Business Analyst (BA)
UK

The median Business Analyst (BA) salary in the UK is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 199 141 163
Rank change year-on-year -58 +22 -21
Permanent jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,493 2,497 4,350
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.45% 2.56% 2.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.54% 2.81% 2.71%
Number of salaries quoted 998 1,828 3,478
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £37,643
25th Percentile £45,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +6.36% +8.91%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,600 £70,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £82,500 £83,575
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,500 £52,500 £48,000
% change year-on-year -5.71% +9.38% +6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 97,260 88,990 160,374
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 91.41% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 69,382 56,369 85,188
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,663
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%

Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Business Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Business Analyst in the UK

Business Analyst
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Business Analyst in the UK

Business Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Analyst over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Business Analyst in the UK

Business Analyst
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Business Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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 1,341 £55,000 -8.33% 353
UK excluding London -65 923 £49,500 -5.71% 170
Work from Home -55 607 £52,500 -8.70% 170
London -29 532 £75,000 +15.38% 195
East of England +27 197 £49,500 -13.91% 12
North of England -63 186 £50,000 -9.09% 57
Midlands -64 153 £42,500 -15.00% 28
South East -90 153 £58,250 +1.30% 36
North West -33 122 £50,000 -13.04% 31
South West -33 108 £46,950 -10.57% 16
Scotland -45 87 £42,500 -19.05% 12
West Midlands -68 81 £42,500 -15.00% 19
East Midlands -33 69 £42,500 -11.46% 9
Yorkshire -25 58 £47,500 -5.00% 22
Wales -10 20 £45,000 +5.88% 1
Northern Ireland +30 13 £67,500 +46.74% 9
Isle of Man - 8 £48,250 -
North East -29 6 £50,000 -9.09% 4

Business Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, Business Analyst job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Business Analyst in the job title.

1 639 (42.80%) Business Analysis
2 622 (41.66%) Agile
3 414 (27.73%) Problem-Solving
4 408 (27.33%) Analytical Skills
5 400 (26.79%) Social Skills
6 352 (23.58%) Requirements Gathering
7 347 (23.24%) Finance
8 309 (20.70%) User Stories
9 282 (18.89%) Degree
10 253 (16.95%) Stakeholder Management
11 215 (14.40%) Change Management
12 200 (13.40%) Retail
13 189 (12.66%) Decision-Making
14 186 (12.46%) JIRA
15 183 (12.26%) Coaching
16 182 (12.19%) SQL
16 182 (12.19%) Workshop Facilitation
17 179 (11.99%) Roadmaps
18 178 (11.92%) Product Ownership
19 177 (11.86%) Project Management
20 149 (9.98%) Security Cleared
21 146 (9.78%) Scrum
22 144 (9.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
23 137 (9.18%) Waterfall
24 135 (9.04%) Process Improvement
25 123 (8.24%) Business Case
26 121 (8.10%) SC Cleared
27 114 (7.64%) Microsoft
27 114 (7.64%) SDLC
28 105 (7.03%) GAP Analysis

Business Analyst Skill Set
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 91 (6.10%) Confluence
2 6 (0.40%) Apache
2 6 (0.40%) WordPress
3 4 (0.27%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.067%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.067%) Appian
Applications
1 93 (6.23%) Microsoft Office
2 92 (6.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 88 (5.89%) MS Visio
4 48 (3.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.40%) Trello
7 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (1.00%) Aladdin
2 14 (0.94%) Endur
3 13 (0.87%) Maximo
4 9 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
5 8 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
6 7 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (0.20%) Magento
7 3 (0.20%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.13%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.13%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.13%) SAP WM
8 2 (0.13%) Shopify
9 1 (0.067%) NEC Housing
9 1 (0.067%) SAP CRM
9 1 (0.067%) SAP PP
9 1 (0.067%) Unit4 Business World
9 1 (0.067%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 69 (4.62%) AWS
1 69 (4.62%) Azure
2 65 (4.35%) Power Platform
3 46 (3.08%) SaaS
4 31 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (1.67%) Miro
6 22 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
7 11 (0.74%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (0.54%) Figma
8 8 (0.54%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 8 (0.54%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 7 (0.47%) OCI
9 7 (0.47%) Power Automate
10 6 (0.40%) dbt
11 4 (0.27%) GCP
12 3 (0.20%) Amazon EMR
12 3 (0.20%) Asana
12 3 (0.20%) Mavenlink
13 2 (0.13%) PowerApps
13 2 (0.13%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.67%) Broadband
1 10 (0.67%) Internet
1 10 (0.67%) WPA
2 2 (0.13%) DSL
2 2 (0.13%) HTTP
2 2 (0.13%) RFID
3 1 (0.067%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (4.09%) Power BI
2 37 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
3 29 (1.94%) Tableau
4 13 (0.87%) Relational Database
5 12 (0.80%) Big Data
6 11 (0.74%) Electronic Patient Records
7 7 (0.47%) SQL Server
8 6 (0.40%) Apache Arrow
8 6 (0.40%) Data Lake
8 6 (0.40%) Dremio
8 6 (0.40%) Snowflake Schema
8 6 (0.40%) Star Schema
9 5 (0.33%) Qlik Sense
10 4 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.27%) QlikView
10 4 (0.27%) SAP BW
11 3 (0.20%) PowerPivot
12 2 (0.13%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.13%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.13%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 186 (12.46%) JIRA
2 3 (0.20%) Postman
3 2 (0.13%) Balsamiq
3 2 (0.13%) Git
3 2 (0.13%) PowerBuilder
4 1 (0.067%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.067%) JMeter
4 1 (0.067%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.067%) Maven
4 1 (0.067%) Protractor
4 1 (0.067%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 408 (27.33%) Analytical Skills
2 400 (26.79%) Social Skills
3 347 (23.24%) Finance
4 200 (13.40%) Retail
5 144 (9.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 93 (6.23%) Public Sector
7 90 (6.03%) Legal
8 87 (5.83%) Law
9 86 (5.76%) Banking
10 73 (4.89%) Front Office
11 69 (4.62%) Presentation Skills
12 67 (4.49%) Influencing Skills
13 41 (2.75%) Investment Banking
14 36 (2.41%) Manufacturing
15 31 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
16 28 (1.88%) Marketing
17 25 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
18 23 (1.54%) Back Office
19 16 (1.07%) Advertising
20 14 (0.94%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (0.94%) .NET
2 12 (0.80%) Lightning Web Components
3 11 (0.74%) XML
4 8 (0.54%) .NET Framework
5 7 (0.47%) JSON
5 7 (0.47%) Oracle Fusion
6 6 (0.40%) Web Services
7 5 (0.33%) React
8 4 (0.27%) Laravel
8 4 (0.27%) Next.js
8 4 (0.27%) React Native
8 4 (0.27%) REST
8 4 (0.27%) RESTful
9 3 (0.20%) Django
9 3 (0.20%) FIX Protocol
9 3 (0.20%) Gherkin
9 3 (0.20%) HTML
9 3 (0.20%) XSLT
10 2 (0.13%) ADO
10 2 (0.13%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 178 (11.92%) Product Ownership
2 81 (5.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 80 (5.36%) Fixed Income
4 72 (4.82%) Derivative
5 69 (4.62%) Equities
6 67 (4.49%) Hedge funds
7 62 (4.15%) Management Information System
8 48 (3.22%) Self-Motivation
9 26 (1.74%) Onboarding
10 23 (1.54%) Reinsurance
11 21 (1.41%) Virtual Team
12 15 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
13 14 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
13 14 (0.94%) NHS
14 10 (0.67%) Biopharmaceutical
14 10 (0.67%) Reference Data
15 9 (0.60%) Driving Licence
16 8 (0.54%) Analytical Mindset
16 8 (0.54%) FMCG
16 8 (0.54%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 8 (0.54%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.13%) Android
2 2 (0.13%) Linux
2 2 (0.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 639 (42.80%) Business Analysis
2 622 (41.66%) Agile
3 414 (27.73%) Problem-Solving
4 352 (23.58%) Requirements Gathering
5 309 (20.70%) User Stories
6 253 (16.95%) Stakeholder Management
7 215 (14.40%) Change Management
8 189 (12.66%) Decision-Making
9 183 (12.26%) Coaching
10 182 (12.19%) Workshop Facilitation
11 179 (11.99%) Roadmaps
12 177 (11.86%) Project Management
13 146 (9.78%) Scrum
14 137 (9.18%) Waterfall
15 135 (9.04%) Process Improvement
16 123 (8.24%) Business Case
17 114 (7.64%) SDLC
18 105 (7.03%) GAP Analysis
19 104 (6.97%) Acceptance Criteria
20 102 (6.83%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 182 (12.19%) SQL
2 86 (5.76%) Python
3 10 (0.67%) Java
3 10 (0.67%) R
4 7 (0.47%) T-SQL
4 7 (0.47%) VBA
5 6 (0.40%) C#
6 4 (0.27%) PHP
7 2 (0.13%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.067%) ABAP
8 1 (0.067%) JCL
8 1 (0.067%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.067%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.067%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 282 (18.89%) Degree
2 149 (9.98%) Security Cleared
3 121 (8.10%) SC Cleared
4 26 (1.74%) DV Cleared
5 20 (1.34%) Master's Degree
6 16 (1.07%) IIBA
7 15 (1.00%) DBS Check
8 14 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (0.94%) CBAP
9 11 (0.74%) ISEB
10 10 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (0.54%) PMI Certification
12 7 (0.47%) HND
13 6 (0.40%) PMP
14 5 (0.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 4 (0.27%) CFA
15 4 (0.27%) CIMA
16 3 (0.20%) NVQ Level 4
17 2 (0.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 2 (0.13%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (5.89%) QA
2 18 (1.21%) PMO
3 8 (0.54%) ISO 20022
4 7 (0.47%) Data Quality
4 7 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (0.40%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.40%) GxP
5 6 (0.40%) PSD2
6 5 (0.33%) EMIR
6 5 (0.33%) IFRS
6 5 (0.33%) MiFID
6 5 (0.33%) SEPA
6 5 (0.33%) SLA
6 5 (0.33%) TARGET2
7 4 (0.27%) IFRS 17
8 3 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.20%) GDPR
9 1 (0.067%) GRC
9 1 (0.067%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.067%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.067%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.067%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (0.33%) Graphite
2 2 (0.13%) Data Guard
2 2 (0.13%) Kibana
3 1 (0.067%) Grafana
3 1 (0.067%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.067%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.067%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.067%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 114 (7.64%) Microsoft
2 59 (3.95%) Salesforce
3 46 (3.08%) SAP
4 38 (2.55%) Oracle
5 24 (1.61%) Bloomberg
6 14 (0.94%) BISAM
7 11 (0.74%) Atlassian
8 7 (0.47%) F5
9 5 (0.33%) Google
9 5 (0.33%) ION Trading
9 5 (0.33%) MicroStrategy
9 5 (0.33%) ServiceNow
9 5 (0.33%) YouTube
10 4 (0.27%) IFS
10 4 (0.27%) Marketo
11 3 (0.20%) Alteryx
11 3 (0.20%) Conga
11 3 (0.20%) Intapp
11 3 (0.20%) JD Edwards
12 2 (0.13%) UiPath