Business Analyst Job Trends in England

Business Analyst (BA)
UK > England

The median Business Analyst (BA) salary in England is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 206 141
Rank change year-on-year +68 -65 -38
Permanent jobs requiring a Business Analyst 887 706 1,036
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.68% 1.47% 2.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.85% 1.58% 2.21%
Number of salaries quoted 681 580 827
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £41,650
25th Percentile £44,972 £49,717 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £70,250 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +4.35%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 48,032 44,628 46,871
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.90% 92.71% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 30,380 23,318 36,700
10th Percentile £28,750 £33,750 £31,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,670
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -6.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Business Analyst' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Business Analyst job vacancy trend in England

Business Analyst
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Business Analyst job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Business Analyst job vacancies in England

Business Analyst
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Analyst in England over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

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 14 January 2026. 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 +5 320 £76,000 -1.94% 109
North of England +41 208 £45,000 -7.69% 75
North West +31 98 £45,497 -13.34% 37
Midlands +45 95 £54,000 -1.82% 52
South West +71 88 £50,000 +11.11% 30
Yorkshire +51 84 £44,500 -15.24% 27
East of England +80 77 £55,000 +18.28% 19
West Midlands +34 66 £55,000 - 41
South East +49 65 £55,000 -8.71% 90
East Midlands +6 29 £52,500 -4.55% 11
North East -5 26 £32,500 -13.33% 13
Business Analyst
UK

Business Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 14 January 2026, Business Analyst job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Business Analyst in the job title.

1 374 (42.16%) Business Analysis
2 308 (34.72%) Agile
3 251 (28.30%) Problem-Solving
4 216 (24.35%) Degree
5 184 (20.74%) Project Management
6 180 (20.29%) Change Management
7 162 (18.26%) User Stories
8 133 (14.99%) Workshop Facilitation
9 123 (13.87%) Stakeholder Management
10 121 (13.64%) Requirements Gathering
11 102 (11.50%) Process Improvement
12 97 (10.94%) Microsoft
13 91 (10.26%) Data Analysis
14 89 (10.03%) Security Cleared
15 81 (9.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 76 (8.57%) Project Delivery
17 74 (8.34%) User Acceptance Testing
18 72 (8.12%) Business Intelligence
19 71 (8.00%) Scrum
20 70 (7.89%) SQL
21 67 (7.55%) Continuous Improvement
21 67 (7.55%) Waterfall
22 66 (7.44%) JIRA
23 63 (7.10%) Mentoring
24 61 (6.88%) Decision-Making
25 59 (6.65%) Power Platform
26 58 (6.54%) Power BI
27 54 (6.09%) Analytics
28 53 (5.98%) AI
29 52 (5.86%) Confluence

Business Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 52 (5.86%) Confluence
2 8 (0.90%) CMS
3 2 (0.23%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.11%) Appian
4 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.11%) SAS
Applications
1 37 (4.17%) MS Visio
2 33 (3.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (2.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
5 12 (1.35%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.23%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.56%) Endur
3 4 (0.45%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.23%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 2 (0.23%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.23%) SAP PP
5 2 (0.23%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.11%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.11%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.11%) PeopleSoft HRMS
6 1 (0.11%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.11%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 59 (6.65%) Power Platform
2 39 (4.40%) Azure
3 23 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (2.03%) Dynamics 365
6 13 (1.47%) AWS
7 10 (1.13%) SaaS
8 5 (0.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (0.56%) Google Workspace
9 4 (0.45%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (0.45%) ChatGPT
9 4 (0.45%) Lucidchart
9 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Copilot
9 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (0.45%) Miro
9 4 (0.45%) PaaS
9 4 (0.45%) Power Automate
10 3 (0.34%) GCP
10 3 (0.34%) Smartsheet
10 3 (0.34%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.68%) Multicast
2 2 (0.23%) 4G
2 2 (0.23%) FIX Connectivity
2 2 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.11%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (6.54%) Power BI
2 16 (1.80%) SQL Server
3 10 (1.13%) Tableau
4 4 (0.45%) Data Lake
4 4 (0.45%) Qlik Sense
4 4 (0.45%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.34%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.34%) GIS
6 2 (0.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.11%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 66 (7.44%) JIRA
General
1 341 (38.44%) Finance
2 287 (32.36%) Social Skills
3 189 (21.31%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (6.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 53 (5.98%) Banking
6 50 (5.64%) Law
7 39 (4.40%) Public Sector
8 32 (3.61%) Legal
9 28 (3.16%) Retail
10 26 (2.93%) Documentation Skills
11 22 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
12 19 (2.14%) Marketing
13 16 (1.80%) Manufacturing
14 14 (1.58%) Back Office
14 14 (1.58%) Front Office
14 14 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
15 13 (1.47%) Telecoms
16 10 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
16 10 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
17 6 (0.68%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (2.82%) HTML
2 7 (0.79%) .NET
3 6 (0.68%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (0.34%) EDI
5 2 (0.23%) Middleware
5 2 (0.23%) RESTful
6 1 (0.11%) JSON
6 1 (0.11%) OpenAPI
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.11%) React
6 1 (0.11%) Spring
6 1 (0.11%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.11%) Swagger
6 1 (0.11%) XML
6 1 (0.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 62 (6.99%) Product Ownership
2 19 (2.14%) Fixed Income
3 18 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
3 18 (2.03%) Driving Licence
4 17 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (1.80%) Onboarding
6 15 (1.69%) Management Information System
7 14 (1.58%) Reinsurance
8 12 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.35%) PMI
9 10 (1.13%) Equities
9 10 (1.13%) Low-Code
10 9 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (1.01%) Derivative
11 8 (0.90%) Credit Risk
12 6 (0.68%) Distributed Computing
12 6 (0.68%) Market Risk
12 6 (0.68%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 5 (0.56%) AI Agents
13 5 (0.56%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 7 (0.79%) Linux
2 4 (0.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 374 (42.16%) Business Analysis
2 308 (34.72%) Agile
3 251 (28.30%) Problem-Solving
4 184 (20.74%) Project Management
5 180 (20.29%) Change Management
6 162 (18.26%) User Stories
7 133 (14.99%) Workshop Facilitation
8 123 (13.87%) Stakeholder Management
9 121 (13.64%) Requirements Gathering
10 102 (11.50%) Process Improvement
11 91 (10.26%) Data Analysis
12 81 (9.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 76 (8.57%) Project Delivery
14 74 (8.34%) User Acceptance Testing
15 72 (8.12%) Business Intelligence
16 71 (8.00%) Scrum
17 67 (7.55%) Continuous Improvement
17 67 (7.55%) Waterfall
18 63 (7.10%) Mentoring
19 61 (6.88%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 70 (7.89%) SQL
2 12 (1.35%) Python
3 7 (0.79%) Java
4 3 (0.34%) C#
4 3 (0.34%) C++
5 2 (0.23%) VBA
6 1 (0.11%) Go
6 1 (0.11%) Korn
6 1 (0.11%) PHP
6 1 (0.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 216 (24.35%) Degree
2 89 (10.03%) Security Cleared
3 42 (4.74%) SC Cleared
4 32 (3.61%) DV Cleared
5 19 (2.14%) PMI Certification
6 14 (1.58%) IIBA
7 10 (1.13%) CBAP
8 9 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (0.79%) PMP
11 6 (0.68%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.34%) ACCA
12 3 (0.34%) CIMA
12 3 (0.34%) CSPO
13 2 (0.23%) ISEB
13 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.11%) AWS Certification
14 1 (0.11%) CISSP
14 1 (0.11%) CITP
14 1 (0.11%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (4.06%) Accessibility
2 30 (3.38%) QA
3 20 (2.25%) Data Quality
4 8 (0.90%) MiFID
5 7 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (0.79%) SEPA
6 6 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
6 6 (0.68%) Basel II
6 6 (0.68%) PMO
7 5 (0.56%) COREP
8 4 (0.45%) TARGET2
9 3 (0.34%) GDPR
10 2 (0.23%) EMIR
10 2 (0.23%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.23%) PSD2
10 2 (0.23%) SLA
10 2 (0.23%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.11%) COBIT
11 1 (0.11%) GAAP
System Software
1 1 (0.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.11%) Control-M
2 1 (0.11%) Grafana
2 1 (0.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 97 (10.94%) Microsoft
2 40 (4.51%) Salesforce
3 24 (2.71%) SAP
4 23 (2.59%) Cisco
5 12 (1.35%) Anaplan
6 11 (1.24%) Oracle
7 10 (1.13%) ServiceNow
8 8 (0.90%) Google
9 7 (0.79%) Pega
10 6 (0.68%) Guidewire
10 6 (0.68%) ION Trading
10 6 (0.68%) Tagetik
11 5 (0.56%) BT
11 5 (0.56%) GoldenSource
11 5 (0.56%) WorldPay
12 4 (0.45%) Alteryx
12 4 (0.45%) Bloomberg
12 4 (0.45%) CQG
12 4 (0.45%) Reuters
12 4 (0.45%) Trayport