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 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 189 184
Rank change year-on-year +31 -5 -33
Permanent jobs citing Business Analysis 955 730 1,359
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.31% 1.66% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.68% 1.78% 1.86%
Number of salaries quoted 741 419 841
10th Percentile £28,250 £43,650 £36,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £50,967 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,410 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.32% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £95,500 £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 56,972 41,045 73,238
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.05% 93.61% 87.51%
Number of salaries quoted 34,330 22,188 55,854
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.31%
75th Percentile £77,419 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £94,500
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 11 March 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 11 March 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 +19 855 £44,543 -25.76% 391
UK excluding London +11 588 £40,000 -23.81% 351
London +34 304 £68,500 -8.67% 108
North of England +70 272 £40,000 -28.89% 79
Work from Home -29 177 £57,500 -8.00% 139
North West +12 116 £40,000 -27.27% 30
Yorkshire +51 114 £40,000 -44.44% 37
Midlands +11 93 £40,000 -23.81% 50
West Midlands +15 72 £40,000 -23.81% 20
South West -19 62 £40,000 -20.00% 31
South East -29 62 £50,000 -1.90% 104
Scotland -15 50 £40,000 -35.48% 23
North East +18 42 £40,000 -33.02% 13
East of England -40 34 £40,000 -21.52% 37
East Midlands -24 22 £40,000 -15.79% 30
Wales +2 14 £52,500 -17.92% 18
Northern Ireland -25 2 £40,000 -38.19% 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 33 (3.46%) Confluence
2 14 (1.47%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.10%) IIS
4 1 (0.10%) Mendix
4 1 (0.10%) SAS
Applications
1 199 (20.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (3.35%) MS Visio
3 26 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
4 15 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.73%) Adobe XD
5 7 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.10%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.10%) Sketch
6 1 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.52%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.42%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.10%) Endur
6 1 (0.10%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.10%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.10%) PeopleSoft HRMS
6 1 (0.10%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.10%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.10%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 80 (8.38%) Power Platform
2 57 (5.97%) Azure
3 48 (5.03%) Microsoft 365
4 36 (3.77%) SaaS
5 23 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
6 22 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (2.09%) Cloud Computing
8 19 (1.99%) AWS
9 18 (1.88%) PaaS
10 17 (1.78%) Miro
11 16 (1.68%) ChatGPT
12 15 (1.57%) Microsoft Copilot
13 12 (1.26%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 11 (1.15%) Microsoft Purview
15 10 (1.05%) Azure Data Factory
15 10 (1.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 10 (1.05%) Entra ID
15 10 (1.05%) IaaS
15 10 (1.05%) Power Automate
16 8 (0.84%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.42%) Multicast
2 2 (0.21%) LAN
2 2 (0.21%) Network Security
2 2 (0.21%) WAN
3 1 (0.10%) 4G
3 1 (0.10%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.10%) DHCP
3 1 (0.10%) DNS
3 1 (0.10%) Firewall
3 1 (0.10%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.10%) RFID
3 1 (0.10%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.10%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.10%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (18.74%) Tableau
2 170 (17.80%) Data Mining
3 61 (6.39%) Power BI
4 20 (2.09%) Big Data
5 13 (1.36%) Metadata
6 10 (1.05%) Relational Database
7 9 (0.94%) Data Lake
7 9 (0.94%) Power Query
8 7 (0.73%) SQL Server
9 6 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (0.63%) Qlik Sense
10 5 (0.52%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.52%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.10%) GIS
12 1 (0.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 41 (4.29%) JIRA
2 5 (0.52%) ERwin
3 2 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.10%) Balsamiq
General
1 569 (59.58%) Finance
2 358 (37.49%) Analytical Skills
3 267 (27.96%) Social Skills
4 59 (6.18%) Marketing
5 58 (6.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 49 (5.13%) Banking
7 46 (4.82%) Legal
8 45 (4.71%) Public Sector
9 39 (4.08%) Law
10 29 (3.04%) Documentation Skills
11 21 (2.20%) Financial Institution
12 19 (1.99%) Billing
12 19 (1.99%) Manufacturing
13 17 (1.78%) Retail
14 16 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
15 13 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
16 12 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
17 11 (1.15%) Digital Health
18 8 (0.84%) Back Office
19 6 (0.63%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 682 (71.41%) Analyst
2 481 (50.37%) Business Analyst
3 334 (34.97%) Trainee
4 325 (34.03%) Trainee Analyst
5 171 (17.91%) Data Analyst
6 164 (17.17%) Trainee Business Analyst
7 161 (16.86%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 94 (9.84%) Senior
9 69 (7.23%) Senior Analyst
10 66 (6.91%) Senior Business Analyst
11 37 (3.87%) Lead
12 34 (3.56%) Architect
13 31 (3.25%) Consultant
14 30 (3.14%) Project Manager
15 25 (2.62%) Insurance Business Analyst
16 22 (2.30%) IT Analyst
17 21 (2.20%) Developer
17 21 (2.20%) IT Manager
18 20 (2.09%) Business IT Analyst
18 20 (2.09%) IT Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.26%) XML
2 10 (1.05%) JSON
3 9 (0.94%) FIX Protocol
4 5 (0.52%) EDI
4 5 (0.52%) FpML
4 5 (0.52%) Middleware
4 5 (0.52%) React
4 5 (0.52%) XML Schema
5 4 (0.42%) .NET
5 4 (0.42%) REST
5 4 (0.42%) SOAP
6 3 (0.31%) OpenAPI
6 3 (0.31%) Swagger
7 2 (0.21%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.21%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.21%) Web Services
8 1 (0.10%) ADO
8 1 (0.10%) CSS
8 1 (0.10%) HTML
8 1 (0.10%) SAP ALE
Miscellaneous
1 62 (6.49%) Product Ownership
2 34 (3.56%) Management Information System
3 24 (2.51%) Analytical Mindset
4 20 (2.09%) IoT
5 17 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
5 17 (1.78%) Onboarding
6 16 (1.68%) AI Agents
6 16 (1.68%) Fixed Income
6 16 (1.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 15 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (1.47%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 12 (1.26%) Data Structures
10 10 (1.05%) Cloud Native
10 10 (1.05%) Enterprise Cloud
10 10 (1.05%) Low-Code
10 10 (1.05%) PMI
11 8 (0.84%) Derivative
11 8 (0.84%) Life Science
11 8 (0.84%) OTC Derivatives
11 8 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.68%) Windows
2 4 (0.42%) Linux
3 3 (0.31%) Android
3 3 (0.31%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 391 (40.94%) Project Management
2 303 (31.73%) Agile
3 253 (26.49%) Problem-Solving
4 226 (23.66%) Data Analysis
5 221 (23.14%) Analytics
6 202 (21.15%) Change Management
7 182 (19.06%) Data Analytics
8 126 (13.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 121 (12.67%) User Stories
10 114 (11.94%) Requirements Gathering
11 112 (11.73%) Stakeholder Management
12 108 (11.31%) Decision-Making
13 97 (10.16%) AI
13 97 (10.16%) Process Improvement
14 93 (9.74%) Continuous Improvement
15 91 (9.53%) Roadmaps
16 86 (9.01%) Workshop Facilitation
17 84 (8.80%) Business Intelligence
18 71 (7.43%) Project Delivery
19 69 (7.23%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 241 (25.24%) SQL
2 191 (20.00%) Python
3 7 (0.73%) C#
4 5 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (0.52%) Java
5 2 (0.21%) R
5 2 (0.21%) X++
6 1 (0.10%) C++
6 1 (0.10%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.10%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.10%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.10%) VBA
Qualifications
1 269 (28.17%) Degree
2 51 (5.34%) Security Cleared
3 36 (3.77%) PMI Certification
4 32 (3.35%) SC Cleared
5 31 (3.25%) Master's Degree
6 28 (2.93%) IIBA
6 28 (2.93%) PMP
7 25 (2.62%) CIMA
8 20 (2.09%) ACCA
8 20 (2.09%) DBS Check
8 20 (2.09%) HND
9 17 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
10 14 (1.47%) DV Cleared
11 11 (1.15%) CBAP
12 7 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
12 7 (0.73%) ISEB
13 6 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.52%) CIPD
15 3 (0.31%) AWS Certification
15 3 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (4.19%) QA
2 26 (2.72%) Accessibility
3 22 (2.30%) Data Quality
4 15 (1.57%) MiFID
4 15 (1.57%) PMO
5 13 (1.36%) GDPR
6 12 (1.26%) ISO 20022
6 12 (1.26%) SEPA
7 10 (1.05%) Actionable Recommendations
8 9 (0.94%) TARGET2
9 4 (0.42%) GAAP
10 3 (0.31%) EMIR
11 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 2 (0.21%) NIST
11 2 (0.21%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.10%) FATCA
12 1 (0.10%) GRC
12 1 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.10%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (1.26%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.10%) Control-M
2 1 (0.10%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.10%) Terraform
Vendors
1 286 (29.95%) Microsoft
2 26 (2.72%) Salesforce
3 17 (1.78%) SAP
4 13 (1.36%) Oracle
5 12 (1.26%) Anaplan
5 12 (1.26%) ServiceNow
6 8 (0.84%) Alteryx
7 7 (0.73%) Adobe
7 7 (0.73%) Atlassian
7 7 (0.73%) Google
8 6 (0.63%) Sparx
9 5 (0.52%) GoldenSource
9 5 (0.52%) IBM
9 5 (0.52%) ION Trading
10 4 (0.42%) Bloomberg
10 4 (0.42%) CQG
10 4 (0.42%) Guidewire
10 4 (0.42%) Patsystems
10 4 (0.42%) Reuters
10 4 (0.42%) Trayport