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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 226 211
Rank change year-on-year 0 -15 -73
Permanent jobs citing Business Analysis 951 684 995
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.84% 1.38% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 1.56% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 686 514 595
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,150 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,114 £52,500 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £64,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.20% +7.92% -
75th Percentile £70,525 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £48,250
% change year-on-year -4.55% +13.99% -3.50%

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 82,691 43,965 63,361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.84% 88.66% 80.94%
Number of salaries quoted 57,506 24,819 36,681
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,500 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,250
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% -3.23%

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 13 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 13 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 0 860 £57,500 -11.54% 836
UK excluding London +11 513 £52,500 -4.55% 546
Work from Home +40 376 £55,550 -14.54% 377
London -32 359 £70,000 -6.67% 432
North of England +19 177 £52,500 -12.50% 107
South East -18 99 £54,904 -8.49% 159
Midlands -23 90 £52,500 -4.55% 97
Yorkshire +21 83 £60,000 +46.19% 50
West Midlands -13 72 £53,500 -2.73% 61
North West -12 67 £52,000 -13.33% 40
South West -37 62 £50,000 +9.12% 68
East of England -7 52 £50,000 - 52
North East -38 27 £42,500 +6.25% 17
Scotland +5 18 £45,000 +6.98% 36
East Midlands -27 17 £48,000 -25.58% 36
Wales -65 14 £52,500 -4.55% 15
Northern Ireland -83 5 - - 18

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 58 (6.10%) Confluence
2 32 (3.36%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.53%) ColdFusion
4 3 (0.32%) CMS
5 2 (0.21%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.21%) WordPress
6 1 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.11%) Appian
Applications
1 65 (6.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 60 (6.31%) Microsoft Office
3 55 (5.78%) MS Visio
4 30 (3.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 18 (1.89%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.63%) Trello
7 5 (0.53%) Moqups
8 3 (0.32%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (2.52%) NetSuite
2 13 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.95%) Fidessa
4 7 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.42%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.32%) Exchequer
6 3 (0.32%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 3 (0.32%) Magento
6 3 (0.32%) Sage 50
6 3 (0.32%) Sage X3
6 3 (0.32%) SAP Business One
6 3 (0.32%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.32%) SAP FI
6 3 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (0.32%) Shopify
7 2 (0.21%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.21%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.21%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 108 (11.36%) Power Platform
2 101 (10.62%) Azure
3 46 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
3 46 (4.84%) Microsoft 365
4 41 (4.31%) AWS
5 39 (4.10%) SaaS
6 35 (3.68%) Dynamics 365
7 33 (3.47%) Power Automate
8 24 (2.52%) Lucidchart
9 23 (2.42%) Microsoft Copilot
10 16 (1.68%) Anthropic Claude
11 15 (1.58%) PowerApps
12 13 (1.37%) Zapier
13 12 (1.26%) GCP
14 10 (1.05%) Copilot Studio
14 10 (1.05%) iPaaS
15 8 (0.84%) Boomi
15 8 (0.84%) Figma
15 8 (0.84%) Workato
16 6 (0.63%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.95%) Multicast
2 7 (0.74%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.11%) DSL
3 1 (0.11%) Intranet
3 1 (0.11%) LAN
3 1 (0.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (9.99%) Power BI
2 19 (2.00%) Relational Database
3 17 (1.79%) SQL Server
3 17 (1.79%) Tableau
4 10 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (0.95%) Metadata
6 6 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (0.63%) DTS
7 4 (0.42%) RDBMS
8 3 (0.32%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (0.32%) Crystal Reports
8 3 (0.32%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.32%) MySQL
8 3 (0.32%) Spotfire
8 3 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.21%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.21%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.21%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.21%) SAP BW
9 2 (0.21%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 117 (12.30%) JIRA
2 7 (0.74%) Claude Code
3 6 (0.63%) Cypress.io
3 6 (0.63%) Selenium
4 5 (0.53%) Postman
5 3 (0.32%) Git
5 3 (0.32%) Hudson
6 2 (0.21%) Balsamiq
6 2 (0.21%) ERwin
6 2 (0.21%) LSMW
7 1 (0.11%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.11%) JIRA Agile
7 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 391 (41.11%) Social Skills
2 347 (36.49%) Finance
3 308 (32.39%) Analytical Skills
4 119 (12.51%) Public Sector
5 102 (10.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 81 (8.52%) Law
7 55 (5.78%) Legal
8 53 (5.57%) Documentation Skills
8 53 (5.57%) Presentation Skills
9 52 (5.47%) Organisational Skills
10 45 (4.73%) Influencing Skills
11 39 (4.10%) Manufacturing
12 36 (3.79%) Retail
13 25 (2.63%) Banking
14 23 (2.42%) Marketing
15 22 (2.31%) Legal Technology
16 19 (2.00%) Local Government
17 17 (1.79%) Aerospace
17 17 (1.79%) Spanish Language
18 16 (1.68%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 582 (61.20%) Analyst
2 493 (51.84%) Business Analyst
3 173 (18.19%) Senior
4 137 (14.41%) Senior Analyst
5 127 (13.35%) Senior Business Analyst
6 61 (6.41%) Lead
7 52 (5.47%) Consultant
8 39 (4.10%) Technical Analyst
9 37 (3.89%) Technical Business Analyst
10 34 (3.58%) Business Manager
10 34 (3.58%) Project Manager
11 30 (3.15%) Lead Business Analyst
12 29 (3.05%) Systems Analyst
13 27 (2.84%) Product Manager
14 25 (2.63%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
15 23 (2.42%) Applications Support
15 23 (2.42%) Data Analyst
15 23 (2.42%) Product Analyst
16 22 (2.31%) Business Systems Analyst
17 21 (2.21%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.21%) FIX Protocol
2 17 (1.79%) REST
3 14 (1.47%) .NET
4 13 (1.37%) XML
5 11 (1.16%) Gherkin
5 11 (1.16%) SOAP
6 7 (0.74%) JSON
6 7 (0.74%) Playwright
7 5 (0.53%) CrewAI
7 5 (0.53%) LangChain
7 5 (0.53%) LlamaIndex
8 4 (0.42%) Lightning Web Components
9 3 (0.32%) .NET Core
9 3 (0.32%) EDI
9 3 (0.32%) FpML
9 3 (0.32%) Middleware
9 3 (0.32%) Oracle Fusion
9 3 (0.32%) WinForms
10 2 (0.21%) RESTful
10 2 (0.21%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 115 (12.09%) Product Ownership
2 52 (5.47%) Management Information System
3 25 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
4 23 (2.42%) Data Structures
5 22 (2.31%) AI Agents
6 21 (2.21%) Low-Code
7 20 (2.10%) Onboarding
8 19 (2.00%) Derivative
9 18 (1.89%) Fixed Income
10 16 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (1.37%) Blog
11 13 (1.37%) IoT
12 12 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 12 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
13 10 (1.05%) PMI
13 10 (1.05%) PropTech
14 9 (0.95%) Distributed Architecture
14 9 (0.95%) Equities
14 9 (0.95%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 23 (2.42%) Linux
2 18 (1.89%) Windows
3 3 (0.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 423 (44.48%) Agile
2 288 (30.28%) Problem-Solving
3 284 (29.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 275 (28.92%) Requirements Gathering
5 215 (22.61%) User Stories
6 208 (21.87%) Workshop Facilitation
7 197 (20.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 191 (20.08%) Continuous Improvement
9 190 (19.98%) Process Improvement
10 179 (18.82%) AI
11 158 (16.61%) Project Management
12 151 (15.88%) Decision-Making
13 149 (15.67%) Project Delivery
14 129 (13.56%) Scrum
15 119 (12.51%) User Acceptance Testing
16 117 (12.30%) Business Intelligence
17 115 (12.09%) Acceptance Criteria
18 111 (11.67%) Coaching
19 101 (10.62%) Waterfall
20 88 (9.25%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 141 (14.83%) SQL
2 39 (4.10%) Python
3 22 (2.31%) JavaScript
4 21 (2.21%) Java
5 19 (2.00%) C++
6 15 (1.58%) C#
7 8 (0.84%) TypeScript
8 6 (0.63%) T-SQL
9 4 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.32%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.21%) Ada
12 1 (0.11%) R
12 1 (0.11%) RPG
12 1 (0.11%) SOQL
12 1 (0.11%) SOSL
12 1 (0.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 164 (17.25%) Degree
2 104 (10.94%) Security Cleared
3 84 (8.83%) SC Cleared
4 38 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (3.05%) ACCA
6 28 (2.94%) CIMA
7 21 (2.21%) IIBA
7 21 (2.21%) PMI Certification
8 17 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.47%) CBAP
10 13 (1.37%) PMP
11 11 (1.16%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.63%) CFA
12 6 (0.63%) ISEB
13 5 (0.53%) DV Cleared
13 5 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.42%) CSPO
14 4 (0.42%) Master's Degree
15 3 (0.32%) CRISC
15 3 (0.32%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (5.36%) QA
2 43 (4.52%) Data Quality
3 24 (2.52%) PMO
4 15 (1.58%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.47%) GAAP
5 14 (1.47%) GDPR
6 12 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.42%) COBIT
7 4 (0.42%) NIST
8 3 (0.32%) GRC
8 3 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 3 (0.32%) NCSC
9 2 (0.21%) MiFID
9 2 (0.21%) SLA
10 1 (0.11%) COSO
10 1 (0.11%) Good Clinical Practice
10 1 (0.11%) GxP
10 1 (0.11%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (0.21%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.11%) IAG
Systems Management
1 2 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.11%) Kibana
2 1 (0.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.11%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 157 (16.51%) Microsoft
2 41 (4.31%) Salesforce
3 35 (3.68%) SAP
4 20 (2.10%) ServiceNow
5 19 (2.00%) Oracle
6 17 (1.79%) Google
7 15 (1.58%) JD Edwards
8 14 (1.47%) YouTube
9 12 (1.26%) Intapp
10 11 (1.16%) Workday
11 10 (1.05%) Atlassian
12 9 (0.95%) Bloomberg
12 9 (0.95%) CQG
12 9 (0.95%) FIS
12 9 (0.95%) ION Trading
12 9 (0.95%) Patsystems
12 9 (0.95%) Reuters
12 9 (0.95%) SunGard
12 9 (0.95%) Trayport
13 8 (0.84%) RedGate