Senior Business Analyst Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Business Analyst (Senior BA)
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Business Analyst (Senior BA) salary in the UK excluding London is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 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
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 552 651 584
Rank change year-on-year +99 -67 -93
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Business Analyst 33 112 167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.084% 0.16% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.093% 0.17% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 19 72 85
10th Percentile £44,020 £45,000 £42,584
25th Percentile £46,178 £46,438 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £64,063 £67,200
90th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £77,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £63,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -1.92% +4.00%

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 35,427 67,196 53,197
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 94.83% 89.21%
Number of salaries quoted 18,481 47,540 30,291
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,750 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Senior Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Senior Business Analyst
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Senior Business Analyst in the UK excluding London

Senior Business Analyst
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Business Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Business Analyst in the UK excluding London

Senior 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 Senior Business Analyst within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 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
Scotland +116 7 £56,567 -3.80% 3
South East +88 7 £70,000 +9.80% 27
North of England +11 7 £63,750 +15.91% 16
North West -17 6 £62,500 +4.17% 6
Midlands +50 5 £58,263 +15.37% 11
South West +114 4 £48,894 -10.41% 5
West Midlands +51 4 £55,000 +10.00% 7
East of England +43 2 £70,000 -2.78% 8
Yorkshire +37 1 £80,000 +45.45% 9
Wales +34 1 - - 1
East Midlands +28 1 £70,000 +40.44% 4
Senior Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Business Analyst in the job title.

1 19 (57.58%) Finance
1 19 (57.58%) Business Analysis
2 17 (51.52%) Agile
2 17 (51.52%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 11 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (24.24%) Degree
5 7 (21.21%) Requirements Gathering
5 7 (21.21%) User Stories
6 6 (18.18%) SDLC
6 6 (18.18%) Workshop Facilitation
6 6 (18.18%) Waterfall
6 6 (18.18%) Banking
6 6 (18.18%) GAP Analysis
7 5 (15.15%) SQL
7 5 (15.15%) Data Management
7 5 (15.15%) Scrum
7 5 (15.15%) Performance Management
7 5 (15.15%) Regulatory Change
7 5 (15.15%) Customer Service
7 5 (15.15%) Test Strategy
8 4 (12.12%) SaaS
8 4 (12.12%) Mentoring
8 4 (12.12%) Acceptance Criteria
8 4 (12.12%) Product Ownership
8 4 (12.12%) Epics
8 4 (12.12%) JIRA
8 4 (12.12%) Marketing
8 4 (12.12%) Data Analysis

Senior 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 2 (6.06%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.03%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.12%) SaaS
2 2 (6.06%) Azure
3 1 (3.03%) AWS
3 1 (3.03%) Figma
3 1 (3.03%) GCP
3 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.06%) NoSQL
1 2 (6.06%) OLAP
1 2 (6.06%) RDBMS
1 2 (6.06%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.03%) Looker
2 1 (3.03%) Power BI
2 1 (3.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (12.12%) JIRA
General
1 19 (57.58%) Finance
2 17 (51.52%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 6 (18.18%) Banking
5 4 (12.12%) Law
5 4 (12.12%) Marketing
6 3 (9.09%) Advertising
6 3 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (9.09%) Investment Banking
6 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.03%) Back Office
7 1 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
7 1 (3.03%) Retail
7 1 (3.03%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.06%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Product Ownership
2 3 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 3 (9.09%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.06%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.03%) Housing Association
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (57.58%) Business Analysis
2 17 (51.52%) Agile
3 11 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (21.21%) Requirements Gathering
4 7 (21.21%) User Stories
5 6 (18.18%) GAP Analysis
5 6 (18.18%) SDLC
5 6 (18.18%) Waterfall
5 6 (18.18%) Workshop Facilitation
6 5 (15.15%) Customer Service
6 5 (15.15%) Data Management
6 5 (15.15%) Performance Management
6 5 (15.15%) Regulatory Change
6 5 (15.15%) Scrum
6 5 (15.15%) Test Strategy
7 4 (12.12%) Acceptance Criteria
7 4 (12.12%) Epics
7 4 (12.12%) Market Research
7 4 (12.12%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 5 (15.15%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (24.24%) Degree
2 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared
2 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (9.09%) Bloomberg
1 3 (9.09%) BT
2 1 (3.03%) Google
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft