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

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 211 178
Rank change year-on-year +41 -33 -42
Permanent jobs citing Business Analysis 906 739 1,276
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.39% 1.46% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.74% 1.58% 1.94%
Number of salaries quoted 694 455 889
10th Percentile £28,250 £43,125 £36,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £50,967 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £60,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £65,473 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £86,975 £92,875 £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 52,183 46,628 65,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.83% 91.97% 88.39%
Number of salaries quoted 30,949 22,565 51,052
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,000 £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 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £101,000 £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 8 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 8 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 +47 813 £45,497 -24.17% 422
UK excluding London +53 536 £40,000 -23.81% 370
London +46 302 £72,500 - 149
North of England +75 240 £40,000 -27.27% 81
Work from Home +25 170 £57,500 -3.71% 112
North West +44 109 £40,000 -27.27% 39
Yorkshire +44 96 £40,000 -34.42% 30
Midlands +12 82 £40,000 -27.27% 50
South East -7 67 £50,000 -1.90% 107
West Midlands +17 62 £40,000 -23.81% 25
South West +14 59 £40,000 -26.52% 34
Scotland 0 44 £40,000 -34.43% 28
North East +24 35 £40,000 -33.02% 12
East of England -25 32 £40,000 -21.52% 47
East Midlands -14 20 £48,750 -25.00% 25
Wales +12 13 £50,000 -15.87% 17

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 (3.64%) Confluence
2 13 (1.43%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.11%) CMS
4 1 (0.11%) IIS
4 1 (0.11%) SAS
Applications
1 188 (20.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (3.31%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (3.31%) MS Visio
3 20 (2.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (0.77%) Adobe XD
6 3 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.11%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 7 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.55%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.33%) Elite 3E
4 3 (0.33%) Unit4 Business World
5 2 (0.22%) Endur
5 2 (0.22%) iTrent
5 2 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.11%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.11%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.11%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.11%) PeopleSoft HRMS
6 1 (0.11%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.11%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.11%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 67 (7.40%) Power Platform
2 54 (5.96%) Azure
3 41 (4.53%) Microsoft 365
4 33 (3.64%) SaaS
5 22 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (2.32%) Dynamics 365
7 20 (2.21%) Cloud Computing
8 18 (1.99%) AWS
9 17 (1.88%) Miro
9 17 (1.88%) PaaS
9 17 (1.88%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 15 (1.66%) ChatGPT
11 12 (1.32%) Microsoft Copilot
12 9 (0.99%) Microsoft Purview
13 8 (0.88%) Azure Data Factory
13 8 (0.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 8 (0.88%) Figma
13 8 (0.88%) IaaS
13 8 (0.88%) Power Automate
14 7 (0.77%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.55%) 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%) Unified Communications
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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (17.99%) Tableau
2 154 (17.00%) Data Mining
3 54 (5.96%) Power BI
4 20 (2.21%) Big Data
5 9 (0.99%) Data Lake
6 8 (0.88%) SQL Server
7 7 (0.77%) Metadata
7 7 (0.77%) Power Query
8 6 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (0.55%) NoSQL
9 5 (0.55%) Relational Database
10 4 (0.44%) Qlik Sense
11 3 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.33%) BusinessObjects
11 3 (0.33%) GIS
11 3 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.11%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.11%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 43 (4.75%) JIRA
2 3 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.11%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.11%) Balsamiq
4 1 (0.11%) ERwin
4 1 (0.11%) Git
4 1 (0.11%) GitLab
4 1 (0.11%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.11%) Maven
4 1 (0.11%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 522 (57.62%) Finance
2 333 (36.75%) Analytical Skills
3 275 (30.35%) Social Skills
4 74 (8.17%) Marketing
5 59 (6.51%) Banking
6 56 (6.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 48 (5.30%) Legal
8 40 (4.42%) Public Sector
9 30 (3.31%) Law
10 26 (2.87%) Documentation Skills
11 23 (2.54%) Retail
12 21 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
13 20 (2.21%) Financial Institution
14 19 (2.10%) Billing
15 18 (1.99%) Manufacturing
16 12 (1.32%) Back Office
16 12 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
17 11 (1.21%) Digital Health
18 9 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
19 8 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 617 (68.10%) Analyst
2 436 (48.12%) Business Analyst
3 298 (32.89%) Trainee
4 285 (31.46%) Trainee Analyst
5 155 (17.11%) Data Analyst
6 144 (15.89%) Trainee Business Analyst
7 141 (15.56%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 87 (9.60%) Senior
9 53 (5.85%) Senior Analyst
10 51 (5.63%) Senior Business Analyst
11 39 (4.30%) Architect
12 34 (3.75%) Lead
13 30 (3.31%) Project Manager
14 25 (2.76%) Developer
15 24 (2.65%) Consultant
16 22 (2.43%) IT Analyst
16 22 (2.43%) Lead Business Analyst
17 21 (2.32%) Insurance Business Analyst
17 21 (2.32%) IT Manager
17 21 (2.32%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (0.88%) XML
2 7 (0.77%) Middleware
3 6 (0.66%) FIX Protocol
3 6 (0.66%) JSON
3 6 (0.66%) React
4 4 (0.44%) .NET
4 4 (0.44%) REST
4 4 (0.44%) SOAP
4 4 (0.44%) Web Services
5 3 (0.33%) EDI
5 3 (0.33%) OpenAPI
5 3 (0.33%) Swagger
6 2 (0.22%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.22%) ASP.NET
6 2 (0.22%) CSS
6 2 (0.22%) HTML
7 1 (0.11%) Bootstrap
7 1 (0.11%) CSS3
7 1 (0.11%) JAX-RS
7 1 (0.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 66 (7.28%) Product Ownership
2 33 (3.64%) Management Information System
3 21 (2.32%) Analytical Mindset
4 20 (2.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 20 (2.21%) IoT
5 19 (2.10%) Onboarding
5 19 (2.10%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 16 (1.77%) Fixed Income
7 14 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
8 13 (1.43%) AI Agents
8 13 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.21%) PMI
10 9 (0.99%) Enterprise Cloud
11 8 (0.88%) Life Science
11 8 (0.88%) Reinsurance
11 8 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (0.77%) Cloud Native
13 6 (0.66%) Data Structures
13 6 (0.66%) Digital Media
13 6 (0.66%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.66%) Windows
2 5 (0.55%) Linux
3 3 (0.33%) Android
3 3 (0.33%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 376 (41.50%) Project Management
2 304 (33.55%) Agile
3 257 (28.37%) Problem-Solving
4 211 (23.29%) Change Management
4 211 (23.29%) Data Analysis
5 195 (21.52%) Analytics
6 163 (17.99%) Data Analytics
7 119 (13.13%) Stakeholder Management
8 118 (13.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 116 (12.80%) Requirements Gathering
10 110 (12.14%) Process Improvement
11 106 (11.70%) AI
12 103 (11.37%) Decision-Making
13 99 (10.93%) User Stories
14 98 (10.82%) Continuous Improvement
15 97 (10.71%) Roadmaps
16 83 (9.16%) Workshop Facilitation
17 76 (8.39%) Business Intelligence
18 73 (8.06%) Scrum
19 72 (7.95%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 222 (24.50%) SQL
2 169 (18.65%) Python
3 7 (0.77%) C#
4 6 (0.66%) Java
5 5 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (0.22%) Ada
6 2 (0.22%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.22%) R
6 2 (0.22%) X++
7 1 (0.11%) C++
7 1 (0.11%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.11%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 268 (29.58%) Degree
2 45 (4.97%) Security Cleared
3 32 (3.53%) PMI Certification
4 29 (3.20%) Master's Degree
5 25 (2.76%) IIBA
5 25 (2.76%) SC Cleared
6 24 (2.65%) DBS Check
7 22 (2.43%) PMP
8 20 (2.21%) CIMA
8 20 (2.21%) HND
9 15 (1.66%) ACCA
9 15 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
10 14 (1.55%) DV Cleared
11 9 (0.99%) CBAP
12 7 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.55%) ISEB
15 4 (0.44%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 3 (0.33%) AWS Certification
16 3 (0.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (4.64%) QA
2 24 (2.65%) Data Quality
3 23 (2.54%) Accessibility
4 17 (1.88%) SEPA
5 15 (1.66%) ISO 20022
6 13 (1.43%) TARGET2
7 12 (1.32%) MiFID
8 10 (1.10%) GDPR
9 9 (0.99%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.66%) PMO
11 3 (0.33%) EMIR
11 3 (0.33%) GRC
11 3 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.22%) GxP
12 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 2 (0.22%) NIST
12 2 (0.22%) Solvency II
13 1 (0.11%) FATCA
13 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 1 (0.11%) P3O
System Software
1 7 (0.77%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.11%) Control-M
2 1 (0.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 260 (28.70%) Microsoft
2 29 (3.20%) Salesforce
3 18 (1.99%) SAP
4 14 (1.55%) Anaplan
5 12 (1.32%) Oracle
6 9 (0.99%) ServiceNow
7 8 (0.88%) Alteryx
8 7 (0.77%) Adobe
9 6 (0.66%) Atlassian
9 6 (0.66%) Civica
9 6 (0.66%) iManage
9 6 (0.66%) ION Trading
10 5 (0.55%) Bloomberg
10 5 (0.55%) CQG
10 5 (0.55%) GoldenSource
10 5 (0.55%) Patsystems
10 5 (0.55%) Reuters
10 5 (0.55%) Trayport
10 5 (0.55%) Workday
11 4 (0.44%) Google