Business Analyst Jobs in the UK excluding London

Business Analyst (BA)
UK > UK excluding London

The median Business Analyst (BA) salary in the UK excluding London is £49,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 219 146 115
Rank change year-on-year -73 -31 +29
Permanent jobs requiring a Business Analyst 932 1,455 2,074
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.33% 2.35% 2.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.40% 2.64% 3.07%
Number of salaries quoted 559 959 1,632
10th Percentile £36,750 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £57,500 £63,750 £58,660
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,600 £65,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 66,397 55,186 67,621
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.30% 95.79%
Number of salaries quoted 47,063 31,277 42,902
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Business Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Business Analyst in the UK excluding London

Business Analyst
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Business Analyst in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Business Analyst 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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 -44 208 £50,000 -9.09% 57
East of England +40 197 £49,500 -13.91% 14
South East -81 155 £58,250 +5.91% 31
North West -5 138 £50,000 -13.04% 33
Midlands -89 131 £42,500 -15.00% 35
South West -21 101 £50,000 -4.76% 19
Scotland -59 96 £42,500 -19.05% 9
West Midlands -76 73 £43,000 -14.00% 20
Yorkshire -21 64 £47,500 -5.00% 20
East Midlands -44 54 £42,500 -11.46% 15
Wales -5 18 £46,000 +7.67% 5
Northern Ireland +39 14 £72,500 +52.63% 7
Isle of Man - 12 £45,000 -
North East -26 6 £50,000 -9.09% 4
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 UK excluding London region featuring Business Analyst in the job title.

1 461 (49.46%) Business Analysis
2 406 (43.56%) Agile
3 340 (36.48%) Problem-Solving
4 317 (34.01%) Analytical Skills
5 266 (28.54%) Requirements Gathering
6 262 (28.11%) Social Skills
7 220 (23.61%) User Stories
8 187 (20.06%) Stakeholder Management
9 185 (19.85%) Finance
10 169 (18.13%) Change Management
11 162 (17.38%) Decision-Making
12 159 (17.06%) Degree
13 148 (15.88%) JIRA
14 145 (15.56%) Retail
15 133 (14.27%) Coaching
16 131 (14.06%) Workshop Facilitation
17 127 (13.63%) Project Management
18 109 (11.70%) Security Cleared
19 108 (11.59%) Roadmaps
20 107 (11.48%) Business Case
21 97 (10.41%) Scrum
22 93 (9.98%) Microsoft
23 89 (9.55%) SC Cleared
23 89 (9.55%) Acceptance Criteria
24 86 (9.23%) Waterfall
25 82 (8.80%) Continuous Improvement
26 81 (8.69%) Product Ownership
27 79 (8.48%) Migration
28 78 (8.37%) Public Sector
29 76 (8.15%) Microsoft Office

Business Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 69 (7.40%) Confluence
2 4 (0.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 76 (8.15%) Microsoft Office
2 68 (7.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 57 (6.12%) MS Visio
4 44 (4.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.64%) Trello
7 2 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.64%) Maximo
2 5 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
2 5 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.21%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.21%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.21%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.21%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 54 (5.79%) Power Platform
2 49 (5.26%) Azure
3 42 (4.51%) SaaS
4 25 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (2.25%) Miro
6 15 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
7 11 (1.18%) AWS
8 8 (0.86%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (0.75%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 6 (0.64%) Power Automate
11 5 (0.54%) OCI
11 5 (0.54%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 4 (0.43%) Amazon EMR
13 3 (0.32%) Mavenlink
14 2 (0.21%) Figma
14 2 (0.21%) GCP
14 2 (0.21%) Intacct
14 2 (0.21%) PowerApps
14 2 (0.21%) Smartsheet
15 1 (0.11%) Google Docs
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.07%) Broadband
1 10 (1.07%) Internet
1 10 (1.07%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (5.36%) Power BI
2 27 (2.90%) Tableau
3 18 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (1.18%) Electronic Patient Records
4 11 (1.18%) Relational Database
5 9 (0.97%) Big Data
6 6 (0.64%) Snowflake Schema
6 6 (0.64%) Star Schema
7 5 (0.54%) Qlik Sense
7 5 (0.54%) QlikView
8 4 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (0.43%) PowerPivot
9 3 (0.32%) SAP BW
10 2 (0.21%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.21%) SAP HANA
10 2 (0.21%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.11%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.11%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.11%) Geospatial Data
11 1 (0.11%) Looker
Development Applications
1 148 (15.88%) JIRA
2 2 (0.21%) Balsamiq
3 1 (0.11%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.11%) Maven
3 1 (0.11%) Postman
3 1 (0.11%) Protractor
General
1 317 (34.01%) Analytical Skills
2 262 (28.11%) Social Skills
3 185 (19.85%) Finance
4 145 (15.56%) Retail
5 78 (8.37%) Public Sector
6 72 (7.73%) Law
7 71 (7.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 49 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
9 47 (5.04%) Influencing Skills
10 35 (3.76%) Legal
11 34 (3.65%) Manufacturing
12 29 (3.11%) Organisational Skills
13 25 (2.68%) Banking
14 21 (2.25%) Marketing
15 20 (2.15%) Investment Banking
16 12 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
17 9 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
18 7 (0.75%) Health Technology
19 5 (0.54%) Advertising
19 5 (0.54%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.07%) Lightning Web Components
2 8 (0.86%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (0.64%) .NET
4 4 (0.43%) Django
4 4 (0.43%) Web Services
4 4 (0.43%) XML
5 3 (0.32%) .NET Framework
5 3 (0.32%) HTML
6 2 (0.21%) JSON
7 1 (0.11%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.11%) EDI
7 1 (0.11%) Gherkin
7 1 (0.11%) Jest
7 1 (0.11%) Node.js
7 1 (0.11%) REST
7 1 (0.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 81 (8.69%) Product Ownership
2 48 (5.15%) Management Information System
3 35 (3.76%) Self-Motivation
4 23 (2.47%) Onboarding
5 17 (1.82%) Virtual Team
6 12 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (1.29%) NHS
7 10 (1.07%) Driving Licence
8 9 (0.97%) Biopharmaceutical
9 8 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 8 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (0.86%) Reference Data
10 7 (0.75%) Credit Derivative
10 7 (0.75%) Derivative
10 7 (0.75%) Fixed Income
10 7 (0.75%) Hedge funds
10 7 (0.75%) Interest Rate Derivative
10 7 (0.75%) Market Risk
11 5 (0.54%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (0.54%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.21%) Android
1 2 (0.21%) Apple iOS
1 2 (0.21%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 461 (49.46%) Business Analysis
2 406 (43.56%) Agile
3 340 (36.48%) Problem-Solving
4 266 (28.54%) Requirements Gathering
5 220 (23.61%) User Stories
6 187 (20.06%) Stakeholder Management
7 169 (18.13%) Change Management
8 162 (17.38%) Decision-Making
9 133 (14.27%) Coaching
10 131 (14.06%) Workshop Facilitation
11 127 (13.63%) Project Management
12 108 (11.59%) Roadmaps
13 107 (11.48%) Business Case
14 97 (10.41%) Scrum
15 89 (9.55%) Acceptance Criteria
16 86 (9.23%) Waterfall
17 82 (8.80%) Continuous Improvement
18 79 (8.48%) Migration
19 74 (7.94%) Project Delivery
20 69 (7.40%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 59 (6.33%) SQL
2 20 (2.15%) Python
3 10 (1.07%) R
4 7 (0.75%) T-SQL
5 5 (0.54%) VBA
6 4 (0.43%) C#
7 1 (0.11%) ABAP
7 1 (0.11%) Java
7 1 (0.11%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.11%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 159 (17.06%) Degree
2 109 (11.70%) Security Cleared
3 89 (9.55%) SC Cleared
4 14 (1.50%) IIBA
4 14 (1.50%) Master's Degree
5 10 (1.07%) CBAP
6 9 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (0.97%) DBS Check
6 9 (0.97%) ISEB
7 7 (0.75%) DV Cleared
7 7 (0.75%) HND
8 4 (0.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 3 (0.32%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.32%) NVQ Level 4
10 2 (0.21%) NVQ Level 3
10 2 (0.21%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (0.11%) CCA
11 1 (0.11%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.11%) SAP Certification
11 1 (0.11%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (4.51%) QA
2 11 (1.18%) PMO
3 5 (0.54%) GxP
3 5 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (0.54%) SEPA
3 5 (0.54%) TARGET2
4 4 (0.43%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.32%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.21%) EMIR
6 2 (0.21%) GDPR
6 2 (0.21%) MiFID
7 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.11%) GRC
7 1 (0.11%) IFRS
7 1 (0.11%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.11%) SLA
Systems Management
1 5 (0.54%) Graphite
2 1 (0.11%) Progress Chef
2 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 93 (9.98%) Microsoft
2 33 (3.54%) Salesforce
3 26 (2.79%) SAP
4 22 (2.36%) Oracle
5 7 (0.75%) F5
6 6 (0.64%) MicroStrategy
7 4 (0.43%) IFS
7 4 (0.43%) YouTube
8 3 (0.32%) Alteryx
8 3 (0.32%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.32%) Google
8 3 (0.32%) Intapp
8 3 (0.32%) Sage
8 3 (0.32%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.21%) HubSpot
9 2 (0.21%) UiPath
9 2 (0.21%) Zoho
10 1 (0.11%) Blue Prism
10 1 (0.11%) Splunk
10 1 (0.11%) Workday