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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 223 200
Rank change year-on-year 0 -23 -66
Permanent jobs citing Business Analysis 1,013 685 981
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.86% 1.40% 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 1.57% 1.60%
Number of salaries quoted 710 519 580
10th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,076 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.28% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £76,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £52,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year -2.86% +7.14% -2.00%

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 86,023 43,711 61,337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.11% 89.05% 81.75%
Number of salaries quoted 59,242 24,267 33,446
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,880 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -3.33%
75th Percentile £79,688 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 29 September 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 29 September 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 +4 910 £57,500 -8.00% 892
UK excluding London +13 558 £51,000 -2.86% 520
Work from Home +58 390 £55,000 -15.38% 397
London -34 371 £70,000 -6.67% 474
North of England -1 186 £52,500 -4.55% 143
South East -17 112 £55,000 -6.38% 120
Midlands -16 94 £50,000 -9.09% 86
Yorkshire +25 82 £57,500 +43.75% 59
North West -24 75 £50,000 -16.67% 67
South West -38 73 £45,000 +5.26% 49
West Midlands -20 70 £53,000 -3.64% 58
East of England +2 52 £46,661 -6.68% 36
North East -45 29 £42,500 +6.25% 17
East Midlands -28 24 £48,000 -18.64% 28
Scotland +9 20 £45,000 +12.50% 40
Wales -59 18 £52,500 -0.21% 8
Northern Ireland -87 7 - - 39

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 69 (6.81%) Confluence
2 33 (3.26%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.49%) ColdFusion
4 4 (0.39%) CMS
5 2 (0.20%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.20%) WordPress
6 1 (0.099%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.099%) Appian
6 1 (0.099%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 73 (7.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (6.71%) Microsoft Office
3 65 (6.42%) MS Visio
4 33 (3.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 19 (1.88%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.69%) Moqups
7 6 (0.59%) Trello
8 3 (0.30%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.20%) InDesign
9 2 (0.20%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 20 (1.97%) NetSuite
2 14 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.89%) Fidessa
3 9 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.39%) Magento
4 4 (0.39%) Shopify
5 3 (0.30%) Exchequer
5 3 (0.30%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 3 (0.30%) Sage 50
5 3 (0.30%) Sage X3
5 3 (0.30%) SAP Business One
5 3 (0.30%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.30%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.20%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.20%) iTrent
6 2 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.20%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.20%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 117 (11.55%) Power Platform
2 115 (11.35%) Azure
3 58 (5.73%) Azure DevOps
4 48 (4.74%) Microsoft 365
5 45 (4.44%) AWS
6 43 (4.24%) SaaS
7 39 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
8 34 (3.36%) Power Automate
9 25 (2.47%) Lucidchart
9 25 (2.47%) Microsoft Copilot
10 17 (1.68%) Anthropic Claude
11 13 (1.28%) PowerApps
11 13 (1.28%) Zapier
12 12 (1.18%) Microsoft Purview
13 11 (1.09%) GCP
14 10 (0.99%) Copilot Studio
14 10 (0.99%) Figma
14 10 (0.99%) iPaaS
15 8 (0.79%) Boomi
15 8 (0.79%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.89%) Multicast
2 7 (0.69%) FIX Connectivity
3 4 (0.39%) Internet
4 1 (0.099%) DSL
4 1 (0.099%) Intranet
4 1 (0.099%) LAN
4 1 (0.099%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (10.07%) Power BI
2 23 (2.27%) Relational Database
3 20 (1.97%) Tableau
4 17 (1.68%) SQL Server
5 15 (1.48%) Metadata
6 10 (0.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 7 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (0.59%) DTS
9 4 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.30%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (0.30%) Crystal Reports
10 3 (0.30%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.30%) MySQL
10 3 (0.30%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.30%) Spotfire
11 2 (0.20%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.20%) Data Mining
11 2 (0.20%) Looker
11 2 (0.20%) SAP BW
11 2 (0.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 135 (13.33%) JIRA
2 8 (0.79%) Claude Code
2 8 (0.79%) Cypress.io
2 8 (0.79%) Selenium
3 7 (0.69%) Postman
4 3 (0.30%) Artifactory
4 3 (0.30%) Git
4 3 (0.30%) GitLab
4 3 (0.30%) Hudson
4 3 (0.30%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.20%) Balsamiq
5 2 (0.20%) LSMW
6 1 (0.099%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.099%) JIRA Agile
6 1 (0.099%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 417 (41.16%) Social Skills
2 372 (36.72%) Finance
3 323 (31.89%) Analytical Skills
4 134 (13.23%) Public Sector
5 101 (9.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 78 (7.70%) Law
7 61 (6.02%) Documentation Skills
8 59 (5.82%) Legal
9 58 (5.73%) Organisational Skills
10 51 (5.03%) Presentation Skills
11 50 (4.94%) Influencing Skills
12 39 (3.85%) Manufacturing
13 37 (3.65%) Retail
14 30 (2.96%) Banking
15 27 (2.67%) Marketing
16 24 (2.37%) Local Government
17 23 (2.27%) Legal Technology
18 19 (1.88%) Aerospace
19 16 (1.58%) Front Office
20 15 (1.48%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 618 (61.01%) Analyst
2 520 (51.33%) Business Analyst
3 177 (17.47%) Senior
4 136 (13.43%) Senior Analyst
5 126 (12.44%) Senior Business Analyst
6 66 (6.52%) Lead
7 54 (5.33%) Consultant
8 44 (4.34%) Technical Analyst
9 42 (4.15%) Technical Business Analyst
10 37 (3.65%) Business Manager
11 35 (3.46%) Project Manager
12 32 (3.16%) Lead Business Analyst
13 30 (2.96%) Systems Analyst
14 29 (2.86%) Product Manager
15 27 (2.67%) Applications Support
16 25 (2.47%) Data Analyst
17 24 (2.37%) Business IT Analyst
17 24 (2.37%) Business Systems Analyst
17 24 (2.37%) IT Analyst
18 23 (2.27%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (1.97%) REST
2 19 (1.88%) FIX Protocol
3 17 (1.68%) .NET
4 11 (1.09%) Gherkin
4 11 (1.09%) SOAP
4 11 (1.09%) XML
5 10 (0.99%) Playwright
6 6 (0.59%) JSON
6 6 (0.59%) LangChain
7 5 (0.49%) CrewAI
7 5 (0.49%) LlamaIndex
8 4 (0.39%) Lightning Web Components
8 4 (0.39%) Middleware
8 4 (0.39%) Oracle Fusion
8 4 (0.39%) Terraform
9 3 (0.30%) .NET Core
9 3 (0.30%) EDI
9 3 (0.30%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (0.30%) PySpark
9 3 (0.30%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 121 (11.94%) Product Ownership
2 58 (5.73%) Management Information System
3 24 (2.37%) Data Structures
3 24 (2.37%) Low-Code
4 23 (2.27%) AI Agents
5 22 (2.17%) Onboarding
6 21 (2.07%) Analytical Mindset
6 21 (2.07%) Derivative
7 18 (1.78%) Fixed Income
8 17 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (1.28%) Blog
9 13 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 13 (1.28%) PMI
10 12 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
11 11 (1.09%) NHS
12 10 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
13 9 (0.89%) Distributed Computing
13 9 (0.89%) Equities
13 9 (0.89%) Eurex
13 9 (0.89%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 26 (2.57%) Linux
2 19 (1.88%) Windows
3 3 (0.30%) Unix
3 3 (0.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 449 (44.32%) Agile
2 325 (32.08%) Stakeholder Management
3 318 (31.39%) Problem-Solving
4 300 (29.62%) Requirements Gathering
5 239 (23.59%) Workshop Facilitation
6 231 (22.80%) User Stories
7 219 (21.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 213 (21.03%) Process Improvement
9 205 (20.24%) Continuous Improvement
10 204 (20.14%) AI
11 165 (16.29%) Decision-Making
12 162 (15.99%) Project Management
13 158 (15.60%) Project Delivery
14 133 (13.13%) Scrum
15 131 (12.93%) Acceptance Criteria
16 127 (12.54%) User Acceptance Testing
17 124 (12.24%) Business Intelligence
18 120 (11.85%) Coaching
19 109 (10.76%) Change Management
20 106 (10.46%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 155 (15.30%) SQL
2 44 (4.34%) Python
3 25 (2.47%) JavaScript
4 24 (2.37%) Java
5 21 (2.07%) C++
6 16 (1.58%) C#
7 9 (0.89%) TypeScript
8 7 (0.69%) T-SQL
9 5 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.39%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.30%) Bash
11 3 (0.30%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.20%) Ada
13 1 (0.099%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.099%) R
13 1 (0.099%) RPG
13 1 (0.099%) SOQL
13 1 (0.099%) SOSL
13 1 (0.099%) VBA
Qualifications
1 176 (17.37%) Degree
2 106 (10.46%) Security Cleared
3 83 (8.19%) SC Cleared
4 32 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (2.76%) ACCA
6 27 (2.67%) CIMA
7 25 (2.47%) IIBA
8 24 (2.37%) PMI Certification
9 17 (1.68%) CBAP
10 15 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
11 14 (1.38%) PMP
12 12 (1.18%) DV Cleared
13 11 (1.09%) DBS Check
14 8 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
15 6 (0.59%) CFA
15 6 (0.59%) ISEB
16 4 (0.39%) Master's Degree
16 4 (0.39%) Postgraduate
16 4 (0.39%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 4 (0.39%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (6.22%) QA
2 54 (5.33%) Data Quality
3 25 (2.47%) PMO
4 17 (1.68%) Accessibility
4 17 (1.68%) GDPR
5 13 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (0.99%) GAAP
7 4 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.39%) COBIT
7 4 (0.39%) NIST
8 3 (0.30%) GRC
8 3 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 3 (0.30%) NCSC
9 2 (0.20%) Good Clinical Practice
9 2 (0.20%) ISO 13485
9 2 (0.20%) MiFID
9 2 (0.20%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.20%) SOC 3
10 1 (0.099%) GxP
10 1 (0.099%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (0.30%) Docker
2 1 (0.099%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.099%) IAG
Systems Management
1 4 (0.39%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.30%) Grafana
2 3 (0.30%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.099%) Kibana
4 1 (0.099%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 174 (17.18%) Microsoft
2 41 (4.05%) Salesforce
3 38 (3.75%) SAP
4 24 (2.37%) Oracle
5 21 (2.07%) ServiceNow
6 19 (1.88%) Google
6 19 (1.88%) YouTube
7 15 (1.48%) JD Edwards
8 14 (1.38%) Workday
9 12 (1.18%) Intapp
10 10 (0.99%) Atlassian
11 9 (0.89%) Bloomberg
11 9 (0.89%) CQG
11 9 (0.89%) FIS
11 9 (0.89%) ION Trading
11 9 (0.89%) Patsystems
11 9 (0.89%) Reuters
11 9 (0.89%) Sage
11 9 (0.89%) SunGard
11 9 (0.89%) Trayport