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 20 September 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 634 647 718
Rank change year-on-year +13 +71 -69
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Business Analyst 175 36 63
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.073% 0.081%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.081% 0.085%
Number of salaries quoted 137 28 54
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £40,900
25th Percentile £47,500 £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 £80,000 £84,000 £83,000
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 108,283 44,200 74,178
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 89.65% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 74,199 25,992 44,363
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.36% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 20 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 20 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 -7 158 £60,000 +9.09% 79
UK excluding London -57 113 £55,000 +10.00% 49
North of England -12 65 £47,000 -10.48% 15
London -28 53 £67,500 +8.00% 48
Work from Home -5 50 £55,000 +15.79% 40
North West +16 45 £45,000 -14.29% 9
North East - 20 £60,000 - 5
South West -61 14 £61,250 +11.36% 5
South East -40 12 £52,500 +10.53% 12
East of England -29 11 £55,000 +10.00% 4
Scotland +17 8 £65,000 - 9
Northern Ireland - 2 £75,000 - 3
West Midlands - 1 £52,500 - 1
Midlands - 1 £52,500 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 58 (33.14%) Stakeholder Management
2 56 (32.00%) Agile
3 54 (30.86%) SQL
4 51 (29.14%) User Stories
5 40 (22.86%) Business Analysis
6 35 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
7 32 (18.29%) Acceptance Criteria
8 31 (17.71%) Workshop Facilitation
9 30 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
10 28 (16.00%) JIRA
11 26 (14.86%) Data Analysis
12 24 (13.71%) Confluence
13 23 (13.14%) Data Mapping
13 23 (13.14%) Microsoft
13 23 (13.14%) Power Platform
13 23 (13.14%) Translating Business Requirements
14 22 (12.57%) Power BI
14 22 (12.57%) QA
15 20 (11.43%) SDLC
16 19 (10.86%) GAP Analysis
17 18 (10.29%) MS Visio
17 18 (10.29%) Process Improvement
18 17 (9.71%) Project Delivery
19 15 (8.57%) Microsoft Excel
19 15 (8.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 14 (8.00%) Scrum
21 13 (7.43%) Data Modelling
21 13 (7.43%) Requirements Workshops
21 13 (7.43%) User Acceptance Testing
22 12 (6.86%) Business Intelligence

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 24 (13.71%) Confluence
2 4 (2.29%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 18 (10.29%) MS Visio
2 15 (8.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (3.43%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.57%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (5.14%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 1 (0.57%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.57%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.57%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 23 (13.14%) Power Platform
2 11 (6.29%) Azure
3 3 (1.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 3 (1.71%) ClickUp
3 3 (1.71%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (1.14%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (1.14%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (1.14%) Miro
4 2 (1.14%) PowerApps
4 2 (1.14%) SaaS
5 1 (0.57%) AWS
5 1 (0.57%) dbt
5 1 (0.57%) Entra ID
5 1 (0.57%) Figma
5 1 (0.57%) Fivetran
5 1 (0.57%) GCP
5 1 (0.57%) Lucidchart
5 1 (0.57%) Power Automate
5 1 (0.57%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.57%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (12.57%) Power BI
2 6 (3.43%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.71%) Tableau
4 2 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.14%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.57%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.57%) Metadata
5 1 (0.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 28 (16.00%) JIRA
2 3 (1.71%) Git
2 3 (1.71%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.57%) Postman
General
1 44 (25.14%) Social Skills
2 32 (18.29%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (16.57%) Finance
4 14 (8.00%) Retail
5 12 (6.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.43%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (3.43%) Legal
7 5 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.86%) Law
7 5 (2.86%) Publishing
8 3 (1.71%) Automotive
8 3 (1.71%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.71%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.14%) Advertising
9 2 (1.14%) Banking
9 2 (1.14%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.57%) Front Office
10 1 (0.57%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.57%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.86%) JSON
2 2 (1.14%) .NET
2 2 (1.14%) XML
3 1 (0.57%) EDI
3 1 (0.57%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (0.57%) Gherkin
3 1 (0.57%) Middleware
3 1 (0.57%) REST
3 1 (0.57%) RESTful
3 1 (0.57%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 22 (12.57%) Product Ownership
2 6 (3.43%) Equities
2 6 (3.43%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (2.86%) Hedge funds
4 4 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.29%) EPoS
5 3 (1.71%) Derivative
5 3 (1.71%) Fixed Income
5 3 (1.71%) FMCG
6 2 (1.14%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.14%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.14%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.57%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.57%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.57%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.57%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (0.57%) Hackathon
7 1 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.57%) Smart Home
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (33.14%) Stakeholder Management
2 56 (32.00%) Agile
3 51 (29.14%) User Stories
4 40 (22.86%) Business Analysis
5 35 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
6 32 (18.29%) Acceptance Criteria
7 31 (17.71%) Workshop Facilitation
8 30 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
9 26 (14.86%) Data Analysis
10 23 (13.14%) Data Mapping
10 23 (13.14%) Translating Business Requirements
11 20 (11.43%) SDLC
12 19 (10.86%) GAP Analysis
13 18 (10.29%) Process Improvement
14 17 (9.71%) Project Delivery
15 15 (8.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 14 (8.00%) Scrum
17 13 (7.43%) Data Modelling
17 13 (7.43%) Requirements Workshops
17 13 (7.43%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 54 (30.86%) SQL
2 6 (3.43%) Python
3 5 (2.86%) Java
4 3 (1.71%) C++
5 2 (1.14%) C#
5 2 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 9 (5.14%) Security Cleared
2 8 (4.57%) Degree
2 8 (4.57%) SC Cleared
3 3 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.57%) CSPO
4 1 (0.57%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (12.57%) QA
2 6 (3.43%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.71%) ISO 20022
3 3 (1.71%) ISO 8583
4 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.57%) GDPR
4 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.57%) PMO
Vendors
1 23 (13.14%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.14%) JD Edwards
3 5 (2.86%) Salesforce
4 4 (2.29%) Aderant
4 4 (2.29%) iManage
4 4 (2.29%) Intapp
5 3 (1.71%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.14%) Oracle
6 2 (1.14%) Workday
7 1 (0.57%) Databricks
7 1 (0.57%) OpenLink