Business Analyst Job Trends

Business Analyst (BA)
UK

The median Business Analyst (BA) salary in the UK is £56,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 November 2025.

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

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 201 207 129
Rank change year-on-year +6 -78 -9
Permanent jobs requiring a Business Analyst 724 862 1,360
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.42% 1.28% 2.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.58% 1.35% 2.66%
Number of salaries quoted 545 630 1,127
10th Percentile £29,250 £37,725 £40,000
25th Percentile £42,250 £47,500 £47,208
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.08% +8.33% +3.53%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,938 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -0.99% +1.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 45,855 63,874 51,205
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.02% 94.86% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 28,423 35,882 39,632
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,436 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% -4.76% -

Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Business Analyst' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Business Analyst job vacancy trend in the UK

Business Analyst
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for Business Analyst job vacancies in the UK

Business Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Analyst over the 6 months to 9 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Business Analyst in the UK

Business Analyst
Top 17 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 9 November 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
England 0 648 £57,500 -11.54% 1,368
UK excluding London +41 382 £47,500 -5.00% 1,087
London +5 293 £77,500 +3.33% 648
Work from Home +28 262 £55,000 -12.00% 556
North of England +2 119 £42,875 -5.25% 209
North West +19 64 £47,500 -9.52% 125
East of England +64 60 £50,750 +9.14% 38
South East +43 55 £55,000 -12.00% 564
South West +46 47 £42,500 -5.56% 96
Midlands -22 46 £52,500 - 100
Yorkshire +40 43 £41,000 -21.90% 55
Scotland +7 38 £32,500 -40.91% 63
West Midlands +6 31 £52,500 - 61
East Midlands -33 15 £57,500 +27.78% 39
North East -38 12 £31,500 -16.00% 31
Wales +11 10 £50,111 +11.36% 17
Northern Ireland +3 8 £67,500 +6.36% 11

Business Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 9 November 2025, 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 featuring Business Analyst in the job title.

1 340 (46.96%) Business Analysis
2 313 (43.23%) Agile
3 219 (30.25%) Problem-Solving
4 185 (25.55%) Degree
5 174 (24.03%) User Stories
6 153 (21.13%) Project Management
7 142 (19.61%) Change Management
8 126 (17.40%) Requirements Gathering
9 123 (16.99%) Stakeholder Management
10 120 (16.57%) Workshop Facilitation
11 112 (15.47%) SQL
12 100 (13.81%) Process Improvement
13 94 (12.98%) Business Intelligence
14 90 (12.43%) Project Delivery
15 88 (12.15%) Data Analysis
16 87 (12.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 85 (11.74%) Continuous Improvement
18 82 (11.33%) Power Platform
19 81 (11.19%) JIRA
19 81 (11.19%) Waterfall
20 78 (10.77%) Power BI
21 76 (10.50%) User Acceptance Testing
22 71 (9.81%) Decision-Making
23 67 (9.25%) Confluence
24 66 (9.12%) Microsoft
25 60 (8.29%) Scrum
26 57 (7.87%) Microsoft Excel
27 55 (7.60%) User Experience
28 54 (7.46%) Migration
29 53 (7.32%) Business Case

Business Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 67 (9.25%) Confluence
2 7 (0.97%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.55%) CMS
3 4 (0.55%) WordPress
4 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.28%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.14%) Appian
5 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 57 (7.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (4.83%) MS Visio
3 19 (2.62%) Microsoft Office
4 16 (2.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.83%) Endur
2 6 (0.83%) Sage X3
3 4 (0.55%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.41%) Adaptiv
4 3 (0.41%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.41%) thinkFolio
5 2 (0.28%) Bloomberg AIM
5 2 (0.28%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.28%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.14%) Magento
6 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.14%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.14%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.14%) Shopify
6 1 (0.14%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.14%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 82 (11.33%) Power Platform
2 50 (6.91%) Azure
3 32 (4.42%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (2.21%) AWS
5 15 (2.07%) Dynamics 365
6 11 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (1.38%) Snowflake
8 7 (0.97%) Google Workspace
8 7 (0.97%) SaaS
9 6 (0.83%) Lucidchart
10 5 (0.69%) GCP
11 4 (0.55%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (0.41%) Miro
12 3 (0.41%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 2 (0.28%) Google Docs
13 2 (0.28%) Google Drive
13 2 (0.28%) OneDrive
13 2 (0.28%) OpenShift
13 2 (0.28%) Power Automate
13 2 (0.28%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.69%) Multicast
2 4 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (0.41%) FIX Connectivity
4 2 (0.28%) 4G
4 2 (0.28%) LAN
4 2 (0.28%) Skype
4 2 (0.28%) WAN
5 1 (0.14%) Intranet
5 1 (0.14%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (10.77%) Power BI
2 25 (3.45%) Tableau
3 20 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (2.07%) SQL Server
5 4 (0.55%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.55%) Metadata
5 4 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (0.41%) Big Data
6 3 (0.41%) BusinessObjects
6 3 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.28%) GIS
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 2 (0.28%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (0.14%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 81 (11.19%) JIRA
2 3 (0.41%) RStudio
General
1 320 (44.20%) Finance
2 316 (43.65%) Social Skills
3 191 (26.38%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (7.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 47 (6.49%) Banking
6 45 (6.22%) Law
7 36 (4.97%) Legal
8 34 (4.70%) Public Sector
9 32 (4.42%) Front Office
10 31 (4.28%) Marketing
11 28 (3.87%) Retail
12 27 (3.73%) Documentation Skills
13 25 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
14 23 (3.18%) Manufacturing
14 23 (3.18%) Presentation Skills
15 18 (2.49%) Back Office
15 18 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
16 14 (1.93%) Pharmaceutical
17 12 (1.66%) Advertising
18 8 (1.10%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (3.59%) HTML
2 7 (0.97%) FIX Protocol
3 5 (0.69%) .NET
4 3 (0.41%) EDI
4 3 (0.41%) XML
5 2 (0.28%) JSON
5 2 (0.28%) REST
5 2 (0.28%) RESTful
5 2 (0.28%) SOAP
6 1 (0.14%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.14%) MDX
6 1 (0.14%) Middleware
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.14%) React
6 1 (0.14%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.14%) Spring
6 1 (0.14%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 73 (10.08%) Product Ownership
2 28 (3.87%) Analytical Mindset
3 27 (3.73%) Management Information System
4 24 (3.31%) Derivative
5 22 (3.04%) Onboarding
6 19 (2.62%) Reinsurance
7 17 (2.35%) Equities
7 17 (2.35%) Fixed Income
8 16 (2.21%) Driving Licence
9 13 (1.80%) Hedge funds
10 12 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (1.10%) Market Risk
12 7 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (0.97%) Renewable Energy
13 6 (0.83%) Low-Code
13 6 (0.83%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 5 (0.69%) Credit Risk
14 5 (0.69%) Data Structures
14 5 (0.69%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.69%) Linux
2 3 (0.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 340 (46.96%) Business Analysis
2 313 (43.23%) Agile
3 219 (30.25%) Problem-Solving
4 174 (24.03%) User Stories
5 153 (21.13%) Project Management
6 142 (19.61%) Change Management
7 126 (17.40%) Requirements Gathering
8 123 (16.99%) Stakeholder Management
9 120 (16.57%) Workshop Facilitation
10 100 (13.81%) Process Improvement
11 94 (12.98%) Business Intelligence
12 90 (12.43%) Project Delivery
13 88 (12.15%) Data Analysis
14 87 (12.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 85 (11.74%) Continuous Improvement
16 81 (11.19%) Waterfall
17 76 (10.50%) User Acceptance Testing
18 71 (9.81%) Decision-Making
19 60 (8.29%) Scrum
20 55 (7.60%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 112 (15.47%) SQL
2 28 (3.87%) Python
3 7 (0.97%) Java
4 5 (0.69%) PowerShell
5 3 (0.41%) Bash
5 3 (0.41%) C#
5 3 (0.41%) C++
5 3 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.14%) Go
6 1 (0.14%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.14%) PHP
6 1 (0.14%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.14%) VBA
Qualifications
1 185 (25.55%) Degree
2 29 (4.01%) Security Cleared
3 24 (3.31%) SC Cleared
4 17 (2.35%) PMI Certification
5 16 (2.21%) ACCA
5 16 (2.21%) CBAP
5 16 (2.21%) CIMA
6 13 (1.80%) Master's Degree
6 13 (1.80%) PMP
7 8 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (1.10%) CFA
7 8 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (0.97%) DV Cleared
8 7 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.55%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.55%) IIBA
10 3 (0.41%) CSPO
10 3 (0.41%) ISEB
11 2 (0.28%) CCA
11 2 (0.28%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (4.42%) Accessibility
2 29 (4.01%) QA
3 21 (2.90%) Data Quality
4 10 (1.38%) MiFID
5 9 (1.24%) PMO
6 8 (1.10%) GDPR
6 8 (1.10%) SEPA
7 4 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.55%) EMIR
7 4 (0.55%) TARGET2
8 2 (0.28%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.28%) Solvency II
8 2 (0.28%) UCITS
9 1 (0.14%) Basel III
9 1 (0.14%) COBIT
9 1 (0.14%) GMP
9 1 (0.14%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.14%) Grafana
1 1 (0.14%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (0.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 66 (9.12%) Microsoft
2 38 (5.25%) Salesforce
3 20 (2.76%) SAP
4 13 (1.80%) Anaplan
5 12 (1.66%) Google
6 11 (1.52%) Oracle
7 8 (1.10%) Pega
8 7 (0.97%) Charles River
8 7 (0.97%) Guidewire
8 7 (0.97%) Murex
9 6 (0.83%) Sage
9 6 (0.83%) ServiceNow
9 6 (0.83%) Tagetik
10 5 (0.69%) Bloomberg
10 5 (0.69%) ION Trading
10 5 (0.69%) WorldPay
11 4 (0.55%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.55%) Calypso
11 4 (0.55%) OpenLink
11 4 (0.55%) WooCommerce