Senior Business Analyst Job Trends

Senior Business Analyst (Senior BA)
UK

The median Senior Business Analyst (Senior BA) salary in the UK is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 543 595 544
Rank change year-on-year +52 -51 +28
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Business Analyst 108 116 169
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.21% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.23% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 69 92 128
10th Percentile £52,250 £56,495 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +23.08% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,215 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.36% +0.36% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 53,514 51,440 48,883
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.46% 93.14% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 32,905 27,168 37,760
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,200 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,956 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

Senior Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Business Analyst' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Senior Business Analyst job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior Business Analyst
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Senior Business Analyst job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Business Analyst job vacancies in the UK

Senior Business Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Business Analyst over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Business Analyst in the UK

Senior Business Analyst
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Business Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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 +73 97 £75,000 -6.25% 76
London +15 54 £83,750 +1.52% 30
UK excluding London +69 47 £60,000 -0.36% 56
Work from Home +86 40 £75,000 +22.02% 39
North of England +26 14 £63,750 +7.27% 20
South East +30 10 £57,500 -22.03% 15
North West +28 10 £57,500 -7.58% 13
Midlands +23 9 £75,000 +37.07% 7
West Midlands +19 7 £75,000 +26.20% 4
Scotland +8 7 £54,500 -10.66% 3
East of England +25 5 - - 1
Yorkshire -4 4 £65,000 - 4
South West +9 2 £65,000 +18.18% 9
East Midlands -6 2 £75,000 +66.67% 3

Senior Business Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 January 2026, Senior Business Analyst job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Senior Business Analyst in the job title.

1 55 (50.93%) Agile
2 45 (41.67%) Business Analysis
3 33 (30.56%) User Stories
4 25 (23.15%) Process Improvement
5 23 (21.30%) Waterfall
6 22 (20.37%) Stakeholder Management
7 18 (16.67%) Decision-Making
8 16 (14.81%) AI
8 16 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (14.81%) Requirements Gathering
9 15 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (13.89%) Mentoring
9 15 (13.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 15 (13.89%) Workshop Facilitation
10 14 (12.96%) Business Case
10 14 (12.96%) Coaching
10 14 (12.96%) Project Delivery
10 14 (12.96%) User Acceptance Testing
11 13 (12.04%) Data Analysis
12 12 (11.11%) Degree
12 12 (11.11%) Scrum
12 12 (11.11%) Target Operating Model
13 11 (10.19%) Acceptance Criteria
13 11 (10.19%) SQL
14 10 (9.26%) Business Transformation
14 10 (9.26%) JIRA
15 9 (8.33%) Use Case
16 8 (7.41%) Change Management
16 8 (7.41%) Confluence
16 8 (7.41%) Digital Innovation

Senior Business Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (7.41%) Confluence
2 1 (0.93%) Appian
2 1 (0.93%) CMS
2 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (6.48%) MS Visio
2 4 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (3.70%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (4.63%) Azure
1 5 (4.63%) Power Platform
2 4 (3.70%) AWS
2 4 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (2.78%) OpenShift
4 1 (0.93%) GCP
4 1 (0.93%) Google Ads
4 1 (0.93%) IBM Cloud
4 1 (0.93%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (0.93%) Miro
4 1 (0.93%) SaaS
4 1 (0.93%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.78%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.63%) Power BI
2 3 (2.78%) Tableau
3 2 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.93%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 10 (9.26%) JIRA
General
1 42 (38.89%) Finance
1 42 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 32 (29.63%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (15.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (12.04%) Banking
5 11 (10.19%) Public Sector
6 8 (7.41%) Retail
7 7 (6.48%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (5.56%) Telecoms
9 5 (4.63%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (4.63%) Front Office
10 4 (3.70%) Advertising
10 4 (3.70%) Games
10 4 (3.70%) Marketing
11 3 (2.78%) Back Office
12 2 (1.85%) Law
13 1 (0.93%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.93%) Legal
13 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.78%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 17 (15.74%) Product Ownership
2 10 (9.26%) Management Information System
2 10 (9.26%) Reinsurance
3 9 (8.33%) Fixed Income
4 4 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.78%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.78%) Equities
6 2 (1.85%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.93%) Blog
7 1 (0.93%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.93%) CMDB
7 1 (0.93%) Derivative
7 1 (0.93%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.93%) NHS
7 1 (0.93%) Podcast
7 1 (0.93%) Shadow IT
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (50.93%) Agile
2 45 (41.67%) Business Analysis
3 33 (30.56%) User Stories
4 25 (23.15%) Process Improvement
5 23 (21.30%) Waterfall
6 22 (20.37%) Stakeholder Management
7 18 (16.67%) Decision-Making
8 16 (14.81%) AI
8 16 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (14.81%) Requirements Gathering
9 15 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (13.89%) Mentoring
9 15 (13.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 15 (13.89%) Workshop Facilitation
10 14 (12.96%) Business Case
10 14 (12.96%) Coaching
10 14 (12.96%) Project Delivery
10 14 (12.96%) User Acceptance Testing
11 13 (12.04%) Data Analysis
12 12 (11.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 11 (10.19%) SQL
2 3 (2.78%) C++
2 3 (2.78%) Java
Qualifications
1 12 (11.11%) Degree
2 8 (7.41%) SC Cleared
2 8 (7.41%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.78%) CSPO
4 2 (1.85%) CBAP
4 2 (1.85%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.93%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.48%) QA
2 3 (2.78%) PMO
3 2 (1.85%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.93%) EMIR
4 1 (0.93%) GDPR
4 1 (0.93%) MiFID
Vendors
1 7 (6.48%) SAP
2 6 (5.56%) Salesforce
3 5 (4.63%) Guidewire
4 4 (3.70%) Charles River
4 4 (3.70%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.78%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.93%) Calypso
6 1 (0.93%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.93%) IBM
6 1 (0.93%) Workday