Senior Business Analyst Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Business Analyst (Senior BA)
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Business Analyst (Senior BA) salary in the UK excluding London is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 651 581 494
Rank change year-on-year -70 -87 +112
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Business Analyst 112 167 394
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.28% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.32% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 72 85 242
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,584 £43,200
25th Percentile £46,438 £48,000 £47,970
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £64,063 £67,200 £63,750
90th Percentile £68,750 £77,250 £70,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +3.31%

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 67,828 52,627 68,668
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 89.17% 95.75%
Number of salaries quoted 47,933 30,028 42,497
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 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
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%

Senior Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Business Analyst in the UK excluding London

Senior Business Analyst
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Senior Business Analyst in the UK excluding London

Senior Business Analyst
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Business Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Business Analyst in the UK excluding London

Senior 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 Senior Business Analyst within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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
North of England +47 52 £55,000 -4.35% 5
Yorkshire +70 29 £55,000 -13.73% 2
North West -1 22 £60,000 +9.09% 3
Midlands -15 21 £50,500 -12.17% 1
South East -34 15 £63,750 +23.06% 1
East Midlands -6 11 £49,843 -7.70%
West Midlands +1 9 £50,000 -13.04% 1
South West -20 8 £54,575 +3.95% 1
Wales +19 7 £45,000 -12.20%
Scotland -63 5 £58,800 -9.54%
Northern Ireland +24 3 £58,800 +27.14% 1
East of England 0 1 £72,000 -10.00% 3
North East - 1 £58,800 -
Senior Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior Business Analyst in the job title.

1 64 (57.14%) Agile
2 57 (50.89%) Business Analysis
3 55 (49.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 52 (46.43%) Requirements Gathering
5 39 (34.82%) Degree
6 35 (31.25%) Acceptance Criteria
7 31 (27.68%) JIRA
8 28 (25.00%) Business Process Modelling
9 27 (24.11%) Problem-Solving
9 27 (24.11%) Social Skills
10 26 (23.21%) MS Visio
10 26 (23.21%) SC Cleared
10 26 (23.21%) Security Cleared
10 26 (23.21%) Confluence
11 25 (22.32%) Requirements Workshops
12 23 (20.54%) Epics
12 23 (20.54%) Analytical Skills
13 22 (19.64%) UML
13 22 (19.64%) Scrum
14 21 (18.75%) Finance
14 21 (18.75%) User Stories
15 20 (17.86%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
15 20 (17.86%) Actionable Insight
15 20 (17.86%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 20 (17.86%) Miro
15 20 (17.86%) User Research
15 20 (17.86%) Backlog Refinement
15 20 (17.86%) Knowledge Transfer
16 14 (12.50%) Salesforce
16 14 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel

Senior 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 26 (23.21%) Confluence
Applications
1 26 (23.21%) MS Visio
2 14 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (8.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 20 (17.86%) Miro
2 5 (4.46%) Power Platform
3 4 (3.57%) SaaS
4 3 (2.68%) Azure
5 1 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.89%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.93%) Broadband
1 10 (8.93%) Internet
1 10 (8.93%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.46%) Power BI
2 4 (3.57%) Electronic Patient Records
3 3 (2.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (27.68%) JIRA
General
1 27 (24.11%) Social Skills
2 23 (20.54%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (18.75%) Finance
4 7 (6.25%) Health Technology
5 6 (5.36%) Law
6 5 (4.46%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.57%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.68%) Legal
9 2 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.79%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.89%) Banking
10 1 (0.89%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.93%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.82%) NHS
2 6 (5.36%) Management Information System
2 6 (5.36%) Virtual Team
3 4 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.68%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.79%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (57.14%) Agile
2 57 (50.89%) Business Analysis
3 55 (49.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 52 (46.43%) Requirements Gathering
5 35 (31.25%) Acceptance Criteria
6 28 (25.00%) Business Process Modelling
7 27 (24.11%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (22.32%) Requirements Workshops
9 23 (20.54%) Epics
10 22 (19.64%) Scrum
10 22 (19.64%) UML
11 21 (18.75%) User Stories
12 20 (17.86%) Actionable Insight
12 20 (17.86%) Backlog Refinement
12 20 (17.86%) Knowledge Transfer
12 20 (17.86%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
12 20 (17.86%) User Research
12 20 (17.86%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 13 (11.61%) Project Management
14 11 (9.82%) Business Case
Programming Languages
1 4 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (34.82%) Degree
2 26 (23.21%) SC Cleared
2 26 (23.21%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.68%) DBS Check
4 2 (1.79%) CBAP
4 2 (1.79%) IIBA
4 2 (1.79%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.89%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.79%) PMO
Vendors
1 14 (12.50%) Salesforce
2 7 (6.25%) F5
3 5 (4.46%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.79%) MicroStrategy
4 2 (1.79%) SAP
5 1 (0.89%) Alteryx
5 1 (0.89%) Google