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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 217 213 200
Rank change year-on-year -4 -13 -67
Permanent jobs citing Business Analysis 1,043 710 927
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.88% 1.45% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 1.63% 1.60%
Number of salaries quoted 725 540 548
10th Percentile £39,818 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,985 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,813 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,625 £50,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year +3.25% +2.04% -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 87,497 43,445 57,940
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.45% 88.84% 82.20%
Number of salaries quoted 59,802 24,607 31,056
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £33,099
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £44,541
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,000 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +17.02% -11.32% -1.85%

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 16 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 16 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 -2 933 £57,500 -4.17% 223
UK excluding London -9 587 £51,625 +3.25% 204
Work from Home +43 388 £54,500 -12.80% 149
London -35 371 £70,000 -6.67% 71
North of England -13 184 £50,000 -4.76% 51
South East -8 133 £55,000 - 73
Midlands -7 91 £50,000 -9.09% 30
South West -23 81 £44,551 +4.82% 16
Yorkshire +6 76 £53,750 +34.38% 21
North West -36 76 £50,000 -16.67% 19
West Midlands -19 67 £53,500 +1.90% 21
East of England -14 52 £50,000 +14.29% 11
North East -48 32 £45,497 +13.74% 11
East Midlands -22 24 £47,750 -16.23% 9
Scotland -2 21 £52,250 +30.63% 9
Wales -65 19 £52,500 +10.27% 9
Northern Ireland -79 10 £66,655 -1.25% 9

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 77 (7.38%) Confluence
2 39 (3.74%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.48%) ColdFusion
4 4 (0.38%) CMS
5 2 (0.19%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.19%) WordPress
6 1 (0.096%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.096%) Appian
6 1 (0.096%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.096%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 75 (7.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (6.33%) Microsoft Office
2 66 (6.33%) MS Visio
3 35 (3.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (2.01%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (0.67%) Moqups
6 6 (0.58%) Trello
7 3 (0.29%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.19%) InDesign
8 2 (0.19%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.096%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
1 15 (1.44%) NetSuite
2 10 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.86%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.38%) Magento
4 4 (0.38%) SAP Business One
4 4 (0.38%) Shopify
5 3 (0.29%) Exchequer
5 3 (0.29%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 3 (0.29%) Sage 50
5 3 (0.29%) Sage X3
5 3 (0.29%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.29%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.19%) iTrent
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.19%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.19%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 128 (12.27%) Power Platform
2 125 (11.98%) Azure
3 70 (6.71%) Azure DevOps
4 52 (4.99%) Microsoft 365
5 44 (4.22%) Dynamics 365
5 44 (4.22%) SaaS
6 41 (3.93%) AWS
7 34 (3.26%) Power Automate
8 27 (2.59%) Microsoft Copilot
9 25 (2.40%) Lucidchart
10 17 (1.63%) Anthropic Claude
11 13 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
11 13 (1.25%) PowerApps
11 13 (1.25%) Zapier
12 12 (1.15%) Copilot Studio
13 10 (0.96%) Figma
14 9 (0.86%) Miro
15 8 (0.77%) Boomi
15 8 (0.77%) iPaaS
15 8 (0.77%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.86%) Multicast
2 7 (0.67%) FIX Connectivity
3 4 (0.38%) Internet
4 1 (0.096%) 5G
4 1 (0.096%) DSL
4 1 (0.096%) Intranet
4 1 (0.096%) LAN
4 1 (0.096%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.096%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (10.35%) Power BI
2 29 (2.78%) Relational Database
3 20 (1.92%) Tableau
4 17 (1.63%) SQL Server
5 16 (1.53%) Metadata
6 8 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 7 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (0.48%) DTS
9 4 (0.38%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (0.29%) Crystal Reports
10 3 (0.29%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.29%) MySQL
10 3 (0.29%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.29%) Spotfire
10 3 (0.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.19%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.19%) Data Mining
11 2 (0.19%) SAP BW
11 2 (0.19%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 146 (14.00%) JIRA
2 8 (0.77%) Claude Code
2 8 (0.77%) Cypress.io
2 8 (0.77%) Selenium
3 7 (0.67%) Postman
4 3 (0.29%) Artifactory
4 3 (0.29%) Git
4 3 (0.29%) GitLab
4 3 (0.29%) Hudson
4 3 (0.29%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.19%) Balsamiq
5 2 (0.19%) LSMW
6 1 (0.096%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.096%) JIRA Agile
6 1 (0.096%) Rational DOORS
General
1 424 (40.65%) Social Skills
2 379 (36.34%) Finance
3 326 (31.26%) Analytical Skills
4 143 (13.71%) Public Sector
5 98 (9.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 73 (7.00%) Law
7 62 (5.94%) Documentation Skills
8 59 (5.66%) Organisational Skills
9 55 (5.27%) Influencing Skills
9 55 (5.27%) Legal
10 47 (4.51%) Presentation Skills
11 42 (4.03%) Manufacturing
12 38 (3.64%) Retail
13 32 (3.07%) Banking
14 25 (2.40%) Local Government
14 25 (2.40%) Marketing
15 21 (2.01%) Aerospace
16 20 (1.92%) Legal Technology
17 17 (1.63%) Front Office
18 14 (1.34%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 639 (61.27%) Analyst
2 536 (51.39%) Business Analyst
3 183 (17.55%) Senior
4 139 (13.33%) Senior Analyst
5 131 (12.56%) Senior Business Analyst
6 68 (6.52%) Lead
7 60 (5.75%) Consultant
8 46 (4.41%) Technical Analyst
9 44 (4.22%) Technical Business Analyst
10 35 (3.36%) Business Manager
11 33 (3.16%) Lead Business Analyst
11 33 (3.16%) Project Manager
12 32 (3.07%) Applications Support
13 30 (2.88%) Data Analyst
14 29 (2.78%) Product Manager
15 27 (2.59%) Business IT Analyst
15 27 (2.59%) IT Analyst
15 27 (2.59%) Systems Analyst
16 26 (2.49%) IT Business Analyst
17 25 (2.40%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (1.92%) FIX Protocol
1 20 (1.92%) REST
2 17 (1.63%) .NET
3 14 (1.34%) Playwright
4 11 (1.05%) Gherkin
5 10 (0.96%) SOAP
6 8 (0.77%) XML
7 6 (0.58%) LangChain
8 5 (0.48%) CrewAI
8 5 (0.48%) LlamaIndex
8 5 (0.48%) Middleware
9 4 (0.38%) Lightning Web Components
9 4 (0.38%) Oracle Fusion
9 4 (0.38%) RESTful
9 4 (0.38%) Terraform
10 3 (0.29%) .NET Core
10 3 (0.29%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (0.29%) JSON
10 3 (0.29%) PySpark
10 3 (0.29%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 116 (11.12%) Product Ownership
2 58 (5.56%) Management Information System
3 31 (2.97%) Low-Code
4 26 (2.49%) Onboarding
5 23 (2.21%) AI Agents
6 22 (2.11%) Derivative
7 21 (2.01%) Data Structures
8 20 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
9 19 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
10 18 (1.73%) Fixed Income
11 13 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 12 (1.15%) Blog
12 12 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (1.15%) PMI
13 11 (1.05%) Equities
13 11 (1.05%) NHS
14 10 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
15 9 (0.86%) Distributed Architecture
15 9 (0.86%) Distributed Computing
15 9 (0.86%) Eurex
Operating Systems
1 28 (2.68%) Linux
2 18 (1.73%) Windows
3 5 (0.48%) Unix
4 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 458 (43.91%) Agile
2 351 (33.65%) Stakeholder Management
3 325 (31.16%) Problem-Solving
4 312 (29.91%) Requirements Gathering
5 248 (23.78%) Workshop Facilitation
6 232 (22.24%) AI
6 232 (22.24%) User Stories
7 227 (21.76%) Process Improvement
7 227 (21.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 219 (21.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 167 (16.01%) Decision-Making
10 165 (15.82%) Project Management
11 155 (14.86%) Project Delivery
12 134 (12.85%) Scrum
13 132 (12.66%) User Acceptance Testing
14 128 (12.27%) Acceptance Criteria
14 128 (12.27%) Business Intelligence
15 124 (11.89%) Coaching
16 120 (11.51%) Change Management
17 105 (10.07%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 161 (15.44%) SQL
2 48 (4.60%) Python
3 27 (2.59%) JavaScript
4 23 (2.21%) Java
5 21 (2.01%) C++
6 16 (1.53%) C#
7 11 (1.05%) TypeScript
8 5 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (0.48%) T-SQL
9 4 (0.38%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.29%) Bash
10 3 (0.29%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.19%) Ada
11 2 (0.19%) VBA
12 1 (0.096%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.096%) R
12 1 (0.096%) RPG
12 1 (0.096%) SOQL
12 1 (0.096%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 176 (16.87%) Degree
2 113 (10.83%) Security Cleared
3 88 (8.44%) SC Cleared
4 28 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (2.40%) IIBA
6 23 (2.21%) ACCA
6 23 (2.21%) PMI Certification
7 22 (2.11%) CIMA
8 16 (1.53%) CBAP
9 15 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
10 14 (1.34%) PMP
11 13 (1.25%) DV Cleared
12 12 (1.15%) DBS Check
13 8 (0.77%) ISEB
13 8 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (0.58%) CFA
14 6 (0.58%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 4 (0.38%) ISTQB
15 4 (0.38%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (6.52%) QA
2 64 (6.14%) Data Quality
3 26 (2.49%) PMO
4 21 (2.01%) GDPR
5 17 (1.63%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.58%) GAAP
8 4 (0.38%) COBIT
8 4 (0.38%) NIST
9 3 (0.29%) GRC
9 3 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 3 (0.29%) NCSC
10 2 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.19%) Good Clinical Practice
10 2 (0.19%) ISO 13485
10 2 (0.19%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.19%) SOC 3
11 1 (0.096%) GxP
11 1 (0.096%) MiFID
11 1 (0.096%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (0.48%) Docker
2 2 (0.19%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.096%) IAG
Systems Management
1 4 (0.38%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.29%) Grafana
2 3 (0.29%) Prometheus
2 3 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.096%) Kibana
3 1 (0.096%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 181 (17.35%) Microsoft
2 41 (3.93%) Salesforce
3 40 (3.84%) SAP
4 29 (2.78%) ServiceNow
5 25 (2.40%) Oracle
6 21 (2.01%) YouTube
7 18 (1.73%) Google
8 15 (1.44%) JD Edwards
8 15 (1.44%) Workday
9 10 (0.96%) ION Trading
9 10 (0.96%) Sage
10 9 (0.86%) Bloomberg
10 9 (0.86%) CQG
10 9 (0.86%) FIS
10 9 (0.86%) Patsystems
10 9 (0.86%) Reuters
10 9 (0.86%) SunGard
10 9 (0.86%) Trayport
10 9 (0.86%) Zoho
11 8 (0.77%) RedGate