Business Analyst (BA)
UK

The median Business Analyst (BA) salary in the UK is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 December 2023.

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

6 months to
5 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 140 119 142
Rank change year-on-year -21 +23 +10
Permanent jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,311 3,737 3,436
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.45% 3.01% 2.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.57% 3.16% 2.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,052 2,815 2,890
10th Percentile £40,500 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% +5.26% +5.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 50,985 118,425 121,174
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.43% 95.37% 95.14%
Number of salaries quoted 37,346 74,222 83,417
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%

Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Analyst in the UK

Business Analyst
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Business Analyst.

Salary trend for Business Analyst in the UK

Business Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Analyst over the 6 months to 5 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Business Analyst in the UK

Business Analyst
Top 19 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 5 December 2023. 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
England -22 1,154 £61,500 +2.50% 348
London -5 650 £70,000 - 183
UK excluding London -51 599 £52,000 +4.00% 196
Work from Home -30 545 £60,000 +4.35% 149
North of England -10 189 £55,000 +10.00% 52
South East -10 129 £54,750 +4.29% 38
North West +38 114 £55,000 +10.00% 28
Midlands -25 91 £51,250 +2.50% 30
Yorkshire -21 72 £52,500 +5.00% 21
Scotland -14 65 £50,000 +4.17% 29
West Midlands -14 56 £52,500 +0.51% 16
South West -13 53 £47,500 -5.00% 25
East Midlands +2 31 £47,500 +1.60% 14
Wales -12 26 £37,500 -16.67% 6
East of England +33 24 £50,000 -4.76% 11
Isle of Man +4 12 £45,000 -10.00%
Northern Ireland +23 11 £65,000 +41.30% 6
North East +31 3 £62,500 +23.15% 3
Channel Islands - 2 £47,000 -

Business Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 5 December 2023, 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 featuring Business Analyst in the job title.

1 551 (42.03%) Agile
2 528 (40.27%) Business Analysis
3 468 (35.70%) Social Skills
4 436 (33.26%) Finance
5 268 (20.44%) Stakeholder Management
6 255 (19.45%) Analytical Skills
7 248 (18.92%) User Stories
8 225 (17.16%) Requirements Gathering
9 207 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
10 197 (15.03%) Degree
11 192 (14.65%) Waterfall
12 189 (14.42%) Workshop Facilitation
13 185 (14.11%) SQL
14 171 (13.04%) Project Management
15 149 (11.37%) User Acceptance Testing
16 145 (11.06%) Business Case
17 142 (10.83%) Scrum
18 141 (10.76%) Project Delivery
19 133 (10.14%) Product Ownership
20 128 (9.76%) Microsoft
21 117 (8.92%) Roadmaps
22 116 (8.85%) SDLC
23 105 (8.01%) Retail
24 104 (7.93%) Process Improvement
25 103 (7.86%) JIRA
26 98 (7.48%) CRM
27 96 (7.32%) Decision-Making
28 94 (7.17%) Acceptance Criteria
29 92 (7.02%) Use Case
30 91 (6.94%) Microsoft Excel

Business Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 45 (3.43%) Confluence
2 24 (1.83%) SharePoint
3 8 (0.61%) CMS
4 4 (0.31%) IIS
5 3 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.15%) Apache
6 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.076%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.076%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.076%) Jupyter
Applications
1 91 (6.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 73 (5.57%) MS Visio
3 60 (4.58%) Microsoft Office
4 52 (3.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 18 (1.37%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.23%) Trello
7 1 (0.076%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (1.07%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.99%) SAP BPC
3 13 (0.99%) SAP CO
3 13 (0.99%) SAP FI
3 13 (0.99%) SAP FI/CO
4 10 (0.76%) Oracle Financials
5 8 (0.61%) Endur
6 7 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.38%) SAP MM
7 5 (0.38%) SAP SD
8 4 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
8 4 (0.31%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.23%) Magento
9 3 (0.23%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.23%) SAP Hybris
9 3 (0.23%) Workday HCM
10 2 (0.15%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 87 (6.64%) Azure
2 76 (5.80%) Power Platform
3 42 (3.20%) SaaS
4 31 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
4 31 (2.36%) Dynamics 365
5 30 (2.29%) AWS
6 27 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (0.92%) PowerApps
7 12 (0.92%) Snowflake
8 11 (0.84%) WhatsApp
9 6 (0.46%) GCP
9 6 (0.46%) Miro
9 6 (0.46%) Slack
9 6 (0.46%) SuccessFactors
10 5 (0.38%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (0.38%) dbt
10 5 (0.38%) Lucidchart
10 5 (0.38%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 4 (0.31%) Amazon S3
11 4 (0.31%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.07%) Intranet
2 4 (0.31%) Structured Cabling
3 2 (0.15%) Internet
4 1 (0.076%) DMZ
4 1 (0.076%) DSL
4 1 (0.076%) HTTP
4 1 (0.076%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.076%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (4.04%) Power BI
2 37 (2.82%) Tableau
3 24 (1.83%) SQL Server
4 21 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (0.92%) QlikView
6 11 (0.84%) Data Hub
6 11 (0.84%) Relational Database
7 8 (0.61%) Data Mining
8 7 (0.53%) Oracle Database
9 6 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (0.38%) Big Data
10 5 (0.38%) BusinessObjects
10 5 (0.38%) MySQL
11 4 (0.31%) GIS
12 3 (0.23%) Crystal Reports
12 3 (0.23%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.23%) Oracle Reports
12 3 (0.23%) SAP BW
12 3 (0.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (0.15%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 103 (7.86%) JIRA
2 3 (0.23%) TestRail
2 3 (0.23%) Visual Studio
3 2 (0.15%) Postman
3 2 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.076%) Balsamiq
4 1 (0.076%) Git
4 1 (0.076%) Selenium
General
1 468 (35.70%) Social Skills
2 436 (33.26%) Finance
3 255 (19.45%) Analytical Skills
4 105 (8.01%) Retail
5 88 (6.71%) Banking
6 83 (6.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 81 (6.18%) Public Sector
8 70 (5.34%) Law
9 66 (5.03%) Front Office
10 59 (4.50%) Legal
11 56 (4.27%) Presentation Skills
12 52 (3.97%) Back Office
13 41 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
14 40 (3.05%) Marketing
15 38 (2.90%) Manufacturing
16 36 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
17 27 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
18 16 (1.22%) Publishing
19 11 (0.84%) Advertising
19 11 (0.84%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (1.30%) Middleware
2 15 (1.14%) XML
3 13 (0.99%) FIX Protocol
4 10 (0.76%) Oracle Fusion
5 8 (0.61%) ADO
5 8 (0.61%) FpML
6 6 (0.46%) .NET
6 6 (0.46%) EDI
6 6 (0.46%) JSON
6 6 (0.46%) SAP Fiori
7 4 (0.31%) J2EE
7 4 (0.31%) REST
8 3 (0.23%) SailPoint
9 2 (0.15%) CSS
9 2 (0.15%) Django
9 2 (0.15%) Murex MxML
10 1 (0.076%) HTML
10 1 (0.076%) SOAP
10 1 (0.076%) Web Services
10 1 (0.076%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 133 (10.14%) Product Ownership
2 59 (4.50%) Self-Motivation
3 57 (4.35%) Fixed Income
4 54 (4.12%) Derivative
5 53 (4.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 50 (3.81%) Management Information System
7 38 (2.90%) Equities
8 33 (2.52%) Hedge funds
9 32 (2.44%) Reinsurance
10 26 (1.98%) Reference Data
11 20 (1.53%) Onboarding
12 19 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
12 19 (1.45%) Housing Association
13 17 (1.30%) FMCG
14 14 (1.07%) Data Structures
14 14 (1.07%) Market Risk
14 14 (1.07%) Mobile App
15 9 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
16 8 (0.61%) Legacy Systems
16 8 (0.61%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 22 (1.68%) Apple iOS
2 6 (0.46%) Linux
2 6 (0.46%) Windows
3 5 (0.38%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.31%) Windows 10
4 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.076%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 551 (42.03%) Agile
2 528 (40.27%) Business Analysis
3 268 (20.44%) Stakeholder Management
4 248 (18.92%) User Stories
5 225 (17.16%) Requirements Gathering
6 207 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
7 192 (14.65%) Waterfall
8 189 (14.42%) Workshop Facilitation
9 171 (13.04%) Project Management
10 149 (11.37%) User Acceptance Testing
11 145 (11.06%) Business Case
12 142 (10.83%) Scrum
13 141 (10.76%) Project Delivery
14 117 (8.92%) Roadmaps
15 116 (8.85%) SDLC
16 104 (7.93%) Process Improvement
17 98 (7.48%) CRM
18 96 (7.32%) Decision-Making
19 94 (7.17%) Acceptance Criteria
20 92 (7.02%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 185 (14.11%) SQL
2 38 (2.90%) Python
3 13 (0.99%) Java
4 9 (0.69%) JavaScript
5 8 (0.61%) C#
6 5 (0.38%) R
7 4 (0.31%) VBA
8 3 (0.23%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.15%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.15%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.076%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 197 (15.03%) Degree
2 78 (5.95%) Security Cleared
3 43 (3.28%) SC Cleared
4 38 (2.90%) DV Cleared
5 27 (2.06%) ISEB
6 18 (1.37%) IIBA
7 17 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (0.84%) CBAP
9 10 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (0.76%) PMI Certification
10 7 (0.53%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 5 (0.38%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.15%) CIMA
13 2 (0.15%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.15%) MBA
13 2 (0.15%) Oracle Certification
13 2 (0.15%) PMP
13 2 (0.15%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (4.73%) QA
2 39 (2.97%) PMO
3 31 (2.36%) Data Quality
4 9 (0.69%) SLA
5 6 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (0.38%) GDPR
6 5 (0.38%) MiFID
7 4 (0.31%) COBIT
7 4 (0.31%) EMIR
8 3 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.23%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.15%) IFRS
10 1 (0.076%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.076%) GAAP
10 1 (0.076%) GRC
10 1 (0.076%) PSD2
System Software
1 4 (0.31%) Active Directory
1 4 (0.31%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (0.31%) Nessus
2 1 (0.076%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 128 (9.76%) Microsoft
2 64 (4.88%) SAP
3 59 (4.50%) Salesforce
4 45 (3.43%) Oracle
5 11 (0.84%) Calypso
6 10 (0.76%) ServiceNow
7 8 (0.61%) Google
8 7 (0.53%) Bloomberg
8 7 (0.53%) HubSpot
8 7 (0.53%) JD Edwards
8 7 (0.53%) Sage
9 5 (0.38%) Murex
9 5 (0.38%) Workday
10 4 (0.31%) arcserve
10 4 (0.31%) Sophos
10 4 (0.31%) VMware
11 3 (0.23%) Adobe
11 3 (0.23%) CyberArk
11 3 (0.23%) NEC
11 3 (0.23%) Northgate