Business Analyst Jobs in England

Business Analyst (BA)
UK > England

The median Business Analyst (BA) salary in England is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 258 185 136
Rank change year-on-year -73 -49 +18
Permanent jobs requiring a Business Analyst 606 1,354 2,270
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.23% 1.51% 2.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.35% 1.59% 2.92%
Number of salaries quoted 483 933 1,659
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% +7.48%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £70,600
90th Percentile £102,500 £91,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,250 £55,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year +13.18% -5.98% +6.36%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 44,774 85,031 77,815
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.79% 94.67% 91.36%
Number of salaries quoted 23,692 62,917 50,230
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,000 £38,066 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,567
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -13.32% +0.95%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Analyst in England

Business Analyst
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Business Analyst in England

Business Analyst
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Analyst in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Business Analyst in England

Business Analyst
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Business Analyst within the England region over the 6 months to 31 May 2025. 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
London -3 303 £80,000 +6.67% 426
Midlands -1 91 £55,000 +29.41% 49
North of England -52 82 £50,000 - 92
West Midlands +35 64 £55,000 +29.41% 33
North West -58 60 £48,750 -2.50% 56
South East -19 54 £45,000 -22.75% 49
South West +42 35 £51,500 +9.69% 29
East Midlands -6 26 £57,500 +35.29% 16
Yorkshire +18 20 £51,000 +7.37% 29
East of England -97 20 £60,000 +21.21% 13
North East +46 2 £42,500 -15.00% 8
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 2025, 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 England region featuring Business Analyst in the job title.

1 280 (46.20%) Business Analysis
2 268 (44.22%) Agile
2 268 (44.22%) Finance
3 227 (37.46%) Social Skills
4 179 (29.54%) Requirements Gathering
5 167 (27.56%) Analytical Skills
6 151 (24.92%) Problem-Solving
7 134 (22.11%) User Stories
8 132 (21.78%) SQL
9 128 (21.12%) Stakeholder Management
10 123 (20.30%) Business Intelligence
10 123 (20.30%) Degree
11 117 (19.31%) Data Analysis
12 103 (17.00%) Project Management
13 87 (14.36%) Decision-Making
14 76 (12.54%) Workshop Facilitation
15 73 (12.05%) Process Improvement
16 72 (11.88%) Front Office
17 66 (10.89%) Asset Management
18 65 (10.73%) Continuous Improvement
19 64 (10.56%) Derivative
19 64 (10.56%) Python
20 62 (10.23%) Power Platform
21 60 (9.90%) JIRA
21 60 (9.90%) Microsoft
22 59 (9.74%) Analytics
22 59 (9.74%) Power BI
23 57 (9.41%) Data Mapping
23 57 (9.41%) Fixed Income
24 56 (9.24%) Change Management

Business Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 41 (6.77%) Confluence
2 18 (2.97%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.50%) Skype for Business
4 2 (0.33%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.17%) CMS
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.17%) Umbraco
Applications
1 56 (9.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (8.25%) MS Visio
3 37 (6.11%) Microsoft Office
4 19 (3.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (1.49%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.33%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.17%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 49 (8.09%) Aladdin
2 40 (6.60%) thinkFolio
3 13 (2.15%) NetSuite
4 9 (1.49%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.50%) Sage X3
6 2 (0.33%) Adaptiv
6 2 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.33%) Endur
7 1 (0.17%) Magento
7 1 (0.17%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.17%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.17%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.17%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.17%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.17%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.17%) Shopify
7 1 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
7 1 (0.17%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 62 (10.23%) Power Platform
2 31 (5.12%) Azure
3 21 (3.47%) SaaS
4 15 (2.48%) AWS
5 12 (1.98%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (1.16%) Lucidchart
7 6 (0.99%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (0.99%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (0.99%) Miro
8 4 (0.66%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (0.66%) Figma
9 2 (0.33%) Google Sheets
9 2 (0.33%) Matillion
9 2 (0.33%) PaaS
10 1 (0.17%) Amazon EMR
10 1 (0.17%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (0.17%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.17%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.17%) GCP
10 1 (0.17%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.50%) Skype
2 2 (0.33%) CHAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (9.74%) Power BI
2 21 (3.47%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (1.32%) Tableau
4 6 (0.99%) Big Data
4 6 (0.99%) SQL Server
5 5 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (0.66%) Data Lake
6 4 (0.66%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.50%) SAP BW
7 3 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.33%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.33%) Looker
9 1 (0.17%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.17%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.17%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.17%) GIS
9 1 (0.17%) NonStop SQL
9 1 (0.17%) PowerCenter
9 1 (0.17%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 60 (9.90%) JIRA
2 3 (0.50%) RStudio
3 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 268 (44.22%) Finance
2 227 (37.46%) Social Skills
3 167 (27.56%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (11.88%) Front Office
5 46 (7.59%) Banking
5 46 (7.59%) Law
6 28 (4.62%) Legal
7 27 (4.46%) Manufacturing
8 21 (3.47%) Documentation Skills
8 21 (3.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 21 (3.47%) Retail
9 20 (3.30%) Organisational Skills
10 19 (3.14%) Presentation Skills
10 19 (3.14%) Public Sector
11 17 (2.81%) Marketing
12 12 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (1.82%) Back Office
14 10 (1.65%) Advertising
15 6 (0.99%) Local Government
16 5 (0.83%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (0.50%) .NET
1 3 (0.50%) ADO
1 3 (0.50%) Middleware
1 3 (0.50%) REST
1 3 (0.50%) SOAP
1 3 (0.50%) XML
2 2 (0.33%) CSS
2 2 (0.33%) Gherkin
2 2 (0.33%) GraphQL
2 2 (0.33%) HTML
2 2 (0.33%) LDAP
2 2 (0.33%) OAuth
2 2 (0.33%) Pandas
2 2 (0.33%) Swagger
3 1 (0.17%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (0.17%) Kafka
3 1 (0.17%) Node.js
3 1 (0.17%) React
3 1 (0.17%) RESTful
3 1 (0.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 64 (10.56%) Derivative
2 57 (9.41%) Fixed Income
3 55 (9.08%) Onboarding
4 54 (8.91%) Hedge funds
5 35 (5.78%) Product Ownership
6 33 (5.45%) Analytical Mindset
7 22 (3.63%) Legacy Systems
8 18 (2.97%) Management Information System
9 13 (2.15%) Taxonomies
10 12 (1.98%) Market Risk
11 10 (1.65%) Reinsurance
12 7 (1.16%) Driving Licence
12 7 (1.16%) OTC Derivatives
12 7 (1.16%) Social Media
13 6 (0.99%) Equities
14 5 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 5 (0.83%) Operational Technology
14 5 (0.83%) PMI
14 5 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.16%) Windows
2 5 (0.83%) Windows Vista
3 1 (0.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 280 (46.20%) Business Analysis
2 268 (44.22%) Agile
3 179 (29.54%) Requirements Gathering
4 151 (24.92%) Problem-Solving
5 134 (22.11%) User Stories
6 128 (21.12%) Stakeholder Management
7 123 (20.30%) Business Intelligence
8 117 (19.31%) Data Analysis
9 103 (17.00%) Project Management
10 87 (14.36%) Decision-Making
11 76 (12.54%) Workshop Facilitation
12 73 (12.05%) Process Improvement
13 66 (10.89%) Asset Management
14 65 (10.73%) Continuous Improvement
15 59 (9.74%) Analytics
16 57 (9.41%) Data Mapping
17 56 (9.24%) Change Management
18 54 (8.91%) Portfolio Management
19 53 (8.75%) Investment Management
19 53 (8.75%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 132 (21.78%) SQL
2 64 (10.56%) Python
3 4 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 4 (0.66%) Java
3 4 (0.66%) PowerShell
4 3 (0.50%) Bash
4 3 (0.50%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.33%) T-SQL
5 2 (0.33%) VBA
6 1 (0.17%) ABAP
6 1 (0.17%) C++
6 1 (0.17%) COBOL
6 1 (0.17%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.17%) R
Qualifications
1 123 (20.30%) Degree
2 24 (3.96%) CBAP
3 22 (3.63%) Security Cleared
4 11 (1.82%) PMI Certification
5 10 (1.65%) DV Cleared
5 10 (1.65%) IIBA
6 9 (1.49%) ACCA
6 9 (1.49%) CIMA
6 9 (1.49%) Master's Degree
6 9 (1.49%) SC Cleared
7 7 (1.16%) DBS Check
7 7 (1.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 7 (1.16%) PMP
8 6 (0.99%) ISEB
9 5 (0.83%) CFA
10 3 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.50%) Six Sigma Black Belt
10 3 (0.50%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 2 (0.33%) CCA
11 2 (0.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.11%) QA
2 15 (2.48%) PMO
3 8 (1.32%) SLA
4 7 (1.16%) Actionable Recommendations
5 6 (0.99%) Data Quality
5 6 (0.99%) GDPR
6 5 (0.83%) MiFID
7 4 (0.66%) COREP
8 3 (0.50%) EMIR
8 3 (0.50%) Solvency II
9 2 (0.33%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.33%) SEPA
10 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.17%) Dodd-Frank
10 1 (0.17%) GRC
10 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (0.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.17%) Ansible
Vendors
1 60 (9.90%) Microsoft
2 46 (7.59%) BISAM
2 46 (7.59%) Charles River
2 46 (7.59%) Salesforce
3 39 (6.44%) Calypso
3 39 (6.44%) SimCorp
4 17 (2.81%) SAP
5 13 (2.15%) Murex
6 11 (1.82%) ServiceNow
7 10 (1.65%) Anaplan
8 8 (1.32%) Guidewire
9 6 (0.99%) BT
10 5 (0.83%) Bloomberg
11 4 (0.66%) Google
12 3 (0.50%) Adobe
12 3 (0.50%) JD Edwards
12 3 (0.50%) QAD
12 3 (0.50%) Sage
13 2 (0.33%) IBM
13 2 (0.33%) Informatica