Business Systems Analyst Jobs in the UK excluding London

Business System Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Business System Analyst salary in the UK excluding London is £52,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 515 649 688
Rank change year-on-year +134 +39 +23
Permanent jobs requiring a Business Systems Analyst 56 116 71
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.16% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.17% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 44 100 66
10th Percentile £26,650 £27,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £33,813 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,750 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.12% -15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,125 £49,063 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,250 £67,625 £66,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £43,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +32.18% -20.91% +4.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 35,130 69,905 52,029
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.34% 94.92% 89.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17,680 49,398 29,909
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,438 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,399 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -6.54% +6.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Business Systems Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Systems Analyst in the UK excluding London

Business Systems Analyst
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Business Systems Analyst in the UK excluding London

Business Systems Analyst
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Systems Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Business Systems Analyst in the UK excluding London

Business Systems 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 Systems Analyst within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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
Midlands +67 22 £55,000 +10.00% 12
East Midlands +47 15 £55,000 -18.52% 6
South East +69 11 £45,000 +17.65% 21
East of England +19 10 £60,000 +41.18% 13
West Midlands +63 7 £55,000 +22.22% 5
North of England +24 7 £50,000 +5.26% 22
North West -13 4 £54,000 +13.68% 14
South West +114 2 £52,500 +31.25% 2
Yorkshire +58 2 £47,500 +18.75% 9
Wales - 2 £57,500 - 1
Scotland +120 1 £48,500 +28.31% 3
North East - 1 £50,000 -
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
Business Systems Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, Business Systems 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 Systems Analyst in the job title.

1 36 (64.29%) SQL
2 22 (39.29%) Social Skills
3 18 (32.14%) Requirements Gathering
3 18 (32.14%) Finance
4 14 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (19.64%) SDLC
5 11 (19.64%) Power Platform
5 11 (19.64%) Power BI
6 10 (17.86%) Systems Analysis
6 10 (17.86%) Business Intelligence
7 9 (16.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (14.29%) Microsoft
8 8 (14.29%) ERP
8 8 (14.29%) Oracle
8 8 (14.29%) Law
8 8 (14.29%) Degree
9 7 (12.50%) Workflow
9 7 (12.50%) Data Analysis
9 7 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
10 6 (10.71%) Agile
10 6 (10.71%) Telecoms
10 6 (10.71%) Pharmaceutical
10 6 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
10 6 (10.71%) Analytics
10 6 (10.71%) User Stories
10 6 (10.71%) Visualisation
11 5 (8.93%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (8.93%) Data Quality
11 5 (8.93%) Software Engineering
11 5 (8.93%) Management Information System

Business Systems 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 3 (5.36%) Confluence
2 1 (1.79%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.79%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 7 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (8.93%) MS Visio
3 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (5.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.79%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (1.79%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
2 1 (1.79%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (19.64%) Power Platform
2 3 (5.36%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.79%) Power Automate
4 1 (1.79%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.57%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (19.64%) Power BI
2 4 (7.14%) Crystal Reports
3 3 (5.36%) Big Data
3 3 (5.36%) Oracle Database
4 2 (3.57%) MySQL
4 2 (3.57%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.57%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.79%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.79%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (5.36%) JIRA
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle APEX
General
1 22 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 18 (32.14%) Finance
3 9 (16.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (14.29%) Law
5 6 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (10.71%) Pharmaceutical
5 6 (10.71%) Telecoms
6 4 (7.14%) Manufacturing
6 4 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (5.36%) Billing
8 2 (3.57%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.57%) Retail
9 1 (1.79%) Back Office
9 1 (1.79%) Banking
9 1 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.79%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.14%) JSON
1 4 (7.14%) XML
2 2 (3.57%) HTML
2 2 (3.57%) REST
2 2 (3.57%) SOAP
2 2 (3.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.93%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.36%) NHS
2 3 (5.36%) PACS
3 2 (3.57%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.79%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.79%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.79%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.79%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.79%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.79%) AIX
1 1 (1.79%) Linux
1 1 (1.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (32.14%) Requirements Gathering
2 14 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (19.64%) SDLC
4 10 (17.86%) Business Intelligence
4 10 (17.86%) Systems Analysis
5 8 (14.29%) ERP
6 7 (12.50%) Data Analysis
6 7 (12.50%) Workflow
7 6 (10.71%) Agile
7 6 (10.71%) Analytics
7 6 (10.71%) User Stories
7 6 (10.71%) Visualisation
8 5 (8.93%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (8.93%) Project Delivery
8 5 (8.93%) Software Engineering
9 4 (7.14%) Customer Service
9 4 (7.14%) ITIL
9 4 (7.14%) Mentoring
9 4 (7.14%) User Acceptance Testing
10 3 (5.36%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (64.29%) SQL
2 2 (3.57%) T-SQL
2 2 (3.57%) X++
3 1 (1.79%) Python
3 1 (1.79%) R
3 1 (1.79%) VB
3 1 (1.79%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (14.29%) Degree
2 2 (3.57%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.57%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.93%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.57%) COBIT
2 2 (3.57%) GDPR
3 1 (1.79%) QA
Vendors
1 8 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 8 (14.29%) Oracle
2 2 (3.57%) Atlassian
2 2 (3.57%) Cognos
2 2 (3.57%) Guidewire
2 2 (3.57%) IBM
3 1 (1.79%) DocuSign
3 1 (1.79%) Duck Creek
3 1 (1.79%) Infor
3 1 (1.79%) Siebel