Business Analyst Jobs in the UK excluding London

Business Analyst (BA)
UK > UK excluding London

The median Business Analyst (BA) salary in the UK excluding London is £49,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 225 154 116
Rank change year-on-year -71 -38 +24
Permanent jobs requiring a Business Analyst 923 1,367 2,103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.29% 2.31% 2.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.36% 2.59% 3.06%
Number of salaries quoted 544 907 1,618
10th Percentile £36,400 £38,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £52,500 £48,167
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +9.00% +7.04%
75th Percentile £57,500 £64,472 £57,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £70,600 £65,000
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
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 67,720 52,840 68,639
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 89.16% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 47,860 30,029 42,498
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +5.64% +5.63%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Analyst in the UK excluding London

Business Analyst
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Business Analyst in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Business Analyst in the UK excluding London

Business Analyst
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Business Analyst in the UK excluding London

Business Analyst
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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
East of England +33 198 £49,500 -10.00% 12
North of England -63 192 £50,000 -9.09% 54
South East -96 153 £58,250 +5.91% 43
Midlands -71 141 £42,500 -15.00% 35
North West -23 129 £50,000 -13.04% 24
South West -38 107 £48,250 -8.10% 13
Scotland -58 92 £42,500 -19.05% 6
West Midlands -70 80 £42,500 -15.00% 23
Yorkshire -31 57 £47,500 -5.00% 27
East Midlands -36 57 £42,500 -13.22% 12
Wales -9 19 £45,000 +5.88% 2
Northern Ireland +35 14 £67,500 +44.39% 9
Isle of Man - 9 £45,000 -
North East -30 6 £50,000 -9.09% 3
Business Analyst
UK

Business Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 16 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 UK excluding London region featuring Business Analyst in the job title.

1 465 (50.38%) Business Analysis
2 385 (41.71%) Agile
3 336 (36.40%) Problem-Solving
4 307 (33.26%) Analytical Skills
5 266 (28.82%) Social Skills
6 264 (28.60%) Requirements Gathering
7 215 (23.29%) User Stories
8 182 (19.72%) Stakeholder Management
9 176 (19.07%) Degree
10 171 (18.53%) Finance
11 166 (17.98%) Change Management
12 161 (17.44%) Retail
13 158 (17.12%) Decision-Making
14 149 (16.14%) Coaching
14 149 (16.14%) JIRA
15 131 (14.19%) Workshop Facilitation
16 125 (13.54%) Project Management
17 112 (12.13%) Security Cleared
18 100 (10.83%) Roadmaps
18 100 (10.83%) Scrum
19 99 (10.73%) Business Case
20 92 (9.97%) Microsoft
21 91 (9.86%) SC Cleared
22 87 (9.43%) Acceptance Criteria
23 85 (9.21%) Process Improvement
24 84 (9.10%) Continuous Improvement
25 81 (8.78%) Waterfall
26 78 (8.45%) SDLC
26 78 (8.45%) Migration
27 77 (8.34%) Product Ownership

Business Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 71 (7.69%) Confluence
2 3 (0.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 73 (7.91%) Microsoft Office
2 64 (6.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 58 (6.28%) MS Visio
4 42 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.65%) Trello
7 2 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.08%) Maximo
2 5 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
2 5 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.22%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.11%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.11%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.11%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.11%) SAP WM
4 1 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 51 (5.53%) Power Platform
2 50 (5.42%) Azure
3 40 (4.33%) SaaS
4 25 (2.71%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (2.28%) Miro
6 18 (1.95%) Dynamics 365
7 11 (1.19%) AWS
8 7 (0.76%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (0.76%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 6 (0.65%) Power Automate
10 5 (0.54%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 4 (0.43%) Amazon EMR
11 4 (0.43%) OCI
12 3 (0.33%) Mavenlink
13 2 (0.22%) Figma
13 2 (0.22%) GCP
13 2 (0.22%) PowerApps
13 2 (0.22%) Smartsheet
14 1 (0.11%) Google Docs
14 1 (0.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.08%) Broadband
1 10 (1.08%) Internet
1 10 (1.08%) WPA
2 2 (0.22%) DSL
2 2 (0.22%) HTTP
3 1 (0.11%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (5.09%) Power BI
2 25 (2.71%) Tableau
3 18 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (1.19%) Electronic Patient Records
4 11 (1.19%) Relational Database
5 7 (0.76%) Big Data
6 6 (0.65%) Snowflake Schema
6 6 (0.65%) Star Schema
7 5 (0.54%) Qlik Sense
7 5 (0.54%) QlikView
8 4 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (0.43%) PowerPivot
9 3 (0.33%) SAP BW
10 2 (0.22%) SAP HANA
10 2 (0.22%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.11%) Crystal Reports
11 1 (0.11%) MS Access
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 149 (16.14%) JIRA
2 3 (0.33%) Postman
3 2 (0.22%) Balsamiq
3 2 (0.22%) Git
4 1 (0.11%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.11%) Maven
4 1 (0.11%) Protractor
General
1 307 (33.26%) Analytical Skills
2 266 (28.82%) Social Skills
3 171 (18.53%) Finance
4 161 (17.44%) Retail
5 72 (7.80%) Public Sector
6 66 (7.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 66 (7.15%) Law
7 50 (5.42%) Presentation Skills
8 49 (5.31%) Influencing Skills
9 47 (5.09%) Legal
10 33 (3.58%) Manufacturing
11 28 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
12 22 (2.38%) Banking
13 20 (2.17%) Marketing
14 18 (1.95%) Investment Banking
15 13 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
16 10 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
17 7 (0.76%) Aerospace
17 7 (0.76%) Health Technology
18 5 (0.54%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.08%) Lightning Web Components
2 8 (0.87%) .NET
3 7 (0.76%) Oracle Fusion
4 6 (0.65%) Web Services
5 4 (0.43%) Django
5 4 (0.43%) JSON
5 4 (0.43%) XML
6 3 (0.33%) .NET Framework
6 3 (0.33%) Gherkin
6 3 (0.33%) HTML
6 3 (0.33%) REST
6 3 (0.33%) RESTful
7 2 (0.22%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.22%) JSON Schema
7 2 (0.22%) Swagger
8 1 (0.11%) EDI
8 1 (0.11%) Jest
8 1 (0.11%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 77 (8.34%) Product Ownership
2 46 (4.98%) Management Information System
3 34 (3.68%) Self-Motivation
4 23 (2.49%) Onboarding
5 18 (1.95%) Virtual Team
6 12 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (1.30%) NHS
7 10 (1.08%) Biopharmaceutical
8 9 (0.98%) Driving Licence
8 9 (0.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 8 (0.87%) Derivative
9 8 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (0.87%) Reference Data
10 7 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (0.76%) Credit Derivative
10 7 (0.76%) Fixed Income
10 7 (0.76%) Hedge funds
10 7 (0.76%) Interest Rate Derivative
10 7 (0.76%) Market Risk
11 5 (0.54%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.22%) Android
1 2 (0.22%) Apple iOS
1 2 (0.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 465 (50.38%) Business Analysis
2 385 (41.71%) Agile
3 336 (36.40%) Problem-Solving
4 264 (28.60%) Requirements Gathering
5 215 (23.29%) User Stories
6 182 (19.72%) Stakeholder Management
7 166 (17.98%) Change Management
8 158 (17.12%) Decision-Making
9 149 (16.14%) Coaching
10 131 (14.19%) Workshop Facilitation
11 125 (13.54%) Project Management
12 100 (10.83%) Roadmaps
12 100 (10.83%) Scrum
13 99 (10.73%) Business Case
14 87 (9.43%) Acceptance Criteria
15 85 (9.21%) Process Improvement
16 84 (9.10%) Continuous Improvement
17 81 (8.78%) Waterfall
18 78 (8.45%) Migration
18 78 (8.45%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 53 (5.74%) SQL
2 18 (1.95%) Python
3 10 (1.08%) R
4 7 (0.76%) T-SQL
5 5 (0.54%) C#
5 5 (0.54%) VBA
6 2 (0.22%) Java
7 1 (0.11%) ABAP
7 1 (0.11%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 176 (19.07%) Degree
2 112 (12.13%) Security Cleared
3 91 (9.86%) SC Cleared
4 15 (1.63%) IIBA
5 14 (1.52%) Master's Degree
6 10 (1.08%) CBAP
7 9 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (0.98%) DBS Check
7 9 (0.98%) DV Cleared
7 9 (0.98%) ISEB
8 7 (0.76%) HND
9 4 (0.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 3 (0.33%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.33%) NVQ Level 4
11 2 (0.22%) NVQ Level 3
11 2 (0.22%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 1 (0.11%) CCA
12 1 (0.11%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.11%) SAP Certification
12 1 (0.11%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (6.39%) QA
2 13 (1.41%) PMO
3 6 (0.65%) GxP
3 6 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (0.54%) SEPA
4 5 (0.54%) TARGET2
5 4 (0.43%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.33%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.22%) EMIR
7 2 (0.22%) GDPR
7 2 (0.22%) MiFID
8 1 (0.11%) GRC
8 1 (0.11%) IFRS
8 1 (0.11%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.11%) SLA
Systems Management
1 5 (0.54%) Graphite
2 1 (0.11%) Progress Chef
2 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 92 (9.97%) Microsoft
2 34 (3.68%) Salesforce
3 29 (3.14%) SAP
4 20 (2.17%) Oracle
5 7 (0.76%) F5
6 6 (0.65%) MicroStrategy
7 4 (0.43%) IFS
7 4 (0.43%) YouTube
8 3 (0.33%) Alteryx
8 3 (0.33%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.33%) Google
8 3 (0.33%) Intapp
8 3 (0.33%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.22%) HubSpot
9 2 (0.22%) Sage
9 2 (0.22%) UiPath
9 2 (0.22%) Zoho
10 1 (0.11%) Blue Prism
10 1 (0.11%) Splunk
10 1 (0.11%) Workday