Business Analyst Jobs in England

Business Analyst (BA)
UK > England

The median Business Analyst (BA) salary in England is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 180 128 146
Rank change year-on-year -52 +18 -13
Permanent jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,372 2,494 3,810
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.61% 2.71% 2.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.70% 2.96% 2.99%
Number of salaries quoted 979 1,806 3,120
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £39,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £45,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,774
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +7.58% +6.24%
75th Percentile £76,000 £70,600 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,250 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 80,507 84,319 127,438
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.51% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 60,203 53,445 75,746
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,125 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,799 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,761 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Analyst in England

Business Analyst
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Business Analyst in England

Business Analyst
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Analyst in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Business Analyst in England

Business Analyst
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Business Analyst within the England region over the 6 months to 5 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
London -24 566 £75,000 +15.38% 197
North of England -53 206 £50,000 -9.09% 66
East of England +40 197 £49,500 -12.00% 15
South East -94 153 £58,250 +5.91% 42
North West -14 137 £50,000 -13.04% 32
Midlands -79 133 £42,500 -15.00% 48
South West -44 103 £50,000 -4.76% 20
West Midlands -76 74 £43,000 -14.00% 31
Yorkshire -23 63 £47,500 -5.00% 29
East Midlands -46 55 £42,500 -11.46% 17
North East -31 6 £50,000 -9.09% 5
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 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 across the England region featuring Business Analyst in the job title.

1 560 (40.82%) Business Analysis
2 554 (40.38%) Agile
3 377 (27.48%) Problem-Solving
4 374 (27.26%) Analytical Skills
5 355 (25.87%) Social Skills
6 329 (23.98%) Finance
7 292 (21.28%) Requirements Gathering
8 266 (19.39%) User Stories
9 231 (16.84%) Degree
10 205 (14.94%) Stakeholder Management
11 197 (14.36%) Change Management
12 192 (13.99%) Decision-Making
13 181 (13.19%) SQL
14 178 (12.97%) Retail
15 168 (12.24%) Product Ownership
16 166 (12.10%) Roadmaps
17 165 (12.03%) Project Management
18 156 (11.37%) Workshop Facilitation
19 151 (11.01%) Coaching
20 150 (10.93%) JIRA
21 138 (10.06%) Waterfall
22 126 (9.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
23 113 (8.24%) Scrum
24 108 (7.87%) Security Cleared
25 105 (7.65%) Business Case
25 105 (7.65%) Process Improvement
26 103 (7.51%) Project Delivery
27 102 (7.43%) Microsoft
28 95 (6.92%) SDLC
29 89 (6.49%) Analytics

Business Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 65 (4.74%) Confluence
2 5 (0.36%) WordPress
3 4 (0.29%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.15%) Apache
4 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.073%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.073%) Appian
5 1 (0.073%) CMS
5 1 (0.073%) EPiServer
Applications
1 86 (6.27%) Microsoft Office
2 85 (6.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 79 (5.76%) MS Visio
4 41 (2.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.44%) Trello
7 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (1.17%) Endur
2 15 (1.09%) Aladdin
3 9 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.58%) Salesforce CRM
5 7 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.51%) Maximo
6 3 (0.22%) Magento
6 3 (0.22%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.22%) SAP FI
6 3 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.15%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.15%) SAP CRM
7 2 (0.15%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.15%) SAP PP
7 2 (0.15%) Shopify
8 1 (0.073%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.073%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.073%) Temenos T24
8 1 (0.073%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 73 (5.32%) Azure
2 66 (4.81%) AWS
3 58 (4.23%) Power Platform
4 44 (3.21%) SaaS
5 32 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
7 16 (1.17%) Miro
8 12 (0.87%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (0.66%) OCI
10 7 (0.51%) Figma
10 7 (0.51%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 6 (0.44%) GCP
11 6 (0.44%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 4 (0.29%) Amazon EMR
12 4 (0.29%) PowerApps
13 3 (0.22%) Asana
13 3 (0.22%) Mavenlink
13 3 (0.22%) Power Automate
13 3 (0.22%) WhatsApp
14 2 (0.15%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.73%) Broadband
1 10 (0.73%) Internet
1 10 (0.73%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (3.72%) Power BI
2 37 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (1.82%) Tableau
4 15 (1.09%) Relational Database
5 10 (0.73%) Electronic Patient Records
6 8 (0.58%) Big Data
7 6 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (0.44%) Snowflake Schema
7 6 (0.44%) Star Schema
8 5 (0.36%) Qlik Sense
8 5 (0.36%) SQL Server
9 4 (0.29%) PowerPivot
9 4 (0.29%) QlikView
10 3 (0.22%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.22%) SAP BW
11 2 (0.15%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.15%) Apache Arrow
11 2 (0.15%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.15%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (0.15%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 150 (10.93%) JIRA
2 2 (0.15%) Balsamiq
2 2 (0.15%) PowerBuilder
3 1 (0.073%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.073%) JMeter
3 1 (0.073%) LoadRunner
3 1 (0.073%) Maven
3 1 (0.073%) Postman
3 1 (0.073%) Protractor
3 1 (0.073%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 374 (27.26%) Analytical Skills
2 355 (25.87%) Social Skills
3 329 (23.98%) Finance
4 178 (12.97%) Retail
5 126 (9.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 83 (6.05%) Law
7 77 (5.61%) Banking
8 69 (5.03%) Front Office
8 69 (5.03%) Public Sector
9 63 (4.59%) Influencing Skills
10 58 (4.23%) Legal
11 43 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
12 35 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
13 32 (2.33%) Manufacturing
14 29 (2.11%) Investment Banking
15 26 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
16 21 (1.53%) Back Office
17 17 (1.24%) Advertising
18 16 (1.17%) Retail Banking
19 15 (1.09%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (0.95%) .NET
2 11 (0.80%) Lightning Web Components
2 11 (0.80%) XML
3 8 (0.58%) .NET Framework
4 6 (0.44%) Oracle Fusion
5 5 (0.36%) React
6 4 (0.29%) Django
6 4 (0.29%) FIX Protocol
6 4 (0.29%) JSON
6 4 (0.29%) Laravel
6 4 (0.29%) Next.js
6 4 (0.29%) React Native
6 4 (0.29%) Web Services
7 3 (0.22%) HTML
8 2 (0.15%) ADO
8 2 (0.15%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.15%) EDI
8 2 (0.15%) REST
8 2 (0.15%) RESTful
8 2 (0.15%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 168 (12.24%) Product Ownership
2 68 (4.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 65 (4.74%) Fixed Income
4 62 (4.52%) Equities
5 60 (4.37%) Management Information System
6 55 (4.01%) Derivative
7 53 (3.86%) Hedge funds
8 51 (3.72%) Self-Motivation
9 32 (2.33%) Reinsurance
10 20 (1.46%) Onboarding
11 19 (1.38%) Virtual Team
12 17 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
13 14 (1.02%) NHS
14 12 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
15 9 (0.66%) Biopharmaceutical
16 7 (0.51%) Analytical Mindset
17 6 (0.44%) Data Centre
17 6 (0.44%) Housing Association
18 5 (0.36%) Data Structures
18 5 (0.36%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 10 (0.73%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.15%) Android
2 2 (0.15%) Linux
2 2 (0.15%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 560 (40.82%) Business Analysis
2 554 (40.38%) Agile
3 377 (27.48%) Problem-Solving
4 292 (21.28%) Requirements Gathering
5 266 (19.39%) User Stories
6 205 (14.94%) Stakeholder Management
7 197 (14.36%) Change Management
8 192 (13.99%) Decision-Making
9 166 (12.10%) Roadmaps
10 165 (12.03%) Project Management
11 156 (11.37%) Workshop Facilitation
12 151 (11.01%) Coaching
13 138 (10.06%) Waterfall
14 113 (8.24%) Scrum
15 105 (7.65%) Business Case
15 105 (7.65%) Process Improvement
16 103 (7.51%) Project Delivery
17 95 (6.92%) SDLC
18 89 (6.49%) Analytics
19 87 (6.34%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 181 (13.19%) SQL
2 73 (5.32%) Python
3 12 (0.87%) Java
3 12 (0.87%) R
4 7 (0.51%) C#
4 7 (0.51%) T-SQL
4 7 (0.51%) VBA
5 4 (0.29%) PHP
6 3 (0.22%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.073%) ABAP
7 1 (0.073%) JCL
7 1 (0.073%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.073%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.073%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 231 (16.84%) Degree
2 108 (7.87%) Security Cleared
3 82 (5.98%) SC Cleared
4 22 (1.60%) DV Cleared
5 20 (1.46%) Master's Degree
6 18 (1.31%) ISEB
7 15 (1.09%) DBS Check
8 14 (1.02%) IIBA
9 12 (0.87%) CBAP
9 12 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
11 8 (0.58%) PMI Certification
12 7 (0.51%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 6 (0.44%) PMP
14 5 (0.36%) HND
14 5 (0.36%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 4 (0.29%) CFA
15 4 (0.29%) CIMA
16 3 (0.22%) NVQ Level 4
17 2 (0.15%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (3.35%) QA
2 18 (1.31%) PMO
3 13 (0.95%) Data Quality
4 7 (0.51%) ISO 20022
5 6 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (0.36%) GxP
6 5 (0.36%) IFRS
6 5 (0.36%) PSD2
6 5 (0.36%) SEPA
6 5 (0.36%) SLA
6 5 (0.36%) TARGET2
7 4 (0.29%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.29%) EMIR
7 4 (0.29%) GDPR
7 4 (0.29%) IFRS 17
7 4 (0.29%) MiFID
8 1 (0.073%) GRC
8 1 (0.073%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.073%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.073%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (0.36%) Graphite
2 2 (0.15%) Data Guard
2 2 (0.15%) Kibana
3 1 (0.073%) Grafana
3 1 (0.073%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.073%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 102 (7.43%) Microsoft
2 52 (3.79%) Salesforce
3 40 (2.92%) SAP
4 28 (2.04%) Oracle
5 23 (1.68%) Bloomberg
6 14 (1.02%) BISAM
7 9 (0.66%) Atlassian
8 7 (0.51%) F5
9 6 (0.44%) Google
9 6 (0.44%) MicroStrategy
10 5 (0.36%) ION Trading
10 5 (0.36%) YouTube
11 4 (0.29%) IFS
11 4 (0.29%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.22%) Alteryx
12 3 (0.22%) Conga
12 3 (0.22%) Intapp
12 3 (0.22%) Marketo
12 3 (0.22%) Sage
13 2 (0.15%) MuleSoft