The first table below looks at the demand for the Business Analyst role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Business Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Business Analyst
Rank 45 50 30
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -20
Permanent jobs requiring a Business Analyst 5298 5656 7313
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 4.864% 4.693% 5.696%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.152% 4.942% 6.052%
Number of salaries quoted 4475 4861 6127
Average salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -5.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £34,851 £33,775
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £72,500 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £41,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+2.40% +3.75%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
102828 114458 120840
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.40% 94.97% 94.13%
Number of salaries quoted 85533 98230 102542
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%

Business Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Business Analyst within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Business Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Business Analyst
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Business Analyst within the UK.

Business Analyst Salary Trend

Business Analyst
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Business Analyst over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 within the UK.

Business Analyst Salary Histogram

Business Analyst
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Business Analyst within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +7 5031 £47,500 -4.04% 664
London +3 2749 £55,000 - 364
South East -3 892 £45,000 - 91
City of London -3 768 £55,000 -12.00% 133
East of England +13 342 £42,500 -5.55% 26
Berkshire +28 274 £50,000 +11.11% 30
Yorkshire +18 265 £38,500 +2.66% 33
North West +10 226 £38,500 +5.47% 49
South West +28 200 £38,750 -3.12% 54
West Midlands -11 191 £40,000 +3.89% 29
Surrey -17 190 £45,000 - 10
West Yorkshire +1 159 £38,000 +1.33% 26
Scotland +2 154 £40,000 -5.88% 25
Slough +46 149 £49,500 +4.21% 9
East Midlands -14 131 £42,500 +6.25% 14
Hampshire +9 128 £45,000 - 13
Hertfordshire +13 124 £47,500 -5.00% 10
Manchester 0 122 £37,000 +1.36% 26
Leeds -5 111 £38,500 +2.66% 12
Birmingham +18 82 £42,500 -10.52% 12
Buckinghamshire +1 82 £43,750 +2.94% 13
Edinburgh +1 70 £41,250 -8.33% 7
Essex +46 64 £32,500 -18.75% 4
Bedfordshire -3 62 £40,000 -10.61% 2
Reading -30 59 £49,250 +23.12% 6
Cambridgeshire +15 58 £40,000 -11.11% 6
Wiltshire +27 57 £39,500 -7.60% 13
West Sussex -39 57 £42,000 -6.66% 2
Bristol +19 56 £37,500 -3.84% 21
Glasgow -1 53 £38,500 -9.41% 9

Business Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Business Analyst in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Business Analyst in their job title.

1 4131 (39.49%) Business Analysis
2 3797 (36.30%) Finance
3 1798 (17.19%) SQL
4 1759 (16.82%) Project Management
5 1598 (15.28%) Degree
6 1433 (13.70%) UML
7 1430 (13.67%) Banking
8 1335 (12.76%) Stakeholder Management
9 1290 (12.33%) Agile Software Development
10 1223 (11.69%) Retail
11 1122 (10.73%) E-Commerce
12 1117 (10.68%) ISEB
13 1110 (10.61%) User Acceptance Testing
14 1044 (9.981%) Business Intelligence
15 1033 (9.876%) Use Case
16 890 (8.509%) Microsoft
17 844 (8.069%) Scrum
18 804 (7.686%) Oracle
19 787 (7.524%) MS Excel
20 746 (7.132%) Data Modelling
21 728 (6.960%) PRINCE2
22 716 (6.845%) Waterfall
23 683 (6.530%) Data Analysis
24 669 (6.396%) Investment Banking
25 663 (6.338%) CRM
26 633 (6.052%) Change Management
27 622 (5.946%) SQL Server
28 620 (5.927%) User Stories
29 518 (4.952%) Systems Analysis
30 514 (4.914%) MS Office

Business Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Business Analyst in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Business Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 406 (3.881%) .NET
2 353 (3.375%) XML
3 109 (1.042%) HTML
4 103 (0.985%) WebSphere
5 81 (0.774%) Web Services
6 74 (0.707%) FpML
7 73 (0.698%) ASP.NET
8 60 (0.574%) J2EE
9 39 (0.373%) CSS
10 35 (0.335%) MDX
10 35 (0.335%) ASP
11 31 (0.296%) XML Schema
12 30 (0.287%) HTML5
13 24 (0.229%) Ajax
14 23 (0.220%) Drools
14 23 (0.220%) JRules
14 23 (0.220%) FIXML
15 22 (0.210%) EDI
16 21 (0.201%) REST
17 20 (0.191%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 330 (3.155%) SharePoint
2 105 (1.004%) SAS
3 96 (0.918%) SharePoint 2010
4 67 (0.641%) Oracle Workflow
5 56 (0.535%) SharePoint Server
6 55 (0.526%) CMS
7 44 (0.421%) MQSeries
8 39 (0.373%) IBM Notes
9 25 (0.239%) SharePoint 2013
10 19 (0.182%) Confluence
11 16 (0.153%) Magento
12 11 (0.105%) BizTalk Server
13 10 (0.096%) Apache
13 10 (0.096%) Tomcat
13 10 (0.096%) Force.com
14 9 (0.086%) WebLogic
14 9 (0.086%) IIS
15 8 (0.076%) Commerce Server
15 8 (0.076%) Amazon EC2
16 7 (0.067%) Lync
Applications
1 787 (7.524%) MS Excel
2 514 (4.914%) MS Office
3 476 (4.551%) MS Visio
4 224 (2.141%) MS PowerPoint
5 217 (2.075%) MS Project
6 35 (0.335%) Spreadsheet
7 29 (0.277%) PowerPivot
8 15 (0.143%) Photoshop
9 10 (0.096%) SPSS
9 10 (0.096%) InfoPath
10 9 (0.086%) Office 365
11 8 (0.076%) Windchill
12 5 (0.048%) Weka
13 4 (0.038%) FastStats
14 2 (0.019%) Stata
14 2 (0.019%) Google Apps
15 1 (0.010%) Mingle
15 1 (0.010%) Fireworks
Business Applications
1 141 (1.348%) Dynamics CRM
2 127 (1.214%) Dynamics AX
3 89 (0.851%) Oracle EBS
4 60 (0.574%) Oracle EBS R12
5 52 (0.497%) LatentZero
6 48 (0.459%) SAP SD
7 46 (0.440%) Cognos Business Intelligence
8 44 (0.421%) SAP FI
9 39 (0.373%) SAP FI/CO
9 39 (0.373%) SAP CO
10 35 (0.335%) Summit
10 35 (0.335%) Oracle ERP
11 34 (0.325%) Oracle 11i
11 34 (0.325%) Oracle Applications
11 34 (0.325%) Dynamics NAV
12 32 (0.306%) Oracle Financials
13 31 (0.296%) SAP CRM
14 23 (0.220%) HFM
14 23 (0.220%) JDE EnterpriseOne
15 22 (0.210%) SAP MM
Communications & Networking
1 177 (1.692%) Internet
2 118 (1.128%) HTTP
3 33 (0.315%) Broadband
4 27 (0.258%) Intranet
5 23 (0.220%) HTTPS
6 20 (0.191%) Firewall
7 15 (0.143%) BSS
8 11 (0.105%) WAN
9 7 (0.067%) NFC
10 6 (0.057%) Unified Communications
10 6 (0.057%) SWIFTNet
11 5 (0.048%) ATM
11 5 (0.048%) LAN
11 5 (0.048%) DNS
12 4 (0.038%) Radio Access Network
13 3 (0.029%) GSM
13 3 (0.029%) TCP/IP
13 3 (0.029%) Wi-Fi
14 2 (0.019%) Wireless
14 2 (0.019%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 622 (5.946%) SQL Server
2 513 (4.904%) Data Warehouse
3 245 (2.342%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 174 (1.663%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 143 (1.367%) QlikView
6 128 (1.224%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 104 (0.994%) SQL Server 2008
8 101 (0.966%) Oracle Reports
9 99 (0.946%) Crystal Reports
10 98 (0.937%) BusinessObjects
11 94 (0.899%) Data Mining
12 82 (0.784%) OLAP
13 81 (0.774%) SQL Server 2005
14 69 (0.660%) SAP BW
15 64 (0.612%) Essbase
16 59 (0.564%) RDBMS
17 54 (0.516%) Oracle BI EE
18 49 (0.468%) Oracle 8/8i
19 48 (0.459%) MS Access
20 44 (0.421%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 55 (0.526%) RequisitePro
1 55 (0.526%) Rational Rose
2 42 (0.402%) JIRA
3 37 (0.354%) Visual Studio
4 34 (0.325%) Team Foundation Server
5 18 (0.172%) TestDirector
6 16 (0.153%) ERwin
7 13 (0.124%) Git (software)
8 8 (0.076%) Axure RP
9 6 (0.057%) Oracle Forms
9 6 (0.057%) Subversion
10 5 (0.048%) Balsamiq Mockups
10 5 (0.048%) MorphX
11 4 (0.038%) Dreamweaver
11 4 (0.038%) Synon
11 4 (0.038%) Talend Open Studio
11 4 (0.038%) Rational DOORS
12 3 (0.029%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.029%) Visual Studio Team System
12 3 (0.029%) Oracle APEX
General
1 3797 (36.30%) Finance
2 1430 (13.67%) Banking
3 1223 (11.69%) Retail
4 669 (6.396%) Investment Banking
5 495 (4.732%) Front Office
6 372 (3.556%) Marketing
7 310 (2.964%) Telecoms
8 305 (2.916%) Back Office
9 255 (2.438%) Legal
10 206 (1.969%) Advertising
11 196 (1.874%) Manufacturing
12 124 (1.185%) Law
13 113 (1.080%) Publishing
14 105 (1.004%) Financial Institution
15 98 (0.937%) Retail Banking
16 97 (0.927%) Games
17 79 (0.755%) Corporate Banking
18 78 (0.746%) Pharmaceutical
19 69 (0.660%) Automotive
20 59 (0.564%) Billing
Miscellaneous
1 498 (4.761%) Management Information System
2 472 (4.512%) Derivative
3 306 (2.925%) Equities
4 283 (2.706%) Computer Science
5 228 (2.180%) Fixed Income
6 225 (2.151%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 203 (1.941%) FMCG
8 179 (1.711%) Credit Risk
9 166 (1.587%) Mathematics
10 142 (1.358%) Market Risk
11 122 (1.166%) Mobile App
12 109 (1.042%) Digital Media
13 105 (1.004%) Client/Server
14 101 (0.966%) SWIFT
15 100 (0.956%) SaaS
16 78 (0.746%) Data Integration
17 73 (0.698%) Economics
18 71 (0.679%) EPoS
18 71 (0.679%) Hedge funds
19 70 (0.669%) Interest Rate Derivative
Operating Systems
1 158 (1.511%) Windows
2 50 (0.478%) UNIX
3 31 (0.296%) Linux
4 28 (0.268%) Android
5 27 (0.258%) Windows 7
6 25 (0.239%) Apple iOS
7 23 (0.220%) Windows XP
8 22 (0.210%) Windows Server 2008
9 19 (0.182%) Windows Server 2003
10 16 (0.153%) Solaris
11 12 (0.115%) AIX
11 12 (0.115%) HPUX
12 7 (0.067%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4131 (39.49%) Business Analysis
2 1759 (16.82%) Project Management
3 1433 (13.70%) UML
4 1335 (12.76%) Stakeholder Management
5 1290 (12.33%) Agile Software Development
6 1122 (10.73%) E-Commerce
7 1110 (10.61%) User Acceptance Testing
8 1044 (9.981%) Business Intelligence
9 1033 (9.876%) Use Case
10 844 (8.069%) Scrum
11 746 (7.132%) Data Modelling
12 728 (6.960%) PRINCE2
13 716 (6.845%) Waterfall
14 683 (6.530%) Data Analysis
15 663 (6.338%) CRM
16 633 (6.052%) Change Management
17 620 (5.927%) User Stories
18 518 (4.952%) Systems Analysis
19 511 (4.885%) Workflow
20 494 (4.723%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1798 (17.19%) SQL
2 373 (3.566%) Java
3 160 (1.530%) C#
4 146 (1.396%) T-SQL
5 132 (1.262%) PL/SQL
6 114 (1.090%) VBA
7 63 (0.602%) JavaScript
8 61 (0.583%) VB
9 50 (0.478%) C++
10 44 (0.421%) C
11 32 (0.306%) VB.NET
12 28 (0.268%) ABAP
13 26 (0.249%) PHP
14 22 (0.210%) Python
15 18 (0.172%) Ruby
16 12 (0.115%) R
17 10 (0.096%) Fortran
17 10 (0.096%) Perl
18 8 (0.076%) VB6
18 8 (0.076%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 1598 (15.28%) Degree
2 1117 (10.68%) ISEB
3 96 (0.918%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 89 (0.851%) PMI Certification
5 70 (0.669%) Security Cleared
6 66 (0.631%) CBAP
7 44 (0.421%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 41 (0.392%) ISEB Practitioner
9 37 (0.354%) Microsoft Certification
9 37 (0.354%) ACCA
10 33 (0.315%) PMP
11 30 (0.287%) SC Cleared
12 28 (0.268%) CIMA
13 26 (0.249%) CFA
14 21 (0.201%) Six Sigma Black Belt
15 14 (0.134%) IBM Certification
16 12 (0.115%) MBA
17 11 (0.105%) DV Cleared
18 10 (0.096%) ITIL Certification
18 10 (0.096%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 441 (4.216%) QA
2 63 (0.602%) Basel II
3 54 (0.516%) SLA
4 50 (0.478%) Basel III
5 42 (0.402%) Solvency II
6 39 (0.373%) FATCA
7 33 (0.315%) Data Quality
8 30 (0.287%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 21 (0.201%) ISO 9001
10 10 (0.096%) GxP
10 10 (0.096%) PCI DSS
11 8 (0.076%) MiFID
12 5 (0.048%) IAS 39
12 5 (0.048%) WAI
12 5 (0.048%) GAAP
13 3 (0.029%) COBIT
13 3 (0.029%) ISO 9000
14 2 (0.019%) COSO
15 1 (0.010%) ISO/IEC 27001
15 1 (0.010%) HL7
System Software
1 16 (0.153%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.010%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.010%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.010%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 86 (0.822%) HP Quality Center
2 9 (0.086%) BMC PATROL
3 5 (0.048%) Puppet
3 5 (0.048%) OSSEC
3 5 (0.048%) Control-M
4 4 (0.038%) SCOM
5 2 (0.019%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
6 1 (0.010%) Oracle Identity Manager
6 1 (0.010%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.010%) Tivoli Identity Manager
6 1 (0.010%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.010%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 890 (8.509%) Microsoft
2 804 (7.686%) Oracle
3 501 (4.790%) SAP
4 351 (3.356%) Business Objects
5 254 (2.428%) Cognos
6 158 (1.511%) Salesforce.com
7 117 (1.119%) IBM
8 92 (0.880%) JD Edwards
9 69 (0.660%) Hyperion
10 61 (0.583%) Siebel
11 54 (0.516%) Lotus
12 50 (0.478%) Sage
13 49 (0.468%) Sybase
14 48 (0.459%) ATG
14 48 (0.459%) thinkFolio
15 47 (0.449%) hybris
16 43 (0.411%) Murex
17 42 (0.402%) Charles River
18 39 (0.373%) Tableau
19 38 (0.363%) Calypso
City, London
Business Analyst with experience of leading OJEU regulated IT Procurement Projects of £20m+ required for 12 Months forecast Lead Business Analyst Contract in South East London (SE10) £459...
Advantage Resourcing
Salary: £459 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
If you are an Business Analyst and would like an exciting opportunity to join a growing industry leading software house and be involved in substantial development projects apply...
Rullion IT Plus
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
City of London
The programme will transform the company and their treasury systems including implementation of Basel lll and upgrades of their Liquidity and ALM reporting systems.
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Salary: £75000.00 - £95000.00 per annum
Posted: 15 June 2013
East London
The Business Analyst will engage with the business team, understand the business outcomes that the organisation is looking to deliver and translate these outcomes in to functional requirements...
Experis IT
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + bonus + benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
London
have a solid background and experience of the fast paced fashion industry together with excellent business analysis skills and a desire to progress their career and lead, develop...
IT Retail People Ltd
Salary: Up to £55,000 per annum Excellent package
Posted: 18 June 2013
Watford, Hertfordshire
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: Bonus
Posted: 17 June 2013
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
IT Executive Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £41000 per annum
Posted: 12 June 2013
Solihull, West Midlands
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + + benefits
Posted: 10 June 2013
City of London
Real Staffing
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £50000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013
London
DCM Select
Salary: From £65,000 to £95,000 per annum + Bonus + excellent benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
Berkshire
Clearwater People Solutions
Salary: £40000 - 45000 Per Annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
Bracknell, Berkshire
McGregor Boyall
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + benefits package
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 11 June 2013
London
High Finance Group
Salary: GBP45000 to GBP55000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
Rullion IT Plus
Salary: £40000 - £75000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Berkshire, Thames Valley
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Salary: £35000 - £42000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 11 June 2013
Berkshire, Thames Valley
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Salary: £35000.00 - £42000.00 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
Leeds, Yorkshire
Capita Resourcing
Salary: £.00 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
London
Proactive Appointments
Salary: From £35,000 to £40,000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013
Cardiff, South Glamorgan
HAYS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Salary: £45000.00 - £50000.00 per annum + bens
Posted: 13 June 2013
Chessington, Surrey
Merlin Entertainments
Salary: From £20,000 to £25,000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
IT Executive Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £41000 per annum
Posted: 13 June 2013
Berkshire
Spargonet Consulting Plc
Salary: £45000 to £55000 per annum - Exceptional Company Benefits
Posted: 16 June 2013
London
ANSON MCCADE
Salary: Up to £50,000 per annum
Posted: 13 June 2013
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