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 20 March 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 613 567 676
Rank change year-on-year -46 +109 +101
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Business Analyst 77 87 151
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.21% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.23% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 57 82 105
10th Percentile £39,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,563 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,250 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -16.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £94,400 £83,750 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% - +1.94%

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 69,320 38,229 80,901
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.97% 90.36% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 44,176 23,016 61,754
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £43,419 £38,750
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 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,934
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -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 20 March 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 20 March 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 -49 66 £60,000 +9.09% 22
UK excluding London -30 38 £55,000 +4.76% 18
London -10 35 £73,750 +1.72% 6
Work from Home +9 28 £57,500 +9.52% 12
North of England -42 17 £57,500 +9.52% 10
North West -23 8 £45,000 -14.29% 2
Scotland - 8 £55,000 - 1
South East -21 7 £45,000 - 3
Yorkshire -39 7 £60,000 +26.32% 1
South West - 4 £40,000 - 2
North East -25 2 £60,000 -4.00% 7
West Midlands +1 1 £42,500 -20.93%
East of England -12 1 - -
Midlands -37 1 £42,500 -22.73% 1

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

For the 6 months to 20 March 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 36 (46.75%) Agile
2 26 (33.77%) User Stories
3 25 (32.47%) SQL
4 20 (25.97%) Business Analysis
5 17 (22.08%) Acceptance Criteria
6 16 (20.78%) Data Analysis
6 16 (20.78%) Stakeholder Management
7 13 (16.88%) Requirements Gathering
8 11 (14.29%) Azure
8 11 (14.29%) JIRA
9 10 (12.99%) Confluence
9 10 (12.99%) Process Improvement
10 9 (11.69%) DevOps
10 9 (11.69%) Roadmaps
10 9 (11.69%) User Acceptance Testing
11 8 (10.39%) Asset Management
11 8 (10.39%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (10.39%) Python
11 8 (10.39%) Requirements Management
12 7 (9.09%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
12 7 (9.09%) Fintech
12 7 (9.09%) Mentoring
12 7 (9.09%) SDLC
12 7 (9.09%) Sprint Planning
12 7 (9.09%) Validation
12 7 (9.09%) Waterfall
13 6 (7.79%) AWS
13 6 (7.79%) Business Case
13 6 (7.79%) Continuous Improvement
13 6 (7.79%) Data Modelling

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 10 (12.99%) Confluence
2 4 (5.19%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.30%) Jupyter
Applications
1 5 (6.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.19%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (14.29%) Azure
2 8 (10.39%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (7.79%) AWS
4 3 (3.90%) OpenShift
4 3 (3.90%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.90%) Serverless
5 2 (2.60%) Amazon Cognito
5 2 (2.60%) Amazon S3
5 2 (2.60%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (2.60%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.30%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.30%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.30%) ClickUp
6 1 (1.30%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.90%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.90%) Power BI
1 3 (3.90%) Relational Database
1 3 (3.90%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.60%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.60%) Metadata
2 2 (2.60%) Tableau
3 1 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.30%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.30%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 11 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 33 (42.86%) Finance
2 23 (29.87%) Social Skills
3 12 (15.58%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (11.69%) Banking
5 5 (6.49%) Law
6 4 (5.19%) Financial Institution
6 4 (5.19%) Marketing
6 4 (5.19%) Telecoms
7 3 (3.90%) Front Office
7 3 (3.90%) Games
7 3 (3.90%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.30%) Electronics
9 1 (1.30%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.30%) Legal
9 1 (1.30%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.30%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.90%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (2.60%) OpenAPI
2 2 (2.60%) Swagger
3 1 (1.30%) .NET
3 1 (1.30%) PySpark
3 1 (1.30%) React
3 1 (1.30%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.69%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.49%) Equities
3 4 (5.19%) Fixed Income
4 3 (3.90%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.90%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.60%) Credit Derivative
5 2 (2.60%) Derivative
5 2 (2.60%) Digital Wallet
5 2 (2.60%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 2 (2.60%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.30%) DTCC
6 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.30%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.90%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (46.75%) Agile
2 26 (33.77%) User Stories
3 20 (25.97%) Business Analysis
4 17 (22.08%) Acceptance Criteria
5 16 (20.78%) Data Analysis
5 16 (20.78%) Stakeholder Management
6 13 (16.88%) Requirements Gathering
7 10 (12.99%) Process Improvement
8 9 (11.69%) DevOps
8 9 (11.69%) Roadmaps
8 9 (11.69%) User Acceptance Testing
9 8 (10.39%) Asset Management
9 8 (10.39%) Requirements Management
10 7 (9.09%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
10 7 (9.09%) Fintech
10 7 (9.09%) Mentoring
10 7 (9.09%) SDLC
10 7 (9.09%) Sprint Planning
10 7 (9.09%) Validation
10 7 (9.09%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 25 (32.47%) SQL
2 8 (10.39%) Python
3 5 (6.49%) Java
4 4 (5.19%) C#
5 3 (3.90%) C++
6 1 (1.30%) Go
6 1 (1.30%) PHP
6 1 (1.30%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (5.19%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.90%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.60%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.60%) Degree
3 2 (2.60%) IIBA
4 1 (1.30%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.49%) COREP
1 5 (6.49%) QA
2 3 (3.90%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.60%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.60%) PSD2
4 1 (1.30%) EMIR
4 1 (1.30%) MiFID
System Software
1 1 (1.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.30%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (5.19%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.60%) Charles River
3 1 (1.30%) Aderant
3 1 (1.30%) iManage
3 1 (1.30%) Intapp
3 1 (1.30%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.30%) SAP