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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 187 211 135
Rank change year-on-year +24 -76 -4
Permanent jobs citing Business Analysis 770 860 1,207
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.42% 1.33% 2.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% 1.55% 2.54%
Number of salaries quoted 597 543 884
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +1.48%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -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 45,446 55,486 47,554
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.93% 85.56% 93.75%
Number of salaries quoted 27,712 28,853 36,694
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -0.94%

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 1 December 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 1 December 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 +25 708 £57,500 -4.17% 829
UK excluding London +23 418 £40,000 -20.00% 793
London +41 308 £75,000 +1.15% 190
Work from Home +30 202 £62,500 +4.17% 151
North of England +41 188 £40,000 -11.11% 217
North West +54 99 £54,285 -1.30% 118
South East +45 71 £56,250 +27.12% 191
Yorkshire +53 69 £40,000 -20.00% 66
Midlands -24 53 £41,970 -23.69% 157
South West +10 44 £40,000 -18.37% 75
West Midlands +25 41 £40,000 -23.81% 97
Scotland +4 29 £40,000 -5.88% 43
East of England +28 26 £40,000 -36.00% 78
North East -24 20 £40,000 +6.67% 36
East Midlands -32 12 £50,195 -33.07% 60
Wales +12 7 £45,000 -5.26% 29
Northern Ireland -5 1 - - 12

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 40 (5.19%) Confluence
2 21 (2.73%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.26%) CMS
4 2 (0.26%) IIS
4 2 (0.26%) SAS
5 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 145 (18.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (4.16%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (3.51%) MS Visio
4 26 (3.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.91%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (1.04%) SAP WM
2 5 (0.65%) Unit4 Business World
3 4 (0.52%) Elite 3E
3 4 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.39%) Endur
4 3 (0.39%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.26%) Bloomberg AIM
5 2 (0.26%) iTrent
5 2 (0.26%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.13%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.13%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.13%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.13%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.13%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 63 (8.18%) Power Platform
2 57 (7.40%) Azure
3 38 (4.94%) Microsoft 365
4 30 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (3.77%) SaaS
6 24 (3.12%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 18 (2.34%) Dynamics 365
8 15 (1.95%) AWS
8 15 (1.95%) Miro
9 14 (1.82%) PaaS
9 14 (1.82%) Power Automate
10 8 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
10 8 (1.04%) Microsoft Copilot
11 7 (0.91%) Figma
11 7 (0.91%) PowerApps
12 6 (0.78%) IaaS
13 5 (0.65%) Azure Data Factory
13 5 (0.65%) ChatGPT
13 5 (0.65%) Microsoft Purview
14 4 (0.52%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.52%) Unified Communications
2 3 (0.39%) FIX Connectivity
2 3 (0.39%) Multicast
2 3 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.26%) 4G
3 2 (0.26%) HTTP
4 1 (0.13%) DHCP
4 1 (0.13%) DNS
4 1 (0.13%) Firewall
4 1 (0.13%) Intranet
4 1 (0.13%) Network Security
4 1 (0.13%) RFID
4 1 (0.13%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.13%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (13.77%) Tableau
2 98 (12.73%) Data Mining
3 49 (6.36%) Power BI
4 18 (2.34%) SQL Server
5 11 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (1.04%) Big Data
7 5 (0.65%) Data Lake
7 5 (0.65%) Metadata
7 5 (0.65%) MS Access
7 5 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (0.52%) BusinessObjects
8 4 (0.52%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.52%) Power Query
8 4 (0.52%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.39%) GIS
9 3 (0.39%) Qlik Sense
9 3 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.13%) MySQL
10 1 (0.13%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.13%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 61 (7.92%) JIRA
2 4 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (0.39%) 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
1 414 (53.77%) Finance
2 271 (35.19%) Social Skills
3 263 (34.16%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (10.13%) Marketing
5 67 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 54 (7.01%) Banking
7 52 (6.75%) Legal
8 37 (4.81%) Retail
9 33 (4.29%) Public Sector
10 26 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
10 26 (3.38%) Law
10 26 (3.38%) Organisational Skills
11 21 (2.73%) Manufacturing
12 19 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
13 16 (2.08%) Billing
14 15 (1.95%) Financial Institution
15 14 (1.82%) Back Office
16 12 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
17 8 (1.04%) Advertising
17 8 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 462 (60.00%) Analyst
2 334 (43.38%) Business Analyst
3 180 (23.38%) Trainee
4 168 (21.82%) Trainee Analyst
5 103 (13.38%) Data Analyst
6 97 (12.60%) Senior
7 84 (10.91%) Trainee Business Analyst
7 84 (10.91%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 56 (7.27%) Lead
9 53 (6.88%) Senior Analyst
10 49 (6.36%) Senior Business Analyst
11 47 (6.10%) Project Manager
12 41 (5.32%) Architect
13 38 (4.94%) Lead Business Analyst
14 33 (4.29%) Developer
15 29 (3.77%) IT Manager
16 27 (3.51%) Consultant
16 27 (3.51%) Financial Analyst
16 27 (3.51%) IT Project Manager
17 24 (3.12%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.04%) .NET
1 8 (1.04%) React
2 6 (0.78%) Middleware
3 5 (0.65%) Web Services
3 5 (0.65%) XML
4 4 (0.52%) FIX Protocol
5 3 (0.39%) Gherkin
5 3 (0.39%) HTML
6 2 (0.26%) CSS
6 2 (0.26%) REST
6 2 (0.26%) RESTful
6 2 (0.26%) Spring
6 2 (0.26%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.13%) Apache CXF
7 1 (0.13%) Dropwizard
7 1 (0.13%) HTML5
7 1 (0.13%) MERN Stack
7 1 (0.13%) Mongoose
7 1 (0.13%) Nunjucks
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 67 (8.70%) Product Ownership
2 34 (4.42%) Management Information System
3 26 (3.38%) Analytical Mindset
4 19 (2.47%) Reinsurance
5 17 (2.21%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 16 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 14 (1.82%) Onboarding
8 13 (1.69%) Fixed Income
9 10 (1.30%) Digital Media
9 10 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.17%) IoT
10 9 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (1.17%) Social Media
11 7 (0.91%) AI Agents
11 7 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (0.78%) OTC Derivatives
12 6 (0.78%) PMI
12 6 (0.78%) Wiki
13 5 (0.65%) Derivative
13 5 (0.65%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.30%) Windows
2 3 (0.39%) Linux
3 1 (0.13%) Android
3 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 303 (39.35%) Project Management
2 293 (38.05%) Agile
3 195 (25.32%) Problem-Solving
4 172 (22.34%) Change Management
5 159 (20.65%) Data Analysis
6 134 (17.40%) Analytics
7 132 (17.14%) Stakeholder Management
8 129 (16.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 123 (15.97%) Process Improvement
10 119 (15.45%) Requirements Gathering
11 117 (15.19%) Data Analytics
12 107 (13.90%) Continuous Improvement
13 102 (13.25%) Roadmaps
14 99 (12.86%) AI
15 96 (12.47%) Decision-Making
15 96 (12.47%) User Stories
16 92 (11.95%) Project Delivery
17 71 (9.22%) Scrum
18 70 (9.09%) Workshop Facilitation
19 62 (8.05%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 165 (21.43%) SQL
2 118 (15.32%) Python
3 11 (1.43%) C#
4 6 (0.78%) VBA
5 5 (0.65%) PL/SQL
6 4 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (0.52%) JavaScript
6 4 (0.52%) PowerShell
7 3 (0.39%) Java
8 2 (0.26%) Ada
8 2 (0.26%) Bash
8 2 (0.26%) C++
8 2 (0.26%) R
9 1 (0.13%) ABAP
9 1 (0.13%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 209 (27.14%) Degree
2 37 (4.81%) DBS Check
3 34 (4.42%) PMI Certification
4 29 (3.77%) PMP
5 28 (3.64%) Master's Degree
6 27 (3.51%) Security Cleared
7 20 (2.60%) CIMA
8 19 (2.47%) SC Cleared
9 13 (1.69%) ACCA
9 13 (1.69%) CBAP
10 12 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (1.04%) DV Cleared
11 8 (1.04%) HND
12 7 (0.91%) IIBA
13 5 (0.65%) CFA
13 5 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (0.52%) ISTQB
14 4 (0.52%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 4 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (6.10%) QA
2 34 (4.42%) Data Quality
3 17 (2.21%) SEPA
4 16 (2.08%) MiFID
5 13 (1.69%) ISO 20022
6 12 (1.56%) Accessibility
6 12 (1.56%) PMO
7 11 (1.43%) TARGET2
8 8 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (0.91%) GDPR
10 5 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.39%) EMIR
12 2 (0.26%) COBIT
12 2 (0.26%) GRC
12 2 (0.26%) GxP
12 2 (0.26%) IFRS
12 2 (0.26%) Solvency II
12 2 (0.26%) UCITS
13 1 (0.13%) GAAP
13 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (0.52%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.13%) Docker
2 1 (0.13%) Firmware
2 1 (0.13%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 3 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.13%) Control-M
2 1 (0.13%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.13%) SCCM
Vendors
1 190 (24.68%) Microsoft
2 41 (5.32%) Salesforce
3 23 (2.99%) SAP
4 13 (1.69%) Oracle
5 11 (1.43%) Atlassian
6 9 (1.17%) Anaplan
6 9 (1.17%) GoldenSource
6 9 (1.17%) ServiceNow
7 8 (1.04%) Guidewire
8 7 (0.91%) Adobe
8 7 (0.91%) Civica
9 6 (0.78%) Google
9 6 (0.78%) iManage
10 5 (0.65%) Bloomberg
11 4 (0.52%) HubSpot
11 4 (0.52%) ION Trading
11 4 (0.52%) Workday
12 3 (0.39%) CQG
12 3 (0.39%) Patsystems
12 3 (0.39%) Reuters