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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 211 204 206
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 -41
Permanent jobs citing Business Analysis 927 718 1,369
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.00% 1.69% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 1.81% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 723 425 784
10th Percentile £33,750 £43,099 £34,400
25th Percentile £35,000 £50,967 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £61,182 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.19% +13.30% -10.00%
75th Percentile £65,640 £85,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £106,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.71% +1.93% -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 68,715 39,643 83,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.91% 93.27% 84.01%
Number of salaries quoted 44,731 20,766 60,219
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,839 £41,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,375 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% +6.14% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.94% +3.00% -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 27 May 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 27 May 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 -4 829 £52,500 -16.00% 436
UK excluding London +13 541 £45,000 -11.71% 312
London -2 312 £65,000 -18.75% 193
Work from Home +23 252 £60,000 -14.29% 163
North of England +105 243 £42,500 -17.07% 97
Yorkshire +66 121 £50,000 +18.81% 47
Midlands +10 101 £44,772 -24.75% 40
North West +19 88 £40,000 -27.27% 38
West Midlands -5 74 £46,499 -17.34% 23
South East -33 70 £52,500 +3.01% 79
South West -74 45 £44,551 -24.17% 33
Scotland -9 36 £40,000 -34.43% 22
North East -6 34 £40,000 +1.91% 13
East of England -74 32 £45,000 -11.71% 26
East Midlands -18 27 £40,000 -38.46% 17
Wales -32 12 £53,171 -3.33% 6
Northern Ireland -43 3 £40,000 -40.74% 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 30 (3.24%) Confluence
2 13 (1.40%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.22%) CMS
4 2 (0.22%) Umbraco
4 2 (0.22%) WordPress
5 1 (0.11%) ColdFusion
5 1 (0.11%) Mendix
Applications
1 127 (13.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (3.67%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (3.24%) MS Visio
4 11 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
5 10 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.22%) Trello
7 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.11%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 19 (2.05%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.76%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.43%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.32%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.32%) Exchequer
6 3 (0.32%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 3 (0.32%) Sage 50
6 3 (0.32%) 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 Payables
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.11%) SAP BRIM
8 1 (0.11%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 82 (8.85%) Power Platform
2 60 (6.47%) Azure
3 43 (4.64%) Microsoft 365
4 30 (3.24%) SaaS
5 25 (2.70%) AWS
5 25 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
6 21 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (1.83%) Microsoft Copilot
8 16 (1.73%) Power Automate
9 14 (1.51%) PowerApps
10 12 (1.29%) Cloud Computing
10 12 (1.29%) PaaS
11 11 (1.19%) ChatGPT
12 10 (1.08%) GCP
13 8 (0.86%) Entra ID
13 8 (0.86%) Microsoft Purview
14 7 (0.76%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (0.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 7 (0.76%) OneDrive
15 6 (0.65%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.76%) Multicast
2 2 (0.22%) FIX Connectivity
2 2 (0.22%) LAN
2 2 (0.22%) WAN
3 1 (0.11%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.11%) Network Security
3 1 (0.11%) RFID
3 1 (0.11%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (11.87%) Tableau
2 103 (11.11%) Data Mining
3 64 (6.90%) Power BI
4 15 (1.62%) Relational Database
5 12 (1.29%) Big Data
5 12 (1.29%) Metadata
6 8 (0.86%) SQL Server
7 7 (0.76%) RDBMS
8 6 (0.65%) Data Lake
8 6 (0.65%) Power Query
9 5 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.32%) GIS
11 3 (0.32%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.32%) Qlik Sense
12 2 (0.22%) SAP BW
13 1 (0.11%) Neo4j
13 1 (0.11%) Oracle Database
13 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 56 (6.04%) JIRA
2 7 (0.76%) ERwin
3 1 (0.11%) Balsamiq
3 1 (0.11%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 463 (49.95%) Finance
2 307 (33.12%) Analytical Skills
3 282 (30.42%) Social Skills
4 70 (7.55%) Public Sector
5 65 (7.01%) Law
6 63 (6.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 48 (5.18%) Legal
8 35 (3.78%) Marketing
9 32 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
10 26 (2.80%) Banking
10 26 (2.80%) Retail
11 24 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
12 22 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
13 21 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
14 15 (1.62%) Financial Institution
15 14 (1.51%) Spanish Language
16 13 (1.40%) Manufacturing
17 11 (1.19%) Billing
18 8 (0.86%) Back Office
19 7 (0.76%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 661 (71.31%) Analyst
2 513 (55.34%) Business Analyst
3 196 (21.14%) Trainee
4 194 (20.93%) Trainee Analyst
5 119 (12.84%) Senior
6 112 (12.08%) Data Analyst
7 102 (11.00%) Senior Analyst
8 101 (10.90%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 94 (10.14%) Senior Business Analyst
10 93 (10.03%) Trainee Business Analyst
11 40 (4.31%) Lead
12 34 (3.67%) Consultant
13 30 (3.24%) Insurance Business Analyst
13 30 (3.24%) Project Manager
14 29 (3.13%) Business Manager
15 23 (2.48%) Technical Analyst
15 23 (2.48%) Technical Business Analyst
16 20 (2.16%) Architect
16 20 (2.16%) Systems Analyst
17 19 (2.05%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (1.73%) JSON
1 16 (1.73%) XML
2 14 (1.51%) FIX Protocol
3 9 (0.97%) FpML
4 7 (0.76%) Gherkin
4 7 (0.76%) Middleware
4 7 (0.76%) REST
4 7 (0.76%) XML Schema
5 6 (0.65%) EDI
5 6 (0.65%) SOAP
6 4 (0.43%) .NET
7 3 (0.32%) OpenAPI
7 3 (0.32%) Swagger
8 2 (0.22%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.22%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.22%) SAP Fiori
8 2 (0.22%) XML Messaging
9 1 (0.11%) PySpark
9 1 (0.11%) React
9 1 (0.11%) SAP ALE
Miscellaneous
1 88 (9.49%) Product Ownership
2 37 (3.99%) Management Information System
3 27 (2.91%) Data Structures
4 25 (2.70%) IoT
5 24 (2.59%) Analytical Mindset
6 20 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
7 17 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
8 16 (1.73%) Onboarding
9 13 (1.40%) Low-Code
10 12 (1.29%) AI Agents
10 12 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (1.19%) Cloud Native
11 11 (1.19%) Fixed Income
11 11 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 10 (1.08%) Derivative
12 10 (1.08%) PMI
12 10 (1.08%) PropTech
13 8 (0.86%) e-Learning
13 8 (0.86%) OTC Derivatives
14 7 (0.76%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 18 (1.94%) Windows
2 8 (0.86%) Linux
3 3 (0.32%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.22%) Android
4 2 (0.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 328 (35.38%) Agile
2 267 (28.80%) Project Management
3 210 (22.65%) Problem-Solving
4 166 (17.91%) Analytics
4 166 (17.91%) Requirements Gathering
5 159 (17.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 152 (16.40%) Data Analysis
7 146 (15.75%) User Stories
8 135 (14.56%) Stakeholder Management
9 129 (13.92%) Workshop Facilitation
10 115 (12.41%) Decision-Making
11 112 (12.08%) Data Analytics
12 110 (11.87%) Process Improvement
13 101 (10.90%) Change Management
14 96 (10.36%) Continuous Improvement
15 94 (10.14%) AI
16 84 (9.06%) Roadmaps
17 83 (8.95%) Acceptance Criteria
18 81 (8.74%) Business Intelligence
19 78 (8.41%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 190 (20.50%) SQL
2 120 (12.94%) Python
3 5 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 5 (0.54%) Java
4 4 (0.43%) C#
5 2 (0.22%) T-SQL
5 2 (0.22%) X++
6 1 (0.11%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.11%) SOQL
6 1 (0.11%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 180 (19.42%) Degree
2 50 (5.39%) Security Cleared
3 34 (3.67%) ACCA
4 32 (3.45%) CIMA
4 32 (3.45%) SC Cleared
5 31 (3.34%) IIBA
6 30 (3.24%) PMI Certification
7 22 (2.37%) PMP
8 20 (2.16%) Master's Degree
9 19 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (1.40%) CBAP
11 12 (1.29%) DBS Check
11 12 (1.29%) HND
12 7 (0.76%) DV Cleared
12 7 (0.76%) ISEB
13 5 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (0.54%) CIPD
13 5 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 3 (0.32%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (3.56%) QA
2 27 (2.91%) Data Quality
3 23 (2.48%) Accessibility
4 18 (1.94%) PMO
5 16 (1.73%) GAAP
5 16 (1.73%) GDPR
6 8 (0.86%) MiFID
7 7 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (0.65%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.32%) GRC
9 3 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
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%) FATCA
11 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.11%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (1.19%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.11%) IAG
Systems Management
1 4 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.11%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 231 (24.92%) Microsoft
2 28 (3.02%) Salesforce
3 20 (2.16%) SAP
4 14 (1.51%) Oracle
5 13 (1.40%) Intapp
6 11 (1.19%) Google
7 10 (1.08%) ServiceNow
8 8 (0.86%) Atlassian
8 8 (0.86%) Sparx
9 7 (0.76%) Anaplan
9 7 (0.76%) Bloomberg
9 7 (0.76%) CQG
9 7 (0.76%) ION Trading
9 7 (0.76%) Patsystems
9 7 (0.76%) Reuters
9 7 (0.76%) Trayport
10 6 (0.65%) Aderant
11 5 (0.54%) HubSpot
11 5 (0.54%) IBM
11 5 (0.54%) TOWER Software