Business Analysis Jobs

Business Analysis
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Business Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Business Analysis over the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 258 207 150
Rank change year-on-year -51 -57 +18
Permanent jobs citing Business Analysis 726 1,391 2,053
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.21% 1.34% 2.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 1.62% 2.49%
Number of salaries quoted 492 768 1,401
10th Percentile £44,013 £34,750 £40,875
25th Percentile £55,000 £41,689 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £83,188 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £92,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% +10.00%

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 53,843 85,770 82,409
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 89.95% 82.67% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 28,284 58,627 52,946
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £38,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,175 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%

Business Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Business Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Business Analysis in the UK

Business Analysis
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Business Analysis.

Salary trend for Business Analysis in the UK

Business Analysis
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Analysis over the 6 months to 11 July 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 11 July 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 -54 654 £62,500 +13.64% 892
UK excluding London -69 399 £60,000 +20.00% 571
London +37 304 £80,000 +14.29% 453
Work from Home -25 277 £70,000 +21.74% 259
North of England 0 132 £60,000 +20.00% 153
North West +12 122 £60,000 +26.32% 89
South East -9 70 £57,500 +9.52% 148
South West +63 60 £52,500 - 49
Midlands -58 54 £56,500 +16.49% 97
West Midlands +7 46 £55,000 +15.79% 62
Scotland +66 42 £60,000 +40.87% 32
East of England -80 28 £60,000 +26.32% 56
Northern Ireland +39 11 £67,500 +14.80% 18
Yorkshire -1 8 £58,542 +11.51% 47
East Midlands -46 8 £70,000 +43.78% 35
Wales +21 3 £52,611 +4.70% 21
North East +7 2 £39,250 -25.24% 19

Business Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 75 (10.33%) Oracle Application Server
2 44 (6.06%) Confluence
3 16 (2.20%) SharePoint
4 6 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.28%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.28%) SAS
6 1 (0.14%) Apache
6 1 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.14%) CMS
6 1 (0.14%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 66 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (3.86%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (3.58%) MS Visio
4 24 (3.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.28%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.28%) Trello
7 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 48 (6.61%) Aladdin
2 39 (5.37%) thinkFolio
3 17 (2.34%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.83%) SAP WM
6 5 (0.69%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.69%) Maximo
7 4 (0.55%) Sage X3
8 3 (0.41%) Adaptiv
9 2 (0.28%) Bloomberg AIM
9 2 (0.28%) Fidessa
10 1 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
10 1 (0.14%) Eloqua
10 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS R12
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (0.14%) Siebel CRM
10 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 1 (0.14%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 70 (9.64%) Power Platform
2 44 (6.06%) Azure
3 38 (5.23%) SaaS
4 24 (3.31%) AWS
4 24 (3.31%) Dynamics 365
5 15 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (1.24%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (1.24%) Power Automate
6 9 (1.24%) PowerApps
7 6 (0.83%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (0.83%) Lucidchart
8 5 (0.69%) GCP
8 5 (0.69%) Microsoft Copilot
8 5 (0.69%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 5 (0.69%) Snowflake
9 4 (0.55%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (0.55%) Matillion
10 3 (0.41%) Azure AI
10 3 (0.41%) Figma
10 3 (0.41%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (0.83%) BGP
2 6 (0.83%) EIGRP
2 6 (0.83%) Firewall
2 6 (0.83%) HSRP
2 6 (0.83%) IPsec
2 6 (0.83%) OSPF
2 6 (0.83%) SNMP
2 6 (0.83%) VPN
2 6 (0.83%) VRRP
3 4 (0.55%) HTTP
4 3 (0.41%) LAN
4 3 (0.41%) WAN
5 2 (0.28%) FIX Connectivity
5 2 (0.28%) Multicast
6 1 (0.14%) Internet
6 1 (0.14%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.14%) RTP
6 1 (0.14%) Skype
6 1 (0.14%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (12.95%) Data Warehouse
2 75 (10.33%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 75 (10.33%) Oracle Reports
3 61 (8.40%) Power BI
4 20 (2.75%) SQL Server
5 13 (1.79%) Relational Database
6 10 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (0.96%) Data Lake
7 7 (0.96%) Tableau
8 6 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (0.69%) Data Mining
9 5 (0.69%) SAP HANA
10 4 (0.55%) BusinessObjects
10 4 (0.55%) MS Access
10 4 (0.55%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.55%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.41%) Big Data
11 3 (0.41%) OLAP
11 3 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (0.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 61 (8.40%) JIRA
2 2 (0.28%) Maven
3 1 (0.14%) Git
3 1 (0.14%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (0.14%) Postman
3 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 355 (48.90%) Finance
2 324 (44.63%) Social Skills
3 240 (33.06%) Analytical Skills
4 105 (14.46%) Organisational Skills
5 86 (11.85%) Manufacturing
6 75 (10.33%) Military
7 61 (8.40%) Front Office
8 49 (6.75%) Banking
9 37 (5.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 36 (4.96%) Marketing
11 28 (3.86%) Legal
11 28 (3.86%) Retail
12 27 (3.72%) Law
13 24 (3.31%) Public Sector
14 22 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
15 21 (2.89%) Documentation Skills
16 20 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
17 10 (1.38%) Telecoms
18 8 (1.10%) German Language
19 7 (0.96%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 377 (51.93%) Analyst
2 316 (43.53%) Business Analyst
3 82 (11.29%) Architect
4 81 (11.16%) Senior
5 65 (8.95%) Business Manager
5 65 (8.95%) Solutions Architect
6 55 (7.58%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
7 49 (6.75%) Senior Analyst
8 48 (6.61%) Senior Business Analyst
9 39 (5.37%) Lead
10 32 (4.41%) Financial Analyst
10 32 (4.41%) Project Manager
11 27 (3.72%) Developer
12 25 (3.44%) Database Engineer
13 24 (3.31%) Lead Business Analyst
14 23 (3.17%) Finance Business Analyst
15 22 (3.03%) Consultant
16 20 (2.75%) Product Manager
17 19 (2.62%) IT Manager
18 17 (2.34%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.07%) .NET
2 7 (0.96%) FIX Protocol
2 7 (0.96%) Gherkin
3 6 (0.83%) REST
4 5 (0.69%) Middleware
4 5 (0.69%) SAP Fiori
4 5 (0.69%) SAPUI5
4 5 (0.69%) XML
5 4 (0.55%) AngularJS
5 4 (0.55%) ASP.NET
5 4 (0.55%) HTML
5 4 (0.55%) React
6 3 (0.41%) CSS
6 3 (0.41%) MACH
6 3 (0.41%) SOAP
7 2 (0.28%) EDI
7 2 (0.28%) OAuth
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (0.28%) Pandas
7 2 (0.28%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 64 (8.82%) Derivative
2 62 (8.54%) Onboarding
3 56 (7.71%) Fixed Income
4 54 (7.44%) Hedge funds
5 49 (6.75%) Analytical Mindset
6 45 (6.20%) Product Ownership
7 38 (5.23%) Management Information System
8 20 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (1.65%) PMI
10 11 (1.52%) OTC Derivatives
11 8 (1.10%) Reinsurance
12 7 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (0.96%) Market Risk
12 7 (0.96%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 6 (0.83%) IPTV
13 6 (0.83%) Operational Technology
13 6 (0.83%) Social Media
14 5 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 4 (0.55%) Equities
15 4 (0.55%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.83%) Linux
2 3 (0.41%) Unix
2 3 (0.41%) Windows
3 2 (0.28%) Android
3 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.14%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 373 (51.38%) Agile
2 153 (21.07%) Roadmaps
3 152 (20.94%) Project Management
4 151 (20.80%) Analytics
5 148 (20.39%) Problem-Solving
6 123 (16.94%) Requirements Gathering
7 122 (16.80%) Business Intelligence
7 122 (16.80%) ITIL
7 122 (16.80%) Stakeholder Management
8 114 (15.70%) ERP
9 106 (14.60%) Data Modelling
10 105 (14.46%) User Stories
11 103 (14.19%) DevOps
12 93 (12.81%) Service Management
13 92 (12.67%) Data Management
14 90 (12.40%) Data Integration
15 87 (11.98%) Decision-Making
15 87 (11.98%) Process Improvement
16 83 (11.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 81 (11.16%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 113 (15.56%) SQL
2 75 (10.33%) Python
3 16 (2.20%) C#
4 9 (1.24%) JavaScript
5 7 (0.96%) PowerShell
6 6 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 5 (0.69%) Bash
7 5 (0.69%) C++
7 5 (0.69%) Java
7 5 (0.69%) T-SQL
8 4 (0.55%) VBA
9 3 (0.41%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.28%) PHP
10 2 (0.28%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.14%) ABAP
11 1 (0.14%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.14%) R
11 1 (0.14%) RPG
11 1 (0.14%) RPG IV
11 1 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 158 (21.76%) Degree
2 87 (11.98%) DBS Check
3 56 (7.71%) BPSS Clearance
4 50 (6.89%) PMI Certification
5 44 (6.06%) CBAP
6 41 (5.65%) Master's Degree
7 38 (5.23%) PMP
8 11 (1.52%) ACCA
8 11 (1.52%) CIMA
9 10 (1.38%) Security Cleared
10 9 (1.24%) CFA
10 9 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (0.96%) IIBA
11 7 (0.96%) ISEB
12 6 (0.83%) CCA
12 6 (0.83%) CCNA
12 6 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (0.83%) SC Cleared
12 6 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (6.34%) QA
2 25 (3.44%) PMO
3 15 (2.07%) Data Quality
3 15 (2.07%) GDPR
4 10 (1.38%) MiFID
5 8 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
6 7 (0.96%) ISO 20022
6 7 (0.96%) SEPA
7 4 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.41%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.41%) EMIR
8 3 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.28%) UCITS
10 1 (0.14%) COBIT
10 1 (0.14%) GAAP
10 1 (0.14%) GRC
10 1 (0.14%) IFRS
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.14%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (0.28%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.14%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (0.28%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 89 (12.26%) Microsoft
2 84 (11.57%) Oracle
3 46 (6.34%) BISAM
4 45 (6.20%) Charles River
5 39 (5.37%) Calypso
5 39 (5.37%) SimCorp
6 20 (2.75%) SAP
7 19 (2.62%) Salesforce
8 17 (2.34%) YouTube
9 12 (1.65%) Anaplan
9 12 (1.65%) ServiceNow
10 10 (1.38%) Bloomberg
11 7 (0.96%) Atlassian
12 6 (0.83%) Arista
12 6 (0.83%) CheckPoint
12 6 (0.83%) Cisco
12 6 (0.83%) Fortinet
12 6 (0.83%) Meraki
12 6 (0.83%) Murex
12 6 (0.83%) SolarWinds