Technical Business Analyst Job Trends

Technical Business Analyst (Technical BA)
UK

The median Technical Business Analyst (Technical BA) salary in the UK is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 July 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 630 634 758
Rank change year-on-year +4 +124 -42
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Business Analyst 130 39 112
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.079% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.088% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 106 34 88
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £39,250
25th Percentile £45,750 £46,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,813 £75,250
90th Percentile £84,375 £75,000 £98,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% 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 93,983 44,278 92,243
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.25% 89.92% 94.77%
Number of salaries quoted 64,514 26,221 65,394
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £39,596
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.77% -11.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 19 July 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 19 July 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 +10 117 £55,000 - 17
UK excluding London -18 85 £55,000 +10.00% 12
North of England +6 48 £48,000 -4.00% 6
London -23 36 £75,000 +3.45% 7
North West +18 33 £45,000 -14.29% 6
Work from Home +6 28 £56,250 +18.42% 11
South East -21 16 £52,500 +10.53% 3
North East -35 13 £60,000 +33.33%
East of England -12 10 £51,250 -6.82%
Scotland - 5 £55,000 -
South West -60 4 £57,500 +4.55% 3
West Midlands -17 2 £47,500 -13.64%
Midlands -29 2 £47,500 -13.64%
Yorkshire -34 2 £58,750 +38.24%

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

For the 6 months to 19 July 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 42 (32.31%) User Stories
2 40 (30.77%) Agile
2 40 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
3 32 (24.62%) SQL
4 28 (21.54%) Business Analysis
5 25 (19.23%) Acceptance Criteria
6 21 (16.15%) Requirements Gathering
7 20 (15.38%) JIRA
7 20 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (14.62%) Data Mapping
8 19 (14.62%) Workshop Facilitation
9 18 (13.85%) Confluence
10 17 (13.08%) GAP Analysis
11 16 (12.31%) Data Analysis
11 16 (12.31%) Power BI
11 16 (12.31%) Power Platform
11 16 (12.31%) Process Improvement
11 16 (12.31%) QA
12 13 (10.00%) Microsoft
12 13 (10.00%) MS Visio
12 13 (10.00%) SDLC
13 11 (8.46%) Microsoft Excel
14 10 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
14 10 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 10 (7.69%) Translating Business Requirements
14 10 (7.69%) User Acceptance Testing
15 9 (6.92%) Business Process Mapping
15 9 (6.92%) JD Edwards
15 9 (6.92%) JDE EnterpriseOne
15 9 (6.92%) Software Engineering

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 18 (13.85%) Confluence
2 6 (4.62%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.77%) Jupyter
Applications
1 13 (10.00%) MS Visio
2 11 (8.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.77%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (6.92%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 1 (0.77%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 16 (12.31%) Power Platform
2 5 (3.85%) Azure
3 2 (1.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (1.54%) ClickUp
3 2 (1.54%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (1.54%) Serverless
4 1 (0.77%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (0.77%) Amazon S3
4 1 (0.77%) AWS
4 1 (0.77%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (0.77%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (0.77%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (0.77%) Azure Functions
4 1 (0.77%) Entra ID
4 1 (0.77%) Figma
4 1 (0.77%) Lucidchart
4 1 (0.77%) Miro
4 1 (0.77%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.77%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (12.31%) Power BI
2 3 (2.31%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.77%) Delta Lake
3 1 (0.77%) Spark SQL
3 1 (0.77%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.77%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (15.38%) JIRA
2 3 (2.31%) Git
2 3 (2.31%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.77%) Postman
General
1 28 (21.54%) Social Skills
2 26 (20.00%) Finance
3 24 (18.46%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (4.62%) Law
5 6 (4.62%) Legal
6 5 (3.85%) Retail
7 4 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.54%) Banking
9 2 (1.54%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.54%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.54%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.77%) Advertising
10 1 (0.77%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.77%) Marketing
10 1 (0.77%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.08%) JSON
2 1 (0.77%) EDI
2 1 (0.77%) Gherkin
2 1 (0.77%) Middleware
2 1 (0.77%) OpenAPI
2 1 (0.77%) PySpark
2 1 (0.77%) Swagger
2 1 (0.77%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.92%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (2.31%) Equities
3 3 (2.31%) Hedge funds
3 3 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.54%) EPoS
4 2 (1.54%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.77%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.77%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.77%) Credit Risk
5 1 (0.77%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.77%) DTCC
5 1 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.77%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (32.31%) User Stories
2 40 (30.77%) Agile
2 40 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
3 28 (21.54%) Business Analysis
4 25 (19.23%) Acceptance Criteria
5 21 (16.15%) Requirements Gathering
6 20 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (14.62%) Data Mapping
7 19 (14.62%) Workshop Facilitation
8 17 (13.08%) GAP Analysis
9 16 (12.31%) Data Analysis
9 16 (12.31%) Process Improvement
10 13 (10.00%) SDLC
11 10 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 10 (7.69%) Translating Business Requirements
11 10 (7.69%) User Acceptance Testing
12 9 (6.92%) Business Process Mapping
12 9 (6.92%) Software Engineering
12 9 (6.92%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 32 (24.62%) SQL
2 4 (3.08%) Java
3 3 (2.31%) C++
3 3 (2.31%) Python
4 2 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.77%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (5.38%) Degree
2 6 (4.62%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.85%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.77%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.77%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (12.31%) QA
2 3 (2.31%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.31%) ISO 20022
2 3 (2.31%) ISO 8583
3 1 (0.77%) EMIR
3 1 (0.77%) GDPR
3 1 (0.77%) MiFID
3 1 (0.77%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 13 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.92%) JD Edwards
3 5 (3.85%) Aderant
3 5 (3.85%) iManage
3 5 (3.85%) Intapp
4 3 (2.31%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.77%) Databricks
5 1 (0.77%) OpenLink
5 1 (0.77%) Oracle