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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 176 182 133
Rank change year-on-year +6 -49 -5
Permanent jobs citing Business Analysis 843 913 1,137
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.43% 1.62% 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.72% 1.81% 2.49%
Number of salaries quoted 646 573 817
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £39,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,628 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £73,656 £76,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £90,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year -21.52% +1.93% -4.76%

All Process and 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 48,896 50,574 45,621
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.87% 89.56% 93.72%
Number of salaries quoted 28,687 25,549 34,991
10th Percentile £28,450 £35,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -3.23%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,924 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.05% +4.76% -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 20 December 2025.

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 20 December 2025. 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 +18 774 £52,500 -11.76% 317
UK excluding London +8 471 £40,000 -21.52% 312
London +39 318 £75,000 +3.45% 90
North of England +39 219 £40,000 -11.11% 88
Work from Home +37 205 £62,500 +4.17% 69
North West +51 107 £42,500 -22.73% 48
Yorkshire +65 86 £40,000 -20.00% 31
South East +6 74 £54,500 +6.93% 97
Midlands -15 63 £40,000 -27.27% 57
West Midlands +15 49 £40,000 -23.81% 34
South West -7 46 £40,000 -15.79% 25
Scotland +7 33 £38,750 -8.82% 12
East of England -31 29 £40,000 -21.52% 27
North East -19 26 £36,250 -3.33% 12
East Midlands -26 14 £50,195 -33.07% 23
Wales -2 8 £50,000 +5.26% 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 36 (4.27%) Confluence
2 18 (2.14%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.24%) CMS
3 2 (0.24%) IIS
3 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.24%) SAS
4 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 167 (19.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (3.68%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (3.44%) MS Visio
4 24 (2.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.83%) Adobe XD
5 7 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.12%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (0.71%) SAP WM
2 5 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.59%) Unit4 Business World
3 4 (0.47%) Elite 3E
3 4 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.36%) Endur
4 3 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.24%) Bloomberg AIM
5 2 (0.24%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.24%) iTrent
5 2 (0.24%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.12%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.12%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.12%) PeopleSoft HRMS
6 1 (0.12%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.12%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.12%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 62 (7.35%) Power Platform
2 52 (6.17%) Azure
3 40 (4.74%) Microsoft 365
4 28 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
4 28 (3.32%) SaaS
5 23 (2.73%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 20 (2.37%) Cloud Computing
7 18 (2.14%) Dynamics 365
8 15 (1.78%) Miro
8 15 (1.78%) PaaS
9 13 (1.54%) Power Automate
10 12 (1.42%) AWS
11 9 (1.07%) ChatGPT
12 8 (0.95%) Figma
12 8 (0.95%) IaaS
12 8 (0.95%) Microsoft Copilot
13 7 (0.83%) PowerApps
14 5 (0.59%) Azure Data Factory
14 5 (0.59%) Entra ID
14 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.47%) Unified Communications
2 3 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.24%) 4G
3 2 (0.24%) FIX Connectivity
3 2 (0.24%) Multicast
3 2 (0.24%) RFID
4 1 (0.12%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.12%) DHCP
4 1 (0.12%) DNS
4 1 (0.12%) Firewall
4 1 (0.12%) Intranet
4 1 (0.12%) Network Security
4 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (15.90%) Tableau
2 124 (14.71%) Data Mining
3 47 (5.58%) Power BI
4 20 (2.37%) Big Data
5 16 (1.90%) SQL Server
6 10 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (0.71%) Data Lake
8 5 (0.59%) Metadata
8 5 (0.59%) MS Access
9 4 (0.47%) BusinessObjects
9 4 (0.47%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.47%) Qlik Sense
9 4 (0.47%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (0.36%) GIS
10 3 (0.36%) Power Query
11 1 (0.12%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.12%) MySQL
11 1 (0.12%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 54 (6.41%) JIRA
2 4 (0.47%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.12%) Balsamiq
4 1 (0.12%) Git
4 1 (0.12%) GitLab
4 1 (0.12%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.12%) Maven
4 1 (0.12%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 470 (55.75%) Finance
2 293 (34.76%) Analytical Skills
3 290 (34.40%) Social Skills
4 88 (10.44%) Marketing
5 73 (8.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 60 (7.12%) Banking
7 55 (6.52%) Legal
8 44 (5.22%) Public Sector
9 39 (4.63%) Retail
10 28 (3.32%) Law
11 27 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
12 23 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
13 20 (2.37%) Manufacturing
14 16 (1.90%) Back Office
15 15 (1.78%) Billing
15 15 (1.78%) Financial Institution
15 15 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
16 13 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
17 10 (1.19%) Digital Health
18 8 (0.95%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 531 (62.99%) Analyst
2 380 (45.08%) Business Analyst
3 232 (27.52%) Trainee
4 219 (25.98%) Trainee Analyst
5 129 (15.30%) Data Analyst
6 110 (13.05%) Trainee Data Analyst
7 109 (12.93%) Trainee Business Analyst
8 93 (11.03%) Senior
9 53 (6.29%) Lead
10 51 (6.05%) Senior Analyst
11 48 (5.69%) Senior Business Analyst
12 44 (5.22%) Project Manager
13 39 (4.63%) Architect
14 37 (4.39%) Lead Business Analyst
15 31 (3.68%) IT Manager
16 30 (3.56%) Developer
17 27 (3.20%) Consultant
17 27 (3.20%) Financial Analyst
17 27 (3.20%) IT Project Manager
18 23 (2.73%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (0.83%) .NET
2 6 (0.71%) React
3 5 (0.59%) Web Services
3 5 (0.59%) XML
4 4 (0.47%) Middleware
5 3 (0.36%) HTML
6 2 (0.24%) CSS
6 2 (0.24%) EDI
6 2 (0.24%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (0.24%) Gherkin
6 2 (0.24%) REST
6 2 (0.24%) RESTful
6 2 (0.24%) Spring
6 2 (0.24%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.12%) CSS3
7 1 (0.12%) Dropwizard
7 1 (0.12%) Mongoose
7 1 (0.12%) Nunjucks
7 1 (0.12%) OpenAPI
7 1 (0.12%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 70 (8.30%) Product Ownership
2 38 (4.51%) Management Information System
3 24 (2.85%) Analytical Mindset
4 21 (2.49%) IoT
5 19 (2.25%) Reinsurance
6 16 (1.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 15 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 14 (1.66%) Onboarding
9 13 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (1.42%) Fixed Income
11 10 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (0.95%) Digital Media
13 8 (0.95%) Social Media
14 7 (0.83%) AI Agents
14 7 (0.83%) PMI
14 7 (0.83%) Virtual Team
15 6 (0.71%) Cloud Native
15 6 (0.71%) Life Science
15 6 (0.71%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.30%) Windows
2 2 (0.24%) Linux
3 1 (0.12%) Android
3 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 347 (41.16%) Project Management
2 309 (36.65%) Agile
3 234 (27.76%) Problem-Solving
4 205 (24.32%) Change Management
5 186 (22.06%) Data Analysis
6 154 (18.27%) Analytics
7 136 (16.13%) Data Analytics
8 132 (15.66%) Stakeholder Management
9 131 (15.54%) Process Improvement
10 126 (14.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 117 (13.88%) Requirements Gathering
12 105 (12.46%) AI
12 105 (12.46%) Continuous Improvement
12 105 (12.46%) Roadmaps
13 104 (12.34%) User Stories
14 98 (11.63%) Decision-Making
15 92 (10.91%) Project Delivery
16 82 (9.73%) Workshop Facilitation
17 77 (9.13%) Scrum
18 67 (7.95%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 190 (22.54%) SQL
2 142 (16.84%) Python
3 10 (1.19%) C#
4 6 (0.71%) VBA
5 5 (0.59%) PL/SQL
6 3 (0.36%) Java
6 3 (0.36%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.24%) Ada
7 2 (0.24%) C++
7 2 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.24%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.24%) R
8 1 (0.12%) ABAP
8 1 (0.12%) Bash
8 1 (0.12%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.12%) VB
Qualifications
1 249 (29.54%) Degree
2 37 (4.39%) Master's Degree
3 34 (4.03%) DBS Check
4 32 (3.80%) Security Cleared
5 31 (3.68%) PMI Certification
6 25 (2.97%) PMP
7 20 (2.37%) HND
7 20 (2.37%) SC Cleared
8 19 (2.25%) CIMA
9 12 (1.42%) ACCA
10 11 (1.30%) CBAP
10 11 (1.30%) DV Cleared
11 10 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (0.95%) IIBA
13 5 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (0.47%) ISTQB
14 4 (0.47%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 3 (0.36%) CFA
15 3 (0.36%) ISEB
15 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (5.93%) QA
2 34 (4.03%) Data Quality
3 22 (2.61%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.78%) SEPA
5 13 (1.54%) MiFID
6 12 (1.42%) ISO 20022
7 11 (1.30%) TARGET2
8 10 (1.19%) PMO
9 7 (0.83%) GDPR
10 6 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.36%) EMIR
13 2 (0.24%) COBIT
13 2 (0.24%) GRC
13 2 (0.24%) GxP
13 2 (0.24%) IFRS
13 2 (0.24%) Solvency II
13 2 (0.24%) UCITS
14 1 (0.12%) GAAP
14 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 6 (0.71%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.12%) Docker
2 1 (0.12%) Firmware
2 1 (0.12%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 4 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.12%) Control-M
2 1 (0.12%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.12%) SCCM
Vendors
1 228 (27.05%) Microsoft
2 41 (4.86%) Salesforce
3 24 (2.85%) SAP
4 12 (1.42%) Oracle
5 10 (1.19%) Anaplan
6 9 (1.07%) ServiceNow
7 8 (0.95%) Atlassian
7 8 (0.95%) Civica
8 7 (0.83%) Adobe
8 7 (0.83%) GoldenSource
8 7 (0.83%) Guidewire
9 6 (0.71%) iManage
9 6 (0.71%) Workday
10 5 (0.59%) Google
11 4 (0.47%) Alteryx
11 4 (0.47%) Bloomberg
11 4 (0.47%) HubSpot
12 3 (0.36%) ION Trading
13 2 (0.24%) Ariba
13 2 (0.24%) CQG