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 31 March 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 622 539 705
Rank change year-on-year -83 +166 +54
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Business Analyst 82 83 150
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.20% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.23% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 63 78 104
10th Percentile £40,250 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £49,000 £47,500 £50,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -14.81% +12.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,688 £76,375
90th Percentile £92,200 £83,750 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% - +1.68%

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 72,784 36,840 84,649
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.14% 89.99% 94.57%
Number of salaries quoted 46,735 23,216 63,790
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,550
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £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 £78,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -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 31 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 31 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 -60 70 £60,000 +4.35% 28
UK excluding London -52 40 £55,000 +4.76% 21
London -27 35 £70,000 -5.08% 10
Work from Home -5 25 £57,500 +9.52% 12
North of England -48 21 £57,500 +9.52% 13
North West -20 9 £45,000 -14.29% 6
South East -28 7 £45,000 - 5
Yorkshire -39 7 £60,000 +26.32%
Scotland - 6 £55,000 - 1
North East -15 5 £60,000 +33.33% 7
South West - 4 £40,000 - 1
West Midlands -15 1 £42,500 -20.93%
East of England -27 1 - -
Midlands -39 1 £42,500 -22.73% 1

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

For the 6 months to 31 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 34 (41.46%) Agile
2 25 (30.49%) User Stories
3 23 (28.05%) SQL
4 20 (24.39%) Business Analysis
5 17 (20.73%) Stakeholder Management
6 16 (19.51%) Data Analysis
7 15 (18.29%) Acceptance Criteria
8 14 (17.07%) Requirements Gathering
9 12 (14.63%) Process Improvement
10 10 (12.20%) JIRA
11 9 (10.98%) Azure
11 9 (10.98%) Confluence
11 9 (10.98%) Roadmaps
11 9 (10.98%) User Acceptance Testing
12 8 (9.76%) Requirements Management
13 7 (8.54%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
13 7 (8.54%) DevOps
13 7 (8.54%) Waterfall
13 7 (8.54%) Workshop Facilitation
14 6 (7.32%) AWS
14 6 (7.32%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (7.32%) Business Case
14 6 (7.32%) Data Modelling
14 6 (7.32%) Fintech
14 6 (7.32%) Microsoft
14 6 (7.32%) Problem-Solving
14 6 (7.32%) Python
14 6 (7.32%) QA
14 6 (7.32%) SDLC
14 6 (7.32%) Sprint Planning

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 (10.98%) Confluence
2 4 (4.88%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.22%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (4.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (4.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 9 (10.98%) Azure
2 6 (7.32%) AWS
2 6 (7.32%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (3.66%) OpenShift
3 3 (3.66%) Power Platform
3 3 (3.66%) Serverless
4 2 (2.44%) Amazon Cognito
4 2 (2.44%) Amazon S3
4 2 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.22%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.22%) Azure Functions
5 1 (1.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (1.22%) ClickUp
5 1 (1.22%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.66%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.66%) Power BI
1 3 (3.66%) Relational Database
1 3 (3.66%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.22%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.22%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.22%) Metadata
3 1 (1.22%) Spark SQL
3 1 (1.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (12.20%) JIRA
General
1 31 (37.80%) Finance
2 21 (25.61%) Social Skills
3 12 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.98%) Banking
5 5 (6.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (6.10%) Law
6 4 (4.88%) Financial Institution
6 4 (4.88%) Telecoms
7 3 (3.66%) Games
7 3 (3.66%) Marketing
7 3 (3.66%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.44%) Front Office
8 2 (2.44%) Legal
9 1 (1.22%) Electronics
9 1 (1.22%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.22%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.22%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.66%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (2.44%) OpenAPI
2 2 (2.44%) Swagger
3 1 (1.22%) .NET
3 1 (1.22%) PySpark
3 1 (1.22%) React
3 1 (1.22%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.32%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.10%) Equities
3 4 (4.88%) Fixed Income
4 3 (3.66%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.66%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (3.66%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.44%) Credit Derivative
5 2 (2.44%) Derivative
5 2 (2.44%) Digital Wallet
5 2 (2.44%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 2 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.44%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.22%) DTCC
6 1 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.22%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.22%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.66%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (41.46%) Agile
2 25 (30.49%) User Stories
3 20 (24.39%) Business Analysis
4 17 (20.73%) Stakeholder Management
5 16 (19.51%) Data Analysis
6 15 (18.29%) Acceptance Criteria
7 14 (17.07%) Requirements Gathering
8 12 (14.63%) Process Improvement
9 9 (10.98%) Roadmaps
9 9 (10.98%) User Acceptance Testing
10 8 (9.76%) Requirements Management
11 7 (8.54%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
11 7 (8.54%) DevOps
11 7 (8.54%) Waterfall
11 7 (8.54%) Workshop Facilitation
12 6 (7.32%) Business Case
12 6 (7.32%) Fintech
12 6 (7.32%) SDLC
12 6 (7.32%) Sprint Planning
12 6 (7.32%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 23 (28.05%) SQL
2 6 (7.32%) Python
3 5 (6.10%) Java
4 3 (3.66%) C#
4 3 (3.66%) C++
5 1 (1.22%) Go
5 1 (1.22%) PHP
5 1 (1.22%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (6.10%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.88%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.44%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.44%) Degree
3 2 (2.44%) IIBA
4 1 (1.22%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.32%) QA
2 5 (6.10%) COREP
3 2 (2.44%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.44%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.44%) PSD2
4 1 (1.22%) EMIR
4 1 (1.22%) MiFID
System Software
1 1 (1.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (7.32%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.44%) Aderant
2 2 (2.44%) iManage
2 2 (2.44%) Intapp
3 1 (1.22%) Charles River
3 1 (1.22%) OpenLink
3 1 (1.22%) SAP