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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 209 173
Rank change year-on-year +37 -36 -42
Permanent jobs citing Business Analysis 881 754 1,279
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.38% 1.46% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.72% 1.59% 1.97%
Number of salaries quoted 673 465 894
10th Percentile £28,250 £43,050 £36,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £50,967 £45,525
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,497 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -24.17% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -23.81% - -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 51,136 47,352 64,815
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.03% 91.66% 88.75%
Number of salaries quoted 30,240 22,667 50,432
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,500 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
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 2 February 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 2 February 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 +40 789 £48,119 -19.80% 429
UK excluding London +50 515 £40,000 -23.81% 380
London +45 297 £70,047 -3.38% 154
North of England +71 231 £40,000 -27.27% 79
Work from Home +21 174 £57,500 -3.25% 106
North West +38 105 £40,000 -27.27% 38
Yorkshire +49 93 £40,000 -15.79% 30
Midlands +10 77 £40,000 -27.27% 56
South East +17 69 £50,250 -1.41% 118
West Midlands +20 58 £40,000 -27.27% 30
South West -4 54 £40,000 -26.52% 37
Scotland -4 42 £40,000 -33.33% 28
North East +23 33 £40,000 -33.02% 12
East of England -29 30 £40,000 -21.52% 39
East Midlands -5 19 £57,500 -11.54% 26
Wales +12 13 £50,000 -15.87% 15

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 35 (3.97%) Confluence
2 12 (1.36%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.23%) CMS
4 1 (0.11%) IIS
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.11%) SAS
Applications
1 178 (20.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (3.63%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (3.52%) MS Visio
4 21 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.79%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.11%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 7 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.57%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.57%) Unit4 Business World
4 4 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
4 4 (0.45%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.23%) Endur
5 2 (0.23%) iTrent
5 2 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.11%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.11%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.11%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.11%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 63 (7.15%) Power Platform
2 53 (6.02%) Azure
3 39 (4.43%) Microsoft 365
4 29 (3.29%) SaaS
5 21 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
7 19 (2.16%) Dynamics 365
8 18 (2.04%) AWS
8 18 (2.04%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 17 (1.93%) Miro
9 17 (1.93%) PaaS
10 14 (1.59%) ChatGPT
11 10 (1.14%) Microsoft Copilot
12 8 (0.91%) Azure Data Factory
12 8 (0.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 8 (0.91%) Figma
12 8 (0.91%) IaaS
12 8 (0.91%) Microsoft Purview
12 8 (0.91%) Power Automate
13 6 (0.68%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.57%) Multicast
2 2 (0.23%) 4G
2 2 (0.23%) FIX Connectivity
2 2 (0.23%) LAN
2 2 (0.23%) Network Security
2 2 (0.23%) Unified Communications
2 2 (0.23%) WAN
2 2 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.11%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.11%) DHCP
3 1 (0.11%) DNS
3 1 (0.11%) Firewall
3 1 (0.11%) Intranet
3 1 (0.11%) RFID
3 1 (0.11%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (17.48%) Tableau
2 145 (16.46%) Data Mining
3 52 (5.90%) Power BI
4 20 (2.27%) Big Data
5 9 (1.02%) Data Lake
6 8 (0.91%) SQL Server
7 6 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (0.68%) Metadata
7 6 (0.68%) Power Query
8 5 (0.57%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.45%) Qlik Sense
10 3 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.34%) BusinessObjects
10 3 (0.34%) GIS
10 3 (0.34%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.11%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 46 (5.22%) JIRA
2 4 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (0.23%) 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
1 501 (56.87%) Finance
2 319 (36.21%) Analytical Skills
3 277 (31.44%) Social Skills
4 77 (8.74%) Marketing
5 59 (6.70%) Banking
6 58 (6.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 49 (5.56%) Legal
8 40 (4.54%) Public Sector
9 30 (3.41%) Law
10 27 (3.06%) Retail
11 26 (2.95%) Documentation Skills
12 21 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
13 17 (1.93%) Billing
13 17 (1.93%) Financial Institution
13 17 (1.93%) Manufacturing
14 11 (1.25%) Back Office
14 11 (1.25%) Digital Health
14 11 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 595 (67.54%) Analyst
2 423 (48.01%) Business Analyst
3 279 (31.67%) Trainee
4 266 (30.19%) Trainee Analyst
5 146 (16.57%) Data Analyst
6 134 (15.21%) Trainee Business Analyst
7 132 (14.98%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 88 (9.99%) Senior
9 53 (6.02%) Senior Analyst
10 50 (5.68%) Senior Business Analyst
11 39 (4.43%) Architect
12 33 (3.75%) Lead
13 31 (3.52%) Project Manager
14 23 (2.61%) Lead Business Analyst
15 22 (2.50%) Consultant
15 22 (2.50%) Developer
16 21 (2.38%) IT Analyst
16 21 (2.38%) IT Manager
17 20 (2.27%) Product Manager
17 20 (2.27%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (0.79%) Middleware
1 7 (0.79%) XML
2 6 (0.68%) React
3 5 (0.57%) FIX Protocol
3 5 (0.57%) JSON
4 4 (0.45%) REST
4 4 (0.45%) SOAP
4 4 (0.45%) Web Services
5 3 (0.34%) OpenAPI
5 3 (0.34%) Swagger
6 2 (0.23%) .NET
6 2 (0.23%) CSS
6 2 (0.23%) EDI
6 2 (0.23%) HTML
7 1 (0.11%) Dropwizard
7 1 (0.11%) MERN Stack
7 1 (0.11%) Mongoose
7 1 (0.11%) SAP ALE
7 1 (0.11%) Spring
7 1 (0.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 65 (7.38%) Product Ownership
2 32 (3.63%) Management Information System
3 20 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
3 20 (2.27%) IoT
4 19 (2.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 19 (2.16%) Onboarding
5 18 (2.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 16 (1.82%) Fixed Income
7 14 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (1.25%) AI Agents
8 11 (1.25%) PMI
9 9 (1.02%) Reinsurance
10 8 (0.91%) Enterprise Cloud
10 8 (0.91%) Life Science
10 8 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (0.79%) Cloud Native
12 6 (0.68%) Digital Media
12 6 (0.68%) Social Media
12 6 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.48%) Windows
2 5 (0.57%) Linux
3 1 (0.11%) Android
3 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 367 (41.66%) Project Management
2 307 (34.85%) Agile
3 255 (28.94%) Problem-Solving
4 211 (23.95%) Change Management
5 205 (23.27%) Data Analysis
6 182 (20.66%) Analytics
7 152 (17.25%) Data Analytics
8 121 (13.73%) Stakeholder Management
9 120 (13.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 114 (12.94%) Requirements Gathering
11 113 (12.83%) Process Improvement
12 103 (11.69%) AI
12 103 (11.69%) Decision-Making
13 100 (11.35%) User Stories
14 98 (11.12%) Continuous Improvement
15 94 (10.67%) Roadmaps
16 85 (9.65%) Workshop Facilitation
17 75 (8.51%) Project Delivery
18 73 (8.29%) Scrum
19 72 (8.17%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 211 (23.95%) SQL
2 159 (18.05%) Python
3 6 (0.68%) Java
4 5 (0.57%) C#
5 4 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (0.23%) Ada
6 2 (0.23%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.23%) R
6 2 (0.23%) X++
7 1 (0.11%) C++
7 1 (0.11%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.11%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 266 (30.19%) Degree
2 42 (4.77%) Security Cleared
3 30 (3.41%) PMI Certification
4 28 (3.18%) Master's Degree
5 24 (2.72%) DBS Check
6 23 (2.61%) IIBA
6 23 (2.61%) SC Cleared
7 20 (2.27%) CIMA
7 20 (2.27%) HND
7 20 (2.27%) PMP
8 15 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (1.59%) ACCA
10 12 (1.36%) DV Cleared
11 8 (0.91%) CBAP
12 7 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (0.57%) ISEB
13 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.45%) ISTQB
15 3 (0.34%) AWS Certification
15 3 (0.34%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (4.77%) QA
2 24 (2.72%) Data Quality
3 23 (2.61%) Accessibility
4 16 (1.82%) SEPA
5 14 (1.59%) ISO 20022
6 12 (1.36%) MiFID
6 12 (1.36%) TARGET2
7 9 (1.02%) GDPR
8 8 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.68%) PMO
10 3 (0.34%) EMIR
10 3 (0.34%) GRC
10 3 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.23%) GxP
11 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 2 (0.23%) NIST
11 2 (0.23%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.11%) FATCA
12 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.11%) P3O
System Software
1 6 (0.68%) 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
1 247 (28.04%) Microsoft
2 30 (3.41%) Salesforce
3 19 (2.16%) SAP
4 13 (1.48%) Anaplan
5 12 (1.36%) Oracle
6 8 (0.91%) Alteryx
6 8 (0.91%) ServiceNow
7 7 (0.79%) Adobe
7 7 (0.79%) iManage
8 6 (0.68%) Atlassian
8 6 (0.68%) Civica
8 6 (0.68%) ION Trading
9 5 (0.57%) Bloomberg
9 5 (0.57%) CQG
9 5 (0.57%) GoldenSource
9 5 (0.57%) Patsystems
9 5 (0.57%) Reuters
9 5 (0.57%) Trayport
9 5 (0.57%) Workday
10 4 (0.45%) HubSpot