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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 189 188
Rank change year-on-year +21 -1 -38
Permanent jobs citing Business Analysis 954 711 1,352
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.28% 1.66% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.64% 1.78% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 742 412 835
10th Percentile £28,250 £43,300 £36,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £50,967 £44,536
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £97,500 £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 58,218 39,990 74,105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.81% 93.48% 87.20%
Number of salaries quoted 35,252 22,229 56,158
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,750 £29,035
25th Percentile £40,000 £44,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,424 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,410 £93,750
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 18 March 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 18 March 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 +28 851 £45,497 -24.17% 428
UK excluding London +6 579 £40,000 -23.81% 388
London +24 308 £68,000 -9.33% 136
North of England +53 266 £40,000 -28.89% 93
Work from Home -29 181 £60,000 -7.16% 118
North West +7 115 £40,000 -27.27% 31
Yorkshire +46 110 £40,000 -44.44% 51
Midlands +9 91 £40,000 -23.81% 67
West Midlands +21 71 £40,000 -23.81% 33
South East -22 65 £48,885 -4.09% 104
South West -25 59 £40,000 -18.19% 33
Scotland -20 47 £40,000 -34.43% 21
North East +14 41 £40,000 -33.02% 13
East of England -55 34 £40,000 -21.52% 42
East Midlands -24 21 £40,000 -15.79% 33
Wales -7 15 £45,000 -29.65% 19
Northern Ireland -30 3 £40,000 -38.19% 13

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 31 (3.25%) Confluence
2 13 (1.36%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.10%) IIS
4 1 (0.10%) Mendix
4 1 (0.10%) SAS
Applications
1 200 (20.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (3.46%) MS Visio
3 26 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
4 15 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.73%) Adobe XD
5 7 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.10%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.10%) Sketch
6 1 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.63%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.42%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.10%) Endur
6 1 (0.10%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.10%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.10%) PeopleSoft HRMS
6 1 (0.10%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.10%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.10%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 79 (8.28%) Power Platform
2 56 (5.87%) Azure
3 49 (5.14%) Microsoft 365
4 36 (3.77%) SaaS
5 24 (2.52%) Dynamics 365
6 21 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (2.10%) Cloud Computing
8 19 (1.99%) AWS
9 18 (1.89%) Miro
9 18 (1.89%) PaaS
10 16 (1.68%) ChatGPT
11 15 (1.57%) Microsoft Copilot
12 11 (1.15%) Microsoft Purview
12 11 (1.15%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 10 (1.05%) Azure Data Factory
13 10 (1.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 10 (1.05%) Entra ID
13 10 (1.05%) IaaS
14 8 (0.84%) Figma
14 8 (0.84%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.42%) Multicast
2 2 (0.21%) LAN
2 2 (0.21%) Network Security
2 2 (0.21%) WAN
3 1 (0.10%) 4G
3 1 (0.10%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.10%) DHCP
3 1 (0.10%) DNS
3 1 (0.10%) Firewall
3 1 (0.10%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.10%) RFID
3 1 (0.10%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.10%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.10%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (18.87%) Tableau
2 171 (17.92%) Data Mining
3 59 (6.18%) Power BI
4 20 (2.10%) Big Data
5 13 (1.36%) Metadata
6 11 (1.15%) Relational Database
7 9 (0.94%) Data Lake
7 9 (0.94%) Power Query
8 7 (0.73%) SQL Server
9 6 (0.63%) Qlik Sense
9 6 (0.63%) RDBMS
10 5 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (0.52%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.21%) GIS
13 1 (0.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 41 (4.30%) JIRA
2 6 (0.63%) ERwin
3 1 (0.10%) Balsamiq
3 1 (0.10%) Oracle Forms
General
1 565 (59.22%) Finance
2 362 (37.95%) Analytical Skills
3 272 (28.51%) Social Skills
4 63 (6.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 58 (6.08%) Marketing
6 49 (5.14%) Public Sector
7 47 (4.93%) Legal
8 45 (4.72%) Banking
9 42 (4.40%) Law
10 27 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
11 20 (2.10%) Financial Institution
12 19 (1.99%) Manufacturing
13 17 (1.78%) Billing
13 17 (1.78%) Retail
14 15 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
15 14 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
16 12 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
17 11 (1.15%) Digital Health
18 8 (0.84%) Back Office
19 7 (0.73%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 687 (72.01%) Analyst
2 485 (50.84%) Business Analyst
3 327 (34.28%) Trainee
4 318 (33.33%) Trainee Analyst
5 172 (18.03%) Data Analyst
6 162 (16.98%) Trainee Data Analyst
7 156 (16.35%) Trainee Business Analyst
8 96 (10.06%) Senior
9 73 (7.65%) Senior Analyst
10 70 (7.34%) Senior Business Analyst
11 39 (4.09%) Lead
12 33 (3.46%) Consultant
13 31 (3.25%) Architect
14 30 (3.14%) Project Manager
15 27 (2.83%) Insurance Business Analyst
16 20 (2.10%) Developer
16 20 (2.10%) IT Manager
16 20 (2.10%) Lecturer
16 20 (2.10%) Technical Analyst
16 20 (2.10%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.36%) XML
2 11 (1.15%) JSON
3 10 (1.05%) FIX Protocol
4 7 (0.73%) FpML
5 6 (0.63%) XML Schema
6 5 (0.52%) EDI
6 5 (0.52%) Middleware
6 5 (0.52%) React
7 4 (0.42%) .NET
7 4 (0.42%) REST
7 4 (0.42%) SOAP
8 3 (0.31%) OpenAPI
8 3 (0.31%) Swagger
9 2 (0.21%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.21%) ASP.NET
9 2 (0.21%) Web Services
10 1 (0.10%) ADO
10 1 (0.10%) CSS
10 1 (0.10%) HTML
10 1 (0.10%) SAP ALE
Miscellaneous
1 65 (6.81%) Product Ownership
2 33 (3.46%) Management Information System
3 25 (2.62%) Analytical Mindset
4 21 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
5 20 (2.10%) IoT
6 16 (1.68%) AI Agents
6 16 (1.68%) Fixed Income
6 16 (1.68%) Onboarding
7 15 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (1.47%) Data Structures
9 13 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 10 (1.05%) Cloud Native
10 10 (1.05%) Enterprise Cloud
10 10 (1.05%) Low-Code
10 10 (1.05%) PMI
10 10 (1.05%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 9 (0.94%) Derivative
12 8 (0.84%) Life Science
12 8 (0.84%) OTC Derivatives
12 8 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.68%) Windows
2 4 (0.42%) Linux
3 3 (0.31%) Android
3 3 (0.31%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 384 (40.25%) Project Management
2 307 (32.18%) Agile
3 242 (25.37%) Problem-Solving
4 226 (23.69%) Data Analysis
5 223 (23.38%) Analytics
6 190 (19.92%) Change Management
7 183 (19.18%) Data Analytics
8 128 (13.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 125 (13.10%) User Stories
10 117 (12.26%) Requirements Gathering
11 116 (12.16%) Stakeholder Management
12 107 (11.22%) Decision-Making
13 97 (10.17%) AI
14 93 (9.75%) Process Improvement
15 91 (9.54%) Workshop Facilitation
16 89 (9.33%) Roadmaps
17 88 (9.22%) Continuous Improvement
18 83 (8.70%) Business Intelligence
19 73 (7.65%) Scrum
20 71 (7.44%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 243 (25.47%) SQL
2 193 (20.23%) Python
3 7 (0.73%) C#
4 5 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (0.52%) Java
5 2 (0.21%) R
5 2 (0.21%) X++
6 1 (0.10%) C++
6 1 (0.10%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.10%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.10%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.10%) VBA
Qualifications
1 262 (27.46%) Degree
2 54 (5.66%) Security Cleared
3 36 (3.77%) PMI Certification
4 35 (3.67%) SC Cleared
5 31 (3.25%) Master's Degree
6 29 (3.04%) IIBA
7 28 (2.94%) PMP
8 26 (2.73%) CIMA
9 21 (2.20%) ACCA
10 20 (2.10%) HND
11 19 (1.99%) DBS Check
12 17 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
13 14 (1.47%) DV Cleared
14 12 (1.26%) CBAP
15 9 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
16 7 (0.73%) ISEB
17 6 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
18 5 (0.52%) CIPD
19 3 (0.31%) AWS Certification
19 3 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (4.19%) QA
2 26 (2.73%) Accessibility
3 23 (2.41%) Data Quality
4 15 (1.57%) MiFID
4 15 (1.57%) PMO
5 13 (1.36%) GDPR
6 10 (1.05%) Actionable Recommendations
6 10 (1.05%) ISO 20022
7 8 (0.84%) SEPA
8 6 (0.63%) TARGET2
9 5 (0.52%) GAAP
10 3 (0.31%) EMIR
11 2 (0.21%) GRC
11 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 2 (0.21%) NIST
11 2 (0.21%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.10%) FATCA
12 1 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.10%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (1.26%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.10%) Control-M
2 1 (0.10%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.10%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.10%) Terraform
Vendors
1 286 (29.98%) Microsoft
2 25 (2.62%) Salesforce
3 18 (1.89%) SAP
4 13 (1.36%) ServiceNow
5 12 (1.26%) Anaplan
5 12 (1.26%) Oracle
6 8 (0.84%) Alteryx
6 8 (0.84%) Google
7 7 (0.73%) Adobe
7 7 (0.73%) Atlassian
7 7 (0.73%) Sparx
8 6 (0.63%) Guidewire
9 5 (0.52%) GoldenSource
9 5 (0.52%) IBM
9 5 (0.52%) ION Trading
10 4 (0.42%) Bloomberg
10 4 (0.42%) CQG
10 4 (0.42%) Intapp
10 4 (0.42%) Patsystems
10 4 (0.42%) Reuters