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

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 178 204 137
Rank change year-on-year +26 -67 -9
Permanent jobs citing Business Analysis 811 859 1,207
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.44% 1.38% 2.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.71% 1.59% 2.55%
Number of salaries quoted 624 548 871
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +0.84%
75th Percentile £75,062 £77,500 £76,875
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -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 47,424 53,892 47,309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.09% 86.75% 93.74%
Number of salaries quoted 28,060 28,022 36,472
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
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% - -0.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -1.87%

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 7 December 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 7 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 +29 748 £55,000 -8.33% 840
UK excluding London +35 440 £40,000 -20.00% 807
London +47 324 £75,000 +2.29% 185
Work from Home +27 204 £62,500 +4.17% 145
North of England +40 200 £40,000 -11.11% 227
North West +54 104 £52,500 -4.55% 119
Yorkshire +49 75 £40,000 -20.00% 73
South East +42 72 £55,000 +24.29% 195
Midlands -27 60 £40,000 -23.81% 164
West Midlands +14 47 £40,000 -23.81% 103
South West +13 44 £40,000 -18.37% 70
East of England +29 28 £40,000 -28.89% 82
Scotland -4 28 £36,250 -10.49% 38
North East -30 21 £40,000 +6.67% 38
East Midlands -34 13 £55,000 -26.67% 60
Wales +4 8 £50,000 +5.26% 30
Northern Ireland -5 1 - - 11

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 41 (5.06%) Confluence
2 21 (2.59%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.25%) CMS
4 2 (0.25%) IIS
4 2 (0.25%) SAS
5 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 151 (18.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (4.07%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (3.21%) MS Visio
4 25 (3.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.86%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (0.99%) SAP WM
2 5 (0.62%) Unit4 Business World
3 4 (0.49%) Elite 3E
3 4 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.37%) Endur
4 3 (0.37%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.25%) Bloomberg AIM
5 2 (0.25%) iTrent
5 2 (0.25%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.12%) Adaptiv
6 1 (0.12%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.12%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.12%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.12%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 64 (7.89%) Power Platform
2 56 (6.91%) Azure
3 40 (4.93%) Microsoft 365
4 31 (3.82%) Azure DevOps
4 31 (3.82%) SaaS
5 24 (2.96%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 19 (2.34%) Dynamics 365
7 16 (1.97%) Cloud Computing
7 16 (1.97%) PaaS
8 14 (1.73%) Miro
8 14 (1.73%) Power Automate
9 13 (1.60%) AWS
10 9 (1.11%) Microsoft Copilot
11 7 (0.86%) Figma
11 7 (0.86%) IaaS
11 7 (0.86%) PowerApps
12 6 (0.74%) ChatGPT
12 6 (0.74%) Microsoft Purview
13 5 (0.62%) Azure Data Factory
14 4 (0.49%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.49%) Unified Communications
2 3 (0.37%) FIX Connectivity
2 3 (0.37%) Multicast
2 3 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.25%) 4G
3 2 (0.25%) HTTP
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%) RFID
4 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.12%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (14.06%) Tableau
2 105 (12.95%) Data Mining
3 49 (6.04%) Power BI
4 17 (2.10%) SQL Server
5 16 (1.97%) Big Data
6 10 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (0.86%) Data Lake
8 5 (0.62%) Metadata
8 5 (0.62%) MS Access
9 4 (0.49%) BusinessObjects
9 4 (0.49%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.49%) Power Query
9 4 (0.49%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (0.37%) GIS
10 3 (0.37%) Qlik Sense
11 1 (0.12%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.12%) MySQL
11 1 (0.12%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 61 (7.52%) JIRA
2 4 (0.49%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
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
1 436 (53.76%) Finance
2 289 (35.64%) Social Skills
3 274 (33.79%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (10.60%) Marketing
5 75 (9.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 61 (7.52%) Banking
7 55 (6.78%) Legal
8 39 (4.81%) Retail
9 33 (4.07%) Public Sector
10 27 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
10 27 (3.33%) Law
10 27 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
11 20 (2.47%) Manufacturing
12 17 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
13 16 (1.97%) Billing
14 15 (1.85%) Back Office
14 15 (1.85%) Financial Institution
15 13 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
16 8 (0.99%) Advertising
16 8 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 491 (60.54%) Analyst
2 353 (43.53%) Business Analyst
3 198 (24.41%) Trainee
4 186 (22.93%) Trainee Analyst
5 111 (13.69%) Data Analyst
6 97 (11.96%) Senior
7 94 (11.59%) Trainee Business Analyst
8 92 (11.34%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 58 (7.15%) Lead
10 52 (6.41%) Senior Analyst
11 48 (5.92%) Senior Business Analyst
12 47 (5.80%) Project Manager
13 42 (5.18%) Architect
14 41 (5.06%) Lead Business Analyst
15 33 (4.07%) Developer
16 32 (3.95%) IT Manager
17 28 (3.45%) Financial Analyst
17 28 (3.45%) IT Project Manager
18 27 (3.33%) Consultant
19 24 (2.96%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (0.99%) .NET
1 8 (0.99%) React
2 6 (0.74%) Middleware
3 5 (0.62%) Web Services
3 5 (0.62%) XML
4 4 (0.49%) FIX Protocol
5 3 (0.37%) Gherkin
5 3 (0.37%) HTML
6 2 (0.25%) CSS
6 2 (0.25%) REST
6 2 (0.25%) RESTful
6 2 (0.25%) Spring
6 2 (0.25%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.12%) Apache CXF
7 1 (0.12%) CSS3
7 1 (0.12%) Entity Framework
7 1 (0.12%) FreeMarker
7 1 (0.12%) HTML5
7 1 (0.12%) Node.js
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 69 (8.51%) Product Ownership
2 33 (4.07%) Management Information System
3 26 (3.21%) Analytical Mindset
4 19 (2.34%) Reinsurance
5 17 (2.10%) IoT
5 17 (2.10%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 16 (1.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 16 (1.97%) Onboarding
7 13 (1.60%) Fixed Income
8 10 (1.23%) Digital Media
8 10 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.11%) Social Media
10 8 (0.99%) AI Agents
11 7 (0.86%) PMI
12 6 (0.74%) OTC Derivatives
12 6 (0.74%) Virtual Team
12 6 (0.74%) Wiki
13 5 (0.62%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.36%) Windows
2 3 (0.37%) Linux
3 1 (0.12%) Android
3 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (39.46%) Project Management
2 301 (37.11%) Agile
3 211 (26.02%) Problem-Solving
4 185 (22.81%) Change Management
5 168 (20.72%) Data Analysis
6 140 (17.26%) Analytics
7 138 (17.02%) Stakeholder Management
8 132 (16.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 126 (15.54%) Process Improvement
10 122 (15.04%) Data Analytics
10 122 (15.04%) Requirements Gathering
11 110 (13.56%) Continuous Improvement
12 105 (12.95%) AI
12 105 (12.95%) Roadmaps
13 100 (12.33%) User Stories
14 97 (11.96%) Decision-Making
15 94 (11.59%) Project Delivery
16 76 (9.37%) Scrum
17 72 (8.88%) Workshop Facilitation
18 65 (8.01%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 174 (21.45%) SQL
2 125 (15.41%) Python
3 11 (1.36%) C#
4 6 (0.74%) VBA
5 5 (0.62%) PL/SQL
6 4 (0.49%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (0.37%) Java
7 3 (0.37%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.25%) Ada
8 2 (0.25%) C++
8 2 (0.25%) R
9 1 (0.12%) ABAP
9 1 (0.12%) Bash
9 1 (0.12%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.12%) VB
Qualifications
1 231 (28.48%) Degree
2 38 (4.69%) Master's Degree
3 37 (4.56%) DBS Check
4 36 (4.44%) PMI Certification
5 30 (3.70%) PMP
6 29 (3.58%) Security Cleared
7 20 (2.47%) CIMA
8 19 (2.34%) SC Cleared
9 16 (1.97%) HND
10 14 (1.73%) CBAP
11 13 (1.60%) ACCA
12 12 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
13 9 (1.11%) DV Cleared
14 7 (0.86%) IIBA
15 5 (0.62%) CFA
16 4 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
16 4 (0.49%) ISTQB
16 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
16 4 (0.49%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 4 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (6.17%) QA
2 35 (4.32%) Data Quality
3 17 (2.10%) SEPA
4 16 (1.97%) MiFID
5 13 (1.60%) Accessibility
5 13 (1.60%) ISO 20022
6 11 (1.36%) PMO
6 11 (1.36%) TARGET2
7 8 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (0.74%) GDPR
9 5 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.37%) EMIR
11 2 (0.25%) COBIT
11 2 (0.25%) GRC
11 2 (0.25%) GxP
11 2 (0.25%) IFRS
11 2 (0.25%) Solvency II
11 2 (0.25%) UCITS
12 1 (0.12%) GAAP
12 1 (0.12%) P3O
System Software
1 5 (0.62%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.12%) Docker
2 1 (0.12%) Firmware
2 1 (0.12%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 4 (0.49%) 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
1 202 (24.91%) Microsoft
2 41 (5.06%) Salesforce
3 24 (2.96%) SAP
4 14 (1.73%) Oracle
5 11 (1.36%) Atlassian
6 10 (1.23%) Anaplan
6 10 (1.23%) ServiceNow
7 9 (1.11%) GoldenSource
8 8 (0.99%) Civica
8 8 (0.99%) Guidewire
9 7 (0.86%) Adobe
10 6 (0.74%) Google
10 6 (0.74%) iManage
11 5 (0.62%) Bloomberg
11 5 (0.62%) Workday
12 4 (0.49%) Alteryx
12 4 (0.49%) HubSpot
12 4 (0.49%) ION Trading
13 3 (0.37%) CQG
13 3 (0.37%) Patsystems