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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 221 218 208
Rank change year-on-year -3 -10 -72
Permanent jobs citing Business Analysis 991 695 960
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.84% 1.40% 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 1.57% 1.60%
Number of salaries quoted 695 531 567
10th Percentile £39,891 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £98,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year - +2.04% -2.00%

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 86,155 44,192 60,081
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.18% 88.99% 81.99%
Number of salaries quoted 59,150 24,458 32,463
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,325 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,608
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,750
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 8 October 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 8 October 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 +4 887 £55,000 -12.00% 1,196
UK excluding London +4 550 £50,000 - 649
Work from Home +51 377 £54,000 -13.60% 498
London -34 357 £70,000 -6.67% 646
North of England -7 178 £50,000 -7.89% 178
South East -12 115 £55,000 -4.35% 158
Midlands -4 90 £51,250 -6.82% 110
Yorkshire +10 75 £53,750 +34.38% 59
South West -30 74 £44,551 +4.21% 59
North West -22 73 £50,000 -16.67% 96
West Midlands -17 67 £53,500 -2.73% 76
East of England +1 52 £46,661 -1.77% 48
North East -37 30 £43,999 +10.00% 23
East Midlands -17 23 £48,000 -15.79% 34
Scotland -6 20 £48,500 +21.25% 44
Wales -63 18 £52,500 -0.21% 18
Northern Ireland -80 7 - - 37

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 68 (6.86%) Confluence
2 33 (3.33%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.50%) ColdFusion
4 4 (0.40%) CMS
5 2 (0.20%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.20%) WordPress
6 1 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.10%) Appian
6 1 (0.10%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 75 (7.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (6.66%) Microsoft Office
3 63 (6.36%) MS Visio
4 34 (3.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 19 (1.92%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.71%) Moqups
7 6 (0.61%) Trello
8 3 (0.30%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.20%) InDesign
9 2 (0.20%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 19 (1.92%) NetSuite
2 14 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (0.91%) Fidessa
5 4 (0.40%) Magento
5 4 (0.40%) Shopify
6 3 (0.30%) Exchequer
6 3 (0.30%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 3 (0.30%) Sage 50
6 3 (0.30%) Sage X3
6 3 (0.30%) SAP Business One
6 3 (0.30%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.30%) SAP FI
6 3 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.20%) iTrent
7 2 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.20%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.20%) SAP PSCD
8 1 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 121 (12.21%) Power Platform
2 113 (11.40%) Azure
3 62 (6.26%) Azure DevOps
4 48 (4.84%) Microsoft 365
5 43 (4.34%) SaaS
6 41 (4.14%) AWS
7 38 (3.83%) Dynamics 365
8 31 (3.13%) Power Automate
9 26 (2.62%) Microsoft Copilot
10 25 (2.52%) Lucidchart
11 17 (1.72%) Anthropic Claude
12 13 (1.31%) Zapier
13 12 (1.21%) Microsoft Purview
14 11 (1.11%) PowerApps
15 10 (1.01%) Copilot Studio
15 10 (1.01%) Figma
16 8 (0.81%) Boomi
16 8 (0.81%) GCP
16 8 (0.81%) iPaaS
16 8 (0.81%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.91%) Multicast
2 7 (0.71%) FIX Connectivity
3 4 (0.40%) Internet
4 1 (0.10%) DSL
4 1 (0.10%) Intranet
4 1 (0.10%) LAN
4 1 (0.10%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.10%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (10.60%) Power BI
2 26 (2.62%) Relational Database
3 20 (2.02%) Tableau
4 17 (1.72%) SQL Server
5 14 (1.41%) Metadata
6 9 (0.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 7 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (0.50%) 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%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.20%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.20%) Looker
10 2 (0.20%) Power Query
10 2 (0.20%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 133 (13.42%) JIRA
2 8 (0.81%) Claude Code
2 8 (0.81%) Cypress.io
2 8 (0.81%) Selenium
3 7 (0.71%) Postman
4 3 (0.30%) Artifactory
4 3 (0.30%) Git
4 3 (0.30%) GitLab
4 3 (0.30%) Hudson
4 3 (0.30%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.20%) Balsamiq
5 2 (0.20%) LSMW
6 1 (0.10%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.10%) JIRA Agile
General
1 405 (40.87%) Social Skills
2 366 (36.93%) Finance
3 313 (31.58%) Analytical Skills
4 137 (13.82%) Public Sector
5 98 (9.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 74 (7.47%) Law
7 62 (6.26%) Documentation Skills
8 57 (5.75%) Organisational Skills
9 56 (5.65%) Legal
10 51 (5.15%) Influencing Skills
11 47 (4.74%) Presentation Skills
12 40 (4.04%) Manufacturing
13 38 (3.83%) Retail
14 30 (3.03%) Banking
15 26 (2.62%) Marketing
16 25 (2.52%) Local Government
17 22 (2.22%) Legal Technology
18 20 (2.02%) Aerospace
19 16 (1.61%) Front Office
20 14 (1.41%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 601 (60.65%) Analyst
2 505 (50.96%) Business Analyst
3 169 (17.05%) Senior
4 127 (12.82%) Senior Analyst
5 118 (11.91%) Senior Business Analyst
6 65 (6.56%) Lead
7 56 (5.65%) Consultant
8 44 (4.44%) Technical Analyst
9 42 (4.24%) Technical Business Analyst
10 36 (3.63%) Business Manager
11 32 (3.23%) Project Manager
12 30 (3.03%) Applications Support
12 30 (3.03%) Lead Business Analyst
13 29 (2.93%) Product Manager
14 28 (2.83%) Data Analyst
15 26 (2.62%) Systems Analyst
16 25 (2.52%) Business IT Analyst
16 25 (2.52%) IT Analyst
17 24 (2.42%) IT Business Analyst
18 23 (2.32%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (1.92%) FIX Protocol
1 19 (1.92%) REST
2 17 (1.72%) .NET
3 12 (1.21%) Playwright
4 11 (1.11%) Gherkin
5 10 (1.01%) SOAP
6 8 (0.81%) XML
7 6 (0.61%) LangChain
8 5 (0.50%) CrewAI
8 5 (0.50%) LlamaIndex
9 4 (0.40%) Lightning Web Components
9 4 (0.40%) Middleware
9 4 (0.40%) Oracle Fusion
9 4 (0.40%) Terraform
10 3 (0.30%) .NET Core
10 3 (0.30%) EDI
10 3 (0.30%) JSON
10 3 (0.30%) PySpark
10 3 (0.30%) RESTful
10 3 (0.30%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 113 (11.40%) Product Ownership
2 55 (5.55%) Management Information System
3 26 (2.62%) Low-Code
4 24 (2.42%) Onboarding
5 23 (2.32%) AI Agents
6 22 (2.22%) Data Structures
7 20 (2.02%) Derivative
8 19 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
9 18 (1.82%) Fixed Income
10 17 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (1.31%) Blog
11 13 (1.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 12 (1.21%) PMI
13 11 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
13 11 (1.11%) NHS
14 10 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
15 9 (0.91%) Distributed Architecture
15 9 (0.91%) Distributed Computing
15 9 (0.91%) Equities
15 9 (0.91%) Eurex
Operating Systems
1 26 (2.62%) Linux
2 19 (1.92%) Windows
3 3 (0.30%) Unix
3 3 (0.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 438 (44.20%) Agile
2 323 (32.59%) Stakeholder Management
3 313 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
4 296 (29.87%) Requirements Gathering
5 234 (23.61%) Workshop Facilitation
6 224 (22.60%) User Stories
7 215 (21.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 212 (21.39%) Process Improvement
9 208 (20.99%) AI
10 205 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
11 160 (16.15%) Decision-Making
12 157 (15.84%) Project Management
13 152 (15.34%) Project Delivery
14 132 (13.32%) Scrum
15 125 (12.61%) Acceptance Criteria
16 124 (12.51%) Business Intelligence
17 122 (12.31%) User Acceptance Testing
18 118 (11.91%) Coaching
19 112 (11.30%) Change Management
20 101 (10.19%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 153 (15.44%) SQL
2 45 (4.54%) Python
3 25 (2.52%) JavaScript
4 23 (2.32%) Java
5 21 (2.12%) C++
6 16 (1.61%) C#
7 9 (0.91%) TypeScript
8 6 (0.61%) T-SQL
9 5 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.40%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.30%) Bash
11 3 (0.30%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.20%) Ada
13 1 (0.10%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.10%) R
13 1 (0.10%) RPG
13 1 (0.10%) SOQL
13 1 (0.10%) SOSL
13 1 (0.10%) VBA
Qualifications
1 166 (16.75%) Degree
2 106 (10.70%) Security Cleared
3 83 (8.38%) SC Cleared
4 30 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (2.52%) ACCA
6 24 (2.42%) CIMA
6 24 (2.42%) IIBA
7 23 (2.32%) PMI Certification
8 15 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (1.51%) CBAP
9 14 (1.41%) PMP
10 13 (1.31%) DV Cleared
11 12 (1.21%) DBS Check
12 8 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.61%) CFA
13 6 (0.61%) ISEB
14 5 (0.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 4 (0.40%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.40%) Postgraduate
15 4 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (6.46%) QA
2 56 (5.65%) Data Quality
3 24 (2.42%) PMO
4 17 (1.72%) GDPR
5 15 (1.51%) Accessibility
6 14 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.81%) GAAP
8 4 (0.40%) COBIT
8 4 (0.40%) NIST
9 3 (0.30%) GRC
9 3 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 3 (0.30%) NCSC
10 2 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.20%) Good Clinical Practice
10 2 (0.20%) ISO 13485
10 2 (0.20%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.20%) SOC 3
11 1 (0.10%) GxP
11 1 (0.10%) SLA
11 1 (0.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (0.30%) Docker
2 1 (0.10%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.10%) IAG
Systems Management
1 4 (0.40%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.30%) Grafana
2 3 (0.30%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.10%) Kibana
4 1 (0.10%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 174 (17.56%) Microsoft
2 40 (4.04%) Salesforce
3 38 (3.83%) SAP
4 24 (2.42%) Oracle
5 22 (2.22%) ServiceNow
6 20 (2.02%) YouTube
7 18 (1.82%) Google
8 15 (1.51%) JD Edwards
9 14 (1.41%) Workday
10 10 (1.01%) Intapp
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
12 8 (0.81%) RedGate