Finance Business Analyst Job Trends in England

Business Analyst - Finance (Finance BA)
UK > England

The median Business Analyst - Finance (Finance BA) salary in England is £75,000 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 582 625 646
Rank change year-on-year +43 +21 +125
Permanent jobs requiring a Finance Business Analyst 35 54 34
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.066% 0.11% 0.069%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.073% 0.12% 0.073%
Number of salaries quoted 29 47 32
10th Percentile £30,000 £40,000 £48,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,500 £71,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -18.75% +14.29%
75th Percentile £91,250 £92,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £104,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% -18.75% +14.29%

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%

Finance Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Finance Business Analyst job vacancy trend in England

Finance Business Analyst
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Finance Business Analyst job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Finance Business Analyst job vacancies in England

Finance Business Analyst
Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for Finance Business Analyst in England

Finance 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 Finance 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 +38 21 £87,500 +2.94% 6
Midlands +22 5 £30,000 -42.86%
East Midlands -3 5 £30,000 -
East of England - 3 £37,500 -
North West +19 2 - -
North of England +8 2 - -
South East +29 1 £40,000 -25.93% 5
Finance Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 January 2026, Finance 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 Finance Business Analyst in the job title.

1 14 (40.00%) ERP
2 11 (31.43%) Business Analysis
2 11 (31.43%) Requirements Gathering
3 10 (28.57%) Agile
3 10 (28.57%) Workflow
4 8 (22.86%) Anaplan
4 8 (22.86%) User Stories
5 7 (20.00%) Pega
6 6 (17.14%) Budgeting
6 6 (17.14%) Project Planning
6 6 (17.14%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (17.14%) Tagetik
6 6 (17.14%) Workshop Facilitation
7 5 (14.29%) Logistics
7 5 (14.29%) Project Delivery
7 5 (14.29%) WorldPay
8 4 (11.43%) Decision-Making
8 4 (11.43%) SAP
8 4 (11.43%) SQL Server
9 3 (8.57%) ACCA
9 3 (8.57%) Budgeting and Forecasting
9 3 (8.57%) CIMA
9 3 (8.57%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (8.57%) Process Improvement
9 3 (8.57%) Project Management
9 3 (8.57%) Roadmaps
9 3 (8.57%) Scrum
9 3 (8.57%) SDLC
9 3 (8.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 2 (5.71%) AWS

Finance 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:

Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Elite 3E
1 1 (2.86%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (2.86%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (8.57%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (5.71%) AWS
2 2 (5.71%) Azure
2 2 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (5.71%) OpenShift
2 2 (5.71%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.71%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.43%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.71%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) JIRA
General
1 35 (100.00%) Finance
2 11 (31.43%) Social Skills
3 7 (20.00%) Banking
4 5 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (14.29%) Retail
5 4 (11.43%) Front Office
6 3 (8.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (8.57%) Manufacturing
6 3 (8.57%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (5.71%) Games
7 2 (5.71%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (5.71%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.71%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.71%) Distributed Computing
1 2 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (5.71%) Equities
1 2 (5.71%) Fixed Income
2 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.86%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (40.00%) ERP
2 11 (31.43%) Business Analysis
2 11 (31.43%) Requirements Gathering
3 10 (28.57%) Agile
3 10 (28.57%) Workflow
4 8 (22.86%) User Stories
5 6 (17.14%) Budgeting
5 6 (17.14%) Project Planning
5 6 (17.14%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (17.14%) Workshop Facilitation
6 5 (14.29%) Logistics
6 5 (14.29%) Project Delivery
7 4 (11.43%) Decision-Making
8 3 (8.57%) Budgeting and Forecasting
8 3 (8.57%) Process Improvement
8 3 (8.57%) Project Management
8 3 (8.57%) Roadmaps
8 3 (8.57%) Scrum
8 3 (8.57%) SDLC
8 3 (8.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.71%) C++
1 2 (5.71%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (8.57%) ACCA
1 3 (8.57%) CIMA
Vendors
1 8 (22.86%) Anaplan
2 7 (20.00%) Pega
3 6 (17.14%) Tagetik
4 5 (14.29%) WorldPay
5 4 (11.43%) SAP
6 2 (5.71%) PeopleSoft
7 1 (2.86%) Microsoft
7 1 (2.86%) Oracle
7 1 (2.86%) Workday