Business Analysis Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Business Analysis
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Business Analysis skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 86 110
Rank change year-on-year +18 +24 +2
Permanent jobs citing Business Analysis 55 12 30
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 3.03% 0.83% 1.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.77% 0.95% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 48 6 16
10th Percentile £28,250 £46,500 £44,625
25th Percentile £29,000 £57,462 £49,097
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £71,991 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -44.44% +12.93% +15.91%
75th Percentile £55,800 £92,534 £71,563
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £75,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% -9.09% +10.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

Business Analysis falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,458 1,268 1,886
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 80.37% 88.12% 91.55%
Number of salaries quoted 850 629 1,434
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,200 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,500 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -4.34%

Business Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Business Analysis relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Business Analysis job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Business Analysis
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Business Analysis.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Business Analysis

Business Analysis
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Analysis in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Business Analysis in West Yorkshire

Business Analysis
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Business Analysis within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 12 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
Leeds +17 49 £40,000 -44.44% 19
Bradford - 4 £70,000 - 2
Huddersfield - 2 £40,000 - 2
Business Analysis
Yorkshire

Business Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 2 (3.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (27.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.82%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.82%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 7 (12.73%) SaaS
2 3 (5.45%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (5.45%) Power Platform
3 2 (3.64%) Amazon Cognito
3 2 (3.64%) Amazon S3
3 2 (3.64%) AWS
3 2 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (3.64%) IaaS
3 2 (3.64%) PaaS
3 2 (3.64%) Serverless
4 1 (1.82%) Azure
4 1 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.82%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (25.45%) Data Mining
1 14 (25.45%) Tableau
2 3 (5.45%) Power BI
3 2 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.82%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (1.82%) JIRA
General
1 34 (61.82%) Finance
2 22 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (21.82%) Social Skills
4 5 (9.09%) Marketing
4 5 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 5 (9.09%) Retail
5 2 (3.64%) Law
5 2 (3.64%) Legal
Job Titles
1 38 (69.09%) Analyst
2 28 (50.91%) Trainee
3 27 (49.09%) Business Analyst
4 26 (47.27%) Trainee Analyst
5 14 (25.45%) Trainee Business Analyst
6 13 (23.64%) Data Analyst
7 12 (21.82%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 5 (9.09%) Project Manager
9 4 (7.27%) Head of Product Management
9 4 (7.27%) Head of Retail Systems
10 3 (5.45%) Designer
10 3 (5.45%) IT Manager
10 3 (5.45%) IT Project Manager
11 2 (3.64%) Business IT Analyst
11 2 (3.64%) Business Manager
11 2 (3.64%) Business Project Manager
11 2 (3.64%) Interaction Designer
11 2 (3.64%) IT Analyst
11 2 (3.64%) IT Business Analyst
11 2 (3.64%) Project Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.64%) OpenAPI
1 2 (3.64%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (3.64%) AI Agents
2 2 (3.64%) Data Structures
2 2 (3.64%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.64%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (60.00%) Project Management
2 20 (36.36%) Change Management
3 16 (29.09%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (27.27%) Data Analysis
5 13 (23.64%) Agile
5 13 (23.64%) Analytics
6 12 (21.82%) Data Analytics
7 10 (18.18%) Decision-Making
7 10 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (14.55%) AI
8 8 (14.55%) Product Management
8 8 (14.55%) Project Delivery
8 8 (14.55%) Roadmaps
8 8 (14.55%) Workshop Facilitation
9 7 (12.73%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (12.73%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 7 (12.73%) Strategic Roadmap
10 6 (10.91%) Business Intelligence
10 6 (10.91%) Six Sigma
10 6 (10.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 17 (30.91%) SQL
2 15 (27.27%) Python
Qualifications
1 22 (40.00%) Degree
2 2 (3.64%) AWS Certification
2 2 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (3.64%) IIBA
2 2 (3.64%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.64%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.82%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.64%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.82%) QA
Vendors
1 17 (30.91%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.82%) ESRI
2 1 (1.82%) Oracle