Finance Business Analyst Jobs

Business Analyst - Finance (Finance BA)
UK

The median Business Analyst - Finance (Finance BA) salary in the UK is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 September 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 743 760 897
Rank change year-on-year +17 +137 +53
Permanent jobs requiring a Finance Business Analyst 68 33 316
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.082% 0.052% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.086% 0.055% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 65 27 219
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £77,500 £46,787 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% -3.70% +8.00%
75th Percentile £118,750 £81,875 £85,000
90th Percentile £121,000 £85,250 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £46,787 £51,500
% change year-on-year +38.93% -9.15% -4.19%

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 79,248 60,312 146,677
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.46% 94.32% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 45,086 43,957 81,770
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £97,500 £97,290
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%

Finance Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance Business Analyst in the UK

Finance Business Analyst
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Finance Business Analyst in the UK

Finance Business Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance Business Analyst over the 6 months to 17 September 2024.

Salary histogram for Finance Business Analyst in the UK

Finance Business Analyst
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance Business Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 17 September 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 +18 67 £85,000 +30.77% 4
London +62 60 £85,000 +30.77% 1
Work from Home +43 43 £90,000 +63.64% 2
UK excluding London -79 7 £65,000 +38.93% 5
North of England -4 3 £65,000 +52.94% 1
North West -23 3 £65,000 +52.94% 1
Midlands -26 2 £70,000 +100.00% 1
East Midlands - 2 £70,000 - 1
Scotland -32 1 - - 2
South West - 1 £42,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 17 September 2024, Finance 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 Finance Business Analyst in the job title.

1 68 (100.00%) Finance
2 53 (77.94%) Agile
3 51 (75.00%) SQL
4 50 (73.53%) Python
4 50 (73.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 50 (73.53%) Fixed Income
4 50 (73.53%) Equities
4 50 (73.53%) Front Office
4 50 (73.53%) Asset Management
4 50 (73.53%) Investment Management
4 50 (73.53%) AWS
4 50 (73.53%) Hedge funds
4 50 (73.53%) Derivative
4 50 (73.53%) Product Ownership
5 36 (52.94%) Machine Learning
5 36 (52.94%) Artificial Intelligence
6 34 (50.00%) Analytics
7 32 (47.06%) Banking
8 30 (44.12%) Investment Banking
9 20 (29.41%) Product Management
10 18 (26.47%) Business Analysis
11 17 (25.00%) Roadmaps
11 17 (25.00%) Fintech
12 16 (23.53%) Aladdin
12 16 (23.53%) BISAM
12 16 (23.53%) Portfolio Management
12 16 (23.53%) Bloomberg
12 16 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
13 15 (22.06%) Tableau
14 14 (20.59%) Apache

Finance 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 14 (20.59%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 16 (23.53%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.47%) SAP CO
2 1 (1.47%) SAP FI
2 1 (1.47%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 50 (73.53%) AWS
2 14 (20.59%) dbt
2 14 (20.59%) Power Platform
3 2 (2.94%) Azure
3 2 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.47%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (22.06%) Tableau
2 14 (20.59%) Apache Arrow
2 14 (20.59%) Big Data
2 14 (20.59%) Data Lake
2 14 (20.59%) Dremio
2 14 (20.59%) Power BI
General
1 68 (100.00%) Finance
2 50 (73.53%) Front Office
3 32 (47.06%) Banking
4 30 (44.12%) Investment Banking
5 14 (20.59%) Social Skills
6 13 (19.12%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.47%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 50 (73.53%) Derivative
1 50 (73.53%) Equities
1 50 (73.53%) Fixed Income
1 50 (73.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 50 (73.53%) Hedge funds
1 50 (73.53%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (1.47%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (77.94%) Agile
2 50 (73.53%) Asset Management
2 50 (73.53%) Investment Management
3 36 (52.94%) Artificial Intelligence
3 36 (52.94%) Machine Learning
4 34 (50.00%) Analytics
5 20 (29.41%) Product Management
6 18 (26.47%) Business Analysis
7 17 (25.00%) Fintech
7 17 (25.00%) Roadmaps
8 16 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
8 16 (23.53%) Portfolio Management
9 11 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (13.24%) Data Migration
10 9 (13.24%) Migration
10 9 (13.24%) Project Management
10 9 (13.24%) Workshop Facilitation
11 8 (11.76%) Data Analysis
11 8 (11.76%) Decision-Making
12 7 (10.29%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 51 (75.00%) SQL
2 50 (73.53%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (4.41%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.47%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.47%) PMO
1 1 (1.47%) QA
Vendors
1 16 (23.53%) BISAM
1 16 (23.53%) Bloomberg
2 3 (4.41%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.94%) SAP
4 1 (1.47%) ServiceNow