Business Analyst Job Trends in London

Business Analyst (BA)
England > London

The median Business Analyst (BA) salary in London is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 July 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 140 151
Rank change year-on-year +10 +11 -47
Permanent jobs requiring a Business Analyst 391 314 514
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.76% 2.52% 2.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.89% 2.76% 2.36%
Number of salaries quoted 300 237 429
10th Percentile £45,000 £55,900 £47,500
25th Percentile £53,625 £67,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £83,750 £102,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £128,750 £105,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £61,763 £56,500
% change year-on-year -10.95% +9.31% -5.83%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 20,641 11,388 21,807
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 91.45% 94.37%
Number of salaries quoted 14,206 7,392 15,933
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +3.77% -11.67%

Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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 London.

Business Analyst job vacancy trend in London

Business Analyst
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for Business Analyst job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for Business Analyst job vacancies in London

Business Analyst
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Analyst in London over the 6 months to 16 July 2026.

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 16 July 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
Central London +25 101 £68,750 -14.06% 22
West London +4 21 £28,000 -50.44% 6
South London +11 7 £55,000 -24.14% 3
East London +1 4 £28,000 - 4
Business Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 July 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 London region featuring Business Analyst in the job title.

1 171 (43.73%) Agile
2 141 (36.06%) Business Analysis
3 84 (21.48%) User Stories
4 72 (18.41%) Stakeholder Management
5 67 (17.14%) Requirements Gathering
6 62 (15.86%) Workshop Facilitation
7 61 (15.60%) Scrum
8 58 (14.83%) Process Improvement
8 58 (14.83%) User Acceptance Testing
9 56 (14.32%) Degree
10 52 (13.30%) Waterfall
11 48 (12.28%) Problem-Solving
12 46 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 43 (11.00%) Project Delivery
14 42 (10.74%) Acceptance Criteria
14 42 (10.74%) Epics
15 39 (9.97%) SQL
16 38 (9.72%) AI
16 38 (9.72%) JIRA
17 37 (9.46%) Security Cleared
18 35 (8.95%) Data Analysis
19 34 (8.70%) Translating Business Requirements
20 32 (8.18%) Confluence
21 31 (7.93%) Analytics
21 31 (7.93%) Coaching
22 28 (7.16%) Business Intelligence
22 28 (7.16%) Power BI
22 28 (7.16%) Power Platform
23 27 (6.91%) Continuous Improvement
24 26 (6.65%) Analytical Thinking

Business Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 32 (8.18%) Confluence
2 10 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.30%) Apache
3 9 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.30%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.77%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (0.51%) SAS
6 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.26%) Mendix
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 20 (5.12%) MS Visio
2 16 (4.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (2.81%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (1.53%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (1.28%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.51%) SAP CO
3 2 (0.51%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.51%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (0.51%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.26%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.26%) SAP BRIM
4 1 (0.26%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 28 (7.16%) Power Platform
2 19 (4.86%) AWS
3 13 (3.32%) Azure
4 9 (2.30%) Amazon S3
4 9 (2.30%) OpenShift
5 6 (1.53%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 4 (1.02%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (1.02%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (0.77%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (0.77%) iPaaS
7 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (0.77%) Miro
7 3 (0.77%) SaaS
8 2 (0.51%) ChatGPT
8 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (0.51%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 2 (0.51%) Serverless
9 1 (0.26%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.26%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.26%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.28%) Multicast
2 4 (1.02%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (7.16%) Power BI
2 11 (2.81%) Tableau
3 10 (2.56%) Spark SQL
4 9 (2.30%) Apache Hive
4 9 (2.30%) Impala
4 9 (2.30%) Oracle Database
4 9 (2.30%) Parquet
5 6 (1.53%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.02%) Db2
6 4 (1.02%) DB2 UDB
6 4 (1.02%) QlikView
7 3 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.26%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.26%) Metadata
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.26%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.26%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 38 (9.72%) JIRA
2 13 (3.32%) Git
3 9 (2.30%) IBM UrbanCode
4 4 (1.02%) Eclipse
4 4 (1.02%) Jenkins
General
1 162 (41.43%) Finance
2 103 (26.34%) Analytical Skills
3 82 (20.97%) Social Skills
4 32 (8.18%) Law
5 31 (7.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 29 (7.42%) Banking
7 23 (5.88%) Public Sector
8 16 (4.09%) Legal
9 15 (3.84%) Investment Banking
10 14 (3.58%) Front Office
11 10 (2.56%) Retail
12 9 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (2.05%) Advertising
13 8 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (1.79%) Financial Institution
14 7 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (1.28%) Aerospace
16 5 (1.28%) Automotive
16 5 (1.28%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.56%) PySpark
2 9 (2.30%) Pandas
3 6 (1.53%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (0.51%) EDI
4 2 (0.51%) FpML
4 2 (0.51%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (0.51%) Visualforce
5 1 (0.26%) Middleware
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.26%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.26%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 43 (11.00%) Product Ownership
2 15 (3.84%) Derivative
3 12 (3.07%) Onboarding
4 11 (2.81%) Equities
4 11 (2.81%) Renewable Energy
5 10 (2.56%) Management Information System
6 9 (2.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 8 (2.05%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (2.05%) Fixed Income
8 7 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.28%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (1.28%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (1.28%) Eurex
9 5 (1.28%) OTC Derivatives
10 4 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.77%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.77%) Driving Licence
11 3 (0.77%) Low-Code
11 3 (0.77%) Reinsurance
11 3 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.28%) Linux
1 5 (1.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (43.73%) Agile
2 141 (36.06%) Business Analysis
3 84 (21.48%) User Stories
4 72 (18.41%) Stakeholder Management
5 67 (17.14%) Requirements Gathering
6 62 (15.86%) Workshop Facilitation
7 61 (15.60%) Scrum
8 58 (14.83%) Process Improvement
8 58 (14.83%) User Acceptance Testing
9 52 (13.30%) Waterfall
10 48 (12.28%) Problem-Solving
11 46 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 43 (11.00%) Project Delivery
13 42 (10.74%) Acceptance Criteria
13 42 (10.74%) Epics
14 38 (9.72%) AI
15 35 (8.95%) Data Analysis
16 34 (8.70%) Translating Business Requirements
17 31 (7.93%) Analytics
17 31 (7.93%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 39 (9.97%) SQL
2 15 (3.84%) Python
3 3 (0.77%) C++
3 3 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (0.77%) Java
4 2 (0.51%) Apex Code
5 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 56 (14.32%) Degree
2 37 (9.46%) Security Cleared
3 26 (6.65%) SC Cleared
4 23 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.56%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.53%) IIBA
7 4 (1.02%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.77%) CFA
9 2 (0.51%) CBAP
9 2 (0.51%) PMP
10 1 (0.26%) ACCA
10 1 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.26%) CIMA
10 1 (0.26%) CIPD
10 1 (0.26%) CSPO
10 1 (0.26%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.26%) Six Sigma Black Belt
10 1 (0.26%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 1 (0.26%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.12%) MiFID
2 18 (4.60%) Data Quality
3 17 (4.35%) QA
4 13 (3.32%) EMIR
5 5 (1.28%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.02%) GDPR
6 4 (1.02%) ISO 20022
7 3 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.77%) PMO
8 2 (0.51%) SEPA
8 2 (0.51%) TARGET2
9 1 (0.26%) GAAP
9 1 (0.26%) GRC
9 1 (0.26%) IFRS
9 1 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
Systems Management
1 1 (0.26%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 18 (4.60%) Salesforce
2 16 (4.09%) Oracle
3 15 (3.84%) Microsoft
4 10 (2.56%) SAP
5 9 (2.30%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.05%) Guidewire
6 8 (2.05%) ServiceNow
7 7 (1.79%) Charles River
8 6 (1.53%) Bloomberg
9 5 (1.28%) CQG
9 5 (1.28%) ION Trading
9 5 (1.28%) JD Edwards
9 5 (1.28%) Patsystems
9 5 (1.28%) Reuters
9 5 (1.28%) Trayport
10 3 (0.77%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.77%) Foundry
10 3 (0.77%) Palantir
10 3 (0.77%) SimCorp
11 2 (0.51%) Alteryx