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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 226 217
Rank change year-on-year +6 -9 -74
Permanent jobs citing Business Analysis 960 677 1,014
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.87% 1.35% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 1.53% 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 707 512 607
10th Percentile £40,600 £41,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £64,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.20% +7.92% -
75th Percentile £70,525 £80,188 £74,375
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £96,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +15.79% -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 80,269 44,315 65,850
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.06% 88.64% 80.88%
Number of salaries quoted 55,761 25,263 40,217
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -6.67%
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 £51,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -6.86% -6.87%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 +8 868 £59,000 -9.23% 1,071
UK excluding London +19 519 £52,500 -4.55% 687
Work from Home +43 368 £57,500 -12.06% 362
London -17 368 £70,000 -6.67% 568
North of England +36 179 £52,500 -12.50% 165
South East -25 96 £54,808 -8.65% 171
Midlands -6 93 £52,500 -4.55% 106
Yorkshire +28 86 £60,000 +46.19% 70
West Midlands +5 75 £55,000 - 65
North West -16 65 £50,000 -16.67% 80
South West -44 59 £50,000 +2.26% 102
East of England +7 55 £50,000 - 64
North East -37 28 £42,500 +6.25% 17
Scotland -6 20 £46,250 +4.81% 43
East Midlands -13 17 £48,000 -25.58% 41
Wales -57 14 £52,500 -4.55% 13
Northern Ireland -82 7 £40,000 -40.74% 32

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 59 (6.15%) Confluence
2 29 (3.02%) 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 (7.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (5.94%) Microsoft Office
3 54 (5.63%) MS Visio
4 24 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (1.77%) 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 27 (2.81%) NetSuite
2 13 (1.35%) 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 BRIM
7 1 (0.10%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 104 (10.83%) Azure
2 103 (10.73%) Power Platform
3 46 (4.79%) Azure DevOps
4 45 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
5 41 (4.27%) SaaS
6 40 (4.17%) AWS
7 34 (3.54%) Dynamics 365
8 33 (3.44%) Power Automate
9 24 (2.50%) Lucidchart
10 21 (2.19%) Microsoft Copilot
11 15 (1.56%) Anthropic Claude
11 15 (1.56%) PowerApps
12 14 (1.46%) GCP
13 13 (1.35%) Zapier
14 10 (1.04%) Copilot Studio
14 10 (1.04%) iPaaS
15 8 (0.83%) Boomi
15 8 (0.83%) Figma
15 8 (0.83%) Workato
16 6 (0.63%) Miro
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 (9.38%) Power BI
2 30 (3.13%) Tableau
3 19 (1.98%) Relational Database
4 17 (1.77%) SQL Server
5 16 (1.67%) Data Mining
6 10 (1.04%) Metadata
7 9 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (0.63%) DTS
9 5 (0.52%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.31%) Crystal Reports
10 3 (0.31%) MySQL
10 3 (0.31%) Spotfire
10 3 (0.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.21%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.21%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.21%) GIS
11 2 (0.21%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.21%) SAP BW
11 2 (0.21%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 118 (12.29%) JIRA
2 6 (0.63%) Claude Code
2 6 (0.63%) Cypress.io
2 6 (0.63%) Selenium
3 5 (0.52%) Postman
4 3 (0.31%) ERwin
4 3 (0.31%) Git
4 3 (0.31%) Hudson
5 2 (0.21%) Balsamiq
5 2 (0.21%) LSMW
6 1 (0.10%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.10%) JIRA Agile
6 1 (0.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 386 (40.21%) Social Skills
2 369 (38.44%) Finance
3 310 (32.29%) Analytical Skills
4 116 (12.08%) Public Sector
5 107 (11.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 81 (8.44%) Law
7 53 (5.52%) Legal
7 53 (5.52%) Presentation Skills
8 50 (5.21%) Documentation Skills
9 49 (5.10%) Influencing Skills
9 49 (5.10%) Organisational Skills
10 36 (3.75%) Retail
11 35 (3.65%) Manufacturing
12 25 (2.60%) Banking
13 23 (2.40%) Marketing
14 22 (2.29%) Legal Technology
15 20 (2.08%) Local Government
16 18 (1.88%) Spanish Language
17 15 (1.56%) Front Office
18 13 (1.35%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 606 (63.13%) Analyst
2 504 (52.50%) Business Analyst
3 172 (17.92%) Senior
4 140 (14.58%) Senior Analyst
5 131 (13.65%) Senior Business Analyst
6 67 (6.98%) Lead
7 43 (4.48%) Consultant
8 38 (3.96%) Data Analyst
9 37 (3.85%) Technical Analyst
10 36 (3.75%) Project Manager
11 35 (3.65%) Technical Business Analyst
12 33 (3.44%) Lead Business Analyst
13 30 (3.13%) Business Manager
13 30 (3.13%) Systems Analyst
14 26 (2.71%) Product Manager
14 26 (2.71%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
15 23 (2.40%) Data Business Analyst
15 23 (2.40%) Product Analyst
16 22 (2.29%) Business Systems Analyst
16 22 (2.29%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (2.29%) FIX Protocol
2 17 (1.77%) REST
3 13 (1.35%) .NET
4 11 (1.15%) SOAP
4 11 (1.15%) XML
5 10 (1.04%) Gherkin
6 8 (0.83%) JSON
7 5 (0.52%) CrewAI
7 5 (0.52%) FpML
7 5 (0.52%) LangChain
7 5 (0.52%) LlamaIndex
7 5 (0.52%) Playwright
8 4 (0.42%) Lightning Web Components
9 3 (0.31%) .NET Core
9 3 (0.31%) Middleware
9 3 (0.31%) Oracle Fusion
9 3 (0.31%) WinForms
9 3 (0.31%) XML Schema
10 2 (0.21%) RESTful
10 2 (0.21%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 112 (11.67%) Product Ownership
2 50 (5.21%) Management Information System
3 26 (2.71%) Analytical Mindset
4 25 (2.60%) Data Structures
5 22 (2.29%) AI Agents
6 21 (2.19%) Derivative
7 20 (2.08%) Low-Code
8 18 (1.88%) Fixed Income
8 18 (1.88%) Onboarding
9 16 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (1.35%) Blog
10 13 (1.35%) IoT
11 12 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 11 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
12 11 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
12 11 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
13 10 (1.04%) PMI
13 10 (1.04%) PropTech
14 9 (0.94%) Distributed Computing
14 9 (0.94%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 23 (2.40%) Linux
2 18 (1.88%) Windows
3 3 (0.31%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 421 (43.85%) Agile
2 272 (28.33%) Problem-Solving
3 264 (27.50%) Requirements Gathering
4 261 (27.19%) Stakeholder Management
5 216 (22.50%) User Stories
6 206 (21.46%) Workshop Facilitation
7 196 (20.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 185 (19.27%) Continuous Improvement
9 178 (18.54%) Process Improvement
10 171 (17.81%) Project Management
11 167 (17.40%) AI
12 146 (15.21%) Decision-Making
13 145 (15.10%) Project Delivery
14 125 (13.02%) Scrum
15 115 (11.98%) User Acceptance Testing
16 113 (11.77%) Waterfall
17 112 (11.67%) Acceptance Criteria
17 112 (11.67%) Business Intelligence
18 106 (11.04%) Coaching
19 91 (9.48%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 151 (15.73%) SQL
2 50 (5.21%) Python
3 17 (1.77%) C++
3 17 (1.77%) JavaScript
4 16 (1.67%) Java
5 14 (1.46%) C#
6 6 (0.63%) TypeScript
7 5 (0.52%) T-SQL
8 4 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.31%) VB.NET
10 2 (0.21%) Ada
11 1 (0.10%) R
11 1 (0.10%) RPG
11 1 (0.10%) SOQL
11 1 (0.10%) SOSL
11 1 (0.10%) VBA
Qualifications
1 160 (16.67%) Degree
2 101 (10.52%) Security Cleared
3 81 (8.44%) SC Cleared
4 34 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (3.33%) ACCA
6 31 (3.23%) CIMA
7 24 (2.50%) IIBA
7 24 (2.50%) PMI Certification
8 17 (1.77%) CBAP
8 17 (1.77%) PMP
9 14 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
10 12 (1.25%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.63%) ISEB
12 5 (0.52%) CFA
12 5 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.42%) CSPO
14 3 (0.31%) CRISC
14 3 (0.31%) DV Cleared
14 3 (0.31%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 3 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (4.90%) QA
2 42 (4.38%) Data Quality
3 27 (2.81%) PMO
4 16 (1.67%) GAAP
5 15 (1.56%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.56%) 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%) GxP
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
1 164 (17.08%) Microsoft
2 41 (4.27%) Salesforce
3 33 (3.44%) SAP
4 20 (2.08%) ServiceNow
5 19 (1.98%) Google
5 19 (1.98%) Oracle
6 15 (1.56%) 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 (0.83%) RedGate