Senior Business Analyst Jobs in the South East

Senior Business Analyst (Senior BA)
England > South East

The median Senior Business Analyst (Senior BA) salary in the South East is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 293 385 356
Rank change year-on-year +92 -29 +38
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Business Analyst 8 15 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.084% 0.086% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.097% 0.092% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2 8 12
10th Percentile £65,500 £59,250 £47,775
25th Percentile £66,250 £60,000 £51,416
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £63,750 £51,805
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +23.06% -17.11%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,938 £57,813
90th Percentile £69,500 £68,750 £63,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 8,283 16,379 12,707
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.89% 94.08% 90.21%
Number of salaries quoted 4,409 11,667 8,026
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £85,000
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Business Analyst in the South East

Senior Business Analyst
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Senior Business Analyst in the South East

Senior Business Analyst
Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 29 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
Kent +40 3 - - 4
Middlesex - 3 - -
Thames Valley +60 1 £70,000 +16.67% 21
Surrey +48 1 £65,000 +4.00% 7
Buckinghamshire - 1 £70,000 - 4
Senior Business Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 South East region featuring Senior Business Analyst in the job title.

1 6 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (37.50%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (37.50%) Value Proposition
3 3 (37.50%) Contract Negotiation
3 3 (37.50%) Investment Banking
3 3 (37.50%) Scenario Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Requirements Gathering
3 3 (37.50%) Customer Retention
3 3 (37.50%) Banking
3 3 (37.50%) Data Management
3 3 (37.50%) Marketing
3 3 (37.50%) Business Development
3 3 (37.50%) Degree
3 3 (37.50%) Financial Modelling
3 3 (37.50%) Market Research
3 3 (37.50%) Change Management
3 3 (37.50%) BT
3 3 (37.50%) Finance
3 3 (37.50%) Law
3 3 (37.50%) Advertising
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (12.50%) Data Security
4 1 (12.50%) SQL
4 1 (12.50%) Python
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (12.50%) ERP
4 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling

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

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
1 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 6 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (37.50%) Advertising
3 3 (37.50%) Banking
3 3 (37.50%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (37.50%) Finance
3 3 (37.50%) Investment Banking
3 3 (37.50%) Law
3 3 (37.50%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) Business Development
2 3 (37.50%) Change Management
2 3 (37.50%) Contract Negotiation
2 3 (37.50%) Customer Retention
2 3 (37.50%) Data Management
2 3 (37.50%) Financial Modelling
2 3 (37.50%) Market Research
2 3 (37.50%) Requirements Gathering
2 3 (37.50%) Scenario Testing
2 3 (37.50%) Value Proposition
3 1 (12.50%) Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) Data Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) Data Security
3 1 (12.50%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (12.50%) User Stories
3 1 (12.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Bash
1 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 1 (12.50%) Python
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) BT
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft