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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 204 205
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -43
Permanent jobs citing Business Analysis 928 717 1,376
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.01% 1.63% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 1.74% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 722 433 792
10th Percentile £33,750 £43,104 £34,300
25th Percentile £35,000 £50,967 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £61,182 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.82% +13.30% -10.00%
75th Percentile £66,098 £85,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £104,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -18.10% +5.00% -9.09%

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 67,796 41,102 82,489
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.66% 93.28% 84.85%
Number of salaries quoted 43,826 22,293 59,720
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +6.36% -10.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% -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 19 May 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 19 May 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 +5 826 £52,500 -16.00% 383
UK excluding London +8 542 £43,000 -18.10% 314
London -3 311 £66,875 -16.41% 144
North of England +101 241 £41,000 -25.45% 88
Work from Home +23 237 £60,891 -13.01% 111
Yorkshire +60 121 £45,497 +8.11% 44
Midlands +19 106 £44,772 -25.38% 34
North West +31 87 £40,000 -27.27% 34
West Midlands +14 77 £45,249 -21.31% 19
South East -40 68 £52,500 +3.01% 92
South West -73 42 £44,551 -22.52% 26
Scotland -10 35 £40,000 -33.33% 24
East of England -64 34 £45,000 -11.71% 33
North East -8 33 £40,000 - 11
East Midlands -9 29 £40,000 -38.46% 14
Wales -25 14 £56,585 +2.88% 13
Northern Ireland -39 3 £40,000 -40.74% 7

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 26 (2.80%) Confluence
2 17 (1.83%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.22%) CMS
4 2 (0.22%) Umbraco
4 2 (0.22%) WordPress
5 1 (0.11%) IIS
5 1 (0.11%) Mendix
5 1 (0.11%) SAS
Applications
1 133 (14.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (3.56%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (2.69%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.22%) Trello
7 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.11%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 17 (1.83%) NetSuite
2 10 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.54%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.43%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.32%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.32%) Exchequer
5 3 (0.32%) Sage 50
6 2 (0.22%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.22%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 2 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.22%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.22%) SAP PSCD
7 1 (0.11%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.11%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.11%) SAP BRIM
7 1 (0.11%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 87 (9.38%) Power Platform
2 58 (6.25%) Azure
3 49 (5.28%) Microsoft 365
4 30 (3.23%) SaaS
5 29 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
6 23 (2.48%) AWS
7 21 (2.26%) Microsoft Copilot
8 19 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (1.83%) PaaS
10 16 (1.72%) Power Automate
11 15 (1.62%) ChatGPT
12 14 (1.51%) PowerApps
13 12 (1.29%) Cloud Computing
14 10 (1.08%) Entra ID
14 10 (1.08%) GCP
14 10 (1.08%) Microsoft Purview
15 9 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
15 9 (0.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 8 (0.86%) IaaS
16 8 (0.86%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.54%) Multicast
2 2 (0.22%) FIX Connectivity
2 2 (0.22%) LAN
2 2 (0.22%) Network Security
2 2 (0.22%) WAN
3 1 (0.11%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.11%) DHCP
3 1 (0.11%) DNS
3 1 (0.11%) Firewall
3 1 (0.11%) RFID
3 1 (0.11%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (12.82%) Tableau
2 112 (12.07%) Data Mining
3 67 (7.22%) Power BI
4 14 (1.51%) Relational Database
5 12 (1.29%) Big Data
5 12 (1.29%) Metadata
6 8 (0.86%) Data Lake
7 7 (0.75%) RDBMS
7 7 (0.75%) SQL Server
8 6 (0.65%) Power Query
9 5 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.32%) GIS
11 3 (0.32%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.32%) Qlik Sense
12 2 (0.22%) SAP BW
13 1 (0.11%) Neo4j
13 1 (0.11%) Oracle Database
13 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 50 (5.39%) JIRA
2 7 (0.75%) ERwin
3 1 (0.11%) Balsamiq
3 1 (0.11%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 479 (51.62%) Finance
2 312 (33.62%) Analytical Skills
3 283 (30.50%) Social Skills
4 63 (6.79%) Public Sector
5 61 (6.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 61 (6.57%) Law
6 49 (5.28%) Legal
7 36 (3.88%) Marketing
8 33 (3.56%) Presentation Skills
9 27 (2.91%) Banking
10 26 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
11 24 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
11 24 (2.59%) Retail
12 19 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
13 15 (1.62%) Financial Institution
14 13 (1.40%) Manufacturing
15 12 (1.29%) Billing
16 11 (1.19%) Spanish Language
17 8 (0.86%) Back Office
18 6 (0.65%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 667 (71.88%) Analyst
2 506 (54.53%) Business Analyst
3 209 (22.52%) Trainee
4 207 (22.31%) Trainee Analyst
5 121 (13.04%) Data Analyst
6 116 (12.50%) Senior
7 110 (11.85%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 100 (10.78%) Senior Analyst
9 97 (10.45%) Trainee Business Analyst
10 92 (9.91%) Senior Business Analyst
11 41 (4.42%) Lead
12 32 (3.45%) Project Manager
13 31 (3.34%) Consultant
14 30 (3.23%) Insurance Business Analyst
15 27 (2.91%) Business Manager
16 22 (2.37%) Systems Analyst
16 22 (2.37%) Technical Analyst
16 22 (2.37%) Technical Business Analyst
17 21 (2.26%) Architect
18 20 (2.16%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.62%) JSON
1 15 (1.62%) XML
2 12 (1.29%) FIX Protocol
3 9 (0.97%) FpML
4 7 (0.75%) REST
4 7 (0.75%) XML Schema
5 6 (0.65%) Gherkin
5 6 (0.65%) Middleware
5 6 (0.65%) SOAP
6 5 (0.54%) .NET
6 5 (0.54%) EDI
7 3 (0.32%) OpenAPI
7 3 (0.32%) Swagger
8 2 (0.22%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.22%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.22%) SAP Fiori
8 2 (0.22%) Web Services
8 2 (0.22%) XML Messaging
9 1 (0.11%) ADO
9 1 (0.11%) React
Miscellaneous
1 85 (9.16%) Product Ownership
2 36 (3.88%) Management Information System
3 25 (2.69%) Analytical Mindset
3 25 (2.69%) Data Structures
3 25 (2.69%) IoT
4 22 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
5 17 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (1.62%) Low-Code
7 14 (1.51%) AI Agents
7 14 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (1.51%) Onboarding
8 11 (1.19%) Cloud Native
8 11 (1.19%) Derivative
8 11 (1.19%) Fixed Income
9 10 (1.08%) PMI
9 10 (1.08%) PropTech
10 9 (0.97%) Enterprise Cloud
10 9 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 9 (0.97%) OTC Derivatives
10 9 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.83%) Windows
2 5 (0.54%) Linux
3 4 (0.43%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.32%) Android
4 3 (0.32%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (34.81%) Agile
2 273 (29.42%) Project Management
3 206 (22.20%) Problem-Solving
4 177 (19.07%) Analytics
5 163 (17.56%) Data Analysis
6 162 (17.46%) Requirements Gathering
7 158 (17.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 140 (15.09%) User Stories
9 135 (14.55%) Stakeholder Management
10 123 (13.25%) Data Analytics
11 121 (13.04%) Workshop Facilitation
12 119 (12.82%) Decision-Making
13 112 (12.07%) Change Management
14 107 (11.53%) Process Improvement
15 96 (10.34%) AI
16 93 (10.02%) Continuous Improvement
17 87 (9.38%) Roadmaps
18 83 (8.94%) Business Intelligence
19 79 (8.51%) User Acceptance Testing
20 77 (8.30%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 197 (21.23%) SQL
2 130 (14.01%) Python
3 5 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 5 (0.54%) Java
4 4 (0.43%) C#
5 2 (0.22%) T-SQL
5 2 (0.22%) X++
6 1 (0.11%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.11%) SOQL
6 1 (0.11%) SOSL
6 1 (0.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 188 (20.26%) Degree
2 51 (5.50%) Security Cleared
3 33 (3.56%) IIBA
3 33 (3.56%) SC Cleared
4 32 (3.45%) PMI Certification
5 29 (3.13%) ACCA
6 28 (3.02%) CIMA
7 23 (2.48%) PMP
8 21 (2.26%) Master's Degree
9 18 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (1.40%) CBAP
11 12 (1.29%) DBS Check
11 12 (1.29%) HND
12 7 (0.75%) DV Cleared
12 7 (0.75%) ISEB
13 6 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (0.54%) CIPD
15 4 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 3 (0.32%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (3.66%) QA
2 29 (3.13%) Data Quality
3 22 (2.37%) Accessibility
4 19 (2.05%) PMO
5 15 (1.62%) GDPR
6 14 (1.51%) GAAP
7 10 (1.08%) MiFID
8 8 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.65%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.32%) GRC
11 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 2 (0.22%) NIST
11 2 (0.22%) SEPA
11 2 (0.22%) SLA
11 2 (0.22%) TARGET2
12 1 (0.11%) COBIT
12 1 (0.11%) FATCA
12 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.11%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (1.40%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.11%) IAG
Systems Management
1 6 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.11%) Control-M
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.11%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 246 (26.51%) Microsoft
2 27 (2.91%) Salesforce
3 21 (2.26%) SAP
4 15 (1.62%) Intapp
5 12 (1.29%) Oracle
6 10 (1.08%) Google
6 10 (1.08%) ServiceNow
7 9 (0.97%) Anaplan
7 9 (0.97%) Atlassian
8 8 (0.86%) Aderant
8 8 (0.86%) Sparx
9 7 (0.75%) Alteryx
10 5 (0.54%) Bloomberg
10 5 (0.54%) CQG
10 5 (0.54%) HubSpot
10 5 (0.54%) ION Trading
10 5 (0.54%) Patsystems
10 5 (0.54%) Reuters
10 5 (0.54%) TOWER Software
10 5 (0.54%) Trayport