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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 222 214
Rank change year-on-year -2 -8 -82
Permanent jobs citing Business Analysis 994 710 996
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.86% 1.44% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.17% 1.62% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 706 537 591
10th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,114 £49,250 £43,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £54,643 £47,750
% change year-on-year -3.92% +14.43% -4.50%

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 84,898 43,727 63,303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.06% 88.69% 81.28%
Number of salaries quoted 58,675 24,676 35,715
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,313 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 20 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 20 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 -13 899 £57,500 -8.00% 1,224
UK excluding London -5 544 £52,500 -3.92% 698
Work from Home +43 389 £55,000 -15.38% 431
London -40 370 £70,000 -6.67% 680
North of England -4 183 £52,500 -4.55% 173
South East -17 109 £55,000 -8.33% 183
Midlands -11 96 £52,500 -4.55% 108
Yorkshire +23 86 £60,000 +50.00% 67
West Midlands -22 73 £53,500 -2.73% 67
North West -27 69 £52,500 -12.50% 85
South West -34 69 £47,500 +11.11% 76
East of England -11 51 £50,000 - 65
North East -40 28 £42,500 +6.25% 21
East Midlands -25 22 £48,000 -25.58% 41
Scotland +9 20 £45,000 +12.50% 51
Wales -58 15 £52,500 -4.55% 17
Northern Ireland -86 5 - - 32

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 64 (6.44%) Confluence
2 33 (3.32%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.50%) ColdFusion
4 3 (0.30%) CMS
5 2 (0.20%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.20%) WordPress
6 1 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.10%) Appian
Applications
1 71 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (6.64%) Microsoft Office
3 63 (6.34%) MS Visio
4 33 (3.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 18 (1.81%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.60%) Moqups
6 6 (0.60%) Trello
7 3 (0.30%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.10%) InDesign
8 1 (0.10%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 23 (2.31%) NetSuite
2 14 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.91%) Fidessa
3 9 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.40%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.40%) Magento
4 4 (0.40%) Shopify
5 3 (0.30%) Exchequer
5 3 (0.30%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 3 (0.30%) Sage 50
5 3 (0.30%) Sage X3
5 3 (0.30%) SAP Business One
5 3 (0.30%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.30%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.20%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.20%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.20%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 113 (11.37%) Power Platform
2 108 (10.87%) Azure
3 52 (5.23%) Azure DevOps
4 48 (4.83%) Microsoft 365
5 42 (4.23%) AWS
6 41 (4.12%) SaaS
7 39 (3.92%) Dynamics 365
8 34 (3.42%) Power Automate
9 25 (2.52%) Lucidchart
10 24 (2.41%) Microsoft Copilot
11 16 (1.61%) Anthropic Claude
12 13 (1.31%) PowerApps
12 13 (1.31%) Zapier
13 12 (1.21%) GCP
14 10 (1.01%) Copilot Studio
14 10 (1.01%) iPaaS
15 9 (0.91%) Figma
15 9 (0.91%) Microsoft Purview
16 8 (0.80%) Boomi
16 8 (0.80%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.91%) Multicast
2 7 (0.70%) FIX Connectivity
3 2 (0.20%) Internet
4 1 (0.10%) DSL
4 1 (0.10%) Intranet
4 1 (0.10%) LAN
4 1 (0.10%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (9.96%) Power BI
2 21 (2.11%) Relational Database
3 19 (1.91%) Tableau
4 17 (1.71%) SQL Server
5 13 (1.31%) Metadata
6 10 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 7 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (0.60%) DTS
9 3 (0.30%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (0.30%) Crystal Reports
9 3 (0.30%) DynamoDB
9 3 (0.30%) MySQL
9 3 (0.30%) RDBMS
9 3 (0.30%) Spotfire
9 3 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.20%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.20%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.20%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.20%) SAP BW
10 2 (0.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 128 (12.88%) JIRA
2 7 (0.70%) Claude Code
2 7 (0.70%) Cypress.io
2 7 (0.70%) Selenium
3 6 (0.60%) Postman
4 3 (0.30%) Git
4 3 (0.30%) Hudson
5 2 (0.20%) Balsamiq
5 2 (0.20%) LSMW
6 1 (0.10%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.10%) ERwin
6 1 (0.10%) JIRA Agile
6 1 (0.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 413 (41.55%) Social Skills
2 365 (36.72%) Finance
3 325 (32.70%) Analytical Skills
4 127 (12.78%) Public Sector
5 103 (10.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 80 (8.05%) Law
7 59 (5.94%) Organisational Skills
8 56 (5.63%) Documentation Skills
8 56 (5.63%) Legal
9 54 (5.43%) Presentation Skills
10 50 (5.03%) Influencing Skills
11 41 (4.12%) Manufacturing
12 38 (3.82%) Retail
13 29 (2.92%) Banking
14 24 (2.41%) Marketing
15 23 (2.31%) Legal Technology
16 22 (2.21%) Local Government
17 17 (1.71%) Aerospace
18 16 (1.61%) Front Office
18 16 (1.61%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 609 (61.27%) Analyst
2 513 (51.61%) Business Analyst
3 180 (18.11%) Senior
4 141 (14.19%) Senior Analyst
5 130 (13.08%) Senior Business Analyst
6 64 (6.44%) Lead
7 52 (5.23%) Consultant
8 42 (4.23%) Technical Analyst
9 40 (4.02%) Technical Business Analyst
10 35 (3.52%) Business Manager
11 34 (3.42%) Project Manager
12 31 (3.12%) Lead Business Analyst
13 30 (3.02%) Systems Analyst
14 28 (2.82%) Product Manager
15 26 (2.62%) Applications Support
16 25 (2.52%) Data Analyst
17 23 (2.31%) Business Systems Analyst
17 23 (2.31%) Product Analyst
17 23 (2.31%) Support Analyst
18 22 (2.21%) Business IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.01%) FIX Protocol
2 19 (1.91%) REST
3 14 (1.41%) .NET
4 12 (1.21%) XML
5 11 (1.11%) Gherkin
5 11 (1.11%) SOAP
6 8 (0.80%) Playwright
7 6 (0.60%) JSON
8 5 (0.50%) CrewAI
8 5 (0.50%) LangChain
8 5 (0.50%) LlamaIndex
9 4 (0.40%) Lightning Web Components
10 3 (0.30%) .NET Core
10 3 (0.30%) EDI
10 3 (0.30%) Middleware
10 3 (0.30%) Oracle Fusion
10 3 (0.30%) PySpark
10 3 (0.30%) WinForms
11 2 (0.20%) SAP Fiori
11 2 (0.20%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 120 (12.07%) Product Ownership
2 55 (5.53%) Management Information System
3 25 (2.52%) Analytical Mindset
4 24 (2.41%) Data Structures
4 24 (2.41%) Low-Code
5 22 (2.21%) AI Agents
5 22 (2.21%) Derivative
5 22 (2.21%) Onboarding
6 18 (1.81%) Fixed Income
7 16 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (1.31%) Blog
8 13 (1.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 12 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
10 10 (1.01%) IoT
10 10 (1.01%) NHS
10 10 (1.01%) PMI
11 9 (0.91%) Distributed Architecture
11 9 (0.91%) Equities
11 9 (0.91%) Eurex
Operating Systems
1 23 (2.31%) Linux
2 18 (1.81%) Windows
3 3 (0.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 438 (44.06%) Agile
2 312 (31.39%) Stakeholder Management
3 311 (31.29%) Problem-Solving
4 292 (29.38%) Requirements Gathering
5 231 (23.24%) Workshop Facilitation
6 226 (22.74%) User Stories
7 210 (21.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 206 (20.72%) Process Improvement
9 202 (20.32%) Continuous Improvement
10 196 (19.72%) AI
11 161 (16.20%) Project Management
12 157 (15.79%) Decision-Making
13 155 (15.59%) Project Delivery
14 132 (13.28%) Scrum
15 126 (12.68%) User Acceptance Testing
16 125 (12.58%) Acceptance Criteria
17 122 (12.27%) Business Intelligence
18 117 (11.77%) Coaching
19 104 (10.46%) Waterfall
20 102 (10.26%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 151 (15.19%) SQL
2 41 (4.12%) Python
3 24 (2.41%) JavaScript
4 23 (2.31%) Java
5 21 (2.11%) C++
6 15 (1.51%) C#
7 9 (0.91%) TypeScript
8 7 (0.70%) T-SQL
9 5 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.30%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.20%) Ada
12 1 (0.10%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.10%) R
12 1 (0.10%) RPG
12 1 (0.10%) SOQL
12 1 (0.10%) SOSL
12 1 (0.10%) VBA
Qualifications
1 172 (17.30%) Degree
2 105 (10.56%) Security Cleared
3 83 (8.35%) SC Cleared
4 36 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (3.02%) ACCA
6 29 (2.92%) CIMA
7 26 (2.62%) IIBA
8 21 (2.11%) PMI Certification
9 16 (1.61%) CBAP
10 15 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
11 14 (1.41%) PMP
12 11 (1.11%) DBS Check
13 7 (0.70%) DV Cleared
13 7 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (0.60%) CFA
14 6 (0.60%) ISEB
15 4 (0.40%) CSPO
15 4 (0.40%) Master's Degree
16 3 (0.30%) CRISC
16 3 (0.30%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (5.94%) QA
2 53 (5.33%) Data Quality
3 26 (2.62%) PMO
4 15 (1.51%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.51%) GDPR
5 13 (1.31%) GAAP
5 13 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.40%) COBIT
6 4 (0.40%) NIST
7 3 (0.30%) GRC
7 3 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 3 (0.30%) NCSC
8 2 (0.20%) Good Clinical Practice
8 2 (0.20%) ISO 13485
8 2 (0.20%) MiFID
8 2 (0.20%) SLA
8 2 (0.20%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.20%) SOC 3
9 1 (0.10%) GxP
System Software
1 2 (0.20%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.10%) IAG
Systems Management
1 2 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.10%) Kibana
2 1 (0.10%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.10%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 173 (17.40%) Microsoft
2 41 (4.12%) Salesforce
3 39 (3.92%) SAP
4 23 (2.31%) Oracle
5 20 (2.01%) ServiceNow
6 18 (1.81%) Google
7 15 (1.51%) JD Edwards
7 15 (1.51%) YouTube
8 14 (1.41%) Workday
9 12 (1.21%) Intapp
10 10 (1.01%) Atlassian
11 9 (0.91%) Bloomberg
11 9 (0.91%) CQG
11 9 (0.91%) FIS
11 9 (0.91%) ION Trading
11 9 (0.91%) Patsystems
11 9 (0.91%) Reuters
11 9 (0.91%) Sage
11 9 (0.91%) SunGard
11 9 (0.91%) Trayport