Business Analyst Jobs in London

Business Analyst (BA)
England > London

The median Business Analyst (BA) salary in London is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 138 110
Rank change year-on-year -13 -28 +42
Permanent jobs requiring a Business Analyst 314 552 1,098
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.43% 2.34% 3.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.69% 2.49% 3.36%
Number of salaries quoted 255 449 911
10th Percentile £55,000 £46,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £66,875 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% +15.38% -
75th Percentile £102,500 £90,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £99,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 11,673 22,210 32,647
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.29% 94.15% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 7,263 16,626 24,091
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

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 14 May 2025.

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 14 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
Central London -1 55 £75,000 - 20
South London -9 5 £72,500 +56.76% 3
West London +23 2 £59,500 -17.93% 3
East London -10 1 - - 4
Business Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 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 London region featuring Business Analyst in the job title.

1 176 (56.05%) Finance
1 176 (56.05%) Agile
2 156 (49.68%) Business Analysis
3 92 (29.30%) Front Office
3 92 (29.30%) Social Skills
4 88 (28.03%) SQL
5 82 (26.11%) Derivative
6 77 (24.52%) Fixed Income
7 75 (23.89%) Investment Management
8 74 (23.57%) Hedge funds
8 74 (23.57%) Analytical Skills
9 73 (23.25%) Asset Management
10 68 (21.66%) Data Analysis
11 67 (21.34%) Business Intelligence
11 67 (21.34%) Requirements Gathering
12 66 (21.02%) Portfolio Management
13 62 (19.75%) Degree
14 57 (18.15%) Problem-Solving
14 57 (18.15%) User Stories
15 56 (17.83%) Stakeholder Management
16 53 (16.88%) Python
17 52 (16.56%) Data Mapping
18 48 (15.29%) Onboarding
19 47 (14.97%) Product Ownership
20 46 (14.65%) Aladdin
21 43 (13.69%) Charles River
21 43 (13.69%) BISAM
22 42 (13.38%) Analytics
23 39 (12.42%) Project Management
24 37 (11.78%) thinkFolio

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 17 (5.41%) Confluence
2 10 (3.18%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.64%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 34 (10.83%) MS Visio
2 26 (8.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (5.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (4.46%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (2.55%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.64%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.32%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 46 (14.65%) Aladdin
2 37 (11.78%) thinkFolio
3 6 (1.91%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.64%) Endur
5 1 (0.32%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 17 (5.41%) Azure
2 16 (5.10%) Power Platform
3 9 (2.87%) AWS
4 8 (2.55%) SaaS
5 5 (1.59%) Lucidchart
6 4 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (1.27%) Miro
7 3 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (0.96%) Figma
7 3 (0.96%) PaaS
8 2 (0.64%) Google Sheets
8 2 (0.64%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.32%) Amazon EMR
9 1 (0.32%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (0.32%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.32%) Azure AI
9 1 (0.32%) Matillion
9 1 (0.32%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.32%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 1 (0.32%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.64%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.78%) Power BI
2 13 (4.14%) Data Lake
3 8 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.27%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.64%) Tableau
6 1 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.32%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.32%) Big Data
6 1 (0.32%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.32%) KDB
6 1 (0.32%) NonStop SQL
6 1 (0.32%) Pentaho
6 1 (0.32%) PowerCenter
6 1 (0.32%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.32%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 32 (10.19%) JIRA
General
1 176 (56.05%) Finance
2 92 (29.30%) Front Office
2 92 (29.30%) Social Skills
3 74 (23.57%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (9.55%) Banking
5 16 (5.10%) Presentation Skills
6 15 (4.78%) Retail
7 11 (3.50%) Legal
8 9 (2.87%) Back Office
8 9 (2.87%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.23%) Law
9 7 (2.23%) Marketing
9 7 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (2.23%) Public Sector
10 6 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.27%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.27%) General Ledger
13 3 (0.96%) Advertising
13 3 (0.96%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (0.96%) XML
2 2 (0.64%) CSS
2 2 (0.64%) HTML
2 2 (0.64%) LDAP
2 2 (0.64%) OAuth
3 1 (0.32%) .NET
3 1 (0.32%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (0.32%) GraphQL
3 1 (0.32%) Kafka
3 1 (0.32%) Middleware
3 1 (0.32%) Node.js
3 1 (0.32%) React
3 1 (0.32%) RESTful
3 1 (0.32%) Web Services
3 1 (0.32%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 82 (26.11%) Derivative
2 77 (24.52%) Fixed Income
3 74 (23.57%) Hedge funds
4 48 (15.29%) Onboarding
5 47 (14.97%) Product Ownership
6 30 (9.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 28 (8.92%) Equities
8 13 (4.14%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (2.55%) Management Information System
9 8 (2.55%) Reinsurance
10 7 (2.23%) Market Risk
10 7 (2.23%) OTC Derivatives
11 6 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.96%) Cloud Native
12 3 (0.96%) PMI
12 3 (0.96%) Pricing Data
13 2 (0.64%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.64%) Data Structures
13 2 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
13 2 (0.64%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.78%) Apple iOS
2 3 (0.96%) Windows
3 1 (0.32%) Unix
3 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (56.05%) Agile
2 156 (49.68%) Business Analysis
3 75 (23.89%) Investment Management
4 73 (23.25%) Asset Management
5 68 (21.66%) Data Analysis
6 67 (21.34%) Business Intelligence
6 67 (21.34%) Requirements Gathering
7 66 (21.02%) Portfolio Management
8 57 (18.15%) Problem-Solving
8 57 (18.15%) User Stories
9 56 (17.83%) Stakeholder Management
10 52 (16.56%) Data Mapping
11 42 (13.38%) Analytics
12 39 (12.42%) Project Management
13 33 (10.51%) Roadmaps
14 32 (10.19%) Decision-Making
15 29 (9.24%) Migration
15 29 (9.24%) User Acceptance Testing
15 29 (9.24%) Workshop Facilitation
16 27 (8.60%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 88 (28.03%) SQL
2 53 (16.88%) Python
3 4 (1.27%) Java
4 2 (0.64%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.32%) C++
5 1 (0.32%) COBOL
5 1 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.32%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 62 (19.75%) Degree
2 8 (2.55%) CBAP
2 8 (2.55%) Security Cleared
3 4 (1.27%) Master's Degree
3 4 (1.27%) PMI Certification
3 4 (1.27%) SC Cleared
4 3 (0.96%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.64%) CCA
5 2 (0.64%) MBA
5 2 (0.64%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.32%) ACCA
6 1 (0.32%) CIMA
6 1 (0.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.32%) CSPO
6 1 (0.32%) IIBA
6 1 (0.32%) ISEB
6 1 (0.32%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.32%) PMP
6 1 (0.32%) Six Sigma Black Belt
6 1 (0.32%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.37%) QA
2 10 (3.18%) MiFID
3 8 (2.55%) PMO
4 7 (2.23%) Actionable Recommendations
5 5 (1.59%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.27%) COREP
7 3 (0.96%) EMIR
8 2 (0.64%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.32%) Dodd-Frank
9 1 (0.32%) GAAP
9 1 (0.32%) GDPR
9 1 (0.32%) IFRS
9 1 (0.32%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.32%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.32%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.32%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (0.32%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 43 (13.69%) BISAM
1 43 (13.69%) Charles River
2 36 (11.46%) Calypso
2 36 (11.46%) SimCorp
3 17 (5.41%) Microsoft
3 17 (5.41%) Salesforce
4 9 (2.87%) Murex
5 7 (2.23%) Guidewire
5 7 (2.23%) SAP
6 3 (0.96%) Adobe
6 3 (0.96%) Bloomberg
6 3 (0.96%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.64%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.64%) Google
8 1 (0.32%) IBM
8 1 (0.32%) Informatica
8 1 (0.32%) Progress
8 1 (0.32%) Reuters
8 1 (0.32%) Splunk
8 1 (0.32%) Talend