Business Analysis Jobs

Business Analysis
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Business Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Business Analysis over the 6 months leading up to 6 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 219 188 145
Rank change year-on-year -31 -43 +20
Permanent jobs citing Business Analysis 799 1,373 2,740
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.41% 1.68% 2.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.51% 1.90% 2.58%
Number of salaries quoted 470 830 1,849
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,967 £44,536 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,215 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.66% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,938 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £92,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,967 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.92% -4.55% +10.00%

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 53,030 72,159 106,312
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.89% 88.20% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 25,155 53,246 63,311
10th Percentile £33,750 £29,440 £34,500
25th Percentile £45,442 £40,000 £45,639
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,793 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.59% -9.09% +5.77%

Business Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Business Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Business Analysis in the UK

Business Analysis
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Business Analysis.

Salary trend for Business Analysis in the UK

Business Analysis
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Analysis over the 6 months to 6 March 2025.

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 6 March 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 -19 729 £59,430 +8.05% 356
UK excluding London -29 502 £50,967 -2.92% 170
Work from Home -19 274 £59,715 +8.57% 174
London -31 274 £75,000 +7.14% 210
North of England +11 141 £50,000 -4.76% 50
North West +29 120 £45,628 -9.65% 33
South East -39 81 £50,967 -2.92% 42
South West +58 77 £54,439 -1.02% 22
East of England -32 77 £50,967 +19.92% 9
Midlands -27 74 £55,000 +22.22% 28
West Midlands -21 54 £52,500 +10.53% 17
Scotland +23 49 £62,000 +18.10% 19
East Midlands +27 20 £65,000 +56.63% 12
Yorkshire +17 13 £71,991 +30.89% 11
North East +17 8 £59,715 +13.74% 6
Wales +33 4 £63,965 -5.33% 2
Northern Ireland +12 2 £64,715 +4.55% 3

Business Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 75 (9.39%) Oracle Application Server
2 25 (3.13%) Confluence
3 22 (2.75%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.13%) CMS
5 6 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.63%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.25%) Apache
9 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.13%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.13%) nginx
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 44 (5.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (4.01%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (3.38%) MS Visio
4 12 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.75%) Trello
7 2 (0.25%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 15 (1.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.00%) Teamcenter
3 7 (0.88%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.88%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 5 (0.63%) Fidessa
5 4 (0.50%) iTrent
6 3 (0.38%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.38%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.25%) BPCS
7 2 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.25%) Shopify
8 1 (0.13%) Eloqua
8 1 (0.13%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.13%) Odoo
8 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.13%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.13%) SAP PM
8 1 (0.13%) SAP PP
8 1 (0.13%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.13%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 53 (6.63%) Power Platform
2 46 (5.76%) Azure
3 28 (3.50%) SaaS
4 22 (2.75%) Dynamics 365
5 18 (2.25%) AWS
6 15 (1.88%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (1.38%) Power Automate
8 11 (1.38%) PowerApps
9 7 (0.88%) GitHub
10 6 (0.75%) Azure Logic Apps
10 6 (0.75%) Google Analytics
10 6 (0.75%) PaaS
11 5 (0.63%) dbt
11 5 (0.63%) GCP
11 5 (0.63%) WhatsApp
12 4 (0.50%) Serverless
13 3 (0.38%) Azure Functions
13 3 (0.38%) Figma
13 3 (0.38%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.38%) Multicast
2 1 (0.13%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
2 84 (10.51%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 75 (9.39%) Oracle Reports
4 53 (6.63%) SQL Server
5 28 (3.50%) Power BI
6 23 (2.88%) Tableau
7 15 (1.88%) Data Mining
8 13 (1.63%) NoSQL
9 8 (1.00%) Data Lake
10 6 (0.75%) MongoDB
10 6 (0.75%) Relational Database
11 5 (0.63%) Apache Hive
12 3 (0.38%) Big Data
12 3 (0.38%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 1 (0.13%) MS Access
14 1 (0.13%) OLAP
14 1 (0.13%) PostgreSQL
14 1 (0.13%) Snowflake Schema
14 1 (0.13%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 53 (6.63%) JIRA
2 11 (1.38%) Selenium
3 7 (0.88%) Git
4 3 (0.38%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.13%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.13%) Maven
5 1 (0.13%) MSBuild
5 1 (0.13%) NUnit
5 1 (0.13%) Postman
5 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 392 (49.06%) Social Skills
2 330 (41.30%) Analytical Skills
3 275 (34.42%) Finance
4 117 (14.64%) Organisational Skills
5 97 (12.14%) Influencing Skills
6 75 (9.39%) Military
7 58 (7.26%) Retail
8 41 (5.13%) Marketing
9 39 (4.88%) Banking
10 36 (4.51%) Legal
11 31 (3.88%) Law
12 30 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 26 (3.25%) Public Sector
13 26 (3.25%) Publishing
14 22 (2.75%) Front Office
15 18 (2.25%) Manufacturing
16 17 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
17 11 (1.38%) Automotive
17 11 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
18 10 (1.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 392 (49.06%) Analyst
2 248 (31.04%) Business Analyst
3 110 (13.77%) Senior
4 91 (11.39%) Change Analyst
5 90 (11.26%) Business Change Analyst
6 77 (9.64%) Senior Analyst
7 62 (7.76%) Developer
8 60 (7.51%) Senior Business Analyst
9 45 (5.63%) Lead
10 42 (5.26%) Consultant
11 40 (5.01%) Architect
12 30 (3.75%) Project Manager
12 30 (3.75%) Software Developer
12 30 (3.75%) Solutions Architect
13 25 (3.13%) Database Engineer
13 25 (3.13%) IT Analyst
14 24 (3.00%) Business IT Analyst
14 24 (3.00%) Business Manager
14 24 (3.00%) IT Business Analyst
15 23 (2.88%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.50%) CSS
2 19 (2.38%) HTML
3 18 (2.25%) .NET
4 16 (2.00%) SailPoint
5 9 (1.13%) Pandas
6 8 (1.00%) Node.js
6 8 (1.00%) NumPy
6 8 (1.00%) React
7 7 (0.88%) GraphQL
7 7 (0.88%) REST
8 5 (0.63%) FIX Protocol
8 5 (0.63%) Middleware
8 5 (0.63%) Redux
9 4 (0.50%) XML
10 3 (0.38%) Kafka
10 3 (0.38%) LDAP
10 3 (0.38%) OAuth
10 3 (0.38%) Web Services
11 2 (0.25%) AngularJS
11 2 (0.25%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 67 (8.39%) Product Ownership
2 62 (7.76%) Management Information System
3 35 (4.38%) Analytical Mindset
4 17 (2.13%) Derivative
5 16 (2.00%) Onboarding
6 14 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
6 14 (1.75%) Fixed Income
7 13 (1.63%) Data Structures
8 12 (1.50%) Hedge funds
9 11 (1.38%) Algorithms
9 11 (1.38%) FMCG
9 11 (1.38%) PMI
10 10 (1.25%) Operational Technology
11 9 (1.13%) Social Media
12 8 (1.00%) Low-Code
13 7 (0.88%) Equities
13 7 (0.88%) Marketing Technology
14 5 (0.63%) Cloud Native
14 5 (0.63%) Mobile App
14 5 (0.63%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 26 (3.25%) Windows
2 15 (1.88%) Linux
3 8 (1.00%) Windows Server
3 8 (1.00%) Windows Vista
4 7 (0.88%) Android
4 7 (0.88%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.25%) Unix
6 1 (0.13%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 366 (45.81%) Agile
2 263 (32.92%) Problem-Solving
3 168 (21.03%) Analytics
4 157 (19.65%) Stakeholder Management
5 156 (19.52%) Project Management
5 156 (19.52%) Workshop Facilitation
6 152 (19.02%) Continuous Improvement
7 143 (17.90%) Change Management
8 138 (17.27%) ITIL
8 138 (17.27%) Use Case
9 123 (15.39%) Business Case
10 121 (15.14%) DevOps
11 117 (14.64%) Data Modelling
12 114 (14.27%) Requirements Gathering
13 108 (13.52%) Collaborative Working
14 106 (13.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 103 (12.89%) Strategic Thinking
16 100 (12.52%) Service Management
17 98 (12.27%) Customer Experience
18 92 (11.51%) MoSCoW
Programming Languages
1 79 (9.89%) SQL
2 42 (5.26%) Python
3 41 (5.13%) Java
4 36 (4.51%) C#
5 15 (1.88%) JavaScript
6 9 (1.13%) PowerShell
7 7 (0.88%) VBA
8 6 (0.75%) R
9 5 (0.63%) Ruby
9 5 (0.63%) T-SQL
10 4 (0.50%) Go
11 2 (0.25%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.25%) C++
11 2 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.25%) RPG
11 2 (0.25%) RPG IV
11 2 (0.25%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.25%) SOQL
12 1 (0.13%) PHP
12 1 (0.13%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 184 (23.03%) Degree
2 109 (13.64%) CBAP
3 84 (10.51%) DBS Check
4 30 (3.75%) Security Cleared
5 28 (3.50%) Master's Degree
6 26 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
7 24 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 21 (2.63%) PMI Certification
8 21 (2.63%) SC Cleared
9 11 (1.38%) IIBA
10 10 (1.25%) PMP
11 8 (1.00%) MBA
11 8 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (1.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 6 (0.75%) CSPO
13 4 (0.50%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 4 (0.50%) Numerate Degree
13 4 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (7.38%) QA
2 22 (2.75%) PMO
3 12 (1.50%) Data Quality
4 7 (0.88%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (0.63%) ISO 20022
6 5 (0.63%) SEPA
6 5 (0.63%) TARGET2
7 3 (0.38%) GDPR
8 2 (0.25%) EMIR
8 2 (0.25%) MiFID
9 1 (0.13%) GRC
9 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (0.63%) Docker
2 3 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (0.63%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.13%) Ansible
2 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 109 (13.64%) Oracle
2 85 (10.64%) Microsoft
3 19 (2.38%) SAP
4 18 (2.25%) Salesforce
5 16 (2.00%) CyberArk
5 16 (2.00%) ForgeRock
5 16 (2.00%) Ping Identity
6 12 (1.50%) Guidewire
7 9 (1.13%) Atlassian
8 8 (1.00%) Siemens
9 7 (0.88%) BISAM
9 7 (0.88%) Duck Creek
10 6 (0.75%) Google
10 6 (0.75%) Pega
10 6 (0.75%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.63%) Infor
12 4 (0.50%) Bloomberg
12 4 (0.50%) Charles River
12 4 (0.50%) IBM
12 4 (0.50%) ION Trading