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 6 September 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 626 647 714
Rank change year-on-year +21 +67 -35
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Business Analyst 163 33 80
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.067% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.074% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 126 30 65
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £38,500
25th Percentile £45,875 £47,500 £51,250
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 £81,250 £83,000 £82,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 104,733 44,390 75,643
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.79% 89.68% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 72,126 26,208 47,516
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,132 £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 £76,500 £74,813 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £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 6 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 6 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 +4 150 £60,000 +9.09% 44
UK excluding London -9 107 £55,000 +10.00% 29
North of England -4 66 £46,750 -10.95% 7
Work from Home -2 52 £55,000 +15.79% 22
North West +21 46 £45,000 -14.29% 2
London -33 46 £67,500 +1.89% 27
North East - 20 £60,000 - 4
South East -30 15 £55,000 +15.79% 10
East of England -24 11 £55,000 +10.00%
South West -67 9 £60,000 +9.09% 5
Scotland - 4 £61,250 - 3
Midlands - 1 £52,500 - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £75,000 - 3
West Midlands - 1 £52,500 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 6 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 52 (31.90%) Stakeholder Management
2 51 (31.29%) Agile
3 50 (30.67%) SQL
4 48 (29.45%) User Stories
5 36 (22.09%) Business Analysis
6 31 (19.02%) Requirements Gathering
7 30 (18.40%) Acceptance Criteria
8 29 (17.79%) Workshop Facilitation
9 27 (16.56%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (15.95%) JIRA
11 24 (14.72%) Data Analysis
12 23 (14.11%) Confluence
13 22 (13.50%) Data Mapping
14 20 (12.27%) Power BI
14 20 (12.27%) Power Platform
15 19 (11.66%) Process Improvement
15 19 (11.66%) QA
15 19 (11.66%) SDLC
15 19 (11.66%) Translating Business Requirements
16 18 (11.04%) GAP Analysis
16 18 (11.04%) Microsoft
16 18 (11.04%) MS Visio
16 18 (11.04%) Project Delivery
17 15 (9.20%) Microsoft Excel
17 15 (9.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 13 (7.98%) Data Modelling
19 12 (7.36%) Scrum
20 11 (6.75%) Continuous Improvement
20 11 (6.75%) Logistics
20 11 (6.75%) Requirements Workshops

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 23 (14.11%) Confluence
2 4 (2.45%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 18 (11.04%) MS Visio
2 15 (9.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.45%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.61%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (5.52%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 1 (0.61%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.61%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 20 (12.27%) Power Platform
2 10 (6.13%) Azure
3 4 (2.45%) ClickUp
4 3 (1.84%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (1.23%) SaaS
6 1 (0.61%) AWS
6 1 (0.61%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.61%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.61%) dbt
6 1 (0.61%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.61%) Figma
6 1 (0.61%) Fivetran
6 1 (0.61%) GCP
6 1 (0.61%) Lucidchart
6 1 (0.61%) Miro
6 1 (0.61%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.61%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.61%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (12.27%) Power BI
2 5 (3.07%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.84%) Tableau
4 2 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.61%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.61%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.61%) Metadata
5 1 (0.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 26 (15.95%) JIRA
2 3 (1.84%) Git
2 3 (1.84%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.61%) Postman
General
1 40 (24.54%) Social Skills
2 30 (18.40%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (17.79%) Finance
4 13 (7.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (7.98%) Retail
5 6 (3.68%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (3.68%) Legal
6 5 (3.07%) Law
7 4 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.45%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.45%) Publishing
8 3 (1.84%) Banking
8 3 (1.84%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.23%) Advertising
9 2 (1.23%) Automotive
9 2 (1.23%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.23%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Games
10 1 (0.61%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.07%) JSON
2 2 (1.23%) .NET
2 2 (1.23%) XML
3 1 (0.61%) EDI
3 1 (0.61%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (0.61%) Gherkin
3 1 (0.61%) Middleware
3 1 (0.61%) RESTful
3 1 (0.61%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 19 (11.66%) Product Ownership
2 6 (3.68%) Equities
3 5 (3.07%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (3.07%) Hedge funds
4 4 (2.45%) EPoS
4 4 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.84%) Derivative
5 3 (1.84%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.23%) FMCG
6 2 (1.23%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.61%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.61%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.61%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.61%) DTCC
7 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.61%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (0.61%) Hackathon
7 1 (0.61%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.61%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (31.90%) Stakeholder Management
2 51 (31.29%) Agile
3 48 (29.45%) User Stories
4 36 (22.09%) Business Analysis
5 31 (19.02%) Requirements Gathering
6 30 (18.40%) Acceptance Criteria
7 29 (17.79%) Workshop Facilitation
8 27 (16.56%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (14.72%) Data Analysis
10 22 (13.50%) Data Mapping
11 19 (11.66%) Process Improvement
11 19 (11.66%) SDLC
11 19 (11.66%) Translating Business Requirements
12 18 (11.04%) GAP Analysis
12 18 (11.04%) Project Delivery
13 15 (9.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 13 (7.98%) Data Modelling
15 12 (7.36%) Scrum
16 11 (6.75%) Logistics
16 11 (6.75%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 50 (30.67%) SQL
2 5 (3.07%) Java
2 5 (3.07%) Python
3 3 (1.84%) C++
4 2 (1.23%) C#
4 2 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 9 (5.52%) Security Cleared
2 8 (4.91%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.29%) Degree
4 3 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.61%) CSPO
5 1 (0.61%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (11.66%) QA
2 5 (3.07%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.84%) ISO 20022
3 3 (1.84%) ISO 8583
4 1 (0.61%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.61%) EMIR
4 1 (0.61%) GDPR
4 1 (0.61%) MiFID
4 1 (0.61%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.61%) PMO
Vendors
1 18 (11.04%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.52%) JD Edwards
3 4 (2.45%) Aderant
3 4 (2.45%) iManage
3 4 (2.45%) Intapp
3 4 (2.45%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.23%) Oracle
4 2 (1.23%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.61%) Databricks
5 1 (0.61%) OpenLink
5 1 (0.61%) Workday