Business Analytics Jobs

Business Analytics
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Business Analytics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Business Analytics over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 611 732 746
Rank change year-on-year +121 +14 +60
Permanent jobs citing Business Analytics 91 176 223
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.17% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.20% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 49 88 153
10th Percentile - £38,575 £40,225
25th Percentile £37,574 £45,000 £45,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% - +1.56%
75th Percentile £65,000 £100,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £105,000 £84,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,101 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -33.17% -4.00% +38.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Business Analytics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 52,256 87,133 91,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.58% 84.04% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 25,854 60,896 54,581
10th Percentile £28,822 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%

Business Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Business Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Business Analytics in the UK

Business Analytics
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Business Analytics in the UK

Business Analytics
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Analytics over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Business Analytics in the UK

Business Analytics
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Business Analytics within the UK over the 6 months to 31 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
England +100 83 £48,918 -18.47% 148
UK excluding London +140 59 £40,101 -33.17% 56
London +64 31 £100,000 +37.93% 100
South East +81 18 £40,101 -43.12% 12
North of England +15 16 £40,101 -38.31% 14
North West -20 13 £45,050 -45.39% 8
Midlands +64 9 £50,000 -15.25% 11
South West +107 7 £44,509 -16.81% 6
Scotland +108 5 £40,101 -25.39% 2
East Midlands +46 5 £45,000 -29.13% 6
West Midlands +52 4 £65,000 +36.84% 4
Yorkshire +55 3 £40,101 -30.26% 6
Work from Home +60 2 £28,500 -57.78% 66
East of England +47 2 £40,101 -10.89% 5
Wales +40 1 £40,101 -49.42%
Northern Ireland - 1 £50,000 - 5

Business Analytics
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 26 (28.57%) Apache
2 2 (2.20%) WordPress
3 1 (1.10%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 16 (17.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (2.20%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (2.20%) InDesign
3 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.20%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (3.30%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 7 (7.69%) Azure
2 6 (6.59%) AWS
2 6 (6.59%) SaaS
3 5 (5.49%) Collibra
3 5 (5.49%) Microsoft Purview
3 5 (5.49%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.30%) dbt
5 2 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.10%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.10%) Azure Storage
6 1 (1.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.10%) GCP
6 1 (1.10%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.40%) Firewall
1 4 (4.40%) Intrusion Detection
1 4 (4.40%) Network Security
1 4 (4.40%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.89%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (5.49%) Power BI
3 4 (4.40%) DB2
3 4 (4.40%) MaxDB
3 4 (4.40%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (4.40%) SAP HANA
3 4 (4.40%) Snowflake Schema
4 3 (3.30%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (3.30%) BigQuery
4 3 (3.30%) Looker
4 3 (3.30%) Mixpanel
4 3 (3.30%) Tableau
5 2 (2.20%) Big Data
5 2 (2.20%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.10%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.10%) MySQL
6 1 (1.10%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.10%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.10%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 26 (28.57%) Eclipse
1 26 (28.57%) Eclipse RCP
2 2 (2.20%) JIRA
3 1 (1.10%) Git
General
1 47 (51.65%) Analytical Skills
2 27 (29.67%) Social Skills
3 16 (17.58%) Pharmaceutical
4 14 (15.38%) Finance
5 13 (14.29%) Manufacturing
5 13 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (9.89%) Marketing
7 5 (5.49%) Law
7 5 (5.49%) Legal
8 2 (2.20%) Back Office
8 2 (2.20%) Banking
8 2 (2.20%) Multimedia
8 2 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.10%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (28.57%) Software Engineer
2 23 (25.27%) Junior
2 23 (25.27%) Junior Software Engineer
3 20 (21.98%) Senior
4 12 (13.19%) Project Manager
5 11 (12.09%) Analyst
5 11 (12.09%) Data Scientist
5 11 (12.09%) Senior Data Scientist
6 10 (10.99%) Lead
7 5 (5.49%) Consultant
7 5 (5.49%) Head of Analytics
7 5 (5.49%) Head of Data Analytics
8 4 (4.40%) SAP Basis Consultant
8 4 (4.40%) SAP Basis Support
8 4 (4.40%) SAP Consultant
8 4 (4.40%) SAP Support
8 4 (4.40%) SAP Support Consultant
8 4 (4.40%) Support Consultant
9 3 (3.30%) Infrastructure Manager
9 3 (3.30%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (28.57%) CSS
1 26 (28.57%) HTML
1 26 (28.57%) JSP
1 26 (28.57%) Middleware
2 4 (4.40%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 20 (21.98%) Algorithms
2 16 (17.58%) Life Science
3 11 (12.09%) FMCG
4 4 (4.40%) Operational Technology
4 4 (4.40%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.20%) Animation
5 2 (2.20%) Graphic Design
5 2 (2.20%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.20%) Motion Graphics
5 2 (2.20%) Social Media
6 1 (1.10%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.10%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.10%) Podcast
6 1 (1.10%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (39.56%) Windows
2 26 (28.57%) Linux
3 4 (4.40%) AIX
3 4 (4.40%) Unix
3 4 (4.40%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.10%) Android
4 1 (1.10%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (100.00%) Analytics
2 53 (58.24%) Business Intelligence
3 42 (46.15%) Software Engineering
4 33 (36.26%) ETL
5 28 (30.77%) Analytical Thinking
5 28 (30.77%) Mathematics
5 28 (30.77%) Statistics
6 27 (29.67%) Mentoring
7 26 (28.57%) OO
7 26 (28.57%) OOD
7 26 (28.57%) Physics
7 26 (28.57%) SDLC
7 26 (28.57%) UML
7 26 (28.57%) Unit Testing
8 24 (26.37%) Data Modelling
9 22 (24.18%) Computer Science
9 22 (24.18%) Data Science
10 19 (20.88%) Decision-Making
11 18 (19.78%) Visualisation
12 17 (18.68%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 42 (46.15%) SQL
2 32 (35.16%) Python
3 30 (32.97%) Java
4 26 (28.57%) C#
5 23 (25.27%) Ada
5 23 (25.27%) Rust
6 4 (4.40%) ABAP
7 2 (2.20%) C++
8 1 (1.10%) R
Qualifications
1 72 (79.12%) Degree
2 36 (39.56%) Master's Degree
3 26 (28.57%) BPSS Clearance
4 16 (17.58%) MBA
4 16 (17.58%) PhD
5 6 (6.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (4.40%) Security Cleared
7 1 (1.10%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.10%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.10%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (18.68%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.40%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.20%) ISO 9001
3 2 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.10%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (4.40%) Hyper-V
1 4 (4.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (4.40%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 19 (20.88%) Microsoft
2 11 (12.09%) Capita
3 5 (5.49%) Informatica
4 4 (4.40%) Fortinet
4 4 (4.40%) Oracle
4 4 (4.40%) SAP
4 4 (4.40%) VMware
5 3 (3.30%) Amplitude
5 3 (3.30%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.20%) Adobe
6 2 (2.20%) Cisco
7 1 (1.10%) Databricks