Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for CBAP qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 900 944 1199
Rank change year-on-year +44 +255 -317
Permanent jobs citing CBAP 14 20 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.019% 0.023%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.051% 0.059% 0.085%
Number of salaries quoted 11 12 29
10th Percentile £37,500 £45,125 £47,238
25th Percentile £43,589 £46,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £51,250 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.39% -13.87% +19.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £54,063 £68,750
90th Percentile £62,500 £58,375 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £50,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year -2.00% -15.25% +18.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

CBAP is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,363 33,755 42,232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.77% 32.63% 26.96%
Number of salaries quoted 17,288 15,182 19,046
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,776 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £59,526 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.28% +8.23% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,350 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.63% +2.70% +0.20%

CBAP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for CBAP in the UK

CBAP
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CBAP.

Salary trend for CBAP in the UK

CBAP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CBAP over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for CBAP in the UK

CBAP
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CBAP within the UK over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. 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 +96 12 £51,500 -1.90% 11
UK excluding London -17 10 £49,000 -2.00% 8
London +130 4 £54,000 -10.00% 4
Work from Home +69 4 £50,000 -2.44% 6
South East +24 4 £50,000 -13.04% 2
South West -25 2 £40,927 -
Wales +13 1 £49,000 +14.09%
West Midlands +13 1 £55,000 +10.00% 1
Midlands +9 1 £55,000 +10.00% 2
North West - 1 - -
Scotland - 1 - - 1
North of England - 1 - - 1

CBAP
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 2 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (28.57%) MS Visio
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
1 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (14.29%) Figma
3 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
3 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) JIRA
2 2 (14.29%) Balsamiq
General
1 8 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Front Office
3 2 (14.29%) Law
3 2 (14.29%) Publishing
4 1 (7.14%) Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (7.14%) Legal
4 1 (7.14%) Marketing
4 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 14 (100.00%) Analyst
1 14 (100.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Publishing Business Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Senior
2 2 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Banking Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Banking Business Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Front Office Business Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Product Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Product Business Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Product Control Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Low-Code
2 1 (7.14%) PMI
2 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) Business Analysis
2 9 (64.29%) Agile
3 5 (35.71%) Data Modelling
3 5 (35.71%) Requirements Gathering
4 4 (28.57%) Project Management
4 4 (28.57%) Requirements Engineering
4 4 (28.57%) Waterfall
5 3 (21.43%) Analytical Thinking
5 3 (21.43%) BPMN
5 3 (21.43%) Business Process Modelling
5 3 (21.43%) Data Analysis
5 3 (21.43%) Data Management
5 3 (21.43%) DevOps
5 3 (21.43%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (21.43%) SDLC
5 3 (21.43%) Software Testing
5 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (21.43%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (78.57%) Degree
2 6 (42.86%) IIBA
3 1 (7.14%) ISEB
3 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
3 1 (7.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Salesforce
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle