Technical Business Analyst Job Trends

Technical Business Analyst (Technical BA)
UK

The median Technical Business Analyst (Technical BA) salary in the UK is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 May 2026.

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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 610 613 738
Rank change year-on-year +3 +125 +21
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Business Analyst 102 46 144
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.10% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.12% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 84 41 107
10th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £50,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £88,750 £84,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,250 £46,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.16% -11.90% -

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 85,551 39,541 91,790
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.32% 89.78% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 56,475 22,949 67,336
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -5.66%

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 17 May 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 17 May 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 -13 92 £57,500 +4.55% 28
UK excluding London -15 60 £47,250 +2.16% 19
North of England -10 38 £46,500 -11.43% 2
London -14 36 £77,500 +6.90% 15
Work from Home +30 24 £56,250 +25.00% 16
North West +23 24 £45,000 -14.29% 1
North East -29 10 £60,000 +33.33% 1
South East -17 9 £55,000 +22.22% 6
Scotland - 5 £55,000 - 4
East of England -19 4 - - 4
Yorkshire -47 4 £58,750 +23.68%
South West - 3 £40,000 - 3
West Midlands -31 1 £42,500 -22.73%
Midlands -37 1 £42,500 -22.73%

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 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 32 (31.37%) Stakeholder Management
2 30 (29.41%) Agile
3 29 (28.43%) User Stories
4 25 (24.51%) SQL
5 21 (20.59%) Business Analysis
6 17 (16.67%) Data Analysis
6 17 (16.67%) Data Mapping
7 16 (15.69%) Acceptance Criteria
8 15 (14.71%) Requirements Gathering
9 14 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (11.76%) Microsoft
10 12 (11.76%) Power BI
10 12 (11.76%) Power Platform
10 12 (11.76%) Process Improvement
10 12 (11.76%) Workshop Facilitation
11 11 (10.78%) JIRA
11 11 (10.78%) MS Visio
11 11 (10.78%) User Acceptance Testing
12 10 (9.80%) GAP Analysis
13 9 (8.82%) Confluence
13 9 (8.82%) Microsoft Excel
13 9 (8.82%) QA
14 8 (7.84%) Business Process Mapping
14 8 (7.84%) Requirements Management
14 8 (7.84%) Wireframes
15 7 (6.86%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
15 7 (6.86%) Roadmaps
15 7 (6.86%) Waterfall
16 6 (5.88%) Business Case
16 6 (5.88%) Data Flow Diagram

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 (8.82%) Confluence
2 6 (5.88%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.98%) Jupyter
Applications
1 11 (10.78%) MS Visio
2 9 (8.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.98%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 3 (2.94%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 1 (0.98%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 12 (11.76%) Power Platform
2 4 (3.92%) Azure
3 3 (2.94%) AWS
3 3 (2.94%) Serverless
4 2 (1.96%) Amazon Cognito
4 2 (1.96%) Amazon S3
4 2 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.98%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (0.98%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.98%) Azure Functions
5 1 (0.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (0.98%) ClickUp
5 1 (0.98%) Entra ID
5 1 (0.98%) Figma
5 1 (0.98%) Miro
5 1 (0.98%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.98%) Broadband
1 1 (0.98%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.76%) Power BI
2 2 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.96%) Relational Database
2 2 (1.96%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.98%) Delta Lake
3 1 (0.98%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 11 (10.78%) JIRA
2 1 (0.98%) Git
2 1 (0.98%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.98%) Postman
General
1 23 (22.55%) Social Skills
2 21 (20.59%) Finance
3 15 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (10.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (7.84%) Law
6 7 (6.86%) Banking
7 6 (5.88%) Legal
8 3 (2.94%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.96%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.98%) Games
10 1 (0.98%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.98%) Retail
10 1 (0.98%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.96%) OpenAPI
1 2 (1.96%) Swagger
2 1 (0.98%) .NET
2 1 (0.98%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (0.98%) Gherkin
2 1 (0.98%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.92%) Product Ownership
2 3 (2.94%) Equities
3 2 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (1.96%) Data Structures
3 2 (1.96%) Digital Wallet
3 2 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (1.96%) Onboarding
3 2 (1.96%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (0.98%) Client/Server
4 1 (0.98%) Credit Derivative
4 1 (0.98%) Derivative
4 1 (0.98%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.98%) DTCC
4 1 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.98%) Fixed Income
4 1 (0.98%) Interest Rate Derivative
4 1 (0.98%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.98%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (31.37%) Stakeholder Management
2 30 (29.41%) Agile
3 29 (28.43%) User Stories
4 21 (20.59%) Business Analysis
5 17 (16.67%) Data Analysis
5 17 (16.67%) Data Mapping
6 16 (15.69%) Acceptance Criteria
7 15 (14.71%) Requirements Gathering
8 14 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (11.76%) Process Improvement
9 12 (11.76%) Workshop Facilitation
10 11 (10.78%) User Acceptance Testing
11 10 (9.80%) GAP Analysis
12 8 (7.84%) Business Process Mapping
12 8 (7.84%) Requirements Management
12 8 (7.84%) Wireframes
13 7 (6.86%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
13 7 (6.86%) Roadmaps
13 7 (6.86%) Waterfall
14 6 (5.88%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 25 (24.51%) SQL
2 2 (1.96%) C++
2 2 (1.96%) Java
2 2 (1.96%) Python
3 1 (0.98%) C#
3 1 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (0.98%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (5.88%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.90%) Degree
2 5 (4.90%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.96%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.96%) IIBA
4 1 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.82%) QA
2 3 (2.94%) COREP
3 2 (1.96%) ISO 20022
3 2 (1.96%) PSD2
4 1 (0.98%) EMIR
4 1 (0.98%) GDPR
4 1 (0.98%) MiFID
Vendors
1 12 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.90%) Aderant
2 5 (4.90%) iManage
2 5 (4.90%) Intapp
3 3 (2.94%) JD Edwards
4 1 (0.98%) OpenLink