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 May 2026.

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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 626 598 730
Rank change year-on-year -28 +132 +41
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Business Analyst 100 54 153
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.12% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.14% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 83 49 112
10th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £50,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,750 £75,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £88,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% +0.83%

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 84,854 38,887 90,629
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.95% 89.46% 94.55%
Number of salaries quoted 54,818 23,400 66,698
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,000 £52,777
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +11.79% -12.04%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 6 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 6 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 +2 90 £60,000 +9.09% 45
UK excluding London -38 58 £55,000 +15.79% 40
North of England -22 38 £47,250 -10.00% 9
London -15 36 £77,500 +3.33% 12
Work from Home +11 26 £57,500 +9.52% 39
North West -8 22 £45,000 -14.29% 4
North East -20 10 £60,000 +33.33% 4
South East -27 8 £55,000 +22.22% 9
Yorkshire -46 6 £60,000 +26.32% 1
Scotland - 5 £55,000 - 4
South West - 4 £51,250 - 4
East of England -12 2 - - 10
West Midlands -23 1 £42,500 -22.73% 1
Midlands -43 1 £42,500 -22.73% 2

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

For the 6 months to 6 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 31 (31.00%) Agile
2 29 (29.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 28 (28.00%) User Stories
4 24 (24.00%) SQL
5 21 (21.00%) Business Analysis
6 18 (18.00%) Data Analysis
7 15 (15.00%) Requirements Gathering
8 14 (14.00%) Acceptance Criteria
8 14 (14.00%) Data Mapping
9 13 (13.00%) Process Improvement
10 11 (11.00%) JIRA
10 11 (11.00%) Microsoft
10 11 (11.00%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (11.00%) User Acceptance Testing
10 11 (11.00%) Workshop Facilitation
11 10 (10.00%) Confluence
11 10 (10.00%) Power BI
11 10 (10.00%) Power Platform
12 9 (9.00%) MS Visio
12 9 (9.00%) QA
13 8 (8.00%) Requirements Management
14 7 (7.00%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
14 7 (7.00%) GAP Analysis
14 7 (7.00%) Microsoft Excel
14 7 (7.00%) Roadmaps
14 7 (7.00%) Security Cleared
14 7 (7.00%) Waterfall
15 6 (6.00%) Azure
15 6 (6.00%) Business Case
15 6 (6.00%) Business Process Mapping

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 (10.00%) Confluence
2 6 (6.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.00%) Jupyter
Applications
1 9 (9.00%) MS Visio
2 7 (7.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.00%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Findur
1 1 (1.00%) JDE EnterpriseOne
Cloud Services
1 10 (10.00%) Power Platform
2 6 (6.00%) Azure
3 3 (3.00%) AWS
3 3 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (3.00%) Serverless
4 2 (2.00%) Amazon Cognito
4 2 (2.00%) Amazon S3
4 2 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.00%) Azure Functions
5 1 (1.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (1.00%) ClickUp
5 1 (1.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.00%) Figma
5 1 (1.00%) Miro
5 1 (1.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.00%) Broadband
1 1 (1.00%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.00%) Power BI
2 3 (3.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.00%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.00%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 11 (11.00%) JIRA
2 1 (1.00%) Postman
General
1 23 (23.00%) Finance
2 21 (21.00%) Social Skills
3 14 (14.00%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (8.00%) Banking
5 8 (8.00%) Law
6 6 (6.00%) Legal
7 3 (3.00%) Financial Institution
7 3 (3.00%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.00%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.00%) Electronics
9 1 (1.00%) Games
9 1 (1.00%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.00%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.00%) Marketing
9 1 (1.00%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.00%) OpenAPI
1 2 (2.00%) Swagger
2 1 (1.00%) .NET
2 1 (1.00%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (1.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.00%) Equities
3 2 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.00%) Credit Derivative
3 2 (2.00%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.00%) Derivative
3 2 (2.00%) Digital Wallet
3 2 (2.00%) Interest Rate Derivative
3 2 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (1.00%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.00%) DTCC
4 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.00%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (31.00%) Agile
2 29 (29.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 28 (28.00%) User Stories
4 21 (21.00%) Business Analysis
5 18 (18.00%) Data Analysis
6 15 (15.00%) Requirements Gathering
7 14 (14.00%) Acceptance Criteria
7 14 (14.00%) Data Mapping
8 13 (13.00%) Process Improvement
9 11 (11.00%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (11.00%) User Acceptance Testing
9 11 (11.00%) Workshop Facilitation
10 8 (8.00%) Requirements Management
11 7 (7.00%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
11 7 (7.00%) GAP Analysis
11 7 (7.00%) Roadmaps
11 7 (7.00%) Waterfall
12 6 (6.00%) Business Case
12 6 (6.00%) Data Flow Diagram
12 6 (6.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 24 (24.00%) SQL
2 2 (2.00%) Python
3 1 (1.00%) C#
3 1 (1.00%) C++
3 1 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (1.00%) Java
3 1 (1.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (7.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.00%) Degree
4 2 (2.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.00%) IIBA
5 1 (1.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.00%) QA
2 5 (5.00%) COREP
3 2 (2.00%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.00%) PSD2
4 1 (1.00%) EMIR
4 1 (1.00%) GDPR
4 1 (1.00%) MiFID
Vendors
1 11 (11.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.00%) Aderant
2 5 (5.00%) iManage
2 5 (5.00%) Intapp
3 1 (1.00%) JD Edwards
3 1 (1.00%) OpenLink
3 1 (1.00%) SAP