Business Analyst Jobs in England

Business Analyst (BA)
UK > England

The median Business Analyst (BA) salary in England is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 188 135 154
Rank change year-on-year -53 +19 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,360 2,262 3,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.49% 2.69% 2.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.58% 2.95% 2.85%
Number of salaries quoted 928 1,657 3,117
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £39,333
25th Percentile £46,146 £48,250 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,600 £70,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +8.91%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 86,182 76,808 135,607
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 91.28% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 63,611 49,955 75,079
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,082 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Business Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Business Analyst in England

Business Analyst
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Business Analyst in England.

Salary trend for Business Analyst in England

Business Analyst
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Analyst in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Business Analyst in England

Business Analyst
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Business Analyst within the England region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
London -32 526 £75,000 +15.38% 160
East of England +31 198 £49,500 -10.00% 10
North of England -71 184 £50,000 -9.09% 39
Midlands -53 177 £42,500 -15.00% 23
South East -91 156 £58,250 +1.30% 26
North West -45 120 £50,000 -13.04% 20
South West -37 107 £46,950 -10.57% 13
West Midlands -71 89 £42,500 -15.00% 13
East Midlands -21 85 £42,500 -14.90% 10
Yorkshire -30 58 £47,500 -5.00% 16
North East -32 6 £50,000 -9.09% 3
Business Analyst
UK

Business Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Business Analyst job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Business Analyst in the job title.

1 574 (42.21%) Business Analysis
2 530 (38.97%) Agile
3 364 (26.76%) Analytical Skills
4 363 (26.69%) Problem-Solving
5 340 (25.00%) Social Skills
6 306 (22.50%) Finance
7 296 (21.76%) Requirements Gathering
8 278 (20.44%) Degree
9 256 (18.82%) User Stories
10 220 (16.18%) Retail
11 200 (14.71%) Change Management
11 200 (14.71%) Coaching
12 187 (13.75%) Decision-Making
13 184 (13.53%) Stakeholder Management
14 181 (13.31%) SQL
15 169 (12.43%) Product Ownership
16 162 (11.91%) Project Management
17 151 (11.10%) Workshop Facilitation
18 145 (10.66%) JIRA
18 145 (10.66%) Process Improvement
19 144 (10.59%) Roadmaps
20 127 (9.34%) SDLC
20 127 (9.34%) Waterfall
21 122 (8.97%) GAP Analysis
22 115 (8.46%) Scrum
23 112 (8.24%) Security Cleared
24 111 (8.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
25 103 (7.57%) Legal
26 100 (7.35%) Microsoft
26 100 (7.35%) Business Case

Business Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 69 (5.07%) Confluence
2 8 (0.59%) Apache
3 5 (0.37%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.37%) WordPress
4 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.074%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.074%) Appian
Applications
1 86 (6.32%) Microsoft Office
2 84 (6.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 76 (5.59%) MS Visio
4 39 (2.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.44%) Trello
7 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (1.10%) Aladdin
2 14 (1.03%) Endur
3 13 (0.96%) Maximo
4 9 (0.66%) Salesforce CRM
5 8 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
6 6 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (0.22%) Magento
7 3 (0.22%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.15%) SAP WM
8 2 (0.15%) Shopify
9 1 (0.074%) NEC Housing
9 1 (0.074%) NetSuite
9 1 (0.074%) SAP CO
9 1 (0.074%) SAP CRM
9 1 (0.074%) SAP FI
9 1 (0.074%) SAP FI/CO
9 1 (0.074%) SAP PP
9 1 (0.074%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 70 (5.15%) AWS
2 67 (4.93%) Azure
3 63 (4.63%) Power Platform
4 41 (3.01%) SaaS
5 30 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (1.62%) Dynamics 365
7 15 (1.10%) Miro
8 11 (0.81%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (0.59%) dbt
9 8 (0.59%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 8 (0.59%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 7 (0.51%) Figma
10 7 (0.51%) OCI
11 4 (0.29%) GCP
12 3 (0.22%) Amazon EMR
12 3 (0.22%) Asana
12 3 (0.22%) Mavenlink
13 2 (0.15%) Smartsheet
13 2 (0.15%) Snowflake
13 2 (0.15%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.74%) Broadband
1 10 (0.74%) Internet
1 10 (0.74%) WPA
2 2 (0.15%) DSL
2 2 (0.15%) HTTP
2 2 (0.15%) RFID
3 1 (0.074%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (4.34%) Power BI
2 35 (2.57%) Data Warehouse
3 29 (2.13%) Tableau
4 14 (1.03%) Big Data
5 13 (0.96%) Relational Database
6 10 (0.74%) Electronic Patient Records
7 8 (0.59%) Apache Arrow
7 8 (0.59%) Data Lake
7 8 (0.59%) Dremio
8 6 (0.44%) Snowflake Schema
8 6 (0.44%) SQL Server
8 6 (0.44%) Star Schema
9 5 (0.37%) Qlik Sense
10 4 (0.29%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.29%) SAP BW
11 3 (0.22%) PowerPivot
11 3 (0.22%) QlikView
12 2 (0.15%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.15%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.15%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 145 (10.66%) JIRA
2 3 (0.22%) Postman
3 2 (0.15%) Balsamiq
3 2 (0.15%) Git
3 2 (0.15%) PowerBuilder
4 1 (0.074%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.074%) JMeter
4 1 (0.074%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.074%) Maven
4 1 (0.074%) Protractor
4 1 (0.074%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 364 (26.76%) Analytical Skills
2 340 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 306 (22.50%) Finance
4 220 (16.18%) Retail
5 111 (8.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 103 (7.57%) Legal
7 75 (5.51%) Banking
8 73 (5.37%) Front Office
9 68 (5.00%) Law
10 63 (4.63%) Influencing Skills
11 59 (4.34%) Public Sector
12 42 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
13 36 (2.65%) Investment Banking
14 30 (2.21%) Manufacturing
15 25 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
16 23 (1.69%) Back Office
16 23 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
17 16 (1.18%) Advertising
18 13 (0.96%) Marketing
18 13 (0.96%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (1.03%) .NET
2 12 (0.88%) Lightning Web Components
3 11 (0.81%) XML
4 8 (0.59%) .NET Framework
5 6 (0.44%) JSON
5 6 (0.44%) Oracle Fusion
5 6 (0.44%) Web Services
6 5 (0.37%) React
7 4 (0.29%) Laravel
7 4 (0.29%) Next.js
7 4 (0.29%) React Native
7 4 (0.29%) REST
7 4 (0.29%) RESTful
8 3 (0.22%) Django
8 3 (0.22%) FIX Protocol
8 3 (0.22%) Gherkin
8 3 (0.22%) HTML
8 3 (0.22%) XSLT
9 2 (0.15%) ADO
9 2 (0.15%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 169 (12.43%) Product Ownership
2 72 (5.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 71 (5.22%) Fixed Income
4 69 (5.07%) Equities
5 62 (4.56%) Derivative
6 60 (4.41%) Hedge funds
7 59 (4.34%) Management Information System
8 45 (3.31%) Self-Motivation
9 24 (1.76%) Reinsurance
10 22 (1.62%) Virtual Team
11 18 (1.32%) Onboarding
12 14 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
12 14 (1.03%) NHS
13 11 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
14 10 (0.74%) Biopharmaceutical
15 8 (0.59%) Analytical Mindset
15 8 (0.59%) FMCG
16 6 (0.44%) Data Structures
16 6 (0.44%) Housing Association
17 5 (0.37%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.44%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.15%) Android
2 2 (0.15%) Linux
2 2 (0.15%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 574 (42.21%) Business Analysis
2 530 (38.97%) Agile
3 363 (26.69%) Problem-Solving
4 296 (21.76%) Requirements Gathering
5 256 (18.82%) User Stories
6 200 (14.71%) Change Management
6 200 (14.71%) Coaching
7 187 (13.75%) Decision-Making
8 184 (13.53%) Stakeholder Management
9 162 (11.91%) Project Management
10 151 (11.10%) Workshop Facilitation
11 145 (10.66%) Process Improvement
12 144 (10.59%) Roadmaps
13 127 (9.34%) SDLC
13 127 (9.34%) Waterfall
14 122 (8.97%) GAP Analysis
15 115 (8.46%) Scrum
16 100 (7.35%) Business Case
17 96 (7.06%) Analytics
18 91 (6.69%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 181 (13.31%) SQL
2 83 (6.10%) Python
3 10 (0.74%) Java
3 10 (0.74%) R
4 7 (0.51%) T-SQL
4 7 (0.51%) VBA
5 6 (0.44%) C#
6 4 (0.29%) PHP
7 2 (0.15%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.074%) ABAP
8 1 (0.074%) JCL
8 1 (0.074%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.074%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.074%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 278 (20.44%) Degree
2 112 (8.24%) Security Cleared
3 85 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 23 (1.69%) DV Cleared
5 19 (1.40%) Master's Degree
6 15 (1.10%) DBS Check
6 15 (1.10%) IIBA
7 13 (0.96%) CBAP
8 11 (0.81%) ISEB
9 10 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (0.59%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.44%) PMP
12 5 (0.37%) HND
12 5 (0.37%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 4 (0.29%) CFA
13 4 (0.29%) CIMA
14 3 (0.22%) NVQ Level 4
15 2 (0.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 2 (0.15%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (7.21%) QA
2 16 (1.18%) PMO
3 7 (0.51%) ISO 20022
3 7 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 6 (0.44%) Data Quality
4 6 (0.44%) GxP
5 5 (0.37%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.37%) EMIR
5 5 (0.37%) IFRS
5 5 (0.37%) MiFID
5 5 (0.37%) PSD2
5 5 (0.37%) SEPA
5 5 (0.37%) TARGET2
6 4 (0.29%) IFRS 17
6 4 (0.29%) SLA
7 3 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.22%) GDPR
8 1 (0.074%) GRC
8 1 (0.074%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.074%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.074%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.074%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (0.37%) Graphite
2 2 (0.15%) Data Guard
2 2 (0.15%) Kibana
3 1 (0.074%) Grafana
3 1 (0.074%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.074%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.074%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 100 (7.35%) Microsoft
2 55 (4.04%) Salesforce
3 44 (3.24%) SAP
4 27 (1.99%) Oracle
5 24 (1.76%) Bloomberg
6 14 (1.03%) BISAM
7 9 (0.66%) Atlassian
8 7 (0.51%) F5
9 5 (0.37%) Google
9 5 (0.37%) ION Trading
9 5 (0.37%) MicroStrategy
9 5 (0.37%) YouTube
10 4 (0.29%) Marketo
10 4 (0.29%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.22%) Alteryx
11 3 (0.22%) Conga
11 3 (0.22%) IFS
11 3 (0.22%) Intapp
12 2 (0.15%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.15%) Zoho