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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 217 228 199
Rank change year-on-year +11 -29 -52
Permanent jobs citing Business Analysis 957 666 1,147
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.88% 1.33% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 1.50% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 705 487 627
10th Percentile £40,100 £42,960 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £42,560
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £83,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £103,000 £96,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,435 £47,500
% change year-on-year -8.59% +20.92% -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 79,759 44,399 67,357
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.20% 88.84% 80.67%
Number of salaries quoted 55,200 25,247 42,330
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 August 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 26 August 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 +18 865 £57,500 -11.54% 653
UK excluding London +16 523 £52,500 -8.59% 322
Work from Home +47 369 £57,500 -11.54% 272
London -24 362 £70,000 -9.68% 398
North of England +42 181 £52,500 -12.50% 81
South East -18 98 £52,500 -12.50% 59
Midlands +3 93 £52,500 -7.08% 47
Yorkshire +38 89 £60,000 +20.00% 33
West Midlands +2 75 £55,000 - 30
North West -6 64 £50,000 -16.67% 43
South West -47 59 £50,000 +1.12% 63
East of England +5 55 £50,000 - 29
North East -36 28 £42,500 +8.28% 5
Scotland +1 21 £46,575 -13.35% 22
East Midlands -12 18 £48,000 -25.58% 17
Wales -49 14 £52,500 -0.21% 4
Northern Ireland -84 7 £40,000 -40.74% 23

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 57 (5.96%) Confluence
2 29 (3.03%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.52%) ColdFusion
4 3 (0.31%) CMS
5 2 (0.21%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.21%) WordPress
6 1 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.10%) Appian
Applications
1 70 (7.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (5.85%) Microsoft Office
3 55 (5.75%) MS Visio
4 24 (2.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (1.78%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.63%) Trello
7 5 (0.52%) Moqups
8 3 (0.31%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 28 (2.93%) NetSuite
2 14 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.94%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.31%) Exchequer
5 3 (0.31%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 3 (0.31%) Magento
5 3 (0.31%) Sage 50
5 3 (0.31%) Sage X3
5 3 (0.31%) Shopify
6 2 (0.21%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.21%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.21%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.21%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.21%) SAP PSCD
7 1 (0.10%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.10%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 102 (10.66%) Azure
1 102 (10.66%) Power Platform
2 45 (4.70%) Microsoft 365
3 44 (4.60%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (4.28%) SaaS
5 40 (4.18%) AWS
6 33 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
7 32 (3.34%) Power Automate
8 24 (2.51%) Lucidchart
9 21 (2.19%) Microsoft Copilot
10 15 (1.57%) Anthropic Claude
11 14 (1.46%) GCP
11 14 (1.46%) PowerApps
12 13 (1.36%) Zapier
13 10 (1.04%) Copilot Studio
13 10 (1.04%) iPaaS
14 8 (0.84%) Boomi
14 8 (0.84%) Figma
14 8 (0.84%) Workato
15 6 (0.63%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.94%) Multicast
2 7 (0.73%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.10%) DSL
3 1 (0.10%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (9.40%) Power BI
2 30 (3.13%) Tableau
3 19 (1.99%) Relational Database
4 17 (1.78%) SQL Server
5 16 (1.67%) Data Mining
6 12 (1.25%) Metadata
7 9 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (0.63%) DTS
8 6 (0.63%) RDBMS
9 3 (0.31%) Crystal Reports
9 3 (0.31%) MySQL
9 3 (0.31%) Spotfire
9 3 (0.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.21%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (0.21%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.21%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.21%) GIS
10 2 (0.21%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.21%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 114 (11.91%) JIRA
2 6 (0.63%) Claude Code
3 5 (0.52%) Cypress.io
3 5 (0.52%) Postman
3 5 (0.52%) Selenium
4 4 (0.42%) ERwin
5 3 (0.31%) Git
5 3 (0.31%) Hudson
6 2 (0.21%) Balsamiq
6 2 (0.21%) LSMW
7 1 (0.10%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.10%) JIRA Agile
7 1 (0.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 386 (40.33%) Social Skills
2 370 (38.66%) Finance
3 310 (32.39%) Analytical Skills
4 115 (12.02%) Public Sector
5 106 (11.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 81 (8.46%) Law
7 52 (5.43%) Legal
7 52 (5.43%) Presentation Skills
8 49 (5.12%) Documentation Skills
9 48 (5.02%) Influencing Skills
9 48 (5.02%) Organisational Skills
10 35 (3.66%) Retail
11 34 (3.55%) Manufacturing
12 25 (2.61%) Banking
13 22 (2.30%) Marketing
14 21 (2.19%) Legal Technology
14 21 (2.19%) Local Government
15 19 (1.99%) Spanish Language
16 15 (1.57%) Front Office
17 14 (1.46%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 604 (63.11%) Analyst
2 501 (52.35%) Business Analyst
3 173 (18.08%) Senior
4 141 (14.73%) Senior Analyst
5 131 (13.69%) Senior Business Analyst
6 67 (7.00%) Lead
7 42 (4.39%) Consultant
8 39 (4.08%) Data Analyst
9 36 (3.76%) Project Manager
10 33 (3.45%) Technical Analyst
11 32 (3.34%) Lead Business Analyst
12 31 (3.24%) Business Manager
12 31 (3.24%) Technical Business Analyst
13 30 (3.13%) Systems Analyst
14 27 (2.82%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
15 24 (2.51%) Product Analyst
16 23 (2.40%) Data Business Analyst
16 23 (2.40%) IT Analyst
16 23 (2.40%) Product Manager
17 22 (2.30%) Business IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (2.40%) FIX Protocol
2 17 (1.78%) REST
3 12 (1.25%) .NET
4 11 (1.15%) SOAP
4 11 (1.15%) XML
5 10 (1.04%) Gherkin
6 9 (0.94%) JSON
7 6 (0.63%) FpML
8 5 (0.52%) CrewAI
8 5 (0.52%) LangChain
8 5 (0.52%) LlamaIndex
9 4 (0.42%) Lightning Web Components
9 4 (0.42%) Playwright
9 4 (0.42%) XML Schema
10 3 (0.31%) .NET Core
10 3 (0.31%) Middleware
10 3 (0.31%) Oracle Fusion
10 3 (0.31%) WinForms
11 2 (0.21%) EDI
11 2 (0.21%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 107 (11.18%) Product Ownership
2 50 (5.22%) Management Information System
3 27 (2.82%) Analytical Mindset
4 26 (2.72%) Data Structures
5 22 (2.30%) AI Agents
6 21 (2.19%) Derivative
7 20 (2.09%) Low-Code
8 18 (1.88%) Fixed Income
8 18 (1.88%) Onboarding
9 17 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (1.36%) Blog
10 13 (1.36%) IoT
11 12 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 12 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
13 10 (1.04%) PropTech
14 9 (0.94%) Cloud Native
14 9 (0.94%) Distributed Computing
14 9 (0.94%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 23 (2.40%) Linux
2 18 (1.88%) Windows
3 3 (0.31%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 418 (43.68%) Agile
2 270 (28.21%) Problem-Solving
3 257 (26.85%) Requirements Gathering
4 254 (26.54%) Stakeholder Management
5 213 (22.26%) User Stories
6 200 (20.90%) Workshop Facilitation
7 197 (20.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 181 (18.91%) Continuous Improvement
9 179 (18.70%) Process Improvement
10 171 (17.87%) Project Management
11 166 (17.35%) AI
12 147 (15.36%) Decision-Making
13 143 (14.94%) Project Delivery
14 121 (12.64%) Scrum
15 115 (12.02%) User Acceptance Testing
16 114 (11.91%) Waterfall
17 112 (11.70%) Acceptance Criteria
18 111 (11.60%) Business Intelligence
19 105 (10.97%) Coaching
20 89 (9.30%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 147 (15.36%) SQL
2 50 (5.22%) Python
3 17 (1.78%) C++
4 16 (1.67%) JavaScript
5 15 (1.57%) Java
6 13 (1.36%) C#
7 6 (0.63%) TypeScript
8 5 (0.52%) T-SQL
9 4 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.31%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.21%) Ada
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
1 157 (16.41%) Degree
2 100 (10.45%) Security Cleared
3 81 (8.46%) SC Cleared
4 34 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (3.45%) ACCA
6 32 (3.34%) CIMA
7 24 (2.51%) IIBA
8 23 (2.40%) PMI Certification
9 17 (1.78%) PMP
10 16 (1.67%) CBAP
11 14 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
12 13 (1.36%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.63%) ISEB
14 5 (0.52%) CFA
14 5 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.42%) CSPO
16 3 (0.31%) CISSP
16 3 (0.31%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 3 (0.31%) Master's Degree
16 3 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (4.49%) Data Quality
1 43 (4.49%) QA
2 27 (2.82%) PMO
3 17 (1.78%) GAAP
4 16 (1.67%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.57%) GDPR
6 11 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.42%) COBIT
7 4 (0.42%) NIST
8 3 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.31%) GRC
8 3 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 3 (0.31%) MiFID
8 3 (0.31%) NCSC
9 2 (0.21%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.21%) SLA
10 1 (0.10%) COSO
10 1 (0.10%) IFRS
10 1 (0.10%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (0.21%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.10%) IAG
Systems Management
1 2 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.10%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.10%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.10%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 163 (17.03%) Microsoft
2 41 (4.28%) Salesforce
3 34 (3.55%) SAP
4 20 (2.09%) Oracle
5 19 (1.99%) Google
5 19 (1.99%) ServiceNow
6 15 (1.57%) JD Edwards
7 12 (1.25%) Atlassian
7 12 (1.25%) Intapp
8 11 (1.15%) Workday
9 10 (1.04%) YouTube
10 9 (0.94%) Bloomberg
10 9 (0.94%) CQG
10 9 (0.94%) FIS
10 9 (0.94%) ION Trading
10 9 (0.94%) Patsystems
10 9 (0.94%) Reuters
10 9 (0.94%) SunGard
10 9 (0.94%) Trayport
11 8 (0.84%) RedGate