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 25 January 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 604 623 636
Rank change year-on-year +19 +13 +120
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Business Analyst 54 85 130
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.086% 0.16% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.095% 0.17% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 34 81 92
10th Percentile £40,375 £42,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £53,125 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £83,438 £77,500 £76,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £88,750 £94,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £53,750
% change year-on-year +9.52% -2.33% +4.10%

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 56,939 48,731 63,682
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.79% 92.28% 95.18%
Number of salaries quoted 35,361 25,094 49,715
10th Percentile £28,750 £33,663 £29,452
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.30%
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,688 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.87% +7.38% -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 25 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Technical Business Analyst in the UK

Technical Business Analyst
Top 11 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 25 January 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 +19 43 £60,000 +4.35% 23
UK excluding London +35 29 £57,500 +9.52% 18
Work from Home +56 26 £57,500 +9.52% 16
London +20 22 £77,500 +3.33% 9
North of England -1 9 £58,750 +11.90% 5
Scotland - 9 £55,000 -
Yorkshire -12 7 £60,000 -7.69% 4
South West - 6 £41,250 - 2
South East +24 3 £100,000 +122.22% 7
East of England +20 2 £50,000 -23.08% 1
North West +3 2 £56,250 +7.14%

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

For the 6 months to 25 January 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 33 (61.11%) Agile
2 27 (50.00%) SQL
2 27 (50.00%) User Stories
3 17 (31.48%) Business Analysis
4 16 (29.63%) Acceptance Criteria
4 16 (29.63%) Data Analysis
5 15 (27.78%) Azure
5 15 (27.78%) Stakeholder Management
6 14 (25.93%) DevOps
7 12 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (20.37%) Asset Management
9 10 (18.52%) Confluence
9 10 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (18.52%) JIRA
9 10 (18.52%) Sprint Planning
9 10 (18.52%) Validation
10 9 (16.67%) SDLC
11 8 (14.81%) AWS
11 8 (14.81%) Coaching
11 8 (14.81%) Mentoring
11 8 (14.81%) Python
11 8 (14.81%) Requirements Gathering
12 7 (12.96%) Business Intelligence
12 7 (12.96%) Scrum
12 7 (12.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 6 (11.11%) Data Modelling
13 6 (11.11%) Decision-Making
13 6 (11.11%) Java
13 6 (11.11%) Process Improvement
13 6 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing

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 10 (18.52%) Confluence
2 1 (1.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (9.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.56%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 15 (27.78%) Azure
2 12 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (14.81%) AWS
4 5 (9.26%) Power Platform
5 4 (7.41%) Snowflake
6 3 (5.56%) OpenShift
7 2 (3.70%) Amazon Cognito
7 2 (3.70%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.70%) Serverless
8 1 (1.85%) Figma
8 1 (1.85%) GCP
8 1 (1.85%) IBM Cloud
8 1 (1.85%) Lucidchart
8 1 (1.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.56%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.26%) Power BI
2 4 (7.41%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 4 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (7.41%) Metadata
2 4 (7.41%) Tableau
3 3 (5.56%) Relational Database
3 3 (5.56%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 10 (18.52%) JIRA
General
1 30 (55.56%) Finance
2 24 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 11 (20.37%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (16.67%) Banking
5 5 (9.26%) Front Office
6 4 (7.41%) Marketing
6 4 (7.41%) Telecoms
7 3 (5.56%) Games
7 3 (5.56%) Law
7 3 (5.56%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.70%) Financial Institution
8 2 (3.70%) Health Technology
9 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.85%) Electronics
9 1 (1.85%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.85%) Military
9 1 (1.85%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.56%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (3.70%) OpenAPI
2 2 (3.70%) Swagger
3 1 (1.85%) .NET
3 1 (1.85%) EDI
3 1 (1.85%) JSON
3 1 (1.85%) Middleware
3 1 (1.85%) React
3 1 (1.85%) RESTful
3 1 (1.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 5 (9.26%) Equities
3 4 (7.41%) Fixed Income
4 3 (5.56%) Data Structures
4 3 (5.56%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.70%) Credit Derivative
5 2 (3.70%) Derivative
5 2 (3.70%) Digital Wallet
5 2 (3.70%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 2 (3.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.85%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.85%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.85%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (61.11%) Agile
2 27 (50.00%) User Stories
3 17 (31.48%) Business Analysis
4 16 (29.63%) Acceptance Criteria
4 16 (29.63%) Data Analysis
5 15 (27.78%) Stakeholder Management
6 14 (25.93%) DevOps
7 11 (20.37%) Asset Management
8 10 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (18.52%) Sprint Planning
8 10 (18.52%) Validation
9 9 (16.67%) SDLC
10 8 (14.81%) Coaching
10 8 (14.81%) Mentoring
10 8 (14.81%) Requirements Gathering
11 7 (12.96%) Business Intelligence
11 7 (12.96%) Scrum
11 7 (12.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 6 (11.11%) Data Modelling
12 6 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 27 (50.00%) SQL
2 8 (14.81%) Python
3 6 (11.11%) Java
4 4 (7.41%) C#
5 3 (5.56%) C++
6 1 (1.85%) Go
6 1 (1.85%) PHP
6 1 (1.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (7.41%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.70%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.70%) Degree
3 2 (3.70%) IIBA
4 1 (1.85%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.26%) COREP
2 4 (7.41%) QA
3 3 (5.56%) Data Quality
4 2 (3.70%) ISO 20022
4 2 (3.70%) PSD2
5 1 (1.85%) GDPR
5 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (1.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.85%) Grafana
1 1 (1.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (7.41%) Charles River
2 3 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.56%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.85%) IBM
3 1 (1.85%) SAP