Senior Business Analyst Jobs in the Midlands

Senior Business Analyst (Senior BA)
England > Midlands

The median Senior Business Analyst (Senior BA) salary in the Midlands is £61,525 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 238 309 291
Rank change year-on-year +71 -18 +23
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Business Analyst 7 22 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.10% 0.17% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.18% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 5 15 15
10th Percentile £47,550 £41,250 £44,700
25th Percentile £52,500 £45,832 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,525 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.05% -13.04% +2.22%
75th Percentile £66,250 £57,500 £64,225
90th Percentile £68,500 £74,000 £67,200
England median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 6,313 12,119 7,956
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.08% 94.59% 89.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2,664 8,871 4,536
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,250 £28,622
25th Percentile £32,500 £33,950 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.39% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

Senior Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Business Analyst in the Midlands

Senior Business Analyst
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Business Analyst in the Midlands.

Salary trend for Senior Business Analyst in the Midlands

Senior Business Analyst
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Business Analyst in the Midlands over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Business Analyst in the Midlands

Senior Business Analyst
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Business Analyst within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 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
West Midlands +55 6 £58,263 +16.53% 23
East Midlands +34 1 £70,000 +40.44% 18
Senior Business Analyst
England

Senior Business Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 30 May 2025, Senior 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 Midlands region featuring Senior Business Analyst in the job title.

1 4 (57.14%) Business Analysis
2 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
3 2 (28.57%) Workshop Facilitation
3 2 (28.57%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (28.57%) Waterfall
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Middleware
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
4 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
4 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) Data Security
4 1 (14.29%) Finance
4 1 (14.29%) Law
4 1 (14.29%) Legal
4 1 (14.29%) Data Management
4 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Information Security
4 1 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (14.29%) Tableau
4 1 (14.29%) Data Governance
4 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 1 (14.29%) QA
4 1 (14.29%) Marketing
4 1 (14.29%) Degree

Senior Business Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Looker
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
1 1 (14.29%) Tableau
General
1 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Law
2 1 (14.29%) Legal
2 1 (14.29%) Marketing
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) Housing Association
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Business Analysis
2 3 (42.86%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (28.57%) Waterfall
3 2 (28.57%) Workshop Facilitation
4 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Data Governance
4 1 (14.29%) Data Management
4 1 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (14.29%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 1 (14.29%) Information Security
4 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
1 1 (14.29%) QA