Data Business Analyst Jobs

Data Business Analyst (Data BA)
UK

The median Data Business Analyst (Data BA) salary in the UK is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 668 843 896
Rank change year-on-year +175 +53 +117
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Business Analyst 34 64 72
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.061% 0.062% 0.075%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.067% 0.065% 0.082%
Number of salaries quoted 29 62 62
10th Percentile £51,250 £40,625 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £85,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.47% +30.77% +4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £92,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £82,500 - £82,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +27.78% -18.18% +15.79%

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 50,444 98,297 87,491
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.33% 94.81% 91.34%
Number of salaries quoted 26,384 69,991 55,965
10th Percentile £28,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,748 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +2.00% -6.54% +6.49%

Data Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Business Analyst in the UK

Data Business Analyst
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Business Analyst in the UK

Data Business Analyst
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Data Business Analyst in the UK

Data Business Analyst
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Business Analyst 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 +139 32 £62,500 -26.47% 37
London +69 16 £72,500 -14.71% 19
UK excluding London +186 15 £57,500 +27.78% 19
Work from Home +121 13 £57,500 -16.36% 18
Midlands +72 9 £55,000 +29.41% 6
West Midlands +62 8 £55,000 +29.41% 5
North of England +33 3 £57,500 +35.29% 9
Yorkshire +57 2 £59,750 +19.50% 6
Scotland - 2 £67,500 -
South West +111 1 £41,000 -21.90% 1
North West -4 1 £57,500 +35.29% 2
East Midlands - 1 £57,500 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 2025, Data 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 Data Business Analyst in the job title.

1 22 (64.71%) SQL
2 15 (44.12%) Business Intelligence
3 13 (38.24%) Finance
3 13 (38.24%) Business Analysis
4 12 (35.29%) Data Modelling
5 10 (29.41%) Data Analysis
5 10 (29.41%) Agile
6 8 (23.53%) Social Skills
6 8 (23.53%) Data Mapping
7 7 (20.59%) Power BI
7 7 (20.59%) Power Platform
8 6 (17.65%) Requirements Gathering
8 6 (17.65%) Migration
8 6 (17.65%) Data Management
8 6 (17.65%) Reinsurance
8 6 (17.65%) Data Governance
8 6 (17.65%) Analytics
9 5 (14.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 5 (14.71%) Waterfall
9 5 (14.71%) ETL
9 5 (14.71%) Public Sector
10 4 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (11.76%) Degree
10 4 (11.76%) Data Visualisation
10 4 (11.76%) Data Quality
10 4 (11.76%) Machine Learning
10 4 (11.76%) Visualisation
10 4 (11.76%) Azure

Data 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 2 (5.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (20.59%) Power Platform
2 4 (11.76%) Azure
3 3 (8.82%) AWS
4 2 (5.88%) Matillion
5 1 (2.94%) SaaS
5 1 (2.94%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.59%) Power BI
2 4 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (8.82%) Big Data
3 3 (8.82%) RDBMS
3 3 (8.82%) Relational Database
3 3 (8.82%) Tableau
4 2 (5.88%) Data Lake
4 2 (5.88%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.88%) OLAP
5 1 (2.94%) Looker
5 1 (2.94%) Pentaho
5 1 (2.94%) PowerCenter
5 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (8.82%) JIRA
1 3 (8.82%) RStudio
2 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 13 (38.24%) Finance
2 8 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 5 (14.71%) Public Sector
4 4 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.94%) Banking
5 1 (2.94%) Billing
5 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Law
5 1 (2.94%) Local Government
5 1 (2.94%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) Reinsurance
2 3 (8.82%) Driving Licence
2 3 (8.82%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.94%) Pricing Data
4 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.94%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (44.12%) Business Intelligence
2 13 (38.24%) Business Analysis
3 12 (35.29%) Data Modelling
4 10 (29.41%) Agile
4 10 (29.41%) Data Analysis
5 8 (23.53%) Data Mapping
6 6 (17.65%) Analytics
6 6 (17.65%) Data Governance
6 6 (17.65%) Data Management
6 6 (17.65%) Migration
6 6 (17.65%) Requirements Gathering
7 5 (14.71%) ETL
7 5 (14.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (14.71%) Waterfall
8 4 (11.76%) Data Visualisation
8 4 (11.76%) Machine Learning
8 4 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (11.76%) User Stories
8 4 (11.76%) Visualisation
9 3 (8.82%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 22 (64.71%) SQL
2 2 (5.88%) Python
3 1 (2.94%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (11.76%) Degree
2 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.94%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) Data Quality
2 3 (8.82%) GDPR
3 1 (2.94%) QA
3 1 (2.94%) Solvency II
Vendors
1 2 (5.88%) Informatica
2 1 (2.94%) Bloomberg
2 1 (2.94%) IBM
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.94%) Refinitiv
2 1 (2.94%) Reuters
2 1 (2.94%) Salesforce
2 1 (2.94%) Talend