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 13 September 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 625 639 723
Rank change year-on-year +14 +84 -73
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Business Analyst 168 34 74
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.069% 0.095%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.076% 0.099%
Number of salaries quoted 131 29 60
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £39,750
25th Percentile £46,375 £47,500 £51,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £71,250 £63,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,500 £81,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £49,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% +1.01% -10.00%

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 106,084 44,466 74,570
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.44% 89.67% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 73,032 26,165 45,576
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.36% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 13 September 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 13 September 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 +20 152 £60,000 +9.09% 54
UK excluding London -19 110 £55,000 +10.00% 28
North of England +5 65 £46,500 -11.43% 6
Work from Home -2 52 £55,000 +15.79% 27
London -10 48 £67,500 +1.89% 36
North West +28 46 £45,000 -14.29% 1
North East - 19 £60,000 - 4
South East -32 13 £53,750 +13.16% 8
South West -60 12 £61,250 +11.36% 6
East of England -25 11 £55,000 +10.00%
Scotland +13 7 £65,000 - 4
Midlands - 1 £52,500 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £52,500 - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £75,000 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 13 September 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 55 (32.74%) Stakeholder Management
2 52 (30.95%) SQL
3 51 (30.36%) Agile
4 48 (28.57%) User Stories
5 37 (22.02%) Business Analysis
6 32 (19.05%) Requirements Gathering
7 30 (17.86%) Workshop Facilitation
8 29 (17.26%) Acceptance Criteria
9 26 (15.48%) Data Analysis
9 26 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
10 25 (14.88%) JIRA
11 22 (13.10%) Confluence
11 22 (13.10%) Data Mapping
12 21 (12.50%) Power BI
12 21 (12.50%) Power Platform
13 20 (11.90%) QA
13 20 (11.90%) Translating Business Requirements
14 19 (11.31%) GAP Analysis
14 19 (11.31%) Microsoft
14 19 (11.31%) SDLC
15 18 (10.71%) Process Improvement
15 18 (10.71%) Project Delivery
16 17 (10.12%) MS Visio
17 15 (8.93%) Microsoft Excel
17 15 (8.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 13 (7.74%) Data Modelling
18 13 (7.74%) Scrum
19 12 (7.14%) Requirements Workshops
20 11 (6.55%) Business Intelligence
20 11 (6.55%) Continuous Improvement

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 22 (13.10%) Confluence
2 4 (2.38%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 17 (10.12%) MS Visio
2 15 (8.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.60%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (5.36%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 1 (0.60%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.60%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 21 (12.50%) Power Platform
2 10 (5.95%) Azure
3 3 (1.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 3 (1.79%) ClickUp
3 3 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (1.19%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (1.19%) SaaS
5 1 (0.60%) AWS
5 1 (0.60%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.60%) dbt
5 1 (0.60%) Entra ID
5 1 (0.60%) Figma
5 1 (0.60%) Fivetran
5 1 (0.60%) GCP
5 1 (0.60%) Lucidchart
5 1 (0.60%) Miro
5 1 (0.60%) PowerApps
5 1 (0.60%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.60%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (12.50%) Power BI
2 5 (2.98%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.79%) Tableau
4 2 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.19%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.60%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.60%) Metadata
5 1 (0.60%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 25 (14.88%) JIRA
2 3 (1.79%) Git
2 3 (1.79%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.60%) Postman
General
1 42 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 29 (17.26%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (16.67%) Finance
4 13 (7.74%) Retail
5 12 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (3.57%) Legal
7 5 (2.98%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.98%) Law
8 4 (2.38%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.38%) Publishing
9 3 (1.79%) Banking
9 3 (1.79%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.19%) Advertising
10 2 (1.19%) Automotive
10 2 (1.19%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.19%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.60%) Front Office
11 1 (0.60%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.98%) JSON
2 2 (1.19%) .NET
2 2 (1.19%) XML
3 1 (0.60%) EDI
3 1 (0.60%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (0.60%) Gherkin
3 1 (0.60%) Middleware
3 1 (0.60%) REST
3 1 (0.60%) RESTful
3 1 (0.60%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 6 (3.57%) Equities
2 6 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (2.98%) Hedge funds
4 4 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.38%) EPoS
5 3 (1.79%) Derivative
5 3 (1.79%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.19%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.19%) FMCG
6 2 (1.19%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.19%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.60%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.60%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.60%) Hackathon
7 1 (0.60%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.60%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.60%) Smart Home
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (32.74%) Stakeholder Management
2 51 (30.36%) Agile
3 48 (28.57%) User Stories
4 37 (22.02%) Business Analysis
5 32 (19.05%) Requirements Gathering
6 30 (17.86%) Workshop Facilitation
7 29 (17.26%) Acceptance Criteria
8 26 (15.48%) Data Analysis
8 26 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (13.10%) Data Mapping
10 20 (11.90%) Translating Business Requirements
11 19 (11.31%) GAP Analysis
11 19 (11.31%) SDLC
12 18 (10.71%) Process Improvement
12 18 (10.71%) Project Delivery
13 15 (8.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 13 (7.74%) Data Modelling
14 13 (7.74%) Scrum
15 12 (7.14%) Requirements Workshops
16 11 (6.55%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 52 (30.95%) SQL
2 6 (3.57%) Python
3 5 (2.98%) Java
4 3 (1.79%) C++
5 2 (1.19%) C#
5 2 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 9 (5.36%) Security Cleared
2 8 (4.76%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.17%) Degree
4 3 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.60%) CSPO
5 1 (0.60%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (11.90%) QA
2 6 (3.57%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.79%) ISO 20022
3 3 (1.79%) ISO 8583
4 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.60%) EMIR
4 1 (0.60%) GDPR
4 1 (0.60%) MiFID
4 1 (0.60%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.60%) PMO
Vendors
1 19 (11.31%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.36%) JD Edwards
3 5 (2.98%) Salesforce
4 4 (2.38%) Aderant
4 4 (2.38%) iManage
4 4 (2.38%) Intapp
5 2 (1.19%) Oracle
5 2 (1.19%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.60%) Databricks
6 1 (0.60%) OpenLink
6 1 (0.60%) Workday