Technical Business Analyst Job Trends

Technical Business Analyst (Technical BA)
UK

The median Technical Business Analyst (Technical BA) salary in the UK is £58,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 May 2026.

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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 607 606 734
Rank change year-on-year -1 +128 +32
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Business Analyst 104 49 151
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.11% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.12% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 86 44 111
10th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £50,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,250 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +1.05% -9.52% -

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 84,208 39,316 91,343
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.15% 89.55% 94.56%
Number of salaries quoted 55,431 23,382 67,108
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £52,550
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +10.37% -12.42%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%

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 11 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Technical Business Analyst in the UK

Technical 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 Technical Business Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 11 May 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 +2 94 £60,000 +9.09% 28
UK excluding London -27 61 £48,000 +1.05% 22
North of England -19 39 £46,500 -11.43% 6
London -2 37 £77,500 +6.90% 12
Work from Home +23 25 £57,500 +21.05% 19
North West +10 24 £45,000 -14.29% 3
North East -34 10 £60,000 +33.33% 3
South East -20 8 £55,000 +22.22% 3
Yorkshire -46 5 £60,000 +26.32%
Scotland - 5 £55,000 - 5
East of England -10 4 - - 5
South West - 4 £51,250 - 3
West Midlands -26 1 £42,500 -22.73%
Midlands -42 1 £42,500 -22.73%

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 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 31 (29.81%) Stakeholder Management
2 30 (28.85%) Agile
3 29 (27.88%) User Stories
4 27 (25.96%) SQL
5 21 (20.19%) Business Analysis
6 19 (18.27%) Data Analysis
7 17 (16.35%) Data Mapping
8 15 (14.42%) Acceptance Criteria
9 14 (13.46%) Requirements Gathering
10 13 (12.50%) Microsoft
10 13 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (12.50%) Process Improvement
11 12 (11.54%) Power BI
11 12 (11.54%) Power Platform
11 12 (11.54%) Workshop Facilitation
12 11 (10.58%) MS Visio
12 11 (10.58%) User Acceptance Testing
13 10 (9.62%) GAP Analysis
13 10 (9.62%) JIRA
14 9 (8.65%) Confluence
14 9 (8.65%) Microsoft Excel
15 8 (7.69%) Business Process Mapping
15 8 (7.69%) QA
15 8 (7.69%) Requirements Management
15 8 (7.69%) Wireframes
16 7 (6.73%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
16 7 (6.73%) Roadmaps
16 7 (6.73%) Waterfall
17 6 (5.77%) Business Case
17 6 (5.77%) Data Flow Diagram

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 9 (8.65%) Confluence
2 6 (5.77%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.96%) Jupyter
Applications
1 11 (10.58%) MS Visio
2 9 (8.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.96%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 3 (2.88%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 1 (0.96%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 12 (11.54%) Power Platform
2 5 (4.81%) Azure
3 3 (2.88%) AWS
3 3 (2.88%) Serverless
4 2 (1.92%) Amazon Cognito
4 2 (1.92%) Amazon S3
4 2 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (0.96%) Azure Functions
5 1 (0.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (0.96%) ClickUp
5 1 (0.96%) Entra ID
5 1 (0.96%) Figma
5 1 (0.96%) Miro
5 1 (0.96%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.96%) Broadband
1 1 (0.96%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.54%) Power BI
2 3 (2.88%) Relational Database
2 3 (2.88%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.96%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.96%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 10 (9.62%) JIRA
2 1 (0.96%) Postman
General
1 23 (22.12%) Social Skills
2 22 (21.15%) Finance
3 15 (14.42%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (10.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (7.69%) Banking
5 8 (7.69%) Law
6 6 (5.77%) Legal
7 3 (2.88%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.92%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.96%) Games
9 1 (0.96%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.96%) Retail
9 1 (0.96%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.92%) OpenAPI
1 2 (1.92%) Swagger
2 1 (0.96%) .NET
2 1 (0.96%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (0.96%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (2.88%) Equities
1 3 (2.88%) Product Ownership
2 2 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (1.92%) Credit Derivative
2 2 (1.92%) Data Structures
2 2 (1.92%) Derivative
2 2 (1.92%) Digital Wallet
2 2 (1.92%) Interest Rate Derivative
2 2 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (1.92%) Onboarding
2 2 (1.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (0.96%) Client/Server
3 1 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (0.96%) DTCC
3 1 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (0.96%) Fixed Income
3 1 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.96%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (29.81%) Stakeholder Management
2 30 (28.85%) Agile
3 29 (27.88%) User Stories
4 21 (20.19%) Business Analysis
5 19 (18.27%) Data Analysis
6 17 (16.35%) Data Mapping
7 15 (14.42%) Acceptance Criteria
8 14 (13.46%) Requirements Gathering
9 13 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (12.50%) Process Improvement
10 12 (11.54%) Workshop Facilitation
11 11 (10.58%) User Acceptance Testing
12 10 (9.62%) GAP Analysis
13 8 (7.69%) Business Process Mapping
13 8 (7.69%) Requirements Management
13 8 (7.69%) Wireframes
14 7 (6.73%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
14 7 (6.73%) Roadmaps
14 7 (6.73%) Waterfall
15 6 (5.77%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 27 (25.96%) SQL
2 2 (1.92%) Python
3 1 (0.96%) C#
3 1 (0.96%) C++
3 1 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (0.96%) Java
3 1 (0.96%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (5.77%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.81%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.85%) Degree
4 2 (1.92%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.92%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.69%) QA
2 5 (4.81%) COREP
3 2 (1.92%) ISO 20022
3 2 (1.92%) PSD2
4 1 (0.96%) EMIR
4 1 (0.96%) GDPR
4 1 (0.96%) MiFID
Vendors
1 13 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.81%) Aderant
2 5 (4.81%) iManage
2 5 (4.81%) Intapp
3 3 (2.88%) JD Edwards
4 1 (0.96%) OpenLink