Technical Business Analyst Job Trends

Technical Business Analyst (Technical BA)
UK

The median Technical Business Analyst (Technical BA) salary in the UK is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 February 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 603 598 685
Rank change year-on-year -5 +87 +96
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Business Analyst 66 89 134
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.095% 0.19% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.20% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 42 85 99
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,625 £47,500 £50,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -14.81% +12.50%
75th Percentile £79,688 £73,750 £79,375
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £100,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -14.63% +20.86%

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 63,671 43,489 71,074
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.39% 91.35% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 40,181 23,175 55,274
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £39,280
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

Technical Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Technical Business Analyst job vacancy trend in the UK

Technical Business Analyst
Salary Trend

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

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

Technical Business Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Business Analyst over the 6 months to 26 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Technical Business Analyst in the UK

Technical Business Analyst
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Business Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 26 February 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 -15 55 £60,000 +6.67% 34
UK excluding London -6 32 £55,000 +4.76% 29
London +26 31 £68,750 -5.17% 14
Work from Home +35 29 £57,500 +9.52% 19
North of England -24 13 £57,500 +9.52% 10
Scotland - 9 £55,000 - 3
Yorkshire -39 7 £60,000 +6.67% 4
North West -15 6 £46,500 -11.43% 4
South West - 6 £41,250 - 1
South East -14 2 £100,000 +122.22% 10
West Midlands +13 1 £42,500 -20.93% 3
East of England +7 1 - - 1
Midlands -3 1 £42,500 -22.73% 4

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

For the 6 months to 26 February 2026, Technical 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 Technical Business Analyst in the job title.

1 39 (59.09%) Agile
2 32 (48.48%) User Stories
3 29 (43.94%) SQL
4 20 (30.30%) Acceptance Criteria
5 19 (28.79%) Business Analysis
6 18 (27.27%) Data Analysis
6 18 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
7 15 (22.73%) Azure
8 14 (21.21%) DevOps
8 14 (21.21%) JIRA
9 13 (19.70%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (19.70%) Confluence
10 12 (18.18%) Asset Management
10 12 (18.18%) Requirements Gathering
11 11 (16.67%) Validation
12 10 (15.15%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (15.15%) Python
12 10 (15.15%) Sprint Planning
13 9 (13.64%) User Acceptance Testing
14 8 (12.12%) Coaching
14 8 (12.12%) Mentoring
14 8 (12.12%) Process Improvement
14 8 (12.12%) Requirements Management
15 7 (10.61%) AWS
15 7 (10.61%) Business Intelligence
15 7 (10.61%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
15 7 (10.61%) SDLC
16 6 (9.09%) Business Case
16 6 (9.09%) Data Modelling
16 6 (9.09%) Decision-Making

Technical 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 13 (19.70%) Confluence
2 4 (6.06%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.52%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (6.06%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 15 (22.73%) Azure
2 13 (19.70%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (10.61%) AWS
4 6 (9.09%) Power Platform
5 4 (6.06%) Snowflake
6 3 (4.55%) OpenShift
6 3 (4.55%) Serverless
7 2 (3.03%) Amazon Cognito
7 2 (3.03%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.52%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.52%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.52%) Figma
8 1 (1.52%) Lucidchart
8 1 (1.52%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.55%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.09%) Power BI
2 4 (6.06%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 4 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (6.06%) Metadata
2 4 (6.06%) Tableau
3 3 (4.55%) Relational Database
3 3 (4.55%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.52%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.52%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 14 (21.21%) JIRA
General
1 35 (53.03%) Finance
2 25 (37.88%) Social Skills
3 12 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (13.64%) Banking
5 5 (7.58%) Front Office
5 5 (7.58%) Law
6 4 (6.06%) Marketing
6 4 (6.06%) Telecoms
7 3 (4.55%) Financial Institution
7 3 (4.55%) Games
7 3 (4.55%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.52%) Electronics
9 1 (1.52%) Health Technology
9 1 (1.52%) Legal
9 1 (1.52%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.52%) Military
9 1 (1.52%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.55%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (3.03%) OpenAPI
2 2 (3.03%) Swagger
3 1 (1.52%) .NET
3 1 (1.52%) EDI
3 1 (1.52%) JSON
3 1 (1.52%) Middleware
3 1 (1.52%) PySpark
3 1 (1.52%) React
3 1 (1.52%) RESTful
3 1 (1.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (19.70%) Product Ownership
2 5 (7.58%) Equities
3 4 (6.06%) Fixed Income
4 3 (4.55%) Data Structures
4 3 (4.55%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.03%) Credit Derivative
5 2 (3.03%) Derivative
5 2 (3.03%) Digital Wallet
5 2 (3.03%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 2 (3.03%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.52%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (59.09%) Agile
2 32 (48.48%) User Stories
3 20 (30.30%) Acceptance Criteria
4 19 (28.79%) Business Analysis
5 18 (27.27%) Data Analysis
5 18 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
6 14 (21.21%) DevOps
7 12 (18.18%) Asset Management
7 12 (18.18%) Requirements Gathering
8 11 (16.67%) Validation
9 10 (15.15%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (15.15%) Sprint Planning
10 9 (13.64%) User Acceptance Testing
11 8 (12.12%) Coaching
11 8 (12.12%) Mentoring
11 8 (12.12%) Process Improvement
11 8 (12.12%) Requirements Management
12 7 (10.61%) Business Intelligence
12 7 (10.61%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
12 7 (10.61%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 29 (43.94%) SQL
2 10 (15.15%) Python
3 5 (7.58%) Java
4 4 (6.06%) C#
5 3 (4.55%) C++
6 1 (1.52%) Go
6 1 (1.52%) PHP
6 1 (1.52%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (4.55%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.03%) AWS Certification
2 2 (3.03%) Degree
2 2 (3.03%) IIBA
2 2 (3.03%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.52%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.09%) QA
2 5 (7.58%) COREP
3 3 (4.55%) Data Quality
4 2 (3.03%) ISO 20022
4 2 (3.03%) PSD2
5 1 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (1.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.52%) Grafana
1 1 (1.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (6.06%) Charles River
2 3 (4.55%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.52%) Aderant
3 1 (1.52%) iManage
3 1 (1.52%) Intapp
3 1 (1.52%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.52%) SAP