Business Systems Analyst Jobs

Business System Analyst
UK

The median Business System Analyst salary in the UK is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 587 751 851
Rank change year-on-year +164 +100 +37
Permanent jobs requiring a Business Systems Analyst 105 145 138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.15% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.16% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 85 116 107
10th Percentile £43,000 £28,875 £38,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £36,000 £45,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.87% -17.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £77,500 £60,625 £62,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £79,375 £68,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +35.29% -15.00% +11.11%

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 46,902 93,183 95,132
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.12% 94.62% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,275 66,883 59,840
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Business Systems Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Systems Analyst in the UK

Business Systems Analyst
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Business Systems Analyst in the UK

Business Systems Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Systems Analyst over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Business Systems Analyst in the UK

Business Systems Analyst
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 Systems Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 +131 97 £60,000 +26.32% 45
UK excluding London +150 60 £57,500 +35.29% 36
London +128 44 £60,000 -22.58% 19
Midlands +92 23 £55,000 +10.00% 5
Work from Home +156 19 £55,000 +15.79% 30
East Midlands +62 18 £55,000 -18.52% 3
East of England +37 12 £82,500 +100.00% 6
South East +89 11 £70,000 +75.00% 15
North of England +59 6 £51,500 +8.42% 4
Scotland +132 5 £35,000 -7.41% 5
West Midlands +48 5 £52,500 +16.67% 2
North West +16 4 £55,250 +16.32% 2
Wales - 2 £57,500 - 1
Yorkshire +67 1 £47,500 +18.75% 2
North East +49 1 £50,000 -
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 featuring Business Systems Analyst in the job title.

1 53 (50.48%) SQL
2 29 (27.62%) Finance
3 27 (25.71%) Requirements Gathering
3 27 (25.71%) Social Skills
3 27 (25.71%) Agile
4 22 (20.95%) Systems Analysis
5 18 (17.14%) Microsoft
5 18 (17.14%) User Stories
6 16 (15.24%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (15.24%) SDLC
6 16 (15.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (15.24%) Law
7 15 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
8 14 (13.33%) Power Platform
8 14 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
8 14 (13.33%) Degree
9 13 (12.38%) ERP
9 13 (12.38%) Microsoft Office
9 13 (12.38%) Workflow
10 12 (11.43%) Telecoms
10 12 (11.43%) Pharmaceutical
11 11 (10.48%) Change Management
11 11 (10.48%) MS Visio
11 11 (10.48%) Data Modelling
11 11 (10.48%) CRM
11 11 (10.48%) Analytics
11 11 (10.48%) Customer Service
12 10 (9.52%) Process Improvement
12 10 (9.52%) Issue Tracking

Business Systems 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 5 (4.76%) Confluence
2 4 (3.81%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (12.38%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (10.48%) MS Visio
4 8 (7.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (4.76%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.95%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (0.95%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
2 1 (0.95%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.95%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 14 (13.33%) Power Platform
3 4 (3.81%) Azure
3 4 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (0.95%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.90%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.71%) Power BI
2 5 (4.76%) Crystal Reports
3 4 (3.81%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.81%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.86%) Big Data
4 3 (2.86%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.90%) MySQL
5 2 (1.90%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.90%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.95%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.95%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.95%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (8.57%) JIRA
2 5 (4.76%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.95%) Oracle APEX
General
1 29 (27.62%) Finance
2 27 (25.71%) Social Skills
3 16 (15.24%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (15.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 16 (15.24%) Law
4 12 (11.43%) Pharmaceutical
4 12 (11.43%) Telecoms
5 6 (5.71%) Marketing
5 6 (5.71%) Retail
6 4 (3.81%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.86%) Banking
7 3 (2.86%) Billing
7 3 (2.86%) General Ledger
8 2 (1.90%) Legal
8 2 (1.90%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.95%) Back Office
9 1 (0.95%) Front Office
9 1 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.95%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.76%) RESTful
2 3 (2.86%) JSON
2 3 (2.86%) XML
3 2 (1.90%) HTML
3 2 (1.90%) REST
3 2 (1.90%) SOAP
3 2 (1.90%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.52%) PACS
2 5 (4.76%) Reinsurance
3 4 (3.81%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.86%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.86%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.90%) NHS
5 2 (1.90%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.90%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.95%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.95%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.95%) Market Risk
6 1 (0.95%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.76%) Windows
2 4 (3.81%) Windows 10
2 4 (3.81%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (1.90%) Linux
4 1 (0.95%) AIX
4 1 (0.95%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (25.71%) Agile
1 27 (25.71%) Requirements Gathering
2 22 (20.95%) Systems Analysis
3 18 (17.14%) User Stories
4 16 (15.24%) SDLC
5 15 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (12.38%) ERP
6 13 (12.38%) Workflow
7 11 (10.48%) Analytics
7 11 (10.48%) Change Management
7 11 (10.48%) CRM
7 11 (10.48%) Customer Service
7 11 (10.48%) Data Modelling
8 10 (9.52%) Business Analysis
8 10 (9.52%) Integration Testing
8 10 (9.52%) Issue Tracking
8 10 (9.52%) ITIL
8 10 (9.52%) Process Improvement
8 10 (9.52%) Workflow Analysis
9 9 (8.57%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 53 (50.48%) SQL
2 5 (4.76%) Python
3 1 (0.95%) R
3 1 (0.95%) VB
3 1 (0.95%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (13.33%) Degree
2 5 (4.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 2 (1.90%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.90%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.81%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.86%) QA
3 1 (0.95%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (0.95%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 18 (17.14%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.62%) Oracle
3 6 (5.71%) Salesforce
4 5 (4.76%) Guidewire
5 4 (3.81%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.90%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.90%) SAP
7 1 (0.95%) Cognos
7 1 (0.95%) Duck Creek
7 1 (0.95%) IBM
7 1 (0.95%) Infor
7 1 (0.95%) Siebel
7 1 (0.95%) VMware