Business Analyst Jobs in London

Business Analyst (BA)
England > London

The median Business Analyst (BA) salary in London is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 103 144
Rank change year-on-year -30 +41 -29
Permanent jobs requiring a Business Analyst 556 1,178 1,909
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.37% 3.29% 2.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.52% 3.46% 3.03%
Number of salaries quoted 457 950 1,624
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +7.14% +6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 22,087 34,033 62,964
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 95.02% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,626 24,925 34,921
10th Percentile £38,454 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,000 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,732 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.91% +1.22% +9.09%

Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Analyst in London

Business Analyst
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Business Analyst in London

Business Analyst
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Analyst in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Business Analyst in London

Business Analyst
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Business Analyst within the London region over the 6 months to 27 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
Central London -22 82 £75,000 +11.11% 14
South London -5 17 £47,500 -20.83% 1
West London -22 4 £72,500 +31.82% 2
East London +12 1 £60,000 +14.29% 4
Business Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 London region featuring Business Analyst in the job title.

1 227 (40.83%) Agile
2 184 (33.09%) Finance
3 177 (31.83%) Business Analysis
4 148 (26.62%) Social Skills
5 128 (23.02%) SQL
6 96 (17.27%) Product Ownership
7 93 (16.73%) Degree
8 89 (16.01%) User Stories
8 89 (16.01%) Roadmaps
9 87 (15.65%) Analytical Skills
10 85 (15.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 82 (14.75%) Requirements Gathering
11 82 (14.75%) Stakeholder Management
12 81 (14.57%) Problem-Solving
13 67 (12.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 63 (11.33%) Fixed Income
14 63 (11.33%) Front Office
15 62 (11.15%) Banking
16 59 (10.61%) Equities
16 59 (10.61%) Analytics
17 58 (10.43%) Waterfall
17 58 (10.43%) Python
18 56 (10.07%) Asset Management
19 55 (9.89%) Project Management
20 54 (9.71%) Investment Management
20 54 (9.71%) Workshop Facilitation
21 53 (9.53%) Artificial Intelligence
21 53 (9.53%) Machine Learning
22 52 (9.35%) AWS
22 52 (9.35%) Derivative

Business Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 18 (3.24%) Confluence
2 5 (0.90%) WordPress
3 2 (0.36%) Apache
3 2 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.18%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.18%) Appian
4 1 (0.18%) CMS
4 1 (0.18%) EPiServer
4 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 36 (6.47%) MS Visio
2 34 (6.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (4.14%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 16 (2.88%) Endur
2 14 (2.52%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.54%) Magento
3 3 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.36%) Shopify
5 1 (0.18%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.18%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.18%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.18%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.18%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 52 (9.35%) AWS
2 25 (4.50%) Azure
3 12 (2.16%) Dynamics 365
4 10 (1.80%) Power Platform
5 8 (1.44%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (1.44%) SaaS
6 5 (0.90%) Figma
7 4 (0.72%) GCP
7 4 (0.72%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (0.72%) OCI
8 3 (0.54%) Miro
8 3 (0.54%) PowerApps
8 3 (0.54%) WhatsApp
9 2 (0.36%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.36%) Asana
9 2 (0.36%) BigCommerce
9 2 (0.36%) dbt
9 2 (0.36%) FinancialForce
9 2 (0.36%) Power Automate
9 2 (0.36%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.60%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (1.26%) Power BI
3 4 (0.72%) Relational Database
4 3 (0.54%) RDBMS
4 3 (0.54%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.54%) Tableau
5 2 (0.36%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.36%) Apache Arrow
5 2 (0.36%) Apache Ignite
5 2 (0.36%) Big Data
5 2 (0.36%) Dremio
5 2 (0.36%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.18%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.18%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.18%) Metadata
6 1 (0.18%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.18%) MySQL
6 1 (0.18%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 43 (7.73%) JIRA
2 2 (0.36%) PowerBuilder
3 1 (0.18%) JMeter
3 1 (0.18%) LoadRunner
3 1 (0.18%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 184 (33.09%) Finance
2 148 (26.62%) Social Skills
3 87 (15.65%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (15.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 63 (11.33%) Front Office
6 62 (11.15%) Banking
7 30 (5.40%) Retail
8 28 (5.04%) Legal
9 27 (4.86%) Law
10 26 (4.68%) Presentation Skills
11 25 (4.50%) Public Sector
12 21 (3.78%) Documentation Skills
13 20 (3.60%) Influencing Skills
14 19 (3.42%) Back Office
15 18 (3.24%) Investment Banking
16 15 (2.70%) Retail Banking
17 12 (2.16%) Advertising
18 10 (1.80%) Marketing
19 7 (1.26%) Publishing
20 6 (1.08%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.26%) XML
2 6 (1.08%) .NET
3 5 (0.90%) .NET Framework
3 5 (0.90%) FIX Protocol
3 5 (0.90%) React
4 4 (0.72%) Laravel
4 4 (0.72%) Next.js
4 4 (0.72%) React Native
5 3 (0.54%) JSON
6 2 (0.36%) ADO
6 2 (0.36%) EDI
6 2 (0.36%) FpML
6 2 (0.36%) Murex MxML
6 2 (0.36%) XSLT
7 1 (0.18%) Entity Framework
7 1 (0.18%) Kafka
7 1 (0.18%) REST
7 1 (0.18%) RESTful
7 1 (0.18%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 96 (17.27%) Product Ownership
2 67 (12.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 63 (11.33%) Fixed Income
4 59 (10.61%) Equities
5 52 (9.35%) Derivative
6 50 (8.99%) Hedge funds
7 32 (5.76%) Reinsurance
8 16 (2.88%) Management Information System
9 15 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.72%) Freedom of Information
11 4 (0.72%) Onboarding
12 3 (0.54%) FMCG
12 3 (0.54%) Virtual Team
13 2 (0.36%) Cyber Threat
13 2 (0.36%) Data Centre
13 2 (0.36%) Data Structures
13 2 (0.36%) Enterprise Software
13 2 (0.36%) Equity Derivative
13 2 (0.36%) OTC Derivatives
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.44%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.36%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 227 (40.83%) Agile
2 177 (31.83%) Business Analysis
3 89 (16.01%) Roadmaps
3 89 (16.01%) User Stories
4 82 (14.75%) Requirements Gathering
4 82 (14.75%) Stakeholder Management
5 81 (14.57%) Problem-Solving
6 59 (10.61%) Analytics
7 58 (10.43%) Waterfall
8 56 (10.07%) Asset Management
9 55 (9.89%) Project Management
10 54 (9.71%) Investment Management
10 54 (9.71%) Workshop Facilitation
11 53 (9.53%) Artificial Intelligence
11 53 (9.53%) Machine Learning
12 42 (7.55%) Fintech
13 40 (7.19%) Scrum
14 39 (7.01%) Change Management
15 38 (6.83%) Use Case
16 37 (6.65%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 128 (23.02%) SQL
2 58 (10.43%) Python
3 10 (1.80%) Java
4 4 (0.72%) PHP
5 3 (0.54%) C#
6 2 (0.36%) PL/SQL
6 2 (0.36%) R
6 2 (0.36%) VBA
7 1 (0.18%) JCL
7 1 (0.18%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 93 (16.73%) Degree
2 29 (5.22%) Security Cleared
3 23 (4.14%) SC Cleared
4 15 (2.70%) DV Cleared
5 9 (1.62%) ISEB
6 8 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.44%) PMI Certification
7 7 (1.26%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.08%) DBS Check
8 6 (1.08%) PMP
9 4 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.72%) CFA
9 4 (0.72%) CIMA
10 3 (0.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 3 (0.54%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 2 (0.36%) CBAP
11 2 (0.36%) MBA
11 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.18%) ACCA
12 1 (0.18%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (1.98%) Data Quality
2 9 (1.62%) QA
3 7 (1.26%) ISO 20022
4 6 (1.08%) PMO
5 5 (0.90%) PSD2
5 5 (0.90%) SLA
6 4 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.72%) IFRS
6 4 (0.72%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.36%) GDPR
8 1 (0.18%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.18%) EMIR
8 1 (0.18%) MiFID
8 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (0.36%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (0.36%) Data Guard
1 2 (0.36%) Kibana
2 1 (0.18%) Grafana
2 1 (0.18%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 24 (4.32%) Microsoft
2 22 (3.96%) Bloomberg
3 18 (3.24%) Salesforce
4 15 (2.70%) Oracle
5 13 (2.34%) BISAM
6 9 (1.62%) SAP
7 7 (1.26%) Atlassian
8 5 (0.90%) ION Trading
9 3 (0.54%) Conga
9 3 (0.54%) Google
9 3 (0.54%) Marketo
10 2 (0.36%) Adobe
10 2 (0.36%) Calypso
10 2 (0.36%) JD Edwards
10 2 (0.36%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.36%) Murex
10 2 (0.36%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.36%) Triple Point
11 1 (0.18%) Sage
11 1 (0.18%) Temenos