Senior Business Analyst Jobs in Edinburgh

Senior Business Analyst (Senior BA)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Senior Business Analyst (Senior BA) salary in Edinburgh is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 110 137
Rank change year-on-year +28 +27 +9
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Business Analyst 5 3 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.56% 0.20% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.21% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile - - £54,375
25th Percentile £63,750 £55,400 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £58,800 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.80% -9.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £71,250 £62,200 £67,500
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median annual salary £56,567 £58,800 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.80% -9.54% +23.81%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 791 1,421 1,916
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.18% 95.88% 94.90%
Number of salaries quoted 364 1,001 1,131
10th Percentile £26,929 £32,500 £35,733
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,750 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,474 £91,934 £89,852
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,425
% change year-on-year +4.76% -5.28% +5.57%

Senior Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Business Analyst in Edinburgh

Senior Business Analyst
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for Senior Business Analyst in Edinburgh

Senior Business Analyst Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 21 May 2025, 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 Edinburgh region featuring Senior Business Analyst in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Finance
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Business Analysis
2 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (60.00%) Banking
2 3 (60.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (60.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 3 (60.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (60.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 3 (60.00%) Epics
2 3 (60.00%) JIRA
2 3 (60.00%) SaaS
2 3 (60.00%) User Stories
2 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (60.00%) User Research
3 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (40.00%) Waterfall
3 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Data Management
3 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 2 (40.00%) OLAP
3 2 (40.00%) ETL
3 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) RDBMS

Senior Business Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (40.00%) OLAP
1 2 (40.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Banking
3 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (60.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Business Analysis
2 3 (60.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 3 (60.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 3 (60.00%) Epics
2 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (60.00%) User Research
2 3 (60.00%) User Stories
3 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Data Management
3 2 (40.00%) ETL
3 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (40.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL