41 (5.81%) Analytical Mindset
4 41 (5.81%) Derivative
5 39 (5.52%) Fixed Income
6 34 (4.82%) Hedge funds
7 22 (3.12%) Self-Motivation
8 18 (2.55%) Reinsurance
9 16 (2.27%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 12 (1.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 10 (1.42%) Digital Media
12 9 (1.27%) Social Media
13 8 (1.13%) OTC Derivatives
14 7 (0.99%) PMI
15 6 (0.85%) IPTV
15 6 (0.85%) Market Risk
16 5 (0.71%) Augmented Reality
16 5 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
16 5 (0.71%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.85%) Linux
2 5 (0.71%) Windows
3 3 (0.42%) Unix
4 1 (0.14%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 321 (45.47%) Agile
2 198 (28.05%) Project Management
3 167 (23.65%) Problem-Solving
4 144 (20.40%) Requirements Gathering
5 138 (19.55%) Stakeholder Management
6 123 (17.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 121 (17.14%) Roadmaps
8 120 (17.00%) Process Improvement
9 110 (15.58%) Business Intelligence
10 108 (15.30%) User Stories
11 104 (14.73%) Data Analysis
12 99 (14.02%) Continuous Improvement
13 96 (13.60%) Decision-Making
14 83 (11.76%) Analytics
15 80 (11.33%) Change Management
15 80 (11.33%) Project Delivery
16 76 (10.76%) ERP
17 71 (10.06%) Business Case
18 70 (9.92%) Artificial Intelligence
19 69 (9.77%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 132 (18.70%) SQL
2 82 (11.61%) Python
3 12 (1.70%) C#
4 7 (0.99%) Java
4 7 (0.99%) JavaScript
5 6 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 6 (0.85%) PowerShell
5 6 (0.85%) VBA
6 5 (0.71%) Bash
6 5 (0.71%) PL/SQL
7 4 (0.57%) T-SQL
8 3 (0.42%) C++
9 2 (0.28%) ABAP
9 2 (0.28%) Ada
9 2 (0.28%) PHP
9 2 (0.28%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.14%) R
10 1 (0.14%) RPG
10 1 (0.14%) RPG IV
10 1 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 154 (21.81%) Degree
2 49 (6.94%) PMI Certification
3 43 (6.09%) PMP
4 40 (5.67%) Master's Degree
5 35 (4.96%) CBAP
6 30 (4.25%) DBS Check
7 14 (1.98%) ACCA
7 14 (1.98%) CIMA
8 11 (1.56%) Security Cleared
9 9 (1.27%) CFA
10 8 (1.13%) SC Cleared
11 7 (0.99%) ISEB
11 7 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.85%) CCNA
12 6 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
13 5 (0.71%) IIBA
13 5 (0.71%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 5 (0.71%) Six Sigma Black Belt
13 5 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (6.37%) QA
2 27 (3.82%) Data Quality
3 18 (2.55%) GDPR
3 18 (2.55%) PMO
4 16 (2.27%) SEPA
5 13 (1.84%) ISO 20022
6 9 (1.27%) MiFID
7 8 (1.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (0.99%) TARGET2
9 3 (0.42%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.42%) GRC
9 3 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.28%) COBIT
10 2 (0.28%) GxP
10 2 (0.28%) IFRS
10 2 (0.28%) UCITS
11 1 (0.14%) EMIR
11 1 (0.14%) GAAP
System Software
1 3 (0.42%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.14%) Firmware
2 1 (0.14%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 2 (0.28%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.14%) SCCM
2 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 124 (17.56%) Microsoft
2 40 (5.67%) Salesforce
3 34 (4.82%) Calypso
4 33 (4.67%) BISAM
4 33 (4.67%) Charles River
4 33 (4.67%) SimCorp
5 25 (3.54%) SAP
6 16 (2.27%) YouTube
7 14 (1.98%) Anaplan
8 12 (1.70%) Oracle
8 12 (1.70%) ServiceNow
9 11 (1.56%) Bloomberg
10 10 (1.42%) Atlassian
11 6 (0.85%) CheckPoint
11 6 (0.85%) Cisco
11 6 (0.85%) Civica
11 6 (0.85%) Fortinet
11 6 (0.85%) Meraki
11 6 (0.85%) Murex
11 6 (0.85%) SolarWinds