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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 223 210
Rank change year-on-year -3 -13 -74
Permanent jobs citing Business Analysis 1,001 705 1,000
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.85% 1.43% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.17% 1.61% 1.60%
Number of salaries quoted 705 533 590
10th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,250 £43,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,076 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.28% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £75,805
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £52,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year -1.90% +8.25% -3.00%

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 85,591 43,838 62,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.02% 88.74% 81.52%
Number of salaries quoted 59,105 24,621 34,654
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,560
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.45% -4.07%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 25 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 25 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 0 900 £57,500 -8.00% 1,183
UK excluding London -16 549 £51,500 -1.90% 709
Work from Home +52 389 £55,000 -15.38% 435
London -33 368 £70,000 -6.67% 637
North of England +2 180 £52,500 -4.55% 190
South East -21 113 £55,000 -4.35% 167
Midlands -7 94 £50,000 -9.09% 107
Yorkshire +22 82 £55,000 +37.50% 73
South West -35 72 £45,000 +5.26% 75
West Midlands -22 70 £53,000 -3.64% 64
North West -33 70 £50,000 -16.67% 95
East of England +6 51 £46,661 -6.68% 59
North East -49 28 £42,500 +6.25% 23
East Midlands -20 23 £47,750 -19.07% 43
Scotland +4 20 £45,000 +12.50% 58
Wales -58 17 £52,500 -0.21% 19
Northern Ireland -92 6 - - 38

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 66 (6.59%) Confluence
2 33 (3.30%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.50%) ColdFusion
4 3 (0.30%) CMS
5 2 (0.20%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.20%) WordPress
6 1 (0.100%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.100%) Appian
Applications
1 73 (7.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (6.69%) Microsoft Office
3 62 (6.19%) MS Visio
4 33 (3.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 18 (1.80%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.70%) Moqups
7 6 (0.60%) Trello
8 3 (0.30%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.20%) InDesign
9 2 (0.20%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 21 (2.10%) NetSuite
2 14 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.90%) Fidessa
3 9 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.40%) Magento
4 4 (0.40%) Shopify
5 3 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.30%) Exchequer
5 3 (0.30%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 3 (0.30%) Sage 50
5 3 (0.30%) Sage X3
5 3 (0.30%) SAP Business One
5 3 (0.30%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.30%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.20%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.20%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.20%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 116 (11.59%) Power Platform
2 110 (10.99%) Azure
3 55 (5.49%) Azure DevOps
4 47 (4.70%) Microsoft 365
5 44 (4.40%) AWS
6 42 (4.20%) SaaS
7 39 (3.90%) Dynamics 365
8 34 (3.40%) Power Automate
9 25 (2.50%) Lucidchart
9 25 (2.50%) Microsoft Copilot
10 17 (1.70%) Anthropic Claude
11 13 (1.30%) PowerApps
11 13 (1.30%) Zapier
12 11 (1.10%) GCP
13 10 (1.00%) Copilot Studio
13 10 (1.00%) Figma
13 10 (1.00%) iPaaS
14 9 (0.90%) Microsoft Purview
15 8 (0.80%) Boomi
15 8 (0.80%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.90%) Multicast
2 7 (0.70%) FIX Connectivity
3 4 (0.40%) Internet
4 1 (0.100%) DSL
4 1 (0.100%) Intranet
4 1 (0.100%) LAN
4 1 (0.100%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (10.09%) Power BI
2 22 (2.20%) Relational Database
3 20 (2.00%) Tableau
4 16 (1.60%) SQL Server
5 13 (1.30%) Metadata
6 10 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 7 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (0.60%) DTS
9 3 (0.30%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (0.30%) Crystal Reports
9 3 (0.30%) DynamoDB
9 3 (0.30%) MySQL
9 3 (0.30%) Spotfire
9 3 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.20%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.20%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.20%) Looker
10 2 (0.20%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.20%) SAP BW
10 2 (0.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 130 (12.99%) JIRA
2 8 (0.80%) Claude Code
2 8 (0.80%) Cypress.io
2 8 (0.80%) Selenium
3 7 (0.70%) Postman
4 3 (0.30%) Git
4 3 (0.30%) Hudson
5 2 (0.20%) Artifactory
5 2 (0.20%) Balsamiq
5 2 (0.20%) GitLab
5 2 (0.20%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.20%) LSMW
6 1 (0.100%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.100%) JIRA Agile
6 1 (0.100%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 416 (41.56%) Social Skills
2 371 (37.06%) Finance
3 324 (32.37%) Analytical Skills
4 130 (12.99%) Public Sector
5 101 (10.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 79 (7.89%) Law
7 60 (5.99%) Organisational Skills
8 58 (5.79%) Legal
9 57 (5.69%) Documentation Skills
10 52 (5.19%) Presentation Skills
11 50 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
12 41 (4.10%) Manufacturing
13 38 (3.80%) Retail
14 31 (3.10%) Banking
15 27 (2.70%) Marketing
16 23 (2.30%) Legal Technology
16 23 (2.30%) Local Government
17 19 (1.90%) Aerospace
18 16 (1.60%) Front Office
19 15 (1.50%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 608 (60.74%) Analyst
2 511 (51.05%) Business Analyst
3 177 (17.68%) Senior
4 136 (13.59%) Senior Analyst
5 126 (12.59%) Senior Business Analyst
6 65 (6.49%) Lead
7 54 (5.39%) Consultant
8 44 (4.40%) Technical Analyst
9 42 (4.20%) Technical Business Analyst
10 37 (3.70%) Business Manager
11 34 (3.40%) Project Manager
12 31 (3.10%) Lead Business Analyst
13 29 (2.90%) Product Manager
13 29 (2.90%) Systems Analyst
14 26 (2.60%) Applications Support
14 26 (2.60%) Data Analyst
15 24 (2.40%) Business IT Analyst
15 24 (2.40%) IT Analyst
16 23 (2.30%) Business Systems Analyst
16 23 (2.30%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.00%) REST
2 19 (1.90%) FIX Protocol
3 16 (1.60%) .NET
4 11 (1.10%) Gherkin
4 11 (1.10%) SOAP
4 11 (1.10%) XML
5 9 (0.90%) Playwright
6 6 (0.60%) JSON
6 6 (0.60%) LangChain
7 5 (0.50%) CrewAI
7 5 (0.50%) LlamaIndex
8 4 (0.40%) Lightning Web Components
8 4 (0.40%) Oracle Fusion
9 3 (0.30%) .NET Core
9 3 (0.30%) EDI
9 3 (0.30%) Middleware
9 3 (0.30%) PySpark
9 3 (0.30%) Terraform
9 3 (0.30%) WinForms
10 2 (0.20%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 123 (12.29%) Product Ownership
2 56 (5.59%) Management Information System
3 24 (2.40%) Data Structures
3 24 (2.40%) Low-Code
4 23 (2.30%) AI Agents
5 22 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
5 22 (2.20%) Derivative
5 22 (2.20%) Onboarding
6 18 (1.80%) Fixed Income
7 15 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (1.30%) Blog
8 13 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 12 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (1.10%) PMI
11 10 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (1.00%) IoT
11 10 (1.00%) NHS
12 9 (0.90%) Distributed Computing
12 9 (0.90%) Equities
12 9 (0.90%) Eurex
Operating Systems
1 25 (2.50%) Linux
2 19 (1.90%) Windows
3 3 (0.30%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 442 (44.16%) Agile
2 318 (31.77%) Stakeholder Management
3 315 (31.47%) Problem-Solving
4 296 (29.57%) Requirements Gathering
5 232 (23.18%) Workshop Facilitation
6 225 (22.48%) User Stories
7 215 (21.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 208 (20.78%) Process Improvement
9 202 (20.18%) Continuous Improvement
10 201 (20.08%) AI
11 162 (16.18%) Project Management
12 161 (16.08%) Decision-Making
13 157 (15.68%) Project Delivery
14 134 (13.39%) Scrum
15 126 (12.59%) Acceptance Criteria
15 126 (12.59%) User Acceptance Testing
16 124 (12.39%) Business Intelligence
17 118 (11.79%) Coaching
18 106 (10.59%) Change Management
19 103 (10.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 152 (15.18%) SQL
2 44 (4.40%) Python
3 25 (2.50%) JavaScript
4 24 (2.40%) Java
5 21 (2.10%) C++
6 15 (1.50%) C#
7 9 (0.90%) TypeScript
8 7 (0.70%) T-SQL
9 5 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.30%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.30%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.20%) Ada
11 2 (0.20%) Bash
12 1 (0.100%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.100%) R
12 1 (0.100%) RPG
12 1 (0.100%) SOQL
12 1 (0.100%) SOSL
12 1 (0.100%) VBA
Qualifications
1 173 (17.28%) Degree
2 106 (10.59%) Security Cleared
3 85 (8.49%) SC Cleared
4 34 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (2.90%) ACCA
6 28 (2.80%) CIMA
7 24 (2.40%) IIBA
8 22 (2.20%) PMI Certification
9 16 (1.60%) CBAP
10 15 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
11 14 (1.40%) PMP
12 11 (1.10%) DBS Check
13 10 (1.00%) DV Cleared
14 7 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
15 6 (0.60%) CFA
15 6 (0.60%) ISEB
16 4 (0.40%) CSPO
16 4 (0.40%) Master's Degree
17 3 (0.30%) CISSP
17 3 (0.30%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (6.19%) QA
2 53 (5.29%) Data Quality
3 26 (2.60%) PMO
4 15 (1.50%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.50%) GDPR
5 13 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.10%) GAAP
7 4 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.40%) COBIT
7 4 (0.40%) NIST
8 3 (0.30%) GRC
8 3 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 3 (0.30%) NCSC
9 2 (0.20%) Good Clinical Practice
9 2 (0.20%) ISO 13485
9 2 (0.20%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.20%) MiFID
9 2 (0.20%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.20%) SOC 3
10 1 (0.100%) GxP
System Software
1 2 (0.20%) Docker
2 1 (0.100%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.100%) IAG
Systems Management
1 3 (0.30%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.20%) Grafana
2 2 (0.20%) Prometheus
2 2 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.100%) Kibana
3 1 (0.100%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 171 (17.08%) Microsoft
2 41 (4.10%) Salesforce
3 39 (3.90%) SAP
4 23 (2.30%) Oracle
5 21 (2.10%) ServiceNow
6 19 (1.90%) Google
7 17 (1.70%) YouTube
8 15 (1.50%) JD Edwards
9 14 (1.40%) Workday
10 12 (1.20%) Intapp
11 10 (1.00%) Atlassian
12 9 (0.90%) Bloomberg
12 9 (0.90%) CQG
12 9 (0.90%) FIS
12 9 (0.90%) ION Trading
12 9 (0.90%) Patsystems
12 9 (0.90%) Reuters
12 9 (0.90%) Sage
12 9 (0.90%) SunGard
12 9 (0.90%) Trayport