Business Analyst Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Business Analyst (BA)
UK > UK excluding London

The median Business Analyst (BA) salary in the UK excluding London is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 265 182
Rank change year-on-year +123 -83 -58
Permanent jobs requiring a Business Analyst 617 350 581
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.45% 0.97% 1.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.61% 1.05% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 493 243 416
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £37,075
25th Percentile £29,250 £42,375 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,808 £62,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £71,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +4.35%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 38,388 33,377 32,893
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.52% 92.91% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 23,454 16,215 24,936
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,609 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.96% +5.22% -5.25%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Business Analyst job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Business Analyst
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Business Analyst job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Business Analyst job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Business Analyst
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Business Analyst in the UK excluding London

Business Analyst
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
North of England +41 208 £45,000 -7.69% 73
North West +31 98 £45,497 -13.34% 37
Midlands +45 95 £54,000 -1.82% 52
South West +71 88 £50,000 +11.11% 31
Yorkshire +51 84 £44,500 -15.24% 26
East of England +80 77 £55,000 +18.28% 19
West Midlands +34 66 £55,000 - 41
South East +49 65 £55,000 -8.71% 92
Scotland +22 53 £31,500 -45.69% 13
East Midlands +6 29 £52,500 -4.55% 11
Wales +30 26 £50,000 +5.26% 14
North East -5 26 £32,500 -13.33% 12
Northern Ireland -8 6 £55,000 +0.52% 8
Business Analyst
UK

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

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

1 239 (38.74%) Business Analysis
2 212 (34.36%) Problem-Solving
3 198 (32.09%) Agile
4 187 (30.31%) Degree
5 165 (26.74%) Change Management
6 161 (26.09%) Project Management
7 112 (18.15%) User Stories
8 93 (15.07%) Workshop Facilitation
9 71 (11.51%) Microsoft
9 71 (11.51%) Security Cleared
10 57 (9.24%) Requirements Gathering
10 57 (9.24%) Stakeholder Management
11 55 (8.91%) Business Intelligence
12 53 (8.59%) Coaching
13 52 (8.43%) Process Improvement
14 49 (7.94%) Continuous Improvement
15 47 (7.62%) JIRA
16 46 (7.46%) Power Platform
17 45 (7.29%) Power BI
18 44 (7.13%) Data Analysis
19 43 (6.97%) Mentoring
20 42 (6.81%) User Acceptance Testing
21 41 (6.65%) Acceptance Criteria
22 40 (6.48%) Salesforce
23 39 (6.32%) Confluence
23 39 (6.32%) SQL
24 37 (6.00%) Accessibility
25 36 (5.83%) Digital Transformation Programme
25 36 (5.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
25 36 (5.83%) User Experience

Business Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 39 (6.32%) Confluence
2 6 (0.97%) CMS
3 3 (0.49%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.16%) Appian
Applications
1 32 (5.19%) MS Visio
2 29 (4.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (1.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.32%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.32%) Integrated Workplace Management System
1 2 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.16%) PeopleSoft HRMS
2 1 (0.16%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.16%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.16%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.16%) SAP PP
2 1 (0.16%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 46 (7.46%) Power Platform
2 28 (4.54%) Azure
3 24 (3.89%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (1.46%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (1.46%) Snowflake
5 5 (0.81%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (0.49%) AWS
6 3 (0.49%) SaaS
7 2 (0.32%) Asana
7 2 (0.32%) Lucidchart
7 2 (0.32%) Power Automate
7 2 (0.32%) Slack
8 1 (0.16%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (0.16%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.16%) Google Ads
8 1 (0.16%) Miro
8 1 (0.16%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (0.16%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (0.16%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.16%) Intranet
1 1 (0.16%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (7.29%) Power BI
2 12 (1.94%) Tableau
3 9 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (0.65%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 4 (0.65%) Metadata
5 3 (0.49%) GIS
5 3 (0.49%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.16%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 47 (7.62%) JIRA
General
1 231 (37.44%) Finance
2 152 (24.64%) Social Skills
3 111 (17.99%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (6.81%) Law
5 29 (4.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 27 (4.38%) Legal
7 20 (3.24%) Public Sector
7 20 (3.24%) Retail
8 11 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (1.62%) Banking
10 9 (1.46%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
12 7 (1.13%) Marketing
12 7 (1.13%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.81%) Aerospace
13 5 (0.81%) Front Office
13 5 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.65%) Tech for Good
15 3 (0.49%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (4.05%) HTML
2 6 (0.97%) .NET
3 2 (0.32%) EDI
4 1 (0.16%) JSON
4 1 (0.16%) Middleware
4 1 (0.16%) OpenAPI
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.16%) RESTful
4 1 (0.16%) Spring
4 1 (0.16%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.16%) Swagger
4 1 (0.16%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (7.13%) Product Ownership
2 19 (3.08%) Driving Licence
3 15 (2.43%) Management Information System
4 14 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (1.46%) Onboarding
5 9 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (1.13%) PMI
7 4 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (0.65%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 3 (0.49%) Data Centre
8 3 (0.49%) PKI
9 2 (0.32%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.32%) Housing Association
9 2 (0.32%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.32%) PropTech
9 2 (0.32%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.16%) Contactless
10 1 (0.16%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.16%) Life Science
10 1 (0.16%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (38.74%) Business Analysis
2 212 (34.36%) Problem-Solving
3 198 (32.09%) Agile
4 165 (26.74%) Change Management
5 161 (26.09%) Project Management
6 112 (18.15%) User Stories
7 93 (15.07%) Workshop Facilitation
8 57 (9.24%) Requirements Gathering
8 57 (9.24%) Stakeholder Management
9 55 (8.91%) Business Intelligence
10 53 (8.59%) Coaching
11 52 (8.43%) Process Improvement
12 49 (7.94%) Continuous Improvement
13 44 (7.13%) Data Analysis
14 43 (6.97%) Mentoring
15 42 (6.81%) User Acceptance Testing
16 41 (6.65%) Acceptance Criteria
17 36 (5.83%) Digital Transformation Programme
17 36 (5.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 36 (5.83%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 39 (6.32%) SQL
2 10 (1.62%) Python
3 3 (0.49%) Java
4 1 (0.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 187 (30.31%) Degree
2 71 (11.51%) Security Cleared
3 27 (4.38%) SC Cleared
4 26 (4.21%) DV Cleared
5 17 (2.76%) PMI Certification
6 10 (1.62%) PMP
7 9 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (1.30%) IIBA
8 8 (1.30%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.65%) CBAP
11 3 (0.49%) ACCA
11 3 (0.49%) CIMA
12 1 (0.16%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.16%) CAPM
12 1 (0.16%) CISSP
12 1 (0.16%) CSPO
12 1 (0.16%) ISEB
12 1 (0.16%) MBA
12 1 (0.16%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.00%) Accessibility
2 13 (2.11%) QA
3 7 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.65%) SEPA
4 4 (0.65%) TARGET2
5 3 (0.49%) PMO
6 2 (0.32%) GDPR
6 2 (0.32%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.16%) Basel III
7 1 (0.16%) COBIT
7 1 (0.16%) EMIR
7 1 (0.16%) GMP
7 1 (0.16%) MiFID
7 1 (0.16%) NIST
7 1 (0.16%) SLA
7 1 (0.16%) Solvency II
Vendors
1 71 (11.51%) Microsoft
2 40 (6.48%) Salesforce
3 23 (3.73%) Cisco
4 13 (2.11%) SAP
5 5 (0.81%) Oracle
6 4 (0.65%) Charles River
7 3 (0.49%) BT
8 1 (0.16%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.16%) Anaplan
8 1 (0.16%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.16%) ESRI
8 1 (0.16%) Google
8 1 (0.16%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.16%) JD Edwards
8 1 (0.16%) PeopleSoft
8 1 (0.16%) Sage
8 1 (0.16%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.16%) Teradata