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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 228 218
Rank change year-on-year +26 -10 -61
Permanent jobs citing Business Analysis 915 648 1,374
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.99% 1.47% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 1.58% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 726 399 790
10th Percentile £33,750 £42,851 £34,700
25th Percentile £36,250 £52,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,171 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.20% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £67,188 £87,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £106,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,497 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -20.87% +15.00% -9.09%

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 67,331 40,980 87,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.88% 92.69% 82.42%
Number of salaries quoted 46,057 21,831 62,274
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%

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 June 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 June 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 +30 818 £55,000 -15.38% 374
UK excluding London +40 540 £45,497 -20.87% 306
London -7 306 £65,000 -18.75% 141
Work from Home +1 266 £59,338 -10.95% 120
North of England +102 234 £45,497 -17.28% 76
Yorkshire +60 117 £50,000 +18.81% 41
Midlands +11 88 £45,497 -24.17% 50
North West +33 84 £40,000 -27.27% 27
South East -11 79 £52,500 -8.70% 90
West Midlands -3 66 £46,499 -18.42% 22
South West -58 51 £45,000 -25.00% 29
Scotland +8 38 £40,000 -33.33% 15
East of England -4 36 £45,000 -28.57% 35
North East -12 33 £40,000 +1.91% 8
East Midlands -9 22 £43,750 -35.19% 28
Wales -32 12 £53,171 +1.06% 7
Northern Ireland -41 3 £40,000 -40.74% 10

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 (3.61%) Confluence
2 14 (1.53%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.33%) ColdFusion
3 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.22%) CMS
4 2 (0.22%) Umbraco
4 2 (0.22%) WordPress
5 1 (0.11%) Mendix
Applications
1 111 (12.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (4.04%) Microsoft Office
3 34 (3.72%) MS Visio
4 14 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.22%) Trello
8 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 23 (2.51%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.77%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.33%) Exchequer
6 3 (0.33%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 3 (0.33%) Sage 50
6 3 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.22%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.22%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.22%) SAP PSCD
8 1 (0.11%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 1 (0.11%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 1 (0.11%) SAP BRIM
8 1 (0.11%) SAP FI
8 1 (0.11%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 80 (8.74%) Power Platform
2 59 (6.45%) Azure
3 38 (4.15%) Microsoft 365
4 33 (3.61%) SaaS
5 28 (3.06%) Dynamics 365
6 25 (2.73%) AWS
7 20 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (1.86%) Microsoft Copilot
8 17 (1.86%) Power Automate
9 14 (1.53%) PowerApps
10 10 (1.09%) ChatGPT
10 10 (1.09%) GCP
11 8 (0.87%) Miro
11 8 (0.87%) PaaS
12 7 (0.77%) Microsoft Purview
12 7 (0.77%) OneDrive
13 6 (0.66%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (0.66%) Copilot Studio
13 6 (0.66%) Google Drive
13 6 (0.66%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.77%) Multicast
2 2 (0.22%) FIX Connectivity
2 2 (0.22%) LAN
2 2 (0.22%) WAN
3 1 (0.11%) DSL
3 1 (0.11%) Intranet
3 1 (0.11%) Network Security
3 1 (0.11%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (9.84%) Tableau
2 84 (9.18%) Data Mining
3 64 (6.99%) Power BI
4 17 (1.86%) Relational Database
5 12 (1.31%) Metadata
6 8 (0.87%) SQL Server
7 7 (0.77%) RDBMS
8 6 (0.66%) Power Query
8 6 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (0.44%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.33%) GIS
10 3 (0.33%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.22%) Qlik Sense
11 2 (0.22%) SAP BW
12 1 (0.11%) DTS
12 1 (0.11%) Neo4j
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 62 (6.78%) JIRA
2 7 (0.77%) ERwin
3 1 (0.11%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.11%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 441 (48.20%) Finance
2 299 (32.68%) Analytical Skills
3 272 (29.73%) Social Skills
4 78 (8.52%) Public Sector
5 66 (7.21%) Law
6 60 (6.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 45 (4.92%) Legal
8 33 (3.61%) Presentation Skills
9 29 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
10 25 (2.73%) Retail
11 24 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
12 21 (2.30%) Marketing
13 20 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
14 17 (1.86%) Legal Technology
15 16 (1.75%) Financial Institution
15 16 (1.75%) Spanish Language
16 15 (1.64%) Banking
16 15 (1.64%) Manufacturing
17 11 (1.20%) Billing
18 9 (0.98%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 653 (71.37%) Analyst
2 519 (56.72%) Business Analyst
3 165 (18.03%) Trainee
3 165 (18.03%) Trainee Analyst
4 125 (13.66%) Senior
5 111 (12.13%) Senior Analyst
6 103 (11.26%) Senior Business Analyst
7 95 (10.38%) Data Analyst
8 84 (9.18%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 81 (8.85%) Trainee Business Analyst
10 38 (4.15%) Lead
11 35 (3.83%) Consultant
12 32 (3.50%) Project Manager
13 31 (3.39%) Business Manager
14 30 (3.28%) Insurance Business Analyst
15 25 (2.73%) Technical Analyst
15 25 (2.73%) Technical Business Analyst
16 23 (2.51%) Systems Analyst
17 20 (2.19%) IT Analyst
18 19 (2.08%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (1.75%) JSON
1 16 (1.75%) XML
2 14 (1.53%) FIX Protocol
3 9 (0.98%) FpML
4 8 (0.87%) Gherkin
5 7 (0.77%) Middleware
5 7 (0.77%) REST
5 7 (0.77%) XML Schema
6 6 (0.66%) SOAP
7 5 (0.55%) EDI
8 4 (0.44%) .NET
9 3 (0.33%) OpenAPI
9 3 (0.33%) Swagger
10 2 (0.22%) AngularJS
10 2 (0.22%) ASP.NET
10 2 (0.22%) SAP Fiori
10 2 (0.22%) XML Messaging
11 1 (0.11%) PySpark
11 1 (0.11%) React
11 1 (0.11%) SAP ALE
Miscellaneous
1 88 (9.62%) Product Ownership
2 45 (4.92%) Management Information System
3 30 (3.28%) Data Structures
4 22 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
5 18 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
6 16 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (1.64%) Low-Code
8 14 (1.53%) Onboarding
9 13 (1.42%) IoT
10 12 (1.31%) AI Agents
11 11 (1.20%) Fixed Income
11 11 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 10 (1.09%) Derivative
12 10 (1.09%) PropTech
13 9 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
13 9 (0.98%) PMI
14 8 (0.87%) Cloud Native
14 8 (0.87%) e-Learning
14 8 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (0.87%) OTC Derivatives
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.86%) Windows
2 10 (1.09%) Linux
3 3 (0.33%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.22%) Android
4 2 (0.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 330 (36.07%) Agile
2 245 (26.78%) Project Management
3 209 (22.84%) Problem-Solving
4 173 (18.91%) Requirements Gathering
5 164 (17.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 152 (16.61%) User Stories
7 150 (16.39%) Analytics
8 145 (15.85%) Stakeholder Management
9 136 (14.86%) Data Analysis
10 135 (14.75%) Workshop Facilitation
11 121 (13.22%) Process Improvement
12 120 (13.11%) Decision-Making
13 104 (11.37%) Continuous Improvement
14 96 (10.49%) Data Analytics
15 92 (10.05%) AI
16 88 (9.62%) Change Management
17 83 (9.07%) Business Intelligence
18 82 (8.96%) Waterfall
19 81 (8.85%) Acceptance Criteria
20 78 (8.52%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 182 (19.89%) SQL
2 103 (11.26%) Python
3 6 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (0.55%) Java
5 4 (0.44%) C#
6 3 (0.33%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.22%) Ada
7 2 (0.22%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.22%) X++
8 1 (0.11%) SOQL
8 1 (0.11%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 165 (18.03%) Degree
2 51 (5.57%) Security Cleared
3 40 (4.37%) ACCA
4 37 (4.04%) CIMA
5 35 (3.83%) SC Cleared
6 30 (3.28%) IIBA
7 28 (3.06%) PMI Certification
8 23 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
9 21 (2.30%) PMP
10 14 (1.53%) DBS Check
11 13 (1.42%) CBAP
12 10 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (0.66%) DV Cleared
13 6 (0.66%) ISEB
13 6 (0.66%) Master's Degree
14 5 (0.55%) CIPD
14 5 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.44%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 3 (0.33%) AWS Certification
16 3 (0.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (3.06%) Data Quality
1 28 (3.06%) QA
2 22 (2.40%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.08%) GDPR
3 19 (2.08%) PMO
4 17 (1.86%) GAAP
5 8 (0.87%) MiFID
6 7 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (0.66%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.33%) GRC
10 2 (0.22%) NIST
10 2 (0.22%) SEPA
10 2 (0.22%) SLA
10 2 (0.22%) TARGET2
11 1 (0.11%) COBIT
11 1 (0.11%) COSO
11 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.11%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (0.87%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.11%) IAG
Systems Management
1 3 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.11%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 210 (22.95%) Microsoft
2 29 (3.17%) Salesforce
3 19 (2.08%) SAP
4 13 (1.42%) Google
4 13 (1.42%) Intapp
4 13 (1.42%) Oracle
5 9 (0.98%) ServiceNow
6 8 (0.87%) Atlassian
6 8 (0.87%) Sparx
7 7 (0.77%) Bloomberg
7 7 (0.77%) CQG
7 7 (0.77%) ION Trading
7 7 (0.77%) Patsystems
7 7 (0.77%) Reuters
7 7 (0.77%) Trayport
8 6 (0.66%) Aderant
8 6 (0.66%) Anaplan
8 6 (0.66%) JD Edwards
8 6 (0.66%) TOWER Software
9 5 (0.55%) HubSpot