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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 204 170
Rank change year-on-year +43 -34 -40
Permanent jobs citing Business Analysis 896 786 1,212
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.42% 1.50% 1.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.76% 1.64% 2.01%
Number of salaries quoted 684 487 841
10th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £50,967 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £67,813 £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 50,778 48,019 60,381
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.25% 91.58% 88.81%
Number of salaries quoted 30,009 23,112 46,660
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,444
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.45% -8.09%
75th Percentile £75,900 £80,000 £76,000
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 29 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 29 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 +39 808 £50,000 -16.67% 365
UK excluding London +37 518 £40,000 -21.52% 355
London +40 310 £70,047 -3.38% 109
North of England +73 233 £40,000 -25.58% 68
Work from Home +30 188 £60,000 +0.96% 84
North West +35 106 £40,000 -27.27% 34
Yorkshire +53 95 £40,000 -20.00% 24
Midlands +4 77 £40,000 -27.27% 51
South East +7 72 £50,500 -0.92% 108
West Midlands +25 58 £40,000 -27.27% 28
South West +6 54 £40,000 -26.52% 38
Scotland +5 40 £40,000 -27.27% 25
North East +13 32 £40,000 +6.67% 11
East of England -23 31 £40,000 -21.52% 42
East Midlands -12 19 £55,000 -15.38% 23
Wales +14 12 £45,000 -5.26% 16

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 37 (4.13%) Confluence
2 15 (1.67%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.22%) CMS
4 1 (0.11%) IIS
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.11%) SAS
Applications
1 182 (20.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (3.91%) MS Visio
3 32 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
4 22 (2.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.78%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.11%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 7 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.56%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.56%) Unit4 Business World
3 4 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.45%) Elite 3E
3 4 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.22%) Endur
4 2 (0.22%) iTrent
5 1 (0.11%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.11%) PeopleSoft HRMS
5 1 (0.11%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.11%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.11%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 65 (7.25%) Power Platform
2 57 (6.36%) Azure
3 42 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
4 29 (3.24%) SaaS
5 24 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (2.23%) Cloud Computing
6 20 (2.23%) Dynamics 365
6 20 (2.23%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 18 (2.01%) AWS
8 17 (1.90%) Miro
8 17 (1.90%) PaaS
9 14 (1.56%) ChatGPT
10 11 (1.23%) Power Automate
11 10 (1.12%) Microsoft Copilot
12 8 (0.89%) Azure Data Factory
12 8 (0.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 8 (0.89%) Figma
12 8 (0.89%) IaaS
12 8 (0.89%) Microsoft Purview
13 6 (0.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.56%) Multicast
2 3 (0.33%) Unified Communications
3 2 (0.22%) 4G
3 2 (0.22%) FIX Connectivity
3 2 (0.22%) LAN
3 2 (0.22%) Network Security
3 2 (0.22%) RFID
3 2 (0.22%) WAN
3 2 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.11%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.11%) DHCP
4 1 (0.11%) DNS
4 1 (0.11%) Firewall
4 1 (0.11%) Intranet
4 1 (0.11%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (17.19%) Tableau
2 144 (16.07%) Data Mining
3 52 (5.80%) Power BI
4 20 (2.23%) Big Data
5 9 (1.00%) Data Lake
5 9 (1.00%) SQL Server
6 6 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (0.67%) Metadata
7 5 (0.56%) NoSQL
7 5 (0.56%) Power Query
8 4 (0.45%) Qlik Sense
9 3 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.33%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (0.33%) GIS
9 3 (0.33%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.11%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 51 (5.69%) JIRA
2 4 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.11%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.11%) Balsamiq
4 1 (0.11%) Git
4 1 (0.11%) GitLab
4 1 (0.11%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.11%) Maven
4 1 (0.11%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 503 (56.14%) Finance
2 321 (35.83%) Analytical Skills
3 286 (31.92%) Social Skills
4 81 (9.04%) Marketing
5 65 (7.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 59 (6.58%) Banking
7 50 (5.58%) Legal
8 40 (4.46%) Public Sector
9 30 (3.35%) Law
10 29 (3.24%) Retail
11 26 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
12 23 (2.57%) Organisational Skills
13 18 (2.01%) Manufacturing
14 17 (1.90%) Billing
14 17 (1.90%) Financial Institution
15 11 (1.23%) Back Office
15 11 (1.23%) Digital Health
15 11 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
16 10 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
17 8 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 604 (67.41%) Analyst
2 433 (48.33%) Business Analyst
3 276 (30.80%) Trainee
4 263 (29.35%) Trainee Analyst
5 147 (16.41%) Data Analyst
6 132 (14.73%) Trainee Business Analyst
7 131 (14.62%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 93 (10.38%) Senior
9 57 (6.36%) Senior Analyst
10 53 (5.92%) Senior Business Analyst
11 40 (4.46%) Architect
12 37 (4.13%) Lead
13 34 (3.79%) Project Manager
14 27 (3.01%) Lead Business Analyst
15 24 (2.68%) Developer
15 24 (2.68%) IT Manager
16 22 (2.46%) Consultant
16 22 (2.46%) Product Owner
17 21 (2.34%) Insurance Business Analyst
17 21 (2.34%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (0.78%) Middleware
1 7 (0.78%) XML
2 6 (0.67%) React
3 5 (0.56%) FIX Protocol
3 5 (0.56%) JSON
3 5 (0.56%) Web Services
4 4 (0.45%) REST
4 4 (0.45%) SOAP
5 3 (0.33%) OpenAPI
5 3 (0.33%) Swagger
6 2 (0.22%) .NET
6 2 (0.22%) CSS
6 2 (0.22%) HTML
7 1 (0.11%) CSS3
7 1 (0.11%) Dropwizard
7 1 (0.11%) MERN Stack
7 1 (0.11%) Mongoose
7 1 (0.11%) Nunjucks
7 1 (0.11%) Spring
7 1 (0.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 71 (7.92%) Product Ownership
2 33 (3.68%) Management Information System
3 20 (2.23%) Analytical Mindset
3 20 (2.23%) IoT
4 19 (2.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 19 (2.12%) Onboarding
5 18 (2.01%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 16 (1.79%) Fixed Income
7 14 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (1.23%) AI Agents
8 11 (1.23%) PMI
8 11 (1.23%) Reinsurance
9 8 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
9 8 (0.89%) Life Science
9 8 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (0.78%) Cloud Native
10 7 (0.78%) Digital Media
11 6 (0.67%) Data Structures
11 6 (0.67%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.45%) Windows
2 5 (0.56%) Linux
3 1 (0.11%) Android
3 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 372 (41.52%) Project Management
2 318 (35.49%) Agile
3 260 (29.02%) Problem-Solving
4 213 (23.77%) Change Management
5 208 (23.21%) Data Analysis
6 181 (20.20%) Analytics
7 151 (16.85%) Data Analytics
8 127 (14.17%) Stakeholder Management
9 124 (13.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 122 (13.62%) Requirements Gathering
11 118 (13.17%) Process Improvement
12 106 (11.83%) User Stories
13 105 (11.72%) AI
14 104 (11.61%) Decision-Making
15 99 (11.05%) Continuous Improvement
16 98 (10.94%) Roadmaps
17 87 (9.71%) Workshop Facilitation
18 79 (8.82%) Scrum
19 78 (8.71%) Project Delivery
20 72 (8.04%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 210 (23.44%) SQL
2 158 (17.63%) Python
3 6 (0.67%) Java
4 5 (0.56%) C#
5 3 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (0.22%) Ada
6 2 (0.22%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.22%) R
6 2 (0.22%) X++
7 1 (0.11%) C++
7 1 (0.11%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.11%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 269 (30.02%) Degree
2 41 (4.58%) Security Cleared
3 32 (3.57%) PMI Certification
4 28 (3.13%) Master's Degree
5 26 (2.90%) DBS Check
6 23 (2.57%) IIBA
6 23 (2.57%) SC Cleared
7 22 (2.46%) PMP
8 20 (2.23%) CIMA
8 20 (2.23%) HND
9 15 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
10 14 (1.56%) ACCA
11 11 (1.23%) DV Cleared
12 8 (0.89%) CBAP
13 7 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (0.56%) ISEB
15 4 (0.45%) ISTQB
15 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
16 3 (0.33%) AWS Certification
16 3 (0.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (5.02%) QA
2 25 (2.79%) Data Quality
3 23 (2.57%) Accessibility
4 16 (1.79%) SEPA
5 14 (1.56%) ISO 20022
6 12 (1.34%) MiFID
6 12 (1.34%) TARGET2
7 9 (1.00%) GDPR
8 8 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
8 8 (0.89%) PMO
9 3 (0.33%) EMIR
9 3 (0.33%) GRC
9 3 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.22%) GxP
10 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.22%) NIST
10 2 (0.22%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.11%) FATCA
11 1 (0.11%) P3O
11 1 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (0.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.11%) Control-M
2 1 (0.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 251 (28.01%) Microsoft
2 35 (3.91%) Salesforce
3 19 (2.12%) SAP
4 13 (1.45%) Anaplan
4 13 (1.45%) Oracle
5 8 (0.89%) Alteryx
5 8 (0.89%) ServiceNow
6 7 (0.78%) Adobe
6 7 (0.78%) Civica
6 7 (0.78%) iManage
7 6 (0.67%) Atlassian
7 6 (0.67%) ION Trading
8 5 (0.56%) Bloomberg
8 5 (0.56%) CQG
8 5 (0.56%) GoldenSource
8 5 (0.56%) Patsystems
8 5 (0.56%) Reuters
8 5 (0.56%) Trayport
8 5 (0.56%) Workday
9 4 (0.45%) HubSpot