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 26 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 205 171
Rank change year-on-year +36 -34 -35
Permanent jobs citing Business Analysis 868 781 1,225
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.38% 1.48% 1.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 1.63% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 660 485 855
10th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £50,967 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,238 £60,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.60% +1.69% -1.67%
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £50,967 £52,500
% change year-on-year -21.52% -2.92% -4.55%

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 50,302 48,021 60,136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.24% 91.22% 88.90%
Number of salaries quoted 29,664 23,067 46,526
10th Percentile £28,675 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

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 26 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Business Analysis in the UK

Business Analysis
Top 16 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 26 January 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 +32 782 £50,000 -16.67% 357
UK excluding London +41 505 £40,000 -21.52% 338
London +31 296 £70,047 -3.38% 108
North of England +69 226 £40,000 -25.58% 61
Work from Home +35 187 £60,000 +0.96% 84
North West +44 104 £40,000 -27.27% 28
Yorkshire +56 92 £40,000 -20.00% 22
Midlands +11 74 £40,000 -27.27% 52
South East +9 73 £50,500 -0.92% 102
West Midlands +24 55 £40,000 -27.27% 30
South West -3 51 £40,000 -26.52% 38
Scotland +4 39 £40,000 -27.27% 22
East of England -30 31 £40,000 -21.52% 40
North East +13 30 £40,000 +6.67% 13
East Midlands -12 19 £55,000 -15.38% 22
Wales +14 12 £45,000 -5.26% 17

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 36 (4.15%) Confluence
2 15 (1.73%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.23%) CMS
4 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.12%) IIS
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 174 (20.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (4.03%) MS Visio
3 31 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
4 22 (2.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.81%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.12%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 7 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.58%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.58%) Unit4 Business World
3 4 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.46%) Elite 3E
3 4 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.23%) Endur
4 2 (0.23%) iTrent
5 1 (0.12%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.12%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.12%) PeopleSoft HRMS
5 1 (0.12%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.12%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.12%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 67 (7.72%) Power Platform
2 57 (6.57%) Azure
3 42 (4.84%) Microsoft 365
4 28 (3.23%) SaaS
5 24 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (2.42%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 20 (2.30%) Cloud Computing
7 20 (2.30%) Dynamics 365
8 18 (2.07%) AWS
9 17 (1.96%) Miro
9 17 (1.96%) PaaS
10 14 (1.61%) ChatGPT
11 11 (1.27%) Power Automate
12 10 (1.15%) Microsoft Copilot
13 8 (0.92%) Azure Data Factory
13 8 (0.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 8 (0.92%) Figma
13 8 (0.92%) IaaS
13 8 (0.92%) Microsoft Purview
14 6 (0.69%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.58%) Multicast
2 3 (0.35%) Unified Communications
3 2 (0.23%) 4G
3 2 (0.23%) FIX Connectivity
3 2 (0.23%) LAN
3 2 (0.23%) Network Security
3 2 (0.23%) RFID
3 2 (0.23%) WAN
3 2 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.12%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.12%) DHCP
4 1 (0.12%) DNS
4 1 (0.12%) Firewall
4 1 (0.12%) Intranet
4 1 (0.12%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (16.94%) Tableau
2 136 (15.67%) Data Mining
3 54 (6.22%) Power BI
4 20 (2.30%) Big Data
5 9 (1.04%) Data Lake
5 9 (1.04%) SQL Server
6 6 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (0.69%) Metadata
7 5 (0.58%) Power Query
8 4 (0.46%) GIS
8 4 (0.46%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.46%) Qlik Sense
9 3 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.35%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (0.35%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.12%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 50 (5.76%) JIRA
2 4 (0.46%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (0.23%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.12%) Balsamiq
4 1 (0.12%) Git
4 1 (0.12%) GitLab
4 1 (0.12%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.12%) Maven
4 1 (0.12%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 481 (55.41%) Finance
2 308 (35.48%) Analytical Skills
3 283 (32.60%) Social Skills
4 82 (9.45%) Marketing
5 65 (7.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 58 (6.68%) Banking
7 50 (5.76%) Legal
8 39 (4.49%) Public Sector
9 30 (3.46%) Law
10 28 (3.23%) Retail
11 26 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
12 22 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
13 16 (1.84%) Billing
13 16 (1.84%) Financial Institution
13 16 (1.84%) Manufacturing
14 11 (1.27%) Back Office
14 11 (1.27%) Digital Health
14 11 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
15 10 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 582 (67.05%) Analyst
2 417 (48.04%) Business Analyst
3 261 (30.07%) Trainee
4 248 (28.57%) Trainee Analyst
5 140 (16.13%) Data Analyst
6 125 (14.40%) Trainee Business Analyst
7 123 (14.17%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 92 (10.60%) Senior
9 55 (6.34%) Senior Analyst
10 51 (5.88%) Senior Business Analyst
11 39 (4.49%) Architect
12 36 (4.15%) Lead
13 34 (3.92%) Project Manager
14 26 (3.00%) Lead Business Analyst
15 24 (2.76%) Developer
15 24 (2.76%) IT Manager
16 21 (2.42%) IT Project Manager
16 21 (2.42%) Product Owner
17 20 (2.30%) IT Analyst
17 20 (2.30%) Lecturer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (0.81%) Middleware
1 7 (0.81%) XML
2 6 (0.69%) React
3 5 (0.58%) FIX Protocol
3 5 (0.58%) JSON
3 5 (0.58%) Web Services
4 4 (0.46%) REST
4 4 (0.46%) SOAP
5 3 (0.35%) .NET
5 3 (0.35%) OpenAPI
5 3 (0.35%) Swagger
6 2 (0.23%) CSS
6 2 (0.23%) HTML
7 1 (0.12%) CSS3
7 1 (0.12%) Dropwizard
7 1 (0.12%) JAX-RS
7 1 (0.12%) MERN Stack
7 1 (0.12%) Mongoose
7 1 (0.12%) Nunjucks
7 1 (0.12%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 69 (7.95%) Product Ownership
2 33 (3.80%) Management Information System
3 20 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
3 20 (2.30%) IoT
4 19 (2.19%) Onboarding
5 18 (2.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 17 (1.96%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 15 (1.73%) Fixed Income
8 14 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
9 13 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (1.27%) AI Agents
10 11 (1.27%) PMI
10 11 (1.27%) Reinsurance
11 8 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
11 8 (0.92%) Life Science
11 8 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (0.81%) Cloud Native
12 7 (0.81%) Data Structures
12 7 (0.81%) Digital Media
13 6 (0.69%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.50%) Windows
2 5 (0.58%) Linux
3 1 (0.12%) Android
3 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (41.94%) Project Management
2 309 (35.60%) Agile
3 257 (29.61%) Problem-Solving
4 213 (24.54%) Change Management
5 198 (22.81%) Data Analysis
6 171 (19.70%) Analytics
7 141 (16.24%) Data Analytics
8 124 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 122 (14.06%) Stakeholder Management
10 121 (13.94%) Requirements Gathering
11 120 (13.82%) Process Improvement
12 106 (12.21%) AI
13 104 (11.98%) Decision-Making
14 102 (11.75%) User Stories
15 97 (11.18%) Continuous Improvement
15 97 (11.18%) Roadmaps
16 84 (9.68%) Workshop Facilitation
17 79 (9.10%) Project Delivery
18 77 (8.87%) Scrum
19 73 (8.41%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 201 (23.16%) SQL
2 150 (17.28%) Python
3 6 (0.69%) C#
3 6 (0.69%) Java
4 3 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (0.23%) Ada
5 2 (0.23%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.23%) R
6 1 (0.12%) C++
6 1 (0.12%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.12%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.12%) VBA
6 1 (0.12%) X++
Qualifications
1 268 (30.88%) Degree
2 40 (4.61%) Security Cleared
3 32 (3.69%) PMI Certification
4 29 (3.34%) Master's Degree
5 28 (3.23%) DBS Check
6 22 (2.53%) IIBA
6 22 (2.53%) PMP
6 22 (2.53%) SC Cleared
7 20 (2.30%) CIMA
7 20 (2.30%) HND
8 14 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (1.50%) ACCA
10 11 (1.27%) DV Cleared
11 8 (0.92%) CBAP
12 6 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (0.58%) ISEB
14 4 (0.46%) ISTQB
14 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
15 3 (0.35%) AWS Certification
15 3 (0.35%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (5.18%) QA
2 26 (3.00%) Data Quality
3 24 (2.76%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.73%) SEPA
5 13 (1.50%) ISO 20022
6 11 (1.27%) MiFID
6 11 (1.27%) TARGET2
7 9 (1.04%) GDPR
8 8 (0.92%) PMO
9 7 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.35%) EMIR
10 3 (0.35%) GRC
10 3 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.23%) GxP
11 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 2 (0.23%) NIST
11 2 (0.23%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.12%) FATCA
12 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.12%) P3O
System Software
1 6 (0.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.12%) Control-M
2 1 (0.12%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 242 (27.88%) Microsoft
2 35 (4.03%) Salesforce
3 19 (2.19%) SAP
4 13 (1.50%) Oracle
5 12 (1.38%) Anaplan
6 8 (0.92%) Alteryx
6 8 (0.92%) ServiceNow
7 7 (0.81%) Adobe
7 7 (0.81%) Civica
7 7 (0.81%) iManage
8 6 (0.69%) Atlassian
8 6 (0.69%) ION Trading
9 5 (0.58%) Bloomberg
9 5 (0.58%) CQG
9 5 (0.58%) GoldenSource
9 5 (0.58%) Patsystems
9 5 (0.58%) Reuters
9 5 (0.58%) Trayport
9 5 (0.58%) Workday
10 4 (0.46%) HubSpot