Finance Business Analyst Jobs

Business Analyst - Finance (Finance BA)
UK

The median Business Analyst - Finance (Finance BA) salary in the UK is £85,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 837 880 942
Rank change year-on-year +43 +62 -181
Permanent jobs requiring a Finance Business Analyst 57 109 254
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.058% 0.10% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.061% 0.11% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 54 100 206
10th Percentile £53,625 £45,000 £42,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £47,188 £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £70,000 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% +5.66% +10.42%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,313 £85,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £91,250 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +47.37% -9.52% -4.55%

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 92,894 96,310 147,847
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.58% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,756 60,420 85,018
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.80% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Finance Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance Business Analyst in the UK

Finance Business Analyst
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Finance Business Analyst in the UK

Finance Business Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance Business Analyst over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Finance Business Analyst in the UK

Finance Business Analyst
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance Business Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 25 April 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 +62 56 £85,000 +21.43% 12
London +90 50 £85,000 +17.24% 3
Work from Home +84 34 £82,500 +43.48% 3
UK excluding London -9 5 £70,000 +47.37% 9
North of England +38 2 £82,500 +94.12% 4
Midlands +9 2 £58,750 +2.17% 1
South East +10 1 £62,500 +31.58% 2
North West +8 1 £82,500 +94.12% 3
East Midlands -15 1 £70,000 +21.74% 1
West Midlands - 1 £47,500 -
Yorkshire - 1 £82,500 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Finance 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 Finance Business Analyst in the job title.

1 57 (100.00%) Finance
2 48 (84.21%) Agile
3 40 (70.18%) Product Ownership
4 38 (66.67%) Asset Management
4 38 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
4 38 (66.67%) Derivative
4 38 (66.67%) Investment Management
4 38 (66.67%) Front Office
4 38 (66.67%) Fixed Income
4 38 (66.67%) Equities
4 38 (66.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 38 (66.67%) Python
4 38 (66.67%) SQL
4 38 (66.67%) AWS
4 38 (66.67%) Hedge funds
4 38 (66.67%) Machine Learning
5 24 (42.11%) Analytics
5 24 (42.11%) Product Management
6 18 (31.58%) Roadmaps
7 17 (29.82%) Fintech
8 16 (28.07%) Banking
9 15 (26.32%) Investment Banking
9 15 (26.32%) Bloomberg
9 15 (26.32%) Portfolio Management
10 14 (24.56%) Business Intelligence
11 13 (22.81%) BISAM
11 13 (22.81%) Aladdin
12 8 (14.04%) Oracle
13 7 (12.28%) Law
14 6 (10.53%) Business Analysis

Finance 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 2 (3.51%) Apache
1 2 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.75%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 13 (22.81%) Aladdin
2 2 (3.51%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (1.75%) Elite 3E
3 1 (1.75%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (1.75%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (1.75%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.75%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.75%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (1.75%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 38 (66.67%) AWS
2 6 (10.53%) OCI
3 2 (3.51%) dbt
4 1 (1.75%) Asana
4 1 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.75%) FinancialForce
4 1 (1.75%) Google Sheets
4 1 (1.75%) SaaS
4 1 (1.75%) Zapier
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.51%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (3.51%) Apache Arrow
1 2 (3.51%) Apache Ignite
1 2 (3.51%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 1 (1.75%) JIRA
General
1 57 (100.00%) Finance
2 38 (66.67%) Front Office
3 16 (28.07%) Banking
4 15 (26.32%) Investment Banking
5 7 (12.28%) Law
6 5 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (8.77%) Social Skills
7 2 (3.51%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.75%) Legal
8 1 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.75%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.51%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 40 (70.18%) Product Ownership
2 38 (66.67%) Derivative
2 38 (66.67%) Equities
2 38 (66.67%) Fixed Income
2 38 (66.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 38 (66.67%) Hedge funds
3 2 (3.51%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (84.21%) Agile
2 38 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 38 (66.67%) Asset Management
2 38 (66.67%) Investment Management
2 38 (66.67%) Machine Learning
3 24 (42.11%) Analytics
3 24 (42.11%) Product Management
4 18 (31.58%) Roadmaps
5 17 (29.82%) Fintech
6 15 (26.32%) Portfolio Management
7 14 (24.56%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (10.53%) Business Analysis
8 6 (10.53%) Requirements Analysis
8 6 (10.53%) Scenario Testing
8 6 (10.53%) Waterfall
9 3 (5.26%) Accounts Receivable
9 3 (5.26%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (5.26%) Translating Business Requirements
10 2 (3.51%) Accounts Payable
10 2 (3.51%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 38 (66.67%) Python
1 38 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (3.51%) Degree
2 1 (1.75%) ACCA
2 1 (1.75%) CIMA
2 1 (1.75%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.75%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 15 (26.32%) Bloomberg
2 13 (22.81%) BISAM
3 8 (14.04%) Oracle
4 1 (1.75%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.75%) Google
4 1 (1.75%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.75%) SAP