Technical Business Analyst Job Trends

Technical Business Analyst (Technical BA)
UK

The median Technical Business Analyst (Technical BA) salary in the UK is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 June 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 611 650 778
Rank change year-on-year +39 +128 -41
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Business Analyst 128 36 128
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.078% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.087% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 102 31 99
10th Percentile £42,225 £42,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £45,188 £44,375 £50,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,625 £75,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,125 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +11.84% -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 89,842 41,384 100,134
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 89.50% 94.73%
Number of salaries quoted 61,632 23,849 72,187
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.00% - -6.54%

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 28 June 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 28 June 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 +11 115 £55,000 - 19
UK excluding London -8 84 £53,125 +11.84% 17
North of England -13 47 £48,000 -4.00% 5
London -7 35 £70,000 -3.45% 6
North West +26 32 £45,000 -14.29% 1
Work from Home +19 29 £55,000 +15.79% 11
South East -11 16 £52,500 +16.67% 7
North East -34 13 £60,000 +33.33%
East of England -1 11 £51,250 -18.00%
Scotland - 5 £55,000 -
South West -63 4 £47,500 -13.64% 4
Yorkshire -37 2 £58,750 +38.24% 4
West Midlands -21 1 £42,500 -22.73%
Midlands -33 1 £42,500 -22.73%

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

For the 6 months to 28 June 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 41 (32.03%) Agile
2 40 (31.25%) User Stories
3 36 (28.13%) Stakeholder Management
4 33 (25.78%) SQL
5 29 (22.66%) Business Analysis
6 24 (18.75%) Acceptance Criteria
7 19 (14.84%) Data Mapping
8 18 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (14.06%) Requirements Gathering
9 17 (13.28%) Data Analysis
9 17 (13.28%) GAP Analysis
9 17 (13.28%) JIRA
10 16 (12.50%) Process Improvement
11 15 (11.72%) Confluence
11 15 (11.72%) Power BI
11 15 (11.72%) Power Platform
11 15 (11.72%) QA
11 15 (11.72%) Workshop Facilitation
12 13 (10.16%) Microsoft
12 13 (10.16%) MS Visio
13 10 (7.81%) Microsoft Excel
13 10 (7.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 10 (7.81%) User Acceptance Testing
14 9 (7.03%) Business Case
14 9 (7.03%) Business Process Mapping
14 9 (7.03%) Continuous Improvement
14 9 (7.03%) JD Edwards
14 9 (7.03%) JDE EnterpriseOne
14 9 (7.03%) SDLC
14 9 (7.03%) Wireframes

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 15 (11.72%) Confluence
2 6 (4.69%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.78%) Jupyter
Applications
1 13 (10.16%) MS Visio
2 10 (7.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.34%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.78%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (7.03%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 1 (0.78%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 15 (11.72%) Power Platform
2 6 (4.69%) Azure
3 2 (1.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (1.56%) ClickUp
3 2 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (1.56%) Serverless
4 1 (0.78%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (0.78%) Amazon S3
4 1 (0.78%) AWS
4 1 (0.78%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (0.78%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (0.78%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (0.78%) Azure Functions
4 1 (0.78%) Entra ID
4 1 (0.78%) Figma
4 1 (0.78%) Lucidchart
4 1 (0.78%) Miro
4 1 (0.78%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.78%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.72%) Power BI
2 3 (2.34%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.78%) Delta Lake
3 1 (0.78%) Spark SQL
3 1 (0.78%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (13.28%) JIRA
2 1 (0.78%) Git
2 1 (0.78%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.78%) Postman
General
1 29 (22.66%) Social Skills
2 26 (20.31%) Finance
3 23 (17.97%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (10.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (5.47%) Law
6 6 (4.69%) Legal
7 4 (3.13%) Retail
8 3 (2.34%) Banking
8 3 (2.34%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.56%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.78%) Advertising
10 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.78%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.78%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.78%) Marketing
10 1 (0.78%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.13%) JSON
2 1 (0.78%) .NET
2 1 (0.78%) EDI
2 1 (0.78%) Gherkin
2 1 (0.78%) Middleware
2 1 (0.78%) OpenAPI
2 1 (0.78%) PySpark
2 1 (0.78%) Swagger
2 1 (0.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.91%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (2.34%) Hedge funds
4 2 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.56%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.78%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.78%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.78%) Credit Risk
5 1 (0.78%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.78%) Digital Wallet
5 1 (0.78%) DTCC
5 1 (0.78%) EPoS
5 1 (0.78%) Equities
5 1 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.78%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (32.03%) Agile
2 40 (31.25%) User Stories
3 36 (28.13%) Stakeholder Management
4 29 (22.66%) Business Analysis
5 24 (18.75%) Acceptance Criteria
6 19 (14.84%) Data Mapping
7 18 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (14.06%) Requirements Gathering
8 17 (13.28%) Data Analysis
8 17 (13.28%) GAP Analysis
9 16 (12.50%) Process Improvement
10 15 (11.72%) Workshop Facilitation
11 10 (7.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 10 (7.81%) User Acceptance Testing
12 9 (7.03%) Business Case
12 9 (7.03%) Business Process Mapping
12 9 (7.03%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (7.03%) SDLC
12 9 (7.03%) Wireframes
13 8 (6.25%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 33 (25.78%) SQL
2 3 (2.34%) Python
3 2 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (1.56%) Java
4 1 (0.78%) C#
4 1 (0.78%) C++
4 1 (0.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (4.69%) Security Cleared
2 5 (3.91%) Degree
2 5 (3.91%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.78%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.78%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.72%) QA
2 4 (3.13%) ISO 20022
3 3 (2.34%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.34%) ISO 8583
4 1 (0.78%) EMIR
4 1 (0.78%) GDPR
4 1 (0.78%) MiFID
4 1 (0.78%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.78%) PSD2
Vendors
1 13 (10.16%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.03%) JD Edwards
3 5 (3.91%) Aderant
3 5 (3.91%) iManage
3 5 (3.91%) Intapp
4 3 (2.34%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.78%) Databricks
5 1 (0.78%) OpenLink
5 1 (0.78%) Oracle