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 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 205 181
Rank change year-on-year +38 -24 -45
Permanent jobs citing Business Analysis 926 735 1,256
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.38% 1.48% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 1.61% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 709 438 864
10th Percentile £28,250 £43,125 £36,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £50,967 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,410 £60,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.32% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £93,313 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -23.81% - -4.55%

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 53,424 45,785 66,046
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.46% 92.29% 88.34%
Number of salaries quoted 31,947 22,286 51,175
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,375 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 15 February 2026.

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 15 February 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 +55 830 £44,543 -25.76% 358
UK excluding London +49 556 £40,000 -23.81% 347
London +32 301 £70,047 -3.38% 104
North of England +83 256 £40,000 -27.27% 83
Work from Home -5 167 £58,750 -1.14% 99
North West +36 115 £40,000 -27.27% 35
Yorkshire +55 101 £40,000 -44.44% 36
Midlands +10 82 £40,000 -27.27% 49
South East +2 66 £50,000 -1.90% 94
West Midlands +18 62 £40,000 -23.81% 21
South West -2 58 £40,000 -26.52% 36
Scotland -3 47 £40,000 -34.43% 23
North East +27 40 £40,000 -33.02% 13
East of England -22 34 £40,000 -21.52% 38
East Midlands -9 20 £48,750 -25.00% 28
Wales +10 14 £55,000 -7.45% 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 33 (3.56%) Confluence
2 14 (1.51%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.11%) IIS
4 1 (0.11%) Mendix
4 1 (0.11%) SAS
Applications
1 197 (21.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (3.24%) MS Visio
3 29 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
4 20 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.76%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.11%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 7 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.54%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.43%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.22%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.11%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.11%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.11%) Endur
5 1 (0.11%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.11%) iTrent
5 1 (0.11%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.11%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.11%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.11%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 74 (7.99%) Power Platform
2 53 (5.72%) Azure
3 43 (4.64%) Microsoft 365
4 35 (3.78%) SaaS
5 23 (2.48%) Dynamics 365
6 22 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (2.16%) Cloud Computing
8 18 (1.94%) AWS
9 17 (1.84%) Miro
9 17 (1.84%) PaaS
10 16 (1.73%) ChatGPT
10 16 (1.73%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 15 (1.62%) Microsoft Copilot
12 11 (1.19%) Microsoft Purview
13 9 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
13 9 (0.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 9 (0.97%) Entra ID
14 8 (0.86%) Figma
14 8 (0.86%) IaaS
15 7 (0.76%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.54%) Multicast
2 2 (0.22%) 4G
2 2 (0.22%) FIX Connectivity
2 2 (0.22%) LAN
2 2 (0.22%) Network Security
2 2 (0.22%) WAN
2 2 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.11%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.11%) DHCP
3 1 (0.11%) DNS
3 1 (0.11%) Firewall
3 1 (0.11%) Intranet
3 1 (0.11%) RFID
3 1 (0.11%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.11%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.11%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (18.68%) Tableau
2 164 (17.71%) Data Mining
3 58 (6.26%) Power BI
4 20 (2.16%) Big Data
5 9 (0.97%) Data Lake
6 8 (0.86%) Metadata
6 8 (0.86%) SQL Server
7 7 (0.76%) Power Query
8 6 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (0.65%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.54%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.43%) Qlik Sense
11 3 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.32%) GIS
11 3 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.22%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.11%) BusinessObjects
13 1 (0.11%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 41 (4.43%) JIRA
2 2 (0.22%) ERwin
2 2 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.11%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.11%) Balsamiq
3 1 (0.11%) Git
3 1 (0.11%) GitLab
3 1 (0.11%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.11%) Maven
3 1 (0.11%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 544 (58.75%) Finance
2 343 (37.04%) Analytical Skills
3 272 (29.37%) Social Skills
4 71 (7.67%) Marketing
5 59 (6.37%) Banking
6 54 (5.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 50 (5.40%) Legal
8 41 (4.43%) Public Sector
9 31 (3.35%) Law
10 26 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
11 23 (2.48%) Retail
12 21 (2.27%) Financial Institution
13 20 (2.16%) Billing
14 19 (2.05%) Manufacturing
14 19 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
15 13 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
16 12 (1.30%) Back Office
17 11 (1.19%) Digital Health
18 8 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
18 8 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 644 (69.55%) Analyst
2 456 (49.24%) Business Analyst
3 319 (34.45%) Trainee
4 306 (33.05%) Trainee Analyst
5 164 (17.71%) Data Analyst
6 155 (16.74%) Trainee Business Analyst
7 151 (16.31%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 92 (9.94%) Senior
9 59 (6.37%) Senior Analyst
10 57 (6.16%) Senior Business Analyst
11 40 (4.32%) Architect
12 33 (3.56%) Lead
13 29 (3.13%) Project Manager
14 27 (2.92%) Consultant
15 24 (2.59%) Developer
16 23 (2.48%) Insurance Business Analyst
17 21 (2.27%) Lead Business Analyst
17 21 (2.27%) Product Manager
18 20 (2.16%) IT Analyst
18 20 (2.16%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (0.97%) XML
2 7 (0.76%) FIX Protocol
2 7 (0.76%) JSON
2 7 (0.76%) Middleware
3 6 (0.65%) React
4 5 (0.54%) EDI
5 4 (0.43%) .NET
5 4 (0.43%) REST
5 4 (0.43%) SOAP
6 3 (0.32%) OpenAPI
6 3 (0.32%) Swagger
6 3 (0.32%) Web Services
7 2 (0.22%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.22%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.22%) CSS
7 2 (0.22%) FpML
7 2 (0.22%) HTML
7 2 (0.22%) XML Schema
8 1 (0.11%) SAP ALE
8 1 (0.11%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 63 (6.80%) Product Ownership
2 32 (3.46%) Management Information System
3 20 (2.16%) Analytical Mindset
3 20 (2.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 20 (2.16%) IoT
4 19 (2.05%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 17 (1.84%) Fixed Income
5 17 (1.84%) Onboarding
6 16 (1.73%) AI Agents
7 14 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (1.19%) PMI
9 10 (1.08%) Enterprise Cloud
10 8 (0.86%) Life Science
10 8 (0.86%) Low-Code
11 7 (0.76%) Data Structures
11 7 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (0.65%) Cloud Native
12 6 (0.65%) OTC Derivatives
12 6 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.62%) Windows
2 5 (0.54%) Linux
3 3 (0.32%) Android
3 3 (0.32%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 384 (41.47%) Project Management
2 300 (32.40%) Agile
3 255 (27.54%) Problem-Solving
4 219 (23.65%) Data Analysis
5 213 (23.00%) Change Management
6 206 (22.25%) Analytics
7 173 (18.68%) Data Analytics
8 122 (13.17%) Requirements Gathering
8 122 (13.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 116 (12.53%) Stakeholder Management
10 108 (11.66%) Decision-Making
11 107 (11.56%) User Stories
12 105 (11.34%) AI
13 103 (11.12%) Process Improvement
14 97 (10.48%) Roadmaps
15 96 (10.37%) Continuous Improvement
16 86 (9.29%) Workshop Facilitation
17 80 (8.64%) Business Intelligence
18 73 (7.88%) Project Delivery
18 73 (7.88%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 231 (24.95%) SQL
2 181 (19.55%) Python
3 7 (0.76%) C#
4 6 (0.65%) Java
5 5 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (0.22%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.22%) R
6 2 (0.22%) X++
7 1 (0.11%) Ada
7 1 (0.11%) C++
7 1 (0.11%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.11%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 270 (29.16%) Degree
2 46 (4.97%) Security Cleared
3 38 (4.10%) PMI Certification
4 31 (3.35%) Master's Degree
5 28 (3.02%) PMP
6 26 (2.81%) IIBA
6 26 (2.81%) SC Cleared
7 22 (2.38%) DBS Check
8 20 (2.16%) CIMA
8 20 (2.16%) HND
9 15 (1.62%) ACCA
9 15 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
10 14 (1.51%) DV Cleared
11 11 (1.19%) CBAP
12 8 (0.86%) ISEB
13 7 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
14 6 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (0.65%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 3 (0.32%) AWS Certification
15 3 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (4.43%) QA
2 24 (2.59%) Accessibility
3 23 (2.48%) Data Quality
4 17 (1.84%) SEPA
5 15 (1.62%) GDPR
5 15 (1.62%) ISO 20022
6 13 (1.40%) MiFID
6 13 (1.40%) TARGET2
7 10 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (0.65%) PMO
9 3 (0.32%) EMIR
9 3 (0.32%) GRC
9 3 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.22%) GxP
10 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.22%) NIST
10 2 (0.22%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.11%) FATCA
11 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (0.97%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.11%) Control-M
2 1 (0.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 271 (29.27%) Microsoft
2 30 (3.24%) Salesforce
3 17 (1.84%) SAP
4 14 (1.51%) Anaplan
5 12 (1.30%) Oracle
5 12 (1.30%) ServiceNow
6 8 (0.86%) Alteryx
7 7 (0.76%) Adobe
8 6 (0.65%) Atlassian
8 6 (0.65%) Google
8 6 (0.65%) ION Trading
9 5 (0.54%) Bloomberg
9 5 (0.54%) CQG
9 5 (0.54%) GoldenSource
9 5 (0.54%) Patsystems
9 5 (0.54%) Reuters
9 5 (0.54%) Trayport
9 5 (0.54%) Workday
10 4 (0.43%) HubSpot
10 4 (0.43%) iManage