Technical Business Analyst Job Trends

Technical Business Analyst (Technical BA)
UK

The median Technical Business Analyst (Technical BA) salary in the UK is £56,076 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 August 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 631 644 722
Rank change year-on-year +13 +78 -49
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Business Analyst 155 31 89
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.062% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.069% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 124 26 69
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £39,500
25th Percentile £45,750 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,076 £53,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.33% -10.42% -4.95%
75th Percentile £73,750 £64,688 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £86,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,750 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.50% - -9.09%

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 101,748 44,897 78,977
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.93% 89.88% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 69,683 26,626 51,954
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,150 £47,683 £50,000
% change year-on-year +13.56% -4.63% -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 23 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Technical Business Analyst in the UK

Technical Business Analyst
Top 13 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 23 August 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 +7 142 £55,000 +2.33% 26
UK excluding London -29 104 £53,750 +7.50% 17
North of England +12 64 £46,750 -10.95% 8
Work from Home +2 50 £55,000 +15.79% 14
North West +32 47 £45,000 -14.29% 3
London -6 41 £72,500 +1.75% 12
South East -15 17 £52,500 +10.53% 4
North East - 17 £60,000 - 5
East of England -16 11 £55,000 +10.00%
South West -66 6 £60,000 +9.09% 4
Scotland - 5 £55,000 -
Midlands - 1 £52,500 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £52,500 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 23 August 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 48 (30.97%) SQL
2 47 (30.32%) Stakeholder Management
3 45 (29.03%) Agile
4 43 (27.74%) User Stories
5 31 (20.00%) Business Analysis
6 26 (16.77%) Acceptance Criteria
6 26 (16.77%) Requirements Gathering
7 25 (16.13%) Workshop Facilitation
8 23 (14.84%) JIRA
8 23 (14.84%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (14.19%) Data Analysis
9 22 (14.19%) Data Mapping
10 20 (12.90%) Confluence
10 20 (12.90%) Power BI
10 20 (12.90%) Power Platform
11 18 (11.61%) SDLC
12 17 (10.97%) GAP Analysis
12 17 (10.97%) MS Visio
12 17 (10.97%) Project Delivery
12 17 (10.97%) QA
13 16 (10.32%) Microsoft
14 15 (9.68%) Microsoft Excel
14 15 (9.68%) Process Improvement
14 15 (9.68%) Translating Business Requirements
15 13 (8.39%) Data Modelling
16 12 (7.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 11 (7.10%) Continuous Improvement
17 11 (7.10%) Roadmaps
18 10 (6.45%) Business Intelligence
18 10 (6.45%) Logistics

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 20 (12.90%) Confluence
2 4 (2.58%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.65%) Jupyter
Applications
1 17 (10.97%) MS Visio
2 15 (9.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.65%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (5.81%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 1 (0.65%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 20 (12.90%) Power Platform
2 9 (5.81%) Azure
3 3 (1.94%) ClickUp
3 3 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (1.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (1.29%) SaaS
5 1 (0.65%) AWS
5 1 (0.65%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (0.65%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.65%) Azure Functions
5 1 (0.65%) dbt
5 1 (0.65%) Entra ID
5 1 (0.65%) Figma
5 1 (0.65%) Fivetran
5 1 (0.65%) GCP
5 1 (0.65%) Lucidchart
5 1 (0.65%) Miro
5 1 (0.65%) PowerApps
5 1 (0.65%) Serverless
5 1 (0.65%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.65%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (12.90%) Power BI
2 4 (2.58%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.94%) Tableau
4 2 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.65%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.65%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.65%) Metadata
5 1 (0.65%) Spark SQL
5 1 (0.65%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (14.84%) JIRA
2 3 (1.94%) Git
2 3 (1.94%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.65%) Postman
General
1 38 (24.52%) Social Skills
2 29 (18.71%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (18.06%) Finance
4 14 (9.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (7.74%) Retail
6 6 (3.87%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (3.87%) Legal
7 5 (3.23%) Law
8 4 (2.58%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.58%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.94%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.94%) Publishing
10 2 (1.29%) Advertising
10 2 (1.29%) Banking
11 1 (0.65%) Automotive
11 1 (0.65%) Games
11 1 (0.65%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.65%) Marketing
11 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.58%) JSON
2 2 (1.29%) .NET
3 1 (0.65%) EDI
3 1 (0.65%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (0.65%) Gherkin
3 1 (0.65%) Middleware
3 1 (0.65%) PySpark
3 1 (0.65%) RESTful
3 1 (0.65%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.32%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (3.23%) Equities
2 5 (3.23%) Hedge funds
3 4 (2.58%) EPoS
3 4 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.94%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.29%) Derivative
5 2 (1.29%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.65%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.65%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.65%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.65%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.65%) DTCC
6 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.65%) FMCG
6 1 (0.65%) Hackathon
6 1 (0.65%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.65%) PMI
6 1 (0.65%) Smart Home
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (30.32%) Stakeholder Management
2 45 (29.03%) Agile
3 43 (27.74%) User Stories
4 31 (20.00%) Business Analysis
5 26 (16.77%) Acceptance Criteria
5 26 (16.77%) Requirements Gathering
6 25 (16.13%) Workshop Facilitation
7 23 (14.84%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (14.19%) Data Analysis
8 22 (14.19%) Data Mapping
9 18 (11.61%) SDLC
10 17 (10.97%) GAP Analysis
10 17 (10.97%) Project Delivery
11 15 (9.68%) Process Improvement
11 15 (9.68%) Translating Business Requirements
12 13 (8.39%) Data Modelling
13 12 (7.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 11 (7.10%) Continuous Improvement
14 11 (7.10%) Roadmaps
15 10 (6.45%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 48 (30.97%) SQL
2 5 (3.23%) Java
3 4 (2.58%) Python
4 3 (1.94%) C++
5 2 (1.29%) C#
5 2 (1.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.65%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (5.81%) Security Cleared
2 8 (5.16%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.87%) Degree
4 3 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.65%) CSPO
5 1 (0.65%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.97%) QA
2 4 (2.58%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.94%) ISO 20022
3 3 (1.94%) ISO 8583
4 1 (0.65%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.65%) EMIR
4 1 (0.65%) GDPR
4 1 (0.65%) MiFID
4 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.65%) PMO
Vendors
1 16 (10.32%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.81%) JD Edwards
3 4 (2.58%) Aderant
3 4 (2.58%) iManage
3 4 (2.58%) Intapp
3 4 (2.58%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.65%) Databricks
4 1 (0.65%) OpenLink
4 1 (0.65%) Oracle
4 1 (0.65%) ServiceNow