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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 220 216
Rank change year-on-year -3 -4 -84
Permanent jobs citing Business Analysis 1,000 700 982
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.86% 1.43% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.17% 1.61% 1.60%
Number of salaries quoted 706 533 583
10th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,531 £43,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,250 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.40% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £76,286
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £98,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,223 £54,285 £47,500
% change year-on-year -3.80% +14.28% -5.00%

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 85,252 43,434 61,296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.06% 88.68% 81.27%
Number of salaries quoted 58,899 24,470 34,327
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
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 23 September 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 23 September 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 +4 901 £57,500 -8.00% 1,122
UK excluding London 0 550 £52,223 -3.80% 733
Work from Home +43 390 £55,000 -15.38% 445
London -30 367 £70,000 -6.67% 543
North of England +10 184 £52,500 -4.55% 198
South East -16 112 £55,000 -6.38% 178
Midlands -20 96 £50,000 -9.09% 109
Yorkshire +22 86 £60,000 +50.00% 78
West Midlands -15 72 £53,000 -3.64% 66
South West -37 71 £45,000 +5.26% 79
North West -33 70 £52,000 -13.33% 96
East of England -13 50 £50,000 - 65
North East -48 28 £42,500 +6.25% 25
East Midlands -22 23 £47,750 -25.97% 43
Scotland +7 20 £45,000 +12.50% 57
Wales -67 16 £52,500 -0.21% 22
Northern Ireland -87 5 - - 31

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 65 (6.50%) Confluence
2 33 (3.30%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.50%) ColdFusion
4 3 (0.30%) CMS
5 2 (0.20%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.20%) WordPress
6 1 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.10%) Appian
Applications
1 73 (7.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (6.60%) Microsoft Office
3 63 (6.30%) MS Visio
4 33 (3.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 18 (1.80%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.60%) Moqups
6 6 (0.60%) Trello
7 3 (0.30%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.20%) InDesign
8 2 (0.20%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 22 (2.20%) NetSuite
2 14 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.90%) Fidessa
3 9 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.40%) Magento
4 4 (0.40%) Shopify
5 3 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
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%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.20%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.20%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 115 (11.50%) Power Platform
2 109 (10.90%) Azure
3 54 (5.40%) Azure DevOps
4 47 (4.70%) Microsoft 365
5 43 (4.30%) AWS
6 41 (4.10%) SaaS
7 38 (3.80%) Dynamics 365
8 34 (3.40%) Power Automate
9 25 (2.50%) Lucidchart
10 24 (2.40%) Microsoft Copilot
11 16 (1.60%) Anthropic Claude
12 13 (1.30%) PowerApps
12 13 (1.30%) Zapier
13 11 (1.10%) GCP
14 10 (1.00%) Copilot Studio
14 10 (1.00%) iPaaS
15 9 (0.90%) Figma
15 9 (0.90%) Microsoft Purview
16 8 (0.80%) Boomi
16 8 (0.80%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.90%) Multicast
2 7 (0.70%) FIX Connectivity
3 3 (0.30%) Internet
4 1 (0.10%) DSL
4 1 (0.10%) Intranet
4 1 (0.10%) LAN
4 1 (0.10%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (10.10%) Power BI
2 22 (2.20%) Relational Database
3 20 (2.00%) Tableau
4 17 (1.70%) SQL Server
5 13 (1.30%) Metadata
6 10 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 7 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (0.60%) DTS
9 3 (0.30%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (0.30%) Crystal Reports
9 3 (0.30%) DynamoDB
9 3 (0.30%) MySQL
9 3 (0.30%) RDBMS
9 3 (0.30%) Spotfire
9 3 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.20%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.20%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.20%) Looker
10 2 (0.20%) SAP BW
10 2 (0.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 129 (12.90%) JIRA
2 7 (0.70%) Claude Code
2 7 (0.70%) Cypress.io
2 7 (0.70%) Selenium
3 6 (0.60%) Postman
4 3 (0.30%) Git
4 3 (0.30%) Hudson
5 2 (0.20%) Artifactory
5 2 (0.20%) Balsamiq
5 2 (0.20%) GitLab
5 2 (0.20%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.20%) LSMW
6 1 (0.10%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.10%) ERwin
6 1 (0.10%) JIRA Agile
6 1 (0.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 413 (41.30%) Social Skills
2 370 (37.00%) Finance
3 325 (32.50%) Analytical Skills
4 127 (12.70%) Public Sector
5 101 (10.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 79 (7.90%) Law
7 58 (5.80%) Legal
7 58 (5.80%) Organisational Skills
8 57 (5.70%) Documentation Skills
9 52 (5.20%) Presentation Skills
10 50 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
11 40 (4.00%) Manufacturing
12 37 (3.70%) Retail
13 31 (3.10%) Banking
14 26 (2.60%) Marketing
15 23 (2.30%) Legal Technology
16 22 (2.20%) Local Government
17 18 (1.80%) Aerospace
18 16 (1.60%) Front Office
18 16 (1.60%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 611 (61.10%) Analyst
2 514 (51.40%) Business Analyst
3 179 (17.90%) Senior
4 140 (14.00%) Senior Analyst
5 129 (12.90%) Senior Business Analyst
6 65 (6.50%) Lead
7 53 (5.30%) Consultant
8 43 (4.30%) Technical Analyst
9 41 (4.10%) Technical Business Analyst
10 35 (3.50%) Business Manager
10 35 (3.50%) Project Manager
11 31 (3.10%) Lead Business Analyst
12 30 (3.00%) Systems Analyst
13 28 (2.80%) Product Manager
14 27 (2.70%) Applications Support
15 26 (2.60%) Data Analyst
16 23 (2.30%) Business IT Analyst
16 23 (2.30%) IT Analyst
16 23 (2.30%) Product Analyst
16 23 (2.30%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.00%) FIX Protocol
2 19 (1.90%) REST
3 15 (1.50%) .NET
4 12 (1.20%) XML
5 11 (1.10%) Gherkin
5 11 (1.10%) SOAP
6 9 (0.90%) Playwright
7 6 (0.60%) JSON
8 5 (0.50%) CrewAI
8 5 (0.50%) LangChain
8 5 (0.50%) LlamaIndex
9 4 (0.40%) Lightning Web Components
10 3 (0.30%) .NET Core
10 3 (0.30%) EDI
10 3 (0.30%) Middleware
10 3 (0.30%) Oracle Fusion
10 3 (0.30%) PySpark
10 3 (0.30%) Terraform
10 3 (0.30%) WinForms
11 2 (0.20%) FpML
Miscellaneous
1 121 (12.10%) Product Ownership
2 55 (5.50%) Management Information System
3 24 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
3 24 (2.40%) Data Structures
3 24 (2.40%) Low-Code
4 22 (2.20%) AI Agents
4 22 (2.20%) Derivative
4 22 (2.20%) Onboarding
5 18 (1.80%) Fixed Income
6 15 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (1.30%) Blog
7 13 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 12 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (1.00%) IoT
10 10 (1.00%) NHS
10 10 (1.00%) PMI
11 9 (0.90%) Distributed Computing
11 9 (0.90%) Equities
11 9 (0.90%) Eurex
Operating Systems
1 25 (2.50%) Linux
2 18 (1.80%) Windows
3 3 (0.30%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 440 (44.00%) Agile
2 315 (31.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 312 (31.20%) Problem-Solving
4 293 (29.30%) Requirements Gathering
5 231 (23.10%) Workshop Facilitation
6 223 (22.30%) User Stories
7 211 (21.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 204 (20.40%) Process Improvement
9 201 (20.10%) Continuous Improvement
10 198 (19.80%) AI
11 160 (16.00%) Project Management
12 159 (15.90%) Decision-Making
13 155 (15.50%) Project Delivery
14 133 (13.30%) Scrum
15 126 (12.60%) User Acceptance Testing
16 125 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
17 124 (12.40%) Business Intelligence
18 117 (11.70%) Coaching
19 103 (10.30%) Change Management
19 103 (10.30%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 152 (15.20%) SQL
2 43 (4.30%) Python
3 24 (2.40%) JavaScript
4 23 (2.30%) Java
5 21 (2.10%) C++
6 15 (1.50%) C#
7 9 (0.90%) TypeScript
8 7 (0.70%) T-SQL
9 5 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.30%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.20%) Ada
11 2 (0.20%) Bash
11 2 (0.20%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.10%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.10%) R
12 1 (0.10%) RPG
12 1 (0.10%) SOQL
12 1 (0.10%) SOSL
12 1 (0.10%) VBA
Qualifications
1 172 (17.20%) Degree
2 106 (10.60%) Security Cleared
3 84 (8.40%) SC Cleared
4 34 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (3.00%) ACCA
6 29 (2.90%) CIMA
7 26 (2.60%) IIBA
8 21 (2.10%) PMI Certification
9 16 (1.60%) CBAP
10 15 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
11 14 (1.40%) PMP
12 11 (1.10%) DBS Check
13 9 (0.90%) DV Cleared
14 7 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
15 6 (0.60%) CFA
15 6 (0.60%) ISEB
16 4 (0.40%) CSPO
16 4 (0.40%) Master's Degree
17 3 (0.30%) CISA
17 3 (0.30%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (6.00%) QA
2 53 (5.30%) Data Quality
3 26 (2.60%) PMO
4 15 (1.50%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.50%) GDPR
5 13 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.20%) GAAP
7 4 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.40%) COBIT
7 4 (0.40%) 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%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.20%) MiFID
9 2 (0.20%) SLA
9 2 (0.20%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.20%) SOC 3
System Software
1 2 (0.20%) Docker
2 1 (0.10%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.10%) IAG
Systems Management
1 3 (0.30%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.20%) Grafana
2 2 (0.20%) Prometheus
2 2 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.10%) Kibana
3 1 (0.10%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 170 (17.00%) Microsoft
2 41 (4.10%) Salesforce
3 39 (3.90%) SAP
4 23 (2.30%) Oracle
5 20 (2.00%) ServiceNow
6 18 (1.80%) Google
7 17 (1.70%) YouTube
8 15 (1.50%) JD Edwards
9 14 (1.40%) Workday
10 12 (1.20%) Intapp
11 10 (1.00%) Atlassian
12 9 (0.90%) Bloomberg
12 9 (0.90%) CQG
12 9 (0.90%) FIS
12 9 (0.90%) ION Trading
12 9 (0.90%) Patsystems
12 9 (0.90%) Reuters
12 9 (0.90%) Sage
12 9 (0.90%) SunGard
12 9 (0.90%) Trayport