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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 194 198 145
Rank change year-on-year +4 -53 -8
Permanent jobs citing Business Analysis 744 903 1,230
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.47% 1.33% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% 1.61% 2.47%
Number of salaries quoted 571 544 927
10th Percentile £29,250 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +5.04%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,750 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.50% - -4.76%

All Process and 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 44,012 56,127 49,891
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.78% 82.46% 93.88%
Number of salaries quoted 26,595 29,580 38,351
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,500 £45,000 £43,871
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,625 £54,383 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.26% +3.59% -

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 7 November 2025.

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 7 November 2025. 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 +2 673 £60,000 - 1,242
UK excluding London -4 380 £42,750 -14.50% 1,069
London +35 320 £75,000 +6.01% 418
Work from Home -19 219 £62,500 - 323
North of England +17 157 £47,500 +14.46% 259
North West +47 97 £57,435 +4.43% 145
South East +16 73 £57,500 +43.75% 366
Yorkshire +46 48 £40,000 -11.11% 76
Midlands -58 44 £43,970 -18.15% 172
South West +22 42 £40,000 -21.18% 92
West Midlands +4 37 £41,970 -20.06% 105
Scotland -2 30 £36,250 -14.71% 63
East of England +25 21 £40,000 -38.46% 79
North East -32 12 £36,250 -3.33% 41
Northern Ireland +4 8 £67,500 +13.04% 15
East Midlands -57 7 £50,195 -33.07% 67
Wales +9 6 £45,000 -5.26% 28

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 45 (6.05%) Confluence
2 18 (2.42%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.27%) CMS
3 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.13%) IIS
4 1 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 130 (17.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (3.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (3.36%) MS Visio
5 8 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.94%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (1.21%) Aladdin
1 9 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (1.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.08%) SAP WM
3 7 (0.94%) thinkFolio
4 5 (0.67%) Maximo
4 5 (0.67%) Unit4 Business World
5 4 (0.54%) Elite 3E
5 4 (0.54%) Sage X3
6 3 (0.40%) Adaptiv
6 3 (0.40%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.40%) Endur
6 3 (0.40%) Fidessa
7 2 (0.27%) Bloomberg AIM
7 2 (0.27%) iTrent
7 2 (0.27%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.13%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 1 (0.13%) SAP EWM
8 1 (0.13%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 65 (8.74%) Power Platform
2 55 (7.39%) Azure
3 27 (3.63%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (2.96%) SaaS
5 22 (2.96%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 19 (2.55%) AWS
7 16 (2.15%) Power Automate
8 15 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
9 9 (1.21%) Miro
9 9 (1.21%) PowerApps
10 7 (0.94%) Figma
10 7 (0.94%) PaaS
11 6 (0.81%) GCP
12 5 (0.67%) Lucidchart
13 4 (0.54%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (0.54%) Google Workspace
13 4 (0.54%) Snowflake
14 3 (0.40%) GitHub
14 3 (0.40%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.08%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (0.54%) HTTP
2 4 (0.54%) Unified Communications
3 3 (0.40%) BGP
3 3 (0.40%) EIGRP
3 3 (0.40%) Firewall
3 3 (0.40%) FIX Connectivity
3 3 (0.40%) HSRP
3 3 (0.40%) IPsec
3 3 (0.40%) Multicast
3 3 (0.40%) OSPF
3 3 (0.40%) SNMP
3 3 (0.40%) VPN
3 3 (0.40%) VRRP
4 2 (0.27%) 4G
4 2 (0.27%) LAN
4 2 (0.27%) WAN
5 1 (0.13%) Intranet
5 1 (0.13%) RFID
5 1 (0.13%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (10.08%) Tableau
2 70 (9.41%) Data Mining
3 55 (7.39%) Power BI
4 22 (2.96%) SQL Server
5 18 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (0.94%) BusinessObjects
7 6 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (0.67%) Metadata
8 5 (0.67%) MS Access
8 5 (0.67%) SAP HANA
9 4 (0.54%) Power Query
9 4 (0.54%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.40%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.40%) GIS
10 3 (0.40%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.40%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (0.27%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.27%) Qlik Sense
12 1 (0.13%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 64 (8.60%) JIRA
2 4 (0.54%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (0.40%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.13%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.13%) Git
4 1 (0.13%) GitLab
4 1 (0.13%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.13%) Maven
4 1 (0.13%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 377 (50.67%) Finance
2 281 (37.77%) Social Skills
3 230 (30.91%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (9.01%) Marketing
5 65 (8.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 53 (7.12%) Banking
7 51 (6.85%) Legal
8 36 (4.84%) Retail
9 34 (4.57%) Manufacturing
10 32 (4.30%) Public Sector
11 26 (3.49%) Law
12 25 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
13 23 (3.09%) Documentation Skills
14 21 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
15 15 (2.02%) Billing
15 15 (2.02%) Financial Institution
16 14 (1.88%) Back Office
16 14 (1.88%) Front Office
17 12 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
18 9 (1.21%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 444 (59.68%) Analyst
2 340 (45.70%) Business Analyst
3 126 (16.94%) Trainee
4 115 (15.46%) Trainee Analyst
5 96 (12.90%) Senior
6 75 (10.08%) Data Analyst
7 63 (8.47%) Lead
8 60 (8.06%) Trainee Business Analyst
9 56 (7.53%) Senior Analyst
10 55 (7.39%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 54 (7.26%) Senior Business Analyst
12 44 (5.91%) Project Manager
13 42 (5.65%) Lead Business Analyst
14 40 (5.38%) Architect
15 35 (4.70%) Developer
16 31 (4.17%) Financial Analyst
17 27 (3.63%) Consultant
17 27 (3.63%) Product Owner
18 26 (3.49%) Business Manager
18 26 (3.49%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.21%) .NET
1 9 (1.21%) React
2 6 (0.81%) FIX Protocol
2 6 (0.81%) Middleware
2 6 (0.81%) XML
3 5 (0.67%) SAP Fiori
3 5 (0.67%) SAPUI5
4 4 (0.54%) Web Services
5 3 (0.40%) Gherkin
5 3 (0.40%) HTML
6 2 (0.27%) CSS
6 2 (0.27%) EDI
6 2 (0.27%) JSON
6 2 (0.27%) REST
6 2 (0.27%) RESTful
6 2 (0.27%) Spring
6 2 (0.27%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.13%) CSS3
7 1 (0.13%) Dropwizard
7 1 (0.13%) Mongoose
Miscellaneous
1 69 (9.27%) Product Ownership
2 43 (5.78%) Management Information System
3 28 (3.76%) Analytical Mindset
4 21 (2.82%) Onboarding
5 19 (2.55%) Reinsurance
5 19 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
6 17 (2.28%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 16 (2.15%) Fixed Income
7 16 (2.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 13 (1.75%) Derivative
9 12 (1.61%) Social Media
10 10 (1.34%) Digital Media
11 8 (1.08%) Hedge funds
12 7 (0.94%) PMI
13 6 (0.81%) Market Risk
13 6 (0.81%) OTC Derivatives
14 5 (0.67%) Augmented Reality
14 5 (0.67%) Wiki
15 4 (0.54%) Data Structures
15 4 (0.54%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.81%) Windows
2 3 (0.40%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 302 (40.59%) Agile
2 254 (34.14%) Project Management
3 182 (24.46%) Problem-Solving
4 138 (18.55%) Data Analysis
5 137 (18.41%) Change Management
6 136 (18.28%) Requirements Gathering
6 136 (18.28%) Stakeholder Management
7 126 (16.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 125 (16.80%) Process Improvement
9 112 (15.05%) Analytics
10 110 (14.78%) Roadmaps
11 108 (14.52%) Continuous Improvement
12 105 (14.11%) User Stories
13 93 (12.50%) Project Delivery
14 92 (12.37%) AI
14 92 (12.37%) Decision-Making
15 89 (11.96%) Data Analytics
16 82 (11.02%) Workshop Facilitation
17 78 (10.48%) ERP
18 74 (9.95%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 146 (19.62%) SQL
2 97 (13.04%) Python
3 13 (1.75%) C#
4 6 (0.81%) JavaScript
5 5 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (0.67%) PL/SQL
5 5 (0.67%) VBA
6 4 (0.54%) Java
6 4 (0.54%) PowerShell
7 3 (0.40%) Bash
8 2 (0.27%) Ada
8 2 (0.27%) C++
8 2 (0.27%) PHP
8 2 (0.27%) R
9 1 (0.13%) ABAP
9 1 (0.13%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.13%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 183 (24.60%) Degree
2 37 (4.97%) DBS Check
3 36 (4.84%) PMI Certification
4 30 (4.03%) PMP
5 24 (3.23%) Master's Degree
6 21 (2.82%) CIMA
6 21 (2.82%) Security Cleared
7 16 (2.15%) ACCA
7 16 (2.15%) CBAP
8 15 (2.02%) SC Cleared
9 13 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (1.21%) CFA
11 7 (0.94%) DV Cleared
12 5 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 4 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.54%) CCA
13 4 (0.54%) IIBA
13 4 (0.54%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (5.91%) QA
2 32 (4.30%) Data Quality
3 17 (2.28%) SEPA
4 15 (2.02%) GDPR
5 13 (1.75%) ISO 20022
5 13 (1.75%) MiFID
5 13 (1.75%) PMO
6 12 (1.61%) Accessibility
7 11 (1.48%) TARGET2
8 8 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.27%) COBIT
10 2 (0.27%) EMIR
10 2 (0.27%) GRC
10 2 (0.27%) GxP
10 2 (0.27%) IFRS
10 2 (0.27%) Solvency II
10 2 (0.27%) UCITS
11 1 (0.13%) GAAP
11 1 (0.13%) P3O
System Software
1 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.13%) Docker
1 1 (0.13%) Firmware
1 1 (0.13%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 1 (0.13%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.13%) SCCM
Vendors
1 155 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 45 (6.05%) Salesforce
3 26 (3.49%) SAP
4 13 (1.75%) Oracle
5 10 (1.34%) Atlassian
6 9 (1.21%) Anaplan
6 9 (1.21%) ServiceNow
7 8 (1.08%) Bloomberg
7 8 (1.08%) Calypso
7 8 (1.08%) GoldenSource
7 8 (1.08%) Guidewire
8 7 (0.94%) Adobe
8 7 (0.94%) BISAM
8 7 (0.94%) Charles River
8 7 (0.94%) SimCorp
9 6 (0.81%) Civica
9 6 (0.81%) Google
9 6 (0.81%) Murex
10 4 (0.54%) ION Trading
10 4 (0.54%) Sage